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Moving forward while remembering the past...Serving Hutchinson County since 1926
Monday, December 28, 2015
Vol. 90, No. 312
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Final list of candidates secure ballot
positions in local Republican Primary
The Borger Lady Bulldogs
and the Bulldogs basketball
teams travel to Canadian
this Tuesday for a two day
tournament, pgs. 10 & 11.
Look for the Mammoth 2015 Year in Review
Crossword on Pgs. 6 & 7.
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Photo by Don Rice
CANDICE CALDWELL
Local
Weather
From StormSearch 7
High - 30°
Low - 11°
We’ve still got a few
swaths of snow on the radar
this morning, and winds remain
gusty too. Roadways are still
fairly messy with large drifts
and patches of ice where the
snow has been compressed on
the pavement. If you have to
venture out early this morning,
leave extra time and be VERY
cautious. Road conditions
should improve this afternoon
as wind speeds begin to dial
back with our storm system
pressing up to the northeast.
All snow will end by noon and
TxDOT will have the chance
to clear roadways without the
snow getting blown right back
on them. Despite clearing skies
this afternoon, temperatures
will be cold, remaining below
freezing for most of us! In fact,
we won’t even make it to the
freezing mark until New Year’s
Day with a high of 32. We’ll
gradually see highs rise into the
new year with temps returning
to the low 40s by Sunday.
The random selection process of the ballot drawing was made possible by a number of young (and young at heart) volunteers who were
interested in the election process. From left to right, back row, Rhon Munoz, Efren Munoz, Vanessa Munoz, Chloe Burleson, Cooper Jones,
Galen Irwin. Front Row, Corby Rodriguez, Cadence Woods, and Keegan Woods. (Photo by Alex Mann)
By Alex Mann
(806) 273-5611
Late last week the Hutchinson County
election process took a significant step forward with the conclusion of the Republican
Primary ballot drawing. The order in which
a candidates name appears on the ballot can
have a significant impact on election results,
and those running local campaigns were all
gathered for the procedure which would
randomly select their positions.
“With me today we have two ladies
from the Hutchinson County Republican
Women’s Club, we have Cynthia LaGrone,
the president, and Angela Clark our vice
president.” Republican Party County Chair
Mary Kay Phelan began, “The drawing is
something we do every [election], and we
actually have to draw from the president all
the way down to the constable. I don’t know
what year they changed this, but the synopsis is... the number one position wins most
of the time, so the slot is always important
to candidates. I actually get calls from the
parties of the president asking what slot
their candidate was in this county.” Plelan
continues, “We’ll start with the President,
and I thought we could have some of our
young voters come in to help us draw.”
The numerous Republican candidates
that have campaigned on the national stage
then had their names placed in a simple basket to be selected at random. Efren Munoz
III was chosen as the young voter to select
the names, and the final order of presidential candidates on the Hutchinson County
Republican Primary will be as follows:
Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum,
Donald J. Trump, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie,
Ben Carson, Elizabeth Gray, Carlie Fiorina,
John Kasich, Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee,
and Lindsey Graham.
Of course most candidates in the room
were more concerned with local and county
elections, since ballot position could determine success or failure in the polls.
See Ballot Drawing pg. 2
Hospital staff warn
of seasonal accidents
By Alex Mann
(806) 273-5611
Members of the Hutchinson County Republican Women help young volunteers
choose ballot positions using a surprisingly simple method: drawing names out of
a basket. (Photo by Alex Mann)
Though the holidays are often a festive time of
year, they unfortunately attract accidents as well.
Whether it’s in vehicles or at home, Christmas
and New Years are usually a busy time for local
hospitals who work tirelessly to patch up those in
need. Even for a relatively small hospital district
like Hutchinson County, staff note a rise in accidents this time every year.
“Especially if the weather is bad,” says Sue
Giesler with Borger’s Golden Plains Community
Hospital [GPCH], “Falls; we always worry about
that. Of course around the holidays you get the
cold weather, and ice outside.” The slippery surfaces can be hazardous to any pedestrian, but Sue
says one group is especially vulnerable. “When
elderly folks get in and out of houses and vehicles... they have a tendency to fall, and they don’t
bounce like they used to.”
See Seasonal Accidents pg. 2
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December 28, 2015
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Obituaries
Weekend blizzard causes multiple road closures
Pat E. Downey
Pat E. Downey, 85, of
Stinnett, Tx, went to be
with The Lord on Wednesday, December 23, 2015.
Pat was born on May
16, 1930 in Minco, Oklahoma to parents Serge and
Essie Downey. He was a
hard-working, family-man
with a passion for building
things with his own two
hands. After retiring from
Phillips, Pat’s days were spent hunting with the crew
from Tennessee, listing to The “Almost-A-Band”,
tending to his horses and, as everyone knows, mowing
lawns. Though his final years were spent in Georgia,
his heart always remained planted in the panhandle of
Texas.
Pat was preceded in death by: his wife Colleen
Downey, Daughter-in-Law Jacque Downey, and sisters
Nelba Downey and Darla Conover.
Survivors include: Children- Darrell Downey and
wife Diana of Canton, GA. Gail Patrick and husband
Mickey of Houston. Greg Downey of Stinnett, and
“His Girls” Jennifer Venzor and husband Michael of
Amarillo, and Jaimee Coburn and husband Tommy of
Borger. Numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren,
and countless friends that had become family.
Memorial Services are pending for Thursday, December 31st, 2015 at 11:00am.
In lieu of flowers the family asks that you spend a
minute honoring Pat’s memory and rejoice in the time
spent with the ones you love.
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Winter storm Goliath, that
promised to pack a mean punch
descended on the Texas Panhandle on Saturday night with frigid
temperatures, strong winds and
more than a few snowflakes.
Citizens awoke Sunday morning to find snowdrifts covering
the side streets of Borger and
the commute to work, for those
that had to make it, was a dicey
one.
Emergency Management professionals from throughout the
county had met in the middle
of last week to prepare for the
worst, including wide-spread
long lasting power outages, With lingering snow and ice across the region, residents are restranded motorists, or snowdrifts minded to plan their daily commute ahead of time to avoid rushing
too deep for EMS crews to tra- down potentially treacherous roads. (Photo by Don Rice)
verse. Thankfully, none of those with the Borger officer of Emer- first responders.
Emergency
Management
dangerous scenarios had come gency Management. According
to
Whisler,
there
had
been
sevprofessionals
spent
the day
to pass as of Sunday night.
“This has thankfully been a eral calls to help stranded mo- monitoring road conditions, and
pretty uneventful blizzard from torists, and several fire depart- continuing to follow the latest
an emergency management ment and EMS calls, but nothing weather forecasts for the area.
See Blizzard pg. 3
standpoint,” said Jason Whisler wildly outside of the norm for
Ballot Drawing
Continued from page 1
A number of positions were included, and the final
list of candidates, and their ballot positions is as follows. 84th District Judge; Craig Jones, Curt Brancheau.
County Judge; Cindy Irwin, Amanda Harris. County
Sheriff; Efren Munoz Jr., Kirk Coker, Don Johnson.
County Commissioner, precinct 1; Heath Woods, Sean
Burleson, Larry Coffman. County Commissioner, pre-
cinct 3; Red Isbell, Matt Chisum. Justice of the Peace;
James Quall, Robin Dickerson, Yadi Rodriguez.
Between now and the election, residents will have
the opportunity to participate in fundraisers as well as
a candidates forum, but in the meantime locals are encouraged to research each of the candidates and their
qualifications. Ballot position may be important for
grabbing the votes of uninformed voters, but ideally,
an informed electorate will be able to select the best
candidates possible, making ballot position far less
important.
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Because a number of candidate brought their children along to watch part of the election process, extensive
care was taken by officials to ensure each young volunteer had no relation to any candidate in each individual drawing. (Photo by Alex Mann)
Seasonal Accidents
Continued from page 1
Salting pathways and extra caution can help with
ice, but there isn’t a whole lot residents can do about
the weather. However one other form of holiday
accident is more preventable with proper caution
and diligence: Car wrecks. “Most of the time we
have them, it’s the people who live here.” Sue says,
“Sometimes we get people from out of town, because they don’t know the roads. Of course there’s
alcohol; people get together and celebrate a bit and
they don’t realize until they get outside how inebriated they are.”
Even food and gifts over the holidays contribute
to a busier work schedule for hospital staff. “Choking is another thing you worry about. There’s a lot
of food consumed, and then there’s toys with little
pieces that little kids could choke on, then there’s
plenty of big people who do a lot of choking too.”
Despite the extra work load, Sue assures that
GPCH staff are well prepared for the busy time of
year. “We’ve always got backup staff if there’s a
trauma.” She says, “We have a trauma coordinator that we call in, and we can call in extra nursing
staff.” Unfortunately, other situations are more difficult to prepare for. With a potential blizzard on the
horizon, patients arriving at GPCH may not have
the option of traveling to Amarillo hospitals in case
of an emergency. Sue says, “We have to keep them
here if possible. With this coming snow storm that
we’re anticipating, if it’s blizzard like conditions,
the airplanes cant fly, the helicopters cant fly, and
if its bad enough you cant get a ground unit over
there. We can’t send an ambulance, so we just try
to take care of them here.” Even sending an ambulance by ground can lead to tragedy in icy conditions. “You take one person with a problem with
some ambulance people, and that potentially makes
three victims,” Sue explains. For this reason, especially during the coming days, Sue reminds that
it’s best to take extra caution and avoid injury to
begin with. “Just use moderation in everything,
and there’s no hurry.” She says, “Don’t get in a big
hurry to get somewhere, they can wait for you, and
if you’re late it’s not a big deal. Just be mindful of
what you’re doing.”
MONDAY
December 28, 2015
Borger News -Herald
Local first grade student gives to first responders
By Tabitha Fleming
feature@borgernewsherald.com
This holiday season when six year old
Adrianne Medaris found herself with some
extra spending money, she did something
that might seem very common, she went
shopping. She bought lots of small toys,
which might seem like a six year old girl’s
dream come true, and it was. Only these
toys, which Adrianne carefully selected,
weren’t for the local Borger first-grader.
They were for others.
“I wanted to be nice enough to donate
toys to the firemen and the policemen to
give out to kids.” she said happily when
asked why she spent the Christmas money
on toys for other kids instead of herself.
Adrianne and her father, Coby Medaris,
took the toys to the Borger Fire Department, the Borger Police Department, and
even the Hutchinson County Sheriff’s Department so that the first responders would
have a gift to give children in crisis as they
responded to calls throughout the holiday
season.
First responders, such as police and fire
give the small gifts to children who are accident victims, crime victims, witnesses to
a crime, or to kids who are experiencing a
traumatic event, coping with a loss or are
sick or injured. These small tokens of comfort make a very big difference to a child
in crisis.
Although this is something that Adrianne decided to do during the holiday season, it’s something that the departments
have need for throughout the year. When
the first responders are on the scene it’s a
stressful and trauamatic event for any kids
involved. With the help of toys like the ones
that Adrianne donated, the first responders
have something to give to children and help
them focus on something less frightening.
It’s hard to imagine that most children in
the first grade would have so quickly given
up the opportunity to have more presents,
but Adrianne had no regrets about her decision. When asked if she would have rather
used the money to buy more presents for
herself, Adrianne was quick to respond.
“No, it was better to buy toys to give to the
firemen,” she said. “Everyone should give
toys to them, not just for kids but for babies, even for teenagers.”
Adrianne is the daughter of Coby Medaris and Tommie Ann Tijerina, who should
be proud to have a child that most definitely has a heart for giving. Adrianne wanted
to encourage others to donate as well, but
she did say before the interview ended that
people shouldn’t give all their toys to the
police and firemen, “Because if you give
ment authorities to investigate a possible bias motive
for this fire,” he said in a
statement.
Dramane Diallo, who
opens the worship center
for prayer every morning,
told The Houston Chronicle that the center has no
kitchen or equipment that
would easily cause an electrical fire.
“It’s very hard to believe
it was an accident,” Diallo
said.
Teen passenger dies following crash
The life of one young adult came
to a tragic end Wednesday, December
23, following a single-vehicle rollover accident on Highway 152 near
Farm to Market Road 2171 approximately 1.5 miles east of Borger.
The Department of Public Safety
[DPS] said in a statement that at approximately 8:04 pm. sixteen year
old Jacob Witt, of Fritch, was driving at 2010 Dodge 1500 pickup truck
traveling eastbound when he lost
control of the vehicle.
As the vehicle came out of a curve,
it struck a guard rail and rolled over.
According to local emergency responder Jason Whisler, crews were
on the scene for several hours.
Christopher McBrayer, 16, of Sanford was a passenger in the Dodge,
and was taken from the scene to the
hospital where he later succumbed
to his injuries. The pronouncement
of death was made by Dr. Eric Levy
at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo.
Also injured in the crash was Mark
Keeling, aged 13 of Pampa, who was
transported to the hospital with non-
Into Action Alcoholics
Anonymous, First
Presbyterian Church,
418 W. Coolidge, 8 p.m.
Call 898-4607 for more
information.
Adrianne Medaris is seen here donating
toys to the Borger Fire Deparment (above)
and the Hutchinson County Sheriff’s Office (right). The local six year old donated
the toys for first responders to give to children that they met throughout the holiday
season. The toys will help to comfort kids
in the face of traumatic events such as automobile accidents or house fires. (Courtesy
Photos)
have been used, explained
ATF Special Agent Nicole
Strong.
The Houston Fire Department is investigating
with help from the ATF and
collecting video and other
materials, Strong said.
Mustafaa Carroll, the
executive director for the
Houston chapter of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations, called on
police to investigate,
“We urge law enforce-
By Tabitha Fleming
806-273-5611
Community
Events
Mondays
Al Anon Family Group
invites family and friends
of alcoholics or problem
drinkers to meet with us
on Mondays from 6-7 p.m.
at the First Presbyterian
Church, 418 W. Coolidge.
Please enter the south
door of the east wing. For
information, call Janet at
(806) 681-1798
Fire at Houston mosque suspicious
HOUSTON (AP) — A
fire at a Houston mosque
is suspicious and may have
been intentionally set, an
official from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms said.
The fire was Friday afternoon at the Islamic Society of Greater Houston.
and caused major damage;
but no one was injured.
The blaze had “multiple
points of origin,” which indicates an accelerant may
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life-threatening injuries. Witt, the
driver, and the other back-seat passenger Riley Dunnigan, age 16 of
Borger, sustained no injuries.
The official statement from the
highway patrol noted that Keeling,
Dunningham and Witt were all wearing seatbelts at the time of impact.
According to officials, there were
no adverse weather conditions and
roads were dry when the accident
took place.
Whisler was able to confirm that the
guardrail where the incident had occurred had been temporarily repaired
and was on the Texas Department of
Transportation’s maintenance list for
a more permenant repair or replacement. Although there is no final answer concerning what happened that
night on the roadway, DPS released
a statement concerning the cause.
“It is unknown what caused Witt to
lose control of the pick-up, however;
speed is a suspected factor,” said the
statement from DPS.
Regardless of the cause of the accident, the loss of Cristopher McBrayer
is sure to be felt not only by family
and friends but by the community at
large following the abrupt and tragic
ending to this young life.
Second Mondays
Senior Adult Game Night,
First Baptist Church, 100
S. Hedgecoke, 6 p.m.
_______________
Thursdays
Into Action Alcoholics
Anonymous,
8 p.m. First Presbyterian
Church,
418 W. Coolidge
Call 806-898-4607
First Thursdays
Hutchinson County
Republican Women, Noon
in the FPC Gallery Room
Call 806-273-8363 for
more info
all your toys away, you won’t have anything to play with,” she said emphatically.
To sum it up, Adrianne recommends that
everyone donate as much as they can, but
not so much that they themselves are completely without, and that, seems like pretty
sound advice.
Blizzard
Continued from page 2
The Texas Department of Public Safety issued
a variety of weather statements and road closures
throughout the duration of the storm. In a statement released on Sunday afternoon DPS trooper
Cindy Barkley said, “The Texas Department of
Public Safety (DPS) strongly discourages all travel
throughout the entire Texas Panhandle.
The road conditions are impassable because of
the high snow drifts, slick roadways, and white out
conditions due to the blowing snow. There are several stranded motorists throughout the Texas Panhandle. In Parmer County, there are currently over
20 stranded motorists on US 60 and US 70 due
to 8-10 feet tall drifts in the roadway. TXDOT is
working diligently to blade the roads, however the
blowing snow makes it difficult to keep the roadways clear.”
Throughout Sunday DPS issued notices of closures for US 287 between Amarillo and Childress,
US 60 between Hereford and the New Mexico
State Line, and other roadways.
As of time of print, I-40, I-27, US 60, US 287,
US 385, and additional roadways throuhgout the
Texas Panhandle were closed due to snow, blowing snow and blizzard conditions. Additionally,
a warming station had been set up at the Sacred
Heart Catholic Church located in Plainview. DPS
reminded drivers to stay home unless travel is absolutely necessary and to check road conditions at
www.drivetexas.org before driving.
As always, motorists should be prepared with
extra blankets, water, and food supplies in to maintain themselves and passengers should they become stranded on the roadway.
Shots fired at off-duty cop
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police are looking
for three people who opened fire on an off-duty police officer who was flagged down by a man they
were trying to rob.
Oswaldo Hernandez tells Houston television station KTRK he was walking to a bus stop when he
was confronted by the men in a car and they tried to
take his money. Hernandez was able to break free and
waved down a passing car. He says he didn’t know it
was police officer on his way to work.
As the officer stopped, the men in the car sped
away and started shooting. No one was hurt.
First & Third Thursdays
Unity Masonic Lodge,
7:30 p.m.
Second Thursdays
Northwest Amateur Radio
Club,
7 p.m. at the American
Red Cross
614 Weatherly
_______________
Fridays
Kiwanis Club
Noon in the FPC Gallery
Room.
Fritch Senior Citizen
Sunshine Club Noon for
lunch followed by games.
Celebrate Recovery, 7
p.m.,
305 N. Deahl.
Call 806-273-7127
fellowshipborger.com.
Second Fridays
Golden Plains Home
Health Care, blood
pressure and blood
sugar screenings, Fritch
Sunshine Club, 11:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.
Parkinson’ Disease
Support Group, Perryton
Mennonite Church, 2821
Fritch Senior Citizens Club
potluck dinner, business
meeting, games at noon.
Interim Home Health
Care, free blood
pressure and blood
sugar screenings, United
Supermarket, 9 a.m. to 11
a.m.
Fourth Fridays
Diabetes Education class,
10 a.m., Golden Plains
Community Hospital
Board Room. Call 4675718 or 467-5857 for more
information.
Hutchinson County
Alcoholics
Anonymous
Meeting
Wednesdays at
5:30 p.m.
Salvation Army
1090 Coronado Circle
Borger, Tx 79007
(806) 273-2491
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MONDAY
December 28, 2015
Unintended result: Gacy probe clears 11 unrelated cold cases
CHICAGO (AP) — His task
was to solve a cruel mystery
decades after a serial killer’s
death.
Sgt. Jason Moran’s work
began in a graveyard, his first
stop in his quest to identify the
eight unknown victims of John
Wayne Gacy. More than 30
years had passed since Gacy
had murdered 33 young men
and boys.
Investigators now had more
sophisticated
crime-solving
tools, notably DNA, so the
Cook County sheriff’s detective was assigned to find out
who was buried in eight anonymous graves.
Moran quickly helped a
family confirm Gacy killed
their brother.
Since then, though, his
search has led him down a
totally unexpected path: He’s
cleared 11 unrelated cold cases
across America. After eliminating these young men as Gacy
victims, he’s pored over DNA
results, medical and Social Security records, enlisted anthropologists, lab technicians and
police in Utah, Colorado, New
Jersey and other states — and
cracked missing person’s cases
that had been dormant for decades.
Most recently, Moran identified a 16-year-old murder
victim in San Francisco who’d
been buried 36 years ago.
He’s brought comfort to
some by proving, through science and dogged research that
their missing loved ones are
dead.
He’s brought joy to others,
finding long-lost brothers and
sons still alive.
Marveling at this remarkable detour from the ghastly
Gacy trail, Moran says he recently told his boss:
“Is it possible that an evil
serial killer has done some
good?”
Moran’s work began four
years ago after Cook County
Sheriff Tom Dart publicly
urged anyone who thought a
relative was an unidentified
Gacy victim to submit to a
DNA test.
Moran prioritized about 170
tips from more than 20 states,
representing some 80 missing
young men.
He focused on those similar in age (14 to 24) and background to Gacy’s victims:
Many had troubled families
or substance abuse problems.
Some were gay. Others had
worked construction for Gacy,
a building contractor. He was
executed in 1994.
Authorities had long ago removed the jaw bones and teeth
of the eight unknown victims,
hoping for eventual identification. Decades later, they were
buried, only to be exhumed
in 2011. Moran took them to
the University of North Texas
Center for Human Identification, where lab workers developed solid DNA profiles
for four victims. For the other
four, the entire remains had to
be exhumed.
Within
weeks,
Moran
cracked one case.
William Bundy’s mother had
suspected Gacy killed her son,
but the case was stymied because his dentist had destroyed
his patients’ records after retiring.
Three decades later, Bundy’s
mother was dead, but his sister and brother provided DNA,
resulting in a match to the unknown victim. It wasn’t enough
for a firm identification.
Moran then studied the man’s
dental records, noticing empty
spaces where his upper canine
teeth had been removed. Bundy
had those same teeth removed,
saved them — and his sister
kept them all those years.
Case cleared.
Bundy is the only Gacy victim Moran has identified. But
he’s helped other families who
feared their loved ones died at
Gacy’s hands.
In every case involving
DNA, Moran told families the
results would be entered in
CODIS, the federal Combined
DNA Index System. If a genetic
link emerged, he’d call.
It took almost four years for
Willa Wertheimer to get that
life-changing call.
In 2011, she’d told Moran
about her half-brother, Andre
Drath. Their mother died when
both were very young.
When the grief-stricken little
boy began getting in trouble,
his stepfather turned him over
to the state. Drath was abused
in foster homes. Then one day
he disappeared.
“I used to fantasize about
finding him,” Wertheimer says.
“I just wanted to hold him and
tell him I love him and say I’m
sorry about everything that had
happened.”
Her DNA eliminated any
link to Gacy victims, but last
fall, a Texas lab worker notified
Moran it was associated with
an unidentified body found in
San Francisco in 1979. That
DNA hadn’t been submitted to
CODIS until late 2014.
Moran reviewed the San
Francisco police and medical examiner’s reports, which
showed the man had been shot
multiple times. It also disclosed an all-important detail:
A tattoo — Andy — on his
right shoulder.
Moran found more evidence
in files from the Illinois agency that supervised Drath as a
state ward — including dental
records matching those of the
teen buried in Ocean Beach.
It was bittersweet news for
Wertheimer.
“I was relieved that he
wasn’t hurting,” she says, “but
knowing how he died ... I felt
awful.”
San Francisco police have
reactivated their investigation.
Moran hopes to soon have
Drath’s remains exhumed from
a California cemetery.
“I brought her to this point,”
he says, “now I’d like to help
bring him home.”
Jason Moran cradled an urn
as he arrived at the North Side
home.
It had been 36 years since
Edward Beaudion left that
house, a 22-year-old heading
to a wedding. Now, the detective was delivering his cremated remains to his sister, Ruth
Rodriguez, and elderly father,
Louis.
DNA and old-fashioned police work brought this mystery
to a frustrating end.
The case had a suspect: A
petty criminal named Jerry
Jackson told police in 1978
that he’d fought with Beaudion in downtown Chicago,
dragged his body into a car,
then dumped him in a suburban forest preserve, according
to Moran.
Jackson was arrested in Caruthersville, Missouri, with the
car Beaudion had been driving. It belonged to his sister;
she found a bullet inside.
A search of the woods,
though, turned up no body.
Jackson was convicted only
of stealing the car and items
inside.
Decades later, Moran started investigating. “I really felt
the sadness and desperation in
their voices,” he says.
Last year, their DNA was
linked to skeletal remains that
had recently arrived at the Texas lab. Some kids had spotted
a leg bone in the woods where
Jackson said he’d dumped Beaudion’s body.
That discovery was in 2008.
Unfortunately, the remains sat
in the Cook County medical
examiner’s office five years
before being sent to be tested.
Studying the autopsy report,
Moran noticed the leg bone
contained a surgical screw in
one knee. Beaudion had one,
too.
That was enough to confirm
his identity — yet that fiveyear delay thwarted Moran’s
bigger plan: While preparing to go to Missouri to arrest
Jackson in Beaudion’s death,
he discovered: Jackson had recently died.
Still, Moran sensed the family was relieved.
“His father told me when he
dies, he’ll have Edward’s ashes in his casket and said, ‘All
of three of us will be together
in perpetuity.’”
Thousands of miles away, a
75-year-old Army vet had his
own lingering questions.
Ron Soden contacted Moran
about his younger half-brother,
Steven, who’d vanished in
1972.
He’d run away during a
camping trip organized by the
New Jersey orphanage where
he lived with his sister, April.
Their mother had placed them
there.
Steven’s father lived in Chicago. Could he have traveled
there looking for him? Moran
thought it possible, and teamed
with New Jersey State Police
to work the case.
April’s DNA was ultimately
linked with skeletal remains
found at New Jersey’s Bass
River State Forest, about a
mile from where Steven was
last seen. That discovery was
in 2000, but it wasn’t until
2013 — and more DNA tests
from another half-brother —
that Steven was identified. Hypothermia is suspected as the
cause of death.
“We always held out that
hope ... then all of sudden you
find out and it’s not there anymore,” says Ron Soden, who
lives in Tacoma, Washington.
“To realize he probably died at
17 ... it’s just a shame his life
had to be that way through no
fault of his own.”
These poignant stories, Mo-
3 lawmakers recognized for justice system changes
DALLAS (AP) —
Three state Democratic
lawmakers
were named The Dallas Morning News’
Texans of the Year for
their “sheer force of
will and the persuasive power of their
cause” in pushing forward several changes
to the criminal justice
system.
Sen. Rodney Ellis
and Sen. John Whitmire, and Rep. Ruth
Jones
McClendon
earned the newspaper’s honor, which
was announced Saturday
(http://bit.
ly/1YExIf7 ).
This year, the Texas Legislature ended
a grand jury selection
derided as “pick-apal,” created a wrongful convictions review commission and
eased
punishments
for children accused
of committing misdemeanor crimes.
Those bills and several others were sponsored or co-sponsored
by Ellis, Whitmire
or McClendon. The
Democrats
worked
with strong Republican majorities and
Republican leaders to
get their bills passed.
“It required remarkable grit for them to
persevere amid increasingly harsh partisan divisions, particularly with a tea
party stalwart in the
lieutenant governor’s
seat and an equally
devout conservative
in the governor’s office,” the newspaper
said.
Whitmire specifically targeted the
“pick-a-pal system”
after a series of col-
umns in his hometown newspaper, the
Houston Chronicle,
explored how some
judges could pick
friends or acquaintances for a grand
jury instead of jurors
being randomly selected.
McClendon fought
for the exoneration
review commission
named after Timothy
Cole, a former Texas
Tech student who was
cleared of a rape conviction after he died
of illness in prison.
The Cole commission will review
wrongful convictions
and make recommendations on ways to
further prevent them.
Ellis has worked
for years with criminal-justice
advocates, including the
nonprofit Innocence
Project, to push forward change on bitemark evidence, faulty
eyewitness testimony
and improving defendants’ access to evidence and legal counsel.
Texas has had far
more exonerated inmates than any other
state, and problems
with its prisons and
court systems have
gotten national attention.
It has also passed
some of the most farreaching changes in
the country to expand
DNA testing and compensate the wrongfully imprisoned.
Barry Scheck, cofounder of the Innocence Project, lauded the trio for their
work.
“I have a national
perspective on this,”
Borger News -Herald
ran says, motivate him.
“You’ve got these young
kids who struggle through their
short lives,” he says. “Now
they’re anonymous. They
don’t have a headstone saying
they were ever on this earth. I
want them to have some dignity and respect so the world
knows they once lived.
“I mean, everybody deserves a name.”
There are happy endings in
Moran’s work.
Amazingly, he’s located five
living men who’d vanished in
the 1970s. “I scold them and
say, ‘Why would you do this to
a loving family?’”
In 2013, Moran reunited
Edyth and Robert Hutton —
after 41 years.
Edyth had made numerous
attempts to find her brother,
including mailing about 300
postcards to various Robert,
Rob, Bob and Bobby Huttons
nationwide.
A relative who is a private investigator thought he’d located
Hutton in Colorado. But when
Edyth and her father wrote letters to that address, they were
returned as undeliverable.
In a last-ditch effort she
searched NamUs, a website
featuring missing and unidentified people, narrowing her
list to seven. She contacted the
respective law enforcement
agencies. One person replied:
Jason Moran.
Using Hutton’s vital statistics, Moran thought he’d
tracked him to Colorado but
when police arrived, the man
was gone.
Moran
waited
several
months and when the sheriff’s
analysts checked updated databases they found a match in
Montana.
“Your brother is alive,” Moran told Hutton’s sister. The
siblings re-connected the next
day.
“I felt like a hole in my heart
had been filled,” she says.
Her brother, she says, told
her he’d gotten involved
with drugs, straightened out
and returned to the family’s
hometown in California but
everyone had moved. He declined to be interviewed for
this story.
Robert Hutton recently
moved to Nevada to live near
his sister.
“We see each other almost
daily,” she says, “and we love
it.”
Scheck told the newspaper. “Texas has
found a lot of solutions.”
Other nominees for
Texan of the Year included Jordan Spieth,
the Dallas native who
won two golf majors
in 2015, as well as Irving Mayor Beth Van
Duyne and teenager
Ahmed
Mohamed
for the attention they
received after Mohamed’s arrest for
bringing a homemade
clock to school.
Dog rescued after falling
into tunnel chasing squirrel
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Firefighters and police
officers had to be called in to help rescue a dog that
ended up trapped in a San Antonio River Walk drainage tunnel while chasing a squirrel.
The San Antonio Express-News reports (http://bit.
ly/1SeEx1W ) that Luna, a 2-year-old mixed-breed
pup, was taking a walk with her owners Thursday afternoon when she took off after a squirrel.
While chasing the squirrel, Luna jumped over a
wall and ended up falling 15 to 20 feet into a drainage tunnel below.
After police officers were unable to reach the dog,
firefighters were called in to help free her.
Firefighter Aaron Gill used a ladder to descend into
the drain and retrieve Luna.
Authorities said that despite her tumble down the
tunnel, Luna suffered no serious injuries.
MONDAY
December 28, 2015
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Avoid controversial subjects like
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This is a poor day for important
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Because people are touchy and
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Family quarrels are likely today.
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People want to argue today, and
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Everyone wants to disagree. Yes, it’s
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You are best off working alone or
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(11)
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(9)
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(11)
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255. A minor planet was named after
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157. Shenanigan (4)
158. Definite article (3)
160. A light lunch choice (5)
162. Airplane assignment (4)
164. Run amok (4)
166. Angel’s disk of light (4)
167. Road goo (3)
168. Hackneyed (5)
170. Restroom sign (3)
172. Count calories (4)
174. Roller coaster feature (4)
176. Nightclubs (4)
177. Ring up (4)
178. Dash lengths (3)
179. Barbie’s beau turned 54 (3)
180. Opposite of on (3)
181. American Sniper star turned
40 (7,6)
183. Rocks, to a bartender (3)
185. New Mexico art community (4)
187. A small drink of a spirit (4)
188. Past participle of see (4)
189. Wren or hen (4)
190. Price dropped of this black
gold (3)
191. Legendary female jazz singer
born 100. yrs ago (6,7)
192. Men’s formal wear (3)
193. Japanese money (3)
194. Holy leader visited U.S. & Cuba
(4,7)
195. Mamma __ closed on Broadway
(3)
196. Psychic power (3)
198. Highway (4)
200. Quick haircut (4)
201. __ Levine did his 9th season of
The Voice (4)
202. Make music via voice (4)
203. Father (3)
204. Number of times a weight is
lifted (3)
205. Apprentice star running for prez
(6,5)
209. Quentin __ released 8th film (9)
211. Empty promises (4)
213. Former graduate (4)
214. Jets or Sharks, for example (4)
215. One __: the year’s biggest selling group (9)
218. Oscar’s best picture (7)
220. Country legalized same sex
marriage in ntl vote (7)
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304. Industrious insect (3)
305. Highs and __ (4)
306. Multitude (4)
308. Get ready (4)
310. Daytime TV offering (4)
312. Don Johnson’s new character
(3)
314. Shower alternative (4)
315. Feudal estate (4)
316. Blood-carrying body part (4)
318. One who completes school (4)
320. Dang (4)
322. This Love Bug actor passed
(4,5)
323. Shipwreck discovered 30 yrs
ago (7)
324. When water heats up (5)
325. Diminutive (3)
326. To joke around (4)
327. Digestive juice (4)
328. She and Tiger Woods split (4)
329. TV show about high-school
singers ended (4)
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278. Unpleasant person (British
term) (3)
279. Low, steady continuous sounds
(4)
280. Murder (4)
281. Capacity (4)
283. Excursion (4)
285. Business support systems; abbr.
(3)
286. Nothing (3)
288. Morning moisture (3)
289. Roswell sighting (3)
291. Carnival attractions (5)
292. Ribonucleic acid; abbr. (3)
293. Napkins tied around the neck
(4)
294. A combustible dark ‘rock’ (4)
295. __ Galloway finished 3rd in
Dancing with the Stars (4)
297. Confess (4)
299. Do film work (3)
300. Entrances to rooms (5)
301. Egyptian cobra (3)
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226. Tavern (3)
227. Banned on cross-country flights
25 yrs ago (7)
229. A group of 4 musicians (7)
232. Grammy’s best new artist __
Smith (3)
234. Excessively sentimental (5)
236. Siesta (5)
237. Atlantic fish (3)
242. Short snooze (3)
244. A navigation system (3)
245. Little lie (3)
246. Embargo (3)
258. Second person pronoun (3)
259. Allows (4)
260. __ Stefani split from her
husband (4)
262. Slipped (4)
263. Peas grow in this (3)
268. Anger (4)
269. Skinny (4)
270. Pledge (4)
272. Snare (4)
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333. This NASA probe reached
dwarf planet Ceres (4)
335. Halloween month; abbr. (3)
336. Pester (5)
337. A salty, doughy treat (7)
338. Weapon first used on large
scale, 100 yrs ago (6,3)
340. Arid (3)
341. __ and paper mill (4)
342. Windmill blade (4)
343. Peter Gabriel’s fifth album (2)
344. Abbreviation of saint or street
(2)
346. Untidy person (4)
348. Van Gogh’s mistress (4)
350. Body part Van Gogh sliced
off (3)
352. Purple flowering shrub (5)
353. Despise (4)
354. A round, flattish cap (5)
355. Knight’s title (3)
357. Makes a mistake (4)
359. Approaches (5)
362. Table part (3)
363. Body of water (4)
364. Where you find Cape Town;
abbr. (2)
366. Uncouth person (4)
368. Fashion icon Christian __ born
110 yrs ago (4)
370. Expire (3)
372. Lunch meat (3)
373. Malay dress: baju __ (6)
374. A martial art: __ chi (3)
375. Conformity to established
standards of behavior (9)
376. Common ship prefix (2)
377. Prolongs (9)
378. A medicine (4)
380. Newsroom boss (6)
382. Psychedelic drug (3)
384. U.K. broadcaster that fired Top
Gear host (3)
385. Receiving (7)
386. __ and behold (2)
387. Conjunction (3)
389. Indefinite article (2)
This 2015 Year in Review Crossword
390. Stock symbol for a big audit
firm (2)
392. Footnote note (4)
394. Dream on (2,2)
396. Turncoat (7)
398. Immediately (3)
402. Reunite with a group (6)
404. Brazilian dance (5)
406. Prefix meaning one (3)
408. As much as needed (6)
412. CNN misidentified __ Reagan
(5)
413. This stretchy fabric turned 57
(5)
414. Abominable snowman (4)
415. Question answered with ‘because’ (3)
418. Belonging to me (2)
420. Moves briskly (5)
421. A bowler hat (5)
425. To and __ (3)
427. Competent (4)
428. Middling; nothing special (2-2)
429. Now obsolete video format (3)
Puzzle is sponsored by Borger Phillips 66
430. High-pitched woodwind instrument; abbr. (2)
432. Dynamite (3)
434. __ and flow (3)
436. To exist (2)
437. Calif. city with worst heat wave
in a century (2)
438. Opposite of stop (2)
439. Thanks, in baby talk (2)
440. Silence! (2)
441. New hit: Love __ Like You
Do (2)
442. A common abbreviation for
Germany (2)
444. Measurement side to side (5)
446. Kings of __ worked on seventh
album (4)
448. Vienna’s home (7)
449. Rug (6)
450. A video camera that streams
into a computer (6)
451. Clothing (6)
452. 35th anniversary of this Beatles’
death (6)
Answers will be listed in
the December 31, 2015
edition of the
Borger News-Herald.
453. A reflective surface (6)
455. Sticky (5)
456. Enemies of the Inca (6)
457. Earl Anthony was one (6)
458. A First Nations gathering (6)
459. Italian-style ice cream (6)
460. Greek spirit of forgetfulness (5)
462. Italian sandwich (6)
463. Dreadful (6)
464. __ & Gretel (6)
465. Asian mountain sheep (6)
466. Trims or embellishes decor (6)
471. Take to court (3)
474. U2’s The __ fell off a stage (4)
475. __ Ruth hit his first career home
run 100 yrs ago (4)
479. Praiseful poem (3)
482. __ Pacino celebrated 75th
birthday (2)
484. State with extensive auto racing
history; postal abbr. (2)
486. Rockers __/DC did another
world tour (2)
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Borger News -Herald
Dolphins botch last
snap and lose to Colts 18-12
Tuesday hoops...
Borger’s Kyler Brewer passes to a team-mate during the Bulldogs game against Dumas this
season here in Borger. The Bulldogs travel to Canadian tomorrow for a tournament, times and
opponents are to be announced. (photo by Evan Hays)
Eagles face long offseason after disappointing season
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Chip
Kelly has plenty of time to figure
out where things went wrong for
the Philadelphia Eagles.
After consecutive 10-win seasons in Kelly's first two years, the
Eagles had lofty aspirations.
They entered the season tied
with Indianapolis for third-best
odds (17:2) to win the Super Bowl
behind Seattle and Green Bay and
ahead of New England.
But nothing went right from the
start and Philadelphia was elimi-
National Football League
All Times EDT
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T
Pct
y-New England 12 3 0
.800
N.Y. Jets
10 5 0
.667
Buffalo
7 8 0
.467
Miami
5 10 0
.333
South
W L T
Pct
Houston
8 7 0
.533
Indianapolis
7 8 0
.467
Jacksonville
5 9 0
.357
Tennessee
3 12 0
.200
North
W L T
Pct
y-Cincinnati
11 3 0
.786
Pittsburgh
9 6 0
.600
Baltimore
5 10 0
.333
Cleveland
3 12 0
.200
West
W L T
Pct
Denver
10 4 0
.714
x-Kansas City
10 5 0
.667
Oakland
7 8 0
.467
San Diego
4 11 0
.267
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T
Pct
y-Washington
8 7 0
.533
N.Y. Giants
6 8 0
.429
Philadelphia
6 9 0
.400
Dallas
4 11 0
.267
South
W L T
Pct
y-Carolina
14 1 0
.933
Atlanta
8 7 0
.533
Tampa Bay
6 9 0
.400
New Orleans
5 9 0
.357
North
W L T
P
x-Green Bay
10 4 0
.714
Minnesota
9 5 0
.643
Chicago
6 9 0
.400
Detroit
6 9 0
.400
West
W L T
Pct
y-Arizona
12 2 0
.857
x-Seattle
9 5 0
.643
St. Louis
6 8 0
.429
San Francisco
4 11 0
.267
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
Thursday’s Game
Oakland 23, San Diego 20, OT
Saturday’s Game
Washington 38, Philadelphia 24
Sunday’s Games
Houston 34, Tennessee 6
Kansas City 17, Cleveland 13
N.Y. Jets 26, New England 20, OT
Indianapolis 18, Miami 12
Detroit 32, San Francisco 17
Buffalo 16, Dallas 6
Chicago 26, Tampa Bay 21
Atlanta 20, Carolina 13
Baltimore 20, Pittsburgh 17
Jacksonville at New Orleans, 4:05 p.m.
St. Louis at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.
Green Bay at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.
N.Y. Giants at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.
Monday’s Game
Cincinnati at Denver, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 3
Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m.
Oakland at Kansas City, 1 p.m.
Washington at Dallas, 1 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago, 1 p.m.
Minnesota at Green Bay, 1 p.m.
N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 1 p.m.
New England at Miami, 1 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Carolina, 1 p.m.
New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m.
Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.
nated from playoff contention with
a 38-24 loss to Washington on
Saturday night.
The Eagles (6-9) needed to beat
the Redskins and Giants in the
final two games to win a mediocre
division, but lost to a team that had
won just two of its previous 14 road
games.
Kelly said he takes the blame for
missing the playoffs two years in a
row.
"That's all on my shoulders," he
said. "It's unacceptable. We have
got to find a way to do a better job,
and we have to put these guys in a
better position to make plays."
Perhaps Kelly should focus on
coaching and let someone else
handle GM duties.
Kelly assumed control of personnel decisions after only two seasons
in the NFL and overhauled the
roster because he said 10-6 is no
better than 4-12.
His bold moves didn't pan out.
Scoreboard
Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m.
Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.
Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.
St. Louis at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.
San Diego at Denver, 4:25 p.m.
Seattle at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.
National Basketball Association
All Times EST
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Toronto
19 12 .613 —
Boston
17 13 .567 1½
New York
14 17 .452
5
Brooklyn
8 22 .267 10½
Philadelphia
2 30 .063 17½
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Atlanta
20 12 .625 —
Miami
18 11 .621
½
Orlando
17 13 .567
2
Charlotte
16 13 .552 2½
Washington
14 14 .500
4
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Cleveland
19 9 .679 —
Indiana
17 12 .586 2½
Chicago
16 12 .571
3
Detroit
17 14 .548 3½
Milwaukee
12 19 .387 8½
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
San Antonio
26 6 .813 —
Dallas
17 13 .567
8
Houston
16 16 .500 10
Memphis
16 16 .500 10
New Orleans
10 20 .333 15
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Oklahoma City
20 10 .667 —
Utah
12 16 .429
7
Denver
12 18 .400
8
Portland
12 20 .375
9
Minnesota
11 19 .367
9
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
Golden State
28 1 .966 —
L.A. Clippers
18 13 .581 11
Sacramento
12 17 .414 16
Phoenix
12 20 .375 17½
L.A. Lakers
5 25 .167 23½
Saturday’s Games
Washington 111, Brooklyn 96
Toronto 111, Milwaukee 90
New Orleans 110, Houston 108
Miami 108, Orlando 101
Charlotte 98, Memphis 92
Boston 99, Detroit 93
Atlanta 117, New York 98
Indiana 102, Minnesota 88
San Antonio 101, Denver 86
Dallas 118, Chicago 111
L.A. Clippers 109, Utah 104
Philadelphia 111, Phoenix 104
Portland 105, Cleveland 76
Sunday’s Games
L.A. Lakers at Memphis, 6 p.m.
Denver at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.
New York at Boston, 7 p.m.
Portland at Sacramento, 9 p.m.
Monday’s Games
Atlanta at Indiana, 7 p.m.
New Orleans at Orlando, 7 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Washington, 7 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Brooklyn at Miami, 7:30 p.m.
Toronto at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Minnesota at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.
Milwaukee at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at Utah, 9 p.m.
Cleveland at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
Sacramento at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Detroit at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Miami at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Atlanta at Houston, 8 p.m.
Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Cleveland at Denver, 9 p.m.
National Hockey League
All Times EST
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L OT
Detroit
18 10 7
Montreal
20 14 3
Boston
19 11 4
Florida
19 12 2
Ottawa
17 12 6
Tampa Bay
18 15 3
Buffalo
15 16 4
Toronto
12 14 7
Metropolitan Division
W L OT
Washington
26 6 2
N.Y. Rangers
20 12 4
N.Y. Islanders
19 11 5
New Jersey
17 14 5
Pittsburgh
17 14 3
Philadelphia
15 12 7
Carolina
14 16 5
Columbus
13 21 3
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
W L OT
Dallas
26 7 3
St. Louis
22 11 4
Chicago
20 12 4
Minnesota
18 10 6
Nashville
17 12 6
Colorado
17 17 1
Winnipeg
15 17 2
Pacific Division
W L OT
Los Angeles
21 11 2
Vancouver
14 14 9
San Jose
17 15 2
Arizona
16 15 3
Calgary
16 16 2
Edmonton
15 18 3
Anaheim
12 15 6
Pts
43
43
42
42
40
39
34
31
Pts
54
44
43
39
37
37
33
29
Pts
55
48
44
42
40
35
32
Pts
44
37
36
35
34
33
30
Saturday’s Games
St. Louis 3, Dallas 2, SO
Buffalo 6, Boston 3
Tampa Bay 5, Columbus 2
Washington 3, Montreal 1
Carolina 3, New Jersey 1
Detroit 3, Nashville 2
Pittsburgh 3, Minnesota 1
Los Angeles 4, Arizona 3, OT
Vancouver 2, Edmonton 1, OT
Sunday’s Games
Boston at Ottawa, 5 p.m.
Columbus at Florida, 6 p.m.
Toronto at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.
St. Louis at Dallas, 6 p.m.
Carolina at Chicago, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Arizona at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Philadelphia at Anaheim, 8 p.m.
Edmonton at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Monday’s Games
Washington at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Detroit at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Colorado at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Ottawa at Boston, 7 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Carolina at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Montreal at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Nashville at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Detroit at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Anaheim at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Los Angeles at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Chicago at Arizona, 9 p.m.
Transactions
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Reassigned
F James Ennis to Iowa (NBADL).
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Placed
G Jaroslav Halak on injured reserve,
retroactive to Dec. 21. Recalled G
Christopher Gibson from New Haven
(AHL).
American Hockey League
BAKERSFIELD CONDORS —
Announced D Brad Hunt was recalled by
Edmonton (NHL).
BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS —
Recalled G Parker Milner from Missouri
(ECHL).
HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Recalled
F Jack Combs from Greenville (ECHL).
Announced F Josh Nicholls was
reassigned to the team from Greenville.
Released D Nick Petrecki from his
professional tryout agreement.
ECHL
ECHL — Suspended Manchester’s
Danick Paquette indefinitely and fined
him an undisclosed amount for his
actions in a Dec. 26 game at Adirondack.
Fined Norfolk’s Tommy Mele an
undisclosed amount for his actions in a
Dec. 26 game at South Carolina.
FLORIDA EVERBLADES— Agreed
to terms with G Keegan Asmundson.
Announced F Ethan Werek was loaned to
Charlotte (AHL).
FOOTBALL
National Football League
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed CB Tyler
Patmon from the practice squad. Waived
DE Jordan Williams.
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS —
Claimed DB Troy Hill off waivers from
Cincinnati. Signed WR Chris Harper
from the practice squad. Released TE
Asante Cleveland and WR Leonard
Hankerson.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed
RB Jarryd Hayne from the practice
squad. Placed OL Alex Boone on injured
reserve.
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Placed TE
Anthony McCoy on injured reserve.
Signed WR Kasen Williams from the
practice squad.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Placed
DT Akeem Spence on injured reserve.
Signed RB Mike James from the practice
squad.
Canadian Football League
WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS —
Signed OT Stanley Bryant to a contract
extension through the 2017 season.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed D
Dysin Mayo to a three-year entry-level
contract.
COLORADO AVALANCHE —
Recalled G Calvin Pickard from San
Antonio (AHL).
WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled
D Connor Carrick from Hershey (AHL).
American Hockey League
MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Recalled
D Garrett Noonan from Cincinnati
(ECHL).
SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE —
Recalled G Spencer Martin from Fort
Wayne (ECHL).
MIAMI GARDENS,
Fla. (AP) — With the
Miami Dolphins on the
verge of a comeback victory, their rookie backup
center hesitated hiking the
ball.
The mistake fouled up
the timing of the play on
fourth down at the Indianapolis Colts 5-yard line,
allowing them to sack
Ryan Tannehill and hold
on for an 18-12 victory
Sunday.
Jamil Douglas, filling
in for injured Pro Bowl
center Mike Pouncey,
acknowledged he messed
up.
"My fault," Douglas
said. "I should have been
locked in on that play.
Bad play by me."
"He feels like it's on
his shoulders, but it's
not," Dolphins interim
coach Dan Campbell said.
"There are enough mistakes to go around, offensively and defensively. It's
never one man's fault."
And it's not as if the
blunder cost the Dolphins
a playoff berth. Miami
(5-10) was eliminated two
weeks ago, and a halfempty stadium reflected
the sad state of the franchise.
The Dolphins have lost
three in a row and are 4-7
under Campbell, who is
likely to be replaced after
the season.
"You just want to give
yourself a chance to win
the game," Campbell said.
"We did that, but didn't
make it happen."
Miami trailed for 54
minutes but nearly pulled
out a victory, driving 75
yards for a first down at
the 5 with 40 seconds left.
But Ryan Tannehill threw
three incompletions and
then was sacked by three
Colts, with Robert Mathis
leading the charge.
"We put a great drive
together to give us an opportunity, and just came
up short," receiver Jarvis
Landry said.
And so the Dolphins
lost to a third-string quarterback. Charlie Whitehurst entered the game
in the second quarter in
place of Matt Hasselbeck,
who hurt his right shoulder filling in for the injured Andrew Luck, who
missed his sixth game in
a row.
The Colts (7-8) would
have been out of the
playoff race with a loss,
and they can still be
eliminated in Week 16 if
Cincinnati wins Monday
at Denver.
"We did our job today,"
Whitehurst said. "That's
kind of what we can control. We need a little bit
of help. Hopefully it goes
our way, and we'll have a
fun week of practice and
have something to play
for next week."
Whitehurst completed
a third-down pass on his
first play, setting up the
Colts' second touchdown
for a 15-6 lead. He also
directed a 10-play drive
early in the fourth quarter
for a field goal that made
it 18-9.
"I did OK, and I got
a lot help," Whitehurst
said. "The defense really
delivered."
Whitehurst was limping after being sacked
on third down with three
minutes left, and the Colts
had no quarterbacks left
to replace him. But he
was needed for only one
more snap — out of the
victory formation on the
final play.
The afternoon was
rough on quarterbacks for
both teams. Tannehill was
sacked six times, hurt his
left leg late in the game
and walked with a limp in
the locker room.
"It's not easy to win
when quarterbacks get
hit," he said. "That's
something we have to
fix."
The Colts' season-high
sack total included rookie
T.Y. McGill's first career
sack for a safety and the
game's first points.
Tannehill threw for 329
yards, but was intercepted
in the end zone by Vontae
Davis to end a Dolphins
threat. A questionable
offensive pass interference penalty on Landry
negated a Tannehill
touchdown pass to Jordan
Cameron, and they settled
for a field goal.
"I was running a route,
and the guy ran into me,"
Landry said.
Landry became the
first Miami player to have
100 catches in a season.
He had seven receptions
for 111 yards, including
a sensational one-handed
catch as he tumbled to the
turf for a 26-yard gain.
Notes: Dolphins LB
Jelani Jenkins aggravated
an ankle injury and left
the game in the third
quarter. ... RBs Lamar
Miller and Jay Ajayi
combined for 54 yards on
24 carries.
Chiefs knock off Browns for 9th straight
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
(AP) — The atmosphere
inside the Kansas City
Chiefs locker room wasn't
a whole lot different Sunday than in any of their
other victories during a
franchise record-tying
nine-game win streak.
There were high-fives
and congratulations, of
course. But mostly a
business-like attitude.
It was hard to believe
the Chiefs had just qualified for the playoffs.
"We still have one
more week left and there's
still a lot to play for,"
said quarterback Alex
Smith, who threw two
touchdown passes in a
down-to-the-wire, 17-13
victory over the Cleve-
land Browns.
When Pittsburgh lost to
Baltimore moments later,
the Chiefs clinched at
least a wild-card spot.
They can still win the
AFC West and host a
playoff game if they beat
Oakland next week and
the Broncos lose to Cincinnati on Monday night
or in their regular-season
finale against San Diego.
Hard to believe when
they were 1-5.
We didn’t panic, that’s
the most important part,”
Chiefs linebacker Derrick
Johnson said. “You can’t
get too far in the hole,
and we got as far as you
can get to still make the
postseason.”
MONDAY
December 28, 2015
Borger News -Herald
Area
Schedule
Tuesday
Dec. 29-30
Basketball
Borger boys at
Canadian TRN,
TBA
Borger girls at
Canadian TRN,
TBA
Saturday
January 2
Basketball
Borger girls at
Stratford,
Jv at 10:00 a.m.
Varsity at 11:30 a.m.
Led by Gillislee, Bills
ground out 16-6 win over Cowboys
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Rex
Ryan vowed the Buffalo Bills would have a
ground-and-pound running attack.
Little did the first-year coach expect it was
going to feature Mike Gillislee doing his best
LeSean McCoy impression.
With McCoy sidelined by a right knee
injury, Gillislee and rookie Karlos Williams
ran over the Dallas Cowboys in a 16-6 win
on Sunday.
"Absolutely terrific," Ryan said. "You've
got a Pro Bowl running back out, and these
two men step in and do a tremendous job for
us."
Gillislee had 93 yards rushing, and sealed
the win by weaving his way up the right
sideline to score on a 50-yard touchdown run
with 2:25 remaining. Williams also scored on
a 1-yard run as the NFL's top-ranked running
attack combined for 236 yards despite missing numerous regulars.
"I always had this confidence," said Gillislee, who spent his first two seasons in
Miami before landing on Buffalo's practice
squad this year. "It was a matter of opportunity, and the Bills gave me that an opportunity."
Another rookie, linebacker A.J. Tarpley,
also had a hand in the win. Filling in for
injured starter Nigel Bradham, Tarpley sealed
the victory by forcing Lucky Whitehead to
fumble on the kickoff return that followed
Gillislee's touchdown. Tarpley also had an
interception.
Buffalo (7-8) snapped a two-game skid
and won for just the second time in six games
in a matchup between two teams already
eliminated from playoff contention.
The Cowboys (4-11) continue to slide
without injured quarterback Tony Romo.
Kellen Moore lost in his first career start,
as Dallas dropped to 1-10 in games without
Romo.
The Cowboys also played without receiver
Dez Bryant (ankle, foot injury).
Dan Bailey had two field goals for the
Cowboys, who have scored just 22 points in
their past five games.
"We certainly need to get better offensively," coach Jason Garrett said. "We did a good
job of running the football at different times.
But, we weren't able to sustain drives."
Moore went 13 of 31 for 186 yards with
an interception. Darren McFadden ran for 99
yards.
The game was decided after the Bills ate
up more than 4 minutes of the clock. Facing
second-and-5 at midfield, Gillislee took a
handoff to the right and got key blocks from
guard Richie Incognito and receiver Chris
Hogan.
Bills starter Tyrod Taylor went 13 of 18
for 179 yards and an interception.
The Bills went ahead for good on Dan
Gruver,
TBA
Frank Phillips
women at
Northwest Vista
College,
San Antonio, TX,
1:00 p.m.
January 4
Basketball
Western Oklahoma
State at
Frank Phillips men
7:00 p.m.
Western Oklahoma
State women at
Frank Phillips,
5:00 p.m.
Thursday
January 6
Basketball
Borger boys at
Perryton 9th/Jv
Tournament,
TBA
Friday
January 7
Basketball
Frank Phillips
women at,
Clarendon College,
5:45 p.m.
Carpenter's 32-yards field goal with 6:17 left
in the third quarter.
With the game tied at 6, Taylor blew a
chance to put Buffalo ahead before halftime.
Facing third-and-1 at the Cowboys 4 with
8 seconds left, Taylor underthrew a pass
intended for Hogan at the right sideline of the
end zone, and was easily intercepted by Deji
Olatoye.
It was only Taylor's sixth interception of
the season.
The victory took the heat off Ryan, who
was facing a large share of criticism for Buffalo being eliminated from playoff contention for a 16th straight season — the NFL's
longest active drought.
And it also sets up an intriguing showdown in the Bills' season finale in Buffalo
next weekend. Ryan will be facing his former
team, the New York Jets, who at 10-5 need a
win to guarantee a playoff berth.
"We're going to give them our best shot,"
said Ryan, whose Bills beat the Jets 22-17 at
the Meadowlands in November.
NOTES: Taylor had 67 yards rushing to up
his season total 517, surpassing the singleseason franchise record for yards rushing
by a quarterback set by Doug Flutie (476)
in 1999. ... Bills DT Marcell Dareus did not
return after sustaining a neck injury in the
second quarter. ... Cowboys S Barry Church
broke his right arm.
Patriots choose to kick to
open OT, fall to Jets 26-20
Borger boys at
Tuesday
11
Girls travel to Canadian Tuesday...
Makayla Brisco shoots a free throw during the Lady Bulldogs home game
against Dumas this season. Borger travels to Canadian on Tuesday for a two
day tournament. (photo by Evan Hays)
Weeden runs for TD, throws 2 more as Texans rout Titans 34-6
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
(AP) — Forget about that
rough stint with Dallas.
It looks as if Brandon
Weeden might be the
right quarterback at the
right time for the Houston
Texans.
Weeden scored his first
career rushing touchdown
and threw for two more as
the Texans moved closer
to the AFC South title
with a 34-6 victory over
the hapless Tennessee
Titans on Sunday.
Houston (8-7), which
hosts Jacksonville in its
regular-season finale
next Sunday, lost out on
a chance to clinch the
division title when Indianapolis beat Miami 18-12
this weekend. The Texans
could wrap it up on Monday night if Cincinnati
wins at Denver.
"We have to play to
win," Houston coach
Bill O'Brien said of his
approach against Jacksonville. "I think the bottom
line is we need to win. I
don't think we can look at
any scenario, this scenario, that scenario, I believe
that we need to play to
win."
Houston has won seven
of its last eight against the
Titans. The Texans forced
four turnovers and turned
them into 17 points.
Quintin Demps returned
a fumble 33 yards for a
touchdown less than two
minutes into the game,
putting Houston ahead to
stay.
J.J. Watt even got his
first sack since breaking
his left wrist.
"Quite frankly, it really doesn't matter what
anybody else does," Watt
said. "We go out there and
we win next week, that's
all that matters."
The Titans (3-12)
did nothing to hurt their
chances at the No. 1 pick
in the draft, turning the
ball over twice in the first
quarter. Interim coach
Mike Mularkey called it
a disappointing loss, with
a few fans wearing the
day's giveaway — a cloth
grocery bag — over their
heads.
"I really thought we
were prepared," Mularkey
said. "I thought we had a
good plan and felt good
about it."
The Texans scored a
season high in points despite starting their fourth
different quarterback this
year.
With Brian Hoyer
scratched before kickoff
as he recovers from his
second concussion in a
month, Weeden became
the first player in franchise history to throw
for two TDs and run for
another. He finished with
200 yards passing for
his first win as a starter
this season after coming
off the bench to beat the
Colts a week ago.
Weeden began the
season with the Cowboys
and lost each of this three
starts while subbing for
the injured Tony Romo.
He was cut by Dallas last
month.
"We needed this one,"
Weeden said. "As a team,
we needed this one. It
feels good personally,
I'm more excited for this
team."
O'Brien even worked
backup B.J. Daniels,
signed Monday off
Seattle's practice squad,
onto the field. Daniels
completed his first career
pass in the first quarter, a
7-yarder to Jaelen Strong,
and he finished the game
in the fourth quarter.
Kareem Jackson
stripped Antonio Andrews to end Tennessee's
first series, a ball Demps
picked up and ran in
for the TD. Nick Novak
also kicked a 22-yard
field goal, and Weeden
hit former Titans wide
receiver Nate Washington
for a 13-yard TD in the
third quarter after Eddie
Pleasant took the ball
away from Andrews after
a catch. That put Houston
up 31-0.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Bill
Belichick won the coin
flip and lost the game.
And everyone was left
trying to make heads or
tails of the New England
coach's stunning decision.
Eric Decker's 6-yard
touchdown catch from
Ryan Fitzpatrick on the
first drive of overtime —
after New England chose
to kick off — lifted the
Jets to a 26-20 victory
Sunday that put New
York in position to make
the playoffs.
"I thought it was the
best thing to do," said
Belichick, whose team
failed to lock up the No.
1 overall seed in the AFC
playoffs.
Before the Patriots
went out to midfield for
the toss, Belichick told
his players that if his team
won the toss, the Patriots
would kick off. Referee
Clete Blakeman flipped
the coin, the Patriots won
and decided to kick off to
the Jets.
"The only confusion
was whether or not we
got to choose which direction we get to kick the
ball," said Patriots wide
receiver Matthew Slater,
who was out for the toss.
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menus for Dec. 28 - Jan. 1
Monday, December 28, 2015
Cheeseburger or Chicken Tenders
Potato Wedges, Buttered Corn, or Beets
Tomato Wedge Salad
Fruit Medley
Whole Wheat Roll with Margarine
Coffee, Tea, Water, or Low Fat Milk
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
BBQ Brisket or Polish Sausage
Ranch Style Beans, English Peas, or French Fries
Carrot Sticks
Strawberries
Whole Wheat Roll or Cornbread with Margarine
Coffee, Tea, Water, or Low Fat Milk
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Beef Soft Taco or Chicken Fried Steak
Spanish Rice, Broccoli, or Sweet Potatoes
Fiesta Corn Salad
Mandarin Oranges with Whipped Topping
Whole Wheat Roll with Margarine
Coffee, Tea, Water, or Low Fat Milk
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Herb Roasted Chicken or BBQ Weiners
Potato Wedges, Peas & Carrots, or Fried Squash
Applesauce Salad
Strawberries with Whipped Topping
Whole Wheat Roll with Margarine
Coffee, Tea, Water, or Low Fat Milk
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December 28, 2015
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Faces and Places:
Republican Primary Ballot Drawing
Campaigning for the place of Justice of the Peace, Pct. 2, Place 2, left to right, Robin Dickers,
James Qualls, and Yadi Rodriguez. (All photo by Alex Mann)
Candidate Matt Chisum (not pictured) will
challenge incumbent S.T. “Red” Isbell (above)
for the of Precinct 3 County Commissioner
Cindy Irwin and Amanda Harris will be competing for the position of County Judge
Left to right, candidates and former debuties Efren Munoz Jr., and Kirk Coker will race against
incumbent Don Johnson for the position of Hutchinson County Sheriff.
Left to right, candidates Heath Woods and Shawn Burleson will compete against incumbent
Larry Coffman for the position of Precint 1 County Commissioner.
Republican County Chair Mary Kay Phelan
conducts the ballot drawing proceedings.