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Above: Twin brothers Omar, left, and Yohel Ramos, both serving in the Army Reserve on Puerto Rico, greet a friend, Liximag Rodriguez, in their hometown of Morovis. The two soldiers were part of a contingent of U.S. servicemembers helping with a food and water humanitarian distribution mission Tuesday.

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BY DIANNA CAHN

Stars and Stripes

MOROVIS, Puerto Rico — There’s no power coming into this town. Since Sept. 20, the people don’t have running water. One per-son — a teacher at the high school — heard the power won’t be re-stored here until May.

But that’s not what’s keeping the big high school in this town of 32,000 from recovering from Hurricane Maria.

The Department of Education won’t let the school reopen because of the downed power lines blocking the property, said Rita Jusino Del Pozo, principal of Jaime A. Collaza High School in Morovis mu-nicipality, 45 miles southwest of San Juan.

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Puerto Rico natives among reservists delivering aid to storm-ravaged island

General’s promotion stalled by Army review

BY JOHN VANDIVER

Stars and Stripes

STUTTGART, Germany — Maj. Gen. Ryan Gonsalves, whorecently commanded the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th InfantryDivision, is under review follow-ing an Army finding that he mis-treated a congressional staffer.

Gonsalves, who was consideredto be in contention to serve as thenext head of U.S. Army Europe, is now serving as a “special assis-tant to the commanding general,III Corps.”

“General Gonsalves was sub-stantiated for a failure to treat acongressional staffer with digni-ty and respect,” the Army said in a statement. “That finding is cur-rently under review to determinewhat, if any, further action will be taken.”

The Army did not provide addi-tional details about the nature ofthe incident or the congressional staff member who was involved.Gonsalves could not be reached for immediate comment.

In July, Gonsalves was nomi-nated for a third star by the Army but that nomination has stalled asthe investigation plays out.

Allegations of misconduct bygeneral officers have become anembarrassing scourge for themilitary, with several misstepsgarnering headlines. SEE REVIEW ON PAGE 10

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BY DAN ELLIOTT

Associated Press

DENVER — Racial slurs post-ed outside the dorm rooms of five black students at the Air Force Academy were written by one of those students, the school said Tuesday.

The announcement was a jar-ring turn in an episode that prompted the academy’s super-intendent to warn students that racists were not welcome at the school — a speech that attracted nationwide attention.

The student is no longer at the school, the academy said. A spokesman declined to say wheth-er the student withdrew or was expelled, citing privacy laws. The student’s name wasn’t released.

The slurs were found in Septem-ber at a dormitory that houses stu-dents attending the academy’s prep school. The prep school is on the academy grounds but not part of

the four-year academy program. It helps promising students meet the academy’s entrance requirements.

In a written statement Tuesday, the academy said, “We can con-firm that one of the cadet candi-dates who was allegedly targeted by racist remarks written outside of their dorm room was actu-ally responsible for the act. The individual admitted responsibil-ity and this was validated by the investigation.”

The statement added, “Racism has no place at the academy, in any shape or form.”

Academy superintendent Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria gave his stern speech to cadets shortly after the slurs were reported. A video of the speech was posted online and has been viewed thousands of times.

“If you can’t treat someone with dignity and respect, get out,” he said.

At one point, he insisted that everyone in the audience take out

their phones and record him so his message was clearly heard.

The slurs appeared in the after-math of racial violence in Charlot-tesville, V a., and amid a debate about NFL players kneeling for the national anthem.

“We would also be tone deaf not to think about the backdrop of what is going on in our country,” Silveria told cadets.

Silveria stood by his speech Tuesday, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported.

“Regardless of the circumstanc-es under which those words were written, they were written, and

that deserved to be addressed,” he said in an email to the newspaper. “You can never overemphasize the need for a culture of dignity and respect — and those who don’t understand those concepts aren’t welcome here.”

Silveria, a veteran fighter pilot who directed the air war in the Middle East, took command at the school in August. He graduated from the academy in 1985 .

The academy has struggled with sexual misconduct problems several times in recent years, but few racial incidents have been made public.

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Air Force Academy superintendent Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria speaks about race relations to cadets in September . The academy sa ys racial slurs posted outside black students’ dorm rooms were written by one of those students.

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SAN DIEGO — A Marine cor-poral will serve a year in the brig after pleading guilty to negligenthomicide and reckless drivingin a 2015 accident in which a 7-ton truck flipped during routinetraining at California’s CampPendleton, killing one Marine andinjuring 18 others.

The Marine Corps Times re-ported Tuesday that a militaryjudge sentenced Cpl. Bin Guo to4½ years in prison but that wasreduced to one year under a pre-trial agreement Guo reached with prosecutors.

Military defense attorney Maj.Nelson Candelario told the news-paper that Guo will also not receive any punitive discharge under theterms of the agreement.

Marines in the accident and theparents of Cpl. Bryan Lauw, 21,who was killed, testified at Guo’ssentencing last week.

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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Drivers may experience delays beginning next week when traffic near Einsiedlerhof is diverted for road work for a new industrial area.

On Nov. 16, a section of Pariserstrasse next to McDonald’s going toward Einsiedlerhof will

become a one-way street while drainage pipes are installed and a left-turn lane is built , the police squadron at Vogelweh said.

Traffic headed toward Einsiedlerhof from Kaiserslautern will be diverted at the McDon-ald’s intersection from the right lane to the left lane. Traffic toward Kaiserslautern will have

to turn right by Toyota Car World into Im Had-erwald and connect back onto Pariserstrasse at McDonald’s, the police squadron said.

Cars will still be able to use the Pulaski Gate for inbound and outbound traffic onto Vogelweh.

The roadwork is expected to end by Dec. 22.

Detour near Vogelweh base to begin next week

AF Academy: Racial slurs written by one who was ‘targeted’

Marine to serve 1 year in brig for fatal rollover

Ill. National Guard opens new aviation facility

KANKAKEE, Ill. — The Illinois National Guard has opened a new $64.6 million aviation facility and readiness center in Kankakee .

It includes maintenance hang ars, flight facilities, classrooms, flight simulators and a medical clinic.

Three units from Chicago Mid-way Armory will be moved to the facility, which was paid for with about $53 million in federal funds and $12 million from the state. From The Associated Press

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BY KIM GAMEL

Stars and Stripes

SEOUL, South Korea — The high school and the middle school on the main U.S. base in Seoul will be merged into one next year as the relocation of most military forces to southern hubs picks up speed.

The move is part of a series of changes at Yongsan Garrison as the population thins with many people moving south of Seoul to Camp Humphreys. The effort marked a major milestone in July when the 8th Army, a major com-mand component, opened its new headquarters at Humphreys.

Garrison commander Col. Scott Peterson said Wednesday that Yongsan’s population has fallen from 22,000 in May to 17,000. It’s

projected to drop to 11,000 in Au-gust, he told residents at a town hall meeting in the chapel.

Seoul American Middle School, which has 425 students, and Seoul American High School, which has 508, will be combined in August, officials said this week.

The new school with grades six through 12 will be called Seoul Middle High School and will be housed in the current high school building, a two-story brick com-plex that was completed in 1982.

“As a result of the Eighth Ar-my’s relocation to Camp Hum-phreys, the Seoul schools will continue to decrease in enroll-ment and size,” Marcelo Calero, a Department of Defense Edu-cation Activity spokesman, told Stars and Stripes.

“Combining the schools allows

us to provide the best possible education as every effort is being made to incorporate a seamless transition for students, while not sacrificing educational excel-lence,” he said in an email.

Calero said the high school was selected as the point of consolida-tion because it has adequate class-rooms and areas for art, music, physical education and science labs.

When asked if changes were planned for the elementary school, Calero said, “Seoul schools will continue to decrease in enroll-ment and size as the population decreases.”

Some parents have expressed concern about younger students mingling with those who are older. School officials said ef-forts will be made to keep the age

groups separate.South Korea and the United

States agreed in 2004 to move most U.S. forces, dependents and civilian contractors to an expand-ed Camp Humphreys. The effort has been delayed several times but has taken on a new urgency this year amid a growing nuclear and missile threat from North Korea.

Camp Humphreys, which has seen its population rise from about 12,000 last year to 26,000, has four schools.

Yongsan has been home to the main U.S. Forces Korea head-quarters since before the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice instead of a peace treaty, leaving the sides techni-cally in a state of war. The base also housed the Japanese army

that occupied Korea from 1910 to1945, and many of the buildingsremain from that era.

The U.S. maintains about 28,500 servicemembers in South Korea, along with tens of thou-sands of family members and ci-vilian contractors.

Peterson said some tough choices will have to be made ascommanders prioritize the Hum-phreys’ development. But he re-assured families that the Yongsan schools will be operational for the 2018-19 academic year at least.

“We’ll continue to provide ser-vices here proportionate to thepopulation,” he said, adding that “Yongsan has a shelf life. The fu-ture is Camp Humphreys.”

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BY JASON BEHNKE Stars and Stripes

MANAMA, Bahrain — After the Washington Redskins cheer-leaders performed a strenuous five-minute dance routine, squad captain Jordyn Ashley greeted a crowd of servicemembers and their families from the stage.

“I’m really excited to be back and thank you guys for what you do for our country,” she told the audience.

The squad, which dubs itself the “First Ladies of Football,” was wrapping up a 10-day tour of Southwest Asia with a visit to Naval Support Activity Bahrain on Tuesday.

The cheerleaders were joined by four former NFL players through-out the tour.

Carlos Bradley, fitness expert and former player for the Phila-delphia Eagles and San Diego Chargers, said the tour was in-tended to show support for the troops and “to let them know that health and wellness when they’re in the service and when they leave the service is very important.”

Since forming a partnership with the USO in 1966, the NFL has toured the world visiting troops.

This year is the first time they’ve made fitness and nutrition a part of their show. During the tour, the players and cheerleaders led group workouts and gave nu-tritional advice.

“It’s the little things that we can give them,” Bradley said. “The health tips, the nutritional tips we were able to give them. If we can help them a little bit in their daily

regime, that means the world to us.”

The evening show featured dance routines, pushups and dance competitions with audience members, as well as motivational speeches.

“I know it’s tough sometimes,” former Redskins player and two-time Super Bowl winner Mike Nelms told the crowd. “So if my coming here and shaking your hand brings you a little bit of day-light, it is truly an honor and privi-lege for me. I respect you, love you and appreciate what you do for us.”

The NFL cheerleaders and for-mer players will continue the tour of military installations through-out the year and into spring. behnke.jason@stripes.com

Washington Redskins cheerleaders and former NFL players take a bow after a performance Tuesday in Bahrain.

PHOTOS BY JASON BEHNKE/Stars and Stripes

A former NFL player helps lead a pushup competition for servicemembers Tuesday in Bahrain. Former players were joined by Washington Redskins cheerleaders during a 10-day tour of Southwest Asia.

Washington Redskins cheerleaders perform for a crowd of servicemembers and their families on Tuesday in Bahrain.

Yongsan Garrison schools to merge next fall

NFL tour promotes health and fitness in stop at Bahrain

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BY MARTIN EGNASH

Stars and Stripes

ILLESHEIM, Germany — Upgraded Apache helicopters have arrived for duty as the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, with the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, takes over the U.S. military in Europe’s rotational air mission.

The cavalry on Tuesday relieved the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, with the Army’s 10th Mountain Division out of Fort Drum, N.Y., which has been training with about 20 countries for nine months. The mission is part of Operation Atlantic Re-solve, America’s commitment to deter a resurgent Russia in Eastern Europe.

“This has been a fantastic experience for us, and I think [1ACB is] going to do very well out here,” said 10th CAB command-ing officer Col. Clair Gill.

The relieving soldiers brought 24 of the new Apache attack helicopters. The sol-diers are the only U.S. Army unit in Eu-rope with the upgraded helicopter.

According to the Army’s website, the “E” model is a complete rebuild of the AH-64D and includes an improved drive system, composite main rotor blades and a more powerful 701D GE engine; it also is fully digitized.

“Air cavalry troopers bring flexibility and lethality to the mission,” said 1ACB commanding officer Col. Cain Baker. “The (brigade) will deter aggression and pro-vide strength to our friends and allies in Europe.”

Baker, who spent much of his childhood

in Germany, said he looks forward to his unit’s nine-month rotation in Europe. “I think this is a great mission and a good test for our soldiers,” he said.

The 10th CAB sent its last troops home Wednesday. As the first Army aviation brigade rotating in Europe for Atlantic Resolve, 10th CAB soldiers boosted the number of helicopters readily available in Eastern Europe. One difficulty the brigade faced in working with so many allies was the time it took to move helicopters across international borders.

“Every country we work with is a sov-ereign nation, with their own laws, and we respect that,” Gill said. “What we would like to do is be able to go from one country

to the other without all of the paperwork of crossing borders, like the Schengen Agreement.”

Such an agreement has also been advo-cated by Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, U.S. Army Europe’s commander. The brigade worked with allies to reduce the tedious paperwork involved in border crossings, Gill said.

“Without fuel, supplies and parts, we’reonly good for about one flight,” Gill said. “While we haven’t completely solved all our problems, we’ve addressed a lot of the problems, and I think we’ve made it easierfor those coming in after us.”egnash.martin@stripes.comTwitter: @Marty_Stripes

EUROPE

Latest Apaches arrive with 1st Air Cavalry

PHOTOS BY MARTIN EGNASH/Stars and Stripes

Col. Cain Baker, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade commanding officer, stands with an AH-64E Apache helicopter after the handover ceremony at Illesheim, Germany, on Tuesday .

Soldiers with the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade are returning to Fort Drum, N.Y.

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BY NIKKI WENTLING

Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON — Cameras attached to the monitor of psy-chologist Harrison Weinstein’s computer project his image to patients far from his office on the Department of Veterans Affairs campus in Salt Lake City.

Weinstein — who’s part of a post-traumatic stress disorder team in Salt Lake City — and VA doctors across the country use telehealth capabilities to reach veterans they otherwise couldn’t treat. Sometimes, they’re truck drivers who reach him from a rest stop in rural Utah, Weinstein said. In other instances, he helps understaffed or overburdened clinics as far away as Louisiana by treating veterans through telecommunication.

“It’s been one of those things that was coming for a long time, and we knew it was just around the corner,” Weinstein said. “We’ve turned that corner. It’s only going to grow from here.”

The VA introduced telehealth more than a decade ago. In 2016, the agency reported about 677,000 patients — 12 percent of the vet-erans enrolled in VA health care — used telehealth in some form. Under legislation the House of Representatives passed Tuesday,

that could expand significantly.The Veterans E-Health and

Telemedicine Support Act would allow VA doctors to treat patients across state lines, carving out an exemption to state licensing requirements. If the exemption were implemented, VA providers would be able to reach more vet-erans who lack access to VA facil-ities — and more veterans could be treated in their homes.

When doctors treat veterans in different states through tele-health now, the patient and pro-vider must be on federal property — meaning veterans are still re-quired to drive to their nearest VA clinic.

“As long as they’re on a fed-eral facility, I can be licensed anywhere and see them,” Wein-stein said. “But locally, if I have a veteran in rural Utah, we will

do telehealth to home. They can be sitting in their living room at home, and we can do therapy that way. If it’s out of state, they can’t do that.”

T he Senate has yet to take up the measure .

VA Secretary David Shulkin, who is a physician, has lauded the agency’s telehealth program and said he still uses it to communi-cate with patients at a clinic in Grants Pass, Ore. He and Presi-dent Donald Trump announced at the White House in August that they would change VA rules to allow doctors to practice tele-health across state lines.

According to staff of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, the bill would give legislative au-thority to that initiative.

The change has received wide support from the medical com-munity. The American Medical Association and the American Association of Nurse Practitio-ners are among the dozens of or-ganizations that wrote to the VA about it. A public comment period on the rule change ended Nov. 1.

One group — the Medical Board of California — opposed the measure. The board wrote a letter, signed by Executive Direc-tor Kimberly Kirchmeyer, that said only physicians and surgeons licensed in California should be

allowed to practice there.“This bill would undermine

California’s ability to protect health care consumers, as the board will have no ability to dis-cipline VA providers that are licensed in another state,” the let-ter reads.

Reps. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., and Julia Brownley, D-Calif., sponsored the bill; they tout it as beneficial to veterans in rural and medically underserved areas.

In particular, VA telehealth could help veterans receive men-tal health care, Weinstein said. He sees a problem with patients can-celing or missing appointments that they might be able to com-plete through telehealth. Mental health care is also an area of the VA that remains understaffed.

At a recent congressional hearing, Shulkin addressed the agency’s problem with recruiting and retaining mental health care providers. Last year, the VA set a goal to hire 1,000 mental health care providers, and it hired 900, he said. However, 945 others left the VA.

“A big chunk of my case load is veterans who don’t live here. It solves a lot of access issues,” Weinstein said. “At an even lower level, it solves things like parking and veterans’ driving time. A lot of vets prefer it.”

The Veterans E-Health andTelemedicine Support Act wasone of 14 veterans-related billsthe House passed Monday andTuesday, leading up to VeteransDay on Saturday . Also passedTuesday was the Veteran Urgent Access to Mental Healthcare Act,which expands on policy thatShulkin implemented this pastsummer to provide emergency mental health care to veterans with other-than-honorable dis-charges. If enacted , the bill would allow veterans who are barredfrom VA health care to undergo amental health assessment beforethey’re in crisis. Veterans musthave served in combat or beenthe victim of sexual assault or ha-rassment while in the military.

“This bill passing the Housetoday shows the momentum that we are gaining in undoing the damage of decades of bad-paper military discharges,” saidKristofer Goldsmith, an Iraq Warveteran who advocates on behalfof veterans with other-than-hon-orable discharges.

Another bill passed Tuesdaydesignates a museum under con-struction in Columbus, Ohio, asthe National Veterans Memorial and Museum.wentling.nikki@stripes.comTwitter: @nikkiwentling

VETERANS

House passes interstate VA telehealth bill‘ A big chunk of my case load is veterans who don’t live here. It solves a lot of access issues. ’

Harrison WeinsteinVA psychologist in Salt Lake City

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BY KIM GAMELAND YOO KYONG CHANG

Stars and Stripes

SEOUL, South Korea — Presi-dent Donald Trump warned North Korea not to underesti-mate the United States while sig-naling a willingness to negotiate Wednesday as he wrapped up a visit to the South that put him on the communist state’s doorstep.

Trump also had a blunt mes-sage for China, which was the next and third stop on his first of-ficial Asia tour: Stop supporting the North.

Tensions have spiked as North Korea test-fired two interconti-nental missiles in July and con-ducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, although it hasn’t carried out a serious prov-ocation in nearly two months.

The White House said later Wednesday that Trump will de-cide whether to re designate North Korea as a “state sponsor of ter-rorism” — which would mean more unilateral sanctions — at the end of his 12-day trip. Former President George W. Bush lifted the designation in 2008.

Trump made his remarks in a speech to South Korea’s National Assembly after returning from a failed effort to fly to the Demili-tarized Zone that divides the pen-insula. His helicopter had to turn back to Seoul because of poor visibility even as South Korean President Moon Jae-in was wait-ing for him at the frontier.

“I want peace through strength,” Trump told hundreds of South Korean and U.S. digni-taries, including first lady Me-lania Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Trump reiterated that the U.S. military has three aircraft carriers that are “loaded to the maximum” in the vicinity of the Korean Peninsula as well as nuclear submarines that he said were “appropriately positioned.”

Trump began by outlining in great detail the successes that prosperous South Korea has achieved since the end of fighting in the 1950-53 war that pitted it against its communist neighbor to the north. He had only harsh words for Kim Jong Un’s regime, calling it a “hell no person deserves.”

The president also criticized past U.S. policy toward the North, which has shown rapid progress in its nuclear weapons program over the past year and a half. He vowed to defend the U.S. home-land as well as its allies.

“The regime has interpreted America’s past restraint as weak-ness. This would be a fatal miscal-culation,” he said. “Today I hope I speak not only for our country but for all civilized nations when I say to the North, do not underes-timate us and do not try us.

“America does not seek conflict … but we will never run from it. History is filled with discarded regimes that have foolishly tested America’s resolve,” he added.

Trump also appeared to extend an opening to resume long-stalled negotiations, saying “we will offer a path to a much better future” if the regime stops its aggression and missile tests and agrees to “complete, verifiable and total denuclearization.”

North Korea has insisted its nu-clear weapons program is not up for negotiation, but experts have suggested there may be room for a freeze to allow talks to begin.

The speech was the first to the parliamentary body by a U.S. president in nearly a quarter-cen-tury, and Trump’s overall visit was stern but lacked the bellicose tone that he has frequently used in recent months.

He has called Kim Jong Un “Little Rocket Man” and threat-ened to unleash “fire and fury” and to “totally destroy” North Korea if forced to defend the U.S. and its allies.

North Korea, meanwhile, has raised the stakes with a series of test missile s, most recently one that soared over the Japanese is-land of Hokkaido on Sept. 15.

Its official newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, denounced Trump’s visit. “Trump has flown to South Korea in order to light the fuse of a nuclear war while strengthen-ing military threats against us,” it said in a commentary.

The U.S., which fought with the South in the war against the com-munist-backed North, maintains about 28,500 servicemembers on the divided peninsula.

Duyeon Kim, a visiting senior fellow at the Seoul-based Korean

Peninsula Future Forum, praised Trump’s speech, saying it showed the strength of the alliance and stayed on script.

“Trump also put the ball in [North Korea’s] court and teed up” the Beijing visit, she wrote on Twitter.

Trump flew next to Beijing, where he is expected to step up

pressure on President Xi Jinping to do more to rein in the defiant North. He began his tour Sunday in Japan and will also travel to Vietnam and the Philippines.

He urged “responsible nations,” including China and Russia, to cut off support to the North as part of a global effort to isolate the regime.

“We call on every nation, in-

cluding China and Russia, to fullyimplement sanctions, downgrade diplomatic relations and sever all ties of trade and technology,”he said. “The longer we wait thegreater the danger grows and thefewer the options become.”

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Thursday, November 9, 2017

BY WYATT OLSON

Stars and Stripes

Just days before President Don-ald Trump’s arrival in the coun-try Wednesday, China launched a colossal dredging ship dubbed the “magic island maker” that could speed up the creation of artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea.

Adm. Harry Harris — head of U.S. Pacific Command and a vocal critic of Beijing’s efforts to build up and militarize the islets in the Spratly and Paracel chains

— met with Trump on Friday in Hawaii at the start of the presi-dent’s trip to Asia. Harris has re-ferred to those islets, which were built up using sand dredged from the sea bottom, as China’s “great wall of sand.”

The new 460-foot dredging ves-sel, named Tiankun, was moved last week to waters off a ship-yard in Jiangsu province on the eastern coast near Shanghai, the state-owned China Daily report-ed Saturday. Engineers will now conduct tests of the ship, which

can dredge almost 212,000 cubic feet of sand or clay in an hour in waters as deep as 40 yards.

The ship’s “cutter-suction” sys-tem can cut through solid rock . Its Shanghai-based designer, Marine Design and Research Institute, told China Daily that the ship is “a magic island maker” because of its capability “to conduct coast-al and channel dredging and land reclamation operations even in bad weather at sea.”

Tiankun — which is expected to be fully operational by June —

will be able to dredge an area the size of a soccer field about a yard deep within an hour, the trade magazine Construction Global reported. The dredging system can pump material up to roughly 10 miles away.

China claims sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, an assertion disputed by neighbor-ing nations that include Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.

To bolster its claims and assert military dominance there, Bei-jing has constructed fighter jet

hangars and surveillance arrays on the Spratly’s Fiery Cross, Subiand Mischief reefs, all of which were expanded through dredg-ing, according to a report posted this past summer on the AsiaMaritime Transparency Initia-tive website, which is operatedby the Center for Strategic andInternational Studies.

China has built 12 missile shel-ters on Fiery Cross Reef, the re-port said.

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China’s new dredging ship could speed creation of islands

Trump warns N. Korea but is open to talks

Associated Press

BEIJING — China pulled out all the stops for President Don-ald Trump’s Beijing airport ar-rival: honor guard, marching band, jumping children.

The ceremony accompany-ing Trump’s arrival Wednes-day afternoon was elaborate even by China’s lavish stan-dards. Heads of state are usual-ly given a low-key reception at the airport, with the real pomp and circumstance reserved for their arrival at the Great Hall of the People in the center of Beijing.

As they exited Air Force One, Trump and first lady Melania Trump were met by Chinese and American dignitaries, soldiers

standing stiffly at attention, a band playing martial music and smartly attired children waving miniature Chinese and American flags while chanting, “Welcome, welcome.”

The president and first lady appeared pleased, smiling and accepting flower bouquets, with Trump at one point throwing his arms open and appearing to exclaim, “Wow.”

As Trump’s motorcade pulled away, the tempo increased, with children jumping up and down while they waved and chanted.

Protocol is extremely im-portant in Chinese governance and diplomacy, and such events are always carefully choreo-graphed down to the smallest detail. Spontaneous interac-

tions between visiting leaders and ordinary Chinese are rare, although visiting U.S. presi-dents have in the past been per-mitted to deliver speeches and meet with university students.

Welcoming ceremonies have grown increasingly elaborate under Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has lavished more time and energy on advancing China’s diplomatic agenda than any of his predecessors.

That’s included devoting hundreds of hours a year to welcoming ceremonies, meet-ings and receptions in addition to hosting major multilateral events such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting and the G-20 summit.

PANG XINGLEI, XINHUA NEWS AGENCY/AP

Children wave U.S. and Chinese flags as President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at Beijing Airport on Wednesday .

Trump given rousing welcome in China

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BY CLAUDIA GRISALES

Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON — As Presi-dent Donald Trump continues an extended tour of Asia, a bipartisan group of congressional lawmak-ers, some of whom are veterans, are pushing back against his administration’s rhetoric toward North Korea.

Several members of the group, including Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn, and military veterans Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill. ; Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif.; and Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., said Tuesday that Trump, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have sig-naled increasing interest in a war with North Korea.

The group of lawmakers said they want Trump to understand that he must go to Congress be-fore a pre-emptive strike against North Korea.

“Absent of an invasion or imminent threat, that is not (Trump’s) decision to make. That is Congress’ decision to make as to whether we go to war against a

foreign power,” Murphy said dur-ing a joint news briefing on Capitol Hill. “Hundreds of lives will be at stake. American troops will be put in harm’s way.”

Through proposed legislation and a joint letter signed recently by more than a dozen lawmakers, they are attempting to make their point.

Murphy and Duckworth have joined Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J. ; Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Jeff Merk-ley, D-Ore. ; and Elizabeth War-ren, D-Mass., in a joint bill that clarifies the president’s war pow-ers when it comes to North Korea. Last week, 16 military veterans serving in Congress, including Duckworth, Lieu and Gallego, signed a letter warning of the dangers of a ground invasion with North Korea.

“The Joint Chiefs of Staff has now confirmed that the only way to destroy North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is through a ground in-vasion,” the letter read. “That is deeply disturbing and could result in hundreds of thousands, or even millions of deaths in just the first few days of fighting.”

As Trump’s rhetoric against North Korea has grown aggres-sive in recent months, some con-gressional members have worried the talk could inadvertently lead the United States into a costly and deadly war.

There is concern, for example, as presidential advisers have made statements suggesting the possession of nuclear interconti-nental ballistic missiles is reason enough to start a war with North Korea, Murphy said.

“We want to make sure that peo-ple understand what going to war with a country that has nuclear, chemical and biological weapons means,” Lieu said. “ The adminis-tration hasn’t done a good job ar-ticulating what war looks like.”

A recent report by 38 North, a

website of the U.S.-Korea Insti-tute at Johns Hopkins University, suggested the number of lives lost could end up in the millions, with millions more injured, Lieu said.

Gallego said a war with North Korea would have a brutal out-come and he fears the Trump administration’s use of military force. “I have seen a cavalier at-titude from this administration,” he said.

Duckworth said the military has made comments and moves that signal a position inclined to-ward war. Trump’s rhetoric has fed into the North Korean propa-ganda machine, she added.

“We are escalating our posture militarily in addition to what the president has said,” Duckworth said. “This administration, they

are doing this. The Americanpeople don’t even realize this is happening.”

During his current Asia trip, Trump hasn’t used the same in-flammatory comments aboutgoing to war with North Korea, the lawmakers said. But that won’tlast long, Murphy warned.

“The president’s rhetoric hasbeen uncharacteristically diplo-matic. But let’s not kid ourselves.The braggadocious and loose talkis going to come back the minutehe is alone in his residence upon his return,” Murphy said. “Thisis not the pivot everyone has beenwaiting for. We are very worried what this loose war talk will unin-tentionally set off.”grisales.claudia@stripes.comTwitter: @cgrisales

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Lawmakers decry harsh rhetoric on North Korea

S. Koreans split during Trump visit Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — Hun-dreds of South Koreans took to the streets of Seoul on Tuesday for two separate demonstrations, one to show support for visiting Presi-dent Donald Trump and the other to voice disapproval of the U.S. leader amid concerns over North Korea’s nuclear threats.

Surrounded by thousands of police officers and a tight perim-eter created by buses, hundreds of

anti-Trump protesters rallied at a boulevard near the U.S. Embassy, holding banners that read “No Trump” and “No War.”

Across the street, hundreds of Trump supporters waved the U.S. and South Korean flags and held signs that read “Blood Al-lies Korea + US.” They chanted “USA!” when Trump’s motorcade passed by for a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the presidential Blue House.

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“The Department of Education came in to assess but that’s it,” she said.

Military officials assisting in the hurricane response say it’s just a matter of numbers — high-er density populations are going to get services restored sooner. But Jusino’s daughter, Victoria Calderon, a dance teacher at an elementary school in San Juan, was dubious.

“I don’t know why it’s taking the Department of Education so long,” she said. “My school is open with trees on the lawn. Maybe because it is a poor com-munity or it is in the center of the island. People in the center feel very forgotten.”

Nearly 50 days after Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico, most major highways have been cleared. But except for the largest municipalities, many towns and villages are still without running water and electricity.

In the interior of the island, where smaller more remote vil-lages are still struggling to get basic necessities, residents feel left behind in the slow recovery. Some are leaving the island in search of work or sending their children to the states. Others say they will stay and rebuild.

In Morovis, teachers got right to work. They brought saws to clear fallen trees. Four classroom walls came down during the storm and teachers have rebuilt them. Some students come in day after day to help with the cleanup.

But no one has been able to clear the downed poles and heavy electric lines that are blocking the entrance to the school park-ing lot.

When military trucks carrying pallets of water and Meals Ready to Eat pulled in Tuesday, soldiers climbed on ladders and trucks to hold up the downed cables so the trucks could enter — something that has become more dangerous as power is slowly being restored around the island.

“A lot of teachers have reached out to the authorities but nobody is coming to help,” said English teacher Carla Roman who, along with the other teachers, wore new white T-shirts that read, “Yo amo mi isla,” or “I love my island.”

“This is the biggest high school in Morovis and nobody has come out to help, Roman said. “If they just move them out, we can start. We want to work.”

“We are just doing things our-selves,” Jusino said.

Helping their ownTwin brothers Yohel and Omar

Ramos graduated Jaime A. Cal-

lazo high school five years ago. Both work as security guards — one at the airport, the other at the port. And both are special-ists in the Army Reserves 390th Seaport Operations Command, based out of Ceiba on the island’s east coast.

They were at home when the hurricane struck — Yohel with his parents and Omar in his house with his wife and two children. Within days of the storm, they were called to serve in the vast response effort.

Since Sept. 23, they’ve been out on a mission every single day,

Yohel said. They’ve traveled the island with their unit, delivering water, food and emergency sup-plies to communities in need.

Last week, Yohel said he drove the big truck across a very small bridge to take supplies to San Lorenzo, one of three towns in Morovis municipality where the

main bridges to each town were destroyed in the storm. One slip of a wheel and the truck would have plummeted into the water, he said. He wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.

“I am in my country,” Yohel said. “I am helping my people. Every single mission — I take it

like it is my town.”After the disaster the Army

Reserve was able to operate on an “immediate response” author-ity — jumping in to help out be-fore the formal request from thegovernor made it through to task-ing from FEMA, said Maj. RuthCastro, a spokeswoman with the1st Mission Support Command in Puerto Rico.

But because of the enormity of the devastation, the assignment ofthese soldiers has been extendedlong after they would have hand-ed off to other entities.

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‘ I am in my country. I am helping my people. Every single mission — I take it like it is my town.’

Yohel RamosArmy reservist from Puerto Rico

PHOTOS BY CARLOS BONGIOANNI/Stars and Stripes

U.S. servicemembers help off-load boxes of Meals Ready to Eat and packets of bottled water during a humanitarian distribution event in Morovis, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday .

Helping: Brothers glad to aid their own

Many power lines, downed by Hurricane Maria in September, remain down such as this one outside Jamie A. Collaza High School in Morovis , where a convoy of military transport vehicles personnel arrived Tuesday during a food and water humanitarian distribution event.

Army Capt. Joaquin Matias, deputy operations officer for the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Sustainment Brigade , is a native of Puerto Rico. Matias said the devastation of Maria was something he had never before seen.

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People wait in the rain for the arrival of a convoy of military trucks and personnel for a scheduled food and water distribution event in Morovis, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday .

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“You can see the heart of the Puerto Rican soldiers who lost everything and still put on a uniform and come to work,” Castro said. “They have a lot of love for their island and the people.”

For the Ramos brothers, when they had an opportunity Tuesday to help their home-town, it felt like something special. They initiated the mission after Omar received a letter and passed it on to his command-ers. The principal was seeking assistance for people who lost everything.

Yohel beamed with pride after he backed the Army green truck loaded with supplies into the parking lot of his old school while his brother and another soldier held up the power cable.

Friends and family hugged the soldiers, and one friend broke down in tears. She lost her job when the storm destroyed the busi-ness she worked for, Omar said. She was leaving Tuesday for the mainland, hoping to find work.

“I am doing my best to try and push more missions here,” Omar said. “It’s easier to get stuff to big communities.”

Everyone is affectedThe distribution coincided with an open

house at the school. Jusino couldn’t open classrooms, but more than 400 of the 740 students and their families gathered at the covered outdoor gym as Jusino and others made a presentation using a generator-powered microphone.

“A lot of people are traumatized,” Jusino said.

The trucks pulled up as the ceremony ended, surprising many, and quickly people formed a line that snaked across the park-ing lot of the school. Puerto Rican Army Reserve soldiers formed a line across the top of the flatbed, passing the cartons of MREs and packages of water bottles along until they were handed down to the next person on line.

This is a catastrophe where many of those responding to the disaster have themselves been affected by it.

“I’ve been through a couple of hurri-canes,” said Capt. Joaquin Matias, deputy operations officer for the 4th Sustainment Brigade, 4th Infantry Division out of Colo-rado Springs, who is originally from Puer-to Rico. “It felt like an atom bomb hit.”

After Hurricane Maria, Matias took in the wife and children of a fellow Puerto Rican captain in his unit who had just transferred to Korea. The captain had

already turned in his house in Colorado Springs and had planned to send his wife and children home to Puerto Rico. Then the storm struck. Matias hosted them in his home until his colleague’s family could find a new one. “It’s hard, but we will re-cover,” he said.

In Morovis, the municipality has set up potable water tanks in a Walgreens park-ing lot. Each day, Roman takes her five gal-lon jugs there so she can feed and bathe her family. She’s heard the community will get power back in May.

Calderon, who lives nearby, is more opti-mistic: between March and May.

After the storm, Roman sent her 13-year-old daughter to live with her father in Philadelphia, where she could attend a charter school. It wasn’t an easy decision, she said. But her daughter is a very deter-mined student who wants to be an ortho-dontist or a plastic surgeon. The school offers a science and pre-med focus and her daughter asked to go. She didn’t want to miss out on school.

Still, her younger sibling cries that she

misses her older sister. It breaks Roman’s heart.

“My mom says this has only come toseparate families,” Roman said, wipingaway tears. “It makes me sad.”

Castro, a Texan who is based in FortBuchanan in San Juan with the 1st Mis-sion Support Command, said she agonizedin the first weeks over whether to send her children to their grandparents on themainland after the storm. Her husband, acontractor with Northrop Grumman, wasoverseas and she was working all hours. Attheir grandparents’, the kids would haveelectricity, go to functioning schools, andthey could have better dinners than coldChef Boyardee spaghetti out of a can.

“We were all stuck: Do we evacuate ourkids to the states or keep them at home where there’s no school?” she said.

“I just kept them here,” she said. “Theyneed to be little survivors anyway.”

cahn.dianna@stripes.comTwitter: @DiannaCahn

‘ You can see the heart of the Puerto Rican soldiers who lost everything and still put on a uniform and come to work. They have a lot of love for their island and the people. ’

Maj. Ruth Castrospokeswoman with the 1st Mission Support Command in Puerto Rico

U.S. servicemembers help off-load boxes of Meals Ready to Eat and packets of bottled water .

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Recent cases include that of Maj. Gen. Wayne Grigsby, who was fired as commander of the 1st Infantry Division and forced to retire this past summer due to an inappropriate relationship with a junior officer on his staff.

In Europe, Maj. Gen. Joseph Harrington was removed as head of U.S. Army Africa when texts surfaced of a flirtatious relation-ship with the wife of an enlisted soldier.

The U.S. Navy is now investi-gating more than 60 admirals in the so-called “Fat Leonard” scan-dal, according to The Washington Post, in a case that is now one of the largest corruption probes in military history.

Gonsalves relinquished com-mand of 4th ID in late August after leading the division for two years. During that time, 4th ID played a key role in Army ef-forts in Europe, where a brigade

of Fort Carson soldiers recentlycompleted a nine-month tour andstood up a new mission command element in Poland in a push to fortify NATO’s eastern flank.

Meanwhile, the Army said it will name a head for U.S. ArmyEurope in the coming weeks.

The current commander, Lt.Gen. Ben Hodges, was slated to retire by September, but his ten-ure has been extended while a replacement is sought.

He is expected to relinquishcommand on Dec. 15, the Armysaid.

“Many factors come into playin filling vacancies of this type.These factors include a thoroughArmy and [Defense Department] vetting and recommendation pro-cess,” the Army said .

The USAREUR post requiresformal appointment by the presi-dent and confirmation by theSenate. vandiver.john@stripes.com Twitter: @john_vandiver

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Review: Military has seen many recent misconduct cases

Defense bill deal reached

BY CLAUDIA GRISALES Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON — A key panel of House and Senate members have reached a deal on the mas-sive defense bill, pushing forward a nearly $700 billion plan to boost pay raises for servicemembers, fund new ships and aircraft and increase missile defense.

Among the funding efforts in the defense budget for fiscal year 2018 are a 2.4 percent pay increase for servicemembers, ex-tension of necessary pay and bo-nuses to help with retention, and costly repairs for two Navy ships that encountered deadly crashes during the summer. It passes on a plan to create a new Space Corps, according to senior aides of the Senate and House Armed Servic-es committees who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The proposed budget also funds an increase in the number of ser-vicemembers in the military from fiscal year 2017.

The plan “builds on the strong bipartisan support in both the House and Senate,” a senior Armed Services committee staff-er said.

Though the plan has overcome several hurdles already, an ap-proval by a congressional confer-ence committee now sends it for a vote in both chambers and a bud-get fight on how to fund the major increase in military spending.

The bipartisan deal for the de-fense bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, was revealed Wednesday by senior aides of both Armed Services committees.

There are plenty of challenges ahead, however.

The proposed defense budget, which now totals $699.6 billion, surpasses budget caps of $549 billion for defense spending and will require new congressional action to be enacted. Without it, the effort could trigger automatic, across-the-board budget cuts.

The budget also passed on some proposals, declining on a House plan for the creation of Space Corps, a new military ser-vice that would be an arm of the Air Force.

The idea drew opposition along the way from several key figures, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. The Senate, in its oppo-sition, went as far as including language in its bill prohibiting a Space Corps.

Now, under Wednesday’s deal, the bill directs for the study of the creation of a Space Corps.

The study will “look at the long-term prospects of creating a military department” for Space Corps, the committee staffer said.

The defense bill also directs for the funding of repairs to the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John S. McCain.

Both ships were badly dam-aged in separate, deadly crashes that left 17 sailors dead.

The overall boost in the mili-tary funding request comes in the wake of a deadly year for the U.S. military when it comes to readi-ness and safety concerns.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said during the bill’s previous debate on the Senate floor that 185 servicemembers have died in military accidents in the last three years.

“We are killing more of our own people in training than our enemies are in combat,” Mc-Cain said during the September debate.

Wednesday’s defense budget deal also incorporates, if not go- ing above, several requests from President Donald Trump’s ad-ministration to boost defense funding.

On Monday, Trump asked to boost his original military fund-ing request made earlier this year. In that amended plan, the president increased an earlier 2018 defense budget request by allocating an additional $4 billion for missile defense, $1.2 billion for the administration’s new Afghan-istan strategy and another $700 million for Navy ship repairs.

The new missile defense fund-ing will address an increasing threat from North Korea, Trump had said.

“This request supports addi-tional efforts to detect, defeat, and defend against any North Korean use of ballistic missiles against the United States, its de-ployed forces, allies, or partners,” Trump said in the amendment re-quest, which came in the form of a letter sent late Monday to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis .

Earlier this year, Trump pro-

posed a defense budget of $668 billion, a 5 percent increase above last year’s spending plan. But in light of a military readiness cri-sis, ongoing safety concerns and an expanding war strategy, some congressional defense hawks have said the president’s plan didn’t go far enough.

In July, the House approved a $696 billion defense budget, while the Senate approved a nearly $700 billion plan in September.

Both plans went f arther than the original Trump request. For example, the Senate bill allocates $8.5 billion for missile defense, which was $630 million more than what was originally requested by the Trump administration.

Trump also requested $1.2 billion for his South Asia strat-egy to address the increase of 3,500 troops needed in Afghani-stan. Trump unveiled his plans to boost U.S. forces there earlier this year.

Still, many of the efforts must overcome budget caps to move forward.

In September, Congress ap-proved a temporary funding measure that gave Congress at least three months to approve a new overall spending plan for fis-cal 2018, which started Oct. 1.

But that also meant a new military budget was on the clock. Congress has until December to come up with a deal to fund its $700 billion defense proposal or it might have to delay its spending plans again.

Congress has been here before. Former President Barack Obama signed the 2017 defense policy plan on Dec. 23, 2016. But faced with another round of delays, a $1.1 trillion omnibus government spending bill that included the defense budget wasn’t approved until May. Until then, military operations were kept afloat by a short-term funding bill — as is the case now.grisales.claudia@stripes.com Twitter: @cgrisales

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A ground-based interceptor missile is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif ., during a test in May . President Donald Trump on Monday asked for an additional $4 billion for missile defense.

Cost estimate delays VA Choice overhaul

BY NIKKI WENTLING

Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON — Progress was delayed Wednesday on major changes to Department of Veter-ans Affairs health care while law-makers waited on a cost estimate for expanding veterans’ access to private-sector medical treatment.

The House Committee on Vet-erans’ Affairs was scheduled to vote Wednesday on its bipartisan VA Care in the Community Act, H.R. 4242, which would end the Veterans Choice Program and implement new rules about when and where veterans can seek health care in the private sector. But Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., the committee chairman, postponed the vote until members receive a cost estimate from the nonparti-san Congressional Budget Office.

“I was not comfortable asking members to vote on final passage of a bill of this significance with-out some idea of cost,” he said.

Roe said he received prelimi-nary information from the Con-gressional Budget Office late Tuesday but had questions about how the numbers were estimated. It’s uncertain when a cost esti-mate will be released publicly.

Two Democrats on the com-mittee — Reps. Tim Walz, of Minnesota, and Mark Takano, of California — said during Wednes-day’s hearing that preliminary costs for private-sector care in the bill are about $40 billion for five years. Walz predicted a “deep discussion” about how to pay for it that would extend to Republican and Democratic leadership.

“Where we’re going to find the kind of money the [Congressional Budget Office] is projecting we need is going to be the big ques-tion of the day,” Takano said.

The bill would do away with a

controversial rule that allows vet-erans to seek private-sector care only if they can’t get an appoint-ment within 30 days or if they livemore than 40 miles driving dis-tance from a VA facility. Instead,the legislation leaves the decisionto veterans and their VA doctors.

There’s been disagreementamong veterans organizationsabout details of the bill and how far it would take veterans’ careinto the private sector, but law-makers were adamant Wednes-day the only reason it was delayedwas the cost estimate.

VA Secretary David Shulkinhas said he wants Congress to ap-prove a Choice overhaul by De-cember. Funding for the Choice program is expected to run out by the end of the year.

The committee did advance an-other bill Wednesday that aims to get rid of aging and underused VA facilities and provides $2.1 billionfor the Choice program to avert afunding crisis.

The bill, called the VA Asset and Infrastructure Review Act, was created in tandem with the VA Care in the Community Act,Walz said. He expressed concernthat sending it to the House floornow will take away negotiatingpower when the committee tries to pass the community care bill.

The Asset and Infrastructure Review Act passed 13-10, with all Democrats asking a vote be de-layed until both bills were ready.

The bill sent to the House floorWednesday would create a nine-member, unpaid commission torecommend which VA facilitiesto close and where the VA shouldinvest.

It was uncertain Wednesdaywhen the bill would be voted on inthe House. wentling.nikki@stripes.com Twitter: @nikkiwentling

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NATION

BY NOMAAN MERCHANT, WILL WEISSERT

AND JIM VERTUNO

Associated Press

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas — The gunman who killed more than two dozen at a small-town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health facility in New Mexico in 2012, police reports indicated.

The reports also noted that Devin Patrick Kelley was once caught trying to bring guns onto a military base and threatened su-perior officers there. Kelley was also named as a suspect in a 2013 sexual assault in New Braunfels, about 35 miles from the scene of Sunday’s church attack in Suther-land Springs.

The records that emerged Tues-day add up to at least three missed opportunities that might have of-fered law enforcement a way to stop Kelley from having access to guns long before he slaughtered much of the congregation in the middle of a service. Authorities said the death toll of 26 included the unborn baby of one of the women killed. Kel-ley died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he was chased by by-standers and crashed his car.

The Air Force confirmed Tues-day that Kelley had been treated in the facility after he was placed under pretrial confinement stem-ming from a court-martial on charges that he assaulted his then-wife and hit her child hard enough to fracture the boy’s skull.

Involuntary commitment to a mental institution would have been grounds to deny him a weapon provided that records of his con-finement were submitted to the federal database used to conduct background checks on people who try to purchase guns.

Kelley was also caught trying to bring guns onto Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico when he was stationed there, according to an El Paso, Texas, police report released Tuesday.

While in the military, Kelley, who was 21 at the time, made death threats against superior officers, according to the June 2012 report, which also mentioned the military charges. He was eventually sen-tenced to 12 months of confine-ment for the assault.

The Air Force acknowledged Monday that it did not enter Kelley’s criminal history into the federal database as required by military rules, another way he could have been denied a weapon.

Had Kelley been convicted of sexual assault, he would likely have been prevented from pur-chasing a gun because federal guidelines prohibit sales to anyone convicted of a felony punishable by more than one year in prison. The Comal County sheriff said he was reviewing whether his department

mishandled the sexual assault investigation.

Authorities recovered a Ruger AR-556 rifle at the church and two handguns from the shooter’s vehicle. All three weapons were purchased by Kelley, said Fred Mi-lanowski, the agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire-arms and Explosives in Houston.

The El Paso report notes that Kelley was committed to a men-tal health facility in Santa Teresa, N.M., but at some point escaped and was later found by police at a bus station in downtown El Paso in June 2012.

Deputies were called to Kelley’s home in New Braunfels in June 2013 about the rape case and in-vestigated for three months, Comal County Sheriff Mark Reynolds said. It appeared that they stopped investigating after they believed Kelley left Texas and moved to Colorado. Reynolds said the case was then listed as inactive.

The sheriff said he was trying to determine how deputies came to believe Kelley had moved and why they did not continue to pur-sue the case, either in Colorado or after Kelley returned to the area later. Deputies were called to the same house in February 2014 to investigate a domestic violence re-port involving Kelley and Danielle Shields, his girlfriend at the time, whom he married two months later.

“The last information that we have is the suspect moved to Colo-rado and then the investigation seems to have tapered off,” Reyn-olds said Tuesday. “That’s what we’re looking into.”

The district attorney for Comal County said in an interview that she became aware of the sexual assault case Monday before the re-cords were released to The Associ-ated Press and other media.

“That case was never presented to our office,” Jennifer Tharp said.

The records from Comal Coun-ty also describe a burglary that Kelley’s father, Michael, reported on his property the day after the sexual assault report.

Michael Kelley told an officer that someone had taken a laptop computer and hard drive belong-ing to his son from a barn he had converted into an apartment for Devin Kelley. But Kelley said his son was unavailable to talk to po-lice because he had been in a traf-fic accident that morning.

None of the documents explains whether there was a connection between the sexual assault report and the burglary report.

Meanwhile at the First Baptist Church in tiny Sutherland Springs, investigators continued analyzing a gruesome crime scene and tried to gain access to the shooter’s cell-phone, a long-standing challenge for the FBI in thousands of other cases.

Authorities aimed to conclude the crime scene investigation at the church by Wednesday evening.

Investigators have no reason to believe anyone conspired with Kelley, said Texas Department of Public Safety Regional Director Freeman Martin.

Martin repeated earlier state-ments that the shooting appeared to stem from a domestic dispute involving Kelley and his mother-in-law, who sometimes attended services at the church but was not present on Sunday.

The gunman’s phone was flown to an FBI lab for analysis, but agents have yet to access it, said Christopher Combs, who is in charge of the agency’s San Antonio division.

The inability to access the shoot-er’s phone highlights a long-stand-ing frustration of the FBI. Director Christopher Wray said last month that in the first 11 months of the fiscal year, agents were unable to access the content inside more than 6,900 mobile devices, an issue he said stymies investigations.

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Meredith Cooper, of San Antonio, Texas, and her daughter, Heather, 8, visit a memorial to the 26 people killed Sunday at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Monday.

Church gunman fled mental health facility in 2012

BY CLAUDIA GRISALES

Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON — Congres-sional members on Tuesday ex-pressed horror and promised a separate investigation into the U.S. Air Force’s failure to report crimi-nal convictions that would have prevented a Texas shooter from ob-taining firearms.

Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, on Sun-day opened fire on a rural church congregation east of San Anto-nio, killing 26. Kelley, who was in the Air Force from 2009 to 2014, was convicted of serious domestic violence charges, court-martialed and released with a bad-conduct discharge.

The Air Force has said it failed to report Kelley’s convictions to the FBI to be entered into the National Criminal Information Center data-base, which would have flagged his attempt to buy weapons.

Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, said Tuesday that his committee will conduct its own comprehensive review of the dead-ly incident. The Air Force and the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Defense have probes underway as well.

Thornberry called the Air Force failure “appalling” and called for a broader investigation that would go beyond the branch’s own internal review.

“I don’t believe that the Air Force should be left to self-police after such tragic consequences,” Thornberry said in a statement Tuesday. “I am concerned that the failure to properly report domestic violence convictions may be a sys-temic issue.”

Thornberry was among several congressional members on Tuesday speaking out against the errors that fueled the Texas shooter’s access to weapons. Republicans were push-ing solutions beyond gun control.

Among them, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said he and other lawmak-ers are discussing background-check legislation that could force stiffer requirements for the mili-tary and others to comply with re-porting. Th at is especially key in cases of mental illness and domes-

tic violence. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chair-

man of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he would hold a hearing on the failure to report the Texas shooter and would oversee the Air Force investigation.

The failure to report led to the “needless deaths of so many peo-ple,” McCain said. “We will be holding them accountable.”

McCain made the comments be-fore a hearing about several Penta-gon nominations. The shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, overshadowed the discussion of nominees .

“In this instance, there are 26 people who might well be alive,” Sen. Richard Blumethal, D-Conn., told the nominees. “We will never be sure.”

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said there must be a zero toler-ance for domestic violence in the military.

“Where is the dishonorable dis-charge for domestic violence?” she asked . grisales.claudia@stripes.com Twitter: @cgrisales

Lawmakers promise probe into Air Force over Texas shooter

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First transgender state legislator elected in Va.

RICHMOND, Va. — A trans-gender candidate defeated an in-cumbent Virginia lawmaker who sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms she could use.

Democrat Danica Roem, a former journalist, is set to make history as the first openly trans-gender person elected and seated in a state legislature in the United States. She unseated Republican Del. Bob Marshall, one of the state’s longest serving and most socially conservative lawmakers. The race was one of the year’s most high-profile, drawing inter-national attention and big money to the northern Virginia House of Delegates district outside the nation’s capital.

Roem will be the first transgen-der member of the House of Del-egates and will become the first out transgender person to win and serve in a state legislature, accord-ing to the Victory Fund, a political action committee that works to get openly LGBTQ people elected and has supported Roem.

Maine first to expand Medicaid in referendum

PORTLAND, Maine — Resi-dents in this rural state grappling with a heroin epidemic and an aging population voted Tuesday to deliver a rebuke to Republi-can Gov. Paul LePage and join 31 other states that have expanded Medicaid under former President Barack Obama’s health care law.

The referendum represents the first time since the law took effect that the question of expansion had been put in front of U.S. voters.

Some 11 million people in the country have gotten coverage through the expansion of Medic-aid, a health insurance program for low income people.

LePage vetoed five attempts by the state Legislature to ex-pand the program. Tuesday’s vote follows repeated failures by President Donald Trump, a Le-Page ally, and his fellow Republi-cans in Congress to repeal the sig-nature legislation of Obama .

Weaver survives recall, remains Flint’s mayor

DETROIT — IncumbentKaren Weaver survived a recall effort to remain Flint’s mayor as the Michigan city slowly recovers from a lead-contaminated watercrisis.

Weaver won Tuesday’s winner-takes-all election and will serve the final two years of her four-year term. The lengthy ballot in-cluded Weaver, recall organizerArthur Woodson and longtime City Councilman Scott Kincaid, who had received significant do-nations from labor organizationsin a union-heavy town.

The ballot didn’t refer to thewater crisis. The official reason was Weaver’s decision to hire asuburban Detroit trash hauler thatbecame connected to a federal corruption investigation. Still, the troubles caused by Flint’s ill-fated switch to a cheaper water sourcewere on everybody’s minds. From The Associated Press

NATION

Dems score major wins in Virginia

Murphy succeeds Christie as governor of NJ

BY STEVE PEOPLES AND ALAN SUDERMAN

Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — Seizing his party’s first major Trump-era victory, Democrat Ralph Northam beat back a charge from Republi-can Ed Gillespie in the race for Virginia governor, a bruising election that tested the power of President Donald Trump’s fiery nationalism against the energy of the Trump resistance.

In Virginia, as in several con-tests across America on Tuesday, the Trump resistance won. And it wasn’t close.

Northam, a pediatric neurolo-gist and Army veteran, defeated longtime Republican operative Gillespie in the hard-fought con-test. “I’m here to let you know that the doctor is in,” a smiling Northam told supporters gath-ered in suburban Washington for his victory speech. “As long as I’m governor, I will work hard to make sure we’re inclusive.”

Northam’s victory set off over-night recriminations and fin-ger-pointing among Trump’s hardcore supporters. The pro-Trump website Breitbart News, which had earlier praised Gil-lespie as a “culture warrior,” derided him as a “Republican swamp thing.” Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, said Northern Virginia’s voter-rich liberal suburbs should be annexed by the District of Colum-bia, “to return the governance of (Virginia) to Virginians.”

Virginia voters also elected the state’s first openly transgender state representative, among more than a dozen state legislative pickups for Democrats.

The resounding victories marked the GOP’s most signifi-cant day of defeat in the young Trump presidency and a re-buke to the president himself as his party eyes a suddenly more threatening midterm election season next year.

The Democratic gubernato-rial victories in Virginia and New Jersey prompted congratulations

from former President Barack Obama, who tweeted Wednesday morning, “This is what happens when the people vote.” Obama also congratulated “all the vic-tors in state legislative, county and mayors’ races.”

Trump immediately tried to distance himself from the loss.

“Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for,” Trump tweeted Tues-day night as he toured Asia, not-ing that the GOP won a handful of special elections earlier in the year. “With the economy doing

record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!”

The Republican president played a marginal role in Virgin-ia, largely because Republicans on the ground did not want him there, a state he lost last fall, as his approval ratings hover near record lows. The White House in-stead dispatched Vice President Mike Pence to help Gillespie, although Trump promised Gil-lespie would “make America great again” in a recorded phone message that went to voters on the election’s final day.

BY MICHAEL CATALINI

Associated Press

ASBURY PARK, N.J. — New Jersey is set to trade its brash-talking Republican governor, a friend and early supporter of Donald Trump, for a former diplomat with an at-times folksy demeanor promising to be on the vanguard of opposing the Republican president.

Wednesday marked the first day of Demo-cratic Gov.-elect Phil Murphy’s transition to one of the country’s most powerful governor-ships, taking over for the term-limited incum-bent, Chris Christie.

One day after the election, a hoarse Murphy thanked voters at a commuter rail station in Hoboken. He said he would kick off his transi-tion in the evening.

He discussed the change of government in a phone call with Christie on Tuesday night and said the two would meet in the next couple of days.

But first, the governor-elect said he would be making a lot of telephone calls — and go to his son’s soccer game.

The former Goldman Sachs executive and ambassador to Germany under President Barack Obama talked Tuesday during his victory speech in Asbury Park about pushing back against the Trump administration.

“With Donald Trump in the White House, Jeff Sessions as attorney general, polluters running the EPA, zealots heading the Depart-ment of Education and Steve Bannon holding Republicans in Congress hostage, governors will have never mattered more,” Murphy said.

Murphy’s early indication that he’ll stand up to Trump comes as Democrat-leaning New Jersey seemed to repudiate the two-term gov-ernor whose approval ratings have been in the teens.

“New Jersey sent an unmistakable message to the entire nation: We are better than this,” Murphy said, citing specifically the “demon-izing” of immigrants and “mean-spirited” efforts to take health care away from some voters.

Murphy’s victory over Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno came as Virginia also picked a new governor, Democrat Ralph Northam. The results marked the first statewide Democrat-ic wins during Trump’s administration after Democrats failed to win special congressional races earlier this year.

Guadagno congratulated Murphy, tell-ing her supporters to clap for him after they began booing him.

“It was a great race,” she said. “We left no stone unturned, and we would not have done it any differently.”

Christie was once one of the brightest stars in the GOP, regularly going onto late-night talk shows and winning re-election in 2013 handily over his Democratic rival. That began to change after the 2013 George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal and snowballed after he angered voters by spending time out of the state for his presidential run in 2016.

The two men also have sharply different styles, with Christie famously shouting down voters. He quarreled with a woman on Elec-tion Day over a local political issue. Even in attacking the Trump administration on Tues-day, Murphy later promised to work with the White House where he found common ground.

CLIFF OWEN/AP

Virginia Gov.-elect Ralph Northam celebrates his election victory in Fairfax, Va., on Tuesday .

TOM GRALISH, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER/AP

New Jersey Gov.-elect Phil Murphy leaps as he jumps onto the stage at his victory party Tuesday in Asbury Park, N.J.

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NATION

BY JOSH LEDERMAN

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Americans who visit Cuba must now avoid hotels, shops, tour companies and other businesses on a lengthy list released Wednesday by the Trump administration as part of a new policy aimed at crack-ing down on the communist-run island’s government.

U.S. travelers will once again be required to go as part of or-ganized tour groups run by U.S. companies, and a representative of the sponsoring group must ac-company the travelers. That’s a return to the stricter rules that existed before former President Barack Obama and Cuban Presi-dent Raul Castro restored diplo-matic relations in 2015.

The new rules and list of off-limits entities are intended to put in place the tougher Cuba policy that President Donald Trump an-nounced in June. Trump’s admin-istration took several months to

finalize the details of that policy, which will take effect Thursday.

Some exceptions will accom-modate Americans who made plans or entered into business agreements before Trump’s pol-icy announcement June 16, such as “people-to-people” trips to Cuba.

But at the same time, the Trea-sury Department said it is ex-panding and simplifying a license that allows some products to be exported to Cuba without specific permission from the U.S. govern-ment. The goal in allowing those exports is to enable Americans to help the growing private sector in Cuba, including small businesses that have popped up across the is-land in recent years.

“We have strengthened our Cuba policies to channel econom-ic activity away from the Cuban military and to encourage the gov-ernment to move toward greater political and economic freedom for the Cuban people,” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said.

A list of blacklisted military-run hotels includes the ManzanaKempinski, which opened withgreat fanfare this year as Cuba’s first hotel to meet the internation-al five-star standard.

The actual impact on Ameri-can business with Cuba will like-ly be limited because that tradeis already sparse, and the rulesallow it to largely continue. ManyAmerican travelers stay at hotels not on the new list, and the com-pany that imports most Americanfood products to Cuba is similarly unaffected. U.S. flight and cruis-es are exempted as well.

Left unchanged is a U.S. travelwarning that urges all Americansto stay away from Cuba. The ad-ministration issued that warningin September amid a series of in-visible, unexplained attacks that have harmed the health of U.S. government personnel in Havana.The U.S. says 24 Americans are “medically confirmed” to havebeen affected by those attacks.

Associated Press

BALTIMORE — A disciplin-ary panel unanimously found a Baltimore police van driver not guilty Tuesday of all administra-tive charges related to his role in transporting Freddie Gray, the black man whose fatal injury dur-ing the ride sparked riots in the city.

The three-member board found that Officer Caesar Goodson, also a black man, did not violate any department policies outlined in 21 charges against him the day Gray was fatally injured in police custody. Goodson smiled and ap-peared relieved after the verdicts were read .

“This is a vindication of this officer and what was done that day,” Sean Malone, one of Good-son’s lawyers, said outside the University of Baltimore, where the proceeding was held. “This is a tragic accident that happened, and we’re sorry for the loss of Mr. Gray, but we’re glad that our cli-ent is not going to be the face of

this incident.”Goodson has remained em-

ployed with the department and will keep his job on the force.

Department lawyer Neil Duke had argued that Goodson should have been fired for failing to fol-low policy by not buckling Gray into a seat belt, failing to get him medical attention and lying about the chain of events following Gray’s arrest in April 2015.

Gray died a week later of a spi-nal cord injury he suffered dur-ing the van ride, prompting civil unrest among people express-ing outrage at the treatment of blacks by police in Baltimore’s inner city. None of the six officers charged criminally for their roles in Gray’s arrest w as convicted. Three of the officers are black and three are white. In reforms made as a result of Gray’s death, state lawmakers opened police disciplinary hearings to the pub-lic, hoping to improve transpar-ency when departments seek to hold officers accountable.

Trump limits American tourists’ options while they are in Cuba

Police driver not guilty in Gray case that led to riots in Baltimore

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German police hold man hiding python in pants

BERLIN — A young man de-tained by police during a drunken argument in Germany was foundto be carrying a baby python inhis pants and may be in troubleunder animal welfare laws.

Police in the southwestern cityof Darmstadt said the 19-year-old was detained Tuesday night aftera loud argument with anotherman disturbed residents. Theysaid he was searched and officers noticed “a significant bulge in histrousers.”

The man told officers that hehad a snake in his pants, andpulled out a 14-inch baby kingpython.

He was taken to a police cell tosober up, and the snake was putin a box. Police said Wednesdaythey were looking for the reptile’sowner and examining whether “the non-species-appropriatetransport” violated animal pro-tection laws.

Mounties arrest 5 naked suspects after kidnapping

NISKU, Alberta — Police ar-riving at a car crash in westernCanada found five naked people inside and ended up accusingthem of kidnapping a mother, herfather and her baby.

Royal Canadian Mounted Po-lice Cpl. Laurel Scott said themother, baby and the woman’sfather had been taken from ahome and forced into a vehicle against their will. While the car was being driven, the adult male, who was in the trunk, managedto escape. Shortly after that the woman escaped with the baby.

Authorities said a passer-by of-fered assistance and secured all three in his truck before the sus-pects’ vehicle rammed the rear of the truck and ended up in theditch.

Three adults among the sus-pects remained in custody facingcharges of kidnapping and resist-ing arrest, police said. The othertwo suspects were youths and re-leased without charges.

The investigation continued butofficials believed drugs or alcoholmight have been a factor.

Poland asks citizensto multiply like rabbits

WARSAW, Poland — The Polish government is urging citizens to go forth and multiply like rabbits.

The Health Ministry of Po-land, which has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe, has put out a short video praising rabbits for producing many offspring.

The YouTube video shows rab-bits munching on lettuce and carrots while a rabbit “narrator” reveals the secret of their big families — exercise, a healthy diet and little stress. The brief appear-ance of a human couple enjoying a romantic picnic hints that a little romance might help, too.

Viewers are told: “If you ever want to be a parent, follow the ex-ample of rabbits.”

It is the latest step by the conser-vative government in this mostly Catholic country of 38 million to reverse a shrinking population. From The Associated Press

WORLD

BY SARAH EL DEEB

Associated Press

BEIRUT — Iranian President Hassan Rou-hani criticized Saudi Arabia on Wednesday over what he called “unprecedented” interfer-ence in Lebanese affairs and added his voice to those who suspect the Gulf kingdom forced Lebanon’s prime minister to resign.

Rouhani’s remarks followed a phone call to his Lebanese counterpart the previous day in which the Iranian president pledged Tehran’s support for Lebanon’s stability following the resignation of the Saudi-backed Prime Minis-ter Saad Hariri.

The surprise resignation, announced on TV from Saudi Arabia, threw the Lebanese government into disarray and exposed a new front for the tensions between the Sunni pow-erhouse and its archrival, Shiite-led Iran. Leb-anon’s president, Michel Aoun, told Lebanese politicians that Hariri’s resignation will not be accepted until he hears from him directly.

According to Rouhani’s official website, the Iranian president said that “there is no case in history that a country forces another one’s authority to resign only to interfere (in) their internal affairs.”

“Why are you interfering with Lebanon’s internal affairs and governance?” Rouhani said, addressing Saudi Arabia. “This is an un-precedented event in history.”

Hariri unexpectedly announced he was resigning Saturday and accused Iran of med-dling in Arab affairs and the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah of holding Lebanon hostage. Hezbollah has members in the Lebanese unity government that Hariri formed last year.

The resignation was followed by harsh Saudi official statements, including accusa-tions against the Lebanese government of waging war on the kingdom. Iranian officials called the resignation a “plot” by the United States, Israel and the Saudis to foment ten-sions in Lebanon and the region.

Casting himself as the voice of reason, Rou-hani also questioned the benefits of Saudi Arabia’s “hostility toward the peoples of the region” and urged the kingdom to choose “friendship” instead.

“You are making a mistake if you think Iran is not your friend and the U.S. and Israel are your friends,” Rouhani also said, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency. “This is

a strategic miscalculation.” In his call to Aoun late Tuesday, Rouhani

said Iran firmly believes the Lebanese people will overcome “this sedition” and “will not allow Lebanon to become a battlefield for for-eign powers and an opportunity for the terror-ists to re-emerge.”

Washington has said it had no indication beforehand that Hariri would resign and pledged to continue U.S. support for the Leba-nese government.

The bizarre circumstances surrounding Hariri’s resignation left Lebanese politi-cians grappling to find a way out of a political deadlock.

An official in Aoun’s office said Wednesday that Hariri is still considered the prime min-ister. Parliament speaker Nabih Berri said the government is still considered in business, given the manner in which Hariri resigned. Aoun has had no contact with Hariri since the prime minister left for Saudi Arabia last Friday.

In his speech, Hariri said he feared for his life, but security officials have said they had no indication there were threats against the prime minister.

BY IRAM ASIM

Associated Press

BASTI LASHARI, Pakistan — Pakistani police said Wednes-day they arrested a woman for allegedly plotting with her newly married niece to poison the young woman’s husband with tainted milk that would eventually kill him and 17 other relatives in a re-mote village.

Investigators believe the boy-friend of newlywed Aasia Bibi, 21, incited her to kill her husband, Mohammad Amjad, by poisoning his milk with rat poison because she was not happy in her ar-ranged marriage. Amjad was her cousin.

Local police chief Zulfiqar Ali said Amjad did not drink the milk Bibi prepared the night of Oct. 24 but it was later found by his mother, Janat Bibi, 52, who un-wittingly used the tainted milk to make a traditional yogurt drink

the following day.The yogurt concoction was

served to 27 members of the ex-tended family, including Amjad, who along with 17 others subse-quently died at a district hospital. Eight children aged 7 to 12 were among the dead.

Ali said the deaths quickly drew the attention of police, who quietly began an investigation and quickly exposed a plot involv-ing Aasia Bibi; her boyfriend, Shahid Lashari; and her aunt, Za-rina Begum, 49.

Among the dead were Amjad’s two brothers, his three sisters-in-law and some distant relatives.

Ali said police first arrested Lashari and he quickly confessed to his role in supplying the rat poison to his girlfriend. He said Shahid also told officers that Bi-bi’s aunt used to arrange for the couple to meet at her home and she was aware of the plot to kill Amjad.

Ali said Bibi confessed to her

role in the killings upon seeing Shahid in handcuffs at a police station.

Another senior police officer, Sohail Habib Tajak, said Bibi was unhappy over her forced mar-riage and that she had warned her parents that she was capable of going to any length to get rid of

her husband.Sitting at her mud-brick home

in this remote island village in the Indus river about 270 miles south of Multan in central Paki-stan, Bibi’s mother, Zakia Begum, sobbed Tuesday night, saying she repents for forcing her daughter to marry a man she did not like.

BY JIM GOMEZ

Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines — Phil-ippine President Rodrigo Duterte stopped construction work on a newly formed sandbar in the disputed South China Sea after China protested, Philippines De-fense Secretary Maj. Gen. Delfin Lorenzana said Wednesday, dis-closing details of the territorial spat for the first time.

The dispute over a string of sandbars called Sandy Cay emerged in August and prompt-ed China and the Philippines to

consider negotiating some sort of arrangement to prevent such in-cidents from spiraling out of con-trol, Lorenzana said.

The rift over the tiny sandbar, where Filipinos planned to erect fishermen’s shelters, in the group near Philippine-occupied Thitu island in the Spratlys archipela-go remains unresolved but both sides pledged not to occupy any new territory, he said.

China’s claims to most of the South China Sea overlap those of the Philippines and four other governments. Despite that, ten-sions have eased since Duterte

took over as president last year and took steps to thaw once-frosty relations with Beijing.

Duterte has courted Chinese trade and assistance and taken a nonconfrontational approach to their territorial disputes. He has refused to immediately take up with China a ruling by a U.N.-linked tribunal that invalidated Beijing’s sprawling claims in the South China Sea, sparking criti-cism from nationalists and left-wing groups, which wanted him to demand immediate Chinese compliance with the landmark decision.

“We tried to put some struc-tures in one of the sandbars near our island and the Chinese react-ed,” Lorenzana told a diplomatic and security forum in Manila, adding that Duterte later ordered, “Let’s pull out.”

Philippine foreign affairs and military officials refused to di-vulge details of the dispute at Sandy Cay in August.

The long-unresolved disputes are among issues expected to get the spotlight at an annual summit of Southeast Asian nations and their Asian and Western counter-parts in Manila next week.

IRAM ASIM/AP

Pakistani police arrested newlywed Aasia Bibi and her boyfriend, Shahid Lashari, on murder charges after she allegedly poisoned her husband’s milk and it inadvertently killed 17 other people .

Iran blasts Saudi meddling in Lebanon

Police arrest aunt in family poisoning case

Philippines stops South China Sea work after protest

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The value of baby eels illegally trafficked from Virginia by a New York seafood dealer. The Virginian-Pilot reported Thommy Zhou, 42, of Brooklyn was sentenced to 1½ years behind bars in a Virginia federal court Friday after he pleaded guilty in April. Called elvers, baby eels are valuable because they are sold to Asian aquaculture companies so they can be raised to maturity and used as food. Fishermen sometimes sell them for more than $2,000 per

pound at the dock. They can be legally harvested only in Maine and South Carolina, and the fishery is tightly regulated.

and drove away.Her boyfriend, Richard Welch,

got his hand caught in the win-dow, and was dragged about 15 feet. He received five stitches and road rash.

Uber said the driver was re-moved and that drivers agree to accommodate service animals.

Grasshopper foundin van Gogh painting

MO KANSAS CITY — A small grasshopper

has been found embedded in a Vincent van Gogh painting at a Kansas City museum.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art said in a news release that the insect was stuck in the thick paint in the lower foreground of the famed artist’s “Olive Trees.” Van Gogh was known for painting out-doors and mused in an 1885 letter to his brother that “I must have picked up a good hundred flies and more off the 4 canvases that you’ll be getting.”

Paintings Conservator Mary Schafer made the grasshopper discovery while examining the painting under magnification.

The bug isn’t visible through ca-sual observation.

Women stuck on tracks narrowly escape train

RI WOONSOCKET — Two women had a close call

with a freight train when they drove onto the tracks and got stuck, then had to jump from the car as the train bore down on them.

It happened around 11 p.m. Monday in Woonsocket.

Police said the women were from Massachusetts and unfa-miliar with the area. When they entered the train crossing, they became disoriented and drove onto the tracks. They got stuck as the crossing gate came down, but were able to jump to safety before the train barreled into the car.

The driver was charged with DUI.

Altercation involves fight over thermostat

ND MINOT — A Minot man is accused of

punching his fiance’s brother and

threatening him with a knife dur-ing a fight that began with an ar-gument over a thermostat.

Authorities allege Cornelius Young, 33, was upset that the other man had turned up the thermostat in a mobile home. The other man tried to defend himself with a children’s toy during the alleged assault on Friday.

Police said Young’s fiance jumped on his back and bit his ear to distract him, and Young even-tually left the home. Two children present during the altercation weren’t injured.

The Minot Daily News report-ed Young is charged with felony terrorizing.

Police: Headset-wearing worker sold drugs on job

PA DENVER — Police al-lege a Pennsylvania

Dunkin’ Donuts worker sold meth-amphetamine and heroin on the job, in some cases while wearing his drive-thru window headset.

Pennlive.com reported that Na-than Pizzardi, 35, of Denver , faces felony drug counts.

Police said Pizzardi would

leave the store and make sales in the parking lot or at a nearbyconvenience store. They said hesold the drugs while wearing his uniform and headset.

Student union calls forcharges in racial prank

KS MANHATTAN — The Black Student Union at

Kansas State University is callingfor criminal charges against a 21-year-old black man who defaced his own car with racist graffiti in what he described as a Halloweenprank that got out of hand.

The group posted on its Face-book page late Monday a state-ment saying it was “appalled, disgusted and hurt” by the falsereport. Police earlier had an-nounced that Dauntarius Wil-liams admitted that Wednesday’sincident was a prank. Police saidthey thought charges wouldn’t bein the community’s best interest.

The union said the fact that a black man was involved shouldnot diminish its effect on students.It urged Riley County authorities to reconsider pressing charges.. From wire reports

AMERICAN ROUNDUP

$150KGroup cancels ‘Huntfor the Indian’ event

ME SKOWHEGAN — A Maine business group

has apologized for a holiday promotion it called “Hunt for the Indian” after a weekend of outrage decrying it as racially insensitive.

The promotion asked members of the Skowhegan Area Chamber of Commerce to join in placing a small Native American figurine inside their businesses, with clues on social media encouraging shoppers to find the figurine with a discount reward for winners. The promotion was announced Saturday, and residents quickly piled on lambasting the effort through social media.

The chamber cancel ed the event Sunday .

Retiree who plays Santa faces drug charges

NJ SOUTH HACKEN-SACK — A retiree who

volunteers as a Santa Claus is facing drug charges after police allegedly found a crack pipe in his vehicle during a New Jersey traffic stop.

South Hackensack police said Charles Smith, 66, of Pompton Lakes, was arrested Monday after a traffic stop . They said an officer saw the crack pipe next to a Santa Claus costume.

Authorities said a subsequent search of the vehicle turned up more drug paraphernalia, in-cluding empty bags of crack and heroin alongside a hypodermic needle.

State first to make ‘ultimate’ a varsity sport

VT MONTPELIER — Ver-mont is now the first

state in the United States to rec-ognize “ultimate” — the game that started as Ultimate Frisbee — as a high school varsity sport.

A committee that oversees high school sports in the state unani-mously approved ultimate last week as a varsity sport starting in the spring of 2019.

Ultimate is played on a field slightly smaller than a football field by teams of seven. Players pass a disc down the field until a teammate catches it in the end zone. If the disc is dropped, it is turned over to the other team.

Bob Johnson, of the Vermont Principal Association, said the decision came after ultimate was played for three years as an ex-hibition sport. He said to begin there will be about 20 teams for boys and girls across the state.

Blind couple says Uber denied ride, dragged man

MA BOSTON — Boston police are investigat-

ing after a blind couple said they were denied a ride by an Uber driver, who then dragged one of them down the street.

WBZ-TV reported Tuesday that Milisa Garside had called the Uber through a pilot for the MBTA’s paratransit program. She said when the driver saw her service dog, he told them no dogs

THE CENSUS

Blown awayJeff Denham, of Warren County Parks and Recreation, blows leaves off the road Monday at Basil Griffin Park in Bowling Green, Ky.

AUSTIN ANTHONY, (BOWLING GREEN, KY.) DAILY NEWS/AP)

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Bruce Dickinson used to think that writing an autobiographyshould come at the end of his ca-reer. A bout with throat cancerchanged his mind.

After his recovery, the IronMaiden frontman began writinghis life story, filling up a stack oflegal pads in longhand. Now thefruit of his labor has led to the re-cently released “What Does ThisButton Do?”

The 59-year old rocker recallsturning down an offer to do a book10 years ago, saying “I’m not reallydone yet.” After being diagnosedwith cancer, “I thought there’s anoutside possibility I might be done sooner than I intended.”

In the book, Dickinson coversthe rise of Iron Maiden, his love of fencing, his difficult upbring-ing, the creation of albums andbecoming a licensed airline pilot.He ends the book with his vic-tory over cancer. “When I got all clear of that, then the questiongot revisited, and I went, ‘You know what, this is a really goodend point for a book.’ Not that I’mplanning on going anywhere elseand checking out, but this is kindof the beginning of the rest of mylife,” Dickinson said.

Dickinson reveals some per-sonal demons, especially in a pas-sage that chronicles being bulliedas a child. Those bad experiences at boarding school had a lasting effect on him. “A really nastybullying experience, whatever, it never leaves you,” he says. “Itleaves a permanent mark on your insides and that manifests in dif-ferent people in different ways.With me, it makes me very angry.I get really cross, you know. If Isee somebody else being bullied,it makes me really angry. So it’sa bit like Hulk. You don’t want tosee me when I’m angry.” Associated Press

From wire reports

Some top comedians — includ-ing John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah and Conan O’Brien — helped raise money for mili-tary veterans Tuesday night at a raucous event at Madison Square Garden in which many of the best barbs were hurled at the current commander in chief.

“It’s a strange time to be in love with America right now. Some would offer you are not at your finest. Falling in love with Amer-ica right now is like falling in love with a girl who’s throwing up all over herself,” Oliver said. “You

hold her hair back and say, ‘Let it all out. You just made a mistake, that’s all.’ ”

The annual Stand Up for Heroes event is co-presented by the Bob Woodruff Foundation and the New York Comedy Festival. It kicks off the festival and raises money for the Woodruff foundation, which funds programs for injured veter-ans and their families. The foun-dation is named for the ABC news anchor injured in Iraq in 2006 and has raised some $40 million.

The front rows of the theater at Madison Square Garden were reserved for veterans and seats were also set aside for new cadets.

While Lee Woodruff, Bob’s wife, pleaded for everyone to “set aside politics,” there wasn’t much love lost on stage for President Donald Trump .

Other news � “Hamilton” creator

Lin-Manuel Miranda made sandwiches, took selfies and announced a partnership with a nonprofit group for a $2.5 million hurricane recovery fund during a trip Tuesday to Puerto Rico. Miranda said seven local groups already have received grants from the New York-based Hispanic

Federation, which helps Latino agencies. The organization said it will award at least 25 grants for reconstruction projects .

� Country star Keith Urban was honored for his philanthropy and hit country songwriter Bob DiPiero was honored as an icon by the performing rights organi-zation BMI on Tuesday.

� Elton John celebrated the 25th anniversary of his AIDS foundation with a gala in New York City, raising about $4.4 mil-lion and telling the audience that they would end the AIDS epidem-ic by 2030.

� The Los Angeles Police

Department has opened an in-vestigation into sexual assaultallegations made by a womanagainst “Gossip Girls” actor Ed Westwick. Actress Kristina Cohen described her allega-tions in a Facebook post Monday . LAPD’s Robbery Homicide Divi-sion sex crimes unit took over thecase Tuesday after the actress made to report at a police station.On Twitter, Westwick adamantly denied the actress’ allegation.

� The Los Angeles Police De-partment is investigating allega-tions by Corey Feldman that hewas sexually abused while work-ing as a child actor in Hollywood .

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“Ach-Shun!”Before a take

during the shoot-ing of “The Shape

of Water,” director and co-writer Guillermo del Toro lets loose a cannon-shot growl that erupts with gusto from somewhere deep within him.

The same could be said of the movie, due out in the U.S. on Dec. 1, an emotional love story, espio-nage thriller and monster movie rolled into one. Its eccentric mix of tones and genres could come only from the vivid, creative imagination of Del Toro. In the film, Sally Hawkins plays Elisa a mute cleaning woman at a high-security government facility in early 1960s Baltimore. When agent Richard Strickland (Mi-chael Shannon) brings in a myste-rious creature (Doug Jones) — a part man, part fish captured in South America — Elisa feels an unexpected connection.

With the aid of her co-worker Zelda Fuller (Octavia Spencer), her neighbor Giles (Richard Jen-kins) and scientist Dr. Robert Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg), Elisa spirits the creature away from the facility to fully realize their romantic bond. The movie earned the top prize when it pre-miered this year at the Venice In-ternational Film Festival .

The film’s heroes are a mute cleaning woman, her African American co-worker, her gay neighbor, a sympathetic scientist and the South American fish-man she falls in love with. The film’s villains are a military general and a square-jawed family man gov-ernment agent . The film’s cham-pioning of outsiders and misfits is no accident.

“On a certain level,” Del Toro said recently, “the idea is just gathering everybody up who can be represented as the other, quote unquote, all the invisible people coming together to rescue this creature that can either be a monster or a savior or a lover or a god.”

tail in his work, Del Toro is hyper-attentive to each actor’s specific way of working. Shannon’s brood-ing intensity, Hawkins’ withdrawn shyness, Spencer’s open-hearted affability and Stuhlbarg’s quiet stability are all given time and space to shine.

“I’m completely internalized in terms of makeup or effects, crea-tures, visual effects and camera work, it’s completely second na-ture on my sets, so I try to make it very simple for my actors,” Del Toro says.

“In terms of the creature, we spent three years designing and executing it, so when it presents itself to the set it is a complete creature. So (the actors) react to it. They are reacting to an actor and

“It was very important for me that with the antagonist, to un-derstand him a little but also see that for him these people don’t exist, they are negated and invis-ible,” he said. “That’s for the plot aspect of the movie but more im-portantly to make the love story about something more than just a couple falling in love. It’s about also being able to see those other people and love the otherness, love the difference.”

It is September 2016, and just a short drive from downtown To-ronto is a production facility used for the FX television series “The Strain.” Del Toro and J. Miles Dale collaborated on that show and together are producers on “The Shape of Water.”

Inside, through a small lobby, past a few large-scale creature models and around a series of cor-ners that feel like entering some secret world is just that — the set for the top-secret military instal-lation that is one of the main loca-tions for “The Shape of Water.”

For all the design and visual de-

that goes a long way into making all those things blend together.”

At one point, as the production breaks for lunch, two chairs are placed in the middle of the set where the creature is kept, amid the fantastical water tanks, old-fashioned high-tech gadgetry and machinery. Surrounded by outdated space-age equipment, Del Toro surveys the empty room around him to explain the specif-ics of the setting.

“The year is ‘62 and the crea-ture and his condition embody for me a moment which is the break-ing point in the way America is perceived by itself,” he says. “Camelot is going to end, and the future that was being presented with the spaceship fins on cars is coming to an end.

“But everybody is talking about Sputnik and the space race and automated food processors. It’s a future that is pretty hollow,” says. “And then all the things that are wrong start bubbling to the surface. It was an interesting mo-ment to me.”

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BEIJING — Ford Motor Co. announced Wednesday that it is launching a venture with a Chi-nese partner to develop electric vehicles for sale in China, the big-gest market for the technology.

The announcement of the $750 million venture with Anhui Zotye Automobile Co. adds to rising in-vestment by global automakers in China’s growing electric vehicle industry.

Zotye already has its own elec-tric vehicle business and said sales in the first 10 months of this year were up 14 percent over a year earlier, at 22,500.

Sales of pure-electric and gaso-line-electric hybrids in China rose 50 percent last year over 2015 to 336,000 vehicles, or 40 percent of global demand. U.S. sales totaled 159,620.

Beijing has supported sales with subsidies and a planned quota system that would require automakers to produce electric cars or buy credits from compa-nies that do.

Ford said it expects China’s market for all-electrics and hy-brids to grow to annual sales of 6 million by 2025.

The company said previously

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When Twitter announced in September it was testing longer tweets, some users praised the change while others feared the site would lose its sense of brevity.

Now the San Francisco tech firm is officially doubling the character limit of its tweets to 280 characters.

The change will apply to all languages except for Japanese, Korean and Chinese because users can convey more information in those languages with fewer characters, Twitter said Tuesday.

Twitter’s 140-character tweets have been a part of the site since it launched in 2006, helping the com-pany set itself apart from other social networks.

Celebrities, athletes and President Donald Trump use the site to share their thoughts to millions of

people.But Twitter said some of its 330 million users

found the 140-character limit frustrating, prompt-ing the tech firm to test longer tweets.

“People in the experiment told us that a higher character limit made them feel more satisfied with how they expressed themselves on Twitter, their ability to find good content, and Twitter overall,” wrote Aliza Rosen, Twitter’s product manager.

The tech firm doesn’t expect the longer tweets to affect the site’s sense of brevity.

Even with the extra characters, users who tested the change tried to keep their thoughts brief. Only 5 percent of tweets sent were longer than 140 charac-ters and only 2 percent were more than 190 charac-ters, Twitter said.

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Twitter doubles character limit for almost everyone

Legal costs leave Nissan’s profits flat BY YURI KAGEYAMA

Associated Press

TOKYO — Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co.’s fiscal second-quarter profit slipped 3 percent despite growing sales because of costs related to improper vehicle checks in Japan and a massive global air-bag recall in the U.S.

A news conference Wednes-day announcing the results at the company’s Yokohama, Japan, headquarters was overshadowed by the scandal over systematic faulty inspections, which sur-faced last month.

The scandal has resulted in more than 1 million vehicles being recalled to be checked again in Japan, and has caused some production at all six Nissan

plants in Japan to be halted.Nissan Chief Executive Hiroto

Saikawa apologized to customers, dealers, partners and govern-ment authorities for the recent faulty inspections scandal.

Nissan has acknowledged un-qualified people had been sys-tematically carrying out vehicle checks. Adding to the embarrass-ment, the company acknowledged that, even after the scandal had surfaced, the dubious checks had continued.

Nissan, allied with Renault SA of France, reported Wednesday a July-September profit of 141.6 bil-lion yen , down from 146.1 billion yen the same period last year.

He said production had re-sumed as of Wednesday at all

plants in Japan after the tests had been corrected.

Also weighing on profit are litigation costs in the U.S. over Takata Corp. air-bag recalls. The auto industry has been rocked by the massive recall that involves some 100 million air-bag infla-tors worldwide. The defect has been linked to 19 deaths and doz-ens of injuries.

Takata was forced into bank-ruptcy amid lawsuits, multimil-lion-dollar fines and crushing air bag recall costs.

Nissan’s Saikawa said order cancellations were coming in by the hundreds in Japan because of the scandal and the production stoppage.

Ford, Chinese partner form electric car venture

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that it plans to offer electric ver-sions of 70 percent of its models sold in China by 2025.

Daimler AG’s Mercedes Benzmakes electric cars with a Chi-nese partner. Other global auto-makers including General MotorsCo. and Volkswagen AG have an-nounced or are exploring similarventures.

Volvo Cars, owned by China’sGeely Holding, said it will pro-duce electric cars in China forglobal sale starting in 2019.

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WASHINGTON

‘Tis the season of looking back, which brings us inevitably to Election Day 2016.

Donald Trump’s victory places last year as one of the most sig-nificant in modern American history. Not only did he change how politics is played, but he probably destroyed the Republican Party as we knew it. Most important, he will go down as one of the most effective politicians of all time, at least beyond the Beltway.

As with other course-altering events — 9/11, the moon landing, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Kenne-dys, many will remember where they were when the reality of a Trump presidency hit them.

Plenty of people had already gone to bed on Election Night, believing that Hill-ary Clinton would win. But those who stayed awake were reminded yet again that it’s not over until it’s over. In a word: Pennsylvania.

Trump already had been declared the projected winner in other swing states — Florida, North Carolina and Ohio — and was leading in traditionally Democratic-leaning Michigan and Wisconsin. But when Pennsylvania was called late in the night, countless Americans stared at their screens in disbelief.

Trump had won.As sleepyheads awoke the next morning

to the startling news, a massive thought-cloud settled over the nation. It contained just three letters, the first two of which were WT.

What happened, actually?

Much commentary and several books, including Clinton’s own, have attempted an explanation. Voter intensity for Trump was stronger than for Clinton; his surge was larger than hers; many Democrats stayed home because they didn’t like Clinton; others were bitter at how they felt Bernie Sanders had been treated during the pri-maries by the Democratic National Com-mittee via the Clintons.

More to the precise point, in Pennsylva-nia as elsewhere, Trump’s dominance in rural areas overshadowed Clinton’s wins in urban areas. Specifically, the deplora-bles were out of the basket and setting the establishment on fire.

Trump’s small- and midsized-town “rural” voters may not have ever jumped on Amazon to order the latest Walter Isaacson tome or posted their gently worn Loubou-tins for sale on “The Real Real,” but they weren’t stupid, ignorant, racist, misogynist or nativist, not most, anyway. They were regular, God-fearing folks who were sick of Washington, distrustful of liberal poli-cies, and fed up with elites, including many in the media, who couldn’t see them except down their noses.

There’s a wonderful line in Doug Mar-lette’s 2001 autobiographical novel, “The Bridge,” in which the late editorial cartoon-ist’s grandmother, “Mama Lucy,” a North Carolina mill worker who was stabbed in the stomach by the National Guard during the General Textile Strike of 1934, is talk-ing to her successful grandson about his new life way up yonder in New York City.

This tiny, fearless woman who chewed tobacco and packed heat, according to Marlette’s many tellings, wrapped up her thoughts nice-and-neat-like: I wouldn’t put a crick in my neck to look up at them tall buildin’s!

It was just one line, but those few wordstold a long, multi-generational story of re-sentment by people who had been left outof the American dream. New Yorkers were stand-ins for the mill owners, who acted as if they were better than Mama Lucy and her people; the tall buildings symbolized the big houses of her greedy employers,whose thresholds she and “her sort” wouldnever darken except by the servants’ entrance.

What happened in 2016 could not be summed up any better. Mama Lucy’s at-titude and the cultural context from which she spoke could be transposed with littletweaking. Not that members of Trump’sbase are all poor or unpolished, but theyprobably understood Mama Lucy’s remarkwithout my having to explain it.

The irony, obviously, is that Donald Trump is the big building. But rather thanmake everyday Americans strain to seehim high up in his gilded tower, Trumpcame down to ground level and spoke not at them but to their darkest, most haunted places. It didn’t pain him at all to say what they needed to hear, whereas Clinton, for all her husband’s “faux bubba”-ness, a term my dear friend Marlette created justfor Bill, and her frequent references to her father as a “rock-ribbed, up-by-your-boot-straps, conservative Republican,” didn’teven know the words.

It would be a mistake for future can-didates and campaign managers to missthese lessons. The resentments of MamaLucy and others who feel slighted or looked down upon are as constant as kudzu — andno one yet has understood them better thanDonald Trump, the rage-filled city boyfrom Queens who could never get enoughof anything. Especially respect.

BY ANDREW MALCOLM

Special to McClatchy

For the next 52 weeks you’re likely to hear that pretty much every sin-gle news event will have an impact on the 2018 midterm elections and

President Donald Trump’s political pros-pects. Some of that is true.

But here’s a new overriding wrinkle to keep in mind: The most important factor deciding whether the Republican Party maintains control of Congress is actu-ally Trump himself and his behavior. He can Twitterize any perceived opponent he wants. But at the end of Nov. 6, 2018, he must own the results and live with them for two long years.

History suggests — but does not guaran-tee — the election outcome will displease Trump. Here’s why: Since the Civil War, the president’s party has lost House seats in 36 of 39 midterms, on average more than 30 each time. That’s six more than Nancy Pelosi needs to grab the speaker’s gavel back from Paul Ryan come 2019.

That’s the bad news. The good news for Trump is two of those three loss exceptions have come recently — in 1998 when Bill Clinton Democrats took back five House seats, and 2002 when George W. Bush’s GOP gained eight House and two Senate chairs.

Off-year elections are actually a fasci-nating element of American politics. With no parliamentary vote of confidence avail-able to grade a president halfway through a term, the biennial ballot outcomes for all House seats and a third of the Senate have become political thermometers for a presi-dent’s popular standing.

History shows by that time U.S. voters are usually grumpy about a White House occupant. In his first midterms in 2010,

Barack Obama’s Democrats got spanked, losing a historic 65 seats and the majority.

In Clinton’s first midterms, Republicans’ 1994 “Contract with America” helped the GOP gain 54 House seats, eight Sen-ate seats and 10 governorships, including some Texan named George W. Bush. The lower a president’s job approval, the worse the midterm losses are.

Trump’s approval rating has bounced around recently from the mid-30s to low 40s, not strong by any measure. And re-sponses show people would prefer less tur-moil and outrage in public life.

Trump lavishes attention on this base, and it’s shown sturdy and puzzling resis-tance to his numerous, at times outlandish, controversies. I suspect that’s because such behavior merely confirms for them that he is the D.C. disrupter they crave.

However, 40 percent approval also means nearly 60 percent disapproval, ac-tually around 57 percent. That’s a nearly 17 percent deficit.

Here’s a wrinkle: Polls on voters’ party preference for a congressional representa-tive next year give the GOP only a seven-point deficit, likely indicating they see Trump’s Republican connections as tenu-ous, an accurate assessment.

Another wrinkle: Trump’s weak approv-al flies in the face of positive news. Stock markets regularly record historic highs. After eight years of anemic economic growth, the last two quarters came in at a strong 3 percent, even with hurricanes. As Trump promised in the campaign, Is-lamic State is crumbling before the U.S.-led assault.

With Obama-era regulations being eased or erased and the prospect of significant tax reforms, optimistic employers are ex-panding and hiring.

So, why isn’t Trump’s standing improving

with a majority of Americans? The answershould be clear, even if it must penetrate a New York-sized ego. It’s Trump himself,his self-destructive behavior, gratuitousfights with would-be allies and peremptoryretorts that distract attention from his ownimportant initiatives and hand opponentseasy ammo for credible criticism.

Trump supporters say he’s a counter-puncher, always hitting back for the last word. Even Hillary Clinton, no great mas-ter of human insight, noted how very easyTrump is to bait.

Always counter-punching may be finein boxing. But in the eyes of many, not in the world’s most powerful commander inchief. It instead reveals within a leader anunattractive, even disturbing, insecurity.

Trump thinks his supporters love it. Maybe. Or maybe they just endure it. Ei-ther way, that other 57 percent clearly dis-likes it. To sell his agenda, Trump needs at least to dilute that opposition.

As unlikely as it would seem for a 71-year-old brash billionaire, Trump needs to change his public behavior. Hard to detect things that don’t happen, but he actuallyhas toned down carping over the Mueller probe. Perhaps credit his lawyers.

Policies aside, Americans basically wantto like their president. Now, for his owngood this president needs to apply thatsame self-discipline across the board tolet a wider public peer through the fog ofhis anticipated arrogance and discover for themselves the smart, confident, surpris-ingly kind man he is.

Without that, we’re witnessing a 21st-century Shakespearean sequel in whichthe protagonist Donald J. Trump is the one who defeats Donald J. Trump.Andrew Malcolm is an author and veterannational and foreign correspondent covering politics since the 1960s.

Last Nov. 8, voters channeled Mama Lucy

Trump’s 1st midterms: How he can avoid disaster

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BY LESLIE NICOLE SMITHAND DAVA GUERIN

Special to The Philadelphia Inquirer

The relationship between a service dog and a veteran is akin to a team walking a tightrope. To succeed, they must focus on each other, in-

tently. Distract one, and both can stumble. When they are in sync, the intricate team-work going on can appear effortless to the outside world. And this partly explains why some people, often quite innocently, insist on being a distraction. Hence the ubiqui-tous question:

Can I pet your dog? Uh, no, not now. Not ever. Keep your paws off, please.

Would you want someone to ask if they could rub your heart surgeon’s head while she was operating on you? Would you think it appropriate if someone offered to rub your lawyer’s belly while he was trying to convince a jury of your innocence?

Probably not, right? You’d think these were grossly inappropriate questions and certainly needless distractions in the midst of critical, sometimes life-and-death, situations.

And that’s exactly how you should think about service dogs when they are about their work. Note the key word: work.

In public, vest on, these dogs are engaged in life-saving tasks for their veterans. Guide dogs prevent blind or vision-impaired vet-erans from wandering into the street when a light is red. For veterans with prosthetic limbs, their dogs open doors, keep watch for things easily tripped over, or act as a brace when vets are walking or standing up. Service dogs for those with post-trau-matic stress disorder are often on point, keeping potential triggers that would raise stress or anxiety levels for their veterans at bay. For veterans prone to seizures, their

dogs will alert them if they sense an epi-sode coming on.

We get it. These dogs are irresistibly cute. And clearly just the sight of one in a store or restaurant can turn normally re-served adults into children. Disabled vet-erans have seen grown men crawl under tables, barking to get a dog’s attention. And while they’re down there, may as well pet the pup, right? If it were them, they’d no doubt welcome having their meal inter-rupted so people could show their pet some love.

But that’s the thing. Service dogs are not pets. When their vest is on — the garment often emblazoned with the words “Service dog: Do not pet” — they have an extremely important job to do. They have undergone months, sometimes years, of intense train-ing that costs tens of thousands of dollars — an expense currently not covered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. They are there to watch for and react to dangerous situations and await commands from their veterans. If you call to these dogs, or insist on talking to them, then, despite all that training — they are, after all, still dogs — they are potentially paying attention to you, not the veterans they are supposed to serve and protect. In other words, you’re bouncing up and down on their tightrope.

Think about it this way: If the service dog turns its head or body to see what you want, the veteran with vision loss could wind up stumbling and falling. Prosthetic limbs can be seriously damaged in the twists and turns of a tumble. Or the dog might not catch the early signs of a seizure, or miss something that causes problems for a vet with PTSD.

The Americans with Disabilities Act ac-tually requires owners to maintain control of their animals. Don’t make a tough job more difficult.

So far, we’ve just addressed how people react to service dogs. But their behavior toward disabled vets can be even more bizarre — and quite rude. For example, people often say, “I know it’s a service dog and he’s working, so I won’t pet him.” This is so irritating. It’s as if they are mag-nanimously making the decision to pet or

not pet without asking prior permission.An analogy would be: “I know you have a purse and I know I am not to steal it, so Iwon’t.” How generous.

Worse is when people just reach out to pet a service dog, seemingly from every direc-tion imaginable. Then they will get angrywhen the surprised disabled veteran turnsand says, “Please don’t pet him, he’s work-ing.” Their disturbing response? “Well,what’s wrong with you? You don’t look dis-abled.” People seem to genuinely believethey have a right to know this. (Maybe sothey can decide in their own mind if it’s OKto pet the animal with the vest that clear-ly says “Do not pet”?) That’s just wrong.There is never a need for a stranger toknow a veteran’s medical history.

In fact, the ADA doesn’t even allow staff in stores or restaurants to ask people witha service animal what their disability is. They are permitted two questions: Is theservice animal required because of a dis-ability? and What work or task has it beentrained to perform? If veterans don’t have to disclose their disabilities in those situ-ations, why would they ever make them-selves vulnerable by blurting it out to strangers on the street?

The disabled veteran community has a slogan, Paws Off Please , designed to edu-cate people about interacting with the ser-vice animals that are becoming more and more commonplace in public. So, lessonone: If a dog has a vest on, that means it’sworking; don’t pay attention to it.

But, please, don’t ever ignore the vet-erans. Instead, be sure to thank them fortheir service.Leslie Nicole Smith, a retired Army captain who is legally blind and uses a prosthetic leg, is anadvocate for wounded warriors, along with her service dog Issac. Dava Guerin is the co-author, with Kevin Ferris, of “Vets and Pets: Wounded Warriors and the Animals That Help Them Heal.”

BY DAVID VON DREHLE

The Washington Post

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark.

The crumpled hills that cup this southern Ozarks city are dressed in russet, and the hollows are steaming in the chilly dawn. Deer

season is here. That’s no incidental fact in a place where the forest exerts a primal pull; where men, women and children alike dress in camo at school, Hobby Lobby and the public library; where a scan of the FM radio band finds tips on field-dressing a trophy buck to ensure that the taxidermist has enough skin to work with.

The annual youth hunt was this past weekend, when children 15 and under had shooting privileges. This weekend, the adults take over.

Even after a massacre in a Texas church — on the heels of a bloodbath in Las Vegas not long after an attack on members of Congress in Virginia while memories were still fresh of a slaughter in Orlando, Fla., and so on, so horribly on — you won’t find much support for new gun control laws around here. The cultural foundations be-neath that sentiment trace through genera-tions. But one essential element is a sense of simple justice: People don’t like the idea that they should pay for the offenses of others.

What we have here is a failure to com-municate, fueling mistrust and feeding on misunderstanding. Many millions of safe-ty-conscious and law-abiding gun owners don’t accept that their rights are to blame for mass murder. They see themselves as

living, harmless proof that the gun is not the problem; it’s the person holding the gun. “This isn’t a guns situation,” Presi-dent Donald Trump said for them after the Texas massacre. “… This is a mental-health problem at the highest level.”

Think of drunken driving, which kills some 10,000 Americans per year. Is the problem in the driver or the car? The an-swer seems every bit as obvious to people in places like Mountain Home as the need for more gun laws seems to editorial writ-ers in America’s newsrooms. So obvious, in fact, that a lot of them are convinced that gun control advocates must have some larger, more ominous, agenda in mind.

But suspicion runs both ways, as it so often does. The reflexive shift to mental health has come to feel more like a dodge than a diagnosis. Trump and his support-ers would be more credible if they deliv-ered a plan of action worthy of a “problem at the highest level.” Instead, from Trump on down, the United States falls short in this department — as any family that has tried to access treatment for a suffering loved one can tell you.

More than half of American adults with mental illness do not receive care, ac-cording to Mental Health America’s 2017

annual report. This is due in part to wide-spread shortages of mental health profes-sionals, who are — due to skewed priorities — among the lowest-paid specialists in the health care sector.

The problem runs deeper, though. While advocates rightly stress that the vast ma-jority of people with mental illness are not violent, the insidious nature of mental ill-ness dictates that many of the sickest indi-viduals are among the least likely to seek help; the Texas killer, it turns out, escaped from a mental health facility in 2012. Defi-ciencies and delusions that make a person dangerous can also blind him to his own madness.

And what if the trouble is even deeper still? The mental malfunctions that can metastasize in mass murder are varied and complicated — killers have shown signs of schizophrenia, sociopathy, depression, bipolar disorder and so on. But almost by definition they betray the self-pity, self-ab-sorption, grandiosity and lack of empathy that define narcissistic personality disor-der. As the late Christopher Lasch argued, narcissism may be the defining pathology of the modern age. Our atomized, individu-alized society, focused on self-fulfillment and drunk on celebrity, brews narcissism

as lavishly as $5 coffee and pours it outfreely from Rodeo Drive to Pennsylvania Avenue.

In Texas, local law enforcement andthe FBI took a small but important stepby deciding, after initial briefings, not tospeak the name of the Sutherland Springschurch killer. Media outlets should jointhis nascent movement to limit the amountof celebrity conferred on mass murderers.Perhaps fewer narcissists would be moti-vated to turn their personal pain and fail-ure into deadly spectacles.

But dimming the spotlight won’t by it-self solve the epidemic of mass shootings. A problem of such an American nature needs a response that brings Americanstogether, rather than drive us apart. Andthat will require a change of heart on bothsides of the gun rights divide.

From gun owners, we need a real com-mitment to safety and responsibility: clos-ing loopholes, respecting backgroundchecks, beefing up databases and support-ing adequate mental health funding. With rights come responsibilities, gun rightsincluded.

And from gun controllers, we need a new spirit of genuine respect for the fact that Americans who own firearms are not doing anything wrong. Until they trustyou on that fundamental score, you’ll getnowhere. David Von Drehle writes a twice-weekly column for The Washington Post. He was previously an editor-at-large for Time Magazine, and is theauthor of “Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year” and “Triangle: The Fire That Changed America.”

Both sides on gun rights need a change of heart

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Millions of safety-conscious and law-abiding gun owners don’t accept that their rights are to blame for murder. They see themselves as living, harmless proof that the gun is not the problem; it’s the person holding the gun.

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SCOREBOARD

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Sports on AFN

Pro football College football

Tennis

Pro baseball

Deals

College basketball

Pro soccer

Tuesday’s transactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueDETROIT TIGERS — Named Andrew

Graham manager of Erie (EL), Mike Ra-belo manager of Lakeland (FSL) and Lance Parrish manager of West Michigan (MWL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Reinstated RHPs Brady Rodgers, David Paulino and Jandel Gustave from the 60-day DL.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Promoted Terry Bradshaw to hitting coach and Cal Eldred to pitching coach. Named Vance Wilson bullpen coach and Mitch Maier first base coach.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Reinstated RHPs Alex Meyer, Matt Shoemaker, JC Ramirez and Nick Tropeano from the 60-day DL.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Assiged OF Niko Goodrum and LHP Ryan O’Rourke out-right to Rochester (IL). Reinstated RHPs Trevor May, Phil Hughes and J.T. Chargois from the 60-day DL.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Assigned OF Zach Vincej outright to Tacoma (PCL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Assigned OF Ce-sar Puello, RHP Shawn Tolleson and C Curt Casali outright to Durham (IL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Assigned C Raffty Lopez and RHPs Luis Santos, Tay-lor Cole and Leonel Campos outright to Buffalo (IL). Claimed RHP Taylor Guerri-eri off waivers from Tampa Bay.

National LeagueCOLORADO ROCKIES — Selected the

contract of OF Noel Cuevas from Albu-querque (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Assigned OF Pedro Florimon and Jesen Therien outright to Lehigh Valley (IL). Reinstated RHPs Vince Velasquez, Jerad Eickhoff and Zach Eflin from the 60-day DL.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Assigned LHP Dan Runzler outright to Indianapolis (IL). Reinstated 2B Josh Harrison from the 60-day DL.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Reinstated RHP Alex Reyes from the 60-day DL.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

NBA — Fined Charlotte C Dwight How-ard $25,000 for making an obscene ges-ture toward a fan.

PHOENIX SUNS — Traded G Eric Bled-soe to Milwaukee for F/C Greg Monroe and two 2018 draft picks.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

CHICAGO BEARS — Placed TE Zach Miller on injured reserve. Signed TE Ben Braunecker. Signed TE Colin Thompson to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Released RB Bronson Hill from the practice squad. Signed G Willie Beavers to the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Placed LB Dont’a Hightower on injured reserve. Signed DL Ricky Jean Francois. Re-signed DL Mike Purcell to the practice squad.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived DE Jor-dan Williams and DB Tim Scott. Placed LB Nigel Harris on injured reserve. Rein-stated CB Janoris Jenkins from suspen-sion. Signed LB Kelvin Sheppard. Signed LB Deontae Skinner from Oakland’s prac-tice squad.

SAN FRANCISOC 49ERS — Signed DB Antone Exum Jr. to a one-year contract. Placed OL Garry Gilliam on injured re-serve.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned G Lou-is Domingue to Tucson (AHL). Recalled F Michael Sislo from Tucson.

CALGARY FLAMES — Removed F Jaromir Jagr from injured reserve. As-signed F Tanner Glass to Stockton (AHL).

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reas-signed F Vladislav Kamenev to San Anto-nio (AHL) and F Brady Shaw to Colorado (ECHL).

EDMONTON OILERS — Recalled F Kyle Platzer from Wichita (ECHL) to Bakers-field (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled G Vitek Vanecek from South Carolina (ECHL) to Hershey (AHL).

OLYMPIC SPORTSUSA GYMNASTICS — Named Kerry

Perry president and CEO.SOCCER

Major League SoccerLA GALAXY — D Robbie Rogers an-

nounced his retirement.National Women’s Soccer League

SEATTLE REIGN — Announced Laura Harvey coach and general manager has step down. Named Vlatko Andonovski coach.

COLLEGESAINT JOSEPH’S — Named Erin Brooks

softball coach.TEXAS — Suspended CB Holton Hill for

the remainder of the season.UCONN — Announced the retirement

of women’s soccer coach Len Tsantiris.

NFLAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PANew England 6 2 0 .750 216 179Buffalo 5 3 0 .625 174 149Miami 4 4 0 .500 116 179N.Y. Jets 4 5 0 .444 191 207

SouthTennessee 5 3 0 .625 181 193Jacksonville 5 3 0 .625 206 117Houston 3 5 0 .375 229 208Indianapolis 3 6 0 .333 162 260

NorthPittsburgh 6 2 0 .750 167 131Baltimore 4 5 0 .444 190 171Cincinnati 3 5 0 .375 129 158Cleveland 0 8 0 .000 119 202

WestKansas City 6 3 0 .667 253 208Oakland 4 5 0 .444 196 214Denver 3 5 0 .375 150 198L.A. Chargers 3 5 0 .375 150 152

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

Philadelphia 8 1 0 .889 283 179Dallas 5 3 0 .625 226 178Washington 4 4 0 .500 177 194N.Y. Giants 1 7 0 .125 129 207

SouthNew Orleans 6 2 0 .750 221 155Carolina 6 3 0 .667 168 159Atlanta 4 4 0 .500 170 172Tampa Bay 2 6 0 .250 158 198

NorthMinnesota 6 2 0 .750 179 135Detroit 4 4 0 .500 206 186Green Bay 4 4 0 .500 181 191Chicago 3 5 0 .375 134 171

WestL.A. Rams 6 2 0 .750 263 155Seattle 5 3 0 .625 189 149Arizona 4 4 0 .500 139 201San Francisco 0 9 0 .000 143 239

Thursday, Nov. 2N.Y. Jets 34, Buffalo 21

Sunday, Nov. 5Jacksonville 23, Cincinnati 7L.A. Rams 51, N.Y. Giants 17New Orleans 30, Tampa Bay 10Carolina 20, Atlanta 17Tennessee 23, Baltimore 20Indianapolis 20, Houston 14Philadelphia 51, Denver 23Dallas 28, Kansas City 17Arizona 20, San Francisco 10Washington 17, Seattle 14Oakland 27, Miami 24Open: Chicago, Minnesota, New Eng-

land, L.A. Chargers, Cleveland, Pitts-burgh

Monday, Nov. 6Detroit 30, Green Bay 17

Thursday’s gamesSeattle at Arizona

Sunday’s gamesPittsburgh at IndianapolisMinnesota at WashingtonL.A. Chargers at JacksonvilleNew Orleans at BuffaloGreen Bay at ChicagoCincinnati at TennesseeN.Y. Jets at Tampa BayCleveland at DetroitHouston at L.A. RamsN.Y. Giants at San FranciscoDallas at AtlantaNew England at DenverOpen: Kansas City, Philadelphia, Balti-

more, OaklandMonday’s games

Miami at Carolina

Tuesday’s scoresEAST

Buffalo 38, Bowling Green 28MIDWEST

Miami (Ohio) 24, Akron 14

ScheduleWednesday, Nov. 8

MIDWESTToledo (8-1) at Ohio (7-2), 7 p.m.Kent St. (2-7) at W. Michigan (5-4)E. Michigan (3-6) at Cent. Michigan (4-

5)Thursday, Nov. 9

EASTNorth Carolina (1-8) at Pittsburgh (4-5)

SOUTHGeorgia Southern (0-8) at Appalachian

St. (5-4)MIDWEST

Ball St. (2-7) at N. Illinois (6-3)Friday, Nov. 10

EASTBrown (2-6) at Dartmouth (6-2) at Bos-

tonMIDWEST

Temple (4-5) at Cincinnati (3-6)FAR WEST

Washington (8-1) at Stanford (6-3)BYU (2-8) at UNLV (4-5)

Saturday, Nov. 11EAST

Duke (4-5) at Army (7-2)NC State (6-3) at Boston College (5-4)Georgetown (1-8) at Bucknell (4-5)CCSU (6-3) at Duquesne (7-2)Penn (4-4) at Harvard (5-3)Morehead St. (3-6) at Marist (3-6)Gardner-Webb (1-8) at Monmouth (NJ)

(8-1)Rutgers (4-5) at Penn St. (7-2)Villanova (4-5) at Rhode Island (3-6)Bryant (4-5) at Robert Morris (2-7)Sacred Heart (3-6) at St. Francis (Pa.)

(5-4)Colgate (5-4) at Lafayette (3-6)Holy Cross (4-6) at Lehigh (3-6)Yale (7-1) at Princeton (5-3)Wagner (3-6) at Stony Brook (7-2)Columbia (6-2) at Cornell (3-5)Elon (8-1) at New Hampshire (6-3)Wake Forest (5-4) at Syracuse (4-5)Albany (NY) (3-6) at Delaware (6-3)SMU (6-3) at Navy (5-3)Maine (4-4) at UMass (2-7)

SOUTHArkansas (4-5) at LSU (6-3)La.-Lafayette (4-4) at Mississippi (4-5)Florida (3-5) at South Carolina (6-3)UConn (3-6) at UCF (8-0)Virginia Tech (7-2) at Ga. Tech (4-4)San Diego (7-2) at Davidson (2-7)Drake (5-4) at Campbell (6-4)Austin Peay (6-4) at E. Kentucky (3-6)Norfolk St. (3-6) at Howard (6-3)Stetson (2-8) at Jacksonville (6-3)Savannah St. (2-7) at NC A&T (9-0)Hampton (5-4) at SC State (2-6)Wofford (8-1) at VMI (0-10)Jackson St. (1-8) at Alabama A&M (3-6)Mid. Tennessee (4-5) at Charlotte (1-8)Morgan St. (1-8) at Delaware St. (1-8)The Citadel (5-4) at Furman (6-3)Tennessee Tech (1-8) at Murray St. (2-7)

Bethune-Cookman (5-4) at NC Central (7-2)

Mercer (4-5) at W. Carolina (7-3)Towson (3-6) at William & Mary (2-7)Grambling St. (8-1) at Alabama St. (3-5)MVSU (2-7) at Alcorn St. (6-3)ETSU (4-5) at Samford (6-3)SE Missouri (2-7) at Tennessee St. (5-4)Jacksonville St. (8-1) at UT Martin (5-4)Georgia (9-0) at Auburn (7-2)Florida St. (3-5) at Clemson (8-1)Richmond (5-4) at James Madison (9-0)Charleston Southern (5-4) at Kennesaw

St. (8-1)Presbyterian (3-6) at Liberty (5-4)FAU (6-3) at Louisiana Tech (4-5)Virginia (6-3) at Louisville (5-4)Michigan (7-2) at Maryland (4-5)Kentucky (6-3) at Vanderbilt (4-5)Troy (7-2) at Coastal Carolina (1-8)Arkansas St. (5-2) at S. Alabama (3-6)W. Kentucky (5-4) at Marshall (6-3)Tulane (3-6) at East Carolina (2-7)Old Dominion (3-6) at FIU (6-2)Northwestern St. (3-6) at McNeese St.

(7-2)Alabama (9-0) at Mississippi St. (7-2)Notre Dame (8-1) at Miami (8-0)

MIDWESTIndiana (3-6) at Illinois (2-7)Oklahoma St. (7-2) at Iowa St. (6-3)Nebraska (4-5) at Minnesota (4-5)Michigan St. (7-2) at Ohio St. (7-2)Valparaiso (4-5) at Butler (6-4)W. Illinois (6-3) at Indiana St. (0-9)Youngstown St. (4-5) at S. Illinois (4-5)E. Washington (5-4) at N. Dakota (3-7)N. Iowa (5-4) at Missouri St. (3-6)Illinois St. (6-3) at S. Dakota St. (7-2)West Virginia (6-3) at Kansas St. (5-4)South Dakota (7-2) at N. Dakota St. (8-1)Iowa (6-3) at Wisconsin (9-0)Purdue (4-5) at Northwestern (6-3)Tennessee (4-5) at Missouri (4-5)

SOUTHWESTBaylor (1-8) at Texas Tech (4-5) at Ar-

lington, TexasLamar (1-8) at Houston Baptist (1-8)Southern Miss. (5-4) at Rice (1-8)Nicholls (7-2) at Stephen F. Austin (4-5)Georgia St. (5-3) at Texas St. (2-7)UTEP (0-9) at North Texas (6-3)Kansas (1-8) at Texas (4-5)Southern U. (6-3) at Texas Southern (1-

7)Sam Houston St. (8-1) at Abilene Chris-

tian (2-7)Cent. Arkansas (8-1) at Incarnate Word

(1-8)New Mexico (3-6) at Texas A&M (5-4)UAB (6-3) at UTSA (5-3)TCU (8-1) at Oklahoma (8-1)

FAR WESTN. Colorado (2-6) at Montana (6-3)Southern Cal (8-2) at Colorado (5-5)San Jose St. (1-9) at Nevada (1-8)Weber St. (7-2) at Portland St. (0-9)Washington St. (8-2) at Utah (5-4)Montana St. (4-5) at N. Arizona (6-3)S. Utah (7-2) at UC Davis (5-4)Sacramento St. (5-4) at Cal Poly (1-8)Arizona St. (5-4) at UCLA (4-5)Wyoming (6-3) at Air Force (4-5)Oregon St. (1-8) at Arizona (6-3)Boise St. (7-2) at Colorado St. (6-4)Fresno St. (6-3) at Hawaii (3-6)

Men’s scheduleFriday, Nov. 10

EASTWheelock at New HampshireCampbell at Penn St.Holy Cross at Sacred HeartFairleigh Dickinson at Seton HallBowling Green at DrexelCity College of New York at RutgersArmy at HofstraMass.-Lowell at UMassMIT at HarvardHouston Baptist at ProvidenceMiami (Ohio) at FordhamMorgan St. at BinghamtonIona at Albany (NY)Cornell at SyracuseNew Orleans at St. John’sColgate at UConnMaine at Boston CollegeHoward at George WashingtonUNC-Asheville at Rhode IslandCairn at Delaware St.Northeastern at Boston U.Valley Forge at Md.-Eastern ShoreCCSU at HartfordHampton at RiderNiagara at St. BonaventureBucknell at Monmouth (NJ)Columbia at VillanovaPittsburgh at Navy

SOUTHTrevecca Nazarene at Middle Tennes-

seeWebber International at StetsonMillsaps at Jackson St.Oglethorpe at The CitadelBridgewater at James MadisonDetroit at Virginia TechMemphis vs. Alabama at Annapolis,

Md.Alabama St. at Mississippi St.ETSU at N. KentuckyPresbyterian at TennesseeUtah Valley at Kentucky,VMI at NC StateS. Illinois at WinthropCharleston Southern at DavidsonUNC-Greensboro at VirginiaStony Brook vs. Maryland at Union-

dale, N.Y.W. Carolina at ClemsonFlorida Memorial at FIULafayette at George MasonTowson at Old DominionSouth Carolina at WoffordGeorgia Southwestern at RadfordDelaware at Richmond

Bob Jones at FurmanElon at Duke,Carver at Georgia St.N. Iowa at North CarolinaSummit University at LibertyTennessee Wesleyan at Jacksonville

St.Grambling St. at VCUSiena at Coll. of CharlestonBryant at GeorgiaTexas-Tyler at Louisiana TechEmory at LipscombGeorgia Southern at Wake ForestMethodist University at CharlottePiedmont International at Coastal

CarolinaBrescia at Murray St.LIU Brooklyn at TulaneWilliam & Mary at High PointMercer at UCFNorfolk St. at AuburnMissouri St. at W. KentuckyGreensboro at NC A&TUT Martin at MarshallFAU at South FloridaAlcorn St. at LSUSouthern University at New Orleans at

Southern Miss.Jacksonville at UABLouisiana-Lafayette at MississippiGardner-Webb at MiamiJohnson (FL) at Bethune-CookmanCentenary College of Louisiana at SE

LouisianaMidway at Tennessee TechAustin Peay at VanderbiltNorth Dakota vs. Troy at Honolulu,

HawaiiUCLA vs. Georgia Tech at Shanghai

MIDWESTSpring Arbor at E. MichiganSavannah St. at CincinnatiSiena Heights at Cent. MichiganMorehead St. at XavierSC State at WisconsinBall St. at DaytonRobert Morris at Ohio St.Kennesaw St. at ButlerFort Wayne at OaklandIndiana St. at IndianaMissouri Baptist at SE MissouriNorth Park at ValparaisoNorth Florida at Michigan St.SC-Upstate at MinnesotaNC Central at Ill.-ChicagoSeattle at Saint LouisNicholls at Rio GrandeUW-La Crosse at MilwaukeeSt. Francis (IL) at N. Illinois

SIU-Edwardsville at PurdueUMKC at Wichita St.Arkansas St. at EvansvilleSouthern U. at IllinoisWright St. at Loyola of ChicagoLoyola (Md.) at NorthwesternYale at CreightonTennessee St. at KansasMount St. Mary’s at MarquetteIowa St. at MissouriAmerican U. at Kansas St.Chicago St. at IowaUC Irvine at S. Dakota St.

SOUTHWESTCent. Arkansas at BaylorLamar at TulsaEureka at North TexasWest Virginia vs. Texas A&M at

RamsteinNorthwestern St. at TexasUMBC at SMUAvila at Oral RobertsSamford at ArkansasMcNeese St. at HoustonSouthwestern (TX) at Incarnate WordE. Kentucky at RiceRandall at Abilene ChristianPepperdine at Oklahoma St.Louisiana-Monroe at TCUSouth Alabama at Texas TechLouisiana College at UTEP

FAR WESTWalla Walla at E. WashingtonCal Poly at StanfordUC Santa Cruz at Fresno St.N. Arizona at ArizonaN. Colorado at ColoradoChattanooga at WyomingTexas Southern at GonzagaEast Central at New Mexico St.Florida A&M at Grand CanyonWhitworth at MontanaUtah St. at Weber St.Sacramento St. at Colorado St.Cal St.-Fullerton at Southern CalEastern Oregon at Boise St.S. Utah at Oregon St.Idaho St. at Arizona St.Idaho at NevadaPrairie View at UtahLa Verne at Santa Clara,Whittier College at CS BakersfieldBelmont at Washington,San Diego Christian at San Diego St.Life Pacific College at CS NorthridgeLong Beach St. at San Francisco

2017 Gold Glove winners(With player, team and Gold Gloves won)

American LeagueP — Marcus stroman, Toronto, 1C — Martin Maldonado, Los Angeles,

11B — Eric Hosmer, Kansa City, 42B — Brian Dozier, Minnesota, 13B — Evan Longoria, Tampa Bay, 3SS — Andrelton Simmons, Los Ange-

les, 3LF — Alex Gordon, Kansas City, 5CF — Byron Buxton, Minnesota, 1RF — Mookie Betts, Boston, 2

National LeagueP — Zack Greinke, Arizona, 4C — Tucker Barnhart, Cincinnati, 11B — Paul Goldschmidt, Arizona, 32B — DJ LeMahieu, Colorado, 23B — Nolan Arenado, Colorado, 5SS — Brandon Crawford, San Fran-

cisco, 3LF — Marcell Ozuna, Miami, 1CF — Ender Inciarte, Atlanta, 2RF — Jason Heyward, Chicago, 5

MLB calendarNov. 13-16 — General managers’ meet-

ings, Orlando, Fla.Nov. 15-16 — Owners’ meetings, Or-

lando, Fla.Nov. 16 — Deadline for free agents to

accept qualifying offers.Dec. 10 — Hall of Fame Modern Base-

ball committee vote announced, LakeBuena Vista, Fla.

Dec. 11-14 — Winter meetings, LakeBuena Vista, Fla.

2018Jan. 12 — Salary arbitration figures

exchanged.Jan. 29-Feb. 16 — Salary arbitration

hearings, Phoenix.Feb 15 — Voluntary reporting date for

pitchers, catchers and injured players.Feb. 19 — Voluntary reporting date for

other players.Feb. 24 — Mandatory reporting date.March 29 — Opening day. Active ros-

ters reduced to 25 players.April 17-18 — Cleveland vs. Minnesota

at San Juan, Puerto Rico.June 4 — Amateur draft starts.June 15 — International amater sign-

ing period closes.July 2 — International amateur sign-

ing period opens.July 6 — Last day to sign for amateur

draft picks subject to deadline.July 10 — All-Star Game, Washington.July 29 — Hall of Fame inductions,

Cooperstown, N.YJuly 31 — Last day to trade a player

without securing waivers.Oct. 2-3 — Wild-card games.Dec. 10-13 — Winter meetings, Las Ve-

gas.

Next Gen FinalsTuesday

MilanRound Robin

Group AChung Hyeon (6), South Korea, def.

Denis Shapolavov (2), Canada, 1-4, 4-3 (5), 4-3 (4), 4-1.

Andrey Rublev (1), Russia, def. Gianlu-igi Quinzi (8), Italy, 1-4, 4-0, 4-3 (3), 0-4, 4-3 (3).

Standings: Chung 1-0 (sets 3-1, games 13-11), Rublev 1-0 (3-2, 13-14), Quinzi 0-1 (2-3, 14-13), Shapovalov 0-1 (1-3, 11-13).

Group BDaniil Medvedev (7), Russia, def. Kar-

en Khachanov (3), Russia, 2-4, 4-3 (6), 4-3 (3), 4-2.

Borna Coric (4), Croatia, def. Jared Donaldson (5), United States, 4-3 (2), 4-1, 4-3 (5).

Standings: Coric 1-0 (3-0, 12-7), Med-vedev 1-0 (3-1, 14-12), Khachanov 0-1 (1-3, 12-14), Donaldson 0-1 (0-3, 7-12).

MLS playoffsConference Championships

Home-and-homeEastern Conference

First legTuesday, Nov. 21: Toronto at Colum-

busSecond leg

Wednesday, Nov. 29: Columbus at To-ronto

Western ConferenceFirst leg

Tuesday, Nov. 21: Seattle at HoustonSecond leg

Thursday, Nov. 30: Houston at SeattleMLS Cup

Saturday, Dec. 9: at highest seed

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NHL

Eastern ConferenceAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GATampa Bay 15 11 2 2 24 59 42Toronto 16 9 7 0 18 61 58Ottawa 14 6 3 5 17 51 47Detroit 16 8 7 1 17 45 43Boston 13 6 4 3 15 39 40Montreal 16 7 8 1 15 44 57Buffalo 15 5 8 2 12 38 54Florida 14 4 8 2 10 48 59

Metropolitan DivisionPittsburgh 17 9 6 2 20 45 59New Jersey 14 9 4 1 19 50 45Columbus 16 9 6 1 19 52 46N.Y. Islanders 15 8 5 2 18 55 48Washington 16 8 7 1 17 47 51Philadelphia 15 7 6 2 16 47 43N.Y. Rangers 16 7 7 2 16 52 55Carolina 13 5 5 3 13 35 38

Western ConferenceCentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GASt. Louis 16 12 3 1 25 53 37Winnipeg 14 8 3 3 19 46 40Nashville 15 8 5 2 18 40 42Colorado 14 8 6 0 16 48 47Dallas 15 8 7 0 16 42 43Chicago 15 7 6 2 16 43 36Minnesota 13 5 6 2 12 40 40

Pacific DivisionLos Angeles 15 11 2 2 24 52 34Vegas 15 9 5 1 19 52 44Vancouver 15 8 5 2 18 42 37San Jose 13 8 5 0 16 36 30Calgary 15 8 7 0 16 38 43Anaheim 15 6 6 3 15 43 47Edmonton 14 5 8 1 11 32 44Arizona 17 2 13 2 6 42 68

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

Tuesday’s gamesEdmonton 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, OTBuffalo 3, Washington 1St. Louis 3, New Jersey 1Carolina 3, Florida 1Nashville 3, Columbus 1Pittsburgh 3, Arizona 1Montreal 3, Vegas 2Vancouver 5, Calgary 3Los Angeles 4, Anaheim 3, OT

Wednesday’s gamesMinnesota at TorontoBoston at N.Y. RangersTampa Bay at San Jose

Thursday’s gamesEdmonton at New JerseyChicago at PhiladelphiaMinnesota at MontrealArizona at St. LouisDetroit at CalgaryVancouver at AnaheimTampa Bay at Los Angeles

Friday’s GamesOttawa at ColoradoBoston at TorontoFlorida at BuffaloCarolina at ColumbusPittsburgh at WashingtonN.Y. Islanders at DallasWinnipeg at Vegas

TuesdayCanadiens 3, Golden Knights 2Vegas 1 0 1—2Montreal 2 1 0—3

First Period—1, Montreal, Gallagher 7 (Benn, Plekanec), 8:24. 2, Montreal, Benn 1 (Hudon, Mete), 10:55. 3, Vegas, Belle-mare 2 (Engelland), 17:41.

Second Period—4, Montreal, Pacio-retty 6 (Petry, Shaw), 3:31.

Third Period—5, Vegas, Haula 5 (Marchessault, Perron), 18:23.

Shots on Goal—Vegas 2-12-17—31. Montreal 14-5-9—28.

Power-play opportunities—Vegas 0 of 2; Montreal 0 of 2.

Goalies—Vegas, Lagace 1-4-1 (28 shots-25 saves). Montreal, Lindgren 2-0-0 (31-29).

A—21,302 (21,288). T—2:26.

Sabres 3, Capitals 1Washington 0 1 0—1Buffalo 0 1 2—3

Second Period—1, Buffalo, Kane 8 (Eichel), 2:39. 2, Washington, Ovechkin 13 (Smith-Pelly, Orpik), 17:44.

Third Period—3, Buffalo, Pouliot 5, 3:22. 4, Buffalo, Kane 9 (Pominville), 19:40.

Shots on Goal—Washington 4-10-11—25. Buffalo 15-9-8—32.

Power-play opportunities—Washing-ton 0 of 1; Buffalo 0 of 4.

Goalies—Washington, Grubauer 0-4-1 (31 shots-29 saves). Buffalo, Lehner 4-5-1 (25-24).

Canucks 5, Flames 3Vancouver 1 2 2—5Calgary 1 2 0—3

First Period—1, Vancouver, Gagner 2 (D.Sedin, Vanek), 15:38 (pp). 2, Calgary, Hamilton 2 (Backlund, Tkachuk), 19:49 (pp).

Second Period—3, Calgary, Gaudreau 4 (Monahan, Brodie), 11:51 (pp). 4, Van-couver, Vanek 5 (Biega, Del Zotto), 15:09. 5, Calgary, Ferland 5, 17:27. 6, Vancouver, Dorsett 7 (Sutter, Hutton), 18:20 (sh).

Third Period—7, Vancouver, Horvat 6 (Boeser, Hutton), 4:12 (pp). 8, Vancouver, H.Sedin 1 (D.Sedin, Virtanen), 4:50.

Shots on Goal—Vancouver 8-7-6—21. Calgary 8-16-8—32.

Power-play opportunities—Vancouver 2 of 3; Calgary 2 of 4.

Goalies—Vancouver, Markstrom 5-4-2 (32 shots-29 saves). Calgary, Smith 8-6-0 (21-16).

A—18,160 (19,289). T—2:27.

Blues 3, Devils 1St. Louis 0 1 2—3New Jersey 1 0 0—1

First Period—1, New Jersey, Coleman 2 (Boyle, Moore), 3:35.

Second Period—2, St. Louis, Tarasenko8 (Schenn), 18:57.

Third Period—3, St. Louis, Schwartz9 (Schenn, Tarasenko), 0:32 (pp). 4, St. Louis, Schenn 4 (Tarasenko), 19:03.

Shots on Goal—St. Louis 10-11-19—40.New Jersey 9-9-4—22.

Power-play opportunities—St. Louis 1 of 5; New Jersey 0 of 4.

Goalies—St. Louis, Allen 9-3-1 (22 shots-21 saves). New Jersey, Schneider6-3-0 (39-37).

A—12,317 (16,514). T—2:28.

Penguins 3, Coyotes 1Arizona 0 0 1—1Pittsburgh 2 0 1—3

First Period—1, Pittsburgh, Schultz 2(Malkin, Kessel), 0:59. 2, Pittsburgh, Mal-kin 7 (Guentzel, Kessel), 3:07.

Third Period—3, Arizona, Rieder 3 (Ekman-Larsson, Fischer), 0:26. 4, Pitts-burgh, Kessel 5 (Malkin, Hornqvist), 6:06 (pp).

Shots on Goal—Arizona 8-7-10—25. Pittsburgh 12-15-10—37.

Power-play opportunities—Arizona 0of 1; Pittsburgh 1 of 6.

Goalies—Arizona, Raanta 1-3-1 (37shots-34 saves). Pittsburgh, Murray 9-3-1 (25-24).

A—18,498 (18,387). T—2:31.

Hurricanes 3, Panthers 1Florida 0 1 0—1Carolina 0 1 2—3

Second Period—1, Carolina, B.McGinn 2 (Hanifin, McKeown), 12:17. 2, Florida,Trocheck 7 (Luongo, Huberdeau), 14:06 (pp).

Third Period—3, Carolina, Ryan 3(McKeown, Williams), 9:35. 4, Carolina, Williams 2 (Nordstrom, Slavin), 18:46.

Shots on Goal—Florida 10-7-14—31. Carolina 20-18-10—48.

Power-play opportunities—Florida 1of 2; Carolina 0 of 5.

Goalies—Florida, Luongo 1-3-1 (47 shots-45 saves). Carolina, Darling 4-3-3 (31-30).

A—8,828 (18,680). T—2:29.

Oilers 2, Islanders 1 (OT)Edmonton 0 1 0 1—2N.Y. Islanders 0 1 0 0—1

Second Period—1, Edmonton, Draisaitl4 (Lucic), 1:59. 2, N.Y. Islanders, Eberle 5 (Barzal), 4:43.

Overtime—3, Edmonton, McDavid 6(Draisaitl), 0:38.

Shots on Goal—Edmonton 13-9-2-1—25. N.Y. Islanders 13-11-13—37.

Power-play opportunities—Edmonton 0 of 2; N.Y. Islanders 0 of 3.

Goalies—Edmonton, Talbot 5-7-1 (37 shots-36 saves). N.Y. Islanders, Greiss 3-2-2 (25-23).

A—12,281 (15,795). T—2:28.

Predators 3, Blue Jackets 1Nashville 0 1 2—3Columbus 0 0 1—1

Second Period—1, Nashville, Irwin 2(Arvidsson, Ekholm), 12:36.

Third Period—2, Columbus, Dubois 2, 4:37. 3, Nashville, Jarnkrok 2 (Fiala, Sa-lomaki), 14:25. 4, Nashville, Arvidsson 6 (Salomaki), 19:44.

Shots on Goal—Nashville 8-11-10—29. Columbus 11-11-14—36.

Power-play opportunities—Nashville 0 of 4; Columbus 0 of 4.

Goalies—Nashville, Rinne 7-2-2 (36shots-35 saves). Columbus, Korpisalo 1-3-0 (28-26).

A—14,996 (18,500). T—2:26.

Kings 4, Ducks 3 (OT)Los Angeles 1 1 1 1—4Anaheim 2 1 0 0—3

First Period—1, Anaheim, Boll 1 (Shaw,Montour), 6:01. 2, Anaheim, Vatanen 1(Rakell), 12:26. 3, Los Angeles, Kopitar 8 (Muzzin, Iafallo), 16:58.

Second Period—4, Anaheim, Rakell 6(Grant, Manson), 14:52. 5, Los Angeles,Kempe 7 (Toffoli, Pearson), 19:01.

Third Period—6, Los Angeles, Brown 7(Iafallo, Kopitar), 5:49 (pp).

Overtime—7, Los Angeles, Shore 2 (Quick, Brown), 3:51.

Shots on Goal—Los Angeles 10-11-17-5—43. Anaheim 17-12-6-1—36.

Power-play opportunities—Los Ange-les 1 of 7; Anaheim 0 of 5.

Goalies—Los Angeles, Quick 9-2-1 (36 shots-33 saves). Anaheim, Gibson 5-5-1 (33-30), Miller 1-0-2 (10-9).

A—16,637 (17,174). T—2:50.

NHL calendarNov. 10-11 — Global Series: Colorado

vs. Ottawa, at Stockholm.Nov. 10-13 — Hockey Hall of Fame in-

duction, Toronto.Dec. 16 — NHL100 Classic: Montreal at

Ottawa Senators, at Lansdowne Park.Jan. 1 — Winter Classic: Buffalo at

New York Rangers, at Citi Field.Jan. 27-28 — All-Star weekend, Tampa,

Fla.Feb. 26 — Trade deadline.March 3 — Stadium Series: Toronto at

Washington, at U.S. Naval Academy, An-napolis, Md.

Scoreboard

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Connor McDa-vid stormed down the ice with Leon Draisaitl trailing a step be-hind. Two slick passes and a one-timer later, and the game was over.

McDavid scored 38 seconds into overtime to lead the Edmon-ton Oilers over the New York Is-landers 2-1 on Tuesday night.

McDavid intercepted an off-target pass by John Tavares to start a 2-on-1. McDavid carried the puck into the New York end of the ice dropping the puck to Draisaitl, who flipped a behind-the-back pass to McDavid at the circle to set up a one-timer.

The goal was the sixth of the year for McDavid.

“Our two big guns took it down the ice and got us a win,” said Cam Talbot, who made 36 saves. “That’s what we look to them for in situations like that, and we got it tonight.”

Draisaitl also scored for Ed-monton, which has won two of three to improve to 5-8-1.

“When you have the record we have right now, the right note’s winning all of them,” Edmonton coach Todd McLellan said.

The Islanders didn’t come out too disappointed, either, despite losing two of three and falling to 8-5-2. New York is 5-0-2 at Bar-clays Center this season.

“I knew it was going to be a tough game,” New York coach Doug Weight said. “They played one of their better games. We did as well.”

Thomas Greiss made 23 saves, and the Islanders got their goal from former Oiler Jordan Eberle. The first of two regular-season meetings between the teams also marked the first matchup since Edmonton traded Eberle to New

York in June for Ryan Strome.“It was really weird,” Eberle

said. “As the game went on I set-tled in and started to play. I didn’t know what to expect. ... Your mind starts to settle in after the first (period).”

Each goalie made 17 saves be-fore Draisaitl broke through to make it 1-0 1:59 into the second period. It was Draisaitl’s fourth goal of the season.

Kings 4, Ducks 3 (OT): Nick Shore scored on a pass from Dustin Brown with 1:09 left in overtime, and visiting Los Ange-les rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat Anaheim in the first Free-way Faceoff of the season.

Brown also scored the tying goal early in the third period for the Pacific Division-leading Kings, who surged to an 11-2-2 start .

Blues 3, Devils 1: Vladimir Tarasenko and Jaden Schwartz scored in a 1:35 span bridging the second and third periods and St. Louis sent host New Jersey to its season-high third straight loss.

Jake Allen made 21 saves and Brayden Schenn scored into an empty net as the Blues beat the Devils for the eighth straight time.

Penguins 3, Coyotes 1: Justin Schultz scored in his return from a concussion, Matt Murray stopped 24 shots and host Pittsburgh had little trouble with Arizona.

Evgeni Malkin scored his team-high seventh goal for the Penguins and added two assists. Phil Kessel also had a goal and two assists for Pittsburgh, which returned from a long road trip by spoiling Arizona coach Rick Tocchet’s return to the city where he won three Stanley Cups — one as a player and two as an assistant coach.

Predators 3, Blue Jackets 1: Calle Jarnkrok scored in the third period, Pekka Rinne stopped

35 shots and Nashville beat host Columbus.

Jarnkrok put Nashville ahead to stay, sweeping a rebound past goaltender Joonas Korpisalo at 14:25. The Blue Jackets chal-lenged the goal, contending Kevin Fiala interfered with Kor-pisalo and kept him from making the save, but it was upheld after a video replay.

Canadiens 3, Knights 2: Bren-dan Gallagher and Jordie Benn scored in the first period and host Montreal beat Vegas for its third straight win.

Max Pacioretty also scored for Montreal, which has gone 5-1-0 since starting the season 2-7-1. Goaltender Charlie Lindgren, called up from AHL Laval last week when Carey Price went out with a lower body injury, won his second game in a row .

Sabres 3, Capitals 1: Benoit Pouliot scored the go-ahead goal on an end-to-end rush 3:22 into the third period, and host Buf-falo snapped Washington’s three-game winning streak.

Evander Kane scored twice, including an empty-netter with 20 seconds left, and Robin Leh-ner stopped 24 shots. Buffalo won for just the second time in five games.

Hurricanes 3, Panthers 1: Derek Ryan scored the go-ahead goal at 9:35 of the third period and host Carolina beat Florida to snap a four-game losing streak.

Brock McGinn also scored, Justin Williams added an empty-netter and rookie Roland McK-eown had his first two assists for the Hurricanes.

Canucks 5, Flames 3: Henrik Sedin scored for the first time this season 38 seconds after Bo Horvat’s tiebreaking goal, lifting Vancouver over host Calgary.

KATHY WILLENS/AP

Oilers center and captain Connor McDavid, center, congratulates Leon Draisaitl, right, who fed him the puck for the winning goal in overtime Tuesday against the New York Islanders.

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“I can still remember the first day we met. It was 5:45 am on the first day of spring training when I arrived. He was finishing his breakfast but his clothes were soaking wet. I asked if it was rain-ing when he got in. He laughed and said ‘No I just finished my workout.’ I knew right then — he was the real deal. Thank you Roy for allowing us to witness what it takes to be the best. We will all miss you.”

Former teammate Cole Hamels, currently a Texas Rang-ers ace, joined Phillies chairman David Montgomery at Philadel-phia’s ballpark to remember Hal-laday. Fans left pictures, candles and notes outside the stadium to honor Halladay, who played four years there after spending his first 12 seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays.

“Behind everything he did, he had a purpose,” Hamels said. “I think you come to realize that you have very small, short moments in life to do something great so

you have to maximize it. You have to make the best of it. And he did. He made us push to a level that sometimes you didn’t think you could actually reach. He made everybody better.”

Halladay won a Cy Young Award in each league and tossed a perfect game and a no-hitter in his first postseason start in the same year after coming to the Phillies. The 6-foot-6 right-hand-er was a three-time 20-game win-ner who finished 203-105 with a 3.38 ERA.

Halladay was a devoted hus-band to wife Brandy and a loving father to sons Ryan and Braden.

“All-Star pitcher. All-Star per-son. All-Star father and family man,” Montgomery said.

Halladay served as a guest instructor with the Phillies in spring training and had his own office at the complex. He enjoyed working with the organization’s young players on the mental as-pects of baseball.

“He certainly would have given more to baseball in the future be-cause of his love for the game,”

Montgomery said. “But his com-mitment to his family kept him where he was the last few years. We’d had a number of conversa-tions about his potential future in the game. But he just would say, ‘I want it, but it’s on hold. It’s on hold right now because of my family.’ ”

Halladay was the pitching coach at Calvary Christian High School, and he was coaching an-other youth team.

For all of his personal accom-plishments, Halladay always put the team first and shared the credit. He gave all of his team-mates and members of the or-ganization a luxury watch to commemorate his perfect game and had a special bond with for-mer Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz.

“Roy was one of the greatest pitchers I ever caught, and an even better person and friend,” Ruiz said. “I wanted to win more for him than myself. I will miss him very much. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones and all those, like me, who truly admired him.”

Doc: Players, fans pay tribute to Halladay

JOSE F. MORENO,CAMDEN COURIER-POST/AP

In this Oct. 6, 2010, file photo, Phillies starting pitcher Roy Halladay, right, celebrates with catcher Carlos Ruiz after throwing a no-hitter to defeat the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 during Game 1 of the National League Division Series. Halladay died in a small plane crash Tuesday off the coast of Florida.

BY JAKE SEINER

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Colorado Rock-ies third baseman Nolan Arenado won his fifth consecutive Gold Glove Award on Tuesday night, while Minnesota Twins center fielder Byron Buxton headlined a group of six first-time winners.

The prizes for defensive excel-lence were announced by Rawl-ings for the 60th time.

Arenado, Cubs right fielder Jason Heyward and Royals left fielder Alex Gordon were each honored for the fifth time, most among this year’s winners.

Rockies second baseman DJ LeMahieu got his second Gold Glove, joining Arenado in a ban-ner year for the NL West. Dia-mondbacks pitcher Zack Greinke won for the fourth time in a row, and teammate Paul Goldschmidt took his third award at first base. Giants shortstop Brandon Craw-ford won for the third consecutive year at shortstop.

The World Series-winning As-tros and NL champion Dodgers were both shut out. Houston pitch-er Dallas Keuchel had won the last three years, but was beaten out this time by Blue Jays righty Marcus Stroman, who snagged his first Gold Glove.

“This is one of the main awards I always wanted to win,” Stroman said in an interview on ESPN. “I’m ecstatic. This is huge for me.”

Buxton and Twins second baseman Brian Dozier were also among the first-time winners. The group also includes Angels catcher Martin Maldonado, who ended a four-year reign by Roy-als backstop Salvador Perez. Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart and Marlins left fielder Marcell Ozuna also won for the first time.

“This is a special moment,” Buxton said.

Kansas City first baseman Eric Hosmer received his fourth Gold Glove, while Angels shortstop An-drelton Simmons and Rays third baseman Evan Longoria each won their third. Simmons hadn’t won since 2014, and Longoria got his first since 2010.

Boston right fielder MookieBetts and Braves center fielderEnder Inciarte each won for thesecond time.

Five teams had a pair of win-ners: the Angels, Diamondbacks,Rockies, Royals and Twins.

Arenado became the first in-fielder to win five straight Gold Gloves at the start of his career.

“Obviously, five, it’s a prettyspecial number,” he said. “Itmeans a lot. ... Right now I want to try to win as many as I can whileI’m healthy.”

Barnhart beat out two big starsin fellow finalists Buster Poseyand Yadier Molina, becoming the first Cincinnati catcher towin since Hall of Famer JohnnyBench in 1977.

“It’s as good as it gets for me.I’m a defensive guy and I take a lotof pride in that,” Barnhart said.

Molina won eight years in a rowin the National League beforePosey was picked last season.

“I am taken aback by it, to be honest with you,” Barnhart said.“Buster and Yadi are obviously two of the best guys in baseball.”

Every major league managerand up to six coaches on his staffvote for Gold Gloves. They can-not choose their own players.Four years ago, Rawlings added a sabermetric component thatcomprises about 25 percent of the selection total.

3B Arenado topsGold Glove list

ROSS D. FRANKLIN/AP

Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado won his fifth consecutive Gold Glove Award on Tuesday.

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Eastern ConferenceAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBBoston 9 2 .818 —Toronto 6 4 .600 2ANew York 6 4 .600 2APhiladelphia 6 4 .600 2ABrooklyn 4 7 .364 5

Southeast DivisionOrlando 6 4 .600 —Washington 5 5 .500 1Charlotte 5 6 .455 1AMiami 4 6 .400 2Atlanta 2 9 .182 4A

Central DivisionDetroit 7 3 .700 —Indiana 5 6 .455 2ACleveland 5 6 .455 2AMilwaukee 4 6 .400 3Chicago 2 7 .222 4A

Western ConferenceSouthwest Division

W L Pct GBHouston 8 3 .727 —Memphis 7 4 .636 1San Antonio 7 4 .636 1New Orleans 6 5 .545 2Dallas 2 10 .167 6A

Northwest DivisionMinnesota 7 3 .700 —Portland 6 5 .545 1ADenver 6 5 .545 1AUtah 5 6 .455 2AOklahoma City 4 6 .400 3

Pacific DivisionGolden State 8 3 .727 —L.A. Clippers 5 5 .500 2AL.A. Lakers 5 5 .500 2APhoenix 4 7 .364 4Sacramento 2 8 .200 5A

Monday’s gamesBoston 110, Atlanta 107Brooklyn 98, Phoenix 92Golden State 97, Miami 80

Tuesday’s gamesCleveland 124, Milwaukee 119Dallas 113, Washington 99New Orleans 117, Indiana 112New York 118, Charlotte 113Toronto 119, Chicago 114San Antonio 120, L.A. Clippers 107Denver 112, Brooklyn 104Philadelphia 104, Utah 97Memphis 98, Portland 97Sacramento 94, Oklahoma City 86

Wednesday’s gamesIndiana at DetroitNew York at OrlandoL.A. Lakers at BostonMiami at PhoenixMinnesota at Golden State

Thursday’s gamesL.A. Lakers at WashingtonNew Orleans at TorontoCleveland at HoustonPhiladelphia at SacramentoOklahoma City at Denver

Friday’s gamesAtlanta at DetroitCharlotte at BostonIndiana at ChicagoL.A. Clippers at Oklahoma CityMiami at UtahMilwaukee at San AntonioOrlando at PhoenixBrooklyn at Portland

TuesdayCavaliers 124, Bucks 119MILWAUKEE — Middleton 8-17 2-2 20,

Antetokounmpo 16-21 8-11 40, Henson 3-4 1-2 7, Brogdon 9-17 0-0 22, Snell 3-3 0-0 8, Maker 2-5 0-0 5, Teletovic 6-11 0-0 16, Dellavedova 0-3 1-1 1, Terry 0-1 0-0 0, Lig-gins 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 47-83 12-16 119.

CLEVELAND — James 10-20 8-10 30, Crowder 1-5 2-2 5, Love 9-14 14-16 32, Rose 4-10 2-2 10, Smith 7-12 1-2 20, Green 1-5 2-2 4, Wade 4-8 2-2 10, Korver 2-5 2-2 7, Shump-ert 3-3 0-0 6. Totals 41-82 33-38 124.

Milwaukee 28 39 23 29—119Cleveland 39 26 29 30—124Three-point Goals—Milwaukee 13-

30 (Brogdon 4-6, Teletovic 4-8, Snell 2-2, Middleton 2-7, Maker 1-4, Terry 0-1, Del-lavedova 0-2), Cleveland 9-18 (Smith 5-7, James 2-4, Crowder 1-2, Korver 1-4, Rose 0-1). Fouled Out—Antetokounmpo. Re-bounds—Milwaukee 36 (Antetokounmpo 9), Cleveland 39 (Love 16). Assists—Mil-waukee 29 (Middleton 11), Cleveland 18 (James 9). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 31, Cleveland 16. Technicals—Henson, Cleveland coach Cavaliers (Defensive three second). A—20,562 (20,562).

Mavericks 113, Wizards 99DALLAS — Matthews 5-10 0-0 14, Barnes

11-18 7-8 31, Nowitzki 3-5 0-0 6, Ferrell 3-7 1-2 8, Smith Jr. 9-22 3-3 22, Finney-Smith 2-6 0-0 5, Powell 0-1 0-0 0, Noel 1-2 0-0 2, Mejri 3-4 4-6 10, Harris 2-8 1-1 5, Barea 4-8 0-0 10. Totals 43-91 16-20 113.

WASHINGTON — Porter Jr. 5-8 2-2 13, Morris 3-9 0-0 8, Gortat 4-5 0-1 8, Wall 5-10 13-18 23, Beal 8-20 4-5 23, Oubre Jr. 3-11 0-0 9, Smith 1-2 0-0 2, Scott 0-1 2-2 2, Ma-hinmi 0-0 0-0 0, Frazier 2-3 0-0 4, Meeks 1-6 4-4 7. Totals 32-75 25-32 99.

Dallas 36 28 26 23—113Washington 34 19 23 23— 99Three-point Goals—Dallas 11-30 (Mat-

thews 4-7, Barnes 2-2, Barea 2-4, Finney-Smith 1-3, Ferrell 1-4, Smith Jr. 1-5, Nowit-zki 0-1, Powell 0-1, Harris 0-3), Washington 10-25 (Oubre Jr. 3-6, Beal 3-8, Morris 2-4, Porter Jr. 1-2, Meeks 1-4, Wall 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Dallas 53 (Mejri 12), Washington 39 (Oubre Jr., Frazier 7). Assists—Dallas 26 (Smith Jr. 8), Washington 21 (Wall 14). Total Fouls—Dallas 23, Wash-ington 19. Technicals—Dallas coach Mav-ericks (Defensive three second), Nowitzki, Smith Jr., Frazier. A—14,505 (20,356).

76ers 104, Jazz 97PHILADELPHIA — Covington 5-8 1-3

14, Saric 7-13 6-6 25, Holmes 2-3 2-4 6, Simmons 7-22 2-2 16, Redick 5-12 7-7 20, A.Johnson 0-4 1-2 1, Okafor 0-2 0-0 0, McConnell 2-7 3-4 7, Anderson 4-5 0-0 8, Stauskas 0-0 0-0 0, Luwawu-Cabarrot 2-5 2-2 7. Totals 34-81 24-30 104.

UTAH — Ingles 6-16 0-0 15, Favors 2-7 0-1 5, Gobert 4-8 8-12 16, Rubio 4-16 3-3 11, Hood 4-14 9-10 19, Sefolosha 3-5 2-2 8, Jerebko 1-2 0-0 3, Udoh 2-2 4-4 8, Neto 1-5 2-2 4, Burks 0-3 0-0 0, Mitchell 3-21 0-1 8. Totals 30-99 28-35 97.

Philadelphia 32 14 34 24—104Utah 21 23 27 26— 97Three-point Goals—Philadelphia 12-27

(Saric 5-9, Covington 3-5, Redick 3-7, Lu-wawu-Cabarrot 1-2, Anderson 0-1, Sim-mons 0-1, McConnell 0-1, A.Johnson 0-1), Utah 9-39 (Ingles 3-10, Hood 2-7, Mitchell 2-11, Jerebko 1-2, Favors 1-2, Neto 0-1, Sefolosha 0-1, Rubio 0-5). Fouled Out—Covington. Rebounds—Philadelphia 56 (Simmons 13), Utah 45 (Gobert 15). As-sists—Philadelphia 23 (McConnell 8), Utah 15 (Rubio 8). Total Fouls—Philadel-phia 34, Utah 23. Technicals—Philadel-phia coach 76ers (Defensive three sec-ond), Saric. A—16,063 (19,911).

Knicks 118, Hornets 113CHARLOTTE — Williams 3-8 5-5 12, Ba-

con 0-1 0-0 0, Howard 9-11 3-3 21, Walker 8-16 1-1 21, Lamb 5-13 2-2 15, Kaminsky 2-6 0-2 5, Zeller 3-9 1-2 7, Monk 8-17 0-0 21, Carter-Williams 1-3 2-2 4, Graham 3-7 0-0 7. Totals 42-91 14-17 113.

NEW YORK — Hardaway Jr. 6-14 4-8 19, Porzingis 10-15 4-4 28, Kanter 7-8 0-0 14, Jack 3-7 0-0 6, Lee 2-6 2-2 6, McDermott 7-8 3-3 20, Thomas 3-3 2-2 10, O’Quinn 6-9 0-0 12, Ntilikina 1-5 1-2 3. Totals 45-75 16-21 118.

Charlotte 41 28 25 19—113New York 32 26 25 35—118Three-point Goals—Charlotte 15-37

(Monk 5-13, Walker 4-8, Lamb 3-6, Kamin-sky 1-2, Williams 1-4, Graham 1-4), New York 12-25 (Porzingis 4-8, McDermott 3-3, Hardaway Jr. 3-7, Thomas 2-2, Jack 0-1, Lee 0-1, Ntilikina 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Charlotte 40 (Howard 9), New York 35 (Kanter 6). Assists—Charlotte 24 (Walker 7), New York 29 (Lee 9). Total Fouls—Charlotte 22, New York 19. Tech-nicals—New York coach Jeff Hornacek. A—18,704 (19,812).

Grizzlies 98, Trail Blazers 97MEMPHIS — Ennis III 4-4 2-3 10, Martin

3-6 0-0 7, Gasol 5-14 5-5 16, Conley 6-15 6-6 20, Brooks 3-8 1-1 7, Parsons 1-5 0-0 3, Wright 2-2 3-4 7, Chalmers 3-4 0-0 7, Ev-ans 8-15 4-6 21. Totals 35-73 21-25 98.

PORTLAND — Harkless 2-4 0-0 5, Vonleh 3-4 0-0 6, Nurkic 3-9 0-0 6, Lillard 4-16 4-4 12, McCollum 14-26 4-5 36, E.Davis 0-2 0-0 0, Napier 5-8 1-1 12, Connaughton 1-2 2-2 4, Turner 4-10 8-8 16. Totals 36-81 19-20 97.

Memphis 23 24 27 24—98Portland 21 29 21 26—97Three-point Goals—Memphis 7-19

(Conley 2-4, Chalmers 1-1, Martin 1-2, Parsons 1-3, Evans 1-4, Gasol 1-4, Brooks 0-1), Portland 6-19 (McCollum 4-10, Na-pier 1-1, Harkless 1-2, Connaughton 0-1, Lillard 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Re-bounds—Memphis 34 (Brooks, Martin 8), Portland 42 (E.Davis, Vonleh 10). As-sists—Memphis 18 (Conley 6), Portland 11 (Lillard 6). Total Fouls—Memphis 21, Portland 18. A—18,692 (19,393).

Kings 94, Thunder 86OKLAHOMA CITY — George 4-16 1-1

12, Anthony 4-17 5-7 16, Adams 4-5 6-6 14, Westbrook 7-21 4-5 20, Roberson 2-5 0-0 4, Grant 4-8 2-4 10, Huestis 1-1 0-0 3, Pat-terson 2-5 0-0 5, Felton 0-4 0-0 0, Abrines 1-3 0-0 2, Ferguson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 29-86 18-23 86.

SACRAMENTO — Bogdanovic 2-8 2-2 7, Randolph 8-15 2-2 18, Cauley-Stein 2-4 3-3 7, Hill 0-3 1-2 1, Temple 3-9 0-0 8, Jackson 7-14 0-0 16, Labissiere 1-3 0-0 2, Koufos 1-1 0-0 2, Fox 5-10 0-0 10, Hield 7-9 3-3 21, Carter 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 37-79 11-12 94.

Oklahoma City 25 16 16 29—86Sacramento 10 32 25 27—94Three-point Goals—Oklahoma City 10-

37 (Anthony 3-9, George 3-9, Westbrook 2-8, Huestis 1-1, Patterson 1-3, Felton 0-1, Roberson 0-1, Ferguson 0-1, Grant 0-2, Abrines 0-2), Sacramento 9-24 (Hield 4-4, Temple 2-6, Jackson 2-6, Bogdanovic 1-2, Carter 0-1, Randolph 0-1, Hill 0-2, Fox 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Oklaho-ma City 44 (Westbrook 12), Sacramento 47 (Randolph 8). Assists—Oklahoma City 15 (Westbrook 6), Sacramento 21 (Fox 8). Total Fouls—Oklahoma City 17, Sacra-mento 24. Technicals—Anthony, Labis-siere. A—17,583 (17,608).

Spurs 120, Clippers 107L.A. CLIPPERS — W.Johnson 5-6 0-

0 12, Griffin 4-13 5-6 15, Jordan 4-5 3-4 11, Beverley 2-11 2-2 6, Rivers 10-17 0-0 24, Dekker 0-1 0-0 0, Harrell 2-2 2-4 6, B.Johnson 1-1 0-0 2, Reed 3-5 0-0 6, Evans1-1 0-0 2, Thornwell 3-6 0-1 6, L.Williams7-14 0-0 17. Totals 42-82 12-17 107.

SAN ANTONIO — Anderson 4-6 0-1 8, Al-dridge 10-19 3-3 25, Gasol 8-9 0-0 19, Mills 1-6 0-0 2, Green 8-15 4-5 24, Hilliard 0-1 0-0 0, Bertans 1-2 0-0 3, Gay 8-13 2-2 22, Forbes 2-5 0-0 5, Murray 0-2 6-8 6, Paul 0-1 0-0 0, Ginobili 3-5 0-0 6. Totals 45-84 15-19 120.

L.A. Clippers 26 29 21 31—107San Antonio 32 20 40 28—120Three-point Goals—L.A. Clippers 11-30

(Rivers 4-6, L.Williams 3-7, W.Johnson 2-3, Griffin 2-7, Dekker 0-1, Beverley 0-6), San Antonio 15-28 (Gay 4-5, Green 4-6, Gasol 3-4, Aldridge 2-3, Bertans 1-2, Forbes 1-2, Paul 0-1, Ginobili 0-2, Mills 0-3). FouledOut—None. Rebounds—L.A. Clippers 39 (Griffin 9), San Antonio 39 (Gasol 8). As-sists—L.A. Clippers 20 (Griffin 6), San An-tonio 33 (Mills, Gasol 6). Total Fouls—L.A. Clippers 19, San Antonio 21. A—18,418 (18,418).

Nuggets 112, Nets 104BROOKLYN — Crabbe 1-8 0-0 3, Carroll

3-6 2-2 9, Mozgov 3-5 4-4 11, Russell 6-14 0-0 12, Dinwiddie 2-6 0-0 5, Wiley 1-3 1-2 4, Acy 1-5 1-2 4, Zeller 8-10 5-6 21, White-head 2-6 0-0 5, LeVert 5-9 2-4 13, Kilpat-rick 4-12 1-1 11, J.Harris 2-5 1-1 6. Totals38-89 17-22 104.

DENVER — Chandler 3-9 2-2 9, Millsap7-11 2-4 17, Jokic 16-25 5-6 41, Murray 1-4 2-2 4, G.Harris 4-12 0-0 9, Barton 7-15 1-2 17, Plumlee 2-2 3-4 7, Lyles 1-1 0-0 2, Faried 0-1 0-0 0, Mudiay 1-6 0-0 2, Beasley2-6 0-0 4. Totals 44-92 15-20 112.

Brooklyn 21 25 27 31—104Denver 28 29 36 19—112Three-point Goals—Brooklyn 11-35

(Kilpatrick 2-5, Wiley 1-1, Whitehead 1-1, LeVert 1-2, Dinwiddie 1-2, Mozgov 1-3, J.Harris 1-3, Carroll 1-3, Acy 1-5, Crabbe 1-7, Russell 0-3), Denver 9-33 (Jokic 4-9, Bar-ton 2-6, Chandler 1-3, G.Harris 1-4, Millsap 1-4, Mudiay 0-2, Murray 0-2, Beasley 0-3). Fouled Out—Jokic. Rebounds—Brooklyn 47 (Wiley 8), Denver 47 (Jokic 12). As-sists—Brooklyn 22 (Russell 6), Denver 26 (G.Harris, Jokic 5). Total Fouls—Brooklyn 16, Denver 21. A—14,058 (19,155).

Raptors 119, Bulls 114CHICAGO — Zipser 1-5 0-0 2, Mark-

kanen 3-6 4-4 12, Lopez 10-11 0-0 20, Grant 1-7 5-5 7, Holiday 4-11 5-7 15, Portis 8-13 2-4 21, Felicio 2-3 0-0 4, Dunn 3-6 3-4 10, Felder 2-5 4-4 9, Valentine 6-13 0-0 14.Totals 40-80 23-28 114.

TORONTO — Powell 3-8 0-0 7, Ibaka 7-11 0-2 16, Valanciunas 6-7 8-10 21, Lowry7-13 2-2 17, DeRozan 9-18 4-4 24, Anunoby2-4 1-2 7, Miles 3-6 0-0 9, Siakam 2-4 0-1 4, Nogueira 0-0 0-0 0, Poeltl 3-6 0-0 6, VanV-leet 0-1 2-2 2, Wright 2-3 1-1 6. Totals 44-81 18-24 119.

Chicago 26 19 36 33—114Toronto 29 36 33 21—119Three-point Goals—Chicago 11-29

(Portis 3-5, Holiday 2-5, Markkanen 2-5, Valentine 2-7, Dunn 1-2, Felder 1-2, Grant0-1, Zipser 0-2), Toronto 13-25 (Miles 3-6, DeRozan 2-2, Anunoby 2-3, Ibaka 2-4,Valanciunas 1-1, Wright 1-1, Powell 1-3, Lowry 1-4, Siakam 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Chicago 37 (Portis 13),Toronto 37 (Valanciunas 10). Assists—Chicago 26 (Grant 5), Toronto 22 (Lowry6). Total Fouls—Chicago 23, Toronto 22. A—19,800 (19,800).

Pelicans 117, Pacers 112NEW ORLEANS — Cunningham 1-3 0-0

2, Davis 14-18 5-8 37, Cousins 12-25 4-5 32, Holiday 4-9 2-4 10, Moore 3-9 0-0 7, Miller 4-6 1-1 12, Nelson 3-8 3-4 10, Allen 2-4 0-0 4, Clark 1-5 0-0 3. Totals 44-87 15-22 117.

INDIANA — Bogdanovic 6-9 0-0 14, T.Young 5-9 2-2 13, Turner 6-16 8-9 21, Collison 5-9 0-0 12, Oladipo 6-17 2-2 15, Poythress 0-0 0-0 0, Leaf 1-4 0-0 2, Jeffer-son 3-6 0-0 6, J.Young 3-5 0-0 6, Joseph 4-9 0-0 9, Stephenson 5-9 3-5 14. Totals 44-93 15-18 112.

New Orleans 34 27 35 21—117Indiana 37 38 19 18—112Three-point Goals—New Orleans 14-

35 (Davis 4-5, Cousins 4-10, Miller 3-5, Nelson 1-3, Moore 1-4, Clark 1-4, Holiday0-2, Cunningham 0-2), Indiana 9-24 (Bog-danovic 2-4, Collison 2-4, Stephenson 1-2, Turner 1-2, T.Young 1-3, Oladipo 1-3, Joseph 1-4, J.Young 0-1, Leaf 0-1). FouledOut—None. Rebounds—New Orleans 43(Davis 14), Indiana 41 (Turner 12). As-sists—New Orleans 23 (Cousins 6), Indi-ana 19 (Collison 6). Total Fouls—New Or-leans 18, Indiana 21. A—15,014 (18,500).

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Associated Press

CLEVELAND — Kevin Love joked that he might swing by the hospital on his way home.

On a recent visit, he got a dose of something that made him and the Cavaliers feel better.

Love scored a season-high 32 points without attempting a three-pointer, LeBron James added 30 following an interesting couple days on social media, and Cleve-land withstood a 40-point perfor-mance by Giannis Antetokounmpo to beat the Milwaukee Bucks 124-119 on Tuesday night.

The Cavs have been one of the NBA’s biggest surprises this sea-son — for all the wrong reasons. But after losing five of six, they did enough to hand the young-and-improving Bucks their fourth straight loss and keep Cleveland fans from panicking.

Love was briefly hospitalized after scoring just four points and leaving a surprising loss to Atlan-ta in the third quarter on Sunday. Following his best game this sea-son, Cleveland’s center was asked what IV medications he received.

“I don’t know,” he said with a smile. “Whatever they gave me I might go back and check myself in tonight.”

Love added 16 rebounds. J.R. Smith found his stroke and added a season-high 20 points for the Cavs.

Before the game, the Bucks got some scoring help by acquiring guard Eric Bledsoe from Phoenix in exchange for forward/center Greg Monroe and two draft picks.

Knicks 118, Hornets 113: Kristaps Porzingis scored 28 points, including a tiebreaking three-pointer with 1:48 remain-ing, and host New York earned its third straight victory.

Pelicans 117, Pacers 112: Anthony Davis had 37 points and 14 rebounds for visiting New Or-leans, and DeMarcus Cousins added 32 points and 13 boards.

Indiana had six players score in

double figures in its third straight loss.

Spurs 120, Clippers 107: La-Marcus Aldridge scored 25 points, and host San Antonio made a sea-son-high 15 three-pointers in its third straight win.

The Spurs also had a season-best 12 steals, and Danny Green, Rudy Gay and Pau Gasol all had or matched their best scoring output of the season.

Mavericks 113, Wizards 99: Harrison Barnes scored 31 points, rookie Dennis Smith Jr. had 22 and visiting Dallas snapped a six-game losing streak.

John Wall had 23 points and 14 assists in his return from a sprained left shoulder .

Kings 94, Thunder 86: Zach Randolph scored all of his 18 of his points in the second half, Buddy Hield had 21 points and host Sac-ramento stopped a seven-game losing streak.

Russell Westbrook had 20 points, 12 rebounds and six as-sists for Oklahoma City, which has dropped three in a row.

Raptors 119, Bulls 114: DeMar DeRozan scored 24 points, Jonas Valanciunas had 21 points and 10 rebounds, and host Toronto beat Chicago for its first three-game winning streak over the Bulls since 2009.

Nuggets 112, Nets 104: Nikola Jokic had a career-high 41 points for host Denver, and Will Barton and Paul Millsap scored 17 apiece.

76ers 104, Jazz 97: Dario Saric scored a season-high 25 points and visiting Philadelphia won its fifth straight game.

The winning streak is their lon-gest since the 2011-12 season.

Grizzlies 98, Trail Blazers 97: Tyreke Evans scored 21 points, Mike Conley had 20 — all in the second half — and visiting Mem-phiss held off Portland.

CJ McCollum led Portland with 36 points. Damian Lillard had 12 points on 4-for-16 shooting.

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The Nets’ Quincy Acy, left, defends as the Nuggets’ Paul Millsap loses control of the ball on Tuesday in Denver.

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The Cavaliers’ Kevin Love, right, drives against the Bucks’ Thon Maker on Tuesday. Love scored a season-high 32 points.

Healthy Love justwhat Cavs ordered

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Associated Press

BEIJING — UCLA basketball coach Steve Alford will sit the three players reportedly involved in a shoplifting incident in China for Saturday’s game against Georgia Tech in Shanghai.

Alford, however, declined to address the issue further.

“The University came out with a statement, so I won’t have any further comment on this other than in answering that question — those individuals won’t play on Saturday,” Alford said Wednes-day in Shanghai.

Pac-12 Conference Commis-sioner Larry Scott issued a state-ment Tuesday night saying that UCLA basketball players were “involved in a situation” in China, with police being summoned to the team’s hotel to investigate the matter.

“UCLA is cooperating fully with local authorities,” Scott said.

Citing a person close to the situation, the Los Angeles Times reported that freshmen LiAn-gelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill were involved in a shoplift-ing incident. Ball is the younger brother of Lonzo Ball, the former UCLA star and current Los An-geles Lakers rookie. Their father, LaVar Ball, is also in China and told ESPN that he was “going to wait until I get more intel on what’s going on” before commenting.

Police in Hangzhou did not re-spond to telephone calls from The Associated Press for details.

Scott did not elaborate on what occurred and said the league was

directing all inquiries about the specifics of the matter to UCLA.

“We are very disappointedby any situation that detracts from the positive student-athleteeducational and cultural experi-ence that this week is all about,”Scott said. “Whether in the Unit-ed States or abroad, we expect our student-athletes to uphold the highest standards. We will continue to closely monitor thesituation.”

UCLA team spokesman Alex Timiraos said the school is awareof the situation and is gathering more information.

The Atlanta Journal-Consti-tution reported that local police were called to the hotel where both teams were staying in Hang-zhou and inspected UCLA’s bus asplayers waited to depart for prac-tice. Police interviewed playersfrom both teams before clearing three players from Georgia Tech,according to a statement releasedby the school.

The teams were staying atthe Hyatt Regency Hangzhouon Tuesday before leaving forShanghai, where Georgia Techand No. 21 UCLA are set to openthe season.

Georgia Tech said its playerswho were questioned were to re-join the team and resume their scheduled activities.

The teams are playing at Baoshan Arena in the annual Pac-12 China game, in which aconference school plays anotherAmerican opponent as part of theleague’s global initiative.

BY RALPH D. RUSSO

Associated Press

With three games matching teams in the selection commit-tee’s top 10, the College Football Playoff race could become a lot clearer on Saturday.

Or more muddled.Georgia, Alabama, Notre Dame

and Clemson held their spots in the top four of the selection com-mittee rankings Tuesday night, and unbeaten Miami moved up three spots to No. 7 ahead of its showdown with the Fighting Irish.

Oklahoma remained fifth and TCU moved up to sixth. The Soon-ers and Horned Frogs play a key Big 12 game on Saturday, with the winner taking sole possession of first place in the conference.

Notre Dame visits the Hur-ricanes on Saturday night, and Georgia is at Auburn, which came in 10th.

After Miami in the rankings, unbeaten Wisconsin was No. 8, the highest-ranked Big Ten team. The Hurricanes jumped over Wisconsin after beating Virginia Tech handily last Saturday. The Badgers pulled away late in a rout of Indiana.

Selection committee chair-man Kirby Hocutt, Texas Tech’s athletic director, said the com-mittee was impressed by the Hurricanes’ most convincing win of the season against a “solid” Virginia Tech team.

“That strengthened their ré-sume more than, I would say, Wisconsin strengthened their re-sumé with a win over a three-win Indiana team,” Hocutt said.

Washington, the highest-ranked Pac-12 team, is ninth and Auburn is 10th.

No. 14 Penn State and No. 15 Ohio State fell out of the top 10 after losses last week.

UCF was 18th, the highest-ranked team from outside the Power Five conferences. The highest-ranked conference champion from the Group of Five leagues is guaranteed a spot in one of the New Year’s Six Bowls, and the American Athletic Con-ference is in prime position to grab that bid, likely to the Peach or Fiesta bowl.

UCF is unbeaten and leading the American’s East Division, and Memphis, ranked 22nd, is in the first in the AAC West. No other Group of Five conferences are represented in the selection committee’s rankings this week.

Paths to the playoffHow each of the top teams get

into the semifinals:Georgia (9-0) and Alabama

(9-0) — Win the Southeastern Conference. Both the Bulldogs and Tide can likely afford a loss before getting to Atlanta on Dec. 2 as long they win that day. If both are 12-0 going into the title game, the loser looks like a good bet to get in, too, depending on how that game goes. But it’s no guarantee.

Notre Dame (8-1) — The Fight-ing Irish should roll in with no

issues if they win out and are probably out if they lose for a sec-ond time. Simple.

Clemson (8-1) — The Tigers have to like their chances if they win out, though they could use some help from their fellow At-lantic Coast Conference teams. Strong finishes by North Caro-lina State, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Louisville and Boston Col-lege, as well as by their noncon-ference foes Auburn and South Carolina, would ensure a deep resume. That could also include beating an 11-0 or 10-1 Miami in the ACC title game. The one loss to Syracuse came with an injured QB. And being the defending na-tional champ probably doesn’t hurt either.

Oklahoma (8-1) — As of right now, it looks like simply winning out won’t be good enough for the Sooners to be a lock. Hocutt noted they have probably the two best road victories of the season, at Ohio State and Oklahoma State. He also tried to downplay how much the committee would hold a defense ranked 88th in the country against the Sooners. The best-case scenario for OU would be beating TCU on Saturday and again in the Big 12 title game.

TCU (8-1) — Like the Soon-

ers, the Horned Frogs don’t have a clear path. Two wins against Oklahoma, both away from home, would be nice. The Frogs do play defense, so they wouldn’t have that imbalance issue dogging them the way OU does.

Miami (8-0) — Just win, baby. Running the table means add-ing victories against Notre Dame and Clemson, and with a perfect record the Hurricanes wouldn’t have to worry about one-loss teams. If they lose to Notre Dame but win the ACC at 11-1 — remem-ber their game against Arkansas State was canceled by a hurricane — that résumé is a little light.

Wisconsin (9-0) — A 13-0 Big Ten champion would seem like a lock to make the playoff, but the Badgers are going to need Michigan and whoever emerges as the Big Ten East champion to play well enough to give them the opportunities for the marquee victories their résumé currently lacks.

Washington (8-1) — Win out. Win big. Hope about half the higher-ranked teams lose at least one more time.

Auburn (7-2) — Beat Georgia, Alabama and Georgia again and hope to become the first two-loss team to make the playoff.

No change at top of CFP; Miami poised to make move

Ball involved inChina ‘situation’UCLA coach Alford to sit 3 players arrestedin shoplifting incident for Saturday’s game

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UCLA coach Steve Alford said he will sit the three players involved in a shoplifting incident in China for Saturday’s game against Georgia Tech in Shanghai. Alford, however, declined to address the issue further.

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Clemson’s Christian Wilkins lifts quarterback Kelly Bryant after Bryant’s touchdown against North Carolina State on Saturday.

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Weekly statistics

AFC individual leadersQuarterbacks

Att Com Yds TD IntBrady, NE 309 206 2541 16 2Al. Smith, KC 293 204 2444 18 1Roethlisberger, PIT 275 168 2062 10 9Rivers, LAC 286 173 2028 13 6McCown, NYJ 274 193 1980 13 7D. Carr, OAK 270 176 1954 13 7Brissett, IND 270 165 1950 7 4Dalton, CIN 236 148 1739 11 8D. Watson, HOU 204 126 1699 19 8Siemian, DEN 247 152 1669 9 10

Rushers Att Yds Avg LG TDK. Hunt, KC 155 800 5.2 69t 4Bell, PIT 194 760 3.9 27 5Fournette, JAC 130 596 4.6 90t 6McCoy, BUF 149 546 3.7 48t 3Gordon, LAC 131 526 4.0 87t 4A. Collins, BAL 93 521 5.6 50 0L. Miller, HOU 129 483 3.7 19 2C.. Anderson, DEN 116 482 4.2 40 1Jay Ajayi, MIA 138 465 3.4 21 0Gore, IND 127 455 3.6 21 2

Receivers No Yds Avg LG TDA. Brown, PIT 57 835 14.6 51t 3T. Hilton, IND 34 702 20.6 80t 3D. Hopkins, HOU 51 692 13.6 72t 8Kelce, KC 51 629 12.3 44 5T. Hill, KC 40 617 15.4 75t 4A. Green, CIN 39 578 14.8 77t 4Cooks, NE 33 563 17.1 54 3K. Allen, LAC 40 548 13.7 50 1Dem. Thomas, DEN 43 525 12.2 40 1Gronkowski, NE 34 509 15.0 53t 5

Punters No Yds Lg AvgKern, TEN 38 1957 71 51.5M. King, OAK 37 1861 65 50.3Lechler, HOU 45 2257 68 50.2Kaser, LAC 41 2035 69 49.6B. Colquitt, CLE 41 2021 67 49.3Huber, CIN 42 2003 61 47.7L. Edwards, NYJ 47 2207 70 47.0Koch, BAL 48 2214 67 46.1Schmidt, BUF 41 1889 60 46.1Sanchez, IND 50 2272 61 45.4

Punt Returners No Yds Avg Long TDCampanaro, BAL 14 193 13.8 77t 1Tate, BUF 10 113 11.3 40 0Amendola, NE 14 157 11.2 40 0A. Jackson, TEN 16 170 10.6 46 0T. Hill, KC 15 152 10.1 82t 1McKenzie, DEN 19 186 9.8 44 0Benjamin, LAC 16 156 9.8 65t 1Erickson, CIN 24 187 7.8 29 0Peppers, CLE 17 109 6.4 25 0J. Grant, MIA 14 84 6.0 14 0

Kickoff Returners No Yds Avg LG TDPatterson, OAK 13 401 30.8 49 0A. Hunt, KC 13 341 26.2 42 0D. Lewis, NE 11 266 24.2 71 0Bray, IND 18 430 23.9 60 0Erickson, CIN 18 398 22.1 41 0A. Jackson, TEN 10 204 20.4 48 0

ScoringTouchdowns

TD Rush Rec Ret PtsGordon, LAC 8 4 4 0 48D. Hopkins, HOU 8 0 8 0 48Fournette, JAC 7 6 1 0 42W. Fuller, HOU 7 0 7 0 42Crabtree, OAK 6 0 6 0 36K. Hunt, KC 6 4 2 0 36Bell, PIT 5 5 0 0 30Gronkowski, NE 5 0 5 0 30T. Hill, KC 5 0 4 1 30C. Hogan, NE 5 0 5 0 30Kelce, KC 5 0 5 0 3011 tied with 24

Kicking PAT FG LG PtsGostkowski, NE 20-21 20-23 58 80Succop, TEN 16-17 21-23 52 79Butker, KC 13-13 19-20 53 70Boswell, PIT 15-15 18-20 49 69Tucker, BAL 17-17 17-20 57 68Hauschka, BUF 18-18 16-18 56 66Catanzaro, NYJ 20-20 15-19 57 65Vinatieri, IND 13-15 17-18 53 64Tavecchio, OAK 22-23 12-14 53 58Fairbairn, HOU 22-24 11-12 50 55

AFC team statisticsAVERAGE PER GAME

OFFENSE Yards Rush PassNew England 411.1 109.0 302.1Kansas City 371.8 116.7 255.1Jacksonville 367.4 166.5 200.9Pittsburgh 363.8 108.9 254.9Houston 357.5 132.8 224.8L.A. Chargers 332.8 88.9 243.9Denver 327.2 112.4 214.9Oakland 324.6 87.6 237.0Tennessee 317.8 117.9 199.9N.Y. Jets 310.4 106.7 203.8Indianapolis 304.6 98.7 205.9Buffalo 303.8 116.9 186.9Cleveland 301.2 95.1 206.1Baltimore 286.6 120.9 165.7Miami 270.2 77.6 192.6Cincinnati 269.8 72.2 197.5

DEFENSE Yards Rush PassDenver 280.8 88.4 192.4Jacksonville 281.2 124.9 156.4Pittsburgh 286.6 106.6 180.0Cincinnati 309.1 116.5 192.6Baltimore 310.6 125.9 184.7Cleveland 313.5 84.2 229.2Miami 315.4 94.0 221.4Tennessee 330.9 96.8 234.1L.A. Chargers 337.0 135.1 201.9Houston 339.1 96.0 243.1Buffalo 344.6 94.4 250.2N.Y. Jets 355.3 121.0 234.3Oakland 361.1 116.6 244.6Kansas City 390.3 131.1 259.2Indianapolis 393.6 113.9 279.7New England 417.0 121.5 295.5

NFC individual leadersQuarterbacks

Att Com Yds TD IntR. Wilson, SEA 303 188 2305 17 6Wentz, PHL 291 176 2262 23 5Brees, NOR 275 197 2214 13 4Stafford, DET 303 189 2212 14 4M. Ryan, ATL 270 177 2157 11 7Cousins, WAS 268 182 2147 13 4Goff, LA 244 147 2030 13 4Newton, CAR 287 179 1978 10 11Palmer, ARI 267 164 1978 9 7Winston, TAM 259 159 1920 10 6

Rushers Att Yds Avg LG TDE. Elliott, DAL 191 783 4.1 30 7Gurley, LA 161 686 4.3 36 7J. Howard, CHI 162 662 4.1 53 4Ingram, NOR 123 541 4.4 51 4D. Freeman, ATL 114 512 4.5 44 5Blount, PHL 109 504 4.6 68 2Hyde, SNF 124 494 4.0 61 4Abdullah, DET 122 417 3.4 34 2Aa. Jones, GBY 67 358 5.3 46t 3Cook, MIN 74 354 4.8 33 2

Receivers No Yds Avg LG TDJu. Jones, ATL 43 658 15.3 53 1Thielen, MIN 48 627 13.1 45 1Fitzgerald, ARI 50 564 11.3 37 3Tate, DET 50 562 11.2 45t 2Mic. Thomas, NOR 50 545 10.9 33 2Baldwin, SEA 49 538 11.0 36 3Mi. Evans, TAM 40 532 13.3 41 4Ertz, PHL 43 528 12.3 53 6M. Jones, DET 33 515 15.6 43 5Garcon, SNF 40 500 12.5 59 0

Punters No Yds Lg AvgO’Donnell, CHI 44 2119 69 48.2Morstead, NOR 27 1300 68 48.1Palardy, CAR 38 1803 60 47.4Hekker, LA 27 1273 67 47.1Do. Jones, PHL 34 1586 59 46.6A. Lee, ARI 42 1953 60 46.5Vogel, GBY 35 1598 62 45.7Jeff Locke, DET 27 1222 54 45.3Wing, NYG 45 2036 66 45.2Bosher, ATL 26 1166 62 44.8

Punt Returners No Yds Avg Long TDAgnew, DET 15 291 19.4 88t 2Barner, PHL 16 183 11.4 76 0Sherels, MIN 16 173 10.8 46 0T. Taylor, SNF 17 167 9.8 39 0Reedy, TAM 11 95 8.6 17 0A. Roberts, ATL 12 99 8.2 27 0Cohen, CHI 17 135 7.9 21 0McCaffrey, CAR 18 130 7.2 25 0Lockett, SEA 20 139 7.0 21 0Switzer, DAL 13 81 6.2 21 0

Kickoff Returners No Yds Avg LG TDP. Cooper, LA 16 494 30.9 103t 1McKinnon, MIN 12 312 26.0 39 0Tr. Davis, GBY 11 247 22.5 29 0Lockett, SEA 12 263 21.9 43 0Ke. Williams, ARI 14 292 20.9 28 0Deon. Thompson, CHI 11 229 20.8 29 0

ScoringTouchdowns

TD Rush Rec Ret PtsGurley, LA 10 7 3 0 60E. Elliott, DAL 9 7 2 0 54Ertz, PHL 6 0 6 0 36Jo. Nelson, GBY 6 0 6 0 36Jeffery, PHL 5 0 5 0 34Adams, GB 5 0 5 0 30Agholor, PHI 5 0 5 0 30Clement, PHI 5 3 2 0 30Freeman, ATL 5 5 0 0 30M. Jones, DET 5 0 5 0 30Kamara, NO 5 3 2 0 30Richardson, SEA 5 0 5 0 30C. Thompson, WAS 5 2 3 0 30

Kicking PAT FG LG PtsZuerlein, LA 27-27 24-25 56 99Jak. Elliott, PHL 24-27 17-20 61 75Forbath, MIN 12-16 21-22 53 75Gano, CAR 15-16 19-20 48 72Prater, DET 18-18 18-21 58 72Lutz, NOR 23-25 16-20 50 71Gould, SNF 11-12 18-20 52 65M. Bryant, ATL 17-17 15-18 53 62Walsh, SEA 17-18 12-16 49 53

NFC team statisticsOFFENSE

Yards Rush PassNew Orleans 392.5 122.8 269.8L.A. Rams 382.1 131.9 250.2Seattle 378.6 103.9 274.8Philadelphia 377.0 136.8 240.2Atlanta 372.0 114.5 257.5Dallas 370.5 148.1 222.4Minnesota 358.5 120.0 238.5Tampa Bay 354.5 81.9 272.6Washington 343.0 98.6 244.4Arizona 337.5 76.4 261.1Detroit 335.9 79.9 256.0Carolina 313.1 109.1 204.0Green Bay 310.1 98.6 211.5San Francisco 309.4 92.1 217.3N.Y. Giants 299.2 86.8 212.5Chicago 287.6 130.1 157.5

DEFENSE Yards Rush PassCarolina 274.1 78.4 195.7Minnesota 282.1 81.4 200.8Chicago 312.0 104.4 207.6Philadelphia 315.9 66.4 249.4Atlanta 321.8 114.5 207.2Seattle 322.5 109.4 213.1Dallas 324.6 101.2 223.4New Orleans 326.6 116.1 210.5L.A. Rams 327.0 121.6 205.4Washington 336.9 110.5 226.4Detroit 341.8 89.9 251.9Arizona 349.8 100.5 249.2Green Bay 357.4 118.0 239.4San Francisco 380.4 135.7 244.8Tampa Bay 389.0 116.6 272.4N.Y. Giants 391.1 125.9 265.2

BY STEVE REED

Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pan-thers offensive coordinator Mike Shula knew exactly what Cam Newton was going to do as soon as he broke the pocket and started running toward the end zone.

From there, it was just a matter of Shula holding his breath.

Newton completed a 9-yard touchdown run on Sunday with a highlight reel leap into the end zone, stretching the ball across the goal line and essentially dunking on cornerback Desmond Trufant. The quarterback landed safely on his surgically repaired right shoulder and got up to wildly cel-ebrate Carolina’s go-ahead touch-down in a game they won 20-17 to improve to 6-3.

“Every now and again, is it a little precarious? Yes,” Shula said of Newton running the ball. “It’s like living on the edge.”

Despite talk from coach Ron Rivera this past summer about limiting Newton’s carries to pre-vent wear and tear on his quar-terback’s body, the 2015 league MVP has taken it upon himself to breathe some life into a stagnant running game.

Newton has led the team in rush-ing four straight games, including Sunday when he gained 86 yards on nine carries. He’s averaged 10 carries per game in that span, the vast majority on scrambles rather than designed runs.

“I’m just trying to win foot-ball games at a fast and rapid pace,” Newton said after the win Sunday.

Perhaps we should have seen this coming when Newton re-sponded to Rivera’s remarks about limiting his running in July by saying, “Are you really going to expect a lion not to roar?”

The lion is roaring again.Newton is on pace to run for

more than 600 yards and eight touchdowns this season.

When asked if the Panthers still want to limit Newton’s hits, Shula replied, “Sure, but if he runs the ball and slides is that a hit? Or are you exposing him? I guess my point is it’s a fine line that we walk.”

It’s a line the Panthers have been walking since Newton came into the league as the No. 1 pick in 2012.

On one hand the Panthers don’t want to risk getting their $102.5 million quarterback hurt on an unnecessary run. On the other, they have a unique weapon in the physically imposing 6-foot-5, 245-pounder that is difficult to defend. Newton has piled up 3,907 yards and 52 touchdowns on the ground — the most by a quarterback in NFL history — in 6 ½ seasons.

Both Shula and Rivera take sol-ace in the notion that Newton is — his diving touchdown notwith-standing — getting smarter when he runs.

He’s finally learned a proper

baseball slide. And he’s doing a better job of getting out of bounds and avoiding contract when mul-tiple defenders surround him. That was never more evident than Sunday when he culminated a 34-yard run with a slide in the open field as tacklers converged.

He did the same thing on a cou-ple of shorter runs.

“You can see it by the way he gets down prior to hits, and run-ning out of bounds or sliding,” Rivera said of Newton playing smarter. “He was a little bit on the exciting side when he leaped to get the touchdown. That was a little too much, but I’m not going to stop him.”

The Panthers have also come to realize that the natural high New-ton gets from making a big play with his feet often translates into him and his offensive teammates playing better.

“He played very emotionally on Sunday, which I think really spills over to the team,” Rivera said. “I think guys picked up on his ener-gy and I think that is terrific. That is when he is at his best, when he plays emotionally.”

Added Shula: “If you ask him, he would probably want to run it more. I don’t want to ask him that question because I think I know the answer. But it is part of his game, and if you take that away I think you are taking a piece of him and his game away. So it’s a delicate balance.”

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Panthers quarterback Cam Newton goes over the top of Falcons defenders Derrick Shelby and Vic Beasley Jr. to convert a 4th-and-one in the second half in Carolina’s 20-17 victory game on Sunday.

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TEMPE, Ariz. — After a sea-son of shifting personnel, either due to injuries or ineffectiveness, the offensive line is finally solidi-fying for the Arizona Cardinals.

Just in time to plow the way for Adrian Peterson.

The Cardinals will have the same players on the line for the fourth straight game when they line up to play the Seattle Se-ahawks on Thursday night.

“It feels good,” offensive co-ordinator Harold Goodwin said. “Those guys have been playing to-gether for a while now and, knock on wood, hopefully we can stay with that same group throughout the rest of the year.”

The unit has young and ever-improving D.J. Humphries at left tackle, veteran Alex Boone at left guard, A.Q. Shipley at center, Earl Watford at right guard and Jared Veldheer at right tackle.

Coach Bruce Arians gave the linemen, plus tight ends Jermaine Gresham and Troy Niklas, game balls for their play in Sunday’s 20-10 victory over the 49ers in San Francisco.

“I thought all five, plus the tight ends, did a hell of a job,” Arians said.

Watford played in 15 games for Arizona last season, 10 as a starter. He signed with Jack-sonville in the offseason but was released in early September and was re-signed by the Cardinals last month.

Boone turned out to be an im-portant addition after Mike Iupati

went down for the season with a triceps injury.

“We’re starting to have suc-cess,” said Goodwin, whose spe-cialty is the offensive line. “Guys are starting to get comfortable with one another and the protec-tion has gotten better, the run game has gotten better.”

When they all got together for the first time, Peterson rushed for 134 yards in his Arizona debut in a 38-33 win over Tampa Bay. No one played well for Arizona in the team’s 33-0 loss to the Los Ange-les Rams in London, but the line was at its best in San Francisco.

Especially in front of Peterson, who carried the ball a career-high 37 times for 159 yards against the 49ers. Quarterback Drew Stanton

wasn’t sacked.Now they’ve all got to get ready

in a hurry in a short week of practice, all of them simply walk-throughs, before facing the always tough defense of the Seahawks.

“I’m sore as hell,” Humphries said. “I’m going to be fine, though. I’m 23. Ask the older guys how they feel. I’m pretty sure that’s the real tell. I’ll be fine in a couple of days.”

Humphries said he’s marveled as Peterson starts out with gains of maybe one or two yards and they become five or six as the defense wears down later in the game.

“He finds some of the smallest cracks and jumps through them,” Humphries said, “and when he puts his foot on the ground, he’s top speed.”

Niklas found out that you’d bet-ter block your man when Peter-son is behind you.

“When you’re blocking your guy you better get the hell out of the way or you’ll get run up the back,” Goodwin said. “I think that puts the onus on the guys to get their feet on the ground, move their defender and make way for him because he’s coming. He’s not going to be messing around when he’s got it in his hands.”

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Arizona running back Adrian Peterson (23) follows a block by left tackle D.J. Humphries against the 49ers. The Cardinals finally seemed to have solidified their offensive line as it plows the way for Peterson.

Cardinals O-line solidifying in front of new RB Peterson

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KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — Tony Stewart hasn’t ruled out a return in some form to NASCAR, per-haps in the Xfinity Series or at Charlotte Motor Speedway’s road course.

The three-time NASCAR cham-pion expressed interest in getting back in a stock car Wednesday as he introduced Aric Almirola as the newest driver at Stewart-Haas Racing. At one point, Almi-rola turned to his new boss and asked if he can run Xfinity Series races next season.

“We’ll work on that. I might want to drive it at some point,” Stewart said.

When the assembled media groaned at Stewart potentially dangling fake news, he doubled down.

“You guys act like you don’t need something shocking today to write,” Stewart said. “There are actually some road course races that I might be interested in run-ning. We’ve actually discussed it in-house here, but we don’t have anything near worth announcing by any means, but there are some really cool races, especially Char-lotte having a road course race next year. I mean, there might be some opportunities that might be a little bit fun for me to come out and dust things off a little bit.”

Stewart later told reporters he’s working on something even bigger that does not involve NAS-CAR. He declined to share more information, but has publicly ex-pressed interest in running the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Global Rally-Cross and has even chided team co-owner Gene Haas about For-mula One’s Monaco Grand Prix.

Stewart retired at the end of last season.

Fournette apologizes, vows to be ‘on time’

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jack-sonville Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette apologized Tuesday for violating a team rule that prompted coach Doug Mar-rone to make him inactive against Cincinnati.

Fournette also offered some insight into what may have been a reason for his benching. The rookie vowed to be on time for Jacksonville’s next game Sun-day against the Los Angeles Chargers.

“Want to apologize to everyone for last week and make sure our stadium is pack this weekend,” Fournette wrote on his Twitter page. “And yes I will be there on time.” He included six tears of joy emojis at the end of the tweet.

Marrone declined to say exact-ly what Fournette did to be deac-tivated for the game.

Vikings put Bradford on IR, activate Bridgewater

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — TheMinnesota Vikings have takenquarterback Teddy Bridgewateroff the physically unable to per-form list, adding him to the active roster for the first time since hebadly injured his left knee dur-ing practice more than 14 monthsago.

Quarterback Sam Bradford was placed on injured reserveamid continued trouble with hisleft knee. The moves were made Wednesday, the deadline for a de-cision by the Vikings at the endof the three-week window thatopened when Bridgewater re-sumed practice with the team.

Rangers can pay mostfor free agent Otani

NEW YORK — Texas, the NewYork Yankees and Minnesota canpay the most to a young inter-national amateur free agent as highly touted pitcher-outfielderShohei Otani prepares to enter themarket, and Major League Base-ball and its Japanese counterpart have agreed to the outlines of adeal to keep the old posting sys-tem for this offseason.

The Rangers can agree to amaximum $3,535,000 signingbonus from their pool that cov-ers July 2 through next June 15,according to figures compiled byMajor League Baseball and ob-tained by The Associated Press.New York can pay $3.25 millionand the Twins $3,245,000.

Just three other teams cangive him a seven-figure signingbonus: Pittsburgh ($2,266,750), Miami ($1.74 million) and Seattle($1,570,500).

Otani is the reigning PacificLeague MVP and is 3-2 with a3.20 ERA this year . He is batting.332 in 65 games with 16 doubles, eight homers and 31 RBIs.

UCLA QB Rosen on track to play Saturday

LOS ANGELES — UCLA quar-terback Josh Rosen is on track to play against Arizona State on Sat-urday after missing last week’sloss at Utah with a concussion.

Rosen returned to practiceTuesday morning, and offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch said thejunior will be back in the starting lineup provided he clears concus-sion protocol.

‘ Guys are starting to get comfortable with one another and the protection has gotten better, the run game has gotten better. ’

Harold GoodwinCardinals offensive coordinator

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Former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay acknowledges the crowd before a game against the New York Mets on Aug. 8, 2014, in Philadelphia. Halladay died in a small plane crash Tuesday off the coast of Florida.

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BY ROB MAADDI

Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — A fierce competitor on the mound, Roy Halladay was generous and gentle away from the field.

The eight-time All-Star loved his family, baseball and flying.

Halladay’s passion for piloting cost him his life

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Pitching great praised for hard work, generosity

ROY HALLADAY 1977-2017

Tuesday when his private plane crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. He was 40.

Former teammates, coaches and fans mourned the sudden loss of the beloved former player, who was known for his tireless work ethic. Nearly every mem-ory began with a story about Halladay’s legendary workout program and his early morning routine.

Halladay even outworked Chase Utley.The fan favorites quickly became close friends

after Halladay was traded to the Philadelphia Phil-lies before the 2010 season. Utley recalled his intro-duction to Halladay at the team’s practice complex

in Clearwater, Fla.“My heart hurts writing

this,” Utley wrote on Instagram.

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‘He made everybody better. ’Cole Hamels

Former Phillies teammate