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Panthers’ Newton shows immaturity I’m not here to gloat about the Broncos’ 24-10 victory over Carolina in Super Bowl 50.

I do want to talk about Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, however.

I caught Newton’s terse postgame news conference in all of the coverage after the game.

If you missed it, Newton acted uninterested in answering questions. When he did answer a question, the answers were brief and without much explanation. He eventually just walked out without warning.

My initial reaction was one of compassion for Newton. Here was a tremendous competitor who just lost the biggest game in his sport’s season.

However, Deion Sanders changed my mind.

Sanders thought Newton’s antics were unacceptable. His point was that Newton was just named league MVP on Saturday, making him a face of the league. As the MVP and face of the

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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Jason Schaumburg league, it is your responsibility to answer questions after a tough loss. Sanders also pointed out Tom Brady or Drew Brees would not act that way. I tend to agree with Sanders, especially when you consider Newton’s actions when he’s winning. The fun he brought to Sunday afternoons was refreshing. His postgame reaction Sunday was childish. What do you think?

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Playing without three of their top scorers, the Bulls couldn’t overcome an early deficit to the Charlotte Hornets, who won, 108-91, Monday night. Derrick Rose was a late scratch because of soreness, and Jimmy Butler and Nikola Mirotic missed their third and seventh games, respectively. Story, page B7.

In the next big test since the Iowa Caucus, voters in New Hampshire will be selecting their presidential candidates for early Democrat and Republican primaries. Some snow expected overnight Monday and into Tuesday might affect voter turnout in the Granite State.

BLEACHER FINES

McHenry County College’s Bioneers Speaker Series features environmental journalist Peter Annin, who will speak to the diversion of water from the Great Lakes and why it is not a valid alternative to groundwater in McHenry County.

The event starts at 7 p.m. Tuesday at MCC’s Luecht Conference Center in Building B, located on the main campus in Crystal Lake. No registration is required.

Neighbors and Community High School District 155 agreed Monday that the school district will pay $273,000 in legal bills for the property owners who filed a lawsuit over the expanded bleachers at Crystal Lake South High School.

Property owners originally asked for about $316,000 in fees, but the lower amount was negotiated.

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REJOINING THE WORKFORCE

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Ageism, changing economy among challenges seniors face in job search

By CAITLIN SWIECA

cswieca@shawmedia.com Despite having four decades of office administrative work on her resume, Debra Williams did not have an easy time finding work when she set out on a job hunt two years ago.

“I could never find anything because I was either overqualified or underqualified,” Williams said, “and I was either too old or too young.”

The 60-year-old Huntley woman said she thinks a number of factors contributed to the difficulty. She didn’t have a high school or college education, having left to raise children and enter the workforce. In the current economy, full-time

work isn’t easy for anyone to find.

She also said ageism might have contributed to her struggle. For example, she said some employers may have assumed she was accident prone, even though she’s in good health.

Those who work with seniors say those types of obstacles are common for older people who are searching for work as the economy shifts and the population ages.

In a 2013 AARP study of those ages 45 to 57, 64 percent of workers say they have seen or experienced age discrimination in the workplace, even though the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 outlawed such bias.

Data from the U.S. Equal Employ-

ment Opportunity Commission shows the number of ageism-related charges filed increased by 30 percent between 1997 and 2014, rising from 15,786 to 20,588.

While the numbers suggest employers are having a hard time adjusting to older workers, AARP Associate State Director for Advocacy and Outreach Terri Worman said many seniors also struggle to adjust to the current nature of jobs and job hunting.

“Here’s what I say to people: Often, the job you had is just not there anymore,” Worman said. “Part of your job is to be able to figure out, what are my

See WORKFORCE, page A9

“It’s a technology-run world now. Even cash registers are much different than they used to be. There is technology involved, and if you don’t feel your skills are up to speed, get some help with it.”

Terri Worman, AARP associate state director for advocacy and outreach

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Senior Service Associates part-time receptionist Diane Duval works Wednesday in Crystal Lake. Duval participates in the Senior Community Service Employment Program, which places seniors looking for job training at nonprofit or government agencies where they can earn income and learn skills.

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CL issues 31 tickets in weekend crackdown

CRYSTAL LAKE – An extra 31 tickets were issued this past weekend through a steppedup enforcement effort for the Super Bowl, the Crystal Lake Police Department said in a news release.

The extra patrols were paid for using federal traffic safety funds through the Illinois Department of Transportation and are part of the state’s “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” and “Click It or Ticket” campaigns.

The Crystal Lake Police Department stopped an additional 41 drivers from Friday to Sunday, resulting in 31 tickets, the release said.

The tickets included 18 for using a cellphone while driving, seven for speeding, three for no insurance, two for seat belt violations and one for other moving or equipment violations.

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Sheriff’s office leader resigns

By KATIE DAHLSTROM

kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The man McHenry County Sheriff Bill Prim appointed to a supervisory position despite criticism about his criminal background that surfaced during the 2014 campaign resigned from the department Friday, a sheriff’s official said.

Matt McNamara, Prim’s former campaign manager, started as the deputy chief of patrol for the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office in January 2015. Prim did not respond to a request for comment Monday, instead deferring to deputy and department spokesman Tim Creighton.

“He resigned Friday to pursue private-sector work,” Creighton said, citing the resignation as a “personnel issue” the sheriff would not speak to.

McNamara, who also serves as a Republican precinct committeeman in Grafton Township, has prior convictions for misdemeanor assault and driving under

the influence.

McNamara was arrested and charged with driving under the influence in 2012 in Jerome, Arizona. According to a police report from the time, McNamara blew more than twice the legal limit and told police that he was a Chicago police officer, but he was not.

A 2001 assault charge stemmed from a bar fight in Iowa in which McNamara is said to have choked a man, punched two women and dragged another by her hair across the parking lot in separate incidents, acMatt cording to witness reports.

McNamara A judge in a 2001 bench trial convicted McNamara of misdemeanor assault stemming from the first fight, fining him $500 and $154 in court costs.

The verdict was upheld on appeal.

His criminal history became a campaign issue for Prim’s challenger during the 2014 sheriff’s election.

During the campaign, Prim routinely denied his challenger’s assertion that he would name McNamara as undersheriff, and said he never mentioned McNamara for “any particular office.”

When he took office, Prim got rid of the position of undersheriff, instead naming three administrators who would report to him. Prim then hired McNamara about a month after taking office.

McNamara, who lives in Huntley, is president of Liberty Elite Services, which specializes in executive protection. He handled security for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich during his 2012 presidential run.

He also is a former police officer who served with Prim in the Des Plaines Police Department.

McNamara’s annual salary was more than $112,000, according to county records.

Creighton said he did not know what the process would be to find McNamara’s replacement.

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Actor Michael Krebs portrays Abraham Lincoln and Debra Ann Miller portrays Mary Todd Lincoln as they perform a story about how Abe asked Mary Todd to dance at a party in Springfield. The pair toured classrooms Monday at Harrison Elementary School in Wonder Lake.

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3 GOP candidates vying for 26th Illinois Senate District

By KEVIN P. CRAVER

kcraver@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Stemming the exodus of taxpayers and jobs from Illinois and lightening the state’s heavy property tax burden is paramount to the three Republican candidates running for the 26th Senate District seat.

Dan McConchie, Casey Urlacher and Martin McLaughlin are running to succeed Republican Sen. Dan Duffy, who is limiting himself to two terms.

The 26th District covers southeastern McHenry and southwestern Lake counties and slivers of Kane and Cook counties.

The candidates said at their meeting with the Northwest Herald Editorial Board last week that fixing the public pension system, which has at least $111 billion in unfunded liabilities, is paramount to restoring the state’s fiscal health.

McLaughlin said his investment career gives him an edge when it comes to finding constitutionally acceptable solutions. Voters in 2013 elected him president of Barrington Hills. “[The pension crisis] invades every single aspect of taxes in the state, and it

has to be changed,” McLaughlin said.

McConchie said the state also needs to adopt Gov. Bruce Rauner’s “Turnaround Agenda” of pro-business reforms to workers’ compensation, tort liability and prevailing wage laws.

“We aren’t suffering from a lack of ideas,” McConchie said. “What we’re suffering from is a lack of political will and strategy to fight for Martin those things in Spring- McLaughlin field.”

The Hawthorn Woods resident is vice president of government affairs for Americans United for Life – he served eight years in the Army National Guard Casey as both an infantryman Urlacher and a military policeman before a 2007 crash with a hit-andrun driver put him in a wheelchair.

Urlacher said that reforms at the state level will help lower taxes locally, because they will give people and jobs a reason to stay in Illinois.

Outmigration from Illinois last year hit six digits for the first time, and the state led the nation in population loss,

according to U.S. Census estimates.

“They’re running out of this state, which is unfortunate. We need to keep them here,” Urlacher said.

Voters in the small town of Mettawa elected Urlacher mayor in 2013. A former football player and business development director for Englewood Construction Company, he is the younger brother of forDan mer Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher.

McConchie McLaughlin supports the controversial project to extend Route 53 north from Lake Cook Road to Route 120, but McConchie and Urlacher were more reserved. McConchie said planners have not demonstrated enough dedication to preserving the area’s unique wetland environment, and Urlacher added he also needs to see more talk about who is going to end up paying for it.

The 26th District includes all or parts of Crystal Lake, Lake in the Hills, Cary, Fox River Grove, Carpentersville and Barrington.

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Man with gun at post office not charged

By KATIE DAHLSTROM

kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The 56-year-old Woodstock man who dropped his loaded gun at the U.S. Post Office in Woodstock will not face charges from local police because the building was not properly labeled according to the state’s concealed carry law, Police Chief Robert Lowen said.

Lowen said the owner – who he would not name – had a valid concealed carry permit and FOID card to carry the Springfield Armory XDS 9mm handgun.

The gun was recovered about 11 a.m. Friday after a customer reported seeing the gun leaning against a door in the lobby of the post office, 1050 Country Club Road, Woodstock.

The magazine was loaded, police

“People that have concealed carry permits should be extremely careful. It’s a great responsibility they take on.”

Robert Lowen

Woodstock police chief

said, but the gun did not have a round in the chamber. Lowen said the man kept the gun in a deep zippered pocket in his coat.

“The guy thought he heard something hit the floor,” Lowen said. “Ten minutes later, he realizes it’s missing, he retraces his steps.”

Woodstock police are holding the

gun until they hear from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service regarding any federal charges.

Under federal law, it’s illegal to carry a firearm into a post office. The statute says punishment for violating the law could result in a fine or up to a year in prison.

Federal authorities did not return a request for comment.

However, Lowen said he’s not comfortable pressing local charges because the post office did not have the 4-by-6inch sticker indicating concealed carry weapons are barred from the property.

There are no other charges that could be brought against the man, Lowen said.

“People that have concealed carry permits should be extremely careful,” Lowen said. “It’s a great responsibility they take on.”

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Trustee Ronda Goldman said she was concerned about the Algonquin Road turn, as well as the sharp right turn from Huntley Dundee Road onto Kreutzer Road but also wanted to keep the downtown area friendly to customers and pedestrians.

“I sat [downtown] and watched truck after truck after truck drive by,” Goldman said. “That wasn’t my vision, either. We put so much money into the beautification, and I thought about people sitting there and the dust from the trucks passing by. I don’t have a solution for this.”

Trustee John Piwko said he supported the restrictions because he was concerned about trucks hitting pedestrians downtown. If the restrictions are passed, Farrell said there would be a 90-day grace period for first-time offenders, so truck drivers could get used to the changes.

FOX RIVER GROVE – A 64-year-old Fox River Grove man was taken to the hospital with minor second-degree burns after his oxygen mask caught fire, a fire official said.

The man was trying to light the stove around noon Sunday at his home at 700 Northwest Highway when the oxygen tubes caught fire, Fox River Grove Fire

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HUNTLEY – The Village Board will vote this week on whether to restrict trucks driving through the village’s downtown streets after several trustees opposed the idea at last week’s Committee of the Whole meeting.

The proposal, which was presented Thursday by village engineer Tim Farrell, would ban trucks weighing more than 12,000 pounds from traveling on downtown streets unless they are making a delivery to a business there.

Streets in the proposed plan include Main, Church, Woodstock, Coral and Myrtle streets. The restrictions are being proposed in an attempt to make downtown more pedestrian-friendly after the village poured $4.6 million into streetscape improvements in the area.

If the restrictions are approved, Farrell said trucks wanting travel to north on Route 47 could take Ruth Road north to Algonquin Road, which would add 0.3 miles to the trip. For trucks traveling south, the village would recommend taking Huntley Dundee Road to Kreutzer Road, an addition of 2.3 miles.

Trustee Timothy Hoeft was concerned about the safety of forcing trucks to take a left turn onto Algonquin Road.

“From personal experience, if you’re doing it at 10 o’clock in the morning, there’s probably not much traffic,” Hoeft said. “If you’re trying to do it after 3 [p.m.], it’s a good thing the [future Centegra] hospital’s right there because they’re going to need it.”

Trustee Niko Kanakaris also stated his opposition, saying he didn’t want to

“We put so much money into the beautification, and I thought about people sitting there and the dust from the trucks passing by. I don’t have a solution for this.”

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Neighbors in bleacher lawsuit to get $273K in attorney fees

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ecoleman@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Community High School District 155 will be responsible for covering $273,000 in legal bills for the property owners who filed a lawsuit over the expanded bleachers at Crystal Lake South High School, the two sides agreed Monday morning.

The district’s insurance will cover the expense, which was negotiated down from an original request of $316,474.80 for six attorneys and three paralegals, plus certain expenses, said Robert Swain, the attorney representing the district.

“We’re certainly happy to have it resolved,” Swain said, adding that now the school district can move forward.

An outstanding judicial order requiring the district to demolish the

“We’re certainly happy to have [the bleacher case] resolved.”

Robert Swain

Community High School District 155 attorney west bleachers likely will be addressed March 8, Swain said, adding that while what will happen to that order is up to McHenry County Judge Michael Chmiel, he is hopeful that Chmiel will give the district relief from the order.

The Crystal Lake City Council gave its approval earlier this month to revised plans for the bleachers, which include keeping the west bleachers at their current partially demolished height and expanding the east side bleachers to make up for some of the lost capacity.

The neighboring property owners “showed a lot of compromise” through the course of the case, their attorney Tom Burney said, adding that was part of his reasoning behind his compromise on the legal fees.

“I’m content,” he said. “It was a real honor to be involved in this case. It was a highlight of my career.”

The agreed amount for the attorney fees involved compromise on both sides, Swain said, declining to comment on the particulars.

The district’s attorneys had raised objections to hourly rates submitted for some of the attorneys and paralegals, as well as to some of the bills being included in the request, according to court records.

District attorneys believed the district should have paid $78,366.30 with all of those proposed reductions.

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In working with seniors around the state, Worman said she encourages seniors to rearrange their resumes to highlight skills rather than experiences and research companies to figure out how to best market themselves for a job. While she realizes how frustrating unemployment can be, she said older people need to embrace online job searching and go out of their way to obtain any skills they don’t have.

“It’s a technology-run world now,” Worman said. “Even cash registers are much different than they used to be. There is technology involved, and if you don’t feel your skills are up to speed, get some help with it.”

There also are programs that help seniors get back into the workforce, such as the Senior Community Service Employment Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor and coordinated through SER-Jobs for Progress National, a nonprofit agency based in Texas.

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Those stops, conducted over 22 hours of additional patrol hours, led to two arrests for outstanding warrants and

19 tickets, including eight for speeding, seven for cellphone violations and four for failure to wear a seat belt, the release said. The additional hours were paid for using an Illinois Department of Transportation grant program.

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HUNTLEY – The Huntley School District 158 Board is the latest to give administrators direction to proceed with certain measures meant to save money.

Chief Financial Officer Mark Altmayer, Board President Don Drzal and member Tony Quagliano have the authority to proceed with restructuring the series 2008 and 2009 general obligation school bonds after the board’s unanimous approval Thursday during a special meeting.

The issuance of no more than $5.1 million to $5.3 million would come with a potential debt savings of up to $650,000 depending on where interest rates are, Altmayer said Thursday.

The district has until Aug. 4 to sell the bonds, according to the resolution.

In addition, the school board approved two property tax abatements for bond and interest.

With proceeds from the Capital Development Award – $39 million in funds for capital expenses awarded in 2012 – the district will abate $400,000 for the series 2003A general obligation capital appreciation bonds as part of the 2015 levy request. “[The consumer price index] this past year for the 2015 levy was 0.8 percent,” Altmayer said, adding this is the fourth time the district has abated this way. “The $400,000 pretty much approx-

imates 0.7 percent, so it pretty much eliminates the CPI increase that the district had passed within that levy.”

In addition, about $165,500 will be abated for the series 2009 bonds, which Altmayer said is something the district does on an annual basis as part of a past resolution.

Across McHenry County, the Huntley school district is not alone in its efforts.

Cary School District 26 in November approved a resolution for a $165,000 debt service abatement.

Crystal Lake Elementary School District 47 Board members in December also approved a debt service abatement of $1 million, and the Tim Mahaffy Fox River Grove School District 3 Board members will vote on a similar item this month.

The Fox River Grove district recommended abating $150,000 on the 2015 levy from debt service. After a 4-3 vote to bring a resolution back for final approval, the item will appear on the agenda for the Feb. 22 meeting, Superintendent Tim Mahaffy said in an email.

“They [the board members who voted in favor] thought it was fiscally prudent to our taxpayers to abate taxes again this year,” Mahaffy said, adding this is the third year in a row the district has done so.

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“Some of them have worked since they were in their 20s,” Karina Maksimova, a case director or the program in McHenry and Kane counties, said.

“They work their whole lives, go into retirement, start collecting Social Security and realize, ‘I can’t make ends meet. I need to go out there and do something.’ ” Robert Yeoman, 62, of Crystal Lake said joining the program in August 2014 has helped him stay afloat after losing his 40-year career as a broadcast engineer because of downsizing.

“I do get a lot of emails for various jobs and I can safely say, roughly 90 percent of them are for job offers that just don’t fit my skill set,” Yeoman said.

At his current assignment at a thrift shop, Yeoman said he has learned how to work with customers but also repairs appliances, putting his previous expertise to good use. The additional income helped him move from a group home in Woodstock to an apartment in Crystal Lake.

Williams has worked several jobs in 14 months in the program, which she found through the county’s unemployment office.

“Some people never ran a cash register. Some people never did an inventory,” Williams said. “It’s a whole retraining program of what you’re used to in your life. I enjoy it. I’m thankful it’s here.”

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OBITUARIES

EUGENE L. ADAMS Born: June 13, 1920 Died: Feb. 6, 2016

Eugene L. “Gene” Adams, age 95, of McHenry, died Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016, at Alden Terrace of McHenry.

Born June 13, 1920, in McHenry to Lewis and Clara (Pitzen) Adams, Gene was a lifelong resident of McHenry and a lifelong member of St. Mary’s Church in McHenry.

A 1938 graduate of McHenry High School, Gene worked at Pitzen’s Camp (“The Bay”) both while going to high school as well as after graduation.

At the age of 21, he was inducted into the U. S. Army, where he served during World War II from 1941 until 1945. As an infantryman, Gene was awarded the Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon with 3 bronze battle Stars, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with 1 bronze battle star, and a Purple Heart Medal.

After his honorable discharge, Gene married Marion Hausheer at St. Mary’s Church in McHenry on August 22, 1946. He also began employment with Henry Muntz & Son of Elgin as a on-the-road hardware salesman. One of the accounts he called on was Lee & Ray Electric, and in the early 1950’s, he began his relationship in the business as part-owner.

When the new store opened in 1963, his ownership role grew until ownership was turned over to his sons, Paul and Greg in December of 1973. From 1974 to his retirement in June of 1985, Gene worked for Englewood Electrical Supply.

After retirement, Gene enjoyed his hobbies of fishing and gardening, as well as getting together with his friends. A notable hobby that spanned some 70 years in Gene’s lifetime was his monthly card club gathering with his buddies. In addition, he often referred to himself as the V.P. of the L.C.G. (the Leinenkugal Choral Group), an annual fishing trip at Clam Lake, with planning for the event taking place at their “mid-winter convention”.

Other activities during Gene’s lifetime included volunteering along with his wife for the FISH food pantry in McHenry; longtime membership in the Catholic Order of Foresters St. Mary’s Court 594; ushering at St. Mary’s Church; membership and past-presidency of the McHenry Kiwanis, where he organized the Peanut Day fundraiser for several years; involvement with the beginning of Little League in McHenry; and membership in VFW Post 4600 in McHenry.

Survivors include five children, John “Jack” (Janet) Adams, Paul (Marjory) Adams, Mark (Sharon) Adams, Mary (Tom) Knaack, and Patricia (Mark) Giacomo; 14 grandchildren; and 5 great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Marion, on Aug. 26, 2009; his son,

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Greg, in 2003; and his brother, Charles “Bud” “Sharky” Adams.

Visitation will be from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. Visitation will resume Thursday at the funeral home prior to the funeral Mass (times pending) at St. Mary’s Church, 1401 N. Richmond Road, McHenry. Interment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, McHenry.

Memorials are suggested by his family to either FISH, P. O. Box 282, McHenry, IL 60051; to the Montini Catholic School Foundation, 1405 N. Richmond Road, McHenry, IL 60050; or to Family Centered Hospice, 2171 Executive Drive Ste 450, Addison, IL 60101.

For information, please call the funeral home at 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com, where friends may leave an on-line condolence message for his family.

VINCENT A. AHLER Vincent “Vince” Aloysius Ahler, 84, of Algonquin, IL, decided to go home to the Lord, surrounded by his family, on Feb. 7, 2016.

Vince is survived by his wife, Rita (Fritsch) of 55 years; sons, Dan (Lake Geneva, WI), Tim (Jamie -Huntington, WV), Jerry (Amy - Algonquin, IL); brothers, Clete (Marilynn), Fritz (Judy); sister, Clare and grandchildren Richard, Carissa, Justin, BreAnna, Alyssa, Kevin and John. Vince is also survived by numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.

Vince was born, raised and worked on his family farm near Lyons, WI, for over 50 years.

Active in their parish of St. Joseph’s (later St. Margaret Mary), Knights of Columbus, and various social groups, Vince and Rita raised their three boys on the farm until they retired to Coloma, WI, in 1984.

Passionate about dairy farming and working with his hands, Vince continued creating useful household items in his workshop and attending various farming expos for the next 20 years. Both Rita and Vince enjoyed travel and spent many days taking train trips, cruises and driving vacations.

Visitation will be from 10:30 to 11:30 on Feb. 12, with a funeral Mass and luncheon to follow at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, 111 South Hubbard Street, Algonquin, IL. Vince will be laid to rest at St. Joseph’s Cemetery in

Lyons, WI.

Andy (Michelle) Lobo, Jeff Lobo and Mark (Julia) Lobo, and proud grandpa to Drew, Maggie, Abby, Mira and Katie. Loving brother to Melanie (Mike) McDonald and loving uncle BETTY M. ANDERSON to Carrie and Ryan (Kara) McDonald, all of Born: March 23, 1925 Wellington, FL and Nicole (Andy) Stemler Died: Feb. 7, 2016 of Chicago. Great friend to many. He was preceded in eternal rest by his father, Andy Betty M. Anderson, 90, of Woodstock, and his mother, Helen. passed away Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016, at her Visitation at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic home surrounded by her loving family.

Church, Cary, IL on Friday, Feb 19 at 9:30 am, She was born in Woodstock on March 23, 1925, to George and Elizabeth (Norton) Meyer Mass at 10:30, private interment. Luncheon to follow. A memorial service will be held at a Sr. She married Raymond C. Anderson on Sept. 1, 1951, in Woodstock, he preceded her later date in Marana, AZ. In lieu of flowers, contributions to the in death on May 9, 1982.

Betty graduated from Woodstock Commu- P.E.O. Scholar award would be appreciated. nity High School. She was a member of Grace Donations can be made to P.E.O. International Lutheran Church in Woodstock. After her hus- at https://donations.peointernational.org/ band’s passing, she visited and traveled with peo-donation-psa her children. She also babysat for a number of children, many of whom still visited her and sent her birthday cards, Christmas cards, GENE C. STRANG and gifts.

Born: Nov. 12, 1940; in Chicago, IL She is survived by her children, Ginny Died: Feb. 7, 2016; in Elgin, IL (Gary) Hansen, Sandy (Kevin) Sheahan, and Todd (Indira) Anderson; her son in law, Ed Gene C. Strang, 75, of Huntley, passed away Wettig; her grandchildren, Christopher Hall, on Sunday morning, Feb. 7, 2016, at Presence Amy (Tony) Alessi, Monica (Ian Hall) SheahSaint Joseph Hospital in Elgin. an, Nicole (Mike) Czerwinski, Rayanne (Noah He was born Nov. 12, 1940, in Chicago, the Hardt) Sheahan, Jessica (Kurt) Galera, and son of Herbert Carl and Erna Emma (Stiller) Nathaniel Anderson; and her great grandStrang. He was raised and educated in Chicago, children, Austin and Aidan Alessi, Hunter and graduating from Luther North High School. He Brenna Hall, Lilyana Espina, and Addyson was united in marriage to Kathleen J. Patelski and Austin Czerwinski; and her sister in law, on January 31, 1970. The couple made their Audrey Meyer; as well as many nieces and home in Crystal Lake and in 1985 moved to nephews.

Huntley. Gene was a repairman for Otis Elevator She was preceded in death by her parents; Company for many years, retiring in 1998. He her loving husband of 30 years, Raymond C. especially enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping and Anderson; her daughter, Cindy Wettig; her gardening as well as, working in his shop. grandsons, Calin and Nathan Sheahan; and He is survived by his wife, Kathleen; his son, her siblings, Lucy Wienke, Mildred Meyer, Bryan Gene Strang, both of Huntley; his son, Mabel Merwin, June Christopherson, George Scott Carl Strang of St. Charles; his grandson, Meyer Jr., and Lyle Meyer.

Kyle Bryan Strang; his sister, Joy (Daniel) Busam A visitation will be held on Wednesday, Feb- of Palatine; and his brother, Dale H. (Sue) Strang ruary 10, 2016, from 4:00 to 8:00 pm at the of Bloomington.

Schneider Leucht Merwin & Cooney Funeral He was preceded in death by his parents; and Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave. in Woodstock. two daughters, Carolyn Joy and April Elaine.

The visitation will continue Thursday, FebruVisitation will be from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. on ary 11, 2016, from 10:00am until the time of Thursday, February 11th at the DeFiore-Jorthe funeral service at 11:00 am at the funeral gensen Funeral & Cremation Service, 10763 home. Burial will be at McHenry County Dundee Road, Huntley and on Friday, February Memorial Park Cemetery in Woodstock.

12th from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the 11:00 In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made a.m. Funeral Service at Shepherd of the Prairie to JourneyCare Hospice, or to Angels By Your Lutheran Church, 10805 Main Street, Huntley.

Side.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made For more information, call the funeral home to the American Diabetes Association or the at 815-338-1710, or visit our website at www. National Kidney Foundation. slmcfh.com.

For more information please call 847-5158772 or online condolences can be directed to www.defiorejorgensen.com.

A. FRED LOBO

A. Fred Lobo, 71, entered into eternal rest Saturday, Feb. 6, in Tucson, AZ. Fred was formerly of Fox River Grove, IL, and recently of Marana, AZ. He was surrounded by his wife, Margo, of 47 years and his dear friends.

Fred is a loving father and father-in-law of

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• Continued from page 10 Born: Aug. 23, 1937; in Dyersburg, TN Died: Feb. 6, 2016; in McHenry, IL

DOROTHY M. WASHOW Born: Aug. 15, 1922 Died: Jan. 30, 2016

Dorothy M. Washow, 93, of Richmond, IL, passed away Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, after a brief illness.

She was born in Chicago, IL on Aug. 15, 1922, the daughter of the late Henry and Sophie (Reckweg) Bergholz. She was a graduate of Wilmot High School in 1940. She was married to Jack F. Washow on June 30, 1945, in Long Beach, CA. Jack proceeded her in death in October, 2003.

Dorothy was an active member of Grace Lutheran Church in Richmond, IL and served as past president and secretary of WELCA, the women’s group. She worked as a secretary at Richmond Grade School for over 19 years.

She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and garden clubs in Richmond and

Christine “Tina” Hope Wolf (nee Markwald), 58, of Crystal Lake, passed away Feb. 7, 2016, in her home after a 3-year battle with breast cancer. She was born on March 21, 1957, in Anna, IL to Rudolf and Marilynn (nee Morris) Markwald.

Tina graduated from Augustana College in 1979, received her CPA certification in 1983,

Lutheran Church, 8821 Main St., Union.

A luncheon will follow the service at the church. For information, call 815-338-1710.

Jack T. Crawford: The visitation will be from 9 a.m. until the 10 a.m. Mass celebration Tuesday, Feb. 9, at St. Mary Church, 10307 Dundee Road, Huntley. For information, call 847-669-5111.

Richard “Rich” G. Dufern: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the noon funeral service Friday, Feb. 12, at St. Barnabas Lutheran Church, 8901 Cary-Algonquin Road, Cary. For information, call 847-639-3817.

John “Jack” M. Little: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 13, in the chapel in Woodridge Memorial Park, 7014 S. Rawson Bridge Road, Cary. Graveside services will follow at 12:30 p.m.

Elisa Mendiola: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, at Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock.

The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, at Christ the King Church, 5006 E. Wonder Lake Road, Wonder Lake. For information, call 815338-1710.

Phyllis A. Mohler: The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, at Burnett-Dane

Funeral Home Ltd., 120 W. Park Ave., Libertyville. For information, call 847-362-3009.

Rita M. Sayler: The visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until the 11 a.m. Mass celebration Thursday, Feb. 11, at the Church of Holy Apostles, 5211 W. Bull Valley Road, McHenry.

Allan J. Schmitt: The visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, at Querhammer & Flagg Funeral Home, 500 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 12, at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 451 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. Interment will be private. For information, call 815-459-1760.

Gene C. Strang: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, at DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral & Cremation Service, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley. The visitation will continue from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral service Friday, Feb. 12, at Shepherd of the Prairie Lutheran Church, 10805 Main St., Huntley. For information, call 847-5158772.

William G. “Scotty” Thomas: The visitation will be from 11 a.m. until the 2 p.m. funeral service Wednesday, Feb. 10, at Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory, 591

CHRISTINE HOPE WOLF

Born: March 21, 1957 Died: Feb. 7, 2016

and received her MBA from University of Chicago in 1993.

On Sept. 28, 1985, she married Gilbert Wolf at Martin Luther Church in Chicago. She was a devoted wife and loving mother of two children, Gregory and Lauren. Tina was an affectionate, compassionate, and vivacious person who was loved by all and will be greatly missed.

Besides her husband and children, Tina is survived by her mother, Marilynn Boyes; brother, Paul (Sue) Markwald; and sister, Elizabeth (Jeffrey) Johnson.

She was preceded in death by her father, Rudolf Markwald and her sister, Ruth Osberg.

Visitation will be Friday, February 12, from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm at Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave. (Rte. 176), Crystal Lake. Funeral will be at 11:00 am with a visitation starting at 10:00 am on Saturday, February 13, at Bethany Lutheran Church, 76 W. Crystal Lake Ave., Crystal Lake.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in Tina’s name can be made to Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, 2160 South First Ave., Maywood, IL 60153.

The Wolf family would like to extend a special thank-you to VITAS Healthcare for the care, love and support given to Tina during her last several weeks of life.

To leave online condolences for the family visit www.davenportfamily.com. For information call 815-459-3411.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Eugene “Gene” L. Adams: The visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. The visitation will continue (times pending) Thursday, Feb. 11, before the funeral Mass celebration at St. Mary’s Church, 1401 N. Richmond Road, McHenry. Interment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery in McHenry. For information, call 815-385-2400.

Vincent “Vince” A. Ahler: The visitation will be from 10:30 a.m. until the 11:30 a.m. funeral Mass celebration Friday, Feb. 12, at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, 111 S. Hubbard St., Algonquin. A luncheon will follow at the church. He will be laid to rest in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Lyons, Wisconsin.

Betty M. Anderson: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, at Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock. The visitation will continue from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral service at the funeral home. Burial will be in McHenry County Memorial Park Cemetery in Woodstock. For information, call 815-338-1710.

Donald H. Bauman Sr.: The visitation will be from 9 a.m. until the 11 a.m. memorial service Saturday, Feb. 13, at St. John’s

Ridgeview Drive, McHenry. Interment will be in Woodland Cemetery in McHenry. For information, call 815-385-0063.

Ruby Denise Valentine: The memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, at the New Life Christian Center, 5115 Dean St., Woodstock. For information, call 815-338-1710.

Darrell B. Vowell: The visitation will be from 6 p.m. until the 7 p.m. funeral service Thursday, Feb. 11, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. Inurnment will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Arlington Heights.

For information, call 815-385-2400.

Dorothy M. Washow: The memorial service will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 12, at Grace Lutheran Church, 6000 Broadway Road, Richmond. For information, call 815678-7311.

Christine “Tina” Hope Wolf: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, at Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. The visitation will continue from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral service Saturday, Feb. 13, at Bethany Lutheran Church, 76 W. Crystal Lake Ave., Crystal Lake. For information, call 815-459-3411.

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Darrell B. Vowell, age 78, of McHenry, died Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016, at Centegra Hospital-McHenry.

He was born Aug. 23, 1937, in Dyersburg, TN, to Lester and Willie (Roberts) Vowell.

On October 11, 1977, he married Arden Newton. A resident of McHenry for the past ten years, he formerly lived in Thousand Oaks, California. Prior to retirement, Darrell was the owner of a transmission business in California.

He enjoyed old cars and visits to the Volo Auto Museum. Other pastimes included reading, travel, and watching NASCAR. In his younger years, he also was interested in guns.

Darrell is survived by his two sons, Tom (Alda) Vowell and Joel Vowel; his son-inlaw, David Schreiber; two stepchildren, Linda (Bill) Swanger and Charles (Mary Ellen Ryan) Gomez; four grandchildren, Kelly and Brian Schreiber, Jacob and Sophie Vowell; two step-grandchildren, Brooke and Russell Swanger; two step-great-grandchildren, Samantha Nyden and Kaitlin O’Brien; and his sister, Sue (Gayle) Williams.

In addition to his parents, Darrell was preceded in death by his wife, Arden, on March 3, 2015; and his daughter, Rhonda Schreiber.

Friends and neighbors may gather from 6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Thursday, Feb-

Minocqua/Woodruff, WI. In 1972 she and her husband built their summer home in Lac du Flambeau, WI, where they shared many happy memories with their family and friends.

Dorothy is survived by a son, Jack H. (Macy) Washow, of Lac du Flambeau; a daughter, Jane (John) Goehler, of Palatine, IL; four grandchildren, Scott (Renee) Washow, Heather (Frank) Shaw, Craig (Erica) Goehler, Lynne (Sean) Murphy and three great grandchildren.

Memorial service will be at 11:30 am Friday, February 12, 2016, at Grace Lutheran Church 6000 Broadway, Richmond, IL with Pastor Andy Tyrrell officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Grace Lutheran Church 6000 Broadway St., Richmond, IL 60071 or Richmond Food Pantry 10308 Main Street Richmond, IL 60071 or American Heart Assoc 3816 Paysphere Circle Chicago, IL 60674.

For information please call 815 678-7311 or visit www.ehornadams.com.

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DARRELL B. VOWELL

ruary 11, 2016, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. The memorial service will be at 7:00 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Inurnment will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery, Arlington Heights.

His family suggests memorials to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memorials & Honors Program, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.

For information, please call the funeral home at 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com, where friends may leave an on-line condolence message for his family.

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NEIGHBORS Cary

THINGS TO DO IN & AROUND McHENRY COUNTY

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“THE GREAT LAKES WATER DIVISION CONTROVERSY”

WHEN: 7 p.m. Feb. 9 WHERE: McHenry County College’s Luecht Conference Center, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake COST & INFO: MCC’s Bioneers Speaker Series lecture presented by environmental journalist Peter Annin on the diversion of water from the Great Lakes and its possible impact on McHenry County. Free.

Information: 815-479-7765 or www.mchenry.edu/bioneers.

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SPAGHETTI DINNER FUNDRAISER

WHEN: 5:15 to 7 p.m.

Feb. 9 WHERE: Nippersink Middle School, 10006 N. Main St., Richmond COST & INFO: Proceeds benefit the Nippersink Middle School music department. Includes entertainment by the NMS Choir and Band, gift card and cake raffles. Dinner includes pasta and meatballs, salad, bread, drinks and dessert.

Take-out available. Cost: $8 adults, $5 fifth-graders and younger, free for children age 5 and younger.

Information: horsefan19@ gmail.com.

BEST FRIENDS – The Rutherford family brought their collie, Duke, to visit and thank the Cary Fire Protection District members who helped rescue the dog after he fell through the ice on Silver Lake Jan. 3. Among those pictured with Duke are firefighters and emergency medical technicians Lt. Michael Douglass, Alex Bliech, Steve Wendt, Dan Spuck, Kevin Cotte, Beth Taylor and Kevin “Joe” Hoening. Not pictured: Deputy Chief Brad Delatorre.

Crystal Lake

Recovery program to host anniversary celebration Celebrate Recovery will mark its 12th anniversary from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday at the Evangelical Free Church of Crystal Lake, 575 E. Crystal Lake Ave. Dinner will be served from 6 to 6:45 p.m. The cost is $4 a person, $20 a family maximum.

The event also will feature radio host the Rev. Roy Patterson as guest speaker, and there will be testimonies and praise

by the Pacific Garden Mission choir.

Child care will be provided for children ages 6 to 12.

Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered 12-step program that helps participants recover from addictions, codependency, family dysfunction, depression, anxiety and abuse.

For information, call 815-459-1095 or visit www.efccl.org.

McHenry County

Retired educators offering college scholarships The McHenry County Retired Teachers Association, a local unit of the Illinois Retired Teachers Association, is accepting applications for its “Future Educator” scholarship for the 2016-17 school year.

The $1,000 scholarship is awarded to McHenry County high school seniors based on scholastic ability, community contributions and commitment leading to a degree in education. Applications are available at McHenry County public

high schools and at www.mcrta.org.

Applications must be postmarked by March 15.

Applications also are being accepted for the Illinois Retired Teachers Association scholarship for the 2016-17 school year, open to college sophomores or juniors who are residents of Illinois or graduates of an Illinois high school. Applications are available at www.irtaonline.org under the Foundation tab. Applications must be postmarked by March 15.

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Volunteers sought to monitor frog population The McHenry County Conservation District will host a frog monitoring workshop, open to ages 12 and older, from 7 to 9 p.m. Feb. 17 at Prairieview Education Center, 2112 Behan Road.

Participants will learn the techniques and protocol for monitoring 13 species of frogs and toads by their calls. After completing the training, interested volunteers may monitor district sites or private wetlands.

In conjunction with Chicago Wilderness, the conservation district is sponsoring the program to gather information on the abundance and distribution of frogs and toads throughout the region. The recorded data will be available for use by local land managers. For information, visit www.frogsurvey. org.

Registration is required for the workshop. To register, visit www. mccdistrict.org or call 815-479-5779.

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Dems vying for U.S. Senate make cases

By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press

CHICAGO – Meeting for the first time this election season, the three Illinois Democrats vying for U.S. Senate worked to distinguish themselves from each other and their GOP rivals Monday, sharing stories of difficult childhoods, business backgrounds and time in the trenches of struggling Chicago neighborhoods.

During a meeting before the Chicago Tribune editorial board, U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth, state Sen. Napoleon Harris and former Chicago Urban League CEO Andrea Zopp also touched on how they’d reduce the national debt and where they differ from President Barack Obama. The winner of the March 15 primary likely will face Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, who’s seeking his second term and is considered a heavy favorite to win a GOP primary against businessman James Marter. Democrats nationally see Kirk as one of the GOP’s most vulnerable incumbents, and Illinois as key to their strategy to pick up seats and possibly win back control of the Senate.

selves to voters, most of whom have heard little about the so-far low-key race.

Duckworth, a former Army pilot whose helicopter was shot down in Iraq, acknowledged she’s best known for her military background. She said what’s made her want to fight for working families is her own childhood, noting she had to work part-time after school to help pay the rent on her family’s studio apartment after her father lost his job.

Harris said growing up as an African-American male on Chicago’s South Side was “tough,” but that his mother’s emphasis on education led him to Northwestern University and a career in the NFL. He now owns a chain of suburban pizza restaurants.

Zopp touted the breadth of her experience, having served as a state and federal prosecutor and spending 10 years as an executive in Fortune 200 companies before taking over the Urban League of Chicago. She also sat on the Chicago Board of Education and a panel that recommended Illinois abolish the death penalty.

for entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.

Harris, of Harvey, said the answer is “no more expensive wars” and getting corporations and wealthy people to pay more taxes.

Zopp, of Chicago, called for closing corporate tax loopholes and ending the practice known as inversions, when U.S. companies merge with overseas corporations to lower their tax bill.

Duckworth, of Hoffman Estates, pointed to what she called waste in the Defense Department, such as billions spent on the F-35 fighter jet program.

She also said she’d look at changing the income level at which Social Security taxes are capped, so people who earn higher wages pay a larger percentage than they currently do.

“(Petrakis) assisted in handing out information about (Peoria Community Against Violence peace walk). Showed leadership and initiative,” police community services coordinator Krista Coleman wrote on Sept. 6, 2014, in the log of contacts with Petrakis she kept as part of the Don’t Shoot program.

Petrakis asked for assistance in finding a home and a job in September 2014.

Coleman later wrote a letter of recommendation to assist in his apartment search.

According to police reports, Petrakis met a 16-year-old runaway in March.

Shortly afterward he began posting online ads for massages. Up to six men a day would come to the apartment, or Petrakis would take her to houses in Peoria and locations in Chicago, the teen told police.

universities in Illinois, according to a higher-education accrediting agency.

In a letter sent Thursday, the Higher Learning Commission, the regional accrediting agency for 19 states including Illinois, issued a warning to Gov. Bruce Rauner and members of the General Assembly, the Champaign News-Gazette reported.

Schools that have to suspend operations or close because of unavailable state funding could lose their accreditation if they don’t come up with plans for their students to continue at another college, the commission warned lawmakers.

“The lack of state funding is putting Illinois colleges and universities at serious risk and jeopardizing the future of students,” commission President Barbara Gellman-Danley wrote in the letter.

Illinois’ public colleges and universities have been operating without state funding since the fiscal year began on July 1.

Without state funding in place, Chicago State University officials have said their campus could close by March 1.

POLICING

Zopp and Harris exchanged jabs over who’s done more to address criminal justice issues.

Zopp accused Harris and Duckworth of being “largely silent” regarding recent shootings of black residents

by Chicago police and a federal civil rights investigation into the police NATIONAL DEBT Asked how they would address the department, noting she’s worked on GETTING TO KNOW YOU U.S.’s massive debt, all three candi- criminal justice issues for years.

The candidates introduced them- dates said they wouldn’t cut benefits Harris objected, saying he’s been

ILLINOIS ROUNDUP

News from across the state Report: Police program helped man who prostituted teen

PEORIA – A newspaper report said a man who’s serving 15 years in prison for running an underage prostitution operation did so out of an apartment that police helped him get through an anti-violence program.

Documents acquired by the Peoria Journal Star show the police department’s Don’t Shoot initiative aided Matthew Petrakis obtaining the apartment in 2014.

The program focuses on gangs and other violent groups by warning ex-offenders on parole or probation that they are being monitored by police and offering social services to help those most likely to commit or become a victim of gun violence.

College-accrediting agency sends warning amid impasse

SPRINGFIELD – The state budget impasse could have “significant” consequences for the public colleges and

“in the community talking to people who are directly impacted” and that he hasn’t seen Zopp there.

“You’re running in the wrong race,” Harris said, saying she should be running for Cook County state’s attorney.

Zopp then ripped Harris as having “limited experience and leadership.”

Harris’ reply: “You’ve never been elected.”

“What I have done is gotten things done,” Zopp said.

OBAMA DIFFERENCES

Zopp and Harris both mentioned immigration when asked to name an issue where they disagree with Obama.

Zopp blasted recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids against people seeking asylum from Central America, saying the U.S. has “become hyper-deporters.”

Harris also criticized the administration for separating immigrant families, saying the U.S. needs to invest more in border control and vet people better when they enter the country.

Duckworth said she opposed Obama spending millions on the arming of Syrian rebels, which she said was money “wasted.”

Illinois State Museum says it has reached deal to reopen

SPRINGFIELD – The agency that oversees the Illinois State Museum and the governor’s office have reached an agreement to reopen the facility and its satellite locations by charging admission and closing two branches, the state announced Monday.

It comes three days after Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner rejected legislation to reopen the museums, but suggested in his veto letter that the facilities could reopen provided they don’t rely solely on state support. To that end, Rauner recommended admission fees and fundraising via donations and private partnerships.

The state Department of Natural Resources, which is in charge of the museums, agreed with the governor’s suggestions.

The department also said the locations slated for closing are the Chicago and Rend Lake branches.

It remains to be seen whether lawmakers will go along with the proposed agreement.

– Wire reports

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS A Saudi deployment runs the Obama asking Congress for funding to combat Zika potentially explosive risk of

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is asking Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to fight the Zika virus and the mosquitoes that spread it here and abroad, but said “there shouldn’t be a panic on this.”

The virus is spreading rapidly through Latin America. While most people experience either mild or no symptoms, Zika is suspected of causing a devastating birth defect – babies born with abnormally small heads – and pregnant Americans are urged to avoid travel to affected areas.

U.S. health officials said the money is critical for research into the birth defect known as microcephaly. They also want to speed development of a vaccine and better diagnostic tests, and expand mosquito control programs. Some of the money also would aid Zika-stricken countries and territories.

confrontation between one of the Arab world’s most powerful militaries and forces keeping Syrian President Bashar Assad in power.

That’s if the Saudi proposal even gets translated into action.

Just putting the offer on the table gives the Saudis an opportunity to show leadership in addressing U.S. concerns that its regional allies aren’t doing enough to fight IS. It also puts pressure on Washington to do more as Defense Secretary Ash Carter and allied defense ministers gather in Brussels this week for talks on confronting the extremists.

Remaining occupiers release videos mocking FBI

PORTLAND, Ore. – The last four occupiers of an Oregon wildlife refuge have posted a series of defiant videos in which one of them calls FBI agents losers, shows a defensive perimeter they have built and takes a joyride in a government vehicle.

Saudi offer to send troops The videos were posted Sunday on a YouTube channel called comes with uncertainty Defend Your Base, which the DUBAI, United Arab Emirates armed group has been using to – Saudi Arabia’s offer to send give live updates. The holdouts troops to fight Islamic State are among 16 people charged in Syria is as much about the with conspiracy to interfere with kingdom’s growing determination to flex its military might as it federal workers in the armed is about answering U.S. calls for standoff over federal land policy that has surpassed five weeks. more help from its allies in the Middle East.

– Wire reports

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall campaign event Monday at the Londonderry Lions Club in Londonderry, N.H.

Candidates sprinting to finish in New Hampshire The ASSOCIATED PRESS SALEM, N.H. – Eyeing their first wins in a capricious campaign, Republican Donald Trump lashed out at his opponents Monday while Democrat Bernie Sanders sought to play it safe on the eve of the nation’s initial primary. GOP contenders vying for second and third saw fresh hopes for survival after New Hampshire as both parties settled in for a drawn-out slog to the nomination.

As snowfall brought yet more uncertainty to the race’s final hours, Hillary Clinton tried to move past talk of a shakeup in her campaign and controversy over comments by supporters that women should feel obliged to vote for her. Barnstorming New Hampshire with her husband and daughter, she worked to flip Sanders’ favored critique against her by claiming that he, too, had taken big bucks from Wall Street – if only indirectly.

But it was Trump, the billionaire businessman, who launched the harshest attacks – not against Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who had bested him in Iowa, but against Jeb Bush. The former Florida governor is one of three Republicans hoping Marco Rubio’s recent stumbles have opened a fresh path for one of them to emerge as the more mainstream alternative to Trump and Cruz.

“Jeb is having some kind of a breakdown, I think,” Trump told CNN, calling Bush, the son and brother of presidents, a spoiled child and

an embarrassment to his family. “I think it’s a very sad situation that’s taking place.”

The enmity was mutual. Vying for votes in Nashua, Bush described his opponent variably as a loser, a liar, a whiner and the worst choice for president. He blasted what he said was Trump’s proclivity for “insulting women, castigating Hispanics, ridiculing the disabled and calling American POWs losers.”

Still, Trump was running ahead in pre-primary polls, as was Sanders on the Democratic side.

Not so long ago, Republicans saw New Hampshire as the proving ground that would winnow their chockablock field of candidates.

Rubio’s surge into third place in Iowa one week ago raised the prospect that voters here would anoint him over Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Yet Rubio faced fresh questions about his readiness and his ability to defeat the Democratic nominee – after Saturday’s debate, when he was mocked for reciting rote talking points about President Barack Obama over and over.

Growing doubts about Rubio seemed to portend a fight for delegates that could extend for weeks or months – to the dismay of Republican Party leaders hoping for a quick consolidation behind anyone but Cruz or Trump.

Democrats already are resigned to the likelihood of a protracted primary after Sanders’ strong performance in Iowa.

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Lawsuits filed amid water crisis in Flint

By ED WHITE

The Associated Press DETROIT – One lawsuit seeks to replace lead-leaching water lines at no cost to customers. Another seeks money for thousands of Flint residents who unwittingly drank toxic water. A third complaint has been filed on behalf of people with Legionnaires’ disease.

While government officials scramble to rid Flint’s tap water of lead, victims are suing Gov. Rick Snyder, the former mayor, rank-and-file public employees and almost anyone else who may have had a role in supplying the troubled city with corrosive river water for 18 months. The lawsuits accuse them of violating civil rights, wrecking property values and enriching themselves by selling a contaminated product.

“How can they look at themselves in the mirror?” asked New York attorney Hunter Shkolnik, who filed the latest lawsuit Monday on behalf of 2-year-old Sophia Waid. “It’s an embarrassment for government officials to take the safety of their citizens so lightly.”

Sophia’s father, Luke Waid, said he feared losing custody of his daughter when blood tests revealed that she had elevated levels of lead. Those tests were done long before Flint’s tap water was identified as the culprit in 2015.

Lead affects the central nervous system, especially in children age 6 and younger, and can cause learning problems and hyperactivity.

“She’s constantly on edge,” Waid said of his daughter. “It’s almost like she’s suffering some kind of anxiety.”

His lawsuit, which seeks an unspecified financial award, is one of at least seven complaints involving Flint in state and federal courts. It’s the first by Shkolnik and Detroit co-counsel Brian

McKeen, but the lawyers plan more.

Separately, 1,700 households have contacted Michael Pitt’s Detroit-area firm about joining the class-action case he filed in November.

The city’s supply was switched from Detroit water to the Flint River as a cost-saving measure in 2014, when Flint was under state-appointed emergency management. While key facts are undisputed – the untreated river water caused lead to leach from old pipes – these cases still are no slamdunk for lawyers specializing in personal injury.

State government has defenses, especially a long-recognized cloak of immunity in certain lawsuits, said Chris Hastings, who teaches at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School.

“Defense lawyers aren’t going to come in and say these cases don’t have any merit based on the facts,” Hastings said. “They’re going to come in with narrow, technical defenses that exist regardless of those issues. Courts are good at setting the emotions aside and looking at the law.”

But, he said, victims can point to “gross negligence” as a path around governmental immunity.

“That’s probably the best angle,” Hastings said. “But it’s likely, with the wide net that’s cast, that a number of defendants will still have a ‘we-didn’tdo-it’ defense.”

No substantial responses have been filed. In one lawsuit, a federal judge has granted a request from the attorney general’s office to give Snyder and state employees more time to explore legal defenses.

Snyder spokesman Dave Murray declined to comment, saying it would be inappropriate for the governor’s office to discuss pending litigation.

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More than 30 injured in Conn. casino bus crash The ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Conn. – A charter bus driving through a snowstorm to a casino flipped onto its side Monday, injuring more than 30 people and closing the northbound side of Interstate 95 in Connecticut.

The bus, which was on its way from New York City to the Mohegan Sun casino, crashed around 12:30 p.m. in Madison, east of New Haven.

State police trooper Kelly Grant said there were about 70 people on the bus. Passengers were taken to several hospitals, with the most seriously injured going to Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Mark D’Antonio, a Yale hospital spokesman, said the hospital received eight patients, far fewer than the 30 it originally had been told to expect.

One person suffered several broken bones, and the others were less seriously injured with cuts and bruises, he said.

“They initially expected worse in the field and told us to prepare for the worst,” he said. “Once they got down

to nuts and bolts and triaged everybody, they realized it was not as serious as they thought.”

The uninjured were taken to a nearby gymnasium.

The crash occurred during a snowstorm that was expected to drop up to a foot of snow on parts of the state.

Video from near the scene showed the bus on its side off the right shoulder of the northbound side of the highway, but facing south.

Cody Chapman, a spokesman for the casino in Uncasville, said the bus is owned by Dahlia Inc. and operated

by VMC East Coast.

He said other buses from the New York area were rerouted back to the city until weather conditions improved.

In a statement, VMC East Coast said it was saddened “that this has happened today” and thanked firefighters, paramedics and police.

“We pray that all our passengers are OK and will be safely returned to their families soon,” the statement read. “We may release more information in the coming days.”

What’s the Point of New Plays?

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By P. C. Denofrio Now, I’ve got a soft spot for old, dead, white guys when it comes to playwrights— Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Wycherley, Congreve, Moliere, even Beckett. These are the guys I grew up reading.

So I don’t really get this whole “new plays” idea. Some up-and-comers come along and try and reinvent the wheel.

Who wants to talk about religion, race relations, women’s rights, or politics?

Why Talk about Things That Make Us Uncomfortable— If the classics make us happy, why are we still trying to oust them?

I mean, sure, plays make us think about the world, make us think about whom we’re observing it (both the play and the world) with, but really, what’s the good in thinking? Who wants to

think?

Well, actually, I do... My guess is you probably do too.

Okay, maybe it’s good for some things.

But I’ve got other points: There’s Not Many New Stories to Tell; All the Stories Are Already Written— How many plotlines are there out there in the world?

You can’t honestly tell me you’d like to hear the same story over and over with different characters, performed by different actors, in different places, with different outcomes… Do you?

I mean, then it’d be different, if that’s what you think of as new… I guess.

So, Raue Center is putting on this “new play” lab thing Monday, February 8 at 7pm, where burgeoning playwrights put on their “fresh” plays. And I guess I’ll go to see what all the fuss is about.

I’d like to hear your response, too, so come on out and let’s talk about it.

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By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY and LISA LERER The Associated Press

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have breakfast Monday at Chez Vachon restaurant in New Hampshire. caucus works, were probably the two most challenging places for her to start,” Bill Clinton told The Associated Press.

As the campaign announced Hillary Clinton would campaign in Michigan over the weekend, a sign she was already looking past New Hampshire, Clinton’s pollster, Joel Benenson, declared Friday: “Our goal here is to get close.”

The Clintons have shown that close can be good enough.

In 1992, Bill Clinton spun a second-place showing over Paul Tsongas from neighboring Massachusetts as a triumph for the “comeback kid.” New Hampshire rescued a near-death campaign beset by accusations of infidelity and draft dodging.

“There have been times when someone coming in second has been the news,” noted Shumaker, who co-chaired Bill Clinton’s New Hampshire campaign then. He remembers the date (Aug. 5, 1991) he first met the future president, and has photo of him on his screensaver.

In 2008, Hillary Clinton arrived in New Hampshire battered and stunned

by a third-place finish in Iowa. She needed a win in New Hampshire to stop the bleeding. She choked up in a moment of exhaustion. New Hampshire delivered comeback No. 2.

To be sure, the stakes are not as high now.

As her supporters are quick to note, Clinton’s current drive for the White House will continue no matter what the results on Tuesday. She will remain the front-runner for a nomination many Democrats still expect her to win – eventually.

But a loss would undoubtedly expose the weakness of her bid. Clintons are expected to struggle in Iowa. But a rout in New Hampshire, their state of second chances? That hurts.

Comparisons between her efforts now and her husband’s then would be unavoidable. Bill Clinton’s climb in New Hampshire was credited to his ability to connect with white, working-class voters. He related. He won them over. He, famously, promised to “be there for you till the last dog dies” and allies say he

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MANCHESTER, N.H. – It’s their Everest. Their firewall. Their lifeboat in a frozen Atlantic.

They are the Clintons. It is New Hampshire. And here we all are again.

For nearly 25 years, New Hampshire has been the backdrop for some of the most memorable Clinton comebacks, pleas, denials, hustle, glory and drama.

Now those ghosts of primaries past are trailing Hillary Clinton as she tries – perhaps, one last time – to pull off another one for the history books.

Trailing by double digits, according to some polls, the Clinton campaign is finding it can’t escape the expectations and the limits of that “special bond” between the Clintons and voters of New Hampshire on the cusp of Tuesday’s primary.

“It still exists,” said Dayton Duncan, a New Hampshire-based historian and Clinton supporter. “But time passes.”

As polling in the final days found a possible tightening in Clinton’s contest with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, it was hard not to hear the faint echoes of history. Could this be the beginning of a third storied Clinton comeback in New Hampshire? Could she come close enough to make the claim?

“New Hampshire is legendary for being unpredictable,” said Terry Shumaker, a longtime Clinton backer.

Cautioned Duncan: “Elm Street in Manchester is a boulevard of broken dreams.”

“Comeback” is not a word the Clinton campaign is using. Since barely winning Iowa a week ago, Clinton and her allies have been trying to lower expectations for her performance on Tuesday.

She’s playing in Sanders’ “backyard,” she’s noted, as her allies rattle off New Hampshire Democrats’ history of picking politicians from neighboring states.

“New Hampshire, because of its location, and Iowa because of the way the

kept the promise.

At the moment, Hillary Clinton’s weakness is with those working-class voters. Her campaign spent the final days in New Hampshire trying to win over middle-income, middle-aged and working parents.

Clinton’s struggle with connection isn’t unique to New Hampshire. The state is arguably a place where she’s overcome that weakness.

In 2008, her defining campaign moment came on the eve of the primary in Cafe Espresso in Portsmouth. When she was asked simply “How do you do it?” she appeared to be holding back tears, as she answered: “It’s not easy.”

“She’s not just this really smart, tough, accomplished person,” said Kathy Sullivan, a longtime Clinton supporter. “She’s actually warm. ... I wish I could bottle that up and give it to everyone outside of New Hampshire, because they don’t get to see it like we do.”

Sullivan said she’s watched Hillary Clinton help hand out 500 diplomas at a high school commencement. She remembers the headband Clinton was wearing when they first met in 1992 – “a galaxy far, far away.”

That distance may be Clinton’s problem in adding a third chapter to the story.

Times change. Nearly one-third of potential New Hampshire voters were either not old enough to vote or lived in another state in 2008, according to an analysis by the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy.

Clinton allies can cite that statistic as they prepare themselves for the possibility of a disappointing end to the Clinton-New Hampshire story.

But Bill Clinton isn’t going quietly.

Campaigning for his wife in Milford on Sunday, he blasted Sanders’ supporters for lodging “sexist” attacks and accused the senator of shifting positions on health care.

“The New Hampshire I knew would not have voted for me if I had done that,” he said.

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Kate Weber Publisher

Dan McCaleb Editorial Director

Jason Schaumburg Editor

ANOTHER VIEW

On inversion, blame Congress If you’re mad at the news Wisconsin-based Johnson Controls is, through its merger with Tyco International, moving its corporate headquarters to Ireland to avoid paying the higher American corporate tax rate, we’d advise you to send your anger in the right direction: Toward Congress.

The merger will save Johnson Controls an estimated $150 million on U.S. taxes, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. It’s an action known as a tax inversion. The U.S. has the highest corporate tax rates in the world making inversion all too popular with American companies.

There’s blame to go around for the corporate tax rate staying as high as it is. During the October 2013 budget standoff between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans, with the threat of a government shutdown looming in the air, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan’s effort at making tax reform part of the budget deal was thrown overboard as tea party Republicans, led

by U.S Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, demanded the defunding of the Affordable Care Act as part of any budget deal. The president called Cruz’s bluff, and a budget deal was reached without any defunding of Obamacare – but also without any serious effort to take up Ryan’s tax reform proposals.

In the spring and summer of 2014, with American companies fleeing, congressional Democrats introduced legislation to prevent companies from engaging in inversion, and to punish those that did. That legislation went nowhere, but, more importantly, that’s treating the symptom instead of the disease.

Then, after the Republican victories in the November 2014 midterm elections, Ryan ascended to chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Ryan said he expected tax reform to be a big issue in 2015.

We don’t recall a lot of action on tax reform taking place last year. Perhaps prospects will improve now that Ryan is speaker of the House.

We understand Republicans are almost always in favor of lower taxes, and the Democrats don’t want to see the loss in tax revenue that would come from reducing the corporate tax rate. There’s no tax revenue to be collected, however, when a company relocates its corporate offices in another country.

Businesses look for means to avoidance, ways to pay less in taxes. At the moment, corporate inversion is the path that has been drawn up. Members of both political parties, whether in Congress or the White House, should have an interest in creating an American business climate in which companies want to be here and not someplace else.

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The ‘experience’ Republicans smash Rubio

By STEPHEN STROMBERG The Washington Post

Pickett’s charge. Waterloo.

The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Take your pick of historical analogies, the “experience” wing of the Republican Party launched a desperate, and very possibly doomed, assault at Saturday’s GOP debate, during a climatic moment for a GOP race that has been dominated by men who have significantly less real-world policymaking credibility.

The polls say the forces of experience probably will leave New Hampshire in defeat, and even if they pulled something out, racking up victories in future primaries would be hard. At the very least, they have made the rising Marco Rubio look like an empty suit.

Rubio is commonly lumped in with the GOP “establishment” candidates, but he is a first-term senator with few major accom-

plishments for his handful of years on the national stage, and he has spent much of the race honing a campaign narrative shrill enough to keep up with Donald Trump’s bombast and Ted Cruz’s hard ideological puritanism. This distinguishes him – negatively – from Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and John Kasich, who in another year would have had a major experience edge over Rubio and the rest on stage.

At several moments Saturday night, experience – for once – did not seem to be a liability. Christie attacked Rubio for having an unimpressive Senate record, for failing to fight for his comprehensive immigration bill when the politics got tough and for constantly reverting to canned denunciations of President Barack Obama when he does not have a snappy answer to a question. Seemingly determined to prove Christie right, Rubio offered those canned denunci-

ations of Obama with comical regularity. At one point, Christie interjected, “There it is. There it is. The memorized 25-second speech. There it is, everybody.”

It was devastating, and entirely deserved. Rubio’s one-note story about how Obama purposely has hurt America – “All this damage that he’s done to America is deliberate” – is remarkably mean-spirited. Bush piled on Rubio, too, comparing him to Obama and arguing that being able to deliver a speech does not qualify you to be president.

All of the governors – Bush, Christie and Kasich – had a good night. Christie particularly stood out, in large part because of his strong anti-Rubio offensive. But in the history of the 2016 race, will their performances Saturday resemble a glorious turning point for experience – rather than a last stand? Given how the rest of the race has proceeded, it still seems unlikely.

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To the Editor: Joe Gottemoller has shown fiscal restraint and great leadership as County Board chairman.

As a business owner and resident, I believe Joe has looked after the best interests of all county residents. He is accessible, logical and reasonable. We don’t always agree, but he always is willing to listen and discuss the issues. That is what I look for in an elected official.

Please consider voting for Joe Gottemoller for County Board chairman.

Tom Stephani Crystal Lake

Gonsiorek for County Board

To the Editor: I urge County Board District 3 residents to vote for Nancy Gonsiorek for County Board.

Nancy will bring thoughtful independent leadership to the County Board.

Her experience with government finance

VIEWS Rich Miller through similar troubles, nothing really compares to today’s self-inflicted disaster. Madigan and Blagojevich played hardball, but the game is exponentially meaner now.

Besides, what would the former governors say or do that could make a difference? They’d probably advise Rauner to cut a deal that doesn’t bash unions, but our governor seems wholly uninterested in doing such a thing.

The simple fact is that nothing – nothing – will change until Madigan and Rauner decide it will.

Madigan’s long history clearly shows he forces the other side to negotiate against itself until he believes they’re close enough to his position.

Rauner clearly has not moved far enough away from anti-union proposals and things such as term limits for Madigan’s taste.

Rauner, for his part, seems fed up with the whole process and has taken to issuing repeated dire warnings of political consequences to Madigan’s Democratic members if they continue backing the speaker.

But as we saw not long ago, when rank-and-file Senate Democrats reject-

(eight years on School District 47 Board and a CPA) will enable Nancy to provide a strong oversight of how our County Board tax dollars are spent.

As a successful small business owner, Nancy understands the importance of economic development that will foster a strong and vibrant business community. I have worked with Nancy on a number of community projects, and I am continually impressed by her passion and the knowledge she brings to the table. She has demonstrated she can work with diverse views to reach common ground, which will make her invaluable as a member of the County Board.

Vote on March 15 for Nancy Gonsiorek for County Board.

Molly Walsh

Crystal Lake

Kenneally best candidate

To the Editor: Pat Kenneally is, far and away, the best candidate for McHenry County state’s attorney.

ed the pension reform compromise negotiated by Senate President John Cullerton (even though a majority of that caucus had voted for a very similar bill a couple of years earlier), most Democratic legislators are in no mood to work out a deal, either, and continue to insist the governor come to the table and finally agree to a budget instead.

Late last Thursday, Chicago State University officially declared a “financial exigency,” which could lead to the reduction of tenured faculty and drastic reductions in programs in order to save the school from closure. The state’s only majority black university already had announced last month it would run out of money to pay salaries in early March.

CSU gets more than one-third of its funding from the state, more than all but one other four-year public university in Illinois, but the governor publicly has complained taxpayers have been throwing Chicago State’s money “down the toilet” and wants drastic reforms. For now, anyway, the Democrats are staying on the sidelines and loudly pointing fingers at Rauner.

The governor has been talking about his grand plan for years, long before he was elected.

He never made it a major campaign issue, but it’s clear from looking at his past statements he believes Democrats

will eventually side against the unions and with social service agencies (and places such as the CSU campus and the Chicago Public Schools) if he can, in his own words, “drive a wedge” into the party. The object is to make the Democrats choose between money for their pet causes or union rights. He’s shut off the money, but he hasn’t yet driven that wedge.

That’s probably why Rauner looked like he was attempting to tank the Chicago Public School’s bond sale last week with loud demands it should go bankrupt and be taken over by the state. Without that bond sale, the school system would’ve been in danger of shutting down.

The object here appears to be to create so much chaos the Democrats finally start negotiating in order to save all the programs and institutions they’ve been building for decades.

So far, that isn’t happening, but the real chaos is yet to come. We’ve seen smaller social service agencies close, we’ve seen larger agencies shut down vital programs, but so far nothing huge has happened.

It’ll probably take the “death” of something very important and very large to test this theory.

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It is imperative an experienced individual holding this office possess impeccable character, integrity, discretion and an unwavering dedication to public service.

During my 27-year law enforcement career, I interacted with several prosecutors – on the federal and state levels. Pat has a proven record as an assistant state’s attorney for nearly the past decade, earning high respect from his peers, as well as the entire legal community.

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extremely blessed the past 11 years to have had an outstanding state’s attorney in Lou Bianchi, who is retiring. It speaks volumes Lou has placed his full faith and confidence in Pat to carry forward the remarkably fine work accomplished by this office, all inspired by Lou’s motto, “Do the right thing.”

Please vote for Kenneally on March 15.

Bob Borchert Crystal Lake

• Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Last week, a reporter said to Gov. Bruce Rauner that Secretary of State Jesse White had suggested Rauner bring in former governors, including George Ryan, to help break the long governmental impasse that has prevented the state from having a budget for over seven months.

Rauner laughed and said, “Uh, wow.”

The governor clearly did not take the suggestion seriously.

“I’m not gonna talk about the failures of the past that created this mess,” Gov. Rauner said through chuckles. “I focus on the future. I don’t live in the past. We’ve had failure in our elected government for decades.

This mess didn’t happen over night, and what we’re not gonna do is reproduce the dynamic that created it.”

The governor laughed throughout most of that last sentence.

Bringing in graybeards has been tried before without success. Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and then-Southern Illinois University President Glenn Poshard to town to help him pass his massive construction proposal Speaker Michael Madigan refused to agree to. It didn’t work.

The two men left town as soon as they realized how hardened Madigan’s position had become against Blagojevich.

While former governors have been

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Chipotle urges workers to stay home if sick

By CANDICE CHOI

The Associated Press NEW YORK – Chipotle repeatedly told employees they need to stay home if they feel sick and the restaurant chain kept all its U.S. locations shuttered early Monday as executives went over new food safety procedures.

The presentation for workers, which comes after Chipotle has been slammed by a series of food scares, was broadcast live at hundreds of theaters and hotel conference rooms around the country.

Co-CEO Monty Moran noted two of the four incidents were the result of norovirus, which is typically caused by sick workers.

“If you’re feeling sick, especially if you’ve vomited, whether at work or at home, you need to let your manager or your field leader know right away,” Moran said from a restaurant in Denver.

With about 50,000 employees expected in attendance for the presentation, Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. postponed opening its restaurants for four hours to 3 p.m. local time

Monday.

As a peace offering to inconvenienced customers, Chipotle said it would give free burritos to people who text in a code to the company.

Moran urged employees to be “incredibly hospitable” as the company fights to win back customers.

“We need you to be your very best,” he said.

Chipotle is trying to bounce back from plunging sales since an E. coli outbreak came to light in late October. Executives say they may never know what caused the illnesses, but that it was likely the result of cross contamination in restaurants.

In December, the company also was hit by a norovirus incident in Boston.

Those cases brought more attention to a norovirus case in California and a salmonella case in Minnesota earlier in the year.

In January, sales were down 36 percent at restaurants open at least 13 months from the year-ago period.

To work through the crisis, Chipotle hired Rubenstein Associates to help with its public

relations.

The Denver company said employees watched the presentation Monday at more than 400 locations around the country.

In New York City, workers filed into two theaters inside Regal Cinemas in Union Square. Many had orange pieces of paper on which they had been told to take notes, although that proved difficult in rooms darkened during the presentation.

Employees, who were paid for attending, said they were told to come wearing their uniforms.

In a video, employees were told to watch for symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, explosive diarrhea, yellowing of the skin and eyes and dark urine.

“When anyone vomits in the back of the house or the front line, this is a red event, which means we close the restaurant immediately,” said Gretchen Selfridge, a Chipotle restaurant support officer.

Chipotle noted it offers three paid sick days a year. Situations where employees are told to go home and not work

for five days after showing symptoms as part of company procedure are exceptions, Selfridge said. Employees still are paid in those cases.

Executives also covered procedural changes that ranged from handwashing rules and the marinating of meat, to the chopping of tomatoes and lettuce at centralized locations.

During a question-and-answer period in which Chipotle selected screened questions, one employee asked whether the company planned to start chopping vegetables in restaurants again.

When the question appeared onscreen, employees in New York City groaned. One said upon leaving that cutting vegetables in stores is hard work.

How long it takes Chipotle to bounce back remains to be seen.

Other companies hit by food scares have taken about a year or more to recover, Chipotle executives note.

But they say their situation may differ because it involves more than one incident, and they received intense exposure in social and mass media.

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CRYSTAL LAKE – To close out 2015, Crystal Lakebased AptarGroup recently reported record earnings per share in the fourth quarter even as reported sales declined $52 million from the same time a year ago.

The international plastics product maker recorded earnings per share of $0.67 in the fourth quarter and beat its own estimate announced earlier this fall, when the company expected fourth-quarter earnings per share to be between $0.61 and $0.66. To end the last quarter in 2014, AptarGroup reported earnings per share of $0.57.

AptarGroup also reported a 9 percent decline in sales during the fourth quarter compared to the same time a

year ago. Sales dropped from $599 million to $547 million in that span largely tied to softening markets and strong foreign currency headwinds, said President and CEO Stephen Hagge.

Excluding effects of currency exchange rates, AptarGroup posted a one percent increase in core sales during the fourth quarter, he said.

“Despite several challenging conditions, including softness in several markets, we performed very well operationally,” Hagge said. “We achieved record fourth-quarter earnings driven by operating margin improvements across each business segment compared to a year ago.”

AptarGroup’s Beauty + Home segment suffered the worst during the fourth quarter, as total reported sales af-

ter currency effects declined 12 percent to $303 million. A softening personal care market continues to influence the segment, even though the beauty care market posted a year-over-year quarterly sales increase for the first time in 2015, Hagge said.

The company’s Pharma segment experienced another strong quarter, Hagge said, despite total reported sales after currency effects declining 4 percent to $175 million. AptarGroup saw strong demand in its prescription drug and injectables markets, offsetting a weak consumer health care market, he said.

Total reported sales after currency effects declined 7 percent to $69 million in AptarGroup’s Food + Beverage segment, according to its earnings report.

Across all business segments, operating margins improved, Hagge said.

The earning margin before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization tallied 19 percent in the fourth quarter compared to 17 percent from the same time a year ago.

“While we continued to benefit from lower input costs, we also remained focused on containing costs and improving operating efficiencies across each segment,” Hagge said.

Going forward into 2016, AptarGroup will continue to contain costs to meet changing market conditions, as the company also looks to expand its airless dispensing products once a $218 million deal to acquire a Germany-based company closes in the first quarter, he said.

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Wall Street rode another wave of selling Monday that sent U.S. stocks sharply lower, before a late-afternoon pullback stemmed some of the losses.

Investors unloaded materials, financials and other stocks, briefly knocking the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 400 points.

Technology shares, which soared last year, were targeted for especially aggressive selling, bringing the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index down almost 20 percent from its record high last year.

The losses left major market indexes down for the second day in a row, extending what has been a dismal beginning of 2016 for the stock market, its worst start to a year on record.

European markets also fell sharply, with the worst losses coming in weaker economies such as Greece, Spain and Italy. Traditional safe harbor investments such as gold and U.S. government bonds were among the few bright spots in a market awash in red.

“Traders are worried that the financial market weak-

ness that we’re experiencing is going to lead to weakness in the real economy,” said Jim McDonald, chief investment strategist at Northern Trust.

The Dow fell 177.92 points, or 1.1 percent, to 16,027.05.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 lost 26.61 points, or 1.4 percent, to 1,853.44. The Nasdaq composite dropped 79.39 points, or 1.8 percent, to 4,283.75. The index is within 110 points of being in what Wall Street considers a bear market, or a 20 percent drop from its high.

For the year, the Dow is now down 8 percent, while the S&P 500 is down 9.3 percent.

The Nasdaq has lost 14.5 percent this year.

The stock market has been in a slump for much of this year after a lackluster 2015.

Several factors have kept investors in a selling mood, including falling crude oil prices, the impact of a stronger dollar on U.S. company earnings, and heightened concern that economic growth is slowing in China and elsewhere.

Fears of a global economic downturn now are heightening concerns that the U.S. economy could slide into a recession later this year.

Investors looking for some positive outlooks for 2016 ar-

en’t finding much in the latest wave of company earnings, either.

Many of the companies that have reported quarterly results in recent weeks also gave weak earnings outlooks for this year, noted Bill Northey, chief investment officer at the Private Client Group at U.S. Bank.

“In fact, we’re now looking at growth estimates that are sub-5 percent for 2016, which is down rather materially from where we came into fourth-quarter earnings season,” Northey said.

Benchmark U.S. crude oil fell $1.20, or 3.9 percent, to close at $29.69 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, a benchmark for international oils, dropped $1.18, or 3.5 percent, to close at $32.88 a barrel in London.

The prolonged slump in oil prices has investors worried that companies that drill for crude may not be able to pay back their loans. Speculation that Chesapeake Energy might be preparing to file for bankruptcy protection helped push its stock price down 33 percent on Monday, making it one of the worst performers in the S&P 500 index.

In response, the company

issued a statement around midday saying it “currently has no plans to pursue bankruptcy.” The stock closed down $1.02 to $2.04 in heavy trading.

Despite the latest drop in crude oil prices, the S&P 500 index’s energy sector ended slightly higher. The other nine sectors declined, with materials stocks shedding the most, 2.7 percent.

Financials stocks also slumped, falling 2.6 percent.

Given the jitters over a possible global economic slowdown, investors are betting that the Federal Reserve will be less aggressive about raising its key interest rate further this year. Going into 2016, many on Wall Street were projecting as many as four rate hikes by the Fed this year.

Higher interest rates benefit banks, which make money from interest on credit cards and other loans.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is scheduled to deliver a policy update to Congress later this week.

“What the market wants to see is the Fed realizing that there’s no way on Earth they can raise rates three to four times in the next 12 months,” McDonald said.

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CRYSTAL LAKE – ClaudiaG Collection will visit Crystal Lake on Thursday to show its new handbag and jewelry collection for the spring and summer, and share how local residents can become consultants for the Texas-based business.

The event is from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. inside Panera Bread, 6000 Route 14, Crystal Lake. ClaudiaG consultant Beth Rice will share how and why she started working with the company. She also will feature the upcoming collection.

For information, visit cgevolution.eventbrite.com.

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SCRIBE OF ‘MONSTERS, INC.,’ ‘BIG HERO 6’ DIES

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Daniel Gerson, who co-wrote several Walt Disney animated films including “Monsters, Inc.” and “Big Hero 6,” has died. He was 49. Gerson’s family said in a statement that he died at his Los Angeles home on Saturday after battling brain cancer. Gerson was a frequent contributor for Pixar Animation, co-writing both 2001’s “Monsters, Inc.” and its 2013 sequel, “Monsters University.”

Along with Robert L. Baird and Jordan Roberts, Gerson co-wrote Disney’s Oscar-winning “Big Hero 6,” an animated superhero tale. The New York-born Gerson got his start as a writer for the NBC comedy “Something So Right.”

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This image provided by CBS shows Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick in a scene from “The Good Wife.”

‘The Good Wife’ creators welcome show’s end LOS ANGELES – “The Good Wife” creators Robert and Michelle King said they welcomed CBS’ decision to end the series, allowing them to write its final chapter.

The Kings already had decided to exit as executive producers after this season, the seventh, leaving CBS to weigh whether to keep the critically acclaimed show afloat without them.

On Sunday, the network used its Super Bowl telecast to announce that “The Good Wife” was heading into its final nine episodes, with the series finale to air May 8.

The Kings had just learned of the decision in the past week, they told a phone news conference Monday.

“We felt very fortunate and flattered that we’re being allowed to end the show .... the way we hoped it would end,” Michelle King said. “The Good Wife” airs at 8 p.m. Sunday.

CBS may have faced the loss of series star Julianna Margulies as well. At an event last month honoring the Kings, Margulies joked in her speech that she’d only shown up because she would soon be out of work and needed the exposure.

The actress “was kind of up in the air” about returning as lawyer Alicia Florick, Michael King said. Margulies has won two Emmys for the role.

But after conversations in recent days involving her, CBS, the studio and the Kings, the conclusion was that everybody “really wanted to go all together,” Michelle King said.

The couple, who are moving on to a new series for CBS, the comic political thriller “BrainDead,” said they had long envisioned “Good Wife” as lasting seven years.

LOS ANGELES – Gwyneth Paltrow testified Monday in the trial of a man accused of stalking her, saying he sent her upsetting letters discussing his intention to marry her, her death, pornography and unsolicited gifts.

Dante Soiu is accused of stalking the Oscar-winning actress for 17 years, but the case focuses on the most recent batch of 66 messages he’s sent her between 2009 and 2015.

Paltrow was the first witness called and authenticated 48 of the letters, many of which contain religious messages and statements referencing Paltrow’s death.

The actress broke down briefly Monday afternoon when a prosecutor asked Paltrow about whether she feared for her children’s safety as a result of Soiu’s missives.

“Yes,” Paltrow responded tearfully. She quickly regained her composure and explained why she was so rattled by Soiu.

“I’m scared because the communications completely defy logic,” she said. “I’ve been dealing with his for 17 years with the communications from this man.”

In one of the recent packages Soiu sent Paltrow, he included clothes he wanted her to wear.

His lawyer said Soiu has simply written letters to Paltrow, and that recent letters haven’t included pornography. Attorney Lynda Westlund said Soiu is a Christian man who is just trying to minister to the actress.

Paltrow testified about letters and pack-

ages she received from Soiu dating to 1999, including several that contained pornography, sex toys and statements that he wanted to cleanse her of sin.

Porn actress drops lawsuit against Josh Duggar

PHILADELPHIA – A porn actress has dropped her $500,000 assault lawsuit against reality TV personality Josh Duggar amid evidence that her claims were fabricated.

Duggar’s lawyer calls the accusations in Ashley Stamm-Northup’s lawsuit “entirely fictitious.” Stamm-Northup is a San Diego woman known as Danica Dillon in adult films.

Her lawsuit said she met Duggar while working at a Philadelphia strip club last spring and that Duggar assaulted her when they went to a hotel to have sex. Evidence shows Duggar wasn’t in Philadelphia at the time.

Lennon’s hair expected to sell for $10K at auction

DALLAS – A lock of hair snipped from the head of John Lennon as the Beatle prepared for a film role is expected to sell for $10,000 at a Dallas auction later this month.

Heritage Auctions said in a news release Monday that the 4-inch lock was collected by a German hairdresser who trimmed Lennon’s hair before he started shooting “How I Won the War.” The dark comedy, released in 1967, follows the World War II misadventures of British troops led by an inept commander.

The auction will be Feb. 20.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Actress Janet Suzman is 77. Singer Carole King is 74. Singer Barbara Lewis is 73. Actor Joe Pesci is 73. Actress Mia Farrow is 71.

Singer Joe Ely is 69. Actress Judith Light is 67.

Saxophonist Dennis “DT” Thomas of Kool and the Gang is 65. Country singer Travis Tritt is 53. Actress Julie Warner (“Nip/Tuck,” “Family Law”) is 51. Actor Charlie Day (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) is 40. Singer Chad Wolf

of Carolina Liar is 40. Actor A.J. Buckley (“CSI: NY”) is 39. Guitarist Richard On of O.A.R. is 37.

Actor David Gallagher (“Seventh Heaven”) is 31. Actor Michael B. Jordan (“Fruitvale Station,” “That Awkward Moment”) is 29. Actress Rose Leslie (“Game of Thrones,” “Downton Abbey”) is 29. Actress Camille Winbush (“The Bernie Mac Show”) is 26. Actor Jimmy Bennett (“No Ordinary Family”) is 20.

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The Associated Press

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Brie Larson (left) and Jacob Tremblay arrive Monday at the 88th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. cs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for doing “an amazing job of navigating change.”

McCarthy said he has faith in the film community’s ability to push the needle for change.

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“Mad Max: Fury Road” director George Miller said that from his standpoint, casting is story-driven and commented how television has been ahead of the game in diverse casting.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – The annual Oscar nominees luncheon is generally a time of low-stakes celebration, but this year amid discussions of Oscar diversity and a boycott, as well as dramatic changes to Academy membership, the Monday gathering also was one for reflection.

Sylvester Stallone, who became a focal point in the controversy for being the sole nominee from “Creed,” which had both a black director and lead actor, said he consulted with director Ryan Coogler as to whether or not he should attend at all.

“I said, ‘If you want me to go, I’ll go, if you don’t, I won’t,’ ” Stallone told reporters before lunch. “He said, ‘Just go there and try to represent the film.’ ” Before the luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., various nominees stopped to speak to a room of reporters about everything from finance reform to fashion. But Stallone wasn’t the only one thinking about the question of diversity, both at the Oscars and in the industry at large. For his part, Stallone said that he believes things will change and it’s just a matter of time.

“Spotlight” director Tom McCarthy complimented Cheryl Boone Isaa-

porting performance in the 1950s-set lesbian drama “Carol,” said she had just read an article the other day suggesting that there should be a hashtag for “Oscars so straight.”

“These are all important conversations for us to be having,” Mara said.

Beyond the discussions of #OscarsSowhite, the nominees also were just excited to be there to celebrate with their peers. Alicia Vikander, nominated for her supporting performance in “The Danish Girl,” was one appreciating the moment. She saw her co-star Eddie Redmayne (also a nominee) go through the process last year during filming when he was nominated, and won, for “The Theory of Everything.”

“He said try and enjoy it because it is very wonderful,” Vikander said.

Isaacs also tried to steer the focus back to the nominees at large inside the room.

“This year, we all know there’s an elephant in the room. I’ve asked the elephant to leave,” said Isaacs in her opening remarks. “Today is all about your incredible work.”

The annual event brings together over 150 nominees to celebrate the honor before the golden statuettes are actually handed out at the 88th Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 28.

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Mapping a comeback

Apple Maps, once a laughingstock, now dominates iPhones

By ANICK JESDANUN The Associated Press

NEW YORK – Apple Maps quickly became the butt of jokes when it debuted in 2012. It overlooked many towns and businesses and misplaced famous landmarks. It marked New York’s Madison Square Garden arena as park space because of the word “Garden.” The service was a rare blunder for a company known for simple, easyto-use products.

It’s a different story three years later.

Apple fixed errors as users submitted them. It quietly bought several mapping companies, mostly for their engineers and other talent. This fall, it added transit directions for several major cities, narrowing a major gap with Google. Apple Maps is now used more widely than Google Maps on iPhones.

“They really did a great job in a short amount of time,” said Alex Mackenzie-Torres, a former Google Maps manager who’s now with competing transit app Moovit. “Apple has something that few companies have – simplicity in design mixed with high doses of pragmatism and practicality.”

Apple’s significant investment in fixing Maps underscores how important maps and related services are to tech companies. Location is key to helping phone users find restaurants and shops, discover things to do and just get around. It’s also big business, as app makers tap into the core mapping functions of phones to direct people in helpful ways and sometimes offer them bargains based on where they’re standing.

The quick turnaround also demonstrates how easily companies such as Apple can steer people to their own services. Google Maps and various third-party apps offer many features that Apple Maps lacks, yet Apple cleverly turned user inertia to its advantage. Many people use Apple Maps just because it comes with the phone. Even if you’ve taken the trouble to download a competing app, other iPhone services such as Siri and Mail invariably will take you to Apple Maps.

Without the ability to steer users this way, Apple “would not be in the position they are in,” IDC analyst John Jackson said. “Not that they aren’t improving the experience, but this helps the cause.”

Apple says its mapping service is

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The Apple Maps app displays transit directions in San Francisco. Apple, Google and several smaller companies all help you get from point A to B via public transit. now used more than three times as often as its next leading competitor on iPhones and iPads, with more than 5 billion map-related requests each week. Research firm comScore says Apple has a modest lead over Google on iPhones in the U.S., though comScore measures how many people use a service in a given month rather than how often.

Google still dominates among all U.S. smartphones, though, in part

because Apple Maps isn’t available on Google’s Android system, which is more prevalent than iPhones. In October, Google Maps had more than twice as many smartphone users as Apple Maps. Much like Apple, Google benefits as the default on Android.

For years, Google provided the default mapping service on iPhones.

That changed as more people relied on turn-by-turn voice navigation with automatic rerouting, a feature Google

offered only on Android. Apple built its own service from scratch and knocked Google Maps off the iPhone’s home screen.

Google’s initial forays into voice navigation in 2009 had problems, too, including directing motorists to left turns at no-turn intersections. But by 2012, Google Maps had improved significantly. By then, more people knew how a mapping service ought to work – and Apple’s new offering fell short.

“I heard so many different horror stories that I was almost hesitant to try it,” said Rick Ostopowicz, an iPhone owner in Catonsville, Maryland. “I remember once, it was taking me on a road that no longer existed.”

CEO Tim Cook apologized and promised Apple would “keep working non-stop” to deliver the best experience possible. Without much fanfare, the service gradually improved.

“We are fast learners, and we are fast at fixing things,” said Greg “Joz” Joswiak, an Apple vice president who oversees product marketing for iPhones and related services. “We learned the maps business incredibly fast.”

Apple now gets data from more than 3,000 sources for business listings, traffic and other information. In adding transit, Apple sent teams to map out subway entrances and signs. That results in more precise walking directions, as stations can stretch for blocks and the center point used by some services isn’t necessarily the closest.

Apple also started sending out vehicles with sensors to map roads, similar to Google’s longstanding practice.

By making Maps a core iPhone feature, Apple made it easier for outside developers to include mapping features in their apps. When you go to Yelp, you can find directions to a business with one tap. When you go to the Starbucks app, you can see all the nearby stores.

On the flip side, the iPhone’s Siri voice assistant leads direction requests straight to Apple Maps, as does tapping on an address in Mail and other apps.

With that integration, users such as Ostopowicz no longer hesitate. The default behavior isn’t just a competitive advantage for Apple; it’s a convenience for many users.

Apple says it’s not done improving Maps. But ultimately, Apple Maps doesn’t need to be the best. It just needs to be good enough its users won’t look for something else.

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Fitbit unveils new styles in leather, stainless steel

Fitbit wants its latest entry-level fitness tracker to be fashionable, as

it offers bands made with leather or stainless steel, rather than traditional, rubber-like material.

The fancier styles for the new Fitbit Alta will cost extra – $60 for leather and $100 for stainless steel, for instance.

The base model, with standard material, will cost $130.

New features include reminders to move if you’ve been sitting down too long. Many competing fitness devices already have this feature, but the Fitbit hasn’t had it until now.

The Alta follows last month’s unveiling of the Blaze, a mid-level model. Unlike the Blaze, the Alta won’t have a heart-rate monitor or a color screen. The Alta and Blaze will both start shipping next month. The Blaze is expected to get the move reminders in a future software update.

Fitbit is the market leader in fitness-tracking devices, though it’s still an emerging business, with questions about how long people actively use devices once they get them. Competitors include smartwatches from Apple and others.

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The ASSOCIATED PRESS The billion-user club used to be exclusive, but it keeps growing.

WhatsApp, the Internet messaging service owned by Facebook, announced last week it now has 1 billion users worldwide.

That’s both a milestone and a potential turning point: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he thinks Internet services are ready to become money-making businesses when they hit that mark. WhatsApp recently announced it’s suspending the nominal fee it charged some users, but it’s exploring new ways that other businesses can use WhatsApp to reach their customers.

Meanwhile, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said this week that the popular Gmail service now has 1 billion users, too. Gmail, which is supported by advertising, joins other Google services with 1 billion or more users – including Search, Android, YouTube, Maps and Chrome.

Not to be left out, Apple announced last week that there are 1 billion “active devices” in its ecosystem, which it defines as iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod Touch, Apple TV and Apple Watch devices that have used the company’s on-

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Facebook joined the billion-user club in 2012 and now claims 1.59 billion active users a month. Facebook’s Messenger service is getting close, with 800 million active users at the end of December, while Facebook’s Instagram lags at 400 million.

As for Twitter, it’s still struggling with slower growth. The micro-blogging service reports 320 million active users.

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If a half-hour comedy is too long, how about a 15-second thriller?

A group of independent filmmakers from Britain are rolling out a daily, 28-episode series on Instagram.

“Shield 5” is about the hunt for John Swift, who after three episodes appears to be a security worker who ends up bloodied and wanted for murder after having an affair with his female superior.

Director Anthony Wilcox said the roughly $21,500 production isn’t meant to make money.

Rather, it’s an experiment in gathering an audience in a new medium and a showcase for his work. As of Wednesday, the account had 13,500 followers.

He hopes the series gets the attention of a producer who might turn it into a feature film. “My motivation was always what ‘Shield 5’ could become,” Wilcox said.

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DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips together. We played Barbies, went on adventures, shopping, saw movies and had sleepovers. As we grew older, we began trusting each other with our lives. I could tell her anything and everything, and I was there for her whenever she needed support or a shoulder to cry on.

However, now that we are older, we slowly have noticed small differences in our lives. She became focused on her studies and art. I joined the cheerleading squad and became interested in meeting new people. Our lives have diverged, and now it’s as if we have become complete strangers.

I want our friendship to go back to the way it was.

What can I say or do to show her I miss the old her?

– Confused Ex-Friend Dear Confused: As people mature, it is not uncommon for their interests to diverge. This is normal, and it might be what has happened with you and your longtime friend. If you miss the closeness you once had, tell her so. But do not expect it magically to return your relationship to what it was.

You both are sharing another adventure now – exploring the interests and relationships you are developing as adults. It’s possible in the future your paths will converge again. When people are true friends, their ability to communicate on a meaningful level can last forever despite intervals when they are not in contact.

• Write Dear Abby at www.dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Dear Abby: My stepson just turned 7. My husband was granted custody because the mother was declared unfit due to her drug abuse. She was granted supervised visits until she can pass two consecutive drug tests.

Over the past year and a half, her visits have become few and far between. My husband and I think it would be a good idea for “Tony” to start seeing a therapist again. He doesn’t talk about his mother often, and I’m worried he may be bottling up a lot of his feelings.

Tony is starting to ask more questions about his mom – like why he can’t stay the night with her, why he can’t live with her and why he hasn’t seen her much lately. I try not to say anything negative about her.

Is it time to explain the situation to him? He is still so young, and I don’t know how to explain things in a way he would understand. If you were me, what would you do?

– Stepmom In Alabama Dear Stepmom: You and your husband are wise to want to prevent problems before they happen. If I were in your situation, I would talk to Tony’s therapist, explain what’s going on and ask for pointers regarding his questions and his behavior.

My instinct would be to tell the boy his mother doesn’t see him because she is sick. It’s the truth. When he’s older, he will need to know there may be an inherited predisposition to addiction in his family – but for now that can wait. Definitely contact the therapist if you think he/she was a good one.

Dear Abby: I used to be best friends with this girl I met in kindergarten. Over the years we became like sisters and did everything

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Hypnotherapy can relieve pain Dear Dr. K: I am in near-constant pain because of arthritis. My doctor suggested I try hypnotherapy. My first reaction was it sounds like hokum, but now I’m wondering if it could help. What do you think?

Dear Reader: Hypnotherapy may help with pain management. These days it is used to treat many mental and physical health problems. I spoke to my colleague Dr. Max Shapiro, a psychologist with Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital. He explained hypnotherapy is most effective in treating problems that require stronger control over the body’s responses. Pain is a good example; insomnia is another.

Hypnotherapy turns your attention inward. A hypnotherapist helps you enter a trancelike state. In that state, your attention is highly focused, so you’re more responsive to suggestions. With the guidance of a hypnotherapist, you can start to control or alter your thoughts, feelings and physical state.

A hypnotic trance empowers you to activate neural circuits that otherwise are inactive.

When activated, this circuitry can reduce pain, among other things.

Let’s consider insomnia. Hypnosis can be very effective in blocking out the distracting chatter that interferes with sleep. A hypnotherapist will first teach a patient how to go into a trance. Once in a trance, the patient will focus on his or her own past experience of falling asleep easily, effortlessly and comfortably. The patient then will be taught to practice going into a trance at bedtime and re-creating those feelings.

About half of people who use hypnotherapy for insomnia see improvement after a few sessions. Others require several more sessions. Only about one in 10 people won’t find it useful.

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ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff The success rate for hypnotherapy in treating pain is much more complicated. That might be because the source and nature of pain can vary so widely. Some people experience quick and long-lasting relief; others find it more challenging.

Hypnotherapy may be much more effective for some people than for others. In part, a successful outcome depends on how committed you are. For hypnotherapy to work, you will need to put the lessons learned at each session into practice at home. If you need an outside voice to help you focus inward, recordings might help to get you into a trance state.

Hypnotherapy typically is a complementary therapy. That means it should be part of a broader treatment plan that may include more traditional pain relief techniques and medications, if needed.

Like most doctors, I was skeptical hypnosis really could work to help relieve suffering. It seemed like magic, and I don’t believe in magic. But now we know the brain experiences symptoms – like pain – and the brain has its own natural ways of relieving those symptoms. However, those “natural” ways often lie dormant and need to be activated. Hypnosis is a way of activating the brain’s ability to quiet bothersome symptoms.

• Write to Dr. Komaroff at www.askdoctork.com or Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.

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TODAY–Learnallyoucanandtakeadvantageofanyopportunitythat willhelpyouimproveyourhealthandprotectyourfinances.Useyour energytobringaboutthechangesthatwillsetyourmindatease.If youbuildasolidfoundation,you’llbeguaranteedastablefuture.

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PISCES(Feb.20-March20)–Yourenergetic,no-nonsenseapproachto takingcareofbusinesswillwinyoufavors.Romanceisontherise,and apartnershipwillimproveyourlife.Exudeconfidenceinordertoexcel.

ARIES(March21-April19)–Disciplinewillbethekeytogettingahead.

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Jealousyisapparent,andmustbehandledwithcare.

TAURUS(April20-May20)–Dowhatyouenjoymostinordertofind success.Ifyoushowaffection,yourlovelifewillflourish.Worktobuild insteadoftodestroy.Focusonkeepingthepeace.

GEMINI(May21-June20)–Don’tletuncertaintyruinyourday.Setyour sightsonwhatyouwanttoachieve,andrefusetoletanyoneinterfere.

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LIBRA(Sept.23-Oct.23)–Takenoteofwhateveryoneelsedoesand wants,butdon’tfeelobligedtomakeeveryonehappy.Listenandmake suggestions,butdon’triskyourownwell-beingforthesakeofothers.

SCORPIO(Oct.24-Nov.22)–Pickupthepaceandbethefirsttomakea move.Makeapointtocontrolanysituationyoufaceinsteadofletting itmanipulateyou.

SAGITTARIUS(Nov.23-Dec.21)–Stopthinkingaboutwhatyouwant todoandpursueyourplans.Disciplineandprecisionwillhelpyou avoidcostlymistakes.Avoidindulgence,overspendingandemotional outbursts.

CAPRICORN(Dec.22-Jan.19)–Takethetimetonurtureimportant relationships.Sharingyourintentionswillenableyoutoplanforthe futureandensureyouhaveeveryoneyoucareaboutonboard.

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For Better or For Worse

Join our Banking Team!

American Community Bank & Trust

ELECTRONIC BANKING COORDINATOR Fast growing community bank is seeking an Electronic Banking Administrator to work at our Woodstock location.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, high energy individual to join our team. Responsibilities include coordination of on-line banking, remote deposit, and other cash management solutions. This position will also be responsible for mobile banking, e-mail, alerts, text and other means of conducting electronic customer service.

Administrative

Assistant to Law Firm Business Manager

Crystal Lake law firm seeks skilled administrative professional.

Phones, client contact, scheduling, marketing, accounting, calendar management. Experience Required, Bilingual Spanish / English preferred. Excellent pay and benefits.

E-Mail resume to kbruning@bruninglaw.com

Candidates must have experience in commercial banking operations and possess technical skills relative to electronic banking channels. Successful applicants will also have outstanding client focus and enjoy working with others. Competitive wages commensurate with experience; credit and background check are required.

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We offer a full benefit package that includes 401 (K) and health insurance.

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Visiting Angels of Crystal Lake has expanded and is seeking applicants for an Office Assistant and a Staffing Coordinator.

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2 positions available at busy, growing, established small animal practice. Experience preferred.

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Wilson Mizner, a playwright who died in 1933, said, “Some of the greatest love affairs I’ve known have involved one actor -- unassisted.”

At the bridge table, sometimes one defender can singlehandedly defeat a contract. But more often the defenders need to cooperate, signaling carefully -- assuming each is watching the cards, of course.

In today’s deal, West might come up with the right answer unassisted, but East can make his life so much easier. South is in four spades. How should the defenders work together to take four tricks after West leads the club ace?

North’s three-spade response was a modern gadget: In competitive auctions, jump raises are pre-emptive.

He was showing four-card support (getting to the nine-trick level with a nine-card fit) and less than game-invitational values. With a stronger hand, he would have cue-bid three clubs.

Here, South’s raise to game was debatable. He was hoping dummy would be very short in clubs and that he could ruff his losers in that suit without East’s being able to overruff.

At trick two, West will cash the club king. What should East discard?

If he throws a discouraging diamond deuce, maybe West will find the heart shift, but it is doubtful. He is much more likely to lead a third club, hoping East can overruff the dummy. Here, though, South can ruff with dummy’s spade eight, draw trumps, and claim an overtrick.

Instead, East should signal boldly with the heart king -- top of touching honors since he couldn’t win the trick. Then it will be easy for West.

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36 CLASSIFIED • Tuesday, February 9, 2016 PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INVITATION TO BID

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, ILLINOIS McHENRY COUNTY, JUVENILE DIVISION IN THE INTEREST OF DJW A minor.

The City of Crystal Lake will be accepting sealed bids in accordance with specifications for 2016 Annual Sidewalk and Curb/Pedestrian Ramp (ADA) Installation Program. The City of Crystal Lake Procurement Services, and its service provider BidSync, are the only authorized sources of bidding information. Bidding instructions are available on the City's website at www.crystallake.org. All bids must be submitted electronically by

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lly by 10:30 a.m. on February 19, 2016 through BidSync.

Dates Feb 9, 2016 Bid Number: 1602-002

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE

Public Notice is hereby Bid Title: 2016 Annual Sidewalk given that on January 28, and Curb/Pedestrian Ramp (ADA) 2016, a certificate was filed Installation Program in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, IlliBidding Starts: Feb 4, 2016 nois, setting forth the names 3:25:43 PM CST and post-office address of all of the persons owning, Bidding Ends: Feb 19, 2016 conducting and transacting 10:30:00 AM CST the business known as (Published in the Northwest Herald February 9, 2016.) 1157051

Case No.: 15JD000220 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION TO: DAVID M. CORBEIL and any unknown FATHER, and to All Whom It May Concern: Take notice that on December 30, 2015, a Delinquency petition was filed under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 by ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEY, Mollie Dahlin in the Circuit Court of The 22nd Judicial Circuit, McHenry County entitled 'In the Interest of DJC, a Minor', and that in the courtroom of Judge MAUREEN P. MCINTYRE, or any Judge sitting in her stead in Room 101 of the McHenry County Government Center, Woodstock, Illinois, on March 30, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as this cause may be heard, an adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the petition to have the Minor declared to be a ward of the court under that Act. THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS PROCEEDING TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR. NOW, UNLESS YOU APPEAR at the hearing and show cause against the Petition, the allegations of the petition may stand admitted as against you, and an order of judgment entered.

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact and Notice of Intent to Request Release of Funds February 9, 2016 McHenry County Dept. of Planning and Development 2200 N. Seminary Woodstock, Illinois, 60098 (815) 334-4560 Fax # (815) 337-3720

Bonjolee Events located at: 690 Coventry Lane Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Dated January 28, 2016 /s/ Mary E. McClellan County Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald February 2, 9, 16, 2016) 1155224

These Notices shall satisfy two separate but related procedural requirements for activities to be undertaken by McHenry County.

REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF FUNDS On or about February 25, 2016, McHenry County will submit a request to the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Chicago Regional Office for the release of Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) funds under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act of 1990, as amended, to undertake a project known as: Home of the Sparrow, for acquisition of a four unit apartment building, located at lot 1 of Thomas J. Rupp Re-subdivision, Shamrock Lane, McHenry, IL 60050, in the amount of $379,318.00 in HOME funding.

FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT McHenry County has determined that the project will have no significant impact on the human environment. Therefore, an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 is not required. Additional project information is contained in the Environmental Review Record (ERR) on file at McHenry County Department of Planning and Development at 667 Ware Road, Room 207B, Woodstock, Illinois, 60098, and may be examined or copied weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

PUBLIC COMMENTS January 29, 2016 /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Any individual, group, or agency disagreeing with this determination or (Clerk of the Circuit Court) wishing to comment on the project may submit written comments to the McHenry County Department of Planning and Development. All com(Published in the Northwest Herald ments received by February 24, 2016, will be considered by McHenry February 9, 2016) 1156993 County prior to submission of a request for release of funds. Comments should specify which Notice they are addressing.

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY NOTICE OF FILING A REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE (ADULT) Request of Shannon Nicole Ryan Case Number 16 MR 63 Public notice is hereby given that I have filed a Petition for Change of Name and scheduled a hearing on my Petition on March 28, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., Room 201, in the Circuit Court of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, Illinois, praying for the change of my name from Shannon Nicole Ryan to that of Shannon Nicole Lynford pursuant to the Illinois Compiled Statutes on Change of Names. /s/ Shannon Ryan

RELEASE OF FUNDS The County of McHenry certifies to the HUD Chicago Regional Office that Joseph Gottemoller in his official capacity as Chairman of the McHenry County Board consents to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relations to environmental reviews, decision-making, and action; and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. HUD's acceptance of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and allows McHenry County to use Program funds.

OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS HUD will accept any objections to its release of funds and McHenry County's certification for a period of fifteen days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if it is on one of the following basis: (a) the certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of McHenry County; (b) McHenry County has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58; (c) the grant recipient has incurred costs not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality.

Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24CFR Part 58), and shall be addressed to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Community Planning and Development Divisions, Attn: Ray E. Willis, Director, 77 W. Jackson Blvd, Chicago, Illinois, 60604. Potential objectors should contact HUD Chicago Regional Office (tel 312-913-8705 or via fax 312-9138293) to verify the actual last day of the objection period.

(Published in the Northwest Herald Joseph Gottemoller, McHenry County Board Chairman February 9, 16, 23, 2016) 1156880 (Published in the Northwest Herald February 9, 2016) 1156954

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Prairie Ridge co-op wins sectional / 2 Prairie Ridge co-op’s Alyssa Petko competes in balance beam Monday at the Schaumburg Sectional.

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Redemption for Solka

Senior rebounds to win all-around, lead PR co-op to sectional crown

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joestevenson@shawmedia.com SCHAUMBURG – Prairie Ridge gymnast Maddie Solka bounced back just like her coach said she would at Monday’s Schaumburg Girls Gymnastics Sectional.

The senior, who is headed to Illinois State University, rebounded from her subpar performance at the Conant Regional to win the allaround title at Schaumburg, scoring almost two points higher at 38.2.

Solka and the Wolves’ co-op team consistently hit their routines to score 149.55 and win the sectional by a wide margin. Barrington was second at 144.95. The Wolves’ score was 1.375 better than last week.

“After the last meet, I wasn’t in the best mental state,” said Solka, who won vault and tied for first in uneven bars and floor exercise. “I felt a little unconfident, so doing better today loosened it up a little bit. We can have improvements, we can do better from here.”

Prairie Ridge, which draws competitors from Cary-Grove, Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South and Prairie Ridge, is the defending state team champion and has a deeper group this season.

Wolves coach Lee Battaglia considered the sectional a good step toward the state meet Feb. 19 and 20 at Palatine.

“We did pretty well,” senior Kendall Rumford said. “Lee was pretty funny about it. He said, ‘Today, I rank you guys at A-minus. I feel like you can get to A-plus at state.’ I believe it.

We have some things to improve on.”

The Wolves started on floor exercise and turned in strong routines there, led by Solka (first), Rumford (third) and Nikki Baars (fifth), who earned automatic state berths. Baars was third all-around and, like Solka, qualified in all four individual events. Maddy Kim also advanced on uneven bars.

“We were a lot better than regionals,” Battaglia said. “They were alert, they looked good tonight. I was

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Prairie Ridge co-op’s Maddie Solka competes in balance beam Monday at the Schaumburg Sectional. Solka won the all-around title, and Prairie Ridge co-op won the team title. definitely happy with the way they performed. There’s still room for improvement though.”

Battaglia had no doubt Solka would return to form after an off meet last week, scoring 36.225 in the allaround.

“I said, ‘That’s not Maddie,’ and that she would rebound,” he said.

“She went 0 for 4 last week. She had a little problem on beam and bars, she’ll do a little better at state. She thrives to compete. She’ll be even higher at state.”

Solka tied for the state title last year on the uneven bars.

“I was hoping [to bounce back],” she said. “I felt like I let everybody down. I was supposed to be the confident one, and I was not. Just take one routine at a time and not worry about everything.”

OUTSIDE THE BOX SCORE q UNSUNG HERO

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Prairie Ridge, jr.

Sysol scored 9.3 on the uneven bars to place sixth and help the Wolves to the team title at the Schaumburg Sectional.

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Automatic state berths each for Prairie Ridge senior Maddie Solka and junior Nikki Baars.

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The top five individuals advance and the next 12 best scores receive at-large berths to the state meet. Schaumburg was the first of the state’s four sectionals, so competitors must wait until Thursday night to see whether they make it at-large.

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The Washington Post’s Alyssa Rosenberg wrote Monday about the omission of Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake, who were involved in Jackson’s famous wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl, from Sunday’s tribute video during Super Bowl 50: “More than a decade and three albums later, the 2004 Super Bowl still lingers as a far bigger footnote on Jackson’s career than it actually should, even if only in moments like last night’s omission. If the NFL wants to prove it’s truly brave enough to put on a genuinely spectacular concert, the league should invite Jackson back and acknowledge that one of the greatest performers of her generation is greater than the sum of her parts.”

GIRLS BASKETBALL: CLASS 1A ROCKFORD CHRISTIAN LIFE REGIONAL

A-H hopes to have freshman for semifinal

By ALEX KANTECKI

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Warren played the point and finished with six assists and five points in the Giants’ opening-round regional win.

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Regional titles for Alden-Hebron’s girls basketball program (won last year)

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This was the first time in four years Faith Lutheran has had a girls basketball team, coach Cori Wilks said. The Saints started three freshmen Monday and have no seniors. “That was the best end-of-the-season speech in the locker room ever. No seniors … that’s always good.” too serious after the game.

“I know she’s strong, and tomorrow she’ll be up on it,” said junior Tally Lalor, who held a bag of ice and sported a bump above her right eye after scoring a game-high 14 points. “She’ll just keep pushing because that’s just who she is.

She’s a team player. Even if she has a broken leg, anything, she’ll be out there and ready to play.”

Wanderer is expected to be OK, Ham-

Scoreboard Monday’s games Rockford Christian Life 66, Hiawatha 38 Alden-Hebron 55, Faith Lutheran 29 Wednesday’s semifinals (1) Durand vs. (9) Rockford Christian Life, 6 p.m.

(4) Forreston vs. (8) Alden-Hebron, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s championship Semifinal winners, 7 p.m. mond said, as the eighth-seeded Giants (16-9) prepare to take on No. 4-seed Forreston in a regional semifinal at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday.

If it wins that game, A-H will play in the regional final for the second straight season. Last year, the Giants made history by winning a regional championship for the first time – and the first postseason title for any A-H team since the boys won a district championship in 1957.

Wanderer’s injury was a not-so-subtle reminder of last season’s regional title run, in which the Giants were down to five healthy players. This year, Hammond said, A-H is deeper. And the players, especially those who got to hold the school’s first regional championship plaque a year ago, are hungry for more.

“We want back-to-back regionals, especially because we were the first

girls team to do it,” said Emily Webber, who scored 13 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. “We want to be the second team and go for sectionals.”

Webber, too, wasn’t completely healthy. She got banged up in A-H’s regular-season finale win against Hiawatha on Friday, getting pushed to the floor and losing a couple of teeth.

In Monday’s win, eight players scored for A-H, but not everyone was completely satisfied with the team’s play despite the convincing margin of victory over the Saints (1-11).

“I would give us a C-minus,” said senior Hannah Warren, who led the team with six assists. “Multiple times, we let them go left. And our coach says, ‘No matter what, don’t let them go left.’ ” “We should have played harder than we actually did,” Lalor added. “Coach (Hammond) set out goals he wanted us to achieve, but some of them weren’t met.”

A-H will have a chance to fix any errors in the semifinals.

“We’re looking forward to playing Forreston,” Hammond said. “If we don’t come with more energy on Wednesday, we’re in trouble. But the kids know.

They’ve been here.”

Natalie Borman led Faith Lutheran with 11 points and six rebounds, Maddie Hornok added eight points and 10 rebounds, and Gabby German had seven points.

GIRLS BASKETBALL: BURLINGTON CENTRAL 63, JOHNSBURG 31

Burlington denies Skyhawks title share

By TIM SIECK

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JOHNSBURG – With as great of a Morgan Madsen Johnsburg, fr., G season as the Johnsburg girls basketball team has had, there is one team Madsen hit a 3-pointer to cut that has had the Skyhawks’ number the Burlington Central lead to – not only this season, but last season 27-20 in the second quarter. as well.

On Monday at Johnsburg High q THE NUMBER School, the Skyhawks looked to Points Johnsburg scored the rest of the avenge an earlier loss to Burlington game after cutting the Rockets’ lead to Central and earn a share of the Big seven in the second quarter.

Northern Conference East Division crown. Instead, the Rockets showed q AND ANOTHER THING ... why they haven’t lost a conference Burlington Central has won 51 consecutive Big game in more than four seasons, as Northern Conference East Division games and Burlington Central defeated Johnsfour straight BNC East championships. The burg, 63-31, and clinched its fourth Rockets’ senior class hasn’t lost a conference straight BNC East championship outgame since sixth grade. right.

When the Rockets and Skyhawks faced each other last month, Central used a 29-0 run in the second and third quarters to put what had been

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a close game in the first half out of reach. Runs were the theme again Monday.

After spotting Johnsburg a 2-0 lead after the first possession, the Rockets (21-4, 13-0) held the Skyhawks scoreless for almost six minutes and ended the first quarter on a 21-2 run.

“Burlington plays really hard and plays a style we don’t get to see much,” Johnsburg coach Brad Frey said. “We can’t really replicate in practice what they do.”

Johnsburg (23-3, 11-2) rallied in the second quarter and put together a 16-3 run to cut the Rockets’ lead to seven, only to see Burlington Central end the half on an 11-0 run.

“During that stretch in the second quarter I thought we played some of our best basketball of the season,” Frey said. “Unfortunately, we were unable to keep that style of play going very long.”

The Rockets’ defense was the story Monday. Central senior Kayla Ross gets the assignment of guarding the opponent’s top player, and against Johnsburg that player was leading scorer Aannah Interrante. Ross was able to keep Interrante scoreless and allowed the Skyhawks sophomore to get off only three shots.

Johnsburg got a spark off the bench with the play of freshman Megan Madsen, who helped fuel the second-quarter run. Madsen finished with six points and five rebounds.

“We really came into this game wanting to win,” Madsen said. “We haven’t lost in a long time, and having already lost to them, we really wanted this game. We had a lot of energy in the second quarter but couldn’t keep that energy going in the second half.”

Jazza Johns led Johnsburg with nine points.

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ROCKFORD – Alden-Hebron’s Eden Wanderer fell to the floor and grabbed her right knee on the baseline, bringing Monday’s Class 1A Rockford Christian Life Regional first-round girls basketball game to a pause with 2:43 remaining in the third quarter.

The pain shot down from Wanderer’s knee to her right ankle before the starting freshman guard was helped off the court by Giants coach Marty Hammond and a Christian Life trainer. Later on, Wanderer was back on the far end of A-H’s bench with fellow freshman Kylee Winter right by her side “She’ll be back. She’s a strong-hearted kid,” Hammond said after A-H beat Faith Lutheran, 55-29. “You can’t keep that kid down. She’s had numerous injuries this year, and she keeps fighting on.”

Fortunately, the injury didn’t appear

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Whips, Streaks win in boys basketball NORTHWEST HERALD

The Hampshire boys basketball team used a big third quarter Monday to defeat St. Francis, 58-50, in nonconference play at Wheaton.

The Whip-Purs (6-17) outscored St. Francis, 17-6, in the third quarter to break open a tied game at the half. Brennen Woods led Hampshire with 20 points, and Luke Tuttle added 15.

Woodstock 55, Wauconda 40: At Wauconda, the Blue Streaks (16-5) won in nonconference play. Vannis Smith scored 18 points, including four 3-pointers, to lead Woodstock. The Blue Streaks outscored Wauconda in the first half, 29-18. Dan Shook added 14 points.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Hampshire 61, Grayslake North 49: At

Hampshire, the Whip-Purs closed their Fox Valley Conference Fox Division regular season with a win over Grayslake North.

Emma Benoit led the Whip-Purs (18-8, 7-3 FVC Fox) with 26 points. Hampshire pulled away in the second half, outscoring the Knights, 27-19.

Rachel Dumoulin had 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting, and Nikki Dumoulin added seven points for Hampshire.

Genoa-Kingston 65, Harvard 18: At Harvard, the Hornets lost in Big Northern Conference East Division play. Daniela Garcia led Harvard with four points, and Marisol Barranco, Liliana Garcia and Arely Renteria each added three points.

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free throws in the final 3:14 while beating a ranked opponent for the first time this seaNORMAN, Okla. – Buddy Hield’s 3-point- son.

Donovan Mitchell scored 17 points and er from the corner with 1.3 seconds remaining lifted No. 3 Oklahoma to a 63-60 victory Quentin Snider, who fouled out with 2:01 left, added 12 for the Cardinals (19-5, 8-3), over No. 24 Texas on Monday night.

Hield scored 21 of his 27 points in the sec- who shot 56 percent in the second half and erased a 15-point deficit but missed a chance ond half, 12 points in the final 3:11.

Isaiah Cousins added 17 points for the to take sole possession of first place in the Sooners (20-3, 8-3 Big 12), who trailed for league. most of the game. Oklahoma bounced back from a loss at Kansas State on Saturday that WOMEN No. 1 UConn 66, No. 2 South Carolina 54: At cost it the No. 1 ranking. The Sooners beat the Longhorns for the sixth straight time Columbia, South Carolina, Breanna Stewand increased their home winning streak art had 25 points and 10 rebounds as UConn again proved who rules the women’s game, to 19 games.

Isaiah Taylor scored 19 points and Ken- running past South Carolina.

The Gamecocks had won their first 22 dal Yancy added a season-high 13 points for Texas (16-8, 7-4), which had won four games and, in front of their first sold out straight and seven of eight. The Longhorns crowd at 18,000-seat Colonial Life Arena, figentered the Top 25 for the first time this sea- ured to give the three-time defending NCAA champion Huskies (23-0) their sternest test son earlier Monday.

Both teams shot 40 percent from the field, of the season.

Instead, Stewart and UConn led by 15 but the Sooners outscored the Longhorns points in the second quarter and never let 14-6 from the free throw line.

Duke 72, No. 13 Louisville 65: At Durham, the Southeastern Conference champs get North Carolina, freshman Brandon Ingram back in it.

South Carolina lost its leading scorer, had 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Duke A’ja Wilson, with 4:22 left in the second beat Louisville.

Grayson Allen scored 19 points and Luke quarter to an injured left leg. Wilson reKennard had 11 for the Blue Devils (18-6, 7-4 turned to the bench late in the third quarter, Atlantic Coast Conference). They shot 50 her lower leg heavily taped, and played the percent in the second half and hit 10 of 12 fourth quarter.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK EMILY WEBBER Alden-Hebron, jr., F Webber was the leading scorer in both of Alden-Hebron’s victories last week.

She scored 13 points in a 47-36 nonconference win against South Beloit and added 19 points and 24 rebounds to lead the Giants to a 52-45 victory against Hiawatha in Northeastern Athletic Conference play. It was Webber’s fifth game of the year with a double-double and the third time she has had 20 or more rebounds in a game.

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marked his 299th win in the program.

With the win, he improved his overall coaching record to 299-197 in his 17th year at Huntley. He can reach 300 wins with a victory against Grayslake Central in the FVC crossover championship Thursday.

Since 2012, Raethz is 106-20, as the Raiders have set the school record for wins (28) in each of the past three NORTHWEST HERALD seasons. He started coaching Huntley POWER RANKINGS in 1999.

(Records through Sunday) Cary-Grove coach Rod Saffert, 1. Huntley (25-3): The Red Raiders meanwhile, is closing in on 200 wins. capped their third consecutive undefeat- Saffert is 199-94 in nine-plus seasons at ed season in the Fox Valley Conference C-G, reaching 20 wins six times since Valley Division with wins against Crystal he started coaching in 2006. His teams Lake South and Dundee-Crown. Huntley have won five regional titles. has won 13 straight games since dropSaffert’s Trojans have handed Raethz’s ping three in a row in December at the Raiders their only two FVC Valley losses Montini Christmas Tournament. since 2012. C-G (10-16) has won six of 2. Johnsburg (23-2): The Skyhawks seven heading into its FVC crossover beat Genoa-Kingston without leading game against Woodstock North on scorer Aannah Interrante and beat Tuesday.

North Boone to move to 11-1 in the Big Playoffs set: The Class 2A, 3A and Northern Conference East Division. Jazza 4A playoffs start next week. All of the Johns, Cortland Sommerfeldt and Kayla local Class 4A teams are in the DeKalb Stefka each reached double digits in Sectional, which includes Huntley, scoring against the Cogs. Johnsburg has Crystal Lake South, Prairie Ridge, won eight in a row and 19 of 20.

Dundee-Crown, McHenry, Cary-Grove, 3. Prairie Ridge (18-9): With wins Jacobs and Crystal Lake Central. Huntley against Grayslake North and Woodreceived a No. 1 seed, South earned a stock last week, the Wolves claimed No. 2 and Prairie Ridge was seeded third. back-to-back FVC Fox Division titles.

Huntley and Jacobs are in the BelvidPrairie Ridge and Grayslake Central ere North Regional, and the rest will stay share the division championship at 8-2. closer to home and play in the McHenry Sammi Lockwood led the Wolves with Regional. Dundee-Crown is a fifth seed 15 points, Aly Clark added 12 and Kirsten in the Streamwood Regional.

Voel-Pel had 11 in the division-clinching In Class 3A, Johnsburg earned a No. 2 win against the Thunder. seed and will play in the Carmel Regional 4. Crystal Lake South (19-9): along with Woodstock. Marian Central The Gators lost to Huntley, finishing and Woodstock North will compete for runner-up to Huntley in the FVC Valley the Woodstock North Regional crown, for the second consecutive season, and and Richmond-Burton plays in the Chicabeat Sycamore and McHenry. Chanel go Senn Regional. All five teams are a Fanter led South with 21 points against part of the St. Viator Sectional.

McHenry.

Hampshire, a No. 3 seed, Marengo and 5. Hampshire (17-8): The Whip-Purs Harvard are in the Belvidere Regional, as lost to Grayslake Central in overtime, 33- part of the Rochelle Sectional.

31, eliminating Hampshire from the FVC Fox title race, but defeated Woodstock THIS WEEK’S TOP GAME North, 38-28, Saturday.

FVC crossover championship Huntley at Grayslake Central NOTEWORTHY 7 p.m. Thursday FVC Valley coaches approach Huntley has won the past two unofmilestones: With Huntley’s 49-37 win ficial conference championships while against Dundee-Crown on Saturday, representing the FVC Valley. Grayslake the Red Raiders completed their third Central, which tied Prairie Ridge in the straight undefeated FVC Valley season. FVC Fox but beat the Wolves in both Huntley has won 32 consecutive FVC regular-season meetings, represents the Valley games since the start of 2013, FVC Fox. going 42-2 since 2012.

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BLACKHAWKS

Few days off for team in first half of season

By BRIAN HEDGER For the Sun-Times

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Linesman Darren Gibbs pulls Blackhawks center Andrew Shaw away from the Stars’ bench during the first period Saturday in Dallas.

Next San Jose at Blackhawks, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, CSN, AM-720 The Blues, who’ve played one fewer game than the Hawks, also eschewed practice during their packed schedule.

“It concerns you as a coach,” Hitchcock said. “We’re supposed to be teachers, and it’s hard to teach with just video.

What would a football team look like that never got to practice? What would a basketball team look like that never had to practice? You’ve got to do 1-on-1s, you’ve got to do 2-on-2s, you’ve got to do 3-on-3s,

just to bring up the competitive part of your team, so that you’ve got an edge to your game. That’s what you miss.”

That’s what could make the Hawks even better heading toward the playoffs.

Between Christmas and the AllStar break, a stretch of 17 games in 31 days, they had back-to-back days off once and went 13-4-0. That included the franchise-record 12-game winning streak, but Corey Crawford stole a couple of those wins with great goaltending.

Puck-possession issues cropped up on multiple occasions, but there wasn’t time to work on it in practice.

“When you’re playing so many games, sometimes maybe you develop some bad habits, but there’s really not

much you can do except maybe talk about it before a game,” defenseman Rob Scuderi said. “It really helps to work on it in practice, so when you have these days and you can kind of put something together and work on some things, I think it helps the group.”

Quenneville will continue to base his practice schedule on energy levels, even when the schedule eases, but he’s also aware there are benefits to a solid practice now and then.

“You can get some work done not going on the ice, as far as the technical part of the game and positioning (awareness),” he said. “But it’s always good to reinforce things when you do have time.”

SPORTS BRIEFS MLB player Delmon Young charged with battery

police he had refused to let Young on an elevator to a club at the Viceroy Miami, MIAMI – Major League Baseball player because the club was closed. The report said Young left the area for a short time but Delmon Young was arrested after authorities said he choked and threatened a returned and attacked the attendant again.

The attendant got away and called parking attendant at a Miami hotel.

A police report said the former Baltimore police. The report said Young denied Oriole and current free agent grabbed the attacking the attendant.

He was arrested and charged with batattendant’s neck and called him a “stupid tery. Jail records show he was released Cuban” Sunday night. The attendant told

Monday morning on $1,500 bail.

Young’s attorney declined to comment Monday.

basketball poll.

The Wildcats had been ranked No. 2 seven times – the last time the final poll of last season – but had never made that Villanova No. 1 in AP basketball one step up. poll for first time; Maryland No. 2 As far as the most weeks spent at No. Villanova joined an exclusive club 2 without reaching No. 1 is this week’s Monday. The Wildcats are now among No. 2, Maryland. The Terrapins are in the the 57 schools to have been ranked No. runner-up spot for the 26th time.

– Wire reports 1 in The Associated Press men’s college

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CHICAGO – The Blackhawks filed onto the ice at Johnny’s IceHouse West on Monday for something that was almost nonexistent in January.

They skated through a 40-minute practice, all 22 of them, on an off day.

They went through line rushes, odd-man rush drills, special teams and even did a little 5-on-5 toward the end.

It might not seem like a big deal, but practicing between games has become a noteworthy occurrence for the Hawks.

This was actually their third such workout since returning from the All-Star break, but they’ve only had four since the calendar flipped to 2016.

They’ve had the busiest schedule in the NHL, so energy was prioritized over repetition.

“You look at our schedule (in January), it was every other day a game, with some back-to-backs in there, so it was nice to get the rest,” Andrew Shaw said.

“But when you have a few days, it’s nice to get out there and practice, and get the feel for the puck again.”

Including December, the Hawks played 29 games in 57 days. That works out to about a game every other day.

Trying to squeeze practices between those games seemed counterproductive to both players and coaches. It’s a philosophy Joel Quenneville adopted in the lockout-shortened 2013 season, when 48 games were crammed into a small window before the playoffs.

Coaches, however, still want to coach outside of games. St. Louis coach Ken Hitchcock confirmed that much when the Blues were in town in late January.

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Derek Fisher was fired as New York Knicks coach Monday with his team having lost five straight and nine of 10 to fall well back in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

NEW YORK KNICKS

Fisher fired; Rambis named interim coach

By BRIAN MAHONEY The Associated Press

GREENBURGH, N.Y. – Derek Fisher had just finished a long playing career when Phil Jackson picked him to coach the New York Knicks. Only 11/2 seasons later, Jackson decided he needed someone else.

Fisher was fired Monday, with his team having lost five straight and nine of 10 to fall well back in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

“It’s time for us to make a change, turn this team around and move forward and get some wins and keep going down the road we had started here at the beginning of the year,” Jackson said at the team’s practice facility.

Associate head coach Kurt Rambis was promoted to interim head coach at least through the rest of the season.

Rambis, like Fisher an ex-Laker player and a former assistant under Jackson, went 56-145 in two seasons as Minnesota’s coach.

The Knicks have fallen to 23-31, dropping Fisher’s overall record to 40-96.

Jackson hired Fisher in June 2014, just weeks after Fisher was done playing.

“It’s a huge transition from being a player to a coach at any point in time, let alone the season after you retire from playing. So it was a very difficult situation, regardless of where he coached,” Rambis said.

“This is a historic franchise and this is a franchise and a fan base that’s used to winning and he started the process, and it won’t be finished and it may not be

finished with the next two coaches that are coming in, but I think he was laying the foundation of doing things the right way and turning this franchise around.”

But Fisher wasn’t winning lately, and although Jackson praised his work ethic, he had seen enough of the Knicks’ slow starts and faulty finishes.

Jackson also questioned whether Fisher took advantage of the experienced assistants Jackson hired to work with him, such as Rambis and Jim Cleamons. Jackson, who won an NBA-record 11 championships as a coach, also told Fisher he may not have mentored him as well as he could have.

“There wasn’t really a consensus in our staff. We decided we need to have really good consensus in the working staff, interchanging of ideas and communication,” Jackson said.

The Knicks went 17-65 last season but upgraded their roster during the summer with the drafting of Kristaps Porzingis and the signing of veterans Arron Afflalo and Robin Lopez.

Fisher then got off to an embarrassing start this season during training camp. He was involved in a fight with Memphis forward and former teammate Matt Barnes when he was at the home of Barnes’ estranged wife in California.

Former head coaches Tom Thibodeau, Mark Jackson and Brian Shaw all are available. Or Jackson could wait and perhaps make at a run at another of his former players –Luke Walton, who led Golden State to the best start in NBA history while Steve Kerr was recovering from back surgery.

HORNETS 108, BULLS 91

By MARK POTASH

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The Bulls’ Kirk Hinrich reacts to being called for a foul against the Hornets in the second half Monday in Charlotte, N.C. The Bulls lost, 108-91. absence of guard Derrick Rose, who was a late scratch because of “general soreness.” Rose, who had averaged

nets on Monday – the Bulls are woefully short-handed. Jimmy Butler missed his second straight game with a sprained knee – he’s not expected to play against the Hawks. Nikola Mirotic is recovering from an appendectomy. And Joakim Noah is likely out for the season after undergoing surgery to repair a dislocated shoulder.

With Butler and Rose out, E’Twaun Moore and Kirk Hinrich started at guard against the Hornets. Hoiberg started the second quarter with Doug McDermott, Cameron Bairstow, Tony Snell, Bobby Portis and Aaron Brooks on the court. By then the Bulls were down 18.

Although frustrated, Gibson is confident the Hoiberg Bulls can develop the same mental toughness the Thibodeau teams did. This is just the difficult part of the transition.

“Our identity was defense and then we went offense,” Gibson said. “We’ve got a whole different group of guys.

In previous years we had a lot of defensive guys with dog in them. Now we’ve got a bunch of young guys, with offensive mentality. We’re trying to figure out a new system.”

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Butler still day-to-day

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mpotash@suntimes.com CHARLOTTE – The Bulls are waiting for a definitive prognosis on Jimmy Butler’s injured knee. He’s day-to-day until further notice.

Butler missed his second consecutive game after suffering a sprained left knee in the second quarter against the Nuggets.

The only update is that “he feels better.” Coach Jimmy Butler Fred Hoiberg said it is doubtful Butler will play Wednesday when the Bulls return home after their seven-game road trip to play the Atlanta Hawks.

“Jimmy is receiving treatment [in Chicago],” Hoiberg said before Monday night’s game against the Hornets. “We still don’t have a time frame on [it]. The important thing is that he’s feeling better than he was a couple of days ago.”

Asked why there was no timetable three days after the injury, Hoiberg said, “That’s a good question. It is what it is right now. A lot of it is based on

how he recovers.”

Hoiberg said he is hopeful Butler’s injury will not be long term but would not rule out surgery down the road.

“He’s still got a lot of stiffness in it,” Hoiberg said. “It was an injury that had a lot of pain associated with it. Hopefully, he can continue to improve every day, understanding that there’s going to be a lot of soreness involved with this injury.”

Leadership void? Leadership is always an issue in tough times. And Hoiberg acknowledged the Bulls lack the vocal leader – the proven star who doesn’t care what everyone thinks – that can shake a team out of a funk.

“We had a guy in Kevin Garnett in Minnesota that was that guy,” Hoiberg said. “Guys like him, respected him and he could say whatever he wanted because everybody knew how hard he worked and how hard he played.

“It’s kind of by committee with this group. It is by nature a quiet group. But it’s a group of good guys that care, want to do the right things. We’ve got to build some confidence – that’s how you close out games, when you’re the more confident team down the stretch.”

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CHARLOTTE – Taj Gibson remembered the good ol’ days, when the defensive-minded Bulls were in a funk, losing players to injuries and fought their way out of it.

“It feels like my rookie year,” Gibson said. “We’re just going out there fighting with whoever we have. Guys are [playing] to the best of their ability. It’s rough. It’s midway point of the season and guys are banged up. But [shoot], you’ve got to put it behind you and fight.”

Under Fred Hoiberg, the Bulls still are trying to muster up the mental toughness that got them through those tough times. So after a 108-91 loss to the Charlotte Hornets on Monday night at Time Warner Cable Arena in which they trailed by 18 in the first quarter and never got closer than 14 the rest of the way, the Bulls seem to be only getting deeper into their funk.

Short on energy at the end of a seven-game road trip, the Bulls were further hampered by the last-minute

19.6 points in the first six games of the trip but was slowing down toward the end, is hoping to play Wednesday against the Atlanta Hawks at the United Center.

Hoiberg made it clear it was the team’s decision to sit Rose.

“Derrick was not moving well in shootaround [Monday] morning – that’s when we started thinking about it,” Hoiberg said. “We got over here (to Time Warner Cable Arena) and he wasn’t moving much better, so the decision was made to not play him.

“It’s our fifth game in seven nights.

Derrick just came off a back-to-back.

He’s playing well, we feel, right now with pace. It’s just one of those things.

Hopefully, we’ll get him back Wednesday.”

The sooner the better, because the Bulls (27-24) have lost five of their past six games since opening the trip with a victory over the hapless Lakers and 11 of 16 since reaching their high-water mark of 22-12 on Jan. 7.

Although Mike Dunleavy returned from back surgery against the Timberwolves on Friday – he scored eight points in 16 minutes against the Hor-

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How Spike Lee, the NBA and ESPN took a stand on gun violence

By KENT BABB

The Washington Post

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n late October, film director Spike Lee visited the NBA’s Manhattan headquarters to discuss a bold idea.

He had, for months, wanted to produce a commercial that would denounce gun violence in America. It is perhaps the most polarizing subject in the country, but Lee – who already had ESPN president John Skipper behind the idea – was aiming high: He wanted to include NBA stars and have the support of the league itself.

A few days after the meeting, Lee had commissioner Adam Silver’s answer: Yes. But that wasn’t all. The

NBA would give Lee the freedom to produce and direct the 30-second ad, which the league saw as a public-service announcement, as he saw fit and without censorship.

It would feature four NBA players and air five times during Adam Silver ESPN’s Christmas Day broadcast – pro basketball’s equivalent to Super Bowl Sunday.

“He didn’t even ask the owners of the teams,” Lee said in a telephone interview. “He didn’t even ask the owners what they felt. He was like: ‘We’re doing this.’ ”

Sports leagues joining public discussion on divisive issues has wilted in the shadow of corporate partnerships, rising revenues and an audience that largely looks at sports as a diversion from, not a magnification of, society’s more difficult conversations. But the NBA has in recent years shown a willingness to go where no other league seemingly will: into the political breach.

“The NBA has always led,” Lee said.

“It’s hipper and more progressive than other professional sports. I’m not trying to slam anybody; it’s just my opinion.

I knew that; that’s why I went to the NBA.” The league often takes on battleground issues without waiting for

universal support from its 30 franchise owners, for talking points to be distributed to teams and players, or to make certain fans – or high-powered sponsors – are not offended.

“There’s no doubt, there’s a segment of our fan base saying: ‘Stick to basketball,’ ” Silver said in an interview. “But sports can play a valuable role in this society in being part of a dialogue, and to me this is how I saw this issue.”

In the past five years, the league has found itself taking sides on a number of volatile topics: a 2011 campaign to curtail the use of homophobic slurs, followed two years later by Jason Collins

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Last autumn Lee and Skipper met for breakfast on New York’s Upper East Side. Before taking his idea to the NBA, Lee wanted the blessing of the man who controls the most influential airwaves in sports.

The director had spent the previous few months filming “Chi-Raq,” a satire based in Chicago, where – according to the Chicago Tribune’s “Crime in Chicagoland” database – almost 3,000 people were shot in 2015. Lee told Skipper about what he had seen and heard in Chicago, the parents and siblings who had lost relatives in gun violence, describing a vision for a public-service

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becoming the first athlete in major American sports to come out as gay; Silver issuing a lifetime ban of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in 2014 after he was recorded using racist remarks; the Miami Heat four years ago wearing hoodies on the court after the death of Trayvon Martin; and, in 2014, superstars Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Derrick Rose wearing shirts during warmups stamped with “I CAN’T BREATHE” after Eric Garner died after a confrontation with the New York City Police Department.

“To use the platform that we have, I think that’s very important,” said Steph Curry, the NBA’s reigning most valuable player and the first face seen in the league’s gun violence campaign. “And it just starts the dialogue, hopefully, of how we can make a change.”

This time, it’s not players making a point or a single owner being ousted.

It is a $5 billion sports league making a statement (albeit one that stops short of calling for gun regulations or gun control) that, during an election year, is seemingly in lockstep with the White House.

“I’m proud of the @NBA for taking a stand against gun violence. Sympathy for victims isn’t enough – change requires all of us speaking up,” President Barack Obama posted on his official Twitter page in late December.

Less than two weeks after ESPN aired Lee’s ad – “We can end gun violence,” Curry’s voice says at the end – Obama entered the East Room at the White House to announce an executive action to reduce gun-related casualties.

Two NBA players, the Washington Wizards’ Bradley Beal and Alan Anderson, sat in the first row, and Thursday when the NBA champion Golden State Warriors visited the White House, Obama saluted players’ willingness to “take a stand against gun violence.”

“I absolutely recognize it’s a political issue. But the fact that it’s a political issue, to me, doesn’t mean that there isn’t a role for the NBA to play,” Silver said.

“Whatever people’s positions happen to be on the issue, we can’t be afraid to discuss it.”

weeks reading – and, in some cases responding to – emails and letters, often clarifying that the NBA was not calling for gun legislation but instead was standing against violence.

“It’s a third-rail issue in our society,” Silver would say later. “I recognize that.”

The league itself stood by the ad, relieved that – unlike the aftermath of the 2011 ad campaign that called for the end of homophobic language – there had been no protests outside NBA arenas.

Silver watched Democratic and Republican presidential debates, seeing even seasoned politicians struggle to find palatable ways to tackle the gun debate.

“It’s not an easy one on either side,” he AP file photo said.

Silver and the league had rung an The Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (right) is one of four NBA players who appeared uncomfortable bell, and in some ways in an public-service advertisement denouncing gun violence. the swift approval of Lee’s project had campaign in which the NBA’s most “This campaign was never about gun forced the hands of franchises and famous faces would share their own control,” said Jason Rzepka, Everyplayers on confronting a sensitive topic. stories of gun violence, intercut with town’s director of cultural engagement. Other than an email to teams announcreal-life victims and their families.

“It was never about any one solution.” ing the plan to broadcast the ads, one Skipper liked it, signing off on a Four of the NBA’s biggest stars – team employee said, there was no potential series of Christmas Day ads Curry, who plays for the Warriors, the instruction on how to proceed. “There and saying he would make the first call New York Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony, wasn’t a lot of directive given for this,” to Silver. Not long after, Lee was at the the Bulls’ Joakim Noah and the Los said the team employee, who requested NBA league office, making his pitch in Angeles Clippers’ Chris Paul – agreed to anonymity to discuss the topic freely. the first of two meetings with Silver’s appear in the ad.

“We’re just trying to figure out how to top lieutenants. The league saw gun “It just starts the dialogue, hopeapproach this.” violence not as a political issue but – in fully, of how we can make a change,” Indeed, when The Post made reparticular among young black men in Curry said recently on why he agreed quests through more than a half dozen urban areas, a key demographic among to participate. “You can’t bring those franchises to interview players, a few a league whose player roster is almost [victims] back, so it’s just a matter of teams did not respond; others declined 75 percent black – as a matter of public raising as much awareness as you can.” to make their players available to health, a cousin to the league’s camA few minutes before noon on Christ- discuss the subject. One organization, paigns on mentorship and safe playing mas Day, when the Clippers would tip nearly a month after the ads aired, spaces for urban youth. off against the Miami Heat, the ad aired asked the league office for guidance on “It frankly speaks directly to those for the first time. Curry’s voice introhow to approach the subject. Another people, particularly those young men in duced the topic with an anecdote about team official ended an interview with cities who are both the victims and the his older daughter, 3-year-old Riley, a well-known player after learning the perpetrators, often, with guns,” Silver being the same age as a recent shooting discussion was about the NBA’s gun said. “They thought we could have an victim. “We can end gun violence,” violence campaign; an employee for important voice on the issue.”

Curry says as a banner for Everytown is another franchise said he wished the Anyway, it happened fast: idea to shown above logos for the NBA and the topic would simply go away. “A no-win production within a matter of weeks. league’s players’ association. situation,” an employee for another League figures, whether in the NBA Within seconds, league officials team said. “A lot of times [players] just office or within franchises themselves, monitoring Twitter saw the responses don’t feel comfortable talking about that had largely stayed out of the gun debate. start to pour in. stuff.”

(A survey conducted by The WashingSilver, for his part, said he has spent ton Post of the political contributions of WIDESPREAD RESPONSE the past month educating himself furindividuals in the league office, along Larry King, the longtime political ther on the nuances of a difficult – but, with NBA players and franchise owncommentator, tweeted his approval of as he sees it, important – discussion. He ers, executives and coaches revealed no the NBA’s stance, saying he hoped more said he understands some franchises’ significant involvement with pro- or an- leagues join in. Ben McDonald, a former discomfort with the timing – “There’s ti-gun causes or PACs.) Lee and Skipper major league pitcher, tweeted that he never enough time,” he said – but nonehad just asked, and the NBA said yes. simply wanted to watch basketball and theless stands by the decision to move “To me, that’s revolutionary,” Lee didn’t “need to hear a political agenda forward. said, “and I don’t think any other league on guns!” A few fans threatened to turn “I accept the point,” Silver said. would do that.” off the day’s games; several said they’d “And I think even now, here we are After those meetings at the league boycott the NBA because, as one viewer roughly a month or more after the office, during which the sides agreed saw it, the league “doesn’t like the public service announcement aired, and on the ads’ creative approach - schedconstitution.” we’re all still learning from it.” uling, feasibility and, noticeably, the Fox News and several conservative A moment later, he continued. avoidance of the supercharged topics blogs condemned the league for its ap“My goal is not to convince everyone of gun control and regulations – Lee parent anti-gun stance, although others to do it but to, more importantly, ensure brought in Everytown for Gun Safety, expressed approval. “It’s a great thing,” that people are accepting that this is an anti-gun-violence nonprofit started said Wizards center Marcin Gortat, who an issue that needs to be discussed,” he by former New York mayor Michael said he owns eight guns. “They have to said. “And to us, that’s the role we play.

Bloomberg, to fund the project’s produc- make stronger procedures to receive a I’m still glad we did it.” tion costs. Though the organization’s gun, receive a weapon. It doesn’t matter involvement would later give credence what kind of weapon it is, you’ve just • The Washington Post’s Tim Bonto the suggestion the league was calling got to make it tougher.” temps and Anu Narayanswamy contribfor more than simply awareness.

Silver would spend the following uted to this report.

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TEAM

BASKETBALL WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

SAN JOSE 7:30 p.m.

CSN AM-720

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

DALLAS 7:30 p.m.

CSN AM-720 ATLANTA 7 p.m.

CSN AM-1000

ANAHEIM 7:30 p.m.

WGN AM-720

All-Star break

at Lake Erie 6 p.m.

at Lake Erie 6 p.m.

at Manitoba 2 p.m.

ON TAP TUESDAY TV/Radio

8 p.m.: Georgia at Kentucky, ESPN 8 p.m.: Texas-Arlington at Texas St., ESPN2 8 p.m.: Mississippi at Florida, ESPNU 8 p.m.: Arkansas at Mississippi St., SECN 9 p.m.: New Mexico at Utah St., CBSSN

BOXING

10 p.m.: Premier Champions, Luis Eduardo Flores vs.

Jamal Herring, lightweights, at Bethlehem, Pa., FS1

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

5 p.m.: Bowie St. at Maryland, BTN 6 p.m.: Michigan St. at Purdue, ESPN 6 p.m.: West Virginia at Kansas, ESPN2 6 p.m.: Pittsburgh at Miami, ESPNU 6 p.m.: Cincinnati at UCF, ESPNEWS 6 p.m.: Auburn at Tennessee, SECN 6 p.m.: Miami Ohio at Western Michigan, CSN+ 7 p.m.: Northwestern at Ohio St., BTN 7 p.m.: Xavier at Creighton, CBSSN 7:30 p.m.: Villanova at DePaul, FS1

NBA

7 p.m.: San Antonio at Miami, TNT 9:30 p.m.: Houston at Golden State, TNT

NHL

7 p.m.: Dallas at Minnesota, NBCSN 7:30 p.m.: San Jose at Blackhawks, CSN, AM-720

SOCCER 1:30 p.m.: FA Cup, Liverpool at West Ham, FS1

HOCKEY NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Blackhawks 56 36 16 4 76 159 Dallas 53 33 15 5 71 172 St. Louis 55 30 17 8 68 135 Nashville 53 25 20 8 58 138 Colorado 55 27 24 4 58 149 Minnesota 52 23 20 9 55 127 Winnipeg 52 23 26 3 49 136 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF Los Angeles 51 31 17 3 65 137 San Jose 51 27 20 4 58 149 Anaheim 51 25 19 7 57 115 Arizona 52 24 22 6 54 139 Vancouver 52 20 20 12 52 124 Calgary 51 23 25 3 49 135 Edmonton 54 21 28 5 47 136 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Florida 53 31 16 6 68 148 Tampa Bay 52 29 19 4 62 140 Boston 52 28 18 6 62 155 Detroit 53 27 18 8 62 134 Montreal 54 26 24 4 56 147 Ottawa 54 25 23 6 56 157 Buffalo 53 21 26 6 48 121 Toronto 51 19 23 9 47 122 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Washington 51 38 9 4 80 169 N.Y. Rangers 53 30 18 5 65 153 Pittsburgh 52 27 18 7 61 139 N.Y. Islanders 51 27 18 6 60 146 New Jersey 54 26 21 7 59 122 Carolina 54 24 21 9 57 130 Philadelphia 51 23 19 9 55 123 Columbus 54 21 28 5 47 138

FOOTBALL NFL

Sunday’s Games Montreal 2, Carolina 1, SO Washington 3, Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Islanders 8, Edmonton 1 GA 128 144 132 140 152 128 152 GA 119 139 123 162 145 150 165

GA 119 126 138 134 144 170 143 145 GA 115 137 135 130 128 144 138 170

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 2, New Jersey 1 Pittsburgh 6, Anaheim 2 Ottawa 5, Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 3, Florida 0 Tuesday’s Games San Jose at Blackhawks, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Boston, 6 p.m.

Florida at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Washington at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Ottawa at Detroit, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Arizona, 8:30 p.m.

CALENDAR

AHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L OL Pct Pts GF Rockford 27 11 4 .674 62 133 Milwaukee 28 14 3 .656 59 133 Grand Rapids 26 17 1 .600 54 139 Charlotte 25 17 2 .587 54 138 Lake Erie 24 16 4 .585 55 119 Wolves 22 20 1 .522 47 129 Iowa 14 28 3 .354 34 107 Manitoba 12 26 3 .344 31 93 Pacific Division W L OL Pct Pts GF Ontario 28 10 3 .714 60 110 Texas 26 18 3 .580 58 186 San Diego 21 18 1 .537 44 107 San Jose 19 16 5 .535 46 114 Bakersfield 19 18 2 .512 42 124 Stockton 18 18 1 .500 39 114 San Antonio 21 21 7 .500 49 144 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L OL SL Pts GF W-B/Scranton 30 14 1 .674 62 150 Hershey 27 13 3 .643 63 164 Portland 26 18 1 .589 53 133 Providence 21 15 8 .565 52 139 Bridgeport 25 19 2 .564 53 123 Hartford 24 21 2 .532 50 116 Lehigh Valley 22 23 2 .490 47 139 Springfield 18 22 3 .457 42 118 North Division W L OL Pct Pts GF Toronto 37 8 4 .796 78 198 Albany 26 12 7 .656 59 126 Utica 22 17 3 .556 50 131 Rochester 23 21 2 .521 49 121 St. John’s 19 18 7 .511 48 133 Syracuse 19 19 8 .500 47 126 Binghamton 17 26 3 .402 37 128

GA 120 119 118 139 119 133 145 157 GA 78 162 119 123 129 119 151

GA 108 143 121 131 122 126 140 150 GA 123 103 129 148 156 145 159

NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Monday’s Game San Antonio 5, Charlotte 2 Tuesday’s Games Wolves at Lake Erie, 6 p.m.

Syracuse at St. John’s, 5 p.m.

Providence at Albany, 6 p.m.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Utica, 6 p.m.

Texas at Manitoba, 7 p.m.

Stockton at Bakersfield, 9 p.m Wednesday’s Games Syracuse at St. John’s, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Binghamton at Lehigh Valley, 6:05 p.m.

Texas at Manitoba, 7 p.m.

Bakersfield at San Diego, 9:05 p.m.

Ontario at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

Feb. 23-29 — NFL combine at Indianapolis.

March 9 — Trading period and free agency for 2016 begins, 3 p.m.

April 28-30 — NFL draft, Chicago

BETTING ODDS PREGAME.COM NBA Tuesday FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG San Antonio 6½ (193½) MIAMI NEW YORK 1½ (207) Washington Boston 4 (208) MILWAUKEE DALLAS 1 (183½) Utah GOLDEN STATE OFF (OFF) Houston COLLEGE BASKETBALL Tuesday LINE UNDERDOG 13½ Duquesne 8½ Pittsburgh 7 West Virginia PK Michigan St 14 George Mason 10 UCF 7½ Miami (Ohio) 4 BOWLING GREEN 3 Ohio 2½ Toledo 1½ Cent. Michigan 4 N. Illinois 11 Auburn 19 DRAKE 6 Northwestern 15 Virginia Tech 1 CREIGHTON 20 BOSTON COLLEGE 13½ DEPAUL 11½ Georgia 1 MISSISSIPPI ST 9 Mississippi 2½ UTAH ST

FAVORITE DAYTON MIAMI KANSAS PURDUE RHODE ISLAND Cincinnati W MICHIGAN Akron BALL ST BUFFALO E. MICHIGAN KENT ST TENNESSEE Wichita St OHIO STATE VIRGINIA Xavier North Carolina Villanova KENTUCKY Arkansas FLORIDA New Mexico

National Hockey League Tuesday LINE UNDERDOG LINE -150 San Jose +140 -110 PHILADELPHIA +100 -120 COLUMBUS +110 OFF Florida OFF OFF Edmonton OFF -110 Los Angeles +100 -130 at MONTREAL +120 -110 at NASHVILLE +100 -155 Winnipeg +145 -110 Dallas +100 -130 Vancouver +120 -135 Toronto +125

FAVORITE BLACKHAWKS Anaheim NY Islanders BUFFALO NEW JERSEY BOSTON Tampa Bay Washington ST. LOUIS MINNESOTA COLORADO CALGARY

Home teams in CAPS Updated odds available at Pregame.com

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 37 14 .725 Indiana 28 24 .538 Bulls 27 24 .529 Detroit 27 26 .509 Milwaukee 20 32 .385 Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 35 16 .686 Boston 31 22 .585 New York 23 31 .426 Brooklyn 14 39 .264 Philadelphia 8 44 .154 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 29 23 .558 Atlanta 30 24 .556 Charlotte 26 26 .500 Orlando 23 28 .451 Washington 22 27 .449 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 43 8 .843 Memphis 30 22 .577 Dallas 29 25 .537 Houston 27 26 .509 New Orleans 19 32 .373 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 39 14 .736 Utah 25 25 .500 Portland 26 27 .491 Denver 21 32 .396 Minnesota 16 37 .302 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 46 4 .920 L.A. Clippers 35 17 .673 Sacramento 21 31 .404 Phoenix 14 39 .264 L.A. Lakers 11 43 .204

GB — 9½ 10 11 17½ GB — 5 13½ 22 27½ GB — — 3 5½ 5½ GB — 13½ 15½ 17 24 GB — 12½ 13 18 23 GB — 12 26 33½ 37

Monday’s Games Charlotte 108, Bulls 91 Cleveland 120, Sacramento 100 Indiana 89, L.A. Lakers 87 L.A. Clippers 98, Philadelphia 92, OT Brooklyn 105, Denver 104 Toronto 103, Detroit 89 New Orleans 116, Minnesota 102 Portland 112, Memphis 106, OT Orlando 117, Atlanta 110, OT Oklahoma City 122, Phoenix 106 Tuesday’s Games Boston at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Miami, 7 p.m.

Washington at New York, 7 p.m.

Utah at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Houston at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Atlanta at Bulls, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Memphis at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Denver at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Utah at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Houston at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Boston 128, Sacramento 119 Orlando 96, Atlanta 94 Denver 101, New York 96 L.A. Clippers 100, Miami 93

HORNETS 108, BULLS 91 CHICAGO (91) Dunleavy 3-7 0-0 8, Gibson 5-10 1-2 11, Gasol 8-13 3-3 22, Moore 5-10 0-0 12, Hinrich 1-8 0-0 3, McDermott 6-11 1-1 14, Brooks 2-12 0-0 4, Portis 2-7 1-2 6, Bairstow 2-8 2-2 6, Snell 1-4 3-4 5, Felicio 0-0

0-0 0. Totals 35-90 11-14 91.

CHARLOTTE (108) Kidd-Gilchrist 7-14 5-6 20, Williams 3-7 0-0 9, Zeller 2-3 0-2 5, Walker 8-19 10-13 30, Batum 8-13 0-0 19, Hawes 5-9 2-2 13, Kaminsky 0-3 5-6 5, Lamb 1-5 2-2 5, Lin 1-7 0-0 2. Totals 35-80 24-31 108.

Chicago Charlotte

20 22 23 26 — 91 38 19 30 21 —108

3-Point Goals–Chicago 10-25 (Gasol 3-5, Dunleavy 2-3, Moore 2-4, Portis 1-1, McDermott 1-3, Hinrich 1-5, Brooks 0-1, Bairstow 0-1, Snell 0-2), Charlotte 14-36 (Walker 4-9, Batum 3-6, Williams 3-6, Zeller 1-1, Kidd-Gilchrist 1-2, Hawes 1-3, Lamb 1-3, Kaminsky 0-2, Lin 0-4). Fouled Out–Zeller, Hawes. Rebounds–Chicago 46 (Gasol 10), Charlotte 64 (Batum 13).

Assists–Chicago 25 (Gasol 7), Charlotte 20 (Walker, Batum 8). Total Fouls–Chicago 22, Charlotte 19. A–15,886 (19,077).

MEN’S COLLEGE AP TOP 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: 1. Villanova (32) 2. Maryland (13) 3. Oklahoma (7) 4. Iowa (11) 5. Xavier 6. Kansas (1) 7. Virginia (1) 8. Michigan St. 9. North Carolina 10. West Virginia 11. Oregon 12. Miami 13. Louisville 14. Iowa St. 15. Texas A&M 16. SMU 17. Arizona 18. Purdue 19. Dayton 20. Providence 21. Baylor 22. Kentucky 23. Southern Cal 24. Texas 25. Wichita St.

Record 20-3 21-3 19-3 19-4 21-2 19-4 19-4 20-4 19-4 19-4 20-4 18-4 19-4 17-6 18-5 20-2 19-5 19-5 19-3 18-6 17-6 17-6 18-5 16-7 17-6

Pts 1,566 1,499 1,472 1,471 1,382 1,311 1,223 1,144 1,136 1,082 905 826 819 781 663 593 497 456 413 349 333 228 225 199 132

Prv 3 4 1 5 6 7 9 10 2 14 16 17 19 13 8 12 23 18 24 11 15 20 — — 21

Others receiving votes: South Carolina 128, Indiana 91, Notre Dame 75, San Diego St. 22, Duke 14, Seton Hall 14, Gonzaga 10, LSU 10, VCU 10, Valparaiso 9, Stony Brook 8, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 6, Saint Joseph’s 5, UNC Wilmington 4, Hawaii 3, Utah 3, Chattanooga 2, George Washington 2, UConn 2, Michigan 1, Monmouth (NJ) 1.

TOP 25 SCHEDULE Monday’s Games No. 3 Oklahoma 63, No. 24 Texas 60 Duke 72, No. 13 Louisville 65 Tuesday’s Games No. 1 Villanova at DePaul, 7:30 p.m.

No. 5 Xavier at Creighton, 7 p.m.

No. 6 Kansas vs. No. 10 West Virginia, 6 p.m.

No. 7 Virginia vs. Virginia Tech, 7 p.m.

No. 8 Michigan State at No. 18 Purdue, 6 p.m.

No. 9 North Carolina at Boston College, 7 p.m.

No. 12 Miami vs. Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

No. 19 Dayton vs. Duquesne, 6 p.m.

No. 22 Kentucky vs. Georgia, 8 p.m.

No. 25 Wichita State at Drake, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games No. 14 Iowa State at Texas Tech, 8 p.m.

No. 15 Texas A&M at Alabama, 7 p.m.

No. 16 SMU vs. Tulsa, 8 p.m.

No. 20 Providence at Marquette, 6 p.m.

No. 21 Baylor at Kansas State, 7:15 p.m.

Thursday’s Games No. 4 Iowa at Indiana, 8 p.m.

No. 11 Oregon at California, 8 p.m.

WOMEN’S COLLEGE AP TOP 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: 1. UConn (32) 2. South Carolina 3. Notre Dame 4. Baylor 5. Maryland 6. Texas 7. Ohio St. 8. Oregon St. 9. Arizona St. 10. Florida St. 11. Mississippi St. 12. Louisville 13. Stanford 14. UCLA 15. Texas A&M 16. Florida 17. Michigan St. 18. Kentucky 19. Miami 20. Oklahoma St. 21. Oklahoma 22. South Florida 23. DePaul 24. West Virginia 25. Tennessee

Record 22-0 22-0 23-1 23-1 21-2 21-1 18-4 20-3 20-4 19-4 21-4 18-6 19-5 17-6 16-7 19-4 18-5 16-6 20-4 18-4 16-6 16-6 19-7 18-6 14-9

Pts 800 765 739 699 660 653 599 580 518 515 485 418 389 366 354 305 286 231 219 202 132 115 84 80 49

Prv 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 10 11 13 15 14 12 22 17 18 16 25 20 19 — — 23

Others receiving votes: Missouri 35, Colorado St. 23, Syracuse 23, BYU 20, Duquesne 12, Washington 12, Georgia 9, UTEP 6, Albany (NY) 5, George Washington 3, Minnesota 3, Purdue 3, Arkansas St. 1, Green Bay 1, Oregon 1.

TOP 25 SCHEDULE Monday’s Games No. 1 UConn 66, No. 2 South Carolina 54 No. 7 Ohio State 94, No. 5 Maryland 86 Tuesday’s Games No. 21 Oklahoma at Kansas State, 7 p.m.

No. 22 South Florida vs. Tulane, 6 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games No. 4 Baylor at TCU, 7 p.m.

No. 6 Texas vs. No. 20 Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

No. 24 West Virginia vs. Iowa State, 6 p.m.

Thursday’s Games No. 2 South Carolina vs. No. 16 Florida, 6 p.m.

No. 5 Maryland vs. Purdue, 6 p.m.

No. 7 Ohio State at Iowa, 7:30 p.m.

No. 10 Florida State at Duke, 6 p.m.

No. 11 Mississippi State at No. 15 Texas A&M, 6 p.m.

No. 12 Louisville at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

No. 17 Michigan State vs. Penn State, 5:30 p.m.

No. 19 Miami at Georgia Tech, 6 p.m.

No. 25 Tennessee at Vanderbilt, 8 p.m.

Other scores Wisconsin 64, Purdue 57

TRANSACTIONS PROS BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with RHP Craig Stammen on a minor league contract.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with RHP Tyler Clippard on a two-year contract.

Designated LHP Will Locante for assignment.

NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with OF Roger Bernadina on a minor league contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW YORK KNICKS — Fired coach Derek Fisher. Named Kurt Rambis interim coach.

Women’s National Basketball Association INDIANA FEVER — Signed Gs Jeanette Pohlen and Erica Wheeler to training camp contracts.

PHOENIX MERCURY — Re-signed F Penny Taylor.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Named Joel Collier director of pro personnel. Released LB Justin Durant and S William Moore.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed CB Chykie Brown and OT Darryl Baldwin.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Named Rock Cartwright offensive quality control coach, Louie Cioffi defensive backs coach, Ken Delgado assistant defensive line coach, Johnny Holland inside linebackers coach, Cannon Matthews assistant defensive backs coach, Robert Nunn defensive line coach, Eric Sanders defensive quality control coach and Ryan Slowik outside linebackers coach.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Released G Jahri Evans, LBs David Hawthorne and Ramon Humber and WR Seantavius Jones. Signed DB Tony Carter.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Released WR Riley Cooper.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed TE Brandon Cottom, LS Andrew East, CB George Farmer, WR Deshon Foxx, WR Antwan Goodley, DT Justin Hamilton, CB Stanley Jean-Baptiste, WR Douglas McNeil III, C Drew Nowak, G Will Pericak, OT Terry Poole, CB Trovon Reed, TE Ronnie Shields, DE Josh Shirley, QB Phillip Sims, WR Tyler Slavin, S Robert

Smith and DE DeAngelo Tyson to futures contracts.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Winnipeg F Drew Stafford one game for high-sticking Colorado D Nick Holden during a Feb. 6 game.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Reassigned D Ryan Murphy to Charlotte (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Placed D Alex Pietrangelo on injured reserve.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned F Paul Carey and D Connor Carrick to Hershey AHL).

WINNIPEG JETS — Signed D Dustin Byfuglien to a five-year contract extension.

SOCCER Major League Soccer VANCOUVER WHITECAPS — Signed D Cole Seiler.

COLLEGE INDIANA — Announced defensive line coach Larry McDaniel will not return next season.

NFL NOTES

PREPS SCHAUMBURG SECTIONAL Team scores: 1. Prairie Ridge co-op 149.55, 2. Barrington 144.950, 3. Fremd 144.600, 3. Maine South 141.325, 5. Hersey 140.100, 6. Palatine 138.100.

All-Around: 1. Maddie Solka (PR) 38.2, 2. Abby Hasanov (Barr) 38.175, 3. Nikki Baars (PR) 37.925, 4. Melynda Meyrick (Conant) 37.525, 5. Melania Ng (Fremd) 36.9.

Vault: 1. Solka (PR) 9.8, 2. Hasanov (Barr) 9.75, 3. Meyrick (Con) 9.7, 4. Baars (PR) 9.6, 5. Sara Ignoffo (MS) 9.525.

Uneven bars: 1 (tie). Solka (PR), Baars (PR) 9.575, 3. Ng (Fr) 9.475, 4. Maddy Kim (PR) 9.4, 5. Betti (Fr) 9.35.

Balance beam: 1. Hasanov (Barr) 9.6, 2. Baars (PR) 9.325, 3. Solka (PR) 9.275, 4.

Kelly Johnston (Rolling Meadows) 9.225, 5 (tie). Ng (Fr), Mackenzie Kamysz (Her) 9.2.

Floor exercise: 1 (tie). Solka (PR), Hasanov (Barr) 9.55, 3 (tie). Kendall Rumford (PR), Meyrick (Con) 9.475, 5.

Baars (PR) 9.425.

Note: Top team and top five individual finishers advance to IHSA State Meet at Palatine on Friday, Feb. 19 and Saturday, Feb. 20. At-large berths will be determined after completion of other three sectionals.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

HAMPSHIRE (61) Goad 1 0-0 3, Heine 1 0-1 2, N. Dumoulin 3 0-0 7, Benoit 9 8-12 26, R. Dumoulin 8 3-4 19, Guerrero-Gay 2 0-0 4. Totals: 24 11-18 61.

Grayslake North Hampshire

15 15 12 7 – 49 15 19 16 11 – 61

3-point goals: Hampshire 2 (Goad, N. Dumoulin).

GENOA-KINGSTON 65, HARVARD 18 HARVARD (18) Mercado 1 0-0 3, Pichardo 1 0-0 2, Barranco 1 0-0 3, Renteria 1 0-0 3, L. Garcia 1 0-0 3, D. Garcia 2 0-0 4. Totals: 7 0-0 18.

3-point goals: Harvard 4 (Mercado, Barranco, Renteria, L. Garcia).

BURLINGTON CENTRAL 63 JOHNSBURG 31 JOHNSBURG (31) Sommerfeldt 2 0-0 5, Johns 3 3-4 9, McCauley 1 0-0 2, Stefka 2 0-0 4, Morgan Madsen 1 0-0 3, Megan Madsen 3 0-1 6, Piggott 1 0-0 2. Totals 13 3-5 31.

Burlington Central 21 17 16 9 – 63 Johnsburg 4 16 4 7 – 31 3-point goals: Burlington Central 6 (Pryor 5, Holt 1). Johnsburg 2 (Sommerfeldt 1, Morgan Madsen 1). Total Fouls: Burlington Central 10, Johnsburg 11.

CLASS 1A ROCKFORD CHRISTIAN LIFE REGIONAL ALDEN-HEBRON 55 FAITH LUTHERAN 29 FAITH LUTHERAN (29) Braun 0 0-0 0, Hornok 2 4-6 8, German 2 3-4 7, Pedersen 1 1-2 3, Borman 3 5-12 11, Van Antwerp 0 0-0 0, Wielgos 0 0-0 0.

Totals: 8 13-24 29.

ALDEN-HEBRON (55) Warren 2 1-1 5, Wanderer 1 0-0 2, Winter 3 2-2 8, Webber 6 1-2 13, Lalor 6 0-0 14, Rosio 2 1-2 5, Horton 3 0-0 6, Erckfritz 0 2-2 2. Totals: 23 7-9 55.

Faith Lutheran Alden-Hebron

0 9 13 7 – 29 14 20 13 8 – 55

3-point goals: Faith Lutheran 0, Alden-Hebron 2 (Lalor 2). Total fouls: Faith Lutheran 15, Alden-Hebron 18.

Fouled out: Horton (AH).

Monday’s games Game 1: Rockford Christian Life 66, Hiawatha 38 Game 2: Alden-Hebron 55, Faith Lutheran 29 Wednesday’s games Game 3: (1) Durand vs. (9) Rockford Christian Life, 6 p.m.

Game 4: (4) Forreston vs. (8) Alden-Hebron, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s game Game 5: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, 7 p.m.

CONFERENCE STANDINGS Through games Saturday Fox Valley Conference Fox Division Team Conf. Ov’ll.

Grayslake Central 8-2 12-10

Big Northern Conference East Division Team Conf. Ov’ll.

Burlington Central 10-0 18-1 Johnsburg 11-1 23-2 Genoa-Kingston 7-2 12-9 Richmond-Burton 6-5 11-11 Marengo 6-8 8-17 North Boone 3-5 5-13 Rockford Christian 2-6 2-11 Harvard 0-12 0-20 East Suburban Catholic Conference Team Conf. Ov’ll.

Marian Catholic 3-0 13-9 Marist 4-1 18-7 Benet Academy 3-1 22-2 St. Viator 3-1 12-11 Joliet Catholic 2-2 10-7 Marian Central 1-4 10-14 Carmel 0-4 8-13 Nazareth 0-6 8-16 Area Statistics Leaders (Through games Saturday) Scoring (Minimum six games) Player, School Games Pts. Avg. Ali Andrews, Hunt 27 586 21.7 Emma Benoit, Hamp 24 406 17.2 Haley Ahr, WN 24 404 16.9 Vannessa Garrelts, MC 23 367 16.0 Chanel Fanter, CLS 28 446 15.9 Aannah Interrante, Jbg 24 357 14.9 Melissa Barker, D-C 28 374 13.4 Allison Michalski, D-C 27 343 12.7 Liz Alsot, McH 28 341 12.2 Katie Sowa, C-G 20 232 11.6 Jenifer Crain, Wdk 26 302 11.6 Annika Sevcik, CLS 27 311 11.5 Brecken Overly, Wdk 26 293 11.3 Molly Steffen, CLC 7 78 11.1 Jazza Johns, Jbg 20 215 10.8 Madison Haslow, CLC 20 214 10.7 Free-throw percentage (Minimum 15 attempts) Player, School FTM-FTA Pctg.

Molly Steffen, CLC 14-15 93.3 Kayla Barreto, Hunt 25-29 86.2 Katie Sowa, C-G 50-58 86.2 Ali Andrews, Hunt 120-143 83.9 Maddie Busch, WN 57-69 82.6 Talia Surges, Jac 35-43 81.4 Brecken Overly, Wdk 56-72 77.8 Sami Zieman, WN 14-18 77.7 Chanel Fanter, CLS 90-116 77.6 Maddie Haslow, CLC 35-47 74.5 Madison Butler, WN 30-41 73.2 Maddie Gorz, C-G 27-37 72.9 Rachel Dumoulin, Hamp 51-71 71.8 Rachel Schaffter, WN 18-25 72.0 Teaghan Richman, Jac 22-31 71.0 Taylor Piggott, Jbg 12-17 70.6 3-Pointers Player, School Melissa Barker, D-C Vannessa Garrelts, MC Aannah Interrante, Jbg Izzy Gscheidle, McH Kaila Rondorf, Mgo Allie Hogan, R-B Chanel Fanter, CLS Madison Haslow, CLC Nicole Durben, Jac Jenifer Crain, Wdk Ali Andrews, Hunt Brecken Overly, Wdk Kayla Barreto, Hunt Maddie Gorz, C-G Katie Sowa, C-G Talia Surges, Jac

No. 93 60 53 46 45 44 42 38 38 34 33 32 32 28 26 25

BOYS BASKETBALL HAMPSHIRE 58, ST. FRANCIS 50 HAMPSHIRE (58) Bennett 4 0-0 9, Garcia 1 0-0 3, Woods 8 2-3 20, Tuttle 6 1-4 15, Dumoulin 1 0-0 2, Cork 0 2-2 2, Gomez 1 0-0 3, Diete 2 0-0 4. Totals: 24 5-9 58.

Hampshire St. Francis

13 13 17 15 – 58 16 10 6 18 – 50

3-point goals: Hampshire 7 (Woods 2, Tuttle 2, Bennett, Garcia, Gomez).

WOODSTOCK 55, WAUCONDA 40 WOODSTOCK (55) Walkington 2 0-0 5, Wright 0 1-2 1, M. Shook 0 2-2 2, D. Shook 5 3-4 14, Smith 7 0-0 18, Turner 1 2-2 4, Cullum 2 0-1 4, Brainard 1 1-2 3, Kubiak 2 0-0 4. Totals: 20 9-13 55.

Woodstock Wauconda

15 14 10 16 – 55 10 8 8 14 – 40

3-point goals: Woodstock 6 (Smith 4,

D. Shook, Walkington).

CONFERENCE STANDINGS Through games of Feb. 6 Fox Valley Conference Fox Division Team Conf. Ov’ll.

Prairie Ridge 10-0 19-3 Grayslake North 9-1 19-2 Woodstock 7-3 15-5 Grayslake Central 5-6 12-10 Hampshire 3-7 5-17 CL Central 1-10 2-19 Woodstock North 1-9 3-16 Fox Valley Conference Valley Division Team Conf. Ov’ll.

Jacobs 8-0 19-4 CL South 6-2 13-9 McHenry 5-3 10-14 Cary-Grove 3-5 6-16 Huntley 2-6 7-17 Dundee-Crown 0-8 1-19 Big Northern Conference East Division Team Conf. Ov’ll.

Burlington Central 10-0 22-2 Marengo 8-2 17-6 Genoa-Kingston 6-2 12-8 Rockford Christian 5-5 10-11 Johnsburg 4-5 11-13 Richmond-Burton 2-6 9-14 North Boone 2-8 11-11 Harvard 0-9 9-14 East Suburban Catholic Conference Team Conf. Ov’ll.

Benet Academy 5-1 20-3 St. Viator 4-1 15-4 Marian Catholic 4-1 17-5 St. Patrick 4-2 13-10 Marist 3-3 17-5 Joliet Catholic 3-3 16-4 Niles Notre Dame 3-3 17-6 Marian Central 2-4 14-6 Nazareth 1-5 4-16 Carmel 0-6 11-12 Area Statistics Leaders (Through games Saturday) Scoring (Minimum six games) Player, School Games Pts. Avg. Adam Pischke, MC 20 472 23.6 Zach Knobloch, Mgo 23 518 22.5 Zach Geske, CLS 22 417 19.0 Cameron Krutwig, Jac 22 373 17.0 Blaine Bayer, R-B 19 286 15.1 Danny Schmidt, C-G 21 316 15.0 Mike Volkening, Mgo 23 331 14.4 Vannis Smith, Wdk 20 283 14.2 Dan Shook, Wdk 20 256 12.8 Brennen Woods, Hamp 18 226 12.6 Christopher Bradshaw, PR 21 263 12.5 Luke Tuttle, Hamp 21 260 12.4 Tanner Kreassig, Jbg 21 256 12.2 Jake Kaufman, R-B 19 232 12.2 Payton Otto, PR 21 254 12.1 Sam Ohlrich, MC 17 202 11.9 Vic Ortiz, WN 19 217 11.4 Ryan Phillips, Jac 22 223 11.2 Free-throw percentage (Minimum 15 attempts) Player, School FTM-FTA Pctg.

Zach Knobloch, Mgo 79-88 89.8 Chris Bradshaw, PR 38-45 84.4 Zach Beaugureau, C-G 17-21 81.0 Blaine Bayer, R-B 58-72 80.6 Payton Otto, PR 37-46 80.4 Luke Tuttle, Hamp 32-40 80.0 Adam Pischke, MC 135-174 77.6 T.J. Kaufmann, MC 26-34 76.5 Jack Orndahl, D-C 26-34 76.5 Tanner Kreassig, Jbg 61-80 76.3 Sam Ohlrich, MC 44-58 75.9 Deion Garcia, Hamp 33-44 75.0 J.J. Flores, Hunt 48-64 75.0 Zach Geske, CLS 50-67 74.6 Brennen Woods, Hamp 41-55 74.5 Brian Dorn, PR 29-39 74.4 Danny Schmidt, C-G 32-43 74.4 3-Pointers Player, School Zach Knobloch, Mgo Zach Geske, CLS Christopher Bradshaw, PR Vannis Smith, Wdk Zach Beaugureau, C-G Adam Pischke, MC Victor Ortiz, WN Blaine Bayer, R-B Jack Orndahl, D-C Matt Seng, Hunt Mike Volkening, Mgo Ryan Phillips, Jac Luke Tuttle, Hamp Payton Otto, PR

No. 102 55 53 51 47 43 41 40 40 40 39 38 36 31

SCHEDULE Tuesday Boys Basketball: Richmond-Burton at Genoa-Kingston, Cary-Grove at Mundelein, Crystal Lake Central at Marengo, Elk Grove at Dundee-Crown, North Boone at Harvard, Elgin at Huntley, Jacobs at St. Charles North, Johnsburg at Rockford Christian, Willowbrook at Marian Central, Woodstock North at Harvest Christian Academy, 7 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Burlington Central at Richmond-Burton, FVC crossover schedule: Crystal Lake South at Prairie Ridge, Cary-Grove at Woodstock North, McHenry at Woodstock, Jacobs at Grayslake North, Dundee-Crown at Hampshire, 7 p.m.

Agent: Lynch to retire; RB McCoy investigated The ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE – When Marshawn Lynch was brought to Seattle early in the 2010 season, he was acquired because the Seahawks desperately needed a running back.

What he ended up providing was an attitude and style that became the foundation for bringing the first Super Bowl title to the Pacific Northwest.

And for that, Lynch forever will hold a special place with the Seahawks.

He might have been more of a headache off the field than anyone let on during his time in Seattle, but ultimately be lauded as the running back who got the Seahawks to a place they had never been before.

Without saying a word – big surprise – Lynch drew a lot of attention during the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl on Sunday night with a single post on social media. Just a picture, green cleats hanging from a power or telephone line, and a peace sign emoji.

It was his way of saying goodbye from football, a decision his agent Doug Hendrickson confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday, saying Lynch intends to retire.

The mercurial running back who enjoyed avoiding media attention away from the field as much as he thrived under the spotlight with the ball in his hands is stepping away just before his 30th birthday.

His final season was an injury-filled disappointment. There were no “Beast Mode” runs in his final season that will be in his highlight loop or the image of Lynch leaping into the end zone backward as he did to cap a few great runs in his career. He was a spectator as much as anything, playing in just seven regular season games and one playoff game as injuries were finally a factor in his ability to play.

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Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch plans to retire, his agent confirmed Monday.

One officer had a broken nose, broken ribs and a sprained thumb, police said, and the second was hospitalized with a possible skull fracture.

“Certainly over a bottle of champagne, nothing warrants an assault like this,” police Lt. John Stanford said.

A person familiar with the investigation confirmed to The Associated Press that McCoy was one of the four men under investigation. He spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the case.

McCoy’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment Monday. McCoy played for the Bills last season after being traded from the Philadelphia Eagles, where he played for six seasons.

The Bills released a statement saying they were aware of the report and were gathering information.

Police said they did not want to publicly identify the four suspects until arrest warrants are approved, but they said at least some had NFL connections.

The two officers did not identify themselves as policemen to their alleged attackers, Stanford said.

McCoy investigated over fight with Manziel’s ex-girlfriend says she lost off-duty cops: At Philadelphia, Buffalo hearing after attack: At Dallas, Johnny

Bills running back LeSean McCoy is under investigation over the alleged assault of two off-duty police officers at a Philadelphia nightclub.

The incident occurred early Sunday after an argument broke out between McCoy’s party and the officers over a bottle of champagne.

After one 40-year-old officer was knocked to the ground, he was punched, kicked and stomped multiple times on his body and head, police said Monday.

When the second officer, also 40, intervened with security guards, he also was injured, police said. All were ejected from the club.

Manziel’s ex-girlfriend said in an affidavit he hit her so hard during a latenight confrontation she lost hearing in one ear.

Colleen Crowley’s affidavit was obtained by KXAS-TV and published online Monday. Crowley suffered a ruptured eardrum, which is expected to eventually heal, Crowley’s lawyer, Kathy Kinser, told the TV station.

Crowley detailed Manziel’s alleged attack as part of proceedings to obtain a protective order against the troubled Cleveland Browns quarterback, who is under criminal investigation on allegations of domestic violence.

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Prairie Ridge 8-2 16-9 Hampshire 8-3 17-8 Grayslake North 6-4 14-10 Woodstock 4-7 12-14 Woodstock North 2-8 9-15 CL Central 0-9 2-20 Fox Valley Conference Valley Division Team Conf. Ov’ll.

Huntley 9-0 24-3 CL South 6-3 20-9 Dundee-Crown 4-5 12-15 Jacobs 4-5 9-14 Cary-Grove 3-6 9-16 McHenry 1-8 9-18

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12 SUPER BOWL 50 ANALYSIS

Miller’s MVP effort better than you thought

By ADAM KILGORE

The Washington Post

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Von Miller decimated the Carolina Panthers in every way an outside linebacker can.

He harassed and flustered Cam Newton, at once stripping away the ball and his confidence at the outset. He tortured right tackle Mike Remmers.

He stifled tight end Greg Olsen. Miller influenced the game on almost every snap he played. His pass-rushing dominance made him the easy choice for Most Valuable Player in real time.

Upon a second viewing, he was even better.

Miller didn’t only impact the Denver Broncos’ 24-10 Super Bowl victory with his 2½ sacks and two forced fumbles. He forced the Panthers to commit extra blockers to account for him, which opened space for blitzes and the rest of Denver’s marauding defensive line. He hurried Newton into four incompletions on plays when he couldn’t knock him down. When asked, he covered wide receivers in man-to-man. He was everywhere and did everything.

The most devastating play Miller made, of course, came on the sixth play of the game. He lined up on the left side of the Carolina’s line, in front of Newton’s face. The Panthers lined up running back Mike Tolbert behind Remmers, hoping to elongate Miller’s path to the quarterback. At the snap, Tolbert released on a pattern, and Miller blasted past Remmers, who could only lunge at Miller.

Miller tore around the edge, straight at Newton’s face. Newton should have seen Miller coming, but was not prepared for Miller’s suddenness – it took Miller only 2.8 seconds to maneuver around Tolbert and dispatch Remmers. Rather than simply sacking Newton, Miller tore the ball from Newton’s hands. Teammate Malik Jackson pounced on the ball in the end zone.

The Broncos led, 10-0, and Newton would not look comfortable for the rest of the game. Coming into Super Bowl 50, it was supposed to be the Broncos who had never encountered a player like Newton. That may have been true, but from the sixth snap of the game, Miller made it clear: The Panthers had never had to deal with a player like him.

Just as Miller initiated the Broncos’ victory, he sealed it. Late in the fourth quarter, the Panthers trailed, 16-7, and desperately needed a drive.

Newton dropped back from his own 30.

Remmers tried to block Miller 1-on-1, an unfair fight the entire game. Miller

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The Denver Broncos’ Von Miller strips the ball from the Carolina Panthers Cam Newton during the second half of Super Bowl 50 on Sunday in Santa Clara, Calif. Miller was voted MVP of the game. shoved Remmers in the chest, stepped around him and swatted the ball from Newton’s hand as he cocked to the throw.

When the Broncos recovered, the faint hope Carolina held had evaporated. Newton may have held the ball too long – the rush took 3.25 seconds.

But again, he didn’t anticipate Miller being able to reach him that quick on a deep drop.

In between Miller’s bookend sacks came perhaps his most dazzling rush of the night. Late in the third quarter, he helped set up a third-and-long by stopping a running play with defensive tackle Derek Wolfe and then beating Remmers to force a scramble and incompletion. On that third down, Tolbert lined up to Remmers’s left, giving Miller a longer path to Newton.

Miller sprinted around Tolbert, darted inside, spun around Remmers – the only spin move he used all night – and dove to grab Newton’s legs. An offensive line coach grading the film would have a difficult time telling Remmers what he could have done dif-

ferently. Miller was too freakishly fast to stop. Miller hadn’t just unleashed a move he’d kept holstered all night.

In a rush that last three seconds flat, Miller took 13 steps, his feet pumping like twin jackhammers.

Miller wrecked the Panthers’ attack beyond his pass rushing. Miller was primarily responsible for eliminating Olsen, Newton’s most important offensive weapon. Olsen finished with four catches, only two of which came with Miller in the game, for a total of 14 yards and no first downs. The Broncos lined up Miller over Olsen constantly, and Miller limited him in three ways. On some pass plays, Olsen stayed in to help block Miller, his presence alone removing Olsen from the pattern. On others, Miller bumped Olsen at the line to disrupt his timing.

Twice, Miller covered Olsen on a pattern. He blanketed him both times, once with a safety helping behind.

At times, it appeared Miller was showing off. On the Panthers’ first drive of the second half, they marched into Denver territory. Receiver Jer-

icho Cotchery lined up in the right slot, and Miller drifted out to cover him. With no safety help, Miller clung to Cotchery as he ran an out-and-up down the sideline. Newton threaded a pass to Cotchery’s hands, but Miller knocked it away as Cotchery neared the goal line.

The Broncos prevailed for reasons beyond Miller. Newton seemed overly amped early, and he missed several open throws high. No quarterbacks thrive under pressure, but Newton’s accuracy and poise suffered dramatically in the face of Denver’s rush. The most overlooked quality of Denver’s defense may have been the tackling ability of its secondary and the scarcity of Carolina yards after catch. Left tackle Michael Oher had an atrocious game – one of his two false start penalties came on one of the rare occasions Miller lined up over him.

All night long, however, the best player on the field was Miller. There was no other possible choice for MVP, a fact that only became more clear the more you watched.