COWLEY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a crime spree and have made an arrest.

Starting on Aug. 8, Arkansas City police noticed an uptick in crime in the northwest part of the city, according to a media release.

The initial crime reported involved burglary of a motor vehicle, which led to the further investigation of criminal use of a financial card.

Later in August, officers took a report of a stolen vehicle in the 1700 block of North Eighth Street. This vehicle was recovered later in Wichita and police learned a suspect identified as 26-year-0ld Cameron Wayne King allegedly was in possession of it.

Investigators later learned King was suspected in connection with numerous property crimes in both Cowley and Sedgwick counties. He eventually was arrested by the sheriff’s office, allegedly in possession of another stolen vehicle.

After conducting a full investigation, Arkansas City police spoke with King in custody and connected him to numerous crimes in Arkansas City. Additional local charges of burglary of a motor vehicle, possession of stolen property and theft of a motor vehicle were added to his Cowley County booking.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/9/1600428766121.png" alt="King-photo Cowley Co. Sheriff" />
 <figcaption>King-photo Cowley Co. Sheriff</figcaption>
 </figure>COWLEY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a crime spree and have made an arrest.Starting on Aug. 8, Arkansas City police noticed an uptick in crime in the northwest part of the city, according to a media release.The initial crime reported involved burglary of a motor vehicle, which led to the further investigation of criminal use of a financial card.Later in August, officers took a report of a stolen vehicle in the 1700 block of North Eighth Street. This vehicle was recovered later in Wichita and police learned a suspect identified as 26-year-0ld Cameron Wayne King allegedly was in possession of it.Investigators later learned King was suspected in connection with numerous property crimes in both Cowley and Sedgwick counties. He eventually was arrested by the sheriff’s office, allegedly in possession of another stolen vehicle.After conducting a full investigation, Arkansas City police spoke with King in custody and connected him to numerous crimes in Arkansas City. Additional local charges of burglary of a motor vehicle, possession of stolen property and theft of a motor vehicle were added to his Cowley County booking.He remains jailed on a $100,000 bond.

Man jailed for role in alleged Kansas crime spree

By TIM CARPENTER <a href="https://kansasreflector.com/2020/09/17/coronavirus-remains-plague-on-kansas-tourism-entertainment-and-winery-industries/">Kansas Reflector</a>

TOPEKA — Damage to the 
Kansas tourism economy during the COVID-19 pandemic can be illustrated 
by impact of closing the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in 
Abilene.

The largest attraction in 
Abilene has been closed for months, blocking access to the $9 million 
exhibit space opened in August 2019 after an eight-month renovation. 
Nearly 150,000 people visited the museum last year. That was expected to
 double in 2020, said Kelly Peetoom, president of the Travel Industry 
Association of Kansas.

“The 2020 travel season 
was predicted to be Abilene’s best year in a long time. In contrast, it 
is Abilene’s tourism industry’s worst,” Peetoom said.

He told a joint House and 
Senate committee considering potential of economic recovery from the 
pandemic Thursday that Visit Overland Park projected year-end revenue 
would be 40% less than in 2019. COVID-19 has cost Overland Park about 
$44 million in economic returns from conventions and meetings, he said.

In Garden City, Peetoom 
said, Finney County is open for business but limited travel in the 
Garden City area is hitting small businesses, restaurants and lodging 
the hardest hit. About 30 events were canceled at a cost of millions in 
lost tourism dollars, he said.

Transient guest tax 
collections in Olathe are down 65% compared to the same time last year, 
he said. The Olathe Conference Center has cancelled or rescheduled 95% 
of bookings for April through December of this year, he said.

“Many industries and 
economic experts have stated that our country is in a recession due to 
the pandemic,” Peetoom said. “I am here to demonstrate that the 
hospitality tourism industry is in a depression.”

Mike Logan, who owns the 
Bottleneck and Granada live music venues in downtown Lawrence, said both
 closed March 15 due to the pandemic and the bars wouldn’t return to 
previous operational levels until summer 2021.

The hesitancy of performers and their fans to gather for concerts remains an obstacle to resumption of events, he said.

“The venue industry is 
injured,” Logan said. “Our business model is based on touching shoulder 
to shoulder in a crowded auditorium. We rely on a national inventory 
(of) touring artists who get in a bus and come across the country. They 
need to be able to make a full trip. Our industry is limited by a 
national reopening of touring artists.”

He said the entertainment 
and hospitality industries needed ongoing help from state government. He
 said restaurants operating at 30% to 50% of seating capacity must still
 meet mortgage debt, property tax and other routine business expenses 
during the pandemic.

Michelle Meyer, who is an 
owner of Holy-Field Vineyard and Winery in Basehor, said the 26th year 
of operation during the pandemic has been a struggle.

“We’re almost three 
decades into business,” she said. “Being a heritage brand like that is 
really beneficial because you have the longevity that people recognize 
and the quality and the value. For younger businesses, I think it has 
maybe been a little more difficult. Those are the types of businesses 
that we really need to support.”

She said Holy-Field 
shifted to curbside sales of wine, because the operation has relied upon
 on-site sales rather than shipping wine directly to consumers.

About two-dozen events 
scheduled for the winery have been called off since March and the 
banquet portion of their business is still idled, she said.

“When you can’t let people
 into your business, you can’t really introduce them to new things,” she
 said. “For wineries, we’re in the hospitality business. We like to talk
 to people and share the fruits of our labor — literally. That makes it 
difficult.”

Tim Carpenter has reported on Kansas for 35 years. He covered the Capitol for 16 years at the Topeka Capital-Journal and previously worked for the Lawrence Journal-World and United Press International.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/9/1600444635326.png" alt="Closure of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum due to the COVID-19 pandemic has undercut tourism revenue in Abilene as it has in other communities statewide. This statue of Eisenhower is on the Capitol grounds in Topeka. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)" />
 <figcaption>Closure of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum due to the COVID-19 pandemic has undercut tourism revenue in Abilene as it has in other communities statewide. This statue of Eisenhower is on the Capitol grounds in Topeka. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)</figcaption>
 </figure>By TIM CARPENTER <a href="https://kansasreflector.com/2020/09/17/coronavirus-remains-plague-on-kansas-tourism-entertainment-and-winery-industries/">Kansas Reflector</a>TOPEKA — Damage to the 
Kansas tourism economy during the COVID-19 pandemic can be illustrated 
by impact of closing the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in 
Abilene.The largest attraction in 
Abilene has been closed for months, blocking access to the $9 million 
exhibit space opened in August 2019 after an eight-month renovation. 
Nearly 150,000 people visited the museum last year. That was expected to
 double in 2020, said Kelly Peetoom, president of the Travel Industry 
Association of Kansas.“The 2020 travel season 
was predicted to be Abilene’s best year in a long time. In contrast, it 
is Abilene’s tourism industry’s worst,” Peetoom said.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/9/1600444753909.jpeg" alt="Kelly Peetoom, of the Travel Industry Association of Kansas, says the COVID-19 pandemic has deeply undermined the state’s ability to sustain economic activity tied to tourism. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)" />
 <figcaption>Kelly Peetoom, of the Travel Industry Association of Kansas, says the COVID-19 pandemic has deeply undermined the state’s ability to sustain economic activity tied to tourism. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)</figcaption>
 </figure>He told a joint House and 
Senate committee considering potential of economic recovery from the 
pandemic Thursday that Visit Overland Park projected year-end revenue 
would be 40% less than in 2019. COVID-19 has cost Overland Park about 
$44 million in economic returns from conventions and meetings, he said.In Garden City, Peetoom 
said, Finney County is open for business but limited travel in the 
Garden City area is hitting small businesses, restaurants and lodging 
the hardest hit. About 30 events were canceled at a cost of millions in 
lost tourism dollars, he said.Transient guest tax 
collections in Olathe are down 65% compared to the same time last year, 
he said. The Olathe Conference Center has cancelled or rescheduled 95% 
of bookings for April through December of this year, he said.“Many industries and 
economic experts have stated that our country is in a recession due to 
the pandemic,” Peetoom said. “I am here to demonstrate that the 
hospitality tourism industry is in a depression.”Mike Logan, who owns the 
Bottleneck and Granada live music venues in downtown Lawrence, said both
 closed March 15 due to the pandemic and the bars wouldn’t return to 
previous operational levels until summer 2021.The hesitancy of performers and their fans to gather for concerts remains an obstacle to resumption of events, he said.“The venue industry is 
injured,” Logan said. “Our business model is based on touching shoulder 
to shoulder in a crowded auditorium. We rely on a national inventory 
(of) touring artists who get in a bus and come across the country. They 
need to be able to make a full trip. Our industry is limited by a 
national reopening of touring artists.”<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/9/1600444790780.jpeg" alt="Mike Logan, owner of the Bottleneck and Granada music venues in Lawrence, told state legislators the entertainment industry may not get back on its feet until summer 2021 due to impact of COVID-19 on music tours and mass gatherings. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Refflector)" />
 <figcaption>Mike Logan, owner of the Bottleneck and Granada music venues in Lawrence, told state legislators the entertainment industry may not get back on its feet until summer 2021 due to impact of COVID-19 on music tours and mass gatherings. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Refflector)</figcaption>
 </figure>He said the entertainment 
and hospitality industries needed ongoing help from state government. He
 said restaurants operating at 30% to 50% of seating capacity must still
 meet mortgage debt, property tax and other routine business expenses 
during the pandemic.Michelle Meyer, who is an 
owner of Holy-Field Vineyard and Winery in Basehor, said the 26th year 
of operation during the pandemic has been a struggle.“We’re almost three 
decades into business,” she said. “Being a heritage brand like that is 
really beneficial because you have the longevity that people recognize 
and the quality and the value. For younger businesses, I think it has 
maybe been a little more difficult. Those are the types of businesses 
that we really need to support.”She said Holy-Field 
shifted to curbside sales of wine, because the operation has relied upon
 on-site sales rather than shipping wine directly to consumers.About two-dozen events 
scheduled for the winery have been called off since March and the 
banquet portion of their business is still idled, she said.“When you can’t let people
 into your business, you can’t really introduce them to new things,” she
 said. “For wineries, we’re in the hospitality business. We like to talk
 to people and share the fruits of our labor — literally. That makes it 
difficult.”Tim Carpenter has reported on Kansas for 35 years. He covered the Capitol for 16 years at the Topeka Capital-Journal and previously worked for the Lawrence Journal-World and United Press International.

Virus remains plague on Kan. tourism, entertainment, winery industries

Today is Sunday, Sept. 20, the 264th day of 2020. There are 102 days left in the year. 

On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria, the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years, struck the island, wiping out as much as 75 percent of the power distribution lines and causing an island-wide blackout. 

In 1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set out from Spain on five ships to find a western passage to the Spice Islands. (Magellan was killed enroute, but one of his ships eventually circled the world.) 

In 1873, panic swept the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures. 

In 1881, Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding the assassinated James A. Garfield. 

In 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. was seriously wounded during a book signing at a New York City department store when he was stabbed in the chest by Izola Curry. (Curry was later found mentally incompetent; she died at a Queens, New York, nursing home in 2015 at age 98.) 

In 1962, James Meredith, a Black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Democratic Gov. Ross R. Barnett. (Meredith was later admitted.) 

In 1963, President Kennedy proposed a joint US-Soviet expedition to the moon. 

In 1967, the Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 was christened by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Clydebank, Scotland.

In 1973, singer-songwriter Jim Croce died in a plane crash near Natchitoches, Louisiana; he was 30.

In 1984, a suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing at least 14 people, including two Americans and 12 Lebanese. The family sitcoms "The Cosby Show" and "Who's the Boss?" premiered on NBC and ABC, respectively. 

In 1995, in a move that stunned Wall Street, AT&amp;T Corporation announced it was splitting into three companies. 

In 2000, Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, saying there was insufficient evidence to warrant charges against President and Mrs. Clinton.

In 2001, during an address to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush announced a new Cabinet-level office to fortify homeland security and named Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge its director. 

Ten years ago: The United Nations opened a three-day Millennium Development Goals summit to assess members' progress in the decade since promising to end global poverty. President Barack Obama reached out to skeptical voters who were still hurting long after the declared end of the recession, imploring them to stick with him in upcoming midterm congressional elections.

Five years ago: Pope Francis met with Fidel Castro after urging tens of thousands of Cubans to serve one another and not an ideology during a Mass in Havana's Plaza of the Revolution. The CEO of Volkswagen apologized and VW customers said they felt duped after the Environmental Protection Agency revealed that the German automaker had skirted clean air rules by rigging emissions tests for about 500,000 diesel cars. At the Emmys, the HBO series "Game of Thrones" won a record 12 awards; Viola Davis became the first Black woman to win an Emmy for best drama series actress for "How to Get Away with Murder." Poet C.K. Williams, 78, died in Hopewell, New Jersey. Actor Jack Larson, 87, TV's Jimmy Olsen in "Adventures of Superman," died in Los Angeles.

One year ago: President Donald Trump angrily defended himself against a complaint from an intelligence official over his contacts with the president of Ukraine; he said the complaint came from a "partisan whistleblower," even though Trump also said he didn't know who had made it. Walmart said it would stop selling electronic cigarettes at its namesake stores and at Sam's Clubs in the U.S. once it sold out of its existing inventory. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged that he had let down his supporters, and all Canadians of color, by appearing years earlier in brownface and blackface. Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, the 1979 site of the nation's worst commercial nuclear power accident, was shut down by its owner after producing electricity for 45 years. Antonio Brown was released by the New England Patriots after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct; he had played just one game since being signed by the Patriots.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Sophia Loren is 86. Rock musician Chuck Panozzo is 72. Actor Tony Denison is 71. Hockey Hall of Famer Guy LaFleur is 69. Actor Debbi Morgan is 69. Jazz musician Peter White is 66. Actor Betsy Brantley is 65. Actor Gary Cole is 64. TV news correspondent Deborah Roberts is 60. Country-rock musician Joseph Shreve (Flynnville Train) is 59. Rock musician Randy Bradbury (Pennywise) is 56. Actor Kristen Johnston is 53. Rock singers Gunnar and Matthew Nelson are 53. Rock musician Ben Shepherd is 52. Actor Enuka Okuma is 48. Actor-model Moon Bloodgood is 45. Actor Jon Bernthal is 44. Singer The-Dream is 43. Actor Charlie Weber is 42. Rock musician Rick Woolstenhulme (Lifehouse) is 41. Rapper Yung Joc is 40. Actor Crystle Stewart is 39. Actor Aldis Hodge is 34. Rock drummer Jack Lawless is 33. Actor Malachi Kirby is 31.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2019/11/1573488868914.jpeg" alt="Photo of old book courtesy <a href="http://shutterstock.com">shutterstock</a>" />
 <figcaption>Photo of old book courtesy <a href="http://shutterstock.com">shutterstock</a></figcaption>
 </figure>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSToday is Sunday, Sept. 20, the 264th day of 2020. There are 102 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria, the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years, struck the island, wiping out as much as 75 percent of the power distribution lines and causing an island-wide blackout. On this date: In 1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set out from Spain on five ships to find a western passage to the Spice Islands. (Magellan was killed enroute, but one of his ships eventually circled the world.) In 1873, panic swept the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures. In 1881, Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding the assassinated James A. Garfield. In 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. was seriously wounded during a book signing at a New York City department store when he was stabbed in the chest by Izola Curry. (Curry was later found mentally incompetent; she died at a Queens, New York, nursing home in 2015 at age 98.) In 1962, James Meredith, a Black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Democratic Gov. Ross R. Barnett. (Meredith was later admitted.) In 1963, President Kennedy proposed a joint US-Soviet expedition to the moon. In 1967, the Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 was christened by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Clydebank, Scotland.In 1973, singer-songwriter Jim Croce died in a plane crash near Natchitoches, Louisiana; he was 30.In 1984, a suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing at least 14 people, including two Americans and 12 Lebanese. The family sitcoms "The Cosby Show" and "Who's the Boss?" premiered on NBC and ABC, respectively. In 1995, in a move that stunned Wall Street, AT&amp;T Corporation announced it was splitting into three companies. In 2000, Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, saying there was insufficient evidence to warrant charges against President and Mrs. Clinton.In 2001, during an address to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush announced a new Cabinet-level office to fortify homeland security and named Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge its director. Ten years ago: The United Nations opened a three-day Millennium Development Goals summit to assess members' progress in the decade since promising to end global poverty. President Barack Obama reached out to skeptical voters who were still hurting long after the declared end of the recession, imploring them to stick with him in upcoming midterm congressional elections. Five years ago: Pope Francis met with Fidel Castro after urging tens of thousands of Cubans to serve one another and not an ideology during a Mass in Havana's Plaza of the Revolution. The CEO of Volkswagen apologized and VW customers said they felt duped after the Environmental Protection Agency revealed that the German automaker had skirted clean air rules by rigging emissions tests for about 500,000 diesel cars. At the Emmys, the HBO series "Game of Thrones" won a record 12 awards; Viola Davis became the first Black woman to win an Emmy for best drama series actress for "How to Get Away with Murder." Poet C.K. Williams, 78, died in Hopewell, New Jersey. Actor Jack Larson, 87, TV's Jimmy Olsen in "Adventures of Superman," died in Los Angeles.One year ago: President Donald Trump angrily defended himself against a complaint from an intelligence official over his contacts with the president of Ukraine; he said the complaint came from a "partisan whistleblower," even though Trump also said he didn't know who had made it. Walmart said it would stop selling electronic cigarettes at its namesake stores and at Sam's Clubs in the U.S. once it sold out of its existing inventory. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged that he had let down his supporters, and all Canadians of color, by appearing years earlier in brownface and blackface. Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, the 1979 site of the nation's worst commercial nuclear power accident, was shut down by its owner after producing electricity for 45 years. Antonio Brown was released by the New England Patriots after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct; he had played just one game since being signed by the Patriots.Today's Birthdays: Actor Sophia Loren is 86. Rock musician Chuck Panozzo is 72. Actor Tony Denison is 71. Hockey Hall of Famer Guy LaFleur is 69. Actor Debbi Morgan is 69. Jazz musician Peter White is 66. Actor Betsy Brantley is 65. Actor Gary Cole is 64. TV news correspondent Deborah Roberts is 60. Country-rock musician Joseph Shreve (Flynnville Train) is 59. Rock musician Randy Bradbury (Pennywise) is 56. Actor Kristen Johnston is 53. Rock singers Gunnar and Matthew Nelson are 53. Rock musician Ben Shepherd is 52. Actor Enuka Okuma is 48. Actor-model Moon Bloodgood is 45. Actor Jon Bernthal is 44. Singer The-Dream is 43. Actor Charlie Weber is 42. Rock musician Rick Woolstenhulme (Lifehouse) is 41. Rapper Yung Joc is 40. Actor Crystle Stewart is 39. Actor Aldis Hodge is 34. Rock drummer Jack Lawless is 33. Actor Malachi Kirby is 31.

Today in History -- Sept. 20

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.

Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said.

Her death just over six weeks before Election Day is likely to set off a heated battle over whether President Donald Trump should nominate, and the Republican-led Senate should confirm, her replacement, or if the seat should remain vacant until the outcome of his race against Democrat Joe Biden is known.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly wrote on social media, "I’m incredibly saddened by this news. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her life serving our country with passion and integrity. She was an agent for change, an advocate for the voiceless, and her legacy will live on in decisions that made America more equitable for all of us."

Chief Justice John Roberts mourned Ginsburg’s passing. “Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice,” Roberts said in a statement.

Ginsburg announced in July that she was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for lesions on her liver, the latest of her several battles with cancer.

Ginsburg spent her final years on the bench as the unquestioned leader of the court’s liberal wing and became something of a rock star to her admirers. Young women especially seemed to embrace the court’s Jewish grandmother, affectionately calling her the Notorious RBG, for her defense of the rights of women and minorities, and the strength and resilience she displayed in the face of personal loss and health crises.

Those health issues included five bouts with cancer beginning in 1999, falls that resulted in broken ribs, insertion of a stent to clear a blocked artery and assorted other hospitalizations after she turned 75.

She resisted calls by liberals to retire during Barack Obama’s presidency at a time when Democrats held the Senate and a replacement with similar views could have been confirmed. Instead, Trump will almost certainly try to push Ginsburg’s successor through the Republican-controlled Senate — and move the conservative court even more to the right.

Ginsburg antagonized Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign in a series of media interviews, including calling him a faker. She soon apologized.

Her appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1993 was the first by a Democrat in 26 years. She initially found a comfortable ideological home somewhere left of center on a conservative court dominated by Republican appointees. Her liberal voice grew stronger the longer she served.

Ginsburg was a mother of two, an opera lover and an intellectual who watched arguments behind oversized glasses for many years, though she ditched them for more fashionable frames in her later years. At argument sessions in the ornate courtroom, she was known for digging deep into case records and for being a stickler for following the rules.

She argued six key cases before the court in the 1970s when she was an architect of the women’s rights movement. She won five.

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg does not need a seat on the Supreme Court to earn her place in the American history books,” Clinton said at the time of her appointment. “She has already done that.”

On the court, where she was known as a facile writer, her most significant majority opinions were the 1996 ruling that ordered the Virginia Military Institute to accept women or give up its state funding, and the 2015 decision that upheld independent commissions some states use to draw congressional districts.

Besides civil rights, Ginsburg took an interest in capital punishment, voting repeatedly to limit its use. During her tenure, the court declared it unconstitutional for states to execute the intellectually disabled and killers younger than 18.

In addition, she questioned the quality of lawyers for poor accused murderers. In the most divisive of cases, including the Bush v. Gore decision in 2000, she was often at odds with the court’s more conservative members — initially Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.

The division remained the same after John Roberts replaced Rehnquist as chief justice, Samuel Alito took O’Connor’s seat, and, under Trump, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh joined the court, in seats that had been held by Scalia and Kennedy, respectively.

Ginsburg would say later that the 5-4 decision that settled the 2000 presidential election for Republican George W. Bush was a “breathtaking episode” at the court.

She was perhaps personally closest on the court to Scalia, her ideological opposite. Ginsburg once explained that she took Scalia’s sometimes biting dissents as a challenge to be met. “How am I going to answer this in a way that’s a real putdown?” she said.

When Scalia died in 2016, also an election year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to act on Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to fill the opening. The seat remained vacant until after Trump’s surprising presidential victory. McConnell has said he would move to confirm a Trump nominee if there were a vacancy this year.

Reached by phone late Friday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, declined to disclose any plans. He called Ginsburg a “trailblazer” and said, “While I had many differences with her on legal philosophy, I appreciate her service to our nation.”

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer tweeted: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”

Ginsburg authored powerful dissents of her own in cases involving abortion, voting rights and pay discrimination against women. She said some were aimed at swaying the opinions of her fellow judges while others were “an appeal to the intelligence of another day” in the hopes that they would provide guidance to future courts.

“Hope springs eternal,” she said in 2007, “and when I am writing a dissent, I’m always hoping for that fifth or sixth vote — even though I’m disappointed more often than not.”

She wrote memorably in 2013 that the court’s decision to cut out a key part of the federal law that had ensured the voting rights of Black people, Hispanics and other minorities was “like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”

Change on the court hit Ginsburg especially hard. She dissented forcefully from the court’s decision in 2007 to uphold a nationwide ban on an abortion procedure that opponents call partial-birth abortion. The court, with O’Connor still on it, had struck down a similar state ban seven years earlier. The “alarming” ruling, Ginsburg said, “cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this court — and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women’s lives.”

In 1999, Ginsburg had surgery for colon cancer and received radiation and chemotherapy. She had surgery again in 2009 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and in December 2018 for cancerous growths on her left lung. Following the last surgery, she missed court sessions for the first time in more than 25 years on the bench.

Ginsburg also was treated with radiation for a tumor on her pancreas in August 2019. She maintained an active schedule even during the three weeks of radiation. When she revealed a recurrence of her cancer in July 2020, Ginsburg said she remained “fully able” to continue as a justice.

Joan Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, the second daughter in a middle-class family. Her older sister, who gave her the lifelong nickname “Kiki,” died at age 6, so Ginsburg grew up in Brooklyn’s Flatbush section as an only child. Her dream, she has said, was to be an opera singer.

Ginsburg graduated at the top of her Columbia University law school class in 1959 but could not find a law firm willing to hire her. She had “three strikes against her” — for being Jewish, female and a mother, as she put it in 2007.

She had married her husband, Martin, in 1954, the year she graduated from Cornell University. She attended Harvard University’s law school but transferred to Columbia when her husband took a law job there. Martin Ginsburg went on to become a prominent tax attorney and law professor. Martin Ginsburg died in 2010. She is survived by two children, Jane and James, and several grandchildren.

Ginsburg once said that she had not entered the law as an equal-rights champion. “I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other,” she wrote. “I have no talent in the arts, but I do write fairly well and analyze problems clearly.”

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/9/1600476593364.png" alt="Justice Ginsberg spoke at the National Book Festival in August 2019-photo courtesy CSPAN" />
 <figcaption>Justice Ginsberg spoke at the National Book Festival in August 2019-photo courtesy CSPAN</figcaption>
 </figure>WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said.Her death just over six weeks before Election Day is likely to set off a heated battle over whether President Donald Trump should nominate, and the Republican-led Senate should confirm, her replacement, or if the seat should remain vacant until the outcome of his race against Democrat Joe Biden is known.&nbsp;&nbsp;<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">The Senate and the nation mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life. My full statement: <a href="https://t.co/NOwYLhDxIk">pic.twitter.com/NOwYLhDxIk</a>&mdash; Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) <a href="https://twitter.com/senatemajldr/status/1307121192516628480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Kansas Governor Laura Kelly wrote on social media, "I’m incredibly saddened by this news. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her life serving our country with passion and integrity. She was an agent for change, an advocate for the voiceless, and her legacy will live on in decisions that made America more equitable for all of us."<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Justice Ginsburg was a trailblazer, tackling each challenge with passion, dedication and extraordinary intellect. She served her country with honor &amp; had an historic impact on the court and the nation. Prayers are with her family.&mdash; Senator Jerry Moran (@JerryMoran) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryMoran/status/1307126358431223809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Ruth Bader Ginsburg was our friend and neighbor. An intellectual giant, she was the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a tremendous champion of women’s rights throughout her career.&mdash; Senator Bob Dole (@SenatorDole) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorDole/status/1307116031987548161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Erin and I send our condolences to the Ginsburg family tonight. May Justice Ginsburg rest in peace&mdash; Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1307123643663757318?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Chief Justice John Roberts mourned Ginsburg’s passing. “Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice,” Roberts said in a statement.Ginsburg announced in July that she was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for lesions on her liver, the latest of her several battles with cancer.Ginsburg spent her final years on the bench as the unquestioned leader of the court’s liberal wing and became something of a rock star to her admirers. Young women especially seemed to embrace the court’s Jewish grandmother, affectionately calling her the Notorious RBG, for her defense of the rights of women and minorities, and the strength and resilience she displayed in the face of personal loss and health crises.Those health issues included five bouts with cancer beginning in 1999, falls that resulted in broken ribs, insertion of a stent to clear a blocked artery and assorted other hospitalizations after she turned 75.She resisted calls by liberals to retire during Barack Obama’s presidency at a time when Democrats held the Senate and a replacement with similar views could have been confirmed. Instead, Trump will almost certainly try to push Ginsburg’s successor through the Republican-controlled Senate — and move the conservative court even more to the right.Ginsburg antagonized Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign in a series of media interviews, including calling him a faker. She soon apologized.Her appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1993 was the first by a Democrat in 26 years. She initially found a comfortable ideological home somewhere left of center on a conservative court dominated by Republican appointees. Her liberal voice grew stronger the longer she served.Ginsburg was a mother of two, an opera lover and an intellectual who watched arguments behind oversized glasses for many years, though she ditched them for more fashionable frames in her later years. At argument sessions in the ornate courtroom, she was known for digging deep into case records and for being a stickler for following the rules.She argued six key cases before the court in the 1970s when she was an architect of the women’s rights movement. She won five.“Ruth Bader Ginsburg does not need a seat on the Supreme Court to earn her place in the American history books,” Clinton said at the time of her appointment. “She has already done that.”On the court, where she was known as a facile writer, her most significant majority opinions were the 1996 ruling that ordered the Virginia Military Institute to accept women or give up its state funding, and the 2015 decision that upheld independent commissions some states use to draw congressional districts.Besides civil rights, Ginsburg took an interest in capital punishment, voting repeatedly to limit its use. During her tenure, the court declared it unconstitutional for states to execute the intellectually disabled and killers younger than 18.In addition, she questioned the quality of lawyers for poor accused murderers. In the most divisive of cases, including the Bush v. Gore decision in 2000, she was often at odds with the court’s more conservative members — initially Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.The division remained the same after John Roberts replaced Rehnquist as chief justice, Samuel Alito took O’Connor’s seat, and, under Trump, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh joined the court, in seats that had been held by Scalia and Kennedy, respectively.Ginsburg would say later that the 5-4 decision that settled the 2000 presidential election for Republican George W. Bush was a “breathtaking episode” at the court.She was perhaps personally closest on the court to Scalia, her ideological opposite. Ginsburg once explained that she took Scalia’s sometimes biting dissents as a challenge to be met. “How am I going to answer this in a way that’s a real putdown?” she said.When Scalia died in 2016, also an election year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to act on Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to fill the opening. The seat remained vacant until after Trump’s surprising presidential victory. McConnell has said he would move to confirm a Trump nominee if there were a vacancy this year.Reached by phone late Friday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, declined to disclose any plans. He called Ginsburg a “trailblazer” and said, “While I had many differences with her on legal philosophy, I appreciate her service to our nation.”Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer tweeted: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”Ginsburg authored powerful dissents of her own in cases involving abortion, voting rights and pay discrimination against women. She said some were aimed at swaying the opinions of her fellow judges while others were “an appeal to the intelligence of another day” in the hopes that they would provide guidance to future courts.“Hope springs eternal,” she said in 2007, “and when I am writing a dissent, I’m always hoping for that fifth or sixth vote — even though I’m disappointed more often than not.”She wrote memorably in 2013 that the court’s decision to cut out a key part of the federal law that had ensured the voting rights of Black people, Hispanics and other minorities was “like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”Change on the court hit Ginsburg especially hard. She dissented forcefully from the court’s decision in 2007 to uphold a nationwide ban on an abortion procedure that opponents call partial-birth abortion. The court, with O’Connor still on it, had struck down a similar state ban seven years earlier. The “alarming” ruling, Ginsburg said, “cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this court — and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women’s lives.”In 1999, Ginsburg had surgery for colon cancer and received radiation and chemotherapy. She had surgery again in 2009 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and in December 2018 for cancerous growths on her left lung. Following the last surgery, she missed court sessions for the first time in more than 25 years on the bench.Ginsburg also was treated with radiation for a tumor on her pancreas in August 2019. She maintained an active schedule even during the three weeks of radiation. When she revealed a recurrence of her cancer in July 2020, Ginsburg said she remained “fully able” to continue as a justice.Joan Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, the second daughter in a middle-class family. Her older sister, who gave her the lifelong nickname “Kiki,” died at age 6, so Ginsburg grew up in Brooklyn’s Flatbush section as an only child. Her dream, she has said, was to be an opera singer.Ginsburg graduated at the top of her Columbia University law school class in 1959 but could not find a law firm willing to hire her. She had “three strikes against her” — for being Jewish, female and a mother, as she put it in 2007.She had married her husband, Martin, in 1954, the year she graduated from Cornell University. She attended Harvard University’s law school but transferred to Columbia when her husband took a law job there. Martin Ginsburg went on to become a prominent tax attorney and law professor. Martin Ginsburg died in 2010. She is survived by two children, Jane and James, and several grandchildren.Ginsburg once said that she had not entered the law as an equal-rights champion. “I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other,” she wrote. “I have no talent in the arts, but I do write fairly well and analyze problems clearly.”

Justice Ginsberg dead; McConnell: Senate will vote on Trump nominee

Today is Saturday, Sept. 19, the 263rd day of 2020. There are 103 days left in the year. 

On Sept. 19, 1881, the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, died 2½ months after being shot by Charles Guiteau; Chester Alan Arthur became president. 

In 1783, Jacques Etienne Montgolfier launched a duck, a sheep and a rooster aboard a hot-air balloon at Versailles in France.

In 1796, President George Washington's farewell address was published. In it, America's first chief executive advised, "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all." 

In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. 

In 1955, President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.

In 1984, Britain and China completed a draft agreement on transferring Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule by 1997.

In 1985, the Mexico City area was struck by a devastating earthquake that killed at least 9,500 people. 

In 1986, federal health officials announced that the experimental drug AZT would be made available to thousands of AIDS patients. 

In 1995, The New York Times and The Washington Post published the manifesto of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, which proved instrumental in identifying and capturing him. 

In 1996, IBM announced it would extend health benefits to the partners of its gay employees. 

In 2001, The Pentagon ordered dozens of advanced aircraft to the Persian Gulf region as the hour of military retaliation for deadly terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 drew closer. 

In 2004, Hu Jintao (hoo jin-tow) became the undisputed leader of China with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post. 

In 2008, struggling to stave off financial catastrophe, the Bush administration laid out a radical bailout plan calling for a takeover of a half-trillion dollars or more in worthless mortgages and other bad debt held by tottering institutions. Relieved investors sent stocks soaring on Wall Street and around the globe. 

Ten years ago: The BP oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico was declared "effectively dead" by retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the blowout disaster, after it was sealed with a permanent cement plug. On the final day of his four-day visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass to beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, the 19th century Anglican convert.

Five years ago: Pope Francis, arriving in Havana, hailed detente between Cuba and the United States as a model of reconciliation for the world as he launched a 10-day tour of the former Cold War foes. President Barack Obama paid tribute to Black women for their role in helping shape American democracy as he delivered the keynote address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual awards dinner. Jackie Collins, 77, the bestselling author of dozens of novels including "Hollywood Wives," died in Los Angeles.

One year ago: Under orders from the Trump administration, the intelligence community's inspector general refused to tell members of a House panel what was in a whistleblower's complaint about a private conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukraine's president. Trump began responding to published reports about the phone call, tweeting that he would never "say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially 'heavily populated' call," and that he would only "do what is right anyway." As the U.S. and Saudi Arabia considered a response to a drone-and-missile strike on the Saudi oil industry, Iran's top diplomat warned that an attack by either country would bring "all-out war." New York Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán was put on administrative leave as Major League Baseball investigated an alleged domestic violence incident involving his girlfriend. (The pitcher would miss the rest of the season as part of a suspension that would also cover all of the abbreviated 2020 season.)

Today's Birthdays: Author Roger Angell is 100. Actor Rosemary Harris is 93. Actor David McCallum is 87. Singer-songwriter Paul Williams is 80. Singer Bill Medley is 80. Singer Sylvia Tyson (Ian and Sylvia) is 80. R&amp;B singer Freda Payne is 78. Retired professional golfer Jane Blalock is 75. Singer David Bromberg is 75. Actor Randolph Mantooth is 75. Rock singer-musician Lol Creme (10cc) is 73. Former NFL running back Larry Brown is 73. Actor Jeremy Irons is 72. Actor Twiggy Lawson is 71. TV personality Joan Lunden is 70. Singer-producer Daniel Lanoi is 69. Actor Scott Colomby is 68. Musician-producer Nile Rodgers is 68. Singer-actor Rex Smith is 65. Rock singer Lita Ford is 62. Actor Kevin Hooks is 62. Actor Carolyn McCormick is 61. Celebrity chef Mario Batali is 60. Actor-comedian Cheri Oteri is 58. Country singer Jeff Bates is 57. Country singer Trisha Yearwood is 56. News anchor Soledad O'Brien is 54. Celebrity chef Michael Symon is 51. Actor Victor Williams is 50. Actor Sanaa Lathan is 49. Actor Stephanie J. Block is 48. Rock singer A. Jay Popoff (Lit) is 47. "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon is 46. TV personality Carter Oosterhouse is 44. Actor-TV host Alison Sweeney is 44. Rock musician Ryan Dusick is 43. Folk-rock singers-musicians Sara and Tegan Quin are 40. Actor Columbus Short is 38. Rapper Eamon is 37. Actor Kevin Zegers is 36. Actor Danielle Panabaker is 33. Actor Katrina Bowden is 32.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2019/11/1573488868914.jpeg" alt="Photo of old book courtesy <a href="http://shutterstock.com">shutterstock</a>" />
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 </figure>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSToday is Saturday, Sept. 19, the 263rd day of 2020. There are 103 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 19, 1881, the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, died 2½ months after being shot by Charles Guiteau; Chester Alan Arthur became president. On this date: In 1783, Jacques Etienne Montgolfier launched a duck, a sheep and a rooster aboard a hot-air balloon at Versailles in France.In 1796, President George Washington's farewell address was published. In it, America's first chief executive advised, "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all." In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. In 1955, President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.In 1984, Britain and China completed a draft agreement on transferring Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule by 1997.In 1985, the Mexico City area was struck by a devastating earthquake that killed at least 9,500 people. In 1986, federal health officials announced that the experimental drug AZT would be made available to thousands of AIDS patients. In 1995, The New York Times and The Washington Post published the manifesto of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, which proved instrumental in identifying and capturing him. In 1996, IBM announced it would extend health benefits to the partners of its gay employees. In 2001, The Pentagon ordered dozens of advanced aircraft to the Persian Gulf region as the hour of military retaliation for deadly terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 drew closer. In 2004, Hu Jintao (hoo jin-tow) became the undisputed leader of China with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post. In 2008, struggling to stave off financial catastrophe, the Bush administration laid out a radical bailout plan calling for a takeover of a half-trillion dollars or more in worthless mortgages and other bad debt held by tottering institutions. Relieved investors sent stocks soaring on Wall Street and around the globe. Ten years ago: The BP oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico was declared "effectively dead" by retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the blowout disaster, after it was sealed with a permanent cement plug. On the final day of his four-day visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass to beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, the 19th century Anglican convert.Five years ago: Pope Francis, arriving in Havana, hailed detente between Cuba and the United States as a model of reconciliation for the world as he launched a 10-day tour of the former Cold War foes. President Barack Obama paid tribute to Black women for their role in helping shape American democracy as he delivered the keynote address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual awards dinner. Jackie Collins, 77, the bestselling author of dozens of novels including "Hollywood Wives," died in Los Angeles.One year ago: Under orders from the Trump administration, the intelligence community's inspector general refused to tell members of a House panel what was in a whistleblower's complaint about a private conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukraine's president. Trump began responding to published reports about the phone call, tweeting that he would never "say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially 'heavily populated' call," and that he would only "do what is right anyway." As the U.S. and Saudi Arabia considered a response to a drone-and-missile strike on the Saudi oil industry, Iran's top diplomat warned that an attack by either country would bring "all-out war." New York Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán was put on administrative leave as Major League Baseball investigated an alleged domestic violence incident involving his girlfriend. (The pitcher would miss the rest of the season as part of a suspension that would also cover all of the abbreviated 2020 season.) Today's Birthdays: Author Roger Angell is 100. Actor Rosemary Harris is 93. Actor David McCallum is 87. Singer-songwriter Paul Williams is 80. Singer Bill Medley is 80. Singer Sylvia Tyson (Ian and Sylvia) is 80. R&amp;B singer Freda Payne is 78. Retired professional golfer Jane Blalock is 75. Singer David Bromberg is 75. Actor Randolph Mantooth is 75. Rock singer-musician Lol Creme (10cc) is 73. Former NFL running back Larry Brown is 73. Actor Jeremy Irons is 72. Actor Twiggy Lawson is 71. TV personality Joan Lunden is 70. Singer-producer Daniel Lanoi is 69. Actor Scott Colomby is 68. Musician-producer Nile Rodgers is 68. Singer-actor Rex Smith is 65. Rock singer Lita Ford is 62. Actor Kevin Hooks is 62. Actor Carolyn McCormick is 61. Celebrity chef Mario Batali is 60. Actor-comedian Cheri Oteri is 58. Country singer Jeff Bates is 57. Country singer Trisha Yearwood is 56. News anchor Soledad O'Brien is 54. Celebrity chef Michael Symon is 51. Actor Victor Williams is 50. Actor Sanaa Lathan is 49. Actor Stephanie J. Block is 48. Rock singer A. Jay Popoff (Lit) is 47. "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon is 46. TV personality Carter Oosterhouse is 44. Actor-TV host Alison Sweeney is 44. Rock musician Ryan Dusick is 43. Folk-rock singers-musicians Sara and Tegan Quin are 40. Actor Columbus Short is 38. Rapper Eamon is 37. Actor Kevin Zegers is 36. Actor Danielle Panabaker is 33. Actor Katrina Bowden is 32.

Today in History -- Sept. 19

Today is Friday, Sept. 18, the 262nd day of 2020. There are 104 days left in the year. 

On Sept. 18, 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which created a force of federal commissioners charged with returning escaped slaves to their owners. 

In 1759, the French formally surrendered Quebec to the British.

In 1793, President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol. 

In 1927, the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) made its on-air debut with a basic network of 16 radio stations. 

In 1947, the National Security Act, which created a National Military Establishment and the position of Secretary of Defense, went into effect. 

In 1959, during his U.S. tour, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the grave of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Khrushchev called on all countries to disarm. 

In 1961, United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia. 

In 1965, the situation comedies "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Get Smart" premiered on NBC.

In 1970, rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27. 

In 1975, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. 

In 2001, a week after the Sept. 11 attack, President George W. Bush said he hoped to "rally the world" in the battle against terrorism and predicted that all "people who love freedom" would join. Letters postmarked Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax were sent to the New York Post and NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw. 

In 2007, O.J. Simpson was charged with seven felonies, including kidnapping, in the alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors in a Las Vegas casino-hotel room. (Simpson, sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison, was released on parole in October 2017.) 

In 2014, voters in Scotland rejected independence, opting to remain part of the United Kingdom in a historic referendum. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews, Scotland, ended years of male-only exclusivity as its members voted overwhelmingly in favor of inviting women to join.

Ten years ago: Despite Taliban rocket strikes and bombings, Afghans voted for a new parliament in the first election since a fraud-marred ballot cast doubt on the legitimacy of the embattled government. During his visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI apologized to five people who'd been molested by priests as children in his latest effort to defuse the sex abuse crisis shaking the Roman Catholic Church.

Five years ago: The Environmental Protection Agency said Volkswagen had intentionally skirted clean air laws by using software that enabled about 500,000 of its diesel cars to emit fewer smog-causing pollutants during testing than in real-world driving conditions; the EPA ordered VW to fix the cars at its own expense. President Barack Obama announced he would nominate longtime Pentagon official Eric Fanning to be the Army's new secretary; Fanning became the nation's first openly gay leader of a military service.

One year ago: President Donald Trump named Robert O'Brien, his chief hostage negotiator, as his new national security adviser; O'Brien became the fourth person in two years to hold the job. President Donald Trump said his administration was revoking California's authority to set auto mileage standards stricter than those issued by federal regulators; the state challenged the decision in court. Figures released by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, showed that the number and rate of abortions across the United States had plunged to their lowest levels since the procedure became legal nationwide in 1973.

Today's Birthdays: Singer Jimmie Rodgers is 87. Actor Robert Blake is 87. Gospel singer Bobby Jones is 82. Singer Frankie Avalon is 80. Actor Beth Grant is 71. Rock musician Kerry Livgren is 71. Actor Anna Deavere Smith is 70. The U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, is 69. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino is 68. College Football Hall of Famer and retired NFL player Billy Sims is 65. Movie director Mark Romanek is 61. Baseball Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg is 61. Alt-country-rock musician Mark Olson is 59. Singer Joanne Catherall (Human League) is 58. Actor Holly Robinson Peete is 56. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ricky Bell (Bell Biv Devoe and New Edition) is 53. Actor Aisha Tyler is 50. Former racing cyclist Lance Armstrong is 49. Opera singer Anna Netrebko is 49. Actor Jada Pinkett Smith is 49. Actor James Marsden is 47. Actor Emily Rutherfurd is 46. Actor Travis Schuldt is 46. Rapper Xzibit is 46. Comedian-actor Jason Sudeikis is 45. Actor Sophina Brown is 44. Actor Barrett Foa is 43. Talk show host Sara Haines (TV: "GMA3: Strahan, Sara &amp; Keke") is 43. Actor/comedian Billy Eichner is 42. Actor Alison Lohman is 41. Designer Brandon Maxwell is 36. Congressman and former NFL player Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio, is 36. Actors Brandon and Taylor Porter are 27. Actor Patrick Schwarzenegger is 27. Country singer Tae Dye (Maddie and Tae) is 25. Actor C.J. Sanders is 24.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2019/11/1573488868914.jpeg" alt="Photo of old book courtesy <a href="http://shutterstock.com">shutterstock</a>" />
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 </figure>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSToday is Friday, Sept. 18, the 262nd day of 2020. There are 104 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 18, 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which created a force of federal commissioners charged with returning escaped slaves to their owners. On this date: In 1759, the French formally surrendered Quebec to the British.In 1793, President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol. In 1927, the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) made its on-air debut with a basic network of 16 radio stations. In 1947, the National Security Act, which created a National Military Establishment and the position of Secretary of Defense, went into effect. In 1959, during his U.S. tour, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the grave of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Khrushchev called on all countries to disarm. In 1961, United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia. In 1965, the situation comedies "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Get Smart" premiered on NBC.In 1970, rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27. In 1975, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. In 2001, a week after the Sept. 11 attack, President George W. Bush said he hoped to "rally the world" in the battle against terrorism and predicted that all "people who love freedom" would join. Letters postmarked Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax were sent to the New York Post and NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw. In 2007, O.J. Simpson was charged with seven felonies, including kidnapping, in the alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors in a Las Vegas casino-hotel room. (Simpson, sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison, was released on parole in October 2017.) In 2014, voters in Scotland rejected independence, opting to remain part of the United Kingdom in a historic referendum. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews, Scotland, ended years of male-only exclusivity as its members voted overwhelmingly in favor of inviting women to join.Ten years ago: Despite Taliban rocket strikes and bombings, Afghans voted for a new parliament in the first election since a fraud-marred ballot cast doubt on the legitimacy of the embattled government. During his visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI apologized to five people who'd been molested by priests as children in his latest effort to defuse the sex abuse crisis shaking the Roman Catholic Church.Five years ago: The Environmental Protection Agency said Volkswagen had intentionally skirted clean air laws by using software that enabled about 500,000 of its diesel cars to emit fewer smog-causing pollutants during testing than in real-world driving conditions; the EPA ordered VW to fix the cars at its own expense. President Barack Obama announced he would nominate longtime Pentagon official Eric Fanning to be the Army's new secretary; Fanning became the nation's first openly gay leader of a military service. One year ago: President Donald Trump named Robert O'Brien, his chief hostage negotiator, as his new national security adviser; O'Brien became the fourth person in two years to hold the job. President Donald Trump said his administration was revoking California's authority to set auto mileage standards stricter than those issued by federal regulators; the state challenged the decision in court. Figures released by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, showed that the number and rate of abortions across the United States had plunged to their lowest levels since the procedure became legal nationwide in 1973.Today's Birthdays: Singer Jimmie Rodgers is 87. Actor Robert Blake is 87. Gospel singer Bobby Jones is 82. Singer Frankie Avalon is 80. Actor Beth Grant is 71. Rock musician Kerry Livgren is 71. Actor Anna Deavere Smith is 70. The U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, is 69. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino is 68. College Football Hall of Famer and retired NFL player Billy Sims is 65. Movie director Mark Romanek is 61. Baseball Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg is 61. Alt-country-rock musician Mark Olson is 59. Singer Joanne Catherall (Human League) is 58. Actor Holly Robinson Peete is 56. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ricky Bell (Bell Biv Devoe and New Edition) is 53. Actor Aisha Tyler is 50. Former racing cyclist Lance Armstrong is 49. Opera singer Anna Netrebko is 49. Actor Jada Pinkett Smith is 49. Actor James Marsden is 47. Actor Emily Rutherfurd is 46. Actor Travis Schuldt is 46. Rapper Xzibit is 46. Comedian-actor Jason Sudeikis is 45. Actor Sophina Brown is 44. Actor Barrett Foa is 43. Talk show host Sara Haines (TV: "GMA3: Strahan, Sara &amp; Keke") is 43. Actor/comedian Billy Eichner is 42. Actor Alison Lohman is 41. Designer Brandon Maxwell is 36. Congressman and former NFL player Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio, is 36. Actors Brandon and Taylor Porter are 27. Actor Patrick Schwarzenegger is 27. Country singer Tae Dye (Maddie and Tae) is 25. Actor C.J. Sanders is 24.

Today in History -- Sept. 18

Today is Thursday, Sept. 17, the 261st day of 2020. There are 105 days left in the year. 

On Sept. 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. 

In 1862, more than 3,600 men were killed in the Civil War Battle of Antietam in Maryland. 

In 1908, Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Army Signal Corps became the first person to die in the crash of a powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer, at Fort Myer, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.

In 1937, the likeness of President Abraham Lincoln's head was dedicated at Mount Rushmore.

In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland during World War II, more than two weeks after Nazi Germany had launched its assault. 

In 1944, during World War II, Allied paratroopers launched Operation Market Garden, landing behind German lines in the Netherlands. (After initial success, the Allies were beaten back by the Germans.) 

In 1947, James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense. 

In 1971, citing health reasons, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, 85, retired. (Black, who was succeeded by Lewis F. Powell Jr., died eight days after making his announcement.) 

In 1978, after meeting at Camp David, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed a framework for a peace treaty. 

In 1987, the city of Philadelphia, birthplace of the U.S. Constitution, threw a big party to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the historic document; in a speech at Independence Hall, President Ronald Reagan acclaimed the framing of the Constitution as a milestone "that would profoundly and forever alter not just these United States but the world." 

In 1997, Comedian Red Skelton died in Rancho Mirage, California, at age 84.

In 2001, six days after 9/11, stock prices nosedived but stopped short of collapse in an emotional, flag-waving reopening of Wall Street; the Dow Jones industrial average ended the day down 684.81 at 8,920.70. 

In 2011, a demonstration calling itself Occupy Wall Street began in New York, prompting similar protests around the U.S. and the world. 

Ten years ago: Thousands of cheering Catholic schoolchildren feted Pope Benedict XVI on his second day in Britain, offering a boisterous welcome, as the pontiff urged their teachers to make sure to provide a trusting, safe environment. A scientist and his wife who once worked at a top-secret U.S. nuclear laboratory were arrested after an FBI sting operation and charged with conspiring to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela. (After pleading guilty, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni was sentenced to five years in federal prison while his wife, Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, received a year and a day; the U.S. government never alleged that Venezuela or anyone actually working for it had sought U.S. secrets.)

Five years ago: General Motors agreed to pay $900 million to fend off criminal prosecution over the deadly ignition-switch scandal, striking a deal that brought criticism down on the Justice Department for not bringing charges against individual employees; GM also announced it would spend $575 million to settle the majority of the civil lawsuits filed over the scandal. The Federal Reserve kept U.S interest rates at record lows in the face of threats from a weak global economy, persistently low inflation and unstable financial markets.

One year ago: New York became the first state to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes; the move came as federal health officials investigated a surge of severe breathing illnesses linked to vaping. Broadcast journalist Cokie Roberts, who had chronicled Washington for NPR and ABC News, died of complications from breast cancer at the age of 75. Israeli elections left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu well short of the parliamentary majority he had sought.

Today's Birthdays: Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, is 87. Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter is 81. Singer LaMonte McLemore (The Fifth Dimension) is 85. Retired U.S. Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni is 77. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson is 75. Singer Fee Waybill is 72. Actor Cassandra Peterson ("Elvira, Mistress of the Dark") is 69. Comedian Rita Rudner is 67. Muppeteer Kevin Clash (former voice of Elmo on "Sesame Street") is 60. Director-actor Paul Feig is 58. Movie director Baz Luhrmann is 58. Singer BeBe Winans is 58. TV personality/businessman Robert Herjavec (TV: "Shark Tank") is 57. Actor Kyle Chandler is 55. Director-producer Bryan Singer is 55. Rapper Doug E. Fresh is 54. Actor Malik Yoba is 53. Rock singer Anastacia is 52. Actor Matthew Settle is 51. Rapper Vinnie (Naughty By Nature) is 50. Actor-comedian Bobby Lee is 49. Actor Felix Solis is 49. Rhythm-and-blues singer Marcus Sanders (Hi-Five) is 47. Actor-singer Nona Gaye is 46. Singer-actor Constantine Maroulis is 45. NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson is 45. Pop singer Maile Misajon (Eden's Crush) is 44. Country singer-songwriter Stephen Cochran is 41. Rock musician Chuck Comeau (Simple Plan) is 41. Actor Billy Miller is 41. Rock musician Jon Walker is 35. NHL forward Alex Ovechkin is 35. Actor Danielle Brooks is 31. Gospel singer Jonathan McReynolds is 31. Actor-singer Denyse Tontz is 26. NHL center Auston Matthews is 23.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2019/11/1573488868914.jpeg" alt="Photo of old book courtesy <a href="http://shutterstock.com">shutterstock</a>" />
 <figcaption>Photo of old book courtesy <a href="http://shutterstock.com">shutterstock</a></figcaption>
 </figure>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSToday is Thursday, Sept. 17, the 261st day of 2020. There are 105 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. On this date: In 1862, more than 3,600 men were killed in the Civil War Battle of Antietam in Maryland. In 1908, Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Army Signal Corps became the first person to die in the crash of a powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer, at Fort Myer, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.In 1937, the likeness of President Abraham Lincoln's head was dedicated at Mount Rushmore.In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland during World War II, more than two weeks after Nazi Germany had launched its assault. In 1944, during World War II, Allied paratroopers launched Operation Market Garden, landing behind German lines in the Netherlands. (After initial success, the Allies were beaten back by the Germans.) In 1947, James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense. In 1971, citing health reasons, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, 85, retired. (Black, who was succeeded by Lewis F. Powell Jr., died eight days after making his announcement.) In 1978, after meeting at Camp David, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed a framework for a peace treaty. In 1987, the city of Philadelphia, birthplace of the U.S. Constitution, threw a big party to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the historic document; in a speech at Independence Hall, President Ronald Reagan acclaimed the framing of the Constitution as a milestone "that would profoundly and forever alter not just these United States but the world." In 1997, Comedian Red Skelton died in Rancho Mirage, California, at age 84.In 2001, six days after 9/11, stock prices nosedived but stopped short of collapse in an emotional, flag-waving reopening of Wall Street; the Dow Jones industrial average ended the day down 684.81 at 8,920.70. In 2011, a demonstration calling itself Occupy Wall Street began in New York, prompting similar protests around the U.S. and the world. Ten years ago: Thousands of cheering Catholic schoolchildren feted Pope Benedict XVI on his second day in Britain, offering a boisterous welcome, as the pontiff urged their teachers to make sure to provide a trusting, safe environment. A scientist and his wife who once worked at a top-secret U.S. nuclear laboratory were arrested after an FBI sting operation and charged with conspiring to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela. (After pleading guilty, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni was sentenced to five years in federal prison while his wife, Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, received a year and a day; the U.S. government never alleged that Venezuela or anyone actually working for it had sought U.S. secrets.)Five years ago: General Motors agreed to pay $900 million to fend off criminal prosecution over the deadly ignition-switch scandal, striking a deal that brought criticism down on the Justice Department for not bringing charges against individual employees; GM also announced it would spend $575 million to settle the majority of the civil lawsuits filed over the scandal. The Federal Reserve kept U.S interest rates at record lows in the face of threats from a weak global economy, persistently low inflation and unstable financial markets.One year ago: New York became the first state to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes; the move came as federal health officials investigated a surge of severe breathing illnesses linked to vaping. Broadcast journalist Cokie Roberts, who had chronicled Washington for NPR and ABC News, died of complications from breast cancer at the age of 75. Israeli elections left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu well short of the parliamentary majority he had sought.Today's Birthdays: Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, is 87. Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter is 81. Singer LaMonte McLemore (The Fifth Dimension) is 85. Retired U.S. Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni is 77. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson is 75. Singer Fee Waybill is 72. Actor Cassandra Peterson ("Elvira, Mistress of the Dark") is 69. Comedian Rita Rudner is 67. Muppeteer Kevin Clash (former voice of Elmo on "Sesame Street") is 60. Director-actor Paul Feig is 58. Movie director Baz Luhrmann is 58. Singer BeBe Winans is 58. TV personality/businessman Robert Herjavec (TV: "Shark Tank") is 57. Actor Kyle Chandler is 55. Director-producer Bryan Singer is 55. Rapper Doug E. Fresh is 54. Actor Malik Yoba is 53. Rock singer Anastacia is 52. Actor Matthew Settle is 51. Rapper Vinnie (Naughty By Nature) is 50. Actor-comedian Bobby Lee is 49. Actor Felix Solis is 49. Rhythm-and-blues singer Marcus Sanders (Hi-Five) is 47. Actor-singer Nona Gaye is 46. Singer-actor Constantine Maroulis is 45. NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson is 45. Pop singer Maile Misajon (Eden's Crush) is 44. Country singer-songwriter Stephen Cochran is 41. Rock musician Chuck Comeau (Simple Plan) is 41. Actor Billy Miller is 41. Rock musician Jon Walker is 35. NHL forward Alex Ovechkin is 35. Actor Danielle Brooks is 31. Gospel singer Jonathan McReynolds is 31. Actor-singer Denyse Tontz is 26. NHL center Auston Matthews is 23.

Today in History -- Sept. 17

SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on drug charges after a traffic stop.

Just before midnight Wednesday, a deputy conducted a traffic stop on a Polaris Magnum 4-wheeler in the 2300 block of NE Calhoun Bluff Road, according to Deputy Abigail Christian.

The driver identified as Randy D. Clelland, 60, of Topeka, was placed into custody and booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on a misdemeanor warrant through Shawnee County and is facing requested charges of&nbsp;possession of methamphetamine and a traffic violation.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/9/1600288860092.png" alt="Clelland photo Shawnee Co." />
 <figcaption>Clelland photo Shawnee Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on drug charges after a traffic stop.Just before midnight Wednesday, a deputy conducted a traffic stop on a Polaris Magnum 4-wheeler in the 2300 block of NE Calhoun Bluff Road, according to Deputy Abigail Christian.The driver identified as Randy D. Clelland, 60, of Topeka, was placed into custody and booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on a misdemeanor warrant through Shawnee County and is facing requested charges of&nbsp;possession of methamphetamine and a traffic violation.

Sheriff: Kansas man on ATV was transporting meth

MANHATTAN —&nbsp;The Kansas State University College of Education's Center for Social Studies Education is co-sponsoring a seven-week&nbsp;<a href="https://civiced.org/power-series-webinars" target="_blank">"Power to the People" webinar series</a>&nbsp;beginning Thursday.

The series offers experts addressing some of the most challenging issues in American society.

Topics include voting rights, monuments and flags, the Nineteenth Amendment, free speech, Supreme Court cases, social movements for change and Indian sovereignty. The&nbsp;series is designed for civics, government and U.S. history teachers who want to better understand these issues; however, the public is invited to attend. Advance registration is required.

Thomas Vontz, professor and director of the Center for Social Studies Education, said these topics are both timely and relevant.

"These webinars provide teachers, students and citizens opportunities to consider important public issues in a nonpartisan environment," Vontz said. "We also hope to help citizens understand that political power may be exerted by average citizens through exercising their rights of speech, association and voting. Democracy works best when citizens are informed, engaged and motivated to make their community, state, nation and world a little better."

Webinar sessions&nbsp;are open to the public and will last 90 minutes. Each session starts at 6:30 p.m. CDT and registration is required at&nbsp;<a href="https://civiced.org/power-series-webinars" target="_blank">civiced.org/power-series-webinars</a>. The schedule:

• "The Power of People and the Courts,"&nbsp;Sept. 17.&nbsp;Christopher Riano and U.S. District Judge Mae Avila D'Agostino will review selected Supreme Court cases from 2019-2020.

•&nbsp;"The Power of Indian Sovereignty," Thursday, Sept. 24.&nbsp;David E. Wilkins, professor and E. Clairborne Robins distinguished professor of leadership studies at the University of Richmond, will address Native American sovereignty in the American constitutional system. Wilkins asserts this subject is not sufficiently covered in most schools. He wrote about it in depth in his book "Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations."

•&nbsp;"The Power of Movements: The Struggle to Pass the Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond," Thursday, Oct. 1.&nbsp;Lisa Tetrault,&nbsp;associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University, will explain how the power of movements, focusing particularly on the struggle to pass the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

•&nbsp;"The Power of Symbols: Monuments and Flags," Thursday, Oct. 8.&nbsp;Brandon Hasbrouck,&nbsp;assistant professor of law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, will explain why symbols, such as monuments and flags, illicit powerful emotions in many Americans.

• "The Power of the Criminal Justice System,"&nbsp;Thursday, Oct. 15.&nbsp;Hernandez Stroud,&nbsp;counsel for the Justice Program of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, will address the power of the American criminal justice system. With more than 2 million people incarcerated, the U.S. leads the world with the highest prison population rate in the world, surpassing Iran, Cuba, China and Russia.

• "The Power of Free Speech,"&nbsp;Thursday, Oct. 22.&nbsp;David Hudson, visiting associate professor of legal practice at Belmont University and First Amendment ombudsman for the Freedom Forum Institute's First Amendment Center, will address the power of free speech.

• "The Power of Voting: The Electoral College, Gerrymandering and Suppression,"&nbsp;Thursday, Oct. 29.&nbsp;Michael Li, senior counsel at the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, will address the ongoing struggle to exercise the right to vote.

This Power to the People webinar series is co-sponsored by the&nbsp;<a href="https://civiced.org/about" target="_blank">Center for Civic Education</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.k-state.edu/" target="_blank">Kansas State University</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://inbf.org/" target="_blank">Indiana Bar Foundation</a>.&nbsp;

MANHATTAN —&nbsp;The Kansas State University College of Education's Center for Social Studies Education is co-sponsoring a seven-week&nbsp;<a href="https://civiced.org/power-series-webinars" target="_blank">"Power to the People" webinar series</a>&nbsp;beginning Thursday. The series offers experts addressing some of the most challenging issues in American society.Topics include voting rights, monuments and flags, the Nineteenth Amendment, free speech, Supreme Court cases, social movements for change and Indian sovereignty. The&nbsp;series is designed for civics, government and U.S. history teachers who want to better understand these issues; however, the public is invited to attend. Advance registration is required.Thomas Vontz, professor and director of the Center for Social Studies Education, said these topics are both timely and relevant."These webinars provide teachers, students and citizens opportunities to consider important public issues in a nonpartisan environment," Vontz said. "We also hope to help citizens understand that political power may be exerted by average citizens through exercising their rights of speech, association and voting. Democracy works best when citizens are informed, engaged and motivated to make their community, state, nation and world a little better."Webinar sessions&nbsp;are open to the public and will last 90 minutes. Each session starts at 6:30 p.m. CDT and registration is required at&nbsp;<a href="https://civiced.org/power-series-webinars" target="_blank">civiced.org/power-series-webinars</a>. The schedule:• "The Power of People and the Courts,"&nbsp;Sept. 17.&nbsp;Christopher Riano and U.S. District Judge Mae Avila D'Agostino will review selected Supreme Court cases from 2019-2020.•&nbsp;"The Power of Indian Sovereignty," Thursday, Sept. 24.&nbsp;David E. Wilkins, professor and E. Clairborne Robins distinguished professor of leadership studies at the University of Richmond, will address Native American sovereignty in the American constitutional system. Wilkins asserts this subject is not sufficiently covered in most schools. He wrote about it in depth in his book "Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations."•&nbsp;"The Power of Movements: The Struggle to Pass the Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond," Thursday, Oct. 1.&nbsp;Lisa Tetrault,&nbsp;associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University, will explain how the power of movements, focusing particularly on the struggle to pass the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.•&nbsp;"The Power of Symbols: Monuments and Flags," Thursday, Oct. 8.&nbsp;Brandon Hasbrouck,&nbsp;assistant professor of law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, will explain why symbols, such as monuments and flags, illicit powerful emotions in many Americans.• "The Power of the Criminal Justice System,"&nbsp;Thursday, Oct. 15.&nbsp;Hernandez Stroud,&nbsp;counsel for the Justice Program of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, will address the power of the American criminal justice system. With more than 2 million people incarcerated, the U.S. leads the world with the highest prison population rate in the world, surpassing Iran, Cuba, China and Russia.• "The Power of Free Speech,"&nbsp;Thursday, Oct. 22.&nbsp;David Hudson, visiting associate professor of legal practice at Belmont University and First Amendment ombudsman for the Freedom Forum Institute's First Amendment Center, will address the power of free speech.• "The Power of Voting: The Electoral College, Gerrymandering and Suppression,"&nbsp;Thursday, Oct. 29.&nbsp;Michael Li, senior counsel at the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, will address the ongoing struggle to exercise the right to vote.This Power to the People webinar series is co-sponsored by the&nbsp;<a href="https://civiced.org/about" target="_blank">Center for Civic Education</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.k-state.edu/" target="_blank">Kansas State University</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://inbf.org/" target="_blank">Indiana Bar Foundation</a>.&nbsp;

K-State: Free webinar series explores challenging issues

CONCORDIA - With two meets in the books, the Cloud County Community College cross country teams have three individual titles, two team titles and now two Runners of the Week as Habtamu Geta and Patricia Koma have been named Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference and NJCAA Division I National runners of the week to open the season.

Geta's Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Runner of the Week came on September 9th as the sophomore would win the Terry Masterson Twilight Classic in Hutchinson to open the season with a time of 20:13.5 in the four-mile race which was the sixth-fastest time ever recorded at the meet. The Houston, Texas, native would go on this past week to earn his second straight victory with an individual title at the 2020 Ollie Isom Invitational in El Dorado with a time of 23:24.48.&nbsp;

Koma has been equally impressive in her first two starts of the season, notching a runner-up finish at the Terry Masterson Twilight Classic in her first meet as a T-Bird before going on to take her first victory of the year at the Ollie Isom Invitational with a time of 19:50.42. Both meets would see the Cloud County women win the team titles as CCCC has managed to have 10 top-10 individual finishers throughout the first two weeks of the season.&nbsp;

The awards continue a now two-year plus long stretch where T-Bird runners have earned 14 Runner of the Week honors including eight KJCCC Runners of the Week and six National Runner of the Week awards.&nbsp;

--<a href="http://cloudtbirds.com">cloudtbirds.com</a>--

CONCORDIA - With two meets in the books, the Cloud County Community College cross country teams have three individual titles, two team titles and now two Runners of the Week as Habtamu Geta and Patricia Koma have been named Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference and NJCAA Division I National runners of the week to open the season.Geta's Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Runner of the Week came on September 9th as the sophomore would win the Terry Masterson Twilight Classic in Hutchinson to open the season with a time of 20:13.5 in the four-mile race which was the sixth-fastest time ever recorded at the meet. The Houston, Texas, native would go on this past week to earn his second straight victory with an individual title at the 2020 Ollie Isom Invitational in El Dorado with a time of 23:24.48.&nbsp;Koma has been equally impressive in her first two starts of the season, notching a runner-up finish at the Terry Masterson Twilight Classic in her first meet as a T-Bird before going on to take her first victory of the year at the Ollie Isom Invitational with a time of 19:50.42. Both meets would see the Cloud County women win the team titles as CCCC has managed to have 10 top-10 individual finishers throughout the first two weeks of the season.&nbsp;The awards continue a now two-year plus long stretch where T-Bird runners have earned 14 Runner of the Week honors including eight KJCCC Runners of the Week and six National Runner of the Week awards.&nbsp;--<a href="http://cloudtbirds.com">cloudtbirds.com</a>--

Cloud County Cross Country runners earn Runner of the Week honors

EMPORIA -- The William Allen White Children's&nbsp;Book&nbsp;Awards will move to a virtual space for the 2020 celebration on Oct. 2.

"We truly want to make this year's celebration an inclusive event for as many schools as possible across the state," said Michelle Hammond, dean of ESU University Libraries and Archives, which organizes the WAW Children's&nbsp;Book&nbsp;Awards.

The 2020 winners of the awards are two authors whose&nbsp;books speak to personal identity. Kansas schoolchildren in Grades 3 through 5 selected "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling, while students in Grades 6 through 8 selected "Restart" by Gordon Korman.

"Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" tell the story of Aven Green, a girl who was born without arms and is tired of answering questions about them. When her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown Western theme park in Arizona, Aven knows she will face more questions in her new home.

Aven's new adventure includes making friends with Connor, a classmate with his own disability, and together solving the mystery of a special room at Stagecoach Pass.

"Restart" is the story of Chase, a school bully who gets a do-over thanks to falling off the roof of his house. Because of amnesia, he doesn't remember more than his name. When he returns to school, he doesn't understand why the kids he wants to hang out with are scared of him.

Chase has to face not the question of who he is, but who he was - and who he wants to be now.

The first weekend in October is the traditional date to celebrate these awards. The event brings buses of schoolchildren from across the state, with those traveling the furthest arriving on Friday and spending the night.

For the 68th annual celebration, the COVID-19 pandemic with its limits on large gatherings and requirements for social distancing has provided an opportunity, Hammond said.

"This online environment could potentially provide us with a much greater reach," she said.

The William Allen White Children's&nbsp;Book&nbsp;Award program began April 22, 1952, eight years after the famed journalist's death on Jan. 29, 1944 - Kansas Day. Emporia State University launched the William Allen White Children's&nbsp;Book&nbsp;Award, which was guided by Ruth Garver Gagliardo, who was hired by White to write for The Emporia Gazette.

Passionate about&nbsp;books, Gagliardo wrote a regular column that commented on&nbsp;books, music and art, and often concentrated on&nbsp;books for children. She was one of the first to review children's&nbsp;books for a newspaper, which gave parents, teachers and librarians insights to quality&nbsp;books for children.

Gagliardo's column led to "The Children's&nbsp;Bookshelf," a&nbsp;book&nbsp;review column in the Kansas Teacher magazine. She also started the Children's Traveling&nbsp;Book&nbsp;Exhibit, which helped introduce children all over Kansas to good&nbsp;books for 23 years.

EMPORIA -- The William Allen White Children's&nbsp;Book&nbsp;Awards will move to a virtual space for the 2020 celebration on Oct. 2."We truly want to make this year's celebration an inclusive event for as many schools as possible across the state," said Michelle Hammond, dean of ESU University Libraries and Archives, which organizes the WAW Children's&nbsp;Book&nbsp;Awards.The 2020 winners of the awards are two authors whose&nbsp;books speak to personal identity. Kansas schoolchildren in Grades 3 through 5 selected "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling, while students in Grades 6 through 8 selected "Restart" by Gordon Korman.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/9/1600287641953.jpeg" alt="" />
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 </figure>"Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" tell the story of Aven Green, a girl who was born without arms and is tired of answering questions about them. When her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown Western theme park in Arizona, Aven knows she will face more questions in her new home.Aven's new adventure includes making friends with Connor, a classmate with his own disability, and together solving the mystery of a special room at Stagecoach Pass.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/9/1600287715326.jpeg" alt="" />
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 </figure>"Restart" is the story of Chase, a school bully who gets a do-over thanks to falling off the roof of his house. Because of amnesia, he doesn't remember more than his name. When he returns to school, he doesn't understand why the kids he wants to hang out with are scared of him.Chase has to face not the question of who he is, but who he was - and who he wants to be now.The first weekend in October is the traditional date to celebrate these awards. The event brings buses of schoolchildren from across the state, with those traveling the furthest arriving on Friday and spending the night.For the 68th annual celebration, the COVID-19 pandemic with its limits on large gatherings and requirements for social distancing has provided an opportunity, Hammond said."This online environment could potentially provide us with a much greater reach," she said.The William Allen White Children's&nbsp;Book&nbsp;Award program began April 22, 1952, eight years after the famed journalist's death on Jan. 29, 1944 - Kansas Day. Emporia State University launched the William Allen White Children's&nbsp;Book&nbsp;Award, which was guided by Ruth Garver Gagliardo, who was hired by White to write for The Emporia Gazette.Passionate about&nbsp;books, Gagliardo wrote a regular column that commented on&nbsp;books, music and art, and often concentrated on&nbsp;books for children. She was one of the first to review children's&nbsp;books for a newspaper, which gave parents, teachers and librarians insights to quality&nbsp;books for children.Gagliardo's column led to "The Children's&nbsp;Bookshelf," a&nbsp;book&nbsp;review column in the Kansas Teacher magazine. She also started the Children's Traveling&nbsp;Book&nbsp;Exhibit, which helped introduce children all over Kansas to good&nbsp;books for 23 years.

Annual WAW Book Awards celebration will be virtual

SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating two cases of sexual assault and after a 7-hour standoff have a suspect in custody.

On August 29, Wichita police began a sexual assault and robbery investigation following an incident reported in the 6100 Block of East Boston, according to Captain Jason Stephens. 

Two victims reported an attempted robbery at gunpoint. The female victims reported the suspect, later identified as 33-year-old Patrick Newborn of Wichita, had committed a sexual assault against her one to two weeks earlier, according to Stephens.

On Sept. 13, police investigated another sexual assault involving a different victim at a residence in the 700 Block of South Pershing in Wichita. Investigators determined the cases were likely connected and later confirmed that.

On Tuesday police learned that Newborn was wanted on a felony warrant for being a parole absconder, according to Stephens. Officers located him Tuesday in 9100 Block of East Harry in Wichita. Upon confronting him, Newborn pulled a handgun and threatened the officers.

The officers retreated from the residence and called in the SWAT team. The SWAT team established a perimeter around the location and spent 7 hours communicating with Newborn.

Just after 1a.m. Wednesday, he gave himself up and was taken into custody without further incident, according to Stephens.

Newborn is being held on requested charges that include rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, criminal threat, aggravated residential robbery,&nbsp; aggravated residential burglary, aggravated kidnapping, criminal possession of a firearm and a state parole violation, <a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/sheriffinmates/SheriffInmateDetail.aspx?nameId=18820474">according to online booking records.</a>

He has a previous conviction for Aggravated Indecent Liberties, Sex Intercourse with a victim under the age of 16, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections.

SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a reported sexual assault of a 32-year-old woman at a home in Wichita.

At approximately 12:00 a.m., Saturday, police were dispatched to a burglary in progress call in the 700 block of South Pershing, according to officer Paul Cruz.

Upon their arrival, they contacted the 32-year-old female victim, who reported an unknown, armed male suspect entered her residence.

Once inside the suspect demanded money, sexually assaulted her, and left.

The victim was transported to an area hospital for treatment. Also, inside the residence were two small children.&nbsp;

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/9/1600269243259.png" alt="Newborn -photo Sedgwick County" />
 <figcaption>Newborn -photo Sedgwick County</figcaption>
 </figure>SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating two cases of sexual assault and after a 7-hour standoff have a suspect in custody.On August 29, Wichita police began a sexual assault and robbery investigation following an incident reported in the 6100 Block of East Boston, according to Captain Jason Stephens. Two victims reported an attempted robbery at gunpoint. The female victims reported the suspect, later identified as 33-year-old Patrick Newborn of Wichita, had committed a sexual assault against her one to two weeks earlier, according to Stephens.On Sept. 13, police investigated another sexual assault involving a different victim at a residence in the 700 Block of South Pershing in Wichita. Investigators determined the cases were likely connected and later confirmed that.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/9/1600271410562.png" alt="Special Weapons and Tactics team on the scene of the 7-hour standoff and arrest late Tuesday -photo courtesy KWCH" />
 <figcaption>Special Weapons and Tactics team on the scene of the 7-hour standoff and arrest late Tuesday -photo courtesy KWCH</figcaption>
 </figure>On Tuesday police learned that Newborn was wanted on a felony warrant for being a parole absconder, according to Stephens. Officers located him Tuesday in 9100 Block of East Harry in Wichita. Upon confronting him, Newborn pulled a handgun and threatened the officers.The officers retreated from the residence and called in the SWAT team. The SWAT team established a perimeter around the location and spent 7 hours communicating with Newborn.Just after 1a.m. Wednesday, he gave himself up and was taken into custody without further incident, according to Stephens.Newborn is being held on requested charges that include rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, criminal threat, aggravated residential robbery,&nbsp; aggravated residential burglary, aggravated kidnapping, criminal possession of a firearm and a state parole violation, <a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/sheriffinmates/SheriffInmateDetail.aspx?nameId=18820474">according to online booking records.</a>He has a previous conviction for Aggravated Indecent Liberties, Sex Intercourse with a victim under the age of 16, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections.--------SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a reported sexual assault of a 32-year-old woman at a home in Wichita.At approximately 12:00 a.m., Saturday, police were dispatched to a burglary in progress call in the 700 block of South Pershing, according to officer Paul Cruz.Upon their arrival, they contacted the 32-year-old female victim, who reported an unknown, armed male suspect entered her residence.Once inside the suspect demanded money, sexually assaulted her, and left.The victim was transported to an area hospital for treatment. Also, inside the residence were two small children.&nbsp;