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“We’re going to be willing to tackle
anything that we think could improve that
environment and create the kind of
Legislature that the public expects and
they should be entitled to.”
Missouri tries
again on ethics
By Summer Ballentine
Associated Press
Gerry Tritiz/News Tribune
At left, Autumn Wood, Eldon, gets a sample of Lutz’s Famous BBQ from Lauren Lutz, daughter of owner Burl Lutz,
also serving in the background. Lutz’s was one of about 80 vendors at Sunday’s 2016 Bridal Spectacular at the
Firley YMCA. Below, live models Samantha Tracy and Sarah Sullentrop chat with Crystal Glaze and Ashley Forck
while modeling for Kay’s Bridal and Tuxedo in Sedalia. Glaze accompanied Forck, who is planning an April 16 wedding.
Here come the brides
Bridal Spectacular sparkles
with ideas for future nuptials
By Gerry Tritz
[email protected]
Ashley Forck, a bride-to-be, came with
friend Crystal Glaze to the annual Bridal Spectacular, hoping to get some ideas for honeymoon locations after her April 16 wedding.
But she got sidetracked, talking to a pair of
live models at the booth for Kay’s Bridal and
Tuxedo, based in Sedalia. She and Glaze also
stopped to get their photos taken at a photo
booth.
With some 80 vendors, it was easy for the
estimated 300 future brides — plus moms,
friends and occasional fiancés — to get sidetracked. The 29th annual event was held Sunday at the Firley YMCA and featured a half
dozen photographers, half dozen DJs, and
many other wedding-related services. Attendees also entered giveaways — including a honeymoon package to the Dominican Republic
— munched on food samples, and got to watch
a dress modeling show at the end.
Each vendor had a prize they were giving
Please see Brides, p. 3
Missouri lawmakers in 2016
will again try to rein in state ethics laws that are some of the
loosest in the nation, this year
against a backdrop of allegations
of inappropriate actions toward
interns by former legislators that
some say added to public mistrust of the Legislature.
While legislators most years
push for stricter policies with
little success, supporters say the
shadow lingering over the Capitol after the resignation of two
lawmakers in 2015 could mean
proposals finally become law in
the session beginning Wednesday.
“The issues involving ethics
reform are teed up for this legislative session,” Democratic Gov.
Jay Nixon said. “You’ve got folks
talking about these, putting bills
in, in the most constructive way
that I’ve seen in seven years.”
Missouri is the only state with
loose laws in three areas often
described as “ethics” rules: no
restrictions on contributions to
political candidates, no ban on
lawmakers immediately becoming lobbyists after leaving public
office and no limits on lobbyist-bought gifts and meals for
elected officials.
More than a dozen pre-filed
bills would change that. Several would clamp down on the
revolving legislature-lobbyist
door and money in politics, as
well as impose more reporting
requirements and ban lawmakers from smoking and drinking
in the Capitol in most circumstances. One proposal would
require lawmakers to close out
their campaign coffers before
becoming lobbyists.
Measures to cap campaign
contributions appear less likely
to pass than other measures.
“Clearly you’d like to have
something done in the campaign-finance arena,” Nixon
said, adding that he hopes discussions on other ethics matters
will spark conversations about
capping donations.
Majority Floor Leader Mike
Kehoe, R-Jefferson City, said
such a proposal would be
“tough” to pass during an election year.
GOP House Speaker Todd
Richardson and Kehoe said the
strategy is to focus on passing
single-issue bills rather than an
all-encompassing ethics package. The idea is that if there’s disagreement about one proposal,
others with more support could
still move forward and would
have a better chance of becoming law.
Both tactics — many smaller
bills or a single measure that
addresses multiple aspects
of ethics policy — have failed
repeatedly to pass in Missouri.
Measures to ban lobbyist gifts
and close the revolving door
span back to at least 2005. The
Legislature in 2008 repealed
campaign contribution limits.
Lawmakers’ attempts to
change ethics policy this past
year centered on a single proposal that failed in the last days
of the session when the House
fell into disarray following
claims that former Republican
Speaker John Diehl exchanged
sexual text messages with a Capitol intern.
Diehl, R-Town and Country,
Please see Ethics, p. 3
Oregon standoff latest in dispute over Western lands
BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The remote high desert
of eastern Oregon became the latest flashpoint for
anti-government sentiment as armed protesters
occupied a national wildlife refuge to object to a
prison sentence for local ranchers for burning federal
land.
Ammon Bundy — the son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was involved in a 2014 standoff with
the government over grazing rights — is among the
people at the headquarters of the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge. It was unclear exactly how many
people were taking part in the protests.
Ammon Bundy posted a video on his Facebook
page asking for militia members to come help him.
He said “this is not a time to stand down. It’s a time to
stand up and come to Harney County,” where Burns
is located.
Bundy and other militia members came to Burns
last month, a small town about 280 miles southeast
of Portland, Oregon. They were upset over the loom-
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on Court Avenue in
support of an Oregon
ranching family facing
jail time for arson in
Burns, Ore., on Saturday. Family members
were convicted of the
arsons three years
ago and served time.
But a judge ruled
their terms were too
short under federal law and ordered
them back to prison
for about four years
each.
ing prison sentences for local ranchers Dwight and
Steven Hammond. They went to the wildlife refuge
Saturday evening following a peaceful rally in Burns
to support the ranchers.
Dwight Hammond, 73, and Steven Hammond, 46,
said they lit the fires on federal land in 2001 and 2006
to reduce the growth of invasive plants and protect
their property from wildfires.
The two were convicted of the arsons three years
ago and served time — the father three months, the
son one year. But a federal judge ruled in October
that their terms were too short under U.S. minimum
sentencing law and ordered them back to prison for
about four years each.
The decision generated controversy and is part
of a decades-long dispute between some Westerners
and the federal government over the use of public
lands. The issue traces back to the 1970s and the
“Sagebrush Rebellion,” a move by Western states like
Please see Standoff, p. 3
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Man who took Snapchat selfie
with robbery victim arrested
Police in Northern California say they have arrested a man
accused of armed robbery thanks to a Snapchat selfie he took
with one of the victims.
Pacific Grove police arrested 18-year-old Victor Almanza-Martinez, of Castroville, and that they continue to search for
two other suspects believed to have participated in an armed
robbery.
Police say that Almanza-Martinez and the two others
approached four victims Wednesday at Lover Point Park and
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Cloudy
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FORECAST
Kirksville
29° | 18°
Sunday
High: 47; low: 27
ILL.
Record high for today’s date:
73 degrees in 1997.
Columbia
32° | 22°
Kansas City
30° | 19°
Jefferson City
33° | 23°
Record low for today’s date:
-10 degrees in 1959.
St. Louis
31° | 23°
KAN.
TUESDAY
River, lake stages
41˚/26˚
Springfield
40° | 20°
OKLA.
Partly
Cloudy
Thunderstorms
TENN.
Cold
Warm Stationary
Pressure
Low
High
Snow
Weather Underground • AP
JEFFERSONCITYAREA
46˚/40˚
Fronts
Ice
Flurries
44˚/35˚
THURSDAY
12.89
12.43
12.83
18.20
658.79
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Rain
Showers
Kansas City
Boonville
Jefferson City
Hermann
Lake of the Ozarks
Cape Girardeau
33° | 25°
ARK.
Cloudy
WEDNESDAY
ALMANAC
National forecast
Skies will be mostly cloudy this morning and early
afternoon then becoming partly cloudy. Highs will be
in the lower 30s with light wind. Tonight should remain
partly cloudy with a low around 20.
Tuesday will bring partly cloudy skies with a high in
the lower 40s and south wind around 10 mph. Tuesday
night will be partly cloudy with a low in the mid-20s.
Wednesday will be mostly cloudy with a chance of
afternoon rain.
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20s 30s 40s
T-storms
50s 60s
70s
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80s
90s 100s 110s
Snow
Ice
Wet Weather Possible Out West
A few snow showers will continue to be possible around the Great
Lakes, and even in parts of the Ohio Valley. An upper level trough
of low pressure will bring a chance of showers to much of the
West, with snow possible, especially at higher elevations.
Weather Underground • AP
Precipitation
For the previous day, the
National Weather Service
reported:
Sunday:
0.00
The record on this date:
0.97 inches in 1993.
Month:
0.00
Normal for month:
0.26
Year:
0.00
Normal for year:
0.26
Sun
Sunset today 5:01 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 7:27 a.m.
NATIONWIDE
FRIDAY
50˚/35˚
SATURDAY
41˚/27˚
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BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has denied a motion by
Bill Cosby’s wife to throw out a subpoena requiring her to
give a deposition in a lawsuit brought by seven women who
accuse the comedian of sexually assaulting them decades
ago.
The ruling issued Thursday by U.S. Judge Magistrate
David Hennessey in Springfield, Massachusetts, means
Camille Cosby is scheduled to be deposed by lawyers for
the women on Wednesday.
In his 12-page decision, Hennessey said Camille Cosby
failed to prove that she and her husband were protected
by the state’s marital disqualification law. He also rejected
NATION
RANCHING STANDOFF: A family known
for a government showdown over access
to federal land joins with other self-described militia members in occupying
a building at a national wildlife refuge,
protesting the pending imprisonment of
two Oregon ranchers.
CAMPAIGN 2016: It’s already been a
year of town halls, weekend forums and
lunchtime meet-and-greets for those who
would be president, not to mention nights
spent sparring in televised debates and
endless days fundraising. All aimed at
people who only now are starting to think
about their vote for the White House, with
their first say coming Feb. 1 in Iowa.
OBAMA: Vacation over, President
Barack Obama says he’s energized for
his final year in office, turning immediate
attention to the issue of gun violence and
set to discuss options Monday with his
attorney general.
MEAT LABELING: After more than a
decade of wrangling, Congress repeals
a labeling law that requires retailers to
include the animal’s country of origin on
packages of red meat, handing a major
victory to the meat industry.
WORLD
CELEBRITYNEWS
LONDON (AP) — Prince William has said that being a
father has made him “more emotional” and more prone to
welling up.
The royal is the father of two children, 2-year-old Prince
George and Princess Charlotte, born in May. In a television
interview, the 33-year-old said that becoming a parent has
made him more aware of “how precious life is.”
William said that he “never used to get too wound up or
worried about things,” but now feels more affected by world
events.
“Now the smallest little things, you well up a little more,
you get affected by the sort of things that happen around the
world or whatever a lot more, I think, as a father,” he said.
LEGISLATURE-ETHICS: Missouri legislative leaders say it’s time to clamp down
on state ethic laws after two lawmakers, including the former House speaker,
resigned in 2015 in face of allegations of
inappropriate behavior toward interns.
Lawmakers during the session beginning
in January will push dozens of policy
changes ranging from prohibiting lobbyist
gifts to lawmakers to banning lawmakers
from becoming lobbyists as soon as they
leave elected office.
MIDWEST FLOODING: The Mississippi
River and many of its tributaries continued their retreat Sunday from historic
and deadly winter flooding, leaving amid
the silt a massive cleanup and recovery
effort likely to take weeks if not months.
The flood, fueled by more than 10 inches
of rain over a three-day period that began
Christmas Day, is blamed for 25 deaths
in Illinois and Missouri, reflecting Sunday’s discovery of the body of a second
teenager who drowned in central Illinois’
Christian County.
claims that the value of the testimony would be outweighed
by the “undue burden” it would cause.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The legendary cinematographer
Vilmos Zsigmond, best known for “The Deer Hunter” and
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” has died.
His business partner Yuri Neyman confirmed that Zsigmond died on Friday in Big Sur, California. He was 85.
The Hungarian-born Zsigmond helped define cinema’s
American New Wave in the 1970s through iconic collaborations and a preference for natural light. He first gained
renown for his collaboration with Robert Altman on classics “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” and “The Long Goodbye.” In
addition to his work on Michael Cimino’s classic “The Deer
Hunter,” for which he earned an Oscar nomination, Zsigmond also worked with Brian De Palma on a number of
films including “Blow Out.”
Zsigmond’s sole Oscar win was for Steven Spielberg’s
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
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Today’s birthdays: Actor Dabney Coleman is 84. Singer
Stephen Stills is 71. Actor Mel Gibson is 60. Actress Danica
McKellar (“The Wonder Years”) is 41. Actor Nicholas Gonzalez (“The O.C.”) is 40. Singer and former “American Idol”
contestant Kimberley Locke is 38.
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Arabia is severing diplomatic relations with Shiite powerhouse Iran amid escalating tensions
over the Sunni kingdom’s execution of a
prominent Shiite cleric.
BORDERS ARE BACK: Crackdowns on
migration and terrorism have killed the
concept of a borderless Europe, where
you could travel from Spain in the south
to Finland in the north without ever having
to show your passport.
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Attendees at the 29th annual Bridal Spectacular at Firley YMCA take a break between visiting some of the 80 vendors at the event Sunday.
Brides:
Continued from p. 1
away. Isle of Capri Casino in Boonville, for
instance, was giving away a bachelorette
party.
“I’ve got everything here you need to plan
your entire wedding,” said Vicki Arcobasso,
the event organizer. The vendors, she said,
came from a 90-100 mile radius around Jefferson City.
Standoff:
Continued from p. 1
Nevada to increase local control
over federal land. Critics of the
push for more local control have
said the federal government
should administer the public
lands for the widest possible
uses, including environmental
and recreation.
In an interview with The
Associated Press at the wildlife
refuge Sunday, Ryan Bundy,
Ammon Bundy’s brother, said
the protesters’ ultimate goal is
to turn the land over to local
authorities so people can use it
free of federal oversight.
They want to “restore the
rights to people so they can
use the land and resources” for
ranching, logging, mining and
recreation.
Ryan Bundy says the federal
Autumn Wood of Eldon stopped by Lutz’s
Famous BBQ to sample some of the barbecued beef and homemade chips. She came
to help her mom find a dress for Wood’s June
25 wedding. She was also looking for seat
covers for the event.
“It’s really neat,” she said of the bridal
event. “It’s huge.”
Amber Sturtz of Linn and her family and
friends who attended with her stopped by
the Fish Eye Views booth to pose for silly
photos. She was still early in the planning
government has been “tromping
on people’s rights and privileges
and properties and livelihoods.”
“I understand the land needs
to be used wisely, but that’s what
we as stewards need to do. A
rancher is going to take care of
his own ranch,” Ryan Bundy said.
On Sunday, supplies were
seen being delivered to the refuge area, which is remote even
by rural Oregon standards.
Dwight Hammond has said
he and his son plan to peacefully report to prison Monday as
ordered by the judge.
Harney County Sheriff Dave
Ward said the group of armed
protesters came to town under
false pretenses.
“These men came to Harney
County claiming to be part of
militia groups supporting local
ranchers, when in reality these
men had alternative motives
to attempt to over throw the
process for her Oct. 22 wedding, and she was
specifically looking for bridesmaid dresses
and a photographer.
One thing was for sure: She wants hamburgers served at her wedding.
She was still learning the wedding terminology.
“I love the rip-off dresses,” she said before
quickly being corrected by Mandi Steinlage,
one of several people with her at the event.
“They’re called detachable trains,” Steinlage
said with a laugh.
county and federal government
in hopes to spark a movement
across the United States,” Ward
said in a statement on Sunday
afternoon.
The sheriff says he is working
with local and federal authorities
to keep the citizens in his county
safe and to resolve the situation
as quickly and peacefully as possible.
He is asking people to stay
away from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for their own
safety. He said he does not think
any other parts of the county are
in immediate danger.
Beth Anne Steele, an FBI
spokeswoman in Portland,
said Saturday that the agency
was aware of the situation at
the national wildlife refuge. She
made no further comment.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, who
had been briefed by the FBI
agent in charge in Portland, Ore-
gon, said most local residents do
not support the protesters.
“The overwhelming majority
of people there very much want
to get on with their lives without
this disruption and are not in
sympathy with a bunch of outsiders,” Wyden told AP.
Local
residents
have
expressed fear of potential of
violence. A peaceful rally Saturday in support of the Hammonds featured speeches, flags
and marching.
As marchers reached the
courthouse, they tossed hundreds of pennies at the locked
door. Their message: Civilians
were buying back their government. After the march passed,
two girls swooped in to scavenge
the pennies.
A few blocks away, Hammond and his wife, Susan, greeted marchers, who planted flower
bouquets in the snow.
Key things to know about the standoff
HOW DID THIS SITUATION BEGIN?
Tension has been building for weeks in the Burns, Oregon, area over
the case of Dwight and Steven Hammond. Dwight Hammond, 73, and
Steven Hammond, 46, said they lit fires on federal land in 2001 and 2006
to reduce the growth of invasive plants and protect their property from
wildfires. The two were convicted three years ago and served time — the
father three months, the son one year. But in October, a federal judge in
Oregon ruled their terms were too short under U.S. law and ordered them
back to prison for about four years each.
AP
WHO IS LEADING THE PROTESTERS?
The Hammonds have received support from local residents, but the Ryan Bundy talks on the phone at the Malheur National
most vocal groups are from outside the area. Ammon Bundy, the son of Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon. Bundy is one of the
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was involved in a standoff with the protesters occupying the refuge to object to a prison sengovernment over grazing rights, is among those organizing the opposi- tence for local ranchers for burning federal land.
tion at the wildlife refuge. Ammon Bundy and militiamen from other states
arrived last month in Burns, some 60 miles from the Hammond ranch.
Ammon Bundy has criticized the U.S. government for what he called a anyone within his group/organization speak for the Hammond Family,”
the Hammonds’ lawyer W. Alan Schroeder wrote to Sheriff David Ward.
failed legal process.
Dwight Hammond has said he and his son plan to peacefully report to
WHERE IS THE WILDLIFE REFUGE?
prison Monday as ordered by the judge. “We gave our word that’s what
The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is about 30 miles south of we would do, and we intend to act on it,” he told The Associated Press
Burns in in the high desert of eastern Oregon. The area is very remote, last week.
about 280 miles southeast of Portland.
WHAT ARE AUTHORITIES DOING?
Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward has told people to stay away from
OUTSIDERS NOT WELCOMED BY SOME IN OREGON
Many locals have told the outside groups to stay away, concerned the area as authorities work to defuse the situation. Beth Anne Steele,
their presence could lead to violence. The Hammonds, as well, have an FBI spokeswoman in Portland, told AP the agency was aware of the
rebuffed the Bundy’s support for their cause. “Neither Ammon Bundy nor situation at the national wildlife refuge but made no further comment.
Continued from p. 1
resigned on the last day of session after admitting to the texts.
Months later Democratic Sen. Paul LeVota, of Independence, left office after one
intern claimed LeVota sexually harassed her, which spurred
another to come forward with
similar allegations. LeVota
denied the claims.
Richardson, of Poplar Bluff,
named changing the culture
in the Capitol as a top priority when he succeeded Diehl.
A recent rule change means all
House members and staff for the
first time are required to take
sexual harassment training every
year.
But Richardson and others
have repeatedly said more needs
to be done to repair the damaged
perception of the Legislature. He
said he plans to refer every ethics
bill to a committee for review at
his first opportunity Thursday.
“What we have seen is a need
to improve the overall environment and climate in Jeffverson
City,” Richardson said. “We’re
going to be willing to tackle
anything that we think could
improve that environment and
create the kind of Legislature
that the public expects and they
should be entitled to.”
election year.
The debate about what
Obama may do on gun violence
already has spilled over into the
presidential campaign.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has called for more
aggressive executive actions on
guns, and rival Bernie Sanders
said he would support Obama’s
expected move.
The Vermont senator told
ABC’s “This Week” that he
believes “there is a wide consensus” that “we should expand
and strengthen the instant background check.” He added: “I
think that’s what the president is
trying to do and I think that will
be the right thing to do.”
Republican candidates largely oppose efforts to expand
background checks or take other
steps that curb access to guns.
“This president wants to act
as if he is a king, as if he is
a dictator,” unable to persuade
Congress and forcing an “illegal
executive action” on the country, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told “Fox News Sunday.”
Former Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush, also on Fox, said Obama’s
“first impulse is always to take
rights away from law-abiding citizens, and it’s wrong.”
In the radio address, Obama
said tens of thousands of people have died from gun violence
since background check legislation stalled three years ago.
“Each time, we’re told that
commonsense reforms like
background checks might not
have stopped the last massacre,
or the one before that, so we
shouldn’t do anything,” Obama
said. “We know that we can’t
stop every act of violence. But
what if we tried to stop even
one?”
Federally licensed gun sellers
are required by law to seek criminal background checks before
completing a sale. But gun control advocacy groups say some
of the people who sell firearms
at gun shows are not federally
licensed, increasing the chance
of sales to customers prohibited
by law from purchasing guns.
Workers return to site
of California massacre
BURNS, Ore. (AP) — Armed protesters are occupying a building at
a national wildlife refuge in Oregon and asking militia members around
the country to join them. The protesters went to Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge on Saturday following a peaceful rally in support of two Oregon
ranchers facing additional prison time for arson.
Ethics:
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Hawaiian vacation over, President Barack Obama says he is
energized for his final year in
office and ready to tackle unfinished business, turning immediate attention to the issue of gun
violence.
Obama scheduled a meeting Monday with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to discuss
a three-month review of what
steps he could take to help
reduce gun violence. The president is expected to use executive
action to strengthen background
checks required for gun purchases.
Republicans strongly oppose
any moves Obama may make,
and legal fights seem likely
over what critics would view
as infringing on their Second
Amendment rights. But Obama
is committed to an aggressive
agenda in 2016 even as public
attention shifts to the presidential election.
Obama spent much of his
winter vacation out of the public eye, playing golf with friends
and dining out with his family.
He returned to the White House
about noon Sunday.
“I am fired up for the year that
stretches out before us. That’s
because of what we’ve accomplished together over the past
seven,” Obama said his weekly
radio and Internet address.
While in Hawaii, he also
worked on his final State of the
Union address, scheduled for
Jan. 12. The prime-time speech
will give the president another chance to try to reassure the
public about his national security stewardship after the attacks
in Paris and San Bernardino,
California.
Congressional Republicans
have outlined a competing agenda for January, saying they will
spend the first days of 2016 taking another crack at eliminating keys parts of the president’s
health insurance law and ending federal funding for Planned
Parenthood. The legislation is
unlikely to become law, but it is
popular with the GOP base in an
Powerball jackpot expected to grow
to $400 million Wednesday
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) —
The next Powerball winner will
have a chance to claim one of
the game’s 10 biggest prizes this
week when the jackpot grows to
roughly $400 million.
Lottery officials say no one
claimed Saturday’s $334 million
prize, although someone from
Pennsylvania won $2 million
and three players from California, Connecticut and South
Carolina won $1 million in the
game.
When the jackpot reaches
$400 million, it might exceed the
size of the sixth-largest prize in
Powerball history. That was a
$399.4 million prize won in 2013
by someone from South Carolina.
The odds of winning the
Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2
million.
The next drawing will be held
Wednesday.
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.
(AP) — In the offices of the
Inland Regional Center, Christmas did not come.
Tinsel still festoons cubicles.
A small tree with presents sits
undisturbed. A sign-up sheet to
bring in food remains empty of
names.
The staff was still gearing up
for the holidays on Dec. 2, the
day 14 people were massacred
on the center’s gleaming campus.
Few of its 600 employees
have gone to the office since,
other than a brief visit to gather
personal belongings a week after
the terror attack.
On Monday, they return.
While many have continued
to work, visiting the homes of
autistic children and mentally disabled adults, they haven’t been together in the place
where everything froze once law
enforcement officers whisked
them away.
Amid the investigation and
cleanup, the campus has been
locked behind a chain link fence
wrapped in green mesh. Within
that perimeter, in one corner, is
a second fence.
It seals the conference center that San Bernardino County’s
health department was renting
for a holiday luncheon when
the two attackers began their
assault. A county restaurant
inspector targeting his co-workers was joined by his wife in
killing 14 and injuring dozens.
The conference building will
not reopen Monday, and it’s not
clear when it might.
For now, the act of reuniting elsewhere on campus will be
a huge step forward for Inland
Regional Center staff. They miss
the friendly faces, the hallway
chit chat. They yearn to renew a
sense of stability at an institution
unmoored by violence.
“That’s what I’m hearing from
them: ‘We want to be together
again. We want to be back at
work,’” said Lavinia Johnson, the
center’s executive director.
Sitting for an interview in a
tidy courtyard shaded by two
of the center’s large, red stone
buildings, Johnson and associate executive director Kevin
Urtz reflected on the reopening. Johnson apologized for tree
debris that has collected in the
absence of caretakers. Several
Japanese maples still clung to
the last of their red leaves.
The plan for Monday morning is, after a welcome and some
food in the lounges, to do what
social workers and counselors
do best — sit and talk.
“Just be together again,”
Johnson said, “share where
they’re at.”
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Weekly Stock Winners and Losers
15 BEST LARGE-CAP STOCKS
FRIDAY
CLOSE
$CHG
1WK
%CHG
1WK
%CHG
1MO
%RTN
1YR
SEP
47.70
3.27
7.4
18.4
-17.5
Liberty Global A
LBTYA
42.36
2.62
6.6
0.7
-15.5
Liberty Global C
LBTYK
40.77
2.45
6.4
0.7
-14.7
Tesla Motors Inc
TSLA
240.01
9.44
4.1
3.1
7.1
Towers Watson & Co
TW
128.46
4.47
3.6
-2.9
21.6
Willis Group Hld
WSH
48.57
1.65
3.5
6.8
10.8
Signet Jewelers
SIG
123.69
4.05
3.4
-3.3
-6.7
Buckeye Part
BPL
65.96
2.07
3.2
3.8
-12.4
Williams Cos
WMB
25.70
0.79
3.2
-22.7
-40.8
Ferrari NV
RACE
48.00
1.25
2.7
2.0
0.0
Energy Transfer Eqty
ETE
13.74
0.31
2.3
-18.5
-50.4
Amazon.com Inc
AMZN
675.89
13.10
2.0
1.4
122.1
IHS Inc
IHS
118.43
2.06
1.8
-1.5
3.3
Equinix Inc
EQIX
302.40
5.21
1.8
2.4
39.5
Sealed Air
SEE
44.60
0.79
1.8
-1.2
5.9
COMPANY
TICKER
Spectra Energy Ptrs
A wedding without debt
MarketPulse
HOUSING WEALTH
Even as the pace of growth in U.S.
home prices eased in 2015, the
value of the nation’s housing stock
edged closer to levels last seen
during the peak of the housing
bubble a decade ago. The value of
all U.S. homes grew 4.1 percent to
roughly $28.5 trillion, according to
a new report from real estate data
tracker Zillow. The nation’s housing
stock has recovered about $5.3
trillion in value since December
2011, the bottom of the housing
collapse. It needs to gain another
$782 billion to reach the peak
value of $29.2 trillion in October
2006, the firm said.
Total value of U. S. homes
30 trillion
28.5
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28
Valeant Pharma
VRX
101.65
-12.46
-10.9
8.5
-28.5
Marathon Oil
MRO
12.59
-1.34
-9.6
-23.9
-54.0
Mosaic Co
MOS
27.59
-2.16
-7.3
-11.1
-36.2
Kinder Morgan Inc
KMI
14.92
-1.16
-7.2
-22.5
-61.2
CF Industries
CF
40.81
-2.44
-5.6
-11.0
-22.6
Barrick Gold
ABX
7.38
-0.44
-5.6
-2.5
-30.8
Potash Corp
POT
17.12
-1.00
-5.5
-10.8
-47.0
Anadarko Petrol
APC
48.58
-2.64
-5.2
-16.4
-40.8
Sprint Corp
S
3.62
-0.19
-5.0
2.5
0.0
Goldcorp Inc
GG
11.56
-0.60
-4.9
-4.2
-35.6
%RTN
1YR
26
24
22
20
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Source: Zillow
hours on one day of your life.
Dear Dave,
How do you have a wedding Or, you can find one that’s much
cheaper — even something
without debt?
that’s been worn one time — for
Lynn
a couple hundred dollars. Think
Dear Lynn,
Wow, where do I start on this that’s tacky? Well, let me tell you
what’s even more tacky
one? I guess the best
and dumb — going
way is to tell the truth.
DAVE SAYS
$15,000 to $20,000 in
Honey, that question
debt for one day!
kind of makes you
To have a wedding
sound like a little prinwithout debt you have
cess.
to be creative and
How do you have
think within your buda wedding without
get. That means growdebt? It’s really simple.
ing up and not throwYou have a wedding
ing a temper tantrum
with the money you
just because you can’t
have. There’s nothhave every little thing
ing wrong with small,
Dave Ramsey
you want. Most peoinexpensive weddings.
ple don’t have lavish,
And once you accept
expensive weddings,
that and start thinking about things from a mature, and guess what? Years down the
adult point of view, you’ll start road they’re still married, madly
realizing you can scrimp and in love and laughing and hugsave and have a really nice, small ging when they remember the
best day of their lives.
wedding.
Please, don’t turn what’s supLots of people have beautiful, memorable ceremonies and posed to be a happy occasion
even small receptions for less into a financial mess that will
than $1,000. Sure, you can run take years to clean up!
Dear Dave,
out, go into debt and wear an
My husband works for a
$8,000 wedding dress for a few
large company and receives
restricted stock bonuses of
approximately $5,000 each
year. We’re not sure exactly
how long they’re restricted,
and we both wonder if we’re
allowed to sell these options?
Patty
Dear Patty,
You said your husband works
for a large company, so my guess
is they do this as an employee
retention move. That’s why they
restrict the stock. They’re trying
to get people to stay with the
company, and you’ll only be able
to sell them after they are no longer restricted.
Usually, these kinds of things
have a one- or two-year restriction. I doubt they’d put a fiveyear hold on it, but check with
the company to find out the specifics. They can tell him when
the stock is free to be sold.
If it were me, I wouldn’t hold
on to too much of it. I don’t
own single stocks. They have too
much risk for my taste.
Keep a little bit, if you want,
but don’t put all or even most of
your financial eggs into that one
basket!
15 BEST MID-CAP STOCKS
FRIDAY
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$CHG
1WK
%CHG
1WK
%CHG
1MO
WTW
22.80
4.80
26.7
-10.8
-9.1
TGI
39.75
5.35
15.6
2.0
-40.5
-51.3
COMPANY
TICKER
Weight Watchers
Triumph Group
Rice Energy Inc
RICE
10.90
1.04
10.5
-10.4
Pharmerica Corp
PMC
35.00
2.70
8.4
6.1
66.8
Globant SA
GLOB
37.51
2.80
8.1
7.0
150.3
0.0
CSRA Inc
CSRA
30.00
2.08
7.4
2.0
Atlassian Corp plc
TEAM
30.08
1.87
6.6
8.3
0.0
Exelixis Inc
EXEL
5.64
0.35
6.6
5.2
318.5
Neurocrine Biosci
NBIX
56.57
3.32
6.2
11.0
153.9
Omnicell Inc
OMCL
31.08
1.78
6.1
3.5
-5.5
Lumentum Hldgs
LITE
22.02
1.24
6.0
11.2
0.0
MPLX LP
MPLX
39.33
2.22
6.0
20.5
-44.9
Sthwstn Energy
SWN
-76.9
Crown Media Holdings
CRWN
Rovi Corp
ROVI
7.11
0.40
6.0
-13.2
5.61
0.28
5.3
-1.9
57.6
16.66
0.80
5.0
50.0
-26.1
-73.5
10 WORST MID-CAP STOCKS
SOFTWARE M&A PICKUP?
Companies have been increasingly
investing in cloudcomputing,
cybersecurity and massive data
collection and analysis and shifting
away from traditional networking,
data storage and database
projects. That’s likely to accelerate
in 2016, according to a research
note published this week by FBR &
Co. analyst Daniel Ives. He
anticipates that companies with
strong offerings in cloud, security
and “big data” analytics will be
well-positioned to take advantage
of the market’s growth. The trend
should also make consolidation in
the software industry a fertile
growth area in 2016 as some of the
next-generation software companies become attractive acquisition
targets for bigger, traditional tech
companies.
SunEdison Inc
SUNE
5.09
-0.83
-14.0
35.0
NovoCure Ltd
NVCR
22.36
-3.57
-13.8
-6.9
0.0
AP
Stratasys Ltd
SSYS
23.48
-3.31
-12.4
-6.5
-70.6
Seadrill Ltd
SDRL
3.39
-0.44
-11.5
-42.0
-71.7
Freeport McMoRan
FCX
6.77
-0.80
-10.6
-11.8
-68.9
Carrizo Oil & Gas
CRZO
29.58
-3.27
-10.0
-19.0
-31.0
Copa Holdings
CPA
48.26
-5.18
-9.7
-8.8
-49.9
Navient Corp
NAVI
11.45
-1.16
-9.2
-2.5
-45.6
Meat labels are seen at a grocery store in Washington. It’s now harder to find out where
your meat was born, raised and slaughtered. After more than a decade of wrangling,
Congress repealed a meat labeling law last month that required retailers to include
the animals country of origin on packages of pork and beef. It’s a major victory for the
meat industry, which has fought the law in Congress and the courts since the early
2000s.
PRA Group Inc
PRAA
34.69
-3.50
-9.2
-11.3
-38.5
Laredo Petroleum
LPI
7.99
-0.80
-9.1
-22.2
-25.3
$CHG
1WK
%CHG
1WK
%CHG
1MO
%RTN
1YR
US repeals meat labeling law
after trade rulings against it
15 BEST SMALL-CAP STOCKS
COMPANY
TICKER
FRIDAY
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Resource America
REXI
6.13
1.52
33.0
9.9
-29.3
Actinium Pharma
ATNM
3.23
0.60
22.8
57.6
-46.0
Forsight Energy LP
FELP
3.53
0.63
21.7
-3.0
-75.1
Neovasc Inc
NVCN
4.50
0.80
21.6
7.9
-35.4
-56.2
Energy Fuels Inc
UUUU
2.95
0.51
20.9
41.8
Kura Oncology Inc
KURA
8.40
1.44
20.7
5.3
0.0
Delek Logisitcs
DKL
35.69
6.02
20.3
-4.3
-4.4
Agile Therapeutics
AGRX
9.76
1.62
19.9
8.2
49.0
Atlantic Power Corp
AT
1.97
0.31
18.7
-0.5
-32.5
Civista Bancshares
CIVB
12.83
1.90
17.4
18.6
17.9
Auris Medical Hldg
EARS
4.89
0.72
17.3
37.7
20.6
Hoegh LNG Ptrs LP
HMLP
18.62
2.72
17.1
25.4
-4.5
Vuzix Corp
VUZI
7.59
1.09
16.8
19.7
93.4
Danaos Corp
DAC
5.99
0.82
15.9
4.1
2.4
Stratus Properties
STRS
20.41
2.78
15.8
26.8
43.5
LATE PAYMENTS
Borrowers are increasingly failing to
make timely payments on their
mortgage, auto and credit card
debt. An index that measures credit
defaults across all types of
consumer credit increased slightly
in November for the second month
in a row, according to S&P Dow
Jones Indices and Experian. That’s
not yet long enough to establish a
new trend, notes David Blitzer,
managing director and chairman of
S&P Dow Jones Indices’ Index
Committee. Even so, Blitzer notes
that consumers’ financial condition
bears watching going forward.
10 WORST SMALL-CAP STOCKS
Chimerix Inc
CMRX
8.95
-26.62
-74.8
-75.0
-78.0
Natural Hlth Trends
NHTC
33.53
-12.36
-26.9
-25.3
228.2
Breitburn Energy
BBEP
0.67
-0.17
-20.6
-46.8
-81.3
Peabody Energy Corp
BTU
7.68
-1.96
-20.3
-28.6
-93.0
Empire Resorts
NYNY
18.00
-4.20
-18.9
-8.9
-54.4
Westport Innovations
WPRT
2.01
-0.46
-18.6
-8.6
-42.8
Patriot National Inc
PN
6.71
-1.48
-18.1
-51.6
0.0
Tronox Ltd
TROX
3.91
-0.86
-18.0
-35.4
-78.2
Flamel Technologies
FLML
12.21
-2.64
-17.8
-16.5
-17.5
CIFC Corp
CIFC
5.58
-1.20
-17.7
-17.6
-19.9
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and total shares outstanding. Ranges are $100 million to $1 billion (small); $1 billion to
$8 billion (mid); greater than $8 billion (large).
AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s now harder to find
out where your beef or pork was born, raised and
slaughtered.
After more than a decade of wrangling, Congress repealed a labeling law last month that
required retailers to include the animal’s country
of origin on packages of red meat. It’s a major
victory for the meat industry, which had fought
the law in Congress and the courts since the early
2000s.
Lawmakers said they had no choice but to get
rid of the labels after the World Trade Organization repeatedly ruled against them. The WTO
recently authorized Canada and Mexico, which
had challenged the law, to begin more than $1
billion in economic retaliation against the United
States.
“U.S. exporters can now breathe a sigh of relief,”
said Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. The longtime opponent of the
labels helped add the repeal to a massive year-end
spending bill. After the law was passed, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the government
immediately would stop requiring the labels.
Consumer groups say the repeal is a disappointment just as consumers are asking for more
information on their food packages. Advocates say
the labels help people make more informed buying decisions and encourage purchases of American meat.
Before repeal, the labels told shoppers that a
particular cut of meat was “born in Canada, raised
and slaughtered in the United States” or “born,
raised and slaughtered in the United States.” Congress first required the labels in 2002 amid fears of
mad cow disease from imported cattle. The labels
weren’t on most packages until 2009, though, due
to delays pushed by the meat industry.
Repeal became inevitable once the United
States lost all its WTO appeals and the retaliation became a possibility. But the consumer
groups criticized Congress for repealing the law for
ground meat and pork in addition to the fresh cuts
of meat that were the subject of WTO concerns.
The bill was “a holiday gift to the meatpacking
industry from Congress,” complained the advocacy group Food and Water Watch. Meatpackers who
buy Mexican cattle were some of the law’s most
aggressive opponents.
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The repeal also was a big defeat for lawmakers
from northern border states where U.S. ranchers
directly compete with Canadian ranchers. Those
lawmakers insisted on including the labeling in
the 2002 and 2008 farm bills and this year fought to
replace it with a voluntary program once the WTO
rulings came down. But after years of success, this
time they were not able to find enough support.
Roger Johnson of the National Farmers Union,
which has heavy membership in those states, said
the group was “furious” about the repeal.
“Packers will be able to once again deliberately
deceive consumers,” Johnson said.
Still, there was some good news for food labeling advocates in the spending bill. Despite an
aggressive push by the food industry, lawmakers
decided not to add language that would have
blocked mandatory labeling of genetically modified ingredients. Also, a provision by Sen. Lisa
Murkowski, R-Alaska, would require labeling of
genetically modified salmon recently approved by
the Food and Drug Administration.
The issue is expected to come up again in 2016,
with Vermont set to require labeling on genetically
modified food this summer.
Health insurer apologizes for
early morning robocalls
QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts health
insurer is apologizing after sending automated
phone calls to as many as 10,000 senior citizens in
the wee hours of the morning.
Tufts Health Plan accidentally sent the robocall between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. Tuesday to remind
patients to get their flu shots.
A spokeswoman for the insurer said the call
was supposed to go out between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.
and attributed the mistake to “human error.”
She says the calls went out to people over 65
enrolled in the Tufts Medicare Preferred HMO
option.
Several clients called the health care provider
to ask about the early call.
One man said he was having coffee at 4:45
a.m. when the phone rang and thought it was an
emergency.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2016
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Year of political pregame gives way to a sprint into Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It’s been a year of town
halls and weekend forums and lunchtime meet-andgreets for those who would be president, with nights
spent sparring in televised debates and endless days
fundraising to pay for TV ads, direct-mail fliers and
organizers to get out the vote.
All of it is aimed at people like Jocelyn Beyer, a
Republican from the small town of Sully in rural central
Iowa, who says despite the many months of political
clamor, she’s only just now starting to think about her
vote for the White House.
“I can’t say I’ve paid much attention,” Beyer said.
“The moral issues are what I focus on. If I had to vote
today, I’d vote for Ted Cruz.”
While that’s not a solid “yes” for the Texas senator,
at least he’s doing better with Beyer than he is with
Brian Metcalf, a Republican from nearby Pella. Metcalf
is thinking about Cruz, but also former Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
That is, when he’s spending any time thinking
about the race.
“Until now, it’s just been noise,” he said. “But I’d like
to see someone with a Reagan-esque approach.”
For all the attention showered on early state voters
in the past year by candidates, their unpaid volunteers
and high-dollar admakers — and, yes, journalists, too
— the truth is that what happened in 2015 was only the
pregame show.
The race for the White House starts in earnest this
week as voters such as Beyer and Metcalf begin to tune
in and the candidates try to win them over during a
four-week sprint to the leadoff Iowa caucuses on Feb.
1. It’s then that voters have their first say and push pundits, predictions and polls aside.
“The race is still fluid,” said Beth Myers, who managed 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign and
supports Bush in 2016. “There’s still a twist or two in
this primary story that we don’t know yet.”
Where to begin?
It’s easier to start with the Democrats.
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont hopes
an upset in Iowa and a victory in the New Hampshire
primary a week later will dent the apparent inevitability of front-runner Hillary Clinton. Wins in the first two
states for the former first lady, New York senator and
secretary of state would all but cement her place atop
her party’s ticket.
There is no such clarity in the Republican race.
Despite shedding five candidates before New Year’s
Day, the GOP contest is an unpredictable mix of a
dozen hopefuls with vastly different visions for the
party and the country.
Ahead now in Iowa is Cruz, who spent 2015 quietly building a traditional campaign organization and
will kick off his month with a bus tour — six days, 28
cities — covering the state’s most fertile ground for
Republicans.
Candidates often try to recruit a political leader to
stand for them in each of Iowa’s 99 counties. Cruz has
also sought a pastor in each to do the same, hoping to
corner the market on the evangelical voters who make
up a significant part of the GOP caucuses.
“For Cruz, it’s about the complete consolidation of
the evangelical wing to snuff the life from the others,”
said Phil Musser, a Republican consultant who is not
affiliated with a campaign.
While Cruz has edged ahead in preference polls
of Iowa voters in recent weeks, nationally, he still
trails the unquestioned political star of 2015: Donald
Trump.
The billionaire real-estate mogul has so far forgone
the grind-it-out approach in favor of free media exposure and a few rallies a week in front of largely adoring
crowds. “He says what everybody’s thinking, and he’s
not afraid to say it,” said Trump supporter Bill Kullander of Des Moines.
The unknown for Trump: Are Kullander and the
thousands of others who pack the bleachers at Trump’s
rallies and tell pollsters he’s their top choice for the
GOP nomination likely voters? Or are they merely fans
entertained by his show?
“If I do have a frustration, it’s that we’re being led
by the nose, and the news media is led by the nose,
to think that somehow Trump is going to win this
because of these polls,” Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul,
whose numbers in preference polls hardly register by
comparison, said Sunday in an interview with NBC.
“The polls don’t, I believe, capture who’s going to
actually vote.”
Voters are not likely to find Trump dropping in at
one of Iowa’s many Pizza Ranch restaurants to ask
for their support, as Cruz will do on his bus tour. But
Trump’s top adviser in Iowa is a veteran organizer
who ran former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s
winning 2012 caucus campaign.
Also, it’s notable that after almost no paid advertising in 2015, Trump said last week he plans to start
spending at least $2 million a week on TV ads in Iowa,
New Hampshire and South Carolina, which holds the
South’s first primary on Feb. 20.
“Honestly, I don’t want to take any chances,” Trump
said last week.
Neither Cruz nor Trump will win the nomination
with a victory in Iowa, but caucus-goers probably will
deliver a verdict on whether several GOP candidates
continue on to New Hampshire. Count Santorum and
former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the
caucuses in 2008, in that group, and maybe retired
neurosurgeon Ben Carson, too.
Carson was an early favorite in Iowa among evangelical and tea party conservatives, but he enters January without several members of his senior staff. They
quit last week and questioned his readiness for the
White House on their way out.
Candidates with more traditional political experience will spend the month trying to bridge the gap
between the anger and frustration that’s powered
Trump’s rise and the Republican establishment, which
desperately wants to win after eight years out of the
White House.
For Rubio and Bush, as well as New Jersey Gov.
Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, that likely
means lighting the match with a strong finish in Iowa,
then igniting their bid with a win in New Hampshire.
Improved economy creates
prison staffing crisis in Kansas
AP
the damaged stern of the sunken freighter El Faro is seen on the sea floor,
15,000-feet deep near the Bahamas.
NTSB photos show
El Faro in final place
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Federal accident investigators are considering
launching another search of the wreckage
of a freighter that sank in October in an
attempt to locate the ship’s “black box.”
Tom Roth-Roffy, the lead investigator
for National Transportation Safety Board,
told The Associated Press that a weekslong search found one of the El Faro’s
missing decks, but not the mast where the
ship’s voyage data recorder was attached.
The agency on Sunday released the first
images of the ship in its final resting place.
“There were no human remains found
whatsoever, and no personal effects whatsoever,” Roth-Roffy said. “I think we found
one boot.”
The El Faro sank Oct. 1 after losing
engine power and getting caught in a Category 4 hurricane while sailing from Jacksonville to San Juan, Puerto Rico. There
were 33 mariners aboard and no survivors.
Roth-Roffy said the NTSB would need
to launch a second search of the wreckage
15,000 feet below the sea if it wants to
find the data recorder, which would have
recorded the captain’s final transmissions.
They are still determining if and when
such a search would occur.
The images of the sunken ship show a
breach in the El Faro’s hull and its main
navigation tower missing.
Roth-Roffy says crews did locate one of
the missing decks about a half-mile away
from the main ship. Images show it resting
on the seafloor, its windows broken out.
The ship’s stern, or rear end, was buried more deeply than the bow, or front,
Roth-Roffy said.
Investigators are still piecing events
of the sinking together, but at this point
they’ve ruled out a major structure failure as a cause of the El Faro’s sinking,
Roth-Roffy said.
“The issue with the detachment of the
upper two decks, we’re looking at that
carefully,” he said.
Even without the data recorder, the
images taken by remote-controlled underwater vehicles are helping to shed some
light on the case.
Roth-Roffy says all of the ship’s cargo
containers except for four were gone. The
El Faro was carrying automobiles.
Determining what happened to the
ship will be more difficult without the data
recorder, but NTSB’s investigators have
said they are still confident they’ll be able
to find answers.
After suspending their search for the
data recorder in November, Roth-Roffy
says they may go back to search again. The
recorder was attached to the ship’s main
mast, a 35-foot tall structure that crews
haven’t yet located.
The data recorder charts the date,
time and speed of a marine vessel, and
also records conversations on the bridge
that could include key decision-making
between captain and crew.
QUICKNATION
Body apparently dragged 6 miles in hit-and-run
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police say a driver apparently
hit a pedestrian in the city’s French Quarter and dragged the body more
than 6 miles, crossing a Mississippi River bridge to the other side.
Police say a driver found the disfigured body about 3:30 a.m. Friday
in the road leading from the bridge.
A police Facebook posting says investigators believe the body is that
of an unidentified pedestrian hit in the French Quarter. It says witnesses
told investigators a black sedan with tinted windows struck the man and
drove off.
Officer Garry Flot, a police spokesman, said in an email Sunday that
police don’t have further leads to the car or driver.
2 of 3 killed at cemetery were married couple
ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) —
Unemployment is down and wages
are up in Kansas — except for corrections officers.
They are leaving state prisons in
droves because of low pay, creating
a public safety crisis that legislators
will have to deal with on top of plugging a budget hole.
Their starting pay is about 33
percent less than the state’s average
hourly wage of $20.20, and overall
wages are about a quarter lower than
the national average. The annual
turnover rate is up to nearly 30 percent. Things are so bad that the state
is hiring 18-year-olds to manage
hardened criminals, despite some
prison leaders’ misgivings.
“You don’t pay me enough to get
urine or feces thrown at me by an
inmate,” said Bruce Martin, who left
his job at the state’s oldest prison in
Lansing in September, even though
he was earning a relatively good-forKansas wage of about $18 an hour.
Kansas cut spending on prisons
and juvenile justice programs during
the Great Recession, and the current spending is still below the 2008
amount. The state also has struggled
to balance its budget since Republican Gov. Sam Brownback persuaded
the GOP-dominated Legislature into
enacting massive income tax cuts
in 2012 and 2013 as an economic
stimulus.
Brownback and fellow conservatives credit those cuts with boosting the state’s economy and helping
drop the unemployment rate to 4
percent in November, but government spending still will be pinched
by at least $160 million next fiscal
year.
Brownback said he favors higher
wages for corrections officers and he
sees “decent” support among legislators but added, “The key here will be
finding the resources to do it with.”
In Ellsworth, where the central
Kansas hills give way to the Great
Plains, local leaders wooed a prison three decades ago to anchor the
local economy.
The area’s average weekly wage
has grown nearly 23 percent in four
years, to $18.60 an hour, topping
what some sergeants in the prison
complex’s red-brick buildings earn
by $3.50 or more.
“It’s made our work pool that we
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Corrections officer Cynthia Miller handcuffs an inmate before he
is transported from a segregation unit at the Ellsworth Correctional Facility in Ellsworth, Kan. Low wages among Kansas corrections
officers are causing many to leave the field, leaving about 9 percent of the positions in the state’s prisons unfilled.
choose from smaller and we have to
draw from farther and farther away,”
said Warden Dan Schnurr, a 30-year
prison system veteran. Later, he
added: “You’ve got people coming
and going all the time.”
To make the pay competitive,
Kansas would need to spend at least
a few million dollars a year, and the
figure could be $20 million, according to state Sen. Laura Kelly, of Topeka, the ranking Democrat on the
Senate budget committee.
And Republican Rep. John Rubin,
of Shawnee, caused a stir this fall by
suggesting during a committee hearing that the necessary funds should
be diverted from public schools, saying he’s worried prison shifts are
short-staffed, or staffed with officers
working overtime or inexperienced
employees.
“I’m concerned that an incident
could occur in one of our correctional institutions,” Rubin said.
Uniformed officers statewide
received a raise in 2012, but the starting pay for a new officer is $13.61 an
hour, or $28,300 a year. But the state
Department of Labor reports that the
state’s average hourly wage rose also,
to its present $20.20 an hour, or more
than $42,000 a year.
And the average Kansas wage for
all corrections and officers and bailiffs in 2014 was $16.39 an hour, or 24
percent less than the national figure
of $21.59, according to federal data.
Several former officers at the
Lansing prison, which houses 2,400
inmates north of the Kansas City
area, said multiple factors, including
stress and short staffing, had them
finding a way out last year.
Kellon Carlyle, a former sergeant
who was earning $15.38 an hour
when he left in April, now hopes to
land a federal building security job
at more than $26 an hour.
“It’s not worth it,” he said of the
prison job, “my health has actually
improved.”
More than 180 officer positions
remain open at state prisons or juvenile centers, or about 9 percent of the
roughly 2,000 jobs.
In July, the state Department of
Corrections began allowing 18-yearolds to become officers — even
though professionals generally have
misgivings about their maturity and
judgment.
“They’ve got zero life skills, very
little street smarts,” Martin said.
Nestle was sued in October by environmental and public interest
had become estranged from the family and was distraught because Jan.
groups who allege the Swiss-based company is operating its Strawberry
3 is the 5-year anniversary of his late wife’s death.
Canyon facility on a permit that expired in 1988. The groups led by the
for Biological Diversity said the prolonged drought in California
Honda confirms Takata air bag killed young driver Center
combined with the water bottling operation is affecting wildlife.
DETROIT (AP) — Honda Motor Co. says a defective air bag made by
Takata Corp. was responsible for the death of a driver near Pittsburgh.
4 shot dead including man, wife
It’s the ninth death worldwide attributed to Takata air bags, which
can inflate with too much force and injure occupants with metal fragROWLAND HEIGHTS, Calif. (AP) — A man shot and killed his wife
ments.
and two others in his home on New Year’s Eve before his son wrestled
A 13-year-old boy was driving a relative’s 2001 Honda Accord Coupe the gun away and fatally shot him in a chain of events apparently set off
on July 22, 2015 when it crashed and the air bag inflated.
by a dispute over a washing machine, authorities said.
Michael John Morey, 54, shot and killed his bedridden wife, Betty
Jean
Morey; his son’s 48-year-old girlfriend, Linda Patricia Merrell, who
Virginia man dies after being hit by train
also lives at the house in Rowland Heights; and a 27-year-old house
HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man has died after being hit guest, Ernesto Calzadilla, Los Angeles County coroner and sheriff’s
by a Norfolk Southern train.
officials said.
Virginia State Police Sgt. Les Tyler told media outlets that 18-year-old
Jerrick Hammer of Elkton was struck while walking along the tracks on
US marshal in South Dakota kills SC suspect
Saturday. Hammer died at the scene.
The incident remains under investigation.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A U.S. Marshals Service deputy in
ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a man and a woman killed by
a former in-law in a murder-suicide at a Southern California cemetery
were a married couple from North Hollywood visiting a grave.
US Forest Service reviews Nestle operation
Police in Ontario say 60-year-old Misak Minasyan and 59-year-old
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has begun
Hripsime Minasyan were fatally shot by Karapet Kalajian Saturday at
an environmental review of Nestle Waters North America’s bottling
Bellevue Memorial Park.
City News Service reports the 71-year-old Kalajian had been married operations in Southern California’s San Bernardino National Forest,
to the murdered woman’s sister. Investigators said Sunday that Kalajian according to a newspaper report.
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South Dakota shot and killed a man who was wanted in a homicide
in South Carolina, authorities said.
Sioux Falls Police Officer Sam Clemens said authorities received
a tip that Lonnie Haskell Powers Jr., 37, of Summerville, South Carolina, was in Sioux Falls, and that he was armed. They tracked Powers
to a parking lot at Lewis Drug on Saturday afternoon.
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INTERNATIONAL
MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2016
Saudis cut ties to Iran after cleric execution
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Saudi Arabia
announced Sunday it was severing diplomatic relations with Shiite powerhouse
Iran amid escalating tensions over the
Sunni kingdom’s execution of a prominent
Shiite cleric.
The move came hours after protesters
stormed and set fire to the Saudi Embassy
in Tehran and followed harsh criticism by
Iran’s top leader of the Saudis’ execution of
Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir
said Iranian diplomatic personnel had 48
hours to leave his country and all Saudi
diplomatic personnel in Iran had been
called home.
The mass execution of al-Nimr and 46
others — the largest carried out by Saudi
Arabia in three and a half decades — laid
bare the sectarian divisions gripping the
region as demonstrators took to the streets
from Bahrain to Pakistan in protest.
It also illustrated the kingdom’s new
aggressiveness under King Salman. During
his reign, Saudi Arabia has led a coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen and
staunchly opposed regional Shiite power
Iran, even as Tehran struck a nuclear deal
with world powers.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, warned Saudi Arabia on Sunday of “divine revenge” over al-Nimr’s
death, while Riyadh accused Tehran of
supporting “terrorism” in a war of words
that threatened to escalate even as the U.S.
and the European Union sought to calm
the region.
Al-Jubeir told a news conference in
Riyadh that the Iranian regime has “a long
record of violations of foreign diplomatic
missions,” dating back to the occupation
of the U.S. Embassy in 1979, and such
incidents constitute “a flagrant violation of
all international agreements,” according to
the official Saudi Press Agency.
He said Iran’s “hostile policy” was
aimed “at destabilizing the region’s security,” accusing Tehran of smuggling weapons
and explosives and planting terrorist cells
in the kingdom and other countries in the
region. He vowed that Saudi Arabia will
not allow Iran “to undermine our security.”
“The history of Iran is full of negative
and hostile interference in Arab countries,
always accompanied with subversion,
demolition and killing of innocent souls,”
al-Jubeir said, just before announcing the
severing of diplomatic relations.
Al-Nimr was a central figure in Arab
Spring-inspired protests by Saudi Arabia’s
Shiite minority until his arrest in 2012. He
was convicted of terrorism charges but
denied advocating violence.
On Saturday, Saudi Arabia put al-Nimr
and three other Shiite dissidents to death,
along with a number of al-Qaida militants.
Al-Nimr’s execution drew protests from
Shiites around the world, who backed his
call for reform and wider political freedom
for their sect.
While the split between Sunnis and
Shiites dates back to the early days of Islam
and disagreements over the successor to
Prophet Muhammad, those divisions have
only grown as they intertwine with regional politics, with both Iran and Saudi Arabia
vying to be the Mideast’s top power.
Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of supporting
terrorism in part because it backs Syrian
rebel groups fighting to oust its embattled
ally, President Bashar Assad. Riyadh points
to Iran’s backing of the Lebanese Hezbollah and other Shiite militant groups in the
region as a sign of its support for terrorism.
Iran also has backed Shiite rebels in Yemen
known as Houthis.
Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader,
condemned al-Nimr’s execution, saying
Sunday the cleric “neither invited people
to take up arms nor hatched covert plots.
The only thing he did was public criticism.”
Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard
said Saudi Arabia’s “medieval act of savagery” would lead to the “downfall” of the
country’s monarchy.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry said
that by condemning the execution, Iran
had “revealed its true face represented in
support for terrorism.”
In Tehran, a protest outside the Saudi
Embassy early Sunday quickly grew violent
as protesters threw stones and gasoline
bombs at the embassy, setting part of the
building ablaze, according to Gen. Hossein
Sajedinia, the country’s top police official,
the Tasnim news agency reported.
AP
Smoke rises as Iranian protesters set fire to the Saudi embassy in Tehran on Sunday. Protesters upset
over the execution of a Shiite cleric in Saudi Arabia set fires to the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
Forty people were arrested and investigators were pursuing other suspects, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi
said, according to the semi-official ISNA
news agency.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
condemned Saudi Arabia’s execution
of al-Nimr, but also branded those who
attacked the Saudi Embassy as “extremists.”
“It is unjustifiable,” he said.
Hundreds of protesters later demonstrated in front of the embassy and in a
central Tehran square, where street signs
near the embassy were replaced with ones
bearing the slain sheikh’s name.
Western powers sought to calm the
tensions.
QUICKWORLD
6.7 quake hits India’s northeast
GAUHATI, India (AP) — A pre-dawn earthquake
Monday rocked India’s remote northeast region but
there was no immediate word on casualties.
India’s Meteorological Department said the
epicenter of the 6.7 magnitude earthquake was in
Tamenglong region of Manipur state. It said the
quake struck at a depth ofabout 10 miles in the
India-Myanmar border region. The U.S. Geological
Survey said the depth wasabout 34 miles.
People panicked and rushed out of their homes in
Gauhati, the capital of Assam state. The Press Trust
of India said there were no immediate reports of
casualties.
Other details were not immediately known.
Developer pledges to repair
Dubai tower in New Year’s fire
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The developer of a Dubai skyscraper that caught fire on New
Year’s Eve and burned through the city’s annual fireworks display says it will quickly repair the building.
Emaar Properties said Sunday that a team of consultants is already working to repair the damage to
the 63-story The Address Downtown tower. Officials
also said the building was not fitted with any fireworks for the New Year’s display when it caught fire
Thursday night.
200 rescued off Greece
so far in 2016
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard
says 217 migrants have been rescued by authorities
since the start of the new year in four separate incidents.
Migrants, the majority of them refugees from Syria’s civil war, keep trying to enter the European Union
despite the cold and rough seas.
A coast guard spokeswoman said conditions in
the eastern Aegean Sea were “very unfavorable” with
high winds prevailing.
2 climbers killed
in French Alps avalanche
PARIS (AP) — Two Lithuanian climbers have been
killed in an avalanche in the French Alps and an official is warning of continued risk in the coming hours.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said
in a statement that the two climbers were killed Sunday in the Argentiere sector of the Mont Blanc range,
near the skiing and climbing hub of Chamonix. The
exact details of the incident are unclear.
US seeks extradition of former
Honduran vice president
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’
government says it has received a request from the
Embassy official: US shuts down United States for the extradition of former vice president and businessman Jaime Rosenthal, who is
drone operation in Ethiopia
accused of money laundering.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The U.S. govForeign Minister Arturo Corrales says the request
ernment has shut down its drone operation base in should be sent to Honduras’ Supreme Court by
southern Ethiopia, an embassy official announced.
Tuesday.
A decision has been reached that the base in Arba
Addressing a news conference Saturday, Corrales
Minch, 280 miles south of Addis Ababa, is no longer called the U.S. extradition request for Rosenthal “bad
necessary, embassy spokesman David Kennedy told news for the country.”
The Associated Press by email.
Israel charges 2 Jewish extremists
in deadly arson
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday charged
two Jewish extremists in an arson attack that killed a
Palestinian toddler and his parents last July — culminating a drawn-out investigation into a case that has
helped fuel months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
The indictments came as Israel said it had broken up a ring of Jewish extremists wanted in a
series of attacks on Palestinian and Christian targets.
While Israel’s prime minister trumpeted the arrests
as a victory for law and order, the charges drew criticism from Palestinians, who said they were too little
and too late, and from the suspects’ relatives, who
claimed their loved ones had been tortured by Israeli
interrogators.
Video shows IS fighters
killing 5 ‘spies’ for Britain
BEIRUT (AP) — A video circulated online Sunday
purported to show the Islamic State group killing five
men accused of spying for Britain in Syria.
The high-quality footage bore the markings of
the IS media wing, and shows five men “confessing”
to filming and photographing sites in exchange for
money within Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State
group’s self-declared caliphate. It could not be independently verified.
The video then cuts to the men kneeling, lined up
in orange jumpsuits in the desert, where they are shot
in the head by masked men.
Gunmen raid building
in Mazar-i-Sharif
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunmen stormed a
building in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif Sunday evening,
prompting a shootout with security forces, an Afghan
official said.
Sher Jan Durani, spokesman for the provincial
police chief in Balkh province, confirmed that a
number of attackers had entered a building near the
Indian consulate and begun firing on security forces.
He said the gunmen carried RPGs and light weapons,
and that security forces had surrounded the area.
There were no immediate reports of casualties, he
said.
Hong Kong unsettled by case
of 5 missing booksellers
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers said Sunday that they will press the
government for answers after a fifth employee of a
publishing company specializing in books critical of
mainland China’s leadership went missing.
Lawmaker Albert Ho said the city was “shocked
and appalled” by the disappearance of Lee Bo. Like
the four others who have disappeared in recent
months, Lee is associated with publisher Mighty
Current.
While there’s been no official word on what happened to the five missing people, Ho told reporters
that it appears their disappearances are linked to the
publishing company’s books.
In Washington, State Department
spokesman John Kirby said the Obama
administration was aware of the Saudis’
severing of ties with Tehran. “We believe
that diplomatic engagement and direct
conversations remain essential in working
through differences and we will continue
to urge leaders across the region to take
affirmative steps to calm tensions,” Kirby
said.
Earlier, EU foreign policy chief Federica
Mogherini spoke to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif by phone and
urged Tehran to “defuse the tensions and
protect the Saudi diplomats,” according to
a statement.
The disruption in relations between
Saudi Arabia and Iran may have implica-
tions for peace efforts in Syria. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and others spent
significant time trying to bring the countries to the negotiating table and they both
sat together at talks aimed at finding a
diplomatic solution to the civil war. Last
month, Saudi Arabia convened a meeting of Syrian opposition figures that was
designed to create a delegation to attend
peace talks with the Syrian government
that are supposed to begin in mid-January.
Across the region, demonstrators took
to the streets Sunday in protest over the
execution of al-Nimr.
In Bahrain, police fired tear gas and
birdshot at demonstrators on Sitra Island,
south of the capital, Manama, wounding
some.
After 1 million migrants,
Europe’s borders are back
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Since
it opened in 2000, the Oresund
bridge between Sweden and Denmark has been a towering symbol
of European integration and hassle-free travel across borders that
people didn’t even notice were
there.
On Monday new travel restrictions imposed by Sweden to stem
a record flow of migrants are transforming the bridge into a striking
example of how national boundaries are re-emerging. A year of
clampdowns on migration and
terrorism has all but killed the
idea of a borderless Europe where
you could drive or train-hop from
Spain in the south to Norway in the
north without ever having to show
your passport.
“We’re turning back the clock,”
said Andreas Onnerfors, who lives
in Lund, on the Swedish side of
the bridge. An associate professor
in intellectual history, he said he’s
benefited from the free flow of people and ideas across the bridge
— he’s studied on both sides and
taught students from both Sweden
and Denmark.
“We’re going back to a time
when the bridge didn’t exist,” he
said, referring to the ID checkpoints being set up Monday on the
Danish side for train passengers
wishing to cross over to Sweden.
The move is meant to stop
undocumented migrants from
reaching Sweden, which abruptly
reversed its open-door policy after
receiving more than 160,000 asylum-seekers last year, mainly from
Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
It follows the reintroduction
of border checks in Germany,
Austria, France, Belgium and other
countries in what’s supposed to be
a passport-free travel zone spanning 26 nations.
The moves are supposedly temporary, but are likely to be extended if Europe’s migrant crisis continues in 2016.
“It’s basically every country for
itself now,” said Mark Rhinard, an
expert on the European Union at
the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
Citing exceptional national
circumstances related to security,
terrorism and public order, several
European countries have suspended EU rules that required them to
keep their borders open to each
other.
It’s a significant development
that strikes at the very heart of the
EU project — the free movement of
goods and people across borders.
The Bruegel think tank in Brussels says that in 2014 there were
almost 1.7 million cross-border
commuters in the passport-free
zone known as the Schengen Area,
after the Luxembourg town where
it was created in 1985. Abolishing it would affect their daily lives,
but the consequences for Europe
would go deeper, given the “visible
and powerful symbol of European integration that Schengen represents,” Bruegel researchers Nuria
Boot and Guntram Wolff wrote in
December.
Whether the temporary reintroduction of borders also means
rebuilding mental boundaries
between EU citizens remains to
be seen. But the migrant crisis is
becoming an even bigger challenge to European unity than the
cracks emerging in recent years
over the bloc’s common currency,
the euro.
EU nations demonstrated
starkly different views on how to
deal with the 1 million migrants
that crossed the Mediterranean in
2015. Germany and Sweden, until
recently, said refugees were welcome, while Hungary built a fence
to keep them out. The Danish government took a series of measures
to discourage migrants from going
there, including a proposal to seize
their jewelry to cover their expenses in Denmark.
Common rules requiring refugees to seek shelter in the first
EU country they enter collapsed,
as Greece and Italy were overwhelmed by sea arrivals and countries further north just waved the
migrants through to their intended
destination, often Germany or the
Scandinavian countries.
Meanwhile the EU’s efforts to
spread refugees more evenly across
the bloc met stiff resistance from
member states. By November only
about 150 of 160,000 refugees had
been relocated from Greece and
Italy under an EU plan.
The crisis underlines structural
flaws in the EU, showing how it has
implemented common rules that
it just can’t enforce once the external pressures become too great,
said Karl Lallerstedt, co-founder
of Black Market Watch, a Switzerland-based non-profit group focusing on cross-border smuggling.
“It’s not a strong federal state
that can overrule its members,” he
said. “At the same time individual
states have obligations to the EU.
So you’re in this sort of half-way
house.”
Any hope of a quick return to a
borderless Europe was crushed by
the deadly Paris attacks in November, after which France declared a
state of emergency and beefed up
border controls with neighboring
countries.
However, if bottlenecks build
up at the borders, EU citizens and
companies moving goods in trucks
will eventually get fed up.
Mexico mayor slain day after taking office
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three people, including
a minor, were being held Sunday in the slaying
of a newly inaugurated mayor in a gang-troubled
central Mexican city.
Morelos Gov. Graco Ramirez ordered flags on
state buildings flown at half-mast and called for
three days of mourning following the murder of
Temixco Mayor Gisela Mota.
He blamed organized crime for killing the
33-year-old Mota, a former federal congresswoman who had been sworn in as mayor less than a
day before she was gunned down in her home
Saturday morning.
Ramirez ordered security measures for all of
the state’s mayors, though he gave no details on
what that involved.
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Ramon Castro Castro, Roman Catholic bishop
of Cuernavaca, celebrated Mass at Mota’s home
Sunday and later spoke critically of a state where
some areas are in control of organized crime.
“One theory could be that it was a warning
to the other mayors,” Castro said to reporters. “If
you don’t cooperate with organized crime, look at
what will happen to you. It’s to scare them.”
Following Mota’s killing, two suspects were
killed in a clash with police and three others
arrested.
Officials said they include a 32-year-old
woman, an 18-year-old man and the minor. They
gave few other details, though state Attorney General Javier Perez Duron said they had been tied to
other crimes.
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INSIDE
SECTION
B2 Faces
B3 Opinion
Prayer
breakfast
Thursday
MIDMISSOURI
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a background check. For more information,
contact executive director James Kellerman
or executive assistant Tricia Kellerman at
690-9171.
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Football Hall of
Famer turned pastor
is featured speaker
By Bob Watson
[email protected]
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COMINGEVENTS
TODAY
• Jefferson City Council, 6 p.m.
• Taos Board, 6:30 p.m.
• Block Party, 6:30 p.m., Missouri River
Regional Library.
• Pizza and Pages, 7 p.m., Missouri
River Regional Library.
TUESDAY
• Free Community Meal, 5-6 p.m.,
Holts Summit Civic Building.
• Knitting, 6 p.m., Missouri River
Regional Library.
• Unwind, Design, De-stress, 7 p.m.,
Missouri River Regional Library.
WEDNESDAY
• Jefferson City Writers’ Group, noon,
Missouri River Regional Library.
• Yoga, 5:30 p.m., Missouri River Regional Library, free.
• Village of Wardsville, 6:30 p.m.
• The Life and Shoes of Charlston:
Museum after Hours, 7 p.m., Missouri
State Museum.
• Ask the Writing Guru, 7 p.m., Missouri River Regional Library, free.
THURSDAY
• Yoga, 9 a.m., Missouri River Regional
Library, free.
• Free Community Meal, 5-6 p.m.,
Holts Summit Civic Building.
• Teens: Live Action Club, 6 p.m., Missouri River Regional Library, free.
FRIDAY
• Chamber Membership Coffee, 7:308:30 a.m., 213 Adams St., 690-2720.
SATURDAY
• Lego Car Build, 2 p.m., Capital Mall,
free.
JAN. 11
• Millennial Mondays: Pop Culture
Book Group, 6:30 p.m., Missouri River
Regional Library, free.
• Current State of Policing, 7 p.m.,
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1021
Northeast Drive, with Doug Shoemaker,
JCPD.
JAN. 12
• Free Community Meal, 5-6 p.m.,
Holts Summit Civic Building.
• Novel Ideas, 7 p.m., Missouri River
Regional Library, free.
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Halie Dampf is the first to serve as president of the new Student Leadership Team, which replaced
the former student council, at Russellville High School. She is headed to the University of Missouri
School of Journalism after graduation.
Example for the future
Halie Dampf leads
growth in leadership at
Russellville High
By Michelle Brooks
[email protected]
RUSSELLVILLE — With a little
encouragement and a cheerful personality, a shy freshman from High
Point bloomed into the student body
president at Russellville High School.
“I’ve always liked to help people,”
Halie Dampf said.
Serving in this capacity gives her
purpose, she said.
“Halie is a very fun, outgoing person to be around,” Student Leadership
Team member Natalie Benne. “She
knows when to have fun and when to
be serious.”
Even when she had her wisdom
teeth pulled and sat the bench for a
few volleyball games, Dampf cheered
on everyone, Benne recalled.
“She was a trooper,” Benne said. “It
just goes to show how dedicated she
was to the sport and our team.”
Former English teachers Kate Lootens and Christina Hess have had a
strong influence on Dampf, she said.
“(Lootens) taught you to really
open your mind to things you haven’t
thought about before,” she said. “I
And rather than five students from
think that really changed me.”
Now, she doesn’t know a stranger each class elected by popular vote on
the first day of school, members of the
and will talk to anyone, she said.
“I want to make people feel wel- team must apply and interview for the
position.
come,” Dampf said,
“It’s nice to work
especially the new
with mature stufreshmen. “Some
dents who want to
kids may have a bad
be there,” Dampf
day, if you say ‘hi’
Halie Dampf
said
it might make them
Occupation: senior at RussellOne of the new
feel better.”
ville High School, waitress at the
projects the team
It was Hess who
Jefferson City Country Club
implemented was
noticed her leaderPositions: President of Student
Leadership Team, president of FFA
the Teacher of the
ship potential and
Chapter, fundraising chairman of
Month. Selected
suggested she interNational Honor Society, volleyball
teachers are recogview for the presiteam co-captain
nized with a photo
dent position.
Community: Trinity Lutheran
plaque in the main
“It had not
Church
hall.
crossed my mind
The
Student
until she said something,” Dampf said. “I’m very glad she Leadership Team also has developed
theme nights for each home basketdid.”
This is the first year for the Student ball game.
And Principal Chris Mitchell
Leadership Team to be fully implemented, following the ideals of the asked the team to develop attendance
Professional Learning Communities incentives. What they came up with
adopted several years ago by faculty allows drivers with perfect attendance
to leave campus early on Fridays.
and administration in the district.
As team president, she speaks at
The team functions in the same
assemblies and reads the morning
way as student council.
“It’s been more of a challenge, with announcements. She also spoke at
freshmen orientation and as Mitchell
new things to do,” Dampf said.
Instead of occasional or as-need- has requested, like at the Veterans Day
ed meetings of the council, the team
Please see Dampf, p. 4
meets every two weeks.
PORTRAIT
A few spots remain for
Thursday’s Governor’s Prayer
Breakfast, where the Rev. Aeneas Williams will be the featured
speaker.
Beginning in 1991, when he
was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals, Williams had a 14-year,
Hall of Fame pro football career,
including playing in a Super
Bowl and eight Pro Bowls.
He was selected “All-Pro”
four times.
He joined the St. Louis Rams
in 2001.
Williams was inducted into
the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 2, 2014.
But off the field, he has
devoted his life to sharing the
wisdom and understanding of
the Word of God, after making
his personal commitment to
be a Christian while a junior at
Southern University.
In 2007, Williams and his
wife, Tracy Williams, founded
The Spirit Church in St. Louis,
and he serves as its senior pastor.
The governor’s news release
announcing Williams as the
Prayer Breakfast speaker said
he has “a love for people and a
passion for helping each of us
fulfill our full potential. … He is
a beloved St. Louis community
leader and role model whose
tireless service, outreach and
personal counsel have changed
lives.”
While still playing football,
Williams “had chances to help
some of his teammates through
some of life’s rougher patches,”
the news release reported, and
“these opportunities led him to
the realization that unhappiness
doesn’t come from the things in
our lives, rather it comes from
things missing from our lives.
Before entering the ministry, he wrote “It Takes Respect,”
an inspirational insight into his
passions, faith and leadership
principles.
The Prayer Breakfast, at 7:30
a.m. Thursday at the Capitol
Plaza Hotel, is an annual interPlease see Williams, p. 4
Lessons never lost
Local family shares
mother’s legacy of service
with WAVES in WWII
By Jeremy P. Ämick
[email protected]
Lying in her bed while in hospice care, Ruby
“Ruth” Stephenson’s body may have become weakened by illness, but one can easily discern the
bound in vigor that occurs when she describes the
14 months she served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II — a brief moment of her past that not only
allowed her to serve her country, but introduced
her to a fellow sailor with whom she would share
most of her life.
Surrounded by her three children, Stephenson
shared stories of the journey that led her to uniformed service, memories that were supplemented
by recollections of her family.
“Mom had a brother that died in infancy and
she was raised as an only child,” said Elaine Cook,
Stephenson’s daughter. “She was raised in Fayette
and graduated from high school there.”
For two years, Stephenson attended school at
Central Methodist University until deciding it was
time to “strike it on her own,” the veteran softly
whispered.
“The first time she applied (for the Navy), she
was told that her eyesight was too poor,” said Romie
Stephenson, the youngest of her two sons. “But they
later relaxed the standards and she was able to join
in 1943.”
With a grin, Romie added, “She decided on the
Navy because she thought they had the best-looking uniform.”
The young recruit was soon on her way to
become a member of the Women Accepted for
Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) — an orga-
nization established on July 30, 1942, to help fill
positions left vacant stateside because of the scores
of men deploying overseas to fight in World War II.
Her first stop was at the Bronx campus of Hunter
College in New York, the location that became the
training base for all WAVES by 1943, and where
she remained for the next several weeks to finish
her boot camp and undergo medical training that
would qualify her as a “Pharmacist’s Mate.”
As Stephenson recalled, her first (and only) duty
assignment was at a small medical facility at Camp
Elliott in San Diego, California — a former Marine
Corps and naval site where the first Navajo Code
Talkers were trained. (A portion of the site is now
situated on the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.)
“She spent about a month working on one of the
wards,” said Fred Stephenson, the oldest of her two
sons. “Then,” he added, “she spent the rest of her
time in the admissions and discharge office.”
While at Camp Elliott, her family shared, the
young WAVES member met Frederick Stephenson
Sr. — the man with whom she would fall in love and
marry on April 21, 1944.
“Dad had been in the Navy since the late
1930s and was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese
attacked,” said his daughter, Elaine. “After he and
mother were married, she became pregnant and
had to leave the Navy because at that time women
couldn’t be in the service and pregnant.”
Receiving her discharge in October 1944, Stephenson returned to Mid-Missouri, giving birth to
her first child, Elaine. A few months later she moved
back to California to wait for her husband to finish
out his enlistment.
“In California, mom lived in an apartment
across the hall from Phyllis Diller — this was back
before she became a famous comedian,” said her
son, Fred. “They became good friends, and Phyllis
would babysit Elaine when mom had to go run
errands and mom would watch Phyllis’s brood
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Courtesy of Elaine Cook
Ruth Stephenson enlisted in the Women
Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service
(WAVES) in 1943. She would meet her
husband, Fred, while the two were serving
at Camp Elliott, Calif., during World War II.
whenever she needed to go do something.”
When Stephenson’s husband was discharged
from the Navy on Feb. 10, 1947, the family returned
to Fayette, where their second child, Fred Jr., was
born months later.
“Dad worked for a while at a grocery store
in Fayette but wanted to become a professional
Please see Stephenson, p. 4
POLICE
REPORTS
MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2016
NEWS TRIBUNE
B2
Saturday calls for service
Thefts were reported in
the 3500 block of Missouri Boulevard, and two in
the 700 block of East High
Street,
Domestic violence was
reported in the 2300 block
of West Main Street.
FACES
Kile Brewer/News Tribune
A little Runge music
LEFT: Madison Berendzen dances along
to the music of River Ridge String Band
Wednesday with her grandmother Mary
Ann Burns and sister Riley Berendzen,
at Runge Nature Center. ABOVE: John
Cunning tunes his banjo between sets.
BELOW: Harper Hentges, 4, looks to
Cunning for guidance while performing a
guest shaker part.
SHERIFF
REPORTS
Saturday calls for service
Thefts were reported in
the 3900 block of Dewberry
Drive and 3500 block of Missouri Boulevard.
Domestic violence was
reported in the 5100 block
of West Business 50.
Assaults were reported in
the 2100 block of Osage Second Street and 5100 block of
West Business 50.
An accident with property damage was reported
at the intersection of North
Missouri 179 and Rt. N and
South Missouri 179 and
West Edgewood Drive.
An animal bite was
reported in the 7600 block
of Wheat Lane.
Events:
Continued from p. 1
JAN. 13
Kile Brewer/News Tribune
• Taste of Jefferson City,
4:30-6:30 p.m., Capitol Plaza
Hotel, 638-3590.
• Yoga, 5:30 p.m., Missouri
River
Regional
Library.
Making his point
Fulton-based professional storyteller Larry
Brown tells a tale of a coyote who wanted
to learn the song of a dove Tuesday afternoon at Runge Nature Center during Runge’s Holiday Happenings event series.
JAN. 14
Kile Brewer/News Tribune
Activities
during
holiday
break
Participants in Cole
County 4-H’s Clover
Kids Camp build birdhouses with the help of
4-H volunteers Tuesday
morning at the Cole
County Extension Center. The annual camp,
which is in its sixth
year, gives kids something to do over Christmas break in the time
between Christmas and
New Years.
• Yoga, 9 a.m., Missouri
River Regional Library, free.
• Free Community Meal,
5-6 p.m., Holts Summit Civic
Building.
• Teen Table Top Gaming Club, 5:30 p.m., Missouri River Regional Library.
• “My Way: Sinatra’s
Life and Music” dinner
theater, Capital City Players, 6:30 p.m., Shikles Auditorium, 681-9012.
• Become a Goodreads
Power User, 7 p.m., Missouri
River
Regional
Library, free.
• “Wonder of the
World,” 7:30 p.m., Scene
One Theatre, 121 E. High
St., 635-6713.
JAN. 15
• Alzheimer’s lunch/
dinner, Eagles Club; lunch
11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; dinner,
4:30-7 p.m. deliveries of five
or more at 636-2440.
• “My Way: Sinatra’s
Life and Music” dinner
theater, Capital City Players, 6:30 p.m., Shikles Auditorium, 681-9012.
• Ask the Writing Guru,
7 p.m., Missouri River
Regional Library,.
• “Wonder of the
World,” 7:30 p.m., Scene
One Theatre, 121 E. High
St., 635-6713.
JAN. 16
• Cole Relay for Life
Bowling, 1 p.m., Westgate
Lanes, sign up at lanes.
• “My Way: Sinatra’s
Life and Music” dinner
theater, Capital City Players, 6:30 p.m., Shikles Auditorium, 681-9012.
• “Wonder of the
World,” 7:30 p.m., Scene
One Theatre, 121 E. High
St., 635-6713.
JAN. 17
• “My Way: Sinatra’s Life
and Music” dinner theater,
Capital City Players, 12:30
p.m., Shikles Auditorium,
681-9012.
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New year, new baby
Obstetrics Nurse Crystal Schollmeyer swaddles the newborn Carsen
Kelly during a New Year’s Day shift at Capital Region Medical Center.
Just checking
Officer Shawn Dumsday of the Jefferson City Police Department talks
with a driver after pulling them over along U.S. 50 Thursday night. Dumsday, who has lost close friends in his life to drunk driving accidents, had
a personal goal for the evening of getting the last DUI arrest of 2015
and the first of 2016.
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JAN. 19
• JC Council, 6 p.m., City
Hall.
• Centertown Board,
6:30 p.m.
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Terri Leifeste, President and General Manager
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Hear the word of the Lord ye
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MISSOURIVIEW
Time to pass
Marketplace
Fairness Act
VIEWPOINT
Muzzling the
watchdogs
St. Joseph News-Press
Boosters of our local communities
must be starting to wonder. How difficult will their funding problems become
before Congress offers help in the form
of tax fairness?
Nationally, analysts report sales at
physical stores were down just shy of 6
percent in the month and half ending
Dec. 15, and traffic in stores was down
about 8 percent compared to a year ago.
While the trends might be better in
our region, this is a continuation of a
shift in consumer behavior.
It is no surprise to anyone who has
found that, as the years march on, they
increasingly are inclined to supplement
their preparations for the holiday by
shopping online.
Rather than try to turn back that
clock, smart local retailers are adjusting
by enhancing the services they offer,
ensuring their stores are inviting to
shoppers and matching online values.
But in doing all this, they daily must
confront a fundamental unfairness.
Online sales are not taxed consistently. In too many instances, it falls to
the individual consumer rather than the
retailer to report the tax obligation and
submit the appropriate tax payment.
When was the last time someone in
your household paid the required “use
tax” for online purchases?
This lack of a level playing field for
local retailers also is having an enormous, and growing, negative impact on
states that do not efficiently collect sales
taxes on online purchases. And, in turn,
it harms local communities that rely on
gradual increases in sales tax funding
to provide needed services, including
streets, schools and public safety.
Consumers who do pay sales tax are
treated unfairly in this system, as are
retailers, local governments and — ultimately — each of us and our families.
This trend will cause local tax revenues
to stagnate; fewer local jobs will be created or supported by retail businesses;
and pressure will increase for new tax
hikes on local residents to make up the
shortfall due to lost tax collections.
This doesn’t have to end this way,
but avoiding this fate requires help.
Congress has a fix called the Marketplace Fairness Act. This proposal, which
cleared the U.S. Senate in 2013, would
enable all states and local governments
to collect sales taxes from big online
retailers in exchange for steps to simplify tax laws nationwide.
Past leaders in the U.S. House have
pledged to pass and forward this bill
to the president’s desk, but we’re still
waiting and the problem is only growing
worse.
__________
This lack of a level playing
field for local retailers also
is having an enormous,
and growing, negative
impact on states that do
not efficiently collect sales
taxes on online purchases.
And, in turn, it harms local
communities that rely on
gradual increases in sales
tax funding to provide
needed services, including
streets, schools and public
safety.
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The Los Angeles Times
COMMENTARY
Before government
became reviled
WASHINGTON — Soon, voters will have the opportu- those eligible in New Jersey voted. No one will ever call
nity and impertinence to insert themselves into the 2016 2016 part of an Era of Good Feelings. If, however, Donald
presidential conversation that thus far has been the pre- Trump’s vitriol pumps up the number of voters, this will at
occupation of journalists and other abnormal people. The least lay to rest the canard that high voter turnout is a sign
voting will begin in Iowa, thanks to Marie Jahn.
of social health.
When, after 38 years as recorder for Plymouth
Given the pandemic distaste for today’s polCounty in northwest Iowa, Jahn decided to retire
itics, it is consoling to remember that things
in February 1975, local Democrats decided to
change. In the late 19th century, Robert Ingerthrow her a party. When it came to attracting a
soll, aka “The Great Agnostic,” was the nation’s
speaker, the best they could entice from their
most outspoken atheist and a leading Republiparty’s national ranks was a former one-term
can, a combination unlikely today. In the third
governor of Georgia. According to Steven Haydecade of the 20th century, even a politician with
ward in “The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old
national aspirations could be proudly parochial:
Liberal Order”:
The Democrats’ 1928 presidential nominee, New
“Carter’s obscurity was confirmed when
York Gov. Al Smith, reportedly said he would
he appeared on the syndicated TV game show
rather be a lamppost on Park Row than the govGeorge Will
‘What’s My Line?’ He stumped the panel, which
ernor of California, and when asked his thoughts
not only didn’t recognize him, but failed to guess
about the problems of states west of the Mishe was a state governor. When pollster George Gallup drew sissippi, he supposedly replied, “What are the states west
up a list of 38 potential Democratic presidential candidates of the Mississippi?” In 1952, the Democratic presidential
in 1975, Carter’s name was not on the list.”
nominee, Adlai Stevenson, dismayed by the mainstream
Eleven months after the fete for Jahn, Jimmy Carter media’s conservatism, fretted about “a one-party press in a
finished second in the hitherto obscure Iowa caucus- two-party country.”
es, behind “undecided.” This semi-triumph became his
Today, there is a sense in which there are few two-party
springboard to Olympus. The caucuses would never again states. In the presidential election 40 years ago, Carter
be obscure. The moral of this cautionary tale is that voters against President Gerald Ford, 20 states were won by five
can be startlingly disruptive.
points or less, including the six most populous states: CaliPerhaps they are somewhat less likely to be so today. fornia, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois, Ohio. (Note
Surprises might be more difficult to spring now that there is the absence of Florida, now the third-most populous state.)
saturation journalism about
In 2012, just four states were
presidential campaigns that
decided by five points or
are in high gear a year before Given the pandemic distaste for today’s less (North Carolina, Florithe first votes are cast.
politics, it is consoling to remember da, Ohio, Virginia). Today,
But American politics
J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik
that things change. In the late 19th Larry
often has had quirky aspects,
and Geoffrey Skelley of the
century, Robert Ingersoll, aka “The University of Virginia’s Cenas historian Morton Keller
demonstrates in his “Amer- Great Agnostic,” was the nation’s most ter for Politics identify just
ica’s Three Regimes: A New
seven states they consider
Political History” (2007). outspoken atheist and a leading Repub- “super-swingy”: Colorado,
The Republican Party, Keller
lican, a combination unlikely today. Florida, Nevada, Ohio and
says, became known as
Virginia, all of which voted
the Grand Old Party in the
for George W. Bush and
1880s, when it was about 25 years young. In 1840, when Barack Obama twice, and Iowa and New Hampshire, which
William Henry Harrison, scion of wealthy Virginia planters, have voted Democratic in three of the last four elections.
ran for president as the hardscrabble “log cabin and hard
But, again, things change. “One session of the Concider candidate,” the resulting paraphernalia included necticut Legislature in the 1790s,” Keller writes, “devoted
glass log cabins containing whiskey from Pittsburgh’s E.C. itself primarily to imposing a tax on dogs. The next session
Booz distillery, which enriched American slang. The Era was given over to discussing whether or not to remove that
of Good Feelings, the decade after 1815, was, Keller says, levy.” This was, of course, long ago, before government
more an Era of No Feelings: In the 1820 presidential elec- became ambitious, caring and reviled.
tion, Richmond’s 12,000 residents produced 17 votes. Only Email:
568 of Baltimore’s 63,000 residents voted. Nine percent of [email protected]
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Since Congress created the
first inspectors general for federal
agencies in 1978, these in-house
watchdogs have proved their worth
again and again. Inspectors general have investigated the CIA’s inhumane “enhanced interrogation
methods,” revealed abuses in the
FBI’s acquisition of telephone and
other records, and documented
the selective enforcement by the
Internal Revenue Service of regulations governing political spending
by tax-exempt groups.
Given the nature of their mission, it is not terribly surprising to
learn from inspectors general for
several federal agencies that their
work is being hampered by the
unwillingness of the officials they
monitor to provide some necessary
information — despite the fact that
the Inspector General Act requires
that inspectors general have access
to “all records, reports, audits,
reviews, documents, papers, recommendations or other material”
necessary to do their job.
The Justice Department has
come under particular — and
deserved — criticism for stymieing
the work of its inspector general. Beginning in 2010, FBI lawyers
argued that some records couldn’t
be shared because of protections
in federal law. In July, the department’s Office of Legal Counsel
concluded that the inspector general could be denied access to
some information in three categories: the contents of wiretaps,
grand jury proceedings and credit
information.
The author of that opinion,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Karl R. Thompson, concluded
that the Inspector General Act’s
requirement that inspectors general have access to “all records”
must be qualified in light of the
provisions of the federal Wiretap
Act, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Section 626 of
the Fair Credit Reporting Act. His
opinion said that the department
could provide the inspector general with information protected by
these laws for “many, but not all” of
its investigations.
That isn’t good enough for
Michael E. Horowitz, the department’s inspector general, who said
that without greater access “our
office’s ability to conduct its work
will be significantly impaired.” But
the problem isn’t confined to the
Justice Department.
In a letter to congressional
leaders, the council representing
inspectors general from throughout the government warned that
the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion “represents a potentially serious challenge to the authority of
every inspector general and our
collective ability to conduct our
work thoroughly, independently
and in a timely manner.”
In fairness to the Justice Department, laws must be read in conjunction with others. And, legal
interpretation aside, it’s important
to protect the privacy of personal information, including financial records and the products of
electronic surveillance, which can
capture private conversations of
innocent people.
But in such sensitive situations,
information can be provided to
inspectors general with the understanding that it will be redacted in
any public report.
A Justice Department spokeswoman said that the department
would support legislation to clarify
Congress’ intent.
Fortunately, there is a bipartisan effort in Congress to make
it clear that, irrespective of other
laws, inspectors general are entitled to “all records” necessary for
them to perform their vital function. Enacting such a law must be
a priority when Congress returns
to work.
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Illinois, Missouri assess damage, cleanup
KINCAID, Ill. (AP) — The Mississippi
River and many of its tributaries continued their retreat Sunday from historic and
deadly winter flooding, leaving amid the
silt a massive cleanup and recovery effort
likely to take weeks if not months.
The flood, fueled by more than 10
inches of rain over a three-day period
that began Christmas Day, is blamed for
25 deaths in Illinois and Missouri, reflecting Sunday’s discovery of the body of a
second teenager who drowned in central
Illinois’ Christian County.
The Mississippi River was receding
except in the far southern tip of both
states. The Meramec River, the St. Louis-area tributary of the Mississippi that
caused so much damage last week,
already was below flood stage in the hardhit Missouri towns of Pacific and Eureka
and dropping elsewhere.
But worries surfaced anew Sunday along the still-rising Illinois River
north of St. Louis, where crests near the
west-central Illinois towns of Valley City,
Meredosia, Beardstown and Havana were
to approach records before receding in
coming days.
In Kincaid, a 1,400-resident central
Illinois town near the Sangamon River’s
south fork, Gov. Bruce Rauner toured
flood-damaged homes Sunday as Sharon
Stivers and other residents piled ruined
furniture, appliances and clothes along
the street for disposal crews to pick up.
Mike Crews, Christian County’s emergency manager, said the worst of the inundation appeared to be past, “until the new
weather comes,” citing the prospect of
potentially heavy rain later in the week.
Stivers shares a home with her
Dampf:
Continued from p. 1
Assembly.
The greatest change this year
may be with Homecoming. In
the past, the student council
would be involved with a few
things.
Now, the team will be in
charge of everything, Dampf
said.
They’ll organize the Homecoming Olympics games and
materials, select the daily dressup themes, and construct the
royalty stage backdrop.
“It takes more planning than
it looks like,” Dampf said.
So far, the Student Leadership Team has proven more
organized than student councils
of the past, Benne said.
Williams:
Continued from p. 1
faith event for all leaders and
citizens of Missouri.
Its purpose is to seek God’s
guidance for the state’s governmental leaders at the beginning
of the legislative session, and —
in addition to Williams’ remarks
— it will feature prayers and
scripture readings.
This year’s special music will
be provided by Jefferson City
High School’s Chorale.
Although hosted by the governor, the annual Prayer Breakfast is administered by a not-forprofit organization and is not an
official government function.
Its proceeds support the
Governor’s Student Leadership
Stephenson:
Continued from p. 1
photographer,” said Elaine. “We
moved to Houston (Texas) in
early 1949 so that he could enroll
in the University of Houston’s
photography program.”
The couple and their growing
family spent the next few years
living in housing in Memorial
Park dedicated to WWII veterans
attending college. While there,
the couple welcomed their third
and final child, Romie, in 1953.
“Our dad graduated with his
photography degree and worked
a few years for Susan’s of Hollywood (in Texas),” said Fred.
“He then worked for Southwest
Industrial Electronics and stayed
with them until his retirement in
the early 1970s, after he became
partially disabled from a stroke.”
Fred added, “Mother was a
homemaker for several years
and later worked for Sears. She
retired from there in 1984.”
After the passing of their
father in 2001, Stephenson relocated to Moberly, where she has
resided until her recent transfer to the hospice care unit at
a local hospital. Reflecting on
45-year-old daughter battling breast cancer, along with a granddaughter and four
dogs. Floodwaters got 4 feet into their
home, located in an area where flood
insurance wasn’t available.
“Am I mad?” she asked. “I lost my
home. My daughter has cancer and lost
her home. Am I mad? When I’m not crying I am.”
Across the street, Theresa Gibson was
getting help from relatives and friends
clearing out what they could salvage
after the flood reached 18 inches into her
home, buckling newly finished oak floors
and saturating walls.
“This is just horrible,” Gibson, 50,
lamented, noting how the fast-rising
waters had allowed her only enough time
to fill a couple of suitcases. “We’ve had
floods before, but nothing like this.”
In Illinois’ Morgan County, home to
the 1,000-resident village of Meredosia,
locals were keeping wary eyes on levies
fortified with 50,000 sandbags. As of midday Sunday at Meredosia, the Illinois was
more than 10 feet above flood stage and
pressing toward an expected crest Tuesday roughly a half-foot short of the record
set in July.
While optimistic those levies would
hold, Jacksonville-Morgan County Emergency Management Director Phil McCarty said the prospect of flooding during
the chill of winter carried dangerous
health risks, including hypothermia.
President Barack Obama signed a federal emergency declaration Saturday for
Missouri, allowing federal aid to be used
to help state and local response efforts. It
also allows the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster
“One of the things I love
about Halie is that she has
always made it a point to hear
everyone’s opinion before a
group decision is made,” Benne
said.
Dampf said her leadership style is more of a laidback
approach, letting other people
take the lead in various aspects
of a project.
“It’s cool to help other leaders
grow,” she said. “I know my limits; if I can’t handle something,
I will ask someone else to be in
charge.”
As the last half of her senior
year closed, Dampf said she realized she would not be around in
the next school year.
“But, we’re part of something
that’s really going to work,” she
said. “We’ve tried to set a precedent for future years.”
Forum on Faith and Values,
which brings together select
Missouri college students from
public and private universities
for a three-day study of faith and
leadership.
Participants explore the role
that faith has played in the lives
of business executives, sports
figures and government officials.
Missouri’s Governor’s Prayer
Breakfast was established in
the 1950s as an extension of the
National Prayer Breakfast, which
was first held in 1953.
Tickets are $35 per seat, and
may be purchased online at
www.missourigpb.com.
The event also has a Facebook page.
Seating begins at 7:10 a.m.
The event is expected to be
finished about 9 a.m.
the stories they have heard their
mother share throughout the
years, the veteran’s children are
proud of their mother’s service
and continue to find pleasure
in helping to share her experiences.
“I personally feel that they
aren’t accurately teaching the
history of World War II any
more,” said Romie, “and people need to understand the
sacrifices that others — such as
my mother and father — have
endured for them.”
His older brother, Fred,
added, “And it’s not just about
those who fought in the war, but
they should also learn about how
the entire country was united
and everyone on the home front
gave something, too … through
sacrifices such as rationing.”
Pausing, he concluded,
“These are stories that need to
be preserved and shared so that
these lessons are never lost.”
Ruth Stephenson passed
away on Dec. 22, 2015, and was
laid to rest with her husband
in the Houston (Texas) National
Cemetery.
Jeremy P. Ämick writes on
behalf of the Silver Star Families
of America.
Residents
pile ruined
furniture,
appliances
and clothes
along the
street for
disposal
crews to
pick up
after last
week’s
flooding
from the
south fork
of the
Sangamon
River in
Kincaid, Ill.
AP
relief efforts. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon had
asked for the help.
In Illinois’ St. Clair County just east of
St. Louis, emergency management director Herb Simmons said damage assessment began Sunday after the Mississippi started to fall. Though water reached
higher than 1993, this flood wasn’t as bad,
Simmons said.
“In ‘93 that water came up and stayed
on the levees for several months,” Simmons said. “This flood came up quick and
went down quick.”
St. Louis-area cleanup largely was
focused around the Meramec. Two waste-
water treatment plants were so damaged by the floodwaters that raw sewage
spewed into the river. Hundreds of people
were evacuated in the Missouri communities of Pacific, Eureka, Valley Park and
Arnold, where many homes took in water.
In southeast Missouri, up to 30 homes
and several businesses were damaged in
Cape Girardeau, a community of nearly
40,000 residents that is mostly protected
by a flood wall. The Mississippi peaked
at 48.9 feet Friday night, four-tenths of
a foot above the 1993 record, but short
of the 50-foot mark projected. Nearby
levee breaks in other places kept the crest
down.
Amtrak service between St. Louis
and Kansas City was back in business
on Sunday, four days after high water
that reached the tracks at some locations
forced the passenger service to be halted.
Moderate Mississippi River flooding
was expected in Memphis, Tennessee.
The National Weather Service issued a
flood advisory for the Cumberland River
at Dover, Tennessee, through Monday
evening. Minor flooding along the Ohio
River was affecting the Kentucky cities of
Owensboro and Paducah, and the crest
wasn’t expected until Thursday.
Rescued dog becomes rescuer
for veteran with PTSD
SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) — For
Justin Six, the nightmares started
after Kosovo.
“We were doing a maneuver and I was about to shoot an
8-year-old. That and working the
mine fields,” said Six, a soldier living in Springdale, Arkansas, with
post-traumatic stress disorder.
Ever since his deployment, the
35-year-old has lived an isolated
life, the Springfield News-Leader (http://sgfnow.co/1JHmMRS )
reported.
But lately he’s been crawling
out of the darkness with help from
Maggie, a puppy he adopted who
is training to be his service dog.
“Me and her just get along. I’m
very antisocial and Maggie gets
me out of the house. She gives me
companionship when my wife is
at work,” he said.
When Justin’s nightmares start,
Maggie wakes him up by jostling
his hands or waking up his wife.
She’s attuned to his emotions.
“If it wasn’t for her, I don’t
think he’d still be here,” said Justin’s wife, Brandi. “The depression
was so bad, I was scared to leave
him alone . Within a month of getting her, I started to see a change
in him.”
Maggie has been a blessing in
more ways than one, and this little
pup’s life started in Springfield,
Missouri.
First came the rescue
In February, EMT driver Sarah
Shoemaker and her partner
parked their ambulance near a
downtown bridge in Springfield
while they waited for calls.
It was there that Shoemaker
spotted Maggie and her three siblings living under a bridge near
the railroad tracks.
“They were skinny and nasty
looking,” Shoemaker said.
She brought them dog food
and fed them.
A few nights later the temperature plummeted.
Shoemaker was afraid the stray
pups would die. She called her
supervisor and asked for permission to transport the animals to
her house.
When the partners searched
for the dogs, they only found three.
She doesn’t know if the fourth had
been rescued or had died, but she
took the litter home.
“I came in at midnight and my
husband said, ‘What’s that?’ I said
‘I couldn’t let them die,’” she said.
This wasn’t her first animal
rescue. The next day, she called
Haven of the Ozarks, a no-kill
shelter in Washburn, Missouri,
which is near Cassville.
There was a two-week waiting list to get the animals in, so
Shoemaker and her husband
dewormed the dogs and kept
them until the shelter could take
them. Shoemaker said she wanted
to keep Maggie because it was
her favorite pup, but Shoemaker’s husband reminded her they
already had three dogs, so off
Maggie went.
AP/Springfield News-Leader
Justin Six pets his service dog Maggie while at his home in Springdale Ark. Six, an
Army veteran, suffers from PTSD. He says that Maggie will wake him up in the middle
of the night when he is having nightmares and also helps him with his anxiety.
Rescued becomes rescuer
Haven of the Ozarks was
founded in 1995 in Shell Knob,
but moved to its current location
in Washburn in 1998, said Jennifer
Silverberg, treasurer.
It can house 150 dogs and 60
cats a month.
“We are a no-kill shelter so we
may have a dog for 10 years. Luckily with social media, those cases
don’t happen as much anymore,”
said Silverberg.
It is funded completely by
donations and fundraisers. Every
month, the nonprofit has mobile
adoptions in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Maggie went in March.
It’s rare for Justin Six to leave
the house because crowds make
him anxious and he has a fear of
people walking up behind him,
but that afternoon Justin and
Brandi were headed to Barnes &
Noble.
Petco was nearby, which is
where Haven of the Ozarks had
set up its mobile adoption.
“I said, ‘Let’s stop’ and his
exact words were, ‘We’re not getting a dog,’” chuckled Brandi.
His connection with Maggie
was instant.
“I took her for a walk and that
was it,” Justin said.
Within a month, Brandi
noticed he had less anxiety in
public.
“I noticed he seemed a lot happier. It’s almost like she’s got his
back,” Brandi said.
Maggie gets Justin out of the
house more as he takes her for
walks. He describes her as a “lovable” dog who is goofy and brings
him comfort.
Soon after they adopted her,
they had her evaluated to see if
she would make a good service
dog. Among other things, service
dogs can’t startle easily, need to
focus and must ignore other dogs.
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Maggie passed.
She is training through a new
organization- so new it hasn’t officially launched and is waiting for
its nonprofit status approval —
Service Dogs of Distinction.
The organization services
northwest Arkansas and Little
Rock.
Marsha Wyatt is one of the
founders and is training Maggie.
She has worked with animals for
25 years and says she continues to
be amazed at the transformational
powers animals have on humans.
“PTSD service dogs offer support for the veteran who often
suffers social anxiety, depression,
agoraphobia and is reclusive. The
dogs offer unconditional love, are
available 24/7, provide unwavering commitment and are their
combat comrades. Soldiers are so
connected to fellow soldiers and
miss that bond and support terribly after war,” Wyatt said.
Wyatt has watched Justin come
out of his shell and has seen some
of his anxiety ease since she’s been
working with him. Wyatt meets
with Maggie and Justin and then
it’s Justin’s responsibility to follow
up and do “homework” or training
with Maggie throughout the week.
Justin was diagnosed with
PTSD in 2013. The VA’s National
Center for PTSD does not recognize service dogs as a treatment for
PTSD, saying there is not enough
evidence to prove the animals help.
But Justin Six and Wyatt have
no doubt and would love to see
more veterans get a service dog.
There are so many soldiers suffering, said Wyatt.
“With the rate of veterans committing suicide, we need help.
There is not enough recognition
or help for these soldiers,” Wyatt
said.
After Maggie settled into her
new life, Brandi sent a private
Facebook message to staff at the
Haven to let them know what a
difference this dog had made in
the Sixes’ lives.
Silverberg read the message
and asked if Brandi would be
willing to share her story because
there was a national competition
for shelters to earn a grant from
Petco in exchange for real life stories from families who had adopted animals.
“With those national things,
you never think you’re going to
win but it doesn’t hurt to try. It was
two days before the deadline, so I
told her I understood it was last
minute if she didn’t want to do it,”
Silverberg said.
There were more than 3,000
entries nationwide.
But Brandi posted her story
and Haven of the Ozarks won a
$5,000 grant from Petco, which
will be applied to its operating
costs.
“That money was needed.
Lately we’ve had more dogs with
health problems and dental problems and $5,000 doesn’t even
cover one month of vet bills,” said
Silverberg.
Because the nonprofit is located in rural Missouri, they have a
hard time recruiting and maintaining volunteers.
“We joke that no one knows
where we are unless they want to
dump a dog,” Silverberg said.
Some people shy away from
volunteering because they think
it’s depressing, but Silverberg,
who lives in Springfield and drives
more than an hour to volunteer at
the shelter, says it is a happy place.
Outside of a real home, it’s the
next best thing for these animals.
The animals they take in are
strays or abandoned.
It’s not unusual to hear from a
family who has had a successful
adoption, said Silverberg, “but this
is a great story. I am so happy for
them.”
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Chiefs’ Hunt expects NFL team
to play in L.A. next season
KANSAS CITY (AP) — Chiefs owner Clark
Hunt expects at least one NFL franchise to be
play in Los Angeles next season, though he
declined to speculate Sunday whether the Raiders, Chargers or Rams are the leading candidate.
The three are expected to file for relocation
today, the day after the regular season ends.
Hunt is part of a six-man committee made up
of league owners that will meet to discuss relocation plans. The rest of the league’s owners will
meet to review their findings the following week,
and could decide whether one or two teams will
move to Los Angeles for the 2016 season.
The nation’s second-largest market hasn’t
had an NFL team since the Raiders and Rams
left after the 1994 season. The Chargers have
played in San Diego for 55 seasons.
“There’s still a lot of information we need
to look at,” Hunt said shortly before his playoff-bound Chiefs played Oakland in a regular-season finale. “We suspect the Raiders will
be one of those teams, and we have to consider
opportunities that have been put forward by the
markets in Oakland, St. Louis and San Diego for
their teams to stay. We’ll go through all that this
week.”
A task force formed by Missouri’s governor
made its formal pitch earlier in the week, sending a nearly 400-page prospectus to the NFL
offices. At its centerpiece is a $1.1-billion stadium along the Missouri River, not far from the
city’s iconic Gateway Arch.
But making things sticky for St. Louis is the
fact Rams owner Stan Kroenke is part of a group
planning a $1.8-billion stadium in Inglewood,
Calif. The Chargers and Raiders have teamed up
on a joint venture for a stadium a short distance
away in Carson, Calif.
Also sending their pitch this week were San
Diego mayor Kevin Falconer and county commissioner Ron Roberts, who hope to build a
$1.1-billion facility to replace Qualcomm Stadium. The Chargers have sought a new home
since 2008, three years after their stadium was
expanded to accommodate Super Bowls.
Oakland city officials repeatedly have said
they won’t weigh down taxpayers with a new
stadium, especially considering the city and
county are still in debt from renovations 20 years
ago.
All three franchises have close links to Hunt
and the Chiefs.
St. Louis is the cross-state rival that only
occasionally plays the Chiefs during the regular
season, but has become common preseason
opponents. The Raiders and Chargers are two
of Kansas City’s oldest rivals, part of the original
AFL founded by Hunt’s father, the late Lamar
Hunt.
“Obviously we’ve had a tremendous rivalry
with the Raiders going back 55, 56 years,” said
Clark Hunt, now the team’s chairman and CEO.
“I hope we can continue to have that rivalry in
the future.”
Hunt said his preference is always for NFL
teams to stay where they are, but he acknowledged Sunday the business side of things
appears to be making relocation inevitable.
“All three of those franchises have tremendous fan bases in their home markets,” he said.
“In an ideal world, I’d like to see them all stay
where they are. It probably won’t work out that
way. There will probably be at least one team
moving to L.A. I can’t speculate who that might
be.”
Kansas City extends
winning streak
AP
Chiefs tight end Demetrius Harris makes a touchdown catch as Raiders linebacker Malcolm
Smith and safety Charles Woodson look on during Sunday’s game in Kansas City.
Same
old
story
Rams post another
losing season
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP)
— The St. Louis Rams were
on a roll, having stayed in the
Northern California wine country town of Napa between West
Coast games poised to close the
season on a four-game winning
streak and avoid a losing record.
Dontae Johnson blocked that
plan.
Johnson swatted Greg Zuerlein’s 48-yard field goal attempt
in overtime and San Francisco
rallied to win on Phil Dawson’s
23-yard field goal shortly after,
lifting the 49ers to a 19-16 victory Sunday that wasn’t enough to
save the job of head coach Jim
Tomsula.
Please see Rams, p. 3
AP
Rams wide receiver Brian Quick (83) can’t catch a pass while being defended by 49ers safety Eric
Reid during Sunday’s game in Santa Clara, Calif.
A mystery
Relieved of duty
Browns fire coach,
general manager
CLEVELAND (AP) — The
Browns changed uniforms to
start the season and their coach
and general manager to end it.
Hours after a 28-12 loss to
the rival Pittsburgh Steelers in
the season finale, owner Jimmy
Haslam fired coach Mike Pettine
and general manager Ray Farmer following their second straight
losing season in charge.
It’s almost a tradition.
Pettine went 10-22 in two
years, dropping 18 of his final
21 games after a promising 7-4
start in 2014. Pettine’s job security had been in doubt for months,
and not even Haslam’s vow at
the start of training camp not
to “blow things up” could stop
another regime change in Cleveland.
Pettine was the team’s seventh full-time coach since 1999,
and the team has changed
coaches and GMs five times
since 2008.
“We greatly appreciate Ray’s
and Mike’s dedication and hard
work while with the Cleveland
Browns,” said Haslam, who owns
the team along with his wife,
Dee. “We’ve made this decision
because we don’t believe our
football team was positioned
KANSAS CITY (AP) — Alex Smith
looked down at his phone in the middle of the Chiefs’ locker room, moments
after leading his team to its franchise-record 10th straight victory.
“Just checking messages,” he said
with a grin.
Not checking scores.
Turns out, Smith already knew that
Denver had knocked off San Diego to
deny Kansas City the AFC West title.
But with their 23-17 victory against
the Oakland Raiders on Sunday, the
Chiefs managed to keep their unprecedented roll going into their playoff opener in Houston next weekend.
“This week it would have been easy,
clinch last week on that emotional high,
to have a lull,” said Smith, who threw two
TD passes against the Raiders. “We still
came out and played good football.”
And did so without running back
Jamaal Charles, out for the season with a
knee injury, and linebacker Justin Houston, still sidelined by an injured knee.
The Chiefs (11-5) have managed to
win 10 straight on the heels of a fivegame losing streak that at one point put
their season on the brink.
Please see Chiefs, p. 3
well for the future. We are all
disappointed with where we are
and we take full responsibility.
We will approach the search
for our next football coach and
executives to lead our football
operations with a clear vision
regarding what we need to do to
build a successful organization.
“We will be methodical in
looking for strong, smart leaders with high character who are
relentlessly driven to improve
our football team, willing to
look at every resource possible
to improve, and who embrace
collaboration to ultimately make
the best decisions for the Cleveland Browns. We are fully committed to bringing our fans the
winning organization they so
clearly deserve.”
A former defensive coordinator, Pettine’s ouster can be partly
linked to the performance of his
defense, which ranked at or near
the bottom in the league in nearly every statistical category.
Pettine is the fifth Cleveland
coach in eight years to lose his
job following a season-ending
loss to the Steelers.
Haslam said the team will
immediately begin a search for
its eighth full-time coach of the
expansion era. The Browns have
hired a consulting firm to assist
Please see Browns, p. 3
Browns not commenting on
report of Manziel trip to Vegas
AP
Mike Pettine walks off the field after the Browns’ loss to the Steelers
on Sunday in Cleveland.
www.newstribune.com
CLEVELAND (AP) — Johnny Manziel’s weekend
itinerary remains a mystery.
The Browns are not commenting on a report that
their polarizing quarterback, who sustained a concussion last week in Kansas City, went to Las Vegas
on Saturday as his teammates got ready for their
season finale.
Manziel was not going to play Sunday against the
Pittsburgh Steelers because he’s in the NFL’s protocol on head injuries. Manziel got hurt while rushing
for 108 yards in a loss to the Chiefs.
USA Today quoted an employee and patron who
said they saw Manziel at Las Vegas’ Planet Hollywood on Saturday. The report said he ate at a restaurant in the casino and sat down at a blackjack table.
It’s not clear if the team has a policy prohibiting
players from traveling when they are out with an
injury.
Typically, players who have concussions are sensitive to noise, light and are encouraged to rest as
they recover. The Browns do not require concussed
players to be at the stadium for home games.
Manziel was not seen at FirstEnergy Stadium in
the hours leading up to kickoff against the Steelers.
He posted a photo on his Twitter account on Saturday night of him lying on the floor with his dog. He
used the hashtag #SaturdayNights.
Manziel has had a second turbulent season with
Cleveland. The 2012 Hesiman Trophy winner started
six games, and while he did show progress on the
field, the 23-year continued to be a distraction off it.
Manziel spent 10 weeks in a rehab facility last
Please see Manziel, p. 3
C2
SPORTS
CALENDAR
NEWS TRIBUNE
MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2016
Today
National Football League
y-New England
N.Y. Jets
Buffalo
Miami
W
12
10
8
6
L
4
6
8
10
y-Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Tennessee
W
9
8
5
3
L
7
8
11
13
y-Cincinnati
x-Pittsburgh
Baltimore
Cleveland
W
12
10
5
3
L
4
6
11
13
y-Denver
x-Kansas City
Oakland
San Diego
W
12
11
7
4
L
4
5
9
12
y-Washington
Philadelphia
N.Y. Giants
Dallas
W
9
7
6
4
L
7
9
10
12
y-Carolina
Atlanta
New Orleans
Tampa Bay
W
15
8
7
6
L
1
8
9
10
y-Minnesota
x-Green Bay
Detroit
Chicago
W
11
10
7
6
L
5
6
9
10
W
y-Arizona
13
x-Seattle
10
St. Louis
7
San Francisco
5
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
L
3
6
9
11
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
T Pct
PF
PA Home
0 .750 465 315 7-1-0
0 .625 387 314 6-2-0
0 .500 379 359 5-3-0
0 .375 310 389 3-5-0
South
T Pct
PF
PA Home
0 .563 339 313 5-3-0
0 .500 333 408 4-4-0
0 .313 376 448 4-4-0
0 .188 299 423 1-7-0
North
T Pct
PF
PA Home
0 .750 419 279 6-2-0
0 .625 423 319 6-2-0
0 .313 328 401 3-5-0
0 .188 278 432 2-6-0
West
T Pct
PF
PA Home
0 .750 355 296 6-2-0
0 .688 405 287 6-2-0
0 .438 359 399 3-5-0
0 .250 320 398 3-5-0
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
T Pct
PF
PA Home
0 .563 388 379 6-2-0
0 .438 377 430 3-5-0
0 .375 420 442 3-5-0
0 .250 275 374 1-7-0
South
T Pct
PF
PA Home
0 .938 500 308 8-0-0
0 .500 339 345 4-4-0
0 .438 408 476 4-4-0
0 .375 342 417 3-5-0
North
T Pct
PF
PA Home
0 .688 365 302 6-2-0
0 .625 368 323 5-3-0
0 .438 358 400 4-4-0
0 .375 335 397 1-7-0
West
T Pct
PF
PA Home
0 .813 489 313 6-2-0
0 .625 423 277 5-3-0
0 .438 280 330 5-3-0
0 .313 238 387 4-4-0
Sunday’s Games
Houston 30, Jacksonville 6
Washington 34, Dallas 23
Detroit 24, Chicago 20
Buffalo 22, N.Y. Jets 17
Miami 20, New England 10
New Orleans 20, Atlanta 17
Cincinnati 24, Baltimore 16
Pittsburgh 28, Cleveland 12
NFL Playoff Schedule
Wild-card Playoffs
Saturday, Jan. 9
Kansas City (11-5) at Houston (9-7), 3:35 p.m.
(KMIZ/ESPN)
Pittsburgh (10-6) at Cincinnati (12-4), 7:15 p.m.
(KRCG)
Sunday, Jan. 10
Seattle (10-6) at Minnesota (11-6), noon (KOMU)
Green Bay (10-6) at Washington (9-7), 3:30 p.m.
(KQFX)
Divisional Playoffs
Saturday, Jan. 16
Cincinnati, Houston or Kansas City at New England
(12-4), 3:30 (KRCG)
Minnesota, Washington or Green Bay at Arizona
(13-3), 7:15 p.m. (KOMU)
Sunday, Jan. 17
Seattle, Green Bay or Washington at Carolina (151), 12:05 p.m. (KQFX)
Pittsburgh, Kansas City or Houston at Denver (124), 3:30 p.m. (KRCG)
Conference Championships
Sunday, Jan. 24
NFC, TBA
AFC, TBA
Pro Bowl
Sunday, Jan. 31
At Honolulu
Team Rice vs. Team Irvin, 7 p.m. (ESPN)
Super Bowl
Sunday, Feb. 7
At Santa Clara, Calif.
TBD, 5:30 p.m. (KRCG)
College Football
Bowl Results, Schedule
Saturday, Dec. 19
Celebration Bowl, Atlanta
NC A&T 41, Alcorn State 34
New Mexico Bowl, Albuquerque
Arizona 45, New Mexico 37
Las Vegas Bowl
Utah 35, BYU 28
Camellia Bowl, Montgomery, Ala.
Appalachian State 31, Ohio 29
Cure Bowl, Orlando, Fla.
San Jose State 27, Georgia State 16
New Orleans Bowl
Louisiana Tech 47, Arkansas State 28
———
Monday, Dec. 21
Miami Beach Bowl
Western Kentucky 45, South Florida 35
———
Tuesday, Dec. 22
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Boise
Akron 23, Utah State 21
Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl
Toledo 32, Temple 17
———
Wednesday, Dec. 23
Poinsettia Bowl, San Diego
Boise State 55, Northern Illinois 7
GoDaddy Bowl, Mobile, Ala.
Georgia Southern 58, Bowling Green 27
———
Thursday, Dec. 24
Bahamas Bowl, Nassau
Western Michigan 45, Middle Tennessee 31
Hawaii Bowl, Honolulu
San Diego State 42, Cincinnati 7
———
Saturday, Dec. 26
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl
Marshall 16, Connecticut 10
Sun Bowl, El Paso, Texas
Washington State 20, Miami (Fla.) 14
Heart of Dallas Bowl
Washington 44, Southern Mississippi 31
Pinstripe Bowl, Bronx, N.Y.
Duke 44, Indiana 41, OT
Independence Bowl, Shreveport, La.
Virginia Tech 55, Tulsa 52
Foster Farms Bowl, Santa Clara, Calif.
Nebraska 37, UCLA 29
Away
5-3-0
4-4-0
3-5-0
3-5-0
Columbus
AFC
9-3-0
7-5-0
7-5-0
4-8-0
NFC
3-1-0
3-1-0
1-3-0
2-2-0
Div
4-2-0
3-3-0
4-2-0
1-5-0
Away AFC
4-4-0 7-5-0
4-4-0 6-6-0
1-7-0 5-7-0
2-6-0 1-11-0
NFC
2-2-0
2-2-0
0-4-0
2-2-0
Div
5-1-0
4-2-0
2-4-0
1-5-0
Away AFC
6-2-0 9-3-0
4-4-0 7-5-0
2-6-0 4-8-0
1-7-0 2-10-0
NFC
3-1-0
3-1-0
1-3-0
1-3-0
Div
5-1-0
3-3-0
3-3-0
1-5-0
Away AFC
6-2-0 8-4-0
5-3-0 10-2-0
4-4-0 7-5-0
1-7-0 3-9-0
NFC
4-0-0
1-3-0
0-4-0
1-3-0
Div
4-2-0
5-1-0
3-3-0
0-6-0
Away
3-5-0
4-4-0
3-5-0
3-5-0
NFC
8-4-0
4-8-0
4-8-0
3-9-0
AFC
1-3-0
3-1-0
2-2-0
1-3-0
Div
4-2-0
3-3-0
2-4-0
3-3-0
Away NFC
7-1-0 11-1-0
4-4-0 5-7-0
3-5-0 5-7-0
3-5-0 5-7-0
AFC
4-0-0
3-1-0
2-2-0
1-3-0
Div
5-1-0
1-5-0
3-3-0
3-3-0
Away
5-3-0
5-3-0
3-5-0
5-3-0
NFC
8-4-0
7-5-0
6-6-0
3-9-0
AFC
3-1-0
3-1-0
1-3-0
3-1-0
Div
5-1-0
3-3-0
3-3-0
1-5-0
Away NFC
7-1-0 10-2-0
5-3-0 7-5-0
2-6-0 6-6-0
1-7-0 4-8-0
AFC
3-1-0
3-1-0
1-3-0
1-3-0
Div
4-2-0
3-3-0
4-2-0
1-5-0
Indianapolis 30, Tennessee 24
Philadelphia 35, N.Y. Giants 30
San Francisco 19, St. Louis 16, OT
Denver 27, San Diego 20
Seattle 36, Arizona 6
Kansas City 23, Oakland 17
Carolina 38, Tampa Bay 10
Minnesota 20, Green Bay 13
End of regular season
League Leaders
———
Monday, Dec. 28
Military Bowl, Annapolis, Md.
Navy 44, Pittsburgh 28
Quick Lane Bowl, Detroit
Minnesota 21, Central Michigan 14
———
Tuesday, Dec. 29
Armed Forces Bowl, Fort Worth, Texas
California 55, Air Force 36
Russell Athletic Bowl, Orlando, Fla.
Baylor 49, North Carolina 38
Arizona Bowl, Tucson
Nevada 28, Colorado State 23
Texas Bowl, Houston
LSU 56, Texas Tech 27
———
Wednesday, Dec. 30
Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl
Auburn 31, Memphis 10
Belk Bowl, Charlotte, N.C.
Mississippi St. 51, NC State 28
Music City Bowl, Nashville, Tenn.
Louisville 27, Texas A&M 21
Holiday Bowl, San Diego
Wisconsin 23, Southern Cal 21
———
Thursday, Dec. 31
Peach Bowl, Atlanta
Houston 38, Florida State 24
Orange Bowl (Playoff Semifinal)
Miami Gardens, Fla.
Clemson 37, Oklahoma 17
Cotton Bowl Classic (Playoff Semifinal)
Arlington, Texas
Alabama 38, Michigan State 0
———
Friday, Jan. 1
Outback Bowl, Tampa, Fla.
Tennessee 45, Northwestern 6
Citrus Bowl, Orlando, Fla.
Michigan 41, Florida 7
Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.
Ohio State 44, Notre Dame 28
Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.
Stanford 45, Iowa 16
Sugar Bowl, New Orleans
Mississippi 48, Oklahoma State 20
———
Saturday, Jan. 2
TaxSlayer Bowl, Jacksonville, Fla.
Georgia 24, Penn State 17
Liberty Bowl, Memphis, Tenn.
Arkansas 45, Kansas State 23
Alamo Bowl, San Antonio
TCU 47, Oregon 41, 3OT
Cactus Bowl, Phoenix
West Virginia 43, Arizona State 42
———
Monday, Jan. 11
College Football Championship Game
Glendale, Ariz.
Clemson (14-0) vs. Alabama (13-1), 7:30 p.m.
(ESPN)
NHL
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts
Florida
39 23 12 4 50
Montreal
40 22 15 3 47
Detroit
39 19 13 7 45
Boston
37 20 13 4 44
Tampa Bay
39 19 16 4 42
Ottawa
39 18 15 6 42
Toronto
37 15 15 7 37
Buffalo
39 15 20 4 34
Metropolitan Division
GP W L OT Pts
Washington
38 28 7 3 59
N.Y. Islanders 40 22 13 5 49
N.Y. Rangers 39 21 14 4 46
New Jersey
39 20 14 5 45
Pittsburgh
38 19 15 4 42
Carolina
39 16 17 6 38
Philadelphia
37 15 15 7 37
40 15 22 3 33 103 127
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Dallas
41 28 9 4 60 144 107
Chicago
40 23 13 4 50 111 97
St. Louis
41 23 14 4 50 101 100
Minnesota
38 20 11 7 47 101 90
Nashville
39 19 13 7 45 103 102
Colorado
39 18 18 3 39 109 110
Winnipeg
38 18 18 2 38 103 110
Pacific Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Los Angeles
38 25 11 2 52 104 83
Arizona
38 18 16 4 40 107 122
Vancouver
39 15 15 9 39 95 110
San Jose
37 18 17 2 38 101 106
Calgary
38 18 18 2 38 101 121
Anaheim
37 15 15 7 37 69 89
Edmonton
40 16 21 3 35 101 122
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Saturday’s Games
Toronto 4, St. Louis 1
Edmonton 4, Arizona 3, SO
Tampa Bay 3, Minnesota 2, SO
Columbus 5, Washington 4, SO
Detroit 4, Buffalo 3
Los Angeles 2, Philadelphia 1
Florida 3, N.Y. Rangers 0
New Jersey 3, Dallas 2, OT
Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Islanders 2
Nashville 2, Carolina 1, OT
Calgary 4, Colorado 0
Winnipeg 4, San Jose 1
Sunday’s Games
N.Y. Islanders 6, Dallas 5
Florida 2, Minnesota 1
Chicago 3, Ottawa 0
Winnipeg at Anaheim, (n)
Today’s Games
Ottawa at St. Louis, 7 p.m.
Detroit at New Jersey, 6 p.m.
Los Angeles at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Carolina at Edmonton, 8 p.m.
Arizona at Vancouver, 9 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Washington at Boston, 6 p.m.
Florida at Buffalo, 6 p.m.
Dallas at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.
Chicago at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.
Minnesota at Columbus, 6 p.m.
Montreal at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.
Winnipeg at Nashville, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Calgary, 8 p.m.
GF GA
106 85
116 99
100 106
116 102
100 95
111 118
99 103
91 105
GF GA
121 83
113 99
112 103
93 94
91 93
92 110
79 102
Through games of Saturday, January 2, 2016
Goals
Name
Team
GP
G
Jamie Benn
Dallas
40
24
Patrick Kane
Chicago
39
23
Tyler Seguin
Dallas
40
23
Vladimir Tarasenko St Louis
39
23
Alex Ovechkin
Washington
37
21
Joe Pavelski
San Jose
37
20
Mike Hoffman
Ottawa
34
18
Evgeni Malkin
Pittsburgh
38
18
Tyler Toffoli
Los Angeles
38
18
Matt Duchene
Colorado
39
17
Johnny Gaudreau
Calgary
38
17
Kyle Palmieri
New Jersey
39
17
Brent Burns
San Jose
37
16
Taylor Hall
Edmonton
40
16
Max Pacioretty
Montreal
40
16
Brandon Saad
Columbus
39
16
Daniel Sedin
Vancouver
39
16
Steven Stamkos
Tampa Bay
39
16
Mats Zuccarello
NY Rangers
39
16
Scott Hartnell
Columbus
39
15
Leo Komarov
Toronto
37
15
Brad Marchand
Boston
34
15
James Neal
Nashville
39
15
Ryan O’Reilly
Buffalo
39
15
Patrick Sharp
Dallas
40
15
Jeff Skinner
Carolina
39
15
John Tavares
NY Islanders
36
15
———
Assists
Name
Team
GP
A
Patrick Kane
Chicago
39
33
Erik Karlsson
Ottawa
38
32
John Klingberg
Dallas
40
30
Blake Wheeler
Winnipeg
38
29
Jamie Benn
Dallas
40
28
Tyler Seguin
Dallas
40
27
P.K. Subban
Montreal
40
26
Taylor Hall
Edmonton
40
25
Henrik Sedin
Vancouver
37
24
Nicklas Backstrom Washington
35
23
Leon Draisaitl
Edmonton
30
23
Evgeny Kuznetsov Washington
38
23
Artemi Panarin
Chicago
39
23
Johnny Gaudreau
Calgary
38
22
David Krejci
Boston
35
22
Tomas Plekanec
Montreal
40
22
Bobby Ryan
Ottawa
37
22
Alexander Steen
St Louis
41
22
Henrik Zetterberg
Detroit
39
22
Patrice Bergeron
Boston
37
21
Mike Cammalleri
New Jersey
38
21
John Carlson
Washington
34
21
Jonathan Huberdeau
Florida
38
21
Mikko Koivu
Minnesota
37
21
Mathieu Perreault
Winnipeg
38
21
Mike Ribeiro
Nashville
39
21
Daniel Sedin
Vancouver
39
21
Mark Stone
Ottawa
36
21
Jakub Voracek
Philadelphia
37
21
———
Power Play Goals
Name
Team
GP
PP
Justin Faulk
Carolina
39
12
Patrick Kane
Chicago
39
12
Jamie Benn
Dallas
40
10
Steven Stamkos
Tampa Bay
39
9
Evgeni Malkin
Pittsburgh
38
8
Vladimir Tarasenko St Louis
39
8
Shea Weber
Nashville
39
8
Patrice Bergeron
Boston
37
7
Loui Eriksson
Boston
37
7
Alex Ovechkin
Washington
37
7
Shane Doan
Arizona
29
6
Drew Doughty
Los Angeles
38
6
Scott Hartnell
Columbus
39
6
Nikita Kucherov
Tampa Bay
39
6
Ryan O’Reilly
Buffalo
39
6
Kyle Palmieri
New Jersey
39
6
Joe Pavelski
San Jose
37
6
Corey Perry
Anaheim
37
6
Tyler Toffoli
Los Angeles
38
6
———
Short Handed Goals
Name
Team
GP
SH
Jean-Gabriel Pagea
Ottawa
38
4
Paul Byron
Montreal
28
3
Brad Marchand
Boston
34
3
Artem Anisimov
Chicago
39
2
Jamie Benn
Dallas
40
2
Jason Chimera
Washington
38
2
Blake Comeau
Colorado
39
2
Cody Eakin
Dallas
40
2
Eric Fehr
Pittsburgh
28
2
Adam Henrique
New Jersey
37
2
Bryan Little
Winnipeg
38
2
Zack Smith
Jonathan Toews
Blake Wheeler
Mika Zibanejad
Ottawa
Chicago
Winnipeg
Ottawa
———
Power Play Assists
Name
Team
Erik Karlsson
Ottawa
Nicklas Backstrom Washington
Brent Burns
San Jose
John Klingberg
Dallas
Kris Letang
Pittsburgh
Alexander Steen
St Louis
P.K. Subban
Montreal
Jakub Voracek
Philadelphia
Henrik Zetterberg
Detroit
Patrice Bergeron
Boston
Kevin Shattenkirk
St Louis
Mikkel Boedker
Arizona
John Carlson
Washington
Filip Forsberg
Nashville
Ryan Johansen
Columbus
Roman Josi
Nashville
Niklas Kronwall
Detroit
Nikita Kucherov
Tampa Bay
Joe Pavelski
San Jose
Victor Rask
Carolina
Tyler Seguin
Dallas
———
Short Handed Assists
Name
Team
Jeff Petry
Montreal
Jamie Benn
Dallas
Patrice Bergeron
Boston
Zdeno Chara
Boston
Vernon Fiddler
Dallas
Curtis Lazar
Ottawa
Torrey Mitchell
Montreal
Jared Spurgeon
Minnesota
Drew Stafford
Winnipeg
Blake Wheeler
Winnipeg
Aleksander Barkov
Florida
Francois Beauchemi Colorado
Pierre-Edouard Bel Philadelphia
Jordie Benn
Dallas
T.J. Brodie
Calgary
J.T. Brown
Tampa Bay
Alex Burmistrov
Winnipeg
Paul Byron
Montreal
John Carlson
Washington
Jeff Carter
Los Angeles
Cal Clutterbuck
NY Islanders
Andrew Cogliano
Anaheim
Sean Couturier
Philadelphia
Charlie Coyle
Minnesota
Tommy Cross
Boston
Matt Cullen
Pittsburgh
Cody Eakin
Dallas
Mattias Ekholm
Nashville
Loui Eriksson
Boston
Mike Fisher
Nashville
Brian Flynn
Montreal
Justin Fontaine
Minnesota
Paul Gaustad
Nashville
Tom Gilbert
Montreal
Zemgus Girgensons
Buffalo
Claude Giroux
Philadelphia
Barclay Goodrow
San Jose
Markus Granlund
Calgary
Victor Hedman
Tampa Bay
Matt Hendricks
Edmonton
Shawn Horcoff
Anaheim
Erik Johnson
Colorado
Jacob Josefson
New Jersey
Duncan Keith
Chicago
Alex Killorn
Tampa Bay
Anze Kopitar
Los Angeles
Gabriel Landeskog
Colorado
Adam Larsson
New Jersey
Kris Letang
Pittsburgh
Ben Lovejoy
Pittsburgh
Olli Maatta
Pittsburgh
Derek MacKenzie
Florida
Brad Marchand
Boston
Alec Martinez
Los Angeles
Shawn Matthias
Toronto
Adam Pardy
Winnipeg
Pekka Rinne
Nashville
Antoine Roussel
Dallas
Miikka Salomaki
Nashville
David Savard
Columbus
Luca Sbisa
Vancouver
Marco Scandella
Minnesota
Rob Scuderi
PIT-CHI
Daniel Sedin
Vancouver
Andrej Sekera
Edmonton
Kevin Shattenkirk
St Louis
Reilly Smith
Florida
Carl Soderberg
Colorado
Mark Stone
Ottawa
Clayton Stoner
Anaheim
Brian Strait
NY Islanders
Mark Stuart
Winnipeg
Teuvo Teravainen
Chicago
Jonathan Toews
Chicago
Jacob Trouba
Winnipeg
Kyle Turris
Ottawa
Marc-Edouard Vlasi San Jose 34
Justin Williams
Washington
Tom Wilson
Washington
Tommy Wingels
San Jose
Travis Zajac
New Jersey
Jason Zucker
Minnesota
———
Power Play Points
Name
Team
Patrick Kane
Chicago
Patrice Bergeron
Boston
Brent Burns
San Jose
Nikita Kucherov
Tampa Bay
Evgeni Malkin
Pittsburgh
Joe Pavelski
San Jose
Nicklas Backstrom Washington
Justin Faulk
Carolina
Roman Josi
Nashville
Erik Karlsson
Ottawa
Steven Stamkos
Tampa Bay
Shea Weber
Nashville
Jamie Benn
Dallas
John Klingberg
Dallas
Ryan O’Reilly
Buffalo
Tyler Seguin
Dallas
Patrick Sharp
Dallas
Kevin Shattenkirk
St Louis
Alexander Steen
St Louis
NBA
37
39
38
37
2
2
2
2
GP
38
35
37
40
29
41
40
37
39
37
31
38
34
39
37
39
39
39
37
39
40
PPA
14
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
11
11
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
GP
38
40
37
35
40
33
29
37
38
38
28
39
29
39
29
35
38
28
34
34
38
37
31
37
3
38
40
39
37
28
40
22
30
36
35
37
14
17
38
30
36
39
36
29
38
38
35
39
29
38
32
34
34
38
36
10
33
38
21
34
18
30
32
39
39
31
38
39
36
32
24
38
35
39
38
38
1
38
38
37
31
37
SHA
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
GP
39
37
37
39
38
37
35
39
39
38
39
39
40
40
39
40
40
31
41
PPP
21
18
17
16
16
16
15
15
15
15
15
15
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct
Toronto
21
14
.600
Boston
18
15
.545
New York
16
19
.457
Brooklyn
10
23
.303
Philadelphia
3
33
.083
Southeast Division
W
L
Pct
Miami
20
13
.606
Atlanta
21
14
.600
Orlando
19
15
.559
Charlotte
17
16
.515
Washington
15
17
.469
Central Division
W
L
Pct
Cleveland
22
9
.710
Chicago
20
12
.625
Indiana
19
14
.576
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1
1
1
1
GB
—
2
5
10
18½
GB
—
—
1½
3
4½
GB
—
2½
4
Detroit
Milwaukee
18
16
.529
14
21
.400
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W
L
Pct
San Antonio
29
6
.829
Dallas
19
15
.559
Memphis
18
17
.514
Houston
16
19
.457
New Orleans
11
22
.333
Northwest Division
W
L
Pct
Oklahoma City 24
10
.706
Utah
15
17
.469
Portland
15
21
.417
Minnesota
12
22
.353
Denver
12
23
.343
Pacific Division
W
L
Pct
Golden State
31
2
.939
L.A. Clippers
22
13
.629
Sacramento
13
20
.394
Phoenix
12
25
.324
L.A. Lakers
8
27
.229
Saturday’s Games
Brooklyn 100, Boston 97
Sacramento 142, Phoenix 119
Indiana 94, Detroit 82
Oklahoma City 109, Charlotte 90
Cleveland 104, Orlando 79
Milwaukee 95, Minnesota 85
San Antonio 121, Houston 103
New Orleans 105, Dallas 98
Utah 92, Memphis 87, OT
Golden State 111, Denver 108, OT
L.A. Clippers 130, Philadelphia 99
Sunday’s Games
Chicago 115, Toronto 113
New York 111, Atlanta 97
Miami 97, Washington 75
Portland 112, Denver 106
L.A. Lakers 97, Phoenix 77
Today’s Games
Toronto at Cleveland, 6 p.m.
Minnesota at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.
Indiana at Miami, 6:30 p.m.
Boston at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.
Orlando at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.
San Antonio at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.
Sacramento at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.
Houston at Utah, 8 p.m.
Memphis at Portland, 10 p.m.
Charlotte at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Milwaukee at Chicago, 8 p.m.
New York at Atlanta, 8 p.m.
Sacramento at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
5½
10
GB
—
9½
11
13
17
GB
-8
10
12
12½
GB
-10
18
21
24
College Basketball
Sunday’s Games
EAST
Colgate 56, American U. 37
George Washington 69, Fordham 63
UMass 74, La Salle 67
Vermont 65, Harvard 62
SOUTH
FIU 76, FAU 59
Louisville 65, Wake Forest 57
Marshall 94, W. Kentucky 76
Princeton 89, Hampton 59
UAB 78, Middle Tennessee 67
MIDWEST
Illinois St. 67, Drake 62
Minn.-Morris 91, St. Scholastica 75
N. Dakota St. 75, Denver 49
Nebraska-Omaha 76, IUPUI 71
Ohio St. 75, Illinois 73
S. Dakota St. 63, W. Illinois 59
Wichita St. 85, Bradley 58
SOUTHWEST
UTEP 84, North Texas 75
UTSA 85, Rice 80
FAR WEST
Arizona 94, Arizona St. 82
California 71, Utah 58
Grand Canyon 74, Bethune-Cookman 53
Oregon St. 70, Oregon 57
Washington 87, Southern Cal 85
Transactions
BASKETBALL
NBA Development League
RIO GRANDE VALLEY VIPERS — Acquired G Matt
Carlino from the available player pool.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Fired general manager
Ray Farmer and coach Mike Pettine.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Released OT Reid
Fragel from the practice squad.
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Placed WR Rishard Matthews on injured reserve. Signed LB Mike Hull from
the practice squad.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed RB Toben
Opurum from the practice squad.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Placed NT Bennie
Logan on injured reserve. Signed CB Randall Evans
from the practice squad.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Fired coach Jim Tomsula. Placed LB Michael Wilhoite on injured reserve.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled F Brock
McGinn from Charlotte (AHL).
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Acquired F Richard
Panik from Toronto for F Jeremy Morin. Loaned D
David Rundblad to ZSC Lions (National League
A-Switzerland).
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Assigned F Jonathan
Drouin to Syracuse (AHL).
American Hockey League
AHL — Suspended Torontto LW Richard Clune
one game.
BAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Assigned G Ty Rimmer to Norfolk (ECHL).
LAKE ERIE MONSTERS — Recalled F Peter
Quenneville from Cincinnati (ECHL).
TORONTO MARLIES — Assigned G Rob Madore
to Orlando (ECHL).
ECHL
ECHL — Suspended Tulsa F Mathieu Gagnon eight
games, Rapid City D Garrett Clarke and D Jonathan
Narbonne five games, Tulsa G Kevin Carr three
games and Tulsa F Emerson Clark one game.
IDAHO STEELHEADS — Released G Will Gagnon
as emergency backup.
INDY FUEL — Signed F Adam Lapsansky.
NORFOLK ADMIRALS — Released G Adam
Courchaine.
ORLANDO SOLAR BEARS — Released G Bobby
Fowler as emergency backup.
WHEELING NAILERS — Signed F Massimo
Lamacchia.
COLLEGE
GEORGIA — Named James Coley wide receivers
coach, Dell McGee running backs coach and Marshall
Malchow recruiting director.
N.C. STATE — Fired offensive coordinator Matt
Canada.
NOTRE DAME — Announced WR Will Fuller and
RB C.J. Prosise will enter the NFL draft.
SOUTH CAROLINA — Announced G Shay Colley
has left the women’s basketball team.
Women’s
Basketball
Lincoln at Washburn,
5:30 p.m.
Missouri vs. Tennessee,
6 p.m.
(SEC Network)
Girls
Basketball
Blair Oaks vs. Warsaw
in Tri-County Tourney
at Eldon, 6 p.m.
Lady Jays vs. Waynesville,
6:30 p.m.
Helias vs. Camdenton,
7:30 p.m.
Men’s
Basketball
Lincoln at Washburn,
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday
Girls
Basketball
Calvary vs. Vienna, 6 p.m.
Helias at Sedalia S-C,
7:30 p.m.
Boys
Basketball
Helias at C.B.C., 6:30 p.m.
Blair Oaks vs. Hallsville
in Tri-County Tourney
at Eldon, 7:30 p.m.
Calvary vs. Vienna,
7:30 p.m.
Prep
Wrestling
Helias vs. Rock Bridge,
7 p.m.
Wednesday
Prep
Wrestling
Blair Oaks vs. Priory, 5 p.m.
Jays vs. Rolla, 7 p.m.
Men’s
Basketball
Missouri at Georgia, 6 p.m.
Eclipse
Lakers rout Suns
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Lou Williams scored a season-high 30 points and the
Los Angeles Lakers sent
Phoenix to its ninth straight
loss with a 97-77 rout of the
cold-shooting Suns on Sunday night.
The Lakers, coming off
victories against Boston
and Philadelphia, have won
three in a row for the first
time since Feb. 22-27 against
Boston, Utah and Milwaukee. Rookie Larry Nance
Jr. had 15 points and tied a
season high with his second
straight 14-rebound game.
Kobe Bryant sat out
his second straight game
because of a sore right
shoulder, the same one he
had surgery on last January
to repair a torn rotator cuff.
SPORTSTV
-----6:00
SECN Women’s College Basketball Tennessee at Missouri.
ESPN Men’s College Basketball
North Carolina at Florida State.
ESPN2 Men’s College Basketball
West Virginia at TCU.
-----6:30
NBAN NBA Basketball Indiana Pacers at Miami Heat.
-----7:00
FXSP NHL Hockey Ottawa Senators
at St. Louis Blues.
BTN Women’s College Basketball
Rutgers at Iowa.
-----8:00
ESPN Men’s College Basketball
Oklahoma at Kansas.
ESPN2 Men’s College Basketball
Virginia at Virginia Tech.
ESPNU Men’s College Basketball
Alcorn State at Texas Southern.
NBCSN NHL Hockey Los Angeles
Kings at Colorado Avalanche.
-----9:00
NBAN/FXSP+ NBA Basketball
Memphis Grizzlies at Portland Trail Blazers.
NFL
MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2016
Chiefs 23, Raiders 17
Oakland
Kansas City
AP
Rams tackle Garrett Reynolds (71) celebrates after running back Tre Mason (bottom
center) scored a touchdown in Sunday’s game with the 49ers in Santa Clara, Calif.
49ers 19, Rams 16
St. Louis
San Francisco
3 13 0 0 0 — 16
0 10 3 3 3 — 19
First Quarter
StL—FG Zuerlein 33, 8:11. Drive: 6 plays, 72
yards, 2:15. Key Plays: Keenum 54 pass to Britt;
Austin 13 run. St. Louis 3, San Francisco 0.
Second Quarter
SF—Boldin 33 pass from Gabbert (Dawson kick),
14:52. Drive: 7 plays, 70 yards, 3:27. Key Play: Gabbert 31 pass to Harris on 3rd-and-12. San Francisco
7, St. Louis 3.
SF—FG Dawson 26, 9:03. Drive: 7 plays, 55
yards, 2:16. Key Plays: Gained possession on downs
at San Francisco 37; Harris 47 run on 3rd-and-3. San
Francisco 10, St. Louis 3.
StL—FG Zuerlein 32, 2:43. Drive: 12 plays, 66
yards, 6:20. Key Plays: M.Brown 13 run; Keenum
12 pass to Quick; Keenum 11 pass to Welker; Brooks
15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty. San Francisco 10, St. Louis 6.
StL—Mason 4 run (Zuerlein kick), 1:31. Drive: 2
plays, 3 yards, 0:16. Key Play: Sims 42 interception return to San Francisco 3. St. Louis 13, San
Francisco 10.
StL—FG Zuerlein 44, :04. Drive: 4 plays, 40 yards,
0:25. Key Play: Cunningham 40 run. St. Louis 16,
San Francisco 10.
Third Quarter
SF—FG Dawson 28, 9:37. Drive: 12 plays, 70
yards, 5:23. Key Plays: Gabbert 11 pass to McDonald on 3rd-and-10; Gabbert 44 pass to Ellington;
Gabbert 3 pass to Harris on 3rd-and-1. St. Louis 16,
San Francisco 13.
Fourth Quarter
SF—FG Dawson 38, 4:28. Drive: 12 plays, 60
yards, 5:53. Key Plays: Gabbert 31 pass to Smith
on 3rd-and-10; Gabbert 21 pass to Harris; Harris 3
run on 3rd-and-2. St. Louis 16, San Francisco 16.
Overtime
SF—FG Dawson 23, 3:27. Drive: 5 plays, 69
yards, 1:22. Key Plays: Ward blocked field goal
recovery; Hayes 15-yard roughing the passer penalty;
Gabbert 15 pass to Smith; Gabbert 33 pass to Patton.
San Francisco 19, St. Louis 16.
A—70,799.
Time—3:25.
———
StL
SF
FIRST DOWNS
21
21
Rushing
9
5
Passing
11
13
Penalty
1
3
THIRD DOWN EFF
3-13
8-18
FOURTH DOWN EFF
0-1
0-1
TOTAL NET YARDS
364
458
Total Plays
71
78
Avg Gain
5.1
5.9
NET YARDS RUSHING
133
108
Rushes
33
33
Avg per rush
4.0
3.3
NET YARDS PASSING
231
350
Sacked-Yds lost
0-0
1-4
Gross-Yds passing
231
354
Completed-Att.
22-38
28-44
Had Intercepted
0
1
Yards-Pass Play
6.1
7.8
KICKOFFS-EndZone-TB
6-4-3
5-4-2
PUNTS-Avg.
5-51.8
5-39.0
Punts blocked
0
0
FGs-PATs blocked
1-0
0-0
TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE
101
65
Punt Returns
2-6
0-0
Kickoff Returns
3-53
3-65
Interceptions
1-42
0-0
PENALTIES-Yds
11-105
7-60
FUMBLES-Lost
1-0
2-0
TIME OF POSSESSION
38:30
33:03
———
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING—St. Louis, Mason 18-44, Cunningham 4-38, Austin 6-32, M.Brown 4-17, Keenum
1-2. San Francisco, Harris 16-67, M.Davis 10-34,
Gabbert 7-7.
PASSING—St. Louis, Keenum 22-37-0-231, Hekker 0-1-0-0. San Francisco, Gabbert 28-44-1-354.
RECEIVING—St. Louis, Kendricks 5-37, Austin
5-30, Britt 3-81, Cunningham 3-34, Quick 2-23,
Welker 2-16, Harkey 1-12, M.Brown 1-(minus 2).
San Francisco, Harris 8-86, Boldin 5-71, Smith 5-61,
McDonald 3-37, M.Davis 2-15, Miller 2-2, Ellington
1-44, Patton 1-33, Bell 1-5.
PUNT RETURNS—St. Louis, Austin 2-6. San
Francisco, None.
KICKOFF RETURNS—St. Louis, Cunningham
2-44, C.Reynolds 1-9. San Francisco, Ellington
2-63, Patton 1-2.
TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS—St. Louis, Johnson 10-0-0, Alexander 7-0-0, Joyner 6-1-0, Jenkins
6-0-0, Barron 5-3-0, McLeod 5-1-0, Hayes 5-0-0,
Ayers 2-1-0, Donald 2-0-0, Sims 2-0-0, Westbrooks
1-1-0, Long 1-0-1, Brockers 1-0-0, Harkey 1-0-0,
Laurinaitis 1-0-0, Longacre 1-0-0, Roberson 1-0-0,
Zuerlein 1-0-0. San Francisco, Hodges Jr. 12-1-0,
Ward 9-1-0, Bowman 9-0-0, Johnson 6-1-0, Harold
3-1-0, Reaser 3-1-0, Purcell 3-0-0, Miller 2-0-0, Carradine 1-2-0, Jerod-Eddie 1-1-0, Lynch 1-1-0, Reid
1-1-0, Acker 1-0-0, Armstead 1-0-0, Armstrong 1-0-0,
Brock 1-0-0, Brooks 1-0-0, Cromartie 1-0-0, M.Davis
1-0-0, Williams 1-0-0, Bellore 0-1-0, Hayne 0-1-0.
INTERCEPTIONS—St. Louis, Sims 1-42.
MISSED FIELD GOALS—St. Louis, Zuerlein 52
(WR), 48 (BK).
Rams: Fall short of goal
Continued from p. 1
Rams coach Jeff Fisher finished 7-9 for his fourth straight
losing season running the team
and called it “very disappointing.”
“We had numerous opportunities earlier in the year to
win games, and we didn’t get it
done,” he said. “I’m all right with
being 4-2 in the division. I’m not
all right with some of the other
losses.”
Now, the Rams will wait to
learn what their future holds.
The biggest question facing
the franchise: Will the Rams
relocate to Los Angeles for the
2016 season?
“Until we know what’s going
on, there’s no reason to discuss
it,” Fisher said. “You just wait it
out and see what happens. I’ve
been through this before.”
After Zuerlein’s miss, San
Francisco the ball back with 4:49
to play in OT and the reliable
Dawson delivered.
Zuerlein also saw a 52-yarder
sail wide right with 1:13 left in
the third.
“Any time you don’t go up
and convert and do your job,
you’re not going to be happy
about it,” he said. “Just because
of the situation, I don’t think it
makes it any more or less significant.”
Case Keenum went 22-of-37
for 231 yards as St. Louis had
its three-game winning streak
snapped with the Rams trying
for four consecutive victories for
the first time since seven straight
in 2003.
“It really wasn’t about getting
to 8-8,” defensive end Chris Long
said. “Our goal this season was
bigger than 8-8.”
Free-agent-to-be Dawson —
who turns 41 later this month
and wants to play an 18th season
— also kicked a tying 38-yard
field goal with 4:33 remaining in
regulation.
St. Louis punted on its next
possession. Then, after left
guard Andrew Tiller’s false start,
Anquan Boldin caught a 27-yard
pass with quarterback Blaine
Gabbert under pressure late in
the game, but San Francisco
ended up punting from the 37
with 1:39 left.
The Rams are left to ponder
what went wrong, especially
during a five-game skid after
beating the Niners 27-6 on Nov.
1 before the recent three-game
winning streak.
“We wanted to finish out the
season at .500 with this group of
guys, so it was a big disappointment,” defensive end Eugene
Sims said. “I’ve felt all season
like we were a playoff team, but
just had some bad bounces that
put us in some bad situations.”
Before Dawson came through
with his foot, reigning NBA MVP
Stephen Curry of the champion
Golden State Warriors drew the
biggest cheers of the day when
shown on the big screen in the
third quarter. He obliged with a
wave and a smile.
Boldin knocked down cornerback Janoris Jenkins on his
33-yard TD catch 8 seconds into
the second quarter. Dawson
kicked a 26-yard field goal in the
second quarter and a 28-yarder
in the third.
After seeing what happened
to Zuerlein moments earlier in
OT, Dawson wasn’t counting on
anything coming easily.
“I’m sure people were thinking, ‘Oh, it’s just a no-brainer,’
but I’m trotting out there thinking, ‘I’ve missed one shorter
than this, we’ve given up a couple blocks this year,’” Dawson
said. “You know they’re going
to be bringing the heat. It’s not
a gimme.”
Gabbert passed for 354 yards
and a 33-yard touchdown to
Anquan Boldin for the 49ers
(5-11), who avoided their worst
finish since going 4-12 in 2005.
Late in the second quarter,
Gabbert had a pass tipped by
Aaron Donald and Sims made
the interception and returned it
42 yards. Tre Mason ran for a
4-yard score two plays later.
Then in the waning minutes
with a chance for a go-ahead
touchdown on third-and-goal,
Gabbert made an errant pitch
backward to DuJuan Harris for
a 12-yard loss before Harris
pounced on the ball.
The Rams struggled without
rookie running back Todd Gurley, sidelined with a foot injury.
Mason carried 18 times for 44
yards and the Rams were held
scoreless after halftime.
“Heartbreakers like that are
tough,” Keenum said. “It’s the
last game of the season, it leaves
a bad taste in your mouth. And
now we’re going to have that
taste in our mouth the rest of the
(year).”
Notes: Rams LB Daren
Bates suffered a knee injury. …
St. Louis TE Lance Kendricks
caught a pass all five times he
was targeted.
AP
Dontae Johnson of the 49ers blocks a field-goal attempt
by the Rams’ Greg Zuerlein during overtime of Sunday’s
game in Santa Clara, Calif.
0 10
0 7 — 17
14 0
9 0 — 23
First Quarter
KC—Maclin 25 pass from A.Smith (Santos kick),
10:52. Drive: 8 plays, 80 yards, 4:08. Key Plays:
A.Smith 18 pass to Sherman; West 13 run; A.Smith
10 pass to Kelce on 3rd-and-8; A.Smith 12 pass to
Maclin. Kansas City 7, Oakland 0.
KC—Ware 3 run (Santos kick), :51. Drive: 12
plays, 87 yards, 6:05. Key Plays: A.Smith 9 run on
3rd-and-4; Ware 15 run; A.Smith 6 run on 4th-and-1;
A.Smith 16 pass to Conley; Maclin 18 run. Kansas
City 14, Oakland 0.
Second Quarter
Oak—FG Janikowski 29, 13:40. Drive: 5 plays,
27 yards, 2:11. Key Plays: Jones 70 kickoff return
to Kansas City 38; Carr 19 pass to Walford; Carr 10
pass to Murray. Kansas City 14, Oakland 3.
Oak—Amerson 24 interception return (Janikowski
kick), 3:27. Kansas City 14, Oakland 10.
Third Quarter
KC—Alexander safety, 9:01. Kansas City 16,
Oakland 10.
KC—Harris 15 pass from A.Smith (Santos kick),
7:03. Drive: 4 plays, 53 yards, 1:58. Key Plays:
A.Smith 17 pass to Maclin on 3rd-and-4; Mack
15-yard roughing the passer penalty. Kansas City
23, Oakland 10.
Fourth Quarter
Oak—Crabtree 31 pass from Carr (Janikowski
kick), 2:01. Drive: 5 plays, 72 yards, 1:14. Key Plays:
Gained possession on downs at Oakland 28; Helu
Jr. 3 run on 4th-and-1; R.Parker 15-yard taunting
penalty; S.Smith 14-yard defensive pass interference
penalty. Kansas City 23, Oakland 17.
A—76,114.
Time—2:57.
———
Oak
KC
FIRST DOWNS
14
23
Rushing
2
12
Passing
9
9
Penalty
3
2
THIRD DOWN EFF
3-14
6-13
FOURTH DOWN EFF
1-1
1-2
TOTAL NET YARDS
205
339
Total Plays
55
65
Avg Gain
3.7
5.2
NET YARDS RUSHING
48
189
Rushes
16
39
Avg per rush
3.0
4.8
NET YARDS PASSING
157
150
Sacked-Yds lost
6-37
1-9
Gross-Yds passing
194
159
Completed-Att.
21-33
15-25
Had Intercepted
1
2
Yards-Pass Play
4.0
5.8
KICKOFFS-EndZone-TB
5-1-1
4-3-0
PUNTS-Avg.
7-38.7
5-35.6
Punts blocked
1
0
FGs-PATs blocked
0-0
0-0
TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE
173
52
Punt Returns
0-0
3-22
Kickoff Returns
4-147
3-30
Interceptions
2-26
1-0
PENALTIES-Yds
7-59
5-55
FUMBLES-Lost
2-0
0-0
TIME OF POSSESSION
25:05
34:55
———
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING—Oakland, Murray 11-31, Carr 2-12,
Helu Jr. 3-5. Kansas City, Ware 16-76, A.Smith 9-61,
West 13-34, Maclin 1-18.
PASSING—Oakland, Carr 21-33-1-194. Kansas
City, A.Smith 14-24-2-156, Santos 1-1-0-3.
RECEIVING—Oakland, Walford 4-46, Murray
4-25, Crabtree 3-34, Roberts 3-20, Helu Jr. 2-23,
Cooper 2-20, Rivera 2-12, Olawale 1-14. Kansas
City, Maclin 3-54, A.Wilson 3-24, Conley 2-22, Sherman 2-21, Avant 2-15, Harris 1-15, Kelce 1-10, West
1-(minus 2).
PUNT RETURNS—Oakland, None. Kansas City,
Hammond Jr. 3-22.
KICKOFF RETURNS—Oakland, Jones 3-124,
Ross 1-23. Kansas City, Conley 1-14, Ware 1-14,
Branch 1-2.
TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS—Oakland, Mack
7-3-0, Woodson 6-1-0, Alexander 5-1-0, Carrie 5-00, Heeney 4-0-0, M.Smith 3-2-0, Ellis 3-0-0, Harris
2-1-1, Lofton 2-1-0, Mays 2-1-0, Amerson 2-0-0,
McGee 1-1-0, D.Williams 1-1-0, Autry 1-0-0, Hayden
1-0-0, A.Holmes 1-0-0, Mayowa 1-0-0, McGill 1-0-0,
Olawale 1-0-0, Thorpe 1-0-0. Kansas City, Johnson
8-2-0, R.Parker 5-1-1, S.Smith 4-2-0, Branch 4-0-1,
Zombo 3-1-1, Howard 3-1-1, Ford 2-1-1, Bailey 2-0-0,
Mauga 1-1-0, Sorensen 1-1-0, DeVito 1-0-1, Fleming
1-0-0, Hali 1-0-0, Moses 1-0-0, Nelson 1-0-0, Peters
1-0-0, Poe 1-0-0, A.Wilson 1-0-0.
INTERCEPTIONS—Oakland, Amerson 1-24, Carrie 1-2. Kansas City, R.Parker 1-0.
MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.
Chiefs: Morse sidelined
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The Raiders (7-9) accounted
for two of those victories.
“We believe in each other.
That’s what happens when a
team and a family come together,” Chiefs running back Charcandrick West said. “This is a
super rare team. We have something special going on here.”
In perhaps their final season
in Oakland, the Raiders only
mustered a field goal on offense
until the final minutes, when
Carr connected with Michael
Crabtree from 31 yards out.
They did get the ball back
with 1:34 left, but Carr took
one final sack that helped time
expire.
Carr finished with 194 yards
passing, leaving him 13 yards
short of 4,000 for the season.
Latavius Murray, the AFC’s rushing leader coming in, carried
11 times for just 31 yards, while
David Amerson had a pick-six
late in the first half for the Raiders’ only other touchdown.
“We sputtered,” said Carr,
who hurt his right hand during
the game. “Sometimes when we
needed it the most, we looked
like ourselves. But other times
we just looked sloppy.”
The Chiefs started crisply for
the third straight game, driving 80 yards for a score on their
opening possession. Jeremy
Maclin capped it with a 25-yard
touchdown reception.
After forcing a punt, the
Chiefs cobbled together a creative 12-play, 87-yard drive that
included a jet sweep by Maclin
for a first down. Spencer Ware’s
short touchdown run made it
14-0.
“We started the game great,”
Smith said. “We were rolling.”
It was still 14-3 when Smith
threw interceptions on consecutive passes, though neither of
them was to Charles Woodson
— the veteran safety playing the
final game of his sterling 18-year
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career.
The first was picked by T.J.
Carrie late in the second quarter.
Then, after Carr was picked off
in the end zone by the Chiefs’
Ron Parker a few minutes later,
Smith tossed another pass that
was caught by Amerson and
returned 24 yards for a touchdown that got Oakland within
14-10.
Smith had only thrown five
interceptions all season, at one
point going 312 passes without
one.
“It’s funny how that happens,”
he said, “back to back.”
The Raiders’ offense fared
no better, though. On their first
chance of the second half, Carr
was sacked twice and Marquette
King had his punt blocked
through the end zone for a safety.
Kansas City got the ball back
on the free kick and got back
in synch on offense. Smith hit
Maclin for a long gain on third
down, and then hit Demetrius
Harris in the end zone. It was the
seventh catch of the season for
Harris, and the first of the former college basketball player’s
career.
The Raiders got within 23-17
on Crabtree’s touchdown, but
their comeback ran out of time.
“I would have liked to walk off
the field with a win,” said Woodson, who began his career with
Oakland in the same stadium on
Sept. 6, 1998. “There’s nothing
like going out there between the
lines every Sunday afternoon or
whatever day you play. I had
such a great time doing it.”
Notes: Maclin briefly left the
game with a bruised hip. He
returned to finish. … Chiefs C
Mitch Morse was being evaluated for a concussion and did
not return. … Woodson finished
with 65 picks, tied for fifth in
NFL history. … The Chiefs had
189 yards rushing. The Raiders
had 48.
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Chiefs fullback Anthony Sherman (42) and linebacker
Frank Zombo watch the Broncos’ game against the Chargers on the big screen following Sunday’s game against
the Raiders in Kansas City.
Browns: Lack talent
Continued from p. 1
in the search.
“We want to get the right person,” Haslam said. “I don’t know
if it’s going to take two weeks or
two months.”
Once the Browns have their
coach, they then will hire a general manager. Haslam said Sashi
Brown has been promoted to
vice president of football operations and will have control over
the 53-man roster.
Haslam still believes the
Browns are attractive to quality
candidates and downplayed the
idea the team needs to make a
“splash” with its coaching hire.
“We want to find the right
head coach who I believe
will be the leader of the team
and the face of the franchise,”
said Haslam, who returned to
FirstEnergy Stadium following
a meeting with Pettine at team
headquarters in Berea, Ohio.
“We are very determined to get
that right person.”
Following Sunday’s game,
the 50-year-old Pettine said he
understood change was looming
— and inevitable.
“It should be a topic of speculation, given what our results
have been,” Pettine told reporters. “It is a bottom-line business and you guys don’t have
a column in the newspaper for
moral victories. Our record is
that we have won three of our
last 21 games. That is just not
good enough.”
It hasn’t helped that the
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Browns lacked talent, especially
offensive playmakers, and that
was Farmer’s fault. The Browns
have whiffed on high draft picks,
wasted money on a defense that
showed little improvement, and
remain at the bottom of one of
the NFL’s toughest divisions.
Manziel:
Continued from p. 1
winter specializing in drug and
alcohol abuse. He began the
season as a backup, took over
as starter and was benched two
games by Pettine after a video
surfaced of him partying in Austin, Texas, during a bye week.
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SPORTS
MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2016
Title
fight
Clemson’s O-line vs.
Alabama’s defensive
front seven
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) —
Clemson’s offensive line has
conquered challenges all season.
Its final one — and perhaps biggest — will come in the national
championship game against Alabama’s dominating defense.
“We’ve always been a question mark around here,” Tigers
center Jay Guillermo said.
There certainly will be more
questions about the line and the
top-ranked Tigers (14-0) leading up to their matchup on Jan.
11 in Arizona with the powerful Crimson Tide (13-1), which
completely shut down Big Ten
champion Michigan State 38-0
in the Cotton Bowl last Thursday
night.
No. 2 Alabama held the Spartans to a season-low 239 yards as
linebacker Reggie Ragland and
defensive end Jonathan Allen
had their way against Michigan
State’s offensive line, combining
for four sacks and six tackles for
loss.
The Clemson offensive line
— none who were starters before
this year — know they have to
fare better, even if there are questions whether they actually can.
“People doubt us all the time,”
Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said.
“Nobody believes in this team
except these guys.”
The Tigers’ unit is a group
that early on didn’t look like it
could anchor a national championship run.
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(Left) Alabama defensive lineman Jonathan Allen sacks Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook during the first half of the Cotton Bowl on Thursday in Arlington, Texas. (Right) Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) is congratulated by linemen Christian Wilkins (42) and Mitch Hyatt (75)
after Watson scored a touchdown during the first half of the Orange Bowl on Thursday in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Of the two returning starters
from last season, center Ryan
Norton was slowed by an injury
and tackle Isaiah Battle left the
team for the NFL supplemental
draft in the summer, when he
was selected by the Rams.
Clemson had to rely on Guillermo, a junior who had given up
football last season because of
personal issues, to snap the ball
to quarterback Deshaun Watson
and a talented, yet at that time,
unproven true freshman Mitch
Hyatt to protect Watson’s blindside.
They managed to answer the
challenges 14 straight times.
The group, which also
includes guards Eric Mac Lain
and Tyrone Crowder and right
tackle Joe Gore, gradually
gelled and became the engine
that drives Clemson’s relentless
offense.
Watson and tailback Wayne
Gallman surpassed 100 yards
on the ground in the 37-17 win
against Oklahoma at the Orange
Bowl and the Tigers finished
with 312 yards rushing,
The line helped Watson
become Clemson’s single-season total yardage leader (4,731)
and Gallman gain the most rushing yards (1,482) in school history.
All five of members of the
offensive line received honors
on one of the three all-Atlantic
Coast Conference postseason
teams.
“It’s been a long journey,”
said Mac Lain, the former tight
end who had made only one
start before this season.
Watson, who was coming
off a knee injury this offseason,
remembers the bond he saw
growing among the linemen.
“It was just really during summer workouts, all the stuff they
did,” Watson said. “Just hanging
out. You could see the relationship building.”
Once the season began,
things did not come so quickly.
The Clemson offense was
held to 20 points, its lowest total
all year, against Louisville in September; then 296 yards, also a
season low, a game later against
Notre Dame.
But the linemen knew they
were close to putting things
together.
Clemson has had 10 straight
games of 500 yards or more on
offense, powering to an undefeated season, an ACC title and
the chance to try for the program’s first national title since
1981.
“We really had a mentality
here of wanting to prove people
wrong,” Guillermo said.
Clemson will do that in a big
way if it can hold off the Crimson Tide defense, which limited Michigan State to 29 yards
rushing.
Alabama’s Allen said the
Crimson Tide concentrates on
taking away the run so they can
get after the quarterback.
“If you stop the run, you get
rewarded with pass rushing,”
said Allen, who had two sacks
against the Spartans. “That’s just
our mentality.”
If Alabama shuts down Clemson’s run game, it will go a long
way in helping Alabama win its
fourth national championship in
seven years. The Tigers, however, believe they can slow down
the Crimson Tide so Watson and
Gallman can make the plays
they’ve made all season.
“We know we’re only going
to go as far as our offensive line
takes us,” Guillermo said. “It
starts with us putting the game
on our back. That’s what we want
to do.”
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(Left) Kansas guard Frank Mason III passes the ball against Baylor on Saturday in
Lawrence, Kan. (Right) Oklahoma forward Ryan Spangler shoots a layup past Hawaii
center and former Missouri Tiger Stefan Jovanovic in the Diamond Head Classic on
Dec. 23 in Honolulu.
Top two to tango
Kansas, Oklahoma poised for
possible 1-2 matchup
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — There is a nice bit of
symmetry to the fact that Kansas and Oklahoma
could be meeting tonight at Allen Fieldhouse as
the top two teams in the country.
That’s because they were also 1-2 the last time
their league had such a matchup.
Of course, those were the days of the old Big
Eight, before the Big 12 expanded to 12 — and
then became 10. It happened in the 1990 conference tournament semifinals at Kansas City’s
Kemper Arena, when the top-ranked Sooners ran
roughshod against the second-ranked Jayhawks
on their way to the title.
This time, Kansas will likely be No. 1 and Oklahoma will be No. 2, assuming voters move both
up a notch when the AP poll is released today.
Top-ranked Michigan State lost to Iowa this past
week.
“It’s going to be fun,” Sooners star Buddy Hield
said.
The matchup comes just three days into the
conference schedule. The Jayhawks blew out No.
23 Baylor 102-74 on Saturday while the Sooners
rallied past No. 11 Iowa State 87-83, setting up the
potential 1-2 matchup.
Kansas (12-1) has not lost since blowing a lead
against the Spartans in the Champions Classic in
Chicago in mid-November. The Sooners (12-0)
are off to their best start in 28 years.
The two teams couldn’t be more similar, starting with their experience.
The Jayhawks return most of their core from
last season, led by high-scoring guard Wayne
Selden and steady Perry Ellis, making them one
of Bill Self’s most experienced teams.
Oklahoma has four players — Hield, Isaiah
Cousins, Jordan Woodard and Ryan Spangler
— that have each started the last 80 games.
Khadeem Lattin gives the Sooners’s top five 332
combined starts.
Then there’s their composition.
The Jayhawks have become a backcourt-oriented team that starts two point guards in Frank
Mason III and Devonte Graham. They’re shooting
46 percent from the 3-point line, second best in
the NCAA, and are averaging 88.3 points, trailing
only The Citadel and Duke.
The Sooners likewise have a pair of exceptional ball-handlers in Cousins and Woodard. Throw
in Hield and Oklahoma has a backcourt trio that
is a big reason the Sooners are shooting 45.3 percent from 3, a notch behind Kansas, and averaging 87 points — sixth-best nationally.
“I’ve seen them play a couple of times. I watch
their guards and stuff,” Graham said. “They’re
aggressive, just like we are. They can knock down
open shots. Good one-on-one players. They have
to keep us out of the paint, just like we have to
keep them out of the paint.”
The last meeting between No. 1 and No. 2
occurred on Nov. 12, 2013, when Michigan State
knocked off Kentucky in Chicago. But there have
only been five such meetings since the turn of the
century, and one of those was the 2005 national
title game when North Carolina beat Illinois.
Even rarer is a 1-2 matchup at Allen Fieldhouse.
The storied building has bathed in such a
spotlight only once, when second-ranked Missouri beat No. 1 Kansas 77-71 on Feb. 13, 1990.
Self was a young assistant at Oklahoma State at
the time, and the Jayhawks would go on to lose
to the Sooners in that other 1-2 matchup a few
weeks later.
“What could be really cool, it doesn’t happen
often, is where 1 plays 1,” Self said, alluding to the
fact that Kansas may top the AP poll and Oklahoma may lead the coaches’ poll. “I think that makes
for a pretty interesting storyline.”
Chicago’s Jimmy Butler celebrates a 3-pointer against the Raptors on Sunday in
Toronto as former Missouri Tiger DeMarre Carrol looks on.
Historic company
Butler tops Jordan’s
Bulls record with
40 points in half
TORONTO (AP) — For one
half, Jimmy Butler was better
than Michael Jordan.
That’s all it was, Butler said.
One half. Still, it was an amazing run.
Butler broke the Hall of Famer’s team record for points in a
half, scoring 40 of his 42 after
the break to lead the Chicago
Bulls against the Toronto Raptors 115-113 on Sunday.
Jordan had 39, also in the
second half, in a game against
Milwaukee in 1989. Butler shot
14-of-19 in the final two quarters after a 1-for-4 start in the
Bulls’ fourth straight win.
“Don’t compare me to him,”
Butler said. “I don’t want to be
compared to him because then
people are going to think I got to
do what he did. I’m trying, but
we’re nowhere near the same
player.”
One of Jordan’s teammates
was pretty impressed, though.
“What a performance by JimmyButler. You don’t see individual efforts like this too often,”
Scottie Pippen said in a tweet.
Butler’s performance came
after he got stitches in his
mouth. He was accidentally
elbowed by former Missouri
Tiger DeMarre Carroll in the
second quarter after making a
basket. He needed one stitch to
close the wound and ready him
for the second half.
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“I was mad but I just came
out and was just aggressive,” he
said.
He scored 21 points in the
third quarter, the most the Raptors have given up to an opponent in a single quarter this season, shooting 7-of-9 from the
floor and making all seven of his
free-throw attempts.
In the fourth, Butler put the
Bulls in front with a 3-pointer from the corner with 30.9
seconds to go to give Chicago
its first lead since early in the
second. A pair of free throws
by Butler closed out the victory
shortly afterward.
His coach was in awe of Butler’s outing.
“I’ll say this: It’s the best performance I’ve seen coaching,”
said Fred Hoiberg.
The Bulls coach was also full
of praise for the way his team
responded in the second half,
saying the four-game winning
streak his club is now on closed
out “a very important week for
us.”
Butler’s teammates were
equally complimentary.
“It’s not just that he scored
a lot of points, he did it in a
very efficient way and he did it
in a way that was critical for us
to win the ballgame,” said Pau
Gasol, who registered his 17th
double-double of the season
with 19 points and 13 rebounds.
While Raptors coach Dwane
Casey said he tried everything
to slow Butler down, he was
also upset about being in front
for the majority of the game and
failing to close out the victory.
The Raptors haven’t beaten the
Bulls since Dec. 31, 2013.
“We can’t give up 34 points
in the fourth quarter,” he said.
“You have to put your foot down,
put your foot on their neck and
close it out. I thought we had
control up to that point, but we
just didn’t put our stamp on it in
the fourth quarter defensively.”
DeMar DeRozan, who led
the Raptors with 24 points
and made a season-high three
3-pointers, had a chance to
win the game at the end with a
3-pointer, but his shot narrowly missed, hitting the rim and
bouncing clear.
“I thought I had a good look
at the end for the 3,” he said. “I
thought it was good.”
Lowry with the Double
Toronto guard Kyle Lowry
earned his second straight double-double and fifth of the season with 22 points and a gamehigh 10 assists. Lowry is now
averaging 8.7 assists in his last
six games.
Quotable
Butler on the elbow from
Carroll that required stitches:
“He didn’t do it on purpose but
he messed my swagger up so I
can’t go on a date for a while.”
No Rose
Derrick Rose sat out his third
straight game with a right hamstring injury, although Hoiberg
said, “it is definitely getting better.” Rose will undergo an MRI
today on the knee, the same
knee he has previously had two
surgeries on.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2016
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Manning gets the win in relief
Comes off bench
to help Broncos earn
top seed in AFC
DENVER (AP) — The top
seed in the AFC playoffs belongs
to Denver, along with a quarterback quandary.
Peyton Manning’s stint as a
backup didn’t last very long. He
replaced Brock Osweiler in the
third quarter Sunday and led the
Broncos to a 27-20 win against
San Diego.
Coach Gary Kubiak said he
played a hunch, but he refused
to reveal who will be his starter in the playoffs — or even
acknowledge he has quite the
puzzle at the position.
Osweiler threw for 232 yards,
including a 72-yard TD pass
to Demaryius Thomas on the
game’s second play. But he was
victimized by five turnovers,
including two interceptions that
weren’t his fault, and a fumble by Emmanuel Sanders at
the 10-yard line after a 46-yard
reception.
One of Osweiler’s interceptions went off receiver Jordan
Norwood’s hands. His arm was
hit by a linebacker on the other,
and his day was done after a
fumble by C.J. Anderson on the
second play after halftime.
None of that was his fault, but
the Broncos needed a spark and
Manning provided it.
“I don’t think Brock did anything wrong,” Kubiak said. “I
know we had the turnovers, but
a couple of them he had nothing
to do with. But just my gut told
me to turn it over to (Manning)
and let him lead the football
team. I’m just very proud of him.
He’s worked really hard to stay
there for us and it couldn’t be a
bigger day to be there for us.”
Manning led Denver to 20
points in 1½ quarters despite
going just 5-of-9 for 69 yards.
“It was tough on the emotions,” Osweiler said. “But winning the AFC West is what it’s all
about.”
Denver did that for the fifth
consecutive time, staving off the
Kansas City Chiefs, whose 23-17
win against Oakland would have
sent the Broncos (12-4) tumbling
into the wild-card round with a
loss to San Diego.
The Chargers (4-12) wrapped
up what might have been their
final season representing San
Diego as ownership tries to
move the team to L.A.
Manning’s last scoring drive
lasted one play: a 23-yard run by
Ronnie Hillman after emergency
safety Shiloh Keo, who surrendered Antonio Gates’ go-ahead
TD in the third quarter, picked
off Philip Rivers’ errant pass with
just under five minutes remaining.
Keo was in because starter
Darian Stewart aggravated a
pulled hamstring, one of two big
injuries for Denver. The Broncos
also lost Pro Bowl pass rusher
DeMarcus Ware to a knee injury.
Rivers, for one, was surprised
to see Osweiler get the hook.
“It wasn’t like he was stinking
it up out there,” Rivers said. “But
not surprised in the sense that
you have a guy that hasn’t been a
backup in a game since ’94 and is
one of the best of all time.”
Manning was healthy enough
to suit up for the first time in
seven weeks. Previously, in street
clothes he’d watched his longtime understudy either from the
sideline or on TV while dealing
ished a third straight losing season and a fourth straight year out
of the playoffs.
After meeting with Eagles
interim coach Pat Shurmur at
midfield, Coughlin walked off
the field, waving to the crowd
just before walking into the tunnel.
Coughlin, who led the Giants
to two Super Bowl titles in his
12 seasons, has a year left on his
contract. His future is expected
to be decided soon by co-owners
John Mara and Steve Tisch.
The 69-year-old might retire
and end his 20-year NFL head
coaching career.
Redskins 34, Cowboys 23
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Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning pulls grass out of his helmet after a hit in Sunday’s game with the Chargers in Denver.
with an injured left foot. This was
Manning’s first game serving as a
backup since his freshman year
at Tennessee when he replaced
an injured Todd Helton against
Mississippi State on Sept. 24,
1994.
Because he didn’t start, Manning didn’t break the tie he holds
with Brett Favre for most regular-season wins, 186.
Manning said his foot felt
good after the game, but he has
to see how he feels today after
taking a hard hit from defensive
tackle Damion Square.
“He got me right in the chest,”
Manning said. “I’ve got to see
how I feel tomorrow. I’m glad
we won the division. I’m glad we
won this game today. That would
have been pretty sickening (to
lose). It’s been a different year. I
was glad to be able to contribute
in some way today.”
Bills 22, Jets 17
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. —
Ryan Fitzpatrick threw interceptions on each of New York’s final
three drives and the Jets’ playoff
hopes were dashed.
The Jets (10-6) would have
made the postseason for the first
time since 2010 with a win, but
the defeat combined with Pittsburgh’s win at Cleveland ended
those hopes. New York had a fivegame winning streak stopped,
and the loss came against former
Jets coach Rex Ryan — fired by
New York and hired by the Bills
(8-8) last January.
Fitzpatrick, who had thrown
just one interception in the Jets’
winning streak, was picked off by
Leodis McKelvin in the end zone
early in the fourth quarter with
New York driving.
The game was decided when
Fitzpatrick’s side-arm pass over
the middle was intercepted by
A.J. Tarpley with 11 seconds
remaining.
Steelers 28, Browns 12
CLEVELAND — Ben Roethlisberger threw three touchdown
passes, Pittsburgh’s defense
dominated and the Steelers
slipped into the AFC playoffs
with the win against Cleveland.
The Steelers (10-6) had to
win and needed Buffalo to knock
off the New York Jets to make
the postseason. Pittsburgh did
its part, then earned a wild-card
berth when the Bills beat the
Jets. Pittsburgh will play at Cincinnati to start the playoffs.
Roethlisberger threw for 349
yards, 187 to Antonio Brown,
who had 13 catches and a TD.
Wilson threw three touchdown
passes in a second-quarter outburst and Seattle snapped Arizona’s nine-game winning streak.
Seattle will play at Minnesota
in the wild-card round.
The Seahawks (10-6) dominated from their opening possession and led 30-6 at the half.
It was a sour end to the regular season for the NFC West
champion Cardinals (13-3), who
already had clinched the NFC’s
No. 2 seed and a first-round playoff bye.
Dolphins 20, Patriots 10
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. —
Tom Brady was sacked twice
and knocked down at least half
a dozen times, and New England
missed a chance to clinch the
No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs.
Brady watched New England’s
final offensive series from the
sideline. With the Patriots eager
to protect his health, he threw a
season-low 21 passes, but even
so was lucky to make it through
the game in one piece.
New England (12-4) ends up
Eagles 35, Giants 30
a No. 2 seed after Denver earned
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
the top seed.
— The Giants suffered anothTexans 30, Jaguars 6
er tough loss in what may have
HOUSTON — J.J. Watt been Tom Coughlin’s final game.
and Whitney Mercilus led the
Former Giant Walter Thurdefense and Jonathan Grimes mond scored on an 83-yard
scored twice to help the Texans fumble return in the third quarclinch the AFC South.
ter and Philadelphia added to
Houston will host Kansas City Coughlin’s season-long frustrain a wild-card game.
tions.
Grimes had a 12-yard touchIt was the third straight loss
down reception and added for the Giants (6-10) and fina 3-yard rushing score in the
second quarter to help Houston take a 20-3 lead by halftime.
Kareem Jackson added a score
on an interception return in the
fourth quarter to pad the lead.
Watt, playing without a cast
for the first time since breaking
his left hand Dec. 9, had had
three sacks, forced a fumble and
recovered another one to help
the Texans (9-7) to their first
division title and playoff berth
since 2012.
and gave Indy a 20-14 halftime
lead with an 18-yard TD pass.
Tennessee (3-13) clinched
the No. 1 draft pick by losing
its fourth straight. Quarterback
Zach Mettenberger fell to 0-10
as a starter.
Saints 20, Falcons 17
ATLANTA — Jamarca Sanford’s interception at the Atlanta 25 with less than two minutes remaining set up Kai Forbath’s 30-yard field goal as time
expired.
Sanford cut in front of Devonta Freeman for the interception
with 1:47 remaining.
Lions 24, Bears 20
CHICAGO — Matthew Stafford threw for 298 yards and
three touchdowns, Calvin Johnson had 137 yards receiving for
the Lions.
Detroit (7-9) avoided a lastplace finish in the NFC North
with its sixth win in eight games.
Whether the Lions bring back
coach Jim Caldwell for a third
season remains to be seen.
He led them to a rare playoff
appearance last year, but a 1-7
start put his future in doubt.
The Lions intercepted Jay
Cutler three times.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Kirk
Cousins threw for three touchdowns before leaving late in the
first half of a playoff tuneup.
Cousins broke Jay Shroeder’s
franchise record for yards passing in a season, finishing with
4,166. Had the game mattered,
he might have threatened Sonny
Jurgensen’s 48-year-old team
record of 31 touchdown passes,
instead settling for 29.
The Redskins (9-7) won four
straight to finish the season,
their longest streak since winning the last seven the last time
Vikings 20, Packers 13
they made the playoffs in 2012.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The
The NFC East champions will
be the No. 4 seed on wild-card Minnesota Vikings won the NFC
North by holding on for a 20-13
weekend and host the Packers.
win.
Colts 30, Titans 24
Adrian Peterson ran for a
INDIANAPOLIS — Recently
signed Josh Freeman and Ryan touchdown, cornerback Captain
Lindley each threw a touchdown Munnerlyn returned a fumble 55
pass in the first half and Jerrell yards for a score and Minnesota
Freeman scored on a 23-yard (11-5) claimed its first division
interception in the second for title since 2009.
The Vikings now will host
the Colts.
The Colts (8-8) won their last the Seattle Seahawks for a wildtwo games to avoid their first los- card game. The Packers (10-6)
ing season since 2011, but didn’t will travel to Washington after
get the help they needed — a watching their four-year reign
Houston loss and seven other atop the NFC North end.
The upstart Vikings survived
games to go the right way — to
despite a shaky finish in hostile
make the postseason.
Freeman was 15-of-28 for 149 territory. The defense knocked
yards and one interception while away a desperation pass in the
running Indy’s regular offense. end zone from Aaron Rodgers
Lindley ran the 2-minute offense on fourth down as time expired.
Bengals 24, Ravens 16
CINCINNATI — A.J. McCarron overcame a rough start and
threw a pair of TD passes.
The Bengals (12-4) matched
the best record in franchise history — they also won 12 games
during the 1981 and 1988 seasons when they reached the
Super Bowl.
The AFC North champions
wasted a chance to clinch the
No. 2 seed when they lost in
Denver 20-17 on Monday night.
Panthers 38, Buccaneers 10
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cam
Newton ran for two touchdowns
and threw for two more, and
Carolina captured the NFC’s No.
1 seed for the first time.
Newton tied Steve Young’s
NFL record for most career TDs
rushing by a quarterback with
43. Young took 15 seasons to
reach that plateau; Newton did
it in five.
Seahawks 36, Cardinals 6
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Russell
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SPORTS
MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2016
Wild one in Phoenix
West Virginia works
late into night to get
win in Cactus Bowl
AP
West Virginia wide receiver David Sills celebrates scoring the game-winning
touchdown against Arizona State in the Cactus Bowl.
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona
State’s point-after conversion chart
called for the Sun Devils to go for
2 after scoring a go-ahead touchdown late in the fourth quarter.
Instead, they inexplicably
kicked the extra point to take a
six-point lead, making it easier for
West Virginia to pull out a wild
43-42 victory in the Cactus Bowl
early Sunday.
“We were supposed to go for 2
and we didn’t,” Arizona State coach
Todd Graham said. “Mismanagement there and that is my responsibility.”
The Cactus Bowl made up for
its late start with an assault on the
record books. The teams combined
for 1,196 yards of offense and the
950 yards passing were the most in
the Cactus Bowl’s 27-year history.
West Virginia (8-5) is typically a
run-oriented team, but went to the
air against the Sun Devils.
Skyler Howard shredded Arizona State’s shoddy defensive
backfield, throwing for a Cactus
Bowl-record 532 yards and five
touchdowns, including a 15-yarder
to David Sills with 2:19 left.
The junior broke the Cactus
Bowl record of 476 yards set by
Washington State’s Drew Bledsoe
against Utah in 1992, and blew past
the school bowl record of 429 yards
set by Marc Bulger against Missouri
in Tucson in 1998.
“He is gritty, he doesn’t ever give
up, he continues to go. It doesn’t
matter what people think and people say,” West Virginia coach Dana
Holgorsen said. “He just keeps
going to work every day and keeps
getting better and better. I am really
proud of this kid.”
Tim White and Mike Bercovici
did their best to keep Arizona State
(6-7) in it.
White broke the school record
for all-purpose yards with 289,
scoring two touchdowns and even
a blocked PAT return.
Bercovici threw for 418 yards
and hit Gary Chambers on a 58-yard
pass for his fourth TD of the game
to put Arizona State ahead by five
with about 5 minutes left.
The decision to kick the extra
point to make it 42-36 instead of
going for 2 ended up costing Arizona State.
West Virginia went ahead by
one on Howard’s pass to Sills and
the PAT, and Arizona State turned
the ball over on downs on its last
possession to end its chances.
“It was my fault; should have
made sure it happened,” Graham
said of the 2-point conversion gaffe.
It didn’t help that the Sun Devils couldn’t stop the Mountaineers’
suddenly prolific passing game.
West Virginia came in 14th
nationally in rushing offense,
thanks in large part to Wendell
Smallwood. The Mountaineers
clearly saw something they liked
in Arizona State’s porous pass
defense, particularly cornerback
Kweishi Brown.
“We saw what we had over there
and just took advantage of it,” Howard said.
West Virginia went at Brown
early and picked on the rest of Arizona State’s secondary throughout
the first quarter, gaining 191 yards
on eight receptions. Trouble was,
the Mountaineers couldn’t capitalize, settling for three field goals.
The Mountaineers kept going at
Brown, though, and Shelton Gibson blew past him for a 59-yard
touchdown in the second quarter.
The Sun Devils took Brown out for
a few plays, but West Virginia went
right at him when he returned,
scoring on a 10-yard pass from
Howard to Daikiel Shorts.
Howard, whose career high
was 359 yards, had 334 on 15-of-26
passing by halftime.
“They kept throwing over the
top and scoring touchdowns,” Graham said. “We blew a couple coverages and then ran by.”
Arizona State’s high-octane
offense needed a tuneup early
before it found a gear that worked
in the second quarter, scoring on a
tackle-breaking, 19-yard reception
by Devin Lucien. But then it failed
on three tries from inside West Virginia’s 5-yard line and settled for
another field goal later.
A strange turn of events kept the
Sun Devils within 22-18 at halftime.
Arizona State blocked the extra
point after Shorts’ TD and White
returned it 98 yards for the first
2-point conversion return in school
history. West Virginia squibbed the
ensuing kickoff and Arizona State
recovered, taking advantage of the
short field to set up Zane Gonzalez’s 35-yard field goal with a
second left.
The third quarter turned into a
series of offensive counterpunches.
The Sun Devils moved quickly
for a 2-yard TD pass from Bercovici
to White. White scored again late
in the third quarter by breaking
three tackles and tight-roping his
way down the sideline on a 33-yard
reception.
The Mountaineers went back at
Brown, scoring on a 64-yard pass
from Howard to Gary Jennings,
though it appeared Brown was
expecting help from the safeties.
Brown was alone when Gibson
later caught a 37-yard completion
and Shorts scored on a 17-yard
pass the next play to put West Virginia up 36-32 heading into the
fourth quarter.
Chambers scored the go-ahead
touchdown with just under 5 minutes left when West Virginia safety
Dravon Askew-Henry slipped, but
the failure to go for 2 came back to
haunt the Sun Devils.
PREPBASKETBALLTOURNAMENTRESULTS,SCHEDULES
Boys
Tri-County Conf. Tournament
AT ELDON
SATURDAY, JAN. 2
First-round games
No. 1 Blair Oaks 86, No. 8 Warsaw 32
No. 5 Hallsville 59, No. 4 California 57
No. 2 Southern Boone 74, No. 7 Versailles 41
No. 3 School of the Osage 55, No. 6 Eldon 49
TODAY, JAN. 4
Loser’s bracket semifinals
Warsaw vs. California, 7:30 p.m.
Versailles vs. Eldon, 9 p.m.
TUESDAY, JAN. 5
Winner’s bracket semifinals
Blair Oaks vs. Hallsville, 7:30 p.m.
Southern Boone vs. School of the Osage, 9 p.m.
THURSDAY, JAN. 7
Seventh-place game
Warsaw-California loser vs. Versailles-Eldon loser,
6 p.m.
Fifth-place game
Warsaw-California winner vs. Versailles-Eldon winner, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 9
Third-place game
Blair Oaks-Hallsville loser vs. Southern BooneSchool of the Osage loser, 4 p.m.
Championship game
Blair Oaks-Hallsville winner vs. Southern BooneSchool of the Osage winner, 7 p.m.
Owensville Tournament
TODAY, JAN. 4
First-round games
No. 1 Sullivan vs. No. 8 Steelville, 5:30 p.m.
No. 4 Bourbon vs. No. 5 Wright City, 7 p.m.
TUESDAY, JAN. 5
First-round games
No. 3 Linn vs. No. 6 Owensville, 5:30 p.m.
No. 2 Pacific vs. No. 7 Cuba, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY, JAN. 7
Winner’s bracket semifinals
Sullivan-Steelville winner vs. Bourbon-Wright City
winner, 5:30 p.m.
Pacific-Cuba winner vs. Linn-Owensville winner,
7 p.m.
FRIDAY, JAN. 8
Loser’s bracket semifinals
Sullivan-Steelville loser vs. Bourbon-Wright City
loser, 5:30 p.m.
Pacific-Cuba loser vs. Linn-Owensville loser, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 9
Seventh-place game
TBD, 2:30 p.m.
Fifth-place game
TBD, 4 p.m.
Third-place game
TBD, 5:30 p.m.
Championship game
TBD, 7 p.m.
New Franklin Tournament
TODAY, JAN. 4
First-round games
No. 1 Westran vs. No. 8 Bunceton, 6 p.m.
No. 4 Sturgeon vs. No. 5 Tipton, 9 p.m.
TUESDAY, JAN. 5
First-round games
No. 2 Fayette vs. No. 7 Sweet Springs, 6 p.m.
No. 3 New Franklin vs. No. 6 Pilot Grove, 9 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6
Loser’s bracket semifinals
Westran-Bunceton loser vs. Sturgeon-Tipton loser,
6 p.m.
Fayette-Sweet Springs loser vs. New Franklin-Pilot
Grove loser, 9 p.m.
THURSDAY, JAN. 7
Winner’s bracket semifinals
Westran-Bunceton winner vs. Sturgeon-Tipton winner, 6 p.m.
Fayette-Sweet Springs winner vs. New Franklin-Pilot Grove winner, 9 p.m.
FRIDAY, JAN. 8
Seventh-place game
TBD, 6 p.m.
TBD, 9 p.m.
TBD, 1 p.m.
TBD, 4 p.m.
Fifth-place game
SATURDAY, JAN. 9
Third-place game
Championship game
Stover Tournament
TUESDAY, JAN. 5
First-round games
No. 4 Jamestown vs. No. 5 Stover, 4:30 p.m.
No. 1 Tuscumbia vs. No. 8 Laquey, 6 p.m.
No. 3 Stoutland vs. No. 6 Green Ridge, 7:30 p.m.
No. 2 Cole Camp vs. No. 7 Russellville, 9 p.m.
THURSDAY, JAN. 7
Loser’s bracket semifinals
Stoutland-Green Ridge loser vs. Cole Camp-Russellville loser, 4:30 p.m.
Jamestown-Stover loser vs. Tuscumbia-Laquey
loser, 9 p.m.
Winner’s bracket semifinals
Stoutland-Green Ridge winner vs. Cole Camp-Russellville winner, 6 p.m.
Jamestown-Stover winner vs. Tuscumbia-Laquey
winner, 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 9
Seventh-place game
TBD, 3 p.m.
Fifth-place game
TBD, 4:30 p.m.
Third-place game
TBD, 6 p.m.
Championship game
TBD, 7:30 p.m.
Kaminsky Classic
AT JOPLIN HIGH SCHOOL
THURSDAY, JAN. 7
First-round games
McDonald County vs. Lift for Life Academy, 4:30
p.m.
Webb City vs. St. Louis Christian Academy, 6 p.m.
Joplin vs. William Chrisman, 7:30 p.m.
Francis Howell vs. Jefferson City, 9 p.m.
FRIDAY, JAN. 8
Loser’s bracket semifinals
McDonald County-Lift for Life Academy loser vs.
Webb City-St. Louis Christian Academy loser, 4:30
p.m.
Joplin-William Chrisman loser vs. Francis Howell-Jefferson City loser, 6 p.m.
Winner’s bracket semifinals
McDonald County-Lift for Life Academy winner
vs. Webb City-St. Louis Christian Academy winner,
7:30 p.m.
Joplin-William Chrisman winner vs. Francis Howell-Jefferson City winner, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 9
Seventh-place game
TBD, 11 a.m.
Fifth-place game
TBD, 12:30 p.m.
Third-place game
TBD, 2 p.m.
Championship game
TBD, 3:30 p.m.
Calvary Lutheran Tourney
FRIDAY, JAN. 8
First-round games
At Calvary Lutheran
Vienna vs. The Fulton School at St. Albans, 7:30
p.m.
Calvary Lutheran vs. Lutheran: Kansas City, 9 p.m.
At Trinity Lutheran
Chamois vs. St. Louis Christian Home School
Association, 7:30 p.m.
Belle vs. St. Elizabeth, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 9
Winner’s bracket semifinals
Vienna-The Fulton School at St. Albans winner vs.
Calvary Lutheran-Lutheran: Kansas City winner, 11
a.m. (at Calvary Lutheran)
Chamois-St. Louis Christian Home School Association winner vs. Belle-St. Elizabeth winner, 12:30 p.m.
(at Calvary Lutheran)
Loser’s bracket semifinals
Vienna-Fulton School at St. Albans loser vs. Calvary Lutheran-Lutheran: Kansas City loser, 11 a.m. (at
Trinity Lutheran)
Chamois-St. Louis Christian Home School Association loser vs. Belle-St. Elizabeth loser, 12:30 p.m. (at
Trinity Lutheran)
Seventh-place game
TBD, 3:30 p.m. (at Lewis and Clark Middle School)
Fifth-place game
TBD, 3:30 p.m. (at Trinity Lutheran)
Third-place game
TBD, 3:30 p.m. (at Calvary Lutheran)
Championship game
TBD, 6:30 p.m. (at Calvary Lutheran)
California Tournament
POOL ASSIGNMENTS
Pool A
Fulton, Marshall, Southern Boone.
Pool B
Boonville, California, Fatima.
SCHEDULE
Monday, Jan. 11
7:30 p.m. — Southern Boone vs. Fulton
9 p.m. — Boonville vs. Fatima
Tuesday, Jan. 12
7:30 p.m. — Fulton vs. Marshall
9 p.m. — Fatima vs. California
Wednesday, Jan. 13
7:30 p.m. — Marshall vs. Southern Boone
9 p.m. — California vs. Boonville
Friday, Jan. 15
Fifth-place game
Pool A third place vs. Pool B third place, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 16
Third-place game
Pool A second place vs. Pool B second place,
4:30 p.m.
Championship game
Pool A first place vs. Pool B first place, 7:30 p.m.
South Callaway Invitational
AT HIGH SCHOOL (HS), MIDDLE SCHOOL (MS)
TUESDAY, JAN. 12
First-round games
No. 1 New Bloomfield vs. No. 8 Missouri Military
Academy, 6 p.m. (HS)
No. 4 South Callaway vs. No. 5 New Haven, 7:30
p.m. (HS)
No. 2 Montgomery County vs. No. 7 North Callaway, 6 p.m. (MS)
No. 3 Hermann vs. No. 6 Russellville, 7:30 p.m.
(MS)
THURSDAY, JAN. 14
Winner’s bracket semifinals
New Bloomfield-Missouri Military Academy winner
vs. South Callaway-New Haven winner, 6 p.m. (HS)
Montgomery County-North Callaway winner vs.
Hermann-Russellville winner, 7:30 p.m. (HS)
Loser’s bracket semifinals
New Bloomfield-Missouri Military Academy loser vs.
South Callaway-New Haven loser, 6 p.m. (MS)
Montgomery County-North Callaway loser vs. Hermann-Russellville loser, 7:30 p.m. (MS)
FRIDAY, JAN. 15
Seventh-place game
TBD, 7:30 p.m. (MS)
Fifth-place game
TBD, 7:30 p.m. (HS)
SATURDAY, JAN. 16
Third-place game
TBD, 2:30 p.m. (HS)
Championship game
TBD, 5:30 p.m. (HS)
Eldon Tournament
THURSDAY, JAN. 28
First-round games
Lebanon vs. Eugene, 4:30 p.m.
Eldon vs. O’Fallon Christian, 6 p.m.
Sedalia Smith-Cotton vs. Fox, 7:30 p.m.
Marquette vs. School of the Osage, 9 p.m.
FRIDAY, JAN. 29
Loser’s bracket semifinals
Sedalia Smith-Cotton-Fox loser vs. Mar-
quette-School of the Osage loser, 4:30 p.m.
Lebanon-Eugene loser vs. Eldon-O’Fallon Christian
loser, 6 p.m.
Winner’s bracket semifinals
Sedalia Smith-Cotton-Fox winner vs. Marquette-School of the Osage winner, 7:30 p.m.
Lebanon-Eugene winner vs. Eldon-O’Fallon Christian winner, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 30
Seventh-place game
TBD, 1 p.m. (at Eldon Middle School)
Fifth-place game
TBD, 1 p.m.
Third-place game
TBD, 4 p.m.
Championship game
TBD, 7 p.m.
Girls
Tri-County Conf. Tournament
AT ELDON
SATURDAY, JAN. 2
First-round games
No. 1 Southern Boone 84, No. 8 Versailles 21
No. 4 California 54, No. 5 Hallsville 49 (OT)
No. 2 School of the Osage 73, No. 7 Warsaw 25
No. 3 Eldon 73, No. 6 Blair Oaks 57
TODAY, JAN. 4
Loser’s bracket semifinals
Versailles vs. Hallsville, 4:30 p.m.
Warsaw vs. Blair Oaks, 6 p.m.
TUESDAY, JAN. 5
Winner’s bracket semifinals
Southern Boone vs. California, 4:30 p.m.
School of the Osage vs. Eldon, 6 p.m.
THURSDAY, JAN. 7
Seventh-place game
Versailles-Hallsville loser vs. Warsaw-Blair Oaks
loser, 4:30 p.m.
Fifth-place game
Versailles-Hallsville winner vs. Warsaw-Blair Oaks
winner, 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 9
Third-place game
Southern Boone-California loser vs. School of the
Osage-Eldon loser, 2:30 p.m.
Championship game
Southern Boone-California winner vs. School of the
Osage-Eldon winner, 5:30 p.m.
New Franklin Tournament
TODAY, JAN. 4
First-round games
No. 4 New Franklin vs. No. 5 Pilot Grove, 4:30 p.m.
No. 1 Tipton vs. No. 8 Bunceton, 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, JAN. 5
First-round games
No. 2 Westran vs. No. 7 Fayette, 4:30 p.m.
No. 3 Sturgeon vs. No. 6 Sweet Springs, 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6
Loser’s bracket semifinals
New Franklin-Pilot Grove loser vs. Tipton-Bunceton
loser, 4:30 p.m.
Westran-Fayette loser vs. Sturgeon-Sweet Springs
loser, 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, JAN. 7
Winner’s bracket semifinals
New Franklin-Pilot Grove winner vs. Tipton-Bunceton winner, 4:30 p.m.
Westran-Fayette winner vs. Sturgeon-Sweet
Springs winner, 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, JAN. 8
Seventh-place game
TBD, 4:30 p.m.
Fifth-place game
TBD, 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 9
Third-place game
TBD, 11:30 a.m.
Championship game
TBD, 2:30 p.m.
Stover Tournament
TODAY, JAN. 4
First-round games
No. 1 Stoutland vs. No. 8 Green Ridge, 3 p.m.
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No. 4 Stover vs. No. 5 Holden, 4:30 p.m.
No. 2 Tuscumbia vs. No. 7 Laquey, 6 p.m.
No. 3 Jamestown vs. No. 6 Cole Camp, 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6
Loser’s bracket semifinals
Tuscumbia-Laquey loser vs. Jamestown-Cole
Camp loser, 4:30 p.m.
Stoutland-Green Ridge loser vs. Stover-Holden
loser, 9 p.m.
Winner’s bracket semifinals
Tuscumbia-Laquey winner vs. Jamestown-Cole
Camp winner, 6 p.m.
Stoutland-Green Ridge winner vs. Stover-Holden
winner, 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, JAN. 8
Seventh-place game
TBD, 4:30 p.m.
Fifth-place game
TBD, 6 p.m.
Third-place game
TBD, 7:30 p.m.
Championship game
TBD, 9 p.m.
Calvary Lutheran Tourney
FRIDAY, JAN. 8
First-round games
At Calvary Lutheran
Metro East Lutheran vs. Linn, 4:30 p.m.
Calvary Lutheran vs. The Fulton School at St.
Albans, 6 p.m.
At Trinity Lutheran
Chamois vs. St. Paul Lutheran: Farmington, 4:30
p.m.
Lutheran: Kansas City vs. Belle, 6 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 9
Winner’s bracket semifinals
Metro East Lutheran-Linn winner vs. Calvary
Lutheran-The Fulton School at St. Albans winner, 8
a.m. (at Calvary Lutheran)
Chamois-St. Paul Lutheran: Farmington winner
vs. Lutheran: Kansas City-Belle winner, 9:30 a.m. (at
Calvary Lutheran)
Loser’s bracket semifinals
Metro East Lutheran-Linn loser vs. Calvary Lutheran-The Fulton School at St. Albans loser, 8 a.m. (at
Trinity Lutheran)
Chamois-St. Paul Lutheran: Farmington loser vs.
Lutheran: Kansas City-Belle loser, 9:30 a.m. (at Trinity
Lutheran)
Seventh-place game
TBD, 2 p.m. (at Lewis and Clark Middle School)
Fifth-place game
TBD, 2 p.m. (at Trinity Lutheran)
Third-place game
TBD, 2 p.m. (at Calvary Lutheran)
Championship game
TBD, 5 p.m. (at Calvary Lutheran)
California Tournament
MONDAY, JAN. 11
First-round games
No. 1 Jefferson City vs. No. 8 Marshall, 4:30 p.m.
No. 4 California vs. No. 5 Boonville, 6 p.m.
TUESDAY, JAN. 12
First-round games
No. 2 Southern Boone vs. No. 7 Battle, 4:30 p.m.
No. 3 Fulton vs. No. 6 Fatima, 6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13
Loser’s bracket semifinals
Jefferson City-Marshall loser vs. California-Boonville loser, 4:30 p.m.
Southern Boone-Battle loser vs. Fulton-Fatima
loser, 6 p.m.
THURSDAY, JAN. 14
Winner’s bracket semifinals
Jefferson City-Marshall winner vs. California-Boonville winner, 6 p.m.
Southern Boone-Battle winner vs. Fulton-Fatima
winner, 6 p.m.
FRIDAY, JAN. 15
Fifth-place game
TBD, 6 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 16
Third-place game
TBD, 3 p.m.
TBD, 6 p.m.
Championship game
South Callaway Invitational
AT HIGH SCHOOL (HS), MIDDLE SCHOOL (MS)
MONDAY, JAN. 11
First-round games
No. 1 Owensville vs. No. 8 Russellville, 6 p.m. (HS)
No. 4 South Callaway vs. N0. 5 New Haven, 7:30
p.m. (HS)
No. 2 Hermann vs. No. 7 South Callaway, 6 p.m.
(MS)
No. 3 New Bloomfield vs. No. 6 Montgomery County, 7:30 p.m. (MS)
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13
Winner’s bracket semifinals
Owensville-Russellville winner vs. South Callaway-New Haven winner, 6 p.m. (HS)
Hermann-South Callaway winner vs. New Bloomfield-Montgomery County winner, 7:30 p.m. (HS)
Loser’s bracket semifinals
Owensville-Russellville loser vs. South Callaway-New Haven loser, 6 p.m. (MS)
Hermann-South Callaway loser vs. New Bloomfield-Montgomery County loser, 7:30 p.m. (MS)
FRIDAY, JAN. 15
Seventh-place game
TBD, 6 p.m. (MS)
Fifth-place game
TBD, 6 p.m. (HS)
SATURDAY, JAN. 16
Third-place game
TBD, 1 p.m. (HS)
Championship game
TBD, 4 p.m. (HS)
Eldon Tournament
AT ELDON MIDDLE SCHOOL, UNLESS NOTED
THURSDAY, JAN. 28
First-round games
California vs. North Tech, 4:30 p.m.
Carl Junction vs. O’Fallon Christian, 6 p.m.
Eldon vs. Fox JV, 7:30 p.m.
Fox vs. Hogan Prep, 9 p.m.
FRIDAY, JAN. 29
Loser’s bracket semifinals
Eldon-Fox JV loser vs. Fox-Hogan Prep loser,
4:30 p.m.
California-North Tech loser vs. Carl Junction-O’Fallon Christian loser, 6 p.m.
Winner’s bracket semifinals
Eldon-Fox JV winner vs. Fox-Hogan Prep winner,
7:30 p.m.
California-North Tech winner vs. Carl Junction-O’Fallon Christian winner, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 30
Seventh-place game
TBD, 11:30 a.m.
Fifth-place game
TBD, 11:30 a.m. (at Eldon High School)
Third-place game
TBD, 2:30 p.m. (at Eldon High School)
Championship game
TBD, 5:30 p.m. (at Eldon High School)
Preps
Gary Filbert Classic
AT MEXICO HIGH SCHOOL
Saturday, Jan. 2
Paris 54, Silex 24 (girls)
Jamestown 55, Silex 24 (boys)
Community 48, Jamestown 42 (girls)
Paris 61, Community 54 (boys)
Warrenton 40, Mexico 39 (girls)
St. Dominic 60, Mexico 54 (boys)
MFA Oil/Break Time Shootout
AT MIZZOU ARENA, COLUMBIA
Saturday, Jan. 23
Noon — Glasgow vs. Salisbury (boys)
1:30 p.m. — Iberia vs. Harrisburg (boys)
3 p.m. — Mid-Buchanan vs. Oak Grove (boys)
4:30 p.m. — Father Tolton vs. Vianney (boys)
6 p.m. — Jefferson City vs. Battle (boys)
7:30 p.m. — Boonville vs. Chillicothe (girls)
9 p.m. — Boonville vs. Southern Boone (boys)
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ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT
Reporting to the Finance Director,
this position manages accounting
functions, including cash receipts
and accounts payable; administers
approved accounting policies and
procedures for the YMCA; and
assists in the preparation of complete
and accurate monthly and annual
financial statements. Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance and
three years of experience or more in
an accounting role required. Candidate should be proficient with
QuickBooks and Excel. This is a parttime position of approximately 20
hours per week at a rate of $20/hour.
Application deadline is January 15,
2016 with immediate availability. Mail
application with resume: Jefferson
City Area YMCA, ATTN: Office
Manager, P.O. Box 104176, Jefferson
City, MO 65110-4176.
We're simply looking for
volunteers with a desire
to help abused
& neglected children
Your involvement
will make a direct impact on
a child's life.
Phone 573-690-9171
Dr. James Kellerman
www.CapitalCityCasa.org
Donations accepted
Blair Oaks R-II School District
6124 Falcon Lane
Jefferson City, MO 65101
095 Found
FOUND: Reddish white puppy
between Eugene & Henley. 291-8808
District Vacancies
2015-2016 School Year
EMPLOYMENT
Full-Time
Special Services Aide
Food Service (Part Time)
170 Help Wanted
ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS at Show
Me Child Care for full time 2 year old
teacher, 8-5. Contact Julie or Kelcie
to set up time for interview at
761-9998.
Contact: District Office
Phone: (573) 636-2020
Harry's Place Cafeteria is looking for
hardworking & reliable cafeteria
workers - all positions. No nights, no
weekends. Apply in person, 4th
Floor, Truman Bldg., Jefferson City.
Access www.cs-business.com
For area job opportunities
ACCOUNTANT
CANTEEN SERVICE now hiring
full/part time cooks and cashiers,
Mon. - Fri., for Ameren cafeteria.
Apply at 2732 Merchants, Jefferson
City. 573-635-4961
A growing CPA firm is looking for a
CPA or an Accountant with a
Bachelors Degree in Accounting or
Masters of Accountancy or 150 hour
Masters Equivalency required for the
CPA exam on the path to become a
CPA. Public accounting experience
preferred. Proficiency in MS Office &
various personal computer applications
along
with
excellent
communication and organizational
skills are a must. Full time position
with excellent benefits package. Pay
commensurate with experience and
professional certifications. Send resume to P.O. Box 6855, Jefferson
City, MO 65102.
Equipment Technician
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is seeking to fill
an Equipment Technician position
with our Jefferson City Garage.
This position must be proficient in
collision repair and refinishing. An
Associates of Applied Science degree in Automotive Collision
Technology is preferred or an
Associate's Degree in automotive
technology, auto mechanics or
diesel mechanics, or completion of
a formal post-secondary technical
training program in automobile or
heavy
equipment
repair.
Candidates should possess a valid
Class A CDL with tanker endorsement and no air brake restrictions,
and valid vehicle inspection
license.
Advertising Graphic Designer
Full Time Position
Excellent Career Opportunity
Design and layout magazine publications and other advertising design
work. Manage multiple projects from
concept through completion with
tight deadlines. Coordinate with printers and other vendors throughout the
production process.
Please submit a cover letter
(including salary requirements)
and resume.
[email protected]
Or, mail to: Imagemark Marketing &
Advertising 608 Beck Street,
Jefferson City, MO 65109
Applications can be submitted online at www.modot.org
CANTEEN SERVICE now hiring
Cook/Manager, Mon. - Fri., 5 a.m.-1
p.m. Apply at 2732 Merchants, Jefferson City. 573-635-4961
Central Missouri Newspapers Inc. is
currently seeking a self motivated, reliable, and detail oriented individual
to support Circulation activities of
newspapers to our customers and
vendors.
This position will assist our District
Manager staff with sales efforts, delivery of newspapers, and training
contract carriers. Additional responsibilities would include auditing
and maintaining routes to ensure
profitability for both CMNI and
contracted carriers.
This is a temporary position working
30-35 hours/week with the possibility
to become Full-Time. Starting Wage
is $10/hour.
To be considered you must have reliable transportation, proof of insurance, and a valid driver's license.
Prior delivery experience preferred.
Overnight hours with weekend
availability are required.
Email resume to [email protected], complete an application
at 210 Monroe St, Jefferson City Mo,
or mail your resume to the Jefferson
City News Tribune, PO Box 1605,
Jefferson City, MO 65102
DRIVER/MAILROOM
Class E CDL License or better required. Duties include delivering and
unloading printed material, forklift
operation and work in our Mailroom.
Pick up application at rear entrance
of News Tribune, 2130 Schotthill
Woods Rd., Jefferson City.
Like To Travel?
Jefferson City-based company seeks
individual to assist with environmental training program. Weekday
travel within U.S. Must have
mechanical aptitude. Job specific
training
is
provided.
Retirees
welcome. Email resume to:
[email protected]
HUMAN RESOURCES
REPRESENTATIVE
Jefferson City company looking for
experienced
Human
Resources
Representative. Prefer HR degree or
5 years equivalent work experience.
Responsibilities include multi-state
payroll
processing,
benefits
administration including ACA requirements, and training. Position requires
extensive use of Excel, Word, COBRA, payroll, and timekeeping software. preferential consideration will
be given to individual with Crystal
Report writing experience. Detail
oriented, logical, and methodical in
approaching problem solving. We
offer a competitive salary, insurance
(health, dental, vision, life, disability,
etc.), vacation, and 401(k). Send resume with salary requirement to: File
3120, c/o News Tribune, 210 Monroe
St., Jefferson City, MO 65101
MANAGER
Courtesy Loans is accepting applications for Manager in Jefferson City.
Must enjoy working with the public
and be goal oriented. We offer
competitive salaries and benefits with
a bonus program.
Please email resume to:
[email protected] or mail
to: HR Department P.O. Box 7043,
Columbia, MO 65205.
Could you use an
Early morning
deliveries; routes
completed by 5:30
a.m. Mon-Fri, and 7
a.m. Sat and Sun.
EXTRA
$1000 or more
each month
Job Opening
The Moniteau County Soil and Water
Conservation District is looking to fill
the position of District Specialist I.
This position is responsible for performing technical duties for the Soil
and Water Conservation District
(SWCD) & Natural Resources
Conservation Services (NRCS) providing technical assistance to district
landowners and cooperators in the
preservation of water quality and soil
erosion. Applicant would be required
to work outdoors in all types of
weather and possibly rough terrain
as well as in the office. Computer
skills, good public relation skills,
mathematical skills, mechanical
skills, GPS and survey equipment
knowledge are desirable for this
position. A high school diploma or
equivalent is required, college is
beneficial. Salary based on experience, with room for advancement.
Benefit Package. Must have a valid
driver’s license, dependable vehicle
and pass a Federal background
check. Applications and position descriptions available at the Moniteau
County SWCD Office in the USDA
Service Center, 410 W Buchanan St,
California MO 65018, by phone
573-796-2010 ext. 3 or email
[email protected]. Applications or resumes accepted through
4:00 p.m. January 11, 2016. EOE
JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER
Call for details. 573-469-8612.
Newspaper Routes Available
The Jefferson City News Tribune
currently has a newspaper delivery
routes available in Wardsville area.
The route is an independent contract
route, delivered 7 days a week and
requires a dependable customer
service oriented person who would
enjoy working a few hours each
morning. Proof of reliable transportation, proof of insurance, and a valid
driver's license are required before
contracting.
The route is for overnight delivery
before 5:30 a.m. Monday through
Friday, and before 7:00 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Please contact
News Tribune customer service,
573-636-3132, for more information.
Part Time Office Cleaning
2-3 hours late afternoons, late
evenings 10 p.m. - 1 a.m., or after 5
p.m. weekdays. Good references required. Couples and retired persons
welcome. 573-636-3111
PART-TIME
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
$11 - $13.50
Do you have a positive attitude,
conduct yourself in a professional
manner and have a predictable
schedule, with the ability to work
between 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. on weekdays? Consider joining our team at
the
Missouri
Association
of
Osteopathic
Physicians
and
Surgeons in Jefferson City! Duties
will include guest/member relations,
office operations and duties as
assigned. Cover letters and resumes
can be submitted via email to
[email protected], Attn: Holly. Position will remain open until filled.
ROEDEL CLEANING
Looking for experienced cleaners for
part time overnight & evening hours.
Positions start as soon as possible.
Apply at 204 E. Franklin St., Jefferson
City. 634-9098
Earn Weekly
Bonuses
Try Delivering the
Must have valid
driver’s license and
proof of insurance
So many people have
discovered the benefits
of being a carrier. It’s a
part time job that easily fits in your schedule without
compromising your family or school time.
JOHNNY'S PIZZA & STEAKHOUSE
is now hiring servers & dishwashers.
Please apply in person between
2:30-4:30 p.m. Mon. - Fri. at 2102 MO
Blvd. No phone calls, please.
Sports Reporter
Why not start the new year off with a
new job? The California Democrat, a
weekly newspaper in Central Missouri, is looking for a community reporter who will primarily cover high
school sports, as well as some
feature/community
news.
We're
looking for someone who loves to report, write and has photo skills. If
interested, drop us an e-mail immediately. The job search ends Jan. 15.
Send a cover letter, resume, work
samples and references to Managing
Editor Gary Castor at [email protected].
The News Tribune is currently
accepting applications for day and
night production workers. Hours
vary. Drug screening required.
Serious applicants only. Apply in person, News Tribune, 2130 Schotthill
Woods Rd., Jefferson City. Go to the
back door & ring door bell.
WANTED: Someone qualified to hang
large sliding door on barn. Call
573-219-6629.
Daily
Specials
DAISY DELIGHT RESTAURANT
2715 E. McCarty - (573)-635-1221
Grilled Cheese,
12 oz. Soup or Chili
573-636-3132
$6.25
RACHEL’S DOWNTOWN DINER
127 E. High Street – (573) 415-2480
7:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., 7 days a week.
Serving Breakfast ALL DAY!
Fried Shrimp Salad
$7.95
210 MONROE STREET
Weekend Relief
What if you could fit a whole week's
worth of work into just two days? We
are seeking an outgoing, positive
person who will be committed to providing supports to adults with
developmental disabilities who is
willing and able to work through the
weekend. Must be attentive to detail,
passionate about helping others, and
a dynamic self-starter. A great fit for
students and commuters from outside Columbia City limits! High
School Diploma or GED required.
Woodhaven supports a diverse
workplace. EOE. Pre-Employment
drug screen required. Apply for this
and other open positions at our Job
Fair on 1/5 from 12-4 at 1405 Hathman Place. Visit:
woodhaventeam.org/opportunities
for more information
SCHOLASTIC JOB Opportunities
Job Line 632-1787
www.scholastic.com
16 oz. drink
Must be available 7
days a week
Call
D1
Y-CARE SITE ASSISTANT
$9.00/hour. Mon.-Fri. 6:45-8:30 a.m.
and/or 3-5:30 p.m. Must be 18 years
old and enjoy working with children.
Great part-time opportunity for
college students. YMCA Membership
included with employment. Direct
applications to Office Manager, P.O.
Box 104176, Jefferson City, MO
65110.
171 Help Wanted - Medical
Bee at Home
Is looking for:
CNAs, CMAs, Home Health Aides
Call 573-634-8280 or website:
[email protected]
to apply
174 Help Wanted - Drivers
OPIES TRANSPORT
Hiring Class A
OTR Drivers
800-341-9963
OpiesTransport.com
ROUTE DRIVER
Canteen Service has an opening for
a full-time route driver. Apply in person, 2732 Merchants Drive, Jefferson
City, Mon. - Fri., 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
To include your
Special of the Day
Fax Specials by 3:00 p.m. Thursday
to 634-7433 or
Contact Sierra at 761-0274 or
[email protected]
Cost: $25 per week
Daily Specials will be printed
Monday - Friday
OSCAR’S CLASSIC DINER
2118 Schotthill Woods Dr. – (573) 659-0006
CLOSED TODAY!
Reserve our new Banquet Room for Breakfast,
Lunch or Dinner meetings, and parties ~
any day of the week.
In a Rush? Call ahead and use our
Drive-up Window for Carry-Out.
WELCOME INN AGAIN
130 E. Dunklin St. - (573)-616-2113
3 piece mixed Chicken Dinner (All White regular price)
3 piece Ham Dinner
OR
Tenderloin Dinner
All include mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans,
your choice of coleslaw or applesauce and
bread & butter
Monday
CLASSIFIED
D2 Monday, January 4, 2016
Truck Drivers
Wanted for Ready-Mix. Must be 21 or
older. Industry knowledge preferred.
Must be able to lift 50 lbs., and
physically able to safely climb up and
down a ladder; operate equipment,
tools and controls; perform repetitive
movements with hands, wrists and
feet and other requirements as
needed but not described herein.
Applicant must hold a valid Class A
or Class B CDL with airbrakes
endorsement and is required to
maintain a clean driving record.
Applicant must pass pre-employment
criminal background check, DOT
Physical, FCE, Drug Screen and
Motor
Vehicle
Report.
Prefer
applicant to apply in person. ConAgg of MO, LLC (Columbia Ready
Mix Division), 2604 N. Stadium Blvd.,
Columbia, MO. Hiring for the Spring
2016 Season, reviews will begin early
January 2016 through late February
2016.
TRANSPORTATION
210 Auto Accessories/Tires
CAR DOLLY, $150
680-4789
230 Autos For Sale
BUICK LESABRE LIMITED, 2005, 3.8
liter, 6 cylinder, 180K. Taking offers:
minimum offer $1,325. 400 East Miller
St., Jefferson City, MO. 573-636-5338
Sale date & time: 1/6/2016, 2:30 p.m.
CHEVROLET IMPALA, 2014, Sedan
4door, LTZ V6, 29,000 mile, $28,500.
Please call 573-230-7522.
WHIRLPOOL DUET WASHER & DRYER, front loading, white. $700/pair,
drawer stands included. LG refrigerator/freezer, stainless steel.
$800. 573-680-3482
340 Baby/Children’s Items
Safety First Car Seat, (expiries 2018),
$35. 584-9977
440 Farm Equipment/Trailers
5 X 12 Trailer with ramps and tool
box $850. 660-849-9361
450 Firewood/Chainsaws
11 a all seasoned split oak firewood,
$45. Pickup load. 680-0074
11A BEST IN TOWN OAK, seasoned,
split, $75/load. Can Deliver. 893-8366
470 Free for Free
Please Submit Free Ads to:
[email protected]
or
News Tribune
P.O. Box 420
Jefferson City, MO 65102
CHEVROLET S10, 2003, mechanically sound, bedliner, new tires, 109K,
25 m.p.g., $4500. 573-418-4640
For a flat rate of $25 you get:
DODGE RAM 1500, 2003, HEMI, 2x4,
black, regular cab, 119k miles, new
10-plys, $5,600. 870-623-6602
Your ad will run in the:
Sell it For $25
• 4 Lines of Text
• 1 Color Picture
• 155,000 Readers
• News Tribune
• Fulton Sun
• California Democrat
• The Lake Today
• Sun Advertiser
• Tribune Review
AND all 4 websites for one week!
Call Today! 761-0226
or email to [email protected]
One Item per ad - No Refunds
terms apply
20+ Puppies - Non-Shed!
Toy Aussies, Hava Poo, Shih Tzu,
Peka Poo, Chihuahua, Havanese,
Golden Doodle, Schnauzers, more.
Osage Beach - 11-5 daily,
573-348-5400
573-280-7277
BLUE
PIT
BULL
PUPPIES,
CKC/UDAR registered, 2 females, 1
male,
$350-$400,
registered,
Available now! 573-353-2418
GREAT PYRENEES KOMONDOR
CROSS PUPPIES. Born in November.
Raised with goats. Vaccinated and
dewormed. 573-796-4414
POMERANIAN, female, 3 years old,
housebroken, $150. 573-619-4154
REGISTERED PUREBRED YORKIES,
females $400, males $300 firm.
573-646-3320
490 Hay/Grain/Feed
FESCUE HAY, large bales, net
wrapped, $35/bale. 573-619-1117
RENTALS
730 Apartments For Rent
** 2 BEDROOMS **
510 Jewelry/Watches
WE BUY GOLD
Our customers tell us we pay
the highest price in town.
The Blue Diamond 634-4241
www.thebluediamond.com
520 Lawn & Garden
JOHN DEERE BLADE, fits 420, $375.
680-4789
fits
530 Livestock/Horses
SimAngus and Simmental Black
Registered Bulls. AI sires with calving
ease. 573-291-3082
550 Merchandise Wanted To Buy
ROPER WASHER big capacity.
MAYTAG DRYER, $100/each.
573-634-7857
SCHRIMPF
MANAGEMENT
Our leasing service is at
no cost to you!
1 & 2 bedroom apartments
Studio & efficiency apartments
2 & 3 bedroom townhomes
Duplexes, condominiums & homes
Locations throughout Jefferson City
and surrounding areas
Professional maintenance staff
Call Us First
For Your Next Apartment or Home!
1001 Madison 636-3171
www.schrimpfmg.com
Always buying antiques, estates, old
furniture, whole households. Southside Furniture, 573-690-2823.
2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, trash paid, no
steps, $475.
Newer 2 bedroom, 2 bath with garage & patio, West, $595.
2 bedroom, 2 bath, loft apartment,
hardwoods, private parking, $745.
Schrimpf Management
1001 Madison 636-3171
1 & 2 BEDROOMS
TIMBERLINE APARTMENTS
Short Term Lease Accepted
Electric Whirlpool Appliances,
$355-$415 furnished or unfurnished
By Hwy. 50 & Mo. Blvd. No pets.
Low utilities, laundry facilities.
219 Dix Rd., Apartment 6, 635-8033
1 BEDROOM, includes washer & dryer, water/sewer/trash paid, $450. Deposit $450. No pets, 309 E. Ashley St.
573-301-5068
PUBLISHER’S NOTICE:
All real estate advertised herein is
subject to the Federal Fair Housing
Act, which makes it illegal to
advertise “any preference, limitation, or discrimination because of
race, color, religion, sex, handicap,
familial status or national origin, or
intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.”
This newspaper will not knowingly
accept any advertising for real
estate which is in violation of the
law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised
are available on an equal
opportunity basis.
2 BEDROOM, 1 bath, in Wardsville
across from church, $475 + deposit.
Must have good credit. 573-680-3076
2 BEDROOM, 1.5 bath units available
now. Close to the mall. Washer &
dryer hookups, $500 + deposit. Call
338-8888.
2 BEDROOM, 2 bath, large rooms,
1100 sq. ft., covered deck, newly remodeled, Holts Summit. 659-0573
2 BEDROOM, $400 - $425.
573-230-8206
2 Bedroom Apartments, large rooms,
very clean, freshly painted. Starting
at $400. 761-7404. camelotjcmo.com
2 BEDROOM, Holts Summit, water,
sewer, trash paid. 573-680-7815
2 bedroom, near mall, no pets,
available Jan. 1. 694-6104, 477-3437
2 BEDROOMS, fresh paint & new
flooring, water, sewer, trash paid. In
Russellville, $300 deposit, rent $395.
417-777-1440
3 OR 4 B E D R O O M S
Newer 1550 sq. ft. Apartments
2 baths, 1908 Saratoga Blvd., $775.
659-1961
!A Place To Call Home!
1, 2, 3 Bedroom Apartments
Townhomes & Duplexes
Capitol City Property Management
573-893-5759 or 694-9398
Publisher's Notice: All real estate
advertised herein is subject to the
Federal Fair Housing Act, which
makes it illegal to advertise any
preference, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion,
sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any
such preference, limitation, or discrimination.
We will not knowingly accept any
advertising for real estate which is in
violation of the law. All persons are
hereby informed that all dwellings
advertised are available on an equal
opportunity basis.
Featured on our Internet site at
www.newstribune.com
See color photos along with detailed
information on area apartments.
For advertising information, please
call the News Tribune Classified
Department 636-3131.
Apartments, Houses, Duplexes
$350-$950
EXCELLENT Maintenance Service
on call 24/7
FOR SHOWINGS:
Sandra @ 573-694-6572
573-694-4014
Check us out on Facebook!
[email protected]
CEDAR RIDGE APARTMENTS
2 bedrooms, $376. 3 bedrooms,
$422-$450. Water, sewer, & trash
paid. Income guidelines and student
restrictions apply. 635-4557
EXPERT SERVICES
122 Education/Tutoring
106 Auto Services & Repair
AUTOMOBILE DETAILING
Complete Holiday Special Bumper to
Bumper Detail. Starting at $99. Call
Gary Willibrand, 573-821-6047
110 Child Care
Let's have fun and learn together. Hot
lunch, 2 snacks. 636-7677
114 Concrete/Asphalt
FOUNDATION REPAIR &
WATERPROOFING
Leaking, cracking, or sinking, basement and crawl space repair, free
estimates, licensed and insured.
Midwest Basement Tech,
35 years' experience, 573-693-9448
ALL REMOVAL & HAULING
1 item, room, shed or whole house
full. Or cleanup. Free estimates.
Licensed & Insured. 573-418-5895
133 Home Improvement
Locally
owned
&
operated.
Established in 2014. Hands on driver
training. When safety counts, you can
count on us. Call for an appointment
today, we come to you. 573-201-0665
or 573-694-1990.
ALL TYPES of home improvements:
baths, family rooms, deck, concrete
work, etc. 35 years experience. Call
573-619-6284. Major cards accepted.
Bathtub & Tile Repair
Porcelain & fiberglass. Over 30 years
experience, free estimates. 498-3402
Handyman: Carpentry, repairs, power
washing, gutter cleaning. 378-1016
130 Hauling/Cleanup
1A Clean up, in/out of home, hauling
off anything, yard work. 893-8366
HAYDEN PAINTING
Interior & exterior. FREE estimates.
634-4052
deVille Southwest Properties
1, 2, & 3 bedroom
apartments & townhomes
839 Southwest Blvd., 573-635-0613
www.devillesw.com
135 House/Office Cleaning
*****AN EYE FOR DETAIL*****
Locally Owned...Great References...
Affordable...Free Estimates!
573-864-5822
Kauffman Window Cleaning
Get your windows cleaned before the
holidays. Reliable, competitive rates,
quality service. 680-8508
138 Lawn Care/Landscaping
AJ LAWN CARE - 619-5644
Snow Removal. Leaf Removal and
Fall Cleanup. Call for Bids & Pricing
NOLAN ENTERPRISES
*Fall Aeration Overseeding
*Leaf Removal *Gutter Cleaning
*Power Washing. 694-8523
4 bedroom. 3 bath. 2300 sq. ft., garage, 4910 Angelia $995. 353-2706
HIDDEN OAKS APARTMENTS
2 bedroom 2 bath apartments
839 Southwest Blvd., 573-636-4964
www.devillesw.com
IMMEDIATE VACANCY
Greenway Village Inc.
Holts Summit
1 bedroom available
Rent based on income
For application, contact
Associated Management & Leasing
636-239-6656
*toll free 1-866-406-6656
EXECUTIVE CONDO for rent, lease
or sale. 2 story, 3-5 bedroom, 4.5
baths, 2 car garage. Fireplace, hardwoods, stainless appliances. Central
location with pool. 680-1570
** HOMES - CALL US FIRST! **
• 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, central location, nice yard & deck, $645.
3 bedroom, 1 bath, with rec
This institution is an equal
opportunity provider & employer.
NEW 3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, 1 car garage, West, Pioneer Trail school.
Close to Binder park, $805.
573-690-4377
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APARTMENT GUIDE
www.MidMoCareers.com lets
Courtyards @ Cherry Creek
2 bedroom, 2 bath
Internet, cable TV & trash paid
Clubhouse, heated pool
Furnished units available
$875 & up - call now! 690-1818
1 BEDROOM LOFT, 1016 W. High,
water/sewer/trash. $395. 645-3219
575 Pets & Supplies
RECLINER, brown power recliner,
$500. 619-0701
JOHN
DEERE
BLADES,
425-445-450, $725. 680-4789
** 1 CALL - WE HAVE IT ALL! **
Wood Kindlin Box for Firewood - $25.
584-9977
CHEVROLET S10, 1998, 200,000
miles, 5 speed, asking $800 cash.
660-849-9361
Appliances for sale. ALSO, DO REPAIRS. Will haul off appliances.
573-796-2711 or 353-9376.
NO Money down on 8,10, or 12 wides
throughout January on Rent To Own
Contracts. Ordered or Delivered now,
Payments start in March. Free local
delivery! No credit checks! Outdoor
Rec, Hwy 54, Fulton 573-544-5208
OLD TRAIN SET as is $165 cash only
no check. Rattlesnake by Frederic
Remington, bronze statue 9", $150
cash only. 573-635-2470
2 PEDESTOOL OAK TABLE, 6 chairs,
excellent condition, 573-690-3419
320 Appliances
NEVER MAIL CHECKS,
CASH OR WIRE MONEY
TO ANYONE WHO CALLS IN
RESPONSE TO AN AD
Many that offer to send a check in
exchange for you wiring money are
scams. Please be on guard.
A public service message
from the News Tribune
X300 JOHN DEERE, 48" cut, new,
used only 10 hours, $3,000.
573-498-3749
240 Trucks For Sale
MERCHANDISE
LATTICE CARDY UGG BOOTS, gray,
brand new, size 8, $70. 573-642-8284
UTILITY TRAILER, 4x8 with 2' sides,
$275. 573-659-7804 or 602-571-9009
480 Furniture
WINNEBAGO TOUR, 2006, 40 feet
long, Model M-40KD, 3 Slideouts,
very good condition. New Michelin
tires, sleep number air mattress & 2
flat screen TV's installed last year.
350 CAT engine, Allison Transmission. 4500 KW Generator, Rear View
Monitor. Leather upholstery. Wood &
Carpeted flooring. Central Vacuum.
Combination washer & dryer. Two
propane furnaces. Basement A/C.
Propane/electric Appliances. Auto
leveling. Priced at $97,000, $10,000
below average Kelly Bluebook Price.
Call 573/893-6381 if interested.
Handmade Wooden Rocking Horse $50. 584-9977
KIOT TRACTOR WITH LOADER, 30
horsepower, Shutte drive, 68 hours.
Graesle's. 573-634-2449
KIA OPTIMA LX, 2009, Low 43,000
miles! Black, tinted, new tires, $9000.
573-690-4618
270 Recreational Vehicles/Campers
560 Miscellaneous For Sale
100 shares of class B Central Bank
stock. $400 per share. Must take all
100 shares. 573-634-2735.
PEPPERTREE APARTMENTS
2 bedroom, 1 bath - $445
Private Deck/Balcony
Water, Sewer, Trash included
Cats accepted. Quiet area.
690-1818 Call or Text
Quiet 3 Bedroom Townhouse, 2 bath,
hookups, 1 car garage, West, no
pets/no smoking. Credit check.
Senior Discount! $675, 573-230-4641.
Remodeled 2 bedroom, split level,
1.5 bath, new appliances, Gray Fox
Terrace, $450-495. No pets. 635-2322
740 Duplexes For Rent
** DUPLEXES **
2 bedroom, 2 bath, with garage,
large rooms, no steps, West, $595.
New 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 1 car garage, West, patio, $695.
Newer 3 bedroom, 2 bath, custom
cabinets, patio, no steps, $795.
Huge 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, hardwood floors, no steps, $895
Schrimpf Management
1001 Madison 636-3171
www.schrimpfmg.com
2 BEDROOM, 1 bath, trash paid, nice
lower level, $495. No pets please.
2503 Foxbar Terrace. 395-4113
2 BEDROOM, East, rec room, no
pets, deposit, $450. 636-7097
room & garage, West, $645.
Schrimpf Management
1001 Madison 636-3171
www.schrimpfmg.com
Nice 3 Bedroom, 2 bath, family room,
1 car garage, fenced backyard,
Bagnall Dr., $685. Gold Star Realty &
Enterprises LLC 573-378-5560. For
rental information, please call
573-659-5166.
This Is A Must See! 4 bedroom, 3
bath, 2 car garage, full finished basement $900.00, Rustic Ln.
Gold Star Realty & Enterprises LLC
573-378-5560, For rental information,
please call 573-659-5166.
755 Mobile Homes For Rent
2 & 3 bedroom mobile homes for
rent, Jefferson City area. No pets.
$425 - $500. 635-3339
2 or 3 bedroom for rent, lease or
sale,
possible
owner
finance.
573-896-4303
3 & 2 BEDROOM, HOMES. Section 8
welcome.
573-489-1960
or
573-489-4825
For rent, lease or sale: Double wide
in Holts Summit. 896-4303
MOBILE HOMES FOR RENT, RENTTO-OWN, OR PURCHASE, starting at
$375. For details: www.mylowcosthousing.com or 866-686-2066.
Nice Rural Country Setting on
blacktop. Enjoy a fall evening on your
covered deck, 3 bedroom, 2 bath
modular home with open floor plan.
30792 Hwy. E, Clarksburg, Mo. $500.
573-659-5166
756 Mobile Home Lots For Rent
2 BEDROOMS, 2 baths, 2 car garage,
large rooms, no steps, gallery entry,
good north Jefferson City neighborhood, $800/month. 573-896-4888
Available nice mobile home or RV
sites in Jefferson City. 635-3339
3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, rec room, 1800
sq. ft., Clara Dr. $625-$650. 636-4500
GORDON REAL ESTATE
407 Jefferson St., 6,000 sq. ft.
573-353-8990/GORDONJC.COM
3 BEDROOM, 3 bath, garage, 2100
sq. ft., 1233 Duane Swift. 690-3400
3 BEDROOM, West end, 2.5 bath, 1
car garage, private patio, 2 story
ceilings. $750. 635-1722
DUPLEX, 2 bedrooms with garage,
Riverside Dr. No pets. $475/month.
573-634-2950
750 Homes For Rent
!Realty of Jefferson City, MO, Inc.
Nice selection of homes and
duplexes. For more information go
to: www.actionrealtyrentals.com
2 BEDROOM, 1 bath, all new updates, close to Capitol, $600/month.
634-2755
780 Office Space For Rent
!KOLB PROPERTIES!
OFFICE-RETAIL-WAREHOUSE-LAND
Commercial Property for sale or
lease. Large or small, we have it all.
See at www.kolbproperties.com
CALL 893-7320
790 Retail/Warehouse Space
!RETAIL SPACE!
OFFICE SPACE
WAREHOUSE SPACE
Call for details & availability
Schrimpf Management, Inc.
1001 Madison St. (573) 636-3171
A MINI-STORAGE: 5x10, 10x10,
10x15, 10x20, 10x30, 12x36x16 tall 4
miles East of MO River bridge on
Hwy. 54. 896-9996 or 645-5864 (cell).
METRO MINI STORAGE
5x10, 10x10, 10x20, 20x20
Call 893-6227
2000+ sq. ft., 2 car garage, brick
rancher.
Large
lot,
$850.
573-896-4303
Ravenwood Storage 10x24-$60 21x
24-$110. 12x24-$80. 690-7061
3 bedroom, 1 bath, Moreland Ave.,
$690/month. 573-797-0338
REAL ESTATE
3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, 1 garage, on
Idlewood, water paid, inside like new,
$900. 353-1934
3 BEDROOM, 2 bath rancher near
Belair School, 2 car garage,
$850/month. No smoking, no pets.
573-462-9677
3 BEDROOM, 2.5 bath, completely
remodeled, 1 car garage plus car
port,
no
pets,
large
yard.
$895/month. 573-644-4636
900 Commercial Property
BY OWNER: Over 6000 sq. ft. bldg.,
coded for child care (babies & up) or
retail store, $295,000. 573-690-9991
930 Homes For Sale
Open Floor Plan! Dedicated office &
family room, gas fireplace, partially
fenced backyard, set up for daycare.
Denise Payne - Weichert Realtors
First Tier, 573- 777-7274.
3 BEDROOM, $550 - $600.
573-230-8206
DARLING HOME! Many upgrades,
solid brick home, storage, and coal
shed - Bedroom 3 is entire upstairs,
own master bath! 573-777-7274
4 BEDROOM, 2 full baths, family
room, hardwood floors, deck, clean,
close to East End Wal-Mart, 2961 E.
McCarty, $895. 230-7901
VERY CLEAN HOME
House is in great shape & great
neighborhood, 1023 Hawthorne Parkway, $105,000. 573-680-3076
Rob's Landscaping 694-4777 SNOW
BOBCAT & TRACKHOE SERVICE
Tree Trim & Removal/Stump Grinding
Powerwashing, Aeration/overseed
148 Painting/Wallpapering
PAINTING/STAINING
Interior & Exterior Custom Painting &
Staining. Pressure washing & much
more. Gold Seal Painting. 529-1983
154 Roofing/Gutters
!BILL'S ROOFING
Serving Jefferson City for over 30
years. It's how we do, what we do.
Call 636-8433
160 Tree Services
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Quality Service, Reasonable Rates.
30 years experience. *Trimming *Removals *Stump Removals. Licensed,
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CLASSIFIED/FEATURES
MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2016
Husband who’s
aiding ex-lover
appears to be
helping himself
219 Rock Beacon Rd. - $114,900
Check out this 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath
home with family room, fireplace,
fenced yard and more. For additional information and pictures
www.MariannePollock.com or call
Marianne at Associated Real Estate
Group 632-8600.
420 Summerhill - $314,900
Great 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath home on
an acre lot in Jefferson City School
District. For additional information
and pictures
www.MariannePollock.com
or call Marianne at Associated Real
Estate Group 632-8600
940 Lots For Sale
Lots for business or homes. Owner/broker Betty Steck, 893-2963.
942 Mobile Homes For Sale
2 or 3 bedroom for sale. Possible
owner finance. 573-896-4303
For rent, lease or sale: Double wide
in Holts Summit. 896-4303
Loose Creek area, vinyl shingle, 2x6,
3 bedroom, 2 bath, small down payment and approx. $250/month.
573-896-4303
945 Resort/Lake/River Property
Lake Ozark consider offers or trade.
50/Acres 2,500' flat shoreline $300/ft.
1k'/$375K .100'/$65k. 573-257-0123
PUBLIC NOTICES
970 Public Notices
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
COLE COUNTY, MISSOURI
PROBATE DIVISION
In the matter of:
ELNORA MAE BARBOUR,
INCAP. DISABLED.
Estate No: 14AC-PR00100
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
OF A CONSERVATOR
TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN
THE ESTATE OF ELNORA MAE
BARBOUR, A DISABLED PERSON.
On the 14th day of December, 2015,
MARILYN
SCHMUTLZER
was
appointed conservator of the estate
of ELNORA MAE BARBOUR, a person adjudicated disabled under the
laws of Missouri by the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Cole
County, Missouri. The address of the
conservator’s attorney is: 301 EAST
HIGH STREET, JEFFERSON CITY,
MO 65102. All creditors of said
disabled person are notified to file
their claims in the Probate Division of
the Circuit Court.
Deanna Nilges
Clerk of the Probate Division
of the Circuit Court of
Cole County, Missouri
N.T. Dec. 21, 28, 2015; Jan. 4, 11,
2016
NOTICE CONCERNING A TRUST
NOTICE
TO
CREDITORS
BY
TRUSTEE:
Estate of Charles R. Willibrand
To all persons interested in the estate
of Charles R. Willibrand, decedent,
whose last known address was 416
Valley View Court, Jefferson City,
Missouri 65109.
Peggy A. Kolb, John C. Willibrand,
and Phyllis Willibrand are acting as
Trustees under a trust, the terms of
which provide that the debts of the
decedent may be paid by the trustee
upon receipt of proper proof thereof.
The address for the Trustees is 425
Valley View Court, Jefferson City,
Missouri 65109.
All creditors of the decedent are
notified to present their claims to the
undersigned within six (6) months
from the date of the first publication
of this notice or be forever barred.
Date of first publication is January 4,
2016.
Tabitha L. Atwell,
Attorney for the Trust
N.T. Jan. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE
For default in the payment of debt
secured by a deed of trust executed
by Cole M. Henry, dated October 30,
2008, and recorded on November 3,
2008, Document No. 200811539, in
Book No. 569, at Page 145 in the
Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Cole
County, Missouri, the undersigned
Successor Trustee will on January
15, 2016, at 2:00 PM, at the South
Door of the Cole County Courthouse,
Jefferson City, Missouri, sell at public
vendue to the highest bidder for
cash:
Lot No. 2, Estates Southwest, per plat
of record in Plat Book 9, Page 61,
Cole County Recorder's Office; said
Estates Southwest, being a Subdivision of part of the Northeast Quarter
of the Northeast Quarter of Section
19, township 44 North, Range 12
West., commonly known as 4215
Charlane Drive, Jefferson City, MO,
65109
subject to all prior easements, restrictions, reservations, covenants
and encumbrances now of record, if
any, to satisfy the debt and costs.
SouthLaw, P.C. f/k/a South &
Associates, P.C., Successor Trustee
First Publication:
December 21,
2015. For more information, visit
www.southlaw.com
NOTICE
Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection
Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b),
no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without
the prior consent of the consumer
given directly to the debt collector or
the express permission of a court of
competent jurisdiction. The debt
collector is attempting to collect a
debt and any information obtained
will be used for that purpose Casefile
No. 179444-768259.
N.T. Dec. 21, 28, 2015; Jan. 4, 11,
2016
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AP
Ridley Scott, right, presents the Chairman’s award to Matt Damon at the 27th annual
Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Saturday in Palm Springs, California.
At Palm Springs festival
Damon leads Oscar
charge for Ridley Scott
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP)
— Matt Damon launched a bold
new phase of Oscar campaigning for his “The Martian” director on Saturday, telling a crowd
that Ridley Scott has “given more
than enough to cinema” over his
career to deserve an Academy
Award.
Damon spoke at the opening
night gala for the Palm Springs
International Film Festival, a
non-televised black-tie dinner
at the desert city’s convention
center. It’s become a well-attended stop on the busy Hollywood awards circuit due to its
timing during the Oscar nominations voting period and eight
days before the Golden Globe
Awards. Honorees Johnny Depp,
Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale
and Michael Fassbender also
took the stage.
Damon said he was shocked
to discover that the 78-year-old
director of “Blade Runner” and
“Alien” had never won an Oscar
despite three nominations and
his helming of 2001 best picture
winner “Gladiator.”
“He’s just a master director.
There are a handful of them on
planet Earth. But he is one of
them,” Damon said. “Awards —
whatever, who gives a (expletive). I mean, except for this one.
But … I hope this is his year. I
don’t know if you’re supposed to
say that out loud. But … when I
did ‘The Departed,’ we said it out
loud a lot about Marty (Scorsese)
and it panned out.”
Saturday’s loose and sometimes coarse ceremony saw
Depp praising his wife, actress
Amber Heard, “for putting up
with me” and Bale getting in a
dig at the 2,000-plus attendees,
which included socialites who
sometimes chatted away at dinner tables during acceptance
speeches.
“I’ve never been at a film festival that ignores the speakers so
much as this film festival,” said
Bale, on stage with his “The Big
Short” co-stars Steve Carell, Jeremy Strong and Finn Wittrock.
Cate Blanchett, being lauded
for her performance in “Carol,”
was more magnanimous.
She thanked the festival,
which runs through Jan. 11, “for
reminding us — all of us honored tonight — that if we’re not
nominated for any other award
not to feel like losers. We had a
moment of glory.”
The festival announced its
awards ahead of time, minimizing anxiety for actors and
allowing plenty of time for informal reunions. Depp hugged his
“Finding Neverland” co-star
Kate Winslet on the red carpet
before the show. Damon walked
backstage in conversation with
Blanchett.
The two shared the screen in
“The Talented Mr. Ripley” and
“The Monuments Men.”
“Room” star Brie Larson and
“Trumbo” star Bryan Cranston
had both screened their personal
movies at the festival years earlier. Cranston wrote and directed a feature, “Last Chance,” that
played Palm Springs in 1999. “I
will forever be grateful to you for
doing that for me. It launched a
different phase of my career,” he
told the crowd.
DEAR ABBY: My husband ed to stop drinking. I’ve tried to
went to Florida three months ago make my son listen to reason, to
to care for an ailing former lover. no avail.
My sister tells me if I don’t
He told me she will be leaving
him a sizable inheritance and he get Greg some help, I could be
needs to protect her from “vul- charged with adult neglect. But
tures.” I admit I am suspicious I don’t know how to fix this. The
of his motives. I think there may outcome is increasingly bleak.
be more going on than what he’s What can I do? — MOM WITH A
PROBLEM
telling me, but he has
DEAR MOM: If the
been painting a pretty
inability to convince
picture of how rosy our
a substance-addicted
future will be with her
adult relative to get
gift.
help were against the
He has now suggestlaw, there wouldn’t
ed that we get a tempobe enough prisons to
rary divorce so he can
hold all the “offendmarry her in order to
ers.”
get her entire estate! He
As much as you
claims it will be nothlove your son, you
ing more than a busiDear Abby
can’t “fix” his alcohol
ness arrangement. His
suggestion left me flabbergasted. addiction. You should, however,
Even though our marriage has find the nearest Al-Anon group
been rocky at times, I have never and attend some meetings. And
seen this side of him. I don’t while you are at it, bring your
know whether to believe him and sister with you because she has
be simply disappointed at his cal- a lot to learn. Chief among the
lous behavior, or not believe him lessons is that someone else’s
and conclude that he really wants drinking is not another pera divorce so he can marry her. son’s fault or responsibility to
Any thoughts? — HEARTSICK IN control. I am sorry for your
pain, because I’m sure it is conSOUTH CAROLINA
DEAR HEARTSICK: Your siderable.
DEAR ABBY: I’m an attorney.
husband appears to still be carrying a torch for his old flame. Recently at a party, an acquainAre you sure she is really sick? tance was talking about some litIf it’s the truth, then the “vul- igation his company is involved
ture” I see on the horizon may in. I commented briefly on something he said, and he respondbe him.
I hope you appreciate how ed, “We take advice from attorextremely manipulative your neys we PAY,” and walked away.
husband appears to be. Because Should I feel insulted, or should
of it, and since he has spoken I have stayed out of the converthe “D” word, consult a lawyer sation to begin with? — HURT
to ensure that your interests FEELINGS IN FLORIDA
DEAR HURT: Some peowill be protected regardless of
his motives. I’m saying that in ple think that anything that’s
case the woman turns out to be offered for free is without value,
and it appears the man you
healthier than both of you.
DEAR ABBY: How do you help encountered is one of them.
someone who doesn’t want to Because this is his world view,
be helped? My adult son, “Greg,” try not to take it personally.
who lives with me, is slowly Your motives were generous. I
drinking himself to death. He was see no reason to muzzle yourlaid off two years ago, and I know self in the future if you think
he is depressed and has given up you have something helpful to
say.
on life.
Dear Abby is written by AbiIt has reached the point where
he is showing signs of cirrho- gail Van Buren, also known as
sis, but he refuses to do anything Jeanne Phillips, and was founded
about it. The last time he saw a by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
doctor was three years ago. The Contact Dear Abby at www.Deardoctor said Greg’s liver functions Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los
were not normal and he need- Angeles, CA 90069.
Charleston a focus of 40th season of Spoleto Festival USA
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Historic Charleston is a
large focus of next spring’s 40th edition of the Spoleto
Festival USA, from glimpses of the city in the iconic opera
“Porgy and Bess” to the tragedy of the Emanuel AME
Church shootings.
The lineup for the internationally known arts festival
that runs from May 27 through June 12 was unveiled on
Sunday.
It features Spoleto’s first production of George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” the famed opera about Charleston
and its people based on the novel by Charleston native
DuBose Heyward. The production is being designed by
Jonathan Green, the local artist known worldwide for his
colorful paintings of black residents of the sea islands on
the Southeast coast.
The opera will be Spoleto’s first production in the
Gaillard Center, the city’s new $142 million performing
arts center that opened last fall. The center is the single
most expensive municipal project in the city’s almost 350
year history.
The festival also features a multimedia project by art-
ist Carrie Mae Weems entitled “Grace Notes: Reflections
for Now.” The production incudes songs, texts, spoken
words and video projections raising questions about the
role of grace in a democracy.
It was inspired in part by President Obama singing
“Amazing Grace” during his eulogy for the Rev. Clementa
Pinckney, one of nine people shot and killed at Emanuel
AME Church last June. A white man has been charged
with murder and other counts in the case.
Jazz singer Rene Marie will also include a song, “Be
the Change,” during her May 29 concert at the Gaillard
Center. The song was commissioned by the festival
and inspired by the community’s show of unity in the
aftermath of the shootings. After the tragedy, thousands
of people gathered on the sweeping Ravenel Bridge to
remember the victims.
Nigel Redden, the festival’s general director, said in a
statement that Spoleto has long called Charleston home
and “wanted to provide an outlet for these reactions to
demonstrate how art can help people heal as well as provide an important voice in times when it can be difficult
to find words.”
The festival also is presenting “Afram or Swita the
Beauty” by Charleston-born composer Edmund Thorton
Jenkins 90 years after his death. It’s thought to be the first
time it’s been performed and is being staged as a cabaret
review with dance and songs.
Among other shows on the Spoleto schedule are a
production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being
Ernest” staged by Dublin’s Gate Theatre and the American premiere of “The Little Match Girl” by German composer Helmut Lachenmann.
Jazz singer Cecile McLorin Salvant also performs and
the finale on the banks of the Ashley River at Middleton
Place features the soul band Nathaniel Rateliff & the
Night Sweats.
The Spoleto Festival USA was founded in Charleston
in 1977 by Gian Carlo Menotti, modeled after and as a
companion to his Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy.
Tickets go on sale on Jan. 14.
Online:
Spoleto Festival USA at spoletousa.org
Police vow to stop surfers who
use violence to protect waves
PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP)
— So much for hanging loose.
For decades, local surfers have been
accused of using violence and intimidation to protect their Southern California surf spot from intrusion by outsiders.
Now, a police chief is vowing to crack
down on the so-called Bay Boys.
Authorities have been accused of
looking the other way as local surfers at
Lunada Bay in tony Palos Verdes Estates
threatened outsiders, tossed rocks at
them and vandalized their cars.
Surfer Sef Krell says that when he went
to try the waves last year, men threw
dirt clods at him and yelled at him to go
home. When he persevered and got in the
water, the gang hurled rocks at him and
chucked his belongings into the waves.
“I’m in the water alone and there are
people yards away throwing dangerous
missiles at me,” said Krell, an attorney
from Encino who’s surfed all over the
world. “I don’t have any way to protect
myself because that culture is allowed to
continue without the type of law enforcement that I would expect.”
Jeff Kepley, the new police chief, hopes
to make the first arrest of one of the
assailants in years. He has added patrols
along the coast and ordered overtime for
officers in the city about 30 miles south of
Los Angeles that’s known for its multimillion-dollar homes.
“We will make an example out of anyone who behaves criminally down there,”
Kepley said.
Authorities have repeatedly pledged
AP
to rid their coast of bullying and other
A surfer takes on a huge wave at Lunada Bay in Palos Verdes Estates,
bad behavior, but critics say enforcement
California.
is weak.
Kepley took over the police departI’m not saying we did — we are going to
ment in Palos Verdes Estates about a year able for the past.
But “if we did discount a claim — and make sure we do the right thing,” he said.
ago and said he couldn’t be held account-
www.newstribune.com
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MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2016
Monday
Crossword
Puzzle
Los
Angeles Times
Daily Crossword
Puzzle
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Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
ACROSS
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lines
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e.g.
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protection org.
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prince
18 Deed holder
19 Weaponry
20 Canadian flag
symbol
22 “Farewell, mon
ami!”
23 “Put a __ on it!”
24 Prevailing
weather
26 After-dinner
brandy
30 Every 24 hours
31 “Hold Me”
Grammy winner
K.T.
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33 Speech therapy
subject
37 Actor Baldwin
38 Advertising
handout
40 Wedding vows
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42 Rowboat need
43 High-80s grade
44 Like mountain
roads
46 Mojave or Gobi
47 Two-deck rummy
variety
50 Dylan or Dole
51 Hotelier Helmsley
52 Final details to
take care of ...
and, literally,
what the last
words of 20Across and 10and 29-Down
can be
58 The Emerald Isle
59 Heavenly food
60 Injured, as a
muscle
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Juárez
62 In the midst of
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problem
64 Sharp-edged
65 Shopping binge
66 Tranquil
discipline
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MOVIES
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7:30
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47 Supermarket
staffer
48 Eagle’s nest
49 Straight up,
cocktailwise
50 Good, in France
53 “Want the light __
off?”
54 Crafts website
55 Taboo
56 Really dull time
57 Arcade giant
59 Pas’ mates
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35 Sweet’s opposite
36 Furtive “Hey!”
38 __ Knox
39 Psychedelic light
source
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Neuwirth
45 Land between
Can. and Mex.
46 Prescription
amount
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Copeland Awakening
Miracles Truth
Fest
Life
Specials Awakening
Me
239 307 <+++ Red Dragon Sir Anthony Hopkins.
<+++ Batman Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton.
Mother Mother
250 305 Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds
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17 17
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Inside
32 18
"Penetration"
"Trophy"
Office
Office
Feud
Feud
Edition
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NCIS: Los Angeles News
Stephen Colbert
J.Corden `
_ <+++ Made of < To Be Announced
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Basketball NCAA North Carolina at
30 for 30 "The '85 Bears"
SportsCenter
SportsCenter
140 206
Florida State (L)
NBA
143 209 Basketball NCAA West Virginia vs TCU (L) Basketball NCAA Virginia vs Virginia T. (L) Basketb. NFL Live
Piece of Blues
Hockey NHL Ottawa Senators at St. Louis Blues Site: PostThe Jack Buck
Poker WPT Bay 101
418 671
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Pre. (L) Scottrade Center -- St. Louis, Mo. (L)
game (L) Awards
Shooting Star
The O'Reilly Factor The Kelly File
Hannity
The O'Reilly Factor The Kelly File
205 360 On the Record
All in With C. Hayes Rachel Maddow
The Last Word
All in With C. Hayes Rachel Maddow
209 356 Hardball
Shark Tank
Shark Tank
The Profit
The Profit
208 355 Profit "SJC Drums" Shark Tank
Super
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148 246 Carbon. Carbon. Carbon. Carbon. Carbon. Carbon. Super
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<++ The Purge Lena Headey, Ethan
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136 248
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<++ Resident Evil Michelle Rodriguez, <++ Resident Evil: Apocalypse Sienna Law & Order
138 245
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Milla Jovovich.
Guillory, Milla Jovovich.
CSI: Miami "Raging CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami "Won't
128 260
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"Bombshell"
"Wrecking Crew" "Cheating Death" "Resurrection"
Get Fuelled Again"
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A. Cooper 360
A. Cooper 360
CNN Tonight
A. Cooper 360
CNN Newsroom
200 202 OutFront
F.Files
Nancy Grace (N)
Dr. Drew (N)
F.Files F.Files
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F.Files
202 204 F.Files
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106 304
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Ray
Ray
Ray
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<+++ The Lucky One Zac Efron.
The 700 Club
Middle Middle
180 311 _ <+++ The Notebook Ryan Gosling.
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Girls
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139 247 Fam.Guy Fam.Guy Fam.Guy Fam.Guy AmerD
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183 280 48 Hours
Teen Mom OG
Teen Mom OG
Teen Mom OG
Teen Mom OG
True Life
160 331 Teen Mom OG
162 335 Love and Hip-Hop Love & Hip-Hop (N) < The Breaks Tristan Wilds, Wood Harris. < The Breaks Tristan Wilds, Wood Harris.
K. Pickler K. Pickler J. Foxx J. Foxx
166 327 Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man <++++ Stand by Me Wil Wheaton.
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Cops
Cops
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Cops
Cops
Cops
Cops
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Jail
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2 West Point
initials
3 Poker player’s
token
4 Hoopster
Malone
5 Play friskily
6 Mooed
7 Elbow-to-wrist
bone
8 Sexy photos in
women’s mags
9 Ukr. or Estonia,
during the Cold
War
10 Preface to Bush
Sr.’s “no new
taxes” promise
11 Open-air courts
12 Halley’s __
13 Occur as a result
21 Stylish vigor
22 Have a bug
25 Unreliable
witness
26 Winter wear
27 Capital on a fjord
28 Secluded valley
29 “America’s Got
Talent” host
since 2009
30 Eggs and butter
market section
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respect of his family, he decides to fight again.
Rocky Balboa must defend his title in a grudge match.
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<+++ The Rundown Seann William
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51.9 66 127 251
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54.21 67 122 244
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Vampires James Woods.
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52.15 68 129 237
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54.13 69 120 269
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Bizarre Foods
Jill/ Dad Jill/ Dad Bizarre Foods
52.23 70 196 277
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"West Virginia"
Around Around "Spoiled Rotten"
USA
USA
54.1 71 110 231 Chopped Junior
Kids Baking
Diners, Drive-Ins
Pleasure Top 5
Diners Diners Diners, Drive-Ins
54.3 72 112 229 Love It/ List It
Love It or List It
Love It or List It
H.Hunt House
House
House
Love It or List It
South
South
South
South
Archer Archer South
South
The Daily Nightly At
South
51.7 73 107 249
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Park
Park
Park
Park
Park
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Midnight Park `
52.5 74 114 236 E! News (N)
The Kardashians
The Kardashians
The Kardashians
E! News (N)
52.13 75 124 329 _ <++ B.A.P.S
Martin Martin Martin Martin Martin Life of "Brandy"
Wendy Williams
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Xtreme Video Zone Rev.Life Travel
Ventures H2O
Real Girls Jeni
Radical
89.2 86 - - Ming
Chef
Lidia
Cook's Project FreeRnge O.House Globe Trekker
Lidia
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85.15 93 259 364 Dr. Quinn Med. W. The Waltons
JAG
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Matlock
Dr. Quinn Med. W.
85.17 94 261 370 Daily Mass
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Rosary The World Over
Faith
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Merv Griffin
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- 114 - - Laramie
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Walker, TR
<++ Assault on Precinct 13 Ja Rule.
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NHL Live! (L)
Hockey NHL Los Angeles vs Colorado (L)
NHL Overtime (L) Blazers
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