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1 LOCAL Let it grow WVU drops crucial series SPORTS Students plant trees for Arbor Day. Page 7-A Jayhawks hit 3 home runs in final game. Page 1-B Morgantown, WV dominionpost.com Single copy 75 cents MONDAY May 7, 2018 WEATHER Partly sunny, an afternoon thunderstorm. High Low Your complete forecast Page 10-A Ex-coal CEO set for Senate vote Blankenship moves from prison to politics after serving one year following mine disaster. Page 6-B Prostitution not trafficking ABOUT THIS SERIES This is the second of a four-day series on human trafficking in West Virginia. Sunday Defining human trafficking and recognizing the victims Today Human trafficking vs. prostitution and decriminalizing prostitution May 13 Local organizations work to combat violence against survivors and some find it hard to leave a situation May 14 Challenges to combating human trafficking and the relationship of drugs and human trafficking Author finds most enter sex work for economic reasons MORE ON DECRIMINALIZING PROSTITUTION on Page 9-A. BY RACHEL ELLIS For the Dominion Post FAIRMONT For one professor at WVU, human sex trafficking is not always what it s made out to be and it s often confused with a consensual sexual transaction. Alison Bass, journalism professor at WVU and author of Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law, said she began researching sex workers in the U.S. after a former journalism student at Mount Holyoke College told her an interviewee was a sex worker. One of my students was writing a profile about a community activist in Northhampton, Mass., and she was having trouble bring- SEE PROSTITUTION, 9- A OBITUARIES NELSON, Eugenia Page 9-A Counties declare sanctuary status for gun owners Officials fear state legislators won t be able to stop passage of new restrictions. Page 7-B Chester Ayersman Lives in: Morgantown Occupation: Retired Favorite place to eat: Red Lobster Favorite sport: High school football Favorite place to go: Ocean City INDEX BRIDGE... 2A BUSINESS A CLASSIFIEDS B COMICS... 10B CROSSWORD... 10B ENTERTAINMENT... 8B LOCAL... 2A, 7-9A NATION... 9A, 7B OPINION... 6A POLITICS... 5A, 6B SPORTS B STATE... 2A, 6B WORLD... 7B For home delivery: For news: Spectacular scholars Kathleen Batten/The Dominion Post The 2018 honor students pose for a photo before the banquet Sunday, at Lakeview Golf Resort and Spa. Honor students recognized at banquet BY JIM BISSETT The Dominion Post A 4.0 GPA is one thing, but, as a group of stellar students showed Sunday night at Cheat Lake, success doesn t just come from grades. It comes from the grace by which you live your life. Top-performing seniors from 15 high schools across the region gathered at the Lakeview Golf Resort and Spa, for the 2108 Honor Student Program, sponsored by The Dominion Post, West Virginia Radio Corp. and BB&T Bank. This was the 59th year for the event, which began in 1959 by way of a TV supplement in The Dominion News, which later became The Dominion Post. As the recognition has Trump urges defense of right to bear arms SEE STUDENTS, 2- A DALLAS Months after the horror of the Parkland school shootings in Florida, President Donald Trump stood before cheering members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and urged them to elect more Republicans to Congress to defend gun rights. Trump claimed that Democrats want to outlaw guns and said if the nation takes that drastic step, it might as well ban all vans and trucks because they are the new weapons for maniac terrorists. We will never give up our freedom. We will live free, and we will die free, Trump said Friday as he tried to rally progun voters for the 2018 congressional elections. We ve got to do great in 18. Activists energized by shootings at schools, churches and elsewhere are also focused on Kathleen Batten/The Dominion Post Coordinator Rachelle Beatty (right) presents Grafton High student Keith Skaggs with the Faltis award. those elections. In the aftermath of the February school shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which left 17 dead and many more wounded, Trump temporarily strayed from gun rights dogma. During a televised gun meeting with lawmakers in late February, he wagged his finger at a Republican senator and scolded him for being afraid of the NRA, declaring he would stand up to the group and finally get results in quelling gun violence. But he later backpedaled on that tough talk. He was clearly back in the fold at the NRA s annual convention, pledging that Americans Second Amendment right to bear arms will never ever be under siege as long as I am your president. Trump briefly referenced the Parkland shootings in his speech, saying he mourned for the victims and their families and noting that he signed a spending bill that included provisions to strengthen the federal background check system for gun purchases, as well as add money to improve school safety. He also repeated his strong support for letting highly trained teachers carry concealed weapons. T r ump s speech in Dallas was his fourth consecutive appearance at the NRA s annual convention. His gun comments were woven into a campaignstyle speech that touched on the Russia probe, the 2016 campaign, his efforts in North Korea and Iran and his fight against illegal immigration. In strikingly personal criticism of members of Congress, he decried what he said were terribly weak immigration laws, declaring, We have laws that were written by people that truly could not love our country. Residents raise concerns over ambulances Medical transport less available in rural areas BY JIM BISSETT The Dominion Post BLACKSVILLE Two medical emergencies in recent months made a de facto ambulance driver out of Donna Varner. The first was when her husband suffered a heart attack in their home. The second was when a family member who lives close by was felled by a stroke. Varner lives in the Blacksville area on the rural, western end of Monongalia County. In both cases, she bundled the stricken family in her car and started out for Morgantown. Plenty other residents have done the same, she said. I know we live out, she said. T hat s by choice. But you can t wait 45 minutes to an hour if it sa medical emergency. T hat s how long it can take for a Mon Health EMS ambulance, even with lights and siren, to make the haul to her home on winding W.Va. 7 from Morgantown. And that s why she was among the 20 or so western Mon residents plus first responders from other area medical crews who came out to the Blacksville VFD hall on Sunday afternoon. Mon Health EMS Executive Director, a paramedic and retired Morgantown Fire officer, said he wanted to update residents on coming changes to how ambulances are dispatched to calls. Especially now, he said, since WVU Hospitals is putting its own fleet of medical response vehicles SEE AMBULANCES, 2- A Companies file complaints over water treatment READ more, Page 9-A. Oregon Public Broadcasting (AP) PORTLAND, Ore. Companies downriver from a lauded water treatment system said that new system is ineffective and needs to be replaced. They said toxic pollution is still flowing off the site through groundwater.

2 2-A THE DOMINION POST MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 LOCAL & STATE CORRECTIONS/ CLARIFICATIONS The Dominion Post strives to publish accurate information. If a factual error does occur, a correction or clarification will be published. Errors should be brought to the attention of Managing Editor Pam Queen, or pqueen@ dominionpost.com. BRIDGE READER S E RV I C E S Contact information Newsroom: newsroom@ dominionpost.com call or fax Kingwood phone: Classified Advertising: :30 a.m.- 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Fax: To Have a Missed Edition Delivered, call before 9:30 a.m. Monday-Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Preston County: USPS VOL. 52 NO. 341 The Dominion Post is published daily and Sunday by the West Virginia Newspaper Publishing Co., Greer Building, Morgantown, WV Periodicals postage paid at Morgantown, WV. Postmaster: Send address changes to 1251 Earl L. Core Road, Morgantown, WV Single Copy 75 cents daily and $2 on Sunday. Home Delivery $4.90 per week. 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LWCF provides funding for parks by using a portion of government royalties STUDENTS FROM PAGE 1-A evolved over the years, so too has the collective philosophy of the students selected for the program. T hat s what impresses Dennis Ruscello, a retired WVU professor who has been a judge for the program for the last several years. During those years as he s interviewed one class of honorees after the other, he s seen me morph into we and stay there. The 2018 honorees, for example, he said, a re n t shy about going forth and putting their resumes and their faith in action to make the world a better place. Their goals, he said, range from cancer research AMBULANCES FROM PAGE 1-A on the road. Under the county s current mutual aid contract, calls that come into MECCA 911 go through a rotation, with Mon Health EMS always getting first dibs. Star City Emergency Medical Services is second in the rotation, followed by Jan-Care Ambulance Service, which is third. HealthTeam Critical Care Transport, the new offering from WVU Hospitals, is now fourth in that rotation, even though the hospital originally balked saying it should be a matter of who is closest to the call, not who is necessarily in rotation. from off-shore oil and gas leases. It provides funding for national forests, parks and wildlife refuges to buy land within their boundaries from willing sellers. The LWCF provides funding for many parks in West Virginia, including Canaan Valley and Ohio Islands National wildlife refuges, access points to the Gauley and New rivers, along with the Cranberry Glades Wilderness and Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks to community development. All want to work with disenfranchised people, in one way or another. Every year, our students just get better and b e t t e r, he said. I m not sure how that happens. I just know it s a real motivator for me. You c a n t help but feel good after you talk with them. They really do want to make the world a better place. Christian Miller, the marker manager for West Virginia Radio Corp., presented awards with Pat Martin, a market president and senior vice president of BB&T. Jack Logar, a WVAQ radio personality his stat i o n s parent company is West Virginia Radio Corp. used his role as emcee to gloriously veer from the We re not neglecting you on this end of the count y, Custer said, as some of the questions and comments from the audience script every chance he got. Martin did some adlibbing of his own. I d wish you good l u ck, he said, addressing the honorees, but I don t think you ll need it. All students received a $100 check to honor their achievements, and three top winners from each school were announced: First-place winners Olga Hawranick, of East Fairmont High School, and Logan Peck, of South Harrison High School, each earned $2,000 scholarships. North Marion High s Adia Kolb and Jacob Cox, of Fairmont Senior, each received a $1,000 scholarship for their secondplace awards. Kathleen Batten/The Dominion Post David Custer, executive director of Mon Health EMS, speaks at the Blacksville VFD, during a town hall informational session Sunday. grew heated and terse. Custer said while Mon Health EMS, the county s first ambulance care company, is in the process of trucking out new GPS mapping and zoning for emergency response here, any contract particulars concerning ambulance rotation or anything else will have to be taken up with the Monongalia County Commission, the body that negotiated the current mutual contract, which is in effect until County Commissioner Sean Sikora, the only one National Recreation Area. This funding is a critical component to West Virginia s Wild and Wonderful ima g e, Matt Kearns, with West Virginians for Public Lands, said in the organiz at i o n s release. It supports our tourism economy and provides real quality of life benefits for our residents. LWCF is the underpinning of our state s current marketing emphasis that invites visitors to experience the natural beauty of West Virginia. Funding is set to expire Sept. 30, after a three-year authorization, the release noted. Conservation groups are seeking permanent solutions to the fund. Senate Bill 569, which Manchin co-sponsored, would ensure permanent reauthorization and establish protocol to fully fund it each year. Senate Bill 896, which Capito has co-sponsored, seeks to permanently reauthorize the LWCF. Third-place winners Kylie Bushko, of Fairmont Senior, and Kevin Donnelly, of Morgantown High, were awarded scholarships of $500. Keith Skaggs, of Grafton High, won the $1,000 Faltis Community Service Award Scholarship for his work, which includes extensive outreach ministry at this church. The high school senior is already an accomplished world traveler and hasn t ruled out missionary work overseas as part of his life s plan. His award is named in honor of Morgantown energy magnate John Faltis, who died in a 1997 helicopter crash with his wife, Kathleen. The couple supported several community causes. FOLLOW THE DOMINION POST on Twitter@DominionPostWV. Jim Bissett: jbissett@ dominionpost.com. of the county s three commissioners to attend the presentation, said it wo u l d n t be easy to break the contract or simply do away with the rotation system, since it is writing. You can t just make changes willy-nilly, said Sikora, who didn t speak until well into the meeting. In the meantime, Custer said, Mon Health EMS has an ambulance ro a m - ing the region in the event of emergencies such as the one that hit in Varner s house. And ambulance crews from neighboring Wetzel County and Grant Town, in nearby Marion County, have long picked up calls in western Mon. Varner, though, wasn t necessarily reassured by Custer s talk, she said. I just want to know what happens the next time I have to call 911, she said, after the meeting. I just want to know that I can count on ambulance getting here. I d o n t think that s unreas o n abl e. FOLLOW THE DOMINION POST on Twitter@DominionPostWV. Jim Bissett: jbissett@ dominionpost.com.

3 BUSINESS MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 THE DOMINION POST 3-A Lobster prices high, but dropping as summer approaches AP file photo A Boeing 747, of the state carrier IranAir is seen at Mehrabad International Airport, in Tehran. Airplane, oil deals at risk in Trump pullout of Iran Deal DUBAI, United Arab Emirates From airplanes to oilfields, billions of dollars are on the line for international corporations as President Donald Trump weighs whether to pull America out of Iran s nuclear deal with world powers. Regardless of where they are headquartered, virtually all multinational corporations do business or banking in the U.S., meaning any return to pre-deal sanctions could torpedo deals made after the 2015 agreement came into force. That threat alone was enough to scare risk-averse firms, like Boeing Co., into slow-walking deals agreed to months ago. A complete pullout by the U.S. would wreak further havoc and likely frighten off those considering making the plunge. I absolutely think those on the fence will not jump in, said Richard Nephew, a former sanctions expert at the U.S. State Department who worked on the nuclear deal and now is at New Yo rk s Columbia University. The only ones who will, will be those who see tremendous monetary benefit and no U.S. risk. The 2015 Iran nuclear deal lifted crippling economic sanctions that locked Iran out of international banking and the global oil trade. In return, Tehran limited its enrichment of uranium, reconfigured a heavy-water reactor so it c o u l d n t produce plutonium and reduced its uranium stockpile and supply of centrifug es. For Western businesses, the deal meant access to I r a n s largely untapped market of 80 million people. Most prominently, airplane manufacturers rushed in to replace the country s dangerously dilapidated civilian fleet. In December 2016, Airbus Group signed a deal with Iran s national carrier, IranAir, to sell it 100 airplanes for around $19 billion at list prices. Boeing later struck its own deal with IranAir for 80 aircraft with a list price of some $17 billion, promising that deliveries would begin in 2017 and run until Boeing separately struck another 30-airplane deal with Iran s Aseman Airlines for $3 billion at list prices. But Boeing has yet to deliver a single aircraft to Iran. The Chicago-based comp a ny s CEO recently stressed it understands the risks and implications around the Iranian aircraft deal, which would be the biggest business agreement between an American company and Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and U.S. Embassy takeover. We continue to follow the U.S. government s lead here and everything is being done per that process, Dennis Muilenburg said during a quarterly earnings conference call on April 25. We have no Iranian deliveries that are scheduled or part of the skyline this year, so those have been deferred again in line with the U.S. government process. Airbus, a European airline consortium based in Toulouse, France, likewise continues its sales at the discretion of the American government. At least 10 percent of its aircraft components are of American origin, meaning it requires permission from the U.S. Treasury for its sales to Iran. Airbus already delivered two A s and one A321 to Iran. European airplane manufacturer ATR struck a $536-million deal with Iran- Air for at least 20 aircraft last year. It s already delivered eight of its twin-engine turboprops to Tehran after earlier winning permission from the U.S. Treasury. To date, we are on track to deliver the remaining ATR aircraft in due time, before the end of the year, ATR spokesman David Vargas told the AP. The speed at which Western airplane manufacturers went into Iran is contrasted by a slow start by Western energy firms despite the country s vast oil and gas wealth. The exception is French oil giant Total SA, which in July signed a $5 billion, 20-year agreement with Iran and a Chinese oil company to develop the country s massive South Pars offshore natural gas field. The natural gas pumped by the deal will go toward Iran s domestic market. PORTLAND, Maine Lobster prices are high in the U.S. right now, but members of the industry expect them to come down soon as the Canadian catch creeps up and America s summer haul gets going. One-pound lobsters, which Mainers call ch i ck s, are selling for about $12 per pound to consumers, which is a couple of dollars per pound more than six months ago. The U.S. lobster industry, based heavily in Maine, is in a slow mode as fishermen get ready to pull traps in the summer. The lack of fishing effort and high prices caused some in the seafood industry to raise the possibility of a shortage, but industry members said quite the opposite is true. Canada s spring fishing season is just starting to heat up, which means prices already are starting to track back down, industry members said. U.S. lobstermen who were getting $10 per pound for their catch at the dock in March are now getting closer to $6, said Spencer Fuller, a lobster buyer and the president of the Maine Lobster Dealers Association. Consumers can expect to start seeing that price shift show up at the seafood counter soon. You had weather, nothing around, fairly steady demand, it just drives the price c r a z y, Fuller said. N ow we re heading toward nor malcy. The wholesale price of 1¼-pound lobsters fell from $10.78 per pound in April to $8.51 per pound this month in the New England market, according to business publisher Urner Barry. It s typical for lobster prices to fall from April to May, but the May price is still about $1.50 above average, according to Urner Barry data. Maine s lobster catch fell to about 111 million pounds last year after setting a record of million pounds the previous year. It was the lowest total since 2011, though still much more than the typical catch in the 1990s and early 2000s. More than 80 percent of the nation s c atch typically comes to shore in Maine, although Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island also have significant lobster fisheries. Fresh, live lobster is historically a summer food in New England, but the growing globalization of the lobster business is starting to AP file photo A lobster is pulled from a crate, in Kennebunkport, Maine. change that. That means demand is sometimes higher in the cooler months once considered the lobster off season. Exports to China also increased, which resulted in some worry about a potential lobster shortage in the U.S., said Michael King, purchasing director of King s Seafood Co., which operates a distribution center in Santa Ana, Calif. American catch also appeared to suffer due to bad weather during the already-slow winter season this year, he said. It s a double whammy of lower supply plus increase in demand, King said. POLLING LOCATIONS FOR THE PRIMARY ELECTION TUESDAY MAY 8, 2018 POLLS OPEN AT 6:30 A.M. AND CLOSE AT 7:30 P.M. West Virginia Code requires all voters to vote on Election Day in the precinct in which they are registered. There have been several temporary precinct location changes for the Primary Election on Tuesday, May 8, Please see below list of polling locations. ATTENTION VOTERS There have been several precinct location changes for the Primary Election on May 8, If you are registered in any of the precincts listed below, you must appear at the correct precinct location on Election Day. If you are not sure of your precinct, please call for assistance. PRECINCT OLD LOCATION NEW LOCATION 10 Monongalia County Health Department WVU Alumni Center 44 Restoration Church International Granville Fire Department Bingo Hall (Osage) 48 Restoration Church International Granville Fire Department Bingo Hall (Osage) 71 Westside Senior Center (Westover City Hall) Westover Community Building 23 St. Mary s Catholic Church WVU Alumni Center 25 St. Mary s Catholic Church WVU Alumni Center Precinct Polling Place Name Polling Location Address 1 Mountainview Elementary School 661 Green Bag Road 2A Morgantown High School 109 Wilson Avenue 2B Morgantown High School 109 Wilson Avenue 10 WVU Alumini Center 1 Alumni Drive 13 Mountaineer Middle School 991 Price Street 16 BOPARC Senior Recreation Center 287 Eureka Drive 23 WVU Alumini Center 1 Alumni Drive 25 WVU Alumini Center 1 Alumni Drive 26 Suncrest Middle School 360 Baldwin Street 30 Sabraton Baptist Church 1641 Sabraton Avenue 32 Eastwood Elementary School st Memorial Hwy 33 Rock Forge Presbyterian Church 3085 Earl Core Road 35 Mountainview Elementary School 661 Green Bag Road 36 North Elementary School 825 Chestnut Ridge Road 38 Brookhaven Elementary School 1215 Baker Street 40 Mason-Dixon Elementary School 7041 Mason-Dixon Hwy, Blacksville 41 Mason-Dixon Elementary School 7041 Mason-Dixon Hwy, Blacksville 44 Granville Fire Dept. Bingo Hall (Osage) 507 Scotts Run Road, Osage 47 Scott s Run VFD (Cassville) 719 Mason-Dixon Hwy 48 Granville Fire Dept. Bingo Hall (Osage) 507 Scotts Run Road, Osage 51 Clay-Battelle High School 5977 Mason-Dixon Hwy 51M Clay-Battelle High School 5977 Mason-Dixon Hwy 52 Mason Dixon Park 79 Buckeye Road, Core 58 Mylan Park Elementary School 901 Mylan Park Lane 59 Smithtown School Community Center 56 Smithtown School Road 61 Ridgedale School 1550 Goshen Road 62 Brown s Halleck Community Center 33 Brewer Road 63 Mountainview Elementary School 661 Green Bag Road 64 Skyview Elementary School 668 River Road 67 Arnettsville Community Center 4120 Fairmont Road 68 Mylan Park Elementary School 901 Mylan Park Lane 71 Westover Community Building 399 Crowl Street 74 Granville VFD 320 Main Street 76 Suncrest Middle School 360 Baldwin Street 77 Cheat Lake Community Church 527 Tyrone Road 78 Cheat Lake Elementary School 154 Crosby Road 79 Cheat Lake VFD 409 Fairchance Road 81 University High School 131 Bakers Ridge Road 82 Cheat Lake VFD 409 Fairchance Road 83 University High School 131 Bakers Ridge Road 86 North Elementary School 825 Chestnut Ridge Road Please verify your polling location before Election Day by checking online at to verify your correct precinct location.

4 4-A THE DOMINION POST MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 BUSINESS BRIEFS For questions about your assigned precinct or about voting on Tuesday, May 8th, please call the Monongalia County Clerks Office at On Tuesday evening, May 8th view election results at Court asked to toss cases tied to lab scandal BOSTON Mas - s a ch u s e t t s highest court is set to hear arguments in a case sparked by the misconduct of a former chemist who authorities said was high almost every day she worked at a state drug lab for eight years. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the state s public defender agency will ask the Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday to order the dismissal of all convictions that relied on evidence from the drug lab during Sonja Farak s tenure. Prosecutors already agreed to dismiss thousands of cases tainted by Farak, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to stealing cocaine from the lab and was sentenced to 18 months behind bars. Store that sold ticket to receive $100,000 MORAINE, Ohio An Ohio convenience store is being presented with a $100,000 check for selling the winning $143 million Mega Millions ticket in last Friday s drawing. Officials from the Ohio Lottery s Dayton Regional Office said they ll present the check Monday at Fat D a d dy s Road Dog, a division of Duncan Oil Co., in Moraine, outside Dayton. No one has come forward to claim last Friday s jackpot. The winning numbers were 4, 5, 10, 12 and 18, with Mega Ball 21. Average price of U.S. gas jumps 7 cents CAMARILLO, Calif. The average price of regular-grade gasoline in the U.S. rose 7 cents a gallon over the last two weeks to $2.90. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the jump marks the highest average price since November Lundberg said the increase is largely driven by higher crude oil costs and the phasing-in of summergrade gasoline, which is used to prevent smog. Infinity War fastest to surpass $1 billion NEW YORK Ave n - gers: Infinity War is poised to set a record for fastest film to rake in $1 billion in business. The Walt Disney Co. said Saturday the Marvel superhero saga earned just less than $975 million in global box office through Friday. Since the film earned nearly $70 million on Friday alone, the studio is confident it will pass the billion-dollar mark on Saturday, in 11 days. The previous record of fastest time for a movie to make a $1 billion was 12 days for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. IMF lauds Egypt in stabilizing economy CAIRO The International Monetary Fund (IMF) lauded Egypt s progress in stabilizing its economy, instilling market confidence, cutting debt and driving growth. In remarks to a government meeting released late Saturday, IMF First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton said Egypt must now enable private-sector economic activity to expand and provide the jobs needed by millions of Egyptians. Video of meetings available online OMAHA, Neb. Vi d e o from 24 years of Berkshire H at h aw ay s annual meetings with Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are now available online. Buffett provided recordings of the meetings dating back to 1994 to CNBC, and the network added footage from its interviews with Buffett over the years. The videos are available online at b c. c o m.

5 POLITICS MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 THE DOMINION POST 5-A BRIEFS Transgender mayor loses election bid NEW HOPE, Texas The mayor of a small Texas town who came out as transgender after being appointed to the job lost her election bid for a full two-year term. The Dallas Morning News reported that New Hope Mayor Jess Herbst was running to become the first openly transgender elected official in Texas. Election results show she finished third Saturday in the four-person race, with 53 votes. The winner received 95. Envoy won t defend communication style WASHINGTON Nikki Haley said President Donald Trump has his communication style, bu t the U.N. ambassador said yo u re not hearing me defend that. She tells CBS S u n d ay Mor ning that if there is anything that he communicates in a way that I m uncomfortable with, I pick up the phone and call him. The former South Carolina governor said she d o e s n t need to go public about a private conversation that should happen when I feel it.... and I think it s one that he s receptive to when I do. Melania to announce children s initiatives WASHINGTON Melania Trump said she ll announce her initiatives as first lady today. Her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said the focus will be on the overall well-being of children, which Mrs. Trump has spoken about since becoming first lady. Grisham adds that the first lady will concentrate on the range of issues children face growing up and will not tailor the initiative to a single topic. Son-in-law: Ailing McCain is chatty WASHINGTON Sen. John McCain s son-inlaw said the Arizona Republican is talking, he s chatty and he s walking a ro u n d as he battles brain cancer. Ben Domenech said Sunday on CBS Face the Nation that McCain is ve r y grateful for the chances and fortune that he s experienced in life. He s reflecting at the end on a lot of different things. The 81-year-old senator was diagnosed in July with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. FBI lawyer resigns over Trump texts WASHINGTON An FBI lawyer who made headlines for exchanging derogatory text messages about President Donald Trump left the bureau. That s according to a person familiar with the situation, who said Lisa Page voluntarily resigned Friday and is taking a new job. Text messages between Page and Peter Strzok, an FBI agent who was assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller s investigation, show them expressing negative views about Trump and referring to him in derogatory ways. Stormy Daniels: Storm s a coming NEW YORK Stor my Daniels made a surprise appearance on S at u rd ay Night Live to deliver a message to President Donald Trump: A storm s a coming, baby. The porn actress, who says she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 and was paid $130,000 the month before he was elected to stay silent about it, delivered the warning to Alec Baldwin s Donald Trump in the show s opening skit. For questions about your assigned precinct or about voting on Tuesday, May 8th, please call the Monongalia County Clerks Office at On Tuesday evening, May 8th view election results at

6 Opinion 6-A THE DOMINION POST MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 OPINION PAGE EDITOR RANDY VEALEY EDITORIAL Fix the roads or hit the road Legislators in DOH s District 4 need to meet on plan for improvements We know, we know. Enough about the DOH already, please. But the Division of Highways is only indirectly related to the premise of this argument. Last week, we applauded county commissioners, who caucused on road conditions, from five of the six counties in the DOH s District 4. As an aside we noted that that s more than our state legislators whose House and Senate districts fall within District 4 s borders. Unofficially some of these legislators met with DOH representatives, and sometimes en masse. However, we suspect the 17 delegates and eight senators whose districts are bounded by District 4 never spoke with one voice to the DOH. For that matter, they probably never caucused as one about road conditions in our area. Nor decried the abysmal funding for District 4. Or sought to address the continual job vacancies here because of a marginal DOH pay scale. Such meetings of these 25 lawmakers, or others nearby, representing portions of District 4 may have happened informally. But we know of no official caucus of these legislators on road conditions in our area. We single out District 4 and the legislative districts within it and others that border it for good reason. One of course, is this is our readership area, and we call it home. But, more importantly, as a Preston County delegate noted last week, this area alongside the Eastern Panhandle is without a doubt the economic driver for the state right now. In other words, we are in the best position to keep our state on the road to recovery from recession and facilitating an economy in transition. T hat s why it s imperative that elected state officials work together publicly, not behind the scenes, to lobby for the DOH s District 4. It s also obvious that these legislators are in a much better position to do so than county commissioners. That s not to suggest they supplant the counties caucus. But rather take a leadership role and work in tandem with them. Obviously, no one should expect these officials to caucus on every policy issue. Even getting them in the same room is no easy matter because of party difference and personal ones. However, improving road conditions may be the only bipartisan issue left on everyone s agenda. T here s an election tomorrow. Whatever the outcome we urge the winners to signal it s time to take a new direction on road conditions. And support a lot more of everything for District 4. No need to under stand Trump backers? THIS IS FOR ROSE. She is a nice lady who wrote me a nice in which she spoke about the need to try to understand Donald Trump s supporters. As Rose put it, We need to not close ourselves off to how the other side thinks. It s a sentiment I hear a lot from progressives, and it bespeaks a great generosity of spirit. But I couldn t disagree more. Don t get me wrong. Thinking people will always try to see past their own ideological blind spots, to put themselves into the shoes of those they disagree with. That s an admirable trait. In normal times it s a trait I would applaud. But these are not normal times. Indeed, sometimes, I wonder if we appreciate just how abnormal how fraught with danger they really are. Under Trump, American laws, news media and more are under assault, to say nothing of American democracy itself. And I m sorry, but I don t think understanding Trump followers will ameliorate any of that. DAVID A. RAESE - Editor/Publisher LEONARD PITTS Besides which, is there really so much left to understand? Long before Trump even existed as a political force, many of us noted with alarm the rise of a backlash among right-wingers angry and profoundly terrified by the writing on the demographic wall. Said writing foretold the declining pre-eminence of white, Christian America. As several studies now show, a sense of alarmed displacement among white, Christian America is the soil from which the weed of Trumpism grew. The idea that we must un - derstand those folks carries with it an implicit suggestion that in so doing, we might find some ground for compromise. It would be a great idea in normal times. But again, MAIL LETTERS to the editor to The Dominion Post, 1251 Earl L. Core Road, Morgantown, WV letters to opinion@dominionpost.com. Include your name and phone number for confirmation purposes. Letters should not exceed 300 words. Why not charge to run candidate testimonials It seems that for every election cycle we have involving voters in Monongalia County, we see testimonial letters in the opinion page of The Dominion Post. This appears to be nothing more than free political advertising for the candidates. I don t understand why the editor of this paper is not more judicious in allowing these types of letters to be published. I suggest that if a candidate wants a particular testimonial letter published that the candidate be charged for it just like they would for any political advertisement they would run in The Dominion Post with a notice by the letter showing it was paid for by the candidate. Les Wylie Morgantown these times are not normal. No compromise is possible here for a simple reason Trump followers seem to understand better than the rest of us: You can t compromise with demography, can t order numbers to stop being what they are and saying what they say about the coming tide of change. But what you can do is seize the levers of power and change the rules of the game in hopes of blunting the force of that tide. That is what Trump supporters elected him to do. So while, it is admirable to think understanding can fix this country, it is also naive. Progressives should ask themselves: W h e n s the last time you heard any Trump supporters talking about the need to understand you? You haven t. H e re s the thing: the rest of us have the moral high ground here. We see the same demographic writing on the wall that Trump followers see, but where it makes them angry and fearful, it leaves us energized. Many of us are excited to see MALLARD FILLMORE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Needs of citizens suffer as result of $2.2M for square I have performed on the Monongalia Courthouse Square. There have been concerts, patriotic events and political rallies. People gathered there. It was the people s square. We even had benches for the tired and elderly to rest. At a cost of more than $2.2 million, the county has taken a precious treasure away from us. While other basic needs of our citizens will suffer, such as public water and sewage, senior centers, roads, litter clean-up, libraries, soup kitchens and recreation. Larry Nelson Morgantown The cost well worth having a chaplain in Congress John Crisp makes the appealing argument that religion and government don t mix (DP-Tuesday) and therefore Congress shouldn t even have a chaplain. He references Jesus, who condemned the Pharisees for their ostentatious public prayers. However, Jesus was condemning the motives of the Pharisees, not public prayer in general. There are two key values to a chaplain. First is to provide spiritual sustenance in time of need, such as when congressional representatives are making decisions or face personal crises. The second is to slow down decision making so that congressional representatives can get perspective on what they are thinking and doing. The TV show M*A*S*H s Fa - ther Mulcahy was an example of this. His obituary stated that in his TV role he struggled to bring spiritual comfort to an anarchic surgical unit during the Korean War and he never pushed his faith. There is a role for religious activity in government as long as it is advisory, and it is well worth the budget for congress to have a chaplain. Steven Knudsen Morgantown the nation that will arise from this cauldron of change. T hat s because the idea of change doesn t threaten us. It will challenge us, yes, but we re ready for that. We know that this is a big country, big enough for many different kinds of people, many different ways of life. We know what it means to live and let live. And we know that welcoming the stranger, caring for the stranger, is simply what you do as a human being. I submit that those are core American virtues. And that now would be an excellent time for progressives to exhibit a little courage in their defense. Trump followers see a nation in demographic peril, so they seek a nation where those who frighten them can be regulated into irrelevance. There s no big mystery about that. There never was. So no, they don t really need to be understood. What they need to be is defeated. LEONARD PITTS writes a column for The Miami Herald. MICAH WEGLINSKI Area needs to take right turn on road repair ASK ANYONE AROUND TOWN WHAT THE NO. 1CONCERN IS for our area, and roads will rank at the top of the list. TRIP, a national transportation research group, released a report in 2017 showing West Virginia has the worst roads in the country, and our area has the worst roads in the state. I don t have to tell you that, you see and feel it every time you drive. It damages our vehicles and peace of mind. Extra vehicle operating costs total $815. The safety costs $313, and the congestion costs $311 for total of $1,439 annually per driver in the Morgantown area, said Will Wilkins, executive director of TRIP. Every driver in the Morgantown area loses an average of $1,439 per year due to the poor conditions of our roads. Morgantown is the most thriving economy in our state. Why do we accept this, and what can be done? West Virginia voters overwhelmingly supported the road bond, with 81 percent in favor in Monongalia County. We now pay more to register our vehicles, fill our gas tanks, and drive on toll roads to fund the bond. This shows our willingness to make sacrifices to fix a common problem. We have very limited local control over the roads we drive most often. The state Division of Highways (DOH) maintains most of the high-traffic arteries through the county. Morgantown can only repair roads that fall within city limits and under its purview. Monongalia County does not have any authority over road maintenance or snow removal. Meanwhile, the DOH is understaffed. Starting pay is well below what other employers can provide. Thus, the quality of roads in our county continues to fall behind. One possible solution would be to expand the city limits to include more of the greater Morgantown area through annexation or minor boundary adjustments. The $3 per week user fee allows the city to put its roads on much shorter repair cycles than the state has been able to provide. The city made great strides in just two years, cutting the number of poor or mediocre roads in half. Paying the user fee will cost much less than the $1,439 status quo. Another solution is for the city and county to negotiate with the DOH to take local control over more state roads running through the city. Local officials are better suited to determine where the need is than are bureaucrats in Charleston. For example, the county could hire people to clean out culverts and fix drainage ditches. This would free up resources for the DOH to focus efforts on the underserved parts of our county like its western end. Every person should be engaged in the election process in Ask candidates questions about the roads and get them on record that they will work toward fixing this problem. Investing in our roads is a key component to future economic success. We must face this challenge head on. We should not accept the unacceptable. MICAH WEGLINSKI is a member of The Dominion Post s Community Advisory Board. BY BRUCE TINSLEY BRIAN D. COLE - Controller CHRISTOPHER HALTERMAN - Production Director H. C. GREER AGNES JANE GREER BRAD PENNINGTON - Advertising Manager 55-C NON SEQUITUR BY WILEY Newspaper men (and women) should be Wrapping thankful that a commercial they belong activity to a profession in the flag, and which parking wages it mighty behind wars the First in which Amendment, no blood is cannot shed and shield whose sharp victories practices are not indefinitely for ephemeral glory, responsible but for progress public scrutiny. and reform. from James S. 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7 Local ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR AMANDA SAVAGE DEPROSPERO MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 THE DOMINION POST 7-A JOHN SAMSELL Spring already sprung in our c o m mu n i t i e s SPRING IN MORGANTOWN may be remembered by actions of citizens from more than 25 years ago. Aat least two years of plantings took place in the 1990s and should be recognized now. One year the folks who cared about the city s beauty at springtime planted an array of dogwoods one spring and some marigolds the next. This year s spring colors are even more evident, in spite of a waning winter season with heavy rains and near record low temperatures. That doesn t mean others have not contributed to our communities beauty this spring. Our large holly tree was loaded with red berries recently. However, the waxwings made their annual visit and ate every one of those berries. They ravaged the tree and moved on. Unfortunately, they didn t stay long enough for us to enjoy their presence. At least they are well-fed. At WVU, spring occurs earlier than it once did. Most students will be gone by the time Mother s Day arrives, on May 13. We used to have a Mother s Day Sing at the soon-to-be-razed Stansbury Hall (the Field House). Commencement followed in early June. Still, WVU, as usual, is bursting with color for spring, thanks to the grounds crews. There s nothing like it, a variety of flowers and plants. The state s highways have the usual colorful display of rosebud bushes lighting main roads with red, another sign of spring. A less appreciative sign of spring is the debris piled against the Morgantown Lock and Dam. There may be more tree limbs this year because of the heavy rainstorms we had recently. Mudslides were part of this ye a r s contribution to the dam s debris total. The middle of the state springs up a couple of weeks earlier than we do. That is only normal, them being closer to the Equator. Rhododendron, the state s flower, is often shaded by woods and may bloom later than other wild flowers. Same goes for the mountain laurel. Both can be seen from highways in mountain areas. Fruit trees are blooming about now in West Virginia. Some are in full bloom, hopefully not so early that they are subject to freeze. The freeze date is about mid-may, though it could be earlier or later. Mountains and valleys in West Virginia caused a variety of weather patterns. In the past, it was said that highlands could result in 30 below zero readings. Even in the lowlands, at times, the temperature could top 100 degrees. The Potomac area, east of the Alleghenies, covers 3,500 square miles. It was labeled one of the beauty spots of the state. In this region, some of the summers have little or no rain, while others have 43 inches of rainfall. In mountainous areas, there can be killing frosts at any time. The weather service said in West Virginia, the sun shines about 350 days of the year. In the state, 147 days are cloudless. One good thing about spring this year is that we don t have to bother with changing the clock. That hour of extra sunlight was accomplished in March. Years back, we were griping that spring had sprung late because of the time change. It was in April one year that we complained that snow still covered the ground. That doesn t mean we wanted more of that. Spring is here, full of life. Ask the birds, I wrote. Re v up your mower. Sniff the forsythia. Put away the snow shovel. Send the winter coats to the cleaners. Put the storm windows in the basement. That about wraps it up for winter JOHN SAMSELL is a retired copy editor/special sections editor for The Dominion Post. His column appears Saturday. him at columns@ dominionpost.com. Task Force to host hearings Teachers-West Virginia released the schedule. The task force was created following the teacher walkout earlier this year. Open to the public in locations across West Virginia until June 11 BY BRAD MCELHINNY WV MetroNews CHARLESTON The Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA) Task Force mapped out a series of public hearings all over West Virginia. One will be in Morgantown, on June 8. The public hearings at a total of 21 locations began May 1 and continue through June 11. Let it grow The idea is for members of the task force to hear people s experiences with the insurance program for public employees. The broader mission of the task force is to figure out ways to shore up the insurance program s finances. Members of the task force said the public hearings will be streamed live or made available later on video. The American Federation of Eric J. Tomlinson/The Dominion Post Fifth-graders Colt Coffman (left), Wyatt Zuercher-Kirby and Iona Wolfter plant a Rising Sun Redbud tree, at Brookhaven School. Students plant trees for Arbor Day BY JIM BISSETT The Dominion Post A tree grows in Brookhaven. Well, actually several trees are growing on the grounds of Brookhaven Elementary School these days. Fifth-graders at the red-brick school off Brookhaven Road planted them for National Arbor Day last month. The Rising Sun Redbuds were sunk in the soil with the help of Southern States of Morgantown, the school s Partner in Education. Brookhaven Elementary also has its own Green Team Initiative, which has roots in the West Virginia Botanic Garden, Dominion Energy and the National Arbor Day Foundation. A host of parent volunteers, plus other teachers and staffers, also rolled up their sleeves to help. Davene Burks, the school s principal, said she appreciates that the student council came up with the idea. Call it a l iv i n g lesson plan, she said. It s good for the environment and it s good for them, the principal said. T hey ll get to come back and see their trees over the years. Wooded showcases, the trees will be, then. While the Rising Sun Redbud is a compact tree, it still grows upward to a respectable 10 to 12 feet, with a spread of branches that can reach out to 15 feet. It s what s on those branches that make the Rising Sun Redbud a Big Tree on Campus. Bright pink flowers line its branches in spring, with heartshaped leaves that have an orangepeach hue when they emerge. Come fall, those leaves will morph from green, to yellow and orange. The sapling in front of the Brookhaven Elementary that was surrounded by fifth-graders Colt Coffman, Wyatt Zuercher-Kirby and Iona Woofter last Thursday morning wasn t showing a whole lot of personality ye t. It looked a little gangly and tentative, like the new kid it still is. A certain trio of students, though, planted seeds of encoura g ement. We re getting there, said Iona, who was a tree-planter, even before the project. Looks pretty good now, Wy - att seconded. I can t wait to see it when it s all the way grown. I m gonna come back and climb it, Colt said. FOLLOW THE DOMINION POST on Twitter@DominionPostWV. Jim Bissett: jbissett@dominionpost.com. Mon Health gets high rating for patient safety standards Submitted to The Dominion Post Mon Health Medical Center recently received an A grade by The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit healthcare ratings organization, for its commitment to meeting the highest patient safety standards in the U.S. Mon Health Medical Center is the only hospital in north-central West Virginia to earn an A grade, and one of two in the entire state. Pleasant Valley Hospital, in Mason County, received the other A. Eric J. Tomlinson/The Dominion Post The flowers bud from the Rising Sun Redbud tree planted by fifth grade students at Brookhaven School. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades assigns letter grades to hospitals nationwide based on their performance in preventing medical errors, infections and other harms. Being recognized for meeting the highest patient safety standards is a true testament to our dedicated staff and their commitment to keeping patients safe, said Daphne Scordato, vice president of patient care services at Mon Health Medical Center. Developed under the guidance of a Blue Ribbon National Expert Panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 27 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign A, B, C, D and F grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals twice a year. It is calculated by top patient safety experts, peer reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. To access the grades for all hospitals in West Virginia and view Mon Health Medical Center s full grade, visit rades.org. The schedule May 12, 11 a.m., in Wheeling, at Northern Community College, and in Weirton, at Weirton Thomas E. Millsop Community Center. May 15, 6:30 p.m,. in Flatwoods at Braxton County High School, and in Spencer, at Spencer Middle School. May 18, 6:30 p.m., in Springfield, at Springfield Green Elementary, and in Marlinton, at Marlinton Middle School. May 19, 11 a.m., in Moorefield awaiting confirmation of a location and in Franklin, at Franklin Community Center. May 24, 6:30 p.m., in Beckley, at Tamarack Conference Center, in Princeton, at Princeton Middle School, and in Lewisburg, at Lewisburg Elementary. May 31, 6:30 p.m., in Pineville, at Pineville Middle School, and in Logan, at Logan High School. Dems spend in hopes of winning seat Running for Congressman McKinley s 1st District spot READ about W.Va. House of Delegates candidates spending on Page 8-A. BY DAVID BEARD The Dominion Post Three Democrats are vying in Tuesday s primary to unseat Republican 1st District Congressman David McKinley, who is unchallenged in his primary. Democrat Ralph Baxter was far outspending rival Kendra Fershee as recorded in the most recent Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings, the preprimary, covering April 1-18 and due April days before T u e s d ay s primary election. At the end of the period, Baxter spent about 24 times the amount Fershee did for the election season to date. The third Democrat has not filed an FEC report. Incumbent McKinley s spending for the same stretch was about 1.5 times Baxter s. Republican David McKinley McKinley started the period with $900,835 cash on hand and raised $33,565.14, giving him $934, He spent $11,896.81, leaving him with $922, Of his donations, $22, came from individuals, and $11,500 came from PACs. Out-of-state donors made eight donations totaling $16,950 about 77 percent of his individual donations. Five donations totaling $11,050 came from Texas. To date, McKinley spent $406, Democrats SEE PEIA, 8- A Ralph Baxter Baxter entered this period with $428, cash on hand and raised $13,900, giving him $442, He spent $84,617.04, leaving a balance of $358, All of his contributions this period came from individuals, none from PACs. Eight gifts totaling $7,500 came from out-of-state donors 54 percent of his total. Baxter, a Wheeling-area native, lived in California and served as CEO of international law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe for 23 years. He retired and returned to Wheeling in Not surprisingly, six of his eight out-of-state donations, totaling $5,500, came from California. To date, Baxter spent $265, about 65 percent of McKinley s total. Kendra Fershee Fershee is a WVU law professor. Her report covers the period of April 1-25 and was filed Thursday. She entered the period with $16, cash on hand and raised $1,846.98, giving her $18, She spent $10,719.71, leaving her a balance of $8, Fershee received $1, for individuals and lent herself $796. One donation, $250, came SEE FINANCES, 8- A

8 8-A THE DOMINION POST MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 LOCAL & NEWS PEIA FROM PAGE 7-A MEETINGS Today MORGANTOWN PEDES- TRIAN SAFETY BOARD, 4:30 p.m., Morgantown Public Safety Building, Spruce Street. MORGANTOWN GREEN TEAM, 5:30 p.m., Morgantown Public Library. MARION COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, 6 p.m., Central Office, 1516 Mary Lou Retton Drive. Info: WESTOVER COUNCIL, 6 p.m., Westover City Hall. Info: PRESTON COUNTY COM - MISSION, 6:30 p.m., commission meeting room, behind the Preston Courthouse Annex, Main Street, Kingwood. Info: THE KNIGHTS OF COLUM- BUS BOARD OF DIREC- TORS, 6:30 p.m. 379 N. Parkview Drive, Star City. MONONGALIA WIRELESS ASSOCIATION (AMA- TEUR RADIO CLUB), 7 p.m., American Red Cross office, 1299 Pineview Drive, on the third floor. Info: w8mwa.org. Tuesday MONONGALIA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, 7 p.m., 13 S. High St. (lower level). Info: GRANVILLE TOWN COUN- CIL, 7 p.m., Granville Town Hall. Info: KINGWOOD CITY COUN- CIL, 7 p.m., 311 Tunnelton St., Kingwood. Info: FAIRMONT CITY COUN- CIL, 7 p.m., Public Safety Building, 500 Quincy St., Fairmont. Info: STAR CITY TOWN COUN- CIL, 7 p.m., Star City Town Hall. Info: MORGANTOWN MONON- GALIA MPO TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, 1:30 p.m., MPO office, 243 High St., room 110. Info: REEDSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT LADIES AUXILIARY, 6 p.m., at the Reedville Volunteer Fire Department. KINGWOOD ROTARY, the Inn in Kingwood. The breakfast meeting starts at 7:30 a.m. For more information, contact President Dorinda Westbrook, at NORWOOD NEIGHBOR- HOOD ASSOCIATION, 7 p.m., First Apostolic Church on Sabraton Avenue. CHEAT LAKE ROTARY, 7:30 a.m., Lakeview Resort & Conference Center. June 2, 11 a.m., in Elkins, at Phil Gainer Community Center. June 5, 6:30 p.m., in West Union, at Doddridge County High School. June 8, 6:30 p.m., in Morgantown, at WVU awaiting an exact location. June 9, 11 a.m., in Martinsbur,g at Spring Mill High School. June 11, 6:30 p.m., in Charleston, at The Culture Center. SUBMIT items to Today, The Dominion Post, 1251 Earl Core Road, Morgantown, WV or newsroom@dominion post.com. Info: Meetings in Morgantown unless listed otherwise. FOOD ADDICTS IN RE- COVERY ANONY- MOUS: 7 p.m., Diamond Temple UMC, 301 Diamond St., Fairmont. Info: NARCOTICS ANONY- MOUS: 6 p.m., Recovery Comes First Group, at Evansdale Residential Faculty Annex (behind 369 Oakland St. O/LS/WA; 7:30 p.m., The Old Bugaboos Group, at Wesley United Methodist Church, 503 N. High St. C/D/WA (O, open; C, closed; D, discussion; LS, literature study; CDL, candlelight; NS, no smoking; WA, wheelchair accessible). Info: ; mrscna.org. ALCOHOLICS ANONY- MOUS (AA): Noon, O, D, 17 Club, No. 1 Brookstone Plaza, Green Bag Road; 6 p.m., O, D, NS, 17 Club, No. 1 Brook - stone Plaza, Green Bag Road; 7 p.m., C, BB, NS, Jones UMC, 333 Green St.; 7 p.m., Bruceton Mills Group, O, D, NS, Hopewell Church; 7 p.m., O, BB Study, NS, Church of the Nazarene, Masontown, W.Va.; 7 p.m., Grafton group, O, BB, NS, A, The Art Gallery, 62 W. Main St., Grafton. (O, open; C, closed; NS, no smoking; A, accessible). Info: ; aawv.org. TOPS 534: 6 p.m. weighin, 6:30-7:30 p.m. meeting, Rock Forge Presbyterian Church. Weight loss support group, first meeting free. Info: ; ; ; GSHBS72@aol.com. SURVIVORS OF INCEST ANONYMOUS: 6:30 p.m. (except holidays), Mt. St. Macrina Retreat Center, Uniontown, Pa. 12-step recovery program for those over age 18 who were sexually abused by a trusted person as a child. Info: peopleofcourage@ FINANCES FROM PAGE 7-A from Virginia. Her spending for the period, $10,719.71, was also her spending for the entire cycle to date. It s about 4 percent of Baxter s total. Tom Payne Democrat Tom Payne does not have an FEC report on file. FOLLOW DAVID BEARD on dbeard@dominionpost.com. TODAY gmail.com or or OVEREATERS ANONY- MOUS: 6:30 p.m., St. Anthony Catholic Church, Mary Lou Retton Drive. Info: CANCER CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP: 3-4 p.m., Rosenbaum Family House (next to the football stadium), for spouses, adult children, neighbors, friends. Info: Mary Anne Yanosik, ; Jennifer Craddock, , craddockj@ wvumedicine.org ROYAL ARCH MASONS: 7:30 p.m. MCCURDYSVILLE COM- MUNITY BUILDING: 7 p.m., Info: , KNIGHTS OF COLUM- BUS BOARD OF DI- RECTORS: 7:30 p.m., 379 N. Parkview Drive, Star City. Info: CELEBRATE RECOV- ERY: 6:30 p.m., Chestnut Ridge Church, 2223 Cheat Road, Morgantown. Open to anyone dealing with Hurts, Habits or Hangups. Onsite childcare is provided. Info: AL-ANON: 7 p.m., Avery United Methodist Church, 1152 Cheat Road, Morgantown. For those affected by someone else s alcohol or drug use. Info: ; al-anon.org. MON COUNTY AMA- TEUR RADIO CLUB (MCARC): 6 p.m. social, 7 p.m. meeting, Shoney s, Sabraton. Talk-in , PL tone Info: mcarc2012@yahoo.com, VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 306: 7 p.m., Elk s Lodge, 1138 Chestnut Ridge Road. MCCURDYSVILLE COM- MUNITY BUILDING: 7 p.m. Info: , DEPRESSION/ANXIETY SUPPORT GROUP: 7 p.m., Suncrest United Methodist Church, third floor. Info: contacts, John and Jane Spraggins, KNIGHTS OF COLUM- BUS BOARD OF DI- RECTORS: 7:30 p.m., 379 N. Parkview Drive, Star City. Info: A look at W.Va. campaign spending BY DAVID BEARD The Dominion Post The five-seat House of Delegates 51st District currently contains three Democrats and two Republicans. In the primary, six Democrats are seeking to move on to November. One of them has done no fundraising or spending so far, while two are far ahead of the rest of the pack, moneywise. Four Republicans are running, and all will move on. As a group, they have smaller war chests than their Democrat rivals. Dollar figures come from the candidates p re - primary reports, covering the period of March 31- April 22. Democrats Incumbent Barbara Evans Fleischauer has the biggest war chest of any area House candidate. This period, she raised $4,320 in contributions and $6,610 at a Morgantown fundraiser, putting the total at $10,930. She spent $3,389.14, leaving a balance of $25, Her totals for the election season to date were $34, raised and $27, spent. In 2016, Evan Hansen missed gaining the district s fifth seat by just 37 votes, edged out by his Democratic colleague Rodney Pyles. His campaign account is second only to Fleischauer s. This period, Hansen raised $7,872 and spent $2, leaving a balance of $23, His totals for the season were far above anyone s, with $113, raised and $87, spent. In contrast, Cory Kennedy raised and spent nothing. Incumbent Pyles raised $5,200 this period and spent $1,277.54, leaving $5, in his account. His totals: $6,700 raised, $1, spent. Danielle Walker raised $3,730 this period and spent just $ She also reports $71.67 in-kind. Her balance was $7, To date, her totals were $15, raised and $4, spent. Incumbent John Williams raised $3,130 this period and spent $2,522.69, leaving a balance of $2, His totals: $8,770 raised, $7, spent. Republicans The combined end-ofperiod balances of all four candidates was less than the individual balances of Fleischauer, Hansen or Pyles, and only slightly higher than Williams. Incumbent Cindy Frich raised $2,200 this period and spent just $304.29, leaving a balance of $1, Her totals: $4,400 raised, $ spent. Roger Shuttlesworth raised noting this period and spent $100, leaving a reported negative balance of $ However, his prior report contains errors through double-counting that period s contributions and spending. He reports his total contributions to date as $500 when it was actually $250. He reports his total spending to date as $510.72, when it was actually $ The errors to some degree cancel each other out, so his reported deficit of $55.36 is correct. Incumbent Joe Statler raised just $250 this period, and spent $2,741.08, leaving a balance of $ His totals to date: $5,550 raised, $4, spent. Debbie Warner, wife of Secretary of State Mac Warner, raised and spent nothing. Families hope for justice in suit over 68 mine disaster RICHMOND, Va. Nearly half a century after an explosion tore through the Farmington No. 9 mine, in West Virginia, the families of the 78 men who died there are still looking for justice. Many of the children of the lost miners are now grandparents and older than their fathers ever were. Some gave up hope of ever holding anyone accountable for the disaster. But others are looking to a federal appeals court for some measure of closure. On Wednesday, the families will ask the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate a lawsuit they filed in A judge ruled the lawsuit was filed too late, but the families argue the case should be allowed to move forward because they claim the mining company concealed the cause of the explosion for decades. James Matish, then 14, remembers saying goodbye to his father, Frank, City still pained months after near-hanging of biracial kid CLAREMONT, N.H. Nine months after an 8-year-old biracial boy was nearly hanged, a New Hampshire city is still healing from the incident and grappling with diversity and inclusion. Claremont Mayor Charlene Lovett said the incident in her city last August caused communitywide efforts to raise awareness on diversity-related issues. That wasn t my experience growing up in New Hampshire, so I just c o u l d n t believe something like that could happen here, Lovett said Thursday night at a listening session organized by Republican Gov. Chris Sununu s Advisory Council on Diversity and Inclusion. The council is traveling statewide to ask residents how New Hampshire communities can become more welcoming for minorities and to share any personal experiences with discrimination. Advisory council member Dottie Morris said the meeting gave her more insight into groups that formed in response to the b oy s near-hanging. T hey ve been able to examine themselves in the process of establishing these amazing groups, Morris said. I can tell they ve been working diligently to create a different reality. One example is the Racial Healing Working Group, which hopes to promote equality through education and community dialogue. Group member Reb MacKenzie said it sponsored several events and rallies since last year to address white supremacy and racism in the community. Allegations surfaced that several teenagers taunted the boy with racial slurs and then pushed him off a picnic table with a rope around his neck. The victim s injuries were treated at a hospital, according to the boy s grandmother, Lorrie Slattery. Police Chief Mark Chase said few details can be released about the case because juveniles are involved. The Attorney General s office conducted its own investigation on whether the alleged attack would be treated as a hate crime or civil rights violation. It expects to release a report but hasn t said when. The parents of one of the accused teenagers said the incident was not motivated by racism and called it a tragic b a ck - yard accident. The victim s family d i d n t attend the forum, but the incident remained close to everyone s minds and was referenced multiple times by residents, law enforcement and town officials. the same way he always did before his Dad left to work the cateye shift midnight to 8 a.m. on Nov. 20, 1968: So long, Dad, don t work too hard, and be careful. Matish remembers his f ather s reply See you tomor row and then, the next day at school, being called out of class and seeing his mother standing in the hallway crying. Five decades later, Matish, 64, Circuit Court judge whose voice still catches in his throat when he talks about his father. The families said they tried for years to find out what caused the explosion and whether the mining company, Consolidation Coal, was responsible. They accuse the company of fraudulently concealing key information that would have allowed them to file a wrongful death lawsuit years earlier. Last year, a federal judge threw out their 2014 lawsuit, saying the suit, brought forty-six years after the explosion, is late by more than fortyfour years. According to the lawsuit, it was not until 2008 when the families learned about a 1970 memo by an investigator who wrote that an alarm on a ventilation fan used to flush explosive methane gas from the mine was disabled the night of the explosion. The alarm was supposed to shut off power to the mine if the fan stopped, which would alert the miners to evacuate. The suit says it wasn t until 2014 when the families learned that the mine s chief electrician disabled the fan. It alleges that the company concealed the electric i a n s identity. Our position is that but for the fraudulent concealment of the facts, these folks could have filed and had a successful wrongful-death c a s e, said Timothy Bailey, a West Virginia lawyer who represents the families. Doctor pleads guilty in fatal abortion case NEW YORK A New York doctor who said he s done 40,000 abortions is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to criminaly negligent homicide in the 2016 death of a woman who was six months pregnant and bled to death. The case in Queens Criminal Court marks one of the rare legal instances of criminal prosecution of a doctor over a medical error, but Assistant District Attorney Brad Leventhal said Dr. Robert Rho s mistakes went beyond civil malpractice. It s about greed and arro g ance, Leventhal told jurors last week during closing arguments in the month-long trial. He said Jaime Lee Morales, 30, bled to death because this defendant did nothing. Rather than call an ambulance, prosecutors said, Rho released Morales for her sister to drive her home in the Bronx, despite signs she was in grave condition and collapsed in a bathroom at Rho s clinic. Morales fell unconscious in the car. Medics responding to a 911 call took her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Rho s attorney reached a plea deal with prosecutors Friday after jurors said they were deadlocked. It spares the 53-year-old physician from facing up to 15 years in prison on the original charge of second-degree manslaughter, equivalent to reckless homicide. Instead, Rho admitted he was negligent with Morales abortion, leaving her bleeding uncontrollably with a severed uterine aorta, ripped cervix and pierced uterine wall. The lesser charge comes with prison time of up to four years. But Rho s attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, said he may end up with only months in prison when he is sentenced on June 26. Lichtman called it a monumental victory. Rho, who lives with his family in the Lake Success section of Great Neck, on Long Island, was arrested in October 2016, three months after Morales died. Morales, who lived in Buffalo, N.Y., came to Rho s clinic in the Flushing section of Queens with her sister, desperate to get an abortion, for which Rho charged $6,000, witnesses said. She only learned a week earlier that she was pregnant. Lichtman said the botched abortion was a tragedy but was not a crime. After her death, the doctor closed his clinic and surrendered his medical license.

9 OBITUARIES & LOCAL MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 THE DOMINION POST 9-A obituaries to dominionpost.com. Eugenia Nelson Eugenia Je a n E. Nelson, 93, of Morgantown, passed away Friday, May 4, 2018, at Mon Health Medical Center. Friends and family will be received at Hastings Funeral Home from 4-8 p.m. Monday. A Scriptural Wake Service will be held at the funeral home at 7:30 p.m. to conclude the evening visitation. Visitation will continue at St. Luke Catholic Church from 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 8, until the 11 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial with Father Carlos L. Melocoton Jr. and Father Gary Naegele as concelebrants. Interment will take place at a later date at St. Hedwig Cemetery, in Ewing, N.J. Mrs. Nelson loved flowers and the family will be happy to receive them, but if preferred, donations may be made in her memory to St. Ursula Food Pantry and Outreach, P.O. Box 18, Pursglove, WV Condolences: h a s t i n g s f u n e r a l h o m e. c o m Decriminalizing prostitution may deter violence against women BY RACHEL ELLIS For the Dominion Post Alison Bass, journalism professor at WVU and author of Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law, said after researching and speaking with sex workers across the United States, she believed decriminalizing prostitution could lead to fewer STDs and less violence against women and men doing sex work consensually. Bass said in speaking with women doing sex work, she realized that for adult women involved in sex work, the criminalization processs was not helping anyone sex workers or actual trafficking victims. Criminal laws are not helping anybody, basically, she said. It certainly d o e s n t deter prostitution. As we ve seen, it s only increasing. The research shows that when you decriminalize prostitution, you not only cut down on violence against all women, but you also cut down on the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. My contention in this book is that instead of arresting them, which is what law enforcement is doing in most states, we should spend our resources on giving them support, education, resources so they can get out of the life of selling sex on the streets, she said. Bass said this approach would only work for adult Companies file complaints over lauded water treatment system Oregon Public Broadcasting (AP) PORTLAND, Ore. Gas company NW Natural spent $21 million building a state-of-the art groundwater treatment system that would stop toxic pollution from flowing off its industrial site into the Willamette River. It s a celebrated example of early action t a ke n voluntarily by some of the companies responsible for cleaning up contamination at the Portland Harbor Superfund Site. But now, the companies downriver from NW Natural said that fancy new system is ineffective and needs to be replaced. They said not only is toxic pollution still flowing off the site through groundwater, but there s also evidence that oily black globs of tar pollution are moving toward the river underground. They sent letters and a video to state and federal regulators flagging ongoing pollution problems at the NW Natural site, and prostitution, as any type of child prostitution is automatically considered human trafficking. She said child victims are often runaways who sell sex to survive. Bass said child trafficking is a crime and should remain so. But the problem is our whole approach in this country is a criminalization approach it s kind of similar to the approach with drugs, she said. Fo r instance, in West Virginia, we spend so much money arresting people for using drugs, for dealing drugs t h e re s no money left over for treatment, very little money left over for rehab beds. We are using things like Narcan, which is a very short-term fix, but it s not preventing overdoses. It s not basically preventing the problem of addiction. The same holds true for underage prostitution. Instead of putting our resources into social services to help these teenagers avoid being preyed upon by pimps and getting into prostitution, we are putting our money into law enforcement. It s kind of a screwedup priority list. Bass cited a November 2017 study done by Scott Cunningham and John Tripp, both of Baylor University, and Gregory DeAngelo, of WVU, as evidence. They found that in the eight years that Craigslist s erotic services page had they asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make sure they d o n t get stuck cleaning up the mess. The dispute is likely one of many that will need to be settled before the slowmoving cleanup of the Portland Harbor Superfund Site can officially begin. More than 10 miles of Por tland s Willamette River from the Broadway Bridge to the Columbia Slough is highly contaminated with more than a century of industrial pollution. The area has been designated a Superfund site since Last year, the EPA finally finished its cleanup plan, but the actual cleanup still h a s n t started. The process entered a new phase, however, where dozens of parties responsible for the pollution in the river will privately sort out who is going to pay for what portion of the $1 billion cleanup. NW Natural s riverfront property south of Portland s St. Johns Bridge is where Portland Gas & been operational before it was taken down, the rate of female homicides dropped 17 percent, she said. T he reason why, which is what I argue in my book, is that when you legalize or decriminalize sex work, it s actually much safer for everybody. There s other research that shows that when people have access to legal prostitution, there are fewer attacks on all women. Sexual violence goes down, as does the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Bass said street walkers and those who do not have time to screen clients for fear of getting caught are often targeted by violent customers. Sex work is dangerous, she said. The homicide rate among sex workers is larger than any other industry for women, in large part because it attracts some violent predators. Coke Co., the predecessor to NW Natural, once operated a manufactured gas plant called Gasco. The plant heated oil to make gas, dumping some of the tar and other toxic byproducts into the river while stockpiling the rest on land. The extensive pollution it left behind means rain falling on the site and water moving deep underground absorb a cocktail of contaminants on their way to the river. The company s current defense against that stream of pollution lies on a long, bare stretch of the riverbank where dozens of blue and yellow pipes jut out of the ground. They re part of Most clients are not violent, and there s no problem. But there the serial killers in our country many of them prey on prostitutes because prostitutes are afraid to go to the police for fear they will be arrested. It gets back to criminalization. They are often the canary in the coal mines. They are often the first to see the violent predator or the serial killer because they tend to prey on these women who don t feel they can go to the police, even if they survive the assault. Bass cited the cases of Gary Ridgeway and Ted Bundy, serial killers who killed both prostitutes and non-prostitutes. She said the police didn t believe the sex workers, and some sex workers didn t go to police for fear of arrest. If you decriminalized prostitution, you would be much more likely to catch an elaborate treatment system designed to collect contaminated water flowing underground and clean it before it goes into the river. In an interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting in 2013, shortly after the system was installed, Bob Wyatt, director of the legacy environmental program for NW Natural, said the goal was to put up a barrier between the river and the contamination on land. The water pumps were optimally placed to assure we have 100 percent groundwater capture, so that nothing in the uplands that s contaminated reaches the river anymore, he said. Now, state regulators said the system is working to prevent the most polluted groundwater from entering the river. However, they say, the system d o e s n t intercept contaminated s h a l l ow g roundwater, which is still flowing directly into the river. It also doesn t stop the layer of black, oily tar residue that sinks to the bottom of the dee p g roundwater. some of these violent predat o r s, she said. Nip the problem in the bud. Bass said in New Zealand and Amsterdam both decriminalized prostitution the risk of sexually transmitted diseases decreased, as well. They have some of the lowest rates of HIV in the world, and it s because sex workers and others can get access to health care, and they are much more likely to. See, when you criminalize something, people operate in the shadows, and they have to negotiate very quickly, particularly if they are street workers. They c a n t negotiate as quickly or as safely for safe sex, meaning using condoms. Bass said legalizing prostitution would get rid of the criminal element and would give the opportunity for women to choose a different life. She said women who are convicted of prostitution often struggle to find employment. There are legal zones for prostitution for cities in the Netherlands, she A group of companies that own property downstream from NW Natural said that s not good enough. There are studies and data showing there is still contaminants migrating into the river from the Gasco site, said Paul Vogel, a spokesman for a collection of companies on the river that includes BP, Exxon- Mobil and Toyota. They call themselves the River Mile 4-7 Group. There are videos showing this tar substance moving through wells on the s i t e, Vogel said. You can see it. You can see it moving. This doesn t go back to the last century. This is ongoing. Happening right now. The group documented pollutants from the Gasco site downstream near their properties. The main pollutants coming from the site are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The group did their own analysis to finger print these pollutants in the river proving they could only have come from NW Natural s Gasco site. said. They found again that violence against all women decreased, as did sexually transmitted diseases. There s something there. It s kind of like when you legalize marijuana, you get rid of the criminal element. Well, when you legalize prostitution, you ll get rid of the criminal element. Then you can put your resources into helping women choose a better lifestyle if that s what they want. Assistant U.S. Attorney General Andy Cogar said he didn t think legalizing prostitution was the answer to human trafficking. I think it s important to step back from just the focus on adult prostitution in a given moment in time and consider the nature of the bu s i n e s s, he said. T he first trial I ever had as a federal prosecutor was a prostitution case. That was 10 years ago. Through that case, I had the opportunity to interact with a lot of prostitutes, some of whom had changed their lives around and had started families and were thriving. Some of them weren t. All of whom, I think it s safe to say, did not grow up aspiring to be prostitutes. Cogar said he did not think prostitution could be a morally neutral occupation. It s not that simple, he said. There are certainly going to be men and women who engage in prostitution that don t fit that mold. Who engage as adults. Not engaged as minors. Who simply look at it as a commercial enterprise. A way to make money. I get that, but there s still this aspect of human social cultural damage that frankly can t be measured in statistics. FOLLOW THE DOMINION POST on newsroom@ dominionpost.com. PROSTITUTION FROM PAGE 1-A ing this activist to life on the pa g e, she said. The writing needed help. She suddenly blurted out, She s a sex worker, you know. H e re was a woman from a middleclass background, from an Orthodox [Jewish] background, and it made me go wow. That really defied stereotypes, my own stereotypes about sex work. Bass became interested in the subject, and she arranged an interview with the woman. She kind of opened my eyes and put me in touch with other sex workers in the United States, she said. I just kept finding out there were so many myths about sex work and about trafficking. I m the kind of journalist that likes to do stories that aren t told and d o n t get a lot of exposure. T hat s how I started doing this book. I talked to a lot of policy makers, a lot of researchers, and from that grew this book. Bass said she found most women she spoke to were engaged in sex work for economic reasons not because they were trafficked. Most sex workers in the United States are selling sex by choice, largely for economic reasons, she said. While trafficking is a major problem in many other countries par ticularly developing countries where underage prostitutes are being trafficked, and illegal immigrants are being trafficked from Eastern Europe to Central Europe in the United States, there s very little adult trafficking. In other words, most women are coming from like Mexico, and they are coming, they know they are going to be doing prostitution. In fact, I went on a brothel raid, and you can read about it in my book, in Rhode Island. The police chief took me on this brothel raid because I was there that day, and it turned out there were two prostitutes in the brothel, and they arrested the pimp. Bass said she spoke to both of the women involved, and they both said they were not being forced they were there to make money. The Mexican woman said, I used to do housekeeping, but I wasn t making enough to send back to my family in Mexico, so I decided to do prostitution because I could get paid a lot m o re, she said. So, she was not being trafficked. What was sad is even though they said they we re n t going to arrest the women, only the pimp, they ended up arresting the Mexican woman because she was illegal and deported her. She s been deported before. She will probably come back at some point because she can make more money here for whatever reason. Bass said part of the problem for women going into prostitution is they a re n t able to get good jobs, even when graduating from a university. She said some women turn to sex work as a way to pay their way through school. It s hard for them to earn a decent living because many of them are not in the higher paying professions like geology or computer science or the STEM professions, she said. At this brothel in New York, I met a number of students who were trying to get either undergraduate or graduate degrees, and they could make so much more money doing sex work. And these were middle class women, obviously over the age of 18, who were doing it for economic reasons. Bass said for single mothers who need flexible hours to take care of children and for others, sex work provides a way to make it financially. So, it s economic reasons that explain it, she said. And most of these women do not go into it for a career. Very few of them move into it for a career. They are doing it, they move into it, like the strip dancers at the Blue Parrot. Many of them are trying to get into law school or they are earning their tuition through WVU. Once they get to where they want to be, they aren t going back into sex work. Bass said it was interesting that other forms of sex work, such as stripping, pornography and being a mistress in exchange for money and power were legal, while sex work involving a straightforward transaction was not. What s the difference between Donald Sterling, the former owner of the Yankee Clippers, who spent millions of dollars on his much younger mistress bought her a car, an apartment, all this stuff, and basically, essentially to have sex with her, and someone who has a more straightforward transaction for an evening or an hour? There s really no difference, but one is legal, perfectly legal, and one is not, she said. Bass said human trafficking advocates often use inflated statistics Assistant U.S. Attorney General Andy Cogar said the data surrounding human trafficking can be based on sometimes questionable inferences. Human trafficking by its very nature is an underground crime, he said. T hat s very difficult to assess in an accurate way in terms of its scope or magnitude. We do what we can based on calls to the human trafficking resource center hotline, based on actual prosecutions, based on other data points that we use to estimate the nature of the crime, but it always is going to fall short. So, I do agree that we do have a data challenge when it comes to law enforcement and trafficking. H oweve r, Cogar said. There are many reported prosecutions of traffickers who sex traffic adults, some of which involve drugs, some of which don t. I can t tell you the details of one investigation that I was involved with, but I can tell you that there was strong evidence of sex trafficking of an adult that didn t involve drugs, but it did involve more of force and coercion. So it does occur. Cogar said statistics he has suggest strongly that many people were introduced to trafficking as minors. So, some statistics suggest that some, most trafficking victims were first trafficked when they were m i n o r s, he said. S o, there s this threshold where you are trafficked as a 16-, 17-, 18-year-old, and you are conditioned to this lifestyle. T here s a threshold you cross, a point where we have to ask ourselves, Is it then OK after they turn 18 because they ve been conditioned to it? They voluntarily accept it? Does that then make it OK to accept prostitution as a legal concept? I don t think so. Bass said while her research showed that some sex workers were abused or trafficked as minors, it w a s n t always the case. It is true that a greater percentage of women who do sex work and men who do sex work have been sexually abused underage, she said. But there are many, many women in sex work who have not been abused. They have no history of abuse. It s true that a slightly higher population of sex workers than the general population have been abused... but a lot of anti-trafficking proponents will say that all women who go into sex work have been abused as children, and that s simply not true. Not even the vast majority have. FOLLOW THE DOMINION POST on newsroom@ dominionpost.com.

10 10-A THE DOMINION POST MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 ALMANAC Today is Monday, May 7, the 127th day of There are 238 days left in the year. HIGHLIGHT: IN 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans, out of the nearly 2,000 on board. ON THIS DATE: IN 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters, in Rheims, France, ending its role in World War II. IN 1963, the U.S. launched the Telstar 2 communications satellite. IN 1984, a $180 million out-of-court settlement was announced in the Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans who said they were injured by exposure to the defoliant. TODAY S BIRTHDAYS: Rhythm-and-blues singer Thelma Houston is 75. Actress Robin Strasser is 73. Rock musician Prairie Prince is 68. Movie writerdirector Amy Heckerling is 66. Actor Michael E. Knight is 59. Rock singermusician Chris O Connor (Primitive Radio Gods) is 53. Actress Traci Lords is 50. Actor Morocco Omari is 48. Actor Breckin Meyer is 44. Rock musician Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys) is 32. Actress-comedian Aidy Bryant is 31. Actor Taylor Abrahamse is 27. Actor Alexander Ludwig is 26. Actress Dylan Gelula is 24. WEATHER Best friend s invitation loses appeal as details are revealed DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend s best friend asked if we could drive an hour to visit them and their children Saturday. I ve met her twice, and we chatted a bit online. I only met her fiance once. My boyfriend told me she wants to go with him to a bar for a birthday drink while I stay at home with her fiance. When I heard about it, I said I am not OK with being excluded. He understood and agreed. I texted her saying I didn t want to be ditched, but she insisted I need to share him, and her fiance is looking forward to getting to know me. She also tried to guilt me, saying it s her birthday weekend. I think she s rude. When you invite a couple over, I believe the expectation is to socialize as a group. UNEXPECTED PLANS IN THE EAST DEAR UNEXPECTED: The purpose of getting together is for all concerned to have an enjoyable time. If you wouldn t feel comfortable, you shouldn t be pressured to agree. Yes, she was rude. DEAR ABBY: My son was in a serious accident, which left him with a head injury, as well as other physical JEANNE PHILLIPS problems. Since then, he also has anxiety attacks, paranoia and a profound dislike of me. We went from a close relationship to a shattered one. He said horrible things about me to other family members, none of which are true. His wife is clueless. She exacerbated the situation by viewing this as his side vs. my side. Unfortunately, due to confidentiality regulations, I am unable to speak to his doctors. We had no contact for three months, and I won t initiate it. I love him, and this is breaking my heart. UNHAPPY MAMA IN THE WEST DEAR UNHAPPY MAMA: I can only imagine how helpless you must feel. Although HIPAA regulations prevent you from speaking with his doctors, nothing prevents you from writing them a letter if you think there s something they need to know. JEANNE PHILLIPS writes Dear Abby under the pseudonym Abigail Van Buren. Write Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA TV LISTINGS

11 Spor ts MONDAY, SPORTS LINE MAY 7, 2018 THE DOMINION POST 1-B SEAN MANNING Attendance not the only sign of baseball s present WE VE VISITED PROBLEMS WITHIN BASEBALL a couple times so far this season, from pace of play to the length of the Major League season, so might as well round it off with MLB s major attendance problems. Jam-packed stadiums are few and far between. Yankee Stadium s crowds have increased with the Yankees recent surge, but during April, there were several games where the crowd looked to be less than 20,000 in a stadium that seats 45,000. PNC Park has been close to empty most of the year for the Pirates, and Camden Yards has been filled with nothing it empty green seats for the Orioles. It s a problem when brand new ballparks, some paid for with taxpayers money, are barely having people show up. Arenas are obviously different than ballparks, but it doesn t help when NBA and NHL games are filled to the roof. So what has happened that is keeping people away? There was a time in the late 1990s when my aunt and uncle would camp outside of Camden Yards ticket office to get Orioles-Red Sox tickets the night before they went on sale. Now, tickets for a June 13 game between the two are $15 on StubHub. This April took a big hit across baseball because of poor weather in the northeast. Rain, snow and cold caused postponements in many cities, including Boston, New York, Cleveland, Chicago and Pittsburgh. Even if the weather wasn t bad enough to postpone the game, no one wants to sit in 35- degree weather to watch a game. Scheduling an Opening Day game in Detroit at the end of March seems idiotic, but that s what MLB did with the Tigers and Pirates. Guess what? It rained. Who knew the weather would be crappy in Detroit at the end of March? Making the MLB schedule i s n t an exact science, but figuring out a way to avoid games in cold-weather cities for the first two weeks of the season would be beneficial to all parties. Teams being out of contention already by the summer months is another factor in low attendance. It s established by June which teams have no shot, and no one wants to watch a loser. But all 30 MLB teams have TV deals with different networks, so every game is aired, a drastic difference from now to when the stands were packed in the late 90s. Fans don t have to go to the ballpark to watch games anymore, they can sit on their couch and spend a lot less money. With the TV deals and streaming services like MLB.TV, fans just aren t going to games because they have other ways of watching it in a cheaper and less stressful way. Which is why using attendance numbers to lash out that baseball is a dying sport is silly. In 2017, 18 of 29 teams in the United States (excluding the Toronto Blue Jays because the Nielsen Media ratings are U.S. only) had increased ratings in their regional ratings from While the ballpark experience is fun and a great way to spend time with the family, many just d o n t want to fool with the hassle. If anyone has been to a stellar atmosphere on a hot summer day in July with a beer in one hand and an Italian sausage with peppers and onions in another, you know it s one of life s simple pleasures. However, low attendance at stadiums is not a sign that baseball is suffering. In fact, it s continuing to thrive. FOLLOW SEAN MANNING on smanning@ dominionpost.com. WVU drops crucial series Jayhawks hit 3 home runs in final game Submitted to The Dominion Post LAWRENCE, Kan. T he WVU baseball team lost the final game Sunday of a threegame series at Kansas, 5-2. The Mountaineers (24-21, 7-11 Big 12) were held to two runs on seven hits. The Jayhawks (22-25, 5-12 Big 12) scored five runs on eight hits while committing one error. Kansas hit three home runs in the game. After a 21-3 victory in the opening game on Friday, the Mountaineers dropped the final two games in what could have been an opportunity to move up in the conference standings. Junior second baseman Kyle Gray had two hits, including a home run, to extend his hit streak to 22 games, the longest by a Mountaineer since Dan DiBar tolomeo s 23-game streak, in Gray hit his 13th home run of the season and fourth of the weekend in the ninth inning and is tied for seventh-most homers in a single season in program history. Along with Gray (23 games), junior right fielder Darius Hill SEE CRUCIAL, 4-B State s mercy rule needs to be put down Many differences in stopping softball games over baseball AS THE UNIVERSITY High softball team closed in on an eight-run lead in the third inning of a sectional matchup last week, I could feel my day at the ballpark coming to a close. As I stood close to a group of fans and parents, they began discussing just what was needed for a mercy rule to take effect in the contest. As I clarified the rules for the folks (an eight-run lead after three innings, or a ten-run lead after five), I could hear grumbles from the gathered individuals. The main complaint eight runs after three wasn't enough. Fans of the sport were concerned that such a rule could end a game prematurely when there is still hope of a rally. After all, a regulation game isn't COLLEGE BASEBALL: KANSAS 5, WVU 2 Ryan Weaver/For The Dominion Post WVU second baseman Kyle Gray batted.615 (8-for-13) with three home runs in the three-game series against Kansas. BIG 12 STANDINGS 1. OKLAHOMA STATE: (overall), 15-3 (Big 12) 2. TEXAS: 33-18, OKLAHOMA: 31-18, TEXAS TECH: 35-14, BAYLOR: 26-17, TCU: 27-18, WEST VIRGINIA: 24-21, KANSAS: 22-25, KANSAS STATE: 18-29, 3-18 For Pens: Win or go home GAME 6 WASHINGTON AT PITTSBURGH WHEN: 7 p.m. today TV: NBCSN (Comcast chs. 19, 848; DirecTV 220; Dish 159 Washington winger Jakub Vrana (left) jumps into the arms of teammate Alex Ovechkin after the Capitals win in Game 5. PITTSBURGH The Washington Capitals don t need a history lesson. The Capitals are well aware of their penchant for letting opportunity after opportunity slip away, frequently at the hands of Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins. And just in case Alex Ovechkin and his teammates ever forget about their playoff missteps, they need only step in front of a camera or a microphone, where the same questions are posed year after year. T here s only one way to hop off the hamster wheel: Close out the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Penguins this week preferably at the end of Game 6 tonight in Pittsburgh to earn the franchise s first trip to the Eastern Conference finals in 20 years. I don t know if I could tell you exactly what it would mean, Washington forward T.J. Oshie said. None of us have ever been there. We re just looking to get the JOSEPH SMITH even halfway through its scheduled length after three innings, and fans will recount numerous occasions on which they've seen teams come back from larger deficits than that. In baseball, however, much the opposite problem exists. Just the past week, I bore witness to a tough situation. The Clay-Battelle baseball team, with just nine players on the roster before a first-inning injury hampered it even further, gave up 26 runs to Notre Dame through only two innings before the game was called. If it hadn't been 10 p.m., rainy, and the nightcap of a tripleheader, though, the game job done and maybe after we can talk about the feelings. But right now we still got a lot of work. Work that in the past has proven to be too much. Four SEE PENS, 3-B may have stretched on for three more innings, as the only mercy rule standing for the sport in West Virginia is a 10-run lead after five innings. But is that fair for a squad down by twenty or more runs through the early innings? Or is it subjecting the losing party to what can only be characterized as cruel and unusual punishment? The disparity in the mercy rule between the sports is certainly unsettling in itself, and whether or not the rule is applied too early or too late can be the difference between a quick, uneventful day at the ballpark and a headline-making, Sports- Center Not Top 10, life-long embarrassing performance. If you need an example of how things can snowball out of hand this quickly, look no further than this high school baseball season in Massachusetts, where Old Rochester routed Notre Dame Cristo Rey by a jawdropping score of As to Bucs, Kuhl put freeze on Brewers PITTSBURGH 9 MILWAUKEE 0 MILWAUKEE The Milwaukee Brewers bring out the best in Chad Kuhl. Kuhl and Richard Rodrguez combined on a two-hitter, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Brewers 9-0 on Sunday. Kuhl is 3-0 with a 1.91 ERA in six starts against the Brewers, and the Pirates are unbeaten in those games. There were a few games last year that really stand out, Kuhl said. This is up there, just for the amount of weak contact and all that. It was one of my better ones, for sure. Adam Frazier, Jordy Mercer and Josh Bell hit solo homers for the Pirates. Kuhl (4-2) allowed one hit in seven innings, struck out eight and walked two, lowering his ERA from 5.01 to Domingo Santana singled in the second and was erased on a double play. His secondary pitch command today was as good as I ve ever seen it, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. His fastball probably had the most finish we ve seen this season. Kuhl settled in after going to three balls on each of the first four b at t e r s. He s got a real good arm. He s throwing hard. There was obviously no pressure on him at all t o d ay, Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. Chase Anderson (3-3) gave up five runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings. Anderson has given up 10 home runs in 45 1/3 innings, after allowing 14 all last season in 141 1/3 innings. When you don t hit your spots and you pitch in a place like this, and if the ball s up a little bit, balls are going to tend to fly out of the p a rk, Anderson said. Frazier hit his first leadoff homer, his second home run this season, and Corey Dickerson added an RBI double later in the inning. M e rc e r s first homer since Sept. 11 made it 3-0 in the second. The Pirates added four runs in the sixth on a leadoff triple by Starling Marte and five consecutive one-out singles. Dickerson, Colin Moran, Mercer and Chad Kuhl drove in runs. Bell homered in the seventh. Pittsburgh pitcher Chade Kuhl gave up one hit over seven innings Sunday to lead the Pirates to a shut out against Milwaukee. whether or not a mercy rule exists in the state, I could not find the answer. The losing coach insisted on finishing the game in full, however, leaving his squad in a very undesirable position. Personally, I advocate a universal mercy rule for softball and baseball alike in West Virginia. Once a lead reaches a certain number of runs (I personally am a fan of 10 or 12), the game is finished. I recommend that such a rule takes place following the third inning of a contest, but theoretically it could be applied after the end of the first if you truly want to save some young kids suffering. Regardless of how our mercy rule evolves, if one listens to the fans and watches a few out-ofhand games, one thing can be ascertained with near certainty; the current West Virginia mercy rule system is broke, and someone needs to fix it. JOSEPH SMITH at jsmith@ dominionpost.com.

12 2-B THE DOMINION POST MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 SCOREBOARD CALENDAR MONDAY, MAY 7 HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL Preston at University, sectionals, 5 p.m. Buckhannon-Upshur at Morgantown, sectionals, 7 p.m. Clay-Battelle vs. Notre Dame, sectionals, at Robert C. Byrd, 5 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS LACROSSE Morgantown at Greensburg Salem, 5 p.m. ON TV COLLEGE BASEBALL 7 p.m.: ESPN2 Florida St. at Clemson MLB BASEBALL 8 p.m.:espn Minnesota at St. Louis 11 p.m.: MLB Regional coverage, Washington at San Diego OR Houston at Oakland (games joined in progress) NBA BASKETBALL 6 p.m.: TNT NBA playoffs, Eastern Conference, semifinal, Game 4, Boston at Philadelphia 8:30 p.m.: TNT NBA playoffs, Eastern Conference, semifinal, Game 4, Toronto at Cleveland NHL HOCKEY 7 p.m.: NBCSN NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference, semifinal, Game 6, Washington at Pittsburgh 9:30 p.m.: NBCSN NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, Western Conference, semifinal, Game 6, Nashville at Winnipeg WVU SCHEDULES Football SEPT. 1: vs. Tennessee, Charlotte, N.C., TBA SEPT. 8: Youngstown State, TBA SEPT. 15: at N.C. State, TBA SEPT. 22: Kansas State, TBA SEPT. 29: at Texas Tech, TBA OCT. 6: Kansas (Homecoming), TBA OCT 13: at Iowa State, TBA OCT. 25: Baylor, TBA NOV. 3: at Texas, TBA NOV. 10: TCU, TBA NOV. 17: at Oklahoma State, TBA NOV. 23: Oklahoma, TBA DEC. 1: Big 12 Championship, Arlington, Texas, TBA Baseball MAY 9: Virginia Tech, 6:30 p.m. MAY 11: at TCU, 7:30 p.m. MAY 12: at TCU, 5 p.m. MAY 13: at TCU, 2 p.m. MAY 15: Marshall, 6:30 p.m. MAY 17: Baylor, 6:30 p.m. MAY 18: Baylor, 6:30 p.m. MAY 19: Baylor, 6:30 p.m. MAY 23-27: Big 12 tourney, Oklahoma City, TBD Track and field MAY : Big 12 meet, Waco, Texas MAY 24-27: NCAA regionals, Tampa, Fla. JUNE 6-9: NCAA meet, Eugene, Ore. Rowing MAY 12: Big 12 meet, Oak Ridge, Tenn., 10 a.m. Women s soccer AUG. 11: at Penn State, 7:30 p.m. AUG. 19: vs. Arkansas at Penn State Invitational, noon AUG 24: at Purdue, 7 p.m. AUG 26: vs. Northwestern at Purdue tournament, noon AUG 30: Xavier, 7 p.m. SEPT. 2: Georgetown, 3 p.m. SEPT. 7: at Clemson, 7 p.m. SEPT. 13: Boston University, 7 p.m. SEPT. 16: St. Francis (Pa.), 1 p.m. SEPT. 21: at Texas Tech, 8 p.m. SEPT. 23: at TCU, 2 p.m. SEPT. 28: Kansas State, 7 p.m. OCT. 5: Baylor, 7 p.m. OCT. 7: Texas, 1 p.m. OCT. 12: at Iowa State, 8 p.m. OCT. 19: at Oklahoma State, 8 p.m. OCT. 21: at Oklahoma, 2 p.m. OCT. 25: Kansas, 7 p.m. OCT. 21: at Oklahoma, 2 p.m. OCT. 28-NOV. 4: at Big 12 tournament, Kansas City, TBA Men s soccer AUG. 11: Blue/Gold scrimmage, 7 p.m. AUG. 19: Mount St. Mary s, 2 p.m. AUG. 24: at College of Charleston, TBA AUG. 26: UNC Wilmington, 2 p.m. AUG. 31: American U., 7 p.m. SEPT. 7: at UCF, 7 p.m. SEPT. 11: at Wright State, 7 p.m. SEPT. 15: Saint Francis, 7 p.m. SEPT. 18: Cincinnati, 7 p.m. SEPT. 22: at Dayton, 7 p.m. SEPT. 25: Radford, 7 p.m. SEPT. 29: Delaware, 7 p.m. OCT. 2: Binghamton, 7 p.m. OCT. 6: at Western Michigan, noon OCT. 8: at Maryland, 7 p.m. OCT. 13: at Akron, TBD OCT. 20: SIU Edwardsville, 7 p.m. OCT. 23: Pitt, 7 p.m. OCT. 26: Bowling Green, 7 p.m. NOV. 3: at Northern Illinois, TBD AUTO RACING Monster Energy Cup schedule and winners Feb. 11 x-advance Auto Parts Clash, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Brad Keselowski) Feb. 15 x-can-am Duel 1, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Ryan Blaney) Feb. 15 x-can-am Duel 2, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Chase Elliott) Feb. 18 Daytona 500, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Austin Dillon) Feb. 25 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Hampton, Ga. (Kevin Harvick) March 4 Penzoil 400, Las Vegas (Kevin Harvick) March 11 TicketGuardian 500, Avondale, Ariz. (Kevin Harvick) March 18 Auto Club 400, Fontana, Calif. (Martin Truex Jr.) March 25 STP 500, Martinsville, Va. (Clint Bowyer) April 8 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Fort Worth, Texas (Kyle Busch) April 15 Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn. (Kyle Busch) April 21 Toyota Owners 400, Richmond, Va. (Kyle Busch) April 29 GEICO 500, Talladega, Ala. May 6 AAA 400 Drive for Autism, Dover, Del. (Kevin Harvick) May 12 Cup Series Kansas 400, Kansas City, Kan. May 19 x-nascar All-Star Open, Concord, N.C. May 19 x-nascar All-Star Race, Concord, N.C. May 27 Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. June 3 Pocono 400, Lond Pond, Pa. June 10 FireKeepers Casino 400, Brooklyn, Mich. June 24 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. July 1 Overton's 400, Joliet, Ill. July 7 Coke Zero 400, Daytona Beach, Fla. July 14 Quaker State 400, Sparta, Ky. July 22 New Hampshire 301, Loudon July 29 Gander Outdoors 400, Long Pond, Pa. Aug. 5 GoBowling at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N. Y. Aug. 12 Cup Series Race at Michigan, Brooklyn, Mich. Aug. 18 Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, Bristol, Tenn. Sept. 2 Bojangles' Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. Sept. 9 Big Machine Brickyard 400, Indianapolis Sept. 16 South Point 400, Las Vegas Sept. 22 Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond, Va. Sept. 30 Bank of America 500, Concord, N.C. Oct. 7 Cup Series at Dover, Dover, Del. Oct. 14 Alabama 500, Talladega, Ala. Oct. 21 Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 28 First Data 500, Martinsville, Va. Nov. 4 AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth Nov. 11 Can-Am 500, Avondale, Ariz. Nov. 18 Ford Ecoboost 400, Homestead, Fla. AAA 400 Drive for Autism Sunday At Dover International Speedway Dover, Del. Lap length: 1.00 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (2) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 400 laps, 60 points. 2. (12) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 400, (7) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 400, (3) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 400, (9) Kurt Busch, Ford, 400, (8) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 400, (10) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 400, (14) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 400, (19) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 400, (1) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 400, (13) Aric Almirola, Ford, 400, (6) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 400, (18) Joey Logano, Ford, 400, (17) William Byron, Chevrolet, 399, (5) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Ford, 399, (23) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 399, (25) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 399, (11) Erik Jones, Toyota, 399, (22) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 398, (16) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet, 398, (28) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 397, (29) Michael McDowell, Ford, 397, (15) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 397, (30) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 396, (26) Darrell Wallace Jr, Chevrolet, 396, (27) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 395, (32) David Ragan, Ford, 395, (31) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 393, (24) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 392, (35) Gray Gaulding, Toyota, 386, (33) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 385, (34) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 382, (21) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 377, (20) Paul Menard, Ford, 354, (4) Kyle Busch, Toyota, garage, 271, (37) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, accident, 244, (36) Derrike Cope, Chevrolet, accident, 144, (38) Corey Lajoie, Chevrolet, engine, 20, 1. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: mph. Time of Race: 3 hours, 28 minutes, 37 seconds. Margin of Victory: seconds. Caution Flags: 8 for 48 laps. Lead Changes: 17 among 7 drivers. Lap Leaders: K.Larson 0; K.Harvick 1-21; A.Bowman 22-47; B.Keselowski ; K.Harvick ; B.Keselowski 122; K.Harvick ; B.Keselowski ; K.Harvick ; B.Keselowski 243; K.Harvick ; R.Stenhouse ; C.Bowyer 296; R.Stenhouse 297; C.Bowyer ; J.Logano 322; C.Bowyer ; K.Harvick Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): K.Harvick, 6 times for 195 laps; B.Keselowski, 4 times for 104 laps; C.Bowyer, 3 times for 37 laps; A.Bowman, 1 time for 25 laps; R.Stenhouse, 2 times for 22 laps; K.Larson, 1 time for 0 laps; J.Logano, 1 time for 0 laps. Wins: K.Harvick, 4; Ky.Busch, 3; C.Bowyer, 1; A.Dillon, 1; J.Logano, 1; M.Truex, 1. Top 16 in Points: 1. Ky.Busch, 466; 2. J.Logano, 444; 3. K.Harvick, 426; 4. C.Bowyer, 380; 5. B.Keselowski, 365; 6. Ku.Busch, 358; 7. R.Blaney, 346; 8. D.Hamlin, 344; 9. M.Truex, 340; 10. K.Larson, 307; 11. A.Almirola, 304; 12. J.Johnson, 268; 13. E.Jones, 253; 14. A.Bowman, 252; 15. C.Elliott, 241; 16. R.Stenhouse, 239. BASEBALL National League EAST DIVISION W L Pct GB Atlanta Philadelphia New York /2 Wa s h i n g t o n Miami CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct GB St. Louis Milwaukee Pittsburgh Chicago /2 Cincinnati /2 WEST DIVISION W L Pct GB Arizona Colorado /2 San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego /2 Saturday's games St. Louis 8, Chicago Cubs 6, 10 innings Philadelphia 3, Washington 1 San Francisco 11, Atlanta 2 Colorado 2, N.Y. Mets 0 Miami 6, Cincinnati 0 Milwaukee 5, Pittsburgh 3 San Diego 7, L.A. Dodgers 4 Arizona 4, Houston 3 Sunday's games Colorado 3, N.Y. Mets 2 San Francisco 4, Atlanta 3 Washington 5, Philadelphia 4 Pittsburgh 9, Milwaukee 0 Arizona 3, Houston 1 Miami 8, Cincinnati 5 San Diego 3, L.A. Dodgers 0 Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, night Today's games San Francisco (Samardzija 1-1) at Philadelphia (Eflin 0-0), 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Conlon 0-0) at Cincinnati (Bailey 0-4), 7:10 p.m. Miami (Garcia 1-0) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 2-2), 8:05 p.m. Minnesota (Romero 1-0) at St. Louis (Gant 1-0), 8:10 p.m. Washington (Strasburg 3-3) at San Diego (Ross 2-2), 10:10 p.m. American League EAST DIVISION W L Pct GB Boston New York To r o n t o /2 Tampa Bay Baltimore CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct GB Cleveland Minnesota Detroit /2 Kansas City Chicago WEST DIVISION W L Pct GB Los Angeles Houston Seattle /2 Oakland Te x a s Saturday's games N.Y. Yankees 5, Cleveland 2 Detroit 3, Kansas City 2 Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 3 Minnesota 8, Chicago White Sox 4 Boston 6, Texas 5 Arizona 4, Houston 3 Oakland 2, Baltimore 0, 12 innings Seattle 9, L.A. Angels 8, 11 innings Sunday's games N.Y. Yankees 7, Cleveland 4 Toronto 2, Tampa Bay 1 Minnesota 5, Chicago White Sox 3 Kansas City 4, Detroit 2 Boston 6, Texas 1 Oakland 2, Baltimore 1 Arizona 3, Houston 1 L.A. Angels 8, Seattle 2 Today's games Detroit (Fulmer 1-2) at Texas (Moore 1-4), 8:05 p.m. Minnesota (Romero 1-0) at St. Louis (Gant 1-0), 8:10 p.m. Houston (Keuchel 1-5) at Oakland (TBD), 10:05 p.m. Box scores PIRATES 9, BREWERS 0 Pittsburgh Milwaukee A.Frzer 2b Cain cf Polanco rf H.Perez lf S.Marte cf Yelich lf J.Bell 1b Jor.Lpz p Dckrson lf Ta.Wllm p Crvelli c Aguilar ph E.Diaz ph-c Braun 1b Moran 3b T.Shaw 3b Mercer ss Do.Sntn rf R.Rdrgz p Sogard 2b-ss Kuhl p Arcia ss Moroff ph-ss J.Brnes p Phllips lf-cf Bandy c C.Andrs p Villar 2b To t a l s To t a l s Pittsburgh Milwaukee E J.Barnes (1). DP Pittsburgh 1. LOB Pittsburgh 8, Milwaukee 3. 2B Dickerson (10). 3B S.Marte (4). HR A.Frazier (2), J.Bell (2), Mercer (1). SF Polanco (2). Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO Kuhl W, Rodriguez Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO Anderson L, / Barnes 2 / Lopez Wi l l i a m s T 3:02. A 38,285 (41,900). ROCKIES 3, METS 2 Colorado New York Blckmon cf Lagares cf Dahl rf Cespdes lf Arenado 3b Nimmo lf Parra lf A.Cbrra 2b Story ss T.Frzer 3b Desmond 1b Flores 1b D.Cstro 2b Jo.Ryes pr Wolters c Bruce rf Freland p Lobaton c B.Shaw p A.Gnzal ph McGee p Syndrgr p C.Gnzal ph Blevins p Ottvino p A.Ramos p Cnforto ph H.Rbles p Nido ph A.Rsrio ss To t a l s To t a l s Colorado New York E Syndergaard (1). DP New York 1. LOB Colorado 8, New York 6. 2B Dahl (1), Parra (6). HR Desmond 2 (6). SB Dahl (1), Wolters (1). SF T.Frazier (3). Colorado IP H R ER BB SO Freeland W, Shaw H,6 2 / McGee H,8 1 / Ottavino S, New York IP H R ER BB SO Syndergaard Blevins 2 / Ramos 1 / Robles L, HBP by Syndergaard (Wolters). T 3:02. A 33,580 (41,922). NATIONALS 5, PHILLIES 4 Philadelphia Wa s h i n g t o n C.Hrnan 2b Harper rf Hoskins lf T.Trner ss Neris p Rendon 3b O.Hrrra cf M.Adams 1blf Altherr rf Wieters c L.Grcia p R.Btsta pr Hunter p Stvnson lf Vlentin lf Kndrick ph-1b C.Sntna 1b M.Tylor cf Franco 3b Schrzer p Flrimon ss Solis p Alfaro c Kntzler p Arrieta p C.Trres p N.Wllms ph Mo.Srra ph E.Ramos p Dlittle p Morgan p P.Svrno ph Kingery rf Difo 2b To t a l s To t a l s Philadelphia Wa s h i n g t o n E T.Turner (4), Neris (1), Florimon (1). DP Philadelphia 1, Washington 1. LOB Philadelphia 8, Washington 7. 2B Hoskins (10), O.Herrera 2 (7), C.Santana (9). HR Franco (6), M.Adams (8). SB Florimon (1). CS Stevenson (1), M.Taylor (1). Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO Arrieta Ramos H,3 1 / Morgan H,6 1 / Garcia H,6 2 / Hunter H,3 2 / Neris L,1-2 BS, Wa s h i n g t o n IP H R ER BB SO Scherzer 6 1 / Solis BS, Kintzler 2 / To r r e s Doolittle W, Solis pitched to 1 batter in the 7th HBP by Scherzer (Altherr), by Neris (Kendrick). WP H u n t e r. Umpires Home, Sean Barber; First, Mike Winters; Second, Rob Drake; Third, Mike Muchlinski. T 3:33. A 30,611 (41,313). YANKEES 7, INDIANS 4 Cleveland New York Lindor ss Gardner lf Kipnis 2b Judge rf Jose.Rm 3b Grgrius ss Brntley lf G.Sanch c Encrnco dh A.Hicks cf Alonso 1b N.Wlker 1b R.Davis pr Andujar 3b E.Gnzal 1b Austin dh Gomes c Stanton ph-dh Naquin rf G.Trres 2b G.Allen cf To t a l s To t a l s Cleveland New York E Alonso (2). DP Cleveland 1. LOB Cleveland 2, New York 4. 2B Lindor (10), Judge (9), A.Hicks (4), N.Walker (3). HR G.Torres (2). SB R.Davis (7). SF Kipnis (1). Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO Clevinger 7 1 / Allen L,2-1 BS,1 2 / Otero 1 / New York IP H R ER BB SO German Betances Holder Shreve W, Betances pitched to 3 batters in the 8th C.Allen pitched to 2 batters in the 9th Umpires Home, Lance Barrett; First, Lance Barksdale; Second, Tim Timmons; Third, Tony Randazzo. T 3:05. A 40,107 (54,251). ANGELS 8, MARINERS 2 Los Angeles Seattle Kinsler 2b D.Grdon cf Trout cf Segura ss Upton dh An.Rmne ss Vlbuena 1b Cano 2b A.Smmns ss Cruz dh Cozart 3b K.Sager 3b Blash rf Haniger rf Young lf Healy 1b R.Rvera c Zunino c Gamel lf Heredia ph-lf To t a l s To t a l s Los Angeles Seattle E An.Romine (1). DP Los Angeles 2, Seattle 1. LOB Los Angeles 11, Seattle 8. 2B Cozart (8), R.Rivera (3). HR Trout (12), Cozart (4), Young (2), Healy (5). SB Trout (6). S Young (1). Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO Ohtani W, Alvarez Bedrosian 1 / Ramirez 2 / Seattle IP H R ER BB SO Hernandez L, / Bradford 1 / Pazos Lawrence Ohtani pitched to 3 batters in the 7th HBP by Ohtani (Cruz), by Pazos (Valbuena), by Lawrence (Cozart). WP Hernandez. T 3:11. A 40,142 (47,943). GIANTS 4, BRAVES 3 San Francisco Atlanta Blanco lf Albies 2b McCtchn rf Acuna lf Belt 1b F.Frman 1b Hundley c Mrkakis rf Sndoval 3b J.Btsta 3b S.Dyson p Flowers c Watson p Camargo ss Tmlnson ph Soroka p Strckln p S.Frman p B.Crwfr ss Biddle p Hanson 2b Moylan p A.Jcksn cf Tucker ph A.Sarez p Winkler p Gearrin p Vzcaino p Lngoria 3b Suzuki ph Clbrson pr Incarte cf To t a l s To t a l s San Francisco Atlanta E Hanson 2 (3). DP San Francisco 3, Atlanta 2. LOB San Francisco 10, Atlanta 7. 2B B.Crawford (4), Hanson (3), Suzuki (5). SB Blanco (3). SF McCutchen (1). S A.Suarez (1). San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO Suarez W, / Gearrin H,2 2 / Dyson H, Watson H, Strickland S, Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO Soroka L, Freeman Biddle 2 / Moylan 1 / Wi n k l e r Vizcaino WP Suarez. T 3:09. A 37,896 (41,149). RED SOX 6, RANGERS 1 Boston Te x a s Betts rf DShelds cf Swihart lf Choo dh Bnntndi lf-cf Knr-Flf 2b J.Mrtin dh Mazara rf Mreland 1b Profar ss Bgaerts ss R.Nunez 3b Devers 3b Rua lf E.Nunez 2b Guzman 1b Brdly J cf-rf C.Perez c Leon c To t a l s To t a l s Boston Te x a s E Devers (8). DP Boston 1. LOB Boston 6, Texas 7. 2B J.Martinez (8), Moreland (7). HR J.Martinez (8), Leon (1), Rua (2). SB DeShields 2 (6). Boston IP H R ER BB SO Sale W, Barnes Smith Te x a s IP H R ER BB SO Fister L, / Chavez 1 2 / Barnette HBP by Sale (Mazara), by Sale (DeShields), by Fister (Bradley Jr.). T 2:33. A 28,360 (49,115). ATHLETICS 2, ORIOLES 1 Baltimore Oakland Gentry cf Semien ss Pterson lf Joyce lf M.Mchdo ss Canha cf C.Davis 1b K.Davis dh Trumbo dh M.Olson 1b Alvarez 3b M.Chpmn 3b Sntnder rf Pinder 2b Joseph c Pscotty rf Vielma 2b Lucroy c Mancini ph To t a l s To t a l s Baltimore Oakland x 2 E Alvarez (1), Vielma (1). LOB Baltimore 3, Oakland 6. 2B Joyce (7), M.Olson (6). HR Alvarez (7). CS Semien (1), M.Olson (1). S Gentry (1). Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO Cobb L, Castro Brach Oakland IP H R ER BB SO Triggs W, Trivino H, Treinen S, T 2:25. A 17,112 (46,765). HOCKEY NHL playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Tampa Bay 4, New Jersey 1 April 12: Tampa Bay 5, New Jersey 2 April 14: Tampa Bay 5, New Jersey 3 April 16: New Jersey 5, Tampa Bay 2 April 18: Tampa Bay 3, New Jersey 1 April 21: Tampa Bay 3, New Jersey 1 Boston 4, Toronto 3 April 12: Boston 5, Toronto 1 April 14: Boston 7, Toronto 3 April 16: Toronto 4, Boston 2 April 19: Boston 3, Toronto 1 April 21: Toronto 4, Boston 3 April 23: Toronto 3, Boston 1 April 25: Boston 7, Toronto 4 Washington 4, Columbus 2 April 12: Columbus 4, Washington 3, OT April 15: Columbus 5, Washington 4, OT April 17: Washington 3, Columbus 2, 2OT April 19: Washington 4, Columbus 1 April 21: Washington 4, Columbus 3, OT April 23: Washington 6, Columbus 3 Pittsburgh 4, Philadelphia 2 April 11: Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia 0 April 13: Philadelphia 5, Pittsburgh 1 April 15: Pittsburgh 5, Philadelphia 1 April 18: Pittsburgh 5, Philadelphia 0 April 20: Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 2 April 22: Pittsburgh 8, Philadelphia 5 WESTERN CONFERENCE Nashville 4, Colorado 2 April 12: Nashville 5, Colorado 2 April 14: Nashville 5, Colorado 4 April 16: Colorado 5, Nashville 3 April 18: Nashville 3, Colorado 2 April 20: Colorado 2, Nashville 1 April 22: Nashville 5, Colorado 0 Winnipeg 4, Minnesota 1 April 11: Winnipeg 3, Minnesota 2 April 13: Winnipeg 4, Minnesota 1 April 15: Minnesota 6, Winnipeg 2 April 17: Winnipeg 2, Minnesota 0 April 20: Winnipeg 5, Minnesota 0 Vegas 4, Los Angeles 0 April 11: Vegas 1, Los Angeles 0 April 13: Vegas 2, Los Angeles 1, 2OT April 15: Vegas 3, Los Angeles 2 April 17: Vegas 1, Los Angeles 0 San Jose 4, Anaheim 0 April 12: San Jose 3, Anaheim 0 April 14: San Jose 3, Anaheim 2 April 16: San Jose 8, Anaheim 1 April 18: San Jose 2, Anaheim 1 CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Washington 3, Pittsburgh 2 April 26: Pittsburgh 3, Washington 2 April 29: Washington 4, Pittsburgh 1 May 1: Washington 4, Pittsburgh 3 May 3: Pittsburgh 3, Washington 1 May 5: Washington 6, Pittsburgh 3 TODAY: Washington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. x-may 9: Pittsburgh at Washington, 7:30 p.m. Tampa Bay 4, Boston 1 April 28: Boston 6, Tampa Bay 2 April 30: Tampa Bay 4, Boston 2 May 2: Tampa Bay 4, Boston 1 May 4: Tampa Bay 4, Boston 3, OT May 6: Tampa Bay 3, Boston 1 WESTERN CONFERENCE Winnipeg 3, Nashville 2 April 27: Winnipeg 4, Nashville 1 April 29: Nashville 5, Winnipeg 4, 2OT May 1: Winnipeg 7, Nashville 4 May 3: Nashville 2, Winnipeg 1 May 5: Winnipeg 6, Nashville 2 TODAY: Nashville at Winnipeg, 9:30 p.m. x-may 10: Winnipeg at Nashville, 8 p.m. Vegas 4, San Jose 2 April 26: Vegas 7, San Jose 0 April 28: San Jose 4, Vegas 3, 2OT April 30: Vegas 4, San Jose 3, OT May 2: San Jose 4, Vegas 0 May 4: Vegas 5, San Jose 3 May 6: Vegas 3, San Jose 0 Summaries Boston Tampa Bay First Period 1, Boston, Krejci 3 (McAvoy, Bergeron), 19:12 (pp). Second Period 2, Tampa Bay, Point 4, 10:43. 3, Tampa Bay, J.Miller 2 (Kucherov, Stamkos), 14:00 (pp). Third Period 4, Tampa Bay, Stralman 1 (Hedman), 18:31. Shots on Goal Boston Tampa Bay Power-play opportunities Boston 1 of 3; Tampa Bay 1 of 3. Goalies Boston, Rask 5-7 (21 shots-19 saves). Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 8-2 (28-27). A 19,092 (19,092). T 2:37. Ve g a s San Jose First Period None. Second Period 1, Vegas, Marchessault 4 (W.Karlsson, Smith), 6:33. 2, Vegas, Schmidt 2 (Perron, Haula), 15:38. Third Period 3, Vegas, Eakin 3 (Schmidt, Carpenter), 18:09. Shots on Goal Vegas San Jose Power-play opportunities Vegas 0 of 1; San Jose 0 of 2. Goalies Vegas, Fleury 8-2 (28 shots-28 saves). San Jose, Jones 6-4 (32-30). A 17,562 (17,562). T 2:32. PRO BASKETBALL NBA playoffs CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Eastern Conference Cleveland 3, Toronto 0 May 1: Cleveland 113, Toronto 112, OT May 3: Cleveland 128, Toronto 110 May 5: Cleveland 105, Toronto 103 TODAY: Toronto at Cleveland, 8:30 p.m. x-may 9: Cleveland at Toronto, TBA x-may 11: Toronto at Cleveland, TBA x-may 13: Cleveland at Toronto, TBA Boston 3, Philadelphia 0 April 30: Boston 117,Philadelphia 101 May 3: Boston 108, Philadelphia 103 May 5: Boston 101, Philadelphia 98, OT TODAY: Boston at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. x-may 9: Philadelphia at Boston, TBA x-may 11: Boston at Philadelphia, TBA x-may 13: Philadelphia at Boston, TBA Western Conference Houston 2, Utah 1 April 29: Houston 110, Utah 96 May 2: Utah 116, Houston 108 May 4: Houston 113, Utah 92 May 6: Houston at Utah, night May 8: Utah at Houston, 8 p.m. x-may 10: Houston at Utah, TBA x-may 14: Utah at Houston, TBA Golden State 3, New Orleans 1 April 28: Golden State 123, New Orleans 101 May 1: Golden State 121, New Orleans 116 May 4: New Orleans 119, Golden State 100 May 6: Golden State 118, New Orleans 92 May 8: New Orleans at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. x-may 10: Golden State at New Orleans, TBA x-may 14: New Orleans at Golden State, TBA Box score WARRIORS 118, PELICANS 92 GOLDEN STATE (118) Iguodala , Durant , Green , Curry , Thompson , Looney , West , Bell , Pachulia , McGee , Cook , Livingston , Young Totals NEW ORLEANS (92) Moore , Mirotic , Davis , Rondo , Holiday , Miller , Hill , Diallo , Clark , Liggins Totals Golden State New Orleans Point Goals Golden State (Curry 4-9, Green 2-4, Durant 2-5, Iguodala 2-5, Thompson 1-6, McGee 0-1, Cook 0-3), New Orleans 4-26 (Rondo 1-2, Hill 1-2, Holiday 1-4, Moore 1-4, Mirotic 0-2, Miller 0-2, Davis 0-3, Clark 0-7). Fouled Out None. Rebounds Golden State 45 (Green, Durant 9), New Orleans 51 (Davis 12). Assists Golden State 28 (Green 9), New Orleans 17 (Rondo 6). Total Fouls Golden State 20, New Orleans 21. Technicals Green. A 18,513 (16,867). ON THIS DATE May Lawrin, ridden by Eddie Arcaro, wins the Kentucky Derby by one length over Dauber Swaps, ridden by Willie Shoemaker, wins the Kentucky Derby by 1 1/2 lengths over Nashua The Los Angeles Lakers win their first NBA championship with a victory over the New York Knicks in Game Heavily favored Seattle Slew, ridden by Jean Cruguet, wins the Kentucky Derby by 1 3/4 lengths over Run Dusty Run A federal jury rules that the NFL violated antitrust laws when it unsuccessfully attempted to prevent the Oakland Raiders from moving to Los Angeles Winning Colors, ridden by Gary Stevens, leads from start to finish to win the Kentucky Derby by a neck, becoming the first roan and the third filly to win the race Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings scores his 100th and 101st playoff goals in a 7-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks The Denver Nuggets, with a overtime win against the No. 1-seeded Seattle SuperSonics, become the first eighth-seeded playoff team to win a series. The Nuggets come back from an 0-2 deficit in the best-of-5 series Reggie Miller scores eight points in the last 16 seconds to lead the Indiana Pacers to a win over the New York Knicks in the second-round opener of the NBA playoffs Giacomo, a 50-1 shot, defies the odds and wins the Kentucky Derby in a gigantic upset, running down a game Afleet Alex in the final strides and generating a huge payoff. Closing Argument, a 70-1 shot, finishes second with Afleet Alex third. GOLF Wells Fargo Sunday At Quail Hollow Club Charlotte, N.C. Purse: $7.7 million Yardage: 7,554; Par: 71 Final Jason Day (500), $1,386, Nick Watney (245), $677, Aaron Wise (245), $677, Bryson DeChambeau (135), $369, Paul Casey (100), $281, Phil Mickelson (100), $281, Peter Uihlein (100), $281, Patrick Reed (85), $238, Emiliano Grillo (73), $200, Luke List (73), $200, Sam Saunders (73), $200, Charl Schwartzel (73), $200, Talor Gooch (57), $148, Kyle Stanley (57), $148, Johnson Wagner (57), $148, Joel Dahmen (49), $115, Chesson Hadley (49), $115, Adam Hadwin (49), $115, Rory McIlroy (49), $115, Francesco Molinari (49), $115, Greg Chalmers (38), $77, Tony Finau (38), $77, Rickie Fowler (38), $77, Charles Howell III (38), $77, Webb Simpson (38), $77, Justin Thomas (38), $77, Jonas Blixt (28), $52, Alex Cejka (28), $52, Graeme McDowell (28), $52, Ted Potter, Jr. (28), $52, Seamus Power (28), $52, Rory Sabbatini (28), $52, Cameron Tringale (28), $52, Austin Cook (19), $37, Beau Hossler (19), $37, Tom Lovelady (19), $37, Shane Lowry (19), $37, Peter Malnati (19), $37, Keith Mitchell (19), $37, Patrick Rodgers (19), $37, Ollie Schniederjans (19), $37, Jhonattan Vegas (10), $22, Corey Conners (10), $22, Jason Dufner (10), $22, Texas Classic Sunday At Old American GC The Colony, Texas Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,475. Par: 71 (a-amateur) Final Sung Hyun Park, $195, Lindy Duncan, $118, Yu Liu, $86, Ariya Jutanugarn, $60, Sei Young Kim, $60, Aditi Ashok, $40, Jenny Shin, $40, Mi Hyang Lee, $27, Lydia Ko, $27, Jackie Stoelting, $27, Jin Young Ko, $27, Brittany Lincicome, $19, Jacqui Concolino, $19, Celine Boutier, $19, Mo Martin, $19, In Gee Chun, $19, Nicole Broch Larsen, $19, Jane Park, $19, Benyapa Niphatsophon, $14, Gaby Lopez, $14, Minjee Lee, $14, Katie Burnett, $14, Candie Kung, $11, Brooke M. Henderson, $11, Anna Nordqvist, $11, Katherine Kirk, $11, Ally McDonald, $11, Ayako Uehara, $11, Paula Creamer, $11, Insperity Invitational Sunday At The Woodlands CC The Woodlands, Texas Purse: $2.2 million Yardage: 7,002; Par 72 Final Bernhard Langer, $330, Paul Goydos, $161, Bart Bryant, $161, Jeff Maggert, $161, David Frost, $80, Brandt Jobe, $80, Tom Lehman, $80, Tom Pernice Jr., $80, Kenny Perry, $80, Joe Durant, $45, Kevin Sutherland, $45, David Toms, $45, Mark Calcavecchia, $45, Russ Cochran, $45, Scott Dunlap, $45, Miguel Angel Jiménez, $45, Gary Hallberg, $33, Lee Janzen, $33, Jerry Kelly, $33, Marco Dawson, $26, Clark Dennis, $26, Corey Pavin, $26, Duffy Waldorf, $26, Glen Day, $19, Doug Garwood, $19, John Huston, $19, Billy Mayfair, $19, Steve Pate, $19, Jerry Smith, $19, Kirk Triplett, $19, Sandy Lyle, $19, Colin Montgomerie, $19,

13 SPORTS MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 THE DOMINION POST 3-B PENS FROM PAGE 1-B Yankees, Torres walk off with win previous times during the Ovechkin Era i n cl u d i n g in 2009 and 2017 against Pittsburgh the Capitals have won three games in the second round of the playoffs. It s that fourth one t h at s proven elusive. No pressure or anything. All Washington has to do to produce a cathartic breakthrough is hand the Penguins their first series loss in 37 months. Pittsburgh has never lost an elimination game under head coach Mike Sullivan, capturing a pair of Game 7s including a 2-0 shutout in Washington in the second round during its run to a second straight Cup last spring and rallying from a 3-2 deficit against Tampa Bay in the Eastern Conference finals two years ago. They know what it takes to win, S u l l iva n said. T hey re not afraid of challenges and they embrace these types of situat i o n s. To become the first team in 35 years to earn three consecutive titles, the Penguins don t really have a ch o i c e. They were the better team for long stretches in Game 5 only to have the Capitals surge past them in the third period for a 6-3 win the second time in three games Pittsburgh lost in regulation when leading after two, something it d i d n t do at all in the regular season. No matter. Recovering quickly and moving forward has kind of been their thing under Sullivan. The Penguins are 17-5 following a playoff loss with Sullivan on the bench. Pushing that number to 18-5 would send the series back to Washington and force the Capitals try to explain again how this time will be different. BASEBALL ROUNDUP NEW YORK Gleyber Torres became the youngest Yankees player to hit a walkoff homer, a three-run shot in the ninth inning that gave New York a 7-4 win over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday for its 15th victory in 16 games. At 21 years and 144 days, Torres bettered Mickey Mantle, who was 21 years and 185 days when he hit three-run, ninth-inning drive off B o s t o n s Ellis Kinder in a 6-3 win on April 23, Domingo German pitched six hitless innings in his first major league start for the Yankees, who nonetheless fell behind 4-0 when Cleveland broke through against relievers Dellin Betances and Jonathan Holder. Yonder Alonso s leadoff single against Betances in the eighth was the first hit for the Indians. But after managing only one hit themselves against a stellar Mike Clevinger, the Yankees fought right back to win their sixth straight and finish off a three-game sweep. New York also took the final three games of last year s playoff series between the t e a m s. Red Sox 6, Rangers 1 ARLINGTON, Texas Chris Sale struck out 12, J.D. Martinez homered again and the Boston Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers to maintain their AL East lead heading into a highly anticipated showdown at Yankee Stadium. Cleveland s Francisco Lindor scores on a sacrific fly during the eighth inning Sunday. The Red Sox hold a major league-best 25-9 record and a one-game lead over the Yankees. Boston and New York tangled earlier this season at Fenway Park, and the Yankees have won 15 of 16 overall entering this three-game set that begins Tuesday night. Sandy Leon added a three-run homer for the Red Sox, who took three of four to start a 10-game road trip. Texas has lost its first six home series in a season for the first time. The Rangers are 5-15 at home. A s 2, Orioles 1 OAKLAND, Calif. Khris Davis homered in the 12th inning, lifting the Oakland Athletics to a victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Jed Lowrie singled with one out before Davis drove a 3-1 fastball from Pedro Araujo (1-3) into the bleachers in left. It was Davis third career game-ending homer. Chris Hatcher (3-0) got two outs for the win, finishing the A s seven-hitter. Trevor Cahill got the start and struck out 12 while pitching six innings of fourhit ball. Oakland won for the seventh time in eight home games and the 12th time in 18 games overall. Angels 8, Mariners 2 SEATTLE Shohei Ohtani returned from a sprained ankle and took a shutout into the seventh inning while outpitching Felix Hernandez. Mike Trout hit his 12th home run. Ohtani (3-1) made his first start on the mound since April 24. The two-way Japanese star looked to be completely in rhythm and showed no effects, striking out six. Giants 4, Braves 3 ATLANTA A n d rew Suarez outpitched Mike Soroka in a rookie matchup, and San Francisco survived Atlanta s ninth-inning rally for a win and the Giants first series sweep of the Braves in four years. Suarez (1-1) allowed only one unearned run and seven hits and one walk in 5 1/3 innings. The left-hander has allowed two earned runs in two starts since he was recalled from Triple-A Sacramento on May 1 to replace the injured Johnny Cueto in the rotation. Marlins 8, Reds 5 CINCINNATI S t a rl i n Castro drove in three runs for the second straight game, Cameron Maybin added two hits and two RBIs and the Miami Marlins won their fourth straight series, holding on for a win over the Cincinnati Reds. J.T. Realmuto reached base four times and scored twice for the Marlins, who won the last two games of the series after losing Frid ay s opener. Rockies 3, Mets 2 NEW YORK Ian Desmond hit a pair of solo homers, including a tiebreaking drive in the eighth inning that sent the Colorado Rockies over the sagging New York Mets. The Mets finished an 0-6 homestand, getting swept by Atlanta and Colorado, in which they were outscored and shut out three times. Desmond homered off Noah Syndergaard in the second. He hit his sixth homer with two outs in the eighth off Hansel Robles. 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14 4-B THE DOMINION POST MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 Day shoots 69 to win Wells Fargo GOLF CHARLOTTE, N.C. Jason Day fought through some wayward tee shots and his own self-doubt to shoot a 2-under 69 on Sunday and win the Wells Fargo Championship by two strokes over Aaron Wise and Nick Watney, his second victory of the season. After squandering a three-shot lead on the back nine, Day s tee shot on the difficult 230-yard par-3 17th hole crashed into the pin and settled less than 3 feet away. He made the putt to take a two-shot lead, becoming the only player to birdie the hole in the final round. Day finished at 12-under 272. One of the best wins I have ever had, said Day, who never felt on top of his game on Sunday. He missed more than half the fairways including an ugly hook into the water on the par-4 14th hit just eight greens in regulation and made four bogeys on the day. But he toughed it out on the final three holes at Quail Hollow nicknamed the Green Mile, p l ay i n g them in 2 under. You play sit there and play mental games with yourself, subconsciously saying, You can t do this. Yo u re going to fail, you re going to fail, Day said. I just kept on saying to myself, Forget about it and keep pushing. Day fell back into a tie with Wise after back-toback bogeys on 13 and 14, but regained the lead by draining a 10-foot birdie putt on the par-4 16th. That set up the shot of the tournament on the 17th, a hole with water short, left and long of the green that gave players fits all day because the putting surface was so firm that it was tough to stop the ball. Day caught his break when the ball bounced four times and hit the flagstick, drawing a huge roar from the crowd. Day, who has had troubles with the closing hole in the past, then hit an iron off the 18th tee, knowing he had a two-shot lead. He got up-and-down from the rough right of the green to finish with a par. LPGA THE COLONY, Texas Sung Hyun Park chipped in from behind the green for birdie on the final hole for a 5-under 66 and a one-shot victory in the LPGA Texas Classic, a tournament cut to 36 holes because of rain. Because of the rain delays and stop-and-start nature of the tournament, Park was part of a five-way tie for the lead going into the second and final round. However, she finished 90 minutes before the tournament ended because groupings were not changed from the opening round. Park finished at 11-under 131. Lindy Duncan birdied her last three holes for a 64 to finish one shot behind. Yu Liu of China had a 66 and was another shot back. Park was the LPGA Tour rookie of the year and shared the LPGA player of the year award with So Yeon Ryu last year. This was her first victory of the year, and she was the 11th winner in 11 tournaments on the LP- GA Tour this year. Champions Tour THE WOODLANDS, Texas Ber nhard Langer won his first PGA Tour Champions event of the year when he saved par on the final hole and closed for a 2-under 70 for a one-shot victory in the Insperity Invitational. Langer had to rally from as many as four shots behind in the final round, at the The Woodlands Country Club. He birdied two straight holes around the turn, added birdies on both par 5s on the back nine and then had to scramble for par on the 18th hole. Golfer Jason Day hits out of the sand on the fifth hole Sunday. Day shot a two-under 69 to win the Wells Fargo Championship. SPORTS Lightning eliminate Boston NHL PLAYOFFS TAMPA, Fla. T he Tampa Bay Lightning, with a primary assist from a team that handled them during the regular season, are back in the Eastern Conference final for the third time in four years. Thank you, Boston Brui n s. I guess I can say it now. Boston set the bar for us, and we played them three times late in the year, Lightning coach Jon Cooper said after his team s 3-1 victory over the Bruins ended their second-round playoff series in five games. The first two times we played them, they literally manhandled us.... and we knew if we were going to go anywhere when we made the playoffs, or if we made the playoffs, that we had to be as good as Boston, Cooper added. We beat them 4-0 (in the last meeting). I think that gave us a little hit of confidence. I guess a lot of confidence.... and, ultimately we carried that through into this playoff round. Brayden Point and J.T. Miller scored second-period goals and Anton Stralman added an empty-netter with 1:29 remaining to end any chance for a Boston c o m e b a ck. Andrei Vasilevskiy Tampa Bay defenseman Dan Girardi (right) takes down Boston Bruins center Sean Kuraly (52) during the first period of Game 5 on Sunday. stopped 27 shots 14 in the final period for the Lightning, who rebounded from losing the series opener at home to eliminate the Bruins in five games. Boston won three of the four games between the teams during the regular season, finishing one point behind Tampa Bay for the Atlantic Division title and the No. 1 seed in the East. The Bruins outlasted Toronto in seven games in the opening round of the playoffs. They scored six goals to beat the Lightning in Game 1, but had difficulty scoring after that. Over the last three games, Boston failed to score an even-strength goal. Yo u ve got to give them credit. We re a team that scored all year long with different players in and out of the lineup, Br uins coach Bruce Cassidy said. We scored against Toronto, so it s not like after 89 games we forgot how to score or not play the right way, Cassidy added. I think their D corps is big and they move the puck. They did a good job of not allowing us to get inside. David Krejci scored on the power play in the final minute of the first period to give Boston a 1-0 lead that Point erased with his unassisted goal at 10:43 of the second. Miller s power-play goal broke the tie less than four minutes later, and Stralman added an empty-netter with 1:29 remaining. T hey re a really good team. They have been all ye a r, Bruins winger Brad Marchand said. They compete extremely hard, they have a lot of speed. They were better than we were in a lot of areas, one of them being puck battles and their pursuit. It showed up in the end. One day after being put on notice by the NHL for licking Lightning forward Ryan Callahan during Friday night s overtime loss in Game 4, there were no more such incidents involving Marchand, who also made headlines after appearing to lick Toronto s Leo Komarov in the first round. Vegas advances to conference finals NHL PLAYOFFS SAN JOSE, Calif. Marc-Andre Fleury made 28 saves in his fourth shutout of the playoffs and the expansion Vegas Golden Knights are headed to the Western Conference Final in their inaugural season after beating the San Jose Sharks 3-0 in Game 6 of their second-round series S u n d ay. Jonathan Marchessault opened the scoring, Nate Schmidt added an insurance goal that was only detectable by replay and Cody Eakin sealed it with an empty-netter to help Vegas become just the third team in NHL history to win multiple series in its first season. The Toronto Arenas won the Stanley Cup in the first postseason in league history in 1918 and St. Louis won two rounds to win the all-expansion West Division in The Golden Knights relied on a crew of castoffs, led by a goalie who was part of three Stanley Cup-winning teams in Pittsburgh Vegan goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (right) stops a shot from San Jose s Timo Meier on Sunday. before headlining a new team. Fleury posted shutouts in Games 1 and 6 against the Sharks and was also spectacular in an overtime win in Game 3. Next up for Fleury and Vegas will be the Western Conference Final against either Winnipeg or Nashville. The Jets lead that series 3-2 heading into Game 6 on Monday night. The Sharks had numerous opportunities all night but were thwarted by a couple of shots that hit the iron, some acrobatic saves from Fleury and other chances that trickled just wide. This marked the fourth straight postseason for the Sharks that ended with a loss on home ice. The Golden Knights took control of this game with some good fortune in the second period. It started when usually reliable Marc-Edouard Vlasic turned the puck over in his own zone. Reilly Smith took control near the blue line and found Marchessault alone in front for a goal that trickled between Martin Jo n e s p a d s. Vegas nearly added to the lead when Smith had a shot at open net that San Jose forward Chris Tierney blocked from the crease. But Fleury made sure the Sharks couldn t capitalize on that momentum when he stopped Tomas Hertl. The Golden Knights then added to the lead after an icing by Brent Burns led to an offensive zone faceoff. David Perron beat Tierney on the draw and Schmidt took a shot that appeared to deflect off the post and out. Play went on for 25 more seconds before the buzzer rang, with the situation room in Toronto calling for a video review. That quickly showed that the puck bounced off the post, off a piece equipment inside the net and out. Vegas then had a delayed celebration for the goal that made it 2-0. The Golden Knights then smothered the Sharks for most of the third period with Fleury getting some help again when Burns point shot hit the post with about six minutes left. Fleury then rubbed the post in appreciation at the next stoppage. The Sharks came out fast with Hertl drawing an early penalty and the team generating numerous chances. But none of those opportunities could beat Fleury, who got some fortunate bounces to go his way. CRUCIAL FROM PAGE 1-B (21) and sophomore Marques Inman (20) also extended their career-long reached-base streaks, as Inman had a team-high-tying two hits and Hill a walk. Sophomore right-handed starter Isaiah Kearns struck out a career-best nine batters in 5.0 innings, striking out the side twice. He allowed three runs on five hits with one walk and falls to 3-2 on the season. Kearns struck out the side in the first, and Inman and Gray both singled to lead off the second, but a double play ended the in- ning. Gray s single, on a bunt to second base in his first at-bat, was what extended his hit streak. WVU left two on in the fourth, as Inman singled and Gray walked with two o u t s. In the bottom half, Kearns proceeded to strike out the side again, leaving a runner on second after a one-out single and stolen b a s e. The Mountaineers took a 1-0 lead in the fifth, scoring first for the third time in the series and the 26th time this year. Kearns singled, stole second and scored when junior left fielder Braden Zarbnisky doubled to rightcenter on a 1-2 pitch with two outs. Kansas answered to take a 3-1 lead in the fifth. A leadoff double was followed by a two-run home run by Benjamin Sems. James Cosentino then hit a solo home run with two outs. Zarbnisky relieved Kearns on the mound to start the sixth and retired the Jayhawks in order, but K.U. added two more in the seventh to make it 5-1 on a leadoff home run by Owen Taylor and an RBI single with two outs. Two reached with two outs for West Virginia in the eighth inning, as sophomore center fielder Brandon White doubled and Hill walked. However, a groundout ended the inning. Sophomore right-handed reliever Alek Manoah came on in the bottom of the eighth and pitched a perfect inning. Gray led off the ninth with a solo home run, his fourth of the weekend, to make it 5-2. Junior catcher Ivan Gonzalez reached on a oneout error, but the Mountaineers could not bring another run across. WVU returns home to host Virginia Tech, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, at Monongalia County Ballpark.

15 SPORTS MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 THE DOMINION POST 5-B Justify will face fresh horses at Preakness LOUISVILLE, Ky. T he competition isn t exactly lining up to take on Kentucky Derby winner Justify in the Preakness. Of his 19 rivals in the Derby, it appears most will skip the second leg of the Triple Crown in favor of resting and being pointed toward other races. That leaves mostly fresh horses to potentially fill the maximum 14-horse Preakness field. A day after Justify raced to a 2 1/2-length victory in the slop as the 5-2 favorite, trainer Bob Baffert and his star horse drew a horde of visitors to his barn at Churchill Downs. Baffert guided his fifth Derby winner out of the barn and walked him in a tight circle for fans who eagerly snapped photos on their phones. The chestnut colt s coat shone in the morning sunlight and he nibbled on a couple of baby carrots Baffert plucked from his vest pocket. He knows he s a stud, Baffert said. It was a quick appeara n c e. With Justify playfully tossing his head, Baffert knew it was best to get the champ back in his stall where he couldn t inadvertently kick anyone. When I came out of the stall, he was pulling me, the trainer said. U s u a l ly they re a little bit tired, but he was good. Baf fert s phone rang Sunday with an official invitation to bring Justify to run in the Preakness on May 19 in Baltimore. I didn t tell them I d think about it, he said. There s no reason to say no. Baffert will be seeking his record-tying seventh Preakness victory. His four other Derby winners Silver Charm, Real Quiet, War Emblem and American Pharoah all won the 1 3/16-mile race. Of course, American Pharoah went on to capture the Belmont and complete the sport s first Triple Crown sweep in 37 years. But Baffert isn t going there yet. Right now I m thinking just keep him healthy, he said. Baffert plans to leave Justify at Churchill Downs until shipping the chestnut colt to Pimlico likely the Wednesday of race week. Derby runner-up Good Magic, last year s 2-year-old champion and Breeders Cup Juvenile winner, appears unlikely to run in the Preakness. However, New York-based trainer Chad Brown said he would weigh his options before making a final decision. Durant goes for 38 in Warriors win NBA PLAYOFFS NEW ORLEANS Kevin Durant had 38 points and nine rebounds and Golden State soundly defeated the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday to take a commanding 3-1 lead in their Western Conference semifinal series. The Warriors responded to their 19-point loss in Game 3 with a resounding effort that produced a wireto-wire win with leads as large as 26 points. Durant made 15 of 27 shots. Stephen Curry scored 23, Klay Thompson added 13 and Quinn Cook, who was a Pelicans reserve earlier this season, contributed 12 points. Anthony Davis had 26 points and 12 rebounds for New Orleans, but the Pelicans hit only 36 percent (32 of 88) of their shots, missing 22 of 26 3-point attempts. E Twaun Moore scored 20 and Jrue Holiday 19, but Dodgers place ace Kershaw on disabled list MONTERREY, Mexico Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw was put on the 10- day disabled list with left biceps tendinitis and returned to Los Angeles on Sunday for tests. Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said the lefthander got hurt before Satu rd ay s game against San Die go. It s little bit headscratching, but we have to keep moving forward, Roberts said. I know he s New Orleans reserves combined for just 14 points after scoring 32 two nights earlier. Rajon Rondo finished with 11 rebounds, but the Pelicans also committed 19 turnovers, which led 21 Warriors points. After shooting poorly for much of their loss on Friday night, the Warriors were eager to regain their rhythm and did so immed i at e ly. They hit six of their first eight shots, with Durant making his first three, and Thompson and Curry each making 3s. That, and solid defense that included G re e n s block of Rondo s layup, helped Golden State open up a 10-point lead before the game was four minutes old. The Pelicans, meanwhile, missed eight of their first 10 shots, and trailed 20-6 after Green made Golden State s fourth 3 of the g ame s first six minutes. The Warriors led by as many as 18 in the first half when Cook s floater made it late in the first quarter. fr ustrated, because he wants to carry the load. Ke r - shaw is 1-4 with a Clayton 2.68 ERA Kershaw this season with 48 strikeouts and 10 walks in 44 i n n i n g s. I got word from the training staff yesterday AP Photo Golden State forward Draymond Green goes up for one of his nine rebounds Sunday. He also added nine assists and eight points. The Pelicans shot 37 percent in the first half, but with good rebounding and free-throw shooting, they managed to slowly grind the Warriors lead down to when he was trying to play catch that it just was not feeling right, Rober ts said. He said that during his last start he felt it just a little bit, and we gave him a couple of extra days. Kershaw allowed two runs and six hits over six innings on Tuesday against Arizona. Roberts hopes the injury is limited to the biceps. If it was more of a other part of the arm, it would be more concerning, but being the biceps we are more hopeful, Roberts said. Kershaw will be examined by head team physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache. A three-time NL Cy Young Award winner, Kershaw is on the disabled list for the fourth time. He was sidelined from March 23 to May 5, 2014, with a major muscle strain in his back, from June 27 to Sept. 9, 2016, with a herniated disk in his lower back and from July 24 to Sept. 1 last year with a lower back strain. Kershaw is earning $30.4 million this year in a seemingly manageable seven by halftime, only to have Golden State storm out of the gate in the third quar ter. Ro n d o s bounce pass uncharacteristically handcuffed Davis as he cut to the hoop for what looked like a thunderous dunk in the making. Moments later, Durant was taking a cross-court pass from Green in transition and throwing down a soaring one-handed jam. Andre Iguodala and Curry followed with 3s soon after, and in a mere two minutes, the Warriors lead had ballooned to 15. The Warriors continued to pull away and led after Iguodala hit Golden S t at e s ninth 3 of the game late in the period. The gap never narrowed closer than 19 points after that. Tip-ins Warriors: Coach Steve Kerr went with a different starting lineup for a third consecutive game. Green moved to center after starting at forward in Game 3, center JaVale McGee returned to a reserve role and Iguodala, who d started games 1 and 2, returned to the first unit at forward. Harvick who else? picks up fourth win NASCAR DOVER, Del. Kev i n Harvick was flanked by his Stewart-Haas Racing team on the victory lane stage when a photographer yelled at the group, W h at are you holding up? Fo u r! they shouted in unison. Harvick, team owner Tony Stewart and the rest flashed their fingers Four Horsemenstyle and let out a Wo o o! before they uncorked the champagne and sprayed anyone in their sights. The checkered flag collection keeps growing at SHR, and Harvick is leading the way. Harvick dominated a race inter rupted by rain and drove to his Cup Serieshigh four th victory of Kevin the season Sun- Harvick day at Dover International Speedway. I feel like we re playoffracing on a weekly basis, Harvick said. He reeled off three straight wins at Atlanta, Las Vegas and Phoenix earlier this season and now has the 60-pound Miles the Monster trophy to add to his collection. His brought the trophy home following his first win at Dover in October 2015, only to have his young son break the arm on the fiberglass creature that was never cleaned from the victory celebration. I m bringing it home but do not break the arm off of this one, Harvick said he told his son. It s hard to explain to people why his playroom smells like beer. Harvick swept the first two stages and easily chased down SHR teammate Clint Bowyer in the third for the lead after a 41- minute delay. Bowyer, who won this season at Martinsville to snap a 190-race losing streak dating to 2012, had asked for a rain dance when the race was stopped with 80 laps left. Once it resumed, Harvick waltzed his way into victory lane in the No. 4 Ford. He led 201 of 400 laps and stormed past Bowyer and took the lead for good with 62 laps left. You knew he was going to be the one that you were going to have to beat for the win, Bowyer said. H a r v i ck s 41st career Cup victory gives him a stout nine top-10 finishes and eight top-fives in 11 starts this season. He held four fingers out the window as he took a victory lap on the mile concrete track and won at Dover for the second time. Bowyer was second. Daniel Suarez, Martin Truex Jr. and Kurt Busch rounded out the top five. SHR had three cars in the top five with Harvick, Bowyer and Busch. Three cars in the top five says a lot about where we are as a company, Harvick said. It s fun racing your teammate. SHR has five wins this season and has never won more than six in its 10-year h i s t o r y. It s days like today that builds momentum for the org anization, Stewar t said. It s about evolution. Harvick, Truex and Bowyer all winners this year are over 35. One highlight, Suarez, NA S C A R s first Mexican champion in the Xfinity Series, did match his careerbest finish while driving with a broken left thumb. the fifth season of a $215 million, seven-year contract, but has the right to opt out after the World Series and become a free agent, giving up salaries of $32 million next year and $33 million in Los Angeles recalled right-hander Brock Stewart from Triple-A Oklahoma City on Sunday. The 26-yearold made one appearance for the Dodgers this year. He is 1-0 with a 2.41 ERA in four starts with Oklahoma City. Alvarez has self to blame if he can t fight Golovkin OPINION BY TIM DAHLBERG GENNADY GOLOVKIN made sure it was a short night, which was not surprising because he was fighting for short money. What was supposed to be a big night in Las Vegas ended up as little more than an exhibition in Carson, California. The $20 million or so Golovkin was going to make to fight Canelo Alvarez tur ned into $1 million against a last-minute replacement in Vanes Martirosyan. It wasn t Triple G s fault, far from it. Alvarez was the one who tested positive for steroids in Mexico, upending the lucrative middleweight title rematch Golovkin already was training hard for. More importantly, it wo n t be Golovkin s fault if he and Alvarez don t meet in September. Fans want the fight. And there s a good chance it will happen, no matter the posturing going on in the Triple G camp after Saturday night s secondround knockout of an illprepared Martirosyan. But excuse Golovkin and his handlers if they play a little hardball getting it done. They ve earned the right. Contracts will have to be renegotiated, and you can bet promoter Tom Loef fler will be asking more this time for his fighter. And Alvarez will have to somehow try to prove that his protests are real and that he s not the doper he seems to be. The first part is doable. Alvarez had gotten more favorable terms before because he s got a proven record of selling pay-perview, but now he s going to have to accept parity, or even less. It s on him that the fight didn t take place Saturday night in Las Vegas, no matter how much he and his camp claim tainted meat was responsible for his positive test to the steroid Clenbuterol. The second part is more p ro bl e m at i c. The six-month drug suspension by Nevada boxing regulators won t get in the way. It expires in August, leaving Alvarez free to Boxer Gennady Golovkin (left) lands a left hand that led to a second-round knockout Saturday night of Vanes Martirosyan. fight Golovkin in a rematch of their controversial draw from last Se ptember. But what Golovkin and his handlers want most is assurances that Alvarez is clean. And, at least so far, those haven t come. Forget the claims by Golden Boy Promotions that Alvarez tested negative in a hair follicle test that i s n t accepted in doping circles. Focus, instead, on Os - car De La Hoya s claim to TMZ on April 25 that Alvarez would be tested ev - ery day from now until the fight to make everyone s suspicions go away. So far, that testing has not happened. And every day that goes by without Alvarez signing up for a drug testing program is another day no one knows whether or not he s clean. Martirosyan himself made the point after the fight at the StubHub Center ended with him being counted out after a flurry of blows from Golovkin early in the second round. Canelo has a lot to p rove, Martirosyan said. I can see why he s eating that kind of meat. He needs that extra edge. Golovkin certainly seems to believe that. He was irate in the days before the fight, saying there was probably only a 10 percent chance he and Alvarez would meet on Sept. 16 as nearly everyone else in boxing assumes they will. T here s too much money at stake, for sure. But t h e re s also Golovkin s legacy, one that at the age of 36 he doesn t have much time left to craft. He believes he was cheated by the judges out of a win in the first fight, one Golovkin seemed to dominate until the late rounds. It ended up a draw, which is the lone blemish on a record that now includes a record-tying 20 consecutive title defenses. He wants to return to the ring quickly, and he wants to knock out Alvarez. But he s suspicious that Alvarez may have been doing something to bulk up to middleweight for their first fight, and angry that he was caught doping for the second. Some of that anger seemed to melt away after he rediscovered his knockout power against Martisoyan. And he seemed to indicate that he would be good with fighting Alvarez in September should the conditions be right. A b s o l u t e ly, G o l ov k i n said. I want everyone. I have lots of belts. I challenge anyone to come and take my belts. I don t care who it is. Let s clean the division out. In the end, the rematch with Alvarez is probably too big of a fight and too big of an opportunity for Triple G to refuse. Alvarez and his handlers know that, which might be why he hasn t rushed back into voluntary drug testing just yet. The guess is that Golovkin-Alvarez II will take place on the Las Vegas Strip in September. But if it doesn t, there will be only one fighter to bl a m e. TIM DAHLBERG is a national sports columnist for The. Write to him at tdahlberg@ap.org.

16 6-B THE DOMINION POST MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 POLITICS & STATE From prison to politics, ex-coal CEO set for W.Va. Senate vote CHARLESTON. For - mer coal executive Don Blankenship went from prison to politics after serving a one-year sentence related to the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades. His quest: To take down the man he blames for fueling public distrust of him Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin. The self-funded Blankenship is among six candidates in the Republican Senate primary Tuesday, almost a year to the day since his release from a California prison. He launched a scorched-earth advertising campaign aimed at Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc- Connell that some labeled racist for its characterization of the Kentucky Rep u bl i c a n s wife, Elaine Chao, who is the U.S. secretary of transportation. Blankenship is adding uncertainty to West Virginia politics, said Robert Rupp, a political history professor at West Virginia Wesleyan College. And it s California GOP divided over governor in tough election year SAN DIEGO C a l i fo r - nia Republicans desperate to break a long losing streak are betting that anger over higher gas taxes and illegal immigration will give their candidates an edge in races for governor and other marquee offices this year. But they are also facing division from within. At a weekend convention in San Diego in advance of the June 5 primary election, party delegates Sunday withheld an endorsement in the governor s race after neither candidate was able to reach a 60-percent threshold to claim the prize. Some Republicans argued that an endorsement was essential in helping a GOP candidate survive the s t at e s tricky primary system, in which only two candidates advance to a November runoff. But in a bitterly fought fight, businessman John Cox stalled at 55 percent of the vote, trailed by state Assemblyman Travis Allen, with 40 percent. To many delegates, landing a candidate in the runoff for governor is the biggest issue facing the ailing state GOP this year. Otherwise, the party could see only Democrats on California s November ballot for governor and U.S. Senate, which would dampen GOP turnout and hurt the party s candidates for Congress and the Legislature. We need that, said GOP fundraiser and consultant Charles Moran, who noted that polling shows Republican turnout can be boosted by more than 20 percent with a GOP an obstacle for political observers to figure out what s happening. It threw all our calculations out. Rupp said lower voter turnout for a midterm primary could enable Blankenship to wrestle victory away from U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins and state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. Despite Jenkins c re d e n - tials as a sitting congressman, his chances may be t ro u bl e d by a crowded Republican field, Rupp said. Blankenship, the former Massey Energy CEO, poured $3.5 million of his own money into his campaign, far more than Jenkins and Morrisey. But what s lacking is outward backing from his own party. Let me be clear: I don t care who they are supporting, Blankenship said. I am not for sale. Jenkins and Morrisey mostly focused their campaigns on their own merits and on criticism of Manchin and each other. Both touted their own efforts to reduce the scourge of the opioid epidemic in AP file photo A man passes political posters during the California Republican Party convention Saturday, in San Diego. candidate at the top of the ticket. Otherwise, the outlook is grim. T hat s going to be the margin of victory to hold our targeted congressional seats, and the Assembly and the Senate seats. We need those voters to turn out, Moran said. However, with absentee voting about to kick off, longtime conservative activist Steve Frank argued that the party waited too long to consider an endorsement. It s too late in the game for an endorsement to count, he said. The showdown over the gubernatorial nomination was a highlight of a convention in which delegates heard speech after speech faulting Democrats who control just about everything in state government for indifference to the s t at e s notoriously high taxes and people who enter the U.S. illegally. Party leaders were pumping money into the effort to get the gas-tax repeal on the AP file photo Former Massey CEO and West Virginia Republican Senatorial candidate, Don Blankenship, speaks during a town hall to kick off his campaign, in Logan, W.Va. the state, which leads the nation in the rate of drug overdose deaths, and distanced themselves from McConnell. Rupp said the Senate race will be the most closely watched in West Virginia in a generation. At least we re going to get some attention, he said. At issue is not just November ballot. Meanwhile, Republican elected officials in a string of cities and Orange and San Diego counties passed laws or took other actions in opposition to the state s socalled sanctuary law for immigrants, enacted by the Democratic-run Legislature in response to Trump s calls for more deportations and a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Califor nia s once flourishing Republican Party withered over the years as the state s population changed and new voters, largely Latinos and Asians, signed up mostly as Democrats. That could be seen at the convention, where the crowd was predominantly older and white, reflecting the party s shrinking registration base. Democrats now hold about a 3.6 million edge in voter registrations over the GOP. It s possible that Republicans, now only 1-in-4 state voters, could soon slide into third-party status, falling behind independents in registration enrollments. Britain hopes to address Trump concerns on Iran deal WASHINGTON B r i t a i n s ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday his country believes it s still possible to address President Donald Trump s concerns about the Iran nuclear deal in time to prevent him from pulling out of the agreement. Kim Darroch said Britain has ideas for dealing with those concerns. They include Iran s ballistic missile program and its involvement in Mideast conflicts, issues that aren t part of the international agreement. Trump also objects to the accord s sunset clause, which allows Iran to resume part of its nuclear program after We think that we can find some language, produce some action that meets the president s concer ns, Darroch told CBS Face the Nation. The deadline for Trump s decision is this Saturday. B r i t a i n s foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, scheduled talks with U.S. officials in Washington this week. His trip follows visits in recent weeks by the leaders of France and Germany, who also tried to convince Trump to stick with the agreement. All three European countries signed the 2015 deal, along with Russia and China. In an op-ed Sunday for The New York Times, Johnson wrote that the agreement offered the fewest disadvantages of all the options available. It has weaknesses, certainly, but I am convinced they can be remedied. Indeed at this moment, Britain is working alongside the Trump administration and our French and German allies to ensure that they a re, he wrote. I r a n s president warned Trump on Sunday that leaving the nuclear deal would be a historic regret. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee also advised against pulling out of the accord without a clearer idea of the consequences and urged Trump to give the Europeans time to address his concerns. So maybe the best thing is for the president to delay a bit more his deadline of this month and put the French and the British up to the test about whether it is possible to get this other sort of agreement, Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said on Fox News Sunday. CIA nominee offered to withdraw over former interrogation program WASHINGTON Gina Haspel, President Donald T r ump s nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), offered to withdraw her nomination, two senior administration officials said Sunday, amid concerns that a debate over a harsh interrogation program would tarnish her reputation and that of the CIA. Friday, White House aides on sought out additional details about Haspel s involvement in the C I A s now-defunct program of detaining and brutally interrogating terror suspects after 9/11 as they prepared her for We d n e s d ay s confirmation hearing. This is when she offered to withdraw, the officials said. They said Haspel, who is the acting director of the CIA, was reassured that her nomination was Republican continued control of the Senate. It s also a concerted effort to defeat a blue-dog Democrat in a red state. Blankenship, 68, served a one-year prison term on a misdemeanor conviction for conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards at Massey s Upper Big Branch Mine, where 29 miners were killed in a 2010 explosion. He s used his campaign to try to clear his name and blame the federal government for the explosion, in particular the policies of the Mine Safety and Health Administration under former President Barack Obama. Blankenship used his website to repeatedly accuse Manchin of helping cover up the truth about the mine explosion. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected B l a n ke n s h i p s bid to have his appeal heard. Four investigations found that worn and broken cutting equipment created a spark that ignited accumulations of coal dust and methane gas. Broken and clogged water sprayers allowed what should have been a minor flare-up to become an inferno. The federal jury held Blankenship at least partially responsible. On Sunday, Morrisey said Blankenship did not file a personal financial disclosure form for his candidacy in violation of the still on track and will not withdraw. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The news was first reported Sunday, by The Washington Post. Haspel, who would be the first woman to lead the CIA, is the first career operations officer to be nominated to lead the agency in decades. She served almost entirely undercover and much of her record is classified. Democrats said she should be disqualified because she was the chief of base at a covert detention site, in Thailand, where two terrorism suspects were subjected to waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning. Haspel told lawmakers in recent weeks that she would stand firm against any effort to restart the brutal detention and interrogation program, administration officials told The on Friday. Ethics in Government Act. Blankenship campaign spokesman Greg Thomas responded that the candidate is in the process of filing the paperwork and that Blankenship s formis complicated. Morrisey said he plans to forward information to B l a n ke n s h i p s probation officer to determine whether it s a violation of Blankenship s supervised release. Manchin is seeking his second full six-year term and faces Paula Jean Swearengin in Tuesday s primary. He was West Virginia s governor during the mine explosion and said then that Blankenship had blood on his hands. After Blankenship s release from prison, Manchin said he hoped Blankenship would disap- pear from the public eye. Instead, Blankenship filed his candidacy papers late last year, which angered many in southern West Virginia who said it made them relive the 2010 tragedy. She is expected to reiterate that publicly this week. Haspel, one official said, was wary of suffering the same fate as failed veterans affairs nominee Ronny Jackson and of dredging up the CIA s troubled past. She took over last month as the acting CIA director after the previous director, Mike Pompeo, was sworn in as secretary of state. After Haspel s offer to withdraw, White House aides worked to reassure her that she had the president s support. Haspel received robust backing from former intelligence, diplomatic, military and national security officials, who praise her extensive intelligence career. Haspel s conversations with senators continue ahead of Wednesday s confirmation hearing at the Senate Intelligence Committee and a later full vote in the Senate. Kansas lawmakers hike school spending, approve adoption bill TOPEKA, Kan. Kansas legislators this year boosted funding for public schools and increased spending in other parts of the state budget they saw as neglected while also supporting faith-based adoption agencies that cite religious reasons for not placing children in LGBT homes. Lawmakers adjourned their annual session Friday. Here are notable measures they passed: School Funding The state is set to phase in a $534 million increase in spending on public schools over five years. A new school funding law approved in April was a response to a Kansas Supreme Court ruling in October that current funding of more than $4 billion a year wasn t sufficient under the state constitution. The court is hearing arguments from attorneys May 22 on whether the increase is sufficient to comply with its October decision. Adoption, LGBT rights The adoption legislation would prevent faithbased agencies from being barred from providing adoption or foster care services for the state because the agencies won t place children in homes that violate their s i n c e re - ly held religious beliefs. Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer is expected to sign it. Derided by LGBTrights advocates, it was backed by the state s Catholic bishops and conservative groups. State budget Lawmakers added millions of dollars in new spending to budgets approved last year for the s t at e s current fiscal year and the one for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. Both are more than $16 billion. State employees will get at least a 2.5 percent pay raise, with some receiving 5 percent if they didn t get a raise last year. Sexual harassment The budget legislation prohibits the use of state dollars to settle sexual harassment claims against elected officials or state employees and bars agencies from using their funds to pursue non-disclosure agreements in settling claims. Guns, school safety Following the deadly Va l e n t i n e s Day mass shooting at a high school in Florida, legislators included $5 million in the budget for grants to local districts to upgrade security. The state also will launch a $10 million pilot program for improving mental health services for students. Legislators largely stayed away from gun-control proposals, but it is now a felony under state law for fugitives or people convicted of domestic abuse within the past five years to possess a firearm. The new law is designed to spur prosecutions in state courts rather than leaving them to federal court. Transparency A measure heading to Colyer will require law enforcement agencies to make body camera footage available for viewing by the families of suspects killed or injured by officers within 20 days of receiving a request. Wrongful convictions A bill headed to Colyer would compensate Kansans who were wrongly convicted of crimes. They would receive $65,000 for each year they served behind bars. Other benefits would include help with higher education tuition and state health care for roughly one year. Beer taps, taverns Plans for a new restaurant in downtown Topeka just blocks from the Statehouse spurred lawmakers to approve a bill to legalize its potential selling point of self-serve beer taps. The same measure would allow taverns and bars to open at 6 a.m. instead of 9 a.m. and allow liquor stores to sell alcohol-laced candy.

17 NATION & WORLD MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 THE DOMINION POST 7-B Counties declare sanctuar y status for gun owners CHICAGO S eve r a l rural Illinois counties took a stand for gun rights by co-opting a word that conservatives associate with a liberal policy to skirt the law: Sanctuary. At least five counties recently passed resolutions declaring themselves sanctuary counties for gun owners a reference to so-called sanctuary cities such as Chicago that d o n t cooperate with aspects of federal immigration enforcement. The resolutions are meant to put the Democratic-controlled Legislature on notice that if it passes a host of gun bills, including new age restrictions for certain weapons, a bump stock ban and size limit for gun magazines, the counties might bar their employees from enforcing the new laws. It s a buzzword, a word that really gets attention. With all these sanctuary cities, we just decided to turn it around to protect our Second Amendment r i g h t s, said David Campbell, vice chairman of the Effingham County Board. He said at least 20 Illinois counties and local officials in Oregon and Washington asked for copies of Effingham County s resolution. AP file photo Dave Fitzgerald, of Girard, Ill., waves flags while listening to speakers during the annual Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day rally at the Capitol, in Springfield, Ill. County officials fear their state legislators won t be able to stop the passage of the gun restrictions because they are outnumbered by lawmakers from in and around Chicago, where the vast majority of the more than 650 homicides last year involved guns. Co-opting the sanctuary title is also a way of drawing attention to the rural-urban political divide that was so stark in the last general election, when downstate ar - eas of Illinois backed Donald Trump, who remains popular with those voters, while Chicago backed Hillary Clinton, who grew up in the suburbs. We re just stealing the language that sanctuary cities use, explained the Effingham County s top prosecutor, Bryan Kibler, who came up with the idea. Not lost on them is that lawmakers from Chicago were instrumental in turning Illinois into what they derisively call a sanctuary state by passing recent legislation that prohibits local law enforcement from arresting or detaining people based solely on their immigration status. Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner signed it into law. They are trying to make a point that they really resent how the city of Chicago treats the rest of the state and how they re treated as gun owners, said Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association. We wanted to... get across that our Second Amendment rights are slowly being stripped aw ay, Kibler said. Slain teens honored at Fla. high school s senior prom PARKLAND, Fla. Four Florida high school seniors slain in a mass shooting were honored by their classmates celebrating their senior prom. The Sun Sentinel reported that the main ballroom at the Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort was transformed Saturday into an enchanted forest for 850 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students. A giant ice sculpture stood in the hallway, proclaiming, # M S D S T RO N G. Butterflies were released from the rooftop, and a room was set aside for anyone needing quiet reflection. Broward Sheriff s Office deputies also stood guard at the front entrance. The senior class is going to be missing some of its members we don t forget that, none of us, said senior Rebecca Schneid, who dressed in a black gown for the event. The Parkland school considered canceling the prom after the Feb. 14 massacre that killed 17 students and faculty, but local businesses donated items and services, helping to reduce the event s costs and ticket prices. The victims included four seniors: Meadow Pollack, Nicholas Dworet, Joaquin Oliver and Carmen Schentrup. The Miami Herald reported that one of Pollack s closest friends, Carley Ogozaly, wore a pink tulle gown with a halter neckline and an open back in the slain teen s honor. She also got a pearly pink French manicure for the occasion. The girls discussed shopping for their prom dresses in the hours before the shooting, she said. I would have just worn a simple black dress. But I know Meadow would have argued with me that it would be too plain, Ogozaly said. Me wearing this pink sparkly thing and me doing my nails the way Meadow would have is my way of making sure Meadow doesn t miss prom. Ogozaly and another friend, Nicolette Miciotta, also drew Pollack s name under a small crown on their left shoulders. Miciotta also wore pink bangle bracelets on her wrist, with Princess Meadow written across them. Po l l a ck s father came to see the girls off in their magenta limousine. The windows were covered in fuchsia paint with the words, We love you Meadow. 2 found dead in quake-hit Polish mine; 3 still missing WARSAW, Poland On Sunday, Polish rescue workers found the bodies of two miners after an earthquake hit a coal mine in southern Poland. Three other miners remain missing some 2,950 feet below ground since the quake hit Saturday morning in the mine, located in the town of Jastrzebie-Zdroj, close to Poland s border with the Czech Republic. The head of the Jastrzebie Coal Company, Daniel Ozon, said a doctor confirmed the two fatalities and identification of the victims was underway. The first victim, initially identified by Ozon as a 38-year-old man, was trapped under some metal. Ozon said the identification still needed to be confirmed by DNA tests. The second miner was found a few hours later, trapped in the rubble, he added. More than 200 workers were involved in the rescue operation, working through twisted machinery and metal parts to get to the area where they expect to find the missing men. Ozon said emergency workers were pumping air into the affected area to lower the level of methane gas before they can safely move ahead. A minor quake Sunday afternoon briefly delayed rescue efforts as it released more methane into the search area, Ozon said. After the quake hit, four miners were rescued quickly, but seven others went missing. Two of the missing were later found alive and were hospitalized. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and President Andrzej Duda travelled to the town, visiting the hospitalized miners and meeting with their families and some of the rescuers. Duda extended his condolences to the victims f amilies. Authorities launched an investigation into the accident. It was not clear if coal extraction would resume today. Poland s State Mining Authority said the temblor had a magnitude of 3.4, while the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre pegged it at 4.3. TVN24 said the quake was also felt on the surface and shook some houses. Indian forces fire on protesters, killing at least 5 SRINAGAR, India Government forces opened fire on protesters Sunday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing five people and wounding dozens more who were trying to reach the site of gunbattle in which soldiers killed five rebels. Hundreds of villagers, shouting slogans eulogizing militants and demanding an end to Indian rule over the disputed region, threw rocks at Indian troops in a bid to help rebels who were trapped in a house in southern Shopian area, police said. Counterinsurgency officers and soldiers cordoned off the village following intelligence that a group of militants were hiding there, police said. As the rebels and soldiers fought, government forces also fired bullets, shotgun pellets and tear gas at the protesters. Five civilians were killed, one a teenage boy, and at least 50 others were wounded, police and doctors said. It was the second straight day of intense unrest in the region, which India and Pakistan administer parts of but both claim in its entirety. Rebels Kashmiri Muslim villagers attend the funeral of killed rebel commander Saddam Padder on Sunday, in Heff village, Indian controlled Kashmir. have been fighting Indian rule since 1989, demanding Indian-controlled Kashmir be made part of Pakistan or become an independent country. Most Kashmiris support the rebel cause while also participating in civilian street protests against Indian control. In recent years, mainly young Kashmiris display open solidarity with rebels and sought to protect them by engaging troops in street clashes during military operations. Last year, at least 29 civilians were killed and hundreds were wounded during such clashes. On Saturday, Indian troops killed three suspected rebels during a gunbattle in Srinagar, while one civilian was killed when a police armored vehicle ran over him during clashes with government forces. Another three men were killed in shootings the police blamed on rebels. Businesses shuttered in most parts of Kashmir on Sunday after separatists called for a strike to protest the previous day s deaths. Internet on mobile phones also remained suspended for the second day, a common practice by authorities to make organizing protests difficult. Armed police and paramilitary soldiers patrolled across the region and also enforced a security lockdown in old parts of Srinagar, the urban heart of anti-india protests. In Sunday s violence, protesting villagers made several attempts to reach the site where the rebels were trapped, barraging troops with rocks, bricks and abuse. They were trying to distract the soldiers, who apart from guns and grenades also used explosives to blast the house where the rebels were cornered, residents and police said. After hours of fighting, five militants were killed and a policeman and a soldier wounded, said S.P. Vaid, police director-general. Lava flow intensifies from Kilauea volcano Los Angeles Times (TNS) HILO, Hawaii The flow of lava intensified Sunday from eruptions at Hawaii Island s Kilauea volcano, and molten rock was pouring from fissures that opened overnight, farther from the original eruptions. At least nine homes were destroyed, Hawaii County officials said. Toxic sulfur dioxide gas spewing near the fissures was at lethal concentrations, said U.S. Geological Survey volcano scientist Wendy Stovall. Lava fountains emerging from the cracks in the ground produced even more gas than previously observed. Residents were evacuated from two remote, rural neighborhoods on the eastern edge of Hawaii Island where the lava is emerging from the fissures. An estimated 1,800 people live in the affected area, and many sought housing in shelters, with friends or on surrounding islands. Scientists on the ground are reporting that lava flows are traveling through the forest, power lines are coming down, and a few explosions have been heard likely from propane tanks or methane A new fissure erupts Saturday, in Leilani Estates, in Pahoa, Hawaii. e x p l o s i o n s, Stovall said. As lava inundates the heavily forested area, organic matter burns and releases methane. That methane gas can get trapped in pockets beneath lava flows or underground, and explode out violently, throwing rocks and debris in every direction, Stovall said. Eruptions of lava fountains continued throughout the night. Because lava by Sunday morning was flowing farther than it did in the first days of the eruption, That means the magma supply is still present and shows signs of continuing, Stovall said. The flows are still moving quite slowly, however sci - entists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) monitoring them can walk away from the hot lava easily. By Sunday morning on Hawaii, the overall number of total cracks that at one point spewed or sputtered lava rose to 10. On Saturday night, a new crack erupted between fissures No. 2 and No. 7, spewing lava as high as 230 feet. Images posted by the US- GS showed red-hot lava rising higher than the tops of trees. Other photos showed cracks in the ground and lava pouring over the asphalt of rural roads. Thousands protest Macron at party PARIS Tens of thousands of protesters in Paris danced, picnicked and railed against President Emmanuel Macron at a par ty marking his first year in office. Police fired tear gas on troublemakers on the margins of the largely festive protest Saturday, and eight people were arrested. Authorities deployed 2,000 police to the event after violence and ransacking scarred a May Day protest in the French capital earlier this week, shocking many. Stop Macron! re a d placards at Saturday s rally in front of Paris famed Opera Garnier. Demonstrators then marched through tourist-filled neighborhoods toward the Bastille plaza, in eastern Paris. Organizers of Saturd ay s march, the farleft party Defiant France, planned the event around the one-year anniversary of Macron s May 7, 2017 election. He was inaugurated a week later, and quickly launched broad changes to France s labor rules to increase the nation s global competitiveness. Protesters are angry at Protesters carry a banner depicting French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, in Paris, France. reforms led by Macron, a centrist former investment banker, such as cutting some worker protections and increasing police powers. This regime is a regime that s an authoritarian regime. We are in a soft dictatorship, and we have concerns about guarantees of individual freedoms and the guarantee of fundamental rights, said protester Roselyne Gonle- Luillier, a judge. Macron won the presidency on a wave of disillusionment at France s traditional parties, beating far-right Marine Le Pen in a runoff. He raised France s international profile, but at home, many voters are disgruntled and fear that he his dismantling the French way of life. The party atmosphere Saturday was a relief after the May Day violence, which saw protesters torch cars and vandalize a McDonald s restaurant and other stores.

18 8-B THE DOMINION POST MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 ENTERTAINMENT Quilts honor dead migrants to U.S. BOSTON A powerful exhibition of quilts memorializing migrants from Mexico and Central America who died in the southern Arizona desert in the last 20 years is on display amid intense national debate over immigration policy. Seventeen quilts from the Migrant Quilt Project are currently hanging in the New England Quilt Museum, in Lowell, Mass., in a display that runs until July 15. The goal is to move the immigration debate beyond statistics and political sniping and put the plight of real people in the spotlight. My hope is to show the enormity of this humanitarian crisis, p ro j e c t founder Jody Ipsen said. I d o n t think people understand. I want people to look at these quilts and feel compelled to act and to support humanitarian immigration reform. The project was inspired when Ipsen was camping in the Arizona desert with a friend and came across a way station for migrants who crossed the border. The desert was strewn with their trash bottles, diapers, personal hygiene products and clothing. Ipsen was at first appalled by the desecration of A quilt by artist Jennifer Eschedor is part of the exhibit Beyond the Border Wall, The Migrant Quilt Project, at the New England Quilt Museum on Wednesday, in Lowell, Mass. the pristine desert. But she was also curious. What, she wondered, drives people to risk their lives to cross a dangerous desert, at the mercy of human smugglers, to come the U.S.? It s ruthless out there in that desert, she said. Inspired by the AIDS Memorial Quilt, she started collecting the discarded clothing and recruited textile artists to incorporate the fabric into quilts. Ipsen even pitched in on one. There has been one quilt produced by volunteers per federal fiscal year since 2000, 17 in all. While each quilt has a different design and they vary in size, there are some common themes. T hey re all emblazoned with the names of every person who died in the desert that year or, if that person s name was not known to authorities, with the word d e s c o n o c i d o, Spanish for stranger. Recorded deaths range from 122 to 282 per year. Most of the quilts are also covered with religious and cultural imagery, flowers and skulls. The quilt is reminiscent of the U.S. flag. The names of border crossers who died are written on the white stripes, and in the place of the white stars on a blue field, the upper left corner is a deserted road that disappears into the distance beneath a starry sky. Quilts have been made for the abolitionist, temperance and environmental movements and, more recently, in response to gun violence. There is a long tradition of using the quilt-making process to bring attention to social causes because women didn t have any other outlet to express their concerns, outrage, and o p i n i o n s, Burchfield said. They could say on a quilt all the things they weren t given a platform to say. Lowell is an appropriate place for the exhibit because the modern-day city of more than 110,000 residents was built on immigrant power, from the Irish who dug the city s famed canals, to the French-Canadians, Greeks, Portuguese and others who worked in the mills in the 19th century, to the Cambodian and Latin American immigrants who came in the 20th century. Is Cannes ready to adapt to the age of #MeToo? The experience of watching a few dozen or more films inside two weeks at the Cannes Film Festival can be jarring, exhilarating and exhausting even for those who live and breathe cinema. Last year, Jessica Chastain, an actress and regular attendee of the French Riviera festival, reflected on her time spent on the Cannes jury shortly after they selected Ruben Ostlund s T he Square as the Palme d Or winner. She was both overwhelmed and disappointed. This is the first time I ve watched 20 films in 10 days, and I love movies, Chastain said. The one thing I really took from this experience is how the world views women, from the female characters that I saw represented. And it was quite disturbing to me, to be honest. On the cusp of the 71st Cannes, which begins Tuesday with the premiere of Asghar Farhadi s Everybody Knows, with Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Chastain s piercing criticism still hovers over a festival that finds itself, unlike it has in decades, in tumult. This year s selections, including three female directors among the 21 Palme contenders, did little to quell pleas by Chastain and others for more female storytellers at the world s most prestigious film festival. Questions of gender equality are especially pointed at Cannes, which for the last 20 years was a seaside playground for Harvey Weinstein, long one of the fest iva l s most ubiquitous operators. Cannes remains perhaps the most supreme and heightened realm of moviedom, but its rarified stature is increasingly challenged by both the era of #MeToo and the age of Netflix. There have been seismic, tectonic changes in the industry that are still unfolding, said producer Simon Chinn, who will be premiering the Whitney Houston documentary Whitney and shopping a documentary on Weinstein titled Cit- izen Weinstein. This will be a very different Cannes without Weinstein. 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Please call Legal Advertisements May 7,14 ORDER OF PUBLICATION IN THE MAGISTRATE COURT OF Monongalia COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA Federal National Mortgage Association/Samuel White, PC 5040 Corporate Woods Drive Suite 120 Virginia Beach, VA Plaintiff Civil Action No, 18-M31 C Mari Nichols-Haining 1 West Street Westover, WV Defendant The object of the above entitled action is TO OBTAIN JUDGMENT AGAINST THE DEFENDANT. And it appearing by an affidavit filed in this action that EVEN AFTER USING DUE DILIGENCE, THE PLAINTIFF WAS UNABLE TO DISCOVER THE RESIDENCE OR WHEREABOUTS OF THE DEFENDANT. it is ordered that Mari Nichols-Haining d o serve upon DARRIS J. SUMMERS, magistrate, whose address is 75 High Street, Morgantown, WV an answer or other defense to the complaint filed in this action on or before May 23, 2018, otherwise judgment by default will be taken against Mari Nichols- Haining at any time thereafter. A copy of said complaint can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office. Entered by the Clerk of said Court April 23, 2018 Kandy McCauley Magistrate Court Clerk May 7,14 FIDUCIARY NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the accounts of the following fiduciaries are before the undersigned Fiduciary Commissioner for settlement! I. Waiver of Final Settlement of Kimberly A. Cordwell, Executrix of the Estate of Arch S. Wilkins, deceased, for the period of January 30, 2017, to April 17, , Waiver of Final Settlement of Nora Lee Michael Simcoe, Executrix of the Estate of James L. Michael, deceased, for the period of September 19, 2017, to April 12, Waiver of Final Settlement of Chaz M. Holland, Jr., Executor of the Estate of Wilma M. Holland, deceased, for the period of April 28, 2003, to March 23, Waiver of Final Settlement of Sandra Lou Delaney, Executrix of the Estate of Patricia Ann Mason, deceased, for the period of June 12, 2017, to March 29, Waiver of Final Settlement of Sharon J. Stratton, Executrix of the Estate of Robert L. Spriggs, a/k/a Robert Leo Spriggs, deceased, for the period of April 27, 2017, to April 20, Report of Receipts and Disbursements and Affidavit of Janice A. Wimer, Committee of the Estate of Donna E. Wimer, Incompetent, for the period of April 1, 2017, to March 31, Given under my hand this 3rd day of May, GEORGE B. Al?MISTEAD Fiduciary Commissioner Monongalia County State of West Virginia May 7, 14 Monongalia County Commission PUBLIC NOTICE The Monongalia County Commission will hold a Public Hearing on May 23, 2017 in the County Commission Chambers located in the Monongalia County Courthouse, 243 High Street, Morgantown, West Virginia, at 10:00 AM, or as soon thereafter as may be heard, at which time the Commission will hear any information or comments you wish to give regarding the following: Case MA : A Request for an Amendment to the West Run Planning District Zoning Map from Neighborhood Residential (R-2) to High Density Residential (R-4) for the properties legally described as Morgan Tax Map 4B Parcels 67, 68, and For further information, please contact the County Planning Office at Written comments may be sent to: Monongalia County Planning Office, 243 High Street, Room 110, Morgantown, WV May 7, 14 FIDUCIARY NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the accounts of the following fiduciaries are before the undersigned Fiduciary Commissioner for settlement: (1) Annual Accounting filed by Pamela Dawn Wills, Executrix for the Estate of Atlanta Jean Kegley, deceased, for the period of March 1, 2017, to February 28, (2) Waiver of Final Settlement of Stephen J. 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REYNOLDS A/K/A JANE ANN REYNOLDS; THEIR HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS; and ALL OTHER UNKNOWN OWNERS OF ANY INTEREST IN THE OIL AND GAS WITHIN AND UNDERLYING A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND IN MONONGALIA COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA; Respondents/Defendants. ORDER OF PUBLICATION This action seeks partition of the mineral interests underlying certain property located in Clay District, Monongalia County, West Virginia ( Subject Minerals ) pursuant to West Virginia Code Section et seq. The surface estate overlying the Subject Minerals is identified by the Monongalia County Assessor s Office as Tax Map 16, Parcel 29. It appearing by affidavit filed in this action that Plaintiff Northeast Natural Energy LLC ( Northeast ) has exercised due diligence to ascertain the residence or whereabouts of all owners of the Subject Minerals, and that there may be persons, other than those named in the Complaint as defendants, with an interest in the Subject Minerals of the action, whose names are unknown to Northeast and who are made defendants by the general description of unknown defendants, it is hereby ORDERED that any and all parties who claim an interest in the Subject Minerals must appear and serve upon Plaintiff Northeast s counsel, Allison J. Farrell and Elizabeth A. Lake of the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, whose address is 400 White Oaks Boulevard, Bridgeport, WV 26330, an Answer or other defense to the Complaint filed in this action by June 7, 2018, which is not fewer than thirty days after the date of the first publication of this notice, otherwise judgment by default will be rendered against him or her at any time thereafter. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained from the Circuit Clerk s office in the Monongalia County Courthouse located at 75 High Street, Suite 12, Morgantown, WV Entered by the Clerk of the Court this 1st day of May, ENTER: Jean Friend Circuit Clerk of Monongalia County May 7 WESTOVER BOARD OF ZONING The Westover Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a meeting on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. In Council Chambers located at 500 Dupont Road, Westover, WV The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss a request from Cranston Johnson for a Conditional Use Permit to allow a Tattoo Parlor at property located at TAX MAP 4, PARCEL 135, also known as 34 Dunkard Avenue, Westover, WV The Board will hear proponents/opponents on this request in a Public Meeting.

20 10-B THE DOMINION POST MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 COMICS Study shows promise in early cancer diagnosis DEAR DOCTOR: I read that a modified Pap smear has the potential to show early warning signs of ovarian and endometrial cancers, as well as cervical cancer. How accurate is this test? Dear Reader: An almost all-purpose test is a tantalizing prospect. Already, the Pap smear and HPV testing are crucial screenings in the diagnosis of cervical cancer and led to a significant decline in death rate from the disease. Yet thus far, screening tests for endometrial cancer and ovarian cancer have not been promising. Endometrial cancer and ovarian cancer combined still claim the lives of about 25,000 women in the United States per year because such cancers are often found only after they spread to other portions of the body. A screening test to find these cancers could reduce those numbers. Such a test could be available in the relatively near future. A greater understanding of the gene mutations involved in these two cancers spurred some scientists to propose a simple technique to find these mutations using DNA testing of the fluid obtained through the Pap smear. A study assessed the technique s ability to detect such mutations in 382 women diagnosed with endometrial cancer, 245 women with ovarian cancer and 714 women without cancer. Researchers looked for mutations within 18 genes and also for an abnormal number of chromosomes. The technique positively identified 81 percent of women with endometrial cancer, including 78 percent of those with earlystage endometrial cancer. However, it identified only 33 percent of women with ovarian cancer, including only 34 percent with earlystage disease. Due to the need for more assessment, the test may not be available for several years, but it s good to know that our increased ability to conduct DNA testing is likely to help us, ultimately, catch these cancers early enough to save more lives. DR. ROBERT ASHLEY is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Elizabeth Ko is an internist and primary care physician at UCLA Health. Dr. Eve Glazier, MBA, is an internist and an assistant professor of internal medicine at UCLA Health. Monday, May 7, 2018 D o n t sweat the small stuff. Let go of the past, and pursue your goals. Keep busy, and let your success serve as your calling card and as a reminder to those who have not done right by you. TAURUS (APRIL 20- MAY 20) Focus on what s important. Maintain balance and integrity, regardless of what others decide to do. GEMINI (MAY 21- JUNE 20) Persuasive tactics will work wonders for you initially, but before you talk big, consider the consequences. CANCER (JUNE 21- JULY 22) Make a unique contribution to stand out and be recognized for your ingenuity. Explore new possibilities. LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) A change may excite you, but consider the possible outcomes before you make a move. VIRGO (AUG. 23- SEPT. 22) Know your limitations, and set boundaries that make you comfortable. Share with people you trust. LIBRA (SEPT. 23- OCT. 23) Comments offered will be sincere. Don t take offense when EUGENIA LAST you should use criticism to make yourself better. SCORPIO (OCT. 24- NOV. 22) Partnerships will add balance and keep you from veering off course. Romance will lower stress levels. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 23- DEC. 21) Personal change should be your goal. Consider your objective and whom you are dealing with. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22- JAN. 19) An opportunity to expand a skill you have into something that can offer added income looks promising. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20- FEB. 19) Emotions will be difficult to hide. Don t overreact or be indulgent to avoid having a necessary discussion. PISCES (FEB. 20- MARCH 20) Don t make changes that will give someone the wrong impression regarding what you want. ARIES (MARCH 21- APRIL 19) Following someone else s lead will result in disappointment. Be true to yourself and your beliefs. Solutions 8-B