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Sunday, December 30, 2018 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 77

New Year’s Eve reprieve

In the news Alaska’s first Sonic restaurant planned in Wasilla ANCHORAGE — A national restaurant chain will open its first Alaska franchise in Wasilla.

Anchorage television station KTUU reports that franchise operator Larry Clark is aiming to open a Sonic restaurant next September.

The restaurant will be at the new Shoppes at Sun Mountain shopping center.

Clark says it will be a drive-in, where car hops bring your food to a canopy park. The restaurant also will have a drive-thru window and a dine-in option.

Clark says it’s still under discussion whether car hops will skate to cars.

Clark and business partner Cameron Johnson have been approved for the exclusive right of opening Sonic restaurants in Alaska.

Clark says they are eyeing Anchorage and Fairbanks as other potential markets.

Mat-Su assembly OKs improvements for coastal park ANCHORAGE — A coastal park in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough will see major renovations next year.

Anchorage television station KTVA reports the MatSu Borough Assembly unanimously approved $200,000 in infrastructure improvements for Settlers Bay Coastal Park.

Plans for the 295-acre park include cycling and walking trails, an access road and parking area, and a route along tidal flats.

Assemblyman Dan Mayfield says about 1,000 homes lie within a mile of the park and it’s important to establish green space.

Great Land Trust bought the property for $1.4 million and donated it to the borough.

The organization also donated $50,000 to the project.

The borough matched that with an in-kind donation of labor and equipment.

Mat-Su Trails and Parks Foundation donated $100,000 to the project.

Construction is scheduled to begin in spring.

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Fireworks allowed in Kenai for 48 hours over holiday

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

This New Year’s Eve, ring in 2019 safely. The use of fireworks is forbidden in the Kenai Peninsula Borough unless they are part of a permitted display. However, in the city of Kenai, personal use fireworks are allowed for a 48-hour period between Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. Kenai is the only city in the borough exempt from the ban.

During the 48-hour period, Kenai residents are allowed to light any kind of fireworks off. They must be shot from private property, with the consent of the owner. Fireworks are banned from any public land in the city.

“You can’t just go to the beach and light off fireworks,” Kenai Fire Chief Jeff Tucker said. “It has to be on private property.”

Tucker said residents should consider the risks of fireworks and take caution when using them.

“It’s an explosive hazard and a fire hazard,” Tucker

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

A fireworks show is performed during the Christmas Comes to Kenai celebrations in November 2016. (Photo by Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion)

said. “They can cause injury pets when choosing to light and hazards to wildlife.” off fireworks, Tucker said.

Residents should be mindThe city began to allow ful of neighbors, children and fireworks within the limits of

Kenai in 2015 when the city council passed an ordinance allowing for the 48-hour window around New Year’s.

Explosion rocks Diamond Ridge STAFF REPORT Homer News

A loud explosion rocked the Diamond Ridge area and the west side of Homer about 10 p.m. Thursday night.

Kachemak Emergency Services was the primary responding agency for a twostory log home that exploded near Endless View Loop at about Mile 166 Sterling Highway. Firefighters blocked the Sterling Highway at the intersection with Diamond Ridge Road and were not letting vehicles continue. Alaska State Troopers responded at 10:06 p.m., according to an online trooper dispatch, and found debris in the road. KESA’s call out was at 10:20 p.m.

Firefighters on Thursday night said there had been an explosion up the road, but did not have any other information. Alaska State Troop-

State minimum wage will rise 5 cents Jan. 1

Kachemak Emergency Services Deputy Chief Joe Sallee inspects an exploded house near Mile 166 Sterling Highway on Friday, near Homer. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News).

ers responded. The road was trooper dispatch. a gas explosion. KESA Chief projected to reopen at 2 a.m.

Alaska State Troopers Bob Cicciarella said the indiFriday, and actually reopened wrote the cause of the acciSee ROCKS, page A3 at 4:25 a.m., according to the dent is believed to have been

Starting Jan. 1, 2019, Alaska’s minimum wage will be raised by 5 cents, from $9.84 to $9.89.

The 5 cent raise is to adjust the wage for inflation. In 2014, Alaskans voted to raise the minimum wage by $1 in both 2015 and 2016, and require the rate to be adjusted annually for inflation, according to an October press release from the Office of the Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

Tips do not count toward the Alaska minimum wage.

To adjust for inflation, the state uses the previous calendar year’s Consumer Price Index for urban consumers in the Anchorage Metropolitan Area.

The index is a measure of the average change in prices paid by urban consumers over time.

“When there’s a rise in the CPI, there’s a rise in wage,” Paloma Harbour, Administrative Services Director for the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, said.

Harbour said inflation has remained fairly consistent over the last few years.

In each of the years 2017, 2018 and in 2019, the minimum wage was raised by 5 cents, Harbour said.

By law, Alaska’s minimum wage must remain at least $1 per hour over the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25.

Alaska is among 29 states with minimum wages above $7.25, the highest being Washington state at $12, and in July, Washington, D.C., will pay workers at least $14 per hour, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute. The federal minimum wage hasn’t risen in over a decade.

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Study: Juneau’s Quake highlights rockfall problem on Seward Highway lack of fluoride has

increased kid cavities

By DEVIN KELLY Anchorage Daily News

ANCHORAGE — The big earthquake that struck Southcentral Alaska on Nov. 30 dislodged several dump trucks’ worth of rocks and debris from the steep rock walls that line the Seward Highway along Turnagain Arm. The event underscored a problem well-known to state officials: This stretch of highway is particularly prone to falling rock. The shaking caused a boulder to crash into a semi truck at Mile 111, damaging the truck but sparing the driver. During an aftershock, rocks rained down on a woman who was gathering water from a popular water pipe at Mile 109, causing state officials to temporarily take out the water pipe altogether.

Even before the earthquake, though, the state Department

In this Dec. 21 photo the highway littered with rockfall south of Anchorage. (Anne Raup/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

of Transportation and Public Facilities had set in motion a multimillion-dollar project to deal with rockfall issues between Mileposts 104 and 114.

The work, which is early in the design stages, would likely

involve prying out loose rock, securing larger boulders with stainless steel bolts and building mesh nets that can catch falling debris.

As part of the project, small See FALL, page A3

JUNEAU (AP) — Alaska’s capital stopped fluoridating its tap water about 12 years ago, and a new study says Juneau’s children are paying a price.

Public health researcher Jennifer Meyer studied Medicaid dental claims before and after fluoride was removed, the KTOO radio station reported. The lack of fluoride has increased dental costs for families with children under 6 years old, she said.

There has been additional treatment for caries, the decay or crumbling of a tooth.

“By taking the fluoride out of the water supply (...) the trade-off for that is children are going to experience one additional caries procedure per year, at a ballpark (cost)

of $300 more per child.”

Meyer studied Medicaid dental claims for two years that were filed for children in Juneau’s main ZIP code.

She reviewed a year’s worth of data before fluoride went away and a year’s worth five years after fluoride was removed, for about 1,900 children in all.

Children under 6, when the water was fluoridated, averaged about one-and-ahalf cavity-related procedures per year. After fluoride was gone, that went up to about two-and-a-half procedures a year. Older children saw a less dramatic increase.

“The cost to have a fluoride management program, to actually fluoridate the water, See KID page A3

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Year in Review

Amid 2018’s tragedies were moments of compassion

By The Associated Press

‘IT’S IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD’

Deadliest shooting at an American high school: Parkland, Florida.

Deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century: Paradise, California.

Deadliest attack on Jews in American history: Pittsburgh.

The cities of Parkland, Paradise and Pittsburgh became synonymous with tragedy in 2018, a year when the nation seemed to careen from one deadly horror to another. Yet in every calamity, there were people who showed their humanity, their selfless strength and their sense of duty amid the suffering.

As the year draws to a close, Associated Press reporters on the front lines of some of the year’s heartbreaking stories offer up accounts of compassion and decency.

It was known as the Wall of Forgotten Natives, a sprawling homeless encampment that sprouted along a Minneapolis freeway sound barrier over the summer.

Most of those living there were American Indians, who make up an outsized portion of the homeless population in the city, and the tents stood on what was once Dakota land.

University of Minnesota medical and law student Kristina Tester grew up nearby and began helping at the camp as part of an elective rotation for her degree.

She began doing clean-needle exchanges and continued on as a volunteer for months after her assignment ended.

“There’s really not much of a difference between myself and any of the residents who are here at the homeless camp, other than sort of luck of the draw and geographic-political lottery,” she said.

The 26-year-old Tester said she organized groups of university students to do laundry for camp residents. She also served meals about once a week with neighbors. Recently she delivered cookies and blankets made by high school students.

Tester, who is non-Indian, said she did it because “it’s in my neighborhood.”

At its peak, the encampment had 300 people, but they began moving into a temporary shelter across the highway as winter approached.

Maggie Thunder Hawk, 56, an Oglala Lakota from Wanblee, South Dakota, picked up two blankets that Tester delivered.

“If it wasn’t for her, we’d be cold, because she brings us warm blankets,” Thunder Hawk said.

“I love her.”

‘I CHOSE TO ACT’ Rabbi Jeffrey Myers said no class in any seminary could have prepared anyone for the role he was thrust into.

Myers was leading Shabbat services when gunfire erupted inside his Pittsburgh synagogue on Oct. 27. After helping others to safety, Myers turned back and raced up the stairs to a choir loft, where he called 911. Seven members of his Tree of Life congregation and four others in the building were killed.

As the Jewish community grieved, Myers took a leading role during public memorials and presided over seven funerals in the space of less than a week.

“I really had two choices when it came down to how to respond,” Myers said. “One of them was … curl up with a bottle of scotch.

The second choice was to act upon it. I chose to act upon it.”

His response inspired Tree of Life congregants, including retired psychiatrist Joe Charny, 90.

“There’s no question that he’s

In this Oct. 28 file photo, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, right, of Tree of Life/Or L’Simcha Congregation hugs Rabbi Cheryl Klein, left, of Dor Hadash Congregation and Rabbi Jonathan Perlman during a community gathering held in the aftermath of a deadly shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

been super, and it’s hard to imagine that anybody could have done a better job,” Charny said. “He has the right touch. He has maintained through all this a sense of humor. I don’t know how he’s done that.”

Myers has vowed to no longer use the word “hate.”

“To me, that’s the mission that has come out of this, that for 11 beautiful people to have not died in vain,” the rabbi said. “The conversation about hate speech in America must be elevated and

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it must gain attention, because that type of speech leads to action such as what happened at my synagogue.”

— AP writer Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

A MORBID BUT CRITICAL TASK It was the week before Thanksgiving when Craig Covey got the call for what would be his most difficult mission as a searchand-rescue team leader: picking through the ashes of Paradise for human remains.

It was a morbid but critical task.

A wildfire that swept through on Nov. 8 all but obliterated Paradise, once home to 27,000 people. To find and identify the 86 dead, authorities had to call on searchers like Covey to gather up what amounted in some cases to little more than teeth, bone fragments or artificial hips. Then they had to rely on the expertise of rapid-testing DNA labs, forensic anthropologists and other specialists.

“It was apocalyptic up there,” Covey said several weeks after returning home to Costa Mesa, California.

Covey’s team is deployed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to disasters across the country and beyond. Earlier this year, his team helped rescue an exhausted 82-year-old man who had been flushed out of his car by floodwaters and pinned in some trees amid Hurricane Florence in North Carolina.

Paradise was different, but brought rewards of its own.

“We weren’t shaking hands with people,” Covey said. “But we were making a difference for folks, for closure, who are missing their families.”

— AP writer Kathleen Ronayne in Sacramento, California

DOGS IN TUNE WITH HUMANS When classes resumed in late February following the massacre of 17 students and staff at Parkland’s Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, a therapy dog by the name of Fergie was brought in.

Fergie, an 8-year-old cross between a golden retriever and a poodle, zeroed in on one young man and sat on his feet the entire class, barely moving, said Aneysi Fernandez, volunteer coordinator of the nonprofit group Canine Assisted Therapy.

“It turned out that was one of the students who lost most of his friends in the shooting,” said Fernandez. “Some of our dogs like Fergie are very in tune with human emotions.”

Several therapy animal groups helped out in those dark days after the Feb. 14 mass shooting. The

dogs — and in some cases, donkeys and horses — went into the cafeteria and classrooms. They were also at vigils and marches.

Fernandez’s organization sent 35 therapy dogs and their handlers into the school. All of the animals were trained and selected for their calm, happy demeanor.

Some Parkland students specifically asked for a dog to shadow them during classes, saying that the animals’ presence eased the stress of returning to a place where such a horrible thing hap-

pened.

“It’s nice not to be asked any questions, to not have to relive the event,” Fernandez said. “Everyone grieves differently. Students who didn’t want to talk could pet a dog.”

Ten months after the tragedy, a dozen dogs still show up at the school every day, mostly to sit by the side of those teens who need a calming presence.

— AP writer Tamara Lush in St. Petersburg, Florida

— AP writer Jeff Baenen in Minneapolis

In this Dec. 13 photo, Kristina Tester, left, hands out cookies made by high school students to residents of a homeless camp made up mainly of Native Americans in south Minneapolis.

Tester, who is both a medical student and a law student at the University of Minnesota, grew up near the camp. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen)

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Around the Peninsula Central Peninsula Garden Club presentation

age 8-12. Auditions will consist of reading selected scenes and monologues from the play. There will be two days of auditions: Friday, Jan. 4, 6-8 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 5, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., with possible call backs on Sunday, Jan. 6. Auditions will be held in our rental space on K-Beach Road (backside of Subway restaurant). Performance dates: May 9-11 and 16-18, 2019. Rehearsals will start the week of March 18. If you can’t make it to these audition dates/times, please contact Rebecca Gilman for more information at rflogiman@gmail. com or call, 398-2951. Character descriptions available on our website: www.kenaiperformers.org.

Soil Testing for Optimum Plant Health on Tuesday, Jan. 8 from 7–8:30 p.m. Dr. Casey Matney, Assistant Professor and Cooperative Extension Service Agent on the complexities of soil health, the basics of soil testing, plant nutritional needs, and best practices for improving garden soil fertility. Immediately preceding Dr. Matney’s presentation, a brief annual business meeting of the Central Peninsula Garden Club will begin at 7 p.m. for the purpose of electing directors to the CPGC board.

Testify at a School Board meeting from Free and open to the public; bring a friend! Refreshments and sometimes door prizes. Location: Peninsula Grace Church, Homer or Seward 44175 Kalifornsky Beach Road (at Mile 19.5, across the road The KPBSD Board of Education will open two additionfrom Craig Taylor Equipment), Soldotna. Membership and genal locations for public testimony via video during a school eral club information is available at www.cenpengardenclub. board meeting.

Homer Middle School and Seward Elemenorg, on facebook, or contact Renae Wall at cenpengardenclub@ tary School sites will be open — if there are advance signups gmail.com.

— starting with the Jan. 14 school board meeting. Sign up no later than 3 p.m. the Friday prior to a Board of EducaComedy Writing Workshop tion meeting to guarantee the remote site will be open and Kenai Performers is hosting a Comedy Writing Workshop staffed. with international performer, Chelsea Hart on Thursday, Jan. 10, noon-3 p.m. This workshop is open to adults, age 18 and up. Fee: $30 per participant. Workshop is being held at 44045 Anchorage Fish & Game Advisory Committee K-Beach Road (backside of Subway restaurant/same building).

The Anchorage Fish & Game Advisory Committee will meet Minimum 5/Maximum 10 students. There will be an open mic on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at Cabela’s conference room, located at 155 at 6:30 p.m., open to the public. This is a smoke free/no alco- W 104th Avenue at 6:30 p.m. Agenda will include preparation hol venue. Entrance fee: pay-as-you-can at the door. To register of comment on statewide finfish proposals 161-173, select an please contact us by email: www.kenaiperformers@gmail.com AC rep for that meeting, and any other business that may propOR call Terri at 252-6808. erly come before the committee. The public is invited to address any concerns they have. For more information contact Martin Weiser at mweiser@crsalaska.com.

Free Diabetes Screenings Homer Medical Center is offering free Diabetes Screenings in the month of January for patients without a current diabetes diagnosis. The screening includes a Point of Care diabetes screening blood test (HbA1C), a 30-minute visit with Peggy Ellen Kleinleder, RN, Certified Diabetes Nurse Educator, a review of test results, diabetes education on healthy eating for pre-diabetes, diabetes and diabetes prevention, a blood pressure check and free take-home materials. Daytime and evening appointments available. Call Homer Medical Center 235-8586 and ask for the New Year’s Free Diabetes Screening. It is free, and no insurance is necessary. January 2019: 9, 16, 23, 30. February 2019: 7, 13, 20, 27. March 2019: 6.

Panta Rhei: Everything Flows Kenai Fine Art Center’s January exhibit will be Panta Rhei: Everything Flows, a dual artist show by Elizabeth Earl and Ben Boettger featuring Southcentral glaciers and their relationship to the Alaskan landscape and people. Opening reception will take place Jan. 3 from 5-7 p.m. The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oiler’s Bingo Hall and next to the Historic Cabins. For more information contact 283-7040 or go to www. kenaifineart.com.

Al-Anon support group meetings Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and enter through the River Tower entrance and follow the signs. Contact Tony Oliver at 252-0558 for more information.

Kenai Peninsula College holiday schedule KPC’s two campuses (Kenai River and Kachemak Bay) and Seward extension site (Resurrection Bay) will be closed for the holidays from Dec. 22, 2018 to Jan. 2, 2019. Registration for the upcoming spring semester is available online at www.kpc. alaska.edu. Classes start on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2019.

Narcan kits available at Kenai Public Health Heroin overdoses are on the rise in Alaska. Narcan is an easy medication you can give to someone who is overdosing. It may save their life. Adults can get free Narcan nasal spray kits at the Kenai Public Health Center at 630 Barnacle Way, Suite A, in Kenai. For additional information call Kenai Public Health at 335-3400.

Kenai Performers Wonka bars sale

Kenai Performers is selling chocolate Wonka bars as a promotional fundraiser. Funds raised will help pay production costs for their spring musical, “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.” Hidden among the candy bars are five, special Golden Tickets. Finders of the tickets will win FREE admission to one of the shows.

The Wonka bars are 4.5 ounces of scrumptious milk chocolate, big enough to share with the whole family, and are $5 each.

Candy bars are available at Curtain Call Consignment Boutique in Kenai and at River City Books in Soldotna. Thank you, CounAKC Star Puppy class try Foods for sponsoring our fundraiser! For more information, Kenai Kennel Club will be offering an AKC Star Puppy class please call Terri at 252-6808. beginning Thursday, Jan. 10 at 6 p.m. This is a six-week class, and you can receive a Star Puppy Certificate at the end. We will Habitat for Humanity seeking family partner also be offering a Family Dog Obedience class beginning ThursThe Central Peninsula Habitat for Humanity is now looking day, Jan. 10 at 7 p.m. Please email kenaikennelclub@gmail.com for a family to partner with for their 2019 building season. If with questions or to register. Go to Kenaikennelclub.com for the you would like more information, please contact Carri at 283class schedule and more information.

7797, or visit our website: https://hfhcentralpeninsula.org to apply online!

Grief Recovery Method Workshop

The Grief Recovery Method Workshop: The Action Program for Moving beyond Death, Divorce and Other Losses 9-week program/Closed group will take place on Wednesday evenings from 6-8 p.m. Jan. 2019: 9, 16, 23, 30. February 2019: 7, 13, 20, 27. March 2019: 6. Takes place at PCHS 230 E. Marydale Soldotna (conference room upstairs). Sponsored by PCHS. Fee: $95.00 (scholarships available). To register or for further information call: Gail Kennedy • Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®• 907-602-9944

SEES candy fundraiser

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: December The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center is open every day from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. on Ski Hill Road near Soldotna.

For more information, call 260-2820. All events are free.

— Drop-in craft and self-guided trail walk, different each week —Saturday Wildlife Movies: 11 a.m., noon, 2 p.m.: “Refuge Film”; 1 p.m.: “Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom”; 3 p.m.: “Alone in the Wilderness II”

Wilderness First Aid course

Kenai Historical Society

Annual SEES candy fundraiser is going on now at Soldotna The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is hosting a Wilderness Professional Pharmacy while supplies last. All proceeds go to First-Aid course on Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 12-13, 2019. Course The Kenai Historical Society will meet on Sunday, Jan. 6 the PCD foundation (Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia). cost $185, plus $45 extra for CPR. For more information contact at 1:30 in the Kenai Visitors Center. Ron Walden, local author Michelle Ostrowski at michelleostrowski@fws.gov or debajango@ and pioneer will speak after the business meeting. Everyone is Cook Inlet Pipeline Infrastructure Risk gmail.com. Must be 16 or older. invited. For more information call June at 283-1946.

Assessment deadline

Experts wishing to participate in the Cook Inlet Pipeline In- Soldotna Community Schools Program —Adult & High School indoor soccer every Wednesday Kenai Performers will hold open auditions for “The Cruci- frastructure Risk Assessment expert panel on pipeline integble” by Arthur Miller, directed by Rebecca Gilman. There are rity and safety now have until Jan. 18, 2019, to apply. The night from 7-9 p.m. This is a drop-in game as is only $2 per night. roles for: 10 adult men, 5 adult women, 4 teenage girls and 1girl, previous deadline was Jan. 5, 2019.

Auditions for ‘The Crucible’

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is pennies by comparison to what it costs to treat a cavity,” Meyer said.

Parents can get prescriptions for fluoride tablets, she said, but it can be a headache. They have to remember to fill the prescription, administer the fluoride and make sure children do not take too much.

Meyer’s study was published in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Oral Health.

The study did not change the opinion of David Ham, who pushed to take fluoride out of Juneau’s water in 2006.

“I believe I have the right

to have a public water supply that is pure and to decide for myself what medicines I wish to take, and I just don’t wish to be exposed to a toxic chemical, fluoride,” he said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, European Union and other government and medical institutions say low levels of fluoride in drinking water are safe.

“My issue is that we’re asking the wrong question here, you know? ... And let’s get to the root cause and put a tax on sugary drinks and all of these other things, or do whatever we can to support good health through good diet,” Ham said.

He called fluoridation “a Band-Aid” fix.

Services notice Robert F. Smith, Sr. Longtime Nikiski resident, Mr. Robert F. Smith, Sr., 78, died Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018 at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage.

Funeral services will be held 12 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 at Peninsula Memorial Chapel, 5839 Kenai Spur Hwy – Kenai. A public viewing will be held from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Following services a gathering/reception will take place a the funeral home. After the reception, a graveside service will follow at the Kenai City Cemetery where he will be laid to rest next to his wife and son.

Arrangements made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel & Crematory.

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cations of a gas explosion are there, but that he can’t confirm that at this time.

“It happened in Kachemak Emergency Services’ district, so they were the primary on scene responders with both fire(fighters) and EMS,” said Samantha Cunningham, Kenai Peninsula emergency services coordinator. “And then there were … tone outs for both (Homer Volunteer Fire Department) and Anchor Point Emergency Services.”

KESA firefighters and medics were not able to start a search right away, Cicciarella said, because there was an active gas leak from the

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streams may be rerouted, and there could be blasting or excavating to get rid of loose rock, said the project manager, Christina Huber.

It’s the first time in more than two decades this type of work has been aimed at this section of road, Huber said. Freezemelt cycles have changed the landscape, loosened rock and opened up new cracks.

The recent earthquake also confirmed the need for the project, Huber said.

“If anything, the earthquake showed we’re working in the right area with this project,” Huber said.

For years, DOT has ranked the vulnerability of different rockfall-prone sites. The ranking reflects how often rocks tumble to the road, how big they are and how much traffic is driving through, Huber said.

Many of the highest-ranked sites fall on the Seward Highway between Potter Marsh and

line that had been leading to the house. ENSTAR Natural Gas had to cap off that line before first responders could begin their search for possibly injured people. Cicciarella said KESA got confirmation that the home owner is in the Lower 48 and wasn’t there for the explosion.

According to a Facebook post made by Homer Volunteer Fire Department, there were no reported injuries resulting from the explosion.

Homer Electric Association also responded, according to the post.

At first light on Friday morning, piles of debris lined the highway for several hundred yards, with large chunks of logs, roofing and foam insulation in the snow. One section of roof got stuck in

a tree, and several trees near the house were blown down from the explosion.

The explosion flattened the two-story home, reducing it to a pile of logs. At the scene, KESA Deputy Chief Joe Sallee said the cause of the explosion remains under investigation.

Since KESA was the main responding agency, it will assume control of the investigation, Cicciarella said. He and another member of the department will conduct it.

Cicciarella said there was no evidence of a fire.

“It’s a little more complicated, a little longer investigation time,” he said of the remains of the house. “There’s a lot to sift through for sure, and a lot of pieces to put back together.”

According to online Kenai Peninsula Borough tax records, the house was assessed at $250,000.

Cicciarella said members of KESA did some preliminary investigation, including taking photos of the scene, before one of their firefighters cleared the road of debris.

“At this time no foul play is suspected,” troopers wrote in the online dispatch.

They also wrote that multiple people called to report damage to their own homes because of the explosion.

“It was a significant explosion, that’s for sure,” Cicciarella said.

Girdwood. When the highway was first built, engineers put in particularly steep rock cuts, said Craig Boeckman, a geologist with DOT. He said the rock faces wouldn’t be so steep if they were built under current standards.

Meanwhile, most of the ditches along Turnagain Arm are narrow, ranging from 7 to 15 feet, Boeckman said. If the ditches were dug today, they would likely be twice that size, he said.

During the earthquake, the heaviest rockfall happened at Mile 113.9, close to a weigh station, according to Boeckman.

In all, the quake dislodged rocks at 25 spots along the highway, adding up to about five dump trucks’ worth of debris, he said.

A video posted on a Facebook forum called My Home Is Alaska showed a driver navigating past a series of boulders.

Officials have already picked out seven sites between Anchorage and Girdwood. All are in the top 20 of the statewide DOT risk ranking and don’t require extensive work to improve safety, Huber said.

The price tag is currently estimated at about $15 million, with more than 90 percent of the money coming from a federal highway safety program, Huber said.

Federal money would also cover repairs to the stretches of road damaged by rock dislodged

by work crews, Huber said.

In some cases, air compressors can be used to force rocks loose, Boeckman said.

Construction for the project is slated to start in summer 2020. Officials are currently working on an environmental analysis.

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A House divided: Legislature risks repeating chaos of 1981 With less than a month until

the beginning of the 2019 legislative session, there’s still no plan for who will be in charge of the House when the Alaska Legislature gavels in because of uncertainty over the body’s makeup and fractiousness among the Republicans who hold a majority of seats. This may not seem like a big deal, but it sets Alaska behind.

At stake is nothing less than Alaska’s economic future: We face a $1.6 billion budget deficit that could imperil the state’s fragile recovery from recession, as well as difficult decisions about how to close that gap and make sure funding problems don’t plague us in the future.

Even in a state with a population as small as Alaska’s, the process of funding government is contentious and difficult, and the fact that the House’s new class of legislators hasn’t been able to make its first decision bodes ill for the rest that follow.

The 1981 legislative session provides a cautionary tale. That year, Democrats held 22 seats in the 40-member House. This year the Republicans have 22, with a 23rd hanging in the balance, as House District 1 won’t be decided until January — just before the legislative session starts — after a court challenge to Republican Bart LeBon’s presumptive one-vote victory.

In a body where the majority rules, the all-important question in the Alaska House is who can build a caucus containing more than half its 40 members, granting them leadership posts and sway in building the state budget.

In 1981, Democrats failed to organize a majority until 22 days into the session, despite having more than half the seats, because of disagreement among their members about who would wield the powerful chairmanship of the Finance Committee. This year, despite having more than half the seats, Republicans are still seeking to build a majority. Reps. Gabrielle LeDoux and Louise Stutes, despite being Republicans, are persona non grata within the party after caucusing with Democrats in the bipartisan majority of the last session. Rep. David Eastman, on the GOP’s right flank, said he wouldn’t support Rep. Dave Talerico, the Republicans’ choice for speaker of the House. And Rep. Gary Knopp said he didn’t want to caucus with a razor-thin majority because of the danger of implosion and chaos midway through the session. By those numbers, even if LeBon prevails, there would be only 19 Republicans willing to form a caucus, with 16 Democrats and one independent on the other side of the aisle, and four Republicans of varying ideologies caught in between. Put simply, it’s a mess.

So how did that 1981 session end up after Democrats managed to cobble together a slim majority? Well, let’s put it this way: Rep. Knopp is right to be worried about the dangers of a bare-minimum majority. The Legislature stayed in session for a whopping 165 days, marked by a shocking June coup when Republicans lured disgruntled Democrats away from the majority and ousted House leadership. Alaskans were so disgusted at lawmakers’ disorganization that they overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment limiting the legislative session to 120 days.

If that’s not bad enough, in 1981, lawmakers had plenty of money for the budget. Alaska was riding high on the oil boom in Prudhoe Bay. This year, the state looks to be facing a double-whammy that recalls the challenges the Legislature faced during former Gov. Bill Walker’s tenure: flat oil production and slumping prices, coupled with a $1.6 billion budget deficit. This year will require diligent attention to the challenges of balancing the budget, doing as little harm as possible to the economy and working to chart a course toward less dependence on volatile oil prices for essential budget items such as transportation, education, public safety and health care.

There’s too much essential business on the docket this year to risk a fiasco like the 1981 session, which would be costly, chaotic and serve no one. Representatives and their constituents alike should recognize that, and push to organize a majority caucus that can help address Alaska’s issues rather than punting budget leadership to Gov. Dunleavy and the Senate.

And the winner is …

I am happy to report that television news hangs on, even in this fragmented world of social media, where opinions spew at hyperspeed, unencumbered by facts. We still tune in as the anchors present the day’s events, whether they are Ned and Annette Network or Larry and Lorraine Local. So keeping track of sound bites is still valid.

For those too young to comprehend, a “sound bite” is the verbal form of a tweet.

But they are ever-shrinking. The marketing consultants who have such a strong and insidious influence on broadcast journalism have decided that viewers have a nano attention span, and have ordered that their client stations — managed largely by people who couldn’t care less about responsible reporting — shorten the length of the sound bites. In my long and checkered career in newsbiz, I’ve witnessed sound chunks being shrunk to sound bites. Now they are sound spurts.

Before I seem too sanctimonious about all that, I was a willing participant in sound-spurt reporting, knowing as I do the value of a paycheck.

Some sound spurts are better than others. In fact, some are championship caliber, so bizarre that they stand out in the babble of reporting. For a while, I pondered a competition for the best one of the week. Obviously, in the age of Donald Trump, that has shriveled to the best of the day or even the hour.

This is easier than someone might

Bob Franken

think, because all one has to do is focus on what he says. When it comes to outlandish comments, he is in a crass by himself. For those of us who chronicle his drumbeat of outrage, he is the gift who keeps on giv-

ing.

How appropriate then that on Christmas Day he presented this present to the reporters who were forced to give up their holidays. He had decided it would be terrible optics to do his usual hibernation in the opulent warm surroundings of his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, when so many federal employees were out in the cold with the partial government shutdown (and yes, “out in the cold” is a gross exaggeration). So he and Melania were spending their time in Washington.

After they ran out of forced conversation, and he’d had his daily Twitter catharsis, he was so desperate that he decided to come down to the Oval Office and take a few questions.

Among his responses was this gem: “It’s a disgrace what’s happening in our country but, other than that, I wish everybody a very merry Christmas.”

Now why is that such a winner? He says

something is a “disgrace” all the time, and blames anyone and everyone else for the nation’s problems. That’s exactly the point. He does say that all the time. Right now, it seems everyone is upset about his impetuous decision to pull out of Syria, and Trump is particularly incensed at how Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has managed to get such favorable coverage when Mattis resigned and trashed him. There’s also this shutdown, because he’s insisting on a border wall that he promised to his yay-hoos. And of course there’s the stock market going up and down like a yo-yo, keeping a few worrying whether the string will break, leaving us with a “Trump Depression.”

That’s seemingly overwrought, as is the rhetoric about that other form of Trump emotional depression, based on his growing political isolation. If we are going to have a sound bite competition, we probably should have a best of the tweets contest, too. Currently, that’s an easy one, considering Trump’s possible cry for help: “I am all alone (poor me) in the White House …”

Maybe he was joking, or perhaps not.

Could he be somewhere in between — possibly “marginal,” the word he used to a 7-year-old to describe her continuing belief in Santa Claus. Could our president, considering the range (or is that derange), of his utterances, be emotionally “marginal”?

News and Politics

In Iowa, Democrats see 2020 as head vs. heart

DES MOINES, Iowa — The romance of Barack Obama’s surprise victory in Iowa hangs like a championship banner in the minds of Democrats in the state more than a decade after they set him on the road to being the nation’s first African- American president.

But as they begin to think about Iowa’s 2020 presidential caucuses — in which as many as two dozen Democratic candidates may seek their support — the wistfulness is fading fast. The same early Obama supporters who admit to being swept off their feet by the then-Illinois senator are now looking steely-eyed for someone who can simply seize the presidency from Donald Trump.

“We’ve got to go for the greater good of winning this election, no matter what,” said Nancy Bobo, an early Iowa Obama backer who attended a 10-year commemoration of the 2008 campaign at a Des Moines bar this year. “We need to learn to compromise in a way that moves us ahead, and not keep looking back.”

More than a year away, the 2020 caucuses are already shaping up for many of Obama’s earliest supporters to be more about their heads than their hearts.

“The innocence in us wants to fall in love,” said Niki Neems, an Iowa City Democratic activist who pledged herself to Obama before he even announced his candidacy. “But whoever we all think stands the best chance, then let’s get out there and start door-knocking. So, for me, it’s OK to just fall in like.”

The shift among Obama’s devout supporters reflects the baggage many of them — Anchorage Daily News, Dec. 23, 2018 are carrying into the next caucus cam-

paign. For one, Iowa Democrats uniformly criticize Trump as uniquely harmful to U.S. institutions and the nation’s international standing. But there’s also a sense that Hillary Clinton’s doomed bid for the presidency began in Iowa, where Democrats didn’t warm to her in the same way they did to Obama.

Neems and others said that lack of an emotional connection contributed to Clinton only narrowly beating Bernie Sanders in Iowa in 2016, foreshadowing the trouble she’d face in taking on Trump.

Now, some Democrats say they want to pay less attention to their feelings and focus more on a candidate with a serious plan to reverse Trump’s actions.

“People can connect with someone as long as they have a vision, have big ideas, and can express them,” said Tricia Zebrowski, a retired University of Iowa professor who was among the first to pledge her support for Obama. “That’s the kind of person who can wrest the presidency from Trump.”

In fact, she speaks highly of Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, hardly a dynamic speaker on par with Obama. But Zebrowski said Klobuchar has impressed her as embodying common sense and projecting little of the ego that Trump exudes.

More than a dozen Democrats weighing 2020 presidential campaigns have already begun testing their ability to connect with Iowans. Notably, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker paced the stage at an Iowa Democratic Party fall banquet, repeatedly quoting Martin Luther King in a sermon-like speech to 1,200 of the state’s most influential party activists, officials and donors

in October.

There’s a recognition among many of Obama’s early supporters that his rise in Iowa was a unique moment in American politics, attributable in part to his own personal strengths at retail politics, his soaring oratory and his familiarity with street-level political organizing, which is key to delivering support for the caucuses.

The combination elevated the African American in the vastly white state over not just the establishment favorite, Clinton, but also former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who had spent nearly six years building goodwill, especially among rural Iowa Democrats.

Obama seemed right for the times, offering hope first during the divisive Iraq war and then a devastating financial collapse.

In 2020, Democrats will look to someone matched specifically to contrast with Trump, said Dale Todd, one of Obama’s earliest activists in the Cedar Rapids area.

“If you try to replicate it, it ends up being false,” said Todd, who also attended the commemoration this year. “The intangible was Obama.”

And while they are older and wiser, some of Obama’s first devotees say change, as it was in 2008, will again be the winning message.

“We’d be kidding ourselves if we kept looking for Obama in every single presidential hopeful,” said Deidre DeJear, Iowa Democrats’ 2018 candidate for Iowa secretary of state who worked on Obama’s 2008 campaign as a college student. “But people are ready for change. They don’t know what change looks like. But when it shows up, they know what it feels like.”

Nation

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Short on solutions, long on blame Trump EPA orders rollback of Obama in 2nd shutdown weekend

mercury regulations

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Cooped up in the White House after canceling a vacation to his private Florida club, President Donald Trump fired Twitter barbs at Democrats on Saturday as talks to end a weeklong partial government shutdown remained at a stalemate.

As the disruption in federal services and public employees’ pay appeared set to continue into the new year, there were no signs of any substantive negotiation between the blametrading parties. Trump held out for billions in federal funds for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, which Democrats have said they were intent on blocking.

Trump tweeted Saturday that he was “in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come on over and make a deal on Border Security.” But there has been little direct contact between the sides during the stalemate, and Trump did not ask Republicans, who hold a monopoly on power in Washington for another five days, to keep Congress in session.

As he called for Democrats to negotiate on the wall, Trump brushed off criticism that his administration bore any responsibility for the recent deaths of two migrant children in Border Patrol custody. Trump claimed the deaths were “strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally.” His comments on Twitter came as his Homeland Security secretary met with medical professionals and ordered policy changes meant to better protect children detained at the border.

Trump earlier had upped the brinkmanship by threatening anew to close the border with Mexico to press Congress to cave to his demand for money

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press

Tourists arrive to visit the U.S. Capitol on a rainy morning in Washington, Friday, during a partial government shutdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

to pay for a wall. Democrats are vowing to pass legislation restoring the government as soon as they take control of the House on Thursday, but that won’t accomplish anything unless Trump and the Republicancontrolled Senate go along with it.

Talks have been at a stalemate for more than a week, after Democrats said the White House offered to accept $2.5 billion for border security last Saturday. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer told Vice President Mike Pence that it wasn’t acceptable, nor was it guaranteed that Trump, under intense pressure from his conservative base to fulfill his signature campaign promise, would settle for that amount.

Trump has remained out of the public eye since returning to the White House early Thursday from a 29-hour visit to U.S. troops in Iraq, instead taking to Twitter to attack Democrats. He also moved to defend himself from criticism that he couldn’t deliver on the wall while the GOP controlled

both the House and Senate.

“For those that naively ask why didn’t the Republicans get approval to build the Wall over the last year, it is because IN THE SENATE WE NEED 10 DEMOCRAT VOTES, and they will gives us “NONE” for Border Security!,” he tweeted.

“Now we have to do it the hard way, with a Shutdown.”

Meanwhile, the effects to the public of the impasse grew as the Environmental Protection Agency, which had the money to function a week longer than some agencies, implemented its shutdown plan at midnight Friday night. EPA spokeswoman Molly Block said many of the agency’s 14,000 employees were being furloughed, while disaster-response teams and certain other employees deemed essential would stay on the job. That includes workers needed for preventing immediate public health threats at more than 800 Superfund hazardouswaste sites.

Also running short on money: the Smithsonian Institution, which said its museums, art

galleries and zoo in the capital will close starting midweek if the partial shutdown drags on.

But federal flood insurance policies will continue to be issued and renewed, in a reversal prompted by pressure from lawmakers, said Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

Trump appeared no closer to securing money for his signature border wall, which he vowed during the campaign that he would make Mexico pay for. He’s failed to do so.

Now Democratic leaders are adamant that they will not authorize money for the project, calling it wasteful and ineffective. They show no signs of bending, either.

The shutdown is forcing hundreds of thousands of federal workers and contractors to stay home or work without pay.

The White House has not directly engaged in weeks with the House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who has all but locked up the support she needs to win the speaker’s gavel after the new Congress convenes on Thursday.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has targeted an Obama-era regulation credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the benefits to human health and the environment may not be worth the cost of the regulation.

The 2011 Obama administration rule, called the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, led to what electric utilities say was an $18 billion clean-up of mercury and other toxins from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants.

Overall, environmental groups say, federal and state efforts have cut mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants by 85 percent in roughly the last decade.

Mercury causes brain damage, learning disabilities and other birth defects in children, among other harm. Coal power plants in this country are the largest single manmade source of mercury pollutants, which enters the food chain through fish and other items that people consume.

The proposal Friday from the Environmental Protection Agency challenges the basis for the Obama regulation. It calculates that the crackdown on mercury and other toxins from coal plants produced only a few million dollars a year in measurable health benefits and was not “appropriate and necessary” — a legal benchmark under the country’s landmark Clean Air Act. The proposal, which now goes up for public comment before any final administration approval, would leave the current mercury regulation in place.

However, the EPA said it will seek comment during a 60-day

public-review period on whether “we would be obligated to rescind” the Obama-era rule if the agency adopts Friday’s finding that the regulation was not appropriate and necessary.

Any such change would trigger new rounds in what have already been years of court battles over regulating mercury pollution from coal plants.

This move is the latest by the Trump administration that changes estimates of the costs and payoffs of regulations as part of an overhaul of Obamaera environmental protections.

It’s also the administration’s latest proposed move on behalf of the U.S. coal industry, which has been struggling in the face of competition from natural gas and other cheaper, cleaner forms of energy. The Trump administration in August proposed an overhaul for another Obama-era regulation that would have prodded electricity providers to get less of their energy from dirtier-burning coal plants.

In a statement, the EPA said Friday the administration was “providing regulatory certainty” by more accurately estimating the costs and benefits of the Obama administration crackdown on mercury and other toxic emissions from smokestacks.

Hal Quinn, head of the National Mining Association, charged in a statement Friday that the Obama administration had carried out “perhaps the largest regulatory accounting fraud perpetrated on American consumers” when it calculated that the broad health benefits to Americans would outweigh the cost of equipment upgrades by power providers.

Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, condemned the Trump administration’s move.

Trump tries to deflect blame for migrant child deaths

By NOMAAN MERCHANT, ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press

President Donald Trump sought to deflect blame for the deaths of two Guatemalan children in U.S. custody by claiming they were “very sick” when they arrived, even though immigration authorities have said both children passed initial health checks.

Meanwhile, his Homeland Security chief visited Border Patrol agents and medical officials at the southern border amid promises of more thorough health screenings for migrant children.

The president, whose administration has faced widespread criticism over the deaths, pointed on Twitter at Democrats “and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally.”

He also alleged that both

children “were very sick before they were given over to Border Patrol.”

The two tweets were his first comments on the Dec. 8 death of 7-year-old Jakelin Caal and the death on Christmas Eve of 8-year-old Felipe Gomez Alonzo.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued detailed statements about both children’s deaths.

An initial screening of Jakelin “revealed no evidence of health issues,” CBP said on Dec. 14. It wasn’t until several hours later that Jakelin’s father, Nery Caal, told agents that she was “sick and vomiting,” CBP said. Attorneys for the Caal family have also denied claims that Nery “hadn’t given her water in days,” as Trump wrote.

And CBP said Tuesday that agents logged 23 welfare checks of Felipe and his father in the first several days the two were was detained. Felipe’s father, Agustin Gomez, told a Guatemalan official that the

boy first showed signs of illness Monday morning, the day he died.

Despite Trump’s claim that Democrats were responsible for “pathetic” immigration policies, at least one of the laws his administration has blamed — legislation that prevents the immediate deportation of unaccompanied children from Central American countries — was signed in 2008 by former President George W. Bush, a Republican.

Democrats criticized the president in turn. “You slander Jakelin’s memory and re-traumatize her family by spreading lies about why she died,” said U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, of Texas.

The president’s comments came Saturday afternoon, the same day Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was in Yuma, Arizona, to meet with medical staff at the border. Nielsen said in a statement that “the system is clearly overwhelmed and we

must work together to address this humanitarian crisis.” She called on Congress to “act with urgency.”

Her office said she was briefed in El Paso, Texas, on Friday on “recently instituted secondary medical screenings and the more thorough initial health screenings of migrants.”

El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said he met with Nielsen and told CNN on Saturday that he agreed with her that the immigration policy is “broken.”

“El Paso is dealing with the symptoms as a result of the lack of fortitude in Washington, on both sides of the aisle, to deal with our immigration policy,” the Republican said.

Felipe and Agustin Gomez were apprehended by border agents Dec. 18 near the Paso del Norte bridge connecting El Paso to Juarez, Mexico, according to border officials.

The two were detained at the bridge’s processing center and then the Border Patrol

Georgia lynching marker vandalized again VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — A marker identifying the location of one of the most gruesome lynchings in Georgia history has once again been vandalized.

The Mary Turner and the Lynching Rampage historical marker was riddled with bullet holes for the second time in five years, The Valdosta Daily Times reported . In an email to the newspaper Thursday, Mary Turner Project coordinator Mark Patrick George said the marker was shot 13 times in the last two to three months.

It was shot five times in July 2013.

The marker is dedicated to 13 lynching victims killed in Lowndes and Brooks counties.

George said the Mary Turner Project is offering a $200 reward to anyone who comes forward with information about the vandalism.

“Although there is little our organization can do to stop these acts of hatred, and given we live in one of the few states that does not have hate crime laws, the Mary Turner Project is contacting members of the press and local elected officials for your assistance,” George said in an email.

Lowndes County Sheriff Ashley Paulk said a deputy met Thursday with George to document the vandalism.

Investigators have no leads regarding who shot the sign or if the vandalism was a targeted

hate crime.

“You can’t really classify it as attacking Mary Turner’s sign, so we can’t say if it’s any kind of hate crime,” Paulk said. “There’s no way to prove it or accuse somebody of it.”

When the marker was damaged five years ago, the organization also offered a $200 reward for additional information, but no one came forward.

George said neither incident of vandalism comes as a surprise, though he doesn’t want to speculate it has any ties to racism.

Mary Turner was eight months pregnant when her ankles were tied and she was lynched by a mob at the Lowndes-Brooks county line

in 1918. Her husband was one of the 13 lynching victims commemorated by the marker.

Turner’s outcry over her husband’s death led to her lynching.

“It’s interesting that this has been a target at least twice,” George said. “We treat this as a sacred place because this is where she was killed, and this was basically her tombstone because her body was never recovered. What people are desecrating is basically a tombstone.”

An annual commemoration service is held in May, and the Mary Turner Project is still active in remembering the lynchings.

station in El Paso, until being taken at about 1 a.m. Sunday to a facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico, about 90 miles away.

After an agent noticed Felipe coughing, father and son were taken to an Alamogordo hospital, where Felipe was diagnosed with a common cold and found to have a fever of 103 degrees Fahrenheit, officials have said.

Felipe was held for observation for 90 minutes, according to CBP, before being released with prescriptions for amoxicillin and ibuprofen.

But the boy fell sick hours later Monday and was readmitted to the hospital. He died just before midnight.

New Mexico authorities said late Thursday that an autopsy showed Felipe had the flu, but more tests need to be done before a cause of death can be determined.

CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said this week that prior to this month, no

child had died in their custody in more than a decade.

Trump threatened via Twitter the previous day to cut off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in Central America’s so-called Northern Triangle region. He has made similar threats in the past without following through.

The government of El Salvador is pushing back against Trump’s assertion it doesn’t do enough to stem migration north to the United States.

The Central American nation says it has made strides in economic and social improvements to try to tamp down the root causes of the phenomenon.

A statement released Saturday said that the Salvadoran government has pushed a media campaign urging its citizens not to risk their lives making the dangerous journey, and especially not to expose children. It says migration from the country has fallen significantly this year.

Around the Nation Nebraska center monitors person for possible Ebola exposure OMAHA, Neb. — An American who was providing medical assistance in Congo may have been exposed to the deadly Ebola virus and is being monitored at a Nebraska medical center.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha confirmed Saturday that it was housing the person in a secure area that is not accessible to other patients or the public.

Spokesman Taylor Wilson says the person arrived Saturday afternoon.

The medical center is not providing any details to honor the person’s request for privacy. The facility also is not identifying the person as a patient or when the person was in Africa.

Officials say the person is not ill and has no Ebola symptoms but will be monitored for up to two weeks.

— Associated Press

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Yemen’s rebels say Russian and Turkish they left Hodeida ministers meet for Syria talks port, claim disputed

By MATTHEW BODNER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press

MOSCOW — Top Russian and Turkish ministers agreed during a meeting in Moscow on Saturday to maintain cooperation in northern Syria as U.S. forces prepare to withdraw and Turkey threatens to launch a military operation against U.S.backed Kurdish forces controlling nearly a third of the country.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said before the talks began that they would focus on the situation in and around Idlib, as well as “what can and should be done” when the U.S. withdraws from Syria.

After the meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters that much of the discussion focused on the pending U.S. withdrawal, and that Russia and Turkey managed to agree on coordinating their steps in Syria “to ultimately eradicate the terrorist threat.”

Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency said the meeting lasted an hour and a half.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Russia and Turkey have a “shared will on cleaning Syria from all terror organizations,” and added Turkey would continue its “close cooperation” with Russia and Iran in Syria and the region.

The Syrian military said it entered the Kurdish stronghold of Manbij on Friday as part of

SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s Shiite rebels on Saturday said they handed over control of the main port in the Red Sea city of Hodeida to the coast guard and local administrators, but the government denied that, calling it a ploy by the Iran-aligned rebels to maintain control of the strategic facility.

The handover was supposed to be the first in a series of confidence-building measures agreed to in Sweden that could pave the way for a political settlement of Yemen’s 4-year-old war pitting the rebels known as Houthis against the internationally recognized government backed since 2015 by a Saudiled coalition.

But the pro-government Sabaa news agency quoted what it called an official source as saying the Houthis’ assertion about giving up the port was an attempt to sidestep the Sweden agreement.

“We cannot accept these violations, which will lead to the failure of the agreement,” the agency quoted the source as saying.

Military and local Hodeida officials loyal to the government said the Houthis had taken advantage of their control of the city to place loyalist administrators and fighters in both the port management and the coast guard.

“It’s a stage play in which the Houthis handed over the port to their fighters after they put on

In this photo taken late Friday, Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army soldiers gather near the northern Syrian city of Manbij. Syria’s military announced Friday that it entered the flashpoint Kurdish-held town of Manbij, where Turkey has threatened an offensive and raised the national flag there. (DHA via AP)

an apparent agreement between the two sides. The Kurds are looking for new allies to protect against a threatened Turkish offensive as U.S. forces prepare to leave.

With President Donald Trump’s surprise decision to withdraw troops earlier this month, Turkey announced it will hold off on a threatened offensive against Kurdish militants that it considers terror-

ists. It has, however, continued amassing troops at the border as it monitors the situation.

The movements follow days of equipment transfers across the border into a Turkish-held area of northern Syria near Manbij. Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters said they have started moving along with Turkish troops to front-line positions near the town as a show of readiness.

A statement released by the rebels said they are ready to “begin military operations to liberate the city in response to calls by our people in the city of Manbij.”

Turkish news agency IHA showed video of at least 50 tanks arriving at a command post in Sanliurfa province early Saturday. The province borders Kurdish-held areas east of the Euphrates river in Syria.

Congo’s top archbishop pleads for peace on eve of election

By MATHILDE BOUSSION Associated Press

KINSHASA, Congo — Congo’s top archbishop on Saturday urged peace on the eve of the country’s long-delayed presidential election , saying differences of opinion are no reason to “light the country on fire.” Hours later, the leading candidates failed to agree on a guarantee for a peaceful vote.

The archbishop of Kinshasa, Fridolin Ambongo, held a Mass in the capital attended by leading opposition candidate Martin Fayulu and a representative of ruling party candidate Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary.

They and sole female candidate Marie-Josee Ifoku held hands during prayer in a spirit of reconciliation.

“Unfortunately, some of our compatriots give the impression they want to hold the country hostage to violence,” the archbishop told the congregation. “In no case will we permit these elections to become

another opportunity to destroy Congo and shed the blood of Congolese who have bled too much for decades already.”

He also criticized the surprise decision by Congo’s electoral commission to bar some 1 million people from voting because of a deadly Ebola virus outbreak, calling it a “denial of justice.”

The residents of Beni and Butembo cities now must vote in March, long after Congo’s new president is inaugurated.

Protests followed Wednesday’s announcement, and Congo’s health ministry and the World Health Organization said crucial virus containment work was suspended. The WHO chief warned against “prolonged insecurity,” saying a rise in new cases could follow.

In the sharpest statement yet by health workers, the International Rescue Committee on Saturday said it was forced to suspend Ebola response work, accusing Congo’s electoral commission of politicizing the outbreak.

“It is unacceptable that this disease is being used as a political ploy, putting aid workers in immediate danger,” the group’s vice president Bob Kitchen said, pointing out that the affected cities have large numbers of opposition supporters.

The election delay surprised many. Congo’s health ministry had said precautions were in place to allow people in the outbreak zone to vote, with electoral authorities involved in discussions. The opposition calls the delay the latest attempt by the ruling party to ensure that departing President Joseph Kabila’s preferred successor, Shadary, is elected.

“Our brothers and sisters in Beni and Butembo say they feel betrayed and abandoned by their leaders and they are right in doing so,” Kinshasa’s archbishop said. The Catholic church in Congo has been an outspoken critic of delays in the election, which was meant to take place in late 2016.

Sunday’s vote could bring Congo’s first peaceful, demo-

cratic transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960.

Later on Saturday, however, the three leading candidates and the electoral commission could not agree on the terms of a guarantee for a peaceful vote.

Fayulu and another opposition coalition led by Felix Tshisekedi said the electoral commission should guarantee that voting will take place in all polling stations, including in Beni and Butembo and a third community, Yumbi, that recently had deadly ethnic clashes.

They said it should guarantee that all political parties’ witnesses are allowed to monitor the election and that voting results will be counted by hand.

Congo for the first time is using voting machines, which the opposition worries could open the door to manipulation.

Neither the electoral commission nor Shadary signed a guarantee with those conditions. “You can see the collusion between the two,” Fayulu said.

coast guard uniforms,” said the Hodeida governor, al-Hassan Taher.

The rebels control most of northern Yemen, including the capital of Sanaa, while their foes control much of the south, including the Arabian Sea port city of Aden, where the exiled government is located.

The two sides have observed a cease-fire in Hodeida for more than a week, ending months of fierce fighting between the two sides for control of the city. A U.N. team led by retired Dutch Maj. Gen. Patrick Cammaert arrived last week in the city to monitor the cease-fire.

Some 70 percent of Yemen’s imports come through Hodeida, and the Sweden deal is designed in part to facilitate the arrival of relief supplies to push Yemen back from the brink of famine. The fighting has killed tens of thousands of people, and has driven millions to hunger. The U.N. calls it the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.

The two sides also agreed in Sweden to exchange prisoners of war in a deal involving thousands captured from both sides.

The implementation of that deal is yet to begin and may run into difficulties.

Government officials maintain that the Houthis are denying the presence in their detention facilities of nearly 3,000 people among a total of some 8,500 prisoners whose names were submitted to the rebels.

Chinese court orders new trial for Canadian in drug case BEIJING (AP) — A Canadian convicted of drug trafficking in China faces the possibility of more serious charges after a court on Saturday ordered a new trial amid tensions over Canada’s arrest of a Chinese technology executive.

Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was tried in 2016. But his case has been publicized by the Chinese press following the Dec. 1 arrest of the chief financial officer of tech giant Huawei on U.S. charges related to trading with Iran.

Since then, China has arrested two Canadians on charges of endangering national security in what appeared to be retaliation.

A Canadian teacher was detained but released.

An appeals court agreed with prosecutors who said Schellenberg was punished too leniently when he was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of being an accessory to drug smuggling.

Evidence showed it was possible he played an “important role,” said the announcement by the Higher People’s Court of the northeastern province of Liaoning. It ordered the court in the city of Dalian to try the case again.

Authorities have released no details of the accusations against Schellenberg.

In a statement Saturday, the Canadian government said it has been following the case.

“Global Affairs Canada has been following of this case for several years and has been providing consular assistance to the Canadian citizen since they were first detained in Liaoning, China,” spokesman Richard Walker said. “We will continue to provide consular services to them and their family.”

The Canadian government said earlier it was following the case but has released no details.

The maximum penalty for drug trafficking in China is death.

In 2009, China executed a Briton, Akmal Shaikh, on charges of smuggling heroin despite his supporters’ protest that he was mentally ill.

Egypt says its security forces killed 40 militants

By HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press

CAIRO — Egypt said Saturday its security forces have killed 40 militants in raids on their hideouts in the Sinai Peninsula and the Greater Cairo area, just hours after a roadside bomb targeted a tourist bus in the capital, killing three Vietnamese tourists and their Egyptian guide.

In a Saturday statement, the Interior Ministry, which oversees the police, said 10 of the militants were killed when the security forces stormed their hideout in el-Arish, a coastal city in the turbulent north of Sinai, epicenter of a long-running insurgency by Islamists.

Another 14 were killed in the Cairo suburb of October 6 and 16 more in a housing project on a highway heading west from Cairo. The statement said the militants were preparing for attacks on government and

Security forces stand near a tourist bus after a roadside bomb in an area near the Giza Pyramids in Cairo, Egypt, Friday. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

tourism facilities, army and police personnel, as well as Christian churches.

The ministry also released a series of images purportedly depicting some of the militants

killed in the raids, with assault rifles seen next to their bloodied bodies.

The statement did not say when the raids took place, suggesting that the timing of its

release was designed at least in part to show that security forces were scoring successes against militants across the country and staunch potential criticism of their perceived failure to protect tourists.

The area where the attack took place — Marioutiyah, near the famed Giza Pyramids — has seen a series of attacks over the past two years, mostly targeting the police. It is also widely suspected of being home to jihadist cells loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group removed from power by the military in 2013 after its divisive rule lasted one year.

Friday night’s attack took place as Egypt’s vital tourism industry was showing encouraging signs of recovery after years in the doldrums because of the political turmoil and violence that followed a 2011 uprising that toppled an autocratic president. The revival of the

labor-intensive sector has been warmly welcomed in a country whose economy is struggling to find its footing, with a series of ambitious reforms unleashing wave after wave of steep price rises.

The attack is also likely to prompt authorities to further tighten security around tourists and the facilities they frequent — hotels, museums, antiquity sites and bazaars — during the busy holiday season.

Security measures already cause long delays at the country’s airports and antiquity sites. Tourist buses routinely get a police escort and Egyptians are generally subjected to even more stringent security checks at tourist facilities.

There will likely be stepped up security measures for churches and associated facilities ahead of the New Year’s Eve celebrations and next month’s Christmas of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the

dominant denomination among Egypt’s estimated 10 million Christians.

Egypt has battled Islamic militants for years in the Sinai Peninsula in an insurgency that has occasionally spilled over to the mainland, striking minority Christians or tourists. However, Friday’s attack was the first to target foreign tourists in almost two years.

Over the past two years, militant attacks against Christians in Egypt — usually targeting churches or buses carrying pilgrims to remote desert monasteries — have killed over a hundred people, prompting authorities to introduce metal detectors and body searches outside churches.

In some churches, guards demand to see proof that visitors are Christians, often in the form of the cross tattooed on the right wrist that many Egyptian Christians get in their infancy.

Business

Wall Street faces annual losses despite solid gains for week

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer

Wall Street capped a week of volatile trading Friday with an uneven finish and the market’s first weekly gain since November.

Losses in technology, energy and industrial stocks outweighed gains in retailers and other consumer-focused companies. Stocks spent much of the day wavering between small gains and losses, ultimately unable to maintain the momentum from a two-day winning streak.

Even so, the major stock indexes closed with their first weekly gain in what’s been an otherwise painful last month of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 rose more than 2 percent for the week, while the Nasdaq added nearly 4 percent. The indexes are still all down around 10 percent for the month and on track for their worst December since 1931.

“It seems like convulsions in either direction have been the real norm for much of December and that’s certainly been the case this week,” said Eric Wiegand senior portfolio manager for Private Wealth Management at U.S. Bank. “The initial push higher and then seeing it subside a little bit is perhaps getting back to a little bit more of a normal environment, reflecting the reality that we have still a number of issues overhanging the market.”

The market’s sharp downturn since October has intensified this month, erasing all its 2018 gains and nudging the S&P 500 closer to its worst year since 2008.

Investors have grown worried that the testy U.S.-China trade dispute and higher interest

Trader Craig Esposito works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday. Stocks are opening higher Friday as U.S. markets try to maintain the momentum from a late-day rally on Thursday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

rates would slow the economy, hurting corporate profits. This week, with trading volumes lower than usual because of the Christmas holiday, served up some pronounced swings in the market.

A steep sell-off during the shortened trading session on Christmas Eve left the major indexes down more than 2 percent. On Wednesday, stocks mounted a stunning rebound, posting the market’s best day in 10 years as the Dow shot up more than 1,000 points for its biggest single-day point gain ever.

The market appeared ready to give much of those gains back on Thursday, before a lateafternoon reversal that erased a 600-point drop in the Dow left the market with a two-day win-

ning streak.

“The market was so oversold and then Wednesday and Thursday were key reversal days, but also stronger closes than opens,” said Janet Johnston, portfolio manager at TrimTabs Asset Management.

“The market was starting to price in the worst-case scenario: a recession,” Johnston said Still, the market’s downturn has left stocks substantially less expensive than they were heading into the fourth quarter, Johnston noted.

“And that sets up a good buying opportunity,” she said.

On Friday, the S&P 500 index fell 3.09 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,485.74. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 76.42 points, or 0.3 percent, to 23,062.40. The

average had briefly climbed to 243 points.

The Nasdaq added 5.03 points, or 0.1 percent, to 6,584.52. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks climbed 6.11 points, or 0.5 percent, 1,337.92.

Technology companies, a big driver of the market’s gains before things deteriorated in October, were among the big decliners. Alliance Data Systems dropped 1.4 percent to $149.82.

Oil prices recovered after wavering in midmorning trading. Benchmark U.S. crude rose 1.6 percent to settle at $45.33 a barrel in New York.

Brent crude, used to price international oils, inched up 0.1 percent to close at $52.20 a barrel in London.

Peninsula Clarion | Sunday, December 30, 2018 | A7

Tesla names independent board members in SEC settlement NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla named two independent board members Friday as part of a settlement with U.S. regulators who demanded more oversight of CEO Elon Musk.

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Kathleen WilsonThompson, an executive vice president at Walgreens Boots Alliance, join the board as independent directors, effective immediately.

Musk got into trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission in early August when he said in a tweet that he had “funding secured” to take the electric car company private at $420 per share.

The SEC accused Musk of committing securities fraud, saying that the funding had not been secured and that he had duped investors who drove shares of Tesla up by 11 percent on the day of the tweet. Several weeks later, Musk said the goprivate deal was off.

Regulators initially wanted to force Musk out of his job as CEO, but agreed to accept $20 million in penalties from both Musk and Tesla. Musk did agree to step down as chairman for at least three years, but acknowledged now wrong-doing.

Despite the agreement, Musk has continued to clash with regulators.

Just days after settling the case, Musk taunted the government via Twitter, referring to the SEC as the “Shortseller Enrichment Commission.”

Musk has had a long-running feud with short sellers, a category of investors that have bet that the price of Tesla stock will fall.

So far, Musk is winning that fight. Shares of Tesla Inc. are up more than 20 percent since his clash with the SEC.

Tesla named Australian telecommunications executive Robyn Denholm as board chairwoman last month as part of its agreement with the SEC. Although Denholm brings much-needed financial and auto industry expertise to Tesla — which has struggled to produce cars and make money — there hasn’t been a marked change in Musk’s unorthodox behavior, at least when compared with other chief executives at major corporations that are publicly traded.

Tesla shares slumped 6 percent in early September after Musk was seen appearing to smoke marijuana during an interview that made the rounds on YouTube.

Earlier this month, Musk also dismissed the idea that Denholm could exert control over his behavior, saying in an interview with “60 Minutes” that “It’s not realistic in the sense that I am the largest shareholder in the company.”

And Ellison, one of the most recognizable names in Silicon Valley, revealed in October that not only was Tesla his second largest investment, but also that he and Musk are close.

“I’m very close friends with Elon Musk, and I’m a big investor in Tesla,” Ellison said.

One other thing required of Tesla by the SEC as part of the settlement is that somebody vet Musk’s tweets and other comments about the company before they are released to the public. Musk also shrugged off that provision, saying none of his tweets have been censored so far and the company does not review his posts to determine beforehand whether they could potentially affect the company’s stock price.

A8 | Sunday , December 30, 2018 | Peninsula Clarion

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Kenai/ Soldotna 34/31 Seward 40/38 Homer 43/39

Talkeetna 30/26 Glennallen 29/26

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.03" Month to date ............................ 1.84" Normal month to date .............. 1.28" Year to date ............................ 20.89" Normal year to date ............... 18.14" Record today ................. 0.38" (1974) Record for Dec. ............. 3.96" (1988) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. .. 0.3" Month to date ........................... 12.5" Season to date ......................... 13.1"

Anchorage 32/30

Bethel 35/30

Valdez Kenai/ 32/26 Soldotna Homer

Dillingham 38/34

Juneau 36/35

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Sitka 41/39

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B Sunday, December 30, 2018

SoHi girls capture Clarke Cochrane crown Stars complete undefeated weekend in Ketchikan with title game victory over 4A opponent Lathrop Staff report Peninsula Clarion

The Soldotna girls won’t be coming home empty-handed from their weekend trip to Ketchikan.

The Stars capped a 3-0 weekend Saturday night with the girls championship in the Clarke Cochrane Christmas Classic, defeating Class 4A opponent Lathrop in the final 43-34.

With the variety of defenses and offensive styles the team saw each night, SoHi head coach Kyle McFall dubbed it a valuable experience.

“We handled adversity well, and it serves this team well, especially at night,” McFall said. “It was a big crowd, a big atmosphere and (Lath-

rop) kind of hit us in the mouth a little from the start. It took a little while for the girls to calm their nerves.”

Down 34-33 entering the final quarter, the Stars finished on a furious defensive clampdown, holding the Malamutes scoreless over the final eight minutes while scoring the final 10 points of the game to secure the victory.

Danica Schmidt kickstarted the final run with a 3-pointer and finished the night with 11 points. SoHi senior Brittani Blossom led the offense with 14 points and Ituau Tuisaula had 10.

Lathrop’s Jordyn Johnson made life tough for SoHi with 17 points, including four 3’s.

McFall credited the consistency the

Stars showed all weekend, pointing to Blossom’s offensive production and the tough defense played by Schmidt and Tuisaula, the latter of which held Lathrop’s top post player to two points.

“It’s just that the whole town comes out,” McFall said about the boisterous atmosphere. “They’re really supportive.”

A slow start by both teams resulted in the Malamutes holding an early 9-6 lead, but both squads heated up. Blossom poured in 11 points herself in the second quarter, but Lathrop led 28-23 at halftime.

end with a loss to Bishop Blanchet (Oregon) to take sixth place in the boys tournament with a 1-2 record.

A day after his big 35-point performance against Metlakatla, SoHi junior Jersey Truesdell finished Saturday with 14 points to lead the Stars offense, while Ray Chumley chipped in 10. Lester Sauvale scored a game-high 25 for Bishop Blanchet on seven 3’s.

Bishop Blanchet led 25-21 over SoHi at halftime and 40-36 after three quarters, but the Braves pulled away in the fourth by outscoring SoHi 15-6.

loss to Metlakatla, giving the Bulldogs eighth place at the Ketchikan tournament.

Joe Floyd Christmas Classic The Ninilchik boys and girls teams finished up play Saturday in Kodiak with losses to larger teams, finishing the weekend a combined 0-7.

The Ninilchik boys lost to North Pole 64-62 in overtime. Garrett Koch poured in 31 points for Ninilchik, hitting 10 of 11 free throws, but Alex Garcia one-upped Koch with a gamehigh 39 points for North Pole by sinking seven 3-pointers.

Bishop Blanchet boys 55, Metlakatla boys 53, Nikiski 50 The Patriots got out to a fast start Soldotna 42 The Nikiski boys wrapped up an at 24-13, but the Wolverines rallied in The SoHi boys finished the week- 0-3 weekend Saturday with a close See TITLE, page B4

SoHi boys play Bama and Clemson, Round 3 OT once again Staff report Peninsula Clarion

For the second time in two days, the Soldotna boys hoops team went to overtime, but on this occasion came out with the victory.

The SoHi boys won 66-60 in double overtime Friday over Metlakatla at the Clarke Cochrane Christmas Classic tournament in Ketchikan, making it three overtime periods the Stars have played in two days.

SoHi lost 56-54 in Thursday’s overtime contest to Philomath, Oregon.

The win advanced the Stars to Saturday’s fourth-place game against Bishop Blanchet, which defeated Nikiski 57-29.

SoHi junior Jersey Truesdell poured in 35 points for the Stars, including 20 of his team’s 26 points in the fourth quarter after starting with just eight points through three quarters. Truesdell was hot from 3-point land, hitting eight shots from beyond the arc.

Brock Kant also pitched in 17 for SoHi. Metlakatla broke open a tight game in the third quarter by outscoring SoHi 20-4, giv-

F riday H oops ing the Chiefs a 39-24 lead, but the Stars turned up the wick in the fourth by winning the final eight minutes 26-11, forcing OT with things tied at 50-all.

Both teams finished the extra period still tied at 58 apiece before SoHi finished it out with an 8-2 double OT period.

Soldotna girls 61, Thunder Mountain 40 In Friday’s girls bracket, Soldotna won the first girls tournament semifinal over Thunder Mountain, setting up the Stars for Saturday’s championship game against Lathrop, which defeated Ketchikan 5821 in Friday’s other semifinal.

Ituau Tuisaula and Brittani Blossom used different styles to lead the Stars in scoring, with Tuisaula netting a game-high 24 points on 11 buckets, while Blossom sunk five 3-pointers to finish with 21.

See HOOPS, page B4

Decision time for Murray Baseball or football?

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Kyler Murray had it all working: Pinpoint throws, speedy feet and unflappable resolve all the way to the finish.

If this was his football finale, it was a gem.

Murray threw for 308 yards and two touchdowns, rushed for another 109 and another touchdown, led Oklahoma to scores on its final six possessions — sans for a 25-second one to end the first half — and it still wasn’t enough. The Heisman Trophy winner isn’t going to play in the national championship game, after top-ranked Alabama downed fourth-ranked

Oklahoma 45-34 in the Orange Bowl on Saturday night.

So now Murray can begin contemplating his career plan a week earlier than he hoped.

Baseball or football? A massive decision awaits.

“I haven’t really thought about it right now,” Murray said a half-hour after the game, still in his grass-stained uniform and with a big welt forming under his left eye. “Sorry about that.”

The way the Sooners see it, it’s a win-win decision for Murray.

“He’s either going to be a major league baseball star or he’s going to be a Pro Bowler,” Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said. “He just needs to decide which one.”

Clemson cornerback A.J. Terrell (8), safety Nolan Turner (24) and safety Isaiah Simmons (11) celebrate a interception thrown by Notre Dame quarterback Ian Book (12) in the second half of the NCAA Cotton Bowl semi-final playoff football game, Saturday in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter)

Tide and Tigers roll to big wins in college semifinals

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer

Alabama and Clemson, again.

The top-ranked Crimson Tide and No. 2 Tigers both had double-digit victories in their semifinal games Saturday, setting up what has quickly become an annual postseason meeting. They will meet in the College Football Playoff for the fourth consecutive year, the third time in the championship game.

And the winner this time will become the first 15-0 FBS champion.

Alabama-Clemson Part IV, Nick Saban vs. Dabo Swinney, comes Jan. 7 on the opposite side of the country for both teams.

The national title will be at the home stadium of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers

in Santa Clara, California.

This matchup has seemed inevitable since the Tide and Tigers started the season ranked 1-2. They will also likely finish that way, like they did two seasons ago when they also began the season as the top two teams in the AP Top 25.

Both have regularly been winning games by wide margins this year.

Clemson freshman Trevor Lawrence threw for 327 yards and three touchdowns as the ACC champion Tigers beat No. 3 Notre Dame 30-3 in the Cotton Bowl.

“Phenomenal night,” Swinney said.

Alabama jumped out to a 28-0 lead on way to its 45-34 win in the Orange Bowl over Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray

Alabama running back Damien Harris (34) scores a touchdown, during the first half of the Orange Bowl NCAA college football game against Oklahoma, Saturday in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

and Big 12 champion Oklahoma.

“Really proud of our team. It’s a great win for us,” Saban said.

“Oklahoma has got a great program and a great team, a great offensive team for sure, a lot of

weapons, a lot of firepower.”

Before Alabama had to rally to beat Georgia 35-28 in the SEC championship game, the closest margin for the Crimson Tide had See PLAYOFFS, page B4

Brown Bears forge split with Jets to close out 2018 Staff report Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai River Brown Bears returned from their 13-day holiday break to forge a weekend split in Janesville, Wisconsin, beating the North American Hockey League division opponent Jets 5-4 on Friday before losing 3-2 on Saturday.

It was a promising sign of things to come in 2019 for Brown Bears head coach Josh Petrich.

“It’s tough for these kids to get good ice and keep pace,” Petrich said.

“For us to come out and get the jump (on Friday) is big … At the end of the day, we got the two points. To end up with two points in a tough building, you couldn’t ask for more.”

The Brown Bears are 3-2-0-1 against the Jets this year, including a 3-1 record in Janesville’s own build-

ing, which Petrich said is a tough place to win at.

“It has been six playoff hockey games this year against them,” he said.

“To beat them in their building is a big deal.”

In Friday’s tilt, a power play goal

by Alex Klekotka with under three minutes left pushed the Bears to a 5-4 victory.

Saturday, Klekotka again provided the late drama, but it wasn’t enough to muster a win for a weekend sweep.

Klekotka cut the Jets lead to 3-2 with 17:52 to play in the final period, but the Bears missed several late chances to tie it, including a “grade-A” chance with about 20 seconds left, according to Petrich.

“We dug ourselves a hole, but we outchanced them and couldn’t get the right bounce,” he said. “I’m excited for the second half of the year.”

Petrich said the two-week break did wonders for the banged-up Bears, who played 11 games in 22 days from Nov. 23 to Dec. 15.

“Those 11 games are gruesome on the body,” Petrich said. “Eleven games in three weeks is absolutely crazy.”

The Brown Bears (12-17-2-2) sit fourth in the NAHL Midwest Division with 28 points, 10 behind third-place Fairbanks, which lost Saturday night.

The Minnesota Magicians lead the division with 44 points.

An early tripping call on Kenai River hurt the team’s chances Saturday, as the Jets opened the scoring 4:25 into the game on a power play goal by Jack Vincent, then tallied another one just 1:17 later to make it 2-0 Janesville.

Sebastian Frantz scored on the power play for Kenai River midway through the second period to cut the gap to 2-1, but the Jets answered back

a few minutes later to build the edge to 3-1.

Two minutes into the third period, Klekotka struck for the third time in two games, but the Bears couldn’t find the answer to tying it, even while outshooting Janesville 10 to 3 in the period.

In Friday’s game, Kenai River’s Sutton McDonald and Trey LeBarge each lit the lamp twice to lead the Brown Bears, who snapped a fourgame losing skid, their first win since Dec. 6 against the Minnesota Magicians, also on the road.

Klekotka’s go-ahead goal came shortly after Janesville’s Justin Engelkes was called for tripping with 3:06 left in the game, the Jets’ first penalty of the night. The Brown Bears made the Jets pay with the go-ahead goal by Klekotka on the power play with 2:52 remaining.

“He just’s an absolute shooter,” Petrich said about Klekotka. “He had pucks last night that I wanted him to shoot, and I told him, ‘You’re a shooter, so shoot it. Tonight, that’s why.

“I expect him to have a big second half.”

LeBarge notched his first two goals of the season early, the first coming just 47 seconds in and the second at the 3:22 mark of the first. Markus Komuls assisted on both goals to up his season tally to 15, tied for second on the team.

The Bears added LeBarge to the roster Dec. 7 and the new skater has thus far recorded four points in six games with Kenai River. Petrich said the acquisition of LeBarge along with another skater in Sebastian Frantz (acquired Dec. 14) will hopefully See BEARS, page B4

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Lawrence leads Clemson to win over Notre Dame

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer

ARLINGTON, Texas — When Clemson’s Dabo Swinney entrusted a team with championship aspirations to freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence in September, this is what the Tigers’ coach had in mind.

Lawrence threw for 327 yards and three touchdowns and No. 2 Clemson beat No. 3 Notre Dame 30-3 on Saturday in the Cotton Bowl to reach the College Football Playoff title game.

The Tigers (14-0) will play No. 1 Alabama — a 45-34 winner over No. 4 Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl — for a fourth straight season in the playoff on Jan. 7 in Santa Clara, California.

“He’s just so poised. He just sees it. And he’s got a gift of an arm,” Swinney said. “But I

just love his humility and how consistent he is with his preparation, day in and day out. Easy, easy guy to coach. Easy guy to get behind and support. His teammates love him.”

Clemson’s overpowering and experienced defensive line, led by ends Clelin Ferrell and Austin Bryant, smothered Ian Book and the Fighting Irish (12-1), holding them to 248 yards.

On offense, freshmen led the way. Lawrence, making his 10th career start, was 27 for 39 and did not throw an interception against a Notre Dame defense that had been one of the best on the country. Freshman receiver Justyn Ross had six catches for 148 yards and two long touchdowns.

“It makes it a lot easier on me when you just have guys all around you who are such great players and

take that load off of you. There’s not much pressure when you have guys this good playing around you,” Lawrence said.

The Irish hung around for a quarter, with the teams exchanging field goals. But in the first quarter, Notre Dame All-America cornerback Julian Love went out with what coach Brian Kelly said after the game was a head injury and Lawrence started taking apart the Irish.

Lawrence hooked up with Ross deep down the sideline and the big receiver beat Love’s backup, Donte Vaughn, for a tackle-breaking, 52-yard score early in the second quarter. The Irish looked as if they might keep it close to halftime, but they couldn’t keep Clemson out of their backfield — even without suspended star tackle Dexter Lawrence.

In the final 2 minutes, Trevor

Lawrence connected with Ross on a 42-yard score and with Tee Higgins for a one-handed, 19-yard touchdown reception — again over Vaughn — with 2 seconds left in the second quarter. Lawrence was 13 for 15 for 229 yards in the quarter.

“I wanted to help our team,” said Love, who passed concussion protocol at halftime and returned to the game. “And in a sense, I let them down in that regard.”

That made it 23-3 at half and once again the Fighting Irish looked outclassed against the best of the best. Not so different from the 42-14 loss to Alabama in the 2012 BCS championship game or the 44-28 loss to Ohio State in the 2016 Fiesta Bowl.

In fact, Notre Dame is 0-8 in BCS and New Year’s Six games since winning the Cotton Bowl in 1993.

Receiver Miles Boykin in-

sisted this Notre Dame team was different.

“I thought we played just as athletic as them and just as fast as them and it came down to execution and we didn’t execute today,” he said.

Though to be fair, Clemson has been doing this to everyone since Lawrence settled in. The Tigers haven’t had an opponent stay within 20 points since a close call against Syracuse on Sept. 29.

That was Lawrence’s first game as a starter, one he didn’t finish because of a head injury, and Clemson’s first after quarterback Kelly Bryant left the team.

Bryant, a senior, led the Tigers to the playoff last season and a semifinal loss to Alabama. He was pivotal in an early victory this season at Texas A&M. But Lawrence is a rare

talent, a potential first overall NFL draft pick. When Lawrence took over, the ceiling on Clemson’s potential rose. Now it is being realized.

“I felt like he gave us the best chance to win and play at an explosive level,” Swinney said.

With his flowing blond hair, Lawrence is positioned to become one of college football’s biggest and most recognizable stars. It will help to have receivers such as Ross, Higgins and Amari Rogers, all underclassmen. And a runner like sophomore Travis Etienne, who broke a 62-yard touchdown run in the third quarter.

But Lawrence is the leader.

In his 11th start, he will try to become the first true freshman quarterback to lead his team to a national championship since Oklahoma’s Jamelle Holieway in 1985.

Crimson Tide too much for Sooners in Orange Bowl

By STEVEN WINE AP Sports Writer

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — This season’s Alabama juggernaut has yet to be stopped, and Oklahoma’s shaky defense sure wasn’t going to get in the way.

Maybe Clemson can.

Tua Tagovailoa threw for 318 yards and four touchdowns and No. 1-ranked Alabama beat No. 4 Oklahoma 45-34 on Saturday night in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Orange Bowl .

The high-scoring Sooners reached the semifinal despite a porous defense that was no match for Alabama’s diverse attack, and the defending champion Crimson Tide led 28-0 after only 17 minutes.

Alabama (14-0) advanced to the national championship game for the fourth consecutive season and will

play Jan. 7 in Santa Clara, California against familiar foe Clemson, which beat Notre Dame 30-3 in the Cotton Bowl. The Tigers, ranked No. 2, and Alabama will face off in the playoffs for the fourth year in a row, and have split two title games.

“They’ve got a great program and a great team,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said. “I’m sure it’ll be a great challenge for us, and I’m sure we’ll need to play better than we did today.”

Saban spiked his headset during one of his several sideline tirades. He lobbed oranges during the postgame celebration.

“It was more fun throwing the oranges,” he said.

Tagovailoa’s performance argued for a Florida recount in the Heisman Trophy vote. He finished as the runner-up to Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray but won sweet consolation by completing 24 of 27 passes, with scores to

four receivers.

“It’s always good to see your hard work pay off,” said Tagovailoa, who played on a sore left ankle. His completion percentage was an Orange Bowl record.

While Tagovailoa connected on his first nine passes for 184 yards, Murray was sacked twice before he threw a pass, and his first completion came with his team already down 21-0.

“The slow start got us beat,” Murray said. “It’s tough to come back from that.”

Murray had one brilliant moment, a perfect deep throw on the move to Charleston Rambo in the end zone for a 49-yard score. He passed for 308 yards and ran for 109 but took several jarring hits, including when All-America nose guard Quinnen Williams dislodged his helmet and forced him from the game for one play in the fourth quarter.

The Sooners (12-2) came up short in a bid for their first national title since the 2000 season.

“Agonizingly close,” coach Lincoln Riley said.

His team was bowled over, on one play in particular. When Robert Barnes tried to stop Josh Jacobs in the open field, the Alabama running back lowered his head for the collision and continued to the end zone for a 27yard score while the Sooners safety spun to the turf, dazed and briefly unable to get up.

“When I saw an opportunity to score, I just tried my best to score,” Jacobs said with a chuckle.

Alabama had the ball for more than 36 minutes and totaled 528 yards.

“Our offense really controlled the tempo of the game,” Saban said. “The only time we really got stopped in the game is when we stopped ourselves.”

In a matchup between the two high-

est-scoring offenses in the country, Oklahoma fell too far behind early.

On the first snap, DeVonta Smith turned Tagovailoa’s short pass into a 50-yard gain. The Crimson Tide went on to score an Orange Bowl-record 21 points in the opening quarter.

“It’s not the result we wanted or expected,” Riley said. “We had a hard time breaking their string of momentum. We dug ourselves too big a hole.”

At one point the disparity in yards was 191-0. The most noise the Sooners mustered in the early going was when linebacker Kenneth Murray talked trash with the Alabama bench — with his team trailing by three touchdowns.

The Sooners rallied and closed to within 11 points three times in the final 18 minutes. But two onside kicks failed, and Alabama ran the final 4:23 off the clock after Oklahoma’s last score.

Gators crush Michigan to capture Peach Bowl win ATLANTA (AP) — Lamical Perine had a 5-yard scoring catch and 53-yard touchdown run to lead No. 10 Florida’s strong rushing attack Saturday, helping the Gators cap their comeback season with a 4115 blowout victory over No. 8 Michigan in the Peach Bowl.

After finishing 4-7 in 2017, Florida enjoyed a dramatic turnaround in Dan Mullen’s first season as coach. Florida (10-3) closed the season with four straight victories. Michigan (10-3) closed a promising season with two straight lopsided losses.

Feleipe Franks ran and passed for touchdowns for Florida. He had a 20-yard scoring run in the second quarter and finished with 74 yards rushing on 14 carries. Franks passed for 173 yards.

Chauncey Gardner-Johnson led Florida’s defense with two interceptions, including one returned 30 yards for a touchdown with less than five minutes remaining. Gardner-JohnFlorida running back Kadarius Toney (4) leaps toward the end zone against Michigan defensive son’s first interception early in back Lavert Hill (24) during the first half of the Peach Bowl NCAA college football game, Saturthe second half, when Florida day, Dec. 29, 2018, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) led only 13-10, set the tone for

the Gators.

The Wolverines faced the unenviable task of having four top starters, including top rusher Karan Higdon and leading tackler Devin Bush, skip the game to focus on the NFL draft.

After giving up 567 yards in a 62-39 loss to Ohio State to close the regular season, Michigan’s defense again couldn’t play up to its No. 1 ranking.

Florida had 427 yards — 257 on the ground.

BELK BOWL VIRGINIA 28, SOUTH CAROLINA 0 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Bryce Perkins threw three touchdown passes to Olamide Zaccheaus, Virginia’s defense dominated and the Cavaliers beat South Carolina in the Belk Bowl for their first bowl victory since 2005.

Perkins completed 22 of 31 passes for 208 yards and ran for 81 yards to help the Cavaliers (85) ended the ACC’s longest bowl drought. Zaccheaus had 12 catches for 100 yards. Jordan Ellis ran for 106 yards and a touchdown, help-

ing Virginia hold the ball for more than 42 minutes.

The Gamecocks (7-6) were shut out for the first time since an 18-0 loss to Georgia in 2006.

ARIZONA BOWL NEVADA 16, ARKANSAS STATE 13, OT TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Reagan Roberson bulldozed through one tackler and dove into the end zone on an 11-yard catch-and-run in overtime, lifting Nevada over Arkansas State in the Arizona Bowl.

Nevada (8-5) labored against Arkansas State’s defensive front all game before coming to life late, going up 10-7 on Devonte Lee’s 1-yard touchdown run with 1:06 left.

Arkansas State (8-5) racked up 499 yards, but was 1 for 5 in the red zone with two turnovers before marching quickly down the field at the end of regulation. Blake Grupe, who had one field goal blocked and badly missed on another, drilled a 32-yarder to tie it on the final play.

Grupe opened overtime with a 24-yard field goal, but Roberson bulled his way into the end zone to send the Wolf Pack rushing onto the field.

Princeton stuns No. 17 Arizona on late free throws

By The Associated Press

TEMPE, Ariz. — Richmond Aririguzoh sank two free throws with 24.8 seconds remaining and Princeton held on to stun No. 17 Arizona State 67-66 on Saturday, a week after the Sun Devils had beaten then-No. 1 Kansas on the same floor.

The Tigers (7-5) beat a ranked opponent for the first time since a victory over then-No. 25 Harvard in 2012.

Princeton beat a top 17 team for the first time since a victory over UCLA in the NCAA Tournament in 1996.

Princeton coach Mitch Henderson was a member of that Tigers team.

In the back-and-forth contest Saturday, Arizona State (9-3) had three shots in the final seconds to win the game. But, as was the case most of the afternoon, the ball wouldn’t fall.

Romello White had 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Sun Devils, who never led by more than four points.

No. 3 TENNESSEE 96, TENNESSEE TECH 53 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grant Williams scored 25 points and went 10 of 11 from the floor to lead a strong shooting performance for Tennessee in a blowout of Tennessee Tech.

Tennessee shot a season-high 63.8 per-

cent (37 of 58), aided by 12 dunks. The Volunteers were shooting above 70 percent for much of the game before missing seven of their last eight attempts.

The Vols (11-1) have won seven straight overall and 16 consecutive home games ahead of Southeastern Conference competition next weekend.

Jr. Clay scored 16 points to lead Tennessee Tech (4-9).

dan Caroline added 17, and Nevada beat Utah.

Jazz Johnson went 4 for 4 from the beyond the arc as the Wolf Pack made 12 3s and shot 46 percent from long range.

Coming into the game, the Wolf Pack had made just 27 of their last 112 3-pint attempts.

Nevada, which forced Utah into 18 turnovers, remained just one of five undefeated NCAA Division I teams.

Martin emerged from a shooting slump No. 5 KANSAS 86, in a big way with six 3-pointers to go EASTERN MICHIGAN 63 along with seven assists and four steals.

Sedrick Barefield countered with seaLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Udoka Azubuike scored 23 points and grabbed son-best 33 points for the Utes (6-6). nine rebounds in his return from an ankle injury, and No. 5 Kansas cruised to an 87No. 8 MICHIGAN STATE 88, 63 win over Eastern Michigan.

NORTHERN ILLINOIS 60 Azubuike hit the ground running after EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Casmissing four games, scoring seven points in the first six minutes, highlighted by a sius Winston matched a career-high with couple of and-one dunks. He finished with six 3-pointers and scored 24 points, lead14 in the first half and added nine in the ing Michigan State to win over Northern Illinois. second before being sat to rest.

The Spartans (11-2) have won six The 7-footer’s presence opened things up offensively for the Jayhawks (11-1) as straight, heading into the Big Ten season.

The Huskies (7-6) have alternated bethey racked up a season-high 25 assists and had 10 players score. Quentin Grimes tween winning and losing for much of the was second on the team with 16 points, season.

Northern Illinois coach Mark Montand Devon Dotson added 15. gomery returned to the school where he played point guard from 1988-92 and was No. 6 NEVADA 86, UTAH 71 one of Tom Izzo’s assistants from 2001SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Caleb 11.

Eugene German scored 20 points and Martin scored a career-high 33 points, Jor-

Levi Bradley had 13 points for the Hus- (6-7), who have lost two straight. kies.

Ohio State shot 70.8 percent in the second half when it outscored the Panthers 45-36.

No. 12 AUBURN 95, NORTH FLORIDA 49

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Bryce Brown scored 18 points and made five 3-pointers, and Auburn raced to a victory over North Florida with a smothering defensive performance.

The Tigers (11-2) forced 33 turnovers and racked up 20 steals in their final nonconference tuneup before Southeastern Conference play.

Auburn converted those turnovers into 41 points, nearly matching the total output for North Florida (5-9).

Austin Wiley had 13 points and seven rebounds for Auburn, which had five players score in double figures. Jared Harper didn’t quite join them but had nine points and 10 assists.

No. 14 NORTH CAROLINA 82, DAVIDSON 60

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Cameron Johnson scored 17 points, Luke Maye had 11 points and 14 rebounds, and North Carolina beat Davidson.

Kenny Williams added 12 points and Garrison Brooks had 11 to help the Tar Heels (9-3) bounce back from their 80-72 loss to No. 16 Kentucky on Dec. 22 — the first time since 2014 that North Carolina had three losses before Christmas.

Freshman Nassir Little finished with 10 for UNC, which shot 44 percent, had just seven turnovers while pulling away in the final 27 minutes and led by 26 in winning its 10th in a row in the instate series.

The Tar Heels closed the first half with a 20-4 run keyed by eight points from No. 13 OHIO STATE 82, Johnson, then methodically stretched their HIGH POINT 64 lead into the 20s, going up 52-32 on Coby COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — C.J. White’s free throw with 15:29 remaining.

Jackson scored 14 of his 20 points in the second half and Kaleb Wesson added 17 WESTERN KENTUCKY 83, points as Ohio State beat High Point.

No. 15 WISCONSIN 76 Luther Muhammed had a career-high BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — 15 points to help the Buckeyes (12-1) get Dalano Banton nearly had a triple-double their sixth consecutive win.

Ricky Madison scored 12 points and and Western Kentucky rode the freshman See NCAA, page B4 Curtis Holland III had 11 for the Panthers

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Sports Briefs Mariners pen letter on firing of Martin SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners say they fired highperformance director Lorena Martin this season in part because she created a hostile work environment and ignored recommended treatments for injured players issued by team doctors.

The Mariners’ claims were revealed in a filing in King County Superior Court in response to Martin’s lawsuit against the team filed earlier this month. The club’s response was an eight-page, weeks-old letter originally filed in an attempt to have her situation settled in private arbitration, but it became public after it was attached to a motion filed by Martin’s attorney.

The Mariners say unnamed employees had warned general manager Jerry Dipoto last March that Martin was ignoring medical advice on treatment of injured players and that she was misrepresenting herself “as a medical doctor to other MLB teams’ staff.”

The team also said it had received “overwhelming and accumulating” employee complaints about Martin.

Martin’s wrongful-termination lawsuit claimed she went to team owners John Stanton and Buck Ferguson and CEO Kevin Mather as far back as March to complain about alleged discriminatory treatment.

The lawsuit also says several Latino players complained to Martin about feeling excluded and that Dipoto took midseason steps to deliberately undermine the progress and mental state of star pitcher Felix Hernandez.

The Mariners have denied all of Martin’s claims.

“Martin’s allegations of discrimination are not true,” the Mariners’ letter states. “No indication, much less evidence, of such was identified during the course of the independent investigation which involved personal interviews of approximately 20 individuals who were in position to know.”

Source: Angels sign Lucroy from Athletics ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A person with knowledge of the agreement says catcher Jonathan Lucroy has agreed to join the Los Angeles Angels.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday because the deal has not been announced by the Angels, who had no accomplished big-league catchers on their 40man roster.

Yahoo Sports reported the one-year, $3.35 million deal contains incentives that could raise the two-time All-Star’s compensation to over $4 million.

The Angels will be Lucroy’s fifth team in four seasons. He batted .241 with 51 RBIs in 126 games last year for the Oakland Athletics.

Lucroy played his first 5 ½ seasons with Milwaukee, and he appeared in the All-Star Game in 2014 and 2016 before getting traded to Texas in July 2016. He played briefly for the Rangers and Colorado before joining Oakland in March 2018.

Lucroy, a career .277 hitter, finished fourth in the NL MVP voting in 2014 when he batted .301 with 13 homers and 69 RBIs. He hit his 100th homer last season for the A’s. Despite largely struggling at the plate during his sole year in Oakland, he received praise for his management of the A’s pitching staff.

The 32-year-old Lucroy will join Jose Briceno and Kevan Smith as the Angels’ big-league catchers. The 26-year-old Briceno made his major league debut last season for the Angels, and the club claimed Smith off waivers from the White Sox two months ago.

The Angels’ top catchers last season were Gold Glove Award winner Martin Maldonado, who was traded to Houston in July, and Rene Rivera, who was claimed by Atlanta in August.

Los Angeles recently added free-agent starting pitchers Matt Harvey and Trevor Cahill to a rotation that has been battered by injury for years, but first baseman Justin Bour has been their biggest offseason position player acquisition.

Lakers’ Rondo expected out 4-5 weeks LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lakers point guard Rajon Rondo will be sidelined at least a month after undergoing surgery to repair a ligament on his right ring finger.

Rondo sprained his finger during Los Angeles’ surprising Christmas Day victory at Golden State. He missed the Lakers’ lastsecond loss at Sacramento on Thursday night along with LeBron James, who strained his groin against the Warriors.

Rondo had surgery Friday, and he is expected to fully recover in four to five weeks, according to the team. Rondo initially hoped to play through the pain in his troublesome shooting hand, but decided it would be impossible without surgery.

“He tried to pick up a basketball and palm it, and it was killing him,” Lakers coach Luke Walton said. “His decision was based on, ‘All right, I can fight through this and see how much I can do, or I just get it done ASAP and come back 100 percent and try to make a late-season push.’ That was what all parties decided was the best option.”

The Lakers also played without center JaVale McGee on Friday night when they faced the Clippers in the first game of the season against their Staples Center co-tenants. McGee missed his seventh consecutive game with an upper respiratory infection.

The Lakers (20-15) have vaulted back into playoff contention with the Western Conference’s fifth-best record, a half-game behind the Clippers (20-14).

Rondo is averaging 8.4 points, 6.7 assists and 4.4 rebounds while providing solid leadership in his first season with the Lakers, who signed him as a free agent in July.

But the veteran has appeared in only 14 games because of a three-game suspension for fighting and a 17-game absence after breaking a bone in his right hand, an injury that also required surgery.

He only returned from his broken hand Dec. 21, playing in three games in five days before getting hurt again.

Lonzo Ball is likely to remain the Lakers’ starting point guard in Rondo’s absence. Brandon Ingram also assumes a larger playmaking role without Rondo or James.

The Lakers haven’t speculated on how long James will be sidelined. The four-time NBA MVP turns 34 on Sunday.

McGee is doing conditioning work and lifting weights after the illness badly sapped his strength, but the big man isn’t ready to return.

“He looks a lot better,” Walton said about McGee. “Just his overall energy level looks better. ... He’s starting to put on some weight again and looks a lot better, but we’ll be cautious with him.”

Cavs sign McCaw to offer sheet The Cleveland Cavaliers said Friday that they have signed restricted free agent guard Patrick McCaw to an offer sheet.

A person familiar with the terms told The Associated Press that the Cavs’ offer to McCaw was for two years and $6 million. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday because it remains unclear if Golden State will exercise its right to match the terms.

If the Warriors choose to keep McCaw, it could cost substantially more than just his salary figure because of luxury-tax ramifications.

McCaw averaged 4.0 points in 128 regular-season appearances with the Warriors over the past two seasons. He got hurt after taking a scary fall while trying a dunk on March 31, and when he returned during Golden State’s playoff run he was limited to a total of only 16 minutes in six games — though he did get on the floor in all four of Golden State’s wins over Cleveland in its NBA Finals sweep.

ESPN first reported the agreement between McCaw and the Cavaliers.

Lions place Shead on IR, sign Chachere ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions have put cornerback DeShawn Shead on injured reserve with a knee injury and signed cornerback Andre Chachere off the practice squad.

Detroit made the moves Saturday, a day before ending the season at Green Bay. The Lions (5-10) also ruled out returner Jamal Agnew (knee) and cornerback Nevin Lawson (ankle) against the Packers.

Chachere was added to Detroit’s practice squad in Week 12, after the Houston Texas released him from their practice team.

Dodson leads Stanford to victory

By The Associated Press

STANFORD, Calif. — Maya Dodson scored a careerhigh 16 points and blocked three shots to lift No. 6 Stanford over CSUN 69-43 on Saturday.

Alanna Smith added 14 points for the Cardinal (10-1), who won their fourth straight since losing at Gonzaga. Lacie Hull scored 10 points.

DeJonai Carrington had 12 rebounds, her third straight double-digit game after recording no more than nine in her first eight games.

Meghann Henderson scored seven points to lead the Matadors, who won two of their previous three games.

22 points with 10 rebounds, and Oregon State knocked down 16 3-pointers to roll past Cal State Bakersfield.

Pivec was 9 of 9 from the field with three 3-pointers and made her only free throw. Katie McWilliams and Kat Tudor added 15 points apiece for the Beavers (10-2), who were 16 of 35 behind the arc and 16 of 16 from the foul line. Tudor had five 3-pointers, McWilliams and Pivec three apiece.

No. 13 TEXAS 104, NORTHWESTERN ST. 66

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Destiny Littleton scored 22 points, one of three Texas players to set career highs, and the Longhorns warmed up for conference play with its highest scoring game of No. 11 OREGON STATE 92, the season, a win over NorthwestCAL ST. BAKERSFIELD 52 ern State.

Sug Sutton had 18 points and CORALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Olamide Aborowa 17, both career Mikayla Pivec had a perfect day bests, for the Longhorns (10-2), shooting, scoring a career-high who had five players score in dou-

ble figures. Littleton went 11 for stunned DePaul 85-82 in a Big 11 from the foul line and had seven East Conference opener. assists and six rebounds.

Kissinger, who came into the game with just 19 points this season, helped the Bluejays (7-5) end No. 18 KENTUCKY 71, a nine-game losing streak against SACRED HEART 43 the Blue Demons (9-4). Audrey LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Faber added 19 points, making a Maci Morris scored 17 points, 3-pointer with 39 seconds left that freshman guard Rhyne Howard gave Creighton the lead for good. grabbed a career-high 15 rebounds Olivia Elger chipped in with 14 and Kentucky coasted in its final points, including two free throws turneup before conference play, with 12 seconds remaining to preserve the win. beating Sacred Heart.

Jaida Roper added 12 points and Taylor Murray 11 for the WildNo. 20 GONZAGA 78, cats (13-1), who used a 10-0 run to LOYOLA MARYMOUNT close the first half for a 33-20 lead.

53 A 14-0 run early in the third quarter, when McKinney scored seven, LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zypushed the lead to 25. kera Rice scored 15 points to lead a balanced attack and Gonzaga dominated the second half to deCREIGHTON 85, feat Loyola Marymount.

No. 19 DEPAUL 82 The Bulldogs (12-1) shot just CHICAGO (AP) — Brooke 29 percent in the first half and Kissinger hit a career-best six trailed the Lions (7-6) 29-23. But 3-pointers on her way to a career- the second half was a different high 20 points and Creighton story.

Scoreboard basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 26 11 .703 — Philadelphia 23 13 .639 2½ Boston 21 14 .600 4 Brooklyn 17 21 .447 9½ New York 9 28 .243 17 Southeast Division Miami 17 17 .500 — Charlotte 17 18 .486 ½ Orlando 15 19 .441 2 Washington 14 23 .378 4½ Atlanta 11 24 .314 6½ Central Division Milwaukee 25 10 .714 — Indiana 24 12 .667 1½ Detroit 16 17 .485 8 10 26 .278 15½ Chicago 8 29 .216 18 Cleveland WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division 20 15 .571 — Houston San Antonio 20 17 .541 1 Memphis 18 17 .514 2 Dallas 16 18 .471 3½ New Orleans 16 21 .432 5 Northwest Division 23 11 .676 — Denver Oklahoma City 22 12 .647 1 Portland 20 16 .556 4 Utah 18 19 .486 6½ Minnesota 16 19 .457 7½ Pacific Division Golden State 24 13 .649 — L.A. Clippers 21 15 .583 2½ L.A. Lakers 20 16 .556 3½ Sacramento 19 16 .543 4 Phoenix 9 28 .243 15 Friday’s Games Charlotte 100, Brooklyn 87 Chicago 101, Washington 92 Indiana 125, Detroit 88 Orlando 116, Toronto 87 Atlanta 123, Minnesota 120, OT Miami 118, Cleveland 94 New Orleans 114, Dallas 112 Denver 102, San Antonio 99 Oklahoma City 118, Phoenix 102 L.A. Clippers 118, L.A. Lakers 107 Saturday’s Games Milwaukee 129, Brooklyn 115 Houston 108, New Orleans 104 Washington 130, Charlotte 126 Atlanta 111, Cleveland 108 Boston 112, Memphis 103 Utah 129, New York 97 Denver 122, Phoenix 118 Golden State 115, Portland 105 San Antonio 122, L.A. Clippers 111 Sunday’s Games Detroit at Orlando, 11:30 a.m.

Chicago at Toronto, 2 p.m.

Minnesota at Miami, 2 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Dallas, 3 p.m.

Philadelphia at Portland, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, 5:30 p.m.

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College Scores

W. Kentucky 83, Wisconsin 76 Winthrop 76, Prairie View 62 Wofford 74, W. Carolina 54 MIDWEST Ball St. 116, Delaware St. 57 Dayton 94, Georgia Southern 90 Drake 98, McKendree 70 FAU 73, Illinois 71, OT Green Bay 92, Milwaukee 82 Iowa 72, Bryant 67 Kansas 87, E. Michigan 63 Kansas St. 59, George Mason 58 Michigan St. 88, N. Illinois 60 Missouri 75, Morehead St. 61 N. Dakota St. 71, South Dakota 65 Nebraska 79, Southwest Minnesota State 38 Notre Dame 63, Coppin St. 56 Ohio St. 82, High Point 64 Purdue 73, Belmont 62 Purdue Fort Wayne 84, North Dakota 73 Stony Brook 73, N. Iowa 63 Toledo 77, Penn 45 Valparaiso 97, Purdue University Northwest 61 Xavier 74, DePaul 65 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 88, McMurry 40 Arkansas St. 87, Harding 62 Baylor 84, New Orleans 44 Houston 80, NJIT 59 Houston Baptist 143, Dallas Christian 92 Lamar 122, Champion Christian College 58 North Texas 103, Rice 87 Oklahoma St. 69, Texas A&M-CC 59 Texas Southern 88, Texas A&M 73 Texas State 105, Howard Payne 29 UTSA 70, Southeastern Oklahoma State 67 FAR WEST Brown 82, San Diego St. 61 CS Northridge 94, Morgan St. 86 Cal St.-Fullerton 79, Portland 64 California Baptist 97, La Verne 46 Idaho St. 72, Idaho 55 Liberty 73, UCLA 58 Montana 86, N. Arizona 73 Montana St. 92, S. Utah 62 N. Colorado 70, Sacramento St. 65 Nevada 86, Utah 71 Oregon 62, Boise St. 50 Oregon St. 80, CCSU 59 Pacific 84, UC Irvine 75, OT Princeton 67, Arizona St. 66 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 75, San Jose St. 45 San Diego 61, Grand Canyon 58 Santa Clara 79, Washington St. 71 Seattle 82, California 73 Stanford 93, Long Beach St. 86 UC Santa Barbara 73, San Francisco 71 Utah Valley 64, Fresno St. 60 Weber St. 84, E. Washington 72 Wyoming 65, Dixie State 63

Women’s College Scores

EAST

EAST

Buffalo 87, Canisius 72 George Washington 71, American U. 67, OT Georgetown 102, Howard 67 Hartford 65, Marist 56 Mass.-Lowell 100, Sacred Heart 91, OT Niagara 83, Norfolk St. 75 Penn St. 74, UMBC 52 Pittsburgh 68, Colgate 54 Robert Morris 108, Hood 51 Rutgers 70, Maine 55 Saint Joseph’s 59, Wagner 57 Seton Hall 76, St. John’s 74 Siena 75, Cal Poly 54 St. Peter’s 83, Hampton 80, OT Syracuse 81, St. Bonaventure 47

Albany (NY) 62, Columbia 58 Boston College 99, Dartmouth 68 Butler 63, Villanova 55 Cornell 79, Hampton 53 Fairleigh Dickinson 70, Georgian Court 45 Fordham 72, Maine 64 Georgetown 68, Xavier 61 Hofstra 77, Wilmington (DE) 56 LIU Brooklyn 55, Lafayette 50 Ohio 77, American U. 67 Pittsburgh 66, Duquesne 58 Princeton 90, New Hampshire 42 UMass 70, Marist 55 West Virginia 84, Niagara 32

SOUTH Auburn 95, North Florida 49 Coll. of Charleston 73, UNCWilmington 66 E. Kentucky 145, Brescia 72 ETSU 79, Furman 56 Fayetteville State 80, UNC-Asheville 63 Florida 77, Butler 43 Gardner-Webb 73, Wake Forest 69 Georgia St. 117, Middle Georgia State 69 Harvard 71, Mercer 67 Jacksonville St. 109, Reinhardt 77 Kentucky 71, Louisville 58 Longwood 110, The Citadel 94 Louisiana Tech 71, Southern Miss. 56 Louisiana-Lafayette 73, SE Louisiana 72 Maryland 78, Radford 64 Memphis 96, Florida A&M 65 Miami 73, Campbell 62 Mississippi 87, Florida Gulf Coast 57 Mississippi St. 103, BYU 81 Murray St. 110, Bethel (TN) 82 Nicholls 88, Campbellsville-Harrodsburg 63 North Carolina 82, Davidson 60 Richmond 91, South Alabama 82 SC-Upstate 89, Coker 69 Samford 96, VMI 68 South Florida 60, Fairleigh Dickinson 54 Tennessee 96, Tennessee Tech 53 Troy 71, Ark.-Pine Bluff 63 UAB 75, Arkansas-Monticello 67 UNC-Greensboro 85, Chattanooga 72 Vanderbilt 95, Tennessee St. 76

SOUTH Auburn 83, Alabama St. 50 Coastal Carolina 78, UNCGreensboro 71 Drexel 58, Richmond 35 Florida St. 79, Georgia St. 43 Gardner-Webb 79, Converse 51 George Mason 70, Md.-Eastern Shore 49 High Point 73, ETSU 65 Kentucky 71, Sacred Heart 43 Louisiana Tech 89, McNeese St. 48 Marshall 75, Delaware St. 63 Memphis 77, NC Central 56 Middle Tennessee 58, Chattanooga 47 Morehead St. 79, Lipscomb 44 Morgan St. 61, Mass.-Lowell 49 Old Dominion 81, Coppin St. 51 Radford 60, Shepherd 46 SC State 54, W. Carolina 39 Tennessee Tech 100, Tennessee Wesleyan 58 Troy 89, Jacksonville St. 63 Tulane 68, Cent. Michigan 57 UT Martin 110, MVSU 51 Virginia Tech 93, Longwood 39 W. Kentucky 77, Union (TN) 65 William & Mary 73, George Washington 59 MIDWEST Akron 63, Malone 44 Creighton 85, DePaul 82 Iowa St. 86, Bucknell 61 Kansas St. 72, N. Iowa 62 Marquette 85, Providence 46 Miami (Ohio) 74, Ohio Dominican 29 SE Missouri 80, Harris-Stowe State 65 SOUTHWEST North Texas 93, Oklahoma Panhandle State 52

Rice 74, Incarnate Word 63 Stephen F. Austin 86, Cameron 59 TCU 88, Alcorn St. 31 Texas 104, Northwestern St. 66 Texas A&M 84, Rio Grande 61 Texas Tech 105, Abilene Christian 54 Texas-Arlington 66, SMU 41 Tulsa 66, UTEP 45 FAR WEST BYU 54, Santa Clara 44 Cal St.-Fullerton 56, Utah Valley 55 Colorado St. 91, Chadron State 38 E. Washington 64, Weber St. 58 Fresno St. 90, Fresno Pacific 51 Gonzaga 78, Loyola Marymount 53 Idaho 86, Idaho St. 72 Montana 78, N. Arizona 62 Montana St. 69, S. Utah 64 N. Colorado 82, Sacramento St. 69 Nevada 79, Hawaii 78 Oregon St. 92, CS Bakersfield 52 Pepperdine 82, Portland 68 San Francisco 68, San Diego 57 Stanford 69, CS Northridge 43 UC Davis 92, Dominican (CA) 42 UC Irvine 65, Seattle 60

hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 39 30 7 2 62 166 116 Toronto 39 26 11 2 54 144 109 39 21 12 6 48 114 112 Buffalo Boston 39 21 14 4 46 110 103 39 20 14 5 45 125 126 Montreal Florida 37 16 15 6 38 120 131 Detroit 40 15 19 6 36 112 136 39 15 20 4 34 123 153 Ottawa Metropolitan Division Washington 37 24 10 3 51 135 106 Columbus 38 22 13 3 47 123 116 Pittsburgh 38 20 12 6 46 130 113 N.Y. Islanders 37 20 13 4 44 111 101 N.Y. Rangers 37 16 14 7 39 109 122 37 15 17 5 35 91 108 Carolina Philadelphia 37 15 17 5 35 110 133 New Jersey 37 14 16 7 35 109 127

Nevada 16, Arkansas State 13, OT Cotton Bowl Classic Arlington, Texas CFP Semifinal, Clemson 30, Notre Dame 3 Orange Bowl Miami Gardens, Fla. CFP Semifinal, Alabama 45, Oklahoma 34 Monday, Dec. 31 Military Bowl Annapolis, Md. Cincinnati (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (6-6), 8 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas Stanford (8-4) vs. Pittsburgh (7-6), 10 a.m. (CBS) Redbox Bowl Santa Clara, Calif.

Michigan State (7-5) vs. Oregon (8-4), 11 a.m. (FOX) Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tenn.

Missouri (8-4) vs. Oklahoma State (6-6), 11:45 a.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl San Diego Northwestern (8-5) vs. Utah (9-4), 3 p.m. (FS1) Gator Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. NC State (9-3) vs. Texas A&M (84), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl Tampa, Fla. Mississippi State (8-4) vs. Iowa (8-4), 8 a.m. (ESPN2) Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. Kentucky (9-3) vs. Penn State (93), 9 a.m. (ABC) Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz.

LSU (9-3) vs. UCF (12-0), 9 a.m.

(ESPN) Rose Bowl Pasadena, Calif.

Washington (10-3) vs. Ohio State (12-1), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Sugar Bowl New Orleans Texas (9-4) vs. Georgia (11-2), 4:45 p.m. (ESPN)

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Monday, Jan. 7

Central Division 38 24 12 2 50 130 108 Winnipeg Nashville 39 22 15 2 46 114 101 Colorado 39 19 13 7 45 132 120 39 20 16 3 43 106 103 Dallas Minnesota 37 18 16 3 39 108 105 41 15 20 6 36 119 149 Chicago St. Louis 36 15 17 4 34 101 121 Pacific Division Calgary 39 23 12 4 50 133 107 San Jose 40 21 12 7 49 135 121 41 22 15 4 48 123 114 Vegas Anaheim 40 19 15 6 44 101 118 Vancouver 41 19 18 4 42 124 129 Edmonton 38 18 17 3 39 108 122 Arizona 38 17 19 2 36 99 107 Los Angeles 39 15 21 3 33 89 117 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

College Football Championship Santa Clara, Calif.

Clemson (14-0) vs. Alabama (140), 4 p.m. (ESPN)

Saturday’s Games New Jersey 2, Carolina 0 San Jose 7, Edmonton 4 Minnesota 3, Winnipeg 1 Vegas 4, Los Angeles 1 Boston 3, Buffalo 2, OT N.Y. Islanders 4, Toronto 0 Tampa Bay 6, Montreal 5 Florida 2, Philadelphia 1 Washington 3, Ottawa 2 Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 1 Dallas 5, Detroit 1 N.Y. Rangers 4, Nashville 3 Chicago 3, Colorado 2, OT Arizona 5, Anaheim 4, OT Vancouver 3, Calgary 2, OT Sunday’s Games Vegas at Arizona, 4 p.m.

Monday’s Games Nashville at Washington, 8:30 a.m.

Vancouver at New Jersey, 9 a.m.

Philadelphia at Carolina, 2 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 2 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Buffalo, 2 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at St. Louis, 3 p.m.

Ottawa at Columbus, 3 p.m.

Florida at Detroit, 3:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Anaheim, 4 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 4 p.m.

Montreal at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.

San Jose at Calgary, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

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football College Bowls Friday, Dec. 28 Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn.

Auburn 63, Purdue 14 Camping World Bowl Orlando, Fla. Syracuse 34, West Virginia 18 Alamo Bowl San Antonio Washington State 28, Iowa State 26 Saturday, Dec. 29 Peach Bowl Atlanta Florida 41, Michigan 15 Belk Bowl Charlotte, N.C. Virginia 28, South Carolina 0 Arizona Bowl Tucson, Ariz.

NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA 10 5 0 .667 398 322 7 8 0 .467 302 391 5 10 0 .333 227 357 4 11 0 .267 330 403 South x-Houston 10 5 0 .667 382 313 Indianapolis 9 6 0 .600 400 327 Tennessee 9 6 0 .600 293 270 Jacksonville 5 10 0 .333 242 296 North Baltimore 9 6 0 .600 363 263 Pittsburgh 8 6 1 .567 412 347 Cleveland 7 7 1 .500 335 366 Cincinnati 6 9 0 .400 355 439 West x-Kansas City 11 4 0 .733 530 418 x-L.A. Chargers 11 4 0 .733 405 320 6 9 0 .400 320 326 Denver Oakland 4 11 0 .267 287 432

y-New England Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East 9 6 0 .600 303 289 8 7 0 .533 343 348 7 8 0 .467 281 335 5 10 0 .333 334 376 South y-New Orleans 13 2 0 .867 490 320 Atlanta 6 9 0 .400 380 391 Carolina 6 9 0 .400 343 368 Tampa Bay 5 10 0 .333 364 430 North y-Chicago 11 4 0 .733 397 273 Minnesota 8 6 1 .567 350 317 Green Bay 6 8 1 .433 376 369 Detroit 5 10 0 .333 293 360 West y-L.A. Rams 12 3 0 .800 479 352 x-Seattle 9 6 0 .600 401 323 San Francisco 4 11 0 .267 310 387 Arizona 3 12 0 .200 201 398 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division y-Dallas Philadelphia Washington N.Y. Giants

Sunday’s Games Miami at Buffalo, 9 a.m.

Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 9 a.m.

Jacksonville at Houston, 9 a.m.

Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 9 a.m.

Detroit at Green Bay, 9 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at New England, 9 a.m.

Carolina at New Orleans, 9 a.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 12:25 p.m.

L.A. Chargers at Denver, 12:25 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 12:25 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Rams, 12:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 12:25 p.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 12:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 12:25 p.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 12:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Tennessee, 4:20 p.m.

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transactions

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined New England WR Julian Edelman $63,504; Cleveland QB Baker Mayfield $10,026; New York Jets coach Todd Bowles $25,000; Houston DE Jadeveon Clowney $40,110; Jets DL Leonard Williams $43,449; Jets RB Trenton Cannon and CB Darryl Roberts $26,739 each; Arizona S Tre Boston $26,739; Jacksonville LB Telvin Smith $10,026 and Jacksonville DE Yannick Ngakoue $26,739; Philadelphia S Tre Sullivan $26,739; Dallas DE Randy Gregory $20,054; Tennessee OT Taylor Lewan and Washington CB Josh Norman $10,026 each for actions during or after games last week.

CHICAGO BEARS — Waived QB Tyler Bray. Activated OL Kyle Long from injured reserve.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Placed WR Jawill Davis on injured reserve. Signed WR Alonzo Russell from the practice squad.

NEW YORK JETS — Placed WR Quincy Enunwa, CB Morris Claiborne and LB Kevin Pierre-Louis on injured reserve. Signed CB Brandon Bryant, WR J.J. Jones and DT Destiny Vaeao from the practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed TE J.P. Holtz from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined Montreal F Phillip Danault $5,000 for a dangerous trip against Florida D Aaron Ekblad.

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Reassigned D Andrej Sustr and G Kevin Boyle to San Diego (AHL).

Recalled D Andy Welinski from San Diego.

ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned F Michael Bunting to Tucson (AHL).

BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled G Jonas Johansson from Cincinnati (ECHL) to Rochester (AHL).

CALGARY FLAMES — Recalled F Dillon Dube from Stockton (AHL).

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Activated D Dion Phaneuf from injured reserve.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Placed F Jordan Eberle on injured reserve. Recalled F Michael Dal Colle from Bridgeport (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Assigned D Matthew Spencer from Syracuse (AHL) to Orlando (ECHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Hartford F Steven Fogarth and Bridgeport F Connor James two games.

BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Recalled F Matt Gaudreau from Worcester (AHL).

GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Returned F Tyler Spezia to Toledo (ECHL). Assigned D Trevor Hamilton to Toledo.

HERSHEY BEARS — Recalled D John MacLeod from South Carolina (ECHL).

ONTARIO REIGN — Returned D Craig Wyszomirski to Manchester (ECHL).

SAN DIEGO GULLS — Recalled G Angus Redmond from South Carolina (ECHL).

SPRINGFIELD THUNDERBIRDS — Recalled G Chris Driedger from Manchester (ECHL).

TEXAS STARS — Assigned D Brady Norrish to Idaho (ECHL).

TUCSON ROADRUNNERS — Assigned F Darik Angeli to Norfolk (ECHL).

UTICA COMETS — Returned F Tony Cameranesi to Manchester (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Wheeling RW Brad Drobot four games.

ATLANTA GLADIATORS — Signed F Jared Ross.

BRAMPTON BEAST — Signed G Storm Phaneuf.

CINCINNATI CYCLONES — Added G Charlie McAninch as emergency backup.

FORT WAYNE KOMETS — Released D Brandon Lubin and F Joe Widmar. Released G Alex Zion as emergency backup. Added G Luke Richardson as emergency backup.

KANSAS CITY MAVERICKS — Loaned G Ben Halford to San Antonio (AHL).

RAPID CITY RUSH — Released F Quintin Lisoway.

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Loaned D Kevin McKernan to Hershey (AHL).

TOLEDO WALLEYE — Loaned D Kevin Tansey to Stockton (AHL).

UTAH GRIZZLIES — Loaned D Nolan DeJong to Colorado (AHL).

WHEELING NAILERS — Released G Tyler Green as emergency backup.

WICHITA THUNDER — Traded F Luke Stork to Atlanta.

COLLEGE AUBURN — CB Jamel Dean will enter the NFL draft.

MEMPHIS — Named Adam Fuller defensive coordinator.

VANDERBILT — CB Joejuan Williams will enter the NFL draft.

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add some scoring punch to the Bears’ lackluster first half of the season.

“We’re really high on (LeBarge) and we’re excited what he’s going to do,” Petrich said.

“It’s good for him to get those early in his time with us.”

The Jets scored three times in the second period, including two late goals to tie things up at 3-all. Carter Hottmann tallied his first score of the season with 7:45 left in the second to cut the Bears lead to 3-2, then Jordon Halverson found the net with 3:03 left to knot it up.

McDonald put Kenai River up again with a quick strike 46 seconds into the third period, but Janesville responded at the 7:35 mark with another one by Hottmann to even it all again, setting up the late drama for the Bears.

Dennis Westergard got the win in goal for Kenai River by stopping 19 of 23 shots. The Bears made life difficult for the Jets’ Cole Brady, who was 16 for 21 in goal.

The Bears will receive some rest before returning to action with a nine-game homestand beginning Jan. 11 against the Chippewa (Wisconsin) Steel.

The weekend will be U.S.

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the second quarter by outscoring North Pole 22-13 to cut the deficit to 37-35 by halftime.

Ninilchik kept it close and eventually tied it up at 57 apiece at the end of regulation. In the extra period, Garcia proved to be too much for the Wolverines as the North Pole guard hit three shots to score all seven of his team’s points.

The Ninilchik girls lost to Class 4A opponent Service 5717. The Cougars pulled away in the second and third quarters by outscoring the Wolverines 2910, then won the fourth quarter 21-5.

Isabella Koch paced Ninilchik with nine points, including six in the second quarter, while Service was led by Eden Hopson and Meakenna Noland with 11 points each.

Saturday girls

Stars 43, Malamutes 34 Lathrop 9 19 6 0 —34 Soldotna 6 17 10 10 —43 LATHROP (34) — Wisema 0, Tuck 2, Johnson 17, Roberts 0, Tuck 2, Kraska 2, Johnson-Oates 11.

SOLDOTNA (43) — McGillivray 0, Buckbee 0, Blossom 14, A. Schmidt 6, Boucher 0, Tuisaula 10, Crosby-Schneider 2, D. Schmidt 11.

3-point field goals — Lathrop 4 (Johnson

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to a win over Wisconsin.

Banton had eight points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists, helping the Hilltoppers catch fire in the second half and beat an AP Top 25 opponent for the second time this season. Western Kentucky beat thenNo. 13 West Virginia in November.

Wisconsin (10-3) visited a mid-major school for the first time since the 2014-15 season and couldn’t contend with the Hilltoppers’ 67.8 percent shooting in the second half.

No. 16 KENTUCKY 71, LOUISVILLE 58 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tyler Herro had a career-high 24 points, Keldon Johnson added 15 and Kentucky beat Louisville in this fierce Bluegrass rivalry.

A close game for 10 minutes quickly swung toward the Wildcats (10-2) behind an 11-0 run for a 3117 lead. The spurt typified their success on both ends. They kept the Cardinals (9-4) from passing and driving inside and grabbed offensive rebounds leading to second and third chances.

Herro thrived the most, making 10 of 13 from the field with four 3-pointers to pass his previous best of 18 achieved twice, most recently on Dec. 1 against UNC Greensboro. Johnson was just 5 of 13 but helped Kentucky keep a doubledigit lead for much of the final 30 minutes. The Wildcats won their third in a row overall and 10th of 12 in the Bluegrass rivalry.

Army Night on both nights.

Saturday

Jets 3, Brown Bears 2 Kenai River 0 1 1 —2 Janesville 2 1 0 —3 First period — 1. Janesville, Vincent (Bargholtz, Engelkes), PP, 4:25; 2. Janesville, MacLaren (Hanewall, Olson), 5:42. Penalties — Kenai River 2 for 4:00; Janesville 1 for 2:00.

Second period — 3. Kenai River, Frantz (White, Walker), PP, 7:23; 4. Janesville, Koss (Ommen), 10:12. Penalties — 3 for 6:00; Janesville 5 for 36:00.

Third period — 5. Kenai River, Klekotka (McDonald), 2:02. Penalties — Kenai River 1 for 2:00; Janesville 2 for 4:00.

Goalies — Kenai River, Enright (20 shots, 17 saves); Janesville, Metcalf (26 shots, 24 saves).

Shots on goal — Kenai River 10-15-10— 35; Janesville 11-9-3—23.

Power plays — Kenai River 1 for 6; Janesville 1 for 4.

Friday

Brown Bears 5, Jets 4

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The Stars staked out an early 20-12 lead, then outscored the Falcons 31-13 in the second and third quarters to grab a 5125 lead entering the fourth.

Bishop Blanchet boys 57, Nikiski 29 The Braves pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Bulldogs Friday at the Clarke Cochrane tournament in Ketchikan.

Bishop Blanchet led 34-23 going into the fourth quarter but outscored Nikiski 23-6 in

the final frame to seal the win. 3A level while North Pole comUntil then, Nikiski had kept petes at 4A. In boys action, Ninilchik it close, even after Bishop Blanchet won the second quar- lost 71-25 to Bethel. ter 18-2 to grab a halftime lead Friday boys of 26-10. The Bulldogs outStars 66, Chiefs 60 scored the Braves 13-8 in the 10 10 4 26 8 8 —66 third quarter to get themselves Soldotna Metlakatla 9 10 20 11 8 2 —60 back in the game.

SOLDOTNA (66) — Rich 0, Morrison 0, Noah Litke paced Nikiski Chumley 8, Truesdell 35, Kant 17, Wells 3, with 10 points while Jace Ko- Rosin 0, Michael 1, Denna 2.

(60) — Hayward 18, Buxton rnstad had eight. Bishop had all METLAKATLA 0, King 8, Beal 3, Casperson 7, Rolando 3, 10 of its players reach the scor- Henderson 0, Hudson 21.

3-point field goals — Soldotna 11 (Truesing column. dell 8, Kant 2, Chumley 1); Metlakatla 6 Joe Floyd Christmas (Hayward 4, Beal 1, Casperson 1).

Team fouls — Soldotna 20; Metlakatla 20.

Tournament The Ninilchik girls lost Fouled out — Rolando. twice on Friday at the Kodiak Braves 57, Bulldogs 29 tournament with scores of 47- Nikiski 8 2 13 6 —29 11 to Bethel and 37-14 to North Bishop Blanchet 9 17 8 23 —57 Pole, both upperclass schools. NIKISKI (29) — Mysing 3, Weathers 2, Bethel competes at the Class Smith 0, Kornstad 8, Handley 4, Litke 10,

DeSiena 2, Gray 0.

BISHOP BLANCHET (57) — Byrne 2, Martin 10, Knowles 2, Sauvale 11, Joynt 4, Prinzivalli 2, Fotopoulos 4, Woodward 11, Korman 4, Moore 7.

3-point field goals — Nikiski 5 (Litke 2, Kornstad 2, Mysing 1); Bishop Blanchet 4 (Woodward 3, Moore 1).

Team fouls — Nikiski 12; Bishop Blanchet 11. Fouled out — none.

Friday girls

Stars 61, Falcons 40 Soldotna 20 13 18 10 —61 Thunder Mountain 12 4 9 15 —40 SOLDOTNA (61) — McGillivray 0, Buckbee 0, Blossom 21, A. Schmidt 4, Bouscher 0, Tuisaula 24, Leadens 0, Crosby-Schneider 6, D. Schmidt 6.

THUNDER MOUNTAIN (40) — Garcia 5, Garcia 4, Traxler 7, Hauck 2, Dilley 2, Lewis 2, Sikes 0, Fenumai 16, Frommhoz 0.

3-point field goal — Thunder Mountain 3 (Fenumai 3); Soldotna 5 (Blossom 5).

Team fouls — Thunder Mountain 10; Soldotna 16. Fouled out — none.

Kenai River 2 1 2 —5 Janesville 0 3 1 —4 First period — 1. Kenai River, LeBarge (Spethmann, Komuls), :47; 2. Kenai River, LeBarge (Komuls, Lajoie), 3:22. Penalties — none.

Second period — 3. Janesville, Bargholtz (Driscoll, Dosek), 4:33; 4. Kenai River, McDonald (Moline, Klekotka), 11:09; 5.

Janesville, Hottman (Middleton, Driscoll), 12:15; 6. Janesville, Halverson (Nicholas, Nardella), 16:57. Penalties — Kenai River 1 for 2:00.

Third period — 7. Kenai River, McDonald (Klekotka, Moline), :46; 8. Janesville, Hottmann (Middleton, Dosek), 7:35; 9. Kenai River, Klekotka (Boucher, Krajnik), PP, 17:08. Penalties — Kenai River 2 for 4:00; Janesville 2 for 12:00.

Goalies — Kenai River, Westergard (23 shots, 19 saves); Janesville, Brady (21 shots, 16 saves).

Shots on goal — Kenai River 12-7-2—21; Janesville 8-14-1—23.

Power plays — Kenai River 1 for 1; Janesville 0 for 3.

4); Soldotna 4 (Blossom 2, D. Schmidt 2).

Team fouls — Lathrop 10; Soldotna 9.

Fouled out — none.

Cougars 57, Wolverines 17 Ninilchik 2 8 2 5 —17 Service 7 19 10 21 —57 NINILCHIK (17) — Okonek 0, Jasper 0, Calabrese 0, Robuck 2, Corey 2, Koch 9, Cooper 3, DenBoer 0, Ofstad 0, Okonek 1.

SERVICE (57) — Crutcher 5, Stoddard 9, Hopsen 11, Noethlich 5, Lambert 7, Robanch 0, Campbell 6, Frazier 0, Noethlich 0, Pawcio 3, Noland 11.

3-point field goals — Ninilchik 1 (Koch); Service 5 (Crutcher 1, Stoddard 1, Hopson 1, Noethlich 1, Noland 1).

Team fouls — Ninilchik 19; Service 16.

Fouled out — none.

Saturday boys

Braves 55, Stars 42 Soldotna 11 10 15 6 —42 Bishop Blanchet 10 15 15 15 —55 SOLDOTNA (42) — Rich 9, Chumley 10, Truesdell 14, Kant 0, Wells 2, Rosin 0, Michael 7, Denna 0.

BISHOP BLANCHET (55) — Byrne 2, Martin 9, Knowles 4, Sauvale 25, Joynt 2, Prinzivally 2, Fotopoulos 2, Woodward 9, Korman 0, Moore 0.

3-point field goals — Soldotna 6 (Truesdell 3, Chumley 2, Rich 1); Bishop Blanchet 10 (Sauvale 7, Woodward 3).

Team fouls — Soldotna 18; Bishop Blanchet 13. Fouled out — none.

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been 24 points. That was 24-0 over thenNo. 18 Mississippi State on Nov. 10 when they posted their second consecutive shutout victory.

Since winning 28-26 at Texas A&M and 27-23 against Syracuse in the first month of the season, Clemson has won its last nine games by an average margin of 37 points. The closest game in that stretch was a 20-point win at then-No. 17 Boston College — on the same day as Alabama’s closest call in the regular season.

The Crimson Tide will be going for their

sixth national championship in Saban’s 12 seasons. Swinney is in his 10th full season as Clemson’s coach.

“Well, you know they’ve got a great program and great team and Dabo has done a great job there, and they’ve got a great program,” Saban said. “So I’m sure it’ll be a real challenge for us, and I’m sure we’ll need to play better then than we did today.”

Alabama beat fellow SEC team Georgia in last year’s CFP title game after a 24-6 win over Clemson in their semifinal game at the Sugar Bowl.

“We got our butts beat last year. I’m just thankful that we got back and has a better result,” Swinney said. “We make every game the biggest game of the year. We re-

Red hot Harden leads Rockets to win

By The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — James Harden scored 41 points, becoming the first NBA player since Oscar Robertson to record at least 35 points and five assists in seven consecutive games, to power the Houston Rockets to a 108-104 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday night.

Harden had 26 points in the first half and reached 40 for the third straight game. He was 7 for 16 from 3-point range, made all 14 free throws and added six assists.

Anthony Davis looked sluggish a night after scoring a season-high 48 points in a victory over Dallas, taking only five shots in the first half and finishing with 22 points. Julius Randle led the Pelicans with 23 points and 11 rebounds.

win over San Antonio.

Nikola Jokic added 23 points, nine assists and eight rebounds for Denver, while Malik Beasley came off the bench to hit a career-high five 3-pointers for his 15 points.

on Thursday, outscored Portland in each of the first three quarters to avoid its second three-game losing streak of the season.

Damian Lillard made six 3-pointers and scored 40 points for Portland. It was the fifth time this season Lillard, who made the WIZARDS 130, go-ahead 3-pointer in the victory HORNETS 126 at Oracle Arena, has scored at least WASHINGTON (AP) — Trev- 40 points. or Ariza scored 24 points and was one of seven Washington players SPURS 122, CLIPPERS 111 in double figures as the Wizards LOS ANGELES (AP) — Labeat Charlotte amid news five-time All-Star guard John Wall will have Marcus Aldridge scored 38 points and San Antonio beat Los Angeles. season-ending surgery.

DeMar DeRozan had 25 points, Thomas Bryant added 21 points and 10 rebounds and Ariza had 13 rebounds and six assists for the nine assists and seven rebounds Spurs, who won for the fifth time in for Washington, which won for the their past seven games. Rudy Gay had 12 points, and San Antonio’s third time in 12 games.

The Wizards announced Sat- starters combined for 97 points urday that Wall would undergo with all five in double figures. surgery to address bone spurs in his left heel and miss at least six CELTICS 112, months.

Patriots 64, Wolverines 62 North Pole 24 13 12 8 7 —64 Ninilchik 13 22 13 9 5 —62 NORTH POLE (64) — Garcia 39, Havens 2, Sanchez 0, Bostwick 0, Peterson 11, Dent 0, Sanchez 7, Nelson 0, Holt 5.

NINILCHIK (62) — Nelson 8, Hadro 6, Koch 31, Moore 0, Clark 12, Devila 0, Lemons 3, Mumey 2.

3-point field goals — North Pole 9 (Garcia 7, Peterson 1, Sanchez 1); Ninilchik 7 (Koch 3, Nelson 2, Hadro 1, Lemons 1).

Team fouls — North Pole 19; Ninilchik 14.

Fouled out — none.

erspoon had 27 Saturday, leading Mississippi State past BYU for the Bulldogs’ ninth straight victory.

In closing its nonconference schedule, Mississippi State also got 16 points from Tyson Carter and 11 each from Nick Weatherspoon and Reggie Perry.

BYU (8-7) dropped its third straight game and is 0-3 against ranked opponents this season.

Yoeli Childs led the Cougars with 25 points and Zac Seljass and TJ Haws each had 14.

No. 21 BUFFALO 87, CANISIUS 72 BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — CJ Massinburg scored 22 points and Nick Perkins added 18 to help Buffalo close out its non-conference schedule with a victory over Canisius.

Jeremy Harris added 17 points and nine rebounds, and Jayvon Graves contributed 10 points as Buffalo improved to 12-1 for the first time since the 1962-63 season.

The Bulls shot a season-high 44 percent from 3-point range (11 of 25) and 50 percent from the field.

Massinburg hit 4 of 7 from beyond the arc and Harris was 3 for 5.

Takal Molson led Canisius (38) with 15 points. Malik Johnson and Isaiah Reese each had 13.

No. 24 IOWA 72, BRYANT 67

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Tyler Cook scored 19 points with 12 rebounds and Iowa held off lowly Bryant in its final tuneup before Big Ten play resumes next week.

Jordan Bohannon had 17 points for the Hawkeyes (11-2), who swept their non-conference opponents for the first time since 1986-87.

No. 19 MISSISSIPPI STATE Iowa hardly looked ready for 103, BYU 81 conference play to pick back up though.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — The pesky Bulldogs (3-8) had Aric Holman scored a career-high the Hawkeyes even at 66-all with 28 points and Quinndary Weath3:08 left.

ally do. ... Our daily structure prepares us for this moment. I always tell them, we’re built for this.”

Clemson won the 2016 championship — its only other national title was 1981 — with a 35-31 victory over Alabama after Hunter Renfrow, now a Tigers senior, caught a 2-yard TD from DeShaun Watson with a second remaining in Tampa Bay. Alabama beat the Tigers 45-40 in Arizona for the 2015 title after the two teams combined for a 40-point fourth quarter.

Before Alabama and Clemson, the last time the same two teams started and ended the season 1-2 in the AP poll was in 2005.

Southern Cal was No. 1 all season until losing to Texas and Vince Young in the national championship game.

NUGGETS 122, SUNS 118 PHOENIX (AP) — Jamal Murray scored 46 points and made a career-high nine 3-pointers to carry Western Conference-leading Denver over Phoenix.

Murray was 16 for 24 from the field with the second-most points he’s scored in a game this season.

He scored 31 a night earlier in a

WARRIORS 115, TRAIL BLAZERS 105 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Klay Thompson scored 32 points, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant each had 25 and Golden State avenged a loss from earlier this week, beating Portland.

Golden State, stinging from a 110-109 home loss to the Blazers

added 19. Jaren Jackson Jr and Marc Gasol finished with 15 points apiece.

BUCKS 129, NETS 115 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 31 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, helping to turn away Brooklyn’s attempt to rally from a 23-point deficit early in the fourth quarter, and Milwaukee beat the undermanned Nets.

Khris Middleton scored 29 points despite a quad injury, while Brook Lopez added 24 on 7-of-15 shooting from the 3-point arc.

JAZZ 129, KNICKS 97

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Rudy Gobert had 25 points and 16 rebounds as Utah beat New York.

Dante Exum scored 13 points and had a career-high 13 assists in his first start of the season. Exum GRIZZLIES 103 filled in for Ricky Rubio, who sat MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Ky- out with lower back and left knee rie Irving had 26 points and 13 as- contusions. sists, Al Horford added 18 points, including a pair of key 3-pointers HAWKS 111, in the closing 1:32, and Boston ralCAVALIERS 108 lied for a victory over Memphis.

Marcus Morris scored 22 points ATLANTA (AP) — Trae Young for Boston, and Gordon Hayward and Vince Carter each scored 21 had 14 off the bench. points, John Collins added 14 Mike Conley led Memphis with points and 12 rebounds, and At26 points, while Dillon Brooks lanta beat Cleveland.

Rookie goalie sends Devils over Hurricanes

By The Associated Press

NEWARK, N.J. — Rookie goalie MacKenzie Blackwood stopped 37 shots for his first shutout and Pavel Zacha scored short-handed as the New Jersey Devils beat the Carolina Hurricanes 2-0 on Saturday.

It was the second straight victory for Blackwood, giving the Devils their first two-game winning streak since Nov. 1315. Andy Greene added an empty-netter to seal the win.

Curtis McElhinney made 28 saves for the Hurricanes who have lost four of their last five.

Zacha broke a scoreless deadlock with 36 seconds left in the second period. He poked the puck away from Carolina’s Justin Faulk and sped into the Hurricanes’ zone. McElhinney made the initial stop and Zacha stayed with the play to collar the rebound and flip it into the net.

son had a goal and three assists, Logan Couture The Capitals have won four straight, and the and Melker Karlsson each scored twice, and Senators have dropped four in a row.

San Jose beat slumping Edmonton.

Madison Bowey also scored for the CapiJoonas Donskoi and Tomas Hertl also scored tals, and Pheonix Copley made 31 saves. for the Sharks, who have won two in a row.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS 4, KINGS 1 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Malcolm Subban stopped 30 shots to help the Vegas beat Los Angeles and snap the Kings’ four-game winning streak.

William Carrier, Alex Tuch, William Karlsson and Paul Stastny scored as the Golden Knights improved to 6-1-3 in their last 10 games.

PANTHERS 2, FLYERS 1

LIGHTNING 6, CANADIENS 5 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Adam Erne scored twice in the third period, including the go-ahead goal with 1:02 left, and NHL-leading Tampa Bay extended its point streak to 14 games.

RANGERS 4, PREDATORS 3 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jesper Fast scored two goals, including the game winner, and added an assist as New York snapped a three-game losing streak.

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Jonathan HuberSTARS 5, RED WINGS 1 deau scored with 1:06 left to cap a third-period rally and lift Florida.

DALLAS (AP) — Alexander Radulov Huberdeau scored his 10th goal by finish- scored twice and Dallas routed Detroit. ing a pass from Aleksander Barkov after Mike The win comes a night after the Stars’ front Hoffman scored a tying goal on the power play office ripped captain Jamie Benn and Tyler SeWILD 3, JETS 1 with just under seven minutes left. guin by saying the high-priced forwards were WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Devan Dubunderperforming for a team falling short of exnyk stopped 26 shots to help Minnesota end a pectations. season-high five-game losing streak.

BRUINS 3, SABRES 2 Defenseman Matt Bartkowski scored in his BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Sean Kuraly debut with the Wild, and Charlie Coyle and Eric PENGUINS 6, BLUES 1 scored 3:44 into overtime to give Boston a win Fehr also scored. Zach Parise had two assists. over Buffalo.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Sidney Crosby had a Patrik Laine scored on the power play for Jake DeBrusk and Noel Acciari scored in goal and three assists to lead surging Pittsburgh. his 24th goal of the season for Winnipeg, and Juuso Riikola, Zach Aston-Reese, Kris Lehis first point in five games. Connor Hellebuyck regulation for Boston. Tuukka Rask made 26 tang, Jake Guentzel and Evgeni Malkin also finished with 21 saves for the Central Division- saves. scored for the Penguins, who converted on all leading Jets. four power plays. Pittsburgh has won a seasonISLANDERS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 0 best five consecutive games.

BLACKHAWKS 3, AVALANCHE 2 OT TORONTO (AP) — Mathew Barzal scored DENVER (AP) — Patrick Kane scored his a natural hat trick in the second period and ValtCANUCKS 3, FLAMES 2 OT second goal of the game 41 seconds into over- teri Filppula had a highlight-reel goal as New York prevailed in its first game against former CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Alex Edler time as Chicago outlasted Colorado. scored 3:06 into overtime for Vancouver.

The Blackhawks were on a power play when captain John Tavares.

New York has won six of seven. Robin In a back-and-forth overtime, Brock BoKane knocked in the decisive shot from the slot off a feed from Jonathan Toews for Chicago’s Lehner made 36 saves for his second shutout eser sent a pass to Edler, whose shot dribbled fifth win in six games. Two have come at the of the season, and Ryan Pulock had two assists. through the pads of David Rittich. expense of the Avalanche, who lost their fourth straight.

CAPITALS 3, SENATORS 2

COYOTES 5, DUCKS 4 OT

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Tom Wilson ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Nick Schmaltz SHARKS 7, OILERS 4 and Tyler Lewington each had a goal and an scored 33 seconds into overtime and Arizona EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Erik Karls- assist in Washington’s win over short-handed rallied from a two-goal deficit.

Ottawa.

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Community

Thank you for your Christmas Kindness

On behalf of the recipient families of our Soldotna Elementary Christmas Kindness program, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the following community contributors for their very generous giving: Soldotna Rotary Club Empty Stocking Fund, Grayling Medical Group/Kenai Spine, JH Electric Inc, Rachel Walden MD and Soldotna Elementary Parent Pack. Also, I would like to thank our many individual contributors (staff, parents, community members). Your generosity has allowed these families to enjoy the true spirit of the Christmas season.

— Tammy Dudley, RN, BSN Christmas Kindness Program, Soldotna Elementary

Central Peninsula Garden Club Monthly Program: Soil Testing for Optimum Plant Health How do you build your garden soil to get the best healthy yields? How do you “test” your soil, and what do all those letters and numbers mean?? Dr. Casey Matney, Assistant Professor and Cooperative Extension Service Agent, will teach us about the complexities of soil health, the basics of soil testing, plant nutritional needs, and best practices for improving your garden soil fertility — just in time to help you plan for that giant zucchini contest!

Immediately preceding Dr. Matney’s presentation, a brief annual business meeting of the Central Peninsula Garden Club will begin at 7 p.m. for the purpose of electing Directors to the CPGC board.

Free and open to the public; bring a friend! Refreshments and sometimes door prizes.

Date: Tuesday, Jan. 8 Time: 7–8:30 p.m.

Location: Peninsula Grace Church, 44175 Kalifornsky Beach Road (at Mile 19.5, across the road from Craig Taylor Equipment), Soldotna, AK 99669 Membership and general club information is available at www.cenpengardenclub.org, on facebook, or contact Renae Wall at cenpengardenclub@gmail.com.

Community Calendar Kenai Community Library events —2019 Vision Boards, Thursday, Jan. 3 at 4 p.m. Start the year off right with this fun goal setting program designed for teens and adults! Take a moment and plan for 2019! Limited space available so sign up today. For more information please contact James at 283-8210 or visit us on Facebook.

—Raspberry Pi Club, Friday, Jan. 4 at 4 p.m. Come join us at the library to create games and inventions, learn how to program, make music with Sonic Pi, meet new friends, and more!

Whether you want to hone your skills or are learning about Pi for the first time, the Raspberry Pi club is the perfect place for you!

—Lego Maker Mondays from 4-5 p.m. Why not join us to build LEGO creations based on new themes each week and inspired by children’s books! Lego Makers, Mondays from 4–5 p.m. Designed for children ages 6-12; children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.

—Wee Read Story Time, Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Designed for children ages 0-3. Every Tuesday enjoy a program full of stories,songs, finger play and more! No registration required.

—Chess Club, Tuesdays at 4 p.m. Get ready to ROOK the HOUSE every Monday! Do you like playing Chess, or would you like to learn how? The Kenai Community Library is proud to offer a casual program for chess players of all ages and levels.

Chessboards will be provided.

—Preschool Story Time, Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. Designed for children ages 3-5. Every Wednesday enjoy a program full of stories, songs, movement and more! No registration required.

Kenai Senior Center activities The Kenai Senior Center is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday, and are open until 9:30 p.m. on Thursdays. Community meals are served Monday to Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Cost for lunch is $7 suggested donation for individuals 60 or older, $14 for those under 60. Call 907-283-4156 for more information.

Nikiski Recreation Center activities —Facilities Closures: The Nikiski Pool and Community Recreation Center will be closed for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve. —Swim Lessons: Open registration for lesson will begin at noon on Jan. 2. Lessons available will be group and semi-private for beginners, advanced beginners and intermediates. Tiny Tots and Pre-School Aquatic play will also be available for registration. Lessons will be available January to April.

n Also inside Crossword C2 Classifieds C5

The Recycling Bin

Give your old electronics a second life Many electronic devices — laptops, cellphones, tablets, and TVs — are a big part part of gift giving. Some replacing older, non-working devices.

Please recycle your old electronics; many of the materials used in making these products can be recovered and reused.

Apple says it recaptured 2,204 pounds of goldworth $50 million from recycled devices in 2015.

Electronics products can also be made with tox-

ic substances such as lead, mercury and cadmium, which have to be disposed of carefully. Please save your no-longer-working electronics to recycle at the Annual Electronics Recycling Event in Spring at the Central Peninsula Landfill.

Information is provided by ReGroup, a nonprofit educational group formed to provide public awareness of the benefits of waste reduction, reuse and recycling on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.

—Spin class: The Nikiski Community Recreation Center offers spin class twice a week. Classes are Wednesdays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. Bring water.

—Youth Winter Camps: Camp for K through fifth-grade students and a camp for middle school students Jan. 2-3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Camps will be $10 per day with various activities, including: games, outside activities and cooking.

—Open gym nights: Teen Center, Monday–Friday, 2:30–8 p.m. Full Swing Golf, Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Call 776-8800 for more info.

Soldotna Public Library activities For more information, contact the library at Soldotna Public Library at 262-4227.

—Noon Year’s Eve Story Time, Monday, Dec. 31 at 11 a.m.

If you have kids who can’t quite make it all the way to midnight, here’s a great alternative! We have stories, songs, and a craft, and then help us countdown to noon and the big balloon drop.

—Family Movie at the Library, Thursday, Jan. 2 at 2 p.m.

Join us for a movie and popcorn! We will be showing Disney’s Christopher Robin. Rated PG — Pac-Man® Tag (Teens), Friday, Jan. 4 at 5:45 p.m. Man vs ghosts: the final showdown. Who will win? We’re turning you loose in the library to find out. This program is after-hours and will go until 7:15. Please arrive by 5:45!

— STEAM Program: Lava Bottles, Friday, Jan. 4 at 2 p.m.

Come learn how to make DIY lava bottles and the science that goes behind it!

—Movies @ the Library, Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 5:30 p.m. Join us for a movie and popcorn! We will be showing Ant Man and the Wasp. Rated PG-13.

—Soldotna Library Friends Board Meeting, Wednesday, Jan. 9 at 4:30 p.m. Join the Soldotna Library Friends Board in their discussion of ongoing library fundraising efforts. Open to all members of the Soldotna Library Friends. The Friends are currently seeking new board members. Call us or stop on by for more information.

—Library Five Year Celebration, Friday, Jan. 11 at 4 p.m.

Help us celebrate 5 years in our new building! Visit with library staff while enjoying cake and a slideshow of the last five years.

—Coffee, Donuts, and a Show, Saturday, Jan. 12 at 10:30 a.m. Start your weekend off right! Relax and enjoy coffee and donuts while watching a film on a Saturday morning. We will be showing E.T. —Social Security 101: Everything You Wanted to Know About Social Security, Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 12 p.m. Learn how to use my Social Security online account and other online services.

You should go to www.socialsecurity.gov/myaccount to create a my Social Security account and print out your Social Security Statement before attending the workshop.

—Mental Health First Aid, Friday, Jan. 18 from 8:30 a.m. - 5

p.m. Join instructor Jill Ramsey in learning how to respond appropriately to mental health problems in a variety of situations, such as helping someone through a panic attack, engaging with someone who may be suicidal, or assisting an individual who has overdosed. This workshop is being offered in partnership with the Kenai River Rotary Club of Soldotna. Those who wish to attend must register in advance through The Alaska Training Cooperative system. https://aktclms.org/Training/Class/102705 For more information about this training, contact Jill Ramsey 907-264-6228 or jill@alaskachd.org —Mad Hatter Tea Party, Monday, Jan. 21 at 2:30 p.m. A very merry un-birthday to all! Bring a favorite cup to fill with tea or lemonade, and wear your favorite tea party outfit… and don’t forget the hat!

— Escape the Room: Totally Radical 80s Time Travel Adventure, Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 6:30 p.m. You are stuck in 1986!

You have 45 minutes, along with some cutting edge 1980s technology, to get back to 2019. Will you escape? Light refreshments will be served. Registration required. Please call the front desk at 907-262-4227 to reserve your spot. This program is designed for adults.

—Soldotna Library Friends Book and Art Sale, Thursday, Jan. 31 from 2-6 p.m. Join us for great deals on books and art! All proceeds benefit the Soldotna Library Friends.

—Teen Yule Ball (Teen), Friday, Feb. 1 at 5:45 p.m. Do you like the holidays? Harry Potter? Dancing? Dressing up?

If you said yes to any of these questions, come join us for a special afterhours semi-formal event! You must be at the fireplace at 5:45 before the library doors close to participate in this enchanting evening!

Ongoing events: —Teen Lounge, every Wednesday at 4 p.m., for middle school and high school students. Join us for PS4, board games, Nerf battles, study sessions, and other fun! Snacks provided.

—Toddler story time, 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays, for children ages 18 months to 3 years.

—Bouncing Babies story time, 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays, for children up to 18 months.

—Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m. Thursdays, for children 3 to 5 years old.

—LEGO Brick Club, 4 p.m. Tuesdays. Tell your story and build a world with LEGO. Adult supervision needed for children under10.

—Do you want to learn how to use a computer or the internet, but just don’t know where to start? We’re offering free courses in partnership with KPC focusing on learning how to use computers for everyday tasks such as using documents, finding information online, filling out forms, and connecting with friends and family through email or social media. Register in person at the KPC Learning Center or by phone 262-0327.

Holiday bread adds twist to European tradition

By LIZ MCCORMICK

By WVPB-FM

HELVETIA, W.Va. — In the mountains of Randolph County, West Virginia, is the small SwissGerman town of Helvetia. This tiny, remote town is rich with Swiss-German tradition, including the Feast of Saint Nicholas held at the Helvetia Community Hall.

“We’re gathered here on the Feast of Saint Nicholas to think about generosity, because (Saint Nicholas) was a very generous person,” said local resident Eleanor Betler to a crowded dining room in the Community Hall, “And we carry that through by teaching, and we teach to make the grittibanz.”

Grittibanz is loosely translated to “doughboy,” and families often make them in Switzerland and Germany for the Feast of Saint Nicholas, which is held on the eve before Saint Nicholas Day on

Children and their families making grittibanz in Helvetia, W.Va. for the Feast of Saint Nicholas, Dec. 1, 2018. (Liz McCormick/ West Virginia Public Broadcasting via AP)

It’s one of their smallest events December 6th.

It may be based off an old during the year and averages tradition, but the Feast of Saint about 25 to 30 attendees, but it’s Nicholas has only been held in no less a favorite for locals.

Making Grittibanz Helvetia for the past 20 years.

Hours before the feast, locals prep the Community Hall for the festivities and the grittibanz.

Anna Chandler stands over a large, silver mixing bowl and reads through the list of ingredients needed.

Anna may not be a local, but her father’s side of the family is from Helvetia. She lives in Morgantown and makes a point to attend local events like this one.

Over the past three years, she’s been making the dough for the grittibanz with Eleanor’s guidance.

“This is the; it’s called Hebel; that’s the yeast dough,” Anna said. “So, this is like the starter, so you get it going first, so the yeast is active and going at it, and then you add it to everything else.”

After mixing in all the ingredients, Anna kneads the dough until it becomes soft, but still firm enough to mold and shape into bread people.

“First time I made this, or

worked with anybody to make it, I thought it was gonna be a really sweet dough, like cinnamon roll dough; it’s not, it’s just a rich, cause it’s got the eggs and butter in it, yeast dough; it’s very straightforward,” she explained.

“And when the kids get done decorating, we decorate with raisins and citron, and stuff like that, so it’s not sweet by any means, it’s just bread.”

Upstairs in the main room of the Community Hall, a small group of kids and their parents make Christmas crafts and play games together while they wait on the dough. Decorating the grittibanz with children is a big part of the tradition.

Back in the kitchen, Eleanor and Anna lay out baking sheets for each person, butter knives, and round, sticky dough balls for each child and parent to work with.

At the center of the table is a tray of flour, a couple bowls of

egg wash, and dried fruit to use for decorating.

“Okay, so kind of take it from the sides and make him a neck, okay,” said Eleanor to the group of kids and their families. “And then make some shoulders and some arms.”

After everyone’s grittibanz is decorated, they’re left to rise for about 15 minutes, and then they’re ready to be baked.

Carrying On Tradition Helvetia’s population has dropped dramatically over the decades as people have moved away for job opportunities and other reasons. Yet, Eleanor says she doesn’t think the town, or its traditions will ever disappear.

The annual events are unique and a big draw for visitors, she said, but also, many people who have family connections to Helvetia are proud of where they come from.and the events bring people home.

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PET PAL

Hints from Heloise Dear Readers: Jay and Dotty, via email, sent a picture of their perfectly blended, 10-year-old Jack Russell and mini dachshund, Clio.

Clio, Dotty says, is a “Pure American Brown Dog”! Such a cutie! Clio looks fresh and ready for the new year on a green-and-white sheet on the couch! To see Clio and our other Pet Pals, visit www.Heloise.com and click on “Pet of the Week.”

-- Heloise

Dear Heloise: My husband maintains our cars. When he changes the oil, he resets the A trip odometer. When he rotates the tires, he resets the B trip odometer. I can check how long it’s been to keep up with these maintenance items.

Also, in the kitchen, I refill everything refillable at once. If the pepper grinder is empty, I also refill the saltshaker, the dish soap and paper napkins, and the sugar bowl.

-- Carol in Orange County, N.Y.

HEAT HINTS

GETTING A LEG UP

Dear Readers: Three quickies to help lower your heating bill this winter: * Check to see if windows are sealed properly. * Add insulation to your garage. * Look into a smart thermostat -- it knows where you are in your home.

You may qualify for a rebate from your energy company if you have the smart thermostat; call and ask.

-- Heloise

Dear Heloise: I enjoy reading your column every day in the (Harrisonburg, Va.) Daily News-Record. With the cold weather coming on, here’s a hint: If my legs get cold at work, my employer doesn’t allow me to have a heater under my desk. I wear leggings under my pants legs. I have different colors to match, but mostly have black ones. People can’t tell I have them on, and I stay warmer! If I get too hot, I take the leg warmers off!

-- Patsy E., Timberville, Va.

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LABOR CONTRACT(ION)S By David Alfred Bywaters. Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz F I V E A M

ACROSS 1 English guy 5 Partner in indecision with 5-Down 8 Alternative to pavement 14 What leads many people to say, “Let’s face it”?

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Never-seen boyfriend raises doubts for concerned parents DEAR ABBY: My daughter is a professional woman in her mid-20s. She works in a demanding field with a lot of overtime.

She lives an hour away from us and is financially independent, but depends on us often for favors.

She has been dating a man for a year and a half who doesn’t even call her his “girlfriend.” We have never met him. He sees her when it’s convenient for him, sometimes for an hour at 11 on a Sunday night after he’s spent the weekend with his friends. (We both know what to call that.)

She has never asked him to feed or baby-sit her cat, help her move furniture, pick up an item from a store or anything. She asks us.

We are in our 60s. We feel it’s time for her to find a loving, considerate life partner, but she’s content with her present “relationship.” She has had relationships before with thoughtful, helpful guys, so I’m not sure why she is rationalizing this man’s selfcentered behavior.

He is now moving 600 miles away, but plans to continue seeing her. He hasn’t asked her to join him, although she considered uprooting herself from her job and family to do so. How can I make her see that she has no future with this man and needs to find a real partner in life?

-- WON’T BE AROUND FOREVER DEAR WON’T: Are you sure he isn’t married or in a long-term relationship with someone else? I don’t blame you for being a concerned parent, but this is a realization your daughter is going to have to arrive at in her own time. Badgering her is counterproductive.

Could it be your independent daughter likes the “freedom” this relationship provides? If you are doing your daughter favors the “boyfriend” should be providing, cut it out. It’s possible that the move he’s making will cause him to drift out of her life so things can end naturally. Cross your fingers.

DEAR ABBY: I am a morning person, and my newly retired husband is the oppo-

site. At night in our bedroom, he reads on his iPad for several hours while I try to sleep. I am in bed by 11 while my husband usually stays up till 1 or 2 a.m. If I wake up, he’s on our couch in the bedroom with a glow of light from Abigail Van Buren the iPad. But it bothers me that he is in the same room staying up to read.

We have been married 45 years and usually went to bed at the same time because of work, but now that he’s retired, he says he likes reading, watching movies or watching videos on YouTube. I think he should read in another room (better for his eyes) and not the room I am sleeping in. He doesn’t want to sit in our living room.

Bottom line: It bothers me that one person is doing an activity while the other sleeps or tries to sleep. What would be your advice?

-- DISORDERED SLEEP IN COLORADO DEAR DISORDERED SLEEP: Because you need a solid night’s sleep in order to function properly the next day, your husband should move to a different room if he wants to read so he won’t disturb you. It’s called demonstrating consideration for one’s spouse.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

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Jaqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018:

This year you are likely to be your usual practical self. You also will be much more inclined to be social and present. Work with others to manifest at least one of your long-term dreams. If you are single, your dating life is active, but you might wonder at the oddness of some of the people you meet. If you are attached, you and your partner adore your time alone together. Make the most of these periods. SCORPIO proves to be a great friend.

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) HHHH If you can, avoid a challenging, controlling person. In general, communication flourishes between you and others. A loved one enjoys relaxing with you. Your idea of a relaxing day might not be the same as this person’s. In any case, have fun. Tonight: In the limelight.

This Week: Get into the New Year’s celebrations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH To the dismay of a loved one, you might be returning to your busy routine. This person would like to have more time with you. Instead of having a tense moment, make time for him or her later in the day. You will be more flexible then. Tonight: Time for a fun evening out.

This Week: Others seek you out with intensity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Your sense of humor and love of laughter once again mark your day. Do not make anything more difficult than it needs to be. At a certain point, a partner could become somewhat frustrating to deal with. Be livelier and open to others’ energies. Tonight: Let the fun continue.

This Week: On Wednesday, your popularity peaks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Being a homebody is your natural, preferred state; once again, you enjoy some time at home. You do not need to take down the decorations or do anything unusual; you are happy doing nothing. Others appreciate your relaxed attitude. Tonight: Your inner child emerges.

This Week: Toward the end of the week, try to be serious.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Make your round of Sunday calls. You might find that your conversations are more animated than you originally had anticipated. A friend or loved one could be out of sorts. If you can, help this person feel better. Tonight: A surprise could jolt you into trying a new activity.

This Week: If you can celebrate New Year’s at home, all the better.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You could be very tired of all the holiday celebrations, and might decide to go off and do something non-holiday-related. Avoid someone who is judgmental or difficult. You will enjoy the company of a likeminded per-

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Dear Readers: Thinking of shooting off FIREWORKS to ring in the new year? Think again. There are different types of fireworks, and all of them can be dangerous. Let’s take a look: Bottle rockets are designed to fly through the air. But what’s the target? If you miss, you could hit somebody’s eye, hair or body.

Roman candles are explosives designed to be hand-held. What could possibly go wrong?

M-class fireworks (M-80s)? Illegal, and much too powerful.

Firecrackers are designed to be lit on the ground and explode in sequence. Fire chances are high, especially in the grass.

Even something as seemingly innocuous as a sparkler, which kids love, can burn at around 2,000 F! Clothes can catch fire; sparklers can get dropped on feet.

Best bet? Leave the colorful fireworks to the professionals. Check out the National Safety Council (www.nsc.org) for more information.

-- Heloise P.S. Many breeds of dogs are terrified of firework explosions.

By Dave Green

son. Tonight: Forget tomorrow, and live in the moment.

This Week: On New Year’s, touch base with your friends and loved ones.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH You know when you’re in your element. Nevertheless, be smart with a controlling person. Don’t try to outwit or ignore this person. Go off, do your thing and be happy. A surprise could have you guessing what’s going to happen next. Tonight: Treat a friend to dinner.

This Week: Make it OK to celebrate throughout most of the week.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Use the daylight hours just for you. You do not need to share what you are up to. You might be better off just taking the day for yourself. Reading a good novel or watching a favorite TV series could be all that you need.

Squeeze in a nap or two. Tonight: You get your second wind.

This Week: This New Year’s, the Moon highlights you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH When a friend whispers his or her plans in your ear, you will want to join him or her. Do it! You could have a great time with this person. Somehow, you might be involved with making plans for New Year’s. You do not need to be the hub of activity. Tonight: Not to be found.

This Week: You might not feel up to snuff until the holiday is over.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Wherever you are, others seem to seek you out. Often, people want your advice or opinion. You might not be inclined to respond to every single request. Know that you can tell them to come back some other time. Tonight: You cannot say “no” to a friend’s invitation.

This Week: Share your resolutions.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Be more open about your thoughts. In the near future, make plans to visit with several friends whom you don’t often see. Just discussing your plans and what you want to do together will recharge your batteries. Go for what you want. Tonight: Out until the wee hours.

This Week: Enjoy the limelight and the attention that results.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH When a certain person comes toward you, you cannot resist his or her charm. Such is the case today. The two of you have a lot in common and enjoy each other’s company. Open up to new possibilities, and participate in a fun activity. Tonight: Off listening to good music.

This Week: At the last minute, you might decide to take off for New Year’s Eve. BORN TODAY Basketball player LeBron James (1984), singer Andra Day (1984), actress Kristin Kreuk (1982)

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Las Vegas to welcome 2019 with superstars, fireworks

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — No other city does New Year’s Eve like Las Vegas.

Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Gwen Stefani are among the superstars who will be ushering in the new year with performances at venues on the Las Vegas Strip, while more than 300,000 people are expected to gather on the world-famous corridor Monday to watch eight minutes of fireworks.

At another celebration in the downtown Fremont Street entertainment district, 12 bands will play under a massive video canopy that will show the ball drop in New York’s Time Square.

“The only thing that can top Las Vegas is Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve,” said Jacqueline Peterson of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. “The city continues to evolve itself. We never run out of things to do.”

Gaga’s New Year’s Eve concert at Park Theater at

In this Dec. 31, 2015, file photo, people watch the fountains at the Bellagio while wearing paper hats to celebrate New Years Eve in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Park MGM casino-resort will be the third of her longanticipated residency, which will debut Friday. Veteran Las Vegas performer Celine Dion

will be at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, and Maroon 5 will celebrate the holiday once again at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.

Stefani will take the stage at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood casino-resort as part of the residency she kicked off this year. Calvin

Harris, The Chainsmokers and J. Cole are among those performing at nightclubs.

While Las Vegas is known as a place for last-minute trips, tourists who want to ring in 2019 there should act fast. Tourism officials expect 318,000 people to travel to Sin City for the holiday and nearly all the city’s more than 147,000 hotel rooms to be booked.

“Now is the time to do it,” Chris Baldizan, senior vice president of entertainment booking and development at MGM Resorts International, said about booking a trip for the holiday.

But “we’ll always find a spot for somebody.”

Las Vegas police are planning an “all-hands-on-deck approach” to security, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said.

Authorities will deploy plainclothes officers, federal agents and police in and around the casino-resorts, along with rooftop snipers, Lombardo said.

New Year’s Eve is worth an estimated $403 million to Las Vegas, according to the convention and visitors authority, which is responsible for promot-

ing the destination.

In addition to concerts with tickets on sale for the general public, casino operators also host over-the-top private parties for their VIP guests.

Caesars Entertainment hosted nine of those last year, which included DJs, dancers, fireworks shows, thousands of bottles of champagne and performances

by Katy Perry, Jennifer Lopez and other stars. Five hangover brunches were served the next morning.

Unlike the two previous years, New Year’s Eve falls on a weekday. Casino operators say the Monday celebration is a positive because it gives people a reason to stay beyond a typical weekend trip.

“It just means that more of our guests are coming in even earlier to spend more days celebrating in this great tradition,” said Chris Holdren, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Caesars Entertainment. “So, they may come in, spend the weekend and extend it to encompass the great holiday.”

Presley’s ‘Comeback Special’ still relevant, 50 years later

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Elvis Presley wanted an honest answer. Steve Binder gave him one.

Presley was meeting Binder for the first time in Binder’s office in Los Angeles in 1968. A music and television producer, Binder had been asked to put together an NBC television special featuring Presley, who had become more of a movie actor than a rock ‘n’ roll singer in the 1960s when the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were dominating the rock world.

Presley and Binder talked for about an hour about music and established a rapport, Binder recalls. Then Presley popped the question: “What do you think of my career?”

“I was young and brash in those days,” Binder told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “I said, ‘I think it’s in the toilet.’”

According to Binder, Presley said: “Well finally, somebody’s talking straight to me.”

That meeting became a meaningful step in the creation of the one-hour TV show “Singer Presents…Elvis,” better known today as the ‘68 Comeback Special. Aired on Dec. 3, 1968, the program was a rap-

In this Aug. 1969 file photo, Elvis Presley is shown at the International Hotel where he made his first public stage appearance in 9 years in Las Vegas. (AP Photo, File)

turous return for the 33-yearold Presley, whose music had mostly stuck to soundtrack songs from his often pulpy, saccharine films. It was sponsored

by Singer, the sewing machine

company.

Relaxed at some points, energetic during others — and always inspired — a still-handsome Presley sounds strong and soulful. He appears genuine:

He sweats, his black hair gets messed up.

The finale features an emotional Presley singing “If I Can Dream,” a moving piece written for the show that served as a response to the tumult of 1968, when the Vietnam War served as the backdrop for the assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

Presley returned to prominence. He began performing for sold-out crowds in Las Vegas and produced “From Elvis in Memphis,” an album that included “Suspicious Minds” and “In the Ghetto.”

Presley’s career would slow down. He divorced his wife, Priscilla, and began abusing prescription drugs. He died of a heart attack on Aug. 16, 1977, in Memphis.

Still, his popularity has remained high. Graceland, the tourist attraction built around his former Memphis home, draws 500,000 visitors a year.

HBO recently released a documentary, “Elvis Presley: The Searcher.” And his image and voice are regularly used in films, TV shows and commercials.

Much has been said about the importance of the ‘68 Comeback Special to Presley’s career. In a 2008 Los Angeles

Times article, writer Robert Lloyd calls it a “moment of change.”

“He regains his voice,” Lloyd writes.

Television had been an early friend to Presley. He made groundbreaking appearances on variety shows hosted by Ed Sullivan and Milton Berle.

Later, however, they became sources of embarrassment.

Binder says Presley complained that hosts openly made fun of him.

Presley’s return to TV required a leap of faith. Binder says Presley’s manager, Col. Tom Parker, wanted a Christmas-themed special.

“The colonel handed me a box with 20 Christmas songs in quarter-inch tape that disc jockeys all over America were playing on their radio stations as Elvis’ Christmas gift to America,” Binder said. “There was no Elvis in it, other than him singing these Christmas songs.”

Binder would have no part of a Christmas show. The typically hard-nosed Parker relented. The special included only a small reference to the holiday, with “Blue Christmas.”

Musical director Billy Goldenberg, who preferred music from “West Side Story” over Presley’s “Hound Dog,” said

he had to find a path to Presley’s “subconscious character, the things that were going on that he didn’t say, but did.”

“He was tender and lovely and polite,” Goldenberg said during a forum during Elvis Week in August.

Goldenberg said he also noticed “a lot of rage” in Presley.

“There’s a lot of raw primitiveness,” Goldenberg said.

“There’s a lot of sexuality in Elvis. And if course there is the tender side.”

Goldenberg wanted to “bring Elvis into the 1960s” and make him “valid.”

NBC’s investment was validated. The special became its top-rated show of the year and has grown in stature since. The network hopes to replicate the magic in February. The “Elvis All-Star Tribute” will feature Blake Shelton as host and will include well-known performers recreating the original program.

A box set released in late November includes a Blu-ray version of the program, and Binder has written a book about the show.

A show he never thought would endure.

“Nothing is dated. That show could have been shot yesterday,” Binder said. “I had no idea it would ever be seen again.”

Franklin attorney: $3 million in back taxes paid

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press

DETROIT — Aretha Franklin’s estate has paid at least $3 million in back taxes to the IRS since her death in August, an attorney for the late Queen of Soul’s estate said Thursday.

The estate is being audited by the IRS, which filed a claim this month in a county probate court north of Detroit, David Bennett told The Associated Press.

Earlier Thursday, TMZ reported that legal documents it obtained showed the IRS claimed the singer owes more than $6.3 million in back taxes from 2012 to 2018 and $1.5 million in penalties.

“We have a tax attorney. All of her returns have been filed,” Bennett told the AP. “We have disputes with the IRS regarding what they claim was income. We claim its double-dipping income because they don’t understand how the business works.”

He added that Franklin had a lot of expenses whenever she toured.

“She had to pay for transportation, hotel rooms, backup singers, musicians. When she did that the IRS was questioning the returns she filed,” Bennett said. “We’re going through au-

In this August 1969 file photo, concert-goers sit on the roof of a Volkswagen bus at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair at Bethel, N.Y. (AP Photo, File) In this Nov. 7, 2017 file photo, Aretha Franklin attends the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Gala in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

dits. Returns were filed as timely as we could get them filed.”

Franklin died of pancreatic cancer in August in her Detroit apartment. She was 76.

At the time of her death, Franklin owned a home in Oakland County’s Bloomfield Township. The IRS filed the claim this month in Oakland County Probate Court in Pontiac.

Documents filed in an Oakland County court after Franklin’s death did not mention the

value of her estate , which could run into the tens of millions.

Franklin left no will when she died. She was not married and left four sons: Clarence Franklin, Edward Franklin, Kecalf Franklin and Ted White Jr. Clarence, Aretha’s eldest, is incapacitated and is represented by a guardian. And a niece of hers is the executor.

Franklin’s estate also has paid money to the state of Michigan and other jurisdictions “where she would have

had some income,” Bennett said.

Franklin had been the target of a number of lawsuits by creditors during the late 1980s and 1990s.

In 2008, the singer said an attorney’s mistake caused her $700,000 mansion in Detroit to slip into foreclosure over $445 in 2005 taxes and late fees. The Detroit Free Press reported then that Franklin owed a total of $19,192 in back taxes on the property through 2007.

Original Woodstock site to host 50th anniversary concert BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — A three-day music festival will be held in August 2019 at the original Woodstock concert site to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic event.

The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a concert venue built on the original Woodstock site, announced Thursday that it will host the golden anniversary event Aug. 16-18.

The center says performers will include “prominent and

emerging artists spanning multiple genres and decades.” The venue says talks by “leading futurists and retro-tech experts” will also be featured.

Beth Woods says the names of performers and speakers will be announced soon.

The Woodstock Music and Arts Fair held Aug. 15-17, 1969 drew more than 400,000 people to Max Yasgur’s farm in the Sullivan County town of Bethel, 85 miles northwest of New York City.

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Fabulous fashion of ‘Mrs. Maisel’ is more than attire

By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press

NEW YORK — Fans of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” know that the show’s clothes deliver eye-popping color and to-die-for style, but they might not know the costumes represent more than 1950’s couture.

They also meticulously reflect each character’s mood and development.

Costume designer Donna Zakowska said she thought about how each character changed from season one of the hit show to season two, which premiered on Amazon Prime Video earlier this month. Zakowska started out studying painting at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, which instilled a “very strong response to color,” she said in a recent interview, and that influenced her approach in costume design.

One of her first decisions was putting lead character Midge Maisel, played by Rachel Brosnahan, in a baby pink coat in the first season when she is married and seemingly happy.

“I do feel that color signals things to people and you know I don’t take it for granted,” Zakowska said. “I love doing it and I put a lot of effort into really working with the palette and working with the colors. It started with that pink coat, but that became sort of a characteristic of who Midge was when I first started.

But when Midge’s husband leaves her, her character puts on different, darker colors.

“I basically did this with most of the characters and it’s a little bit natural in a way because I do think that there is this emotional response that is inherent in color,” Zakowska said.

Brosnahan said while the second season is full of “exceptional clothes,” the outfits aren’t just eye candy. Zakowska helps shape the narrative with her designs.

“She’s a storyteller. And she dives just as deeply, if not more deeply in some ways, than we do into these characters, into their arcs, into the stories, into the settings, into everything that came before and is yet to come.”

“She is a mad scientist,”

This image released by Amazon shows Rachel Brosnahan in a scene from “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” The meticulous costumes of the 1950s-era show are crafted by designer Donna Zakowska. (Nicole Rivelli/Amazon via AP)

”Maisel” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino said in a recent interview. “She doesn’t believe a hat is a hat. You know, a hat is character. It’s a person. That hat needs to reflect where the person is internally. She started it last year with … the pink coat and the pink coat represented something and when Joel (Mr. Maisel) left, the pink coat left, because the pink coat represented who she was with Joel.

And then pink went away for a while, and when pink started to come back, it was a different kind of pink because she was a different kind of woman. She’s (Zakowska) just a very fascinating, brilliant person.”

Zakowska said she leads a crew of at least 25 people on set to dress the principal players and the extras in hundreds of costume changes. She pays strict attention to detail, even for day players, who often wear 1950’s outfits found in vintage stores or on the internet. But most of the clothes worn by the principal characters are designed by Zakowska.

Not all the clothes are fun to wear. Zakowska said one of the most important accessories on the show is the underwear — which had to be tight and supportive, even for the extras.

“It’s like really the end of the era of the corset…that’s some-

thing you really can’t avoid.

We can’t all have period bras but we worked with Playtex and they had a certain bra they created for us that we used. And so you do to a degree have to sort of pull women in, you know, bring the bust up….there’s no way around it, otherwise we couldn’t get people into those dresses.”

The second season provides much deeper insight into the characters, like Midge’s mother, Rose, who leaves her uptight life in Manhattan and takes off to Paris, which Zakowska relays in color and style.

“In season one, I talked about the idea of her being like in a

little Chanel suit or being the perfect mother on the Upper West Side. Now her power has really taken on… these deep purple and deep red tones, sort of very intense romantic palette. And so what she’s really doing is revisiting that bohemian student life when she begins season two.

And so it was really important to heighten her palette and to work with those colors and I think they’re very Parisian,” Zakowska said.

Marin Hinkle, who plays Rose, said wearing the costumes helped her get into character.

“The first season Rose had a

kind of muted quality,” Hinkle said. “And then by the second season they dressed me in these more vibrant colors and more youthful styles. And that dictates a kind of way you can be as a performer where you literally are putting something on and sort of 90 percent of the work is done.”

Tony Shalhoub, who plays Rose’s husband, said of Zakowska’s designs, “It’s almost like the clothes are a character themselves and … it’s like the clothes are speaking to us through us.

“I’m always sort of jazzed and energized by that,” he said.

Santa, romance and horror? ‘Bird Box’ bucks holiday trend

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer

NEW YORK — For so long, movies around the holidays have been merry and bright. Lately, more and more seem murderous and designed to fright.

Take this winter, where, of course, sugary options abounded, such as “Mary Poppins Returns” on the big screen and “A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding” on TV. Then there’s the postapocalyptic survival story “Bird Box.” Released just days before Christmas on Netflix, the Sandra Bullock-led thriller is about mon-

strous entities that compel any human who sees them to quickly try to kill themselves. Not exactly the stuff of sugar plum fairies.

But even though Netflix declines to release viewership numbers, “Bird Box” seems to have struck a nerve, triggering the creation of memes and online chatter for a very dark film dropped into the festive period.

“I have never ever had as much attention or as many page likes, post likes/ shares and comments on any of my other pages as I have had on this one,” says Heather Drake, who started a Facebook page for fans of the story and is not affiliated with the

film or distributors. “It’s been insane. I can’t even come close to responding to all the feedback, if that tells you anything.”

Critics have been mixed toward “Bird Box,” with many noting similarities to John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place.” Variety complained about the “inexplicably bland ensemble” and The Hollywood Reporter sniffed that it was “not all that it might have been.” The Guardian declared it “a bird-brained mess.”

In some ways, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a film about monsters attacking people showed up on the online video streamer on Dec. 21. Alternate

Christmas movies are all the rage these days, from “Die Hard,” ”In Bruges,” ”Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” and “Lethal Weapon.”

Drake thinks the holiday timing of “Bird Box” isn’t that important, noting the need for fresh and intriguing movies during the holidays far from usual stale fare like “It’s a Wonderful Life” or “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

“I don’t honestly think it would have mattered if it was Dec. 21 or July 21,” she said.

“However, Dec. 21 would give an advantage as many people are on vacation from school and work.

And who doesn’t want to cozy up

and ‘Netflix and chill’ on a cold night when they don’t have to worry about school or work the next day?”

Netflix’s decision may also be an attempt to replicate last lateDecember’s hit “Bright,” starring Will Smith and Joel Egerton.

That supernatural cop drama also wasn’t received well by critics but garnered strong word-ofmouth interest and a sequel has been promised.

Bullock has been one of Hollywood’s top stars since her 1994 hit “Speed” but had never made a horror movie until “Bird Box.” She told The Associated Press before a special screening in New

York this month that the risks she and the cast undertook were somehow appealing.

To evade the movie monsters, Bullock and two young children are blindfolded while navigating through a forest and a treacherous river. The title refers to a literal box of birds that her character carries — the birds begin to chirp when the unseen evil approaches. Like the timing of the final film, it seemed to be a fresh challenge.

“Anytime that they yelled ‘Stop!’ we knew we knew we had gotten to a place where we could all get injured,” Bullock said. “And we fell. And I said don’t stop the camera unless I say, ‘Stop!’”

UK honors cave rescue divers, Angelina Jolie doesn’t rule Twiggy, Monty Python’s Palin out move into politics

By GREGORY KATZ Associated Press

LONDON — British divers who rescued young soccer players trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand are among those being recognized in Britain’s New Year’s Honors List, along with 1960s model Twiggy and Monty Python star Michael Palin.

Twiggy, a model who shot to stardom during the Beatles era, will become a “dame” — the female equivalent of a knight — while Palin, whose second career has seen him become an acclaimed travel documentary maker, receives a knighthood.

Jim Carter, who played the acerbic Mr. Carson in “Downton Abbey,” was also recognized, as was filmmaker Christopher Nolan, director of “Inception” and “Dunkirk,” and best-selling author Philip Pullman, creator of the Dark Materials trilogy.

The list released Friday also

named 43 people who responded quickly to the extremist attacks in Manchester and London in 2017.

The honors process starts with nominations from the public, which are winnowed down by committees and sent to the prime minister before the various honors are bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II or senior royals next year.

The 92-year-old monarch has increasingly called on her children and grandchildren to hand out the coveted awards.

Divers Joshua Bratchley, Lance Corporal Connor Roe and Vernon Unsworth will be made Members of the Order of the British Empire for their roles in the risky Thai cave rescue last summer.

Four other British cave divers will receive civilian gallantry awards for their roles in the thrilling rescue of 12 boys and their coach, who were trapped in the cave for more than two weeks.

Richard Stanton and John

Volanthen, the first to reach the stranded children and their coach, have been awarded the George Medal, while Christopher Jewell and Jason Mallinson received the Queen’s Gallantry Medal.

Twiggy, whose modeling career lasted for decades, burst on the London Mod scene as one of the original “It” girls. She earned worldwide fame by 17 and went on to a career in theater and films.

“It’s wonderful, but it makes me giggle,” said Twiggy, 69, whose real name is Lesley Lawson. “The hardest thing has been keeping it a secret.”

Palin’s knighthood recognizes his contribution to travel, culture and geography. He said the news had not sunk in yet but noted “I have been a knight before, in Python films. I have been several knights, including Sir Galahad.”

“I don’t think it will (sink in) until I see the envelopes addressing me as Sir Michael Palin,” said the 75-year-old.

LONDON (AP) — Angelina Jolie has not ruled out a move into politics — and has joked that she might be tough enough to take the rough and tumble that comes with it.

The American actress and U.N. envoy told BBC radio she “can take a lot on the chin” — a possible reference to her bitter divorce from Brad Pitt.

When asked if she is moving in the direction of politics, the 43-year-old Oscar winner said, “I honestly will do whatever I think can really make change.”

Jolie is a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency. She used her slot as a “guest editor” on the BBC to highlight refugee issues in the Middle East.

She also included Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege on the show.

In this file photo dated Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Angelina Jolie addresses the media at NATO headquarters in Brussels. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, FILE)

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Anne Hathaway. Live action/animated. Alice travels back in Ryan Reynolds. An overworked lawyer and time to save the Mad Hatter’s family. his carefree buddy switch bodies.

NCIS: New Orleans “Slay the “Sky High” (2005) Michael Angarano. Two superheroes send “Pete’s Dragon” (2016, Children’s) Bryce Dallas Howard, “The Hunger Games” (2012, Science Fiction) Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Dragon” ‘14’ their reluctant son to a training school.

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Chinese maiden disguises herself as a man.

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Cusack, John Malkovich. Vicious convicts the trash. ‘PG’ problems. ‘PG’ outdoors. ‘PG’ sions. ‘14’ hijack their flight.

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Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison.

Niro. A writer takes a mind-enhancing drug. cover cop infiltrates the world of street racing.

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Next Week: A 2019 calendar for kids

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• The treasure inside “Magnificent Birds” is Narisa Togo’s colorful artwork, depicting 14 different species of birds. An introduction to each includes its Latin name, its range and other facts.

• “The Skies Above My Eyes” by Charlotte Guillain and illustrated

by Yuval Zommer is an unusual fold-out book that challenges readers to look closely from the sidewalk all the way up through layers of the atmosphere to outer space.

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Resources

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• Carl Hiaasen’s “Squirm” introduces Billy, who lives with his mom and sister in Florida, but flies to Montana to track down his long-lost dad. Humor and environmental themes take readers along for an adventurefilled ride.

• “Someone Like Me” is Julissa Arce’s autobiographical story of being an illegal immigrant from Taxco, Mexico, who excelled in the United States and in 2014 became a naturalized American citizen.

• “Origami and Haiku,” published by The British Museum, offers instructions for folding origami figures, along with beautiful artwork from Japanese artists and haiku poems to accompany them.

• “Into the Jungle: Stories for Mowgli” by Katherine Rundell expands Rudyard Kipling’s beloved “Jungle Book” with deeper stories about Baloo, Bagheera, Kaa and other favorite characters.

• “Discovery Globe” by Leon Gray is more than a book; it’s a kit with which you can build your own globe! Then, using the enclosed “World Explorer’s Guide,” you can find out all about our world by following icons and answering questions.

• “The Day the War Came” is a moving story of a refugee, or a person who is escaping war. Author Nicola Davies and illustrator Rebecca Cobb show us how a little girl survives the war coming to her city but can’t escape the pain it leaves her with — until other children reach out.

• It’s the summer of 1977, and eighth-grader Mark Tatulli is “Short & Skinny” in this new graphic memoir. He’s the victim of bullying and has a mad crush on Lisa Gorman, but when “Star Wars” opens, his real passions come to life.

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Winter vacation is full of festivities and fun, but sometimes it’s nice to escape into a good story or learn something new. Check out The Mini Page’s winter reading suggestions.

• “How We Got to Now”

by Steven Johnson explains six big ideas that launched many of the advances we take for granted today, such as glass, time and light.

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Check out Barnes & Noble’s top 100 kids’ books here: bit.ly/ MPtopbooks

• Award-winning author Kate DiCamillo is back with “Louisiana’s Way Home,” about a little girl and her grandmother setting out on a not-so-well-planned journey that leads to many new discoveries.

• Louie’s “mission” in “Saving Winslow” is to save the “pitiful, motherless donkey” his dad brings home from a neighbor’s farm. Author Sharon Creech presents a short but powerful story about love and caring. image courtesy Candlewick Press

Warm Up to Reading

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Mini Fact:

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Issue 52, 2018

On the Web: • bit.ly/MPEpic

At the library:

• “Who Was Dr. Seuss?” by Janet B. Pascal

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Mini Jokes

Words that remind us of winter reading are hidden in this puzzle. Some words are hidden backward. See if you can find: ADVANCES, ART, CARING, CHALLENGE, CHARACTER, DISCOVERY, ENVIRONMENT, GLOBE, GRAPHIC, HAIKU, HUMOR, IDEA, IMMIGRANT, JOURNEY, MEMOIR, ORIGAMI, POEMS, READING, REFUGEE, WAR, WINTER.

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Ryan: What has a spine, but no bones?

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US pending home sales slipped Shutdown could 0.7 percent in November H omes I n B rief

block federal aid to farmers hit by trade war

By JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The end of 2018 seemed to signal good things to come for America’s farmers. Fresh off the passage of the farm bill, which reauthorized agriculture, conservation and safety net programs, the USDA last week announced a second round of direct payments to growers hardest hit by President Donald Trump’s trade war with China.

Then the government shut down.

The USDA in a statement issued last week assured farmers that checks would continue to go out during the first week of the shutdown. But direct payments for farmers who haven’t certified production, as well as farm loans and disaster assistance programs, will be put on hold beginning next week, and won’t start up again until the government reopens.

There is little chance of the government shutdown ending soon. Trump and Congress are no closer to reaching a deal over his demand for border wall funding, and both sides say the impasse could drag well into January.

Although certain vital USDA programs will remain operational in the short term, that could change if the shutdown lasts for more than a few weeks.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, helps feed roughly 40 million Americans. According to the USDA, eligible recipients are guaranteed benefits through January. Other feeding programs, including WIC, which provides food aid and nutrition counseling for pregnant women, new mothers and children, and food distribution programs on Indian reservations, will continue on a local level, but additional federal funding won’t be provided. School lunch programs will continue through February.

USDA has earmarked about $9.5 billion in direct payments for growers of soybeans, corn, wheat, sorghum and other commodities most affected by tariffs. The first round of payments went out in September. The deadline to sign up for the second round of payments is January 15.

The impact of the shutdown, which began shortly before most federal workers were scheduled for a holiday break, started coming into focus by midweek.

About 420,000 employees are working without pay, while another 380,000 are being forced to stay home. In the past, federal employees have been paid retroactively. But government contractors won’t get paid for hours they’ll lose staying home, causing problems for those who rely on hourly wages.

In anticipation of the financial bind many federal workers and contractors may soon find themselves in, the Office of Personnel Management offered some advice: haggle with landlords, creditors and mortgage companies for lower payments until the shutdown is over.

The shutdown also is affecting national parks, although unevenly: Some remain accessible with bare-bones staffing levels, some are operating with money from states or charitable groups, while others are locked off.

How to remove snow from your roof

Heavy snow accumulation on the roof can lead to problems like leaks or even complete roof collapse.

The beauty of winter landscapes is not foremost on the minds of homeowners who have roofs full of heavy snow and ice. What may seem beautiful elsewhere can cause anxiety when one’s home is under a precipitation onslaught. Excessive snow loads on a roof can cause the roof to leak or even collapse. The weight, and not the depth, of the snow is what determines if it needs to be removed from the roof. Fluffy snow may not be problematic, as it can take around seven times as much dry snow to equal the weight of wet snow. After a snowstorm, go outside and lift a few shovelfuls of snow. If it’s back-breaking work, then the snow on your roof may be dangerous. Homes built to code can typically handle the snow and ice load that comes with the winter season. However, homes that have undergone unapproved renovations, or those where load-bearing walls have been removed from the interior may be susceptible to catastrophic roof collapses. Another problem homeowners face this time of year is ice dams, which occur when snow on the roof melts slightly and then refreezes, forming thick portions of ice usually at the edges of the roof by the gutters. Ice dams can divert melting snow in and under roofing shingles instead of through gutters and downspouts. A common contributor to ice dams is inadequate ventilation and insulation in attics. Heat from the interior of the home that rises into the attic can cause the roof to warm up enough to melt the snow. This is easily remedied by having ample insulation and ensuring proper ventilation of the attic to maintain temperatures cool enough to prevent underside melting of snow. Signs of a problem If you experience any leaks from the ceiling or notice water coming down walls, a roof leak from excess snow or ice dams may be See SNOW, page D3

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON — Fewer Americans signed contracts to buy homes in November as higher mortgage rates and prices continued to squeeze wouldbe buyers out of the market.

The National Association of Realtors said Friday that its pending home sales index dipped 0.7 percent last month to 101.4. The index based on contract signings has dropped 7.7 percent over the past year and has recorded 11 straight year-over-year decreases.

The rate on benchmark 30year, fixed rate mortgages was 4.55 percent this week, down from 4.62 percent last week but up from 3.99 percent a year ago.

“The latest decline in contract signings implies more short-term pullback in the housing sector,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors.

All four U.S. regions have reported annual drops in pending

A realtor sign hangs in front of a home for sale in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2017. Fewer Americans signed contracts to buy homes in November as higher mortgage rates and prices squeezed would-be buyers out of the market, especially in the West.(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

home sales: The West is down 12.2 percent, the South 7.4 percent, the Midwest 7 percent and the Northeast 3.5 percent. From October to November, sales rose 2.8 percent in the West and 2.7

percent in the Northeast but fell 2.7 percent in the South and 2.3 percent in the Midwest.

Pending sales are a barometer of home purchases

that are completed a month or two later. So the November index suggests that sales will possibly decline through January.

Premiums for new paid family program to start

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Employers and employees in Washington state will start paying into a new paid family leave program next week, and benefits from the program will begin in 2020.

Starting Tuesday, premiums of 0.4 percent of wages will be collected, with 63 percent paid by employees and 37 percent paid by employers.

Eligible workers will receive 12 weeks paid time off for the birth or adoption of a child or for serious medical condition of the worker or the worker’s family member, or 16 weeks for a combination of both, starting in 2020. An additional two weeks may be used if there is a serious health condition with a pregnancy.

Weekly benefits under the new law will be calculated based on a percentage of the employee’s wages and the state’s weekly average wage — which is now $1,190 — though the weekly amount paid out would be capped at $1,000 a week.

Workers who earn less than the state average would get 90 percent of their income. Employees must work at least 820 hours before qualifying for the benefit.

Every employee in the state of Washington will pay into the program that was approved by the Legislature in 2017. Selfemployed individuals who elect coverage pay only the employee share of the premiums, and employers with 50 or fewer employees are exempt from paying the employer share. Companies that already offer such programs can apply for a waiver, as long

In this July 5, 2017 file photo, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signs into law a measure that makes Washington one of a hand full of states that guarantee paid family leave in Olympia, Wash.

Employers and employees in Washington state will start paying into a new paid family leave program next week, and benefits from the program will begin in 2020. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte, file)

as the benefit the company offers is at least equivalent to the state program.

According to the Employment Security Department, an employee making $50,000 a year would pay about $2.44 a week, while their employer would pay about $1.41 a week, for a weekly benefit of about $778.

Four other states currently have paid family leave programs: California, New Jersey, Rhode Island and New York.

The District of Columbia also has a paid family leave law that takes effect in July 2020.

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director of MomsRising, a national organization that advocates for economic security,

said that paid family leave is much-needed insurance against unexpected curves — either positive or negative — in people’s lives.

By splitting the cost, the Washington law helps smaller businesses retain employees, she said.

“This allows someone to come out of the labor force and go back in without the full cost going on the employer,” RoweFinkbeiner said.

Washington state’s 2017 law came after months of negotiations between lawmakers and those in the business and labor communities, and closed the loop on work left unfinished by the 2007 Legislature. That year, lawmakers created a paid fam-

ily leave program that required many employers to offer five weeks of paid time off for new parents. But they never came up with a way to pay for the benefit, resulting in an indefinite delay of its implementation.

This time, the discussion on legislative action involved a coalition of business groups, including the Association of Washington Business.

Bob Battles, the government affairs director at AWB, said that the coalition believes the final product is a “good, balanced law.”

“It allows employers of all sizes to be able to offer this benefit to their employees at a cost that is balanced and fair,” he said.

Wells Fargo pays $575 million to states NEW YORK (AP) — Wells Fargo will pay $575 million in a settlement with attorneys general from all 50 states and the District of Columbia that are investigating fake accounts opened without the knowledge of customers and a string of other dodgy practices.

Under the agreement announced Friday, the bank will also create teams to review and respond to customer complaints about its banking and sales practices.

The bank has been under a cloud since 2015 when it ac-

knowledged that employees had opened millions of fake bank accounts for customers in order to meet sales goals. It has also said that it sold auto insurance and other financial products to customers who didn’t need them.

Wells Fargo has already been ordered to pay more than $1.2 billion in penalties and faced stricter regulations.

“This agreement underscores our serious commitment to making things right in regard to past issues as we work to build a better bank,” said CEO

Tim Sloan.

Tim Sloan apologized for the phony accounts and other practices during a congressional hearing in 2017, but the company remained under pressure from the weight of all the scandals. The company has announced plans to lay off up to 10 percent of its workforce over the next three years.

California, the bank’s home state, will get more than a quarter of the settlement funds because of the number of Wells Fargo customers residing there.

California Attorney Gen-

eral Xavier Becerra called the bank’s behavior “disgraceful”.

“Wells Fargo customers entrusted their bank with their livelihood, their dreams, and their savings for the future,” said Becerra. “Instead of safeguarding its customers, Wells Fargo exploited them, signing them up for products - from bank accounts to insurance that they never wanted. This is an incredible breach of trust that threatens not only the customers who depended on Wells Fargo, but confidence in our banking system.”

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Screen time tied to health issues Do you feel panicked if you leave home without mobile phone in hand? Do you find it difficult to sit in the house without browsing the internet on your devices? Are your children spending much of their classroom hours on tablets? Screen time has taken over most people’s daily lives, but at what cost? A 2014 report from Nielsen found that adults log a total of 11 hours of screen time per day. Delaney Ruston, a physician and creator of the documentary “Screenagers,” which explores young people’s use of digital devices, discovered kids spend an average of 6.5 to eight hours per day looking at screens. All of this time glued to digital devices has profound effects on physical and mental health, and many experts are advising people to cut back on the time they spend on their devices.

Brain damage Multiple studies indicate that spending considerable time on screens can produce atrophy (shrinkage or loss of tissue volume) in gray matter areas of the brain, according to reports in Psychology Today. These are regions of the brain where processing occurs. One of the most affected areas includes the frontal lobe, which governs executive functions like planning, priori-

tizing, organizing, and impulse control. Another vulnerable area is the insula, which is tied to a person’s capacity todevelop empathy and compas-

sion for others. Research also shows that white matter can be compromised, which translates into loss of communication between cognitive and emo-

tional centers within the brain.

Vision problems Staring into screens for extended periods of time can damage areas of the eyes and result in comput-

er vision syndrome, which is characterized by trained eyes, blurred vision and headaches.

The Multi-Ethnic Pediatric Eye Disease Study, conducted

by researchers and clinicians from the USC Eye Institute at Keck Medicine in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, has found that exaggerated screen time and insufficient sunlight exposure has more than doubled incidences of myopia (nearsightedness) among American children in recent years. Sleep disturbances University of Gothenburg psychologist Sara Thomée, a lead researcher into the effects of screen time on the body, says the blue light from digital devices suppresses the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin, keeping people from having restful sleeps. Overstimulation Screen time can cause hyperarousal, which may be more notable in children than adults, according to research published in Psychology Today. Regular amounts of screen time can cause the brain to be in a state of chronic stress, which can short circuit the frontal lobe. This may lead to addictive behaviors, rage, inability to recover from minor frustrations, and hyperactivity.

Screen time is profound and may be hurting minds and bodies. Many people have set goals to reduce the time they spend on electronics to improve their personal health.

Help reduce waste this holiday season The holiday season is a time for families to gather and express their love and appreciation for one another. Exchanging gifts has become a big part of the holiday season, and while such a tradition is well-intentioned, gift-giving annually produces substantial amounts of waste. Food plays a big role at many holiday celebrations, and uneaten food contributes heavily to the excess waste during the holiday season. Time magazine reports that an estimated 1.3 billion tons of food, or about one-third of global production, is lost or wasted each year. The United States alone wastes 34 the holiday season. Food is not million tons of food annually, the only thing wasted during and a considerable amount of the holiday season. Everything that waste is produced during from packaging to gift wrap to

there are several simple ways to reducing holiday waste. • Make a list and stick to it. Retailers are very good at upselling and getting people to purchase items they do not need during the holiday season. Stick to a shopping list for food or other supplies for the holiday season and beyond.

Do not be tempted to buy more than is necessary. • Scale back the menu. If you typically have lots of leftovers after the holiday, you’re likely overestimating just how much people will eat. Learn from past experience and cook less this year. If you have a lot of leftovers, send guests home with their own plates instead of letting them pile up in the refrigerator the number of gifts purchased and spoiling. And keep in mind can contribute to excess holi- that leftover food can always be day waste. As big a problem donated to nearby food banks and as holiday waste has become,

homeless shelters. • Reuse whatever you can. Diligently collect and store holiday wrappings and trimmings that are in good condition and put them to use again and again. Gift bags and boxes are easily reused. Once materials have passed their prime, attempt to repurpose and recycle them before discarding them. • Compost food scraps. Eggshells, coffee grounds and vegetable peels can be put to use in the garden when composted. • Give an experience rather than “stuff.” When gifting, think about giving experiences rather than traditional gifts. Experiences may include trips to a museum or tickets to a concert or a play. Such gifts will make for memorable experiences and, because experiences are not packaged, will help cut back on holi-

day waste. • Make your own gift tags and wrapping. When wrapping gifts, use comics, maps, old calendars, and items that you would otherwise discard. You even can decorate newsprint with rubber stamps or drawings from the children. • Purchase a rooted tree. Look for a tree that has the root intact so it can be planted afterward. • Decorate with items from around the house. Costume jewelry and other trinkets can adorn the limbs of Christmas trees. Look throughout the house to see what you might have that can serve as replacements for heavily packaged, store-bought decorations. Reducing waste during the holiday season can be accomplished without affecting the festive atmosphere synonymous with this time of year.

Old favorites, outdated attitudes: Can entertainment expire?

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer

NEW YORK — The 1940 movie “The Philadelphia Story” opens with a case of domestic assault played for laughs — Cary Grant shoving Katharine Hepburn to the ground by her face while a jaunty musical score plays.

Eight decades later, the movie is clearly two things: uneasy fare for a post-#metoo culture — and an enduring American classic. And it’s far from the only example of such things.

They exist throughout society’s pop-culture canon, from movies to TV to music and beyond: pieces of work that have withstood time’s passage but that contain actions, words and depictions about race, gender and sexual orientation that we now find questionable at best.

Whether it’s blackface minstrel routines from Bing Crosby’s “Holiday Inn,” Apu’s accent in “The Simpsons,” bullying scenes in “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” the arguably rapey coercion of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” and “Sixteen Candles” or the simplistically clunky gender interactions of “Mr. Mom,” Americans have amassed a catalog of entertainment across the decades that now raises a series of contentious but never-more-relevant questions: What, exactly, do we do with this stuff today? Do we simply discard it? Give it a free pass as the product of a less-enlightened age? Or is there some way to both acknowledge its value yet still view it with a more critical eye?

“How are we meant to feel about art that we both love and oppose?” Molly Ringwald, who played the young protagonist in “Sixteen Candles,” wrote this

past April in The New Yorker, 34 years later. As the decades passed, she grew more uncomfortable with some of the material that made her one of the 1980s’ biggest young stars.

Entertainment is a byproduct of its era. And the delicate question of representation pervades some of our culture’s most beloved work, from Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” on down. It is the wonderful and the problematic, often presented side by side.

So if we’re watching “I Love Lucy,” do we consider how belittling Ricky (and most everyone else) is to her?

Or do we take away the fact that no matter what, she is never contained? If we’re listening to the Beatles, what do we make today of John Lennon’s 1965 song that began with the lyrics, “I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man”?

If we put “Gone with the Wind” in front of our kids, what do we say when Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) acts like a happy slave who adores her masters? And for the Gen-Xers among us: What of Hughes, who captured teenage life’s authenticity but also sent some fundamentally confusing and problematic sexual messages to adolescents?

“If you could erase all the scenes that are offensive to us today, even if you could, would that be a good idea? I don’t really think so,” says M. Alison Kibler, who teaches American studies at Franklin & Marshall College and researches how groups struggle for fair representation in entertainment.

“I would step back from any kind of one-dimensional read of movies and perfor-

mances from the past,” she says.

The “Charlie Chan” movies of the 1930s and 1940s seem today to brim with racial problems: non-Asians portraying Asians, fortune-cookie sayings spouted in precious accents and some broadly played African-American representations too.

Yet according to Yunte Huang, who traced the character’s history, many Asians welcomed the films at the time because they represented something coveted: a respected Asian protagonist who outwitted every white person on the screen.

“There’s a history to everything. And we need to know history — including those ugly representations and everything,” Huang says.

Until the last couple decades, older fare resurfaced only sporadically. But the dawn of the digital era and the rapid rise of streaming culture means that now, anything can be accessed by pretty much anyone on any screen. That in turn means that a dizzying library of our cultural past, warts and all, is available at the press of a button.

Consider Apu, the South Asian convenience-store owner long voiced by Hank Azaria in “The Simpsons” — an unusual case because the show has spanned more than two generations of evolving attitudes.

Last year, comedian Hari Kondabolu released a film, “The Problem With Apu,” documenting stereotypes he saw with the character and its effect on entertainers of South Asian descent. The response included hints that Apu might fade from the cast of thousands that populate

the Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield.

That doesn’t sit right with Shilpa Davé, author of “Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film.” Apu, after all, is also a beloved character. Isn’t there another solution?

“The easy thing is to point a finger and say, ‘Oh, that’s terrible.’ But I think we have to say, what are the alternatives? How do we want to progress now that we have more information and a higher consciousness?” Davé says.

Tim Cogshell, a critic for FilmWeek on KPCC-FM, the NPR affiliate in Pasadena, California, thinks a lot about how yesterday’s attitudes should be considered in today’s environment. Part of his answer comes down to intent.

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the onion. And then one decides how to think about it, how to feel about it, where to put it in the canon,” Cogshell says.

So while “Birth of a Nation,” the groundbreaking 1915 film widely regarded as one of the most racist ever made, is viewed ever more harshly as the years pass, a misogynist bigot like Archie Bunker from “All in the Family” presents a different story: Whether a successful portrayal or not, Cogshell says, it was intended to highlight a problem and get it discussed.

The solutions suggest a general direction: Don’t simply ban or eliminate or delete. Talk about stuff — whether formal-

ly, when it’s presented to the public, or informally at home.

And involving more voices in the production of today’s popular culture — and the selection, curation and characterization of yesterday’s — can make sense of this more than dismissing the issue as overreaction or scrubbing the leavings of less-enlightened eras.

Let Molly Ringwald have the last word: “Erasing history is a dangerous road when it comes to art — change is essential, but so, too, is remembering the past, in all of its transgression and barbarism, so that we may properly gauge how far we have come, and also how far we still need to go.”

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Utah gears up to implement nation’s lowest DUI limit

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — New Year’s Eve revelers in Utah could find themselves with more than a hangover as 2019 dawns. If they drink and drive, they could end up on the wrong side of the nation’s newest and lowest DUI threshold.

The 0.05 percent limit goes into effect Sunday, despite protests that it will punish responsible drinkers and hurt the state’s tourism industry by adding to the reputation that the predominantly Mormon state is unfriendly to those who drink alcohol. The state’s old limit was 0.08 percent, the threshold in most states.

For Utah lawmakers, the change is a safety measure aimed at encouraging people not to drive at all if they’ve been drinking.

The change was easily approved in 2017 by the Legislature, which is mostly Mormon and mostly Republican, and signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert, also a Republican and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The religion teaches its members to abstain from drinking alcohol.

“The vast majority of people nationwide think that if a person has been drinking they shouldn’t be driving,” said Republican Rep. Norm Thurston, who sponsored the measure.

The change means that depending on things such as food intake, a 150-pound man could be over the 0.05 limit after two beers in an hour, while a 120-pound woman could exceed it after a single drink in that time, according to figures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The National Transportation Safety Board also backs the change, and many in the hospitality industry worry that other states will follow suit. Utah

In this Dec. 20 photo, Rob Wheatley, 50, drinks a beer, at the Beer Hive Pub, in Salt Lake City. The United States’ lowest DUI threshold takes effect this weekend in Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

was among the first to adopt the now-standard 0.08 threshold decades ago, and lawmakers in four states — Washington, Hawaii, Delaware and New York — have floated measures to lower their DUI limit in recent years. None has passed.

“Other states proposing the 0.05 law, don’t just follow blindly in the footsteps of Utah,” said Jackson Shedelbower, a spokesman for the American Beverage Institute, a

Aspen home built by John Denver goes on market for $11M ASPEN, Colo. — An Aspen house built by John Denver has been put on the market for $11 million.

The Aspen Times reports the 7,735-square-foot home constructed in 1972 was put up for sale this week following a major renovation.

The house situated in a gated community has swapped ownership twice following the acclaimed singer-songwriter’s death in October 1997.

The home has five bedrooms, five full bathrooms and two half-baths, as well as office space, a workout room, three wet bars and other features.

Denis and Kelly O’Donovan bought the home for $2.75 million in December 2016.

They then remodeled the property, modernizing the home while blending in its original elements.

Iconic Nashville hot chicken restaurant closed due to fire NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A famous Nashville hot chicken restaurant is closed “indefinitely” after a hit-and-run driver crashed into a strip mall, starting a fire that damaged several businesses.

News outlets report that the main location of Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville is closed because of the Friday morning fire. No one was reportedly injured in the crash.

Semone Jeffries, whose mother has owned Prince’s for 38 years, said the popular restaurant that draws locals and tourists hopes to re-open as soon as possible. She says officials need to evaluate the structural integrity of the building. The restaurant also sustained smoke and water damage.

Jeffries says Prince’s fans can visit the restaurant’s second location in Nashville.

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the culprit. Snow that is too heavy may create cracks in plaster and drywall and cause sagging that affects the framework of interior doorways. If you hear creaking or popping sounds, immediately exit the house, as these are strong indicators of an imminent collapse. Clearing the roof The Better Business Bureau warns against going up on the roof if you cannot safely remove the snow with an ice rake or similar tool. You should not jeopardize your health by trying to remove snow and ice.

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on a hands-free cellphone, his group argues.

NTSB member Bella DinhZarr countered that fears about the law are overblown. Nearly 100 countries have a similar limit, and it hasn’t correlated with less drinking per-capita.

Federally funded research indicates the standard could save some 1,500 lives a year if adopted around the U.S., she said.

“The restaurant industry should support this because it

keeps their customers alive and drinking,” Dinh-Zarr said.

Utah’s law takes effect as the state basks in the news that the U.S. Olympic Committee chose Salt Lake City over Denver as a future bid city, most likely for the 2030 Winter Olympics. State tourism officials say they’re not concerned about the law driving away visitors.

With the increased use of Uber and other ride-hailing apps, many people going out for

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In 2017, the group took out newspaper ads in Utah, neighboring states and in USA Today, featuring a fake mugshot under a large headline reading, “Utah: Come for vacation, leave on probation.”

It’s unfair that smaller people could violate the new threshold after just one or two drinks in quick succession, even though they’re no more impaired than someone talking

a night on the town don’t set foot in their own cars. In Utah, DUI arrests have dropped more than 50 percent over the past seven years despite a booming population, according to state figures.

Even if the law doesn’t present a practical problem, it could scare off some visitors who see the state as rigid about liquor laws, said David Corsun, director of the Daniels College of Business’ Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management.

Still, it’s hard to say how big the impact might be.

“If you really want to ski Utah, you’re going to ski Utah.

You’re just going to figure it out,” Corsun said.

Police, meanwhile, say they’re aiming to stop dangerous drivers, not target people who might have had a drink or two and could be in violation of the lowered DUI threshold.

“You can’t just stop someone who left a bar because you suspect they may have used alcohol,” said Sgt. Nick Street with the Utah Highway Patrol.

Still, patrons of Salt Lake City’s burgeoning bar scene do feel unfairly singled out by the change.

Stopping for a whiskey after work with her sister at the upscale pub Beerhive, Maude Romney, 29, said she’ll likely only go to places she can walk to from her downtown home.

“I’m paranoid about it already,” she said.

A DUI charge can be expensive and have long-term effects on careers.

In a booth in a corner, recent Ohio transplant Rob Wheatley, 50, said he drinks to try new craft beers, not to get drunk.

He’s skeptical that the law will be a serious deterrent for binge drinkers.

“I don’t know if it’s going to change anyone’s behavior,” he said. “If they’re going to have a beer, they’re going to have a beer.”

pensation insurance before hiring them. Contractors will charge anywhere from $60 to $300 per hour to remove snow from the roof. Always inquire in advance as to what a fee covers. Even after snow is removed, there’s no guarantee it will not accumulate again.

Keep in mind that some snow and ice removal remedies can invalidate the warranty on recently installed roof shingles.

This is something that must be weighed before proceeding with snow removal. Home insurance policies may or may not cover the cost of snow removal and damage. Call your insurance company to find out what your policy covers. Keep good records for the cost of all repairs to see if you can be reimbursed.

The holiday season is as an opportunity for families to come together, celebrate and catch up. But thanks to work, military service, school, or other commitments, plenty of individuals won’t be home to celebrate the holidays with their families. It’s natural for people in such situations to feel homesick, but there are many ways to stay upbeat when spending the holidays away from home. • Make plenty of contact with loved ones. Use devices to your advantage to stay in touch this holiday season. Schedule frequent video chats and share photos so you feel like you are right in the holiday mix.

When possible, people spending the holidays away from home should schedule calls or video conferences when family has gathered so they can chat with as many loved ones

Traveling during the holidays can mean being away from home for celebrations. Learn ways to reduce feelings of isolation.

as possible. • Connect with people in similar situations.

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Social worker left surprise $11M to children’s charities SEATTLE — Alan Naiman was known for an unabashed thriftiness that veered into comical, but even those closest to him had no inkling of the fortune that he quietly amassed and the last act that he had long planned.

The Washington state social worker died of cancer this year at age 63, leaving most of a surprising $11 million estate to children’s charities that help the poor, sick, disabled and abandoned. The amount baffled the beneficiaries and his best friends, who are lauding Naiman as the anniversary of his death approaches in January.

That’s because the Seattle man patched up his shoes with duct tape, sought deals at the grocery store deli at closing time and took his best friends out to lunch at fast-food joints.

Naiman, who died unmarried and childless, loved kids but also was intensely private,

scrimping, investing and working extra jobs to stockpile money that he rarely spent on himself after seeing how unfair life could be for the most vulnerable children, his friends say.

They believe a lifelong devotion to his older brother who had a developmental disability influenced Naiman, though he rarely spoke of it. The brother died in 2013, the same year Naiman splurged on a sports car — a modestly priced Scion FR-S. “Growing up as a kid with an older, disabled brother kind of colored the way he looked at things,” close friend Susan Madsen said.

A former banker, Naiman worked the past two decades at the state Department of Social and Health Services, handling after-hours calls. He earned $67,234 and also took on side gigs, sometimes working as many as three jobs. He saved and invested enough to make

In this Friday, Dec. 21 photo, from left, Rebecca Schaechter, Nicole Herron and Rachel Herron fold and sort donated clothes at Treehouse, a nonprofit organization in Seattle that serves the needs of children in the foster-care system.

(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

several millions of dollars and also inherited millions more from his parents, said Shashi Karan, a friend from his banking days.

Thrilled when he finally qualified for senior discounts, Naiman bought his clothes

from the grocery store. He loved cars, but for the most of his life, drove beat-up vehicles and seemed to enjoy the solitude and savings of solo road trips, friends say.

After Naiman’s death, Karan realized how little he knew of

the other aspects of his longtime friend’s life.

“I don’t know if he was lonely. I think he was a loner,” Karan said.

Many of the organizations benefiting from Naiman’s gifts said they didn’t know him, though they had crossed paths.

He left $2.5 million to the Pediatric Interim Care Center, a private organization in Washington state that cares for babies born to mothers who abused drugs and helps the children wean off their dependence. The group used some of what was its largest donation ever to pay off a mortgage and buy a new vehicle to transport the 200 babies it accepts from hospitals each year.

Naiman had called the center about a newborn while working for the state more than a decade ago, and its founder, Barbara Drennen,

showed up in the middle of the night to get the baby.

“We would never dream that something like this would happen to us. I wish very much that I could have met him. I would have loved to have had him see the babies he’s protecting,” Drennen said.

Naiman gave $900,000 to the Treehouse foster care organization, telling them that he was a foster parent years ago and had brought kids in his care to the group’s popular warehouse, where wards of the state can chose toys and necessities for free.

Treehouse is using Naiman’s money to expand its college and career counseling statewide.

“The frugality that he lived through, that he committed to in his life, was for this,” said Jessica Ross, Treehouse’s chief development officer. “It’s really a gift to all of us to see that pure demonstration of philanthropy and love.”

As Maryland’s opioid crisis rages on, so does grief At 7, she’s flourishing

By DOUG DONOVAN The Baltimore Sun

BALTIMORE — When Ashley Mooney-Naglieri learned last winter that her husband was homeless and using heroin again, she got into her car and cruised all night through his Highlandtown haunts, shouting “Nick” out her window and stopping to peer into parked vehicles.

“I had heard he was sleeping in cars on Eastern Avenue,” she said. She had heard right. Shortly before dawn that cold January morning, Mooney-Naglieri found her frostbitten husband in the trunk of an SUV. “He said he wanted help,” said Mooney-Naglieri, a Baltimore County Public Schools employee. “He didn’t want to live like this anymore.”

Over the next three months Nick Naglieri did his best to get help — detox, methadone and rehab. But on April 3 the 33-year-old former mailman and father of two boys was found dead with a needle in his arm. The cause, according to the medical examiner, was accidental fentanyl overdose.

“It seems like it’s getting worse and worse out there,” his wife said.

Through the first half of 2018, Maryland recorded 1,185 opioid-related overdose deaths — 15 percent more than the same period last year. The midyear figure is the most recent the Maryland Department of Health has tallied. If deaths have continued at that pace, as many suspect, fatalities will surpass last year’s record of 2,009.

That figure ranked Maryland among the hardest-hit states as the nation recorded 48,000 opioid overdose deaths in 2017.

Driven by a flood of deadly fentanyl, the state’s opioid crisis continues to carve wounds of heartache and despair for loved ones left behind, many of them in Baltimore. By July 1, 483 people in Baltimore had died of overdoses, 88 more than at last year’s midpoint and the most in any Maryland jurisdiction.

By year’s end the fatalities will dwarf the city’s 300-plus homicides, most of which are caused by the same drug trade that delivers fentanyl and heroin.

But deaths are rising all over the state. After Baltimore, the next five Maryland jurisdictions with the highest death rates are all predominantly white, rural counties such as Cecil, Caroline and Allegany.

Few people in Baltimore have witnessed the suffering more than Erich March, owner of March Funeral Homes.

March is frustrated that so many deaths involve the drug trade.

“I’ve buried too many people on both sides of it — the violence and the drugs,” he

said.

The epidemic began several years ago as overprescribing practices flooded medicine cabinets with legal opioid pain relievers such as Oxycontin. Once hooked, users began chasing better and cheaper highs from illegal heroin.

While state programs to monitor prescription writing and to distribute the overdose-reversing drug naloxone did begin to lower deaths caused by pills or heroin last year, fentanyl snuffed out any progress. The synthetic opioid was involved in nearly 88 percent of all opioid overdose deaths in 2017.

“Fentanyl has taken over,” March said. “People don’t know what they’re putting in their bodies and they’re paying a heavy price.”

So are their families — no matter race, culture or class.

Even more insular communities like Orthodox Jews in Northwest Baltimore are suffering from the epidemic. But now they’re talking about the issue rather than whispering, said Howard Reznick, manager of prevention education for Jewish Community Services.

Before 2017, his efforts to educate the community were largely shrugged off, he said.

“I’m noticing an increase at funerals of folks saying out loud that the person was struggling with drug problems,” Reznick said. “In the last year and a half congregations have come to us to do something for their congregants.”

Jewish Community Services has hosted several public education sessions this year that included naloxone training. It is launching a podcast about women and addiction, and starting a grief support group.

“On a community-wide level, it’s never been like this,” Reznick said.

Such grief groups are growing across the nation and the state.

“There isn’t a word for losing a child, especially to substance abuse,” said Laura Cash, a board member for a national peer-grief program called Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing, or GRASP. She lost her 28-yearold son to overdose four years ago and still feels the pain daily. “There is an underlying sadness that never goes away.”

The group, based in Ohio where Cash lives, has seen national membership grow from 1,000 in 2014 to 8,000 today, including four Maryland chapters.

Michael Shetterly runs the monthly GRASP support group in Perry Hall.

The 51-year-old Essex man and his twin sons have been grieving the loss of their 23-year-old son and brother, Matthew, for four years. Sharing the grief at GRASP meet-

ings has helped Shetterly attain some sense of normalcy this year, he said.

But he also thanks a former stranger: Erv Basdon of Fairfax, Va. When the two met last year at the Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland’s Baltimore office, Shetterly said he and his wife were still “lost, torn apart.” But when Shetterly pressed a stethoscope to Basdon’s chest, he broke into tears as he heard the pulse of his dead son’s heart.

He had not been so close to this heart since he tried reviving it with CPR in 2014 after finding Matthew lying on the floor of his childhood bedroom, a heroin needle in his arm. Both Basdon and Shetterly are convinced God intertwined their fates: Matthew died on Good Friday that year and his heart was transplanted into Basdon on Easter Sunday.

Theirs is a rapidly growing phenomenon, according to the Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland. In 2015, one out of six organ donors in Maryland had died of an overdose. Today, the number is one out of three.

It took two years before Shetterly could muster the courage to meet Basdon, who was suffering from guilt that it took someone to die to save his life. But Shetterly has found great relief in knowing Basdon, that his son’s fatal overdose had saved the life of someone willing to offer such an intimate encounter.

“I love that man,” Shetterly said.

“Matthew lives on in me,” Basdon said. “I have a new family.”

Lisa McLaughlin and her husband have also turned to a GRASP support group in Harford County to deal with the devastating death of their 19-year-old daughter, Hannah, who died of an overdose four years ago on the same day she returned to her parents’ home from a Philadelphia rehab facility.

After arriving that morning, Hannah and a sponsor went together to a 12-step meeting while her Bel Air parents went to work. By the time they returned near 5 p.m.

Hannah was dead of a fentanyl overdose.

“The needle was stuffed in her jeans when I found her,” said McLaughlin, who had testified earlier in 2014 before the General Assembly to request widespread availability of naloxone.

The legislature acted too late for her daughter. Today state rules allow any adult to obtain naloxone at any pharmacy. McLaughlin also struggles with regret that she didn’t know her daughter’s attention-deficit problems and unexplained stomach pains were signs of an anxiety condition caused by a childhood trauma that Hannah had never

shared.

“So often, by the time a family realizes their loved one is dabbling in drugs, they’re further down the road of addiction than the family is aware,” McLaughlin said.

Alyssa Du Biel can attest to that. When the 25-year-old Carroll County woman confessed in July to her parents that she was a heroin addict, they were shocked and relieved that she was going to a Sykesville rehab facility.

Since September Du Biel has been living drug- and alcohol-free with other recovering women in the Reclaiming My Life Sober House in Westminster.

Du Biel said her drug use started senior year of high school with alcohol and marijuana. Once she hit 21, the partying accelerated with her use of pills and cocaine. By 2016 she was snorting heroin for the first time.

Before she knew it, the petite woman was accompanying armed addicts — or going solo — to buy drugs from “very dangerous people” in Westminster or Owings Mills and snorting whatever she purchased, even though she knew it likely contained fentanyl.

Late last year, after snorting heroin in her car with a girlfriend, the pair drove to Arby’s. Just as Du Biel was ordering at the drive-through speaker, her friend slumped over beside her. The woman’s lips were blue.

“She looked dead,” Du Biel said. “I went crazy screaming into the drive-through speaker.”

Paramedics revived her with naloxone and took her away in an ambulance. Du Biel — still dressed professionally from her job at a tailoring shop — talked to police with heroin in her pockets.

Still high, she cried until officers let her leave. She drove to her then-boyfriend’s house, where she snorted more.

“I’m certain it had fentanyl in it,” she said. “The fact that I’m alive is a miracle.”

Du Biel credits her success so far to a busy schedule of therapy, meetings and work — and the support of her sober housemates.

Those who have lost loved ones to addiction also can get support from others experiencing the same pain.

Tammy Lofink, whose 18-year-old son, Robert, died of a heroin overdose four years ago, started a nonprofit called Rising Above Addiction. It not only runs the house where Du Biel is recovering, but also helps parents and other relatives navigate the perils of active addiction and recovery.

“Every time I can help someone, it makes it a little bit easier for me,” Lofink said.

“It’s a way for parents not to let their children’s deaths be in vain.”

a year after taking 1st steps

By SCOTT KEEPFER The Greenville News

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Brayden Dame needed a break.

Nine surgeries in a fiveyear span take a toll on a body, particularly one occupied by a smiling little girl whom fate has dealt some unfair cards.

So Dawn Dame, Brayden’s grandmother, decided that enough was enough — at least for now.

“She’s been through so many surgeries, we thought it would be nice to do nothing for a while,” Dawn said. “She had never had a year when she hadn’t had anything done.”

And so it has been for the past year. Brayden was born with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC), a rare condition characterized by stiff joints and abnormally developed muscles. She is unable to use her arms, hands or fingers, and her bones continue to grow while her muscles don’t.

Following a series of corrective surgeries and procedures that helped straighten her legs, Brayden took her first steps on her own late last year around Thanksgiving and hasn’t stopped since. She still attends regular therapy sessions at the Shriners Hospitals for Children-Greenville, and the efforts have served her well.

The past year has been one of remarkable progression for Brayden, from returning to school at Westminster Elementary to riding horses to dancing with her orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Harold von Bosse of Shriners Hospitals for Children-Philadelphia, at an AMC Convention in Ohio.

She asked; he obliged.

Her power chair, which served as her primary mode of transportation for the first sixplus years of her life, has been rendered little more than an occasional security blanket.

“She hardly ever uses her chair,” Dawn said. “She wants to walk everywhere. We take the time to let her do that because it’s all new for her. She’s never been able to do this before.”

Brayden has flourished in

every way imaginable.

Her grades have soared, she’s reading at above grade level and her second-grade classmates all want to sit next to her — in class, at lunch, on field trips.

In June, she joined Miss Clemson, Sydney Sill, on stage at the Miss South Carolina pageant.

At the store, Brayden scans and bags their purchases with her mouth.

She prefers dinosaurs to princesses.

She’s also discovered painting and loves to paint “Hope Globes,” which are inspirational globes presented to patients and others in need of emotional uplifting.

“I think painting is going to be her thing,” Dawn said.

Brayden, who eschews desserts and snacks for vegetables and milk and water, has grown taller and is adding weight to her slight frame — several inches and eight pounds, respectively, since January.

Brayden’s primary concern now is adding a few more pounds in order to reach the 40-pound minimum weight required to legally soar in a wind tunnel. Her target date is Feb. 1 — her eighth birthday — which would help her realize her next dream, which entails parachuting from an airplane.

“She’s embracing life right now,” Dawn said. “And learning to be independent.

She can sit in the middle of a bunch of strangers and paint and talk. When we were at the AMC Convention in Cleveland, she met a bunch of kids and drew some of them out of their shells.

She has just blossomed so much.”

Now all Brayden wants is an old-fashioned Christmas.

“She says she doesn’t want anything for Christmas because the most important things about Christmas are Jesus and family,” Dawn said.

“So I’ve rented a house in the mountains and we’re going to cut down a little old tree like Charlie Brown’s and have only handmade ornaments and have a whole week of family time.”

New Massachusetts law will tax, regulate short-term rentals BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has signed into law a bill aimed at taxing and regulating shortterm rentals such as those offered by Airbnb.

Baker released a statement Friday saying his administration supports “leveling the playing field for short term rental operators who use their properties as de facto hotels.”

He thanked state lawmakers for sending him a final compromise bill he said avoids placing undue burdens on those who rent out for fewer than 14 days a year.

Airbnb issued a statement saying the company was “deeply disappointed in the flawed bill that emerged from Beacon Hill during the lame duck session.”

Massachusetts Lodging Association President Paul Sacco welcomed the new law, blaming Airbnb in part for driving up rents and disrupting neighborhoods. The association represents hotels and motels. BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has signed into law a bill aimed at taxing and regulating short-term rentals such as those offered by Airbnb.

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