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Survey: Lawrence leads in LGBT index

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awrence has made another ranking, and this one — perhaps more than most — shows how Lawrence is different from its neighbors.

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, has released its annual Municipal Equality Index. It found Lawrence scores better than the national average in terms of equality issues for the LGBT community.

What’s more interesting is how much more highly it scores than other cities in the state.

Lawrence received a score of 69 out of 100 in the report, which examines 41 factors that fall into categories such as nondiscrimination laws, municipalities’ employment policies, inclusiveness of city services, law enforcement and municipal leadership on matters of equality.

Lawrence’s score of 69 was better than the national average of 56. It also was significantly better than the Kansas average of 25.

The next highest ranked city in Kansas was Manhattan, with a score of 26.

Others ranked were Kansas City, Kan., 24; Topeka, 24; Wichita, 21; Olathe, 8; and Overland Park, 8. It is interesting to note that of the 408 cities ranked by the organization, only 5 percent of them received a score below 10. Two of them were in Johnson County.

But just a few miles to the east, Kansas City, Mo. received the highest possible score from the group.

Officers help kids put gifts under their trees

By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson

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hree-year-old Nomy Swenson was on a mission Friday to find a big pink dollhouse and My Little Pony hair ties.

With tiny mittens on, Swenson held the hand of Lawrence Police Department’s Jana Shelton as they waited in line for a pre-shoppingexcursion breakfast.

“I love helping the kids and seeing the looks on their faces as they purchase presents,” Shelton said.

This was the third year Shelton took part in the Take Our Youth Shopping, or TOYS, program, she said.

LPD Detective Zach Thomas, who was also paired with Swenson and Shelton, said he’s participated in the program for about as long.

The TOYS program is

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Douglas County Sheriff’s Detective Rita Fulton-Mays, left, and Deputy Rachael Burkhart help Ballard Center youth Nya with her hat after shopping Friday at Walmart, 550 Congressional Drive. Below: Kansas University Public Safety officer Jacob Hout pushes a shopping cart with participant Kiyhan as Kiyhan warns other shoppers with the sound of a horn. See the photo gallery at LJWorld.com/policeshop2015. organized each holiday season by the Ballard Community Center, Lawrence police, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Kansas University’s Office of Public Safety and the Kansas Highway Patrol, said Sheriff’s Capt.

Doug Woods.

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City manager is picked, but identity not yet revealed Commission authorizes negotiations with candidate of choice

Each year, volunteers from the agencies take dozens of children — between the ages of 3 and 5 — out for breakfast and then on to Walmart to shop for holiday gifts.

By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @NikkiWentling

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City commissioners selected a finalist Friday to be Lawrence’s next city manager, but the public will not know who it is until negotiations are final.

The City Commission held a four-hour closed executive session Friday to interview the final three candidates and discuss whom to select. Before they publicly adjourned, comCITY missioners passed a motion to have Ralph Andersen & Asso- COMMISSION ciates — the firm hired to help in the search — enter into negotiations “with the finalist discussed in executive session.”

The motion said the new city manager’s contract must gain approval from the City Commission during a public meeting. It was not specified when the contract would go before commissioners.

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Lawrence High, Kennedy Elementary issues related to ongoing construction

By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde

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Recent heavy rains have brought attention to leaks in the roofs at two Lawrence schools. District officials said the leaks are related to ongoing construction projects and are being addressed.

SCHOOLS The leaks have occurred at Kennedy Elementary and Lawrence High School, both of which are being expanded as part of the district’s $92.5 million bond construction projects. Construction is also underway at Woodlawn and Sunset Hill elementary schools.

“With any building addition, construction involves adjoining two buildings,”

Kansas LGBT rights rankings Lawrence: 69 Manhattan: 26 Kansas City, Kan.: 24 Topeka: 24 Wichita: 21 Olathe: 8 Overland Park: 8 — Source: Human Rights Campaign Municipal Equality Index

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DEATHS Journal-World obituary policy: For information about running obituaries, call 8327151. Obituaries run as submitted by funeral homes or the families of the deceased.

Yates (JerrY) Jarrett Services for Yates (Jerry) Jarrett, 97, Lawrence will be announced by Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. He died Thursday at Lawrence Memorial. Rumsey-yost.com

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Other cities of note and their scores: l Boulder, Colo.: 76 l Ames, Iowa: 70 l Iowa City: 100 l Columbia, Mo. 74 l Independence, Mo.: 17 l Lincoln, Neb.: 54 l Omaha, Neb.: 71 l Norman, Okla.: 43 l Stillwater, Okla.: 12 l Austin, Texas: 100 l Lubbock, Texas: 0 l Waco, Texas: 25

KCMO was one of 47 cities that received a perfect score of 100 on the ranking.

As for Lawrence, its report card shows it scored well for nondiscrimination laws on the books, but missed out on points in some categories by lacking a nondiscrimination ordinance related to — This is an excerpt from city contractors; by not Chad Lawhorn’s “Town having a LGBT police Talk” column, which appears liaison or task force; on LJWorld.com. and the absence of an

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said Lawrence schools spokeswoman Julie Boyle. “During this process, there are times when the roof is not 100 percent complete, and leaks will occur.”

As of Friday, monthto-date precipitation for December was 2.03 inches, more than twice the normal amount, according to AccuWeather.com. Yearto-date precipitation is also slightly above normal amounts.

If there is substantial rainfall while a building is in construction, that’s typically when there will be some type of leaking, explained Kyle Hayden, assistant superintendent of business and operations for the district.

“Largely, that’s just because it’s not complete, and so you’ll have areas of the roof — in particular where the new meets the old — that have not been finished,” Hayden said. “The final application of the roof hasn’t happened, so sometimes it’s just little things like metal flashing that hasn’t been put in yet, and sometimes it’s things that (contractors) just need to go back and fix.”

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City commissioners will not meet Dec. 22 for their regularly scheduled weekly meeting because of the Christmas holiday.

The commission’s decision came one day after the three finalists met with hundreds of Lawrence residents at a public reception. The finalists were Rod Bremby, of Glastonbury, Conn.; Cheryl Harrison-Lee, of Gardner; and Tom Markus, of Iowa City, Iowa.

Bremby, 55, currently works as a commissioner of the Connecticut De-

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nedy and Lawrence High are not the first, as 10 building additions have already been completed as part of the district’s renovation of its 20 schools. The four projects in progress are scheduled for completion within the next few months, and construction at the six remaining schools will begin in early 2016.

Hayden said roof leaks are common, especially during construction.

“It’s happened on a lot of projects, especially if we get a big weather event,” he said.

Addressing leaks is the responsibility of the contractor. Boyle said both the contractor and the district’s facilities staff are aware of the leaks following recent rains, and they will be taken care of as construction continues.

Hayden said issues with the new construction — including roof leaks — can also be addressed in the year following a project’s completion, under what is called the punch-list and warranty items.

“There (are) contractors that will be on site periodically at buildings to fix things that pop up,” he said. “We say, ‘OK, that’s not working the way it was supposed to work,’ and those contractors then come back and fix it.”

South Middle School Repairs to a cracking facade at South Middle School will likely be made during the summer of 2016, according to Tony Barron, director of facilities and operations for the district.

A structural review at South was completed in October because of some cracking in the brick masonry on the outside of the building, according to the review. The review states the cracking is not a structural problem and appears to be related to the thermal expansion of the brick masonry.

Construction at South was completed in 2007.

Renovations to the school as part of the bond issue were completed in August and included a new secure entry and remodel of the front office.

The review states that in some instances, cracks can occur when claybased brick masonry expands as other cementbased products shrink.

Some control joints in the brick at South were also noted to be “significantly compressed.” The recommended repairs are that the cracks in the brick be “tuck-pointed” or caulked and the compressed control joints be re-cut and caulked.

Barron said since the repairs are not immediate structural concerns, they have been added to the district work order system.

partment of Social Services. Harrison-Lee, 53, is the city administrator of Gardner, and Tom Markus, 64, is city manager of Iowa City.

Markus and Bremby would not comment Friday on the outcome of their interviews. Harrison-Lee could not be reached by the JournalWorld.

“We had further discussions with three outstanding individuals who are interested in being our next city manager,” Mayor Mike Amyx said after Friday’s executive session. “We’re grateful for their interest and enthusiasm for our city.”

The three finalists were selected from an original pool of 54 appli-

cants, 32 of whom met the necessary qualifications.

Lawrence’s city manager position has been vacant since June, when former City Manager David Corliss left to take a job as town manager of Castle Rock, Colo. Diane Stoddard, an assistant city manager, has been serving as city manager in an interim role for the past six months.

The candidate selected will be required to establish residency in Lawrence within six months after his or her date of employment.

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

Gifts KANSAS UNIVERSITY OFFICER COURTNEY COKE shops with Sophia, an Early Education participant at the Ballard Center on Friday at Walmart.

The center partnered with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, the Lawrence Police Department, the Kansas State Highway Patrol and the KU Office of Public Safety for the shopping event.

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The children are able to shop for themselves or for anything their families might need, said Casey Pittel, the Ballard Center’s education director. Each child is provided with a $75 gift card from Hallmark.

The program is meant to create a positive relationship between uniformed officers and children, Woods said.

It’s such a popular program, in fact, that the number of men and women who volunteered outnumbered the children who were available.

In all, about 45 officers and department employees volunteered their morning to eat and shop with 32 children, Woods said.

The volunteers ate before the children arrived, then gathered outside in a mass of blue uniforms, waiting for their shopping partners.

As the yellow Ballard Center bus pulled near the McDonald’s at Sixth and Wakarusa streets, the children fogged the vehicle’s windows as they rushed to one side to catch a glimpse of their uniformed companions.

“It’s game time,” one officer said as the bus opened its door.

“It’s like Christmas just for me. This is so fun,” another said.

As the children filed out of the bus, they

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CORRECTIONS were immediately paired with an adult or two. Laminated signs hung from each child’s neck, with his or her name written on one side and a short list of gift ideas on the other.

After breakfast, the happy mob headed across Sixth to Walmart, where the aisles filled with officers carting their new friends around and helping them find special gifts.

“It’s just so fun to see these guys excited when they’re shopping for their presents,” Thomas said. “And not just for themselves, but for their families as well.”

And of course the children enjoy spending the morning with the men and women in blue, Pittel said.

“Oh my gosh, it’s their most favorite thing in

ANNA, A YOUNG GIRL in the Early Education program at the Ballard Center, holds her new doll as she shops with Lawrence police detective Sam Harvey.

the world. It’s really a great experience for the kids,” she said. “And it’s important for the kids to have positive interactions with law enforcement so they’re not scared of them.”

Hopefully, those experiences are something that last a lifetime, said LPD Detective Lance Flachsbarth.

“You spend the whole

day with them, shopping and eating, and then you’ll see these kids downtown or they’ll see that officer and call out to them and sit down and talk with them,” he said.

“It’s something that carries ove r.”

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

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BIRTHS Rickie and Jordan Dadds, Lawrence, a boy, Thursday.

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Former Kansas University and NBA player Scot Pollard will compete on the 32nd season of CBS’ “Survivor,” Entertainment Weekly reports.

The season, set in Cambodia, will divide tribes by beauty, brains and brawn. Given Pollard’s Pollard athletic prowess, it’s assumed he’ll compete on the brawn tribe.

Pollard played for KU from 1993 to 1997, and spent his NBA career with the Sacramento Kings, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Cleveland Cavaliers and the Boston Celtics, winning an NBA championship with that team in 2008.

“Survivor: Kaoh Rong” will premiere Feb. 17 on CBS.

K-State union revamp runs $6M over budget Manhattan (ap) — Kansas State University is set to spend $6 million more than originally budgeted to renovate its student union.

The Manhattan Mercury reports that the Kansas Board of Regents approved a request Wednesday to increase the project’s budget from $25 million to $31 million.

University students voted for the renovations in 2013 to update the food services and provide additional space for student lounges and study areas.

Student privilege fees and university resources will fund the renovations.

Suit accuses KC priest of sexual abuse

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Kansas City, Kan. (ap) — A Missouri man has filed a civil lawsuit accusing a Kansas City, Kan., area Catholic priest of sexually abusing him three decades ago.

The lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in Wyandotte County court, also names the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kan. The plaintiff alleges the archdiocese knew of the abuse and did nothing to stop it.

The lawsuit doesn’t name

the victim and identifies the priest with initials.

The lawsuit claims the abuse occurred at a lake house in the 1980s when the alleged victim, who is now in his 40s, was between 15 and 17 years old.

The archdiocese said Friday in a statement that when it was told about allegations against the priest in 2012, the archdiocese investigated, notified law enforcement, and removed the priest from ministry.

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DR. WILLIAM FOSTER, 88, LEFT, founder of the Florida A&M Marching 100 band, shakes hands with Benjamin McNamee, 17, from Miami, Fla., during a break at the FAMU band camp July 16, 2008, in Tallahassee, Fla. The late bandleader’s life story is the subject of an upcoming book by Kansas University visiting researcher Curtis Inabinett Jr.

Scholar digs deep into story of KU alum, bandleader Foster

By Joanna Hlavacek Twitter: @HlavacekJoanna

Just before the onset of World War II, a talented and ambitious young man named William Patrick Foster was studying music at Kansas University with the dream of one day becoming a conductor.

When a dean at the KU School of Music told Foster no musical companies would hire a

black man for the — Marching 100 job, Foster didn’t band at the hisgive up on his torically black dream.

Florida A&M He hadn’t givUniversity in en up when KU’s 1946. marching band Foster’s life barred him from story, including joining because his time at KU, of his skin color Inabinett is the subject before that, and of an upcoming he wouldn’t give up af- book by Marching 100 ter graduating from KU alumnus Curtis Inabiin 1941 and establishing nett Jr. the award-winning — Please see FOSTER, page 4A and precedent-setting

Lawrence residents help Ugandan ‘hero’ get student visa

By Karen Dillon Twitter: @karensdillon

A Ugandan man who helped rescue an American teacher from an African village that was being overrun by rebels in 2009 has fi- Henry nally been rescued himself.

Lubega Henry arrived

at the Kansas City International Airport Thursday evening and was greeted by the former teacher, Mackenzie Jones, who is now assistant director of the Kansas University African Studies Center.

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SATURDAY COLUMN

Newspapers continue to play vital role in society Dolph C. Simons Jr.

One hundred and twentyfour years ago, W.C. Simons arrived in Lawrence to start a newspaper.

There already were seven other papers in Lawrence, plus several at the university, but he thought Lawrence looked like a town with a promising future. He was a single 19-yearold, who had been schooled by his widowed mother in a sod house in Hodgeman County.

He arrived in Lawrence on a Saturday evening and later recalled, “That December 14th day of 1891, it was raining as it has been today, but instead of a town with wide, paved streets, brilliantly lighted and festooned with Christmas decorations, the streets were a sea of mud, lighted only by a faint and flickering single gas light at each street intersection with burning gasoline, or kerosene, flares in front a few enterprising stores.”

According to various sourc-

es, the Journal-World represents the merger or purchase of 40 newspapers, and there have been at least 104 newspapers published in Lawrence since the city was founded in 1854.

The first paper in Lawrence, the Herald of Freedom, was dated Oct. 21, 1854, but it was printed in Conneautville, Pa., and 21,000 copies were packed and sent to Lawrence.

The population of Lawrence in 1891 was estimated at 9,500, with 630 students and 44 faculty members at Kansas University.

There have been tremendous changes in both Lawrence and the newspaper business during the past 124 years, and it is only natural to wonder what the city and university might look like 124 years from now, in 2140. Or what is our country going to look like in 124 years?

What kind of a government will we have, and how many freedoms will have been canceled or compromised?

What would those living in

Lawrence in 1891 think of the rules, restrictions and government controls that govern daily life in America today? For example, will there be a free press a hundred or more years from now?

COMMENTARY Obviously, this writer is biased, but the importance of a free press cannot be overemphasized.

Unfortunately, among the gradual changes in the newspaper business over the years have been a taming of editorial voices, an emphasis on the bottom line rather than operating a vigorous newsroom, and shrinking numbers of those who enjoy reading or rely on newspapers to report what is going on in cities, counties, states and our nation. Also government offices, at all levels, continue to try to control or limit what the public knows.

This writer believes the

newspaper’s role is to report and keep the public informed about what is going on in City Hall, school boards, law enforcement offices, state capitols, higher education leadership, city commissions and many other offices and activities.

A newspaper should not operate with the idea of making people feel bad, but it should have the courage to report when there are poor and bad performances.

Who is going to let the public know how both public and private offices and businesses, and elected officials are operating if there is no newspaper?

Other information businesses can provide relatively short reports, but not with the depth and sustained efforts of a newspaper. Consider how boards, organizations and government units might operate if they knew no one was looking over their shoulders.

This country needs strong newspapers, more so today

than perhaps at any other time.

The news must be presented accurately and honestly, with opinions expressed on editorial pages or in columns identified as opinion.

Again, there have been tremendous changes in the newspaper business, as well as in Lawrence, our lifestyle, government and nation over the past 124 years. Our forefathers would be shocked to look in on what is going on today, and it is almost impossible to picture what this nation or the world will look like 100 years from now.

Hopefully, there will be newspapers, or some independent non-government source of information, telling citizens the truth about the performance of public officeholders, holding both private and public individuals responsible for their actions.

It’s been a grand experience for all those, past and present, who have been associated with the Journal-World since 1891.

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Dr. Foster’s head, and he unknowingly changed the marching band movement in America,” Inabinett said this week of the late band director. “After that, Foster decided he was going to create — and these were his words — ‘a marching band that would be better than any white marching band in the country.’”

As a recipient of KU’s inaugural Alyce Hunley Whayne Visiting Researchers Travel Award, the first-time author and South Carolina resident has spent this week combing through thousands of documents at the Spencer Research Library’s African American Experience Collections that will add “the final touches” to his “The Legendary Florida A&M University Marching Band, the History of ‘The Hundred.’”

Foster founded the band that would soon become the Marching 100 with around a dozen musicians in 1946, supposedly choosing the name because he envisioned reaching 100 in the future.

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Also there to greet him were Malcolm Gibson, a former newspaperman and former KU professor; Gibson’s wife, Joyce; and others who have been working and raising money to get Henry a student visa for several years.

“This is a huge, huge, huge, huge relief for ev-

— Curtis Inabinett Jr., visiting researcher at Kansas University of collegiate marching bands with his signature blend of contemporary music (often jazz or rock) with high-stepping choreography that had musicians toting their instruments and bending their legs at a 45-degree angle.

Under his leadership from 1946 to 1998, the Marching 100 performed at the Super Bowl on more than one occasion, were featured on both “60 Minutes” and “20/20,” and were hailed

by Sports Illustrated as “The Best Marching Band in the Country.”

In 1985, the Marching 100 became the first historically black college or university to win the Sudler Trophy, the highest honor given to collegiate marching bands, and in recent years, the Marching 100 has grown to 400-some members.

“I really just wanted to go through some of his personal papers and get a better feel for the inner workings of the Florida A&M band,” Inabinett

said, referring to several boxes of correspondence Foster donated to KU a few years before his death. “You see the results on Saturdays and parades and halftime shows, but you never know what’s happening behind the scenes.”

While Foster was excluded from the marching band — among other extracurricular activities that unofficially banned black students from their ranks — at KU, the university honored him in 1973 with its Distinguished Service Citation for “significant contributions to humanity,” said Deborah Dandridge, field archivist and curator of the African American Experience Collections.

“These were warriors who lived under absolute Jim Crow conditions,” Dandridge, a black KU alumna, said of Foster and his peers.

“He was quite confident.

It certainly wasn’t any surprise to him, under-

eryone,” said Gibson, who met Henry while Gibson was working as the executive editor at the Daily Monitor, a newspaper in Kampala, Uganda. “This is good for everybody.”

Jones was teaching in a village near Kampala on Sept. 10, 2009, when rebels overran it and other villages, killing more than 40 people that day.

Henry rescued Jones, but later was captured by rebels and forced to fight

in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He eventually escaped and made his way back to Kampala.

Jones told the JournalWorld in July that she survived the 2009 massacre only “because Henry went out of his way to help me.”

The student visa will allow Henry to study to be a teacher. As the Journal-World reported in July, Henry hopes to return to his native country and use his teaching de-

standing how people viewed African-Americans as there was always an assumption that we’re inferior.”

His “strength within,” she said, is what allowed him to find success in life despite enormous obstacles, particularly the early ones he faced as an undergrad barred from the marching band. That’s why “Foster always came back to KU,” Dandridge said.

More than 30 years after graduating from Florida A&M, Inabinett was able to reconnect with his old band director. They spoke a few times in the four or five months before Foster died in 2010, and as far as Inabinett could tell, the 91-year-old was at peace. “I never sensed any animosity,” Inabinett said.

Inabinett expects his book to hit shelves sometime in mid-2016.

“We can’t erase the past. I think Dr. Foster, throughout all his endeavors, was a person that remained positive throughout all the negativity he went through,” Inabinett said. “I think it’s important to look back, but you don’t dwell in negativity; you move forward.”

— Features reporter Joanna Hlavacek can be reached at jhlavacek@ljworld.com and 832-6388.

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Ratepayer board backs away from mission changes Wichita (ap) — Members of the Citizens’ Utility Ratepayer Board are pulling back from proposals they discussed last week to either change the agency’s mission or dissolve it, saying that the comments were mostly hypothetical.

In a meeting last week, board members discussed refocusing the agency from representing residential and small-business utility customers in Kansas Corporation Commission to fighting new federal clean air regulations. They also debated eliminating CURB as an independent agency and transferring its consumer counsel function to the attorney general’s office.

During a teleconference meeting Thursday, the board elected Ellen Janoski as chairwoman to replace Brian Webster, who resigned on Wednesday in

part out of frustration with the proposals discussed last week.

Board member James Mullin II spoke most prominently last week about whether CURB was still needed. Janoski said Mullin’s comments were “a couple hypothetical sentences” in a long meeting.

Janoski said it wasn’t realistic for the agency to take on the Environmental Protection Agency over its new federal clean-air rules but CURB should educate Kansas consumers about how the rules are affecting their electric bills.

CURB intends to study how other states represent small utility consumers to see if Kansas could make improvements but as for eliminating the agency, she said, “I don’t think that’s probably the best option for us in Kansas.”

BRIEFLY State jobless rate falls to 4 percent

show that while the state lost 2,800 private-sector jobs from October through Topeka (ap) — KanNovember, the year-tosas’ seasonally adjusted year number actually rose unemployment rate fell two- by 10,000, or nine-tenths tenths of a percentage point of a percentage point. to 4 percent last month — The state’s jobless the lowest level in 14 years. rate when not seasonally Kansas Department of adjusted was 3.5 percent Labor figures released Friin November. That’s day show that November’s down from 3.7 percent in jobless rate compared with October and 3.9 percent in 4.1 percent the previous November of last year. month and 4.2 percent in Nationwide, the federal November of last year.

Labor Department says — Reporter Karen Dillon can be reached The department says jobless rates fell in 27 at kdillon@ljworld.com or at 382-7162. that the adjusted figures states and rose in 11.

gree to educate Ugandan children.

On Friday, Henry, who is enrolled at Johnson County Community College for winter classes, visited Overland Park to familiarize himself with the campus, Gibson said.

Friday was also Henry’s 27th birthday, and Gibson said they planned to celebrate with cake later that evening.

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What reality TV show would you most like to be on?

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Hunter Peirce, works at Ramen Bowls, Lawrence “I’d say ‘Jersey Shore,’ just so I can show them what actual reality is.”

Workers stripped the carpet in Lawrence’s City Commission meeting room on Friday afternoon, preparing for the installation of a system that will allow those with hearing aids to better hear the proceedings.

A hearing loop — a wire that circles the room and produces a signal that can be picked up by hearing aids — must be placed directly on the room’s concrete floor. It will be installed the week after next, city spokeswoman Megan

Gilliland said. It will be ready by the commission’s first meeting of the new year, on Tuesday, Jan. 5.

Gilliland said the city has previously had a couple of requests for sound improvements inside the room.

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HUNTER LEONARD, 13, OF LAWRENCE, caught this catfish at the spillway this past September.

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Justina Gonzalez, student, Lawrence “There’s a British baking show called ‘The Great British Bake Off’ that I’d like to be on.”

Evan Barnes, student, Lawrence “It’s hard to say, because I don’t watch much reality TV, but I’d say ‘Chopped.’”

What would your answer be? Go to ljworld. com/onthestreet and share it.

A pair of Kansas University researchers who have successfully turned multiple ideas into inventions and new companies have been elected to a prestigious national inventors organization, the university announced Friday.

Val Stella and Bala Subramaniam both have been elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, an organization that honors inventors who have “made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and welfare of society.”

Stella is a university distinguished professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Subramaniam is a distinguished professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering.

Stella is the inventor or co-inventor of four drug products for the treatment of epilepsy,

used to dissolve drugs in a manner that makes them more efficiently injected. It is used currently in seven FDAapproved products.

Subramaniam is cofounder and director of Stella Subramaniam the Center for Environmentally Beneficial CaAIDS and cancer, as well talysis. His research has as an anesthetic. focused on the use of He also developed an unconventional solvents agent, Captisol, that is that can be used to man-

ufacture drug nanoparticles. His work also has involved creating new technologies in the area of producing environmentally-friendly, plantbased biomass fuels.

Subramaniam’s inventions have led to the creation of CritiTech, a Lawrence-based pharmaceutical company.

Stella and Subramaniam were nominated

for the National Academy of Inventors by Julie Nagel, interim associate vice chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship.

“These two distinguished professors are a model for translating KU research into products that benefit others and have an economic impact,” Nagel said in a press release.

BRIEFLY

No City Commission City to recycle meeting next week Christmas trees The Lawrence City Commission will have an altered meeting schedule over the next two weeks.

Tuesday’s meeting is canceled for the Christmas holiday. The meeting the following week, on Dec. 29, will be brief, with no regular agenda items.

It’s scheduled to start at 9 a.m. and will last only a few minutes, said city spokeswoman Megan Gilliland.

The next regular meeting will be held Jan. 5 at 5:45 p.m. at City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St.

City workers will pick up and recycle Christmas trees after the holiday season.

Lawrence residents who want to recycle their livecut Christmas trees may place them at the curb or alley for pick-up on Jan. 4 and Jan. 11, both Mondays. The trees need to be placed at the curb or alley by 6 a.m. on those days.

The trees will be used as wildlife habitat.

Residents are asked to remove all artificial items from the trees before recycling.

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Call before stopping by, and ‘no’ means ‘no’ Dear Annie: My husband and I are at an age where many of our friends have retired. We have not. We started a business together five years ago, and fortunately, it is doing extremely well. We plan to retire in another five years.

In the meantime, we’re working very hard, both physically and mentally, but enjoy it.

The problem? Our retired friends cannot seem to amuse themselves without us. I’m aware that this sounds egotistical, but one friend actually waits for us in our driveway when we get in from work. The others call several times a week to try to arrange dinner out or some other social engagement.

When I explain that we just walked in the door and are exhausted, I’m “scolded” for always being too busy. Their

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favorite expression is, “We’re human beings, not human doings.”

I know your answer to this type of question would be to have a frank talk with these friends, but no matter how kindly I put it, I’m sure it would hurt their feelings. So, I’d like to take the coward’s way out and ask that you print this advice to retired folks and others who want to be “good friends”: Please call before

Bad ‘Spirit’ brings good cheer While there’s nothing worse than a saccharine holiday film, I’ll gladly watch a bad Christmas movie if it’s weird or interesting enough. And the 2015 romance “The Spirit of Christmas” (7 p.m., Lifetime) is plenty interesting and downright weird, with plenty of bad to go around.

Jen Lilley (“Days of Our Lives”) stars as Kate, a shrill corporate legal drone. She’s first seen oozing snark and jumping for joy when a dorky boyfriend chooses a holiday dinner date to break up with her. What a relief! She’s the kind of woman who doesn’t have time for Christmas, or for love. She’s the perfect go-getter to send to a frozen clime to liquidate the assets of an estate that includes a charming country inn with a reputation for holiday hauntings.

There, she encounters Daniel Forsythe (Thomas Beaudoin), or at least his spirit. You see, he was murdered in 1920 and is cursed to return in human form every year, for the 12 days leading up to Christmas. As you can imagine, it’s unsettling for the guests.

For a reanimated spirit, Daniel is a bit of a stiff. He speaks in a formal, stodgy diction. That goes double for his contemporaries, seen in flashbacks and other spectral states. At times he looks like the kind of contemporary bearded hipster lampooned on “Portlandia,” steampunk types for whom “the dream of the ’90s” means the 1890s. The scenes featuring these old-timey characters are consistently starchy, a bit like a costume museum come to life.

Kate is clearly modeled on the professional woman featured in every Hallmark movie ever made — the kind who lose their reserve and find themselves and love in a laid-back, small-town environment. But Kate the workaholic takes a tad too long to loosen up. And she really can’t fall for a dead guy, can she?

I’ll never tell.

Tonight’s other highlights

Democratic presidential hopefuls debate in New Hampshire (7 p.m., ABC).

Ash takes on demons from his past on “Ash vs Evil Dead” (8 p.m., Starz, TV-MA).

Hard choices are made on the second season finale of “The Returned” (9 p.m., Sundance, TV-MA). This season has been the second biggest disappointment of the year, edged out by HBO’s “True Detective” 2.0.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler host “Saturday Night Live” (10:30 p.m., NBC, TV-14), with musical guests Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

stopping by. It’s good manners and will make you a more welcome guest when we are up for your company. And when we say we’re too tired, too busy, or would just like to do nothing for a while, please accept it graciously. And maybe, just maybe, you should round out your own lives a bit more.

Annie, these are all terrific, quality people with whom we hope to enjoy many more years of friendship. We just don’t have the energy to do it at the end of our work day. — Exhausted, but Happy Dear Exhausted: Your retired friends are probably a little bored, and they enjoy your company. Since you aren’t asking for advice, however, we’re happy to let you use this space for a perfectly good message — whether

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Saturday, Dec. 19: This year you often are uptight until you can trust the people around you. A financial change ultimately will be for the better. Talk through this with someone you respect. If you are single, you will meet someone with ease come next fall. If you are attached, the two of you often will be seen out.

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) An older friend might feel as if he or she has an especially great idea. Go along for the sake of peace, if you can. Tonight: Out late.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You will want to keep your own counsel and process news on your own. Tonight: Read between the lines.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) A partner seems to have a strong feeling about what he or she will participate in. You could have your hands full. Tonight: Play the night away.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Pressure builds as an older friend or relative seems to want more of your time. Slow down and express your caring. Tonight: Make the most of the moment.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) You could be overtired, and might need a different perspective. Consider taking a drive to a favorite place. Tonight: Try

one is retired or not.

Dear Annie: My wife and I are having a disagreement about how to sign cards and notes.

Does the man’s name come first or does the woman’s?

I have always put my name first, but lately she says that her name should be first.

So should it be “Tim and Marlene”? Or is it “Marlene and Tim?” — Your Opinion, Please Dear Tim: Your wife is right. Etiquette says the woman’s name comes first in all cases except where the signature is “Mr. and Mrs. John Smith” or some variation. Of course, not everyone cares, in which case, sign your names however you choose.

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

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something different.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) One-on-one relating with a friend could take you down a new path. Tonight: Togetherness works.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Defer to others, and don’t worry so much about the details. Understand what is happening around you. Tonight: Say “yes” to an intriguing offer.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You might feel as if you can’t avoid having a conversation with a controlling neighbor or a difficult loved one. Tonight: Know when to call it a night.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You might want to reach out to a child or loved one. Firmly establish boundaries.

Tonight: Fun starts with a holiday celebration.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You could be unusually serious. Let go of what ails you by throwing yourself into a holiday event. Tonight: Accept an invitation.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You would be a lot happier if you could let go of the need to keep such a rigid schedule.

Tonight: Out. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) You could be at the point of no return. You can’t stop what is happening, nor do you want to. Tonight: Allow someone else to treat.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker December 19, 2015

ACROSS 1 Con artist’s crime 6 Principle or belief 11 St. Louis clock setting 14 Kind of lily 15 Deck just above the keel 16 Kanga’s joey 17 Hen house 19 Man-mouse connection 20 Fathomless time 21 “Hold ___ second ...”

22 Letters at the end of a proof 23 Idolizing 27 Nearest planet to the sun 29 Small island 30 Ducky shade of blue 32 Proofreader’s sign 33 Taxcollecting org.

34 Mouthwatering 36 Coffeehouse serving 39 Earns after expenses 41 Leave Her Majesty’s service, briefly 43 Catjang pea 44 “My Big Fat ___ Wedding” 46 Beneficent one

7 Mythical monster 8 Doom’s partner 9 Butted out?

10 Clothing 11 Target for a wooden ball 12 Achier 13 All-tooagreeable fellow 18 Nonet 23 Breezing through, as a test 24 Risk taker 25 Pearl of a sea-going vessel?

26 Looked slackjawed 28 Hardly nude 31 Long vehicles, for short 35 The recipient of funds 37 Put off, as a motion

48 Geisha’s waistband 49 Nevada border city 51 Word repeated after “Que,” in song 52 Advanced in years 53 Lovers, at times 56 One not finishing a sentence 58 Word with “bred” or “advised” 59 Berated (with “into”) 60 El ___ (Spanish hero) 61 Classic introduction?

62 Airshow crowd pleaser 68 Singing pair 69 Print type 70 Sweat box?

71 Warbucks’ henchman (with “The”) 72 Windshield attachment 73 Sick partner?

DOWN 1 Govt. broadcasting watchdog 2 Old college cheer 3 Rope-adope boxer 4 Tummy bummer 5 Armed robbers (Var.) 6 Corleone’s title

38 Skip, as a syllable 40 Calls, Vegas-style 42 Beet soup (Var.) 45 Tolled 47 Most risque 50 Baltimore pro 53 Rather, informally 54 Intestinal obstruction 55 Unaffected by passion 57 Presidential candidate Stevenson 63 After-hours school grp.

64 ___ Aviv, Israel 65 “Days of ___ Lives” 66 Small bill 67 Place for notes

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BIRTHDAYS

Darwin and Marroulis Wedding

Jennifer Smith plant in the center of a sturdy pot, or plant two to three plants around the base of the frame to fill in more quickly. Set the frame as close as possible to the plants and train stems up and around the frame. Use florist’s tape (available at many garden centers) or twist ties to secure the plants if necessary.

Care for two-dimensional topiaries is similar to any plant. Provide water, light, and fertilizer as needed for the species. Continue training stems around the frame as the plant grows.

Once the plant fills in, trim stems with florist scissors or plant shears.

The plants will take a bit of maintenance to keep their shape, but the chore is part of the fun of growing topiary.

For three-dimensional topiary, purchase a dimensional frame, build one if you are especially crafty, or choose a plant that has enough support of its own to be shaped without a frame. This is where topiary really gets fun with animal shapes, pompom shrubs, and living wreaths.

— Jennifer Smith is a former horticulture extension agent for K-State Research and Extension and horticulturist for Lawrence Parks and Recreation. She is the host of “The Garden Show” and has been a gardener since childhood. Send your gardening questions and feedback to features@ljworld.com.

Figi

If you are looking for a large cat to snuggle up with Figi is definitely your guy! Just look at those cheeks! How can you not fall in love with him?! Figi is your typical lazy cat and could really care less about what is going on around him; as long as he has a comfy spot to curl up on, he is good to go! Figi is our Pet of the Week. Come meet him today fees are waived for at the Lawrence Humane pets of the week! Society!

lucy

Hi my name is Lucy! I’m seven years old and I’m as sweet as can be! My favorite toy is a sparkly fish and I love to paw at it. I will be the first cat to greet you and love on you in Catopia. Scratches and head rubs are my favorite! I would be a purrrfect addition to your home this holiday season. Visit me anytime at the Lawrence Humane Society today and get tons of love and affection from me!

Felix

Sir Felix is an older gentleman looking for his new home. Felix is about nine years old and is a typical older gentleman who wants to sit by the fire and have long conversations with you! He is such a vocal cat, but the minute you start petting him, he quickly turns those meows into purring. Don’t you want to take this man home? I’m sure he would be forever thankful!

He is available at the Lawrence Humane Society today!

Minx

Have you ever seen such a beautiful cat before? Minx is such a regal looking cat, with the softest fur ever! He stands tall and craves the attention of his human companions. Minx is an older man, about ten years old, but you wouldn’t be able to tell by his ‘live young’ attitude towards life. You have to come meet him today and you will quickly fall in love with him! He is available for adoption at the Lawrence Humane Society.

Lorraine Marie Darwin and Steven Christopher Marroulis were married at the beautiful historic Women’s City Club in Little Rock, AR, on September 5, 2015, with friend Jesse Griffin officiating. Lorraine’s long time friends, Shannon Harvey, Kim Dillon, and Elizabeth Peters were bridesmaids. Wil Kline and Jason Latino, Steve’s brothers-in-law, and Dan Moffett, Steve’s cousin, were groomsmen. Lorraine is the daughter of David and Diane Darwin, Lawrence. Steve is the son of Ted and Carolyn Marroulis, Salem, OH. The bride is a 1990 graduate of Lawrence High School. She received both her B.S.Ed. and M.S.Ed. from the University of Kansas. After having taught math at

90th Birthday Reception for Reva Johannsen The family of Reva Johannsen invites everyone who has shared in her life to join us as we celebrate her 90th birthday on Saturday, January 2nd, from 1:004:00 P.M. in the gathering hall of the First Christian Church (1000 Kentucky). We kindly request no gifts, please. Your friendship and memories are ongoing gifts.

Lawrence High School for four years, she relocated to Little Rock, AR in 1999 where she continued her career as a high school math teacher at Cabot High School. The groom graduated from Salem High School, Salem, OH in 1989 and received bachelor’s degrees in Biology from The College of Wooster in Wooster, OH and in Computer Science from the University of MD University College. Steve is a Project Manager for an Information Technology company outside of Baltimore, Maryland, where the couple now resides.

Frances Mercer, Happy 90th Birthday!

The family of Frances Mercer will celebrate her 90th birthday on Thursday, December 31, 2015.

The family requests a card shower for her at: 5121 Congressional Circle, Apt C-205, Lawrence, KS children; Gary, Kay, Kar66049.

Love from all of your en, and Sandy

ANNIVERSARIES

ENGAGEMENTS Weishaar-Finney Engagement Mr. and Mrs. Gary Weishaar, Topeka (formerly of Lawrence), along with Mrs. Christy Finney, Andale, and the late Benjamin J Finney announce the engagement of their children Amanda Weishaar and Benjamin J Isaac (BJ) Finney. Amanda graduated from Kansas State with a BS in Public Relations in 2012 and a Masters in Business Administration in 2014. BJ graduated from Kansas State in 2014 with a BS in History and is currently employed by

Amanda Weishaar & BJ Finney the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL Football organization. The couple resides in Pittsburgh, PA. A 2016 winter wedding is being planned.

Rasmussen 60th Wedding Anniversary Keith and Peggy Rasmussen are celebrating 60 years of marriage.

They were married December 17, 1955, at the United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Kansas. The couple has four children: Greg (Nancy) Rasmussen, Andover, KS; John (Kim) Rasmussen, Topeka, KS; Ann (Chris) Lounsbury, Lawrence, KS; and Jill (Aaron) Chard, Fredonia, KS. They have seven grandchildren: Erin (Michael) Rohr, Boston, MA; Neal (Sydney) Rasmussen, Minneapolis, MN; Carly Rasmussen, Manhattan,

adopt-a-pet adopt-a-pet Tugger

Mr. Tugger got his name because he definitely tugs at your heartstrings! Look how regal he looks; don’t you want to take him home today? He is such as sweetheart and wants to just cuddle up in your lap and sleep the day away. He is a smaller boy, but filled to the brim with love and sweetness.

Is he the perfect addition to your family? He is located at the Lawrence Humane fees are waived for Society, and is also a Pet of pets of the week! the Week.

TunA

Hello, humans! I’m Tuna, a sweet and loving 4 year old Pit Bull mix. I love to lounge around most of the day and would love a friend to hang out with!

I would prefer to be your only fur-baby because I have lots of love to give. You can find me at the Lawrence Humane Society waiting on my forever home!

herMione

How precious is Ms. Hermione?

Her striking marks just add to her beautiful demeanor.

Hermione loves to watch what everyone else is doing, and sometimes you won’t even notice she is there; she loves to hide under her bed, and peeks out just enough to make sure everything is alright. She enjoys have her head scratched and will crawl right up into your arms any chance she is given. Do you want to take Hermione home for the holidays? She is available for adoption at the Lawrence Humane Society.

Angus

Catopia always has at least one cat who meets you at the door.

Angus has taken on the responsibility and has been doing a stellar job.

He’s a sweet 7 year old Domestic Short Hair and has been declawed on the front. We aren’t sure why he has a short tail, but it certainly adds to his appeal. He’s an amiable guy and gets along with the other cats in the room, so another cat in the home should be fine.

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Build your own topiary

ooking for a fun indoor gardening project or a creative handmade gift? Try making your own miniature topiary by growing ivy, herbs or other plants over a simple frame.

Start by deciding on the look you wish to achieve and considering your creativity and experience levels. Twodimensional topiaries are created by growing a plant over a flat frame, while three-dimensional topiaries are created by using a broader frame or by starting with a larger, fuller plant.

A two-dimensional topiary might be as simple as a small-leaved ivy growing over a wire shaped into a circle or star. A three-dimensional topiary could also use ivy to grow over a wire frame shaped into a ball, or it could use a shrub-like boxwood to create plants shaped into animals or with pompoms on stems.

If topiary is a new hobby or is meant for a gift, two-dimensional is probably the way to go.

For two-dimensional topiary, purchase a flat frame at a garden center or craft store or use pliers and wire cutters to shape a frame using light-gauge wire or an old wire clothes hanger. Shape the wire into a circle, heart, star or other design. Leave a straight piece on the bottom to stick into the soil for anchoring the frame into the pot.

Make it sturdy as the plant will add weight to the frame.

Small-leaved ivy, philodendron, pothos, baby’s tears, creeping fig, rosemary and lavender are a few examples of suitable topiary plants. Use one

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Peggy and Keith Rasmussen KS; Kathryn Rasmussen, Topeka; and Aidan, Claire, and Grace Chard, all of Fredonia. Keith and Peggy celebrated with a family dinner held in Topeka, on December 12. The couple resides in Lawrence.

Can’t adopt? then please donate!

Call, e-mail or Come Visit! help us help them!

Asher

Are you looking for a busy body who wants to weave in and out of your feet, craving attention all day, everyday! Asher is such a cool cat, and has some funny quirks that make him unique. For instance, he is the type of cat that prefers eating in the reclined position, sprawled out on the floor, reserving as much energy as possible to chew his food!

And that is just one of his funny quirks! If you want to see more, and take home, come visit him fees are waived for today at the Lawrence Humane pets of the week! Society. He is also a Pet of the Week.

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Moppy

Just look at those beautiful eyes and try not to fall in love!

Moppy is a one and a half year old princess waiting to find her forever home. Moppy is a quiet lady who enjoys lounging around and being your typical lap cat. She needs to be an only cat, as other cats can scare her! Is Moppy the girl for you? She is available today at the Lawrence Humane Society.

sMooshie

Do we even need to explain how Smooshie got his famous name? Look at that big face! Don’t you just want to smoosh his big cheeks? Smooshie is a young gentleman looking for a place to call his own. He is only three years old, and has a lot of life to live and a lot of love to give. He found his way to the Lawrence Humane Society as a stray, and ready to find his forever home. Is that with you?

He is available today at the Lawrence Humane Society.

gAlAdriel

Kittens, kittens, kittens! Little Miss. Galadriel is about as cute as can be! She is a kitten, full of energy and the aspiration to explore the world. She is currently with her siblings and is looking for a forever home! She is a little nervous around new people, but once she remembers that she is a kitten, she quickly jumps back into her kitten antics; playing with toys, her siblings, and exploring. Don’t you want to take this little angel home for the holidays?

She is available for adoption at the Lawrence Humane Society!

Adoption fees waived for all cats 1 year and older!

FArAMir

Look into those eyes and try your hardest to tell yourself that you don’t need to take Faramir home today! It’s impossible!!

This little guy is Galadriel’s brother and these two kiddos are full of spunk and excitement.

If you are looking for a little kitten to keep you on your toes, look no further; Famair is the kitten for you! Always chasing you around, trying to climb up your leg for attention, this little guy needs someone who is willing to play with him into the wee hours of the night!

If you are looking for an energetic kitten, come to meet Faramir today!

Religious Directory

AFRICAN CAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL

St Luke African Methodist Episcopal 900 New York Street 785-841-0847 Rev. Verdell Taylor, Jr. Sun. 11:00 am, Sun. School 10:00 am Bible Study Wed. 12:30 pm

ANGLICAN

Lawrence Anglican Mission Meadowlark Chapel 4440 Bauer Farm Rd Saturday, 3:30 PM 816-797-2237 www.stjamesanglican.net

ASSEMBLY OF GOD

Calvary Temple Assembly of God

606 W. 29th Terrace 785-832-2817 Pastor Don Goatlay Sunday Service 10:30 am & 6:30 pm Wed Service 6:30 pm

Eudora Assembly Of God 827 Elm Street 785-542-2182 Pastor Glenn Weld Sunday Worship 10:30 am Sunday Evening 7:00 pm

Lawrence Assembly of God 3200 Clinton Pkwy 785-843-7189 Pastor Rick Burwick Sunday 10:00 am www.lawrence3620church.com

New Life Assembly Of God Church

5th & Baker Baldwin City (785) 594-3045 Mark L. Halford Sun. 11:00 am 6 pm Wed. Family Night 6 pm

Williamstown Assembly of God 1225 Oak St. 785-597-5228 Pastor Rick Burch am wagc@williamstownag.org Sunday Worship 10:30 am

BAHA’I FAITH Baha’i Faith

BIBLE

Community Bible Church 906 N 1464 Rd. Pastor Shaun LePage Worship 10:30 am community-bible.org

Lawrence Bible Chapel

505 Monterey Way *785-841-2607 John Scollon 785-841-5271 Lord’s Supper Sunday 9am Sun. School 10:10am Bible Hour 11:10am Supper: 6:15 PM; Prayer meeting 7pm

BUDDHIST

Kansas Zen Center

1423 New York St. Guiding Teacher Judy Roitman Sunday 9:30 am - 11:30 am Orientation for beginners 9 am kansaszencenter.org

CATHOLIC

Annunciation Catholic Church 740 N 6th Street Baldwin City (785) 594-3700 Fr. Brandon Farrar Sunday 10:30 am & 6:00 pm www.annunciationchurch.org

Corpus Christi Catholic Church

6001 Bob Billings Pkwy (785) 843-6286 Fr. Michael Mulvany Sat. 4:00 pm * Sun. 8:30 am & 10:00 am www.cccparish.org

Holy Family Catholic Church 311 E 9th Street, Eudora 785-542-2788 Fr. Pat Riley Service Sat. 5:00 pm Sun. 9:30 am holyfamilyeudora@sunflower.com

St. John Evangelist Catholic Church 1229 Vermont ST 785.843.0109 www.saint-johns.net Weekend Mass: Sat 4:30 pm Sun. 7 am, 8:30 am, 10:30 am, 5 pm

CHRISTIAN

Lawrence Heights Christian Church

Baha’i Worship Service most Sundays at 10-00 Call 785-843-2703 or friendsoflawrencebahais@gmail.com

2321 Peterson Road 785-843-1729 Pastor Steve Koberlein Sunday Worship 8:45 am & 10:30 am Lawrence-heights.org

BAPTIST

Morning Star Christian Church

First Regular Missionary Baptist Church 1646 Vermont St • 843-5811 Pastor Arsenial Runion Sunday School 9:30 am Wednesday 7:00 pm Prayer Service and Bible Study

Fellowship Baptist Church 710 Locust Street 785-331-2299 Sunday School 9:45 am Worship 11:00 am & 6:30 pm Wednesday Prayer 7:00 pm

Lawrence Baptist Temple

3201 W 31st Street Rev. Gary L. Myers Pastor Sun. School & Worship 10:00 am Sun. Evening Worship 6:00 pm Wed. Evening 7:30 pm

Lighthouse Baptist Church 700 Chapel Street 785-594-4101 Pastor Richard Austin Sunday Worship 10:30 am llbt115@embarqmail.com.

Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church

901 Tennessee St (785) 843-6472 Pastor Eric A. Galbreath Sun. School 9:30am * Worship 10:45am nsmbclk.org

BAPTIST - AMERICAN

First American Baptist Church 1330 Kasold Dr. * 785-843-0020 Rev. Matthew Sturtevant www.firstbaptistlawrence.com Sunday Worship 8:30 am & 10:45 am Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

BAPTIST - INDEPENDENT Heritage Baptist Church

1781 E 800th Rd. (785) 887-2200 Dr. Scott Hanks Sunday Worship 10:30 am www.heritagebaptistchurch.cc

BAPTIST - SOUTHERN

Cornerstone Southern Baptist Church 802 West 22nd Terrace (785) 843-0442 Pastor Gary O’Flannagan Sun. School 9:30 am * Worship 10:45 am www.cornerstonelawrence.com

Eudora Baptist Church

525 W 20th Street 785-542-2734 Pastor Jeff Ingle Sun. School 9:00 am * Worship 10:15 am eudorabc.org

998 N 1771 Rd. 785-749-0023 Pastor John McDermott Worship 9:00 am & 11:00 am www.msclawrence.com

North Lawrence Christian Church

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

Lawrence University Ward (Student) Church Of Jesus Christ Of LDS 1629 West 19th St. Lawrence 785-832-9622 Sacrament Worship 11:00am LDS.org, Mormon.org, institute.lds.org

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

CHRISTIAN CHURCH DISCIPLES OF CHRIST First Christian Church 1000 Kentucky Street 785-843-0679 www.fcclawrence.org Reverend Dale Walling Sunday 9am & 11am

CHURCH OF CHRIST Church Of Christ

201 N. Michigan St. 785-838-9795 Elders Tom Griffin & Calvin Spencer Sunday 10 am & 6:00 pm, Wed. 7 pm www.lawrencecoc.org

Church Of Christ of Baldwin City 820 High Street, Baldwin City (785) 594-4246 Sunday Worship 11:00 am

Southside Church of Christ

Corner of 25th & Missouri 785-843-0770 Chris Newton, Minister Sun. Bible School 9:15 am Sun. Worship 10:20 am & 5:00 pm Wed. Bible Study 7:00 pm

CHURCH OF GOD

Bridgepointe Community Church 601 W 29th Terrace Lawrence (785) 843-9565 Pastor Dennis Carnahan Sunday 10:45 am www.bridgepointcc.com

Lawrence First Church of the Nazarene 1470 N 1000 Rd. 785-843-3940 Bob Giffin, Senior Pastor Celebration & Praise Service 10:15 am www.lawrencefirstnaz.org

COMMUNITY OF CHRIST Lawrence Community of Christ

711 W. 23rd in the Malls Shopping Center 785-843-7535 Pastor Marilyn Myers Sunday Worship 10:00 am

University Community Of Christ 1900 University Drive 785-843-8427 Pastor Nancy Zahniser Sunday Worship 10:00 am Sunday Classtime 9:00 am

EPISCOPAL

St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church 5700 W. 6th St. 785-865-5777 Father Matt Zimmermann 8 am & 10 am Holy Eucharist www.saintmargaret.org

Trinity Episcopal Church

1011 Vermont St (785) 843-6166 The Reverend Rob Baldwin, Rector 8 am; 10:30 am; 6:00 pm Solemn High Mass www.trinitylawrence.org

EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA Christ Community Church

1100 Kasold Drive 785-842-7600 Jeff Barclay Pastor Sun. Worship 9:30 am & 10:30 am www.ccclawrence.org

ISLAMIC

Islamic Center Of Lawrence

Southern Hills Congregation

1802 E 19th St * 843-8765 Sun. 1:30 pm Public Talk & Watchtower Study

River Heights Congregation

1802 E 19th St * 843-8765 Sun. 10:00 am Public Talk & Watchtower Study Tues. 7:30, TMS, & Service Mtg

Chabad Center for Jewish Life 1203 West 19th St. Lawrence 785-832-TORA (8672) www.JewishKU.com “Your Source for Anything Jewish!”

Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation 917 Highland Drive 785-841-7636 www.LawrenceJCC.org Worship Friday 7:30pm Religious School Sunday 9:30am

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2211 Inverness Dr. * 785-843-3014 Pastor Ted Mosher Worship 2.0 9:30 am Classic Worship-11:00 am www.gslc-lawrence.org

Trinity Lutheran Church

1245 New Hampshire St. 785-843-4150 The Rev. Brian Elster, Lead Pastor Sun. 8:30 & 11:00am; Wed., 6:30 p.m. www.tlclawrence.org

LUTHERAN - MISSOURI SYNOD Immanuel Lutheran Church

2700 Lawrence Ave 785-843-8181 * www.rlclks.org Sunday School 9:00 am Sunday Worship 10:00 am Wed. Evening Worship 7:00 pm

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96 Highway 40 * 785-887-6823 January Kiefer Pastor Traditional Sun. 9:00am Contemporary call for information www.bigspringsumc.org

911 Massachusetts Basement below Kinkos 785-838-9093 Gabriel Alvarado Worship 10:30 am AWANA, Wednesday, 6:00 998 N 1771 Rd. 785-749-0023 Pastor John McDermott Worship 9:00 am & 11:00 am www.msclawrence.com

Mustard Seed Church

Centenary United Methodist Church 245 North Elm Street 785-843-1756 Pastor Daniel Norwood Sunday Worship 11:00 am centenarylawrence@yahoo.com

700 Wakarusa Drive 785-841-5685 www.mustardseedchurch.com Wed. Youth Service 7:00 pm Sun. Morning Service 10:00 am

New Life In Christ Church

1501 Massachusetts St 785-843-7066 New Pastor Moon-Hee Chung Sun. School 9:30 am * Worship 10:45 am www.centralumclawrence.org

Clearfield United Methodist Church 297 E. 2200 Rd. Eudora 785-883-2130 Rev. Kathy Symes Worship 9:00am Sunday School 10:30am

At Bridge Pointe Community 601 W. 29 Terrace 10:30 a.m. Sunday Pastor Paul Gray 785-766-3624 www.newlifelawrence.com

New Hope Fellowship

1449 Kasold Dr. Lawrence 785-331-HOPE (4673) Darrell Brazell Pastor 10:15 am Sundays www.newhopelawrence.com

The Salvation Army

Eudora United Methodist Church

2084 N 1300th Rd. Eudora 785-542-3200 * www.eudoraumc.org Sunday Worship 9:30 am Sunday School Children & Youth 10:15 am Adult Spiritual Formation Group 8:30 & 10:40 am

First United Methodist Church

704 8th Street; Baldwin Rev. Paul Badcock Sunday School each Sunday 9:30 am Traditional Worship 8:30 am Contemporary Worship 10:45 am Combined Worship 10:45 last Sunday month

First United Methodist Church Downtown 946 Vermont St. Rev. Dr. Tom Brady Pastor Traditional 10:30 am Contemporary 9:30 am West Campus 867 Highway 40 Contemporary 9:00 am & 11:00 am www.fumclawrence.org

946 New Hampshire St. 785-843-4188 Lts. Matt & Marisa McCluer Sun. School 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am lawrence.salvationarmy.us

United Light Church 1515 West Main Street Lawrence, KS 66044 785-393-3539

Velocity Church

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940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS Meeting at Lawrence Arts Center Sundays @ 9:30 am & 11:00 am www.findvelocity.org

ORTHODOX - EASTERN

Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church 1235 Iowa Street 785-218-7663 Rev. Dr. Joshua Lollar Sunday Divine Liturgy 9:30am www.saintnicholaschurch.net

Ives Chapel United Methodist

REFORMED-PRESBYTERIAN

1018 Miami St Baldwin City (785) 594-6555 Rev. Kate Cordes Sunday Worship 11:00 am Church School 9:45 am

Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church

402 Elmore Street, Lecompton 785-887-6327 Pastor Billie Blair Sunday 8:30 am & 10:45 am www.lecomptonumc.org

2312 Harvard Road; Lawrence (785) 766-7796 Pastor John M. McFarland Sun. Worship 10:45 am; Classes at 9:30 am www.ChristCovenantChurchRPC.org

PRESBYTERIAN - USA Clinton Presbyterian Church

Stull United Methodist Church

1596 E 250 Rd. Lecompton (785) 887-6521 Pastor Faye Wagner Worship 11:00am * Sun. School 10:00am www.stullumc.org

Worden United Methodist Church

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

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Big Springs United Methodist Church

LUTHERAN - ELCA

Redeemer Lutheran Church

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METHODIST - UNITED

1724 North 692 Rood 785-594-3256 Pastor Joni Raymond Sunday School 9:30 am Sunday Worship 10:30 am

Praise Temple Church of God in Christ 315 E. 7th St. * 749-0985 Pastor Paul Winn Jr. SS 10:00 am * Worship 11:15 am Wed. & Fri. Bible Teaching 7:00 pm Call early for ride to church

Lawrence Life Fellowship

Morning Star Church

722 New Hampshire Street (785) 749-5397 Rabbi’s Neal Schuster www.kuhillel.org

Victory Bible Church

1942 Massachusetts St www.victorybiblechurch.net (785) 841-3437 Pastor Leo Barbee Sunday Worship 10:30 am

950 E. 21st Street 785-832-9200 Pastor Jami Moss Sun School 10 am *Worship 11 am Thurs Bible Study 7 pm

416 Lincoln Street 785-842-4926 Pastor Dan Nicholson Sun. Worship 10:00 am * Wed. 7:00 pm lawrencechristiancenter.org

588 N 1200 Rd. Pastor Patrick Yancey Worship Sunday 11:00 am www.clintonchurch.net

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2415 Clinton Parkway 785-843-4171 Rev. Kent Winters-Hazelton Sun. Worship 8:30 & 11:00 am www.firstpreslawrence.org

West Side Presbyterian Church 1024 Kasold Drive (785) 843-1504 Rev. Debbie Garber Worship 9:55 am * Sun. School 10:15 www.westsidelawrence.org

PRESBYTERIAN-EVANGELICAL Grace Evangelical Presbyterian Church 3312 Calvin Drive 785-843-2005 Pastor William D. Vogler Worship 8:15 am & 10:45 am www.gepc.org

RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Hesper Friends Church

2355 N 1100th Rd. 2 Mi. South. 11/2 Mi. East Eudora Rev. Darin Kearns Pastor Sunday School 9:30 am Sunday Worship 10:30 am

Oread Friends Meeting 1146 Oregon Street Loring Henderson, Clerk 785-764-2095 Meeting for worship, 10:00 am Sunday www.oreadfriends.org

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST Unitarian Fellowship of Lawrence 1263 N 1100 Rd. (785) 842-3339 Rev. Jill Jarvis 9:30 am Program & RE; 11:00 am Service www.uufl.net

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST - UCC

Plymouth Congregational Church, UCC 925 Vermont Street 785-843-3220 Rev. Dr. Peter Luckey Sun. Worship 9:30 am & 11:15 am www.plymouthlawrence.com

St John’s United Church-Christ 396 E 900th Rd. Baldwin City (785) 594-3478 Pastor Heather Coates Sunday School 10:00am Worship 11:00am

St Paul United Church-Christ 738 Church St. Eudora 785-542-2785 Rev. Shannah McAleer Sunday Worship 10:00 am stpaulucceudora.com

UNITY

Unity Church of Lawrence 900 Madeline Lane 785-841-1447 Sunday Meditation Service 9:30 am Sunday Worship 11:00 am Sunday Child/Nursery Care Available Wednesday Meditation 7:00 pm Moment of Inspiration 785-843-8832 www.unityoflawrence.org

WESLEYAN

Lawrence Wesleyan Church 3705 Clinton Parkway 785-841-5446 Pastor Nate Rovenstine Worship 9:00, 10:00 & 11:15 am lawrencewesleyan.com

294 East 900th Rd. Baldwin City 785-594-7598 Pastor Changsu Kim Worship 8:15 & 10:30 wordenumc.com

NON-DENOMINATIONAL Called to Greatness Ministries P.O. Box 550 Lawrence KS 66044 785-749-2100 info@calledtogreatness.com www.calledtogreatness.com

Christ International Church 1103 Main St. Eudora KS 66025 785-312-4263 Sunday 10:30 am Wednesdays 6:30 pm

Country Community Church

878 Locust St Lawrence 913-205-8304 Pastor, John Hart Sun. School 9 am, Fellowship 10 am, Worship 10:30 am

Eagle Rock Church

1387 N. 1300 Rd. Lawrence, KS 66046 785-393-6791 www.eaglerocklawrence.com Sundays at 10:00 am

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First Presbyterian Church

Vinland United Methodist Church

K U Hillel House

646 Alabama Street * 749-0951 Rev. William A Dulin Sun. School 10:30 am Worship 12:15 pm Tue. 7:00 pm Prayer & Bible Study Thur. 7:00 pm Worship & Pastoral Teaching

Calvary Church Of God In Christ

Lawrence Free Methodist Church

Lecompton United Methodist Church

JEWISH

4300 W. 6th Street (785) 843-8167 Pastor Joe Stiles Worship Service 8:30 am & 11:00 am www.fsbcfamily.com

First Southern Baptist Church

Lawrence Christian Center

METHODIST

Central United Methodist Church

2104 Bob Billings Pkwy (785) 843-0620 Pastor Randy Weinkauf Wors. with Holy Communion 8:30 am & 11:00 am Sun. School & Christian Ed 9:45 am Nursery Available & Wheelchair Accessible Ministry to Blind Outreach 3 Thur. 5:30 pm www.immanuel-lawrence.com

CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST

615 Lincoln St 785-841-8614 Pastor Joanna Harader Service 10:30 am peacepreacher.wordpress.com

Lawrence Indian Methodist Church

JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

883 E 800 Rd Lawrence, Ks Jane Flora-Swick, Pastor Worship 10:30 * Sun. School 10:45am www.lonestarbrethren.com

906 North 1464 Rd. * 843-3325 Pastor: Ron Channell Worship 10:30 am Afterglow & Youth Group 6:00 pm www.FCLHome.org

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

Perry Christian Church

Lone Star Church of the Brethren

Family Church Of Lawrence

Peace Mennonite Church

3655 West 10th St. Lawrence 1st Ward 785-842-4019, 2nd Ward 785-3315912, Wakarusa Valley 785-842-1283 LDS.org, Mormon.org, institute.lds.org

1917 Naismith Drive (785) 749-1638 Najabat Abbasi Director Friday 1:30 pm www.islamicsocietylawrence.org

CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN

MENNONITE MENN

3001 Lawrence Ave 785-842-2343 Pastor Bill Bump Blended 9:00 am * Contemporary 10:35 am www.lfmchurch.org

7th and Elm Charles Waugh, Minister Bible School 10:00am Worship 10:55 am www.nlawrencechristianchurch.com

603 East Front Street Perry Kansas 785-597-5493 Pastors Will Eickman and Alan Hamer

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Opinion

Lawrence Journal-World l LJWorld.com l Saturday, December 19, 2015 Lawrence City Commission Mike Amyx, mayor 2312 Free State Lane 66047 843-3089 (H) 842-9425 (W) mikeamyx515@hotmail.com Leslie Soden, vice mayor 715 Connecticut, 66044 (913) 890-3647 lsoden@lawrenceks.org Stuart Boley, 1812 W. 21st Terr., 66046, 979-6699 sboley@lawrenceks.org Matthew Herbert 523 Kasold Dr., 66049 550-2085 matthewjherbert@gmail.com Lisa Larsen, 1117 Avalon., 66044, 331-9162 llarsen@lawrenceks.org

Douglas County Commission Jim Flory, 540 N. 711 Road, Lawrence 66047; 842-0054 jimflory@sunflower.com Mike Gaughan, 304 Stetson Circle, 66049; 856-1662; mgaughan@douglas-county.com Nancy Thellman, 1547 N. 2000 Road 66046; 832-0031 nthellman@douglas-county.com

Lawrence School Board Vanessa Sanburn, president 856-1233 765 Ash St., 66044 vsanburn@usd497.org Marcel Harmon, vice president; 550-7749 753 Lauren Street, 66044 mharmon@usd497.org Kristie Adair, 840-7989 4924 Stoneback Place, 66047 kadair@usd497.org Jessica Beeson, 691-6678 1720 Mississippi St. 66044 jbeeson@usd497.org Jill Fincher, 865-5870 1700 Inverness Dr. 66047 jfincher@usd497.org Rick Ingram 864-9819 1510 Crescent Rd. 66044 ringram@usd497.org Shannon Kimball 840-7722 257 Earhart Circle 66049 skimball@usd497.org

Area legislators Rep. Barbara Ballard (D-44th District) Room 451-S, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 841-0063; Topeka: (785) 296-7697 barbara.ballard@house.ks.gov Rep. Tom Sloan (R-45th District) Room 149-S, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 841-1526; Topeka: (785) 296-7654 tom.sloan@house.ks.gov Rep. Dennis “Boog” Highberger (D-46th District) Room 174-W, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-7122 BoogHighberger@house.ks.gov Rep. John Wilson (D-10th District) 54-S, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-7652; john.wilson@house.ks.gov Rep. Ken Corbet (R-54th District) 179-N, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-7679; ken.corbet@house.ks.gov Sen. Marci Francisco (D-2nd District) Room 134-E, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 842-6402; Topeka: (785) 296-7364 Marci.Francisco@senate.ks.gov Sen. Tom Holland (D-3rd District) Room 134-E, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 865-2786; Topeka: 296-7372 Tom.Holland@senate.ks.gov Sen. Anthony Hensley (D-10th District) Room 318-E, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-3245 Anthony.Hensley@senate. ks.gov

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Empty achievements mark Obama years Washington — Last Saturday, Barack Obama gained the second jewel in his foreign policy triple crown: the Paris climate accord. It follows his Iran nuclear deal and awaits but the closing of Guantanamo to complete his glittering legacy.

To be sure, Obama will not be submitting the climate agreement for Senate ratification. It would have no chance of passing — as with the Iranian nuclear deal, also never submitted for the Senate ratification Obama knew he’d never get.

And if he does close Guantánamo, it will be in defiance of overwhelming bipartisan congressional opposition.

You see, visionary thinkers like Obama cannot be bound by normal constitutional strictures. Indeed, the very unpopularity of his most cherished diplomatic goals is proof of their prophetic farsightedness.

Yet the climate deal brought back from Paris by Secretary of State John Kerry turns out to be no deal at all. It is, instead, a series of carbon-reducing promises made individually and unilaterally by the world’s nations.

No enforcement, no sanctions, nothing legally binding. No matter, explained Kerry on “Fox News Sunday”: “This mandatory reporting requirement ... is a serious form of enforcement, if you will, of compliance, but there is no penalty for it, obviously.”

If you think that’s gibberish, you’re not alone. NASA scientist James Hansen, America’s leading carbon abolitionist, indelicately called the whole deal “bulls---.”

Charles Krauthammer letters@charleskrauthammer.com

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You see, visionary thinkers like Obama cannot be bound by normal constitutional strictures.

Indeed, the very unpopularity of his most cherished diplomatic goals is proof of their prophetic farsightedness.”

He’s right.

The great Paris achievement is supposed to be global “transparency.” But what can that possibly amount to when you can’t even trust the reporting? Just three months ago, the world’s greatest carbon emitter, China, admitted to having underreported its burning of coal by 17 percent, a staggering error (assuming it wasn’t a deliberate deception) equal to the entire coal consumption of Germany.

I’m a climate-change agnostic.

But I’m realistic enough to welcome prudent hedging against a possible worst-case scenario.

I’ve long advocated for a multilateral agreement (unilateral U.S. actions being climatically useless

and economically suicidal) negotiated with the most important players — say, India, China and the European Union — containing real limits, real numbers and real enforcement. That would be a genuine achievement.

What the climate-change conference produced instead was hot air, applauded by 196 well-fed participants. (Fourteen nights in Paris, after all.) China promises to begin reducing carbon emissions 15 years from now. India announced it will be tripling its coal-fired electricity capacity by 2030. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is effectively dismantling America’s entire coal industry.

Looking for guidance on how the U.S. will fare under this new environmental regime? Take a glance at Obama’s other great triumph, the Iran nuclear accord.

Does the American public know that the Iranian parliament has never approved it? And that the Iranian president has never signed it? Iran is not legally bound to anything. As the State Department freely admitted (in a letter to Rep. Mike Pompeo of the House Intelligence Committee), the deal “is not a treaty or an executive agreement, and is not a signed document.” But don’t worry.

Its success “will depend not on whether it is legally binding or signed, but rather on the extensive verification measures” and our “capacity to reimpose — and ramp up — our sanctions if Iran does not meet its commitments.”

And how is that going?

On Nov. 21, Iran conducted its second test of a nuclear-capable

ballistic missile in direct contravention of two U.N. Security Council prohibitions, including one that incorporates the current nuclear agreement — which bans such tests for eight years.

Our response? After Iran’s first illegal launch in October, the administration did nothing.

A few words at the United Nations. Weren’t we repeatedly assured that any Iranian violation would be met with vigorous action? No worry, again.

As U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power told a congressional hearing last week, “discussions are a form of U.N. action.”

The heart sinks.

It was obvious from the very beginning that the whole administration promise of “snapback” sanctions was a farce. The Iranians knew it. Hence their contempt for even the prospect of American pushback: two illegal missile launches conducted ostentatiously even before sanctions are lifted and before they receive their $150 billion in unfrozen assets early next year.

Why not? They know Obama will ignore, downplay and explain away any violation, lest it jeopardize his transformative foreign policy legacy.

It’s a legacy of fictional agreements. The proliferators and the polluters are not bound. By our own volition, we are.

Only Guantanamo remains.

Within a month, one-sixth of the remaining prisoners will be released. Obama will not be denied.

— Charles Krauthammer is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

PUBLIC FORUM

GOP failures To the editor, I have a serious question. Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, what has the once proud (and still needed) GOP done right? Iraq, to put it mildly, was a foreign policy mistake. One could indeed make a strong case it was a blunder, disaster, tragedy and an amazing recruiting tool for Islamic terrorism (including ISIS).

Let’s look at the economy. Do you remember what Obama inherited? Call it what you will, it was another Great Depression (another high point in GOP history). For the last six years, the Republicans have controlled Congress.

The controlling party’s job, their constitutional job is to propose solutions to our country’s problems and bring them up for a vote. How many jobs bills have the Republican’s brought forth for a vote? None.

Global warming? A hoax, Republicans have told us (yet global warming is supported as a fact by 97 percent of the world’s scientists). Gun bills to address the biweekly mass shootings that now are commonplace? OK, this one I’ll place on senators and representatives of BOTH parties sucking at the teat of the profit-minded National Rifle Association.

What the GOP has done, and done well, is oppose Obama, period. Pardon me, they have opposed Obama on every single issue AND investigated the hell out of Benghazi. Did I miss anything? Seriously.

Daniel Patrick Schamle, Lawrence

Reason to rejoice To the editor: The Dec. 8 column by Gene Budig and Alan Heaps regarding holiday priorities reflects the changing attitudes in America regarding our understanding of the true meaning of holidays. For example, we have taken Christ out of Christmas, holy out of holidays and thanks out of Thanksgiving. We have replaced them with lesser things (idols).

Consider the commandment to rejoice given by the Apostle Paul in I Thessalonians: 5:16-17: “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances for this is the will

of God in Christ Jesus for you.” It is a clear statement of God’s will regarding our appreciation for what Jesus has done. We can apply the commandment to Christmas by rejoicing over the angel’s message in Luke 2:2:10-11: “I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior who is Christ the Lord.”

Right now the circumstances in America and the world are not that great and they are getting worse almost daily. But, as Christians, we are commanded to rejoice, pray and give thanks. Why? Because we have a savior who saves us from our sins so that we can rejoice despite the circumstances in which we find ourselves, individually or as a nation. This is the good news which causes us to always rejoice, pray without ceasing and give thanks regardless of what’s happening in America or the world!

Carl Burkhead, Lawrence

Big differences To the editor: I would like to respond to Fred Whitehead Jr.’s lament of “all talk and no action,” when compared to the World War II effort. His Dec. 9 PubFrom the Lawrence Daily Journallic Forum letter on ISIS action calls World for Dec. 19, 1915: “At the present for some boots on the ground. time there is an unprecedented revival on throughout the country in rifle shooting, As one who recalls President Rooyears brought on by the enactment of a law by sevelt’s 1941 speech to Congress and ago Congress last year authorizing the free isas one who later served in that war, there are some glaring differences. 1) IN 1915 sue of rifles and ammunition to rifle clubs organized by civilians. Under this act ten President Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of war. 2) Congress citizens in any locality can organize themselves into made such a declaration. 3) A draft a government rifle club and adopt by-laws approved was instituted and able men were by the Secretary of War. The club then affiliates with the National Rifle Association of America and is isdrafted to serve their country; 291,557 sued by the War Department one new Krag rifle for died in doing so. 4) Rationing of gas every five members of the Club and 120 rounds of amwent into effect. 5) People bought munition to each member annually for use on the rifle war bonds to finance the war. 6) Kan- range. The work of organizing the clubs, looking after sas’ own President Eisenhower over- them, issuing decorations and medals, and classifysaw an income tax rate of 90 percent ing their work, was put in the hands of the National on the wealthy to pay for that war.

Rifle Association of America by the War Department What I have seen in subsequent fed- and this organization, which for forty-two years has eral foreign adventures: 1) None of the been working to make rifle shooting a popular sport above. 2) An increase in the national in this country, has suddenly sprung into prominence debt of about $3 trillion to go to Bagh- through its cooperation with the government by orgadad and create a human sausage-grind- nization of these clubs.”

— Compiled by Sarah St. John er monster very like the nine-headed hydra of the Hercules saga that sprouted two new heads, one in Afghanistan Read more Old Home Town at LJWorld.com/news/lawand the other in Syria. rence/history/old_home_town.

George E. Taylor, Lawrence

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Temperature High/low 44°/18° Normal high/low today 39°/21° Record high today 63° in 1978 Record low today -13° in 1983

Precipitation in inches 24 hours through 8 p.m. yest. 0.00 Month to date 2.03 Normal month to date 1.01 Year to date 41.79 Normal year to date 39.30

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Today Sun. Today Sun. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Holton 50 41 s 58 31 c Atchison 48 40 s 55 31 c Independence 49 43 s 56 33 c Belton 49 42 s 56 33 c Olathe 49 41 s 58 32 c Burlington 51 42 s 57 32 c Osage Beach 51 41 s 57 43 c Coffeyville 55 44 s 61 36 c 50 41 s 58 31 c Concordia 49 39 s 54 29 pc Osage City Ottawa 50 41 s 57 32 c Dodge City 48 39 s 55 27 s 53 43 s 62 32 pc Fort Riley 53 42 s 59 30 pc Wichita Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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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. Display of 80-plus Christmas trees with antique, vintage theme ornaments, 1-4 p.m., Territorial Capital Museum, 640 Woodson, Lecompton.

“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. Old Time Fiddle Tunes Potluck and Jam, all acoustic instruments welcome, 6-9 p.m., Americana Music Academy, 1419 Massachusetts 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.

21 MONDAY

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

Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Presbyterian Manor, 1429 Kasold Drive.

Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 1-2 p.m., Vermont Towers, 1101 Vermont St. Adornment Holiday Art Sale and Show, 1-5 p.m., Van Go Arts, 715 New Jersey St. Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority, 5:30 p.m., Babcock Place, 1700 Massachusetts St. Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), 5:30 p.m., 2712 Pebble Lane. 842-1516 for info.

Lecompton City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Lecompton City Hall, 327 Elmore St., Lecompton.

Baldwin City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Baldwin Public Library, 800 Seventh St., Baldwin.

“The Nutcracker,” 7:30 p.m., Muriel Kauffman Theatre, Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, 7:30 p.m., Topeka Performing Arts Center, 214 SE Eighth Avenue, Topeka.

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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.

Tenasie: Live Americana music, 7:30 p.m., Americana Music Academy, 1419 Massachusetts St. “The Nutcracker,” 7:30 p.m., Muriel Kauffman Theatre, Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. Christmas Festival, 8 p.m., Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. Free State 4th Annual Holiday Show, doors 8:30 p.m., Granada Theater, 1020 Massachusetts St. Jazzhaus Christmas Formal, 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m., Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St.

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

John Jervis, classical guitar, 8-11 a.m., Panera, 520 W. 23rd St. 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. Display of 80-plus Christmas trees with antique, vintage theme ornaments, 1-4 p.m., Territorial Capital Museum, 640 Woodson, Lecompton.

Adornment Holiday Art Sale and Show, 1-5 p.m., Van Go Arts, 715 New Jersey St. A Kansas Nutcracker: 1856 Herald of Freedom Edition, 2 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. “The Nutcracker,” 2 p.m., Muriel Kauffman Theatre, Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. American Youth Ballet presents “The Nutcracker,” 2 p.m., Yardley Hall, Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park.

“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 785-7604195 for more info.)

American Legion Bingo, doors open 4:30 p.m., first games 6:45

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Bear takes $160B bite out of Apple

‘The Force Awakens’ sets record with $57M Thursday

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Falling oil prices raise investors’ fears that economy will follow Chris Woodyard USA TODAY

While most Americans are sure to celebrate oil prices hitting six-year lows, investors and those working in the oil industry were sulking Friday.

The Dow tumbled 367 points, to 17,129 Friday and capped off its worst two-day slide since August, largely because oil fell below the critical $35-a-barrel threshold this week and investors are worried what that weakness may say about the global economy.

The price of U.S. benchmark

crude closed at $34.73 in trading in New York, the lowest in six years and a far cry from the $145plus highs seven years ago.

With the holiday driving blitz starting this weekend, travelers were finding bargains at the pump. The average price of a gallon of gas was $2, lowest since 2009, compared with $2.48 on the same day last year, AAA’s Fuel Gauge Report shows. Low oil prices reverberate throughout the economy — from low diesel prices for truckers to cheap home heating oil for those in frigid climates.

But sharply lower oil prices, at least in the short run, raised con-

cerns about why prices weren’t held up by the usual spike in demand — expected anytime a commodity hits lows — and whether it might signal a coming slowdown in the economy.

“It’s an emotional asset,” says Peter Morici, an economist at the University of Maryland. In the short run, the decline in prices whacks jobs in the energy industry, cutting economic growth there, but in the long run spurs economic growth as people spend their money in other ways.

“Falling oil prices should be beneficial to the U.S. economy,” Morici says. “... Americans have

more money to spend on all kinds of stuff.”

Lower prices have taken their toll in areas of the country that had been taking advantage of the oil-production boom. In oil-rich Texas alone, 60,000 energy-related jobs vanished from the peak at the end of 2014 until now, says Karr Ingham, energy economist for the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.

“The Houston economy is not what it once was,” he says. But the bigger concern is for the economy as a whole. “Traders are concerned about general demand weakness,” he adds.

OIL’S DECLINE

OIL’S DECLINE

The collapse in oil prices has The collapse in oil pricestohas pushed the price of crude pushed the price of crude to $34.73 per barrel, a low last seen $34.73 per barrel, a low last seen in February 2009. Percentage in February changes since:2009. Percentage

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Suggests move part of a ‘pattern of conduct’ to help Clinton

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Obama signs spending bill President Obama signed a tax and spending package into law on Friday that averts a year-end showdown over the budget and ends legislative business for the year. Lawmakers generally viewed the legislation as an imperfect but acceptable compromise, 3B

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Democratic ‘nones’

28%

The religiously unaffiliated now make up the largest segment of self-identified Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults Note 63% are Christian and 8% represent other faiths.

Source Pew Research Center’s 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study TERRY BYRNE AND PAUL TRAP, USA TODAY

SANDERS CAMPAIGN SAYS DNC TRYING TO ‘UNDERMINE’ ITS BID Nicole Gaudiano USA TODAY

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ernie Sanders’ campaign filed a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee on Friday night after accusing it of trying to “undermine” the Vermont senator’s White House bid, as the party’s decision to suspend Sanders’ access to a voter database roiled the presidential campaign on the eve of the latest debate.

The legal action filed in federal court argues that the party breached an agreement in preventing it from using a voter data file and demands the DNC restore its access.

The DNC suspended Sanders’ access to the party’s voter database after four of the Vermont senator’s staffers accessed data belonging to rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Josh Uretsky, the Sanders campaign’s national data director, was fired and more disciplinary action may follow, said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager.

Weaver pledged to take the DNC to federal court if it doesn’t lift the suspension on the campaign from accessing its own voter data, including information about Sanders supporters and lists of people they intend to contact in early voting states. He suggested the move was part of the DNC’s “pattern of conduct” to help the Clinton campaign and pointed to debates being held on Saturday nights as an example.

“The leadership of the Democratic National Committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign,” Weaver said at a

BERNIE SANDERS BY JACK GRUBER, USA TODAY

The DNC suspended Bernie Sanders’ access to the party’s voter database after four of the Vermont senator’s staffers accessed data belonging to rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

news conference. “It’s impossible to mobilize the kind of grassroots campaign we have without that data. We are, because of the nature of our campaign, peculiarly affected by this type of taking of data hostage by the DNC.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC chairwoman, said the Sanders campaign “unfortunately doesn’t have anything other than bluster at the moment” and that the DNC would handle the situation the same way if Sanders’ data had been breached.

She said the only way to analyze

the breach is to suspend their ability to access the database.

Brian Fallon, Clinton’s national press secretary, said the campaign was informed its proprietary data was breached by Sanders campaign staff in 25 searches by four accounts. The data, he said, was saved into the Sanders’ campaign account.

Sanders is due to face Clinton and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley in a Democratic primary debate Saturday.

Contributing: Kim Hjelmgaard

Retailers counting on ‘Super Saturday’ shoppers to spend Hadley Malcolm USA TODAY

Retailers are prepping for a crush of procrastinating shoppers this weekend as the holiday season starts to wind down, and they’re throwing everything from gift card deals to 24/7 store hours to coveted Star Wars toys at shoppers to keep them spending right up until Christmas.

Despite holiday sales starting as early as October, retailers are banking on the fact many people still have shopping to do. The Saturday before Christmas, dubbed “Super Saturday” by the retail in-

dustry, is the second-largest day for sales and traffic in stores behind Black Friday, according to ShopperTrak.

Starting Thursday, Kohl’s is open 24/7 until 6 p.m. Christmas Eve. Toys R Us is also offering extended hours, staying open from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. from Saturday through Tuesday, then remaining open from Wednesday at 6 a.m. through 9 p.m. Christmas Eve. Retailers are also heavily pushing services such as curbside pickup and the ability to buy online and pick up in store. Target’s service for same-day pickup will be available up until 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Sears customers can use the

Retailers such as Macy’s are hoping to get people to shop at physical locations as time runs out to place online orders.

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retailer’s app to pick up, return or exchange items at a store without leaving their car.

While the holiday season has

been a hit for online retailers, store traffic has dragged, and apparel retailers have been struggling to sell cold-weather gear

due to an unseasonably warm start to winter in parts of the country. Deals this weekend could be even better than earlier in the season as retailers make a last-ditch effort to boost sales.

This year, Super Saturday has the added benefit of coming the day after perhaps the most anticipated movie release of the year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Walmart is releasing new Star Wars merchandise and expects “customers to be on the lookout,” says Jaeme Laczkowski, a Walmart spokeswoman, adding that Walmart’s stock of thousands of Star Wars items makes it a compelling destination.

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Air Force brings unlikely Christmas to Pacific For these remote islanders, holiday is most important day of the year Kirk Spitzer @kirkspitzer USA TODAY

FAIS ISLAND, MICRONESIA

“Santa One-One” was late, and the chief of this tiny island in the western Pacific was concerned: Would there be no Christmas this year? No toys or school supplies?

“They are coming today? You are sure?” Louis Mangtau asked.

But soon, the afternoon stillness was broken by an Air Force C-130 cargo plane flying low over the palm trees. In its wake was a crate decorated in red-and-white Christmas wrapping, floating gently to earth on a militarygreen parachute.

Strong, young men wrestled the bundle from the open field where it landed to the nearby village center.

There, amid broad smiles and cheerful banter, Mangtau passed out the contents: toy trucks and soccer balls, rubber sandals and T-shirts, fishhooks and fishing

line and all manner of daily necessities unavailable on remote islands in the Pacific.

Welcome to Operation Christmas Drop, the longest running humanitarian airlift operation in the world.

Each Christmas for the past 64 years, the Air Force has been parachuting donated gifts and humanitarian supplies to tiny islands dotting this vast area of the western Pacific. The effort is supported by hundreds of civilian volunteers in Guam and Japan and U.S. air bases across the region.

The operation is staged out of Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. This year’s flights took place over eight days in early December.

“The islands they’re flying to are the most remote islands on Earth,” said Bruce Best, a communications specialist at the University of Guam who has helped organize the program since the 1970s. “They are the farthest away from civilization, they have the least amount of contact with

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A young boy holds a soccer ball after gifts from an Operation Christmas Drop airdrop were distributed at Fais Island. the outside world. They don’t have water or power. They don’t have phones. Most of them don’t have airstrips or ports. Christmas Drop is the most important day of the year for these people.”

This year, four Air Force C-130s and one each from the Japan Air Self Defense Force and the Royal Australian Air Force conducted 22 flights. They

This year’s flights delivered roughly 40,000 pounds of supplies to 56 islands across 1.8 million square miles of ocean.

U.N. Security Council seeks Syrian cease-fire

POPE FRANCIS APPROVES SAINTHOOD FOR MOTHER TERESA

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Indian archbishop calls pontiff’s move ‘a real Christmas gift’ Kim Hjelmgaard USA TODAY

Mother Teresa will be made a Catholic saint after Pope Francis approved a second miracle needed for her canonization, a move welcomed by the archbishop of Kolkata, India, as “a real Christmas gift” from the pontiff.

Francis took the step by signing a decree late Thursday declaring that the inexplicable 2008 recovery of a Brazilian man who suddenly woke from a coma caused by a viral brain infection was due to the intercession of the Albanian nun, who died at age 87 in 1997.

Mother Teresa, known as “the saint of the gutters,” was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 after dedicating her life to working on behalf of the poor, particularly in the slums of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta.)

She was beatified in 2003 by Pope John Paul II after being attributed to a first miracle, answering an Indian woman’s prayers to cure her brain tumor, according to the Vatican. One miracle is needed for beatification — described by the Catholic Church as recognition of a person’s entrance into heaven — while sainthood requires two.

By the time of her death, Mother Teresa’s India-based Missionaries of Charity supported 4,000 nuns and ran hundreds of orphanages, soup kitchens, homeless shelters and clinics around the world.

Church observers said the pope would probably canonize Mother Teresa on Sept. 4, the day before the anniversary of her death, which is also her official feast day.

“It is a real Christmas gift that the Holy Father has given, especially the Church in (Kolkata),” said Archbishop Thomas D’Souza, the Indian city’s archbishop.

Francis, who has made outreach to the poor a priority for the Catholic Church, met Mother Teresa more than two decades ago while he was Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina. He is known for admiring her ministry as well as her fearlessness in speaking out on behalf of society’s outcasts.

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on Aug. 26, 1910, into an ethnic Albanian family in what is today the Republic of Macedonia.

She joined the Loreto order of nuns in 1928. In 1946, while traveling by train from Kolkata to Darjeeling, she was inspired to found the Missionaries of Charity order. The order was established four years later and has since opened more than 130 houses worldwide to provide comfort and care for the needy.

While her actions gained widespread admiration, Mother Tere-

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Mother Teresa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, is shown in Hong Kong in 1993. She died in 1997.

“We were waiting for this moment, since many years really, and now that it has come we are very happy, overjoyed.”

Archbishop Thomas D’Souza

sa was criticized for the quality of care in her clinics and taking donations from Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and disgraced American financier Charles Keating, according to The Associated Press.

THE MAKING OF A SAINT

Five years must pass from the time of the candidate’s death before an examination can begin.

The pope can dispense with this waiting period. A bishop is placed in charge of the initial examination of the candidate’s life. Once deemed worthy by the Vatican, the candidate is called a “Servant of God.” In 2003, Pope John Paul II put Mother Teresa on the fast track for possible sainthood by allowing the beautification process to begin just two years after her death in 1997.

A church official coordinates the process, serving as an advocate for the candidate, and must prove he or she lived heroic virtues. Once the examination is complete, the documentation is passed on to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome.

Upon approval, a candidate earns the title of “Venerable.”

dropped a total of 100 bundles on uncharted fields, narrow beaches and shallow reefs.

“It’s like taking off in South Dakota and flying all the way to Los Angeles for an airdrop. (Then) turn around and head all the way back to South Dakota to land — and there’s nothing in between,” said Lt. Col. Andrew Campbell, who this year flew several Christmas Drop missions, some of which last nine hours or more.

The program doesn’t cost the public much. All of the gifts are donated, mostly by civic organizations, military personnel and family members. Additional money is raised through golf tournaments, school car washes and other private efforts.

The Air Force uses parachutes that have outlived their military usefulness, but are still strong enough to support bundles weighing up to 500 pounds.

“You can get the supplies ... for Operation Christmas Drop at any Home Depot or Lowe’s or any hardware store and build these bundles for about $20 apiece,” said Col. Douglas DeLaMater, commander of the 374th Airlift Wing, based at Yokota Air Base, Japan.

The official approval looked at aspects of Mother Teresa’s character, including categories like knowledge and humility, strength of convictions, courage, unity, forgiveness and social justice.

For the beatification of a Servant of God, one miracle must be proved through the appropriate canonical examination, in addition to recognition of heroic virtues. With beatification, the candidate receives the title of “Blessed.”

In 2003, the Vatican recognized the healing miracle of an Indian woman’s prayers to Mother Teresa, which caused her brain tumors to disappear.

For canonization, a second miracle is required after beatification, though a pope may waive these requirements. Once a second miracle has been affirmed by the candidate’s intercession, the pope can declare the title of “Saint.” The Vatican said the healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumors was the second miracle.

Contributing: David Gibson and Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service Sources: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, www.catholicdoors.com, AP and USA TODAY research.

The United Nations Security Council on Friday approved a resolution that calls for talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups as well as a cease-fire in the nation’s 4-yearold civil war.

However, the resolution makes no mention of the most contentious issue — the future role of Syrian President Bashar Assad, The Associated Press reported.

Delegates from across the world had gathered in New York on Friday to discuss the conflict, which has left 250,000 dead and caused millions of Syrians to flee, intensifying an ongoing migrant crisis in Europe.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who hosted the meeting, said the resolution sends “a clear message to all concerned that the time is now to stop the killing in Syria,” according to AFP. Still, the resolution acknowledged the peace process will not end the conflict because it bars “terrorist groups” operating in the country, including the Islamic State and al-Nusra Front, from participating in a cease-fire, AP reported.

Kerry also hosted a separate gathering of envoys from 20 countries in the International Syria Support Group that also sought ways to intensify the fight against the Islamic State, which holds large swaths of the country and has greatly exacerbated the war.

Russia and Iran, the main backers of Assad, and the West, which backs the rebel coalition fighting Assad’s rule, have been split on the Syrian leader’s future.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday before the meetings that the longer the peace talks drag on without result the more risky they become.

“We need to make sure the political process is irreversible in the face of this severe threat posed by international terrorism,” he said. “We must realize the political process is going to go backward if we are not making progress.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Syrian people should choose their own leader, but “terrorists” should be eliminated from the country first. Russia has been targeting militants in the country with airstrikes, but the U.S. has raised concerns Moscow is hitting U.S.-backed rebel groups in addition to the Islamic State.

President Obama has said that to solve the Syrian civil war, a new inclusive government not led

by Assad must be created. The U.S. says the Syrian leader has committed atrocities against his own people.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin met this week at the Kremlin to discuss the civil war in Syria.

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OBAMA SIGNS MASSIVE SPENDING, TAX PACKAGE Lawmakers didn’t want another budget showdown

Obama doubles his commutations with 95 in one day Gregory Korte and David Jackson USA TODAY

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President Obama signed a huge tax and spending package into law on Friday following congressional votes that avoided a year-end showdown over the budget and ended legislative business until lawmakers return in 2016.

The Senate’s 65-33 vote approved both the $1.1 trillion catchall spending bill and a $622 billion series of tax breaks. The House earlier passed the two pieces separately by solid majorities — the tax package Thursday and the spending bill Friday.

Lawmakers generally viewed the legislation as an imperfect but acceptable compromise between conservative and liberal priorities.

“Congress can now move into 2016 with a fresh start,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said.

The tax package permanently extends the enhanced child tax credit and earned income tax credit that were boosted by the 2009 economic stimulus and extends through 2019 a popular corporate tax break that allows companies to more quickly depreciate value of new equipment.

“This legislation prevents tax increases, creates job opportunities and makes it easier for Americans to do their taxes,” said House Ways and Means Committee Chair Kevin Brady, R-Texas.

“That’s a great gift, an overdue gift, for American taxpayers.”

Republicans were less enthusiastic about the 2,000-page government funding measure, which combined separate fiscal 2016 spending bills for every federal agency into one massive bill. GOP lawmakers wanted to add provisions blocking Obama’s policies on WASHINGTON

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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, left, with aide Brendan Buck says he’s looking forward to a “fresh start.” immigration, wetlands rules, armor-piercing bullets and other issues, but those didn’t make the final cut.

The measure does, however, give Republicans a major win by lifting the 40-year ban on crude oil exports. It also removes the threat of a government shutdown for the rest of the fiscal year.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi described the spending bill as a major victory for Democrats. She

called the end of the oil export ban “atrocious policy” but applauded the extension of tax credits for solar and wind energy projects. She said in exchange for lifting the ban on oil exports, Republicans dropped demands for defunding Planned Parenthood, a key GOP goal much of the fall, and for blocking Syrian refugees, rolling back gun rules and other issues.

Contributing: Paul Singer

White House concerns, media are main focus of Carter emails Tom Vanden Brook USA TODAY

The Pentagon on Friday morning released copies of emails Defense Secretary Ash Carter sent from his personal account, some 35 pages of notes to staffers issuing instructions on mundane office matters, touchy relations with the White House and media appearances.

Carter, who is traveling in the Middle East, apologized Thursday for using his personal email account for official business in the early months of his tenure as Defense secretary.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has called for an investigation of Carter mixing his personal and private communications. The New York Times first reported the issue online Wednesday, and the Pentagon released Carter’s emails after WASHINGTON

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receiving numerous requests Carter responds, “Tnx. So sorry from media organizations. and appreciative.”

The news that Carter would Elsewhere, Carter on the evemix personal and private business ning of April 30 asks Fanning and as Defense secretary is surprising his then-military assistant Maj. given the clamor about private Gen. Ron Lewis presumably about President Obama’s email that has surroundconcern about leaks. He ed Hillary Clinton. Coninstructs them “to find a gress has investigated way for me to make a her use of private email quiet call” in the mornwhile she was secretary ing. The name of the perof State, and the controversy has trailed her as son he proposes she campaigns for presicontacting has been dent. Carter has been blocked out by the PenDefense secretary since tagon for what it says are AFP/GETTY IMAGES February. privacy reasons.

Most of Carter’s Ash Carter Carter indicates the emails are short bursts of concern about leaks was notes addressing fleeting topics. expressed “by boss.”

For instance, Carter directs his He goes on to direct Fanning then-chief of staff, Eric Fanning, and Lewis: “In meantime, stand to rescue some 3x5 cards that he down on all else. WH (White had inadvertently dumped in a House) very/very touchy re “burn bag.” Those bags are used leaks,” adding that a call from anto destroy classified information. other former staffer, Brent CoFanning replies that he will “find burn, to the White House, had “set off opsec alarms.” it! Too easy. Have a great night.”

WASHINGTON President Obama granted Christmastime clemency to 95 federal prisoners Friday, shortening their sentences under an initiative to free prisoners sentenced under mandatory minimum prison terms. He also issued pardons to two others, the White House announced.

It was the largest single-day grant of clemency of Obama’s presidency. He has now commuted the prison sentences of 184 people, more than any president since Lyndon Johnson (226) and surpassing the combined number granted by presidents Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush (117).

Most of the commutations dealt with drug offenses, but also included 15 gun crimes — usually while committing a drug offense — and one armed bank robbery.

The two pardons involved counterfeiting and bank fraud.

Friday’s list included 40 people serving life sentences. Most will be released in April.

Legal scholars who study clemency say the regular use of the pardon power is a healthy check and balance to long and expensive prison sentences.

“Why can’t we have this good spirit all year?” said Mark Osler, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. He said pardons and commutations late in the year “is a sign of a broken process.”

“It’s even worse if a president is ‘saving up’ good petitions to grant at the end of the year. That means that men and women are spending months in prison so that a political show can be scheduled for ‘the most wonderful time of the year,’ ” he said.

With Friday’s grants, 60% of the clemency warrants Obama has doled out have come in December, according to political scientist P.S. Ruckman Jr. and former Washington Post reporter George Lardner Jr., authors of the forthcoming book Guilty No More. That’s more than any other modern president except Nixon.

Ruckman said Christmastime clemency leads to the perception that pardons and commutations are “gifts” and not thoroughly considered. “How is it admirable to let applications pile up in the White House? Are they deciding, then sitting on them? Not good.

Are they piling them up then deciding them quickly? Not good,” he said.

Obama has pledged to issue more pardons and commutations in 2016, through a clemency initiative intended to correct what he sees as an injustice in sentencing laws passed during the “war on crime” of the 1980s and ’90s.

Many drug offenders were sentenced to long prison terms for trafficking relatively small amounts of drugs, especially crack cocaine, which triggered harsher sentences than an equivalent amount of powder cocaine.

Of Friday’s commutations, at least 24 were for dealing crack cocaine. Eight were for marijuana.

CLEMENCY BY PRESIDENTS IN DECEMBER President Obama has continued a trend of granting clemency to federal offenders during Christmastime. Percentage of pardons and commutations in December for post-WWII presidents: Pardons and commutations:

December

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Barack Obama 60% 150 of 250 George W. Bush 45% 89 of 200 Bill Clinton 33% 154 of 460 George H.W. Bush 31% 24 of 77 Ronald Reagan 43% 176 of 407 Jimmy Carter 37% 212 of 567 Gerald Ford 53% 218 of 409 Richard Nixon 80% 739 of 925 Lyndon Johnson 24% 281 of 1,187 John F. Kennedy 4% 23 of 574 Dwight Eisenhower 19% 216 of 1,156 Harry Truman 11% 231 of 2,045 Source George Lardner Jr. and P.S. Ruckman, Jr., Guilty No More, forthcoming GEORGE PETRAS, USA TODAY

IN BRIEF IRAQI FORCES REBUFF MAJOR ISIS OFFENSIVES

‘STAR WARS’ SHINES AT THE WHITE HOUSE

Iraqi security forces defeated major Islamic State offensives in Ramadi and northern Iraq this week, highlighting improvements in the effectiveness of the U.S.supported and equipped forces, a military spokesman said Friday.

“These are now becoming solid fighting forces,” Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman in Baghdad, said Friday. “They performed well.”

— Jim Michaels OBAMA WILL KEEP PUSHING TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO

President Obama vowed Friday to stay active in the election year of 2016, saying that persistence will forge progress on the economy, the war against the Islamic State, an Asian trade deal, climate change, criminal justice reform and closing the terrorism prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

“Since taking this office, I have never been more optimistic about a year ahead than I am right now,” Obama said during a news conference held on the cusp of

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A Stormtrooper gives a thumbs up as he leaves the briefing room at the White House on Friday during a showing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens for children of military families. his last year in office. “And in 2016 I’m going to leave it out all on the field.”

On the subject of Guatanamo Bay prison, Obama seemed to leave the door open to the possibility he could use executive ac-

tions to close the facility himself, should congressional Republicans balk at a soon-to-be announced plan to move out all Gitmo detainees by the time his term ends Jan. 20, 2017.

— David Jackson

30% OF REPUBLICANS FAVOR BOMBING AGRABAH

If Aladdin could finagle a fourth wish from Genie, he may want to use it to protect his homeland of Agrabah from a bombing attack.

A poll from Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling released Friday found 30% of Republicans support bombing the fictional kingdom. Thirteen percent were against taking action, 57% were indifferent.

Aladdin’s homeland was not much safer in the hands of Democrats either, with 19% saying they would blast Agrabah into oblivion and 39% saying they would spare it.

The poll question, “would you support or oppose bombing Agrabah?” included no further context.

Clearly, no one thought to Google the name, which isn’t surprising. Research shows 20% to 40% of the American public consistently airs firm opinions on fictional issues and legislation when answering surveys.

— Caleb Diehl, Lewis & Clark College

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MONEYLINE ELON MUSK JOINS CALL TO GIVE VW BREAK ON DIESELS Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is among the signers of a letter to California regulators asking that they give Volkswagen a break when it comes to having to fix its polluting diesel cars — in return for a huge commitment to a zeroemission future.

AFP/GETTY IMAGES The open letter Elon Musk to Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, proposes that VW be released from “its obligation to fix diesel cars already on the road in California, which represent an insignificant portion of total vehicle emissions in the state” and present no health risk to their owners. Instead, VW would have to “accelerate greatly its rollout of zero-emission vehicles,” resulting in a “10 for 1 or greater reduction in pollutant emissions as compared to the pollution associated with the diesel fleet cheating.”

CARMAX SALES DISAPPOINT Used car retailer CarMax recorded a disappointing third quarter as vehicle sales at stores open at least a year fell despite a strong period for the U.S. auto industry overall. Discouraged investors drove CarMax shares down more than 6% Friday to $53.55.

The number of used vehicles sold at stores open at least a year fell 0.8% in the quarter ended Nov. 30, compared with the same period a year earlier. Overall used vehicle sales rose 3.2% because of new stores. The company’s total revenue rose 4.1% to $3.54 billion, but net earnings declined 1.4% to $128.2 million.

Dow, S&P have worst 2-day run since Aug. Ed Brackett, Matt Krantz and Adam Shell

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U.S. stocks cratered Friday on concerns global growth is likely to slow.

The Dow Jones industrial average ended down 367 points, or 2.1%, to 17,128.45. The Standard & Poor’s 500 slid 1.8% and the Nasdaq composite lost 1.6%.

It completed the worst twoday stretch for the Dow and S&P 500 since August, according to CNBC, and the worst day for the Dow since Nov. 13.

That was in stark contrast to a rally Wednesday that lifted the Dow 224 points as investors initially celebrated the Federal Reserve’s increase in short-term interest rates.

Now, there’s a sinking feeling that global economic growth is going to cool.

“It is now apparent that the immediate post-FOMC (Fed) rally was a head-fake of enormous proportions,” says David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff.

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Apple diehards who keep saying the stock will come back are going into hibernation.

Shares of the gadget maker Friday fell another 2.9% Friday to $106.03, knocking the stock down 21% from its recent high of $134.54. The breathtaking decline not only puts Apple into a bear market — defined by a 20% drop or more — but has obliterated a staggering $160 billion in shareholder wealth from the top.

To put that in perspective, Apple’s $160 billion decline is larger than 475 companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 are worth. A drop this big is the financial equivalent of wiping out the market value of entire companies such as e Pepsico at $142 billion, International Business Machines at $131 billion and Nike at $110 billion.

Seeing such a massive de-

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global economic activity is. The price of oil is at the lowest level since February 2009 and off 35% this year.

Nervousness was showing up in investor behavior going into the Fed announcement. Investors took $39.6 billion out of mutual funds in the week ended Dec. 16, Lipper says.

Showing how investors are hunkering down, they added $0.3 billion to relatively safe municipal bond funds during the week but pulled $13.2 billion and $15.4 billion, respectively, from stock and bond funds.

cline in Apple carries more weight than a similar decline in any other stock would. Apple is still worth more than any other U.S. company — making it the most important stock in market measures such as the S&P 500. Apple also is the most widely held stock by individual investors, Sigfig says, so the decline directly hits home.

Troubling signs pointing to weakening demand for smartphones dog the stock. Analysts are cutting growth expectations for the fourth quarter — and even the first quarter — as they incorporate weaker demand. Despite efforts to diversify away from the mature smartphone market, Apple still gets a vast majority of its revenue and profit from smartphones. A number of analysts have been cutting earnings estimates on Apple along with price targets in some cases.

Investors are wondering how bad the market sell-off will get. But for investors in Apple, you’re already in a bear market.

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DARDEN SWINGS BACK TO PROFIT ON HIGHER SALES Darden Restaurants, which operates Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse, said Friday its fiscal second-quarter net income totaled $43.2 million, swinging back to profitability from a year ago as sales rose and operating costs were cut. In the year-ago period, Darden reported a $32.8 million loss. Total revenue for the three-month period ended Nov. 29 jumped 3.2% to $1.61 billion.

Shares of the Orlando-based company rose 7% to $62.50.

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Fans might make Star Wars: The Force Awakens the series’ box office champ, but Disney is really counting on merchandise sales.

ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS CHANGES NAME TO IONIS Isis Pharmaceuticals, which develops drugs for rare diseases, said Friday it changed its name to Ionis Pharmaceuticals. While it didn’t specify the reason for the name change, ISIS is the acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, an Islamic fundamentalist terrorist group. “When people see or hear our name, we want them to think about the life-saving medicines we are developing,” said Lynne Parshall, COO at Ionis Pharmaceuticals, in a statement. The company is also changing its ticker to IONS from the current ISIS. USA SNAPSHOTS©

Tech challenges for parents

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Source Youth Digital survey of 1,000 parents with children ages 8-14 JAE YANG AND JANET LOEHRKE, USA TODAY

Goldman: A ‘Force’ all its own in franchise but not for all-time Box office projections put this ‘Star Wars’ at $1.95B, No. 3 overall Matt Krantz @mattkrantz USA TODAY

Expect “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” mania in full force this weekend. But the film — as huge as it will be — likely will be third in terms of the biggest box offices ever, Goldman Sachs says.

Hopes are high for the latest Star Wars movie — the first under the ownership of Walt Disney.

Goldman is forecasting the film to haul in global box office dollars of $1.95 billion — including $750 million in the U.S. and $1.2 billion from international markets.

As huge as that expected boxoffice is — it would still put Star Wars: The Force Awakens No. 3 behind Titanic’s titanic $3.6 billion total global take, in inflationadjusted dollars, and Avatar at $2.9 billion, according to Goldman Sachs, citing data from Box Office Mojo.

That’s not to belittle the mas-

STAR WARS BOX OFFICE The new film “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is projected to gross about $750 million in domestic box office. Box office numbers for the previous six films in the franchise (in millions): FILM DOMESTIC GROSS

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$461

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$380

$446 $495

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sive size of this film. At a total box office score of $1.95 billion, Star Wars: The Force Awakens would top massive films such as Marvel’s The Avengers at $1.7 billion, Furious 7 at $1.6 billion and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 at $1.4 billion.

A film this big and profitable helps the bottom line at Disney to be sure. Every $100 million in box

office from the new Star Wars movie means 2 cents a share extra for Disney’s fiscal 2016 profit, Goldman says. Given the size and scale of Disney’s operations, though, Star Wars movie receipts aren’t overwhelming. Disney is expected to report adjusted profit of $5.64 a share in 2016, S&P Capital IQ says. Revenue from Star Wars is “clearly positive,

more than a drop in the bucket but less than a game changer,” Joseph Bonner at Argus Research says.

Keep in mind, too, the money Disney makes on Star Wars goes well beyond what it gets at the box office. Star Wars merchandise is expected to pull in more than the movie — $3 billion globally — which means $300 million in licensing revenue for Disney.

That’s highly profitable revenue — where Disney keeps 80 cents of every dollar in revenue — to $240 million in profit flows to Disney’s bottom line, Goldman says.

While Star Wars fans might debate which film was the best, The Force Awakens will be a champion in terms of domestic box office dollars. Goldman forecasts the domestic box office of $750 million to easily top fan favorite The Empire Strikes Back at $658 million.

It’s also certainly possible this Star Wars will have more of The Force than is forecast. Goldman already boosted its forecast for global box office 30% to reach that $1.95 billion figure.

Now it’s time to wait and watch The Force.

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AMERICA’S MARKETS What to watch Matt Krantz @mattkrantz USA TODAY

Martin Shkreli, the just-arrested CEO of KaloBios Pharmaceuticals and now-ousted CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, is about to suffer an additional insult: losing millions.

The 32-year-old biotech CEO, who sparked outrage by jacking up the prices of life-saving drugs, was arrested Thursday on securities fraud charges. But the stock market is about to deliver the ultimate justice — a massive decline in the value of his stock to the tune of more than $28 million.

Shares of KaloBios, which trade on the Nasdaq by the symbol KBIO, lost half their value to $11.03 a share just before being halted Thursday, according to trading data from TD Ameri-

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trade. They didn’t trade Friday.

That’s a massive blow to Shkreli, who owns more than 2 million shares, or about half of the company, S&P Capital IQ says. If shares reopen at the price they were trading prior to the halt, Shkreli is looking at a $26.1 million loss on just that investment.

Shkreli actually was buying additional shares of the company in the weeks leading up to his arrest.

But that’s not all. Shkreli also owns 1.8 million shares of Retro5-day avg.: -1.62 phin, the publicly traded biotech 6-month avg.: -6.41 which is at the center of the alleLargest holding: AAPL gations of fraud.

Shares fell a Most bought: GILD combined 6% Thursday andAVP FriMost sold: day — adding another $2.3 million in losses. Shkreli had been CEO and president of Retrophin starting in 2012 through 2014.

It will certainly take time for legal justice to be served. But on Wall Street — justice is swift and exacting.

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Southwestern Energy (SWN) Ban on crude oil export lifted.

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7.38

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Carnival (CCL) Sees advance cruise bookings far into 2016.

52.41

+1.95

+3.9

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Red Hat (RHT) Cloud aids growth in third quarter.

81.40 +2.54

+3.2

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Baxalta (BXLT) Gets second wind after consensus hold.

38.42

+1.18

+3.2

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EQT (EQT) Gets solid rating, peers don’t.

48.92

+1.17

+2.5

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Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) Rises along with peer on solid 2016.

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Consol Energy (CNX) Rises after rating upgrade at Deutsche.

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121.28

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The smartphone maker delivered a double-dose of good news, reporting a loss that was smaller than expected for its first fiscal quarter as well as its first sequential quarterly sales gain in more than two years.

Price: $8.61 Chg: $0.81 % chg: 10.4% Day’s high/low: $9.09/$7.88

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53.49

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Transocean (RIG) Industry suffers as more contracts end.

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Cimarex Energy (XEC) Earns buy but loses momentum.

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OneOK (OKE) Falls another day since price target cut.

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Ryder (R) 54.08 Dips after peer Knight Transportation cuts forecast.

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-4.6

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Navient (NAVI) 11.92 Dips early after student loan payment cap added.

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If you’re worried about portfolio, it’s not right one Q: Can I protect myself from a sell-off?

Matt Krantz

mkrantz@usatoday.com USA TODAY

A: The Federal Reserve put investors on warning. Free money is going away.

Investors know rising interest rates aren’t great — but it doesn’t have to be lethal for your portfolio.

Investors initially rejoiced when the Fed boosted short-term interest rates.

But now — reality is setting in. The fact is consumers will start to see higher credit card rates in just a few months.

Many companies, too, will face higher borrowing costs in a few years.

Economic realities need to be baked into stock prices. Stocks correct by 7% following the first rate hike on average, Credit Suisse says. Investors who are really worried about this can buy financial tools called “protective puts.”

These financial tools act like insurance on your portfolio. Protective puts allow you to pay to put a floor on how much you’ll lose on a stock.

But if you’re this worried about your portfolio — your portfolio isn’t right for you. There are ways to reduce the risk of your portfolio without buying puts.

Consider adding different types of stock investments such as international, value stocks and bonds.

Also, make sure you have enough cash so you can afford to be a longterm investor, not a trader.

Shkreli resigns as Turing Pharma CEO a day after arrest Kevin McCoy and Nathan Bomey USA TODAY

Martin Shkreli, the medical entrepreneur widely criticized for ordering large increases to drug prices, resigned Friday as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, one day after federal authorities charged him in an unrelated securities fraud scheme.

The privately held firm said board chairman Ron Tilles will serve as interim CEO while retaining his current position.

“We wish to thank Martin for

helping us build Turing Federal prosecutors Pharmaceuticals into the accused Shkreli, 32, of dynamic research-foperpetuating a Ponzicused company it is tolike scheme on investors day, and wish him the in former hedge funds he best in his future enled, as well as at deavors,” Tilles said in a Retrophin, a pharmaceustatement. “At the same tical company he foundtime, I am very excited ed and previously ANDREW BURTON, about the opportunity to headed.

Authorities said GETTY IMAGES guide Turing Pharma- Martin Shkreli misappropriated ceuticals forward.” funds, lied about investShkreli ment returns and conIt was unclear Friday whether Shkreli would spired to defraud also resign from KaloBios Retrophin by secretly issuing Pharmaceuticals, a separate firm company stock to settle disputes where he was named CEO in with burned investors.

The criminal indictment handNovember.

ed up in Brooklyn, New York, accused Evan Greebel, 42, a New York lawyer who served as Retrophin’s outside counsel, of aiding the alleged scheme.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday filed civil charges against Shkreli.

After pleading not guilty at a Thursday arraignment, Shkreli denied all of the allegations and issued a statement saying he expects to be vindicated.

“It is no coincidence that these charges, the result of investigations which have been languishing for considerable time, have been filed at the same time of

Shkreli’s high-profile, controversial and yet unrelated activities,” Shkreli spokesman Craig Stevens said in the statement.

The statement referred to the public furor that erupted this year after Shkreli raised the price of a Turing medication called Daraprim by more than 5,000% — from $13.50 a pill to $750. The therapy treats toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease that afflicts people with weakened immune systems, such as AIDS patients and pregnant women.

Turing pledged Friday that “no patient needing Daraprim will be denied access.”

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Will and Kate are celebrating Christmas with a new royal family photo, featuring Prince George and baby sister Princess Charlotte in the garden at Kensington Palace. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge also announced that Prince George will begin attending a public nursery school by the end of January.

MAKING WAVES Caitlyn Jenner is Barbara Walters’ most fascinating person of 2015. ABC’s annual year-end special featured 10 notable names who JENNER BY EPA dominated the conversation this year, including presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders as well as Hollywood elites Amy Schumer and Bradley Cooper.

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From left, Sailor Durbin, 10, and her brothers, Stellar, 7, and Sage, 16, dressed up in their best Star Wars gear for the first showing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at Harkins Tempe Marketplace. The much-anticipated film earned $57 million Thursday night.

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BAD DAY RITA ORA The singer is taking her label woes to court. Ora is suing the Jay Z-owned Roc Nation to get out of her contract. She claims the label abandoned her.

BAD DAY MEEK MILL The rapper this week was back in court, where a judge ruled that he repeatedly violated his probation. He’s prohibited from WIREIMAGE leaving the Philaelphia area or working until his Feb. 5 sentencing. He’s likely to face jail time.

THEY SAID WHAT? THE STARS’ BEST QUOTES “In extremis, it’s something that I would do if the alternative was death. It’s not something I’d make a habit of. And I probably wouldn’t do it just for a TV show.”

— President Obama talks drinking urine during his guest spot on ‘Running Wild With Bear Grylls.’

Bryan Alexander USA TODAY

Star Wars: The Force Awakens exploded out of the box office Thursday night, taking in a record $57 million, according to studio estimates.

Fans around the country, many wearing festive Star Wars costumes, crowded into long soldout preview screenings, which began after 7 p.m. ET Thursday.

The previous Thursday record was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2, the final film in the Harry Potter franchise, which made $43.5 million in July 2011 pre-shows, according to Rentrak.

The Dark Knight Rises in July 2012 made $30.6 million and now holds the third position on the list.

The J.J. Abrams-directed film The Force Awakens brings back Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, along with a new cast including Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac.

Rentrak data from 20 markets across the country shows that 70% of the preview audience was male, with the biggest age group attending 18-24, making up 34% of the audience.

“I loved it,” said Tony Strick-

First Order Stormtroopers rush in in a scene from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. land, 57, who screened the film in Washington. “I liked the incorporation of the older characters and the new ones. I liked the humor.

It wasn’t too heavy, (and) the action was great.”

Some fans froze in their seats.

“It didn’t hit me I was seeing the movie until 30 minutes into the movie,” said Brian Nguyen, 24, of Orange County, Calif., who brought his father to the legend-

ary TCL Chinese Theatre’s first showing. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, it’s actually happening!’ I loved it.

It lived up to all expectations.”

Others indicated the new Star Wars made up for past franchise mistakes.

“It’s truly thrilling, which you don’t see anymore in movies today,” said Jack Timmeny, 45, of Annandale, Va. “We’ve waited 30 years, and it made up for all the

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wait.”

The Force Awakens is also a hit with critics, scoring a 95% positive rating on RottenTomatoes .com.

The seventh installment in the Star Wars franchise officially opened in 4,134 theaters Friday.

The next record to break? Opening day, and that record belongs to Deathly Hallows — Part 2, which brought in $91 million.

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Fatherhood seems to suit Chris Brown well.

Lately, the R&B star’s Instagram has become a deluge of endearing daddy/daughter photos.

Scroll through his feed and you’ll quickly spot pictures of him and his 1-year-old daughter, Royalty, posing in matching outfits and candid Halloween snaps and going on smile-filled outings to the zoo and basketball games.

Despite his bad rep in the press and his ongoing legal troubles, it looks as if Brown is trying to turn a corner in his personal life and overhaul his image — going so far as to name his seventh album Royalty, complete with a blackand-white portrait of him cradling his daughter as the cover art.

It all suggests a more grown-up direction for the 26-year-old. But unfortunately, putting his daugh-

ter front-and-center of his new album campaign is a MacGuffin.

On Royalty, thoughtful lyrics go out the window in favor of deceptively catchy songs that are often crass and borderline creepy.

Royalty kicks off with Back to Sleep, a hypnotic hook-up ode to a woman Brown hopes to meet up with while he’s on the road. It’s all pretty harmless R&B fare until the song’s off-putting chorus, in which he croons, “Just let me rock / (expletive) you back to sleep, girl. / Don’t say a word, no / don’t you talk.” It’s just the beginning of a long track list brimming with uncomfortable and unnecessarily explicit references. On Little Bit, he sings about his anatomy as he beckons a woman with “sex and Hennessy.” Who’s Gonna (Nobody) delivers cringeworthy metaphor after metaphor, and Make Love is about exactly what its title suggests.

His insistent pining might have been more excusable had his lyrics been clever, but it

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comes across as tasteless and uninspired.

That’s not to say the album is a wash. Brown is at his best on playful Fine By Me and Zero, which keep in line with the sparkling ’80s synth-pop that has dominated Top 40 this year. Blow It in the Wind is a chilled-out middle finger to the haters with a message about forging ahead, while Brown gets in a sweet message to his daughter on the 11 o’clock dance anthem Little More (Royalty), saying, “Oh, baby girl, you inspire me / give me the reason to keep on / My baby, my Royalty, girl, you’re the lyrics to my song.”

All of these tracks prove that Brown is undeniably talented as a singer with an ear for memorable hooks and vivid production. But as is, Royalty takes the crown as one of the year’s weakest R&B albums.

Patrick Ryan

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Ex-LHS coach Freeman dies at 84

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Kansas volleyball progress impressive Omaha, Neb. — The Friday morning banquet inside the CenturyLink Convention Center provided all the proof needed to illustrate that Kansas University volleyball coach Ray Bechard and his staff have begun to recruit the types of athletes needed to compete at the highest level.

There, mere yards away from where the best season in school history ended Thursday night with a four-set loss to No. 4 overall seed Nebraska in the NCAA Final Four, sophomores Bechard Ainise Havili and Kelsie Payne walked across the stage and collected their American Volleyball Coaches Association first-team All-America hardware, the first two such trophies gathered by the surging KU program.

And while moments like Friday’s or the upset of topseed USC in San Diego last weekend or even the huge welcome-home celebration that took place at Horejsi Family Athletics Center last Monday and again on Friday represent sure signs that this is a program headed in not just the right direction but the best direction, the recruitment of big-time talent is nothing new. Landing it may be.

And there’s no doubt that there’s more where Havili and Payne came from. But Bechard has never been afraid to go after the best players he could find.

Rewind to 2001-02, when Bechard made a trip north to Omaha to recruit a standout setter out of Papillion-LaVista High named Lindsey Hunter.

Hunter was one of the most recent stars to come out of the powerhouse program. Bechard sat in the Hunter home and spelled out exactly what Kansas could offer and why Lawrence would be a good fit.

As he spoke, fourthgrader Kelly Hunter was running around the house doing what fourth-graders do, laughing, giggling and entertaining for company.

Perhaps playing a hunch, or possibly showing off his ability to evaluate talent, Bechard leaned in to Hunter’s mother, Lori, — who was a setter at Nebraska from 1977-81 — and said simply, “Should we just have her come over here and listen so I don’t have to repeat this down the road?”

Bechard was talking about the fourth-grader, and there’s no doubt that, had he been able to, the KU coach would’ve signed both on the spot.

Instead, Lindsey, who initially committed to K-State, wound up becoming one of the top players in Missouri history. And Kelly, nearly 10 years later, signed with the Cornhuskers and was on the floor Thursday night to help Nebraska knock off Kansas.

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Legendary Lawrence High coach Bill Freeman — who led the Lions to five state football championships and also to two state track crowns — died on Friday at the age of 84.

Freeman, who had bat-

tled Alzheimer’s since 2012, passed at 2:15 a.m. at the Life Center of Burlington, where he was under hospice care. Freeman’s funeral will be at 2 p.m.

Monday at First Christian Church in LeRoy. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the Southern Coffey

County High School athletic department or the Alzheimer’s Association.

“Our family greatly appreciates everyone’s thoughts and prayers during this very difficult time. My dad has touched so many lives on & off the football field! He is a true champion in every way!” Freeman’s

daughter, Jennifer Freeman Nauertc, wrote on her Facebook page.

Freeman, who also directed Osawatomie High to two state football crowns and LeRoy to one state title, went 242-81-3 in a 36-year football coaching career Please see FREEMAN, page 6C Freeman

CITY SHOWDOWN BASKETBALL

Clean sweep

John Young/Journal-World Photo

LAWRENCE HIGH’S E’LEASE STAFFORD, LEFT, AND FREE STATE’S MADISON PIPER battle for rebounding position. The Lions turned back FSHS, 49-48, on Friday night at LHS.

Lion girls slip past Firebirds, 49-48

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

Lawrence High’s girls basketball players knew if they played with confidence, they could compete with the top teams in the state.

The Lions proved it on Friday, picking up a 49-48 victory against Free State in the City Showdown at LHS. It snapped a 12-game losing

streak to the Firebirds, dating back to 2009.

In the fourth quarter, the Lions held a 49-45 lead with less than two minutes left after a putback and two made free throws by sophomore guard E’lease Stafford.

The Firebirds (3-1, ranked No. 3 in Class 6A) cut their deficit to one point, 49-48, when senior point guard Caiti Schlesener drilled a three-

pointer from the top of the arc.

During the final 90 seconds, the Lions turned the ball over twice and missed the front end of two oneand-one free throws. Instead of panicking, the Lions stayed calm on the defensive end and forced three missed shots in the final minute, including a jumper by Free State senior guard Jaelyn

Two Hearts right before the buzzer.

Once LHS freshman forward Chisom Ajekwu secured the final rebound and the buzzer sounded, the Lions sprinted to their bench to celebrate. LHS coach Jeff Dickson turned to his team and raised both of his fists in the air.

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Lawrence High boys prevail, 79-65

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

John Young/Journal-World Photo

FREE STATE’S CHRISION WILBURN, LEFT, defends Lawrence High’s Justin Roberts. The Lion boys defeated the Firebirds, 79-65, on Friday night at LHS.

The City Showdown is all about momentum, and Lawrence High’s boys basketball team had all of it in the second half on Friday.

Rebounds started bouncing in the right spots for the Lions. They won races for loose balls. And most of all, shots started dropping in a 79-65 victory over Free State in the school’s home opener at LHS. The Lions shot a blistering 68 percent from the floor in the second half (15-for-22) and never allowed the Firebirds to pull any closer than seven points in the fourth quarter.

“We didn’t play our best offensively or defensively in the first half,” LHS senior point guard Justin Roberts said. “We knew we were going to come out and play a lot better. We weren’t worried in the locker room.”

After Free State senior forward Chrision Wilburn swished a jumper to open the third quarter, the Lions responded with a 14-1 run over the next four minutes.

Roberts scored eight points in the spurt, senior forward Price Morgan added four points, and senior forward Fred Brou added a two-handed slam, assisted from Roberts.

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Brady questionable for Sunday’s game Foxborough, Mass. — New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was listed on the team’s injury report Friday with an illness that made him questionable Sunday against the Tennessee Titans.

Brady did not practice with the team, according to the injury report.

Since he took over when Drew Bledsoe was injured in Week 2 of the 2001 season, Brady has played in every game of every season except for 2008, when he was injured in the first quarter of the opener and missed the rest of the season.

Backup Jimmy Garoppolo has appeared in four games this season and has not thrown a pass this year.

The injury report also said linebackers Eric Martin (concussion) and Jonathan Freeny (hand) would miss Sunday’s game. Receiver Julian Edelman is doubtful, meaning he is likely to miss his fifth straight game since breaking his foot.

Manning’s foot still too sore to play Englewood, Colo. — Peyton Manning’s left foot was sore Friday so he didn’t practice after running the Denver Broncos’ scout team for two days.

Manning’s foot has bothered him for months, and he has been sidelined since mid-November with a torn plantar fascia that required a cast or boot for 10 days.

He returned to practice Wednesday but after two days of running the scout team, he reported to work Friday saying he was sore.

“So we said, ‘OK, we’ll stop for the weekend,’” coach Gary Kubiak said.

Kubiak had already ruled out the league’s only five-time MVP for Sunday’s game at Pittsburgh (8-5), when Brock Osweiler will make his fifth consecutive start for Denver (10-3).

Manning was walking around after practice without any limp.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Cyclones’ Burton thrust into lineup Ames, Iowa — Iowa State had hoped to ease Marquette transfer Deonte Burton into its rotation.

The loss of Naz Mitrou-Long for the season because of hip injuries did away with that luxury.

Burton, a 6-foot-4 guard/forward, will be counted on as a key contributor for the fifth-ranked Cyclones (9-0) starting with today’s game against Northern Iowa (6-3) in Des Moines.

Burton, a sophomore, averaged 6.9 points in 32 games at Marquette. The Big 12 preseason newcomer of the year was forced to sit out the fall semester after leaving Marquette eight games into last season.

“Now his role is defined,” Iowa State coach Steve Prohm said.

“The beat’s got to go on.”

Even though Iowa State has one of the most talented rosters in the country, it has only used seven players for the majority of the year.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Royals sign former Mets pitcher Gee Kansas City, Mo. — Dillon Gee and the Kansas City Royals have agreed to a minor-league contract that would guarantee the right-hander $2 million if he makes the big-league club.

The World Series champions tweeted they completed the deal with the former New York Mets pitcher Friday.

Gee would make $250,000 if added to the 40-man roster but is in the minors. He could earn $1.55 million in bonuses for starts, $1.75 million for innings and $700,000 for relief appearances.

Gee made five starts for New York this season before going on the disabled list. He lost his starting job shortly after his return from the DL, pushed out by the addition of rookie Noah Syndergaard. Gee was demoted to Triple-A following a failed spot start on June 14.

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ELLIE DAY, WIFE OF PGA TOUR GOLF PLAYER JASON DAY, IS CARRIED OFF THE FLOOR ON A STRETCHER after Cleveland’s LeBron James collided with her out of bounds during a game against Oklahoma City Thursday in Cleveland.

Ellie Day: LeBron ‘just doing his job’ Cleveland — The wife of PGA champion Jason Day is suffering from concussion symptoms after NBA star LeBron James crashed into her during a Cavaliers game.

Day’s agent, Bud Martin, issued a statement Friday morning saying Ellie Day “is resting comfortably and appreciates all of those who have reached out and are concerned about her.” He added she has “no hard feelings” toward James and quotes her as saying, “He was just doing his job. Go Cavs.”

Ellie Day was carried from Quicken Loans Arena on a backboard, placed on a stretcher with her head immobilized and taken to MetroHealth Medical Center on Thursday night. She was released early Friday morning.

James was scrambling for a loose ball in the fourth quarter of a 104-100 win over Oklahoma City when the 6-foot-8, 250-pound All-Star

launched himself into the air, plowing into Day as she sat next to her husband.

The statement thanks her doctors, emergency medical staff and the entire Cleveland Cavaliers organization for their help.

James said he spoke with Ellie Day while she was being helped by medical personnel.

“I squeezed her hand, and she said she was OK,” he said. “She was just a little weary.”

Before he was given more information on her, James, who scored 33 points and flirted with a triple-double, was noticeably shaken when he left the floor following the Cavs’ win.

“For me, obviously, her health is very important, and hopefully she is doing well,” James said. “The guys told me she’s doing great now.

For me, just going for a loose ball, tried to keep the possession going, I just hate that that was the end result.”

LATEST LINE NFL Favorite.............. Points (O/U)...........Underdog Week 15 NY Jets..............................3 (41.5)...........................DALLAS Sunday, Dec 20th.

MINNESOTA.....................51⁄2 (43).........................Chicago JACKSONVILLE.................3 (49)............................. Atlanta INDIANAPOLIS..................2 (42)...........................Houston Kansas City...............7 (41).............BALTIMORE Buffalo..............................11⁄2 (44)............... WASHINGTON NEW ENGLAND.................14 (47)..................... Tennessee Arizona.............................31⁄2 (51)............. PHILADELPHIA Carolina..............................4 (48)......................NY GIANTS SEATTLE............................15 (43)....................... Cleveland Green Bay..........................3 (48)........................OAKLAND SAN DIEGO.........................2 (46)................................Miami PITTSBURGH..................61⁄2 (44.5).........................Denver Cincinnati......................51⁄2 (40.5).......SAN FRANCISCO Monday, Dec 21st.

NEW ORLEANS.................. 3 (51)..............................Detroit COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL GAMES Favorite.............. Points (O/U)...........Underdog New Mexico Bowl University Stadium-Albuquerque, NM. Arizona.............................8 (65.5)..................New Mexico Las Vegas Bowl Sam Boyd Stadium-Las Vegas, NV. Utah.................................21⁄2 (50.5)................................Byu Camellia Bowl Cramton Bowl-Montgomery, AL. Appalachian St..............71⁄2 (55)................................Ohio Cure Bowl Citrus Bowl Stadium-Orlando, FL. San Jose St....................... 1 (56).......................Georgia St New Orleans Bowl Mercedes-Benz Superdome-New Orleans, LA. Louisiana Tech................2 (68)....................Arkansas St Monday, Dec 21st.

Miami Beach Bowl Marlins Park-Miami, FL. Western Kentucky......21⁄2 (66.5).............South Florida Tuesday, Dec 22nd.

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Bronco Stadium-Boise, ID. Utah St.............................61⁄2 (47).............................Akron Boca Raton Bowl FAU Stadium-Boca Raton, FL. Temple..............................11⁄2 (50)............................ Toledo Wednesday, Dec 23rd.

Poinsettia Bowl Qualcomm Stadium-San Diego, CA. Boise St........................... 81⁄2 (56)....................No. Illinois Go Daddy.com Bowl Ladd-Peebles Stadium-Mobile, AL. Bowling Green...............71⁄2 (66)............Georgia South Thursday, Dec 24th.

Bahamas Bowl Thomas Robinson Stadium-Nassau, Bahamas.

Western Michigan........41⁄2 (63)...........Middle Tenn St Hawaii Bowl Aloha Stadium-Honolulu, HI. Cincinnati.......................... 1 (57).................. San Diego St Saturday, Dec 26th.

St. Petersburg Bowl Tropicana Field-St. Petersburg, FL. Marshall.............................4 (44)...................Connecticut Sun Bowl Sun Bowl Stadium-El Paso, TX. Washington St...............21⁄2 (62)..............Miami-Florida Heart of Dallas Bowl Cotton Bowl-Dallas, TX. Washington.................... 81⁄2 (55)............Southern Miss Pinstripe Bowl Yankee Stadium-Bronx, NY. Indiana................................ 2 (71)..................................Duke Independence Bowl Independence Stadium-Shreveport, LA. Virginia Tech.................131⁄2 (62).............................. Tulsa Foster Farms Bowl Levi’s Stadium-Santa Clara, CA. Ucla....................................61⁄2 (61).......................Nebraska

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Military Bowl Navy-Marine Corps Stadium-Annapolis,MD Navy..................................3 (53.5).....................Pittsburgh Quick Lane Bowl Ford Field-Detroit, MI. Minnesota........................6 (49.5)...................C. Michigan Tuesday, Dec 29th.

Armed Forces Bowl Amon G. Carter Stadium-Fort Worth, TX. California...........................7 (67)..........................Air Force Russell Athletic Bowl Florida Citrus Bowl-Orlando, FL. Baylor...................... 2 (70)........North Carolina Arizona Bowl Arizona Stadium-Tucson, AZ. Colorado St.......................3 (56).............................Nevada Texas Bowl NRG Stadium-Houston, TX. Lsu..........................7 (73.5)........... Texas Tech Wednesday, Dec 30th.

Birmingham Bowl Legion Field-Birmingham, AL. Auburn..............................21⁄2 (62).......................Memphis Belk Bowl Bank of America Stadium-Charlotte, NC. Mississippi St...................5 (60)..........................NC State Music City Bowl LP Field-Nashville, TN. Louisville.........................5 (46.5).................... Texas A&M Holiday Bowl Qualcomm Stadium-San Diego, CA. Southern Cal................31⁄2 (50.5)...................Wisconsin Thursday, Dec 31st.

Peach Bowl Georgia Dome-Atlanta, GA. Florida St.........................7 (55.5).........................Houston College Football Playoffs Cotton Bowl AT&T Stadium-Arlington, TX. Alabama...........................91⁄2 (47)..................Michigan St Orange Bowl Sun Life Stadium-Miami Gardens, FL. Oklahoma..............31⁄2 (64.5)..............Clemson Friday, Jan 1st.

Outback Bowl Raymond James Stadium-Tampa, FL. Tennessee.......................81⁄2 (47).............Northwestern Citrus Bowl Citrus Bowl Stadium-Orlando, FL. Michigan......................... 41⁄2 (40)...........................Florida Fiesta Bowl University of Phoenix Stadium-Glendale, AZ. Ohio St............................. 61⁄2 (55).................Notre Dame Rose Bowl Rose Bowl-Pasadena, CA. Stanford...........................61⁄2 (53)................................Iowa Sugar Bowl Mercedes-Benz Superdome-New Orleans, LA. Mississippi................7 (67)........... Oklahoma St Saturday, Jan 2nd.

Taxslayer Bowl Everbank Field-Jacksonville, FL. Georgia...........................61⁄2 (42.5)........................ Penn St Liberty Bowl Liberty Bowl-Memphis, TN. Arkansas..................12 (56)...............Kansas St Alamo Bowl Alamodome-San Antonio, TX. Oregon......................1 (78)..........................Tcu Cactus Bowl Chase Field-Phoenix, AZ. Arizona St.................1 (65).......... West Virginia NBA Favorite.............. Points (O/U)...........Underdog OKLAHOMA CITY......... 151⁄2 (208)................... LA Lakers a-WASHINGTON............OFF (OFF).....................Charlotte Chicago.............................3 (195)......................NEW YORK Indiana..............................1 (198.5)........................MEMPHIS HOUSTON.........................1 (212.5)................... LA Clippers a-Charlotte Forward N. Batum is questionable.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL Favorite................... Points................Underdog Georgia Tech.......................11⁄2.............................GEORGIA b-Duke..................................61⁄2....................................Utah VIRGINIA................................. 5............................. Villanova LOUISVILLE............................21........... Western Kentucky Wichita St.............................. 3....................... SETON HALL XAVIER....................................17.................................Auburn SYRACUSE........................... 181⁄2...............................Cornell Michigan St.........................91⁄2............. NORTHEASTERN c-North Carolina................. 7....................................... Ucla DETROIT................................41⁄2...............Central Florida Northwestern.....................41⁄2............................. 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Texas, Nebraska to clash for title Omaha, Neb. (ap) — Not that Nebraska volleyball fans needed any more reason to show up. They love their Cornhuskers, especially when they’re close to home playing for a national championship, and tonight’s NCAA final would be a sellout no matter the opponent.

The fact the Huskers are playing Texas just adds a little spice, maybe a lot.

The CenturyLink Center will be full again, with the tournament attendance record of 17,551 set during Thursday’s semifinals likely to be broken, but the full-throated cheers of Nebraska partisans might be even louder this time.

No matter the sport, the Longhorns are the team Nebraska fans love to root against, even though the Huskers left the Big 12 for the Big Ten four years ago.

“People in Nebraska do still get worked up about Texas,” Huskers coach John Cook said Friday.

“I think it’s kind of in the DNA now. I credit Bill Byrne for that.”

Byrne was Nebraska’s athletic director when the Big Eight and Southwest Conference merged to form the Big 12 in 1994.

Nebraska and Texas usually were on opposite sides when it came to making policies in the new league, and it was no secret the school to the north resented the political clout of the school to the south.

Then there were some big football games. None was bigger than the 2009 Big 12 title game, when Nebraska had the Longhorns beaten until officials put one second back on the clock at the end, just enough time for Texas to kick the winning field goal.

Yes, the third-seeded Longhorns (30-2) know what awaits Saturday.

“The fans,” coach Jerritt Elliott said, “are going to be all over us because it’s Texas.”

Big 12 player of the year Amy Neal said she’s excited about playing for a national title in a tough environment.

“I honestly think it’s kind of fun that it’ll be packed with Nebraska fans,” Neal said. “Whenever we’ve gone to (Lincoln), it’s smaller but it’s still a huge arena filled with people, and I think it’s fun when the crowd’s against us. I think they’ll be all over us, like Jerritt said. We embrace that.”

The teams have continued to play every year in the regular season since fourth-seeded Nebraska (31-4) left the Big 12.

“Volleyball likes rivalries, but it’s not as personal like football can be,” Cook said.

Some things to know about the title match: How they got here: Texas defeated secondseeded Minnesota in a four-set semifinal and Nebraska beat Kansas in four sets. The Longhorns are playing for their third championship, having won in 1988 and 2012.

The Huskers are going for their fourth title, having won in 1995, 2000 and 2006.

They meet again: Nebraska leads the all-time series 30-21, but Texas won the most recent meeting in five sets in Austin in September.

The Longhorns’ Ebony Nwanebu had 22 kills, 17 digs and four blocks in her only match of the season. The 2013 national freshman of the year for Southern California injured her back and has only recently begun practicing on a limited basis.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

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KU perfect against Big Sky Montana vs. Kansas Probable Starters MONTANA (4-5) F — Fabijan Krslovic (6-8, Soph.)

G — Martin Breunig (6-8, Sr.) G — Michael Oguine (6-2, Fr.) G — Brandon Gfeller (6-4, Jr.) G — Walter Wright (5-10, Jr.)

KANSAS (8-1) F — Perry Ellis (6-8, Sr.) F — Hunter Mickelson (6-10, Sr.) G — Frank Mason III (5-11, Jr.) G — Wayne Selden Jr. (6-5, Jr.) G — Devonté Graham (6-2, Soph.)

Tipoff: 1 p.m. today, Allen Fieldhouse.

TV: Jayhawk (WOW! channels 37, 226).

Rosters MONTANA 1 — Mario Dunn, 6-0, 172, Jr., G, Oakland, California.

2 — Riley Bradshaw, 6-2, 180, Jr., G, Corvallis, Montana.

5 — Walter Wright, 5-10, 165, Jr., G, Waterbury, Connecticut.

10 — Michael Oguine, 6-2, 175, Fr., G, Chatsworth, California.

12 — Martin Breunig, 6-8, 210, Sr., F, Leverkusen, Germany.

14 — Ahmaad Rorie, 6-1, 175, Soph., G, Tacoma, Washington.

15 — Trevor Spoja, 6-3, 170, Fr., G, Billings, Montana.

20 — Fabijan Krslovic, 6-8, 225, Soph., F, Sydney Australia.

22 — Zachary Camel, 6-0, 166, Jr., G, Polson, Montana.

24 — Bobby Moorehead, 6-7, 190, Fr., G, Tacoma, Washington.

30 — Gavin DeJong, 6-6, 215, Fr, F, Manhattan, Montana.

31 — Jack Lopez, 6-5, 210, Jr., F, Bankstown, Australia.

32 — Aaron Misipeka-Ward, 6-2, 185, Jr., G, Florence, Montana.

33 — Jared Samuelson, 6-7, 215, Fr., F, Billings, Montana.

34 — Brandon Gfeller, 6-4, 190, Jr., G, Colfax, Washington.

35 — Bryden Boehning, 6-10, 230, Fr., C, Glendive, Montana.

Head coach: Travis DeCuire. Assistants: Ken Bone, Jonathan Metzger, Chris Cobb.

KANSAS 0 — Frank Mason III, 5-11, 185, Jr., G, Petersburg, Virginia.

1 — Wayne Selden Jr., 6-5, 230, Jr., G, Roxbury, Massachusetts.

2 — Lagerald Vick, 6-5, 175, Fr., G, Memphis.

4 — Devonté Graham, 6-2, 175, Soph., G, Raleigh, North Carolina.

5 — Evan Manning, 6-3, 170, Sr., G, Lawrence.

10 — Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, 6-8, 195, Soph., G, Cherkasy, Ukraine.

11 — Tyler Self, 6-2, 165, Jr., G, Lawrence.

13 — Cheick Diallo, 6-9, 220, Fr., F, Kayes, Mali, Africa.

14 — Brannen Greene, 6-7, 215, Jr., G, Juliette, Georgia.

15 — Carlton Bragg, Jr., 6-9, 220, Fr., F, Cleveland.

21 — Clay Young, 6-5, 205, Soph., F, Lansing.

22 — Dwight Coleby, 6-9, 240, Jr., F, Nassau, Bahamas.

31 — Jamari Traylor, 6-8, 220, Sr., F, Chicago.

33 — Landen Lucas, 6-10, 240, Jr., F, Portland, Oregon.

34 — Perry Ellis, 6-8, 225, Sr., F, Wichita.

42 — Hunter Mickelson, 6-10, 245, Sr., F, Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Head coach: Bill Self.

Assistants: Kurtis Townsend, Norm Roberts, Jerrance Howard.

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Kansas University takes a 16-0 all-time record against Big Sky Conference basketball teams into today’s matinee against Montana, set for a 1 p.m. tipoff in Allen Fieldhouse.

The Grizzlies, who staked claim to a share of the conference title in 2014-15 — coach Travis DeCuire’s first year at the Missoula, Montana, school — bring a 4-5 record to town.

It’s a sub-.500 mark that makes some wonder if the No. 2-ranked Jayhawks (8-1) will be forced to sweat more than their fans, who will be trying to break the Guinness world record for “largest gathering of people wearing holiday sweaters.”

The old mark of 1,175 was set at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom in 2014, presumably at a soccer match.

“Well, they (Griz) have been a little bit inconsistent, kind of like us,” KU coach Bill Self said.

“They’ve obviously had the last shot against Gonzaga at Gonzaga to send it to overtime and had the lead with a minute left, and then Gonzaga had a player, a freshman, make a couple of plays to actually give them the lead back.”

The Grizzlies indeed fell to Gonzaga, 61-58, on Dec. 8 in Spokane, Washington, and followed that with a 92-62 loss to Washington on Dec. 12 in Seattle.

Montana has wins over Boise State (74-72), Carroll (70-61), San Francisco (62-50) and Great Falls (79-59) and also has lost to San Jose State (64-61), North Dakota State (7353) and Pepperdine (6963).

“They’re very good and experienced inside, got a guy that can certainly score on the block and plays well beyond his standing height,” Self said of 6-foot-8 senior Martin Breunig, who averages a team-leading 18.3 points and 8.8 boards.

“They’ve got some quick guys on the perimeter (including 5-10 junior Walter Wright, 10.6 ppg; 6-2 freshman Michael Oguine, 9.9 ppg and 6-4 junior Brandon Gfeller, 9.7 ppg),” Self added.

Oguine is looking forward to the opportunity.

“I guess up until this year I’ve been a fan of the game, obviously, and I’ve kind of been like a nerd, just following all the big teams and seeing what they’re doing,” Oguine said in an article on the school’s official website.

“We have a chance to actually step on the court against a big-time team like Kansas.”

The last time the Griz defeated a nationally ranked team was in the 2006 NCAA Tournament. UM defeated No. 20 Nevada, 87-79, to advance for the first time in school history. The last time Montana defeated a ranked opponent in the regular season was at Stanford in 2002. The Griz defeated the Cardinal, 70-68.

“It’s another opportunity to play in front of a crowd that will be energetic,” DeCuire said. “It’s another opportunity to play against a team that will be playing in the postseason, and we want to come back a better basketball team.”

As for the task at hand ... “For us, we just have to be disciplined, and go out and not make mistakes. If we don’t beat ourselves, we can play with anyone,” DeCuire said. “That’s the biggest thing for us to overcome is mental mis-

takes that cost us. If we can minimize those, we’ll be fine.”

KU and Montana have played just once before.

The Jayhawks prevailed, 68-56, on Dec. 1, 1962, in Allen. KU’s last game against a Big Sky team was this year’s opener, a 109-72 victory over Northern Colorado on Nov. 13.

“It (KU basketball) reminds me of Montana basketball,” DeCuire told the school’s website. “A lot of high-low, some inside out. When you have what they have, which is good perimeter players around good post play, it makes you pretty difficult to guard.” l

Effective passer: KU freshman forward Carlton Bragg Jr. had assists on three straight baskets in the second half of KU’s last game — an 82-67 win over Oregon State a week ago in Sprint Center.

“Yes, Carlton is a good passer. Carlton has good feel to pass the ball,” Self said of the 6-9 freshman from Cleveland. “If there’s a high-low, he’s going to throw it — regardless if it’s remotely open or not. I think he’s proven that. But I do think he has good vision and I do think he has good feel. Landen (Lucas) is not a bad passer, but he (Bragg) and Jamari (Traylor) are probably our two best-passing bigs.” l

Next to Perry: Senior forward Hunter Mickelson has heard Self say KU’s second big man in the lineup needs to be able to complement senior Perry Ellis.

“He’s obviously a great scorer and a great player.

So, obviously, if I have any opportunity to move the ball around and get him a shot, then that’s kind of what I’ll want to do,” Mickelson said.

Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo

KANSAS UNIVERSITY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER CASSIE WAIT, RIGHT, greets Alyssa Bobcock, 5, Topeka, and her family as fans welcomed the national semifinalist KU volleyball team back to campus Friday at Horejsi Center.

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was televised on ESPN2, and everyone who’s anyone in college volleyball circles spent the week CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C talking about, breaking down and studying As much as the loss Kansas. stung, simply playing in What’s more, KU’s this year’s Final Four and semifinal loss to NU getting exposure as the was played in front of best of the best figures to the most fans ever to do wonders for Bechard’s watch an NCAA volrecruiting. leyball match. Granted, For starters, the match the majority of the

record crowd of 17,551 that packed CenturyLink Center was wearing red and roaring for the Huskers, but that little detail can — and likely will — be left out when Bechard is pitching what KU can offer future prospects.

The 2015 KU volleyball season forever will go down as one of the best in school history. These Jayhawks broke records,

recorded a ton of firsts, made a deep and memorable tournament run and educated a basketball town on the alternate meanings of words like transition, block, assist and others.

KU football reached similar heights in 2007 and then quickly fell back to what it had always been.

Don’t expect the same from Kansas volleyball.

Yeah, Havili and Payne may have been the first two first-team All-Americans in school history, but they won’t be the last.

Suddenly armed with a lot more to sell, Bechard’s home visits on the recruiting trail might soon start landing some of those fourth-graders like Kelly Hunter.

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Timberwolves 99, Kings 95 Minneapolis — Andrew Wiggins had 32 points, 10 rebounds and six assists to lift Minnesota to a victory over the Sacramento Kings on Friday night.

Karl-Anthony Towns fought off foul trouble for 15 points and eight rebounds, and Shabazz Muhammad added 16 points and seven boards for the Timberwolves, who had lost eight of their previous nine games. Minnesota outrebounded Sacramento 49-31 in its fourth home victory of the season.

DeMarcus Cousins had 24 points, 11 rebounds and four assists for the Kings in their first loss in four games. Rajon Rondo had 13 assists and 11 points in his return from a onegame suspension for directing a gay slur at referee Bill Kennedy, who later came out as gay in an interview with Yahoo Sports.

The Timberwolves led by eight at the start of the fourth quarter, but missed nine of their first 10 shots in the final quarter to let the Kings back in it.

Cousins’ follow shot gave them a 90-89 lead with three minutes to go, but Wiggins scored on an acrobatic drive and then knocked down two free throws for a 93-90 lead with 1:20 to play.

Ricky Rubio added 12 points, eight assists and seven rebounds for the Wolves.

Rondo was suspended for one game last week after a run-in with Kennedy. It was later revealed that Rondo used a gay slur toward Kennedy, who announced he was gay on Monday. Rondo was criticized for an initial statement that said he did not mean to offend with his remarks and he later issued a stronger apology, saying he was “truly sorry for what I said to Bill.”

SACRAMENTO (95) Casspi 3-7 2-2 11, Gay 8-18 2-2 20, Cousins 11-25 2-3 24, Rondo 4-8 3-4 11, McLemore 3-5 0-1 6, Belinelli 2-4 0-0 4, Koufos 1-3 2-2 4, Collison 6-10 1-3 15, Curry 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 38-81 12-17 95.

MINNESOTA (99) Prince 3-4 0-0 6, Garnett 1-2 0-0 2, Towns 6-11 2-2 15, Rubio 3-10 4-4 12, Wiggins 11-20 9-10 32, Dieng 2-4 0-0 4, LaVine 4-11 0-0 8, Martin 1-4 0-0 2, Bjelica 0-1 0-0 0, Muhammad 7-13 0-0 16, Miller 1-1 0-0 2, Payne 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 39-82 15-16 99.

Sacramento 24 30 23 18—95 Minnesota 31 27 25 16—99 Three-Point Goals-Sacramento 7-23 (Casspi 3-5, Collison 2-5, Gay 2-6, Curry 0-1, McLemore 0-1, Rondo 0-1, Belinelli 0-1, Cousins 0-3), Minnesota 6-18 (Muhammad 2-4, Rubio 2-6, Towns 1-1, Wiggins 1-3, LaVine 0-4).

Rebounds-Sacramento 38 (Cousins 11), Minnesota 54 (Dieng 11). AssistsSacramento 22 (Rondo 13), Minnesota 25 (Rubio 8). Total Fouls-Sacramento 19, Minnesota 19. Technicals-Casspi, Garnett. A-12,770 (19,356).

Spurs 115, Clippers 107 San Antonio — LaMarcus Aldridge had 26 points and 13 rebounds, Tony Parker scored 10 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter, and San Antonio held off Los Angeles to remain undefeated at home.

San Antonio leads the league in several defensive categories, but offense dominated the first matchup between the teams since the Clippers eliminated the then-defending champions in the first round of last season’s playoffs.

Kawhi Leonard had 19 points, Tim Duncan added 14, and Danny Green had 10 for the Spurs, who are 15-0 at home this season.

Chris Paul had 27 points and 10 assists for the Clippers. Blake Griffin added 25 points, and DeAndre Jordan had 16 points and 17 rebounds.

San Antonio opened the final quarter on an 11-0 run, beginning with Patty Mills’ layup on the fifth pass of the possession after the Spurs passed up three three-pointers.

Parker’s three-pointer closed the run and gave San Antonio a 96-88 lead with 9:17 remaining.

Cole Aldrich, L.A. Clippers Did not play (coach’s decision) Cliff Alexander, Portland Did not play (coach’s decision) Darrell Arthur, Denver Min: 18. Pts: 6.

Reb: 1. Ast: 0.

Mario Chalmers, Memphis Min: 25. Pts: 12.

Reb: 0. Ast: 2.

Joel Embiid, Philadelphia Did not play, inactive Kirk Hinrich, Chicago Min: 13. Pts: 0.

Reb: 0. Ast: 0.

Ann Heisenfelt/AP Photo

MINNESOTA’S ANDREW WIGGINS, LEFT, LOOKS TO PASS under pressure from Sacramento’s Ben McLemore during the Timberwolves’ 99-95 win Friday in Minneapolis.

L.A. CLIPPERS (107) Mbah a Moute 1-3 2-2 5, Griffin 10-19 3-4 25, Jordan 4-6 8-20 16, Paul 8-14 9-10 27, Redick 5-9 1-2 14, Johnson 2-4 2-2 7, Crawford 0-3 0-0 0, Smith 3-6 0-0 6, Rivers 2-4 0-0 4, Pierce 1-3 0-0 3, Stephenson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 36-72 25-40 107.

SAN ANTONIO (115) Leonard 6-14 6-7 19, Aldridge 11-18 4-6 26, Duncan 5-8 4-6 14, Parker 8-15 2-2 21, Green 4-6 0-0 10, West 2-6 0-0 4, Ginobili 1-6 2-2 5, Mills 3-9 0-0 8, Diaw 1-3 1-1 3, Simmons 2-2 0-0 5. Totals 43-87 19-24 115.

L.A. Clippers 30 25 33 19—107 San Antonio 26 29 30 30—115 Three-Point Goals-L.A. Clippers 10-24 (Redick 3-6, Griffin 2-2, Paul 2-5, Pierce 1-1, Mbah a Moute 1-2, Johnson 1-3, Stephenson 0-1, Crawford 0-1, Rivers 0-1, Smith 0-2), San Antonio 10-19 (Parker 3-3, Green 2-4, Mills 2-5, Simmons 1-1, Ginobili 1-2, Leonard 1-3, Diaw 0-1). Rebounds-L.A. Clippers 51 (Jordan 17), San Antonio 49 (Aldridge 13). Assists-L.A. Clippers 23 (Paul 10), San Antonio 25 (Ginobili, Diaw 5). Total Fouls-L.A. Clippers 22, San Antonio 30. Technicals-L.A. Clippers defensive three second 2, San Antonio defensive three second 2. A-18,418 (18,797).

Knicks 107, 76ers 97 Philadelphia — Arron Afflalo had 22 points and seven rebounds, Derrick Williams scored 17 off the bench, and New York beat Philadelphia for its third win in a row.

Jahlil Okafor scored 20 points for the Sixers in their ninth straight loss.

They fell to 1-27.

Kristaps Porzingis added eight points, four rebounds and three blocks for the Knicks in his first matchup against Okafor, a fellow top rookie. Okafor missed Philadelphia’s first meeting vs. New York on Dec. 2 because of a suspension.

Okafor was chosen third overall in this year’s NBA draft, and Porzingis was picked next. They both got huge cheers whenever they touched the ball.

It was the second straight game Porzingis faced off against another top rookie. The 7-foot-3 Porzingis blocked seven shots in a 107-102 win over Minnesota and No. 1 overall pick Karl-Anthony Towns on Wednesday.

Porzingis had less of an impact against the Sixers but got plenty of help from his teammates. Carmelo Anthony had all of his 16 points in the first half before sitting out the entire fourth quarter.

Lance Thomas added 12 points and Kyle O’Quinn 10 for the Knicks.

Tony Wroten had 15 for the Sixers. Nerlens Noel, back in the lineup after missing two games with a left eye abrasion, got eight points on 4-for4 shooting.

NEW YORK (107) Anthony 4-14 8-9 16, Porzingis 3-9 2-2 8, Lopez 4-6 0-0 8, Calderon 0-2 1-2 1, Afflalo 9-13 1-1 22, Thomas 4-6 3-4 12, O’Quinn 3-5 4-5 10, Galloway 3-5 0-1 7, Jeri.Grant 2-6 0-0 4, Williams 7-11 2-4 17, Vujacic 0-3 0-0 0, Seraphin 1-4 0-0 2, Amundson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 40-85 21-28 107.

PHILADELPHIA (97) Covington 1-5 0-0 3, Noel 4-4 0-0 8, Okafor 9-17 2-3 20, Marshall 1-4 0-0 2, Canaan 4-10 4-5 14, Thompson 3-7 2-4 10, Wroten 5-10 5-8 15, Jera.Grant 2-8 4-6 8, Sampson 1-2 0-2 2, Holmes 5-7 0-0 10, McConnell 2-3 0-0 5, Stauskas 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 37-77 17-30 97.

New York 30 35 24 18—107 Philadelphia 23 21 24 29 — 97 Three-Point Goals-New York 6-19 (Afflalo 3-5, Galloway 1-1, Thomas 1-2, Williams 1-3, Calderon 0-1, Jeri.Grant 0-1, Porzingis 0-2, Anthony 0-2, Vujacic 0-2), Philadelphia 6-24 (Thompson 2-5, Canaan 2-6, McConnell 1-1, Covington 1-4, Holmes 0-1, Wroten 0-1, Sampson 0-1, Marshall 0-2, Jera.Grant 0-3).

Rebounds-New York 57 (O’Quinn, Afflalo 7), Philadelphia 48 (Thompson 7). Assists-New York 24 (Calderon 6), Philadelphia 15 (Canaan, McConnell, Wroten, Marshall 3). Total Fouls-New York 19, Philadelphia 22. TechnicalsNew York defensive three second 2, Philadelphia defensive three second.

Flagrant Fouls-Sampson. A-17,880 (20,318).

Magic 102, Trail Blazers 94 Orlando, Fla. — Tobias Harris and Nik Vucevic each scored 25 points to propel Orlando to a win over Portland.

Elfrid Payton added 19 points, and Victor Oladipo scored 15 points and had six assists for the Magic, who won their third straight game.

CJ McCollum led Portland with 29 points. Damian Lillard added 17 points and 10 assists, and Al-Farouq Aminu had 16 for the Trail Blazers.

Orlando started the fourth quarter with a 74-68 lead and forced the Trail Blazers into four turnovers and two missed shots in the first three minutes. Oladipo scored five straight and Evan Fournier added a driving layup to push the Magic lead to 81-68 with 9:31 to play.

PORTLAND (94) Aminu 5-6 2-2 16, Vonleh 2-4 0-0 4, Plumlee 2-6 0-0 4, Lillard 4-15 9-9 19, McCollum 11-19 2-3 27, Leonard 2-6 0-0 4, Harkless 0-1 1-2 1, Crabbe 5-11 2-2 14, Davis 0-2 1-6 1, Henderson 1-3 2-2 4. Totals 32-73 19-26 94.

ORLANDO (102) Harris 9-13 6-7 25, Frye 1-4 0-0 2, Vucevic 12-22 1-2 25, Payton 4-9 11-17 19, Fournier 1-7 0-0 2, Oladipo 7-14 0-0 15, Nicholson 3-9 2-3 8, Smith 2-5 0-0 4, Gordon 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 39-84 22-31 102.

Portland 26 22 20 26 — 94 Orlando 29 20 25 28—102 Three-Point Goals-Portland 11-32 (Aminu 4-5, McCollum 3-7, Crabbe 2-7, Lillard 2-9, Vonleh 0-1, Henderson 0-1, Leonard 0-2), Orlando 2-15 (Oladipo 1-2, Harris 1-3, Payton 0-1, Nicholson 0-2, Frye 0-3, Fournier 0-4). ReboundsPortland 48 (Plumlee 10), Orlando 54 (Harris 12). Assists-Portland 21 (Lillard 10), Orlando 19 (Oladipo 6).

Total Fouls-Portland 23, Orlando 18.

Technicals-Orlando defensive three second. Flagrant Fouls-McCollum.

A-17,156 (18,500).

Pacers 104, Nets 97 Indianapolis — Paul George scored 23 points, reserve Jordan Hill had 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Indiana beat Brooklyn.

Rodney Stuckey added 15 points and seven rebounds off the bench for the Pacers (16-9), who won their third consecutive game.

The Pacers have won four of their last five games after dropping three in a row. Their 16th victory last season did not come until two weeks before the All-Star break.

Jarrett Jack had his second-best offensive game of the season, scoring 26 points for Brooklyn in its first road game since Nov. 28.

Thaddeus Young had 14 points and 14 rebounds for the Nets. Brook Lopez scored 18 points and Andrea Bargnani had 12 in his fifth game back from injury.

BROOKLYN (97) Johnson 4-11 0-0 11, T.Young 5-14 4-4 14, Lopez 7-15 4-4 18, Jack 8-15 7-7 26, Bogdanovic 2-7 0-0 5, Bargnani 5-9 2-2 12, Ellington 2-6 0-0 5, Sloan 3-7 0-0 6, Brown 0-2 0-0 0, Reed 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-86 17-17 97.

INDIANA (104) Miles 4-12 5-5 15, George 7-15 7-8 23, Mahinmi 5-7 0-0 10, G.Hill 3-11 0-0 9, Ellis 1-8 0-0 2, Allen 4-8 0-0 8, J.Hill 5-9 4-4 14, Stuckey 5-11 5-7 15, Budinger 3-8 2-2 8. Totals 37-89 23-26 104.

Brooklyn 18 29 30 20 — 97 Indiana 23 26 23 32—104 Three-Point Goals-Brooklyn 8-16 (Johnson 3-4, Jack 3-6, Ellington 1-2, Bogdanovic 1-3, Brown 0-1), Indiana 7-28 (G.Hill 3-7, George 2-6, Miles 2-8, Stuckey 0-1, Ellis 0-3, Budinger 0-3). Rebounds-Brooklyn 46 (T.Young 14), Indiana 59 (J.Hill 11). AssistsBrooklyn 18 (Jack 6), Indiana 17 (Ellis 5). Total Fouls-Brooklyn 21, Indiana 15.

Technicals-Brooklyn defensive three second, Indiana Coach Vogel. A-16,548 (18,165).

Ben McLemore, Sacramento Min: 21. Pts: 6.

Reb: 1. Ast: 1.

Hawks 109, Celtics 101 Marcus Morris, Detroit Boston — Paul Millsap Min: 57. Pts: 20. scored 15 of his 20 points Reb: 7. Ast: 2. in the fourth quarter, and Al Horford finished with Markieff Morris, 21 points and 10 rebounds Phoenix as Atlanta rallied to a win.

Late game Dennis Schroder scored 22 for the Hawks, Paul Pierce, including five during an L.A. Clippers 11-2 run midway through Min: 8. Pts: 3. the fourth quarter that Reb: 2. Ast: 0. put them ahead for good.

Atlanta outscored the Thomas Robinson, Celtics 38-28 in the final Brooklyn period.

Did not play (illness) The Celtics led by 10 in the first half, but could Brandon Rush, not overcome a seasonGolden State worst 22 turnovers and Late game lost their third straight.

Isaiah Thomas scored Andrew Wiggins, 29 for the Celtics, hitMinnesota ting 14 of 15 foul shots.

Min: 36. Pts: 32.

Jae Crowder scored a Reb: 10. Ast: 6. career-high 24 and had 10 rebounds.

Jeff Withey, Utah Kent Bazemore scored Min: 9. Pts: 0.

15, Thabo Sefolosha addReb: 1. Ast: 0. ed 11 points and eight rebounds, and Kyle Korver also scored 11 for the Mavericks 97, Hawks.

Grizzlies 88 ATLANTA (109) Dallas — Dirk NowitBazemore 6-16 3-5 15, Millsap 6-13 8-10 20, Horford 10-19 1-2 21, Teague zki scored 20 points, lead1-6 4-4 6, Korver 4-9 2-2 11, Splitter 1-3 1-2 3, Sefolosha 5-7 0-0 11, Schroder ing Dallas past Memphis.

8-15 4-4 22, Scott 0-0 0-0 0, Patterson Chandler Parsons had 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-88 23-29 109.

16 points, and Zaza PaBOSTON (101) Crowder 8-13 5-5 24, Johnson 2-3 0-0 chulia got 10 points and 4, Sullinger 4-7 2-6 10, Thomas 6-12 14-15 29, Bradley 2-8 0-1 4, Olynyk 3-5 18 rebounds for Dallas.

1-2 8, Turner 3-8 1-2 8, Lee 3-11 0-0 Reserve big men Javale 6, Hunter 3-5 0-0 8, Jerebko 0-5 0-0 0. McGee and Charlie VilTotals 34-77 23-31 101.

Atlanta 19 23 29 38—109 lanueva each added 10 Boston 25 18 30 28—101 points against one of the Three-Point Goals-Atlanta 4-20 (Schroder 2-4, Sefolosha 1-2, Korver league’s best front lines.

1-4, Teague 0-1, Horford 0-2, Millsap Mike Conley scored 0-3, Bazemore 0-4), Boston 10-23 (Thomas 3-5, Crowder 3-7, Hunter 2-3, 20 points and Marc GaOlynyk 1-1, Turner 1-2, Jerebko 0-2, sol had 16 for Memphis, Bradley 0-3). Fouled Out-Crowder. which lost for the fourth Rebounds-Atlanta 51 (Horford 10), Boston 53 (Crowder 10). Assists- time in its last five games.

Atlanta 23 (Teague 6), Boston 19 Coming out of a Mem(Thomas 6). Total Fouls-Atlanta 28, Boston 25. Technicals-Bazemore. phis timeout, Villanueva A-18,624 (18,624). spotted up for a three to give the Mavericks their Raptors 108, Heat 94 biggest lead of the night Miami — DeMar DeRo- to that point, 73-58. zan scored 30 points, Kyle MEMPHIS (88) Lowry added 21, and ToJe.Green 0-7 2-2 2, Barnes 4-9 2-2 Gasol 6-14 4-4 16, Conley 6-12 7-7 ronto erased an 11-point, 11, 20, Lee 2-8 3-3 8, Randolph 3-10 1-2 7, third-quarter deficit to Ja.Green 4-6 0-0 8, Chalmers 4-9 2-2 12, Ennis 1-2 1-2 4, Martin 0-2 0-0 0, Smith beat Miami.

0-0 0. Totals 30-80 22-24 88.

Luis Scola scored 20, 0-1 DALLAS (97) Matthews 0-4 2-2 2, Nowitzki 7-13 Terrence Ross finished 20, Pachulia 4-12 2-2 10, Felton 3-10 with 17, and James John- 4-4 0-0 8, Williams 3-8 7-8 14, Parsons 5-10 son added 13 for the 4-5 16, Powell 0-2 0-0 0, Barea 3-6 0-0 McGee 5-6 0-0 10, Evans 0-0 0-0 0, Raptors, who outscored 7, Villanueva 4-7 0-0 10, Jenkins 0-0 0-0 0.

Miami 58-39 after half- Totals 34-78 19-21 97.

26 23 17 22—88 time. Bismack Biyombo Memphis Dallas 25 30 20 22—97 grabbed 15 rebounds for Three-Point Goals-Memphis 6-17 (Chalmers 2-4, Ennis 1-1, Conley 1-2, Toronto.

1-3, Barnes 1-6, Je.Green 0-1), It was the first time Lee Dallas 10-29 (Nowitzki 2-3, Felton 2-5, that Miami lost to Toron- Villanueva 2-5, Parsons 2-6, Barea Williams 1-4, Matthews 0-3). to with Chris Bosh in the 1-3, Rebounds-Memphis 42 (Randolph, lineup; the Heat had been Gasol 8), Dallas 56 (Pachulia 18).

13 (Je.Green 3), 12-0 when he was facing Assists-Memphis Dallas 27 (Parsons 7). Total Foulshis former team. Dwyane Memphis 19, Dallas 17. TechnicalsWade scored 21 points, Memphis defensive three second 3, Pachulia, Parsons, Dallas defensive Gerald Green had 20 and three second 2. A-20,199 (19,200 Goran Dragic scored 18 Pistons 147, for the Heat.

The loss denied Miami Bulls 144, 4 OT Chicago — Andre its first four-game winning streak since late in Drummond had 33 points and 21 rebounds, Reggie the 2013-14 season.

Jackson scored 31 points, TORONTO (108) Detroit outlasted J.Johnson 5-9 2-2 13, Scola 9-16 1-1 and 20, Biyombo 2-5 1-2 5, Lowry 8-18 4-4 Chicago in four over21, DeRozan 10-17 10-13 30, Ross 6-9 0-0 17, Joseph 0-3 0-0 0, Patterson 1-3 times.

0-0 2. Totals 41-80 18-22 108.

The Pistons scored the MIAMI (94) first seven points of the Deng 2-9 3-4 9, Bosh 4-8 2-2 11, Whiteside 4-6 0-0 8, Dragic 8-13 2-3 fourth OT and hung on 18, Wade 8-16 5-5 21, Winslow 0-2 2-2 after things got real tense 2, Green 7-15 1-1 20, Udrih 2-4 0-0 5, Haslem 0-1 0-0 0, Richardson 0-0 0-0 0. in the final seconds.

Totals 35-74 15-17 94.

Chicago’s Jimmy ButToronto 27 23 31 27—108 Miami 25 30 22 17 — 94 ler, who scored a careerThree-Point Goals-Toronto 8-21 high 43 points, nailed an (Ross 5-8, J.Johnson 1-2, Scola 1-2, Lowry 1-4, DeRozan 0-1, Joseph 0-2, off-balance three-pointer Patterson 0-2), Miami 9-25 (Green 5-10, to cut it to 145-144 with Deng 2-5, Udrih 1-1, Bosh 1-2, Haslem 4.7 seconds left.

0-1, Winslow 0-2, Wade 0-2, Dragic The Bulls immediately 0-2). Rebounds-Toronto 46 (Biyombo 15), Miami 38 (Whiteside 13). Assists- fouled Jackson, who made Toronto 18 (J.Johnson 5), Miami 19 (Wade, Dragic 5). Total Fouls-Toronto both free throws to make 12, Miami 19. Technicals-Toronto it a three-point game. defensive three second, Miami defenButler then missed a sive three second. A-19,600 (19,600).

STANDINGS EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 17 11 .607 — Boston 14 13 .519 2½ New York 13 14 .481 3½ Brooklyn 7 19 .269 9 Philadelphia 1 27 .036 16 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Miami 15 10 .600 — Charlotte 15 10 .600 — Orlando 15 11 .577 ½ Atlanta 16 12 .571 ½ Washington 10 14 .417 4½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 17 7 .708 — Indiana 16 9 .640 1½ Chicago 15 9 .625 2 Detroit 16 12 .571 3 Milwaukee 10 17 .370 8½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 23 5 .821 — Dallas 15 12 .556 7½ Memphis 14 14 .500 9 Houston 13 14 .481 9½ New Orleans 7 18 .280 14½ Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 17 9 .654 — Utah 11 14 .440 5½ Denver 11 15 .423 6 Portland 11 17 .393 7 Minnesota 10 16 .385 7 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 25 1 .962 — L.A. Clippers 16 11 .593 9½ Phoenix 11 16 .407 14½ Sacramento 10 16 .385 15 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 Friday’s Games Indiana 104, Brooklyn 97 New York 107, Philadelphia 97 Orlando 102, Portland 94 Atlanta 109, Boston 101 Minnesota 99, Sacramento 95 San Antonio 115, L.A. Clippers 107 Toronto 108, Miami 94 Detroit at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Dallas 97, Memphis 88 Utah 97, Denver 88 Milwaukee at Golden State (n) New Orleans at Phoenix (n) Today’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.

Sunday’s Games Portland at Miami, noon Minnesota at Brooklyn, noon Philadelphia at Cleveland, 2:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Phoenix, 4 p.m.

Sacramento at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Orlando, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Denver, 7 p.m.

three as time expired, bringing a wild game to a finish.

Derrick Rose scored a season-high 34 for Chicago. Pau Gasol added 30 points and 15 rebounds, but the Bulls couldn’t pull this one out after tying a season high with four straight wins.

DETROIT (147) Morris 7-17 3-6 20, Ilyasova 6-17 5-8 18, Drummond 14-25 5-10 33, Jackson 12-27 7-10 31, Caldwell-Pope 7-18 1-4 17, Blake 3-5 1-2 8, Johnson 6-11 3-4 16, Anthony 0-0 2-2 2, Tolliver 1-4 0-0 2.

Totals 56-124 27-46 147.

CHICAGO (144) Snell 1-7 0-0 3, Gibson 4-7 6-7 14, Gasol 10-23 10-12 30, Rose 14-34 5-5 34, Butler 14-29 14-16 43, McDermott 1-3 0-0 2, Noah 3-5 0-0 6, Mirotic 1-6 2-2 5, Brooks 1-3 0-0 2, Moore 1-2 2-2 5, Hinrich 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 50-120 39-44 144.

Detroit 30 25 19 31 11 7 4 20—147 Chicago 27 25 25 28 11 7 4 17—144 Three-Point Goals-Detroit 8-29 (Morris 3-6, Caldwell-Pope 2-7, Blake 1-2, Johnson 1-2, Ilyasova 1-8, Tolliver 0-2, Jackson 0-2), Chicago 5-22 (Moore 1-1, Rose 1-3, Mirotic 1-3, Butler 1-4, Snell 1-7, Gasol 0-1, Hinrich 0-1, McDermott 0-2). Fouled Out-Morris, Johnson, Drummond. ReboundsDetroit 82 (Drummond 21), Chicago 80 (Gasol 15). Assists-Detroit 28 (Jackson 13), Chicago 21 (Rose 8). Total FoulsDetroit 35, Chicago 35. TechnicalsDrummond, Detroit defensive three second, Noah, Chicago defensive three second. A-21,534 (20,917).

Jazz 97, Nuggets 88 Salt Lake City — Gordon Hayward scored 26 points, and Utah beat Denver to snap a fourgame losing streak.

Trey Burke added 13 off the bench for the Jazz, and Trevor Booker finished with 12.

Denver had its season-best, four-game win streak snapped.

Booker and Hayward made consecutive layups after Jameer Nelson’s layup tied the game at 86. Booker later added a 3-pointer from the right corner with 2:16 left to give the Jazz a five-point lead that they never relinquished.

Reserve Will Barton scored 16 points and Nelson added 15 points, six assists and five rebounds.

Joffrey Lauvergne added 12 points and 13 rebounds for Denver.

DENVER (88) Gallinari 3-10 4-4 11, Faried 4-11 0-2 8, Lauvergne 5-12 0-0 12, Nelson 5-8 4-4 15, Harris 5-11 1-1 12, Arthur 3-7 0-0 6, Jokic 1-5 5-6 7, Barton 5-13 5-6 16, Foye 0-1 0-0 0, Papanikolaou 0-1 1-2 1.

Totals 31-79 20-25 88.

UTAH (97) Hayward 8-17 6-7 26, Lyles 3-6 0-0 6, Favors 2-8 3-5 7, Neto 3-5 1-1 8, Hood 4-10 3-4 12, Burke 5-9 2-2 13, Booker 4-6 3-4 12, Burks 3-7 1-2 8, Millsap 0-0 0-0 0, Withey 0-0 0-0 0, Ingles 2-5 0-0 5. Totals 34-73 19-25 97.

Denver 23 26 24 15—88 Utah 30 23 24 20—97 Three-Point Goals-Denver 6-28 (Lauvergne 2-4, Nelson 1-4, Gallinari 1-4, Barton 1-6, Harris 1-6, Foye 0-1, Papanikolaou 0-1, Jokic 0-2), Utah 10-25 (Hayward 4-7, Booker 1-1, Neto 1-2, Burks 1-3, Ingles 1-3, Burke 1-4, Hood 1-5). Rebounds-Denver 47 (Lauvergne 13), Utah 51 (Favors 9).

Assists-Denver 15 (Nelson 6), Utah 15 (Hood 5). Total Fouls-Denver 20, Utah 19. Technicals-Denver defensive three second. A-19,169 (19,911).

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Seniors Miles Dressler and Chad Stieben stepped up when Veritas Christian School’s boys basketball team needed them most to fuel the Eagles to a 78-69 overtime victory over St. Mary’s on Friday at Corpus Christi Catholic School.

The Eagles trailed, 6257, with a minute remaining but went on a 7-2 run to end regulation — capped by a floater from Stieben with 2.7 seconds left in the fourth.

“I’m thinking, ‘Attack the basket. We got to get this two. I don’t want to let my family down,’” Stieben said.

Stieben was effective getting to the basket — making six of nine shots from inside the arc and dishing three assists, but could not get dialed in

from long distance. He missed his first seven three-point attempts, but his lone three-ball cut St. Mary’s lead to 62-60 with 58 seconds left in the regulation.

“That was a rhythm three, and the shots before that hadn’t been in rhythm,” Stieben, who scored 20 points on 6-of17 shooting, said. “They were kind of bad shots, but that one was a good shot. I felt it, buried it, and I was happy about that.”

The momentum carried over into overtime for the Eagles, with Dressler dominating the extra period before fouling out. Dressler scored eight of his team-high 28 points in overtime and collected 17 rebounds for a double-double.

“Late in the fourth quarter, we really came together, and in overtime,”

Dressler said. “We were listening to the coaches, and that’s what we need to do the whole game because they’re smart men, and they know how to get us to do what we need to do.”

The Eagles (5-2) built a 10-point lead early in the third quarter, thanks to seven straight points from Dressler to start the second half. Foul trouble forced Dressler to the bench, though, and that allowed the Crusaders to creep back in it and take the lead with a 13-2 run to end the third. Mike Margeli did most of the damage during St. Mary’s run and led the Crusaders with 28 points, 12 rebounds, six assists and six steals.

The Eagles were able to contain Margeli late in the fourth quarter and in overtime, though.

Huslig said his team

learned from its overtime loss to Cornerstone earlier this season.

“We were down 16 in the fourth quarter (against Cornerstone), and we actually took a one-point lead with a minute to go, and we didn’t play smart,” Huslig said. “I knew that if we got in that situation again, we were going to execute.”

VERITAS CHRISTIAN (78) Weston Flory 0-3 0-0 0, Trey Huslig 2-10 3-4 9, Chad Stieben 6-17 7-9 20, Miles Dressler 10-18 6-8 28, Michael Rask 0-9 0-0 0, Kalim Dowdell 6-9 1-2 13, Peyton Donohoe 0-1 0-0 0, Mark Weinhold 4-7 0-0 8. Totals 28-75 17-23 78.

ST. MARY’S (69) Alex Whitehead 3-13 1-4 7, Mike Margeli 12-27 4-6 28, John Hohman 3-9 0-0 6, Tony Harpe 5-12 2-3 12, Dominick Delallo 1-6 0-2 2, Matt Whitehead 2-9 0-0 5, Joe Young 2-7 4-8 8. Totals 0-0 0-0 69.

Veritas 8 21 17 18 14— 78 St. Mary’s 8 19 22 15 5 — 69 Three-point goals: Veritas 5-23 (Dressler 2, Huslig 2, Steiben); St. Mary’s 1-12 (M. Whitehead).

Turnovers: Veritas 12, St. Mary’s 13.

Fouled out: Miles Dressler, Veritas; Tony Harpe, St. Mary’s.

VERITAS CHRISTIAN (53) Holly Scott 2-8 0-0 6, Alyssa Krestan 2-11 0-2 4, Merav Edmondson 2-4 0-0 4, Allie Swisher 0-0 0-0 0, Emma Wilson 0-1 1-2 1, Delaney Shelton 2-10 0-0 4, Katie Hammer 0-1 0-0 0, Ashley Stieben 0-2 0-0 0, Alex Avila 0-3 0-0 0, Chloe Holland 3-7 0-2 7, Allison Tichenor 0-1 0-0 0, Tori Huslig 11-20 4-5 27. Totals 22-68 5-11 53.

CHANUTE CHRISTIAN (23) Anna Harmon 1-6 1-7 3, Kim Yarnell 3-5 0-0 6, Hannah Schoonover 3-6 3-4 9, Tarah Stockebrand 0-1 0-0 0, Kendle Stockebrand 0-1 0-0 0, Emile Varner 0-2 0-0 0, Mary Claire Stockebrand 0-0 0-0 0, Danielle Sharp 1-4 0-0 2, Rayanne McKinsey 0-3 0-0 0, Emily Lawrence 1-5 1-2 4. Totals 9-33 5-13 23.

Veritas Christian 20 10 13 10 — 53 Chanute Christian 4 9 7 3 — 23 Three-point goals: Veritas 4-9 (Huslig, Holland, Scott); Chanute Christian 0-0. Turnovers: Veritas 16, Chanute Christian 18.

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FREE STATE SENIOR HUNTER GUDDE (30) FINDS HIMSELF SURROUNDED BY EXUBERANT LAWRENCE HIGH FANS as he tries to in-bounds a ball in the Firebirds’ 79-65 loss Friday at LHS. including a layup-andthe-foul bucket off an offensive rebound.

Free State junior forward Sloan Thomsen shined in the second quarter, scoring nine points in the period with three putbacks in the paint and drilling a threepointer after an offensive rebound to help the Firebirds to a 38-33 advantage at half.

“I thought defensively we were pretty solid,” FSHS coach Sam Stroh said of the first half. “We hit some shots. I thought we kind of weathered the environment and the storm. We made them call the first timeout.

Heck, we even responded well coming out of half. We hit the shot we wanted. Then after that, it kind of got ugly. But

we’ve got some time to get better.”

In the fourth quarter, the Firebirds looked on the verge of a run after senior point guard Kristian Rawls scored four straight points, and senior forward Hunter Gudde grabbed a steal and dribbled down the court to drain a long jumper with his foot on the three-point line.

But a minute later, Morgan found Brou with a hi-lo pass in the paint, and Brou flushed it for a one-handed slam and a 73-64 lead with three minutes left.

Brou completed a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds, and junior guard Jackson Mallory added five points, seven rebounds and five assists.

“I just think we buckled in and had better spacing on defense,” Lewis said.

“I just think we had a better nose for the ball, and sometimes in games the ball just goes your way a little bit more. I think it went our way a little bit more in the second half.”

FREE STATE (65) Kristian Rawls 2-7 3-4 7, Chrision Wilburn 5-8 4-5 14, Sloan Thomsen 5-10 0-1 12, Jacob Pavlyak 1-3 0-0 3, Hunter Gudde 4-9 5-9 13, Jay Dineen 3-7 2-2 9, Shannon Cordes 1-5 2-2 5, Drew Tochtrop 0-0 0-0 0, Darian Lewis 0-1 0-0 0, Simon McCaffrey 1-2 0-0 2.

Totals 22-52 16-23 65.

LAWRENCE (79) Justin Roberts 10-17 4-6 27, Price Morgan 7-7 6-8 20, Fred Brou 5-9 2-10 12, Anthony Harvey Jr. 3-5 1-2 9, Jackson Mallory 1-6 2-4 5, Kobe Buffalomeat 2-3 0-0 4, Braden Solko 1-2 0-0 2, Austin Miller 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 29-50 15-30 79.

Free State 16 22 15 12 — 65 Lawrence 14 19 26 20 — 79 Three-point goals: Free State 5-17 (Thomsen 2, Pavlyak, Dineen, Cordes); Lawrence 6-15 (Roberts 3, Harvey 2, Mallory). Turnovers: Free State 8, Lawrence 10.

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“As much as I try to downplay it, there’s just nothing like it,” Dickson said. “For our kids to come out, especially underclassmen who have never been in that situation, to be as poised as they were and to handle adversity the way they did — it’s just amazing.”

During the 12-game losing streak to their crosstown rival, the Lions usually had a bad stretch that turned worse until they fell into a double-digit deficit.

The Lions (4-2) led by a point with 51⁄2 minutes remaining in the third quarter when Stafford picked up her fourth foul on a rebound. They turned the ball over on offense during the next two possessions and the Firebirds went on a 6-0 run with a layup-and-thefoul bucket from Two

“We tell them that they don’t have to necessarily score to be productive for our team,” Veritas coach Kevin Shelton said. “If you can get some steals and get some rebounds for us, that does help us.”

Veritas’ boys and girls squads will play next on Jan. 5 at Heritage Christian.

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Boys Every time the Firebirds (2-1) answered with a bucket, the Lions found a way to score and fire up their packed crowd.

Senior guard Anthony Harvey hit a three-pointer right in front of the student section, Roberts snuck a pass to a wideopen junior forward Kobe Buffalomeat for a layup and Morgan converted on a layup-and-the-foul.

“The momentum just kind of got on our side,” Lawrence coach Mike Lewis said. “I just like the way our guys competed.

We competed OK in the first half. But the second half, we just had a different feel about us.”

Trailing by six points at halftime, the Lions (5-1, ranked No. 7 in Class 6A) relied on their veterans in the second half. Roberts, a four-year starter, scored a game-high 27 points. Morgan sat for long stretches of the first half in foul trouble, but he never lost his rhythm, scoring 13 of his 20 points in the second half.

“I knew this was my last game against Free State at our house, and I wanted to leave my mark, whatever it happened to be,” said Morgan, who shot a perfect 7-for-7 from the field. “Yeah, it’s tough getting into foul trouble, that’s basketball.

But I think a lot of guys did a great job of finding me in the post.”

In the first half, Free State dominated on the glass and turned offensive rebounds into points.

Wilburn scored four points in the first quarter,

Huslig paces girls Veritas junior Tori Huslig was a handful offensively and defensively in the Eagles’ 53-23 victory over Chanute Christian — leading Veritas with 27 points and eight steals.

Huslig scored Veritas’ first 13 points to help the Eagles to a 20-4 advantage in the first quarter.

The Eagles’ leading scorer said Friday’s performance was crucial for her from a confidence standpoint after struggling to find her shot in recent games.

“I had trouble starting off the season, so it was good to get back into the rhythm,” Huslig said.

Veritas (4-2) also received a balanced outing from Alyssa Krestan. Krestan could not find her shot — hitting 2-of-10 from the field — but recorded four rebounds, three assists and three steals.

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LAWRENCE HIGH FRESHMAN HANNAH STEWART, LEFT, DIVES ON THE HARDWOOD IN FRONT OF FREE STATE SOPHOMORE CAMERYN THOMAS, CENTER, to grab a possession while junior Skylar Drum, right, races over to help during their game Friday at LHS. The Lions won, 49-48.

Hearts and three points

by Schlesener.

Instead of letting Free State’s rally turn into something bigger, the Lions responded with a

layup from junior guard Skylar Drum, five straight points by senior forward Alexis Boyd and a putback by senior forward Gracie Reinsch.

Drum, who was guarding Free State junior Madison Piper, last year’s Sunflower League Player of the Year, added four points early in the fourth

Ottawa 46, De Soto 44 Ottawa — Perry Carroll scored 18 points, and Isaac McCullough added 11 as Ottawa used a huge fourth quarter to overcome De Soto in high school boys basketball on Friday.

Carroll hit just three field goals but 11 of 13 free throws.

Ottawa (3-2) hit 24 of 29 from the free-throw line.

Nick Irons led De Soto (2-3) with 11 points, and Cooper Hancock added 10.

De Soto 11 8 18 7 — 44 Ottawa 6 15 6 19 — 46 De Soto — Nick Irons 11, Cooper Hancock, Isaac Albert 9, Jackson Reynolds 6, Jacob Jennings 4, Levi Hansen 2, Noah Wilson 2.

Ottawa —Perry Carroll 18, Isaac McCullough 11, Devion Bethea 7, Drew Boeh 4, Julian Jackson 2, Cooper Diel 2, Andrew Soderberg 2.

Basehor-Linwood 58, Tonganoxie 25 Tonganoxie — BasehorLinwood built an 18-point halftime lead and went on to defeat Tonganoxie.

The Chieftains fell to 0-4.

B-L 15 15 22 6 — 58 Tonganoxie 8 4 9 4 — 25 Tonganoxie — Logan Williams 3, Keaton Rickard 3, Dylan Staatz 5, Lee-Roi Johnson 4, Mac Thompson 1, Dalton Trimble 2, Chandler Caldwell 5, Dakota Grey 2.

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behind the three-point arc.

HINU also forced 29 turnovers.

Haskell improved to 12-2 and will play today at Rockhurst.

Lindsborg — Tyler Sumpter scored 17 points, and Haskell Indian Nations University’s women’s basketball team hit 60 percent of its secondhalf shots in a 73-53 vic- Haskell 73, Bethany 53 tory over Bethany on Fri- Haskell 16 13 22 22 — 73 day.

Bethany 10 22 12 9 — 53 Haskell —Tyler Sumpter 17, Arnetia Arnetia Begay added 12 Begay 12, Justina Coriz 11, Kortney points and Justina Coriz Meat 9, Cheyenne Livingston 7, Cerissa Honena-Reyes 5, Ember Sloan 11 for Haskell.

Brandi Buffalo 5, Sylvana Levier 2.

The Fightin’ Indians 5, Bethany — Joleen Chanco 18, drained 11 of 23 three- Dominique Davis 8, Tiffany Jackson 7, Erin O’Connor 7, Leslie Caballero 4, pointers and held Beth- Kimi Lindshield 4, Sydney DeLong 3, any to 3-for-15 shooting Tehya Peters 2.

quarter, including a long jump shot for a two-point lead. Piper finished with 10 points.

“I just didn’t think about it,” Drum said of her baskets. “I knew my team had to win so I just stepped up with confidence and shot them.”

The Lions were also boosted by a quick start.

LHS freshman forward Chisom Ajekwu scored the first six points for the Lions, helping her team sprint to a 6-1 lead in the first 41⁄2 minutes.

Ajekwu recorded a double-double in the first half with 10 points and 12 rebounds.

“We felt like coming in — as good as Peyton Brown is and how hard she works — clearly that could be a strength for us if we could get it past their guards and press,” Dickson said. “Early on, they kind of played us straight up. That allowed us to kind of get some momentum early.”

The Firebirds missed their first seven shots

from the field before Two Hearts made a layup, assisted from Piper.

Free State shot just 29 percent from the field (16for-56) and had a few long stretches without a bucket. Two Hearts scored a team-high 13 points with two triples, and senior guard Hannah Walter added seven points.

“I think, if anything, we’re actually too hyped up to start games,” FSHS coach Bryan Duncan said. “It causes some mistakes. I think that’s what happened to us tonight.”

FREE STATE (48) Cameryn Thomas 2-6 2-2 6, Caiti Schlesener 3-12 2-8 9, Madison Piper 3-16 4-4 10, Hannah Walter 3-5 1-2 7, Peyton Brown 0-3 0-0 0, Jaycie Bishop 1-4 0-2 3, Jaleyn Two Hearts 4-10 3-4 13. Totals 16-56 12-22 48.

LAWRENCE (49) Hannah Stewart 1-5 0-0 2, Olivia Lemus 3-14 1-2 10, Skylar Drum 2-4 2-2 6, E’lease Stafford 4-8 2-6 10, Chisom Ajekwu 5-6 2-4 12, Alexis Boyd 3-4 1-2 7, Talima Harjo 0-2 0-0 0, Emma Bentzinger 0-1 0-0 0, Leslie Ostronic 0-0 0-0 0, Gracie Reinsch 1-2 0-0 2.

Totals 19-46 8-16 49.

Free State 10 16 13 9 — 48 Lawrence 8 17 13 11 — 49 Three-point goals: Free State 4-24 (Two Hearts 2, Schlesener, Bishop); Lawrence 3-15 (Lemus 3). Turnovers: Free State 9, Lawrence 19.

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that included stops at Baxter Springs, Parker Rural and Nickerson.

Freeman, who was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2014 and is a 2012 recipient of the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame’s Pride of Kansas Award, has been inducted into the Emporia State Hall of Honor and the Kansas State High School Activities Association Hall of Fame.

During his career, he coached five future NFL players, including KSHOF Hall of Fame inductee Lynn Dickey.

In a 16-year stint at LHS, his Lions went 13438. The Lions played in 10 consecutive Class 6A championship games from 1986-95, the first four with Freeman as head coach. Freeman’s LHS football squads won titles in 1979, ’84, ’86, ’87 and ’89. His track teams won state in 1989 and 1990.

“I’ll paraphrase Jackie Robinson’s tombstone: ‘Life is meaningless except how it impacts others.’ If you judge coach Freeman’s life by that criteria, he was one of the best, considering all the people he impacted,” said former Lawrence High and Kansas University lineman Chip Budde, a member of LHS’ 1984 state title team.

“He was a fantastic coach. You look at his record ... he got more out of guys than they thought they were able to give, a lot because he was so irritating,” Budde added of Freeman, who was known as somebody who pushed his players hard to succeed. “He was a team coach. He put a team on the field, not just a collection of athletes,” added Budde, a partner in the BSA Marketing Agency in Wichita.

Many tributes Tributes to Renaissance Man Freeman — he owned a farm in LeRoy where he also was owner of a bank and mayor of the town — were easily gathered on Friday by the Journal-World both via phone call and e-mail.

“Today I was pondering some of coach Freeman’s talks and inspiration. What coach was, was a farmer. The seed he planted in our lives ... the seeds would last a lifetime,” said former LHS running back Steve Barbee, program coordinator at Metro Lutheran Ministries in Kansas City, Missouri, and also a minister who sometimes preaches at Victory Bible Church in Lawrence.

“Some of his sayings have been words of inspiration to carry me. Coach said, ‘Boys, for sure the sun will rise tomorrow.’

He meant regardless of whether we win or lose, give your best. If we win the sun will rise. If we lose the sun will rise. They were short and sweet and had a profound impact on my life,” added Barbee.

Freeman actually may have enjoyed track and field even more than football.

One of his top performers at LHS was multi state meet gold medalist David Johnston, who is now vice president of marketing and Internet services for the KU Alumni Association.

Johnston reflected on squeaky-voiced Freeman’s favorite sayings.

“Everyone will tell you about the special terms coach Freeman used with his athletes, whether football or track. Examples will undoubtedly include: ‘Geetus.’ Either you have ‘geetus’ or you don’t. Most of us didn’t, but we needed it,” Johnston cracked. “‘Satisfied.’ Most of us were satisfied, which kept us from being great.

‘Coachable.’ We all strived to be coachable, and at some point, none of us

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were. I’m sure others have far better tales of ‘Freemanisms,’ endearing if not maddening expressions from coach intended to educate and encourage us.

“Coach sounded (and looked, for that matter) remarkably like Lou Holtz, which made him a constant target for imitation,” Johnston added.

“Inevitably, these ‘Freemanisms’ became a staple of our (team members) impressions.”

“I’ll show him” Freeman pushed his football players and tracksters physically and mentally.

“The most dreaded part of any track meet was not your event. It was the one-on-one talk with coach Freeman after your event,” Johnston said. “I found these chats infuriating, because no matter how well I performed — whether a victory, a personal record, a state qualifier — something didn’t go quite right. Something could have been done better, if only I had listened. This little bit of coaching psychology was lost on me at the time and always left me saying, ‘I’ll show him.’

Which I did. And yet I never learned. We wanted to win for each other, and to please him. He was one of those coaches you appreciated more, later in life, but never as much as he deserved,” Johnston added.

Of course, football at Lawrence High was bigger than track, especially when there was only one high school in town. Jeff Tryon, who is owner of Tryon Properties LC in Cary, North Carolina, played on Freeman’s first LHS team in 1974.

“My best friend, Roger Wellman (quarterback) and I (slotback) heard all kind of stories about our new coach the summer before the season started.

How tough he was on conditioning and workouts. We were so freaked out that we got in the best condition we could before we met this monster,” Tryon said.

“We would run from Pleasant Hill where Roger lived down to the LHS weight room each evening, lift weights and run back to his house. This was after throwing hay during the day. I remember during two-a-day practices coach would have us at the end of each practice — run timed 880-yard runs in full pads until you ran them under a certain time.

“Needless to say there were a lot of guys throwing up, but those of us that had heard the stories only ran once,” Tryon exclaimed.

Freeman cared about his players.

“One day after the season was over he called me into his office. My hopes of a scholarship from any of the schools disappeared when I blew my shoulder out and I had just had surgery for it to stay in place,” Tryon said. “I was sitting there with a brace and a sling. He said to me, ‘Are you interested in playing college ball? You’ve got what it takes and I will start writing letters to the coaches for you if you do.’’’

Tryon said he decided to give up football, but “his words to me meant the world to me. I will always be grateful for knowing and playing for him.”

Michael Coleman, sports director of KCTV5, also played on Freeman’s first LHS team.

“He instilled a foundation in believing in yourself. Coming off a 1-6 campaign after my sophomore year I was a junior when Bill Freeman took over,” Coleman said. “His discipline was sorely needed, yeah we only won three games my junior year. He didn’t quit and neither did we. My senior year LHS finally posted a winning football season and of course after that the program took off.

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N.Y. Giants 6 7 0 .462 338 320 Washington County 58, Wetmore 25 bar on what a work ethic Northern Iowa vs. Iowa State, 6 p.m.

Dallas 4 9 0 .308 230 305 Wellington 92, Mulvane 65 at Des Moines, Iowa (ESPNU) looked like. The best les- South Wellsville 46, Central Heights 31 Oklahoma State vs.

Florida, 7 p.m. at W L T Pct PF PA sons were far beyond the West Elk 70, Central Burden 38 y-Carolina 13 0 0 1.000 411 243 Sunrise, Florida (FS1) Wheatland-Grinnell 60, Northern Baylor at Texas Tech, 8 p.m. (ESPNU) X’s and O’s of football,” Atlanta 6 7 0 .462 279 295 Valley 42 Texas at Stanford, 10:30 p.m.

Weidling said. “He did Tampa Bay 6 8 0 .429 311 353 (ESPN2) Wichita Collegiate 59, Clearwater 40 Orleans 5 8 0 .385 323 397 Wichita East 72, Wichita South 67 things like driving to get New North Wichita Independent 78, Bluestem the game film at the ear- College Women W L T Pct PF PA 18 9 4 0 .692 317 245 EAST Wichita North 63, Wichita West 47 liest possible hour so he Green Bay Dartmouth 60, Niagara 47 Minnesota 8 5 0 .615 258 255 Wichita Southeast 60, Wichita could watch it the maxi- Chicago Maine 75, Clemson 42 5 8 0 .385 272 314 Bishop Carroll 50 Michigan St. 77, Northeastern 51 4 9 0 .308 267 336 Wichita Trinity 61, Douglass 49 mum amount of times Detroit Stony Brook 73, Wagner 62 before discussing with West SOUTH

W L T Pct PF PA High School Girls Chattanooga 72, East Carolina 61 11 2 0 .846 405 252 the team. He also drew x-Arizona Abilene 70, Concordia 54 Georgia Tech 70, Alabama 58 Seattle 8 5 0 .615 340 235 great parallels between St. Louis Andover Central 53, Valley Center 52 Jacksonville St. 63, Nicholls St. 49 6 8 0 .429 241 294 Arkansas City 63, Maize South 51 the football field and life. San Francisco 4 9 0 .308 188 315 Louisville 76, Tennessee Tech 54 Atchison 60, KC Christian 17 Ohio 75, UNC Wilmington 59 x-clinched playoff spot In particular I remember Attica 65, Oxford 34 Saint Louis 91, Alabama A&M 60 y-clinched division Augusta 49, Buhler 38 his placing importance of Today’s Game Tulane 77, Southern U. 48 Axtell 55, Clifton-Clyde 36 UAB 87, Troy 66 N.Y. Jets at Dallas, 7:25 p.m. commitment by saying, ‘It Beloit 63, Ellsworth 36 UNC Asheville 84, Furman 71 Sunday’s Games Berean Academy 48, Peabody-Burns all starts here on the field Virginia 85, Charleston Southern 65 Chicago at Minnesota, noon 11 Wake Forest 81, Coastal Carolina 52 Atlanta at Jacksonville, noon with your teammates. If Blue Springs South, Mo. 59, SM East Wofford 79, Radford 70 Houston at Indianapolis, noon you quit here you’ll think 37 MIDWEST Carolina at N.Y. Giants, noon Blue Valley Southwest 49, GardnerE. Michigan 104, Madonna 45 it’s OK to quit on your job Tennessee at New England, noon Edgerton 48 IUPUI 62, Belmont 59 Buffalo at Washington, noon or quit on your family.’

Burlington 58, Fredonia 54 Ohio St. 90, Princeton 70 Kansas City at Baltimore, noon Caldwell 51, Udall 32 When we won the state UT Martin 63, Cincinnati 57 Cleveland at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.

Caney Valley 57, Dewey, Okla. 27 Wichita St. 64, Prairie View 36 Green Bay at Oakland, 3:05 p.m. title he said afterwards Centralia 57, Linn 28 SOUTHWEST Miami at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Chanute 59, Fort Scott 35 “So now you know what Texas Tech 70, Grambling St. 55 Cincinnati at San Francisco, 3:25 Chase County 75, Osage City 23 FAR WEST it takes. There are those p.m.

Cimarron 57, Elkhart 35 CS Northridge 68, Portland 62 Denver at Pittsburgh, 3:25 p.m. who have been here beCircle 45, Andale 36 Idaho St. 82, Montana Tech 55 Arizona at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Clay Center 46, Wamego 29 Long Beach St. 47, UTEP 40 fore and they’ve gone on Monday’s Game Conway Springs 37, Cheney 33 Santa Clara 66, UC Santa Barbara 48 Detroit at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m. to be dogs and there have Council Grove 59, West Franklin 33 UCLA 109, Sacramento St. 76 Derby 47, Hutchinson 28 been those who have gone College Bowls Washington 78, UC Riverside 43 DeSoto 44, Ottawa 37 on to do great things. The (Subject to Change) Dighton 52, Wallace County 40 Big 12 Women Today Douglass 47, Wichita Trinity 37 choice is up to you.’’’

Big 12 Overall Celebration Bowl Atlanta NC A&T (9-2) vs. Alcorn State (9-3), 11 a.m.

New Mexico Bowl Albuquerque Arizona (6-6) vs. New Mexico (7-5), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Las Vegas Bowl BYU (9-3) vs. Utah (9-3), 2:30 p.m.

(ABC) Camelia Bowl Montgomery, Ala. Ohio (8-4) vs. Appalachian State (9-2), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Cure Bowl Orlando, Fla. San Jose State (5-7) vs. Georgia State (6-6), 6 p.m. (CBSSN) New Orleans Bowl Louisiana Tech (8-4) vs. Arkansas State (8-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 21 Miami Beach Bowl South Florida (8-4) vs. Western Kentucky (11-2), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 22 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise Akron (7-5) vs. Utah State (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl Temple (10-3) vs. Toledo (9-2), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 23 Poinsettia Bowl San Diego Northern Illinois (8-5) vs. Boise State (8-4), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) GoDaddy Bowl Mobile, Ala. Bowling Green (10-3) vs. Georgia Southern (8-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 24 Bahamas Bowl Nassau Middle Tennessee (7-5) vs. Western Michigan (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Hawaii Bowl Honolulu Cincinnati (7-5) vs. San Diego State (10-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 26 St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl Marshall (9-3) vs. UConn (6-6), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas Miami (8-4) vs. Washington State (8-4), 1 p.m. (CBS) Heart of Dallas Bowl Washington (6-6) vs. Southern Mississippi (9-4), 2:20 p.m. (ESPN) Pinstripe Bowl Bronx, N.Y. Duke (7-5) vs. Indiana (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ABC) Independence Bowl Shreveport, La. Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Tulsa (6-6), 4:45 p.m. (ESPN) Foster Farms Bowl Santa Clara, Calif.

Nebraska (5-7) vs. UCLA (8-4), 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)

W L W L Baylor 0 0 11 0 Texas 0 0 9 0 Oklahoma State 0 0 8 0 Oklahoma 0 0 9 1 Kansas State 0 0 8 1 Texas Tech 0 0 8 2 West Virginia 0 0 8 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 Friday’s Game Texas Tech 70, Grambling State 55 Today’s Games Miami vs. Baylor, 6 p.m. at Orlando, Florida Sam Houston State at Kansas State, 7 p.m.

Additional memories n From Tom Williams, 1989 state pole vault champ and member of state title team, who coached college track 10 years and is in the oil and gas business in Texas: “Coach Freeman was an amazing man who touched the lives of so many, including myself.

He was high on principle and doing things the right High School Boys way. As one of his athAbilene 67, Concordia 53 Andale 63, Circle 37 letes, you could look forAnderson County 46, Osawatomie ward to weekly if not dai41 Andover Central 64, Valley Center 52 ly lectures on working to Atchison 88, KC Christian 61 get the most out of your Attica 57, Oxford 27 ability, giving your all as Axtell 59, Clifton-Clyde 27 Basehor-Linwood 56, Tonganoxie 25 well as doing your best Beloit 55, Ellsworth 37 to contribute to someBennington 55, Glasco/MiltonvaleSouthern Cloud 23 thing much bigger than Blue Springs South, Mo. 71, yourself. If you had him McPherson 70 Bonner Springs 78, KC Piper 71, OT for gym class, you could Buhler 63, Augusta 58 count on getting the lecBurlingame 61, Hartford 54 ture twice.

Caldwell 54, Udall 31 Canton-Galva 74, Burrton 61 “While I had achieved Centralia 63, Linn 35 some degree of success Chanute 63, Fort Scott 35, OT Cheylin 56, Western Plains 42 individually and was Cimarron 65, Elkhart 39 among the favorites to Conway Springs 52, Cheney 48 Council Grove 75, West Franklin 41 challenge for an indiDenver South, Colo. 75, Garden City 68 vidual state title in track Derby 57, Hutchinson 47 Dewey, Okla. 87, Caney Valley 72 and field, coach Freeman Doniphan West 55, Valley Heights 45 didn’t pick favorites. You Dundy County-Stratton, Neb. 51, St. were expected to mainFrancis 47 Ellis 48, Ellinwood 38 tain a certain level of Erie 46, Oswego 42 commitment, and it was Gardner-Edgerton 48, Blue Valley Southwest 44 a privilege, not a right, to Goddard 57, Newton 38 be a member of the team.”

Goddard-Eisenhower 51, Dodge City 49 n From Jan-Eric AnderGreat Bend 49, Andover 47 son, VP/Chief Strategy Hesston 55, Kingman 28 officer at Callahan Creek Highland Park 68, Topeka West 58 Hill City 72, Phillipsburg 62 in Lawrence. He was a Holcomb 65, Colby 35 three-year letterman in Hoxie 72, Rawlins County 25 Hugoton 47, Scott City 43 track and field.

Independence 69, Pittsburg 66 “Coach Freeman was Independence Home School 67, Christ Preparatory Academy 57 head track coach my sophInman 56, Hutchinson Central omore year (Spring 1990).

Christian 51 Jefferson North 45, Valley Falls 33 That season was coach’s Jefferson West 66, Atchison County last season at Lawrence 33 High, his second consecuKapaun 71, Wichita Northwest 67 Lakin 62, Johnson-Stanton County tive state championship 43 in track and field. My College Men Larned 55, Lyons 39 Lawrence 79, Lawrence Free State memory of coach is of a EAST CCSU 83, Mass.-Lowell 79 65 man who expected great Fairleigh Dickinson 69, Towson 68 Liberal 46, Perryton, Texas 27 Incarnate Word 73, St. John’s 51 Lincoln 52, Wilson 28 things to come from great Sam Houston St. 75, LIU Brooklyn 69 Little River 43, Ell-Saline 38 effort. We had so many Wagner 76, Fairfield 64 Logan 50, Palco 41 talented athletes on that SOUTH Lyndon 65, Herington 42 Bryan 97, Hiwassee 81 Macksville 70, Stafford 27 team, and he expected Campbellsville 80, Asbury 60 Maize 51, Wichita Campus 39 them to give everything Chattanooga 78, Kennesaw St. 66 Maize South 55, Arkansas City 52 ETSU 87, E. Kentucky 81 Manhattan 78, Junction City 64 they had. He was a moGardner-Webb 107, Warren Wilson Marysville 69, Chapman 60 tivator. Coach had a way 62 Meade 70, Wichita County 47 LSU-Alexandria 77, Loyola NO 74 Moundridge 53, Pretty Prairie 32 of getting you to believe LeMoyne-Owen 92, Southern NO 53 Nemaha Central 61, Perryyou could give more and Louisiana Tech 83, Southern U. 76 Lecompton 35 Louisiana-Monroe 101, Central Neodesha 44, Humboldt 43 achieve more. And he had 76 Ness City 62, Kinsley 20 that impact on guys who Baptist Mississippi 85, Memphis 79 Norton 54, Smith Center 41 were state champions in Old Dominion 77, Md.-Eastern Shore Norwich 63, South Haven 43 47 Olpe 59, Waverly 47 their events, as well as the S. Illinois 88, Murray St. 73 Osage City 79, Chase County 22 guys that struggled to stay South Alabama 72, Samford 70, 2OT Osborne 58, Tescott 41 South Carolina 65, Clemson 59 Ottawa 56, DeSoto 44 with the pack at the JV Tennessee Tech 77, Miami (Ohio) 64 Paola 62, Spring Hill 55, OT meets. He connected with UT Martin 74, Arkansas St. 70 Parsons 65, Labette County 56 Wake Forest 83, Coastal Carolina 77 Pike Valley 38, Sylvan-Lucas 31 everyone he coached.”

William & Mary 94, Mary Pleasant Ridge 60, McLouth 20 Anybody who knew Washington 64 Pratt Skyline 50, Fowler 23 Quinter 55, Greeley County 37 Freeman or competed for SOUTHWEST Lamar 80, Jarvis Christian 56 Republic County 60, Russell 43 him is encouraged to send UC Riverside 60, Abilene Christian 56 Riverside 52, Holton 50 memories of the man FAR WEST Riverton 72, St. Paul 32 BYU 98, Cent.

Michigan 85 Rock Creek 64, Wabaunsee 37 and coach to gbedore Colorado 85, Nicholls St. 68 Rose Hill 53, Winfield 42 @ljworld.com.

Grand Canyon 52, San Diego St. 45 Rossville 69, Frankfort 33

Dundy County-Stratton, Neb. 70, St. Francis 26 Ellis 56, Ellinwood 36 Elyria Christian 48, Solomon 43 Emporia 44, Topeka 27 Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 46, Bennington 39 Goddard-Eisenhower 52, Dodge City 51 Goessel 60, Rural Vista 15 Golden Plains 48, Weskan 25 Goodland 41, Ulysses 28 Great Bend 62, Andover 52 Halstead 35, Smoky Valley 25 Hanover 59, Onaga 17 Hartford 49, Burlingame 35 Hays-TMP-Marian 63, Oakley 39 Hesston 42, Kingman 39 Highland Park 52, Topeka West 32 Hill City 72, Phillipsburg 41 Holcomb 33, Colby 29 Holton 58, Riverside 17 Hoxie 73, Rawlins County 36 Hugoton 63, Scott City 27 Inman 29, Hutchinson Central Christian 26 Jefferson West 48, Atchison County 19 KC Piper 48, Bonner Springs 37 Kinsley 51, Ness City 35 Kiowa County 44, Bucklin 29 Labette County 59, Parsons 32 Lakeside 54, Chase 26 Lakin 47, Johnson-Stanton County 38 Lawrence 49, Lawrence Free State 48 Liberal 48, Perryton, Texas 46 Liberty (Mountain View), Mo. 44, St. Thomas Aquinas 34 Lincoln 38, Wilson 36 Little River 34, Ell-Saline 33 Logan 42, Palco 13 Lyons 47, Larned 36 Macksville 53, Stafford 27 Madison/Hamilton 57, Lebo 47 Maize 67, Wichita Campus 40 Manhattan 63, Junction City 27 Marais des Cygnes Valley 34, Southern Coffey 28 McPherson 44, Lee’s Summit North, Mo. 41 Meade 61, Wichita County 19 Minneapolis 58, Salina Sacred Heart 28 Minneola 51, Pawnee Heights 16 Moundridge 61, Pretty Prairie 22 Nemaha Central 46, PerryLecompton 20 Neodesha 48, Humboldt 37 Newton 36, Goddard 31 Norton 32, Smith Center 19 Norwich 50, South Haven 19 Olathe East 43, Blue Valley Stillwell 28 Olpe 54, Waverly 48 Osborne 44, Tescott 25 Oswego 39, Erie 25 Paola 53, Spring Hill 27 Pike Valley 44, Sylvan-Lucas 36 Pleasant Ridge 56, McLouth 21 Republic County 30, Russell 28 Rose Hill 48, Winfield 31 Rossville 62, Frankfort 38 Royal Valley 54, Santa Fe Trail 30 Sabetha 57, Hiawatha 28 Salina Central 55, Salina South 25 Sedan 64, Cedar Vale/Dexter 13 Shawnee Heights 44, Washburn Rural 38 Silver Lake 56, St. Mary’s 14 SM Northwest 74, Eudora 27 South Barber 56, Argonia 26 South Central 66, Hodgeman County 28 St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 56, Rock Hills 16 St. Paul 51, Riverton 21 Sterling 66, Nickerson 25 Stockton 70, Plainville 40 Sublette 48, Satanta 44 Thunder Ridge 67, Natoma 29 Tonganoxie 55, Basehor-Linwood 47 Topeka Hayden 54, Topeka Seaman 25 Trego 43, Oberlin-Decatur 30 Triplains-Brewster 43, Healy 9 Troy 48, BV Randolph 40 Valley Falls 49, Jefferson North 18 Valley Heights 57, Doniphan West 43 Veritas Christian 53, Christ Preparatory Academy 23 Wabaunsee 44, Rock Creek 35 Wakefield 46, Centre 43 Washington County 75, Wetmore 50 Wellington 67, Mulvane 32 Wellsville 42, Central Heights 30 Wheatland-Grinnell 45, Northern Valley 41 Wichita Bishop Carroll 79, Wichita Southeast 26 Wichita Collegiate 39, Clearwater 34 Wichita Independent 55, Bluestem 25 Wichita North 38, Wichita West 35 Wichita South 54, Wichita East 7

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By Greg Cote Miami Herald

You can see what’s coming in the case of Major League Baseball vs. Peter Edward Rose Sr., right? You can guess how one of the most protracted sagas in American sports history will finally end.

Rose’s lifetime ban from the sport will end when his life does. He will find forgiveness in death. The sport will welcome back its wayward son by inducting him posthumously into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

That day, he’ll get the eulogy makeover. It will no longer be about his gambling problem way back in the late 1980s.

Now it will be about the record 4,256 base hits.

It will be about the man

nicknamed “Charlie Hustle” sliding headfirst into history.

What a shame.

How harshly and unnecessarily punitive baseball is being in its unwillingness to forgive.

New commissioner Rob Manfred had the chance this week, in considering Rose’s appeal of his banishment, to say, “Enough.” Instead, in affirming the ban would go on, Manfred all but assured that Rose, now 74 years old, would die still ostracized.

People convicted of murder in the United States serve an average prison sentence of 20 years and eight months, according to U.S. Department of Justice statistics.

Rose is still doing time more than 26 years later for betting on baseball games, including his own

evils of gambling while in a corporate bed COMMENTARY being with DraftKings, the daily fantasy site being team, while managing the systemically found to be Cincinnati Reds. a portal of illegal gamIt is essential to note bling, most recently by the Dowd Report of the New York Supreme more than a quarter cen- Court. tury ago found Rose only I know, I know. Basebet on his team to win. ball still feels the stain So there was never the of the 1919 Black Sox suggestion of a scandal scandal almost a century involving game fixing. later and has every right What he did still violated to protect the game’s the sport’s rules against integrity by guarding gambling. against gambling leading Hasn’t he served to a temptation to throw enough time though? results.

“Lifetime” sentences So I get why Rose was are not always literally punished, even though that. Murderers can be he only bet on his own paroled but Pete Rose team to win. I just don’t can’t? get why he isn’t now Continuing this banreinstated when, at this ishment is wrong on mul- point in his life, it would tiple levels. be a purely ceremonial It is hypocritical of gesture.

Manfred and MLB to I mean, Barry Bonds, maintain this hardest who set home run possible line against the records literally cheat-

ing opponents by using performance-enhancing drugs, can be hired as the Marlins hitting coach but Rose remains on the wrong side of baseball’s fence?

Rose at times has been his own worst enemy but also has been contrite, admitting to a big mistake. Manfred was put off that Rose still occasionally gambles. So what!

He’s placing legal bets in Las Vegas.

“I want baseball and Pete Rose to be friends,” Rose said on Tuesday.

“I want to say I’m not an outsider looking in.”

Certainly the deterrent effect — Rose an An Example — has served its purpose. Rose is why modern players know not to have a bookie or place wagers of any kind.

From this point forward the only practical reason to continue

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Rose’s banishment is to continue to bar him from the Hall of Fame — a place where he belongs because, unlike the Steroids Era guys, Rose did not cheat opponents and has served his time.

Rose is the only living person on baseball’s “permanently excluded” list, meaning he is not eligible to be on the Hall ballot.

There may be wiggle room there, though.

Manfred noted his ruling was separate from the Hall of Fame, which is not owned by or run

by MLB. The Hall in 1991 adopted a rule stating no banished players could appear on its ballot — but sometimes rules change, right? Sometimes exceptions are made.

Plainly, Cooperstown has the right to put Rose on its Hall ballot if it chose to — and should.

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(First published in the the hearing the Court may Lawrence Daily Journal issue orders relating to the World December 19, 2015) care, custody and control of the children. The hearIN THE DISTRICT COURT ing will determine if the OF OSAGE COUNTY, children should be adjudiKANSAS FOURTH JUDICIAL cated.

DISTRICT The parent(s), and any IN THE INTEREST OF: other person having legal custody are required to A. R., appear before this Court Year of Birth: 2014 on the date and time A female shown, or to file your writCase No. 2014-JC-000015 ten response to the petition with the Clerk of the A. R., District Court prior to that Year of Birth: 2014 time. Failure to respond or A female to appear before the Court Case No. 2014-JC-000016 at the time shown will not prevent the Court from enNOTICE OF tering judgment as reHEARING-Publication quested in the petition, Pursuant to K.S.A. 38-2237 finding that the child is a Child in Need of Care, reTO: Dean Pate, Blake Sam- moving the child from the ple, Caleb Atkins, Jeffery custody of parent, parents Fairbanks, Phillip Fillmore, or any other present legal Jason Brown and all other custodian until further orpersons who are or may be der of the Court, or finding concerned the parents unfit, and entering an order permaYou are hereby notified nently terminating the parthat a petition has been ents’ parental rights. filed in this court alleging that the children named An attorney has been apabove are Children in Need pointed as guardian ad of Care. litem for the child: Sue DeVoe, 785- 665-7015. You An Adjudication hearing on have the right to appear the petition is scheduled before the Court and be for the 28th day of Janu- heard personally, either ary, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. At with or without an attor-

ney. The Court will appoint an attorney for any parent who desires an attorney but is financially unable to hire one. The Court may order one or both parents to pay child support. An attorney has been appointed for you: Kim Bieker, 785-828-4431.

Date and time of hearing: January 28, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.

Place of hearing: Osage County District Court, 717 Topeka Ave., Lyndon, Kansas 66451 /S/ Charna Williams Clerk of the District Court ________ (First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld December 5, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS DIVISION SIX

NOTICE OF HEARING (K.S.A. Chapter 38) COMES NOW the State of Kansas, by and through counsel, Emily C. Haack, Assistant District Attorney, and provides notice of a hearing as follows: A petition pertaining to the parental rights to the child whose name appears above has been filed in this Court requesting the Court to find the child is a child in need of care as defined in the Kansas Code for the Care of Children. If a child is adjudged to be a child in need of care and the Court finds a parent to be unfit, the Court may permanently terminate that parent’s parental rights. The Court may also make other orders including, but not limited to, requiring a parent to pay child support.

On the 4th day of January, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. each parent and any other person claiming legal custody IN THE INTEREST OF: of the minor child is required to appear AdjudicaJ.S. DOB: 04/03/1998, a female tion and Disposition in Division 6 at the Douglas Case No. 2015-JC-000096 County Law Enforcement TO: Unknown Father, his and Judicial Center, 111 E Street., Lawrence, parents and any relatives 11th Kansas. Each grandparent of the minor child is permitted but not re-

quired to appear with or without counsel as an interested party in the proceeding. Prior to the proceeding, a parent, grandparent or any other party to the proceeding may file a written response to the pleading with the clerk of court.

Attorney Douglas County Judicial Center 111 East 11th Street Lawrence, KS 66044-2909 (785) 841-0211 FAX (785) 330-2850 ehaack@douglas-county.com _______

(First published in the Each parent has the right Lawrence Daily Journalto be represented by an at- World December 12, 2015) torney.

A parent that is IN THE DISTRICT COURT not financially able to hire OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, an attorney may apply to KANSAS the court for a court appointed attorney. A reIn the Matter of the quest for a court apEstate of pointed attorney should be Glee S. Smith, Jr., made without delay to: Deceased.

Clerk of the District Court; ATTN: Division 6; 111 East No. 2015PR000199 11th Street; Lawrence KanDivision 1 sas 66044-9202. Craig A. Stancliffe an attorney in Proceeding Under K.S.A. Lawrence, Kansas, has Chapter 59 been appointed as guardian ad litem for the child.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS All parties are hereby notified that, pursuant to The State of Kansas to all K.S.A. 60-255, a default persons concerned: judgment will be taken against any parent who You are hereby notified fails to appear in person that on December 7, 2015, or by counsel at the hear- a petition for probate of will was filed in this court ing.

by Susan K. Moeser, heir and remainder beneficiary /s/Emily C Haack named in the will of Glee S. EMILY C HAACK, 23697 Smith, Jr., deceased.

All Assistant District Attorney creditors are notified to Office of the District

exhibit their demands against this estate within four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice as provided by law, and if the demands are not thus exhibited they shall be forever barred.

Susan K. Moeser Petitioner Calvin J. Karlin - 09555 Barber Emerson, L.C. 1211 Massachusetts Street P. O. Box 667 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-0667 (785) 843-6600 Telephone (785) 843-8405 Facsimile ckarlin@barberemerson.com Attorneys for Petitioner _______

Petition Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59 NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that on December 4, 2015, a Petition for Issuance of Letters of Administration under the Kansas Simplified Estates Act was filed in this court by Ronald Moore, an heir of Christina L. Moore, deceased.

All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, shall be forever (First published in the they Lawrence Daily Journal- barred.

World December 12, 2015) Ronald Moore Petitioner IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, Steve Moore #20519 KANSAS Moore Law Office, LLC PROBATE DEPARTMENT 5040 Noreston Shawnee, KS 66226 In the Matter of the Ph. 913 940 5875 Estate of Fax 815 301 9091 Attorney for Petitioner Christina L. Moore, ________ Deceased Case no. 2015PR197 Division 1

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