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BY JENNIFER H. SVAN
Stars and Stripes
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Ger-many — From creepy headstonesto spider webs in front yards,houses on this U.S. Air Forcebase are decked out for Hallow-een, ready for the hordes of trick-or-treaters who usually roam thestreets on Oct. 31.
Not this year, though: The coro-navirus has upended many Halloween traditions.
Ramstein base officials said Thursday on Facebook that door-to-door trick-or-treating will be prohibited in family hous-ing “in order to keep everyone safe and healthy.”
The announcement came as thenumber of new coronavirus infec-tions in Germany rose by 7,334 onFriday, the highest one-day risesince the start of the pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention considerstraditional trick-or-treating to bea high-risk activity for spreadingthe coronavirus. Among otherHalloween activities that the CDC advises against are attend-ing crowded costume parties heldindoors, going to a haunted house where people may be screaming, and going on hayrides or tractorrides with people from differenthouseholds.
But trick-or-treating is the Hal-loween sweet spot for many chil-dren. This year, though, they’ll have to settle for alternate activi-ties being offered on some U.S.military bases in Germany, such as a socially distanced drive-inmovie and Halloween-themed bowling night at SpangdahlemAir Base.
Spangdahlem is in a countydesignated as high-risk for the
How a motorcycle rally is suspected in surge of COVID-19 cases across Upper Midwest BY BRITTANY SHAMMAS
AND LENA H. SUN
The Washington Post
It had been a long ride back from Stur-gis, S.D., so when he first felt an ache at the back of his throat, Kenny Cervantes figured he was just tired. He’d traveled
the 400-some miles on his Harley, rumbling through wide-open farm and prairie land on
his way home to Riverdale, Neb., where his girlfriend was waiting.
A lifelong motorcycle enthusiast, the 50-year-old construction worker and fa-ther of five had been determined to go to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, a holy grail for bikers. Even when his girlfriend, Angie Balcom, decided to stay back because SEE SPREAD ON PAGE 9
Above: Angie Balcom and Kenny Cervantes at home in Riverdale, Neb. Cervantes told a health department tracer he got sick after attending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, but he is nonetheless not classified as among the cases from the rally.
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Twitter CEO: It was wrong to block Biden story BY KELVIN CHAN
Associated Press
Twitter was wrong to block we-blinks to an unverified political story, CEO Jack Dorsey said on Friday, as the company respond-ed to criticism over its handling of the story that had prompted cries of censorship from the right.
“Straight blocking of URLs was wrong, and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix,” he tweeted. “Our goal is to attempt to add context, and now we have
capabilities to do that.”After initially blocking people
from sharing links to the story Wednesday, Twitter was letting its users post the link on Friday. It served as a demonstration of how quickly things can change when it comes to social media, misinfor-mation and the coming U.S. elec-tion as companies try to navigate unprecedented times.
Dorsey was weighing in after an executive at the social media company announced changes late
Thursday to its policy on hacked content following an onslaught of criticism.
Twitter will no longer remove hacked material unless it’s di-rectly shared by hackers or those working with them, the compa-ny’s head of legal, policy, trust and safety, Vijaya Gadde, said in a Twitter thread.
And instead of blocking links from being shared, tweets will be labeled to provide context, Gadde said.
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BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS Stars and Stripes
Prepare to swoon, holiday ro-mance enthusiasts.
An upcoming Netflix film, “Operation Christmas Drop,” features a love story centered on an annual military tradition of the same name at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
Available for streaming Nov. 5, the film tells the story of a Grin-ch-like congressional aide, Erica Miller, who skips her family Christmas to observe the annual Air Force operation in December that brings donations and supplies to remote islands in Micronesia, according to a Netflix statement Friday. Her mission: to find rea-sons to defund Andersen.
“Well if we’re looking to close down bases, this one’s flashing red and green,” Miller’s congress-woman boss says in the trailer.
But Miller’s perception soft-ens when she meets Air Force Capt. Andrew Jantz, who helps her experience “the customs and communal spirit of (his) adopted home,” according to the state-ment. Scenes in the trailer show the couple meeting islanders,
dancing and walking through Christmas light displays on base.
“Just give me 24 hours to show you what we do here,” the love in-terest croons in the trailer. “Then, write whatever you want in your report.”
While the love story is con-trived, the film’s namesake is very real. For nearly 70 years, the Air Force has been using aircraft to drop needed supplies to island
populations not easily reached by boat.
The residents of Guam and An-dersen each year pack large boxes of donated food, tools, clothing and toys for Operation Christmas Drop. Airmen in Santa hats para-chute the boxes from the back of C-130J Super Hercules cargo planes.
Shots from the 2019 operation were used in the Netflix film,
and its crew from Hollywood volunteered to sort donations on their days off, according to the statement.
In the trailer, the fictional con-gresswoman criticizes “using military equipment to drop Christmas presents,” but the mis-sion has an operational benefit, as well. It provides a real-world op-portunity for airmen to practice airdrops, used to resupply forces in ground operations.
About 90% of the film was shot on Andersen, including its jungle and beach scenes, according to the statement. Filmmakers used service members’ homes and businesses in the shoot. The base’s beachside bar, Bamboo Willies, even makes an appearance.
“There is no way to build an Air Force base for a movie — you just have to move onto one,” di-rector Martin Wood said in the statement.
Actors and crews were allowed onto Air Force aircraft to film. The Navy also provided two heli-copters and two ships “to portray an air-to-air sequence of travel to a distant island,” according to the statement.
“There’s actual footage we shot
during the shooting of the movie, looking past our heroes all teth-ered into the open back of a C-130doing aerial combat turns outover the ocean,” Wood said in thestatement. “The entire crew usedtheir air sickness bags — multipletimes during that flight.”
“Operation Christmas Drop” isthe first major Hollywood film toshoot on Guam, according to thestatement. Air Force and Navyspouses and locals were hired asset decorators, production assis-tants and stand-ins.
“An authentic Chamorro village was built by local Chamorro chiefand legendary celestial navigator,Guelo Rosario,” producer Steve McGlothen said in the statement.
The movie shows some of the real remote islands helped in the operation, as well, according to the statement.
“There is nothing faked and no green screen in Operation Christ-mas Drop — if you see it, it actu-ally happened,” McGlothen said in the statement.
“Operation Christmas Drop”stars Kat Graham, AlexanderLudwig and Virginia Madsen. [email protected] Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
BY NANCY MONTGOMERY
Stars and Stripes
VICENZA, Italy — The 173rd Airborne Brigade honored an adventurer, warrior and “special young sergeant” in a memorial ceremony Friday.
Sgt. Cade Pendergraft died Sept. 19 after he fell into a ravine while hiking the popular Road of 52 Tunnels, a World War I mule trail carved into Monte Pasubio, a mountain about 30 miles north-west of Vicenza. He was 24.
“For as long as I have been bat-talion commander, people have been wanting to tell me about him,” said Lt. Col. Derek Noel.
Company commanders, battal-ion executive officers all told him “I had to meet this special young sergeant,” he said.
Pendergraft was operations sergeant for Headquarters Com-pany of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, typically a position held by someone two ranks higher than him, Noel said.
He was smart, driven and cu-rious about the world, and had “a fearless ability to go to the corners of the globe with just a backpack and a smartphone,” he said.
Sgt. 1st Class Anival Espino recalled his first conversation with Pendergraft. It was one of several, he said, that left him speechless.
“I said, ‘Sergeant Pendergraft, is there a reason you’re so happy right now?’
“He said, ‘No, Sergeant. Is there a reason you’re not so happy right now?’ ”
Espino said he walked away, pondering why he was not happy like Pendergraft.
A bugler, a bagpiper and troops in dress blues rendered honors in front of Pendergraft’s rifle, boots and beret at Friday’s outdoor cer-emony, held in front of brigade headquarters on Caserma Del Din. His family could not attend because of coronavirus travel restrictions.
Pendergraft was from Fontana, Calif., and joined the Army in 2015.
He came from a long line of military men going back to the Revolutionary War, when Capt. John Duncan commanded a rifle battalion, his mother, Christina Levering Duncan, told Stars and Stripes.
His maternal grandfather, Col. Joseph Gray Duncan III, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1938 and served during World War II. His great-grandfather, Capt. Joseph Gray Duncan, Jr., was killed on the third day of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the Western Front, and is buried at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in France.
“These were Cade’s idols,” his mother said.
Pendergraft researched his family line and spent his free time while based in Italy seeking out locations where they’d fought. He often visited his great-grand-father’s grave.
“Cade was part of that col-
lective family history and was passionate and obsessed with military history and our family’s role in it,” said a cousin, Char-lie Bunting, who himself served three tours in Iraq as a clandes-tine operations officer attached to Delta Force, collecting intelli-gence on hostages.
Pendergraft’s girlfriend, Emma Jaglowski of London, England, whose grandfather and great-grandfather served in the Polish military in World War II, described him as “spontaneous, kind and not afraid to show his emotions.”
“He was unlike any other guy I’ve met,” she told Stars and Stripes by phone.
Pendergraft is also survived by his brother, Blake Duncan, who lives with their mother in Fon-tana; his father and stepmother, Stephen and Ingrid Pendergraft, brother Spencer and sister Emily, of Simpsonville, S.C.; three grand-parents and numerous aunts and uncles.
He joined the 173rd Airborne in December 2018 after serving with the 1st Infantry Division and deploying to Poland for con-tingency operations. He deployed again to Romania in 2019.
Those at Friday’s memorial spoke of the unfathomable trag-edy of the death of someone so vital and promising. Chaplain Adam Langley said the best that
could be done was to strive withothers, together, for “good grief.”
“That as we journey through our grief, as we stare death in theface, we might come out the other side a deeper person because we have been down in the depths ofdespair and know what it is like. Perhaps most important of all, wecome out better to help others.”
Pendergraft’s body was repatri-ated to the U.S. early this month.He was laid to rest on Oct. 7 atFort Jackson National Cemetery in Columbia, S.C.
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A congressional aid meets her match in an Air Force captain in the upcoming Netflix holiday romance “Operation Christmas Drop.”
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Soldiers with the 173rd Brigade’s 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment give one last salute to Sgt. Cade Pendergraft during a memorial Friday in front of brigade headquarters in Vicenza, Italy.
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WAR/MILITARY
Taliban: US military has violated accord
USAA to donate $50M to advance racial equality
Ex-lawmaker to serve sentence at Texas prison
White House, Russia reject each other’s offer to save weapon deal
The Washington Post
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban, facing Afghan and international condem-nation for a 10-day assault near the capital of southern Helmand province, are ac-cusing the U.S. military of violating their February accord by carrying out “exces-sive” aerial attacks and bombings in recent days.
In a statement Sunday, the insurgents played down their own attack on areas around Helmand’s provincial capital, which has forced thousands of villagers to flee their homes and left scores hospitalized.
The attacks have aroused public alarm and anger, leading many Afghans to ques-tion why the government is holding peace talks with the Taliban, especially as the insurgents are hardening their negotiat-ing position after President Donald Trump said he wanted to withdraw all U.S. troops
by year’s end.The Taliban delegates to the talks in
Doha welcomed Trump’s announcement and publicly wished for his reelection — and then turned on their American inter-locutors with their accusations.
“All contents of the U.S.-Islamic Emir-ate accord are unambiguous, but the other side has violated its commitments on nu-merous occasions, engaging in provocative actions and bombing noncombat zones,” spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi said in the statement. “All responsibility and conse-quences ... shall fall squarely on the Ameri-can side.”
The U.S. military spokesman in Kabul responded that the strikes were “consis-tent” with both the U.S.-Taliban agreement and a joint declaration between Afghan and U.S. officials.
“We categorically reject the Taliban’s
claim that the United States has violated the U.S.-Taliban agreement,” Col. William Leggett tweeted. He said U.S. airstrikes in Helmand and Farah provinces were “sole-ly in defense of” Afghan military forces as they are being attacked by the Taliban.
The withdrawal announcement by Trump on Oct. 7 has been viewed as a
major concession to the Taliban . The in-surgents agreed in February to reduce vio-lence, cut ties with extremist groups andrefrain from attacking U.S. forces in re-turn for the gradual withdrawal of all U.S.troops by May.
Shortly after Trump’s announcement, the Taliban launched an assault in Helmand .
BY JAMES BOLINGER
Stars and Stripes
Financial firm USAA has com-mitted $50 million over three years to support nonprofit orga-nizations that work to improve racial inequalities in education, employment and income, the company announced recently.
“We know that in the current environment, the topic of racial equality is front and center for our members, our employees and the communities we serve,” Tony Wells, a senior vice president and the chief brand officer, told Stars and Stripes during a video chat Wednesday.
The company provides insur-ance and banking services to 13 million members of the U.S. mili-tary, veterans and their families.
The military is as diverse as the country it serves, said Wells, a
Marine veteran and Naval Acad-emy graduate.
Research shows that 43% of the military community is listed as ethnic minority, and 47% of USAA employees identify as peo-ple of color, according to a com-pany press release .
“When you serve, you want the best that America has to offer,” Wells said. “When you serve, you want your leadership corps to look like America.”
The $50 million in donations will be spread over three years with the first $7 million slated to support four nonprofits this year in San Antonio, where the com-pany is based, Wells said.
The city is home to the largest concentration of military bases in the country. Joint Base San Antonio employs 80,000 service members, Defense Department civilians and contractors.
This year’s recipients of the $7 million are the Alamo College Foundation, the LiftFund, Proj-ect QUEST and the University of Texas Foundation.
The Alamo College Foundation will receive $2 million to support 335 scholarships, emergency aid and internships. The $2 mil-lion donated to the LiftFund will provide 60 non-traditional loans with low interest rates to Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs, 240 individual mentorships and con-sultations and support 80 minor-ity, woman- and veteran-owned small businesses.
Black-owned, non-employer businesses are less than half as likely to get financing as white-owned firms, according to the USAA release. As a result, Black entrepreneurs are nearly three times more likely to have business growth and profitability suffer
from a lack of financial capital. The $1.2 million for Project
QUEST will help approximately 175 low-to-moderate income Black and Hispanic San Anto-nians receive training in STEM fields: science, technology, engi-neering and math. The University of Texas Foundation will receive $1 million to provide about 100 scholarships to low-to-moderate income minority students. “This commitment extends to the com-munities in which we live and work, USAA President and CEO Wayne Peacock said in the re-lease. “It’s our mission to care for military families, a community that reflects our nation’s racial, social and economic diversity — and the complex issues that come with [email protected]: @bolingerj2004
BY ANDREW DYER
The San Diego Union-Tribune
SAN DIEGO — Former Rep.Duncan Hunter will serve his 11-month sentence for conspiring tomisuse campaign funds at a West Texas prison camp, his attorneysaid Friday.
Hunter is scheduled to report toFederal Correctional Institute La Tuna on Jan. 4. The prison is inthe El Paso suburb of Anthony, on the Texas-New Mexico state line.He will serve in its adjacent mini-mum-security satellite camp, ac-cording to CQ Roll Call.
Hunter’s attorney, Devin Burstein, on Friday confirmedthe report that Hunter had beenassigned to the facility.
Hunter fought a 60-count in-dictment for more than a year before pleading guilty to a con-spiracy charge in December.
His wife, Margaret Hunter,pleaded guilty in June 2019 ofconspiring with her husband to misuse more than $250,000 in campaign money on personalexpenses such as travel, grocer-ies, fast food and private schooltuition.
Alan Ellis, a defense attorney who writes the Federal PrisonGuidebook, told Roll Call he sus-pects Hunter is being sent to afacility 10 hours away to get him away from his sphere of influence — something he said is commonfor high-profile prisoners.
FCI La Tuna also is where for-mer Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is serving a three-year sentence for obstruction of jus-tice, conspiracy to obstruct jus-tice and making false statements.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Russia on Friday rejected each other’s proposals for po-tentially salvaging the last re-maining legal constraint on their strategic nuclear forces. Presi-dent Vladimir Putin called for an unconditional extension of the soon-to-expire New START trea-ty, and the White House called that a “non-starter.”
Adding an edginess to the dip-lomatic clash, President Donald Trump’s national security ad-viser, Robert O’Brien, suggested the Russians rethink their stance “before a costly arms race en-sues.” Administration officials
have previously alluded to build-ing up nuclear forces if the treaty is abandoned, although the Penta-gon has its hands full paying for a one-for-one replacement of older nuclear weapons.
In the closing days of his re-election bid, Trump has looked for ways to boost his foreign pol-icy record, and although he says he favors nuclear arms control, he has called New START flawed and unfavorable to the U.S. Last year he withdrew the U.S. from a separate nuclear arms treaty with Russia, and he waited until this year to begin engaging the Russians on the future of the New START deal.
The Trump administration re-
cently proposed a one-year ex-tension of the 2010 treaty, which is set to expire in February , but it said this must be coupled with the imposition of a broader cap on U.S. and Russian nuclear warheads. The cap would cover warheads not limited by the New START treaty. Putin said Friday a one-year extension was OK but should not be conditioned on a wider cap on warheads.
Trump’s lead arms control ne-gotiator, Marshall Billingslea, blamed the Russians for missing what he called a historic oppor-tunity. “The United States made every effort,” he wrote on Twitter Friday, but the Russians “back-tracked on an agreement” to cap
the number of nuclear warheads of all kinds. Russian officials have denied they made any such agreement.
AP
An Afghan is treated after a suicide car bombing Sunday in Afghanistan’s Ghor province . No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed at least 13 people .
ALEXEI DRUZHININ, SPUTNIK, KREMLIN POOL PHOTO/AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via video conference in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday .
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BY MATTHEW M. BURKE
Stars and Stripes
The government agency charged with identifying Amer-ica’s war dead has identified an-other six sailors who died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
The Defense POW/MIA Ac-counting Agency announced the identifications Wednesday of Navy Fireman 2nd Class Martin Young, 21, of Hawesville, Ky., and Navy Seaman 1st Class Mau-rice Spangler, 20, of Defiance, Ohio, according to the agency’s website.
On Thursday, DPAA announced it had identified Navy Seaman 2nd Class Charles Jones, 21, of Ne-braska; Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class George Gooch, 22, of Missouri; Navy Fire Controlman 1st Class Bernard R. Wimmer, 28, of West Virginia; and Navy Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Shelby Treadway, 25, of Kentucky. All had been recovered from the Oklahoma.
The men were lost in the open-ing moments of the Pearl Harbor attack after the Nevada-class bat-tleship took multiple torpedo hits and capsized. The Department of Defense launched an identifica-tion effort in 2015.
Young and Spangler’s an-nouncements came on the day another of their shipmates, Navy
Fireman 1st Class Rex Wise, was laid to rest beside his parents near his former home of Braman, Okla. Wise was identified on Oct. 17, 2019, according to a DPAA news release.
Young was identified Aug. 19, 2019, using dental and anthropo-logical analysis as well as DNA testing, according to the agency. Spangler was identified on March 27 using anthropological and DNA analysis.
Young will be buried May 15 in Lewisport, Ky., according to the agency. Spangler will be interred Sept. 12 at the Punchbowl.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has ordered flags lowered to half-staff for Young, according to a statement from Beshear’s office Thursday.
“It took a long time to get him home, but we honor the sacrifice of Navy Fireman Martin Young no less,” Beshear said in the statement. “All of our veterans and their families have earned our respect and compassion for their service.”
Both Young and Spangler’s names appear on the Walls of the Missing at the Punchbowl, ac-cording to DPAA. A rosette will now be placed next to each name, marking them as accounted for.
The agency provided no further details on Jones, Gooch, Wimmer and Treadway.
Following the Oklahoma’s sink-
ing, 429 crewmen — 415 sailors and 14 Marines — were declared missing and presumed dead, the agency said. Between December 1941 and June 1944, Navy per-sonnel recovered the deceased crew’s remains and buried them in temporary local cemeteries.
The remains were disinterred in September 1947 by members of the American Graves Regis-
tration Service and transferred to the Central Identification Labo-ratory at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
Lab staff identified 35 men. The rest were buried as unknowns in 46 graves at the National Memo-rial Cemetery of the Pacific, or Punchbowl, in Honolulu.
Two years later, well before the age of DNA testing, a military
classification board declared themen “non-recoverable,” the agen-cy said.
Between June and November2015, DPAA personnel exhumedthe Oklahoma unknowns. Sincethen, they have identified over225 Oklahoma sailors, the agency said in December.
A Hawaii-based Air Force mother of two battered infants was acquitted on military charg-es of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment relating to her son, who died in 2016 at five weeks with multiple rib fractures and lesions on his brain, officials said.
Senior Airman Natasha Beyer, who previously said on her Linke-dIn page that she was a North Korea ballistic missile and Russia analyst at Pearl Harbor’s Joint In-telligence Operations Center, was tried in a military court at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
The Air Force said she was ac-quitted of the charges by a mili-tary judge Oct. 7.
“The court-martial was moved from Honolulu to Andrews air base because of the quarantine restrictions (in Hawaii),” said Steve Lane, a court-appointed guardian for Beyer’s daughter, Avaline. “They couldn’t bring the witnesses here, so they moved the whole proceeding to Andrews.”
Grayson Caleb Beyer died at Tripler Army Medical Center on May 20, 2016. His sister, Avaline, was born July 3, 2017.
A short time later, Avaline was admitted to Tripler for seizures. A medical exam revealed the girl suffered from “numerous” brain
bleeds, a skull fracture, bruising on the top of her head and on her face, and four rib fractures, ac-cording to court filings.
Tech. Sgt. Caleb Humphrey, the children’s father, was sentenced in a military court in February to three years in prison for beat-ing his daughter in 2017 when she was 7 days old, the Air Force’s 15th Wing at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam said.
Humphrey, who was with the 792nd Intelligence Support Squadron, said on his LinkedIn page that he was an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems administrator.
Beyer, the mother, was initially charged with inflicting head trau-ma on her son, as well as bodily harm, causing fractured ribs, ac-cording to Air Force documents.
She also was charged with as-sault on her daughter, causing a skull fracture, fractured ribs and a broken leg.
The Air Force said the charges that Beyer went to court-martial on were involuntary manslaugh-ter and child endangerment — both relating to her son.
Although Beyer was earlier re-duced in rank from staff sergeant to senior airman, she has not been discharged “because she was ac-quitted (and ) there is no basis to sentence her to be punitively dis-charged from the Air Force,” the 15th Wing said.
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VIRUS OUTBREAK
Prohibits: Trick-or-treat plans vary on bases
BY ERICA EARL
Stars and Stripes
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The children of service mem-bers who’ll find themselves quar-antined over Halloween at the home of U.S. Forces Japan may still have treats to look forward to thanks to the Yokota COVID-19 Errands Run group.
Sophie Cox and her husband, Master Sgt. Anthony Cox of the 374th Airlift Wing, started the group after they were quaran-tined in March following their return from temporary duty in Okinawa.
Yokota COVID-19 Errands Run Group connects people in restric-tion of movement with volunteers willing to run essential errands, such as picking up food and hy-giene items.
For Halloween, the group is co-ordinating a special reverse trick-or-treat event Oct. 31 in which costumed volunteers will deliver candy to the doorsteps of those quarantined in on-base housing, temporary tower units and the Kanto Lodge.
Volunteers will also deliver
stickers, balloons and stamps for Halloween decorations.
Sophie Cox wants to bring some Halloween spirit to those who may feel left out, particularly children who will be stuck inside for the holiday.
“I always think about children in quarantine,” she said. “We don’t have kids, but I know they are quite active and want to be in-cluded with their peers.”
Cox estimated that 30 children in quarantine are signed up for the reverse trick-or-treating. All new arrivals to Japan with the U.S. military or travelers return-ing from abroad must spend at least 14 days in quarantine and test clear of the coronavirus be-fore exiting.
Although the trick-or-treat event is dubbed Halloween Drops for Tots, it is not just for families with kids. Any service member or civilian in quarantine on base can sign up to receive a visit from vol-unteers by joining Yokota COVID-19 Errands Run on Facebook and requesting a trick-or-treat bag.
Costumes are not required, but are encouraged to spread some cheer, especially for the kids who
don’t get to go door to door this year, Cox said.
Yokota commissary manager Gene Davis donated candy in bulk for the event, she said. Do-nations of candy or money for the event may also be made through the Yokota Spouses Club, which chose Halloween Drops for Tots as one of its official October fundraisers.
Sophie Cox said the errands group snowballed once the De-fense Department resumed troop movements over the summer. The page now has over 900 members,
with more volunteers than people on quarantine.
When the errands system proved successful, Cox said she started thinking about ways to help families in quarantine who may miss out on special events.
“It’s definitely a unique year, and we want people to still be able to have good memories,” she said. “For Halloween, we want kids to still have that feeling of excite-ment when filling their candy baskets to the brim.”
Halloween has traditionally been a fairly large occasion at
Yokota in which the installationhas allowed sponsored Japanese families onto the base to partici-pate in the American tradition of trick-or-treating.
Because of the coronavirus, only DOD cardholders are al-lowed to trick-or-treat on basethis year.
Cox and her husband said theyare eyeing events for Thanks-giving and the winter holidays if quarantine protocols are still in place over those holidays.earl.erica@stripes,com Twitter: @ThisEarlGirl
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ROME — Americans may love Naples for its most famous ex-port, pizza. But the governor of Italy’s southern region had choice words for the exported American holiday of Halloween as Naples buckles under surging coronavi-rus infections.
Campania Gov. Vincenzo De Luca blasted the holiday as a “stupid American extravagance” and a “monument to imbecility” in announcing a 10 p.m. curfew in Naples and the surrounding re-gion over Halloween weekend.
De Luca has blamed “irrespon-sible” young people for Campan-ia’s surge in infections, and this week closed schools for in-person learning for two weeks.
His bah-humbug to Halloween was in keeping with that tough line. While Italy has long cel-ebrated the religious holidays of All Saints and All Souls, Hallow-een has only taken off in the last generation, most strongly in the Italian south.
Campania was largely spared the first wave of COVID-19, but the region is now one of the worst-hit in Italy and is reaching a criti-cal stage given it has far fewer hospital beds, intensive care units and medical personnel than other
regions of a similar size.De Luca won praise — and an-
other term in office — for taking a tough line to keep infectionsdown during Italy’s initial out-break. But his decision to shift all learning online prompted criti-cism from the education ministerand protests from parents.
His Halloween rant sparked some ridicule on social mediaSaturday with the hashtag #al-louin, which is how “Halloween”is sometimes written in Italian.
The rant was included in oneof De Luca’s Facebook videoson COVID-19, which feature his colorful language and obviousfrustration that Neapolitans areflouting social-distancing rulesand mask mandates.
“How can you be so irrespon-sible?” he demanded Friday ofstudents who wear their masksaround their chins rather than over their noses.
Corriere della Sera, in parsingDe Luca’s latest video, noted thatthe veteran of Italy’s center-left isin a tough spot given Campania’shospital capacity cannot handleany more serious infections. Butcommentator Fabrizio Ronconecriticized the governor’s seem-ingly dictatorial bent, saying he’streating residents like “subjects.”
Governor in Italy blasts Halloween as cases surge
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A volunteer group called Yokota COVID-19 Errands Run is gearing up to deliver Halloween treats to children stuck in quarantine at Yokota Air Base, Japan.
Yokota group to take Halloween to kids in quarantine
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virus, but the base has not seen a spike in cases, Col. David Ep-person, 52nd Fighter Wing com-mander, said during a virtual town hall Thursday. Leadership will make a “game-time” deci-sion on whether or not to allow trick-or-treating, he said.
Ramstein’s force support squadron is planning a parade in family housing on Halloween with “masked COVID-safe caped crusaders” distributing candy, the base said Friday.
At Baumholder, a final decision on door-to-door trick-or-treating is expected this week, said Stefan Alford, spokesman for U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz.
Trick-or-treating will only be allowed on-post for Defense De-partment ID card holders at the Army garrisons in Stuttgart and Wiesbaden. Stuttgart has also banned candy distribution in stairwells and garages and direct-ed that treats be set out on tables for children to grab and go, while trick-or-treaters will be limited to groups of 10 in Wiesbaden hous-ing areas, and only store-bought, packaged treats may be handed out.
The cities of Stuttgart and Wies-baden, and rural Birkenfeld coun-ty, which Baumholder is in, are
all at Germany’s highest health threat level for coronavirus.
U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria has banned trick-or-treating for all garrison members but units can hand out candy in open spac-es with proper distancing, sanita-tion stations and a way of keeping track of participants in case con-tact tracing becomes necessary.
“We’re going to make do with what we have,” Air Force spouse and mother of three Me-lissa Garvin said, with some resignation.
But at least her kids can wear their costumes, she added.Immanuel Johnson contributed to this [email protected]: @stripesktown
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Plenty of costumes were available Friday at the base exchange on Ramstein Air Base, Germany , two weeks before Halloween. Kids and adults can still dress up, but trick-or-treating has been banned by officials at Ramstein due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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BY KELLI KENNEDY
Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — First there was taco night, then barbecue sandwiches, fol-lowed by meats by the pound — all splashy marketing events to generate buzz leading up to Proof BBQ’s grand opening in the Cleveland suburbs. And then came coronavirus.
Michael Griffin already had success with a popular pizza joint in the area and was following it up with Proof BBQ, which was slated to open in March, just as most restaurants and much of the nation were shutting down amid the pandemic.
“You’re going, going, going 100 miles an hour. You’re testing out sauces and you’re testing out the meat,” Griffin said. “We just lost all that buzz we had from that February-March push.”
The odds of success with a new business are always precarious — few expect to turn a profit in the first year or two. Add the chal-lenges of a devastated economy and constantly changing rules for operating in a pandemic, and sur-vival is even tougher. Across the U.S., it’s estimated that hundreds of thousands of small businesses have closed.
Despite that, some new busi-nesses like Griffin’s are forging ahead with openings or expan-sions in 2020, finding ways to make it work amid unprecedent-ed uncertainty.
Griffin pivoted to takeout, cre-ating a condensed, family-style menu, and expanded Proof’s out-door patio. They limped along for a few months, but as cases spiked in July and the city’s bars were put on a 10 p.m. curfew, he closed up shop. Proof re-opened last month to a steady crowd after eight weeks of being shuttered, serving takeout pizza on one side and barbecue on the other.
Despite the challenges, some analysts say the pandemic has created a climate for businesses to flourish if they can distinguish themselves. Interest rates for loans are lower, along with lease prices. There’s less competition to borrow start-up capital and, more than ever, there’s a cachet to being the shiny new thing on the block during a humdrum period when people are stuck at home.
“For all the small businesses that aren’t open, if you can open, that just makes you more power-ful,” said Marshal Cohen, a retail analyst for trend group NPD.
And prospective entrepreneurs are still at least thinking about starting businesses, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. The number of applications for busi-ness tax identification numbers was down more than a third at the end of March compared to year-earlier levels; in the week that ended Oct. 3, the most re-cent data available, they were up nearly 40% over the same week a year earlier. The applications don’t necessarily mean business-es were started, but the numbers do show that despite the virus’s grip on the economy, people were considering it.
Square, a company that helps companies process credit card payments, said one in three of its new clients in the second quarter of 2020 were new businesses; and Stripe, another payment process-ing company, reported that the new businesses using its platform that have opened since the pan-demic have generated over $10 billion in revenue.
“The interruption that it creat-ed is an extra hurdle that we have to overcome, but it also lends it-self to being a business opening up in a period of time when you have very little competition,“ Cohen said.
In Florida, as the vast major-ity of fitness clubs switched to
virtual classes, Legacy Fit took the opposite approach. The state was one of the nation’s COVID-19 hot spots in July, but CEO Man-ning Sumner decided to open new studios in Fort Lauderdale and Pembroke Pines, hosting classes in a ballroom-sized outdoor tent to ensure safety, while allowing clients to exercise in person.
His gamble paid off. The class-es are packed, the franchise is flourishing and he’s planning to expand in Texas.
“People have missed commu-
nity. They are anxious to get back to group exercise,” Sumner said. “For the average class-goer, the novelty of isolated, virtual work-outs has worn off. ”
Upscale boutique hotel chain Aparium was deep into construc-tion on six new hotels when the virus hit. It was too expensive to turn back, but the company was keenly aware that timelines would be significantly derailed, cutting into profit margins by millions.
The virus’ domino effect seemed unending. Construction
crews tested positive, so they added a nurse to the staff, cre-ated separate break rooms, andconducted temperature checksreligiously. Shipping and ven-dor delays forced them to sourcenew materials. In a typical tour-ist economy, the hotel would haveabout 150 employees, but theyended up hiring less than half thestaff they originally anticipatedfor the Tampa, Fl a., location,which opened in September.
Another hotel is opening soon inDes Moines, Iowa, although bothprojects were originally slated tofinish in April or May.
“Our financial projections pre-COVID, we had to toss out thewindow,” said co-founder MarioTricoci. “We’re doing all we canto break even in 2020 when wereopen and probably the first halfof 2021.”
But Aparium serves a nichemarket that Tricoci said makes him optimistic. Their 100- to 200-room hotels don’t cater to conven-tions and business travelers, amarket that has dried up duringthe pandemic. Instead, they aimto be the place for leisure travel-ers to be seen at the lobby bar orrestaurant.
In an exceptionally harsh eco-nomic climate, business ownerssay it’s crucial to fill a void in themarket while being able to adaptrapidly.
BY ELISA SAND
Aberdeen American News
ABERDEEN, S.D. — Samantha Wood is getting some additional teaching ex-perience and filling a need for substitute teachers.
Wood is a junior at Northern State Uni-versity and studying to be a teacher. This year she and the other teacher candidates have a new pre-teaching opportunity that can count toward their required field ex-perience hours.
That experience can now be gained teaching in classrooms where substitutes are needed.
“Personally, I feel like I’m getting more of an experience,” Wood said explaining that the experience allows her to see all parts of teaching.
“I’m learning by experience, which is really awesome for me,” she said.
She’s been filling in various classrooms for more than two weeks now. She was al-ready close to meeting her required field experience hours, but planned to contin-ue working in classrooms, the Aberdeen American News reported,
“We’re calling it an alternative field experience,” said Andria Moon, associ-ate dean for Northern’s Millicent Atkins
School of Education. “We are ecstatic about this partnership. Schools do so much, we’re excited to give back to them through this opportunity.”
Moon said university staff knew there was an increased need for substitute teachers this year because older substi-tute teachers aren’t comfortable teaching in the classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“In prior years, no one would have thought of this,” Moon said. “It wasn’t a need.”
Becky Guffin, superintendent for Ab-erdeen’s public school district, agreed the
need for substitute teachers is high thisyear. So far the district is managing, but there have been challenges and some cre-ative solutions.
Because of COVID-19, she said, teachers aren’t just out for a day. South Dakota De-partment of Health recommendations in-clude a two-week quarantine for someone who comes in close contact with a personwho tests positive for the virus.
It can also be multiple days before the results of a COVID-19 test come back.
“The district has been able to fill the sub-stitute need so far, but sometimes it takesmore than one substitute,” Guffin said.
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Some businesses open and expand despite pandemic
Students learning to be teachers fill need for substitute
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Torya Whittaker works out, Aug. 31, at Legacy Fit in the Wynwood Art District of Miami. As the vast majority of in-person fitness clubs switched to virtual classes when the pandemic hit, Legacy Fit took the opposite approach.
Trainer Xavier Aller, right, encourages Denis Musano as they lift kettlebell weights.
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USFK leader quarantines after returning from US
US Army Japan reports case; Okinawa base worker infected
DODEA students on Guam prepare to return to classrooms
BY DAVE ORNAUER
Stars and Stripes
Defense Department schools on Guam on Oct. 26 will become the last in the Pacific to resume classroom sessions, according to a statement released Thursday by district officials.
Military bases on Guam have lowered the risk level for corona-virus transmission to moderate, a requisite set by the Department of Defense Education Activity for permitting students to return to classrooms.
“Our installations in Guam re-cently announced a shift to Health Protection Condition Bravo and we have begun the process of transitioning to the brick-and-mortar learning environment,” said Gail Wiley, DODEA Guam community superintendent in the statement.
Remote learning, underway since schools opened for the 2020-21 school year Aug. 24, will continue through Thursday, the statement said.
Teachers will be training and preparing their classrooms Tues-day through Thursday, so no in-struction will take place those days. However, students will re-
ceive asynchronous assignments.A teacher workday is scheduled for Oct. 23 .
To reduce the risk of trans-mitting the virus, commanders at individual bases “may re-duce student ridership on buseswith full capacity,” according to DODEA. It left further details tothose commanders.
Families will get a letter from their children’s principals Friday with more information regard-ing the brick-and-mortar setting.DODEA Guam will hold a Face-book Live session at 5:30 p.m.Monday to answer questions.
Mitigation strategies will be implemented, the statement said,to include wearing masks, socialdistancing, physical barriers incafeterias and classrooms and cleaning and sanitizing of fre-quently touched surfaces.
“Our DODEA schools will con-tinue to work in close coordination with military and public healthofficials to support the safe andhealthy return to brick-and-mor-tar schools,” the statement said.
TOKYO — U.S. Army Japan confirmed one new case of the coronavirus Friday, a person who arrived in Tokyo on Oct. 1, ac-cording to a news release.
The individual flew into Haneda Inter-national Airport and tested negative for the virus, went into the mandatory, 14-day period of restricted movement and tested positive Thursday, according to the release issued Friday.
The Army, with headquarters at Camp Zama, near Tokyo, did not specify where the patient is stationed.
Since the patient was in restricted move-ment and then in quarantine, “there is no increased risk to the community,” the re-lease said.
The U.S. military in Japan typically does not specify whether its coronavirus patients are service members, civilian em-ployees, contractors or family members.
On Okinawa, a Uruma city man in his
40s who works at Marine Corps Camp Kinser, a logistics base, also tested positive on Thursday, a prefectural public health official said Friday.
A spokesman for Marine Corps Installa-tions Pacific was unable to respond Friday to a request for confirmation.
The health department is still tracing the patient’s contacts, according to the official. Japanese government officials often speak on condition of anonymity as a condition of their employment.
Two local civilian employees at KadenaAir Base also tested positive last week, one from the base arts and crafts shop and an-other at the base Pizza Hut restaurant.
The prefecture reported 39 new cases of the coronavirus Thursday and 30 on Fri-day along with three deaths due to corona-virus complications. The number of newcases reported daily on Okinawa had not exceeded 30 since Aug. 30.
SEOUL, South Korea — Declaring “no excep-tions” to policy, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea tested negative for the coronavirus and began a two-week quarantine Friday after returning to South Korea from the United States.
USFK also announced Friday that it will lower the military’s health protection risk level nationwide to Bravo, signifying a lower, moderate risk for infec-tion, as South Korea’s daily number of cases dipped below 50.
The change will go into effect at 4 p.m. Monday.Gen. Robert Abrams posted a photo of himself on
Twitter, saying his quarantine was an example of the military’s adherence to a strict testing and quar-antine policy aimed at preventing the spread of the respiratory virus from abroad.
“And so it begins … Day 0 quarantine,” he wrote. “No exceptions, even for 4*. This is one of many rea-sons we have the lowest incident rate in (the Defense Department).”
The command has reported 227 coronavirus cases since an initial outbreak began in South Korea in late February, but only 26 of those were contracted locally. The others were mainly troops who tested positive after arriving in the South from the United States.
Abrams said his initial test was negative, but he will take a second test on Day 12 as required before exiting quarantine.
“To be clear, I am just following the same protocol that everyone coming from CONUS (the continen-tal United States) must follow when they arrive in Korea,” he added.
The new health protection designation means military personnel may go to Seoul and surrounding areas, which had remained largely off-limits due to a high number of cases even as USFK eased restric-tions elsewhere.
Bars, clubs and other adults-only establishments are still banned, according to a press release. It also said the military community must continue to adhere to basic prevention measures such as main-taining safe distances from other people and always wearing face masks in public when off-base.
Masks are required in stores and other crowded facilities on bases but not in open areas. However, the command has made masks mandatory off the installations to conform with local government rules and etiquette.
“While USFK is adjusting its health protec-tion condition peninsula-wide, it is not lowering its guard,” the command said, warning it would “im-
mediately snap back to a heightened HPCON pos-ture without hesitation” if there’s a resurgence of the virus.
The military stressed it was following South Ko-rea’s lead since the government also has eased re-strictions to the lowest level.
South Korea has cautiously welcomed a decline in the caseload nationwide after a second outbreak began in Seoul and surrounding areas in mid-Au-gust, although the numbers have fluctuated.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agen-cy reported 47 new cases on Friday, down from 110 the previous day, for a total of 25,035, with 441 [email protected]: @kimgamel
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Gen. Robert Abrams, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, began a two-week quarantine at Camp Humphreys after returning to South Korea from the United States, on Friday, saying “no exceptions” to military measures aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus will be allowed.
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Local military leaders participate in a COVID-19 tabletop exercise with Department of Defense Education Activity at William C. McCool Elementary and Middle School, on Oct. 1 .
‘ And so it begins … Day 0 quarantine. No exceptions, even for 4*. ’Gen. Robert Abrams
U.S. Forces Korea commander
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Spread: S. Dakota rally may have played role in Midwest outbreak
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she was worried about being around so many people during a pandemic, Cervantes was ada-mant about going.
“I don’t think there was noth-ing that was going to stop me,” he said.
Back home, Cervantes took Tylenol for his throat and went to bed early. But he woke up the next morning coughing so hard he struggled to catch his breath. Over the next few days, the pain in his chest made him fear that his heart might stop, and a test later con-firmed he had coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19.
He was admitted to the hospital 11 days later, on Aug. 27. Soon, his girlfriend and his sister were sick, and Cervantes was going over ev-erything he did and every place he visited in Sturgis, wondering where the virus had found him.
Within weeks of the gathering, the Dakotas, along with Wyoming, Minnesota and Montana, were leading the nation in new corona-virus infections per capita. The surge was especially pronounced in North and South Dakota, where cases and hospitalization rates continued their juggernaut rise into October. Experts say they will never be able to determine how many of those cases originated at the 10-day rally, given the failure of state and local health officials to identify and monitor attendees re-turning home, or to trace chains of transmission after people got sick. Some, however, believe the nearly 500,000-person gathering played a role in the outbreak now consum-ing the Upper Midwest.
More than 330 coronavirus cases and one death were directly linked to the rally as of mid-Sep-tember, according to a Washington Post survey of health departments in 23 states that provided informa-tion. But experts say that tally rep-resents just the tip of the iceberg, since contact tracing often doesn’t capture the source of an infection, and asymptomatic spread goes unnoticed.
In many ways, Sturgis is an object lesson in the patchwork U.S. response to a virus that has proved remarkably adept at ex-ploiting such gaps to become re-surgent. While some states and localities banned even relatively small groups of people, others, like South Dakota, imposed no restrictions — in this case allow-ing the largest gathering of people in the United States and perhaps anywhere in the world amid the pandemic and creating huge vul-nerabilities as tens of thousands of attendees traveled back home to every state in the nation.
Despite the concerns expressed by health experts ahead of the event, efforts to urge returnees to self-quarantine lacked enforce-ment clout and were largely unsuc-cessful, and the work by state and local officials to identify chains of transmission and stop them was inconsistent and uncoordinated.
Those efforts became further complicated when some suspect-ed of having the virus refused to be tested, said Kris Ehresmann, director of infectious-disease ep-idemiology at the Minnesota De-partment of Health.
Such challenges made it all but impossible to trace the infections attendees may have spread to others after they got home. Sev-eral infections tied to a wedding in Minnesota, for instance, “linked back to someone who had gone to Sturgis,” Ehresmann said. Those were not tallied with the Sturgis outbreak because “the web just gets too complicated,” she said.
“When it comes to infectious diseases, it’s often the case that the weakest link in the chain is a risk to everybody,” said Josh Michaud, an epidemiologist and associate director for global health policy for the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation. “Holding a half-mil-lion-person rally in the midst of a pandemic is emblematic of a na-tion as a whole that maybe isn’t taking [the novel coronavirus] as seriously as we should.”
The Aug. 7-16 gathering has drawn intense interest from scien-tists and health officials, and will likely be studied for years to come because of its singularity.
Cervantes feels certain he got the virus from his Sturgis trip and shared that with the contact tracer from the Two Rivers Public Health Department who phoned him after his case was recorded. Nebraska borders South Dakota, and health officials there expect-ed they might see rally-related infections.
Yet his illness was not classi-fied as a Sturgis case, suggest-ing that even under the best of circumstances, infections might go uncounted. With so much still unknown, it worries him to think people might look at the rally and conclude that massive events aren’t concerning after all — that the risk is worth it.
Concerns about rallyAs the coronavirus scuttled
gatherings big and small, from the 2020 Olympics to birthday parties, weddings and funerals, Sturgis officials mulled postponing this year’s rally.
But this year, a survey found that 60% of residents wanted the rally postponed. Calling off this year’s rally, its 80th anniversary, would mean a loss of around $2 million for the city, authorities said. It had only been done during World War II.
“There absolutely was no right decision,” said city council mem-ber Terry Keszler.
Another concern was that crowds would come regardless of their decision, and, Keszler said, “we had to prepare for it, or it would have been such a mess it’s not even funny.”
The council ultimately voted to allow the event .
In interviews with The Post, several rally attendees said they didn’t deny the threat of the coro-navirus but also didn’t believe they needed to stay home indefinitely. Some noted that they take risks each time they get on their bikes. A number said they wore masks or made other minor concessions but were determined to go on with their lives.
High attendanceThe rally unfolded in August as
it always had. Bikers revved their engines on Main Street and filled highways . Bands played to shoul-der-to-shoulder audiences, and bikini-wearing bartenders sold beer by the bucket. Hardly anyone wore a mask.
In the run-up to the rally, of-ficials estimated that 250,000 people would come. The actual number, according to the South Dakota Transportation Depart-ment, was over 460,000 — down just 7% from 2019.
They came in the greatest num-bers from South Dakota, source of an estimated 93,000 attendees, or a fifth of the total, according to calculations by the Center for New Data. Minnesota ranked second, with an estimated 31,000 people, followed by Colorado with 29,000. Many traveled hundreds of miles: 21,000 rallygoers are believed to have come from Texas, and 20,800 from California.
Cervantes was one of an es-timated 16,700 from Nebraska, which had the seventh-highest number of rallygoers. After a six-hour ride, he reached Sturgis be-fore sunset on Thursday, almost a week into the rally.
From the beginning, Cervantes recalled being struck by the lack of masks. On his ride from Ne-braska, Balcom had chided him on a call after he acknowledged he hadn’t worn one at a gas station. He mostly kept one on after that.
Cervantes spent much of his
time on scenic rides. He and his friends stopped at several stores and, on the final night of the rally, took a bus downtown to “party it up a little bit because it was our last night there.”
The next day, bikers were leav-ing, and Sturgis leaders began of-fering free coronavirus testing to residents.
After the rallyWhat happened afterward was,
in certain respects, very clear.South Dakota, which had the
most attendees, saw coronavi-rus cases surge within weeks of the rally’s Aug. 16 close, with the seven-day rolling average going from 84 on Aug. 6 to 214 on Aug. 27. The numbers remained el-evated into October: The first day of the month, the seven-day roll-ing average was 434. The state is second in the nation in cases per capita behind North Dakota, with numbers high enough for the Har-vard Global Health Institute to recommend stay-at-home orders.
But precisely how that outbreak unfolded remains shrouded in uncertainty.
Because symptoms of the coro-navirus can take days to surface, rally attendees were unlikely to know they had been infected until returning home.
So even as the Dakotas and the Upper Midwest began see-ing infections climb, it is impos-sible to say precisely how many of those cases originated at the rally — or how many of those might have ignited additional clusters elsewhere.
State health officials, who linked 125 cases to Sturgis, have not tied the surge to the rally . They note it overlapped with school openings and end-of-summer restlessness.
And the increases in corona-virus infections spread beyond South Dakota, post-rally. In Crook County, Wyo., Corinne Hoard started feeling sick a week after-
ward but isn’t sure whether shewas infected there — or whether health officials counted her case as Sturgis-related.
Hoard, who said motorcycle rid-ing is “kind of in my blood,” wasmostly avoiding crowds but kepther annual tradition of going toSturgis and attended a concert there, viewing it as safe because she sat outdoors. She started feel-ing sick a week afterward and went to the hospital after waking up one morning feeling like “deathhad crawled in the bed with me.”
‘Wasn’t worth it’The day Cervantes sat up from
the couch and asked Balcom totake him to the emergency room,doctors put him on oxygen. Hehad been worried about the tight-ness in his chest, but he hadn’tgrasped how bad it was. Onlywhen he was being hooked up to the oxygen machine did he real-ize he hadn’t said goodbye to his children.
He spent eight days in the hospi-tal before being discharged Sept. 4. He was still sick when he left,but the doctors said he could re-cuperate at home. Walking acrossthe hospital parking lot, though, he was so winded he had to take a moment to sit down.
Balcom, whose case was mild, was upset when she found out Cervantes’s case wasn’t includedin COVID-19 tallies linked toSturgis.
After weeks of missed work, his stint in the hospital and a returnvisit to the ER over a blood clot concern, he’s come to deeply re-gret his decision.
“I was naive,” he said. “I was dumb, you know? I shouldn’t havewent. I did; I can’t change that, soI just got to move forward. But sit-ting here just the past few days, that’s all I keep thinking about.I’m like, Jesus, look at the hell I’mgoing through, the hell I put ev-erybody through. It ain’t worth it.It wasn’t. It really wasn’t.”
Photo courtesy of family
Kenny Cervantes rode his motorcycle from Nebraska to Sturgis, S.D. in August.
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McConnell positions stimulus votes for Senate for Tuesday
BY COLLEEN BARRYAND ANGELA CHARLTON
Associated Press
MILAN — Doctors are warn-ing that Europe is at a turning point as the coronavirus surges back across the continent, includ-ing among vulnerable people, and governments try to impose re-strictions without locking whole economies down.
With newly confirmed cases reaching records, the World Health Organization warned Fri-day that intensive care units in a number of European cities could reach maximum capacity in the coming weeks.
In response to the surge, the Czech Republic has shut schools and is building a field hospi-tal, Poland has limited restau-rant hours and closed gyms and schools, and France instituted a 9 p.m. curfew in Paris and other big cities. In Britain, authorities are closing pubs and bars in areas in the country’s north, while putting limits on socializing in London and other parts of the country.
Europe is not alone in seeing a
resurgence. In the United States, new cases per day are on the rise in 44 states, and deaths per day are climbing in 30.
“If we don’t get a handle on this, we run the risk of getting into a situation that’s harder to control,” Bertrand Levrat, the head of Switzerland’s biggest hospital complex, told The As-sociated Press. “We are really at a turning point — things can go both ways.”
But while officials are sound-ing the alarm on rising cases, they are also wary of imposing the stricter nationwide lockdowns that devastated their economies this spring. Instead, they are try-ing more targeted restrictions.
France is deploying 12,000 extra police to enforce its new curfew; Saturday night was the first time establishments were forced to close at 9 p.m. Restau-rants, cinemas and theaters are trying to figure out how to sur-vive the forced early closures.
One movie theater chain will start opening at 8 a.m. in hopes of making up evening losses. Since Paris restaurants generally open
at 7 or 7:30 p.m. for dinner, some might close altogether because it no longer makes financial sense to stay open for such a short shift.
“The French culture world isn’t invincible, it needs help,” author and filmmaker Yoann Sfar, who has a new movie coming out, said Friday on RTL radio.
Italy, the first country outside of Asia to detect local transmis-sion of the virus, has banned pickup sports and public gather-ings after health officials said the resurgence had reached “an acute phase” following a period of relative grace after its particu-larly strict lockdown.
The governor of Campania, which was mostly spared in the spring but is seeing infections skyrocket, urged quick action, noting the area around Naples is the most densely populated in the country.
“Half measures are not worth anything anymore,” Vincenzo de Luca said in a Facebook video. He already announced the closure of schools for the rest of the month, against the wishes of Rome.
BY ELLEN MOYNIHANAND DAVE GOLDINER
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave the green light for movie theaters to open outside of New York City on Saturday as he all but declared victory over the coronavirus hot spots that had threatened to spread into a wider flare up.
Cinemas will be permitted to open Friday in counties outside the five boroughs that have an overall COVID-19 positivity rate of less than 2% and that have no
significant hot spots, Cuomo said at a midtown press conference.
The movie theaters will be lim-ited to 25% capacity or a maxi-mum of 50 viewers per screen.
Cuomo also said the state had served a health order on an Or-thodox Jewish synagogue in Wil-liamsburg that was planning a wedding that was expected to draw a crowd of some 10,000 revelers.
“You can get married, you just can’t have (10,000) people at your wedding,” Cuomo said.
Cuomo claimed the state has
succeeded in cooling off the hot spots in neighborhoods in Brook-lyn, Queens and upstate that had threatened to spread into wider outbreak.
“Literally we are going block by block and now we have the sophistication to do that,” Cuomo said. “It’s much smarter, it’s more effective and it’s less disruptive.”
Cuomo announced that a re-cord 160,000 tests were conduct-ed Friday, and the state’s overall positive test rate stands at 1.1%. Nine additional New Yorkers died of the coronavirus.
Associated Press
PARIS — The streets of Paris and eight other French cities were deserted Saturday night on the first day of the government-imposed 9 p.m. curfew that is scheduled to last for at least four weeks.
The measure was announced by French President Emmanuel Ma-cron to curb the resurgent coro-navirus as new infections peaked to over 30,000 a day. Macron said the curfews were needed to stop local hospitals from becoming overrun.
In France, nearly 20 million people are covered by the curfew, and eerily deserted scenes were observed in Marseille, Lyon, Lille and Toulouse as well. The curfew runs until 6 a.m. daily. The coun-try is deploying an extra 12,000 police officers in order to enforce
the new rules.Many bar and restaurant own-
ers have bristled at the order. Anearlier months long lockdown tocombat the spread of coronavi-rus in the spring devastated thesector.
“I have the right to questionthe government’s approach,” said Xavier Denamur, who owns LesPhilosophes and several otherbistros in Paris’s chic Le Marais district. “I think it’s a catastroph-ic measure for the industry.”
Denamur said the curfewshould not start before 11 p.m.
“At least that would not destroyus,” he said. “There’s no evidencethat this difference of a couple ofhours will have any effect on thevirus circulating.”
France has seen over 33,300confirmed deaths in the pandem-ic, the fourth-highest death toll in Europe.
BY TONY CZUCZKA
Bloomberg
WASHINGTON — The Sen-ate will vote on Republican pro-posals for a roughly $500 billion economic recovery bill and addi-tional funding to aid small busi-nesses starting Tuesday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.
The votes, essentially one-chamber messaging, will un-derscore the continued deep differences after months of talks on another stimulus bill that have failed to bridge gaps between President Donald Trump’s ad-ministration, House Democrats and Senate Republicans.
McConnell, who previously said the Senate would take ac-tion during the week of Oct. 19, spelled out schedule details on Saturday. A standalone vote on more funds for the Paycheck Protection Program will be held Tuesday, followed by the main
relief bill Wednesday, he said in astatement.
“Republicans have tried nu-merous times to secure bipartisan agreement where possible andget aid out the door while theseendless talks continue,” said Mc-Connell, blaming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the aid impasse. “Next week, Senate Republicans will move to break this logjam.”
McConnell has raised his own objection to any deal — theamount. Trump said Thursday he was prepared to go above the $1.8 trillion his team had been tryingto offer to Pelosi, who favors a$2.2 trillion plan.
“He’s talking about a much larger amount than I can sellto my members,” McConnellsaid Thursday of Trump’s latestposition.
Pelosi and Treasury SecretarySteven Mnuchin were expectedto hold more talks on stimulus ef-forts on Saturday evening.
Europe at ‘turning point’ with at-risk groups getting hit hard
French curfew produces quiet on streets of Paris
NY’s Cuomo opens movie theaters, cancels Brooklyn wedding with over 10,000 guests
PETR DAVID JOSEK/AP
Dozens of worshippers pray during a mass celebrated at Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic, on Sunday.
LEWIS JOLY/AP
Madeleine square is empty during curfew in Paris on Saturday.
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NATION
BY ELLEN MOYNIHAN AND LARRY MCSHANE
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — Thousands of women across the U.S. marched in protest against the White House, rousted into action Saturday by President Donald Trump’s choice of a conservative candidate to re-place the late Supreme Court Jus-tice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Marches also were held in Wash-ington, D.C., and dozens of satellite sites across the nation. The typi-cally massive marches, launched after Trump’s 2017 inauguration, saw the ranks limited this time by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Manhattan’s march was the second such anti-Trump event this year, following a similar march in January. Since then marchers have been outraged by Trump’s nomination of conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Su-preme Court seat vacated by the famously liberal Ginsburg’s death. The Manhattan marchers, like many around the country, were particularly concerned about the possibility of a new, heavily con-servative court overturning Roe v. Wade.
Among the hundreds gathered in Manhattan, one protester raised a sign with the outline of a coat hanger and the blunt message, “Never Go Back.” Other march-ers dressed in red robes and white hats, like characters from “The Handmaid’s Tale,” as they headed downtown en masse.
The protesters wore face cover-ings for the mid-pandemic protest and waved signs extolling Gins-
burg and denouncing Trump. “Grab him by the ballot,” read one pink sign with an image of four raised fists — all with nail polish.
Cynthia Altmann, 47, offered two reasons for traveling down from the Bronx: First, the proud mom’s daughter, Ymoni Shavuo, was one of the organizers. And second?
“Because I’m a woman,” she said. “It’s as simple as that. The fight we’re fighting today, we’ve been fighting for 50 years.”
“The first Women’s March in 2017 was historic,” said Rachel Carmona, executive director of Women’s March, at the Washing-ton rally. “Now four years later ... with 17 days to go (until the Nov. 3 election), we’re going to finish what we started.”
Organizers also plan to send 5 million text messages over the weekend in an effort to get out the anti-Trump vote.
BY HANNAH KNOWLES
The Washington Post
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Demo-crat, on Saturday slammed President Donald Trump’s attacks on her at his rally in her state where people chanted “lock her up,” denounc-ing the words as “exactly the rhetoric that has put me, my family and other government of-ficials’ lives in danger while we try to save the lives of our fellow Americans.”
The chants — a familiar refrain deployed against political foes at Trump’s campaign events — came a little more than a week after authorities revealed a foiled plot to kidnap Whitmer, allegedly motivated in part by the belief that Michigan’s government was violat-ing the Constitution with its coronavirus re-strictions. Trump has repeatedly condemned Whitmer’s pandemic response as overly strict with calls to “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” and he reprised his criticisms at his Saturday campaign event in the swing state.
“You have got to get your governor to open up your state, OK?” he said to huge cheers at
the rally in Muskegon, Mich. “And get your schools open.” The crowd began to chant for Whitmer’s imprisonment, and Trump did not move to tamp them down.
“Lock ’em all up,” he said.Tori Saylor, deputy digital director for
Whitmer, immediately criticized Trump’s be-havior as dangerous.
“I see everything that is said about and to her online,” Saylor tweeted. “Every single time the president does this at a rally, the violent rhetoric towards her immediately es-calates on social media. It has to stop. It just has to.”
Whitmer had the same message, tweeting Saturday evening: “It needs to stop.”
The alleged kidnapping plans detailed earli-er this month fulfilled the worst fears of those who worried that the vitriol against Whitmer and her pandemic policies could escalate, while highlighting the threat of violence from extremist groups. According to the FBI, the plotters referred to Whitmer as a tyrant, ex-perimented with explosives and discussed
plans to storm the Michigan State Capitol.After the plot went public, Trump doubled
down on condemning the Democratic gov-ernor, saying she has done a “terrible job.”Whitmer has defended her policies, saying she made “tough choices to keep our state safe.”
Trump seemed to reference the recent threatagainst the governor at one point Saturday, ashe addressed supporters in Muskegon.
“And then I guess they said she was threat-ened, right?” Trump said. “And she blamedme! … And our people were the ones thatworked with her people, so let’s see what hap-pens. Let’s see what happens.”
Members of an extremist group that trainedfor an anti-government uprising called the “boogaloo” are implicated in the plot against Whitmer, according to authorities. Peopleconnected to the right-wing “boogaloo bois” movement have been charged with killing a security guard and plotting to use explosives amid protests in the summer.
Conservative free speech rally attacked by critics
SAN FRANCISCO — A free speech demonstration staged by conservative activists quickly fell apart in downtown San Francisco on Saturday after several hun-dred counterprotesters surged the area, outnumbering and at-tacking those gathered .
A photographer working for The Associated Press witnessed a Trump supporter being taken away in an ambulance and an in-jured San Francisco police officer on the ground by San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza.
Team Save America organized the rally to protest Twitter, which it said squelches conservative speech.
Alaska city appoints first woman acting mayor
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Aus-tin Quinn-Davidson will serve as acting mayor of Anchorage start-ing Friday after Mayor Ethan Berkowitz’s resignation.
Quinn-Davidson, 40, will be the first woman and openly gay per-son to serve as mayor or acting mayor of Anchorage, the Anchor-age Daily News reported.
The city’s charter states that the chair of its Assembly will serve as acting mayor during a vacancy. The Assembly voted Friday to ap-point Quinn-Davidson as the new chair, replacing Felix Rivera.
Berkowitz resigned after ad-mitting to having an inappropri-ate relationship with a female reporter three days after she made online allegations against the married official.
5 injured in explosion at Va. shopping center
HARRISONBURG, Va. — An investigation is underway into the cause of an explosion and large fire at a shopping center in Harri-sonburg that injured at least five people Saturday morning.
Three people were taken to hospitals after the incident that was reported around 8:30 a.m., and two others were treated on the scene for minor injuries, the city said Saturday evening.
The strip mall contained a vape shop, musical instrument store and recording studio, according to the Daily News-Record.
Competency of man to stand trial questioned
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in San Francisco is mulling the competency to stand trial of a Mexican man who shot and killed Kate Steinle, 32, a shooting that figured prominently in Presi-dent Donald Trump’s run for the White House four years ago.
The case against Jose Ines Gar-cia Zarate on federal gun charges has been pending since U.S. Dis-trict Court Judge Vince Chhabria raised “serious concerns” about his mental capacities in Janu-ary, the San Francisco Examiner reported .
Two doctors have diagnosed Garcia Zarate with schizophre-nia and found him unfit to stand trial because he cannot follow the court proceedings. From The Associated Press
KEITH BIRMINGHAM, THE ORANGE COUNTY (CALIF.) REGISTER/AP
The Rebel Handmaid squad protest along with others on many issues including the Trump administration’s nomination to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and asking people to get out and vote during the Los Angeles Women’s March on Saturday in Los Angeles.
Women across US march in protest
Whitmer: Trump rhetoric ‘needs to stop’
Crowds gather in opposition to Trump, high court nomination
MARY ALTAFFER/AP
Demonstrators rally during the Women’s March outside the New York Stock Exchange on Saturday in New York.
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WORLD
Armenia, Azerbaijan report violations of latest cease-fire agreement BY AVET DEMOURIAN
Associated Press
YEREVAN, Armenia — Despite a second attempt at a cease-fire, Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations Sunday of violating the new truce in their destructive conflict over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The latest truce, which was announced Saturday and took ef-fect at midnight, was the second attempt to establish a cease-fire since heavy fighting between Ar-menian and Azerbaijani forces broke out in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sept. 27. The fighting and shell-ing has killed hundreds of people — both combatants and civilians
— and marks the biggest escala-tion of a decades-old conflict over the region in more than 25 years.
Armenian military officials Sunday reported artillery shell-ing and missile strikes by Azer-baijani forces carried out in the conflict zone overnight. In the morning, “the enemy launched an attack in the southern direction”
of the conflict zone, and there were “casualties and wounded on both sides,” Armenian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanian said.
Azerbaijan’s Defense Min-istry, in turn, maintained that Armenian forces used mortars and artillery in the conflict zone overnight despite the cease-fire,
and in the morning attempted at-tacks in several directions. Theministry also accused Armenia of using large-caliber weapons to attack the positions of the Azer-baijani army in two regions north of Nagorno-Karabakh along theborder between the two coun-tries, a claim Armenian militaryofficials denied.
France demonstrations pay tribute to beheaded teacher
Associated Press
PARIS — Demonstrators in France on Sunday took part in gatherings in support of freedom of speech and in tribute to a his-tory teacher who was beheaded near Paris after discussing cari-catures of Islam’s Prophet Mu-hammad with his class.
Samuel Paty was beheaded Fri-day by an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee who was shot dead by police.
Political leaders, associations and unions demonstrated Sunday on the Place de la Republique in Paris holding placards reading “I am Samuel,” that echoed the “I am Charlie” rallying cry after the 2015 attack on the satirical news-paper Charlie Hebdo, which pub-
lished caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Demonstrators also gathered in major cities including Lyon, Tou-louse, Strasbourg, Nantes, Mar-seille, Lille and Bordeaux.
French authorities, meanwhile, said they have detained an 11th person following the killing.
Anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said an investigation for murder with a suspected terrorist motive was opened. At least four of those de-tained are family members of the attacker, who had been granted 10-year residency in France as a refugee in March .
His half-sister joined Islamic State in Syria in 2014, Ricard said. He didn’t give her name, and it wasn’t clear where she is now.
The prosecutor said a text claiming responsibility and a photograph of the victim were found on the suspect’s phone. He also confirmed that a Twitter ac-count under the name Abdoulakh A belonged to the suspect. It post-ed a photo of the decapitated head minutes after the attack along with the message “I have execut-ed one of the dogs from hell who dared to put Muhammad down.”
The beheading has upset mod-erate French Muslims. A group of imams in the Lyon region were holding a special meeting Sun-day to discuss together what the group called “the appalling as-sassination of our compatriot by a terrorist who in the name of an uncertain faith committed the irreparable.”
The attack has provoked global condemnation. U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the killing Saturday night from a po-litical rally in Janesville, Wis .
“On behalf of the United States, I’d like to extend my really sincere condolences to a friend of mine,
President (Emmanuel) Macronof France, where they just yester-day had a vicious, vicious Islamicterrorist attack — beheading aninnocent teacher near Paris,” hesaid. “France is having a hard time and Macron’s a great guy.”
MICHEL EULER/AP
Local mayor Laurent Brosse, center, and deputy mayors sing the national anthem Saturday outside the school where a slain history teacher was working in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris.
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Associated Press
JERUSALEM — A high-level delegation of American and Israeli officials landed in Bahrain on Sunday on a mission to cement an agreement to establish formal diplo-matic relations between Israel and the Gulf Arab state.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Israel’s national security adviser, Meir Ben-Shabbat, led the delegations. The sides were expected to issue a joint statement later Sunday that would make Bahrain just the fourth Arab country to have full diplo-matic relations with Israel.
“My hope is that this visit marks another step forward on the road to a truly peace-
ful, secure, stable and thriving Middle East,” Bahrain’s foreign minister, Abdul-latif al-Zayani, said at a welcoming cer-emony at the airport.
Bahrain joined the United Arab Emir-ates at a festive White House ceremony last month marking the “Abraham Ac-cords,” a pair of U.S.-brokered diplomatic pacts with Israel. While the UAE’s deal with Israel formally established ties, the agreement with Bahrain was less detailed and included a mutual pledge to follow suit. Sunday’s one-day visit by the Israeli dele-gation aimed to complete that task.
The El Al flight landed at Bahrain In-ternational Airport on Sunday afternoon.
Bahrain’s state-run news agency later pub-lished pictures of the arrival, acknowledg-ing the Israeli officials were there to sign documents “establishing diplomatic rela-tions between the kingdom of Bahrain and the state of Israel, in addition to a number
of memoranda of understanding in the areas of joint cooperation.”
The trip came as U.N. arms embargoes on Iran expired despite American objections. Several Gulf Arab nations view Iran as aserious threat to Persian Gulf security .
Monday, October 19, 2020
WORLD
Associated Press
BEIJING — China has passed a new law restricting sensitive exports to protect national secu-rity, allowing Beijing to recipro-cate against the U.S. as tensions mount between the sides over trade and technology.
The law, which will apply to all companies in China, was passed Saturday by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee and will take effect on Dec. 1.
Under the law, China can take “reciprocal measures” toward countries or regions that abuse export controls and threaten its
national security and interests.Export controls under the law
will apply to civilian, military and nuclear products, as well as goods, technologies and services related to national security.
The new law allows Beijing to retaliate against the U.S., which in recent months has attempted
to block Chinese technology firms such as telecommunications gear supplier Huawei, Bytedance’s TikTok app and Tencent’s mes-saging app WeChat on grounds of posing a national security threat, including the data they may possess from operating in the country.
The new law adds to the grow-ing uncertainty of Bytedance’s deal to sell its video app TikTok toU.S. firm Oracle Corp. In August, China added technologies includ-ing voice recognition, text analy-sis and content recommendation to its list of regulated exports.
RONEN ZVULUN /AP
From left, at lecterns, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani, and Israeli national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, deliver statements upon the Israeli delegation’s arrival Sunday in Muharraq, Bahrain.
U.S.-Israeli delegation fliesto Bahrain for joint meeting
China passes new law restricting sensitive exports
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The NYPD said officers ap-prehended the man, who has not been identified, from inside on the sixth floor.
Man charged with impersonating attorneys
TN HENDERSONVILLE — A Tennessee man
was charged with impersonating defense attorneys and a nurse, authorities said.
The Tennessee Bureau of In-vestigation said David Pell, of Sumner County, was charged with forgery, identity theft, im-personation of a licensed profes-sional and other alleged offenses.
Investigators said Pell, 35, claimed to be four different defense attorneys and falsely claimed to be a nursing director.
City may soon have village with tiny homes
NE OMAHA — A village of 50 tiny houses may
soon be coming to downtown Omaha.
The Omaha World-Herald re-ported that Arch Icon Develop-ment and Siena Francis House are working together on the project .
The project will be known as The Cottages, and it seeks to provide independence for people who have been in homeless shel-
ter programs.Each tiny house would be rent-
ed, and will include a kitchen, bedroom, living area and covered porch. The gated neighborhood will include a community center with common laundry and bike storage rooms, a business hub and offices for those managing the complex.
The estimated cost of the proj-ect is $6.5 million.
Two cops killed in 1920s finally getting tombstone
AL MOBILE — Two Ala-bama police officers
who were killed in the line of duty in the 1920s are finally getting markers for the graves.
Donations from a funeral home and cemetery will be used to mark the resting spots of officers Christopher M. Dean and W.F. “Happy” Murphy, according to a statement from the Mobile Police Department.
Dean was shot to death in 1926
while checking on some suspi-cious men, and Murphy was fa-tally wounded after stopping a speeding vehicle in 1929.
The department said relatives of neither man could afford grave markers.
Man charged after fight at haunted house
ID BOISE — A Boise man was charged with assault
after police said he drunkenly pulled a handgun on teens at a haunted house in Idaho because they said they didn’t like Presi-dent Donald Trump, authorities said.
Joshua Lockner, 37, was ar-rested on six felony counts of aggravated assault and one mis-demeanor count of carrying a concealed weapon under the influence, the Idaho Statesman reported .
Police responded to a report that a man pulled out a gun and threatened people at Haunted
World in Caldwell. Lockner also reportedly told
authorities he was with his family getting on a bus when two Blackteens threatened to hurt his wife and were aggressive towardhim over his T-shirt, which read“Trump 2020,” authorities said .
Court reverses 1960 cemetery decision
WA SEATTLE — The Washington state Su-
preme Court reversed its 1960 decision that allowed cemeteries to discriminate on the basis ofrace, a rule considered irrelevantas federal and state regulationshave already made it illegal.
The Supreme Court said it was trying to reckon with the courtsystem’s long history of racialdiscrimination and was taking asmall symbolic step to undo sys-temic racism, The Seattle Timesreported.
Following national protests stemming from the police killingof George Floyd, all nine justiceson the court wrote an open letter in June foreshadowing their plans to overrule the decision that madeit illegal for cemeteries to “refuse burial to any person because such person may not be of the Cauca-sian race.”
AMERICAN ROUNDUPFlushed wipes cause big waste spill
MI BEULAH — Small town, big mess.
Baby wipes clogged the waste-water system in Beulah in north-ern Michigan, causing a backup of 10,000 gallons of human waste from a manhole, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported.
The spill was on the grounds of the village’s wastewater treat-ment plant. Superintendent Brady Streeter said it was cleaned up within a few hours .
“Wipes are a recurring prob-lem for sewer or septic systems,” said Scott Dean, a spokesman at the state Department of Environ-ment, Great Lakes and Energy.
In May, Macomb County in suburban Detroit said it had been removing 4,000 pounds of wipes a week at one pump station.
Miller said so-called flushable wipes aren’t breaking down.
Driver fined after truck stuck in narrow passage
VT CAMBRIDGE — A tractor-trailer driver
was fined nearly $1,200 after get-ting stuck on Route 108, a narrow mountain pass know as Smug-glers Notch where such vehicles are not allowed, Vermont State Police said.
The driver, 26, from Illinois, “ig-nored and passed several clearly posted signs advising that trac-tor-trailer units are not permit-ted,” state police said. The road between Stowe and Cambridge had to be temporarily closed and troopers were able to safely guide the operator back down the Stowe side, police said.
Trapped bear believed to be son of spared bear
NH LEBANON — A trapped black bear cub
is believed to be the son of a bear whose life was spared by Gov. Chris Sununu in 2017.
The cub is believed to be the third and last member of a re-cent litter from Mink . She died in August.
Since then, a cub was rescued Aug. 31 and another was hit and killed by a bus in September. Both were determined to be Mink’s offspring.
Mink had been set to be eu-thanized, along with three of her earlier offspring, in 2017 after re-peated problems with them feed-ing from trash and bird feeders .
Sununu instead ordered them to be moved to far northern New Hampshire. Mink later returned.
Man climbs several stories up building
NY NEW YORK — A man took to the side of The
New York Times headquarters , climbing several stories before police got him inside and into custody.
The New York Police Depart-ment said the man started scal-ing the south side of the building, which is in midtown Manhattan near Times Square, across the street from the Port Authority bus terminal.
Smooth sounds
The number of people facing charges related to drug traffick-ing, unlawful gun possession and other federal violation in Ver-mont. Law enforcement seized 128 firearms and 7,511 rounds of ammunition during the investigation from October 2018 to February of 2020, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. Many
of the firearms had been stolen from Vermonters, purchased illegally at Vermont gun stores or illegally possessed, the office said .
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From wire reports
La Porte High School band students received some of the new woodwind instruments the Gerry & Franca Mulligan Foundation donated to the school in La Porte, Ind. On top of the instruments, the foundation is pledging to support La Porte music students through grants and scholarships over the next several years.
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FACES
BY HILLEL ITALIE
Associated Press
When she learned that Ethan Hawke was working on a special audio edition of her acclaimed novel “Gilead,” Marilynne Robin-son’s response was to get a better idea of who he was.
“I can’t say I was familiar with his voice,” Robinson said of the four-time Oscar nominee whose films include “Before Sunrise,” “Reality Bites” and “Boyhood.” But when Robinson watched Hawke star as a troubled priest in Paul Schrader’s “First Re-formed,” she felt confident he could inhabit the life of an aging Iowa minister in the 1950s, one whom Robinson describes as “a man deep in conversation with himself.”
“He (Hawke) speaks in a sort of
American way that is well within the range of what I understand my character to be speaking,” she said.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, “Gilead” is the first of four Robinson novels set in a rural Iowa community in the 1950s. It’s narrated by the dying Rev. John Ames, a Congregationalist pastor who reflects on his family history and the suffering and transcen-dence he has known in this “poor perishable world.” The book’s many admirers include former President Barack Obama, who has spoken of reading “Gilead” while campaigning in Iowa.
Hawke has recorded an abridged narrative of “Gilead” that was commissioned by Man-hattan’s 92nd Street Y and can he heard Oct. 19-29 online at 92y.org/gilead.
“In ‘Gilead,’ the Reverend John Ames contemplates ‘grace as a sort of ecstatic fire that takes things down to essentials,’ ” he said. “I read that and think of Ethan Hawke’s voice. ‘Gilead’ is a great American novel, and Ethan Hawke is a great Ameri-can actor.”
In a recent email, Hawke re-membered his first encounter with Robinson, when she read from “Gilead” at Shakespeare and Company in Paris, as a “near-holy experience.”
“Her humility as a person, and the depth of her writing, was in-spiring — so I started reading,” he explained.
Hawke’s roles have ranged from the born skeptics of “Re-ality Bites” and “Before Sun-rise” to the violently committed John Brown, the 19th century
abolitionist whom he plays in the Showtime adaptation of James McBride’s prize-winning novel “The Good Lord Bird.” The Rev. Ames, as much seeker in his own way as some of Hawke’s more sec-ular characters, is in his “wheel-house,” the actor says.
New book to include RBG’s last thoughts
Some final thoughts from Supreme Court Justice RuthBader Ginsburg and somepreviously unreleased materi-als have been gathered by oneof her former clerks for a bookcoming out in March.
The University of CaliforniaPress announced Oct. 15 thatit will publish “Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’sWork Fighting for a More Per-fect Union,” on which Gins-burg worked in collaborationwith Amanda Tyler. The bookwas in production when Gins-burg died, on Sept. 18 at 87 .
“Right up until the end, shewas still teaching me about the craft of writing, how im-portant precision is, and tonever use four words whenthree will do,” Tyler said. From The Associated Press
BY CHRIS HEWITT
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
A couple of weeks ago, I was watching Jessica Fletcher on “Murder, She Wrote” help a boy fix his bicycle and thought, “Son of a gun, that wood-en kid is going to become the greatest actor of his
generation.”The kid was Joaquin Phoenix, back in 1984 (he turns
46 this month). Like most of the kids in his family, he was a child actor (his big brother, the late River Phoenix, pre-ceded him, and his sister Summer was in that same “Mur-der, She Wrote” scene), but it took quite a while for him to reveal the breadth he was capable of.
Early on, Phoenix was typecast as mumbly dopes. He played quite a few of them, including in big hits such as “Parenthood,” when he was still billed as Leaf Phoenix, a pseudonym he adopted for a while. That peaked in “To Die For,” a part he snatched from the fingers of Matt Damon and played so indelibly that Hollywood figured he couldn’t do anything but stoned doofuses.
“Gladiator” changed that in 2001. Phoenix earned his first of four Oscar nominations by 180-ing in Ridley Scott’s adventure film, playing a snarlingly cruel despot who seemed to derive sexual pleasure from torturing the title character, played by Russell Crowe. It’s one of those performances, like Awkwafina in “The Farewell” or Halle Berry in “Jungle Fever,” that makes you think, “Wait. They can do that?”
The reason why Phoenix has vaulted to the top of the acting game is that he keeps doing that. He has hooked up with many of our most innovative directors, both big names (Spike Jonze for “Her,” M. Night Shyamalan for “The Village” and “Signs,” Paul Thomas Anderson for “The Master”) and names that should be big (Lynne Ram-say for “You Were Never Really Here,” Mike Mills for the upcoming “C’mon, C’mon”).
Phoenix works a lot, so he occasionally errs (he made “Irrational Man” with Woody Allen long after that was a questionable choice), but it’s fascinating to watch him flip from micro-budget projects like Gus Van Sant’s “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” and Jacques Audiard’s innovative “The Sisters Brothers” to mainstream stuff like the John Travolta adventure “Ladder 49” or the Shyama-lan movies, where be brings danger and weirdness to proj-ects that might seem bland without his twitchy energy.
Winning an Oscar, as Phoenix did for “Joker” this year, opens up tons of possibilities for an actor. Phoenix undoubtedly has his choice of the best scripts that Holly-wood — or, given his affinity for non-Hollywood directors such as Ramsay and Audiard, the world — has to offer. Besides “C’mon, C’mon,” he has a “Joker” sequel lined up, but I can’t wait to find out what the actor who never stops surprising us does after that.
‘Joker’ (2019)
It’s rare for a big-name actor to venture outside of his or her comfort zone, but Phoenix seems to live there. I can’t think of another performer whose work I’ve been watch-ing for four decades who could have produced this bold, frightening and oddly sympathetic work, seemingly out of nowhere (particularly since the movie is muddled, so he may not have gotten much help from director Todd Phil-lips). Phoenix is like a raw nerve ending as a damaged su-pervillain whose mental illness makes him uncomfortably easy to relate to.
‘You Were Never Really Here’ (2017)
This movie would have won him the Oscar if only voters had seen it (he did win the acting prize at the Cannes Film Festival). It’s another tragedy, where Phoenix plays it so close to the edge that we believe his character is capable of anything. He’s a violent hit man hired to find a missing, abused girl, and while his redemptive journey could come off as stale, Phoenix and Ramsay’s terse drama makes it utterly believable.
‘We Own the Night’ (2007)
All four movies Phoenix has made with writer/director James Gray are dandy — I’d recommend “The Yards,” “Two Lovers” and “The Immigrant,” too — but this is the crowd-pleaser, a sleek mob drama in which Phoenix plays a low-level thug who becomes a cop. The movie’s good-and-evil dance makes it a cousin to the films Gene Hack-man did in the ’70s. A lot of the oomph comes from how easy it is to believe there’s a little cop in him when Phoenix is a crook and a little crook in him when he’s a cop.
‘To Die For’ (1995)
The humanity in Van Sant’s brittle satire about relentless pursuit of fame comes from Phoenix, as a moron-in-front/party-in-back kid who gets swept up in Nicole Kidman’sruthless rise to TV news stardom. As she wraps him around her little finger, he could come off as a joke, butinstead, Phoenix makes him heartbreaking.
‘Her’ (2013)
Sure, he plays a dude who falls in love with the voice of a computer operating system, but Phoenix gives his mostnormcore performance in Jonze’s comedy about loneli-ness. The situation is odd, but all Phoenix’s Theo wants
is to find love, and who hasn’t spent too much time on a computer, interacting with a stranger? Who wouldn’t
be willing to do something a little unorthodox if itopened the door to happiness?
‘Walk the Line’ (2005)
Among Phoenix’s many skills, one thatmight be missing is transformation. His
hair may get longer or scragglier, but he looks pretty much the same in all of his films. Except “Walk the Line,” where he earned an Oscar nomination for convincing us he was
music legend Johnny Cash, from fresh-faced newcomer to world-weary activist. Oh, and hedid his own singing and guitar playing.
‘Signs’ (2002)
A case could be made that Shyamalan’s thrilleris Phoenix’s trickiest role. Watch how Shyama-
lan cuts to Phoenix’s expressive face to help us fig-ure out how we’re supposed to react to the insanity.
Phoenix is wryly funny as his character begins to ac-cept the absurd truth that aliens have landed on his
family’s farm, but it’s his sorrowful reactionto the loss of faith of his brother (Mel
Gibson), a former priest, that invests us in the emotional
stakes of the under-rated drama.
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As polls show Democratic presi-dential nominee Joe Biden hold-ing what appears to be a solid and durable lead over President
Donald Trump, there is a growing assump-tion among Republicans that Trump is heading for defeat, possibly a big one, and could take their Senate majority down with him.
If Biden wins, the House maintains its majority and, as vice president, Kamala Harris gets the tiebreaking vote in the chamber, it would take a net gain of only three Senate seats to give Democrats all the levers of power in Washington come January.
That appears well within reach, with Republicans facing stiffer-than-expected Senate challenges in such red bastions as South Carolina, Montana and Alaska. In a recent analysis of the state of the map, Jes-sica Taylor of the authoritative Cook Politi-cal Report declared Democrats to be “the clear favorite to flip control of the Senate.”
Record turnout for early voting — in-cluding 11-hour lines in Georgia, where both Senate seats are up for grabs — is an-other worrisome portent for Republicans. Women and African Americans are show-ing up in disproportionate numbers.
So some Republicans are making a new line of argument, one that embattled Sen. Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, voiced re-cently in an interview with Politico: “The best check on a Biden presidency is for Re-publicans to have a majority in the Senate. And I do think ‘checks and balances’ does resonate with North Carolina voters.”
It is not clear where Tillis gets that idea. I checked, and the last time his state voted
for one party’s candidate for president and the other’s for Senate was in 1968, when it went for Republican Richard M. Nixon and elected Democrat Samuel Ervin to a third term in the upper house.
As the nation has grown more polarized, ticket-splitting has long been on a decline. In 2016, for the first time in a U.S. presi-dential election year, every state that had a Senate race on the ballot voted for the same party for both Senate and president.
“The small number of people who con-tinue to split their votes can nonetheless have a big impact,” says William G. Howell, a political scientist at the University of Chi-cago’s Harris School of Public Policy. But that assumes a contest is close enough that what happens on the margins matters.
So is there any way for endangered Sen-ate Republicans to just bail on the top of the ticket?
In 1996, when GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole fell far short in his bid to unseat President Bill Clinton, Republicans actu-ally picked up two seats in the Senate.
The House, where Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., was speaker, did not fare as well. Re-publicans lost a handful of seats, though they managed to hang on to the majority that they had won two years earlier.
I caught up recently with Trent Lott, the retired Mississippi Republican who suc-ceeded Dole as Senate majority leader in 1996, and asked him whether there were lessons from those years that might apply today.
“It’s a very different time, and I watch with a lot of fear and trepidation,” he told me.
Lott said his survival strategy was a sim-ple one: getting stuff done.
That meant cutting deals with the White House and congressional Democrats. To-
gether, they raised the minimum wage, gotall the appropriations bills finished on time(which hasn’t happened since) and passeda massive revision of the welfare system.
“The fact that we were producing resultsand kept our eyes on the ball really helpedus,” Lott recalled.
This caused no small amount of heart-burn among some in his party, Lott wastold, he said, and members told him: “Y’allare doing all this stuff, and it’s helping Clinton and it hurts Dole.”
With Election Day fewer than threeweeks away, it is probably too late for Lott’seventual successor as majority leader,Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to rack up big achievements, beyond putting AmyConey Barrett on the Supreme Court. And although confirming Barrett is likely toenergize the Republican base, it may ener-gize the other side as well.
Most urgent, Lott said, is action on theCOVID-19 crisis that has gripped the na-tion for more than seven months. Negotia-tions for a relief measure don’t seem to begoing anywhere, though Trump has said hewould like to see a package that is bigger than the $1.8 trillion that Treasury Secre-tary Steven Mnuchin has proposed.
So far, Senate Republicans are resisting.“I’m proposing what we think is appropri-ate,” McConnell said Thursday. “My mem-bers think what we laid out, a half a trilliondollars, highly targeted, is the best way togo.”
Finding their way to a deal is the best thing the Republicans could do right nowto save themselves come Nov. 3. More im-portant, it’s the best thing lawmakers ofboth parties could do to serve the peoplewho elected them. Karen Tumulty is a Washington Post columnist covering national politics.
BY CLAUDIA BALDUCCI AND JULIE WISE Special to The Washington Post
The 2020 election may well define the next era not only of American politics but also American life. Millions of people, from across the
political spectrum, sense that the stakes have never been higher in any election during their lifetimes. Yet the election’s arrival amid a pandemic means that tens of millions of Americans will be voting in an unfamiliar way: by mail.
While some politicians and others lately have maligned mail-in ballots, we know from our own experience that they’re wrong. We oversee the largest jurisdiction in the nation that votes entirely by mail — a county, including Seattle, that is more populous than 15 states. We have conduct-ed all-mail voting for over a decade.
No jurisdiction can be expected to upend its entire elections system virtually over-night without some challenges. In King County, we know this from experience. But even with the election less than three weeks away, and with mail-in balloting al-ready underway in many areas, there are steps that election officials, the media and citizens themselves can take to make sure that the election delivers results deemed unassailably accurate and fair, even to the most partisan among us.
Let’s start here: Vote-by-mail is hardly a novel concept. Local elections officials across the United States already have ex-perience handling mail ballots. Whether it’s a student abroad or a U.S. Marine serv-ing overseas, Americans have cast ballots by mail for more than 150 years. The coun-
try knows how to do this.This year, the question is just one of
magnitude. The amount of mail ballots will be record-shattering, and determining the final results will require patience. Eager candidates must resist the temptation to declare an early victory or delegitimize the results, no matter what the initial numbers look like. Patience is hardly an American virtue, but the country is going to need it in spades.
The media has a vital role to play in this. News outlets, large and small, should al-ready be talking with elections officials and reporting on how and when ballots will be processed, how long it will take and when to expect results.
Similarly, elections officials should es-tablish easily reachable points of contact for the media so that information and up-dates can quickly reach the public. Mail-in ballots don’t all arrive on the same day, so early tallies may drastically differ from final results. In King County, it takes at least through the Friday after Election Day to have a clear idea on close races even in a normal election year. The media must help the candidates and the public understand that when counts go on beyond the first night, that isn’t evidence of fraud or incom-petence. It’s just logistics and process.
Meanwhile, voters can help by voting early. In many states, the sooner their votes are mailed in or dropped off (in ju-risdictions using secure ballot drop boxes), the sooner they are likely to be counted, thus getting results faster. But not all states allow votes to be counted before Election Day, so that’s another piece that voters need to be clearly informed about.
Lawmakers are also essential to helping make vote-by-mail successful. Elected offi-cials must share information and help theirconstituents understand and navigate theprocess. In those places where early bal-lot-counting is not allowed, officials shouldbe working to change those laws so elec-tions officials can get started early with theheavy lift of processing all those ballots. Inmany places, emergency legislative action, an executive order or an emergency rule change could happen fairly quickly. There is no reason that election offices should not be allowed to begin processing ballots as soon as they are received.
Elections agencies of course have a criti-cal role in the 2020 contest. They have thepower to take steps such as centralizingelections operations to cut costs, reducerisks and increase transparency. Theyknow what it takes to process the absenteeballots they already see, so they can take the steps to scale up those operations. InKing County, our elections department hasbeen hiring for over a month to expand our regular team, we will still be sending job-offer letters through this week and con-tinuing to train into next week, dependingon the job.
With another coronavirus stimulus pack-age seemingly delayed until after Election Day, states and counties are on their ownto make this monumental mail-in electionwork. It certainly can be done, but time isgetting short and an all-out effort is vital to making this election under unprecedentedconditions a success.Claudia Balducci is chairwoman of the Metropolitan King County Council in Washington state. Julie Wise is the King County director of elections.
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Lap length: 1.50 miles(Start position in parentheses)
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): C.Briscoe, 4 times for 159 laps; R.Sieg, 2 times for 19 laps; N.Gragson, 1 time for 13 laps; R.Chastain, 2 times for 7 laps; A.Cindric, 1 time for 1 lap; A.Alfredo, 1 time for 1 lap.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): S.Creed, 2 times for 61 laps; Z.Smith, 3 times for 37 laps; B.Moffitt, 2 times for 15 laps; A.Hill, 1 time for 13 laps; C.Eckes, 1 time for 7 laps; T.Gilliland, 1 time for 3 laps; G.Enfinger, 1 time for 1 lap; C.Smith, 2 times for 1 lap; J.Sauter, 1 time for 1 lap.
Third RoundMatt Wallace, England 65-67-66—198 -18Garrick Porteous, England 66-69-66—201 -15Adrian Otaegui, Spain 62-70-70—202 -14S. Crocker, United States 70-66-67—203 -13Eddie Pepperell, England 68-70-66—204 -12Chris Paisley, England 66-71-67—204 -12J. Caldwell, N. Ireland 70-66-68—204 -12Adrien Saddier, France 67-67-71—205 -11Aaron Rai, England 66-67-72—205 -11
Saturday’s transactionsFOOTBALL
National Football LeagueARIZONA CARDINALS — Placed DL
Rashard Lawrence and OL J.R. Sweezy on injured reserve.
BALTIMORE RAVENS — Placed DT Bran-don Williams on reserve/COVID-19 list.
CAROLINA PANTHERS — Activated WR Keith Kirkwood from injured reserve. Promoted DT Woodrow Hamilton and DE Austin Larkin to the active roster.
CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed DT Kahlil McKenzie to the active roster.
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Elevated S Eli-jah Benton to the active roster.
GREEN BAY PACKERS — Activated WR Equanimeous St. Brown from injured re-serve.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed WR Marcus Johnson to the active roster. Ac-tivated DT Sheldon Day from injured re-serve. Waived DT Eli Ankou. Released S Ibraheim Campbell. Elevated G Jake Eld-renkamp and WR DeMichael Harris to the active roster.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Placed G Kel-echi Osemele on injured reserve. Signed RB Le’Veon Bell.
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Promoted OL Caleb Benenoch, TE/DE Rashod Berry, DL Nick Thurman and WR Isaiah Zuber from the practice squad.
NEW YORK JETS — Activated LB Blake Cashman and WR Vyncint Smith from in-jured reserve. Released S Marqui Chris-tian. Promoted QB Mike White to the ac-tive roster.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Activated DE Vinny Curry and S Will Parks from injured reserve. Promoted TE Jason Croom and DB Elijah Riley to the active roster.
TENNESSEE TITANS — Promoted WR Cameron Batson and LB Darren Bates from reserve/COVID-19 list and CB Ka-reem Orr from the practice squad.
WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM — Pro-moted TE Temarrick Hemingway to the active roster.
HOCKEYNational Hockey League
OTTAWA SENATORS — Signed G Joey Daccord to a three-year contract.
MLSEASTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GAToronto FC 11 2 5 38 29 17Philadelphia 10 3 5 35 32 16Columbus 9 4 4 31 27 14Orlando City 8 2 7 31 29 17New England 7 4 7 28 20 16New York City FC 8 7 3 27 23 16New York 7 8 3 24 21 22Montreal 7 10 2 23 29 36Nashville SC 5 6 6 21 15 17Chicago 5 8 5 20 24 28Atlanta 5 9 4 19 18 21Inter Miami CF 5 11 3 18 19 29Cincinnati 4 10 4 16 10 28D.C. United 2 10 6 12 15 32
WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GASeattle 9 4 3 30 35 17Portland 9 5 3 30 37 29Sporting KC 9 6 3 30 31 25Los Angeles FC 7 7 3 24 39 33FC Dallas 6 4 6 24 22 17Minnesota United 6 5 5 23 26 21San Jose 6 7 5 23 28 43Vancouver 7 11 0 21 22 39Real Salt Lake 5 7 6 21 24 29Colorado 5 4 4 19 25 20Houston 4 7 7 19 25 30LA Galaxy 4 9 3 15 21 34
Note: Three points for victory, one point for tie.
Saturday’s gamesSporting Kansas City 2, Chicago 2, tieMontreal 2, Miami 1
Sunday’s gamesNew York City FC at ColumbusOrlando City at New YorkD.C. United at CincinnatiAtlanta at Toronto FCHouston at MinnesotaReal Salt Lake at Colorado ppd.Los Angeles FC at PortlandVancouver at LA GalaxySeattle at San Jose
LAS VEGAS — Teofimo Lopez was brash enough to challenge Vasiliy Lomachenko, and good enough to beat him.
Lopez dominated early and finished strong Saturday night to win a unanimous 12-round deci-sion over Lomachenko to unify the lightweight titles in a fight he de-manded even though some thought he wasn’t experienced enough.
Lopez took advantage of a slow start by Lomachenko to build an early lead, then finished with a big 12th round that left Lomachenko bloodied and beaten on the score-cards. The 23-year-old from Brook-lyn became the unified lightweight champion and managed to do what few in boxing thought he could do — outbox perhaps the best techni-cian in boxing.
Lopez (16-0) added the three ti-tles held by Lomachenko (15-2) to the belt he won last year to become the undisputed 135-champion.
Lopez was favored 119-109, 117-111 and 116-112 on ringside score-cards in a bout held without fans at the MGM Grand conference center. The Associated Press had Lopez winning 117-111.
Lopez proved faster and stron-ger than the 32-year-old Lom-achenko, who won two Olympic gold medals as an amateur and was regarded as one of the top pound-for-pound fighters as a pro. Surprisingly enough, he was also
the better boxer and proved hecould close the show by bloody-ing Lomachenko’s eye in the 12thround.
“I had to dig deep, man,” Lopezsaid. “I’m a fighter, I’ve got to digin deep.”
Lomachenko, ordinarily a slow starter, was too slow this timeas he gave away rounds early ashe tried to figure out the style ofLopez. By the time the fight gotcompetitive in the eighth round hewas too far behind to come back.
“He’s been in a 14-month lay-off,” Lopez said. “I knew it wasgoing to take him a long time tocatch up.”
Lomachenko, who lost only once in nearly 400 amateur fights andhad only one loss as a pro, thoughthe did better than the scorecardsindicated.
“Definitely I am not agreeing with the scorecards,” he said.
The fight was the biggest sincethe pandemic began and would have been a pay-per-view eventin normal times. But with no fans it was televised on ESPN, provid-ing boxing with a bigger show-case than it would have gotten otherwise.
Lomachenko was a 4-1 favor-ite but looked rusty early as he tried to solve the style of Lopez.He threw punches only sparinglythe first half of the fight, landing just 31 punches in the first sevenrounds, before finally picking up the pace in the eighth round.
BY DAVE SKRETTA
Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Chase Briscoe must have figured the best way to stay out of trouble was by staying up front.
The red-hot driver of the No. 98 Ford for Stewart-Haas Rac-ing swept the first two stages of the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Kansas Speedway on Saturday night, then he dominated after a restarted with four laps to go to capture the first race in the round of eight and clinch his spot in the season finale at Phoenix.
Daniel Hemric was second and Ryan Sieg, who made a couple of pit gambles that left him with a fresh set of tires with seven laps to go, rallied from 10th on the final restart to finish third. Play-off contender Justin Haley also avoided trouble and was fourth with Josh Williams rounding out the top five.
“I’m glad — after all the chaos at the beginning of the race, a lot of the guys will be in scary points situations,” said Briscoe, who won his series-leading ninth race of the season. “I’m glad we don’t
have to deal with that.”Playoff contenders Noah Grag-
son and Austin Cindric were in-volved in an early wreck. Brandon Jones and Justin Allgaier were inone later in the race, which also sent Anthony Alfredo on a wild skid on his roof through Turn 1.
Allgaier avoided major dam-age, though, and came away lead-ing the rest of the playoff field 11 points above the cut-line heading to Texas and Martinsville. Jonesis two points back and Cindricnine back, the last driver abovethe cutoff and two points clear ofHaley. Ross Chastain is 12 pointsbelow the cut line, with Sieg and Gragson next.
“I was out on old tires forever,it seemed to me,” Sieg said of his unique strategy. “We kind ofgambled, and that’s the only waywe’re going to make it through to the next round. So we gambled, and it was a hell of a race.”
It could be a heck of a start toa big fall for Briscoe, who led 159laps on the night. He’s one of thefront-runners to take over the No. 14 car in the Cup Series now that Clint Bowyer is stepping away for a spot in the television booth.
The Los Angeles Dodgers got what they needed — again.
“We did what we had to do to force a Game 7,” Justin Turner said.
They sure did.Seager homered again, Bue-
hler pitched six scoreless innings and the Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 3-1 on Saturday to send the NL Championship Series to a winner-take-all finale.
Los Angeles avoided elimina-tion for the second time in less than 24 hours, staying alive in its pursuit of a third pennant in four years. It hasn’t won a champion-ship since 1988.
“I’m still sort of recovering from this one, but already think-ing about Game 7,” Dodgers man-ager Dave Roberts said. “That’s what you live for.”
Turner also homered for Los Angeles, and Jansen threw a six-pitch ninth for his 18th career postseason save.
The NL West and East champi-ons play again Sunday night, with the potential for two rookie start-ers in a Game 7 for the first time in big league history. The winner gets the Tampa Bay Rays in the World Series.
Roberts was keeping his op-tions open for his starting pitch-er while the Braves plan to go with rookie right-hander Ian Anderson, who has thrown 15 2⁄3 scoreless innings in his three postseason starts. Tony Gonso-lin and three-time NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw are among the possibilities for Los Angeles.
“Shoot, we’ll go out there and let ’er fly. A Game 7 is another baseball game,” Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. “You have to treat it as such.”
The Braves were hoping to cel-ebrate Snitker’s 65th birthday Saturday with the franchise’s first
World Series berth since 1999. But Max Fried took his first loss all year, working into the seventh inning after surrendering three runs during a rocky first.
Buehler, using Stan’s Rodeo Ointment to deal with bother-some blisters, threw 65 of his 89 pitches for strikes. He allowed seven hits while striking out six without a walk.
After Atlanta loaded the bases with three singles in a row to start the top of second — the last hit by his Vanderbilt roommate Dansby Swanson — the right-hander re-ally brought the heat, with 10 consecutive fastballs to get out of the jam.
Austin Riley struck out on a 98.7 mph pitch before Nick Markakis took a called third strike on 99.7 mph. Cristian Pache, the 21-year-old rookie who had an RBI in each of his first four NLCS starts, was retired on an inning-ending groundout.
“His mound presence is just unbelievable,” Turner said.
Mookie Betts, the 2018 AL MVP and first-year Dodger, made a l eaping catch against the right field wall to end the fifth. While it wouldn’t have been a homer, it robbed Marcell Ozuna of extra bases, and the Braves a likely run.
Betts let out a emphatic shout while pumping both fists, then celebrated with Bellinger while Buehler held his right arm high in the air.
Jansen finished the victory with an encouraging perfor-mance heading into Game 7.
It was Jansen’s first save chance in five appearances since closing out the Dodgers’ first playoff win this season in the wild-card round. He struck out the side on 12 pitches in Friday night’s 7-3 win.
“Two huge outings, not only for us, but him personally, you can just see the confidence he has on the mound attacking guys,” Turner said. “That’s the Kenley Jansen I and all of us in there all know and love.”
Monday, October 19, 2020
Scoreboard
ALCS(Best-of-seven)
Tampa Bay 4, Houston 3At San Diego
Tampa Bay 2, Houston 1Tampa Bay 4, Houston 2Tampa Bay 5, Houston 2Houston 4, Tampa Bay 3Houston 4, Tampa Bay 3Houston 7, Tampa Bay 4Saturday: Tampa Bay 4, Houston 2
NLCS(Best-of-seven)
Atlanta 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 3At Arlington, Texas
Atlanta 5, L.A. Dodgers 1Atlanta 8, L.A. Dodgers 7L.A. Dodgers 15, Atlanta 3Atlanta 10, L.A. Dodgers 2L.A. Dodgers 7, Atlanta 3Saturday: L.A. Dodgers 3, Atlanta 1Sunday: Game 7
Saturday Rays 4, Astros 2
Houston Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h biSpringer cf 4 0 0 0 Margot rf 2 1 0 0Altuve 2b 4 1 2 0 Lowe 2b 4 0 1 0Brantley dh 3 0 1 0 Arozrena lf 4 1 1 2Correa ss 4 0 1 2 Meadws dh 4 0 0 0Bregman 3b 4 0 1 0 Choi 1b 3 1 2 0Stubbs c 0 0 0 0 Brssu pr-1b 0 0 0 0Tucker lf 4 0 1 0 Adames ss 2 0 0 0Gurriel 1b 4 0 1 0 Wendle 3b 4 0 1 0Reddick rf 4 0 0 0 Zunino c 2 1 1 2Maldonado c 1 0 0 0 Kiermaier cf 3 0 0 0A.Diaz ph-3b 1 1 0 0 Totals 33 2 7 2 Totals 28 4 6 4Houston 000 000 020—2Tampa Bay 210 001 00x—4
DP—Houston 1, Tampa Bay 1. LOB—Houston 7, Tampa Bay 6. HR—Arozarena(4), Zunino (2). SF—Zunino (1). IP H R ER BB SOHoustonMcCullers Jr. L,0-2 32⁄3 4 3 3 1 7Raley 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1Urquidy 2 1 1 1 2 2Taylor 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 1Paredes 2⁄3 0 0 0 1 0Tampa BayMorton W,2-0 52⁄3 2 0 0 1 6Anderson H,1 2 3 2 2 1 0Fairbanks S,1-1 11⁄3 2 0 0 1 3
Anderson pitched to 4 batters in the 8th. HBP—McCullers Jr. (Margot). WP—Fairbanks. T—3:14.
Dodgers 3, Braves 1Atlanta Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h biAcuna Jr. rf 4 0 1 1 Betts rf 4 0 1 0Freeman 1b 4 0 1 0 Seager ss 4 1 1 1Ozuna dh 4 0 0 0 Turner 3b 3 1 1 1d’Arnaud c 4 0 2 0 Muncy 1b 3 1 1 0Albies 2b 4 0 1 0 Smith dh-c 4 0 1 0Swanson ss 4 0 3 0 Bellinger cf 3 0 1 1Riley 3b 4 0 0 0 Pollock lf 3 0 0 0Markakis lf 4 1 1 0 Pederson ph-lf 1 0 1 0Pache cf 3 0 0 0 Hernandez 2b 4 0 0 0Sandoval ph 1 0 0 0 Barnes c 3 0 2 0 Rios ph 0 0 0 0 Jansen p 0 0 0 0Totals 36 1 9 1 Totals 32 3 9 3Atlanta 000 000 100—1Los Angeles 300 000 00x—3
E—Barnes (1). DP—Atlanta 1, Los An-geles 0. LOB—Atlanta 8, Los Angeles 10. 2B—Acuna Jr. (2). 3B—Markakis (1). HR—Seager (5), Turner (1). IP H R ER BB SOAtlantaFried L,0-1 62⁄3 8 3 3 4 5O’Day 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0Martin 1 1 0 0 1 0Los AngelesBuehler W,1-0 6 7 0 0 0 6Treinen H,1 1 2 1 1 0 1Baez H,2 1 0 0 0 0 1Jansen S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 0
T—3:20. A—10,772 (40,300).
Advance: Rays’ Arozarena sets rookie HR record, named ALCS MVP
Dodgers force NLCS Game 7 with Braves
MLB PLAYOFFS
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Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts celebrates after robbing the Atlanta Braves’ Marcell Ozuna of a hit during the fifth inning in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series Saturday, in Arlington, Texas.
‘ If you don’t know the name by now, they better learn them, because we’ve we got some boys who can play. ’Kevin Kiermaier
Rays’ longest-tenured player
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Morton was brilliant against his for-mer team and the Rays silenced the Houston Astros 4-2 to reach the World Series for just the second time.
The Rays will face either the Los Angeles Dodgers or Atlanta Braves in the World Series in Arlington, Texas, starting Tuesday night. Game 7 of the NLCS is Sunday night.
Right fielder Manuel Margot squeezed Aledmys Diaz’s flyball in his glove for the final out and fire-works burst overhead as the Rays began to celebrate the AL pennant in an NL ballpark, a byproduct of the pandemic-shortened season.
“If you don’t know the name by now, they better learn them, because
we’ve we got some boys who can play,” said Kiermaier, the Rays’ lon-gest-tenured player.
That would start with Arozarena, who set a rookie record with his sev-enth home run — a two-run shot in the first — and was chosen ALCS MVP.
“Randy Arozarena, I don’t have any words to describe what he’s done, what he’s meant to us this postsea-son,” manager Kevin Cash said. “For him to have a bat in his hand with an opportunity for a big home run, re-ally, I think it settled a lot of people in the dugout. It certainly did me.”
Arozarena, a relative unknown before the postseason, has brought power and some serious dance moves
to the Rays.“I wouldn’t say I was chasing MVP,
but I was just trying to do everything for the team, anything to allow us to win,” the 25-year-old left fielder said through a translator.
Arozarena did Cristiano Ronaldo’s famous goal celebration after his homer and again after receiving the MVP. Eight nights earlier, he threw down a breakdancing move to win a dance-off with Brett Phillips while the Rays celebrated their AL Divi-sion Series win against the New York Yankees.
Tampa Bay’s only other World Se-ries appearance was in 2008, when it lost to the Philadelphia Phillies in five games.
The innovative Rays led the AL with a 40-20 record in the pandemic-shortened season. Known for their pitching and defense, they also in-troduced the concept of the starterand sometimes deploy a four-manoutfield.
Tampa Bay snapped a three-game losing streak and prevented the As-tros from matching the 2004 BostonRed Sox, the only major league teamto rally from a 3-0 deficit to win aseven-game series.
“The last three days were prettyagonizing,” Cash said.
The Rays also kept the Astros from becoming the first team to win a pen-nant with a losing regular-season re-cord (29-31).
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American ConferenceEast
W L T Pct PF PABuffalo 4 1 0 .800 139 142New England 2 2 0 .500 97 92Miami 2 3 0 .400 136 113N.Y. Jets 0 5 0 .000 75 161
Sunday’s gamesHouston at TennesseeWashington at N.Y. GiantsCincinnati at IndianapolisAtlanta at MinnesotaChicago at CarolinaDetroit at JacksonvilleCleveland at PittsburghDenver at New EnglandBaltimore at PhiladelphiaN.Y. Jets at MiamiGreen Bay at Tampa BayL.A. Rams at San Francisco
Monday’s gamesKansas City at BuffaloArizona at DallasOpen: L.A. Chargers, Las Vegas, New
Orleans, SeattleThursday, Oct. 22
N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia
NFL injury reportNEW YORK — The National Football
League injury report, as provided by the league (DNP: did not practice; LIMITED: limited participation; FULL: Full partici-pation):
MONDAYKANSAS CITY CHIEFS at BUFFALO
BILLS — CHIEFS: Practice Not Complete. BILLS: DNP: TE Dawson Knox (calf). LIM-ITED: LB Tremaine Edmunds (shoulder), QB Jake Fromm (not injury related), G Quinton Spain (foot). FULL: QB Josh Allen (left shoulder), WR John Brown (knee), LB Matt Milano (pectoral), RB Zack Moss (toe), CB Tre’Davious White (back).
ARIZONA CARDINALS at DALLAS COW-BOYS — CARDINALS: DNP: LB Kylie Fitts (hamstring), DT Rashard Lawrence (calf), G J.R. Sweezy (elbow). LIMITED: LB Den-nis Gardeck (foot), LB Devon Kennard (calf). FULL: S Budda Baker (thumb), S Chris Banjo (hamstring), LB Jordan Hicks (wrist). COWBOYS: FULL: DE Dorance Armstrong (knee), TE Blake Bell (knee), DE Tyrone Crawford (ankle), CB Trevon Diggs (knee), DE Everson Griffen (not injury related), DE Demarcus Lawrence (knee).
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The New England Patriots went back to work Saturday in preparation for their twice-post-poned game against Denver even as they added three more players to the COVID-19 injury list.
Offensive lineman Shaquille Mason and defensive lineman Derek Rivers were added to the list on Saturday, as was running back Sony Michel, who was al-ready on injured reserve with a leg injury. The moves come a day after center James Ferentz was added to the COVID-19 list, prompting the team to cancel practice Friday and close its facility.
A Patriots spokesman said Sat-urday the team was proceeding with its usual day-before walk-through, but all meetings would be virtual. The game against the Broncos was originally sched-uled for Oct. 11, then pushed back one day and then rescheduled for Sunday at 1 p.m. after a fourth Patriot tested positive for the coronavirus.
The Broncos had COVID-19
news of their own Saturday: Run-ning backs coach Curtis Modkins has tested positive and won’t make the trip to New England. He is in isolation and has no symptoms.
Elsewhere, the Jacksonville Jaguars said that a practice-squad player tested positive. The team placed 12 players on the practice squad COVID-19 list, 11 of them because they have been in close proximity with the infect-ed teammate.
It benefited Jacksonville that it separates practice-squad players from those on the 53-man roster, creating an extra level of protec-tion to help prevent an outbreak.
The Jaguars also placed defen-sive end Josh Mauro on the regu-lar COVID-19 list. He had been suspended the first five weeks of the regular season but rejoined the team Monday and spent the week with the practice squad.
Those on the list will need three negative tests to be removed. The Jaguars (1-4) are confident they will host Detroit (1-3) on Sunday as scheduled, even though they held football activities remotely
Saturday as part of NFL safety protocols.
Also dealing with COVID issues in recent days: Atlanta, Indianap-olis, Carolina and Baltimore.
The Colts had four positive tests that came up negative upon retesting. The Falcons returned to their facility one day after abandoning it because of a second positive.
New England already had the Week 5 matchup against Denver postponed following four ear-lier positive coronavirus tests by players, including quarterback Cam Newton and cornerback Ste-phon Gilmore.
Gilmore, the reigning De-fensive Player of the Year, and Newton returned to practice this week for the first time since test-ing positive. Newton missed New England’s loss at Kansas City on Oct. 5 after his Oct. 2 positive test. He was activated from the re-serve/COVID-19 list on Wednes-day. Gilmore, who tested positive Oct. 7, was activated from the list Thursday. Practice-squad player Bill Murray also returned from
the COVID-19 list Thursday.Defensive tackle Byron Cow-
art, who tested positive Oct. 11,was joined on the list by Ferentz.
The Broncos haven’t playedsince Oct. 1. If they play Sun-day, they’ll have had 16 days be-tween games, one day longer thanTennessee’s layoff before theTitans beat Buffalo on Tuesday night following the NFL’s firstCOVID-19 outbreak, which af-fected two dozen members of theorganization.
Denver’s layoff is the longest in the league since 2001, when theNFL postponed all games on theweekend following the 9/11 ter-rorist attacks. Three teams — theSaints, Steelers and Buccaneers— had byes when play resumeda week later, so they all had 20days between games that year. Of those three, only the Steelers wonin their return to action. AP Pro Football Writers Barry Wilner, Mark Long, Arnie Stapleton and Dennis Waszak Jr., Sports Writers Jimmy Golen, Mike Marot, Steve Reed, George Henry and David Ginsburg and free-lancer Gethin Coolbaugh contributed to this report.
NFLScoreboard Pats back to work and game still on
BY DAVE SKRETTA
Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The only member of the Kansas City Chiefs that was available and willing to discuss Le’Veon Bell, arguably the biggest free-agent signing since the offseason, happened to be the defensive coordinator who won’t have anything to do with him.
Steve Spagnuolo is happy for that, too.Spagnuolo already had plenty of headaches
trying to stop Bell when the two-time All-Pro running back was with the Pittsburgh Steel-ers. The longtime defensive whiz had five op-portunities to shut down Bell, who announced Wednesday that he was signing with the Chiefs, and each time Spagnuolo found him-self grasping at straws.
“Look, it’s great always to accumulate good football players,” Spagnuolo said. “I haven’t seen him or gone against him in a long time. But he was so challenging to stop in that dual play the Steelers ran where he’d just sit back there and pick and weave. No matter what you did, it felt like you couldn’t stop him for six or seven yards.”
The Chiefs follow a strict schedule for mak-ing coaches and players available to reporters, and coach Andy Reid, general manager Brett
Veach and Bell weren’t available Friday. Bell could still be completing physicals and paper-work, and he must pass a six-day COVID-19 protocol or get an exemption before he’s al-lowed in the building, so not even some of the folks in the Chiefs organization were quite sure when he would join the team.
That’s why Chiefs offensive coordina-tor Eric Bieniemy was quick to say: “I know there’s been some discussion about a particu-lar player. I’m going to defer all those ques-tions to Coach Reid and Brett Veach.”
“Right now, our focus is on the Buffalo Bills,” Bieniemy said. “We need to make sure we get this chip off our shoulder.”
Bell won’t be able to help them by Monday night, of course. But he should provide a big lift for a struggling run game the rest of the season, especially as the Chiefs (4-1) chase a first-round playoff bye in the defense of their Super Bowl title.
Bell became a bona fide star with Pitts-burgh, where he ran for at least 1,200 yards and caught 75 passes in three different sea-sons. But things went haywire after he skipped the 2018 season amid a contract dispute. Bell signed a four-year, $52.5 million deal with $35 million guaranteed with the New York Jets, but he never quite meshed with coach Adam
Gase, and he was released this week after theyfailed to find any suitable trade partners.
Bell was reportedly considering threeteams before settling on Kansas City, wherehe will back up Clyde Edwards-Helaire.
The rookie out of LSU, who was the Chiefs’ first-round pick in this year’s draft, raisedeyebrows by running for 138 yards with touch-downs on the ground and through the air in hisdebut against Houston. But Edwards-Helaire had just 38 yards rushing the following week, 64 yards rushing each of the next two and 40yards rushing last Sunday against the Raiders — when the Chiefs lost 40-32 to end their fran-chise-record 13-game winning streak.
“We drafted Clyde for a reason. Clyde is doing a heck of a job,” Bieniemy said. “The rest of that” — referring again to Bell — “I’m going to let Coach Reid address that. He’s thehead coach for a reason and Brett Veach is thegeneral manager for a reason. Once they ad-dress that, I’ll make sure I jump in. But Clydeis doing a heck of a job.”
He also can’t do it alone, and that’s another reason the Chiefs signed Bell. They thoughtthey would have Damien Williams to providea 1-2 punch, but he opted out due to COVID-19. That left only Darrel Williams and DarwinThompson, to give Edwards-Helaire a break.
Chiefs’ locker room mum on Bell’s arrival
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No. 18 Tennessee (2-2) lost to Kentucky (34-7). Next: vs. No. 2 Alabama, Saturday.
No. 19 Michigan (0-0) did not play. Next: at No. 24 Minnesota, Saturday.
No. 20 Iowa State (3-1) did not play. Next: at No. 7 Oklahoma State, Saturday.
No. 21 Louisiana-Lafayette (3-0) lost to Coastal Carolina (30-27). Next: at UAB, Saturday.
No. 22 Kansas State (3-1) did not play. Next: vs. Kansas, Saturday.
No. 23 Virginia Tech (3-1) beat Boston College (40-14). Next: at Wake Forest, Sat-urday.
No. 24 Minnesota (0-0) did not play. Next: vs. No. 19 Michigan, Saturday.
No. 25 Southern Cal (0-0) did not play. Next: vs. Arizona State, Saturday, Nov. 7.
Saturday’s scoresEAST
Liberty 38, Syracuse 21Temple 39, South Florida 37West Virginia 38, Kansas 17
SOUTHAlabama 41, Georgia 24Clemson 73, Georgia Tech 7Florida St. 31, North Carolina 28Georgia Southern 41, UMass 0Jacksonville St. 24, North Alabama 17Kentucky 34, Tennessee 7Marshall 35, Louisiana Tech 17Memphis 50, UCF 49Miami 31, Pittsburgh 19NC State 31, Duke 20Navy 27, East Carolina 23North Texas 52, Middle Tennessee 35South Alabama 30, Texas State 20South Carolina 30, Auburn 22Texas A&M 28, Mississippi St. 14Troy 31, E. Kentucky 29UAB 37, W. Kentucky 14Virginia Tech 40, Boston College 14Wake Forest 40, Virginia 23
MIDWESTCent. Arkansas 33, Missouri St. 24Notre Dame 12, Louisville 7
SOUTHWESTArkansas 33, Mississippi 21Army 28, UTSA 16Stephen F. Austin 31, Angelo St. 12
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
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SAN ANTONIO — Anthony Adkins had a career-best 66-yard touchdown run and finished with 101 yards to lead Army to a 28-16 victory over UTSA on Saturday.
Adkins had just eight carries and scored in the first quarter. Army (5-1) then added a touch-down run per quarter each from Jakobi Buchanan, Tyhier Tyler, and freshman quarterback Cade Ballard.
Tyler led the Black Knights with 19 carries and had 95 yards rushing. Tyler’s 37-yard touch-down run late in the third quar-ter stretched the lead to 21-10. Buchanan had 10 carries for 40 yards and a 5-yard score. Ballard carried the ball three times and had his first career touchdown run, a 5-yarder in the fourth.
Sincere McCormick had 133 yards rushing for UTSA (3-3). Hunter Duplessis stretched his nation-leading field-goal streak to 21 with a career-best 50-yard-er, but had extra-point attempt blocked.
Frank Harris threw his first pass of the game, an 11-yard TD to Zakhari Franklin in the corner of the end zone, to pull the Road-runners to 21-16.
With his 45th win, Army coach Jeff Monken surpassed Bob Sut-ton (1991-99) for fourth place in the program.
Attendance was capped at 17% capacity with physical distancing measures in place at the 78,203-seat Alamodome.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. — Nelson Smith ran for a ca-reer-high 157 yards and two touchdowns and Navy de-feated East Carolina 27-23 on Saturday.
Smith, a senior, bested his career high for the sec-ond straight game after gaining 120 yards in a win over Temple last week. Jamale Carothers added 82 yards and another score for the Midshipmen (3-2, 3-0 American).
Rahjai Harris, who rushed for 115 yards the week before, had career highs with 172 yards and an 80-yard TD for the Pirates (1-3, 1-2). ECU freshman Mason Garcia made his first start in place of Holton Ahlers, who, along with a handful of other Pirates, had to sit following COVID-19 contract tracing.
Navy quarterback Dalen Morris, who scored his first career rushing touchdown in the first half, was knocked out of the game on a late hit with 10 minutes left in the third quarter.
Tyger Goslin took over for Morris and shortly af-terward Smith’s 29-yard score gave Navy a 20-13 lead. The Midshipmen added their second fourth-down touchdown on Carothers’ 3-yard TD on the final play of the third quarter, a drive that began at the 50 after Tobe Okafor dropped Garcia for a 5-yard loss on fourth down. Okafor also blocked a first-half field-goal attempt.
On ECU’s ensuing possession, Harris raced 80 yards for a score and Jake Verity added his third field goal to close the gap to 27-23. But Navy ate up over six minutes and ECU could do nothing with their final 23 seconds.
ECU limited attendance to 7 percent capacity at 50,000-seat Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium and had 3,500 fans in attendance.
ScoreboardAdkins, Black Knights run past UTSA
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Navy fullback Nelson Smith, left, runs against East Carolina during an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, in Greenville, N.C.
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Army quarterback Cade Ballard, right, celebrates a touchdown with teammates Jordyn Law, Noah Knapp (65) and Mike Johnson (59) against UTSA on Saturday in San Antonio, Texas. Army won 28-16.
Smith’s 157 yards, 2 TDs lead Navy past East Carolina
Lawrence throws 5 TDs, in No. 1 Clemson’s rout
ATLANTA — Trevor Lawrencewasn’t focused on his near-record streak of passes without an inter-ception, just as he has tuned out speculation he could be the first pick in next year’s NFL Draft.
Lawrence just had his mind onleading Clemson’s offense andhaving fun.
He brushed off the first inter-ception he has thrown this season and passed for a career-high 404yards and five touchdowns as No.1 Clemson overwhelmed GeorgiaTech 73-7 on Saturday.
Led by Lawrence, Clemson’s671 yards and 73 points were themost allowed by Georgia Tech .
“It’s really fun,” Lawrence said.“That’s why we practice and workso hard to get the details right and be on the same page. ... It’s a lotof fun when your team plays likethat offensively and defensively.”
Lawrence completed 24 of 32 passes. All of his scoring passescame in the Tigers’ dominantfirst half.
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BY JOHN ZENOR
Associated Press
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A posi-tive COVID-19 test couldn’t keep Nick Saban from the sideline, and Georgia’s heralded defense had scant hope of keeping Alabama’s playmakers out of the end zone.
Mac Jones passed for 417 yards and four touchdowns and the No. 2 Crimson Tide picked apart No. 3 Georgia in the second half of a 41-24 victory Saturday night. It ended up being a decisive ’Bama victory in a collision of the South-eastern Conference’s last remain-ing unbeaten teams.
The Crimson Tide (4-0), with Saban stalking the sideline after all, rallied with three touchdowns in a 10-minute span starting late in the third quarter.
The nation’s top scoring offense ultimately got the emphatic upper hand in a battle with the Bulldogs (3-1) and one of the nation’s best defenses.
“This was an obvious great win against a very, very good foot-ball team,” said Saban, who was cleared early in the day after a false COVID positive. “I was very proud of the way our guys fought in the game.
“I sort of knew it was going to be a 15-round fight and we wouldn’t be winning until the late rounds.”
Georgia had no answer for Jones and star receivers Jaylen Waddle and DeVonta Smith, es-pecially with Alabama’s own be-leaguered defense grabbing two second-half interceptions and three overall. Freshman Malachi Moore had one at the goal line and returned it 42 yards.
Smith caught 11 passes for 167 yards and two touchdowns, in-cluding one in the fourth quarter that effectively put it out of reach.
Waddle caught a 90-yard touch-down pass and gained 161 yards on six catches. Jones completed 24 of 32 passes and was strong after an interception on the open-ing play.
“The goal was just to win the game,” Jones said. “You can look at their defense. They have good players in the secondary, they have good linebackers, they have good defensive linemen but so do we.”
Then there was some old-school ground and pound, too. Najee Harris gained 152 yards on 31 carries carries with a touchdown during that game-clinching span. He did it against the nation’s top run defense, which came in al-lowing 38 rushing yards and 12.3 points per game.
Stetson Bennett completed 18 of 40 passes for 269 yards and two touchdowns, including an 82-yarder to James Cook. But he threw three interceptions.
Bennett was angry with him-self over his mistakes, especially that final interception throwing
across his body, calling it “just stupid.”
“I was frustrated with myself,” the former walk-on said.
Alabama got a boost about seven hours before the game when the SEC cleared coach Saban to return to business of usual, determining a Wednesday COVID test was a false positive. He tested negative Thursday, Fri-day and Saturday.
“That was very emotional,” he said.
“It was very crazy,” Jones said. “We were in our little quarterback meeting and he just showed up.”
A maskless Saban was yelling at a referee after an intentional grounding call in the second quarter.
The Tide has won the last six meetings with Georgia, including a 3-0 record against Saban’s for-mer defensive coordinator, Kirby Smart. The first two came in the January 2018 national champion-ship game and the SEC champion-ship game the following season.
This was the first one that didn’t go down to the wire. Georgia’s de-fense allowed 564 yards.
“Just frustrated we couldn’t get anything going in the sec-ond half, especially that opening drive,” Smart said. “I thought we were going to be able to run the ball and we stalled out and lost momentum after that point, es-pecially after they hit the big long bomb to Waddle.”
Rematch, please?The Bulldogs left hoping for a
rematch in the SEC champion-ship game, certainly a strong possibility.
“That’s what everybody was saying in the locker room,” Ben-nett said. “Our destiny is still con-trolled by us. We win out, we’ll be in the SEC championship. Every-thing is still ahead of us.”
Poll implicationClemson hasn’t done anything
to weaken its claim to the top spot, but perhaps Alabama’s decisive win will close the gap some. Geor-gia probably won’t fall much past the Top 10.
THE TAKEAWAY
Alabama: The defense remains more generous than is standard in Tuscaloosa, but it did deliver some big plays. The offense just continues to roll along, and those receivers just appear unstoppa-ble. Saban is now 22-0 against his former assistants.
Georgia: Led 24-20 deep into the third quarter and gained a solid 410 yards. But the defense that had been so suffocating more than met its match.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Crimson Tide surge overwhelms ‘Dawgs No. 2 ’Bama SEC’s last unbeaten team
South Carolina beats Auburnfor the first time in 87 years
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South Carolina defensive back Jaycee Horn, center, celebrates with students after defeating Auburn on Saturday, in Columbia, S.C., something the Gamecocks hadn’t done in 87 years.
BY PETE IACOBELLI
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s Jaycee Horn was tired of hearing he didn’t have the ball skills to be a truly exceptional cornerback.
His play against No. 15 Au-burn proved he did — and led the Gamecocks to a breakthrough win over the Tigers on Saturday.
Horn had the first two inter-ceptions of his career and his pass break up led to a third — all which South Carolina turned into touchdowns — for a 30-22 victory that was its first win over Auburn in 87 years.
Horn is a junior who’s been a lockdown corner most of his career.
“If a team throws at him like that every game, he’ll have a game like that every game,” Gamecocks receiver Shi Smith said of Horn, the son of NFL re-ceiver Joe Horn.
Horn was assigned to Auburn receiver Seth Williams, one of the best receivers in the South-eastern Conference, averaging 18 yards a catch. Williams finished with four catches for 74 yards, but no scores.
“I heard a lot of people saying I (don’t) have any ball skills, which is crazy to me,” Horn said. “I just knew the day would come when I’d have a lot of opportunities to make plays.”
South Carolina made plenty of them throughout to beat Auburn for the first time in 87 years.
Kevin Harris ran for two touch-downs, Smith added a 10-yard TD catch and Horn and the defense did enough to stop Bo Nix and the Tigers’ attack.
Auburn (2-2) had won eight straight in the series and jumped out to a 9-0 lead in the opening 10 minutes. But Nix, the sophomore quarterback, threw three picks and the Gamecocks (2-2) cashed
in each time to win consecutive games for the first time in more than a year.
Smith had eight catches includ-ing his score midway through the third quarter that put South Car-olina ahead for good, 20-19.
Auburn was driving on its fol-lowing series when Nix threw his third interception — and second to c Horn who brought the ball down the left sidelines to the Ti-gers’ 8. Harris was in the end zone a play later for a 27-19 lead and Auburn could not recover.
The Tigers closed to 30-22 on Anders Carlson’s 22 yard field goal with 6:39 left. Auburn got the ball back once more with 2:15 left and drove to the South Carolina 13. Nix, though, was called for intentional grounding trying to avoid a sack and the Gamecocks held on to beat the Tigers for the first time since 1933.
Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said his team will have to get past this quickly. “We’re just going
to have to be big boys and we’re going to have to man up and put it behind us and go into next week and find a way to win,“ he said.
South Carolina had not won back-to-back games since de-feating Kentucky and then-No. 3 Georgia last season. That win over the Bulldogs was the last time the Gamecocks had beaten a ranked opponent.
Auburn’s offense looked un-stoppable the first half and dou-bled up South Carolina in yardage (243-119) the first 30 minutes — except when Nix put the ball in danger.
Nix had 272 yards passing and was sacked three times.
Bigsby, the Auburn freshman, had 111 yards rushing and went past the century mark for a sec-ond straight game.
Auburn linebacker Owen Pap-poe said the next week was criti-cal for his team.
“We’re just going to stay to-gether,” Pappoe said.
South Carolina running back Kevin Harris follows his blocking for a touchdown run during the second half on Saturday in Columbia, S.C. The Gamecocks defeated Auburn 30-22.
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SPORTS Army, Navy victoriousService academies get it
The Tampa Bay Rays’ Randy Arozarena celebrates during
Saturday’s 4-2 win over the Houston Astros in Game 7 of the ALCS.
ASHLEY LANDIS/AP
BY BERNIE WILSON
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO
By now, every baseball fan has heard of remarkable rookie Randy Arozarena. They’re fast becoming familiar with his World Series-bound Tampa Bay team-mates, too.
“You sit here and look at this group of guys, and I always say we don’t have a lot of household names, but at the same time, people are making a name for them-selves right now,” outfielder Kevin Kiermaier said.
They kept doing that in Game 7 of the AL Champion-ship Series on Saturday night.
Arozarena homered again, 36-year-old Charlie
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Behind remarkable rookie Arozarena, Tampa Bay heading to World Series
