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Successful
raid marks
shift in US
strategy
BY W.J. H ENNIGAN
Los Angeles Times
BY M ICHAEL E. RUANE
The Washington Post
T
he USS Conestoga left the Navy yard
at Mare Island, Calif., on Good Friday,
1921, bound for Pearl Harbor, with a
complement of 56 sailors.
The rugged oceangoing tug that had once hauled
coal barges for a Pennsylvania railroad cleared the
Golden Gate at 3:25 p.m. and steamed into the Gulf of
the Farallones in heavy seas.
At 4 p.m. that day, as the San Francisco light ship
recorded big waves and gale-force winds, Conestoga
passed Point Bonita and was not heard from again.
Wednesday, 95 years later, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration and the Navy announced
that the wreck had been found a few miles from Southeast Farallon Island, just off the California coast. The announcement came at a ceremony at the U.S. Navy Memorial
in Washington, attended by relatives of the lost sailors.
SEE FOUND ON PAGE 3
Top: The stern of the USS Conestoga is colonized with
white plumose sea anemones. Left: A collection of
photos circa 1921 depicts the ship’s company (top left),
commanding officer Lt. Ernest L. Jones (top right), and
the Conestoga itself (bottom).
Photos courtesy NOAA, top, and U.S. Naval History & Heritage Command, left
As the Islamic State group expands its
global reach by directing and inspiring attacks in the West, the U.S. is stepping up
its offensive in Iraq and Syria, including
increased military operations, additional
U.S. forces and targeted raids to wipe out
the militant group’s top leadership.
The group’s No. 2, Rahman Mustafa Qaduli, also known as Abu Ala Afri and Haji
Imam, was killed in one such raid in Syria
on Thursday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday.
An influential finance minister for the
Islamic State group and a close adviser to
the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
al-Qaduli died as special operations forces
attempted to capture him in his vehicle,
according to officials who were not authorized to speak publicly about the details of
the mission. Al-Qaduli had been monitored
by U.S. surveillance for several days before
the operation was launched, officials said.
The raid was part of what American
officials are calling a new phase in the
18-month-old campaign to storm Islamic
State compounds in a series of late-night
raids with Iraqi and Kurdish forces. The
operations have already killed or captured
several top militants and netted key sources of intelligence, including laptops and
cellphones. Interrogations with captured
militants have shed light on the shadowy
group, U.S. officials said.
The intelligence has set off a domino effect in which one raid has led to others and
provided targeting information for daily
bombing runs that have blown up militantheld oil production sites and cash hoards.
“We’ve learned a great deal, and we continue to learn about who is who in ISIL, so
we can kill them, about how they get their
finances, so we can dry that up,” Carter
said, using an acronym for the group. “And
the forces that we’re working with on the
ground in both Iraq and Syria continue to
gather strength because our strategic approach for the retaking of territory is to
help local forces to do so.”
The town of Shadadi in eastern Syria was
seized from the Islamic State last month
by the Kurdish YPG, with the help of U.S.
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Carter used personal email account for a time
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Defense
Secretary Ash Carter used his
personal email account for government business for nearly a year
until December 2015, when news
reports revealed the practice, according to hundreds of Carter
emails released by the Defense
Department.
The 1,336 pages of emails and
attachments from Carter’s personal account were released late
Friday in response to Freedom of
Information Act requests by The
Associated Press and other news
organizations. None contained
classified information, and most
pertained to routine business such
as scheduling and logistics.
The Pentagon has long banned
the use of personal email for official business. Carter’s use of his
personal email account, starting
when he took office in February
2015, was especially remarkable
given the burst of public criticism
that followed disclosures in March
that Hillary Clinton had used a
private email account exclusively
to conduct government business
while she was secretary of state.
When The New York Times
first reported Carter’s use of a
personal email account on Dec. 17,
Carter aides said his actions were
a mistake and that he had quit the
practice.
The emails released Friday
show that while he used the personal account much less frequently starting in about September, he
did not halt the practice entirely
until December.
In what appears to be an autoresponse message sent from his
personal account on Dec. 18, Carter wrote, “I am no longer utilizing
personal e-mail for the remainder
of my time as the Secretary of Defense. If you need to get in touch
with me regarding a personal
matter please contact me on my
cellphone. If you are contacting
me pertaining to business please
contact my Assistant, (redacted
by Defense Department).”
Shift: Islamic State now focused on attacks in West
FROM FRONT PAGE
special operations forces. In recent days, the
Islamic State group has lost significant ground
in Palmyra to the Syrian army, backed by Russian airstrikes. The Pentagon estimates that
the militant group has lost 20 percent of Syrian
territory it controlled at its peak in 2014 and 40
percent of Iraqi territory.
Still the U.S. knows that victory is not yet
within grasp, particularly if the group continues to inspire or help carry out deadly attacks,
such as the one last week in Brussels and previous attacks in Paris and San Bernardino,
Calif., Carter said.
As the Islamic State group loses ground in
Syria and Iraq, it will likely turn even more of
its attention to attacks in Europe and the West,
said Daniel Benjamin, a former State Department counterterrorism coordinator who now
teaches at Dartmouth College.
“They have a profound need to show they
are still in the game, capable of still inflicting
attacks against the West, particularly because
the sheen is off the Islamic State itself,” Benjamin said. As the U.S. and its coalition partners
push in on the Islamic State group’s territory
in Syria and Iraq, Benjamin added, “that puts
the pressure on the group to carry out more attacks like the one we saw in Brussels.”
The Islamist group controls major cities, including Mosul in northern Iraq and Raqqah in
northeastern Syria, and continues to declare
its “caliphate.”
Christopher Harmer, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington and a
retired Navy officer, said Islamic State leaders
once instructed foreign recruits to come to the
caliphate to wage jihad. Now, they instruct the
recruits to stay put.
“They want fighters to mount attacks at
home or elsewhere,” Harmer said. “The strategic arc of this fight has changed. The caliphate remains the heartland, but it is just one
element of what’s become a global battlefield.
This is a multigenerational war.”
Carter would not confirm how or where alQaduli died, but he characterized the raid as
part of an ongoing U.S. military campaign to
eliminate the Islamic State group’s leadership
structure in Iraq and Syria. “We are systemically eliminating ISIL’s Cabinet,” Carter said.
Al-Qaduli, believed to be about 59 years old,
was a key player in the Islamic State group’s
military and financial operations, according
to the Pentagon. He joined al-Qaida in Iraq in
2004, serving as Abu Musab Zarqawi’s liaison
for operations with Pakistan. The group was
later rebranded as the Islamic State group. AlQaduli was held in U.S. custody at the Camp
Bucca military prison in Iraq in 2006, along
with many other prisoners who went on to senior positions in the Islamic State group. He
was released in 2012.
Within two years, al-Qaduli — operating
under no fewer than 12 aliases — had been
designated by the U.S. government as one of
the world’s most dangerous terrorists. The $7million bounty offered by the United States for
his capture was the sixth highest reward for
any terrorist, and second among Islamic State
members only to the $10-million reward for
Baghdadi.
Carter also confirmed the death of another
senior Islamic State leader, Omar al-Shishani,
or “Omar the Chechen,” who died in a separate
March 14 U.S. airstrike. He added that other
recent U.S. military strikes killed Abu Sara,
an Islamic State leader charged with paying
fighters in northern Iraq, and militants “who
were directly involved in external plotting and
training.”
Recent raids gave U.S. intelligence officials
deeper insights into how and where the Islamic
State group’s leadership operates. Earlier this
year, a U.S. special operations team captured
Sulayman Dawud al-Bakkar near Tal Afar in
northern Iraq.
Al-Bakkar, a former expert in chemical and
biological warfare agents under Saddam Hussein, told interrogators about two of the Islamic
State group’s chemical weapons storage sites
that were later targeted in U.S. airstrikes, U.S.
officials said.
American commandos located al-Bakkar
because of leads found during a Delta Force
raid last year against the head of the Islamic
State group’s black-market oil and gas operations. The target, Abu Sayyaf, was killed, but
his wife, Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, was
arrested, and a cache of notebooks, laptops
and cellphones were brought back to a base in
Iraq.
The trove yielded details about Islamic State
leaders and the group’s financial system, including how it raised and stored cash. The
Justice Department filed an arrest warrant in
February charging Bahar with conspiracy to
provide material support to Islamic State. She
remains in Kurdish custody.
The U.S. combat role is also expanding with
a new outpost in northern Iraq that provides
artillery fire to support Iraqi troops as they
mount their ongoing offensive to retake the
strategic city of Mosul. Pentagon officials confirmed this week the creation of the outpost,
named Fire Base Bell, which is populated by
nearly 200 Marines and is the first American
combat base since the U.S. returned to Iraq
in 2014. Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin, 27, of Temecula, Calif., died there Saturday after coming
under Islamic State rocket fire.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph
Dunford, who appeared alongside Carter, said
the base was to provide security for Iraqi forces and U.S. advisers at the nearby Iraqi base in
Makhmour.
The Pentagon is presenting President
Barack Obama with additional ways to increase the U.S. military presence in Iraq. “We
have a series of recommendations that we will
be discussing with the president in the coming weeks to further enable our support for the
Iraqi security forces,” Dunford said.
“The secretary and I both believe that there
will be an increase to the U.S. forces in Iraq
in the coming weeks, but that decision hasn’t
been made.”
The increased tempo of raids has made a
“dent” in the Islamic State group’s ability to
give orders and use resources, Dunford added,
but more work needs to be done.
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MILITARY
Found: Search for vessel conducted thousands of miles from wreck site
FROM FRONT PAGE
“It is so overwhelming for all
of us,” Diane Gollnitz, 73, of Lutherville, Md. — the granddaughter of the Conestoga’s skipper,
Lt. Ernest Larkin Jones — said
Wednesday.
“It connects the past of 95
years ago, and all the stories we
were told, with the future,” she
said. “My grandchildren are
here.”
The wreck site, in NOAA’s
Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, was imaged during a sonar survey in 2009, and
was examined by underwater robots in 2014 and 2015, said James
P. Delgado, director of maritime
heritage with the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.
After exhaustive research,
which was complicated by the
Navy’s assessment that the ship
had sunk 2,000 miles away, the
wreck was confirmed in October
as the Conestoga.
The disappearance was one of
seafaring’s enduring and tragic
mysteries, NOAA said. No trace
of the crew ever was found.
No one recognized that the vessel was missing until more than a
month had passed and it failed to
show up at Pearl Harbor, according to a report on the discovery
by Delgado and NOAA colleague
Robert V. Schwemmer.
The Navy then launched an 11day search with 60 ships and dozens of airplanes covering 300,000
square miles. But the search was
centered on Hawaii, where the
Conestoga was thought to have
been sighted before it vanished.
The search was futile. The ship
had gone down half an ocean
away.
On June 30, 1921, the Conestoga was declared lost with all
hands.
‘That’s a tugboat’
The mysterious shipwreck
was first spotted during a general NOAA sonar survey of the
marine sanctuary in 2009. But it
wasn’t until a friend pointed it out
in 2012 that Schwemmer learned
about it.
Schwemmer is the regional
coordinator of NOAA’s five West
Coast marine sanctuaries and
has a large shipwreck database.
The image showed a wreck, 170
feet long, resting in about 200 feet
of water some 30 miles from San
Francisco.
Schwemmer was intrigued.
There was no record of such a
ship going down in that area.
He put it on his list of sites to be
examined.
In 2014, he got the chance, during a program to make an inventory of local shipwrecks using a
research vessel and an underwater robot.
He and Delgado planned to
check out several sites. They had
no idea that this one might be
Conestoga’s resting place.
Schwemmer had the ship’s
sinking in his records, but “Conestoga in my database was Hawaii,” thousands of miles away,
Schwemmer said in a telephone
interview last week.
That September, they lowered
Historic photograph, U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
Underwater photograph, NOAA ONMS/Teledyne SeaBotix
Top: The USS Conestoga’s gunnery department stands with the tugboat’s main battery at San Diego in
1921.
Above: The same gun is seen inside the shipwreck near the forecastle after the gun’s support platform
had fallen from its original position in front of the pilot house through the main deck. The gun was a key
diagnostic artifact or “smoking gun” that served to identify the wreck as the USS Conestoga.
‘ It is so overwhelming for all of us. It
connects the past of 95 years ago, and all
the stories we were told, with the future.
’
Diane Gollnitz
Granddaughter of Lt. Ernest Larkin Jones, skipper of the USS Conestoga
an underwater robot equipped
with cameras and watched from
the research ship on the surface.
As the robot descended and the
ghostly outlines of the wreck
emerged, Delgado said, “That’s a
tugboat.”
He recognized the curve of the
bow and saw where there had
once been “rub rails,” wooden
bands that protect a tug’s hull. “It
jumped right out at me,” he said
Monday.
When the expedition ended,
the two men flew to Norfolk for
a maritime heritage conference.
But they were still focused on the
anonymous tug.
In his hotel room, Schwemmer
began scanning old newspapers
online for accounts of large tugboats sinking off California.
“Nothing came up,” he said.
“Nothing.”
He broadened his search to include tugboats lost anywhere.
He stumbled upon a 1921 story
in the San Diego Union about the
missing Conestoga. The report
said the ship had stopped at the
Navy’s Mare Island before leaving for Pearl Harbor.
Schwemmer did not know
much about Conestoga. Hadn’t it
been lost near Hawaii? Curious,
he did a Google search for Cones-
toga and looked up its length.
It was 170 feet long.
He contacted Delgado and said,
“Come to my room.”
Little evidence left
Lt. Jones had 55 men aboard as
he prepared to leave Mare Island,
first for Pearl Harbor, and then
their new duty station in American Samoa.
It was a big crew for a tugboat.
But Conestoga was a seagoing
vessel needing round-the-clock
watches. And it was carrying
some Navy passengers.
Jones, 41, had been married for
seven years to the former Loretta
Fogarty, of Newport, R.I. They
had an infant daughter, Paula,
who had just been christened.
Gollnitz has a photograph of a
proud Jones smoking a cigar and
holding his daughter in her christening dress. “It’s the only one I
have of my mother with her father,” she said.
Conestoga’s crew came from
across the country, according
to biographies compiled by Lisa
Stansbury, a genealogist working
for NOAA.
They were sons of immigrants
from Italy, Hungary, Norway and
Denmark.
As Jones sailed Conestoga
from Norfolk, through the Panama Canal to San Diego, his wife
and daughter traveled across the
country to say goodbye, Gollnitz
said in an interview.
“They
weren’t
going
to
see him for
years,” she
said.
“He
was going to
be stationed
in
American Samoa.
…
And
my grandmother and
Gollnitz
mother saw
him off.”
A photographer took a series
of striking pictures of Jones and
his crew during the stop in San
Diego.
But Gollnitz said her mother
retained no memory of him.
“She … tried her best to remember,” she said. “She was
shown pictures, of course, and
was told about him, but couldn’t
remember.”
Conestoga, with its 1,000horsepower engine, steamed into
the Pacific under clear skies that
Friday, but against rising winds
and seas.
Indications on the wreck suggest it may have been towing a
barge, which would have complicated its situation. But NOAA did
not find a barge of that vintage
nearby.
The wind was blowing 40 to 48
mph and the waves were high.
The NOAA report says the rough
seas probably washed over the
ship, perhaps smashing its wheelhouse windows.
The crew could not pump the
water out fast enough, and Jones
was probably making for the shelter of Southeast Farallon Island,
which had a lighthouse.
Conestoga sank three miles
short.
Later, an empty lifeboat bearing the letter “C” was found off
the Mexican coast. A USS Conestoga life preserver and kegs of
provisions that may have come
from the ship washed ashore near
Monterey, Calif.
But the evidence was inconclusive, Schwemmer said, and
the search for survivors was conducted far away.
In 1958, Gollnitz and her mother sailed from San Francisco via
Pearl Harbor for Thailand to join
her father, who was stationed
there in the Army.
Around Pearl Harbor, where
Conestoga was thought to have
been lost, “my mother was very
emotional,” Gollnitz recalled.
“You’re looking out at the sea and
wondering, ‘Is he here?’ She felt
she was the closest to him then.”
They never realized, she said,
that when they steamed out of
San Francisco, “that’s when we
were the closest.”
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1 killed, 5 wounded as
supporters of rival
Afghan warlords fight
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Clashes between supporters of two rival
warlords in northern Afghanistan have killed one person and
wounded five, an Afghan official
said on Friday.
The incident, which took place
late Thursday, followed days of
simmering tensions after a poster of First Vice President Abdul
Rashid Dostum was removed
from a public square.
Ahmad Jawid Bidar, spokesman for the governor of Faryab province, said the shooting
erupted in the provincial capital
of Maymana where supporters of
Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek, fought
with supporters of Atta Mohammad Noor, the acting governor of
Balkh province and a Tajik.
Similar demonstrations have
been reported in cities across the
north, drawing attention to ethnic
rivalries in the region. Dostum
and Noor represent rival powerbases in the north, command private militias and recently have led
their men against insurgents, independently of the Afghan army.
As anger surfaced after Dostum’s poster was removed from
the main square of Mazar-i-Sharif,
the capital of Balkh, he called for
calm in a Facebook posting.
Separately, in southern Kandahar province, Afghan Army Gen.
Khan Agha Achekzay of the 205
Corps was killed when he was
ambushed late Thursday in the
Dand district, said Mohammad
Hassan, corps spokesman.
One of the general’s bodyguards also was killed and his son
was injured, he said.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf
Ahmadi claimed responsibility
for the killing.
The Taliban have been fighting hard in southern Afghanistan in recent months, mostly in
Helmand province, which they
consider their heartland along
with neighboring Kandahar.
The region produces opium, a
crop that helps fund the insurgency against the Kabul government.
K ARIM K ADIM /AP
People inspect the aftermath of a suicide bombing at a soccer field in Iskandariya, Iraq, 25 miles south
of Baghdad on Saturday.
Suicide bombing at Iraqi
Syrians battle militant
soccer field kills dozens
group on edge of Palmyra
BY QASSIM A BDUL-Z AHRA
Associated Press
Associated Press
DAMASCUS, Syria — Progovernment TV says Syrian government forces are battling the
Islamic State group on the edge
of Palmyra, a town with famed
Roman-era ruins that was seized
by the extremists last May.
Two Lebanese TV stations
showed footage Saturday of Syrian tanks and machine guns firing
at positions inside the town, with
smoke rising over the skyline.
A Britain-based monitoring
group, the Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights, says government forces supported by Russian airstrikes and allied militias
have seized a northern suburb of
the town.
Al-Manar TV, run by Lebanon’s
Hezbollah militant group, shows
troops occupying positions in the
neighborhood.
The Observatory says Islamic
State killed at least 10 soldiers in
a counteroffensive earlier in the
day.
BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials
say the death toll from a suicide
bombing at a soccer stadium that
was claimed by the Islamic State
group has climbed to 41, with another 105 people wounded.
The security and public health
officials provided the updated toll
Saturday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.
The bombing took place Friday
during a match in the small stadium in the city of Iskanderiyah,
30 miles from the capital, Baghdad. Islamic State claimed the attack, saying it had targeted Shiite
militiamen.
The Islamic State group claimed
responsibility for the attack via a
statement posted online, SITE
intelligence group, a monitoring
organization, reported.
The bombing came as Iraqi
military spokesman Yahya Rusoul announced that Iraqi troops
and Sunni tribal fighters recaptured the town of Kubeisa in
western Anbar province from the
Islamic State group. A day earlier, Islamic State fighters were
pushed out of a string of villages
in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province under cover of heavy coalition airstrikes.
Iraqi ground forces are working to build on recent gains in
Anbar and to prepare for an eventual push on the northern city of
Mosul, the largest city held by the
militants in the “caliphate” they
declared across parts of Iraq and
Syria. The U.S.-led coalition estimates that Islamic State has lost
40 percent of the territory it once
held in Iraq and about 20 percent
of its territory in Syria.
Bin Laden sent videotapes; Islamic State runs a 24/7 news agency
BY NAFEESA SYEED
CAROLINE A LEXANDER
AND
Bloomberg
Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden had to
rely on video and audio messages recorded
in remote hideouts and delivered to international television networks by supporters to claim responsibility for the Sept. 11,
2001 attacks.
Islamic State, today the preeminent terrorist threat to the West, sponsors its own
Amaq news agency, producing dispatches
on a 24-hour news cycle using mobile
technology. The group claimed Tuesday’s
bombings in Brussels through the agency,
posting reports in English and then Arabic
in a detached journalistic style free of images or statements from its leader.
Aware of the propaganda value of defining itself as a combatant in an unequal
struggle, Amaq said the attacks were
part of a wider war with an international
coalition.
Amaq is an attempt to seize “information dominance” over enemies, said Charlie Winter, a senior research associate who
focuses on Islamist militancy at Georgia
State University in Atlanta. The agency is
named after a Syrian town mentioned in an
ancient prophecy as the site for an apocalyptic victory over nonbelievers.
“It’s being used as part of a broader
strategy of propaganda first, tactical and
strategic gains second,” Winter said by
phone. The group is “very keen on having
a very centralized message.”
Amaq sends out news releases and re-
ports on the WordPress blogging platform
but is now embracing encrypted technology to evade ever-tighter monitoring of
social media.
It first emerged in late 2014 when Islamic State was attempting to seize the northern Syrian city of Kobani from its Kurdish
defenders, part of an offensive that also
saw the group establish a presence in large
swaths of neighboring Iraq. Amaq was
used by Islamic State to claim influence
over the couple responsible for the shootings last year in San Bernardino, Calif.
The agency has played a leading role in
swiftly moving Islamic State’s propaganda
machine beyond the barrage of comments
provided by supporters on social media.
Amaq carries reports on events from
Libya and Iraq to the Philippines, in Ara-
bic, English, French and Russian. It refrains from posting videos of beheadings
and other graphic images of Islamic State
actions, delivering more subtle messages,
such as in its labeling of suicide bombings
as “martyrdom operations.”
Islamic State is also adopting new ways of
communicating with supporters, including
on the encrypted Telegram Messenger service, prompting Telegram to remove multiuser “channels” that members complained
were promoting the terrorist group.
Islamic State’s migration to new platforms
could be a result of a crackdown by tech
companies. The group was “very robust”
on Twitter until the site moved to reduce its
presence, said Scott Stewart, vice president
of tactical analysis at Austin, Texas-based
strategic advisory firm Stratfor.
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Belgian officials
issue warrant
for new suspect
BY LORNE COOK
AND DAVID K EYTON
Associated Press
BRUSSELS — Belgian prosecutors issued an arrest warrant
Saturday for a new suspect in the
attacks on the Brussels airport
and subway as authorities moved
to clean up damage caused by the
explosions.
The federal prosecutor’s office
said a warrant has been issued for
a man only identified as Faycal C.
He is wanted for “involvement in
a terrorist group, terrorist killings and attempted terrorist killings,” the statement said.
A police raid was conducted at
his home. No arms or explosives
were found, prosecutors said.
Belgian media are reporting
that a man called Faycal Cheffou
has been identified as the man
suspected of fleeing Brussels airport after two alleged accomplic-
es blew themselves up there.
The developments come as
Brussels airport officials moved
to assess the damage caused by
twin explosions at the terminal
on Tuesday.
Authorities have wrapped up
their investigation of the crime
scene at the airport, and will
allow engineers into the building
to check its structural safety and
information technology systems
— and whether any damage can
be repaired quickly.
Brussels Airport, which handles 23.5 million passengers
annually, said it would be Tuesday at the earliest before flights
resume.
The transport disruptions will
do little to ease the worries of jittery Europeans, who are wondering how many violent extremists
remain at large, and where and
when they might strike again.
Authorities believe both the
A LASTAIR G RANT/AP
People look Saturday at floral tributes placed outside the Maelbeek metro station, the scene of one of
the bomb attacks in Brussels.
Brussels attacks and the Nov.
13 bombings in Paris that killed
130 people were plotted from
Belgium.
Heavily armed police swept
into Brussels neighborhoods Friday in operations linked to the
attacks. Signs of a large police
operation remained visible Saturday at the quiet tram station in
Schaerbeek district in Brussels
where a man was shot.
The man, who was sitting with
a young girl and holding a bag,
was ordered by police “to put the
bag far from him.” After he did
so, police shot him twice.
Local residents have mixed
feelings about the intervention.
“The security services are
doing their work,” said Timotheee
Bunkyezi, 54, a student who believes that for such a large-scale
operation, the intelligence the po-
lice were working on must have
been solid.
But Marie-Madeleine Yamotia,
40, a nurse who lives right opposite the bus stop, expressed concern for the child who was with
the suspect.
“It’s traumatizing for the little
one,” she said. “We don’t know.
Is he really a suspect? Here, we
doubt it a little.”
Police missed major intelligence opportunity before Brussels attacks
BY M ICHAEL BIRNBAUM
The Washington Post
BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities missed a chance to press a
key terrorism suspect for intelligence in the days ahead of the
suicide bombings that struck the
capital, prosecutors said Friday,
acknowledging a significant security lapse that may have allowed
his allies to attack unimpeded.
Even as the men suspected of
Tuesday’s attacks were racing
to strike, fearful that authorities
were closing in on them, investigators did not ask the attackers’
jailed ally, Salah Abdeslam, about
his knowledge of future plots,
Belgian federal prosecutors said
Friday.
Salah Abdeslam, believed to
be the logistics chief of the Islamic State’s November attacks
in Paris, was apprehended March
18, apparently spurring one of the
Brussels attackers to write that
he feared capture by the police.
But after Abdeslam’s arrest, investigators concentrated solely
on the Paris attacks. Abdeslam
was questioned for two hours last
Saturday, the day after he was
captured in a raid at a Brussels
safe house — and then no other
discussions were held until after
Tuesday’s attacks, when he refused to speak further, prosecutors said.
The failure to push Abdeslam
for concrete intelligence — even
as close associates were known
to be on the loose — adds to an
emerging picture of intelligence
agencies, police forces and crimi-
nal investigators that
repeatedly
failed to take
advantage of
opportunities to avert
the attacks
on Tuesday,
the
worst
single
day
Abdesalam
of violence
in Belgium
since World War II.
“We cannot exclude that, if everybody had been perfect, this
could have gone differently,”
Belgian Justice Minister Koen
Geens told a special session of
Parliament convened Friday to
question top security officials
about the lapses.
The acknowledgment from the
prosecutors came as authorities
conducted raids across Brussels
and in France and Germany, an
indication that they were still
hotly pursuing terrorist plots
and that the network may spread
across a wide stretch of Europe.
Two Belgian Islamic State fighters threatened that “this is just
the beginning of your nightmare,”
in a video released Friday. “Know
we have other targets and we are
determined,” said a man identified as Abu Abdullah al-Beljiki,
according to a translation by the
SITE Intelligence Group, which
monitors jihadist propaganda.
Belgian commandos and bomb
disposal units on Friday swept
through a district at the heart of
the Brussels attack probe. The
raids followed police operations
in France and Germany that displayed the expanding crackdowns
that increasingly connect the last
two terrorist blows in Europe: November’s bloodshed across Paris
and Tuesday’s twin-site suicide
bombings in Brussels that killed
at least 31 people — including at
least two Americans.
Among those arrested in the
latest roundups was a French
suspect who officials believe was
directing a plot for an impending
attack in France. The investigation touched off a series of related police raids in Belgium on
Friday.
The police actions came as
Secretary of State John Kerry
touched down in Brussels to
discuss strategies about how to
combat the Islamic State with
top European leaders. Kerry met
with Belgian Prime Minister
Charles Michel before joining a
Europe-wide security meeting to
examine ways to counter militant
reach into the continent. Officials
have raised alarms about potential threats from citizens returning after fighting with the Islamic
State and other groups.
Speaking to reporters after
a meeting with Michel, Kerry
defended Belgium’s security efforts. He said that it appeared to
him at first glance that the Brussels attackers were moved to act
because they feared being apprehended by authorities.
“That tells you the dragnet
is closing in. It tells you law enforcement is, in fact, having an
impact,” Kerry said. “It may
not have worked out as every-
one might have wished here, but
if that is true … it tells you a lot
about what’s beginning to become
effective.”
But even Abdeslam’s attorney
has suggested that his client may
possess knowledge that could
avert future terrorist attacks on
European soil, further highlighting the lapse by Belgian investigators not to press Abdeslam for
intelligence ahead of the Brussels
attacks. The prosecutors said that
they were slowed by the doctors’
treatment of the gunshot wound
to the leg that Abdeslam suffered
in the raid before his capture.
Abdeslam was not “up-to-date”
about the Brussels attacks, his attorney, Sven Mary, told the Europe
1 radio network on Thursday.
But, Mary said, “I would not
want him to stop talking for lots
of reasons. To stop talking could
face us again with other Zaventems and other Bataclans, and I
would perhaps like to avoid that.”
He was referring to Brussels
Airport in Zaventem, where two
suicide bombers struck on Tues-
day, and the Bataclan nightclub
in Paris that was a target of the
November attacks.
In raids across Brussels on Friday, police detained three people,
including in a large operation in
the Schaerbeek area, which has
become a focal point of investigations into Tuesday’s attacks. Dozens of black-clad security officers
swarmed a wide avenue to detain
one person, setting off fears in a
city still on edge from the recent
violence.
Belgian TV aired amateur footage of the detention that appeared
to show a man who had been shot
in the leg being dragged away
from a tram stop by counterterrorism police while a bombdisposal robot waited nearby.
Belgian prosecutors said the man
was arrested in connection with a
French raid a day earlier.
In Germany, authorities held
a man who was deported from
Turkey in July alongside Brussels suicide attacker Ibrahim elBakraoui, 29, over suspicions of
trying to fight in Syria.
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Does pot
help ease
vet stress
disorder?
Training kicks
in when Ariz.
vet accosted
Associated Press
BY BEN FINLEY
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. — A growing number
of states are weighing whether to legalize
marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress
disorder. But for many veterans, the debate is already over.
They’re increasingly using cannabis even
though it remains illegal in most states and
is unapproved by the Department of Veterans Affairs because major studies have yet
to show it is effective against PTSD.
While the research has been contradictory and limited, some former members
of the military say pot helps them manage
their anxiety, insomnia and nightmares.
Prescription drugs such as Klonopin and
Zoloft weren’t effective or left them feeling
like zombies, some say.
“I went from being an anxious mess to
numbing myself with the pills they were
giving me,” said Mike Whiter, 39, a former
Marine who lives in Philadelphia, where
marijuana is illegal. “Cannabis helped me
get out of the hole I was in. I started to talk
to people and get over my social anxiety.”
Others, though, have seen little benefit
from the drug. And the VA has documented
a troubling rise in the number of PTSD-afflicted veterans who have been diagnosed
with marijuana dependence, which some
experts say can hamper recovery from
war trauma.
Sally Schindel, of Prescott, Ariz., said
the VA diagnosed her son, Andy Zorn, with
PTSD after he served in the Army in Iraq.
The agency later diagnosed him with marijuana dependence as well as depression
and bipolar disorder, she said.
Schindel said her son was using marijuana not for recreation but as self-medication, particularly to help him sleep. He
killed himself at age 31 in 2014, writing in
his suicide note that “marijuana killed my
soul & ruined my brain.”
“He told me he found it much harder to
quit than he thought it would be,” Schindel
said. “He’d buy it and smoke it and then
flush the rest of it. The next day he bought
it again.”
The stories of vets like Zorn and Whiter
have helped fuel the debate over whether
states and the federal government should
legalize the drug for PTSD treatment.
Lawmakers are increasingly sympathizing with vets like Whiter, despite the lack
of scientific evidence. While some limited
studies have shown that marijuana helps
people manage PTSD symptoms in the
short term, another suggested it may make
symptoms worse.
Starting with New Mexico in 2009, 10
states have listed PTSD among the ailments for which medical marijuana can
be prescribed, according to the Marijuana
PHOTOS
BY
MEL EVANS/AP
Former U.S. Marine Mike Whiter lights a marijuana cigarette before he starts editing a
video project at his home in Philadelphia.
Veteran Phil Dume holds a marijuana
brownie that he made for himself to treat
post-traumatic stress disorder at his
home in Trenton, N.J.
Policy Project, which seeks to end criminalization of the drug. A few more states
give doctors broad enough discretion to
recommend pot to PTSD sufferers.
Similar measures have been introduced
in Georgia, Illinois, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and
Utah. In November, the U.S. Senate passed
an amendment that would allow VA doctors to recommend medical marijuana to
vets in states where it’s legal. The proposal
failed to pass the House.
Federal law requires randomized, controlled trials to prove that a drug is effective before VA doctors can recommend it.
Such studies are underway, including two
funded by Colorado, where the state health
board held off on legalizing marijuana
for PTSD because of the lack of major
studies.
“There surely is not enough scientific
evidence to say marijuana helps PTSD,”
said Marcel Bonn-Miller, a University of
Pennsylvania professor who is leading the
Colorado-backed studies. “But we’ll get a
heck of a lot closer to getting to know the
answer in two to three years.”
Since 2002, the percentage of PTSD-afflicted veterans who have been diagnosed
with marijuana dependence has climbed
from 13 percent to nearly 23 percent, according to VA data released last year. That
translates to more than 40,000 veterans.
Officially known as “cannabis use disorder,” dependence can mean someone is unable to sleep or becomes irritable without
the drug. It can also mean marijuana use
has diminished someone’s personal relationships or ability to hold a job.
Dr. Karen Drexler, the VA’s deputy national mental health program director
for addictive disorders, said the potential
for dependency is yet another reason vets
should wait for more research.
“Marijuana may initially provide some
relief,” but for those with PTSD, “it’s very
hard to stop it once you start it,” she said.
She added that the emotion-numbing effects of marijuana can also hinder the most
effective treatment for PTSD: talk therapy,
in which veterans try to process the trauma they went through.
Some veterans and some doctors disagree. In Maine, where marijuana can be
prescribed for PTSD, Dr. Dustin Sulak, a
physician in private practice, said doctors
can help vets manage their marijuana use,
preventing dependence. Sulak also said pot
can help vets engage in talk therapy.
Whiter, the vet from Pennsylvania, said
that was his experience.
During his time in Iraq in the mid-2000s,
Whiter said, he saw roadside bombs blow
up Humvees and people get shot. After he
got home, the smell of hot dogs triggered
flashbacks to the smell of burning flesh.
The VA eventually diagnosed him with
PTSD and prescribed medications including Klonopin and Zoloft.
The Klonopin left him nearly unable to
function, he said, and he decided to try
marijuana after reaching a point “where I
didn’t care if I lived or died.”
“I started really engaging in therapy
every week and started being really honest
with myself and getting over things,” Whiter said. “I can’t push enough that therapy
is very key in this. It’s not just weed.”
‘ I can’t push enough that therapy is very key in this. It’s not just weed. ’
Mike Whiter
Marine veteran living in Philadelphia
MESA, Ariz. — A military veteran
said his instinct and training kicked
in when a man being chased in a
pickup truck by Arizona authorities
tried to steal the vet’s motorcycle.
“I looked him up and down for a
weapon and I didn’t see one, and at
that point in my head, it was game
on,” said Brandon Jenkins, 26, who
served in Afghanistan.
After a brief fight, the man being
pursued got back in the pickup and
drove off. He was later taken into
custody after the vehicle crashed on
Interstate 10 near Sun Lakes.
Joshua Michael Monigold, 31, remained hospitalized Friday for injuries suffered in the crash. Mesa
police said charges were pending.
Monigold was wanted by Marana
police on suspicion of leaving the
scene of a March 19 Tucson-area
collision that involved injuries.
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Friday they are
down for a charging Moniweapon and gold with leavthe scene of
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a collision with
one, and at injuries, aggravated assault,
that point
endangerment,
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and
it was game vehicle
being a prohibon.
ited possessor
Brandon of a firearm.
Jenkins
They
also
served in said Monigold’s
Afghanistan wife has been
arrested
and
booked into the
Pima County Jail on felony charges
of facilitation and unlawful use of a
means of transportation.
April Monigold, 35, allegedly was
the passenger in the stolen vehicle
and helped her husband hide from
authorities, Marana police Sgt. Chris
Warren said.
In Thursday afternoon’s incident
in Mesa, Jenkins said he didn’t know
why the other man accosted him and
demanded the motorcycle.
“I thought maybe I cut him off and
it rubbed him the wrong way. And
then when he ripped me off my motorcycle, it became very apparent he
was trying to steal my bike,” Jenkins
said.
Given his military training and the
fact that he was wearing a helmet and
other motorcycle gear, Jenkins said
he decided he could defend himself.
“For a split second, my son ran
through my head and I got a little
worried, but … instinct kicked in and
I just wanted the guy off my motorcycle,” Jenkins said.
Jenkins said the only thing he
would have done differently was
swing harder at the other man if he
had known exactly what was going
on.
It would be prudent for some people in a similar situation to not fight,
he said.
“If you don’t have training to defend yourself, just take a step back,”
Jenkins said. “You can replace your
vehicle. You can’t replace your life.”
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Furious Cruz blames
Trump for tabloid’s
adultery accusations
BY DAVID WEIGEL
AND K ATIE Z EZIMA
The Washington Post
OSHKOSH, Wis. — Sen. Ted
Cruz on Friday vehemently denied
a story in the National Enquirer
that accused him of extramarital
affairs and blamed rival Donald
Trump for planting “complete
and utter lies” in the tabloid.
Cruz accused Trump and his
associates of hawking a false
story that the married Texas senator had sexual relationships with
five unidentified women. The allegations come amid a nasty feud
between the two candidates over
their wives that has dominated
the Republican presidential race
this week.
“Let me be clear, this National
Enquirer story is garbage,” Cruz
told reporters after a rally at a
parking-cone factory here, bringing up the subject himself. “It is
complete and utter lies. It is a tabloid smear, and it is a smear that
has come from Donald Trump
and his henchmen.”
Trump, in a statement, said he
had “no idea” whether the story
was true and said he had nothing
to do with it.
“Ted Cruz’s problem with the
National Enquirer is his and his
alone, and while they were right
about O.J. Simpson, John Edwards,
and many others, I certainly hope
they are not right about Lyin’ Ted
Cruz,” Trump wrote.
Cruz, in turn, labeled the frontrunner for the Republican nomination “Sleazy Donald.”
The National Enquirer did not
name the women allegedly involved but published photos of five
women with their faces blurred
out. The Washington Post has not
confirmed any of the allegations
made by the Enquirer.
The saga comes amid the foul
and strikingly personal atmosphere of the 2016 Republican
presidential race, which has seen
attacks leveled on spouses, jokes
about the size of genitalia and rivals labeled “con artist,” “sleazy”
and “liar.”
One woman who spoke out
about the story was Trump’s national spokeswoman, Katrina
Pierson, who once worked for
Cruz. She said the story was cat-
egorically untrue.
“Speaking for myself, the article
is trash and 100% false,” Pierson
wrote in an email to The Post. She
tweeted earlier Friday: “Of course
the National Enquirer story is
100% FALSE!!! I only speak to
myself, however. Carry on …”
On CNN on Friday, a Trump
supporter, Boston Herald columnist Adriana Cohen, accused
former Cruz staffer Amanda Carpenter on live television of being
one of the women cited in the Enquirer story.
Carpenter vigorously denied
the allegation. “What’s out there
is tabloid trash. If someone wants
to comment on it, they can talk
to my lawyer. It is categorically
false. You should be ashamed for
spreading this kind of smut,” she
said. “I will not be intimidated. I
will continue to make my thoughts
known about Donald Trump, and
I’m not backing down.”
Cruz, who has been married
to his wife, Heidi, for 15 years,
pinned the National Enquirer
story on Roger Stone, a longtime
political adviser to Trump and
former aide to Richard Nixon.
Trump said he cut ties with Stone
in August. Cruz said Stone has “50
years of dirty tricks behind him”
and is the only person quoted on
the record in the story.
Cruz also pointed to ties between Trump and the Enquirer,
which endorsed him earlier this
month. New York Magazine has
reported that Trump and David
Pecker, chief executive of the
company that publishes the tabloid, are longtime friends.
In an interview with The Post,
Stone accused Cruz of dirty tricks,
bringing up accusations that just
before Iowa’s caucuses, the senator’s campaign misled the state’s
voters about whether then-candidate Ben Carson would remain in
the race.
Cruz was asked Friday whether
the tone of the presidential campaign had become childish.
“One person has been childish,
and that’s been Donald Trump,”
he said. “And one question Americans are wondering all over this
country is how low will Donald
go? Is there any level to which he
is unwilling to stoop?”
DARREN H AUCK /AP
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, greets
supporters before speaking Friday in Oshkosh, Wis.
ROSS D. FRANKLIN /AP
Protesters shout as they are removed from the venue as Republican presidential candidate Donald
Trump speaks during a campaign rally March 19 in Tucson, Ariz. As confrontational and occasionally
violent protests become commonplace at Trump’s campaign events, opponents of the brash billionaire
worry they’ll start to overshadow his fiery rhetoric and the sometimes rough way his campaign handles
dissent, and become a rallying cry among his supporters and those on the fence about whether to back
his candidacy.
Protests against Trump
risk GOP primary backlash
BY NICHOLAS R ICCARDI
Associated Press
FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz.
— David Rau wasn’t sure about
Donald Trump. So the landscape
contractor strolled over to the
main park in this Phoenix suburb to watch one of the businessman’s recent rallies to decide for
himself.
Demonstrators pulled their
cars across an access road to
block people driving to the event.
Dozens marched to the park and
stood by Rau, chanting “Stop the
hate!” as he tried to listen. He left
a Trump convert. “I’ve got the
right to listen to somebody speak,
don’t I?” Rau asked.
Trump’s rise in the Republican
presidential contest has sparked
increasingly
confrontational
protests, has mobilized his opponents and has drawn scrutiny of
the GOP front-runner’s rhetoric
and the sometimes-rough way his
campaign handles dissent. But as
demonstrators escalate their tactics, they also risk helping Trump,
especially among Republican voters his rivals are furiously trying
to persuade to reject the billionaire businessman.
“I encourage people to speak
out against Trump in a forceful
but respectful manner because
some of these protests are only
serving to help him,” said Tim
Miller, a spokesman for a Republican group trying to stop Trump.
“He continues to dominate the
news, he can play the ‘us vs. them’
card when liberals disrupt his
events, and that serves as a rallying point for his candidacy.”
Even Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,
who is running for the Democratic
presidential nomination, has been
troubled by protesters’ tactics, as
well as by Trump’s response.
“In America, people have a
right to hold rallies,” Sanders
told MSNBC. “It is absolutely appropriate for thousands of people
to protest at a Trump rally, but I
am not a great fan of disrupting
rallies.”
Trump engages the demonstrators vigorously, mocking them,
calling them bad people and
sometimes feeding the anger of
his supporters in the crowd.
The Phoenix demonstration
followed one in Chicago the prior
weekend, when hundreds of
Trump foes flooded into the Chicago location of one of his rallies
and Trump canceled the event
and one in Ohio the following day,
citing security concerns. That
infuriated Trump backers, who
blamed the demonstrators.
“To me, it’s disgusting and insulting,” said Claudia Young, an
Argentinian-born U.S. citizen in
Muncie, Ind., who said she and
her husband had arrived at the
Dayton, Ohio, rally site at 6:30
a.m. after a 90-minute drive.
“We’re supposed to have freedom
of speech in this country, but the
people who came to see Trump
couldn’t listen to what they wanted to hear.”
In Arizona, activists gathered about 3 miles from the site
of the Trump rally, along one of
two roads that wind through the
mountains north of Phoenix into
central Fountain Hills. The protesters — mainly a coalition of
local immigrant-rights groups
who have a long history of demonstrations against Sheriff Joe
Arpaio, who was speaking at the
rally — then maneuvered their
cars across the intersection.
Three were arrested, and many
Trump supporters had to walk to
the rally or missed it.
Carlos Garcia of Puente, one of
the immigrant-rights groups, said
demonstrators handed out water
bottles to Trump supporters and
did not want to antagonize them.
“I hope people see beyond their
two-hour inconvenience,” he
said, adding that activists were
motivated by the support Trump
has drawn from Arpaio and former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer.
“Their rhetoric,” he said of that
duo, “turned into policies that
destroyed thousands of families,
and we see Trump trying to go
national with it. People are willing to put their bodies on the line
to keep their families together.”
When Garcia and other demonstrators made it to the park where
Trump was holding his rally, they
were met with jeers and cries
from Trump supporters gathered
on the hillside, outside the fencedoff perimeter where the event
was occurring. “Learn to speak
English!” one person yelled at the
protesters. “Gotta get off the welfare check,” called another.
The demonstrators chanted
back: “Stop the hate!” Despite
some heated scrums, no fights
broke out and eventually the candidate finished and protesters and
supporters alike trickled away.
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$20 tribute to
fallen dad yields
millions in aid
BY CARLOS BONGIOANNI
Stars and Stripes
ARLINGTON, Va. — Just over
two years ago, Myles Eckert spotted something green sticking out
of the snow as he, his mom and his
sister stopped for lunch at a restaurant near Toledo, Ohio.
“Money!” he said to himself as
he retrieved a partially exposed
$20 bill.
Little did Myles know, but that
$20 find would lead to more than
$2 million of charitable contributions, worldwide celebrity status
and a prestigious award at the 2016
Citizen Honors Award ceremony,
held Friday at Joint Base MyerHenderson next to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
At the annual event, Myles received the Congressional Medal of
Honor Society’s new Young Hero
Award, which recognizes “leadership, courage, character, integrity
and service.” Myles was selected
for his “volunteer philanthropic
work on behalf of Gold Star children” — those who have lost a parent to war.
So how exactly did finding $20
lead to all the recognition?
From a hotel room in Arlington
just before Friday’s ceremony,
Myles acknowledged feeling uncomfortable about all the attention, especially when he was asked
about that February day in 2014.
“I don’t really remember much
about it,” he said.
Myles, who was one day shy of
his 11th birthday on Friday, was
8 at the time. He recalled being
thrilled at first about the possibility of buying something. Then, he
and his sister, Marlee, talked about
giving it as a tip to the waitress.
Once inside the restaurant, however, he changed his mind after
seeing a man dressed in a military
uniform. It triggered thoughts of
his father, Army Sgt. Andy Eckert, who died in Iraq just weeks
after Myles was born in 2005.
Myles’ mother, Tiffany Eckert,
said her son suffers from fron-
tal lobe seizures and a variety of
learning disabilities, and he has
a slight case of Savant Syndrome,
the brain disorder portrayed in
the movie “Rain Man.”
Despite his disabilities, Myles
wrote a note to the servicemember in the restaurant and enclosed
the bill.
“My dad was a soldier. He’s in
heaven now,” the note said. “I
found this 20 dollars in the parking lot when we got here. We like
to pay it forward in my family.
It’s your lucky day! Thank you for
your service.” The boy signed the
note “Myles
Eckert, a gold
star kid.”
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Myles’ mother ran a national story on
Myles’ generous act. People from around the
world began sending money to the
Eckert family.
“Myles made a choice that day,”
said his mother. “The ripple effect
has really been never ending, and
the momentum behind the story is
not over yet.”
Myles has appeared on TV
shows with Ellen Degeneres and
Dr. Phil McGraw. Due to the volume of calls, his mom said she
unplugged the phone two years
ago and hasn’t plugged it back in
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Myles Eckert receives the Congressional Medal of Honor Society’s new Young Hero Award on Friday
at Joint Base Myer-Henderson in Arlington, Va. The award recognizes leadership, courage, character,
integrity and service.
Medal of Honor recipients clap for other honorees of the 2016
Citizen Honors Awards.
since.
Tiffany Eckert said the family decided all the money they received should go to charities that
support military families. The
family originally partnered with a
charity called Snowball Express,
which received $1.8 million in a
matter of months.
Later, the family began partnering with the charity organizations
Camp Hometown Heroes and the
Folds of Honor Foundation. Donations to all the charities have
surpassed $2 million, said Tiffany
Eckert, who now has plans to start
a foundation called The Power of
20 to continue raising money for
and to promote awareness of children who have suffered the loss of
a parent killed in combat.
“I tell the kids every day, we’re
ordinary people who have been
given an extraordinary opportunity to touch the world and to positively impact lives.”
At Friday’s ceremony, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society
also recognized the following Citizen Honors awardees:
Chris Mintz, of Roseburg,
Ore., an Army veteran who was
shot five times when he confronted
a shooter at Umpqua Community
College on Oct. 1, 2015, preventing
further loss of life.
James Vernon, of Morton,
Ill., who subdued an attacker who
threatened to kill 20 middle school
students and their parents participating in an after-school chess
club meeting at the public library
on Oct. 13, 2015. While all of the
children were unharmed, Vernon
was injured in the attack.
Retired Air Force Lt. Col.
Eileen Hadbavny, of Charleston,
S.C., who has had a lifetime of service in support of veterans through
her volunteer work with the Red
Cross, Veterans of Foreign Wars
and the American Legion.
The society also awarded for
the first time this year the Congressional Medal of Honor Society
Community Service Hero Award,
which went to United Through
Reading for its response to a
critical need in the armed forces
community and their impact on
military families. UTR offers deployed servicemembers the opportunity to be video-recorded in
nearly 260 locations worldwide
while reading books to their children at home.
Easter delivery: Cargo ship arrives at space station with fresh food
BY M ARCIA DUNN
Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The six astronauts at the International Space Station
got an early Easter treat this weekend with
the arrival of a supply ship full of fresh
food and experiments.
Instead of the usual bunny, Saturday’s
delivery came via a swan — Orbital ATK’s
Cygnus capsule, named after the swan constellation. The cargo carrier rocketed away
from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday night.
NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra used
the station’s big robot arm to grab the
capsule, as the two craft soared 250 miles
above the Indian Ocean. “Excellent work,
gentlemen,” Mission Control radioed.
It’s the first of three shipments coming
up in quick succession. A Russian cargo
ship will lift off this Thursday, followed
by a SpaceX supply run on April 8. NASA
has turned to private industry to keep the
space station stocked.
The newly arrived Cygnus holds nearly
8,000 pounds of groceries, equipment and
research. Among the newfangled science:
robotic grippers modeled after geckos’
feet and the ingredients for a large-scale,
controlled fire. A commercial-quality 3-D
printer is packed inside as well; anyone will
be able to order prints, for a price, from the
Made in Space company. Virginia-based
Orbital ATK hints Easter eggs may also be
on board.
The blaze — confined to a box inside
the Cygnus — won’t be set until the capsule departs in May with a load of trash.
NASA researchers want to see how fast the
cotton-fiberglass fabric burns in hopes of
improving future spacecraft safety. Following the experiment, the capsule will
burn up — for real — during re-entry.
As it turns out, the Cygnus had an out-ofthe-ordinary ride to orbit. The first-stage
booster of the normally reliable unmanned
Atlas V rocket stopped firing six seconds
early, and the upper stage had to compen-
sate by burning a minute longer to get the
capsule in the right orbit. Rocket-maker
United Launch Alliance has delayed its
next launch, a military satellite mission, to
figure out what went wrong.
The commander of the doomed space
shuttle Columbia, meanwhile, is being honored with this latest delivery. Orbital ATK
named this Cygnus after Rick Husband,
who piloted the first shuttle docking at the
space station in 1999. He died aboard Columbia during re-entry in 2003, along with
six other astronauts. Kopra called him a
“personal hero” and said he was honored to
welcome the “S.S. Rick Husband” aboard.
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Dogs may be best defense against attacks
BY COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Even in an era of hightech crime-fighting, the best line of defense
against a Brussels-style attack on airports
and subways has four legs and a tail.
Dogs, with their sensitive noses, have
been trained in recent years to pick up
the scent of explosives on people moving through crowded concourses, and so
far they have proved a better early warning system than anything engineers have
come up with.
“They outperform both men and machines,” said James Waters, chief of the
New York City Police Department’s counterterrorism unit, which just this week
graduated its latest squad of dogs capable
of following the vapor from explosives,
such as the terrorist bomb-making material of the moment, TATP.
But experts said there are not enough
of these “vapor wake” dogs to go around.
Only about 130 have gotten the training
nationwide since its development about a
decade ago. And only one dog is in Europe,
according to the chief trainer.
For security reasons, the NYPD won’t
say how many of these dogs it has to cover
a subway system, with more than 400 stations and millions of riders.
New York’s department already has
36,000 officers, employs counterterrorism
analysts, has created specialized counterterror units and uses a highly sophisticated
computer system linked to surveillance
footage that can spot a bag sitting for too
long. It also has 100 other dogs, including
traditional bomb-sniffers and drug dogs.
But the threat is changing — Islamic
State extremists are using small devices
in crowded areas, as seen in the airport
RICHARD D REW/AP
Metro-North Railroad police officers patrol Grand Central Terminal in New York City on
Tuesday while accompanied by a police dog.
and subway attacks in Belgium that left 31
people dead.
The NYPD’s newly graduated class of
eight “vapor wake” dogs underwent 15
months of training to sniff out explosive
particles in the heat plume left by humans
as they walk through a crowd, then follow
the scent to the source. They’re different from traditional bomb-sniffing dogs
trained to smell a stationary object.
A dog has 200 million olfactory sensors
in its nose. By contrast, the human nose
has 5 million. Even though dogs get tired
and distracted, no technology can match
one, officials said.
One that may come close is under development at the University of Rhode Island,
where professor Otto Gregory created an
electronic sensor designed to continuously
monitor an area, unlike a quick swab of a
hand or luggage, for vapors from explosives. The sensor hasn’t been deployed in
any real-world scenarios yet. But one advantage is that it doesn’t need training or
breaks, as dogs do.
“Think of it as an electronic dog’s nose
that would run 24/7,” said Gregory, a
chemical engineering professor.
Other animals with sophisticated olfactory ability could theoretically be used,
including elephants and even rats. But the
canine’s special social relationship with
humans makes it uniquely suitable.
Dog trainers generally say Labrador
retrievers are best because they are social and not aggressive. Spaniels, German
pointers and other breeds are also used.
“They have an incredible capability for
the detection of hazardous chemicals. But
even the canine, we look at it as a technology, and over the years the instrumentation
has advanced, the proactive nature of dogs
has advanced and is still advancing,” said
Paul Waggoner of Auburn University’s veterinary school, which pioneered the vapor
wake training.
Because of the rising threat of suicide
bombings, demand for the dogs has outstripped supply. Since January, there have
been orders for 36 more, said Paul Hammond of AMK9, the security firm that
works with Auburn to train the animals.
They cost about $49,000 each and are
licensed for a year, after which they are retrained to account for terrorists’ changing
tactics.
Hammond said the demand isn’t just
from law enforcement agencies but also
from major sports teams and theme parks
looking for a way to search large crowds
safely.
Security privileges let flight attendant in drug case escape
BY A MANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Within
hours of ditching 70 pounds of cocaine at a security checkpoint and
bolting barefoot out of the main
Los Angeles airport, an off-duty
flight attendant was flying across
the country after clearing security at the same airport, law enforcement officials said Friday.
Marsha Gay Reynolds, 31, did
not do anything out of the ordinary to get back on a plane, officials said, describing how she
used an airline badge with her
real name to board another flight
the next morning at one of the
nation’s busiest airports.
Communication lapses, bureaucratic protocols and special
security privileges afforded airline workers all contributed to
Reynolds’ remaining out of the
grasp of law enforcement until
she surrendered four days later at
Kennedy Airport in New York.
“This is a security breakdown.
That could have easily been an explosive device and a terrorist running from the checkpoint. And we
wouldn’t have known until it went
boom,” said Marshall McClain,
president of the union representing LAX airport police officers.
Reynolds was off duty when
she arrived March 18 at an LAX
checkpoint, wearing jeans and a
black suit jacket and carrying her
“known crew member” badge,
according to an FBI affidavit.
When Reynolds was chosen
for a random security screening,
TSA officers reported that she became nervous and made a phone
call in a foreign language before
she dropped her bags, kicked off
her heels, ran down an upwardmoving escalator and out of the
airport, the affidavit said.
LAX police soon found 11 packages of cocaine wrapped in green
cellophane inside one of the bags
Reynolds left behind, the affidavit
said. The drugs had an estimated
street value of up to $3 million.
The badges allow airline workers to get through security faster
to reduce lines and to allow the
TSA to focus on travelers they
know less about. To obtain the
badges, airline workers must submit to a background check that
includes fingerprinting.
The involvement of the crew
member badge “might cause the
TSA to look at this program a
little more closely, to see if this is
going to be a problem from a terrorist perspective,” said aviation
expert Jeff Price.
McClain, the LAX police union
president, agreed that the case
raises long-held fears about the
“insider” threat of a terrorist gaining special access to airports and
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A JetBlue flight attendant was accused of trying to sneak a suitcase
with packages of cocaine wrapped in cellophane through security at
Los Angeles International Airport.
planes using the crew member
program or becoming radicalized
after obtaining such access.
The TSA has said full screening of all employees would cost
too much. Instead, the agency has
urged airports to increase random
screenings of workers and to keep
background checks up to date.
No bulletin for Reynolds’ arrest
was immediately issued. The TSA
would not have flagged Reynolds’
name because she did not pose
a terrorist threat, according to
an airport security official with
knowledge of the investigation.
The Drug Enforcement Agency did not learn about the drugs
until at least five hours after
Reynolds fled and did not know
her name until well after she had
boarded a flight to New York, according to a federal law enforcement official with knowledge of
the investigation.
Both officials spoke on the condition of anonymity.
TSA spokesman Mike England
said in a statement that the agency
“immediately notified and began
working with local law enforcement to identify the individual.”
“Following events such as this,
we conduct a full review of our
procedures to determine how best
to improve upon an already strong
security foundation,” he said.
The TSA did not verify Reynolds’ name until at least Saturday
because no one at the airport has
access to the database that had
scanned her crewmember badge
at the airport, both the airport security and federal officials said.
As a result, the Los Angeles
leadership of the TSA is recommending someone with access to
the database be required to be at
airports across the country, the
airport security official said.
Price confirmed that no one at
airports can access the database.
Rather, he said, the information
goes to a remote location where
the database is stored.
He doubts that anybody is
staffing that location on a 24-hour
basis, simply because it’s rare for
anyone to need regular access to
the database. If a crewmember
is turned away after a badge is
scanned, that person could just
go through a regular security
screening, he added.
Reynolds, a former Jamaican
beauty queen and New York University track athlete, faces at least
10 years in prison if convicted of
the federal drug charge against
her.
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Research shows big
drop in those who
pray, believe in God
BY SCOTT TRAVIS
(Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) Sun Sentinel
Easter weekend is a time of
prayer, but fewer may actually be
doing that this year.
The number of Americans who
say they pray or believe in God has
hit a low since at least the early
1970s, according to a new study.
However, nonreligious people
are twice as likely today to believe in an afterlife as those in the
1980s, according to the survey,
which analyzes responses to four
decades of data compiled in the
University of Chicago’s General
Social Survey.
“It’s an indication that people
believe they don’t have to do all
the work, they don’t have to pray
and go to church, but they will
still enjoy all the benefits of an afterlife,” said Ryne Sherman, assistant professor of psychology at
Florida Atlantic University, who
helped conduct the study.
Senior citizens tend to be the
most religious and saw the smallest shifts in habits over time, the
analysis shows. The study found
larger religious declines among
whites than blacks and larger declines in the West and Northeast
than South.
“We think it may be driven by
cultural shifts in individualism,”
Sherman said. “Americans have
become more individualistic and
expect more entitlements and
things like that.”
Sherman conducted the study
with researchers at San Diego
State University and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The data used comes from
polls of 58,893 respondents to the
General Social Survey, a nationally representative survey of U.S.
adults of all ages administered
between 1972 and 2014.
The results were published this
week in Sage Open, an academic
journal.
The findings show that from
the early 1980s to 2014:
Those who identified their
religion as “none” increased from
7 percent to 21 percent.
Those who never attend religious services doubled to 26
percent.
Those who say they never
pray leaped from 3 percent to 15
percent.
Those who say they don’t
believe in God climbed from 13
percent to 22 percent.
Those who believe in an afterlife stayed flat at 79 percent,
but non-churchgoers who believe
in an afterlife increased from 7
percent to 15 percent.
Chinese herbalist’s family
of 3 killed, man is arrested
BY JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — A popular
practitioner of Chinese herbal
medicine was found shot to death
and wrapped in plastic along with
his wife and 5-year-old daughter
in their palatial, two-story home
in upscale Santa Barbara County.
More than 170 miles to the south,
a suspect was arrested in the San
Diego area, where he lives.
What connected the two men
remains largely unclear. Authorities said only that the two were recently involved in a business deal,
and that financial gain
could have
been
involved in the
slayings.
Pierre Haobsh, 27, of
Oceanside,
was
taken
into custody
at gunpoint at
Haobsh
a gas station
in San Diego County, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bob Brown
said Friday. Investigators with an
arrest warrant had been following
a red Lexus that belonged to him,
Brown said. A loaded handgun
and property belonging to one of
the victims was found inside the
car, the sheriff said.
Deputies who went to check
on the welfare of Dr. Weidong
“Henry” Han, 57, on Wednesday
found the bodies of the physician,
his wife, Huijie “Jenni” Yu, 29,
and the couple’s daughter, Emily
Han, in the family’s multimilliondollar home on the outskirts of
Santa Barbara.
Their bodies were found shot,
wrapped in plastic and duct-taped
in the garage, a sheriff’s statement
said. They last had been seen the
night before they were found.
“This investigation is far from
over,” Brown said. “It is complex
and ongoing.”
Two business associates of Han
went to his home after he failed to
show up for a meeting — something they told authorities was
highly uncharacteristic of him.
The associates called authorities
when they found the front door
ajar and the family’s cars parked
outside.
Authorities didn’t say what
led them from the palatial, twostory home that sits on 7 acres
surrounded by avocado trees to
the Oceanside area, where Haobsh was arrested, more than 170
miles to the south.
Haobsh is a U.S. citizen, authorities said, but few other details about him were released. No
relatives, friends or an attorney
who could comment were found
in an initial search by The Associated Press.
MICHAEL D WYER /AP
Sharon Johnson reaches out to her napping granddaughter, Aries, 2, in her apartment in Lynn, Mass.
Johnson calls herself an addict, although she’s been sober for three years.
Poll: Most Americans
see drugs as big problem
BY LISA M ARIE PANE
AND EMILY SWANSON
Associated Press
Sharon Johnson calls herself an
addict, although she’s been sober
for three years now. She started
by smoking pot and eventually
moved to crack cocaine. Her
daughter has tried heroin and “I
believe I’m going to pull her out
of the gutter someday,” Johnson
laments.
Johnson has seen firsthand the
ravages of drug abuse reflected
in a national Associated PressNORC Center for Public Affairs
Research poll. Whether it’s alcohol or illegal drugs such as heroin
and cocaine, a majority of Americans say it’s a problem and that
more needs to be done to address
it.
Johnson, 56, of Lynn, Mass.,
said she doesn’t believe any drug
should be legalized and believes
more needs to be done to crack
down on dealers. She goes to
Narcotics Anonymous meetings
every Thursday and sees too
many of her companions there relapsing and dying from drug use.
Still, she considers treatment the
best option for users rather than
prosecution.
“To lock someone up for using,
it’s not going to solve anything.
They’re going to rebel,” Johnson,
a poll respondent, told the AP in a
follow-up interview. “For dealers,
in my eyes, they should be locked
up.”
The poll found that most Americans — 62 percent — said that at
least one type of substance use
was a serious problem in their
communities. That included alcohol, marijuana, heroin, cocaine,
meth and prescription pills.
Some 43 percent said they have
a relative or close friend with
substance-abuse issues. Seven in
10 Americans believe not enough
is being done to find better addiction treatment or to make treatment programs more accessible
in their communities.
And, like Johnson, most prioritized punishment for drug dealers rather than cracking down on
users.
It was a long road for Johnson to
get clean. She bounced from couch
to couch because she couldn’t pay
the rent. She’s estranged from
her sister after going on a binge
and not returning a debit card her
sister lent her.
“Before I got locked up, my probation officer told me, ‘Sharon,
you’re going to end up dead,’ ”
Johnson said. “I was in denial
a long time, and one day I did a
complete turnaround.”
Johnson spent six months
in treatment as part of Project
COPE, an outpatient substance
abuse-treatment program. She’s
now on disability and hopes to
complete her education. She
spends time with her grandchildren. Lynn, a city of 90,000 north
of Boston, has experienced one of
the state’s highest rates of deaths
from heroin.
Johnson’s story captures much
of what the AP-NORC survey
described: A feeling that drugs
are a pervasive problem, with
many seeing friends or relatives
ravaged by drugs and believing that treatment options need
to be improved for addicts while
punishment needs to be fierce for
dealers.
While 61 percent of those surveyed said they support legalizing
marijuana, most said they want it
limited to medical treatment or
want to impose restrictions on
amounts that can be purchased.
Warren Lawler Chansky is a
retired criminal defense lawyer
who believes that as long as alcohol is legal, so should marijuana
be for recreational and medicinal
uses.
“In all these years of practicing (law), I’ve seen awful crimes,
tragedies. But very few associated with marijuana,” said Chansky, 57, of Port St. Lucie, Fla.
He doesn’t personally smoke
but he had a family member who
used marijuana to keep up her
appetite while she was battling
cancer. “She would have died had
she not been able to eat,” Chansky
said.
The AP-NORC Poll of 1,042
adults was conducted Feb. 1114 using a sample drawn from
NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak panel, which is designed to
be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling
error for all respondents is plus or
minus 3.9 percentage points.
Respondents were first selected randomly using address-based
sampling methods, and later were
interviewed online or by phone.
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Outcry over workers’
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BY DIDI TANG
Associated Press
R AMON E SPINOSA /AP
People dance at a free Rolling Stones concert in Havana, Cuba, on Friday. The Stones became the most
famous act to play in Cuba since the island nation’s 1959 revolution.
The Rolling Stones rock for
a massive crowd in Havana
BY M ICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
Associated Press
HAVANA — The Rolling Stones unleashed two
hours of shrieking, thundering rock and roll on a
crowd of hundreds of thousands of Cubans and foreign visitors Friday night, capping one of the most
momentous weeks in modern Cuban history with a
celebration of music that was once forbidden here.
The week opened with the arrival of President
Barack Obama, accompanied by more than 1,000
employees of a government that waged a cold war
against Cuba for more than 50 years. This time, U.S.
forces were armed with briefing books and press
invitations, here to seal the president’s 2014 opening to Cuba with a string of expertly crafted public
events that saw Obama call for democracy live on
state TV, then attend a Major League Baseball exhibition game with Cuban President Raul Castro.
The week ended with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards,
Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts firing “Jumpin’ Jack
Flash,” ‘’Sympathy for the Devil” and “Satisfaction”
into a jubilant crowd from 3-story-tall high-definition
television screens and thumping towers of speakers.
“Havana, Cuba, and the Rolling Stones!” Jagger
cried. “This is amazing! It’s really good to be here!
It’s good to see you guys!”
The Stones romped through 18 of their classics,
picking up force as the crowd in the open-air Ciudad Deportiva, or Sports City, jumped and chanted
“Rollings! Rollings!”
The Rolling Stones were the biggest act to play
Cuba since its 1959 revolution brought a communist
government to power and isolated it from the United
States and its allies. Fans had to hide their Beatles
and Stones albums in covers borrowed from albums
of appropriately revolutionary Cuban groups.
But times have changed. Former supermodel
Naomi Campbell, actor Richard Gere and singer
Jimmy Buffet partied in the VIP section of the concert. Castro’s son Alejandro, one of the driving forces
behind Cuba’s declaration of detente with the United
States, greeted friends and relatives after the show.
Far from the Cuban and international elites, ordinary Cubans said they felt shot through with energy,
reconnected with the world.
“After today I can die,” said night watchman Joaquin Ortiz, 62. “This is like my last wish, seeing the
Rolling Stones.”
Rivers of spectators flowed north and south from
ENRIC M ARTI /AP
Keith Richards plays his guitar during the Rolling
Stones’ free concert in Havana.
the concert site after the show, watched over by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of security officials.
Few were willing to comment on the connections
between the concert and Obama’s visit, but many said
the concert had implications beyond entertainment.
“The Rolling Stones being in Cuba at this time
is like several steps up the ladder,” said Jennifer
Corchado, 23, a biologist. “It’s like three steps up
the staircase toward global culture, toward the rest
of the world.”
Some Cuban concert-goers said it made them
more optimistic about the future of their country.
“This is history,” said Raul Podio, 22, an employee
of a state security firm, who was joined by a group of
young friends. “I would like to see more groups, for
there to be more variety, for more artists to come,
because that would mean we are less isolated.”
The band’s Cuba stop ended its “Ole” Latin America tour, which also included concerts in Brazil,
Uruguay, Chile, Argentina and Mexico.
BEIJING — Authorities in
southwestern China had apparently thought their Cultural Revolution-style public sentencing
of eight workers who took to the
streets demanding back wages
would stand as a warning to others at a time of a slowing economy
and rising worker unrest.
Instead, the parading of the
three women and five men
through streets with their heads
bowed and a guard on each arm
has drawn fire and sympathy
with the defendants, and calls for
the deadbeat bosses to be publicly
humiliated.
The incident in the Sichuan
province city of Langzhong underscores concerns over the system’s inability to protect worker
rights against politically connected employers and a government
obsessed with social stability and
terrified of rippling unrest.
“Where is the dignity of the
law? Where is the moral conscience on the earth?” said Sima
Nan, an outspoken scholar and
social critic better known for his
unapologetic defense of China’s
Marxist political system.
The trial punished workers
seeking their rights “but pardoned
those who maliciously failed to pay
up without even a word of moral
condemnation,” Sima wrote on his
public microblog.
Wage arrears are a major
problem for Chinese laborers,
especially migrants working on
casual terms in the construction
industry. Wages are supposed
to be paid before workers travel
home the month before the Lunar
New Year holiday, but many contractors still fail to do so.
Despite Beijing’s demands that
workers be paid in full and on
time, the problem persists, largely because local officials either
don’t care or are in cahoots with
employers. Their first response
after defusing the initial confrontation is almost always to sup-
press, rather than get to the root
of the conflict, often employing
vague laws against obstructing
traffic or disturbing public order.
In some cases, workers have
turned to extreme measures to
draw attention to the plight, including blocking roads and railways,
staging sit-ins atop billboards and
bridges and even attacking authorities or fellow citizens.
The workers in Langzhong
had congregated in front of the
office of the debtor, a real estate
developer, and later blocked the
entrance to a local tourist attraction in August in hopes of putting
enough pressure on the government to goad it into helping them.
When police came to clear the
scene, the two sides clashed and
arrests were made.
Photos of the March 16 sentencing rally in Langzhong showed
villagers were summoned to the
spectacle to be warned not to repeat the same crime. They were
lined in a public square behind
placards identifying their individual villages, facing the defendants on the stage, each flanked
by police guards, while rifle-toting sentries stood nearby.
All eight were declared guilty
and sentenced to six to eight
months in prison. The judge said
they were “remorseful” and that
rights-defending acts should be
rational.
Initially posted to the website
of the Langzhong City People’s
Court, the pictures were then removed after the public uproar.
Public condemnation came
fast and fierce after major Internet portals picked up news
of the Langzhong verdict show,
with many calling it humiliating
and unlawful. However, there is
no report that any local officials
have been disciplined.
“When the government chooses
to side with the worst behavior, it
is not only illegal but also immoral
and, inevitably, it angers everyone,” said Wang Jiangsong, a Beijing-based scholar of labor issues.
UN receives new claims of
sex abuse by peacekeepers
BY EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The
U.N. peacekeeping mission in
Central African Republic said
Friday it has received new allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by U.N. and non-U.N.
forces as well as civilians.
The United Nations has been in
the spotlight over allegations of
child rape and other sexual abuses by its peacekeepers. The U.N.
said in a report earlier this month
that there were 69 allegations of
sexual abuse and exploitation by
peacekeepers in 2015.
A statement from the U.N. mission said the alleged incidents
just reported took place in Kemo
prefecture, east of the capital
Bangui, in 2014 and 2015.
The mission said a U.N. team
will be rapidly deployed to the
area to investigate and to ensure
that victims have been assisted.
In early March, the U.N. Security Council approved its first
resolution tackling the escalating problem of sexual abuse by
U.N. peacekeepers in some of the
world’s most volatile areas.
The resolution endorsed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s reform plan, including repatriating
military or police units involved
in “widespread or systemic sexual
exploitation and abuse” and replacing contingents where allegations are not properly investigated,
perpetrators are not held accountable, or the U.N. isn’t informed on
progress of investigations.
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he horrific civil war in Syria defies easy comparison, but the closest analogy of recent times might
be the conflict that engulfed
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its Croat, Serb and Muslim inhabitants
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— with the worst savagery taking place in
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Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan
Karadzic listens to his sentence Thursday at the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague,
Netherlands. Karadzic was sentenced to
40 years in prison for genocide and other
charges.
half of which were transferred from the
ICTY to the newly capable governments in
the former Yugoslavia.
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tant than that of the man whom the ICTY
sentencedThursday to 40 years in prison:
Radovan Karadzic, the political leader
of the bloody 1992 Serb uprising against
Bosnia’s
internationally
recognized
government.
Karadzic had managed to evade arrest
until 2008, when he was discovered living in Belgrade disguised, bizarrely, as a
bearded faith healer. Now, his nearly eightyear trial has established his complicity in
some of the most shocking crimes of recent European history: the forcible mass
expulsion of non-Serbs from their villages,
followed by internment in squalid concentration camps; the deliberate shelling and
shooting of civilians in the Bosnian capital
of Sarajevo; and the roundup and murder
of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at the town
of Srebrenica in 1995.
Karadzic protested that all of this was
just the inevitable havoc of war. The tribunal found, instead, that the suffering and
bloodshed were the eminently foreseeable,
and indeed intended, results of plans that
Karadzic laid as part of a “joint criminal
enterprise.” The enterprise’s military
leader, Ratko Mladic, is also on trial at
the ICTY, with a conclusion likely by next
year.
There is much to criticize about the
ICTY, especially the snail-like pace of its
proceedings, which followed the long delays in arresting Karadzic and Mladic.
Yet the tribunal’s work, now crowned by
the Karadzic conviction, has nevertheless
helped consolidate democracy in the former Yugoslavia by establishing a measure
of justice that was retrospective without
being vengeful. The wheels of justice grind
slowly, but grind they do.
BY GEORGE F. WILL
WASHINGTON
residential campaigns incite both
hypochondria and euphoria, portraying the present as grimmer
than it is and the future as grander than it can be. As an antidote to both,
read a rarity, an academic’s thick book
(762 pages) widely recognized as relevant
to America’s current discontents.
Robert Gordon’s “The Rise and Fall
of American Growth” argues that an unprecedented and unrepeatable “special
century” of life-changing inventions has
produced unrealistic expectations, so the
future will disappoint: “The economic revolution of 1870 to 1970 was unique. … No
other era in human history, either before
or since, combined so many elements in
which the standard of living increased as
quickly and in which the human condition
was transformed so completely.”
In many ways, the world of 1870 was
more medieval than modern. Three necessities — food, clothing, shelter — absorbed
almost all consumer spending. No household was wired for electricity. Flickering
light came from candles and whale oil,
manufacturing power from steam engines,
water wheels and horses. Urban horses,
alive and dead, complicated urban sanitation. Window screens were rare, so insects
commuted to and fro between animal and
human waste outdoors and the dinner
table. A typical North Carolina housewife
in the 1880s carried water into her home
eight to 10 times daily, walking 148 miles a
year to tote 36 tons of it. Few children were
in school after age 12.
But on Oct. 10, 1879, Thomas Edison
found a cotton filament for the incandescent light bulb. Less than 12 weeks later
in Germany, Karl Benz demonstrated the
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first workable internal combustion engine.
In the 1880s, refrigerated rail cars began
to banish “spring sickness,” a result of
winters without green vegetables. Adult
stature increased as mechanical refrigeration and Clarence Birdseye’s frozen foods
improved nutrition.
By 1940, households were networked
— electrified, with clean water flowing in
and waste flowing out, radio flowing in and
telephonic communications flowing both
ways. Today’s dwellings, Gordon says, are
much more like those of 1940 than 1940
dwellings were like those of 1900. No more
lack of privacy for people living and bathing in the kitchen, the only room that was
warm year-round. Since 1940, however,
only air conditioning, television and the
Internet have dramatically changed everyday life, and these combined have not
remotely matched the impact of pre-1940
changes.
Nineteenth-century medicine mostly
made patients as comfortable as possible
until nature healed or killed them. In 1878,
yellow fever killed 10 percent of the Memphis, Tenn., population. But 20th-century
medicine moved quickly from the conquest
of infectious diseases (the cause of 37 percent of deaths in 1900; 2 percent in 2009) to
the management of chronic ailments of the
elderly. There were 8,000 registered automobiles in 1900, but 26.8 million in 1930.
Ford’s Model T, introduced in 1908 at $950,
sold in 1923 for $269.
Gordon says two calamities — the Depression and World War II — fueled the
postwar boom: the Depression by speeding
unionization (hence, rising real wages and
declining work hours); the war by highpressure “productivity-enhancing learning” that, for example, manufactured a
bomber an hour at Michigan’s Willow Run
plant.
But the classic modernization trek from
rural conditions into sanitized urban life
and the entry of women into the workforce
were vast, unrepeatable advances. Today,
the inflation-adjusted median wage of
American males is lower than in 1969, and
median household income is lower than
when this century began. If the growth rate
since 1970 had matched that of 1920-1970,
instead of being one-third of it, per capita
gross domestic product in 2014 would have
been $97,300 instead of $50,600.
America’s entitlement state is buckling
beneath the pressure of an aging population retiring into Social Security and Medicare during chronically slow economic
growth.
Gordon doubts the “techno-optimists”
who think exotic developments — robots,
artificial intelligence, etc. — can match
what such by-now-banal developments as
electricity and the internal combustion
engine accomplished. There is, however,
no reason to expect that medical advances
have been exhausted.
And there are many reasons to believe
that the rapid expansion of regulatory, redistributive government, which can be reformed, has contributed to — it certainly
has coincided with — the onset of (relative)
economic anemia.
The “fatal conceit” (Friedrich Hayek’s
term) is the optimistic delusion that planners can manage economic growth by
substituting their expertise for the information generated by the billions of daily
interactions of a complex market society.
Gordon’s stimulating book expresses a
pessimist’s fatal conceit: the belief that we
know the future will be less creative than
the “special century.”
George Will writes for the Washington Post
Writers Group.
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OPINION
Europe’s challenge today: Fix it or lose it
BY DAVID IGNATIUS
WASHINGTON
e have the Europe we deserve,” admitted French
Prime Minister Manuel
Valls on Wednesday. The
question is how Europeans can build the
security structures they need.
The first requirement is solidarity, within each country and among the 28 nations
of the European Union. This begins with
better links with the Muslim communities
— the angry, alienated people at Europe’s
table. Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that’s only half of it. Muslims
need to embrace the obligations of European residence and citizenship.
What would this solidarity look like?
After Sept. 11, 2001, Muslims in America
by the thousands volunteered for the U.S.
military and intelligence agencies. They
despised the terrorist acts that had been
committed in their name by al-Qaida, and
wanted to show themselves and their fellow
citizens that they were loyal Americans.
European Muslims should step up now
in a similar way. In immigrant neighborhoods like Molenbeek in Brussels or the
“banlieues,” or suburbs, that surround
Paris, Muslim leaders who want change
should organize campaigns to enlist their
neighbors in the army, police and security
services. These leaders can create a new
social compact by showing their fellow
citizens that they are ashamed of what the
jihadi thugs have done and are unafraid of
retribution. European Muslims need to feel
ownership of security rather than viewing
the police as an occupying army.
The jihadis often emerge from a youthgang subculture of violence and intimidation. No wonder the Belgian authorities
stumbled for four months looking for Islamic State fugitive Salah Abdeslam. No
wonder they couldn’t find the suicide
bombers who struck Tuesday, four days
after Abdeslam’s arrest, even though they
suspected an attack was coming. Nobody
would talk to them. The community was
“deaf and dumb,” as the mobsters liked
to say about ethnic neighborhoods in
America.
The second requirement is fairness. The
European Union has largely been a project of the elites. The powerful companies
(and nations) have prospered. The weak
have suffered. When the bills came due,
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Policemen guard the outside of a house that was raided Friday in the suburb of Schaerbeek in Brussels.
the haves told the have nots to tighten their
belts. Should it surprise us that this arrogant system is cracking at the seams?
The Greeks may have exploited a system
that gave them a financial free ride, but the
Germans then insisted on imposing an impossible debt-repayment scheme that was
meant to teach the debtors a lesson. The
Germans should have known better: The
punitive repatriations plan imposed by the
allies after World War I created the bitter
payback of Nazism.
The third requirement is for Europe to
grow up about intelligence. Many Europeans seem to think that good intelligence is
created by immaculate conception rather
than through the hard and sometimes intrusive work of surveillance. The authorities often don’t mind if America does the
counterterrorist snooping, so long as they
don’t have to admit it to their publics.
Europeans don’t like to talk about intel-
ligence, and they often pretend their countries don’t spy. This immature approach
leaves them unable to demand accountability from the security services after
chronic intelligence failures like the ones
we have seen in France and Belgium. How
can you reform something if you won’t talk
honestly about how it works?
A fourth requirement is a trans-Atlantic
partnership that’s equal to the seriousness
of this crisis. All the alarm bells are ringing. The leaders of America and Europe
should meet in a crisis summit — Brussels
would be a good spot — and they should
stay until they have agreed on plans for collecting and sharing intelligence together,
so that citizens across Europe are safer.
Bureaucracy, a modern European specialty, is the enemy: To forge an alliance
that can succeed, Europeans must break
through national, regional and international barriers to fight a global adversary.
President Barack Obama, perhaps more
popular in Europe than in America, can
lead this trans-Atlantic partnership and
create a legacy that’s worthy of him.
The final requirement is to think ahead
about changes that will create better stability in the future. If it’s 1941 in terms
of the shock, it should be 1944 in terms
of planning for the future — devising the
post-crisis equivalents of the International
Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the
United Nations that can cope with the explosion of rage that has swept Muslim Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
It’s an interconnected problem, and the
solutions require shared, visionary ideas
about governance, economic development
and global tolerance.
Fix it or lose it: That’s the challenge today
for Europe. They won’t get it right without
American help. Now is the time to start.
David Ignatius writes for the Washington Post
Writers Group.
Why misuse special ops against the militants?
BY STEVEN P. BUCCI
I
n the wake of the attacks in Brussels,
the need to step up the fight against
the Islamic State group couldn’t be
clearer. So it’s discouraging, to say the
least, to see the Obama administration misusing our most elite military forces.
American special operations forces, including Navy SEALs and Army Rangers,
are designed to conduct high-end, politically charged warfare and do so better than
anyone in the world, which is what we need
against the Islamic State group. It took some
urging, but President Barack Obama has
finally started to heed the call to dispatch
these units. So what’s the problem?
The administration has ramped up the
use of special operations forces, yes, but it
has neglected another critical piece of the
puzzle: Specifically, we need a much more
robust air campaign to go with the elite
forces on the ground.
Special operations forces are known as
force multipliers who deliver big results
with small numbers because they provide
targets to aircraft, advise on mixes of munitions and provide accurate bomb-damage assessment.
These skills will have an effect in our
fight against the Islamic State group only
if we dramatically increase the number of
airstrikes we’re launching.
For the time being, coalition forces (almost all American) are making one to two
dozen sorties a day against the Islamic
State group. To a civilian, that may seem
like a lot. Trust me, it is not. In previous
air campaigns, the numbers were in the
hundreds.
A sortie involves a plane taking off, flying to a target area and returning. If one
looks closely, nearly 70 percent of the sorties are returning with their ordnance still
on board. They’re not dropping bombs.
This can be attributed to the ridiculously
restrictive rules of engagement imposed
by White House leadership. While there
are always going to be missions that get
waved off to protect against inordinate civilian casualties, strikes against the Islamic State group are not occurring because
our leaders don’t want to spill oil on sand.
In short, we’re not fighting the Islamic
State group as effectively as we can and
should be because the administration is
concerned about environmental effects.
That is ineffectual and unnecessary.
Another development has come to light
showcasing the misuse of our special operations assets. It seems that the command
in Iraq has been providing Russia with the
exact locations of American special operations units operating in Syria.
The reason for this breach of operations
security? So the Russians will not inadvertently target them with airstrikes.
To some, this may seem prudent — and
it would be if Russia were an ally. It is not.
Russia and its proxy, the regime of Syrian
President Bashar Assad, are striving to
find and kill the exact units our special operations forces are training and advising.
Does anyone think the information given
to the Russians will not be used to crush
the very forces our people are supporting?
If the Obama administration wants to
protect American soldiers from possible
Russian air attacks, it needs to step up
and tell the Russians that the U.S. will not
allow Russia to fly at all in the northern
and western parts of Syria, under threat of
retaliation. The Russians will understand
that sort of force protection.
Frankly, even if the Obama administration did do this, it is no longer clear that
this sort of response will be enough to stop
the Islamic State group.
The dribble of military antibiotic used so
far may only have built a supervirus that
cannot be stopped by anything but a much
larger response.
Exactly what President Barack Obama
fears most may be what he has created.
Steven P. Bucci is a former Army Special Forces
officer and top Pentagon official. This article was
originally written for The Heritage Foundation .
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Teacher let students
smoke pot during class
ALLEN — Police
VA GLEN
said a teacher in Virginia allowed students to smoke
THE CENSUS
3
The number of years a dog was missing before being reunited with his owners. Ayana Kelly said American pit bull
terrier Gucci disappeared from her yard in San Antonio, Texas, two weeks before they moved to Norfolk, Va. Kelly
said the family was devastated to leave without him. Two weeks ago, a San Antonio animal shelter notified Kelly’s
husband that Gucci was there. Kelly said Gucci is “the same big baby” after they were reunited.
marijuana during his shop class.
WRIC-TV reported that Domonic Leuzzi, 23, taught at the
Academy of Virginia Randolph, a
high school for academically and
behaviorally challenged students.
A school representative said he’s
no longer employed there or in
the Henrico County district.
Leuzzi faces three charges of
contributing to the delinquency
of a minor. According to court records, at least three teens smoked
under Leuzzi’s watch.
County police Lt. Chris Eley
said school administrators notified police after students reported the incident.
City cracking down
on diaperless horses
SELMA — The city
AL
of Selma is planning a
crackdown on what one councilman says is a big problem: horse
droppings.
The City Council passed a law
three years ago requiring horses to wear diapers when on city
streets, but Councilman Michael
Johnson said riders aren’t following the law.
Johnson said he doesn’t mind
people riding horses in the city of
20,000. But he’s bothered by the
smell and other sanitary problems
created by horses on city streets.
Police Chief John Brock said
the department will issue warnings for a first offense and citations for repeat offenders.
Cops: Burglary suspect
made himself at home
JASON G ETZ /AP
Make it rain
Representatives throw papers up in the air at the conclusion of the last day of the Georgia General Assembly at the Capitol in Atlanta, Friday.
— Police
said a Pennsylvania
PA COALDALE
burglary suspect made himself
right at home, using the bathroom and watching TV while the
woman who lived in the home
screamed at him to leave.
Online court records show Scott
F. Smith, 45, remains jailed on
burglary and defiant trespassing
charges in the March 14 incident.
Police said the woman was
watching TV and waiting for a
neighbor to bring her a newspaper when Smith walked into the
home uninvited. He walked past
her, used the bathroom, then went
into a bedroom for long enough
that she had time to call police.
When he emerged, he sat down
in her recliner and began watching TV until police arrived.
Pastry lures piglet
on interstate to safety
BLAIRSTOWN — Pastry helped save the life
of a young pot-bellied pig that was
abandoned on a busy highway in
New Jersey.
A motorist called the Barnyard
Sanctuary after seeing another
driver toss the animal on the side
of Interstate 80 on Wednesday.
Director Tamala Lester told
WNBC-TV the motorist stood
guard by the piglet for 45 minutes
until she could get to the scene.
Lester used a cherry Danish to
lure the animal closer and grabbed
NJ
its hind legs to take it to safety.
The piglet, named “Cherry,” is
recovering at the animal sanctuary in Blairstown and will be put
up for adoption.
Man crashes car after
finding Taco Bell closed
PITTSFIELD
MA
— Pittsfield police
charged a man they said got so
angry when he found out Taco
Bell was closed that he sped off in
his car, crashed into a free-standing ATM building and knocked
himself unconscious.
Police said Derrick LaForest
pulled up to the drive-thru at 1:30
a.m. Thursday.
The Berkshire Eagle reported
that after a worker told him the
restaurant was closed, he tore
away at high speed, struck a curb,
lost control, and smashed into the
building so hard that his vehicle’s
airbag’s deployed.
He was released on $500 bail
after pleading not guilty to reckless operation and vandalism.
Woman worked as
unlicensed attorney
PITTSBURGH — A
Pennsylvania woman
has been convicted of using forged
documents to pose as an estate
lawyer for a decade even though
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she didn’t have a law license.
A Huntingdon County judge
on Thursday convicted Kimberly
Kitchen, 45, on charges of forgery, unauthorized practice of law
and felony records tampering.
State prosecutors said Kitchen
fooled BMZ Law by forging a
law license, bar exam results,
an email showing she attended
Duquesne University law school
and a check for a state attorney
registration fee.
Kitchen handled estate planning for more than 30 clients and
even served as president of the
county bar association for a time.
Professor says ROTC
training terrorized her
GRAND FORKS — A
University of North Dakota English professor has caused
a stir by complaining about ROTC
cadet training on campus.
Heidi Czerwiec recently called
911 when she saw two men with
guns outside her office. She said
the training creates a “terrorized
environment.”
Czerwiec said she has nothing against the ROTC but that,
in the current climate of school
shootings, she thinks the training
should be done somewhere else.
Army Lt. Col. Clarence Carroll
said training is simulated, with
fake guns.
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Woman found dead in
hotel’s walk-in freezer
ATLANTA — A downtown Atlanta hotel said
it found no problems with the exit
door of a walk-in freezer where a
woman was found dead inside.
The Westin Peachtree Plaza
said in a statement that it conducted repeated tests of the door and
found that the door handle on the
freezer “worked perfectly” after
Carolyn Robinson, 61, was found
dead inside. Investigators believe
Robinson, a kitchen worker, spent
about 13 hours inside the freezer
before her body was found Tuesday morning.
GA
Police: Robber left
wallet with ID on scene
PANAMA CITY — Investigators said a robFL
ber helped them out when he
apparently dropped his own wallet with his identification in it as
he and two accomplices tried to
take money from men outside a
Florida Panhandle bar.
Devonte Levoris Pace, 28, was
arrested in Panama City on Tuesday following the armed robberies on Jan. 16.
The News Herald reported that
Pace and two other suspected robbers were captured on surveillance video robbing the men, who
were in a vehicle outside the bar.
According to Panama City police reports, the trio walked up
to the men, pulled a gun and demanded their wallets. About $600
in cash was stolen. The wallet left
behind helped police arrest Pace.
It wasn’t immediately known
whether Pace had an attorney to
contact for comment or whether
the other men had been arrested.
Man chooses to wear
sign over going to jail
GIRARD — A man
OH
has chosen to wear a
sign proclaiming he’s a thief rather than go to jail for theft in Ohio.
Greg Davenport, 43, of Liberty
Township, pleaded no contest this
month to a theft charge for stealing merchandise from a WalMart store in December.
A Girard Municipal Court
judge found Davenport guilty. But
he gave him the sentencing option of wearing a sign saying, “I
am a thief. I stole from WalMart”
or serving 30 days in jail.
Davenport has to wear the sign
in front of the store eight hours a
day for 10 days of his choosing.
Davenport said the sign is better than being in jail, and he just
wants to finish his punishment.
From wire reports
Sunday, March 27, 2016
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LIFESTYLE
Devotees of Star Wars drawn to vast, random collection
of memorabilia containing more than a half million items
BY SAM MCM ANIS
Unintentionally phallic Jar Jar Binks
candy lollipop
A pregnant George Lucas cast in
carbonite
tors willing — nay, eager — to shell
out $100 (mandatory $40 member
fee, then $60 for a tour) for viewy descriptive powers, which
ings that take place maybe four
I’d like to think are well-develtimes a month.
oped after years of pumping
Trust me when I say that, when
I’m thinking that this list, brow-raising
irony, fail utterly to convey the as it is, still doesn’t do Rancho Obi-Wan Rancho Obi-Wan adherents first
depth, breadth and sheer vertiginous vol- justice.
laid eyes on General (nee, Prinume of Star Wars ephemera on display at
Doesn’t begin to depict the meticulous- cess) Leia’s costume, or point
a converted chicken farm known as Ran- ness care, the reverence and irreverence, their smartphones at the animacho Obi-Wan here in the rolling Sonoma afforded to the Star Wars franchise through tronic band Figrin D’an and the
County hills.
these trinkets. Barely sheds any light, Modal Nodes from the Mos Eisley
Might as well not even try. Believe me, actually, on the psycho-social influence Cantina, or nearly genuflect at the
I’ve been sitting here staring at a blinking the movies have wrought, which comes taller-than-life-size mannequin of
cursor for 20 minutes. I’ve got nothing.
through loud and clear at a three-hour Darth Vader (codpiece copped from
OK, how about this? What say I just list a Rancho pilgrimage. Fails to fully capture the original costume) with red light
few of the more than 500,000 items — and the effect, deep and visceral and spiritual, saber aglow, the joy is palpable and the
growing, ever growing, with 2,000 cubic these sacred celluloid objects have on visi- fellow feeling genuine. Sequel through
feet of boxes yet to be sorted — belonging
prequel, this collecto uber-Star Wars fanatic Steve Sansweet,
tion has no equal.
and leave the rest to you? Mind you, this will
The entire complex
not even be the rare or especially valuable
is nothing less than a
memorabilia, merely a glimpse (the deep
labor of love brought
cuts, as it were) into a collection seemingly
to life by Sansweet,
as vast as a galaxy far, far, etc., etc.
a mere Wall Street
Cue the soaring John Williams score,
Journal
reporter
and here we go ...
when the franchise
began in 1977, but
Darth Vader toaster
soon so “Star Wars”
Lock of Chewbacca’s fur
struck that he par Yoda toilet paper, with the instruction:
layed his passion into
“Wipe, you will”
a job at Lucasfilm,
Action figure of Carrie Fisher’s bullfirst as head of “fan
dog, Gary
relations,” later add Wookiee IPA, craft beer, from
ing licensing to his
Denmark
ken. And he hordishly
Cream of Jawa soup can
retained everything
R-2 Mr. T-2, replete with Mohawk and
Star
Wars-related,
heavy gold rope chain
nothing too trivial,
CoverGirl “The Force Awakens” lipscavenged the sets
stick, in colors such as Droid and Dark
for discards and
Apprentice
trash cans for castoff
Docent Lucas Seastrom shows off a life-size Darth Vader at
Beavis & Butt-Head stormtroopers
ephemera.
Never-released (due to safety and li- Rancho Obi-Wan in Sonoma County, Calif.
General manager
ability issues) Rocket-Firing Boba Fett Ac- Upper right: Seastrom holds a statue of Yoda made on a 3-D
Anne Neumann, who
printer. It’s one of more than 500,000 items on display.
tion Figure
has the Sisyphean
task of cataloging all
that stuff, said Sansweet moved to Petaluma in 1998 for the
express purpose of sharing his vast collection with fellow Star Wars appreciators.
That, and he needed to be close to Lucas’
Skywalker Ranch in Nicasio.
There is so much to see and experience
that we don’t want to get bogged down in
Rancho Obi-Wan’s lengthy origin story.
Simply know that the man, from that fateful moment in 1977 when he fished out a
“Star Wars” press packet from a trash can
— placed there by a clueless Wall Street
Journal colleague — felt a force so strong
he had to share it far and wide in this galaxy. (He’s also turned Rancho Obi-Wan
into a nonprofit; it helps schools and community groups.)
Although Sansweet often gives the tour
himself, the duties on this day fell to Lucas
Seastrom. Named by his parents after a
certain Jedi master with the surname Skywalker, Seastrom’s knowledge and grasp of
Star Wars lore belies his tender 23 years.
Far from just pointing to various action figures and props and letting visitors gawk to
PHOTOS BY SAM MCM ANUS, SACRAMENTO BEE /TNS
their heart’s content, which, frankly, would
be enough for most people, Seastrom’s preThe animatronic band Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, from the Mos Eisley Cantina
sentation was an interactive, multimedia
scene in 1977’s “Star Wars,” now calls Rancho Obi-Wan home.
The Sacramento Bee
M
melange of stories and skits.
You’ll get a greeting from the wise and
wizened sculpture of Obi-Wan Kenobi,
with the voice of James Arnold Taylor, who
played the part in the “Clone Wars” animated series. He intones, in part: “You’ll
be seeing things beyond your imagination,
but your eyes can deceive you. Don’t trust
them. Stretch out with your feelings but
not with your hands.”
Later, at the entrance to the main gallery, Seastrom knocks on “John Williams’
door,” at which knock, the “Star Wars”
theme blazes to life and Seastrom dramatically flings open the door to a cornucopia of goodies. Finally, before entering
the newest wing, where many of the really
valuable mementos reside, visitors pass
a re-creation of the corridor of the rebel
blockade.
It’s all great fun, and probably a little
cheesy to the casual “Star Wars” fan, but it
was revelatory to those on the tour.
The Ruiz family seemingly smiled during the whole three hours. Friends Tyler
Scott and Chris Roberts began the tour
with sarcastic coolness intact. But by the
end, Scott was enthusing with genuine admiration about the limited-edition, mintconditioned “Return of the Jedi” speeder
bike.
By far the most entertaining were Michael Koidin, a 66-year-old pediatric
dentist from Lynn, Mass., and his son,
Matthew, 38.
When Seastrom asked if anyone in the
group was a collector of action figures,
Michael Koidin exhaled audibly. “Oh,” he
said, “I can tell stories.”
Matthew, to Seastrom, after Michael
waxed nostalgic about trying, in vain, to
collect the complete set of action figures
from the original trilogy: “Hypothetically:
Should a father buy a Star Wars toy for his
son and then not give it to him and put it in
the attic away from the son? Just asking.”
Seastrom, perhaps sensing an Oedipal
conflict as fraught as Vader and Luke’s,
wisely brushed off the question.
No need to go to the dark side, after
all. Not when all those lightsabers were
casting such an otherworldly glow on all
assembled.
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MUSIC
The Wild Feathers
Lonely Is a Lifetime (Warner Bros.)
The Wild Feathers amp up harmonies on sophomore album
BY K RISTIN M. H ALL
Associated Press
After six years touring the United
States coast-to-coast, the four-part rock
band The Wild Feathers still find themselves hanging out together at home in
Nashville.
“We actually really do love and really
like each other, which is bizarre,” said
singer and guitarist Ricky Young of his
bandmates Taylor Burns, Joel King and
Ben Dumas, who are all in their early
30s. “Our wives are like, ‘Why are you
hanging out with those guys?’ ”
As a band that features three singers, their self-titled debut album in 2013
recalled cosmic California rock like The
Eagles with their folk, acoustic harmony sound. But on their second album,
“Lonely is a Lifetime,” the band wrote
the songs during soundcheck, which
allowed them to plug in, amp up their
melodies and get a little wilder.
“We’re not really into the whole
Americana, country kind of fad that is
going on right now,” said Young. “We
just want to be a rock ’n’ roll band.”
In a recent interview with The Associated Press, the band talked about
getting along on the road, sounding like
Pink Floyd and recording in a church.
The answers have been edited for
brevity.
What’s the secret to staying friends
after years of living together on a tour
bus?
King: Nobody knows the trouble we’ve
seen, so nobody else can relate.
Burns: Doing it in a van and 200-plus
shows a year, just killing yourself, that’s
the time you would most want to kill
each other, just snap at each other. If
we made it through that . . . I don’t know,
maybe we’ll end up hating each other.
Young: We were old enough and
somewhat mature enough when we all
started doing this together that we got
a lot of that bad stuff out of our system.
That young, cocky, ‘I know what I am
doing.’ We are all very humble guys.
How do you write songs together as
a band?
Burns: One thing about us, we are
very democratic and open to a lot of
things. A lot of people will get very
protective of their songs and we all can,
too. But we know that like part of our
thing is the multiple singers. So we try
to leave space when we’re writing, or at
least I do, subconsciously. I am kinda
like, ‘OK, I am going to leave space for
someone to do something here,’ so it
becomes a Wild Feathers song.
One of the standout songs on the
album is a psychedelic jam that is over
eight minutes long. What inspired you
on that one?
Young: We were actually unapologetically referencing a lot of Pink Floyd and
everyone is like, ‘It sounds like Pink
Floyd,’ and we’re like, ‘Yeah, we know.’
King: Good. Nobody sounds like Pink
Floyd these days.
Young: Once we fell into the pocket
and we got confident with it, it kind of
took on a life of its own in the studio.
That’s one of the only songs we did live
completely, which is the hardest one
because it’s so much work.
Producer Jay Joyce recorded the
album at his Nashville studio, which
he converted from an old church.
What was that like?
Burns: It’s got this amazing live room,
pretty much where the congregation
would sit. And we recorded from the
pulpit on a few songs, like you’re looking
out. And there’s a huge cross behind
you . . . It didn’t feel like this pretentious,
fancy recording studio, even though it
like has all the things you could ever
possibly want. It just felt really homey
and vibey for us.
The Wild Feathers, from left: Ben Dumas, Ricky Young, Taylor Burns and Joel King.
FRANK M ADDOCKS/Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
Maybe The Wild Feathers
aren’t so wild after all.
The Nashville quartet’s
eponymous debut was a raucous
Americana affair — part Southern rock swagger, part alt-country cool.
For their sophomore outing,
“Lonely Is a Lifetime,” the band
is far more focused and radiofriendly, like when Kings of Leon
entered their “Use Somebody”
period. And there is no shortage
of radio-ready tracks here.
“Sleepers” channels early
Coldplay with its chiming guitar
and massive chorus, creating a
multi-format singalong. The way
Taylor Burns, Ricky Young and
Joel King share vocals on “Leave
Your Light On” calls to mind
recent Goo Goo Dolls hits.
The Wild Feathers expand
their sound in other directions
as well. The title track, with
its sweet harmonies and spare
instrumentation, gives the album
artistic heft, while the carefree
“Happy Again” is alt-country
that’s shaggier than ever, as if it
leapt off Wilco’s genre-defying
debut.
“Overnight,” the album’s first
single, directs that energy in a
catchier rock direction, showing
how the band is ready to forge its
own path with all its new influences in tow.
— Glenn Gamboa
Newsday
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MUSIC
Gwen Stefani digs into relationships
old and new on first album in 10 years
BY A LLISON STEWART
Special To The Washington Post
G REG A LLEN,
INVISION /AP
Gwen Stefani has spent her entire career as a pop star writing
songs about boyfriend/husband/ex-husband Gavin Rossdale. Even
the happy songs weren’t happy: They often carried an undercurrent
of suspicion and dread, as if Stefani expected Rossdale might explode
their domestic bliss at any moment.
If you believe the tabloids — and Stefani’s dishy, soul-baring new
album strongly implies that you should — Rossdale eventually did,
taking up with the couple’s nanny and bringing about the end of their
13-year marriage last summer. Stefani’s first solo album in a decade
is an examination of the aftermath. It’s the stock-taking after the
slow-motion car accident is over and everybody survived. Is it any
wonder she sounds so relieved?
“This Is What the Truth Feels Like” is a solid pop album whose
occasionally giddy effortlessness belies its herculean task: It makes
Stefani, a 46-year-old, divorced mother of three who hasn’t released
a solo album since George W. Bush was president, sound like a
credible and contemporary pop star, while always sounding recognizably like the best version of herself.
A team of writers and producers led by Semi Precious Weapons’ Justin Tranter (one of the architects of Justin Bieber’s
“Sorry”) took shopworn Stefani-isms — the hiccupy, fidgety, babyvoiced ska rhythms familiar to fans of her flagship band No Doubt,
the pop stomp of her solo hit “Hollaback Girl” — and seeded them
with subtle EDM and disco-pop flourishes.
It almost always works. Songs like “Where Would I Be?,” a weirdly
irresistible mix of “The Sweet Escape”-era Stefani and the Andrews
Sisters, rank among her finest. Several stern finger-wags presumably aimed at Rossdale (the spoke-sung “Red Flags” and “Naughty,”
similar and forgettable) seem hollow but not alien.
The best thing about “Truth” is the simplest: It sounds like Stefani.
Like something she actually made. There are no forays into acid
house, no DJs or country duets or any other modernizing attempts
that are the surest way to make a Gen X diva sound old and lost.
“Truth” examines the dissolution of Stefani’s old relationship and
the arrival of her new one, with Blake Shelton, her fellow coach on
“The Voice,” in almost forensic detail. If Stefani’s romantic life is a
car wreck, listeners are drivers on the highway, encouraged to slow
down and gape. Wondering about Rossdale? He’s a shame-addicted
philanderer with mommy issues (“You did it, you did it,” Stefani
chides on the cringe-y “Naughty.” “And then you hid it, you hid it”).
Shelton? A noble bringer of joy, a reviver of fairy tales. His romance
with Stefani, which had until now seemed like a sweet but incredibly
convenient plot device, is the impetus for some of the album’s best
songs. “Make Me Like You” is a springy piece of ’90s-minded cotton
candy whose resemblance to the Cardigans’ “Lovefool” has been
duly noted. If Gwake is a showmance, they’re really putting their
backs into it.
Stefani herself is seen here only through the prism of her
relationships (“I am broken / I am insecure / Complicated,”
she sings on the closing ballad “Rare.” “I get nervous /
You won’t love me back”). Stefani, listed as lead writer
on every track, seems unburdened by the usual things
women worry about in their 40s — their careers,
motherhood, aging, ISIS. She still sounds like a
teenager flipping through her diary entries, her only
use as a vessel for romance with the Right Boy.
“Maybe I deserve this boy/After all that I’ve been
through,” Stefani sings, with the blinkered hopefulness of someone who imagines Blake Shelton
is a good bet for long-term stability.
The new relationship bliss that underpins
much of “Truth” is nice to behold: Stefani is
one of the few celebrities almost everyone
vaguely wants to see happy, like Sandra
Bullock, or the pope. But in an era overstuffed with great examples of female
empowerment, when Bjork’s bravura
divorce chronicle “Vulnicura” exists,
when even Taylor Swift is woke,
Stefani’s narrative — devastated
by one boy, saved by another
— limits her, dates her, even as it
remains the realest link to her
past.
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VIDEO GAMES
‘Zelda’ even better with age
High-def remaster of game’s original concept feels like an old friend
BY M ICHAEL THOMSEN
slingshot to fight insect infestation, and
learning to fish to feed a neighbor’s cat.
The game, and Link’s heroic journey, are
ideo games are excellent at ocframed by these menial tasks — simple,
cupying our time, but it’s rare for
repetitive labors of collective living.
them to keep us company. They
Taking place somewhere between adoare designed to feed obsession,
lescence and adulthood, Link’s struggle to
swallowing hundreds of hours in minuteaccept the rite of working for the betterlong increments in an effort to reach some ment of another is accompanied by a pulp
unreachable point of mastery. It’s rare for
metaphor about transformation — losing
a game to feel like a comfort one can dip
oneself for another. He magically discovinto for a few moments of companionship.
ers the ability to transform into a wolf
And the best games are able to offer that
after stumbling
comforting companionship without needon an alternate
ing to be played repeatedly.
dimension called
When I started “The Legend of Zelda:
the Twilight
Twilight Princess HD,” it had been almost
Realm.
10 years since I’d last played it, but I’d
Trouble in the
never really stopped thinking about it. It
Twilight Realm
reappeared like a familiar face, creased
has ripped
with age but also timeless, its beauty
through the
easier to see without the facade of hype
Hyrule, incapaciand novelty.
tating the land’s
A high-definition remaster of the
three guardoriginal Gamecube and Wii version of the
ian spirits and
game, “Twilight Princess HD” embraces
leaving Princess
the idea of companionship from the begin- Zelda locked in an amber-encased tower
ning. The elven hero Link is an orphan
surrounded by globular shadow monsters
living in a hollowed-out tree just outside
marked with glowing red and turquoise
a small forest village. He has no blood
glyphs. Riding on Link’s back is a yelrelatives, but his neighbors have become
low-eyed imp named Midna, an outcast
his family. Link begins not with
from the Twilight Realm. Midna
heroics but manual labor,
needs Link’s help to reassemble a
helping the villagTwilight tripartite artifact that
ers herd goats,
was used to corrupt Hyrule’s
scavenging
spirit guardians.
for rupees
The idea of turning into a beast,
to buy a
ridden by an untrustworthy imp
woman who is primarily
interested in insulting
your experience and
competence reimagines male pubescent
anxiety as a mythological epic.
The structures of duality and dependence run
through the game. Midna
depends on Link to restore her
place in the Twilight Realm.
He depends on her to return
to human form. The various
villages of Hyrule depend on
them both to revive their patron
spirit, which in turn requires
Link to explore a puzzle-filled
dungeon and acquire a tool that
seems to be the key to unlocking every blocked path.
Like previous “Zelda”
games, “Twilight Princess” takes the form
of an open world,
but trying to put
this freedom
into practice is
often pointless.
The spoils amount to only a
few extra rupees or collectible stamp items which have
no in-game function. The
landscape feels barren when
you step away from the main
narrative line, with some
opportunity to absorb some
incremental bits of history
from peeking around
Link the elf’s heroic journey through Hyrule
and the Twilight Realm are revisited in “The
corners or attempting to
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD.”
climb mountaintops. The
Special to The Washington Post
V
Nintendo photos
Above: Link magically discovers the ability to transform into a wolf in “The Legend of
Zelda: Twilight Princess HD.” Riding on his back is an imp named Midna.
open-world structure effectively works to
draw players back to the main narrative
path, encouraging them to trust the guiding hand of the designers.
The game is never difficult. All of its
puzzles and combat sequences feel like
being handed a Rubik’s Cube that’s two
twists away from being solved. For play
purists, who come to games for tactical
complexity, this kind of minimal resistance will seem infantile. And it is, but it’s
an approach to design that makes every
act seem both revolutionary and easily attainable, like a toddler discovering he can
stand for the first time or realizing it is
the motion of his own hand that causes his
rattle to make its peppered burst of sound.
One of the most regrettable aspects of
“Twilight Princess HD” is its omission of
the original’s motion controls, which had
players swinging the candy bar-sized Wii
remote as if it were a sword while using
its pointer function to make pinpoint shots
with the bow and arrow and hookshot. The
Many more staff-written game reviews at stripes.com/games
original’s motion controls were shallow
gimmicks, but Nintendo is often at its best
when balancing between cheap technical
trickery and the genuine delights that can
come from them. The act of swinging a
remote instead of just pressing a button
opens up new contemplative space for
players to think about what is happening
on the screen and in their own hands.
When I first played “Twilight” in 2006,
I loved Link’s journey — leaving home
and coming back, while defining himself
more thoroughly through the experience. Returning to it years later, I found
“Twilight Princess” to be even better
than when it was first released. It felt like
coming home to one’s childhood bedroom,
revealing the impermanence of “home”
while affirming the life-giving importance
of having such shelters to return to from
time to time.
Platform: Wii U
Official website: zelda.com/twilightprincess-hd
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NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
GUNSTON STREET
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GADGETS & CHARTS
GADGET WATCH
Vintage-inspired turntable spins vinyl in style
BY GREGG ELLMAN
Tribune News Service
L
MELISSA REPKO, DALLAS MORNING NEWS/TNS
A 3-D printer makes tiny pizzas in the shape of the United States at
South by Southwest’s trade show on March 13 in Austin, Texas.
Printable food could
be on the menu soon
BY M ELISSA R EPKO
The Dallas Morning News
I
magine printing your dinner after a long day of work.
That could happen in
kitchens across the U.S. in
the next two to three years, says
Houston inventor Anjan Contractor. The 36-year-old mechanical
engineer designed a 3-D printer
that makes pizza, chocolate,
cupcakes and cinnamon rolls
in minutes. He envisions a day
when 3-D printers are typical
kitchen appliances, along with
microwaves and refrigerators.
Contractor showed off his 3-D
printer prototype recently at
South by Southwest’s trade show
in Austin. He printed off tiny
pizzas in the shape of the U.S. for
attendees of the film, music and
interactive festival.
“Many people ask me, ‘Can
you eat this?’ ” he said. “It’s no
different than a robot making
food.”
Contractor has been working on 3-D printers for years,
playing with air pressure levels
and sometimes spraying liquid
chocolate all over his house.
He won a $125,000 grant from
NASA in 2012 after developing a
3-D printer that turned dehydrated food particles into food with
flavor and texture. The printer
could be used to feed astronauts
who go on deep-space missions,
such as Mars.
His company is called BeeHex, a name inspired by nature’s
3-D printers — bees that make
their hives layer by layer.
His 3-D printer uses air pressure to push three ingredients
(such as dough, cheese and
tomato sauce) though narrow
nozzles and create food layer by
layer. The food must be cooked
in an oven after it’s printed,
but Contractor is working on a
printer that would create the
food and bake it.
Now, he’s working on a printer
that could be used in people’s
kitchens. BeeHex is launching
a Kickstarter campaign to fund
the prototype, which would print
14-inch pizzas. It will ship pizzas
to people who donated to the
fundraising campaign.
Contractor said he hopes the
pizzas show people that printed
food can be delicious. He said
he’d like to see his printer go
head-to-head with celebrity chefs
in cooking competitions.
ike many music fans, my conversion 25
years ago to CDs and then digital music
files put an end to my vinyl listening.
But I could never part with my collection, so it has moved around the country with
me — there’s always a spot for the milk crate of
records in a closet.
My collection came to life recently after testing
the Crosley C200 turntable.
There’s a quick setup: attaching a few parts
and pieces; connecting the needle (AudioTechnica magnetic cartridge); balancing it to
rest on the vinyl properly. A damped die-cast
aluminum platter and felt slip mat for the records to sit on drop into place.
This takes just minutes, along with connecting
the included RCA cables to your existing receiver.
Once connected and playing, I loved the sound
of the needle dropping down to play along with
the clean static noise you get from this type of
music hardware.
I actually found myself flipping through my
records thinking about what would be the best
choice for a first listen. The winner was Boston’s
debut album, which to this day is still on my
iTunes playlist.
Functionally, it’s a direct drive, high-torque
motor with a built-in preamp, has a start stop
button, an adjustable counter-weight balanced,
hydraulic lift control arm and plays 33 1/3 and 45
RPM records (with the included adapter).
One thing I regret is decades ago I shed my 45
collection, so much to my disappointment, the
45RPM adapter sat unused.
As for the appearance, I really like how Crosley
kept a vintage look, while using a matte black finish to add a touch of modern.
Online: crosleyradio.com; $279
Moshi’s iGlaze Ion two-piece
battery case for the iPhone 6/6s
is the answer for those who stay
away from smartphone battery
cases to avoid the excess bulk
and weight. This case is made
up of two pieces, which you
use as needed.
Your phone sits in an attractive and thin profile case, but
when you need the battery
boost, you can attach the outer
charging case.
Inside is a 2,700 mAh battery, which connects to the
lightning port on the iPhone
and charges while your
Moshi’s iGlaze Ion battery
case features two pieces,
which you use as needed.
Moshi/TNS
C ROSLEY R ADIO/TNS
The Crosley C200 turntable enables vinyl geeks
to dust off their collections and listen in style.
phone is still on your desk or held up to your ear
on a call.
You can keep the battery attached at all times
or remove it to eliminate some bulk and weight
when it’s not needed.
The battery charges from any USB power
source.
Online: moshi.com; $99.95
Pelican’s
IP68 Marine
waterproof
case makes
for another great
iPhone accessory.
I don’t
usually like
to put my
iPhone in
water, but
since I’m a
big fan of Pelican,
what the heck. It’s
promoted to withstand
being submerged at a depth
of two meters for up to 30
minutes.
I didn’t go that far, but the
PELIC AN /TN
S
product did bob a few minutes
in my kitchen sink, and it worked to perfection.
Along with the waterproof features, it keeps
your phone dust- and dirt-free. It’s constructed
with durable impact-absorbing materials and
military standards of advanced shock protection
for drops and impact.
The scratch-resistant coated protector for the
LCD is crystal clear for viewing and keeps the
touchscreen fully functional.
Online: Pelican.com; $79.95 for the iPhone6/6S
and Galaxy S6, $89.95 for the iPhone 6 Plus and
6S Plus
ITUNES MUSIC
SPOTIFY MUSIC ITUNES MOVIES VIDEO GAMES
The top 10 songs on iTunes for the
week ending Mar. 17:
The most streamed tracks on Spotify
from March 11-17:
The top 10 movies on iTunes for the
week ending Mar. 20:
Game Informer ranks the Top 10 Wii U
games for March:
The top iPhone apps for the week ending Mar. 20:
1. “7 Years,” Lukas Graham
2. “Dangerous Woman,” Ariana
Grande
3. “NO,” Meghan Trainor
4. “Work” (feat. Drake), Rihanna
5. “My House,” Flo Rida
6. “Stressed Out,” twenty one pilots
7. “PILLOWTALK,” ZAYN
8. “I Took a Pill in Ibiza,” Mike Posner
9. “Love Yourself,” Justin Bieber
10. “YOUTH,” Troye Sivan
1. “Work” (feat. Drake), Rihanna
2. “PILLOWTALK,” ZAYN
3. “Me, Myself & I,” G-Eazy, Bebe
Rexha
4. “7 Years,” Lukas Graham
5. “I Took a Pill in Ibiza,” Mike Posner
6. “Work from Home,” Fifth Harmony
7. “Love Yourself,” Justin Bieber
8. “My House,” Flo Rida
9. “Stressed Out,” twenty one pilots
1. “The Big Short”
2. “Sisters”
3. “The Hateful
Eight”
4. “Brooklyn”
5. “Creed”
6. “Spotlight”
7. “Spectre”
8. “The Hunger
Games: Mockingjay — Part 2”
9. “Alvin and the
Chipmunks: The Road Chip”
10. “Point Break” (2015)
1. “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight
Princess HD,” Nintendo
2. “Super Mario Maker,” Nintendo
3. “Yoshi’s Woolly World,” Nintendo
4. “Splatoon,” Nintendo
5. “Minecraft: Story Mode _ Episode
1: The Order of the Stone,” Telltale
Games
6. “Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows,” Yacht Club Games
7. “Lego Dimensions,” Warner Bros.
8. “Fast Racing Neo,” Shin’en
9. “ Minecraft: Wii U Edition,” Mojang
10. “Xenoblade Chronicles X,” Nintendo
1. Face Swap Live — Switch faces with
friends & photos in live video
2. Minecraft: Pocket Edition
3. Heads Up!
4. Facetune
5. Geometry Dash
6. Goat Simulator
7. Bloons TD 5
8. Akinator the Genie
9. NBA 2K16
10. Please, Don’t Touch Anything
— Compiled by AP
10. “Roses,” The Chainsmokers
— Compiled by AP
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
Domino’s has robot delivery in Australia
BY M ATT MCFARLAND
The Washington Post
Domino’s latest “deliveryman”
stands 3 feet tall and doesn’t need
to be tipped. It has ferried pizzas
in Brisbane, Australia, at a top
speed of 12 mph, and the company’s Australian master franchise
said it’s excited for what could
come next.
“We have a relentless passion
to push the boundaries of what’s
possible with pizza delivery,” said
Michael Gillespie, chief digital
officer for Domino’s in Australia.
“As we get further, it’s not hard to
believe that we might have a store
with a couple of [robots] that are
doing deliveries.”
Domino’s has started using a
robotic cart named DRU, which
stands for Domino’s Robotic Unit,
to deliver its offerings. So far,
Domino’s has only one DRU. The
prototype was developed with
an Australian startup, Marathon
Robotics.
The DRU, pronounced Drew,
drives on bike paths and side-
Courtesy of Domino’s Pizza
Domino’s Australia has developed a prototype model for a selfdriving robot that can deliver hot food and cold drinks right to your
door.
walks to find the most efficient,
fastest route. Gillespie pointed
to its ability to circumvent heavy
traffic as a key advantage over vehicles. DRU is not being used on
roadways, and legal approval is a
hurdle.
“We need to work with government to change regulations,” Gillespie said. “Working with them
is hopefully going to push new
frontiers and new boundaries that
people would’ve thought weren’t
possible for many years to come.”
The Australian master fran-
chisee for Domino’s, which has
stores in six other countries, has
already discussed its robotic deliveryman with the New Zealand
government.
Gillespie said he was excited
with results of tests because people were willing to walk out of
their home, meet DRU on the sidewalk and engage with it.
DRU has a compartment that
pops open, capable of holding what
Domino’s describes as an average
order of pizza, sides and drinks.
DRU is powered by an electric
motor that lasts for 12 miles. DRU
sends a text message to alert customers when it has arrived.
Gillespie said there are no plans
to replace all other forms of delivery with DRU in the near future.
He views the robot as a complement to its deliveries in cars and
via bicycles. Asked whether delivery drivers should be concerned
about their jobs, Gillespie said
DRU will create many new jobs
for humans, including maintaining a fleet of the delivery vehicles
and loading pizzas into DRU.
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (March 28) ..................... $1.1472
Dollar buys (March 28) .................... €0.8717
British pound (March 28) .................... $1.45
Japanese yen (March 28).................. 110.00
South Korean won (March 28)......1,140.00
Commercial rates
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770
British pound ..................................... $1.4138
Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3279
China (Yuan) ........................................6.5066
Denmark (Krone) ................................6.6764
Egypt (Pound) ......................................8.8698
Euro ........................................ $1.1166/0.8956
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7579
Hungary (Forint) .................................280.86
Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.8364
Japan (Yen)........................................... 113.15
Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3022
Norway (Krone) ...................................8.4802
Philippines (Peso).................................46.43
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.82
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7512
Singapore (Dollar) .............................. 1.3713
South Korea (Won) ..........................1,169.24
Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9775
Thailand (Baht) .....................................35.27
Turkey (Lira) .........................................2.8760
(Military exchange rates are those
available to customers at military banking
facilities in the country of issuance
for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For
nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e.,
purchasing British pounds in Germany),
check with your local military banking
facility. Commercial rates are interbank
rates provided for reference when buying
currency. All figures are foreign currencies
to one dollar, except for the British pound,
which is represented in dollars-to-pound,
and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)
INTEREST RATES
Prime rate ................................................ 3.50
Discount rate .......................................... 1.00
Federal funds market rate ................... 0.36
3-month bill ............................................. 0.28
30-year bond ........................................... 2.67
WEATHER OUTLOOK
SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
MONDAY IN THE PACIFIC
SUNDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
50/37
Kabul
64/39
Baghdad
74/58
Seoul
57/33
Kandahar
71/45
Kuwait
City
88/69
Bahrain
81/70
Doha
83/68
Riyadh
98/71
Brussels
57/37
Lajes,
Azores
57/51
Ramstein
55/39
Stuttgart
55/39
Iwakuni
57/39
Sasebo
56/45
Guam
86/77
Pápa
55/40
Aviano/
Vicenza
55/41
Naples
59/47
Morón
66/48
Sigonella
59/44
Rota
63/53
Djibouti
87/78
Tokyo
58/44
Osan
56/39 Busan
59/39
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
53/42
Okinawa
63/55
The weather is provided by the
American Forces Network Weather Center,
2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
59/47
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Lo: Fri., -4, Antigo, Wis.
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SCOREBOARD
Sports
on AFN
Go to the American Forces
Network website for the most
up-to-date TV schedules.
myafn.net
Tennis
Miami Open
Friday
At The Tennis Center at Crandon Park
Key Biscayne, Fla.
Purse: Men, $6.13 million (Masters
1000); Women, $6.13 million (Premier)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
Men
First Round
Tomas Berdych (7), Czech Republic,
def. Rajeev Ram, United States, walkover.
Marin Cilic (11), Croatia, def. Dusan
Lajovic, Serbia, 6-4, 6-1.
Dominic Thiem (14), Austria, def. Sam
Groth, Australia, 7-5, 6-2.
Lucas Pouille, France, def. Guillermo
Garcia-Lopez (32), Spain, 6-2, 6-4.
David Ferrer (8), Spain, def. Taylor
Fritz, United States, 7-6 (6), 6-1.
Yoshihito Nishioka, Japan, def. Feliciano Lopez (21), Spain, 6-4, 6-4.
Gilles Simon (18), France, def. Juan
Monaco, Argentina, 7-5, 6-1.
David Goffin (15), Belgium, def. Marcel
Granollers, Spain, 6-4, 6-4.
Benoit Paire (20), France, def. Mikhail
Youzhny, Russia, 6-3, 6-4.
Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, def. Juan
Martin del Potro, Argentina, 6-4, 6-4.
Fernando Verdasco, Spain, def. Jeremy
Chardy (28), France, 6-4, 6-4.
Joao Sousa (33), Portugal, def. Vasek
Pospisil, Canada, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Steve Johnson (31), United States, def.
Alexander Zverev, Germany, 7-6 (9), 7-6
(3).
Viktor Troicki (19), Serbia, def. Inigo
Cervantes, Spain, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (9), 7-6 (3).
Richard Gasquet (10), France, def. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-4, 6-4.
Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Kyle
Edmund, Britain, 6-3, 6-3.
Tomas Berdych (7), Czech Republic,
def. Rajeev Ram, United States, walkover.
Women
Second Round
Angelique Kerber (2), Germany, def.
Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, 6-1,
6-1.
Naomi Osaka, Japan, def. Sara Errani
(14), Italy, 6-1, 6-3.
Timea Babos, Hungary, def. Karolina
Pliskova (17), Czech Republic, 5-7, 6-2,
7-6 (0).
Magda Linette, Poland, def. Jelena
Jankovic (18), Serbia, 1-0, retired.
Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (25), Russia, 6-1,
4-6, 6-1.
Nicole Gibbs, United States, def. Kristina Mladenovic (27), France, 6-2, 6-4.
Garbine Muguruza (4), Spain, def.
Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, 6-7 (3), 63, 7-5.
Monica Niculescu (32), Romania, def.
Peng Shuai, China, 6-1, 3-6, 6-0.
Coco Vandeweghe, United States, def.
Carla Suarez Navarro (6), Spain, 6-4, 6-2.
Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, def.
Sabine Lisicki (29), Germany, 6-4, 1-6, 76 (2).
Madison Keys (22), United States, def.
Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, 6-4, 6-2.
Kristyna Pliskova, Czech Republic,
def. Belinda Bencic (7), Switzerland, 4-1,
retired.
Roberta Vinci (9), Italy, def. Lucie Hradecka, Czech Republic, 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5).
Elena Vesnina, Russia, def. Venus Williams (10), United States, 6-0, 6-7 (5), 6-2.
Johanna Konta (24), Britain, def. Danka Kovinic, Montenegro, 6-4, 6-2.
Victoria Azarenka (13), Belarus, def.
Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, 6-2, 6-4.
College basketball
EAST
Houghton 12, Utica 1
NYIT 6-1, Fairleigh Dickinson 2-11
Pittsburgh 5, Boston College 0
SOUTH
Asbury 3-5, Ohio Christian 1-1
Austin Peay 10, Murray St. 4
Barton 9, Southern Wesleyan 2
Berry 7-2, Rhodes 2-0
Campbellsville 8, Georgetown (Ky.) 0
Carson-Newman 12, Coker 4
Centre 5, Oglethorpe 3
Charleston Southern 18, Campbell 7
Evansville 4, E. Kentucky 0
Florida 12, Kentucky 5
Florida St. 8, NC State 5
Hendrix 3, Sewanee 2
High Point 4, Winthrop 2
Kentucky St. 15-12, Lane 14-2, 1st
game, 8 innings
King (Tenn.) 9, Limestone 4
Lincoln Memorial 6, Davis & Elkins 3
Lindsey Wilson 4, Cumberlands 3, 10
innings
Lipscomb 7, Mississippi Valley St. 1
Longwood 5, Radford 4
LSU Alexandria 10-1, Texas A&M Tex-
College hockey
Deals
Dell Match Play
NCAA Division I Tournament
Friday’s transactions
Semifinals
At New York
Tuesday, March 29
Valparaiso (29-6) vs. BYU (26-10)
George Washington (26-10) vs. San Diego State (28-9)
Championship
Thursday, March 31
Semifinal winners
World Golf Championships
At Austin Country Club
Austin, Texas
Yardage: 7,703. Par: 71
Third round
Friday
(Seedings in parentheses)
Branden Grace (11), South Africa, def.
Russell Knox (32), Scotland, 5 and 4.
Chris Kirk (54), United States, def. David
Lingmerth (38), 3 and 2.
Bill Haas (30), United States, def. Adam
Scott (6), Australia, 1 up.
Thomas Pieters (55), Belgium, def. Chris
Wood (41), England, 3 and 2.
Zach Johnson (14), United States, def.
Shane Lowry (24), Ireland, 4 and 3.
Martin Kaymer (44), Germany, def. Marcus Fraser (60), Australia, 4 and 3.
Rory McIlroy (3), Northern Ireland, halved
with Kevin Na (26), United States.
Thorbjorn Olesen (64), Denmark, def.
Smylie Kaufman (46), United States, 2 and 1.
Danny Willett (10), England, def. Brooks
Koepka (18), United States, 4 and 3.
Jaco Van Zyl (50), South Africa, def. Billy
Horschel (40), United States, 2 and 1.
Matt Kuchar (28), United States, def. Justin Rose (7), England, 3 and 2.
Anirban Lahiri (48), India, def. Fabian Gomez (57), Argentina, 4 and 2.
Brandt Snedeker (15), United States, def.
Charl Schwartzel (19), South Africa, 5 and 3.
Charley Hoffman (56), United States, def.
Danny Lee (34), New Zealand, 4 and 2.
Jason Day (2), Australia, def. Paul Casey
(23), England, 6 holes (retired).
Thongchai Jaidee (36), Thailand, halved
with Graeme McDowell (62), Northern Ireland.
Hideki Matsuyama (12), Japan, def. Kevin
Kisner (20), United States, 3 and 2.
Soren Kjeldsen (43), Denmark, halved
with. Rafa Cabrera-Bello (52), Spain.
Rickie Fowler (5) halved with Byeong-Hun
An (27), South Korea.
Scott Piercy (47), United States, def. Jason
Dufner (58), United States, 1 up.
Sergio Garcia (13), Spain, def. Marc Leishman (25), Australia, 5 and 4.
Ryan Moore (45), United States, def. Lee
Westwood (59), England, 3 and 1..
J.B. Holmes (21), United States, def. Bubba
Watson (4), United States, 1 up.
Patton Kizzire (63), United States, def.
Emiliano Grillo (33), Argentina, 2 up.
Patrick Reed (9), United States, def. Phil
Mickelson (17), United States, 5 and 4.
Matthew Fitzpatrick (42), England, def.
Daniel Berger (53), United States. (forfeit)
Dustin Johnson (8), United States, def.
Jimmy Walker (22), United States, 2 and 1.
Kiradech Aphibarnrat (37), Thailand, def.
Robert Streb (49), United States, 1 up.
Louis Oosthuizen (16), South Africa, def.
Andy Sullivan (29), England, 4 and 2.
Bernd Wiesberger (35), Austria, halved
with Matt Jones (61), Australia.
Jordan Spieth (1), United States, def. Justin Thomas (31), United States, 3 and 2.
Jamie Donaldson (51), Wales, vs. Victor
Dubuisson (39), France, 1 up.
MIDWEST REGIONAL
At Cincinnati
First Round
Friday, March 25
North Dakota 6, Northeastern 2
Michigan 3, Notre Dame 2, OT
Regional Championship
Saturday, March 26
North Dakota (31-6-4) vs. Michigan
(25-7-5)
NORTHEAST REGIONAL
At Worcester, Mass.
First Round
Friday, March 25
Minnesota-Duluth 2, Providence 1, 2OT
Boston College 4, Harvard 1
Regional Championship
Saturday, March 26
Minnesota-Duluth (19-15-5) vs. Boston
College (27-7-5)
WEST REGIONAL
At St. Paul, Minn.
First Round
Saturday, March 26
St. Cloud State (31-8-1) vs. Ferris State
(19-14-6)
Denver (23-9-6) vs. Boston U. (21-12-5)
Regional Championship
Sunday, March 27
St. Cloud State-Ferris State winner vs.
Denver-Boston U. winner
EAST REGIONAL
At Albany, N.Y.
First Round
Saturday, March 26
Quinnipiac (29-3-7) vs. RIT (18-14-6)
Massachussets-Lowell (25-9-5) vs.
Yale (19-8-4)
Sunday, March 27
Quinnipiac-RIT winner vs. Massachussets-Lowell/Yale winner
FROZEN FOUR
At Tampa, Fla.
Semifinals
Thursday, April 7
East champion vs. Northeast champion
West champion vs. Midwest champion
Championship
Saturday, April 9
East-Northeast winner vs. West-Midwest winner
BASEBALL
Major League Baseball
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF
BASEBALL — Suspended Cincinnati minor league RHP Jose Veras (DSL) 72
games following a positive test for metabolites of Stanozolol and free agent
minor league RHP Tanner Kiest 50 games
after a second positive test for a drug
of abuse, both violations of the Minor
League Drug Prevention and Treatment
Program.
American League
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned INF
Jesus Aguilar to Columbus (IL).
HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned LHP
Kevin Chapman and RHP Jandel Gustave
to Fresno (PCL). Granted LHP Neal Cotts
his unconditional release.
TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned RHP Chi
Chi Gonzalez to Round Rock (PCL). Assigned RHP Nick Tepesch and 1B/C Brett
Nicholas to minor league camp.
National League
CHICAGO CUBS — Assigned RHPs
Brandon Gomes, Jean Machi and Ryan
Williams; INFs Jesus Guzman and Kris
Negron; and OFs Albert Almora, John
Andreoli, Matt Murton and Juan Perez to
their minor league camp.
COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned RHP
David Hale to Albuquerque (PCL). Optioned RHP David Hale to their minor
league camp. Reassigned RHP Nelson
Gonzalez, RHP Brock Huntzinger, C Ryan
Casteel, OF Kyle Parker and OF Michael
Tauchman to their minor league camp.
NEW YORK METS — Reassigned INFs
Danny Muno, T.J. Rivera and Ty Kelly and
OF Roger Bernadina to their minor league
camp. Released RHP Buddy Carlyle.
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Signed
manager Pete Mackanin to a two-year
contract.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
DENVER NUGGETS — Signed F Axel
Toupane to a multiyear contract.
NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Signed F
Jordan Hamilton to a 10-day contract.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
ATLANTA FALCONS — Agreed to terms
with LB Courtney Upshaw.
CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms
with S Chris Prosinski on a one-year contract.
CINCINNATI BENGALS — Re-signed DT
Brandon Thompson.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Matched
Chicago’s offer for TE Josh Hill. Signed
LB Craig Robertson to a three-year contract.
NEW YORK JETS — Signed CB Darryl
Morris to a one-year contract.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Agreed to
terms with LB Steven Johnson to a oneyear contract.
TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms
with S Rashad Johnson on a one-year
contract.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
NHL — Fined Anaheim D Josh Manson
$2,486.56 for an inappropriate gesture
aimed at Toronto F Nazem Kadri during
a March 24 game.
CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled F
Patrick Brown from Charlotte (AHL).
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Activated F
Marcus Kruger from injured reserve.
DALLAS STARS — Signed D Niklas
Hansson to a three-year entry-level contract.
DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned
G Jake Paterson to Toledo (ECHL) from
Grand Rapids (AHL). Reassigned D Vili
Saarijarvi to Grand Rapids from Flint
(OHL).
SOCCER
United Soccer League
NEW YORK RED BULLS II — Signed F
Junior Flemmings.
North American Soccer League
JACKSONVILLE ARMADA FC — Announced the transfer of F Akeil Barrett to
Pitea IF (Sweden).
COLLEGE
GEORGIA TECH — Fired men’s basketball coach Brian Gregory.
STANFORD — Named Jerod Haase
men’s basketball coach.
CIT
Semifinals
Sunday, March 27
NJIT (20-14) at Columbia (23-10)
UC Irvine (27-9) at Coastal Carolina
(21-11)
Championship
March 29
Semifinal winners
CBI
Championship Series
(Best-of-three)
Monday, March 28: Morehead State
(22-12) vs. Nevada (22-13)
Wednesday, March 30: Morehead
State vs. Nevada
Friday, April 1: Morehead State vs.
Nevada
Vegas 16
At Las Vegas
First Round
Monday, March 28
Tennessee Tech (19-11) vs. Old Dominion (22-13)
Northern Illinois (21-12) vs. UC Santa
Barbara (18-13)
Oakland (21-11) vs. Towson (20-12)
Louisiana Tech (23-9) vs. ETSU (23-11)
Men’s
NCAA Division II Tournament
At Frisco Texas
Semifinals
Thursday, March 24
Lincoln Memorial 103, West Liberty 102
Augustana (S.D.) 74, Western Oregon 55
Championship
Saturday, March 26
Lincoln Memorial vs. Augustana (S.D.)
Women’s NIT
Third Round
Tuesday, March 22
Hofstra 65, Virginia 57
Michigan 78, San Diego 51
Wednesday, March 23
Florida Gulf Coast 73, Tulane 61
Oregon 73, Utah 63
Thursday, March 24
Temple 75, Ohio 61
South Dakota 51, Northern Iowa 50
UTEP 79, TCU 71
Friday, March 25
Western Kentucky 78, Saint Louis 76, OT
Quarterfinals
Sunday, March 27
Western Kentucky (27-6) at South Dakota (29-6)
Monday, March 28
Hofstra (25-8) at Florida Gulf Coast (31-5)
Temple (23-11) at Michigan (20-13)
Oregon (23-10) at UTEP (29-4)
WBI
Championship
Saturday, March 26
Weber State (23-11) at Louisiana-Lafayette (24-10)
Women’s
NCAA Division II Tournament
Championship
At Indianapolis
Monday, April 4
Lubbock Christian vs. Alaska Anchorage
Women’s
NCAA Division III Tournament
Championship
Monday, April 4
At Indianapolis
Tufts vs. Thomas More
College baseball
Friday’s scores
Golf
Men’s NIT
arkana 6-5
Martin Methodist 9, Brewton-Parker 6
Maryville (Tenn.) 7, Huntingdon 3
Milligan 3-2, Reinhardt 2-3
Morehead St. 12, Belmont 11
Mount Olive 4-1, Erskine 3-4
North Carolina 8, Georgia Tech 0
Notre Dame 6, Virginia Tech 2
Oakland 6, N. Kentucky 3
Ohio Valley 5-0, Kentucky Wesleyan 4-3
St. Catharine 2, Cumberland (Tenn.) 1
St. Scholastica 9, St. Olaf 2
SE Missouri 15, UT Martin 6
Tenn. Wesleyan 6, Bryan 1
Thomas More 6, Waynesburg 3
Union (Ky.) 2-7, Montreat 1-2
Virginia 6, Louisville 3
W. Kentucky 3, Middle Tennessee 1
Wake Forest 12, Duke 0
West Florida 13-11, Christian Brothers 1-3
MIDWEST
Avila 2-11, William Penn 0-10
SOUTHWEST
East Texas Baptist 4, Belhaven 3
Oklahoma Christian 14, Texas A&M International 5
Texas-Arlington 9, Incarnate Word 3
FAR WEST
Central Washington 9-1, NW Nazarene 3-2
Puerto Rico Open
PGA Tour
Friday
At Coco Beach Golf & Country Club
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
Purse: $3 million
Yardage: 7,506; Par 72
Second Round
Rafael Campos
64-71—135
George McNeill
65-71—136
Kyle Reifers
67-70—137
Ian Poulter
71-66—137
Steve Marino
70-67—137
Bronson Burgoon
69-68—137
Mark Hubbard
67-70—137
Alex Cejka
66-71—137
Will MacKenzie
66-71—137
Derek Fathauer
70-68—138
Freddie Jacobson
69-69—138
Jonathan Byrd
70-68—138
Aaron Baddeley
66-72—138
Frank Lickliter II
66-72—138
Luke Guthrie
69-70—139
Graham DeLaet
70-69—139
Patrick Rodgers
69-70—139
Trevor Immelman
69-70—139
Tony Finau
69-70—139
Michael Bradley
67-72—139
Luke List
70-70—140
Sam Saunders
71-69—140
Dean Burmester
69-71—140
D.J. Trahan
71-69—140
Bryce Molder
70-70—140
Scott Brown
71-69—140
George Coetzee
71-69—140
Rodolfo Cazaubon
70-70—140
Cameron Percy
69-71—140
-9
-8
-7
-7
-7
-7
-7
-7
-7
-6
-6
-6
-6
-6
-5
-5
-5
-5
-5
-5
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
Kia Classic
LPGA Tour
Friday
At Aviara Golf Club
Carlsbad, Calif.
Purse: $1.7 million
Yardage: 6,593; Par: 72
Second Round
Jenny Shin
69-65—134 -10
Lydia Ko
68-67—135 -9
Brittany Lang
67-68—135 -9
Hyo Joo Kim
70-66—136 -8
Inbee Park
67-69—136 -8
Sung Hyun Park
71-66—137 -7
Jessica Korda
70-67—137 -7
Jodi Ewart Shadoff
67-71—138 -6
Rachel Rohanna
73-66—139 -5
Haru Nomura
70-69—139 -5
Na Yeon Choi
70-69—139 -5
Mi Jung Hur
68-71—139 -5
Ai Miyazato
67-72—139 -5
Holly Clyburn
72-68—140 -4
Juli Inkster
72-68—140 -4
Anna Nordqvist
72-68—140 -4
Shanshan Feng
71-69—140 -4
Gaby Lopez
71-69—140 -4
Pro baseball
Spring training
Friday’s games
Minnesota 6, Tampa Bay 1
Baltimore 11, N.Y. Yankees 10, 10 innings
Atlanta (ss) vs. Detroit at Lakeland,
Fla., ccd., Rain
Atlanta (ss) 1, Houston 1, tie, 7 innings
N.Y. Mets 5, St. Louis 5, tie
L.A. Angels 11, Oakland 3
San Francisco (ss) 8, Kansas City 5
Milwaukee 5, Chicago Cubs 4
Colorado 7, Cincinnati 6
Arizona 7, Cleveland 5
Seattle 5, Chicago White Sox 4, 10 innings
Boston 6, Pittsburgh 3
Philadelphia 4, Toronto 4, tie
Washington vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla.,
ccd., rain
Texas 12, San Diego 11
L.A. Dodgers 13, San Francisco (ss) 0
Saturday’s games
N.Y. Mets vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla.
Boston vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla.
Washington vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla.
Detroit vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater,
Fla.
Pittsburgh (ss) vs. Minnesota at Fort
Myers, Fla.
N.Y. Yankees vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Fla.
Cincinnati (ss) vs. Chicago White Sox
(ss) at Glendale, Ariz.
Oakland vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz.
San Francisco vs. Chicago Cubs at
Mesa, Ariz.
Arizona vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix
Cleveland vs. Cincinnati (ss) at Goodyear, Ariz.
L.A. Dodgers (ss) vs. Seattle at Peoria,
Ariz.
Texas vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz.
San Diego (ss) vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz.
Miami vs. Houston (ss) at Kissimmee, Fla.
Tampa Bay vs. Pittsburgh (ss) at Bradenton, Fla.
Houston (ss) vs. San Diego (ss) at
Mexico City
Chicago White Sox (ss) vs. L.A. Dodgers (ss) at Glendale, Ariz.
Sunday’s games
St. Louis vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla.
Minnesota vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa,
Fla.
Toronto vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla.
Atlanta vs. Washington (ss) at Viera,
Fla.
Philadelphia vs. Boston at Fort Myers,
Fla.
Houston vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla.
Washington (ss) vs. N.Y. Mets at Port
St. Lucie, Fla.
Houston vs. San Diego at Mexico City
Seattle vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa,
Ariz.
Chicago White Sox vs. San Francisco
at Scottsdale, Ariz.
Milwaukee vs. Cleveland at Goodyear,
Ariz.
Kansas City vs. Oakland at Mesa,
Ariz.
Cincinnati vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz.
Arizona (ss) vs. Texas at Surprise,
Ariz.
L.A. Angels vs. San Diego at Peoria,
Ariz.
Colorado vs. Arizona (ss) at Scottsdale, Ariz.
Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton,
Fla.
Pro soccer
MLS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
Montreal
2 1 0
6
6 4
Philadelphia
2 1 0
6
5 3
Orlando City
1 0 2
5
4 3
Toronto FC
1 1 1
4
4 3
New York City FC 1 1 1
4
6 6
New York
1 2 0
3
4 8
Chicago
0 1 2
2
4 5
New England
0 1 2
2
3 6
D.C. United
0 1 2
2
2 5
Columbus
0 2 1
1
2 4
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
Sporting KC
3 0 0
9
4 1
Los Angeles
2 1 0
6
7 3
San Jose
2 1 0
6
4 4
FC Dallas
2 1 0
6
4 5
Real Salt Lake
1 0 2
5
6 5
Houston
1 1 1
4 11 7
Portland
1 1 1
4
5 5
Colorado
1 1 1
4
2 2
Vancouver
1 2 0
3
5 6
Seattle
0 3 0
0
2 5
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Saturday’s games
New England at New York City FC
FC Dallas at D.C. United
Houston at Vancouver
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Russia wants to make
doping leaks illegal
MOSCOW — Russia’s sports
minister said Saturday he plans
to make it illegal for officials to
report that an athlete has failed a
drug test.
Vitaly Mutko told Russia’s state
sports broadcaster that leaking
the name of an athlete who has
failed a drug test causes “noise
and uproar” and violates the presumption of innocence.
“The federation immediately
leaks the information to a media
outlet,” he said. “We’re now going
to administratively and criminally forbid it.”
Athletes provide an “A” and “B”
sample when they are tested and
if the “A” sample is positive, can
request the “B” sample is tested,
too. While some athletes have
been cleared of doping when a
“B” sample comes back negative,
such instances are rare.
Mutko accused Russian sports
federations of routinely leaking
drug test results before “B” samples are tested.
Russia has faced numerous doping scandals in recent
years, including a spate of cases
this year involving the recently
banned endurance-boosting drug
meldonium.
Many of those cases were officially announced by Russian
sports federations when athletes
first tested positive or leaked to
state news agencies by anonymous sources. Tennis star Maria
Sharapova was among several
athletes to voluntarily state they
had tested positive for meldonium
in an “A” sample.
Mutko said Saturday that at
least 27, and perhaps as many
as 30, Russians had tested positive for meldonium since it was
banned Jan. 1, about a third of all
cases worldwide.
Spieth ousted in Match
Play; Day, McIlroy win
AUSTIN, Texas — Jordan Spieth was knocked out of the Dell
Match Play on Saturday morning. Rory McIlroy and Jason Day
stayed on course to meet in the
semifinals.
Louis Oosthuizen put Spieth
in a hole early and the world No.
1 didn’t have the game to come
back. Oosthuizen moved on to the
quarterfinals with a 3-and-2 victory. Spieth had never trailed in any
match until facing Oosthuizen.
McIlroy survived a tough
match with Zach Johnson that
went to the 18th hole. McIlroy hit
a wedge within 3 feet and had to
make it for a 1-up victory after
Johnson’s birdie. Day won 3 and
2 over Brandt Snedeker.
Mavs’ Parsons done for
season after surgery
DALLAS — Mavericks forward
Chandler Parsons will miss the
rest of the season after surgery
on his right knee.
The team said Parsons had arthroscopic surgery Friday to address an injury to his right medial
meniscus. It is the second year in
a row that Parsons’ season has
ended prematurely because of
right knee surgery.
— Associated Press
MOISES CASTILLO/AP
The United States’ Clint Dempsey gestures to a lineman during Friday’s 2018 Russia World Cup qualifying match against Guatemala. The
United States lost 2-0.
Guatemala blanks US in qualifier
Associated Press
With a 2-0 loss at Guatemala, the United States forced itself into what basically
amounts to a must-win situation when the
teams meet again Tuesday night in Columbus, Ohio.
American coach Jurgen Klinsmann made
some puzzling lineup choices and the team’s
defense self-destructed Friday night in Guatemala City.
“I think it was a lack of focus, concentration, and wrong decisions,” Klinsmann said.
“We have to take responsibility for it, every
one of us — coaches, players — and move on
and get it done on Tuesday.”
Edgar Castillo’s poor backpass set up corner kicks that led to Rafael Morales’ goal
in the seventh minute. A goal kick by Paulo
Motta went most of the length of the field in
the 15th, and 36-year-old Carlos Ruiz ran
onto the ball, came in alone on goalkeeper
Tim Howard and doubled the lead.
“Sloppy,” Howard said. “It’s almost something like you can’t account for.”
Seeking their eighth straight World Cup
berth, the Americans had been unbeaten in
21 games against Guatemala since January
1988 and had never lost to Los Chapines in
World Cup qualifying.
“Maybe it was a lack of focus, but these
places are very difficult to come play at,” defender Omar Gonzalez said.
Trinidad and Tobago (2-1) leads Group C
with seven points after rallying for a 3-2 win
at St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Guatemala
(2-0-1) is one point back. The U.S. (1-1-1) has
four points and St. Vincent (0-3) is last.
In September, the Americans play at St.
LUIS SOTO/AP
United States goalkeeper Tim Howard reacts
after Guatemala scored its first goal Friday at
Mateo Flores Stadium in Guatemala City.
Vincent and host Trinidad to complete the regional semifinals. The top two teams advance
to the six-nation regional finals.
“We always said that World Cup qualifying
is a long road, a tricky road, a difficult road,”
Klinsmann said.
Klinsmann already was criticized following his team’s semifinal elimination in last
year’s CONCACAF Gold Cup and a loss to
Mexico in the Confederations Cup playoff.
He started Gonzalez and Michael Orozco in
central defense after John Brooks returned
to Germany on Friday because of a bruised
left knee and defender Matt Besler sustained
a concussion in training Thursday. Fabian
Johnson, a midfielder and defender who has
a groin injury, didn’t dress; midfielder Jermaine Jones is suspended; and Jozy Altidore,
the top American forward, was limited to entering in the 66th minute as he recovers from
yet another hamstring injury.
Howard started for the U.S. at the last
two World Cups, but lost his starting job at
Everton and was appearing in his first match
since Jan. 24.
Castillo, making his first national team appearance in two years, made a wide backpass
that Howard couldn’t get to and rolled over
the end line, leading to the first goal. Guatemala’s first corner kick was chested over the
line by Orozco, leading to a second. Morales
jumped over Mix Diskerud, who appeared to
slip, to meet Jean Marquez’s corner and Morales nodded the ball off Diskerud and to the
left of a diving Howard, just inside the post.
Klinsmann said a defender was supposed
to be on the line.
“We write everything on the white board.
It’s in the locker room,” Klinsmann said. “It
shouldn’t happen.”
Asked what has to get better Tuesday,
Bradley said simply: “Everything.”
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NHL
Scoreboard
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
GP W
L OT Pts
Tampa Bay
74 43 26
5
91
Florida
74 41 24
9
91
Boston
75 39 28
8 86
Detroit
74 37 26
11 85
Ottawa
75 34 33
8
76
Montreal
75 34 35
6
74
Buffalo
74 30 34
10
70
Toronto
73 27 35
11 65
Metropolitan Division
z-Washington 73 53 15
5 111
N.Y. Rangers 74 42 24
8
92
Pittsburgh
73 40 25
8 88
N.Y. Islanders 73 39 25
9 87
Philadelphia 73 36 24
13 85
New Jersey
75 36 31
8 80
Carolina
74 32 28
14
78
Columbus
74 30 36
8 68
GF
209
211
219
190
214
199
176
180
GA
177
182
206
199
230
216
200
214
232
212
204
204
192
169
180
193
170
194
182
189
195
190
200
228
Western Conference
Central Division
GP W
L OT Pts GF GA
75 44 22
9
97 243 216
75 44 22
9
97 199 185
74 42 25
7
91 205 185
74 38 23
13 89 205 189
75 36 28
11 83 202 189
74 38 32
4 80 200 208
74 31 37
6 68 190 217
Pacific Division
x-Los Angeles 74 44 25
5
93 200 171
x-Anaheim
73 40 23
10 90 190 174
San Jose
74 41 27
6 88 217 192
Arizona
74 33 34
7 73 195 220
Calgary
74 31 37
6 68 204 234
Vancouver
74 27 34
13 67 169 214
Edmonton
77 30 40
7 67 189 226
Note: Two points for a win, one point
for overtime loss.
x-clinched playoff spot
z-clinched conference
Friday’s games
Washington 1, New Jersey 0, OT
Tampa Bay 7, N.Y. Islanders 4
St. Louis 4, Vancouver 0
Saturday’s games
Winnipeg at Buffalo
Pittsburgh at Detroit
Minnesota at Colorado
Dallas at San Jose
Boston at Toronto
N.Y. Rangers at Montreal
Anaheim at Ottawa
Florida at Tampa Bay
St. Louis at Washington
N.Y. Islanders at Carolina
Columbus at Nashville
Chicago at Calgary
Philadelphia at Arizona
Edmonton at Los Angeles
Sunday’s games
New Jersey at Carolina
Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers
Chicago at Vancouver
x-Dallas
St. Louis
Chicago
Nashville
Minnesota
Colorado
Winnipeg
MEL EVANS/AP
Devils right wing Devante Smith-Pelly, left, cannot get the puck past Capitals goalie Braden Holtby during Friday’s game in Newark, N.J.
Roundup
Caps eye Presidents’ Trophy
Carlson scores game-winner in overtime
Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. — The Washington Capitals
got a missing piece back and it helped them
move within grasping distance of the Presidents’ Trophy — and the top seed when the
playoffs start next month.
Defenseman John Carlson scored at 2:17 of
overtime in his return to the lineup, Braden
Holtby made 22 saves and the Capitals all but
clinched the NHL’s best record in the regular
season with a 1-0 victory over the New Jersey
Devils on Friday night.
“He looked a lot more like he did the first
stint of the year,” Holtby said after Carlson
played for the first time since Feb. 24, his second injury stint this season. “When he came
back (earlier) you could tell there was something still going on. It’s a good sign for us. He
looks like he’s moving better, not favoring a
leg at all.”
The win gave Washington 111 points. The
Capitals can clinch their first Presidents’ Trophy since 2009-10 and the No. 1 seed for the
playoffs with a point against the Blues on Saturday or Dallas losing earlier in the day.
On the winner, Carlson took a pass from
Jason Chimera and ripped a shot from the
right circle that beat Scott Wedgewood.
“It was a quick play. I saw him walk down
the wall and I had my eye on him and I tried
to follow the pass,” said Wedgewood, whose
shutout streak was stopped at 159 minutes, 34
seconds. “He put it in a good spot. Take nothing away from him but it would have been
nice to keep them off the board for a shootout
opportunity.”
Wedgewood, who shut out Pittsburgh on
Thursday night, has given up two goals in three
NHL starts. He stopped 25 shots Friday.
Blues 4, Canucks 0: Brian Elliott made 15
saves for his third straight shutout and host St.
Louis beat Vancouver to clinch a playoff spot
and tie Dallas for the Central Division lead.
Robby Fabbri had a goal and an assist, Kyle
Brodziak, Fabbri, Carl Gunnarsson and Joel
Edmundson also scored, and Paul Stastny had
two assists.
Elliott hasn’t allowed a goal since returning
from a lower-body injury March 19.
The Canucks have a seven-game winless
streak at 0-6-1, their longest streak since January and February in 2014. They have been
shut out in four of their last five games.
Lightning 7, Islanders 4: Tyler Johnson
and Jason Garrison scored 23 seconds apart
midway through the third period as host
Tampa Bay beat New York.
Tampa Bay defenseman Anton Stralman
left in the first with a non-displaced fracture of
the left fibula after getting checked by Anders
Lee. Stralman will miss the rest of the regular
season, but coach Jon Cooper didn’t rule out a
return at some point in the playoffs.
Johnson had a go-ahead rebound goal at
10:09 before Garrison stopped a 26-game goal
drought and put the Lightning up 6-4. Garrison also had two assists after going 18 games
without a point.
Tampa Bay also got goals from Nikita Kucherov, Vladislav Namestnikov, Steven Stamkos,
Andrej Sustr and Victor Hedman, who had an
empty-netter. The Lightning host Florida on
Saturday night with first place in the Atlantic
Division at stake. Both teams have 91 points.
Brock Nelson, Shane Prince, Johnny
Boychuk and Nikolav Kulemin scored for
the Islanders. They remain a point behind
third-place Pittsburgh in the Metropolitan
Division.
Friday
Capitals 1, Devils 0 (OT)
Washington
0 0 0 1—1
New Jersey
0 0 0 0—0
Overtime—1, Washington, Carlson 7
(Chimera, Johansson), 2:17.
Shots on Goal—Washington 10-9-52—26. New Jersey 4-6-11-1—22.
Power-play opportunities—Washington 0 of 2; New Jersey 0 of 3.
Goalies—Washington, Holtby 45-9-4
(22 shots-22 saves). New Jersey, Wedgewood 2-0-1 (26-25).
A—16,514 (17,625). T—2:27.
Lightning 7, Islanders 4
N.Y. Islanders
1 2 1—4
Tampa Bay
2 1 4—7
First Period—1, N.Y. Islanders, Nelson
25 (Strome, Bailey), 8:54. 2, Tampa Bay,
Kucherov 29 (Killorn, Sustr), 13:42. 3,
Tampa Bay, Namestnikov 14, 13:51.
Second Period—4, Tampa Bay, Stamkos 35 (Garrison, Kucherov), 5:02. 5, N.Y.
Islanders, Prince 5, 5:25. 6, N.Y. Islanders,
Boychuk 8 (Tavares, Bailey), 16:18.
Third Period—7, Tampa Bay, Sustr 3
(Garrison), 6:03. 8, N.Y. Islanders, Kulemin 7 (Nielsen, Hamonic), 6:22. 9, Tampa
Bay, Johnson 13 (Palat, Marchessault),
10:09. 10, Tampa Bay, Garrison 5 (Palat,
Marchessault), 10:32. 11, Tampa Bay,
Hedman 7 (Carle, Palat), 18:35 (en).
Shots on Goal—N.Y. Islanders 12-712—31. Tampa Bay 14-17-11—42.
Power-play opportunities—N.Y. Islanders 0 of 3; Tampa Bay 0 of 3.
Goalies—N.Y. Islanders, Greiss 19-11-4
(41 shots-35 saves). Tampa Bay, Bishop
32-19-4 (31-27).
A—19,092 (19,092). T—2:37.
Blues 4, Canucks 0
JEFF ROBERSON /AP
The Blues’ Joel Edmundson celebrates after
scoring during the third period of Friday’s
game against the Canucks in St. Louis.
Vancouver
0 0 0—0
St. Louis
2 1 1—4
First Period—1, St. Louis, Brodziak 4
(Upshall), 10:51 (sh). 2, St. Louis, Fabbri
18 (Stastny, Brouwer), 15:25.
Second Period—3, St. Louis, Gunnarsson 3 (Stastny, Brouwer), 15:32.
Third Period—4, St. Louis, Edmundson
1 (Tarasenko, Parayko), 12:15.
Shots on Goal—Vancouver 7-6-2—15.
St. Louis 11-10-16—37.
Power-play opportunities—Vancouver
0 of 1; St. Louis 0 of 3.
Goalies—Vancouver, Markstrom 1112-4 (37 shots-33 saves). St. Louis, Elliott
20-7-6 (15-15).
A—19,580 (19,150). T—2:23.
Calendar
April 10 — Final day of regular season.
April 13 — Playoffs begin.
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NBA
Scoreboard
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W
L
48 23
42 30
30 43
20
51
9 63
Southeast Division
Atlanta
43 30
Miami
42 30
Charlotte
41
31
Washington
35
37
Orlando
29 43
Central Division
y-Cleveland
51
21
Indiana
38
33
Detroit
39 34
Chicago
36
35
Milwaukee
30 43
x-Toronto
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Kings 116, Suns 94
Pct
.676
.583
.411
.282
.125
GB
—
6½
19
28
39½
.589
.583
.569
.486
.403
—
.708
.535
.534
.507
.411
—
12½
12½
14½
21½
½
1½
7½
13½
Western Conference
Southwest Division
W
L Pct GB
y-San Antonio
61
11 .847 —
Memphis
41
32 .562 20½
Houston
36
37 .493 25½
Dallas
35
37 .486 26
New Orleans
26 45 .366 34½
Northwest Division
y-Oklahoma City
50 22 .694 —
Portland
37 36 .507 13½
Utah
35
37 .486 15
Denver
31
42 .425 19½
Minnesota
24 48 .333 26
Pacific Division
y-Golden State
65
7 .903 —
L.A. Clippers
44
27 .620 20½
Sacramento
28 44 .389 37
Phoenix
20
52 .278 45
L.A. Lakers
15
57 .208 50
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
Thursday’s games
Indiana 92, New Orleans 84
Brooklyn 104, Cleveland 95
New York 106, Chicago 94
Oklahoma City 113, Utah 91
L.A. Clippers 96, Portland 94
Friday’s games
Minnesota 132, Washington 129,2OT
Detroit 112, Charlotte 105
Houston 112, Toronto 109
Miami 108, Orlando 97
Atlanta 101, Milwaukee 90
San Antonio 110, Memphis 104
Sacramento 116, Phoenix 94
Golden State 128, Dallas 120
Denver 116, L.A. Lakers 105
Saturday’s games
Indiana at Brooklyn
Toronto at New Orleans
Chicago at Orlando
Atlanta at Detroit
Cleveland at New York
Utah at Minnesota
San Antonio at Oklahoma City
Charlotte at Milwaukee
Boston at Phoenix
Philadelphia at Portland
Sunday’s games
Denver at L.A. Clippers
Dallas at Sacramento
Houston at Indiana
Philadelphia at Golden State
Washington at L.A. Lakers
Friday
Warriors 128, Mavericks 120
DALLAS — Matthews 8-16 4-4 26, Lee
4-8 4-7 12, Mejri 0-1 1-2 1, Barea 8-16 00 21, Felton 7-16 2-2 17, Anderson 3-7 2-2
10, Powell 2-7 1-2 5, Villanueva 6-13 0-0
16, Pachulia 5-12 2-2 12. Totals 43-96 1621 120.
GOLDEN STATE — Barnes 5-11 0-0 11,
Green 7-11 2-2 19, Bogut 2-2 0-0 4, Curry
9-18 10-11 33, Thompson 13-25 5-6 40,
Barbosa 2-5 0-0 5, Varejao 0-0 2-2 2, Livingston 3-6 0-0 6, Speights 1-4 2-2 5, Rush
0-4 0-0 0, Clark 1-2 0-0 3, McAdoo 0-0 0-0
0. Totals 43-88 21-23 128.
Dallas
33 25 31 31—120
Golden State
40 32 30 26—128
Three-Point Goals—Dallas 18-35 (Matthews 6-11, Barea 5-8, Villanueva 4-8,
Anderson 2-3, Felton 1-4, Powell 0-1),
Golden State 21-45 (Thompson 9-16, Curry 5-12, Green 3-5, Speights 1-2, Barnes
1-2, Clark 1-2, Barbosa 1-3, Rush 0-3).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Dallas 59
(Pachulia 13), Golden State 46 (Curry 8).
Assists—Dallas 31 (Barea, Lee 6), Golden
State 30 (Green 10). Total Fouls—Dallas
19, Golden State 16. A—19,596 (19,596).
PHOENIX — Tucker 2-4 0-0 4, Leuer 3-7
0-0 7, Len 4-13 6-8 14, Booker 11-21 2-4
26, Jenkins 4-10 0-0 11, Williams 2-3 2-4
6, Teletovic 5-16 0-0 12, Price 2-6 2-2 7,
Budinger 2-7 2-2 6, Goodwin 0-7 1-3 1. Totals 35-94 15-23 94.
SACRAMENTO — Gay 5-10 3-6 15, Acy
4-9 4-4 14, Cousins 9-18 10-14 29, Rondo
1-2 0-0 2, Curry 4-10 2-2 12, Cauley-Stein
11-19 4-6 26, Casspi 1-7 5-6 7, Collison 510 1-1 11, Belinelli 0-3 0-0 0, Anderson 0-2
0-0 0. Totals 40-90 29-39 116.
Phoenix
27 21 19 27— 94
Sacramento
25 33 31 27—116
Three-Point Goals—Phoenix 9-32 (Jenkins 3-3, Booker 2-8, Teletovic 2-9, Leuer
1-2, Price 1-3, Tucker 0-1, Budinger 0-2,
Goodwin 0-4), Sacramento 7-22 (Gay 2-3,
Curry 2-5, Acy 2-5, Cousins 1-3, Anderson
0-1, Casspi 0-1, Belinelli 0-1, Collison 01, Cauley-Stein 0-2). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Phoenix 64 (Jenkins, Tucker
8), Sacramento 63 (Cousins 11). Assists—Phoenix 20 (Price 5), Sacramento
28 (Rondo 12). Total Fouls—Phoenix 27,
Sacramento 22. Technicals—Booker. A—
17,317 (17,317).
Spurs 110, Grizzlies 104
MEMPHIS — Barnes 5-10 2-2 14,
J.Green 10-18 0-0 20, Andersen 6-10 00 13, Farmar 4-7 2-2 11, Allen 3-6 2-4 9,
McCallum 3-10 0-0 7, Carter 4-6 2-2 10,
Hollins 0-0 0-0 0, Stephenson 8-15 0-1 17,
J.Martin 1-1 1-2 3, Munford 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 44-83 9-13 104.
SAN ANTONIO — Anderson 3-5 0-0 6,
Duncan 6-8 0-1 12, Aldridge 12-16 8-9 32,
Parker 5-11 4-4 14, K.Martin 4-13 2-2 13,
Ginobili 5-7 0-0 13, West 4-5 0-0 8, Miller
2-4 0-0 4, Simmons 3-7 1-2 8, Bonner 0-1
0-0 0, Marjanovic 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 44-77
15-18 110.
Memphis
23 28 33 20—104
San Antonio
37 27 24 22—110
Three-Point Goals—Memphis 7-18
(Barnes 2-5, Allen 1-1, Farmar 1-2, Stephenson 1-2, Andersen 1-2, McCallum 1-3,
J.Green 0-1, Carter 0-2), San Antonio 7-17
(Ginobili 3-4, K.Martin 3-7, Simmons 1-2,
Anderson 0-1, Parker 0-1, Miller 0-1, Bonner 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—
Memphis 35 (Andersen 7), San Antonio
44 (Aldridge 12). Assists—Memphis 23
(Farmar 5), San Antonio 25 (Duncan 7).
Total Fouls—Memphis 19, San Antonio
12. Technicals—San Antonio defensive
three second 2. A—18,418 (18,797).
Rockets 112, Raptors 109
TORONTO — Scola 6-11 0-0 16, DeRozan 6-13 5-6 18, Valanciunas 6-15 4-6 16,
Lowry 4-19 4-9 15, Powell 5-13 0-0 13, Biyombo 2-3 2-2 6, Patterson 5-7 1-1 11, Joseph 4-10 2-2 12, Johnson 1-3 0-0 2. Totals
39-94 18-26 109.
HOUSTON — Ariza 1-8 3-3 6, Motiejunas
5-8 0-0 11, Howard 1-2 0-5 2, Beverley 6-10
0-0 17, Harden 11-22 7-10 32, Beasley 9-12
3-6 21, Terry 2-7 0-0 5, Capela 3-7 2-8 8,
Brewer 4-5 1-3 10. Totals 42-81 16-35 112.
Toronto
21 37 20 31—109
Houston
29 25 25 33—112
Three-Point Goals—Toronto 13-31 (Scola 4-6, Powell 3-6, Lowry 3-10, Joseph 2-4,
DeRozan 1-2, Johnson 0-1, Patterson 0-2),
Houston 12-22 (Beverley 5-7, Harden 3-7,
Motiejunas 1-1, Brewer 1-1, Terry 1-2, Ariza 1-4). Fouled Out—Valanciunas, Howard. Rebounds—Toronto 58 (Valanciunas
18), Houston 63 (Harden 11). Assists—Toronto 23 (Lowry 8), Houston 25 (Harden
13). Total Fouls—Toronto 24, Houston 23.
Technicals—DeRozan 2, Lowry 2. Ejected—DeRozan, Lowry. A—18,230 (18,023).
Heat 108, Magic 97
ORLANDO — Fournier 6-17 7-8 20, Gordon 2-7 0-0 4, Dedmon 3-7 4-5 10, Payton
6-9 2-4 14, Hezonja 4-11 0-0 8, Smith 3-10
2-2 8, Jennings 2-7 2-5 8, Watson 1-2 0-0
3, Marble 0-1 0-0 0, Nicholson 8-12 1-1 19,
Napier 1-1 1-3 3. Totals 36-84 19-28 97.
MIAMI — J.Johnson 2-6 0-0 4, Deng 413 2-2 10, Stoudemire 6-7 1-3 13, Dragic
9-13 3-7 22, Wade 2-9 7-8 11, Richardson
5-9 1-1 14, Winslow 1-6 3-5 5, Whiteside
10-15 6-7 26, Green 1-2 0-0 3, Haslem 00 0-0 0, McRoberts 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-80
23-33 108.
Orlando
31 26 12 28— 97
Miami
28 26 31 23—108
Three-Point Goals—Orlando 6-18 (Jennings 2-4, Nicholson 2-5, Watson 1-2,
Fournier 1-3, Hezonja 0-2, Gordon 0-2),
Miami 5-15 (Richardson 3-5, Green 1-1,
Dragic 1-3, Winslow 0-1, J.Johnson 0-1,
Wade 0-1, Deng 0-3). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Orlando 51 (Payton, Fournier
7), Miami 56 (Deng 13). Assists—Orlando
20 (Payton 7), Miami 23 (Dragic 8). Total
Fouls—Orlando 24, Miami 20. Technicals—
Stoudemire, Wade. A—19,918 (19,600).
Hawks 101, Bucks 90
MILWAUKEE — Antetokounmpo 5-14
1-2 11, Parker 8-18 3-6 19, Monroe 2-7 3-6
7, Bayless 3-6 4-4 12, Middleton 4-14 2-2
10, Ennis 3-7 1-2 7, Cunningham 1-4 0-0
3, Plumlee 2-3 0-0 4, Henson 7-11 3-4 17.
Totals 35-84 17-26 90.
ATLANTA — Bazemore 4-9 1-2 9, Millsap
7-16 0-0 14, Horford 7-12 0-0 14, Teague 717 4-4 18, Korver 2-6 0-0 4, Humphries 3-6
4-4 11, Sefolosha 4-8 0-0 10, Hardaway Jr.
2-5 2-4 7, Schroder 3-9 3-3 9, Scott 2-9 0-0
5. Totals 41-97 14-17 101.
Milwaukee
21 25 25 19— 90
Atlanta
29 22 24 26—101
Three-Point Goals—Milwaukee 3-13
(Bayless 2-4, Cunningham 1-2, Ennis 0-1,
Antetokounmpo 0-1, Parker 0-1, Middleton 0-4), Atlanta 5-32 (Sefolosha 2-5,
Humphries 1-3, Hardaway Jr. 1-4, Scott
1-5, Bazemore 0-1, Millsap 0-1, Horford
0-1, Schroder 0-3, Korver 0-4, Teague 0-5).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Milwaukee
61 (Henson 10), Atlanta 56 (Millsap 13).
Assists—Milwaukee 16 (Antetokounmpo
4), Atlanta 26 (Teague 6). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 16, Atlanta 21. A—17,070 (18,729).
Timberwolves 132,
Wizards 129, 2OT
MINNESOTA — Wiggins 4-14 8-8 16, Dieng 8-11 1-1 18, Towns 12-21 2-2 27, Rubio
4-12 4-4 13, LaVine 10-17 0-0 25, Jones 3-6
2-2 8, Muhammad 2-4 2-2 6, Bjelica 4-5
2-2 10, Prince 2-3 0-0 4, Smith 2-3 1-1 5.
Totals 51-96 22-22 132.
WASHINGTON — Porter 6-13 0-0 14,
Morris 2-4 2-2 7, Gortat 8-11 3-8 19, Wall
8-22 3-3 22, Beal 9-18 4-4 26, Thornton 13 1-2 3, Nene 8-12 3-4 19, Dudley 4-8 0-0
10, Temple 1-3 0-0 3, Sessions 3-6 0-0 6.
Totals 50-100 16-23 129.
Minnesota
27 35 23 24 12 11—132
Washington
29 33 27 20 12 8—129
Three-Point Goals—Minnesota 8-26
(LaVine 5-9, Towns 1-2, Dieng 1-2, Rubio 1-5, Jones 0-1, Bjelica 0-1, Prince 0-1,
Muhammad 0-1, Wiggins 0-4), Washington 13-29 (Beal 4-7, Wall 3-7, Porter 2-3,
Dudley 2-5, Morris 1-1, Temple 1-3, Nene
0-1, Thornton 0-2). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Minnesota 46 (Towns 10),
Washington 56 (Gortat 14). Assists—Minnesota 33 (Rubio 7), Washington 37 (Wall
16). Total Fouls—Minnesota 22, Washington 22. Technicals—Minnesota defensive
three second. A—20,356 (20,308).
Pistons 112, Hornets 105
CHARLOTTE — Batum 4-12 1-1 10, Williams 2-6 3-3 7, Zeller 4-5 0-0 8, Walker
9-18 5-5 29, Lee 3-6 0-0 8, Jefferson 4-12
0-0 8, Lin 2-11 0-0 4, Kaminsky 1-3 0-0 3,
Lamb 3-6 3-6 11, Daniels 1-5 1-1 4, Hawes
2-6 0-0 5, Hansbrough 1-2 3-4 5, Gutierrez
1-1 1-2 3. Totals 37-93 17-22 105.
DETROIT — Harris 1-7 5-5 7, Morris 8-14
1-3 20, Drummond 9-14 0-2 18, Jackson 619 5-5 17, Caldwell-Pope 8-13 3-4 21, Tolliver 4-9 0-0 11, Johnson 1-4 0-0 2, Blake
0-3 0-0 0, Baynes 5-8 6-7 16, Bullock 0-0
0-0 0. Totals 42-91 20-26 112.
Charlotte
24 32 20 29—105
Detroit
36 36 26 14—112
Three-Point Goals—Charlotte 14-30
(Walker 6-9, Lamb 2-3, Lee 2-4, Hawes
1-1, Kaminsky 1-2, Batum 1-3, Daniels
1-3, Williams 0-2, Lin 0-3), Detroit 8-30
(Morris 3-7, Tolliver 3-7, Caldwell-Pope
2-4, Johnson 0-1, Blake 0-2, Harris 0-4,
Jackson 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Charlotte 47 (Batum, Jefferson
7), Detroit 69 (Drummond 14). Assists—
Charlotte 24 (Batum 7), Detroit 22 (Jackson 7). Total Fouls—Charlotte 21, Detroit
22. Technicals—Detroit defensive three
second. A—17,209 (22,076).
Nuggets 116, Lakers 105
DENVER — Sampson 4-9 2-2 11, Arthur
1-8 2-2 4, Jokic 4-9 0-0 8, Mudiay 3-8 3-4
9, Harris 6-13 0-1 13, Nurkic 7-11 4-6 18,
Barton 7-12 1-2 16, Lauvergne 4-10 1-1 9,
Augustin 6-9 3-6 20, Toupane 3-5 0-0 8.
Totals 45-94 16-24 116.
L.A. LAKERS — Bryant 10-22 4-5 28,
Randle 6-10 1-2 13, Hibbert 1-5 3-4 5, Russell 1-4 0-0 2, Clarkson 8-16 0-0 20, Williams 4-8 4-6 14, Bass 2-5 6-6 10, Nance Jr.
2-6 0-0 4, Huertas 1-3 0-0 2, World Peace
2-6 3-3 7. Totals 37-85 21-26 105.
Denver
24 34 25 33—116
L.A. Lakers
31 15 31 28—105
Three-Point Goals—Denver 10-26 (Augustin 5-7, Toupane 2-4, Sampson 1-1,
Barton 1-3, Harris 1-4, Nurkic 0-1, Mudiay
0-1, Arthur 0-1, Lauvergne 0-2, Jokic 02), L.A. Lakers 10-23 (Clarkson 4-7, Bryant
4-9, Williams 2-3, Huertas 0-1, Nance Jr.
0-1, World Peace 0-2). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Denver 59 (Jokic 12), L.A. Lakers 51 (Randle 18). Assists—Denver 31
(Augustin 8), L.A. Lakers 23 (Randle 10).
Total Fouls—Denver 22, L.A. Lakers 19.
Technicals—Nurkic, Clarkson. A—18,997
(18,997).
DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP
Houston’s James Harden, right, and the Raptors’ Norman Powell
chase a loose ball on Friday in Houston. The Rockets won 112-109.
M ARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ /AP
Golden State’s Klay Thompson follows through on a three-pointer
during Friday’s 128-120 win over the Dallas Mavericks in Oakland,
Calif. Thompson led the Warriors with 40 points.
Roundup
Thompson, Curry
lead Golden State
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Klay
Thompson scored 40 points and
Stephen Curry added 33 to help
the Golden State Warriors become the second team to post
back-to-back 65-win seasons with
a 128-120 victory over the Dallas
Mavericks on Friday night.
Draymond Green added 19
as the Warriors won their 52nd
straight regular-season home
game and improve their record to
65-7 following a 67-win season a
year ago. The only other team to
win at least 65 games in consecutive seasons was Chicago in 199596 and 1996-97.
Golden State hit 21 three-pointers to give them a record 938 on
the season, breaking the mark of
933 set by Houston last season.
Dallas hit 18 threes as the teams
combined for a record 39 on the
night.
Spurs 110, Grizzlies 104:
LaMarcus Aldridge had 32 points
and 12 rebounds and San Antonio beat similarly short-handed
Memphis to match the best home
start in league history with its
37th victory in a row.
San Antonio’s streak tied the
season-opening mark set by the
Chicago Bulls in 1995-96 during
their record 72-victory season.
The Spurs have won 46 consecutive regular-season games at
home, dating to March 2015.
Timberwolves 132, Wizards
129 (2OT): Karl-Anthony Towns
had 27 points and 10 rebounds and
visiting Minnesota dealt a blow to
Washington’s playoff hopes.
The 10th-place Wizards fell
3 ½ games behind Detroit for the
Eastern Conference’s eighth and
final playoff spot.
Rockets 112, Raptors 109:
James Harden had his third triple-double this season with 32
points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds
as Houston beat visiting Toronto
to snap a three-game skid.
Pistons 112, Hornets 105:
Andre Drummond had 18 points
and 14 rebounds and Detroit
overwhelmed visiting Charlotte
with its highest-scoring first half
of the season en route to a win.
Heat 108, Magic 97: Hassan Whiteside scored 26 points,
grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked
five shots to lead host Miami past
Orlando.
Nuggets 116, Lakers 105:
D.J. Augustin scored 20 points
and Jusuf Nurkic added a careerhigh 18 in Denver’s victory over
host Los Angeles.
Hawks 101, Bucks 90: Jeff
Teague scored 12 of his 18 points
in the fourth quarter and Atlanta
overcame poor three-point shooting to beat visiting Milwaukee.
Kings 116, Suns 94: DeMarcus Cousins had 29 points and 11
rebounds and host Sacramento
beat Phoenix.
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WOMEN’S NCAA TOURNAMENT
Syracuse stuns top
seed South Carolina
Butler leads Orange to first regional final
BY ERIC OLSON
Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Syracuse coach
Quentin Hillsman delivered a direct message to Brianna Butler at halftime.
“You’ve got to hit some shots,” he told his
star guard, “or we’re going home.”
Butler hit some shots, all right, and
Syracuse is staying another couple days
in South Dakota after upsetting No. 1 seed
South Carolina 80-72 in the Sioux Falls
Regional semifinal of the women’s NCAA
Tournament on Friday night.
Butler scored 10 of her 18 points in the
fourth quarter, including the go-ahead
three-pointer with 3:01 left, to send the
fourth-seeded Orange to a regional final
for the first time.
Syracuse trailed by as many as 13 late in
the first half and was still down 11 in the
middle of the third quarter before coming
back to stun a Gamecocks team that looked
destined to make another appearance in
the Final Four. South Carolina got into
early foul trouble and never could finish
off the Orange.
“Even though we did get the lead, we
were just off,” South Carolina coach Dawn
Staley said. “We were just not in sync. They
did a good job at winning the game.”
Alexis Peterson scored 25 points to lead
the Orange (28-7), who won for the 14th
time in 15 games. Brittney Sykes added 17
and Briana Day had 13 rebounds.
Alaina Coates had 18 points and 16 rebounds for South Carolina (33-2), whose
only other loss was to UConn. A’ja Wilson
had 15 points and 10 rebounds, and Tina
Roy added 17 points off the bench for the
Gamecocks.
Butler, the NCAA active leader in career
three-pointers, made just six of her last 35
attempts from beyond the arc coming into
the game, and she got off to a slow start
against the Gamecocks. Her pull-up jumper tied it at 61, and her three-pointer gave
the Orange the lead for good after Coates
converted an entry pass from Tiffany
Mitchell for a two-point lead. Butler’s last
three-pointer made it 74-68 with 1:11 left.
“I have to give the credit to my teammates and coaches,” Butler said. “They
gave me the confidence to come out in the
second half and fire. Lex told me they’re
going to fall.”
The Orange’s zone defense sagged on
star post players Wilson and Coates, giving Roy, Mitchell and Bianca Cuevas open
looks from the perimeter. The Gamecocks
attempted a season-high 32 three-pointers,
but made only eight.
“When we were going through our scout,
(Hillsman) said to limit their touches on
the inside,” Sykes said. “They’re going to
find a way to get the ball inside, and we had
to limit that and guard the perimeter to the
best of our ability.”
Wilson, Coates and Sarah Imovbioh
were a combined 17-for-22 from the field
— a telling statistic, Staley said.
“We took the bait,” she said. “Our post
players are 17-for-22 from the floor, 41
points. Shooting at that percentage, we
should have been trying to get that ball inside a lot more than we did.”
C HARLIE NEIBERGALL /AP
Syracuse guard Cornelia Fondren, center, fights for the ball with South Carolina’s A’ja
Wilson, left, and Alaina Coates during Friday’s regional semifinal in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Roundup
Scoreboard
Huskies knock off No. 3 seed Wildcats
Associated Press
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Washington’s “Big
Three” have the Huskies on the verge of their
biggest moment ever in women’s basketball.
Talia Walton, Chantel Osahor and Kelsey
Plum combined for 72 points Friday night and
the seventh-seeded Huskies upset No. 3 seed
Kentucky 85-72 in an NCAA Lexington Regional semifinal. They’re the same three players who have scored nearly three-quarters of
Washington’s points this season.
“It puts a lot of pressure on them to understand they have to perform every night, night
in and night out, for them to continue to do it
and pick each other up,” Washington coach
Mike Neighbors said. “This is the first time
all three of them have played that well on the
same night. That’s what you’re supposed to do
when you get to this point.”
Now they want to lead Washington (25-10)
to its first Final Four appearance in school
history. The Huskies play in the regional final
Sunday against No. 4 seed Stanford (27-7).
The Huskies relied on the same three players who have led them all season.
Walton scored 30 points to lead the way.
Osahor had 19 points, 17 rebounds and five
assists. Plum added 23 points, seven assists
and six rebounds. They combined for eight
three-pointers.
Stanford 90, Notre Dame 84: At Lexington, Ky., Erica McCall scored a career-high
Lindsay Allen scored 20 points for Notre
Dame. Brianna Turner added 16 points — all
in the second half — and 10 rebounds. Cable
had 12 points.
Kaylee Johnson had 17 points and 12 rebounds for Stanford, which shot 55.9 percent
(33-for-59) from the floor. Lili Thompson and
Marta Sniezek each added 11 points.
Sioux Fallas Regional
JAMES C RISP/AP
Kentucky’s Batouly Camara, left, looks
for an opening on Washington’s Chantel
Osahor during Friday’s regional semifinal in
Lexington, Ky. Washington won 85-72.
27 points and the fourth-seeded Cardinal
stunned the top-seeded Fighting Irish in the
other Lexington Regional semifinal.
Stanford (27-7) advanced to the regional
final Sunday against No. 7 seed Washington.
Stanford beat Washington during the regular
season and lost to the Huskies in the Pac-12
Tournament.
Tennessee 78, Ohio State 62: At Sioux
Falls, S.D., Mercedes Russell scored a careerhigh 25 points and grabbed 15 rebounds and
the Lady Vols continued their surprising run
with a victory over Ohio State in a regional
semifinal.
The Lady Vols (22-13), who upset No. 2
seed Arizona State last Sunday, beat the No.
3 Buckeyes (26-8) to reach the Elite Eight for
the fifth time in six years. They’ll play Sunday against No. 4 Syracuse, which stunned
top-seeded South Carolina 80-72 in the first
semifinal.
Russell finished 12-for-16 from the field,
and Bashaara Graves, who was 6-for-9, had 14
points and nine rebounds. Te’a Cooper added
16 points and Jaime Nared had 11 rebounds.
Tennessee outrebounded the Buckeyes 5326 and outscored them 50-22 in the paint.
Ameryst Alston led the Buckeyes with 21
points and Kelsey Mitchell had 20 while playing all 40 minutes.
Bridgeport Regional
Regional Semifinals
At Bridgeport, Conn.
Saturday, March 26
UConn (34-0) vs. Mississippi State (28-7)
UCLA (26-8) vs. Texas (30-4)
Regional Championship
Monday, March 28
Semifinal winners
Dallas Regional
Regional Semifinals
Saturday, March 26
At Dallas
Baylor (35-1) vs. Florida State (25-7)
DePaul (27-8) vs. Oregon State (30-4)
Regional Championship
Monday, March 28
Semifinal winners
Sioux Falls Regional
Regional Semifinals
Friday, March 25
At Sioux Falls, S.D.
Syracuse 80, South Carolina 72
Tennessee 78, Ohio State 62
Regional Championship
Sunday, March 27
Syracuse (28-7) vs. Tennessee (22-13)
Lexington Regional
Regional Semifinals
Friday, March 25
At Lexington, Ky.
Washington 85, Kentucky 72
Stanford 90, Notre Dame 84
Regional Championship
Sunday, March 27
Washington (25-10) vs. Stanford (27-7)
Final Four
At Indianapolis
National Semifinals
Sunday, April 3
Bridgeport champion vs. Dallas champion
Sioux Falls champion vs. Lexington
champion
National Championship
Tuesday, April 5
Semifinals winners
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NCAA TOURNAMENT: EAST REGION
No. 1 UNC routs Hoosiers
Paige scores 21
to lead Tar Heels
BY JIM O’CONNELL
Associated Press
C HRIS SZAGOLA /AP
North Carolina’s Brice Johnson goes up for a dunk past Indiana’s OG
Anunoby during Friday’s 101-86 Sweet 16 win over the Hoosiers.
PHILADELPHIA — Marcus
Paige scored 21 points and North
Carolina continued its offensive
prowess, moving to the Elite
Eight for the 20th time since 1975
with a 101-86 victory over Indiana on Friday night in the East
Regional.
The top-seeded Tar Heels (316) will meet sixth-seeded Notre
Dame on Sunday, determining
one of two guaranteed Atlantic
Coast Conference spots in the
Final Four. The Fighting Irish
beat Wisconsin 61-56 on Friday.
It will be the same case in the
Midwest Regional, where topseeded Virginia will face 10thseeded Syracuse, meaning at least
half the Final Four will be from
the ACC. Since the East and Midwest champions play in the Final
Four, the conference will have a
team play for the national title.
Brice Johnson had 20 points
and 10 rebounds for the Tar
Heels, who are in the regional
final for the seventh time in coach
Roy Williams’ 12 years and for
the first time since 2012.
Yogi Ferrell had 25 points to
lead Indiana (27-8) while Troy
Williams added 21.
Kennedy Meeks had 15 points
for the Tar Heels while Justin
Jackson and Joel Berry II both
had 14.
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Indiana’s Troy Williams, left, and Thomas Bryant sit on the bench
during the final minutes of Friday’s loss to North Carolina in the
regional semifinals of the NCAA Tournament in Philadelphia.
North Carolina (31-6)
vs. Notre Dame (24-11)
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“A lot of people have been saying, ‘Carolina’s not shooting the
ball well outside,’ ” Berry said.
“We have capable shooters outside. We have the shooters, it’s just
we want to play inside out and not
force so many threes. Sometimes
you can rely on threes so much,
you get away from learning how
to score inside.”
Paige finished with six threes,
tying the North Carolina NCAA
Tournament record set by Shammond Williams in 1998.
“You can’t worry about other
teams,” Berry said. “We’re going
to continue playing the way we’re
playing and it’ll take care of
ourselves.”
North Carolina has scored at
least 83 points in each of its three
NCAA Tournament games and
the Tar Heels kept up their incredible shooting from the second-round win over Providence
when they shot 60.7 percent in the
second half (17-for-28).
Irish hold off Badgers for berth in Elite Eight
BY DAN GELSTON
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Wisconsin was
minutes away from keeping a third straight
Final Four berth in sight.
The Badgers lost the ball in crunch time
and fumbled away their shot at March
history.
Demetrius Jackson stripped the ball
and scored the go-ahead layup with 14.7
seconds left and Notre Dame advanced to
the brink of its first Final Four in 38 years
with a 61-56 win over Wisconsin on Friday
night in the East Regional semifinal of the
NCAA Tournament.
Jackson sealed the win with a second
steal — credit this win to the Pluck of the
Irish — and sank two free throws to send
the Irish (24-11) into a regional final for the
second straight season.
Notre Dame lost to Kentucky a year ago.
This year, the Irish will get a shot at topseeded North Carolina on Sunday.
“Maybe there’s some destiny involved in
this thing,” coach Mike Brey said.
Or maybe a higher power?
“The Irish don’t lose on Good Friday or
Easter Sunday,” Brey told his team in the
locker room. “Can I get an ‘Amen’?”
Wisconsin must have had some other
words in mind.
Both of these teams needed last-second
game-winning shots in the second round to
advance to the Sweet 16.
After a plodding 30 minutes, the dramatics Friday night came right on time.
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Wisconsin’s Zak Showalter, left, and Notre Dame’s Zach Auguste vie for position on a
rebound during the second half of Friday’s game in the regional semifinals of the NCAA
Tournament in Philadelphia. Notre Dame won 61-56.
With a third straight Final Four berth at
stake, Vitto Brown’s three-pointer with 26
seconds left put the Badgers (22-13) up 5653. But the winning formula that helped
the Badgers upset undefeated Kentucky a
year ago was nowhere to be found in the
final 2 minutes. A season of upheaval that
included longtime coach Bo Ryan’s retire-
ment in December ended with a dud of a
performance in Philadelphia.
Ethan Happ led the Badgers with 14
points and 12 boards. Wisconsin star Nigel
Hayes was a non-factor, scoring 11 points
on just 4-for-12 shooting.
“I didn’t think I did a good enough job
finishing around the rim,” Hayes said.
V.J. Beachem scored 19 points, Zach Auguste had 13 points and 12 rebounds and
Jackson scored 16 points as the Irish have
their first Final Four since 1978 in sight.
With Hayes slumping, Wisconsin let
the Irish hang around and make a run
even with the kind of gory shooting numbers that would have had them blown out
against a Villanova or Kansas.
Yet the Irish tied it at 34 on Jackson’s
runner and Auguste had a monster block
from behind on Hayes that sparked some
life into a stagnant game. Hayes snapped
the tie with a three the next time down
and a snoozer suddenly felt like March
Madness. Hayes had missed 20 straight
three-pointers.
Zak Showalter flew out of nowhere — the
lane? the sky? — and slammed home a miss
that put the Badgers up 39-38.
The Badgers needed more of the same —
but were doomed by off-kilter three-point
shooting (6-for-20) and 17 turnovers.
“We never quite got to where we needed to get taking care of the ball all year,”
coach Greg Gard said. “And part of it is our
youth. Part of it is things we’ve still got to
mature through and grow.”
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NCAA TOURNAMENT: MIDWEST REGIONAL
Syracuse
holds off
Gonzaga
BY JAY COHEN
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Every part of it paid off for
Syracuse. The Orange learned and persevered during a trying season.
When Michael Gbinije and company got
in trouble Friday night, they were ready.
Gbinije made a go-ahead layup with 22
seconds left, and Syracuse advanced to its
10th Elite Eight under Boeheim with a 6360 victory over Gonzaga in the Midwest
Regional semifinals.
Tyler Lydon sealed the win with a block
on Josh Perkins’ runner in the final seconds. Lydon then grabbed the ball and
made two foul shots before Domantas Sabonis’ desperate fling was well off at the
buzzer.
“These guys have fought all year, and
every game we’ve been behind, we’ve been
in some tough situations, and they’ve battled through them all year,” Boeheim said.
Next up is an all-ACC matchup with Virginia on Sunday for a spot in the Final Four.
The Orange lost 73-65 to the Cavaliers on
Jan. 24, but that was a long time ago.
Syracuse’s rocky season included a ninegame suspension for Boeheim as part of an
NCAA investigation that found a history of
improper benefits and academic misconduct stretching back years. Then the Orange dropped five of six down the stretch,
putting their spot in the NCAA Tournament in jeopardy.
So when 10th-seeded Syracuse trailed
Gonzaga 57-48 late in the second half, the
Orange were just fine. They turned to their
aggressive full-court pressure to shut down
the Bulldogs and storm into their first regional final since 2013.
Gbinije scored 20 points and Trevor
Cooney had 15 for Syracuse (22-13), which
shot 36.1 percent from the field, but forced
17 Gonzaga turnovers. Tyler Roberson
added nine points and 12 rebounds.
Kyle Wiltjer had 23 points for No. 11
Gonzaga (28-8), and Sabonis finished with
19 points, 17 rebounds and five blocked
shots. The rest of the Bulldogs accounted
for just 18 points.
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Syracuse’s Tyler Lydon, left, battles for
a rebound with Gonzaga’s Silas Melson,
center, and Domantas Sabonis during the
first half of Friday’s Midwest Regional
semifinal in Chicago.
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Virginia’s Marial Shayok, right, drives against Iowa State’s Matt Thomas during Friday’s Midwest Regional semifinal in Chicago.
Virginia whips Iowa State
Gill’s 23 points lead way for Cavaliers
BY A NDREW SELIGMAN
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Tony Bennett was spending time in the hotel room with his father,
Dick, when the old coach had a question.
“He said, ‘You know what your grandfather would tell you?’ He’d tell you, ‘Don’t
tiptoe into this one. No tiptoeing,’ ” Bennett
said.
All Virginia did was stomp on Iowa State
on Friday night.
Anthony Gill finished with a season-high
23 points, and Mike Tobey came off the
bench to score 18, leading the top-seeded
Cavaliers to an 84-71 victory in the Midwest Region semifinals.
They withstood a second-half push by
the fourth-seeded Cyclones (23-12) after
grabbing a big lead early and advanced to
their first regional final since 1995.
Virginia (29-7) will face Syracuse — a
63-60 winner over Gonzaga — on Sunday.
A win would send the Cavaliers to their
first Final Four since 1984 and give both
Bennetts the distinction of leading teams
there. Dick coached Wisconsin to one in
2000.
“I feel like we’ve just gotten better and
better,” ACC Player of the Year Malcolm
Brogdon said. “We’ve battled through
our ups and downs, and it’s a huge
accomplishment.”
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Georges Niang had another big game for
Iowa State, finishing with 30 points after
scoring 28 against both Iona and Arkansas-Little Rock in the first two rounds, but
he also committed four fouls.
For the Cyclones, an up-and-down first
season under coach Steve Prohm ended on
a disappointing note. With a chance to go
farther than they ever did under predecessor Fred Hoiberg, they never could recover
from a flat start in the arena where “The
Mayor” now coaches the Chicago Bulls despite a fast tempo that was to their liking.
“We have a lot to hold our heads high
for,” forward Jameel McKay said. “But
right now, it’s obvious we’re going to be
down.”
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Cyclones head coach Steve Prohm, right,
talks to Iowa State’s Georges Niang
during the final seconds of the game.
Iowa State got outscored 52-36 in the
paint, with Gill finishing two points shy of
a career high and Tobey missing his personal best by one. Gill had eight rebounds
while Tobey grabbed seven.
Those two were big reasons the Cavaliers shot just over 56 percent.
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Oregon coach backs
player’s celebration
Brooks’ late three, excitement irks Coach K
BY A BBEY M ASTRACCO
Associated Press
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Oregon forward Dillon Brooks, right, celebrates during the first half of Thursday’s
West Regional semifinal against Duke in Anaheim, Calif. Oregon won 79-68.
Scoreboard
East Regional
At Philadelphia
Regional Semifinals
Friday, March 25
Notre Dame 61, Wisconsin 56
North Carolina 101, Indiana 86
Regional Championship
Sunday, March 27
Notre Dame (24-11) vs. North Carolina
(31-6)
South Regional
At Louisville, Ky.
Regional Semifinals
Thursday, March 24
Villanova 92, Miami 69
Kansas 79, Maryland 63
Regional Championship
Saturday, March 26
Villanova (32-5) vs. Kansas (33-4)
Midwest Regional
At Chicago
Regional Semifinals
Friday, March 25
Virginia 84, Iowa State 71
Syracuse 63, Gonzaga 60
Regional Championship
Sunday, March 27
Virginia (29-7) vs. Syracuse (22-13)
West Regional
At Anaheim, Calif.
Regional Semifinals
Thursday, March 24
Oklahoma 77, Texas A&M 63
Oregon 82, Duke 68
Regional Championship
Saturday, March 26
Oklahoma (28-7) vs. Oregon (31-6)
Final Four
At Houston
National Semifinals
Saturday, April 2
South champion vs. West champion
East champion vs. Midwest champion
National Championship
Monday, April 4
Semifinal winners
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Oregon head coach
Dana Altman says that if anyone has a
problem with Dillon Brooks’ late-game
shooting choices or celebrations, they
should come to him.
Altman spoke up for his leading scorer
Friday after Brooks’ celebration of his
last-minute three-pointer and a postgame conversation with Duke coach Mike
Krzyzewski drew almost more attention
than the top-seeded Ducks advancing to
the Elite Eight.
With Oregon up 79-68 in the final eight
seconds of the NCAA West Regional semifinal on Thursday, Brooks took a long
three-pointer with the shot clock expiring.
He made it and apparently celebrated a
little too hard for the Blue Devils’ liking,
even attempting to goad Duke guard Grayson Allen into a celebration with him.
It became a controversy overnight.
“At the end of the game, there was a
difference in the shot clock and the game
clock,” Altman said. “I told Dillon to shoot
it. So if anybody’s got a problem with it, it
should be directed at me. He was acting
on my orders. I told him to shoot it. I didn’t
think he’d make it. It was a 30-footer, but
there was a five-, six-second difference
there.”
The cameras caught a postgame exchange between Krzyzewski, who appeared to say something to Brooks about
the celebration.
“He just told me that I’m too good of a
player to be showing out at the end,” Brooks
said in the locker room following the game.
“And he’s right. I’ve got to respect Duke.”
But Krzyzewski disputed Brooks’ account of the postgame message, appearing
angry when it was brought up.
“I didn’t say that,” Krzyzewski said.
“You can say whatever you want. Dillon
Brooks is a hell of a player. I said, ‘You’re a
terrific player.’ And you can take whatever
he said and go with it, all right?”
Brooks expressed remorse Friday when
he realized how much attention had been
given to the inconsequential basket.
“Me and Coach K, that conversation
should have stayed with us,” Brooks said.
“But overall, me and Coach K are both professionals and I have to move on from this
situation and focus on Oklahoma.”
Brooks doesn’t make any attempt to hide
his fiery persona on the court. He acknowledges that his brash play occasionally is
detrimental, but has learned to harness it
into productive play for the most part.
Yet Brooks doesn’t plan to tone himself
down in the West final against Oklahoma.
He said he’ll bring the same energy that
he’s brought all year.
“It’s been a hassle all of my life to figure
out how to channel it and find ways to put it
to great use,” Brooks said. “I feel like I’ve
found a way and I have to bring it every
day. I can’t pull it back because I’ve tried
that already and it hasn’t worked to any
good extent. I’ve just got to keep playing
with emotion and live or die by it.”
Elite: Syracuse’s Boeheim refuses to gloat
FROM BACK PAGE
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said the
ACC was certainly “tough” but didn’t gloat
about the league’s dominance in the aftermath of his team’s comeback win over
Gonzaga.
“I learned a long time ago that it’s a foolish game to say one league is better than
the other,” Boeheim said. “There’s just too
many variables. I think the top conferences are very, very good, and it’s an imperfect system to say, well, they did better in
the NCAA Tournament.”
Here are a few more nuggets as the
NCAA Tournament hits the Elite Eight
round:
Plenty of Perry: Kansas fans have heard
about senior Perry Ellis for a very long
time.
Ellis was a Kansas high school star and
coach Bill Self attended his first high school
game in 2008 while laying the groundwork
for his recruitment.
Now the 6-foot-8 Ellis is in the final days
of an outstanding career — his 1,794 career points are eighth career at Kansas
and he recently passed Paul Pierce on the
scoring list. The Jayhawks faced Villanova
on Saturday.
Ellis has saved some his best basketball
for the past month. He’s scored at least 20
points in seven of his last eight games.
“Just trying to do whatever I can to win
— that’s all I’m trying to do,” Ellis said.
Villanova’s scorching the nets: It’s hard
to find a team as hot as Villanova right
now.
The Wildcats are shooting nearly 60 percent from the field in three NCAA Tournament wins and have scored at least 86
points in all of them.
“They’re probably playing as well as
anybody that we’ve gone against in recent
memory, at least that I can recall,” Self
said. “They’re on fire right now.”
Buddy time: Oklahoma’s star guard
Buddy Hield met Los Angeles Lakers
guard Kobe Bryant after Thursday’s win
over Texas A&M.
Now, he hoped to do his best Kobe impression when the Sooners met Oregon on
Saturday for a chance to go to the Final
Four.
“He’s one of my idols I grew up watching, one of the guys I looked up to,” Hield
said. “And I try to copy and mimic his work
ethic. I am just happy I got to meet Kobe and
he said a couple words of encouragement.”
Hield had a down game by his lofty standards in Oklahoma’s 77-63 win over Texas
A&M, finishing with 17 points and 10 rebounds. The prolific shooter is averaging
more than 25 points per game.
Oregon expected to get Hield’s best.
“He’s just a great athlete, and he can
keep backing up,” Oregon coach Dana Altman said. “He moves so well without the
ball that it’s hard to keep up with him.”
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North Carolina advanced to its seventh Elite Eight
in 12 seasons under coach Roy Williams.
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Syracuse’s Malachi
Richardson reacts in
the closing seconds
of Friday’s Midwest
Regional semifinal
victory over Gonzaga
in Chicago.
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Top seed South Carolina fall to Syracuse
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ELITE ACC
Conference places four
teams in regional finals
BY DAVID BRANDT
Associated Press
That was quite a show by the Atlantic Coast
Conference.
Now the league is set up for quite the showcase
on Sunday in the Elite Eight.
There were four games in the Sweet 16 on Friday night and all of them involved one ACC team.
Sure enough, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Virginia and Syracuse all prevailed.
The four victories mean it’ll be an all-ACC showdown on Sunday when Notre Dame meets North
Carolina and Virginia faces Syracuse. It also means
the league will have two Final Four representatives
in Houston and one in the championship game.
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Notre Dame’s Demetrius Jackson, right, celebrates with teammates
during the final seconds of Friday’s regional semifinal in Philadelphia.
Notre Dame won 61-56, joining Atlantic Coast Conference brethren
Syracuse, North Carolina and Virginia in the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight.