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Putin
won’t stem extends
border flow his rule
Policy changes have little
effect without greater
to 2030
funding, DHS data shows
protests at polls
Honor navalny
BY N ICK M IROFF

The U.s. officers who screen Opposition leader called

migrants at the border to deter- for action before dying
mine eligibility for asylum have
been plowing through cases at a
record clip since May, when the BY F RANCESCA E BEL
Biden administration placed AND R OBYN D IXON
tougher restrictions on people
who cross illegally. MOSCOW — on the final day of a
The officers are completing presidential election with only
twice as many interviews per one possible result, Russians pro-
month as they did a year ago, and tested Vladimir Putin’s authori-
under the tighter rules, the per- tarian hold on power by forming
centage of migrants who are re- long lines to vote against him at
jected and referred for deporta- noon sunday — answering the
tion has more than doubled, ac- BiLL o’LEaRy/thE washington Post call of the late opposition leader
cording to the latest Department Margie eyman perez hugs debbie darling norris as she takes a photo of a memorial flag at the bethesda studio of artist Alexei navalny, and undercutting
of Homeland security data. suzanne brennan Firstenberg, who is archiving 20,000 of the white flags placed on the national Mall during the pandemic. preliminary results sunday night
But the number of people that led Putin to claim a landslide
screened remains a small fraction victory.
of the number who cross the bor-
der illegally. And the government
does not have the detention capac-
ity to hold others long enough to
As memorial is archived, grief remains Russia’s Central election Com-
mission, which routinely bars any
real challengers from running,
reported late sunday that Putin
interview them.
As a result, the government has Four years after the onset of the pandemic, families are ‘never going back to normal’ had received more than 87 per-
cent of the vote with 75 percent of
limited ability to reduce border ballots counted. Putin quickly
crossings by adjusting the U.s. asy- claimed a fifth term in office,
lum system, whose delays and dys- BY J ENNA P ORTNOY his country let him down.” shows. extending his rule until at least
function are widely recognized as The ink on some tributes has faded, but “We’re running from a burning build- 2030. He said he would continue
a driver of illegal immigration. The monument to grief on the national the messages endure. ing. We’re not ready to stop and look back his war against Ukraine where “in
The bipartisan senate border Mall was never built to last. The urgency of remembering has only at the largest slow-motion casualty event some areas our guys are simply
bill that failed last month would The sea of white flags, one for each deepened for survivors as America moves in U.s. history,” Firstenberg said. cutting the enemy to pieces right
have greatly increased deporta- covid victim, rustled in the wind and further from the World Health organiza- The flags were installed outside RFK now.”
tion capacity, providing $6 billion shimmered in the sunlight for a time, tion’s declaration of a coronavirus pan- stadium in Washington from late october Russia’s elections have long
see border on A2 simply asking passersby to consider those demic, four years ago this month. through november 2020 and on the Mall been widely condemned as nei-
who died too soon: To artist and former hospice volunteer from sept. 17 to oct. 3 in 2021. ther free nor fair and failing to
budget showdown: Border-related “Dante Montreal. He liked turtles.” suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, who is The Washington Post talked to some of meet basic democratic standards,
dispute raises risk of shutdown. A3 “Will I ever stop thinking, ‘I want my archiving 20,000 flags from the memorial the people who dedicated flags about with the Kremlin approving op-
mommy?’ ” with anthropology professor sarah e. what the memorial, “In America: Remem- position candidates and tightly
“Warner Lee Timmons. Beloved hus- Wagner, the nation’s reckoning with loss ber,” meant to them. controlling media access. That
band, father and grandfather who served is just beginning. nearly 1.2 million peo- meant Putin’s victory was preor-

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campuses quadrupled complicated to be done in argued that it’s not a ban, the
practical difficulties would raise
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en in recent years, climbing fast- 180 days, as House-passed legisla- transaction is so extreme,” said
est in states that have passed laws tion requires, would be one of the Lee edwards, a former mergers
restricting LGBTQ+ student thorniest and most complicated and acquisitions partner at the
rights and education, a Washing- transactions in corporate history, law firm shearman & sterling,
ton Post analysis of FBI data posing financial, technical and using a term of art for a complicat-
finds. geopolitical challenges that ex- ed deal with uncertain prospects.
In states with restrictive laws, perts said could render a sale im- To complete a deal of this size
the number of hate crimes on practical and increase the likeli- and complexity in half a year, in-
K-12 campuses has more than Jahi ChikwEndiu/thE washington Post hood the app will be banned na- cluding passing any regulatory re-
quadrupled since the onset of a supreme court Justices sonia sotomayor, left, and Amy coney barrett at a panel discussion tuesday. tionwide. view that might be required in
divisive culture war that has of- The bill, which President Biden countries around the world,
ten centered on the rights of has said he would sign, raced would be “extraordinarily fast and
LGBTQ+ youth.
At the same time, calls to
LGBTQ+ youth crisis hotlines
Justices seek to dispel divided image through the House but faces a
slow-walk in the senate and con-
stitutional challenges in the
aggressive,” he added. Any buyer
would need to devote “huge
amounts of management and stra-
have exploded, with some advo- courts. Yet financial experts say tegic planning resources … with a
cates drawing a connection be- BY A NN E . M ARIMOW she was still celebrating at the agreeing more agreeably at a the complex legislative process high risk of failure.”
tween the political climate and White House when she received time when the country is more targeting the video app, which is TikTok, one of the world’s most
the spike in bullying and hate The bitter confirmation battle her first congratulatory phone polarized than ever and public owned by the China-based inter- popular apps, would probably sell
crimes. was behind her, and Amy Coney call from the high court. on the opinion of the supreme Court is net giant ByteDance, may end up for more than $100 billion, ac-
LGBTQ+ students have long Barrett was the nation’s newest line: Justice sonia sotomayor, at historic lows, with approval being easier than any subsequent cording to one financial analyst’s
dealt with bullying and harass- supreme Court justice — a con- the court’s leading liberal, an divided sharply along partisan transaction. estimate. And that may be low:
ment at school, but some stu- servative protégé of the late obama nominee and the first lines. A sale would require severing a TikTok made $16 billion in sales in
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The rarely used gambit that could force the House to pass aid for Ukraine
This House GoP
The Fix majority is
aaron seemingly bent on
Blake making history —
in all the wrong
ways.
Its internal discord has made
it the first to remove an
incumbent speaker. It struggled
mightily to elect both that
speaker and his successor. It has
played a major role in what was
a historically unproductive 2023.
It keeps losing on votes in ways
that majorities almost never do.
And now it appears it could
notch another rare distinction:
having its hand forced by a
discharge petition.
Last week saw the start of a
pair of discharge efforts to force
a vote on Ukraine, Israel and
Taiwan. With House Speaker
mike Johnson (r-La.) balking at
a foreign aid package that
passed with 70 votes in the
Senate but that the hard right
opposes — and with Ukraine
apparently in dire need —
lawmakers are reaching for the
little-used and rarely successful
tool.
Effectively, discharge petitions
force the House to vote on
something, as long as a majority
of the chamber signs on to them.
But while that sounds relatively
simple, it’s not, for reasons we
will get to.
one discharge petition, from
House Democrats, would force a
vote on the Senate package.
Another, from a small group of
bipartisan lawmakers, would
pair the Ukraine, Israel and
Taiwan aid with border-security
measures.
Whether either of them will
ultimately reach a majority is to
be determined. But it’s looking
quite plausible that they could at
least have an impact in a way we
rarely see.
The former petition has 177
supporters, but only among the
minority Democrats. And given
that some progressive
Democrats are balking at the aid
to Israel, it would probably need
to pick off a significant number
of republicans in a way that it
hasn’t yet.
That would seem to be less of
a concern with a historically
weak (and potentially
temporary) speaker. The urgency
for aid to Ukraine would also
seem to push foreign policy
hawks toward this type of
extraordinary action, if they
believe it necessary to pass the
aid.
That’s significant. The reason
is the same reason discharge
petitions are so rarely successful:
because members of the majority
party are reluctant to sign them
— even on legislation with which
they agree — since it’s viewed as
undermining leadership.
House rules Committee
Chairman Tom Cole (r-okla.)
put it bluntly.
“Sooner or later, [foreign aid]
is getting to the floor,” he said,
according to Politico. He added:
“So we can either come together
on a package of our own and put
that on the floor, or have to live
with whatever the discharge
petition produces.”
Cole’s comment gets at what
might be the most likely impact
of the discharge petitions. It’s
not just that one of the two could
ultimately garner a majority and
force a vote; it’s also that the
mere threat of them could spur
the House into action.
But even if it were the latter,
that would be rare.
The Brookings Institution’s
Sarah Binder has for years
compiled data on discharge
petitions. As of may, she had
counted 639 discharge petitions
since 1935. Less than 4 percent
were directly successful. But a
similar percentage led the House
to act because of the credible
threat that the petitions posed.
Those are still substantial
numbers; about 8 percent of
discharge petitions had some
form of success. But what you’ll
also notice if you look at Binder’s
most recent data is that these
numbers have fallen off
substantially in recent decades.
In the 21st century, the only
major examples of discharge
petitions succeeding were
republicans bucking their
speaker to pass campaign
finance reform in 2002 and a
bipartisan group forcing a vote
to reauthorize the Export-Import
Bank in 2015.
The overriding question in all
of this, of course, is what
Johnson will do. While he has
voted against Ukraine aid in the
past, he has also spoken about
how important the aid and
Ukraine’s success is. And while
he has ruled out bringing the
Senate package to the House
floor, he has spoken more in
terms of allowing the House to
work its own will.
His problem is that Ukraine is
in a tough spot, and even
members of his own party are
getting impatient. It’s not at all
clear that the novice speaker
even knows what the path
forward might be or what he can
pull off. The fractiousness of his
conference is giving him few
good options. He indicated to
Politico on Thursday that any
vote would probably be taken up
under rules requiring a two-
thirds majority and that it would
be a stand-alone bill. But he
stopped short of promising a
vote, and he even suggested that
Ukraine and Israel aid might be
separated.
In that way, having his hand
forced by a discharge petition
might actually be politically
preferable — by allowing him to
cite that fact when Ukraine-
funding skeptics complain.
Notably, some hard-right
members, such as rep. marjorie
Taylor Greene (r-Ga.), are
suggesting that they wouldn’t
hold Johnson responsible or seek
to oust him (a la Kevin
mcCarthy) if he can’t beat back a
discharge petition.
But even if Johnson seeks to
use that as an excuse, that
Congress needed to go to this
historically rare tool to get this
done would speak volumes
about just how unwieldy the
House GoP has become.

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lum officers to work on border
cases. To boost output even more,
staffers with previous asylum
training have been reassigned to
border cases to help screen mi-
grants.
Despite the all-hands-on-deck
approach, the number of inter-
views the officers completed was
dwarfed by the nearly 1.7 million
illegal crossings at the U.S.-mexico
border during that time period.
“We are maxing out the system,
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), seen last month, has said he doubts
a bipartisan bill on border issues will be revived in the Senate.
and it hasn’t kept pace with the
increase,” said one DHS official
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to speak candidly.
While not every migrant who
crosses illegally claims a fear of
persecution — the first step in
triggering an asylum officer inter-
view — thousands of migrants are
released into the United States
every month because U.S. authori-
ties lack the capacity to detain
applicants long enough to screen
out weak or baseless cases at the
border.
Under U.S. immigration law,
anyone who reaches U.S. soil has
the right to seek asylum, regard-
less of how they arrive. migrants
who claim a fear of persecution in
their home countries are referred
to a U.S. asylum officer for an
interview to determine whether
their claims are credible. Appli-
cants who face persecution on the
basis of race, religion, gender, po-
litical opinion or membership in a
particular social group are eligible
for an asylum claim, and appli-
cants can also be referred to the
courts if officers determine the
person is likely to face imminent
harm if returned to their country.
for much of the past decade, as
soaring numbers of migrants
crossed illegally and expressed
fear, most were able to pass the
initial screening, which sent their
cases to U.S. immigration courts. A
much smaller number of those
who made a fear claim — about
20 percent — were ultimately
granted U.S. asylum. many mi-
grants never complete the appli-
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cation process after they are re-
leased from custody to await a
court hearing, court data shows.
The gap between the relative
ease of passing the initial screen-
ing and the tougher odds of get-
ting U.S. asylum is considered by
lawmakers from both parties to be
an incentive for illegal border
crossings. migrants with weak or
fake claims can avoid deportation
and live and work in the United
States while waiting for their asy-
lum case to plod through clogged
U.S. immigration courts — a proc-
ess that takes five to seven years on
average, according to the latest
government estimates.
And because DHS doesn’t have
enough asylum officers to screen
all the migrants expressing fear,
border crossers who don’t get ini-
tial interviews are referred to the
immigration court system and re-
leased into the United States.
About half of illegal border cross-
ings are families with children,
who are generally not detained.
The Biden administration put
tougher asylum restrictions in
place by implementing its “Cir-
cumvention of Lawful Pathways”
rule after lifting the pandemic-era
border controls known as Title 42
in may. The new rule penalizes
asylum seekers if they cross the
border illegally or fail to apply for
protection in another nation they
travel through en route to the U.S.
border, creating what the govern-
ment calls a “presumption of ineli-
gibility.”
Immigrant advocate groups
and many Democrats denounced
the measures as similar to Trump’s
efforts to shut off asylum access.
Biden officials said the rule was
key to cutting back the number of
asylum claimants with weak cases
who pass the first hurdle — part of
the administration’s broader
strategy to expand opportunities
for migrants to enter legally while
ramping up deportations for those
who cross unlawfully.
Between 2014 and 2019, about
85 percent of migrants who
claimed a fear of persecution
passed the initial screening stage
and were referred to U.S. immigra-
tion courts, according to DHS data.
That number has dropped to
59 percent under Biden’s new mea-
sures, the latest statistics show.
DHS’s emphasis on asylum cas-
es has diverted so much attention
to the border that its other case-
loads are growing worse. The
backlog of “affirmative asylum”
cases — from applicants who seek
protection after entering the
country legally — nearly doubled
last year to more than 1.1 million
cases.
“People are going to keep com-
ing, and at least in the short term,
it’s hard to see how the available
resources can match the arrivals,”
said Kathleen Bush-Joseph, an
analyst at the nonpartisan migra-
tion Policy Institute in Washing-
ton. “The Biden administration
has made huge investments, but
more needs to be done, and Con-
gress is going to have to act to
make that happen.”
Sen. James Lankford (r-okla.),
the lead sponsor of the failed bor-
der bill, said authorities need
tighter rules and more resources
to discourage migrants without
valid asylum claims from making
the journey to the U.S. border.
one of the provisions in the bill
would have made staying in the
United States more difficult for
asylum applicants who could not
prove it was unsafe to relocate
within their home countries. mi-
grants who express fear of return
often say they are fleeing threats
by criminal groups in their neigh-
borhoods.
other potential asylum chang-
es in the bill would have further
limited applicants’ ability to ap-
peal a rejection, and denied more
claims by those who come to the
U.S. border after resettling safely
in another country.
“What really deters folks from
coming is someone they know get-
ting turned around,” Lankford
said in an interview Thursday. “If
there is a higher standard, and we
have faster removals, then the in-
centive to pay a smuggler $10,000
goes away.”
“At a minimum, there is a pause
so that people say: The rules have
changed and I shouldn’t make
that trip,” he said.
Lankford said he doubts the
bipartisan bill will be revived. A
new battle over the $60 billion
DHS budget has left lawmakers
considering a separate stopgap
bill to keep the department fund-
ed through next year. The discus-
sions don’t include an expansion
of asylum-processing capacity,
which officials say they need to
apply the stricter standards and
discourage weak or false fear
claims.
“I don’t have any reason to have
hope at this point,” Lankford said.
“No one is pushing me to get some-
thing resolved. Democrats are say-
ing the president can’t do any-
thing without the bill. republi-
cans are saying he’s not doing
what he can without it.”
Immigrant advocates remain
angry with the administration
over Biden’s asylum restrictions,
with some referring to them as a
“ban,” even though more than half
of applicants are still clearing the
initial hurdle under the tighter
screening rules.
Christina Asencio, research di-
rector at Human rights first, a
New York-based advocacy organi-
zation for migrants, said Biden’s
measures are unfair because asy-
lum seekers who need protection
may not be aware that they face
penalties if they cross the border
illegally.
“It increases the likelihood peo-
ple will be returned to potential
persecution,” Asencio said in an
interview. “They are stuck with a
choice of imminent risk of harm or
a confusing, complex architecture
they can’t grasp.”
Asencio said it isn’t realistic to
ask asylum seekers to wait in mex-
ican border cities for months
while requesting an appointment
at a U.S. port of entry. “They’re
afraid of being arrested and de-
tained,” she said, or attacked by
criminal groups.
In July, a U.S. district court in
California found Biden’s asylum
restrictions unlawful after the
American Civil Liberties Union
and other immigrant advocates
sued, but that ruling was stayed by
a federal appeals court. The litiga-
tion is on pause while the ACLU
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Border deadlock heightens government shutdown risk
BY J ACOB B OGAGE
A dispute over border security
funding threatens to force a shut-
down of vast swaths of the federal
government in less than a week, as
Congress and the White House
struggled Sunday to reach a deal
on long-term spending legisla-
tion.
Funding for roughly 70 percent
of the federal government — in-
cluding the departments of De-
fense, State and Homeland Secu-
rity as well as the IRS and Trans-
portation Security Administra-
tion — will expire at 12:01 a.m.
Saturday unless Congress acts be-
fore then.
A prolonged shutdown could
have cascading effects on the gov-
ernment and economy. Two-
thirds of IRS employees would
face furloughs at the height of tax
filing season. The roughly 1.3 mil-
lion active-duty U.S. military serv-
ice members would remain on the
job without pay. So would airport
security officers, many of whom
called in sick in protest during a
previous shutdown, sparking na-
tionwide travel delays.
As recently as Friday, congres-
sional negotiators were nearing
an agreement to complete a
spending bill for all those agen-
cies, with the goal of voting on it as
soon as Thursday. (Congress has
already passed separate legisla-
Biden continues fundraising momentum with a $53 million February
BY M ICHAEL S CHERER
AND T YLER P AGER
President Biden notched rec-
ord fundraising receipts in Febru-
ary with donations from nearly
half a million people, overcoming
poor polling to end the month
with $155 million in the bank.
The strong results bolstered
the Biden campaign’s argument
that grass-roots energy will swell
as the November election ap-
proaches and voters come to
terms with the choice between
Biden and Donald Trump.
Biden and Trump — who both
became their party’s presumptive
nominees last week — are locked
in a rematch of the 2020 presi-
dential election, though early
polling averages show Trump
with a slight advantage in nation-
al and multiple battleground
state polls, a reversal of the situa-
tion for most of the 2020 race.
Third-party and independent
presidential contenders are also
polling higher than at this point
in 2020.
The Biden campaign has
moved this month to capitalize
on its financial advantage over
Trump, who is just now integrat-
ing his operation with the Repub-
lican National Committee. The
Biden team has announced plans
to open more than 100 offices this
month and has launched a $30
million spring advertising cam-
paign in key states.
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tion funding the other 30 percent
of the government.) But disagree-
ments over immigration at the
U.S.-Mexico border — an issue
that has derailed legislation
throughout this Congress and
emerged as a key fault line be-
tween the parties in the Novem-
ber elections — stymied the talks,
according to multiple people in-
volved in the conversations, who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to discuss private negotia-
tions.
Amid rising tension, negotia-
tors for House Speaker Mike John-
son (R-La.) over the weekend ap-
pealed to the White House — rath-
er than congressional Democrats
— to engage in spending talks,
revealing the fraught nature of the
conversations. The two sides had
expected to release text of the bills
Sunday afternoon, but as large
divisions persisted, that looked
very unlikely, said a person with
knowledge of the talks.
GOP negotiators were pre-
pared to offer the Department of
Homeland Security roughly the
same level of funding for the rest
of the 2024 fiscal year, which ends
Sept. 30, as the department re-
ceived in fiscal 2023, plus some
extra money for immigration en-
forcement, multiple people said.
But due to inflation, that would
represent a significant funding
cut in real terms.
President Biden’s campaign reported it received donations from about 469,000 people in February.
raise right now is going to talk to
voters, whether that is on TV in
ads, whether that is online in ads,
whether that is opening offices,”
said Rufus Gifford, the cam-
paign’s finance chair. “Our oppo-
nents are spending tens of mil-
lions of dollars on legal fees. This
is a huge, huge, huge advantage
that we do have, and we are
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from crossing into the United — led by Sens. James Lankford
States, possibly by shifting funds (R-Okla.), Chris Murphy (D-
from detention to border enforce- Conn.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-
ment. Ariz.) — released a proposal in
One administration official February to tighten security at the
characterized the negotiations border and overhaul some asylum
Sunday afternoon as an effort to processes in exchange for tens of
prevent “chaos” at the border, billions of dollars in emergency
which could ensue if Congress assistance for Ukraine, Israel and
moves funding between different other national security priorities.
border security programs. Biden voiced loud support for the
White House representatives package; Republicans rejected it
did not immediately respond to at the urging of former president
requests for comment. Donald Trump.
U.S. Immigration and Customs But even afterward, lawmakers
Enforcement, part of the Depart- said the politics of funding Home-
ment of Homeland Security, is al- land Security were so difficult that
ready running short of money appropriators would probably
even under its current budget. have to resort to a long-term stop-
Last month, it drafted plans to gap spending measure, known as
JohN moore/GeTTy ImaGeS release thousands of immigrants a continuing resolution, or CR,
Texas National Guard troops add additional razor wire to the bank and slash its capacity to hold de- rather than the preferred year-
of the Rio Grande to keep migrants from entering into El Paso. tainees as it faced rapidly dwin- long financing bill.
dling funding. More-hospitable That approach may upset GOP
The White House rejected that Democrats to help address the weather in the spring and sum- hard-liners, who want to use the
proposal, the people said, saying seriousness of the situation, to mer could draw more border appropriations process to extract
even that amount of money would little avail.” crossings, officials say, straining immigration policy concessions
put the department at a danger- The talks that continued Sun- the agency’s finances even further. from Democrats. But House Re-
ous shortfall. day afternoon, according to three Border issues have complicated publican leaders have sought to
“Republicans have always said people with knowledge of the situ- other funding measures, as well. quell their worries by arguing that
we will provide all the resources ation, focused on where appropri- President Biden, Johnson and they could address concrete
necessary for enforcement, but ators hoped to direct funding for Senate Majority Leader Charles E. changes to border policy in April.
not a blank check to simply ‘man- border security: The White House Schumer (D-N.Y.) also remain at That’s when Johnson has signaled
age’ people into the country and wanted to preserve funding for an impasse in conversations plans to take up supplemental
bail out sanctuary cities,” a senior detention facilities to house unau- about U.S. spending to support national security funding legisla-
GOP aide said Sunday. “. . . House thorized migrants, while congres- Ukraine, talks that have gone tion.
Republicans have repeatedly sional Republicans were looking awry over attempts to link the
urged the White House for weeks to send more money to Border money to border security. Nick miroff and marianna Sotomayor
to engage with congressional Patrol agents to prevent migrants A bipartisan group of senators contributed to this report.
While Obama reported nearly sages focused on Trump. Another
350,000 donors in February of bright spot was fundraising cen-
2012, the Biden campaign tered around a late-March event
claimed 469,000 unique donors in New York City, where Biden
at the same point in the current will appear at Radio City Music
cycle. The Biden effort has re- Hall with former presidents
ceived 3.4 million donations since Obama and Bill Clinton.
the start of the campaign from 1.3 The February totals also came
million donors, the campaign before Biden’s March 7 State of
said in a release. Gifford said the the Union address, which was
totals had beaten the campaign’s widely praised by Democrats and
internal expectations, which he led to a $10 million fundraising
declined to disclose. haul in the 24-hour period after
Hollywood mogul Jeffrey the speech.
Katzenberg — a co-chair of the Since that speech, Biden has
campaign who appeared in a pic- kicked off a tour of battleground
ture with the president prepping states, picking up the pace of
for the State of the Union address campaigning that many anxious
at Camp David this month — said Democrats were eager for him to
the biggest shift in recent months do.
came from Biden’s increased He visited Pennsylvania and
campaigning, including a Jan. 5 Georgia in the days after the State
speech in Pennsylvania to com- of the Union and last week cam-
memorate the U.S. Capitol attack paigned in New Hampshire,
before Biden’s inauguration. Michigan and Wisconsin. This
“As it has become clearer and week, he will travel to Nevada and
clearer that this is now a choice, Arizona.
the enthusiasm and the excite- Since the State of the Union,
JaBIN BoTSford/The WaShINGToN PoST
ment really started coming out of the president has also sharpened
Valley Forge in January, where his attacks against Trump, casti-
the president really started to hit gating him as a threat to individu-
Trump political committees President Barack Obama during the campaign trail and got into al rights, freedom and democracy.
spent more than $55 million last the same period in 2012, but not campaign mode and started talk- In the first ad of the newly
year on legal fees defending the when inflation is taken into ac- ing to and engaging much more launched $30 million advertising
former president as he faces mul- count. Obama raised $45 million actively with donors,” Katzenberg campaign, the president directly
tiple lawsuits and four separate in February of that year, which said. “You know the more they see confronts concerns about his age.
criminal prosecutions, according adjusts to about $61 million in him, the more their confidence “Look, I’m not a young guy,”
to campaign finance disclosures. current spending power, accord- and enthusiasm [grows].” Biden says, opening the 60-sec-
The February total of $53 mil- ing to the Bureau of Labor Statis- The campaign reported a 40 ond spot. “That’s no secret, but
lion raised between Biden’s cam- tics. percent increase in February here’s the deal: I understand how
paign and other party accounts But Biden clearly eclipsed email fundraising from a month to get things done for the Ameri-
eclipses the amount raised by Obama in another measure. earlier, crediting the shift to mes- can people.”
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The Trump Trials
When it comes to Donald Trump’s criminal trials, don’t save the date
BY PERRY STEIN
AND DEVLIN BARRETT
We’ve shredded our Trump
Trials calendar and thrown away
all the tiny pieces as we try to
figure out when Donald Trump
will sit for his first — or any! —
criminal trial. Georgia? No date
set. D.C.? Nope, that trial can’t
start until the Supreme Court
rules on presidential immunity.
florida? Still waiting for a date
there, too.
New York? oof. We’ll explain
below how what looked like the
locked-in march 25 start date in
the Big Apple just blew up.
Have questions about the up-
coming trials? Email us at per-
ry.stein@washpost.com and
devlin.barrett@washpost.com
and check for answers in future
editions.
okay, stay calm, and let’s get
started.
What’s ahead
It’s been more than two weeks
since Judge Aileen m. Cannon
held a hearing in her florida
courtroom to determine when
the trial over Trump’s alleged
mishandling of classified ma-
terials should start.
She has yet to issue her deci-
sion — and it could come any day
now. or not.
We are also waiting to see how
Cannon will rule on Trump’s
half-dozen-plus motions to dis-
miss the case — and if she will
schedule additional hearings on
his requests. She held a hearing
last week on two motions, quick-
ly rejecting one. A decision on
the second motion could come at
any time.
In New York, we are expecting
an appeals court to decide
Barrett, Sotomayor insist court’s divisions end at opinions
SCoTUS from A1
ing in an especially polarized
presidential election year. The
opinions they issue from their
stately courthouse, in view of the
U.S. Capitol, often contain heat-
ed language and reveal vigorous
disagreement. But sitting side by
side onstage at two recent
events, Barrett and Sotomayor
insisted the vitriol ends there.
“When we disagree, our pens
are sharp,” Sotomayor said, turn-
ing to look at Barrett. “But on a
personal level, we never trans-
late that into our relationships
with one another.”
It doesn’t hurt, she and Barrett
said, that their lifetime tenure on
the bench means they are some-
what insulated from politics and
not beholden to the presidents
who appoint them. And the nine
justices spend lots of time with
one another, eating lunch togeth-
er most days the court is in
session and typically holding two
private conferences per week to
discuss the cases before them.
Barrett and Sotomayor sit across
the table from each other at
lunch, in assigned seats that
belonged to their predecessors.
“We don’t sit on opposite sides
of an aisle. We all wear the same
color black robe. We don’t have
red robes or blue robes,” Barrett
told a gathering of the National
Governors Association last
month as part of its Disagree
Better initiative. “our loyalty lies
to the Constitution and the
court.”
At times, a moderating voice
Back in 2020, Democrats cried
foul when republicans muscled
Barrett’s confirmation through
the Senate without bipartisan
support, just one week before the
election Trump lost to Joe Biden.
It was an especially bitter fight
because mitch mcConnell, then
the Senate majority leader, had
blocked President Barack
obama’s final nominee, merrick
Garland, eight months before
Trump was elected.
Barrett, an appeals court
judge and longtime Notre Dame
law professor, was cast by Demo-
crats as a threat to health care
and reproductive rights. Her re-
placement of liberal icon ruth
Bader Ginsburg paved the way
for the newly configured con-
servative majority to quickly
eliminate the nationwide right to
abortion and overturn Roe v.
Wade after 50 years. Barrett also
aligned with the other Trump
nominees to end race-conscious
college admissions policies, ex-
pand gun rights and invalidate
Biden’s student loan forgiveness
program.
But the justice has emerged as
a moderating voice in other ar-
eas, more in line with Chief
Justice John G. roberts Jr. and
Justice Brett m. Kavanaugh —
both conservative but often less
whether to delay Trump’s
$450 million-plus civil judg-
ment in a business fraud lawsuit
brought by the New York attor-
ney general, while prosecutors
and defense attorneys in the
criminal hush money trial pre-
pare for a march 25 pretrial
hearing on newly released po-
tential evidence.
Here’s a recap of last week’s
action in the four criminal cases:
1. New York: State hush
money case
The details: 34 charges con-
nected to a 2016 hush money
payment.
Planned trial date: march 25,
but that date is no more.
Last week: New York Su-
preme Court Justice Juan mer-
chan delayed Trump’s hush
money criminal trial until at
least mid-April after 100,000
pages of new potential evidence
— known as discovery — was
handed over to the defense two
weeks before the trial was due to
begin. So instead of jury selec-
tion march 25, the judge will
hold a hearing that day to dis-
cuss the issue and weigh Trump’s
request to throw out the case or
bar key government witnesses
from testifying against him.
Exactly what the potential evi-
dence is — and why it wasn’t
turned over by federal prosecu-
tors until so close to the trial — is
still unclear.
But this all stems from the fact
that years before the manhattan
district attorney pursued this
case against Trump, it was the
focus of a federal investigation
that led to a guilty plea by
Trump’s former lawyer michael
Cohen. Trump was not charged
in the federal case.
Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, left, and Amy Coney Barrett, at an event Tuesday at George
Washington University. At two recent events, the pair made the case for disagreeing more agreeably.
so than Justices Clarence Thom-
as and Samuel A. Alito Jr.
She has been increasingly out-
spoken in calling for narrow
rulings and less heated rhetoric.
one of Barrett’s recent appear-
ances with Sotomayor came just
10 days before the high court’s
ruling to keep Trump on 2024
presidential election ballots, re-
versing a Colorado decision that
disqualified the former presi-
dent from returning to office
because of his actions around the
Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capi-
tol.
By the time the two justices
took the stage at the governors’
conference in Washington, they
surely knew the outcome of the
much-watched case. While the
decision not to bar Trump from
the ballot would be unanimous,
the ruling included plenty of
pointed disagreement — tucked
into two concurring opinions,
which judges typically write
when they agree with the out-
come but for different reasons.
Barrett agreed with Sotomay-
or and the two other Democratic-
nominated justices that their
colleagues — roberts, Ka-
vanaugh, Thomas, Alito and Neil
m. Gorsuch — had gone too far
by dictating in their opinion how
to enforce a long-dormant sec-
tion of the Constitution designed
to prevent insurrectionists from
holding office.
Barrett parted ways with the
liberals, however, when they ac-
cused the majority of trying to
insulate the court and Trump
from “future controversy” and to
“insulate all alleged insurrec-
tionists from future challenges to
their holding office.”
Writing separately, she em-
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Donald Trump at a campaign event March 9. Manhattan District
Attorney Alvin Bragg at a news conference in New York in 2023.
Trump’s lawyers claim the evi-
dence from the federal case was
unfairly withheld from them un-
til the 11th hour as they prepared
their defense.
2. D.C.: Federal case on
2020 election
The details: four counts re-
lated to conspiring to obstruct
the 2020 election results.
Planned trial date: Unclear
(it was march 4, but that has
been delayed until at least late
summer).
Last week: Pretrial proceed-
ings are frozen until the Su-
preme Court rules on Trump’s
claim to be immune from pros-
ecution for conduct while he was
president. oral argument is
April 25, and a decision must
come by June or early July.
phasized that “particularly in
this circumstance, writings on
the Court should turn the nation-
al temperature down, not up.”
“for present purposes, our
differences are far less important
than our unanimity,” Barrett
added, speaking directly to the
public. “All nine Justices agree on
the outcome of this case. That is
the message Americans should
take home.”
Harvard Law professor Noah
feldman said Barrett’s writing in
the Colorado case shows she
“cares a lot about the legitimacy
of the Supreme Court and want-
ed to emphasize the court’s una-
nimity.” He noted that the justice
had memorably said in 2021 that
she hoped to convince Ameri-
cans that the justices were not “a
bunch of partisan hacks.”
“Where possible,” feldman
said, “the court should speak
with a single voice, especially on
matters of election law and mat-
ters involving the presidential
election.”
But that does not mean Bar-
rett has managed to avoid poli-
tics altogether. Her 2021 speech
was introduced by mcConnell,
who had fast-tracked her confir-
mation and facilitated Trump’s
transformation of the federal
judiciary.
And even as she sought to take
the high road in the Colorado
ballot case, Barrett took a shot at
her liberal colleagues, including
Sotomayor, in her concurrence,
writing: “In my judgment, this is
not the time to amplify disagree-
ment with stridency.”
Barrett’s chiding of the liber-
als and use of the word “striden-
cy” was perhaps not the best way
to turn down the temperature,
3. Georgia: State case on
2020 election
The details: Trump faces 13
state charges for allegedly trying
to undo the election results in
that state. four of his 18 co-defen-
dants have pleaded guilty.
Planned trial date: None yet.
Last week: We got some clo-
sure in the months-long drama
over whether fulton County Dis-
trict Attorney fani T. Willis (D)
should be booted from the case
for allegedly benefiting financial-
ly when she had a relationship
with a subordinate, Nathan
Wade, she hired to work on the
case. Judge Scott mcAfee’s ruling
friday morning gave Willis and
Wade a choice: Either Willis and
her office could leave the case, or
Wade could resign.
Unsurprisingly, Wade resigned
jAhI ChIkWENdIu/thE WAShINGtoN PoSt
feldman said.
He added that Barrett’s vote to
overturn Roe — the long-stand-
ing court precedent whose rever-
sal led to heated rhetoric and
public mistrust of the court’s
legitimacy — is also part of her
record.
Barrett and Sotomayor are not
the first pair of justices with
differing views to make joint
public appearances or forge close
personal ties. Ginsburg and Sca-
lia were the court’s most storied
odd couple, attending the opera
and traveling together. Scalia
and retired Justice Stephen G.
Breyer, a Clinton nominee, en-
gaged in public debate over how
to interpret the Constitution.
Gorsuch, a Trump nominee, and
Elena Kagan, an obama pick,
taught together in Iceland in
2021.
“This is not a new concept, but
it’s never been more important
than it is right now,” Stanford
Law professor Jeffrey fisher, co-
director of the Supreme Court
Litigation Clinic, said of the joint
appearances.
As students on college and law
school campuses — and the pub-
lic more broadly — struggle with
how to tolerate differing points
of view, fisher said, “we desper-
ately need models for civil dis-
course across disagreement.”
The justices like to point out to
their audiences that they agree
more often than they divide
along ideological lines. During
Barrett’s first three terms, the
court was on average unanimous
in 41 percent of cases, according
to Adam feldman, the founder of
Empirical SCoTUS. In the cases
that split the court last term,
Barrett and Sotomayor voted
the washington post
soon after, saying he wanted to
ensure the case moves forward
“as quickly as possible.”
The judge’s ruling did not ab-
solve Willis. mcAfee called her
actions “a tremendous lapse in
judgment” but said the evidence
did not merit her removal.
Separately, mcAfee dismissed
three of the 13 charges filed
against Trump and some charges
against his co-defendants, saying
the indictment was not specific
enough about what crimes Trump
and his allies allegedly pressured
Georgia state officials to commit.
4. Florida: Federal classified
documents case
The details: Trump faces 40
federal charges over accusations
that he kept top-secret govern-
ment documents at mar-a-Lago
— his home and private club —
and thwarted government de-
mands to return them.
Planned trial date: may 20,
but that’s all but certain to
change.
Last week: Cannon listened to
hours of arguments about
Trump’s claims that he should not
be prosecuted because a) the
Presidential records Act, or PrA,
gives him the power to declare
highly classified documents his
personal property, and b) the
Espionage Act is too vague to be
used against the former presi-
dent.
Before the day was over, Can-
non had rejected Trump’s Espio-
nage Act argument. Her com-
ments at the hearing suggested
his PrA claims would fare no
better.
Nerd word of the week:
Espionage Act — Passed during
World War I, the law cracked
together 55 percent of the time.
In some ways, it may be easier
for Barrett to call for comity than
some of her liberal colleagues,
given that she is more often on
the winning side of big decisions.
But she has also demonstrated
an interest in narrow, less dis-
ruptive rulings in some cases.
She was in the majority in
2021 when the court rejected an
emergency request from maine
health-care workers to block a
coronavirus vaccination man-
date that did not include an
exception for religious objectors.
She joined the court’s three liber-
als, as well as roberts and Ka-
vanaugh, and wrote separately to
say the court should not make
such a decision “on a short fuse
without benefit of full briefing
and oral argument.”
The same year, the court found
a narrow way to rule unanimous-
ly that Philadelphia must contin-
ue to allow a Catholic agency to
participate in vetting potential
foster-care parents even though
it does not accept same-sex cou-
ples. While the court’s most con-
servative members were put off
by the limited scope of the opin-
ion, Barrett disagreed. She said
the justices need not take an
additional step to overturn a
1990 precedent, seeing “no rea-
son to decide in this case wheth-
er Smith should be overruled,
much less what should replace
it.”
Barrett and Sotomayor are
stylistically quite different on the
bench and in their writings.
Barrett’s former boss and men-
tor, Scalia, was known for fiery
rhetoric, but the former profes-
sor has said that’s not her style.
During oral argument, her ques-
tions tend to be technical and
professorial, reflecting a high
degree of preparation.
In contrast, Sotomayor tends
to use more biting language.
When the court sided last term
with a Christian business owner
who did not want to provide
services for gay couples, she
wrote the dissent, calling it a
“sad day in American constitu-
tional law and in the lives of
LGBT people.”
And as the court appeared
poised to overturn Roe at oral
argument, Sotomayor asked:
“Will this institution survive the
stench this creates in the public
perception, that the Constitution
and its reading are just political
acts?”
‘We don’t raise voices’
relations on the court have
been tested and at times strained
in recent years. After the 2022
leak of the court’s draft opinion
to overturn Roe, Alito said the
unprecedented betrayal of trust
“certainly changed the atmos-
phere at the court.” The justices
also struggled under pressure
from Democrats in Congress to
agree on an ethics code in re-
. monday, march 18 , 2024
down on activities the wartime
government considered danger-
ous or disloyal, including sharing
national defense information. To-
day, some sections are used to
prosecute mishandling of classi-
fied information, like the charges
against Trump, or the case of Jack
Teixeira, the military IT techni-
cian in massachusetts who
shared classified documents with
online friends. The act predates
the modern government classifi-
cation system, so its language
does not pair up perfectly. But
courts have long held that is not
an impediment to prosecution.
Question time
Q: Can the judicial system refuse
to consider frivolous appeals or
legal challenges by defendants?
A: We’re so glad you asked!
There is a two-part answer:
Defendants have plenty of
latitude to file pretrial motions
seeking to dismiss charges or not
admit certain evidence — trial
judges consider such motions
but do not need to hold hearings
if they think the answer is clear
based on the court filings alone.
Pretrial appeals to higher
courts, called interlocutory
appeals, are a much different
story. There are very few such
claims that an appeals court will
even consider before a
defendant’s trial is held — but
one of the few exceptions to that
rule is non-frivolous claims of
immunity. That’s why Trump’s
D.C. trial is on ice while we await
a ruling from the Supreme Court.
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the-trump-trials.
sponse to media reports of lavish
trips and gifts that some justices
received from billionaire friends.
But Barrett and Sotomayor,
who did not respond to interview
requests for this story, did not
focus on those tensions in their
joint appearances last week and
in late february. Instead, they
emphasized the importance of
cultivating collegiality, describ-
ing conversations about family,
television shows, books and
sports during their workday
lunches.
Those in-person gatherings
are critical, Barrett and Sotomay-
or said, when it comes to tackling
tough issues in the conference
room with only the justices in
attendance.
“We don’t raise voices, no
matter how hot-button the case.
We always speak with respect,”
Barrett said Tuesday during the
National forum of Civic Learn-
ing Week at George Washington
University, sponsored in part by
iCivics, the nonprofit started by
the late Justice Sandra Day
o’Connor.
“Even if, inside, you are frus-
trated or hot under the collar,
you don’t express that in the
conference room.”
Sotomayor mostly agreed but
said when it comes to certain
issues “important to people in a
more visceral way,” colleagues
have come close at times to
saying “something that could be
viewed as hurtful.” In those in-
stances, Sotomayor said, one of
the more senior justices has
encouraged an apology or
“patching it up a little bit.”
And it’s not that collegiality
changes your principles, the jus-
tices added.
“I may disagree with how
many of my colleagues approach
these questions, but I’m very
vocal about that disagreement,
and I lay out why I think they are
wrong, and I hope some day
they’ll see the error of their
ways,” Sotomayor said Tuesday,
prompting Barrett and the audi-
ence to erupt in laughter.
Barrett joked that the relation-
ship among the nine justices is
something like an arranged mar-
riage with no opportunity for
divorce.
“We’re not going anywhere, so
we have to get along,” she said.
“But shouldn’t that be true of all
of us in a civic community? Why
should any of us want to obliter-
ate the opposition or even see
another person as the opposi-
tion? I think we should all be
trying to get along.”
Akhil Amar, a Yale Law School
professor, who was the first to
interview Barrett and Sotomayor
together, in 2022, said Barrett “is
a cautious person; she’s not a
bomb thrower.”
He encouraged the pair to
appear together more often.
“The country,” he said, “needs
to see more of that.”
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At rally, Trump says some immigrants are ‘not people’
BY M ARISA I ATI
VANDALiA, ohio — former pres-
ident Donald Trump ratcheted up
his dehumanizing rhetoric
against immigrants Saturday by
saying that some who are accused
of crimes are “not people.”
“I don’t know if you call them
people,” he said at a rally near
Dayton. “In some cases they’re
not people, in my opinion. But I’m
not allowed to say that because
the radical left says that’s a terri-
ble thing to say.”
Trump, the presumptive re-
publican nominee, was in ohio to
stump for Senate candidate Ber-
nie moreno, who is in a tight
three-way race for the republican
nomination to challenge Demo-
cratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. more-
States with restrictive laws see hate crimes against LGBTQ+ students skyrocket
BullyiNg from A1
following the death of Nex Ben-
edict, a nonbinary teenager who
died after a fight in their okla-
homa public school bathroom.
The death was ruled a suicide,
according to a one-page summa-
ry report released Wednesday by
the state’s chief medical examin-
er.
That’s the case for Carden, a
transgender 17-year-old. He ar-
gues that politicians’ anti-
LGBTQ+ rhetoric has shaped the
views of adults in the conserva-
tive Virginia county where he
lives.
“Kids parrot these ideas in
their head, it’s like, ‘oh, my par-
ents think ...’” said Carden, whose
parents asked that his last name
be withheld for fear of further
bullying. “Then it translates to
being mean to other people their
age.”
Twice in the fall, a group of
freshmen boys at Carden’s school
harassed him for his gender iden-
tity — once calling him “queer” in
a nasty tone, he said. The second
time, after telling him a Pride flag
he had tucked into his backpack
was “pitiful,” one of the boys
suggested Carden should “just go
die already.”
Since his election in 2021, Vir-
ginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (r)
has encouraged schools to re-
quire that students use facilities
matching their biological sex and
has signed a law requiring
schools to alert parents of “sexu-
ally explicit” lessons, alarming
LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, which
predicted it would be used to
limit education on sexual orien-
tation and gender identity. other
republican governors have ad-
vanced similar policies through
executive action and legislation.
The Post analysis found that
the number of anti-LGBTQ+
school hate crimes serious
enough to be reported to local
police more than doubled nation-
wide between 2015-2019 and
2021-2022. The rise is steeper in
the 28 states that have passed
laws curbing the rights of trans-
gender students at school and
restricting how teachers can talk
about issues of gender and sexu-
ality.
In more-liberal states that
have not enacted restrictive
school LGBTQ+ laws, The Post
found that the rise in fBI hate
crimes was lower — though the
absolute number of crimes was
higher. Analysts said that may be
because people in those states are
more likely to report incidents.
Advocacy groups have also
seen a rising number of young
people in distress.
Calls have spiked to the Trevor
Project, which provides support
to LGBTQ+ youth aimed at sui-
cide prevention and crisis inter-
vention. In the fiscal year ending
in July 2022, the group fielded
about 230,000 crisis contacts,
including phone calls, texts and
online chats. The following year,
it was more than 500,000.
Similarly, the rainbow Youth
Project, a nonprofit that offers
crisis response and counseling to
at-risk LGBTQ+ youth, saw calls
to its hotline rise from an average
of about 1,000 per month in 2022
to just over 1,400 per month last
year. The top reason cited by
callers in 2023 was anti-LGBTQ+
“political rhetoric,” such as de-
bate over laws and policies limit-
ing rights at school.
Young people will say, “‘my
government hates me,’ ‘my school
hates me,’ ‘They don’t want me to
exist,’” said Lance Preston, the
group’s founder and executive
director. “That … is absolutely
unacceptable. That is shocking.”
In the weeks after Nex’s death,
the rainbow Youth Project saw a
crush of calls from oklahoma,
rising from 321 in January to
nearly 1,100 in february, though
the surge may have been driven at
least in part by news coverage of
the group’s work.
Nex, who used they/them pro-
nouns, died on feb. 8, a day after
no, a businessman, is facing ohio
Secretary of State frank Larose
and state Sen. matt Dolan in
Tuesday’s primary.
In his own remarks on immi-
gration Saturday, moreno said
foreigners who come to the Unit-
ed States should learn English.
“We don’t need to vote in five
different languages. We learn the
language,” said moreno, a Colom-
bian immigrant, wrongly claim-
ing that English is the national
language. “It means you assimi-
late. You become part of America;
America doesn’t become part of
you.”
Later in the rally, Trump
warned that it will be a “blood-
bath for the country” if he is not
elected. The comment came as he
was promising to hike tariffs on
Number of anti-LGBTQ school hate crimes reported to
FBI
240 The year of the
220 coronavirus
pandemic,
200
when
180 many schools
160 were closed
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
2000 2005 2010
The data include anti-LGBTQ hate crimes on both K-12 and college campuses.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation
a confrontation in the bathroom
of their school in a Tulsa suburb.
School officials sent the students
home, but Nex’s grandmother
took Nex to the hospital later that
day and called police.
In a statement to an officer,
Nex and their grandmother said
three girls had been bullying Nex
and a friend because of how they
dress. In the bathroom that day,
these girls were making com-
ments Nex found offensive, and
Nex poured water on them. Then
“all three of them came at me,”
Nex said. A fight ensued.
Nex was discharged from the
hospital but rushed back the next
day, when they died. The case has
drawn national attention. Before
the cause of death was released,
LGBTQ+ advocates argued that
Nex was bullied and that their
death was a hate crime related to
their gender identity. After the
finding of suicide was made pub-
lic, they connected the suicide to
the bullying. The office for Civil
rights at the Department of Edu-
cation this month opened an
investigation into the school’s
actions.
Since 2020, oklahoma has ad-
opted several laws restricting
transgender rights. The state pro-
hibits students from using bath-
rooms that do not align with the
sex assigned at their birth and
bars minors from receiving
transition-related care. The legis-
lature is considering additional
measures this year, including a
ban on changing one’s gender on
birth certificates and requiring
that schools teach that “a person’s
sex is an immutable biological
trait” that cannot be changed.
many of these bills have been
championed by the state’s schools
superintendent, ryan Walters,
who said in an interview that
Nex’s death was a heartbreaking
tragedy, but that those who are
connecting it to bullying or gen-
der identity are pushing a “left-
wing agenda” and “politicizing
the death of a student.”
Walters said he will continue to
Nickel Magrdishan hugs Charlie Ogden at a vigil for Nex Benedict in Huntington Beach, Calif., on
Feb. 23. Benedict, a nonbinary 16-year-old, died a day after a fight at school in Oklahoma.
eZ re
foreign-made cars, and it was not
clear exactly what Trump was
referring to with his admonition.
“Now we’re going to put a
100 percent tariff on every single
car that comes across [the] line,
and you’re not going to be able to
sell those guys — if I get elected,”
he said. “Now, if I don’t get elect-
ed, it’s going to be a bloodbath for
the whole. That’s going to be the
least of it. It’s going to be a
bloodbath for the country.”
The Biden campaign charac-
terized the comment as a promise
of political violence.
“This is who Donald Trump is:
a loser who gets beat by over
7 million votes and then instead
of appealing to a wider main-
stream audience doubles down
on his threats of political vio-
251
2015 2020
HANNAH NATANSON / THE WASHINGTON POST
push for legislation to counter
what he called “radical gender
theory,” which he defines as the
notion that one’s gender can dif-
fer from biological sex.
“There’s two genders. That’s
the way God created us,” Walters
said. Some young people are con-
fused, he said, but, “your job as an
adult is to help kids, not lie to
them.”
He added that he opposes bul-
lying but wholly rejects the idea
that the political environment is
encouraging it.
“Because you share a belief or
an opinion does not mean it’s
connected to violence,” he said.
Hate crimes on the rise
The fBI data shows serious
incidents against LGBTQ+ people
are on the rise, particularly in the
more than two dozen states that
have passed laws targeting LG-
BTQ+ students or education.
Some of these laws, like those
enacted in oklahoma, bar stu-
dents from competing on sports
teams or using school bathrooms
that do not conform with their sex
assigned at birth. others circum-
scribe what teachers can teach
about gender identity or sexual
orientation or bar instruction on
these subjects entirely.
overall, there were an average
of 108 anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes
at schools reported to the fBI per
year from 2015 to 2019 on both
college and K-12 campuses. In
2021 and 2022, the most recent
years for which data was avail-
able, the average more than dou-
bled to 232. (The number of
reported hate crimes overall
dropped in 2020, when the covid-
19 pandemic shut down many
school campuses, forcing learn-
ing online.)
The rise was even steeper in
states that have enacted laws or
policies that restrict LGBTQ+ stu-
dents’ education or rights at
school — tripling from an average
of about 28 per year from 2015 to
2019 to an average of about 90 per
year in 2021 to 2022. There was
lence,” spokesman James Singer
said in a statement. “He wants
another January 6, but the Ameri-
can people are going to give him
another electoral defeat this No-
vember because they continue to
reject his extremism, his affection
for violence, and his thirst for
revenge.”
Steven Cheung, a spokesman
for Trump’s campaign, said
Trump’s remark was not about
violence, but rather was an exten-
sion of Trump’s comments about
imported cars.
“If you actually watch and lis-
ten to the section, he was talking
about the auto industry and tar-
iffs,” he wrote in an email, adding
that “Biden’s policies will create
an economic bloodbath for the
auto industry and autoworkers.”
Subjects broached in calls to Rainbow Youth Project
crisis line
2023
Anti-LGBTQ Laws, Rhetoric
Bullying
Religious/Church Groups
Moms for Liberty
Libs of Tik Tok 8.3
Gays Against Groomers 5.4
0.8
Evictions
The data for 2022 stretches from March 31, 2022 — the date the Rainbow Youth
Project launched its crisis hotline — to the end of the year. Some callers broached
multiple subjects.
Source: The Rainbow Youth Project
Average yearly anti-LGBTQ hate crimes on K-12
campuses
2015-2019
States without
42
laws
States with
restrictive
sports, 13
curriculum,
facilities laws
All states 55
The Post left out the year 2020 because many schools remained closed that year
due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation
also an upsurge in the states
without these laws, from about
79 reported hate crimes per year
to 140.
When the data is limited to
K-12 campuses, the increase is
even more marked. In states that
have enacted restrictive laws,
there were more than four times
the number of anti-LGBTQ+ hate
crimes on average, per year, in
2021 to 2022 compared with the
years 2015 to 2019 across elemen-
tary, middle and high schools.
“Policy sets the tone for real-
world experiences [and] discrimi-
natory policy just creates a hostile
environment,” said Amy mcGe-
hee, a doctoral student at okla-
homa State University who re-
searches LGBTQ+ health and
well-being.
fBI data indicate the most
common crimes associated with
reported hate crimes at schools
include simple assault, intimida-
tion and vandalism.
mcGehee added that LGBTQ+
students were reporting feeling
unsafe on both college and K-12
campuses even before states be-
gan passing waves of policies
restricting their rights at school.
A sweeping Washington Post-Kff
poll last year found that school is
among the greatest stressors for
transgender children in particu-
lar. forty-five percent of trans
rick Loomis for the Washington Post
the washington post
Immigration is shaping up to
be an explosive issue in the presi-
dential campaign. Trump and
President Biden staged dueling
visits to Texas border towns last
month, castigating each other for
a recent surge in illegal immigra-
tion.
Trump said the influx of mi-
grants was “a Joe Biden invasion.”
Biden blamed Trump for the
death of a $20 billion bipartisan
bill to increase detention capacity
and hire thousands of Border
Patrol officers.
Trump’s comments Saturday
represent an escalation of his
long-harsh language on the topic.
Since beginning his 2016 cam-
paign by calling mexican immi-
grants “rapists,” Trump has made
inflammatory attacks on mi-
63.2%
56.3
47.5
46.7
HANNAH NATANSON / THE WASHINGTON POST
2021-2022 % INCREASE
86 104.5%
61 351.5%
147 166.4%
HANNAH NATANSON / THE WASHINGTON POST
adults said they felt generally
unsafe at school as a child or
teenager, compared with 10 per-
cent of cisgender adults.
The Post’s analysis of fBI data
found that the per capita hate
crime rates on K-12 and college
campuses were higher in the
more liberal states that have not
enacted laws limiting transgen-
der rights. Although the finding
may seem counterintuitive, it ac-
tually makes sense, said Stephen
russell, a University of Texas at
Austin professor who studies
LGBTQ+ youth. He said LGBTQ+
youth and families living in those
22 states were probably more
likely to report violence and ha-
rassment in the first place.
many of these states have ad-
opted laws and school policies
specifically prohibiting bullying
of or discrimination against
LGBTQ+ students, he said. In
some places, he said, that in-
cludes required annual notifica-
tions alerting students and par-
ents to their rights and spelling
out how they can and should
report bad behavior.
“It creates a context where they
see themselves, they stand up for
themselves, they believe there is a
place for them in their schools,”
russell said of LGBTQ+ children.
In addition, it’s possible that
more kids are public about their
identities in more liberal states,
creating more targets for bullies,
said Lanae Erickson, a senior vice
president at Third Way, a centrist
Democratic think tank, who stud-
ies social policy and politics.
Both Erickson and russell
were unsurprised to learn that
the number of hate crimes had
risen faster in states with con-
servative laws.
“The data you have is the thing
I’ve been worrying about, and
here it is,” said russell.
‘They don’t want us to exist’
The upsurge in restrictive laws
and in school bullying has left
some LGBTQ+ students feeling
under attack.
Last year, classmates regularly
harassed a transgender teenager
in mississippi for his short hair
and for wearing boy’s clothing
and chest binders, his mother
said in an interview. Throughout
that year, her son often woke up
in the middle of the night vomit-
ing due to stress. He wound up
missing about three weeks of
. monday, march 18 , 2024
grants a theme of all of his cam-
paigns. He accused immigrants in
october of “poisoning the blood
of our country” — a remark some
likened to the “contamination of
the blood” concept that Adolf
Hitler laid out in “mein Kampf.”
Trump has rejected that compari-
son and has continued to use
similar language.
He has also pledged to launch
an unprecedented deportation ef-
fort if elected, pointing as inspira-
tion to a 1954 program called
“operation Wetback” that used
military-style tactics to remove
mexican immigrants from the
country.
“Among my very first actions
upon taking office will be to stop
the invasion of our country,”
Trump said Saturday.
school due to bullying-induced
breakdowns, recalled the mother,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity for fear of retaliation
from family members who do not
support her son’s gender identity.
She said her son has been
suicidal at times, at one point
keeping a journal in which he
detailed plans to kill himself. She
said he also cut himself. “He feels
shamed,” she said. “It’s hard for
him to find friends.”
In 2021, mississippi enacted a
law barring transgender students
from playing on sports teams that
match their gender identity. Part-
ly citing that state policy, the
mother said she feels like every-
thing is just getting worse.
“I’m really worried that my
child is getting irreparable men-
tal damage from all of this,” she
said. “I also just get worried that,
what if he gets suicidal again? I
don’t want to lose my son.”
Studies show that LGBTQ+
youth are at particular risk for
bullying and mental health prob-
lems. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s 2021
Youth risk Behavior survey, for
instance, found that more than
1 in 3 gay, lesbian and bisexual
students were bullied either on
school property or online in the
previous year. for about 1 in 4, the
bullying was at school. Among
straight students, those rates
were about half as high.
When max Ibarra was a sopho-
more in high school in the Chino
Valley, Calif., east of Los Angeles,
they endured what max thinks of
as everyday bullying from other
students.
max, who identifies as trans
and nonbinary, recalled hearing
snickering behind their back. In
one class, they said, another stu-
dent regularly threw erasers and
wads of paper at them in class. In
the hallway once, someone pur-
posefully stuck out a shoulder to
shove max into the brick wall.
But what really bothers max,
now 17, is what the Chino Valley
Unified School District school
board did. In July 2023, the board
approved a policy requiring the
school to notify parents if a stu-
dent asked to use a name that
differed from official records, or if
they asked to use pronouns or
school facilities that do not align
with the sex listed on the stu-
dent’s birth certificate.
At the school board meeting
where the policy was approved,
4-1, max shouted objections into
the microphone during the public
comment period. They said that
many trans students feel safe at
school but not at home, and that
the policy “shoves them in the
closet.”
“I am tired of the idea that all
parents love and support their
children unconditionally. That is
not true,” they yelled into the
microphone. “There are evil peo-
ple in this world, and some of
them have children. Shocking, I
know! Some prefer a dead child to
a trans child.”
A spokesperson for the district
declined to respond directly to
max’s assertions but said the
schools have systems in place to
report and respond to bullying
and to address the needs of
LGBTQ+ students. The district,
she said, is “committed to uphold-
ing an educational setting that
encourages, emboldens, and mo-
tivates scholars to become the
global citizens they are meant to
be.”
The policy was later put on
hold by a court, and this month,
the school board rolled back most
of it. Still, max said in an inter-
view that the tone set by the
school board remains.
“This culture of hostility and
division has been festering, espe-
cially for the last three years, and
its ramped up more and more
each year,” max said. “The school
board has made it very clear we’re
not welcome here. It’s very clear
they don’t want us to exist.”
emily guskin and scott clement
contributed to this report.
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Pornhub blocks access in Texas over age verification law

Adult website’s move
comes after ruling by
federal appeals court
BY K IM B ELLWARE
Texans in search of online
adult content found disappoint-
ment Thursday after the website
Pornhub suspended services in
their state over objections to an
age verification law that the site
claims stifles First Amendment
rights.
Pornhub, one of the most pop-
ular websites in the world,
blocked Texas-based access to its
site one week after the conserva-
tive U.S. Court of Appeals for the
5th Circuit upheld the age verifi-
cation portion of the state law.
Pornhub previously opposed
such measures in Utah and other
states, arguing that “age gating”
laws are ineffective, unfair and
punish the very users states want
to protect.
Texas Attorney General Ken
Paxton (R) called the decision a
“victory” over porn companies
and denied that the state’s law
violates free speech laws. But
free expression advocates, in-
cluding those in the adult con-
tent industry, warn that laws like
the one in Texas are being weap-
onized to censor a variety of
content, including reproductive
rights resources and queer litera-
ture.
Here’s what to know:
What is Texas’s new age
verification law?
In June, Texas Gov. Greg Ab-
bott (R) signed into law H.B. 1181,
a bipartisan bill requiring com-
panies that offer “sexual material
harmful to minors” to verify that
users are at least 18 years old.
Companies that need to limit
minors’ access, such as websites
for liquor brands, commonly use
age-gating methods such as re-
quiring a user to list their birth-
day. Texas’s law required users to
prove their age by either entering
information from a government-
issued ID or using a third-party
system that uses public and pri-
vate data — such as employment,
education or mortgage informa-
tion — to verify age.
H.B. 1181 also required porn
sites to display a controversial
“health warning,” which the
law’s opponents called “pseudo-
scientific.” It included language
like: “TEXAS HEALTH AND HU-
MAN SERVICES WARNING:
Pornography increases the de-
mand for prostitution, child ex-
ploitation, and child pornogra-
phy.”
While the 5th Circuit upheld
the age verification portion of
the law, it struck down the health
warning requirement, ruling
that it “unconstitutionally com-
pelled plaintiffs’ speech.”
Why is Pornhub blocking
access?
Pornhub’s parent company,
which was called MindGeek be-
fore rebranding last year to Aylo,
was among the plaintiffs in the
lawsuit that ended up before the
5th Circuit. Pornhub responded
to the court’s ruling by pulling
access to its site and its subsid-
iaries, including popular hubs
Brazzers and YouPorn, in Texas
to protest the law, which an Aylo
executive called “ineffective,
haphazard, and dangerous.”
Alex Kekesi, Aylo’s vice presi-
dent of brand and community,
said in a statement Thursday
that the age verification require-
ment was overbroad and would
do little to protect children.
“Not only will it not actually
protect children, it will inevita-
bly reduce content creators’ abil-
ity to post and distribute legal
adult content and directly im-
pact their ability to share the
artistic messages they want to
convey with it,” Kekesi said.
Kekesi added that the law
“fails strict scrutiny by employ-
ing the least effective and yet also
most restrictive means of accom-
plishing Texas’s stated purpose of
allegedly protecting minors.”
Pornhub has said age verifica-
tion laws without adequate en-
forcement will let pornography
websites choose whether to com-
ply, potentially driving users to
sites that already have fewer
content safeguards than Porn-
hub properties.
Which states have similar
age verification laws?
At least eight states have some
form of age verification law to
limit children’s access to content
deemed “harmful to minors.”
States with conservative legis-
latures have pursued age verifi-
cation laws for adult websites as
part of a broader anti-porn agen-
da. Since 2016, at least 17 states,
starting with Utah, have de-
clared pornography a public
health crisis.
In the portion of the Texas law
that was struck down by the 5th
Circuit, the state had sought to
force porn sites to include warn-
ing language with such unproven
claims as “Pornography is poten-
tially biologically addictive, is
proven to harm human brain
development, desensitizes brain
reward circuits, increases condi-
tioned responses, and weakens
brain function.”
A 2019 paper in the American
Journal of Public Health cau-
tioned that claims calling por-
nography a public health crisis
are unproven and may be coun-
terproductive.
“The movement to declare
pornography a public health cri-
sis is rooted in an ideology that is
antithetical to many core values
of public health promotion and is
a political stunt, not reflective of
best available evidence,” the au-
thors wrote.
A spokesperson for Pornhub
confirmed Thursday that the site
has blocked access over age veri-
fication laws in Virginia, Mon-
tana, North Carolina, Arkansas,
Utah, Mississippi and now Texas.
What does the law say?
Efforts to regulate adult con-
tent online stretch back nearly
30 years, to the early days of the
internet. In the majority opinion,
justices on the 5th Circuit cited a
1968 U.S. Supreme Court ruling
that upheld a New York law
banning the sale of “obscene”
magazines to anyone under 17. In
the case, Ginsberg v. New York,
the high court upheld a state’s
right to deny children access to
content that was “harmful to
minors.”
Supreme Court rulings begin-
ning in the late 1990s, when
internet use was becoming wide-
spread, found that laws meant to
protect children cannot be so
broad that they restrict the rights
of adults. That concern is what
prompted the court in 1997 to
strike down a portion of the
Communications Decency Act.
“It is true that we have repeat-
edly recognized the governmen-
tal interest in protecting chil-
dren from harmful materials,”
Justice John Paul Stevens wrote.
“But that interest does not justify
an unnecessarily broad suppres-
sion of speech addressed to
adults.”
Pornhub and others adult sites
said they do not oppose restrict-
ing their content from minors
but that the age requirements
present a barrier for adults and
force adults trying to access
constitutionally protected ma-
terial to hand over private data
that could be stored or tracked by
the state.
The company has argued that
restrictive measures at the point
of content, such as browser ex-
tensions or device filters that
parents can install, are more
effective.
Pornhub said it plans to ap-
peal the ruling.

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$8.1B E.U. aid package
aims to curb migration
The European Union on
Sunday announced a 7.4 billion
euro ($8.1 billion) funding
package and an upgraded
relationship with Egypt, part of a
push — which has been criticized
by rights groups — to stem
migrant flows to Europe.
The agreement lifts the E.U.’s
relationship with Egypt to a
“strategic partnership” and was
unveiled as a delegation of
leaders visited Cairo. It is
designed to boost cooperation in
areas including renewable
energy, trade and security, while
delivering grants, loans and
other funding over the next three
years to support Egypt’s faltering
economy.
European governments have
long been worried about the risk
of instability in Egypt, a country
of 106 million people that has
been struggling to raise foreign
currency and where economic
adversity has pushed increasing
numbers to migrate.
Diplomats say Egypt’s
strategic importance has been
underscored by the war in Gaza,
where Egypt is trying to mediate
between Israel and Hamas and
increase deliveries of
humanitarian aid; and by the
conflict in neighboring Sudan,
which has created the world’s
biggest displacement crisis.
Activists have criticized
Western backing for Abdel Fatah
El-Sisi, who came to power a
decade ago after leading the
overthrow of Egypt’s first
democratically elected leader.
“The blueprint is the same as
the flawed E.U. deals with
Tunisia and Mauritania: stop
migrants, ignore abuses,” Human
Rights Watch said.
— Reuters
Ukraine launched 35 drones at
targets across Russia that
sparked a brief fire at an oil
refinery, took aim at Moscow and
disrupted electricity supplies in
border areas, Russia said Sunday,
the last day of its presidential
election. Moscow has accused
Kyiv of election sabotage with
days of strikes on Russian
infrastructure, one of the most
sweeping air operations on
Russian territory since the
Ukraine war began. Separately,
Ukrainian shelling killed an
election commission official in
the Russia-controlled town of
Berdyansk on Sunday, the Tass
news agency reported, citing the
internal affairs ministry. Also
Sunday, the Russian defense
ministry said its forces have
captured the village of Mirne in
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region,
and have shot down a Ukrainian
Mi-8 military helicopter over
Ukraine’s Sumy region that was
heading toward Russia’s
Belgorod region.
South Sudan’s government is
closing all schools starting
Monday as the country prepares
for a wave of extreme heat
expected to last two weeks. The
health and education ministries
advised parents to keep all
children indoors as
temperatures are expected to
soar to 113 degrees Fahrenheit.
They warned that any school
found open during that time
would have its registration
withdrawn but did not specify
how long the schools would
remain shuttered.
South Ossetia, a region that
broke away from Georgia in the
1990s and calls itself an
independent state, has discussed
becoming part of Russia with
Moscow officials, Russian news
agency RIA cited the head of
South Ossetia’s parliament as
saying Sunday. Russia
recognized South Ossetia and
another breakaway region,
Abkhazia, as independent states
in 2008 after Russian troops
repelled a Georgian attempt to
retake South Ossetia in a five-day
war. The West accused Russia of
effectively annexing Abkhazia
and South Ossetia, one-fifth of
Georgia’s territory, and Tbilisi
wants the two regions back. “We
are discussing all these issues in
close coordination with Russia,
taking into account our bilateral
relations and treaties,” RIA
quoted Alan Alborov, chairman
of South Ossetia’s parliament, as
saying in answer to a question
about the possibility of holding
a referendum on becoming part
of Russia. “When we come to
this idea together with the
Russian Federation [about
joining the Russian Federation],
we will do it.”
— From news services

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Years of strife precede Haiti’s descent into chaos

A look inside a country beset by gang violence, from President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination in 2021 to a recent prison break
BY A MANDA C OLETTA AND J ENNIFER P RITHEEVA S AMUEL

Gangs have long wielded power in Haiti. But since the assassination of President Jo-
venel Moïse in 2021, they have filled a power vacuum, taking control of roughly
80 percent of the capital and displacing more than 300,000 people with a campaign
of kidnappings for ransom, rapes and killings. ¶ The violence has worsened a devas-
tating humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean nation of 11 million. Almost half of the
population suffers from acute hunger. Conditions deteriorated further this month
when the gangs, which usually battle one another, joined to attack two prisons, the
international airport, the principal seaport and several police stations. ¶ The Haitian
presidency has been vacant since Moïse’s killing; the last lawmakers’ terms expired
last year. That left Ariel Henry, the deeply reviled prime minister appointed by
Moïse days before his assassination, in charge — until the recent violence prevented
him returning home from a trip to Kenya. He had traveled to the African nation to
finalize an agreement for a U.N.-approved, Kenyan-led security mission for Haiti. ¶
Henry, who has long drawn criticism for failing to stem the violence and for reneging
on promises to hold elections, said last week that he would resign once a transitional
presidential council and interim prime minister were put in place. But it’s unclear
whether Haiti’s quarreling factions will be able to put aside their differences to stand
up the council and reimpose order.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: A man urges demonstrators to stop during a protest of Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s government in Port-au-Prince on
March 1. People celebrate the Feb. 6 arrival of the Brigade for the Security of Protected Areas, a heavily armed state agency that has turned on the
government and joined calls for Henry’s ouster. Just months before his assassination, Haitians protest a draft constitutional referendum
proposed by President Jovenel Moïse that would have strengthened his presidential powers. Officials mourn Moïse at the National Pantheon
Museum days after his July 7, 2021, death. Gang leader Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier with members of his G9 Family and Allies coalition.
monday, march 18 , 2024 . the washington post EZ RE A9

Israel ‘will not succumb’ to pressure to stop war in Gaza

Netanyahu’s comments
come days after Schumer
publicly criticized him
BY NIHA MASIH,
JENNIFER HASSAN
AND SARAH DADOUCH
Israel “cannot, and will not,
succumb” to international pres-
sure to stop its military campaign
in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said during a govern-
ment meeting Sunday, amid
growing U.S. frustrations over his
government’s conduct of the war.
“In the international commu-
nity, there are those who are try-
ing to stop the war now, before all
of its goals have been achieved,”
he said. “They are doing so by
means of an effort to bring about
elections now, at the height of the
war. They are doing this because
they know that elections now will
halt the war and paralyze the
country for at least six months.”
“If we stop the war now, before
all of its goals are achieved, this
means that Israel will have lost
the war, and this we will not al-
low,” Netanyahu continued.
His comments came in re-
sponse to U.S. Senate Majority
Leader Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.) — the highest-ranking
Jewish official in the United
States and a staunch ally of Israel
— who gave a speech Thursday in
which he said Israel risks becom-
ing a “pariah” under Netanyahu
and called for new elections. Pres-
ident Biden later praised Schu-
mer for a “good speech.”
Schumer’s comments were “to-
tally inappropriate,” Netanyahu
told CNN’s “State of the Union,”
adding, “We are not a banana
republic.”
Netanyahu also promised Sun-
day to press on with his military’s
plan to attack Rafah, the southern
city where over half of Gaza’s pop-
ulation is sheltering.
“We will operate in Rafah,” Ne-
tanyahu said. He said it was the
“only way” to “eliminate” Hamas
and to free the remaining hostag-
es — the country’s two stated goals
for its war in Gaza.
Israel’s military said last week
it intends to direct a “significant”
portion of Rafah’s population of
1.5 million toward “humanitarian
islands” in central Gaza ahead of
the offensive, which Biden has
warned would cross a “red line.”
On Sunday, National Security
Council spokesman John Kirby
reiterated on ABC’s “This Week”
that the United States would not
support a Rafah operation “unless
or until [Israel] can accommodate
the 1.5 million refugees that are
there and preserve their safety
and security.”
Aid groups are also pleading for
restraint. On Saturday, the head of
the World Health Organization,
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
said he was “gravely concerned”
about Israel’s plan to attack Rafah
and appealed to Israel to call off
the operation.
In Tel Aviv, meanwhile, Ger-
man Chancellor Olaf Scholz
warned after a meeting with Ne-
tanyahu on Sunday that “we can-
not stand by and watch Palestin-
ians risk starvation,” the latest
Israeli ally to call for increasing
the flow of aid to Gaza. The condi-
tions of distribution must be “ur-
gently, massively improved,”
Scholz said, adding that “we need
a hostage deal with a longer-
lasting cease-fire.”
Humanitarian agencies say the
besieged enclave is teetering on
the brink of famine, and they are
calling for Israel to facilitate in-
creased aid deliveries and open
more access points into the terri-
tory. One-third of children under
age 2 are now acutely malnour-
ished in northern Gaza, the U.N.
agency for Palestinian refugees
said Saturday, adding that malnu-
trition among children is reach-
ing “unprecedented” levels.
Twelve aid trucks crossed into
northern Gaza on Saturday night,
protected by members of Gaza’s
civil police force, as well as repre-
sentatives of prominent families
and local community groups, resi-
dents told The Washington Post.
Spokeswomen for the United Na-
tions Relief and Works Agency
and the World Food Program said
they played no role in the delivery
or storage of the aid, which they
described as a private initiative.
Here’s what else to know
Israel’s war cabinet and secu-
rity cabinet discussed Israel’s re-
sponse to Hamas’s cease-fire
proposal on Sunday evening, ac-
cording to an Israeli official, who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity due to the sensitivity of the
talks. An Israeli delegation will
travel to Qatar to continue negoti-
ating a hostage deal, Netanyahu’s
office said.
A second ship carrying 240
tons of food aid, as well as ma-
chinery, is preparing to depart
for Gaza from the port of Larnaca,
Cyprus, according to World Cen-
tral Kitchen, the U.S. nonprofit
founded by celebrity chef José
Andrés. A first shipment carrying
nearly 200 tons of food aid arrived
in Gaza on Saturday and the aid is
now being “readied” for distribu-
tion, the organization said.
At least 31,645 people have
been killed and 73,676 injured in
Gaza since the war began, ac-
cording to the Gaza Health Minis-
try, which does not distinguish
between civilians and combat-
ants. Israel estimates that about
1,200 people were killed in
Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and says
that 249 soldiers have been killed
since the start of its military oper-
ation in Gaza.
The first pieces of the United
States’ planned floating dock off
Gaza’s coast are en route, Kirby
told ABC, adding that it will take
roughly six to eight weeks for all
parts to arrive and be assembled.
“We are working with partners in
the region to figure out the details
of how the material will be se-
cured on and off the floating
dock,” he said, “and of course, how
it will be distributed inside Gaza.”
Lior Soroka, Peter Jamison and
Miriam Berger contributed to this
report.

Niger junta says it’s ending military ties with U.S. on heels of envoys’ visit
BY R ACHEL C HASON,
O MAR H AMA S ALEY
AND R ACHEL P ANNETT
DaKaR, Senegal — The military
junta ruling Niger — which until
last year was seen as a major ally
of the United States in West Africa
— announced Saturday on state
television that it was ending its
military relationship with the
United States.
The announcement by a
spokesman for the junta govern-
ment, which overthrew Niger’s
democratically elected president
last year, came directly on the
heels of a visit to the capital,
Niamey, by U.S. Assistant Secre-
tary of State Molly Phee, the State
Department’s top official for Afri-
can affairs, and Gen. Michael E.
Langley, who heads U.S. military
operations in Africa. That mission
was among diplomatic efforts by
the United States to find ways to
work with military governments
in the region, where violence
wrought by Islamist extremists
has, in recent years, rapidly esca-
lated.
But in the statement read on
television, Amadou Abdramane,
the junta’s spokesman, said the
Nigerien government “de-
nounced with force the conde-
scending attitude” of the head of
the recent U.S. delegation, which
he said had undermined the long
relationship between the two
countries. The government, he
said, was “denouncing with im-
mediate effect” the accord be-
tween Niger and the U.S. military,
along with civilians working for
the Defense Department.
“The American presence on Ni-
ger’s territory is illegal and vio-
lates all constitutional and demo-
cratic rules,” Abdramane said,
adding that the citizens of Niger
must be consulted before having a
foreign army on their territory.
State Department spokesman
Matthew Miller said Saturday
that officials are “aware of the
statement” and that it had fol-
lowed “frank discussions” last
week with leaders in Niamey, re-
laying U.S. concerns about the
ruling junta’s trajectory. He added
that U.S. officials are “in touch”
with the junta and “will provide
further updates as warranted.”
More than 1,000 U.S. soldiers
are stationed in Niger, according
to the military, and the United
States operates a drone base in
the country’s north that officials
say is vital for surveillance of
extremist groups in the Sahel re-
gion, which runs across Africa
just below the Sahara desert.
The State Department had pre-
viously said that Phee and Lang-
ley would travel to Niamey on
March 12 and March 13 “to contin-
ue ongoing discussions since Au-
gust with leaders of the National
Council for Safeguarding the
Homeland (CNSP) regarding Ni-
ger’s return to a democratic path
and the future of our security and
development partnership.”
Following the coup last year,
the United States largely suspend-
ed military aid to Niger, with
activity at the base limited to
surveillance for protection of U.S.
forces. Phee said in an interview
with The Washington Post last
month that she had emphasized
the importance of a swift demo-
cratic transition to the Nigerien
government, saying that U.S. as-
sistance would remain suspended
until Niger sets a timeline for
restoring democracy.
The Nigerien government has
so far refused to set a date for
presidential elections, and Presi-
dent Mohamed Bazoum, who had
been democratically elected, re-
mains held under house arrest.
Niger, along with neighboring
Mali and Burkina Faso — which
are also led by military juntas —
has grown increasingly close with
Russia, which has made concert-
ed efforts in recent years to ex-
pand its influence in the region,
especially via security partner-
ships. Niger has “state-to-state”
relations with Russia, Abdra-
mane said Saturday, adding that
all agreements between the two
countries had been made trans-
parently. In December, Russia and
Niger announced that they had
signed new security agreements,
but it was not clear at the time
what the agreements involved.
In Burkina Faso, Russia has in
recent months deployed a few
hundred troops from the Africa
Corps — which is described by
Russian officials as the successor
to the Wagner mercenary group —
while about 1,000 Russian mili-
tary personnel are estimated to be
fighting with the Malian army.
Abdramane emphasized in his
statement that Niger’s relations
with Russia, along with Iran,
stretch back decades, and criti-
cized the United States for trying
“to deny the sovereign people of
Niger the right to choose these
partners and the type of partner-
ship able to help it truly fight
terrorism.”
Shortly after the coup, the jun-
ta asked troops from France —
which had historically been a key
security partner — to leave the
country, following models set by
juntas in Mali and Burkina Faso.
Each junta justified its takeover in
part by promising to make prog-
ress on security. But as in both
Mali and Burkina Faso, Niger saw
a significant increase in attacks by
Islamist militants following its
coup.
U.S. military officials say that
the base in Agadez, which was
built six years ago for $110 mil-
lion, has been vital for monitoring
extremist groups connected to al-
Qaeda and the Islamic State,
which have increasingly made Af-
rica, rather than the Middle East,
their main theater.
In an interview earlier this
year, Langley warned that if the
United States closed the drone
base, the move would be “impact-
ful” in Niger and the region, and
for the United States’ broader
counterterrorism strategy.
“If we can’t see, we can’t sense,”
he said. “If we lose our footprint in
the Sahel, that will degrade our
ability to do active watching and
warning, including for homeland
defense.”
Saley reported from Niamey. Pannett
reported from Wellington, New
Zealand.

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A10
With Russian opposition in exile, Berlin becomes center of anti-Putin protest
Navalny’s wife speaks to
scores who vote despite
preordained election
BY MARY ILYUSHINA
BERLIN — As Yulia Navalnaya, the
wife of the late opposition leader
Alexei Navalny, passed the first
checkpoint on her way to the rus-
sian Embassy in Berlin to vote in
the presidential election, a group
of young russians holding anti-
Vladimir Putin posters yelled out:
“Yulia, we are with you! Don’t give
up!”
Closer to the embassy were the
counterprotesters: a group of men
and women in their 50s and 60s
holding the russian tricolor and a
Soviet flag. They began singing the
russian national anthem to drown
out the voices from across the road
— youthful activists screaming
into their microphones that Putin
was a “murderer” for continuing
his onslaught in Ukraine.
When a silver-haired woman
urged a young couple standing
behind her in line to join in the
Putin adds 6 years to term as Navalny supporters dissent
PutiN from A1
was far less certain. Navalny had
urged the midday action before
dying suddenly in prison last
month.
In his initial victory remarks,
Putin commented on Navalny’s
death for the first time and con-
firmed reports that talks had been
underway to exchange Navalny,
long his most formidable political
critic, for russians imprisoned in
the West.
“A few days before mr. Navalny
passed away some people told me
there is an idea to exchange him
with some people who are incar-
cerated in Western countries,” Pu-
tin said. “You can believe me or
not but even before the person
could finish their phrase I said I
agree. But what happened hap-
pened unfortunately. I had only
one condition — that we swap
him and that he doesn’t come
back. Let him sit there. But this
happens. You can’t do anything
about that.”
russian authorities said Naval-
ny died of natural causes while
Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalna-
ya, has accused Putin of ordering
his murder. The Kremlin rejects
the allegations.
The “Noon Against Putin” pro-
test, with voters forming queues
at polling stations in major cities
such as moscow, St. Petersburg,
Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk,
Tomsk and Novosibirsk, was a
striking — if futile — display of
solidarity and dissent and chal-
lenged the Kremlin’s main mes-
sage: that Putin is a legitimate
president who commands mas-
sive support.
many polling stations in mos-
cow were deathly quiet on Sunday
morning, but long lines appeared
at exactly 12 p.m. — despite au-
thorities sending mass text mes-
sages warning people against par-
ticipating in “extremist” actions
and in the face of severe repres-
sion of dissent since the invasion
of Ukraine in 2022, which has
resulted in hundreds of arrests.
Navalny, who had long crusad-
ed for free and fair elections in
russia and was blocked from run-
ning for president in 2018, had
urged russians to vote against
Putin at noon Sunday. It turned
out to be Navalny’s final political
act before his death.
many voters also posted photo-
graphs of their spoiled ballots
with protest slogans such as “Na-
valny is my president,” “No to war,
no to Putin,” and “Putin is a mur-
derer.”
Voting took place over three
days, beginning friday, which
some critics said would allow
greater opportunity for ballot ma-
nipulation and other fraud. Vot-
ing was also taking place in areas
of Ukraine occupied by the rus-
sian military, with reports of elec-
toral teams accompanied by sol-
diers forcing people to vote at
gunpoint. In 27 russian regions
and two in occupied Ukraine, vot-
ers were also able to use a widely
criticized opaque online voting
system, with no way to verify
votes or guard against tampering.
But the three days of balloting
also gave voters ample opportu-
nity to visit polling stations at a
time of their choice, making it all
the more obvious that the sudden
crowds at midday Sunday had not
materialized by accident.
At least 65 people were de-
tained at polling stations in 16
russian cities on Sunday, accord-
ing to oVD-Info, a legal rights
group. Among them were a mos-
cow couple arrested because the
husband wore a scarf bearing the
name orwell, a reference to
singing, they gave her a sour look;
when activists confronted Putin
supporters over how they could
support the president amid such a
destructive war, they replied that
he was “defending russia from
NATo.”
As people waited for hours in
the German capital to cast their
ballots Sunday, in an election
where Putin faces no real opposi-
tion en route to a fifth presidential
term, russia’s vast ideological divi-
sions were on full display. Younger
russians, many of whom fled their
homeland shortly after the inva-
sion of Ukraine, were pitted
against older generations who
were born or grew up in commu-
nist East Germany, or moved to the
country after the fall of the Soviet
Union.
“People don’t actually have real
arguments about why Putin is
good, they just come out with these
boorish accusations that we are
too young and we don’t under-
stand anything,” said Diana, 31.
Like others in this report, she
spoke on the condition that she be
identified only by her first name,
fearing that family members in
russia could be targeted by the
authorities.
A voting station in Moscow. Many polling places there were deathly quiet on Sunday morning, but long lines appeared at exactly 12 p.m. for the “Noon Against Putin” protest.
George orwell, whose dystopian
novel 1984 was about a repressive
totalitarian state.
In addition to Putin, three oth-
er candidates were on the ballot,
all essentially Kremlin-friendly
figures with low profiles, in a
highly managed election de-
signed to offer a veneer of legiti-
macy without posing any serious
threat. Two antiwar candidates,
Boris Nadezhdin and Yekaterina
Duntsova, who might have be-
come flash points for antiwar sen-
timent, were barred from run-
ning.
Putin, in response to a report-
er’s question on Sunday night,
dismissed Western criticism of
the vote. “What did you want? for
them to stand up and applaud,” he
asked. “They set themselves the
goal of restraining our develop-
ment. of course, they will tell you
whatever they want.”
At one polling station next to
Polyanka metro station in central
moscow, a line of dozens extend-
ed around the block by 12:30 p.m.,
mainly muscovites in their 20s
and 30s. A police van and two
patrol cars hovered nearby, and
the entrance to the polling station
was guarded by several police
officers and security agents.
“We came here to vote against
Putin,” said Elizaveta, 21. “We are
going to put three crosses to show
that we are for everyone but him.
Literally anyone else is better
than him.”
The Washington Post is not
fully identifying her or other vot-
ers interviewed for this article
because of the risk of serious
repercussions from russian au-
thorities, including criminal
prosecution.
Elizaveta’s mother, marina,
added: “He has been in the same
place for too long.”
In russia’s climate of political
eZ re
“Putin’s government is conduct-
ing an aggressive war, and our
entire country has been equated
with murderers even though being
russian doesn’t equal Putin and
here in this line, we can see at least
a thousand examples of that,”
Diana said.
In the background, her friends
were loudly arguing with another
group of older russians who came
to vote for Putin.
“I lived in russia, I know what
oppression and repression are,
and now I live in Germany, a great
country where we are enjoying our
freedoms,” one friend said to a
woman in her 60s, who laughed in
his face.
When a Washington Post re-
porter approached the woman to
ask why she was voting for Putin,
she said she “stands with russia.”
“Democracy is a dirty word, an
empty word for me. I’ve lived a
long life, and I know what this
‘democracy’ is,” she said. Her com-
panions then whisked her away
and told her not to talk to Western
media.
Diana drove several hours from
southern Germany to cast her
vote. Last year, Germany closed
down four of five russian consul-
fear, protests are largely symbol-
ic, with authorities expected to
maintain tight control in the
months ahead, amid a war exact-
ing massive russian casualties.
Still, the signs of public anger
are unmistakable. Some frustrat-
ed russians did not even wait for
the Sunday protest and instead
expressed their anger as soon as
voting started on friday, by set-
ting fire to polling stations or
ballots or dumping liquid into
ballot boxes.
The Noon Against Putin pro-
test was designed not only to
denounce an election widely con-
demned as neither free nor fair,
but also to demonstrate support
for the fragmented, often demor-
alized critics of Putin and the war,
many of whom are now living in
exile.
Navalny’s team broadcast a live
stream, narrating the day of pro-
test, on his YouTube channel. one
of the anchors was Leonid Volkov,
Navalny’s longtime top political
adviser, who was recently at-
tacked by assailants with a ham-
mer outside of his home in Vilni-
us, Lithuania. Volkov appeared
on the broadcast with his arm in a
sling.
Two friends, Arina, 17, and
maryana, 19, arrived at the Poly-
anka polling station together, to
protest Putin.
Arina said the protest offered
hope that a “civilized and demo-
cratic russia is possible.”
“We came here so as to not feel
alone,” Arina said. “I wanted to
show my position in a safe and
legal way because there are barely
any opportunities to do this any-
more.”
She added: “I think this action
has been successful because it
gives people a feeling of strength
and power. People will at least see
the queues and hear about it, and
ates in response to moscow’s deci-
sion to limit the number of Ger-
man officials in russia, leaving the
embassy in Berlin and the remain-
ing consulate in Bonn as the only
places in Germany where russian
citizens could vote.
Hundreds of voters waited up to
six hours in a line that wrapped
around the embassy for a whole
block and zigzagged along barri-
caded corridors set up by police.
many understood that Putin’s
win was preordained, yet they said
it was important to exercise their
right to vote.
“I want to cast my vote so that it
is not cast for me, and it’s clear that
this often happens in our country,”
said Elizaveta, a young student, in
reference to widespread reports of
voter fraud and ballot stuffing that
have plagued previous russian
elections. “I was thrilled to see so
many people even though I think
it’s safe to say we know who will
win.”
A concert in front of the embas-
sy saw speeches from most major
opposition figures, including ex-
iled oligarch mikhail Khodork-
ovsky, highlighting the German
capital’s new role as a center for
russia’s opposition in exile.
that means something.”
maryana said: “We wanted to
do a peaceful protest of the cur-
rent power, to show that we don’t
support it and we won’t support
it.”
Nikolai, 28, who was at the
same polling station, said he was
surprised by the big turnout,
though some other protesters
said they had hoped for even
larger crowds.
“I came here today to express
my position and do my part to
show that there is still a political
life in the country and that there
are different opinions,” Nikolai
said. “It’s important to show that
people are not alone and that
there is still support for this kind
of action.”
It is difficult to stage any form
of protest in wartime russia. Au-
thorities swiftly disperse even
small street gatherings and have
cracked down mercilessly on ac-
tivist and opposition groups. Citi-
zens have been arrested for laying
flowers at memorials for Navalny,
and some have been detained for
standing alone holding up blank
sheets of paper.
russian courts, one of the re-
gime’s major tools of control, have
imposed long prison sentences on
people for trivial actions, such as
social media reposts or replacing
price tags in supermarkets with
information about the war.
The Noon Against Putin pro-
test was particularly striking at
russian embassies in nations
with significant numbers of rus-
sians who fled after the invasion
of Ukraine. They included those
in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz-
stan, Germany, China, Portugal,
Britain and others.
It was impossible to estimate
how many people participated in
russia and around the world, but
photos and videos showed lines of
the washington post
for Navalny’s team, which now
operates from Germany and Lith-
uania, Sunday was the key day of
the three-day election as they
urged russians at home and
abroad to come to polling stations
for a “Noon Without Putin” dem-
onstration — honoring Navalny’s
final call to action before his sud-
den death last month in a russian
penal colony.
“I see that all these people came
to our demonstration at noon be-
cause all that time I waited in line,
people screamed and chanted
words of support, and I thank
them all,” Navalnaya said as she
exited the embassy. In a recent
video address, she said she intends
to continue her husband’s work.
“You must all wonder whom I
voted for — of course I wrote
‘Navalny’ on the ballot because it
cannot just be that Putin’s main
opponent, who was already in jail,
was killed a month before the elec-
tion,” she said.
Germany stepped up when Na-
valny was on the brink of death in
2020, as he fell gravely ill after
being poisoned by a nerve agent.
Then-Chancellor Angela merkel
immediately offered the Navalny
family treatment in Germany and
hundreds of people at many poll-
ing stations.
Stanislav Andreyshuk, co-
chairman of Golos, an independ-
ent election watchdog that was
declared a foreign agent by rus-
sian authorities, said there had
been many reports of apparent
ballot stuffing, with bundles of
voting papers in the official boxes.
He said signs of anomalies also
were seen in the turnout data
published by the Central Election
Commission.
By midafternoon Sunday,
Golos mapped more than 1,400
reports of potential violations.
The group’s co-chairman, Grigory
melkonyants, is in detention
awaiting trial.
In one report to Golos, a state
employee in Chechnya, in south-
ern russia, complained that he
and others were bused from one
polling station to another to vote
multiple times. The employee
said he voted seven times in the
first two days.
Since taking power on Dec. 31,
1999, Putin has steadily destroyed
russia’s fledgling democracy,
curbed rights and crushed dis-
sent. His main political rivals
have been jailed, killed or forced
to flee the country, while protest-
ers risk long prison terms for
criticizing the war or Putin.
Putin has repeatedly found
ways to defy term limits to stay in
power, starting in 2008 when he
swapped jobs with Prime minis-
ter Dmitry medvedev while re-
maining the country’s supreme
political authority. four years lat-
er, they swapped again. In 2020,
Putin engineered constitutional
changes that would allow him
stay in power until 2036. The
term he will claim after this week-
end’s vote runs to 2030.
Unlike in Ukraine, which has
had five presidents elected during
. monday, march 18 , 2024
personally visited the politician in
the Charite clinic once he woke up
from a coma.
In early 2021, Navalny returned
to russia, refusing to become a
politician in exile. He was arrested
immediately upon landing at mos-
cow’s Sheremetyevo airport and
later sentenced to 19 years in pris-
on on charges related to his anti-
corruption work.
He died suddenly in february at
age 47 in a remote Arctic prison.
Authorities attributed his death to
natural causes; his team accused
the russian government of killing
him.
A close Navalny associate, ma-
ria Pevchikh, alleged that he was
close to being released in a prison-
er exchange that would have seen
him and two U.S. nationals
swapped for Vadim Krasikov, a
convicted russian hit man serving
a life sentence in a German prison.
But Putin, Pevchikh said, could not
tolerate his main rival walking
free.
“In my view, [Navalny’s death] is
a sign that the system is slowly
crumbling,” Elizaveta said. “It
seems that everything is going in
that direction, that our autocracy
is slowly falling apart.”
maxim shemetov/reuters
Putin’s time in power, the russian
election offers no democratic
choice. The Kremlin blocks genu-
ine opposition candidates from
the ballot, controls media cover-
age and, critics allege, falsifies
results.
Independent russian media,
such as Dozhd television, which
was shuttered by russian author-
ities and now operates from Am-
sterdam, described the current
balloting as a “so-called election.”
most civil servants and em-
ployees of state-owned enterpris-
es were ordered by their manag-
ers to vote on friday and were
strongly discouraged from voting
on Sunday, according to numer-
ous reports in independent rus-
sian-language media, including
faridaily, the Telegram channel of
journalist farida rustamova,
who said she received hundreds
of reports from state employees.
In russia’s tightly controlled
society, even just seeing fellow
protesters attend Noon Against
Putin felt empowering, Arina
said.
“I love the atmosphere here,”
she said, “because I feel strong
and I’m surrounded by like-mind-
ed people, and that’s so rare now-
adays. maybe I will even make
new friends today, with people
who think like me.”
Her friend maryana echoed
that optimism but said she was
also realistic about the slender
hope for change.
“I think that today’s protest
was a success in that it gave
people a bit of a lift. It supports
people mentally,” she said. “But of
course it won’t affect the authori-
ties in any way.”
Dixon reported from riga, Latvia.
mary ilyushina in Berlin and Natalia
abbakumova in riga contributed to
this report.
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Icelandic volcano’s eruption turns night sky orange

BY A NNABELLE T IMSIT said.
Once an alert was sounded,
A volcano erupted in south- authorities moved to evacuate
western Iceland for the fourth people from the area, according
time in three months — sending to local media, including the
destructive lava flowing toward Blue Lagoon, one of the country’s
the town of Grindavik and most popular tourist attractions.
prompting authorities to evacu- Grindavik, a town of nearly
ate the popular Blue Lagoon 4,000 people that was evacuated
geothermal spa resort amid before the volcano’s first erup-
emergency warnings. tion in December, was also
The eruption between the cleared of any residents who had
Hagafell and Stora Skogfell returned, the Associated Press
mountains on the Reykjanes reported.
Peninsula began Saturday night, Reuters video showed patrons
according to the Icelandic Mete- leaving the Blue Lagoon as sirens
orological Office. It quickly sounded to warn about the
formed a 1.8-mile-long fissure in erupting volcano.
the ground, the office said. Abby Garcia, who was at the
Lava was still flowing early Blue Lagoon resort with friends
Sunday, and footage of the erup- on Saturday, told Reuters she
tion was being live-streamed by mistook the “bright red hue in
RUV, Iceland’s national broad- the sky” for a sunset. Garcia said
caster. she and her friends were rushed
There was no information im- out of the pool and put on an
mediately available about the evacuation bus.
scale of damage or possible casu- Another witness, Melissa
alties. Ezair, told Reuters that the evac-
The Icelandic Meteorological uation went smoothly and that
Office could not be reached for she “wasn’t scared.”
comment Sunday. “Some people drove cars, then
Photos and videos captured others … took the bus to town.
the night sky around Mount No one seemed out of control or
Hagafell and Mount Stora Skog- crying or anything. Everybody
fell turning molten orange as was steady and … they prepared
people watched and emergency it very well and took good care of
services prepared to respond. us to be sure we all got out okay,”
Initial assessments suggested Ezair said.
the eruption was the largest of Photos from the Icelandic
the four recent ones in the area, Coast Guard showed the view
since swarms of earthquakes HAlldor KolbeIns/AFP/getty ImAges from a surveillance flight over
caused the Svartsengi volcanic the new fissure.
system to awaken for the first The closest airport, Keflavik
time in almost 800 years. International, remained open
Icelandic police declared a Sunday, and flights were not
local state of emergency, Reuters disrupted. RUV said this erup-
reported. tion was not generating ash —
Early Sunday, lava was flowing unlike the 2010 eruption of the
toward the south and southeast Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which
at a pace of about 0.62 mph, the shut down air traffic across Eu-
Meteorological Office said. If rope.
that pace continues, it said, lava As The Washington Post re-
could reach the ocean — which ported, that explosive eruption
can send steam flying and, in vividly demonstrated what hap-
some cases, cause explosions of pens when hot lava meets freez-
lava fragments that can be dan- ing cold water.
gerous to anyone nearby. Known as a phreatomagmatic
The plumes of smoke and eruption, the molten rock —
orange hues could be seen from magma — made contact with ice
the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, and meltwater and flashed to
according to photos. Ael KermArec/AFP/getty ImAges HAndout/AFP/getty ImAges steam. But the volcanic system
Because of the volumes of on the Reykjanes Peninsula is far
magma accumulating under- FROM TOP, CLOCKWISE: The skyline of Reykjavik is seen against the backdrop of orange-colored sky on Saturday after a volcano from the glaciers of Iceland.
ground, there was little warning erupted for the fourth time in three months. Aerials over the Reykjanes Peninsula show destructive lava, which prompted authorities to
of Saturday’s eruption before it evacuate people from the area, including the Blue Lagoon, a popular tourist destination. Spectators watch plumes of smoke from volcanic Joel Achenbach contributed to this
came, the Meteorological Office activity between Hagafell and Stora Skogfell mountains. report.

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months is unlikely
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company at up to $150 billion.
That price tag would put it in a
realm few buyers could touch and
set a new milestone for Big Tech
acquisitions. But a purchase by a
rival tech giant would probably
face heavy antitrust scrutiny in
the United States and in countries
around the world, which would
slow the process, if not stop it
altogether.
“There is a very short list of
bidders here,” said David Locala,
the former head of global technol-
ogy mergers and acquisitions at
Citi, the American multinational
investment bank. U.S. regulators
may “have to pick their poison:
Do they want U.S. ownership of
TikTok, or do they want one or
more of the Big Tech companies to
get even bigger?”
At a $100 billion pur-
chase price, TikTok would rank
among the biggest merger-and-
acquisition deals in history, prob-
ably adding to the complexity
and time demands. AoL’s merg-
er with Time Warner in 2000, for
$182 billion, took roughly a year
to finalize.
Elon musk’s purchase of Twit-
ter, for $44 billion in 2022, took
about six months to close — and
that was a sale Twitter’s board
desperately wanted. facebook’s
$19 billion acquisition of Whats-
App in 2014, which forbes said
was “hashed out in [chief ] mark
Zuckerberg’s house over the
course of a few days … and sealed
over a bottle of Johnnie Walker
scotch,” nevertheless took seven
months to close once all the regu-
latory hoops were cleared.
Nevertheless, the potential to
own a crown jewel of the internet
has spurred wealthy suitors into
action. former treasury secretary
Steven mnuchin, who runs a pri-
vate equity firm that the New York
Times reported in 2022 had se-
cured hundreds of millions of
dollars in commitments from
Saudi Arabia and other foreign
funds, told CNBC recently that he
was assembling a group of inves-
tors hoping to buy TikTok.
As Treasury chief, mnuchin
urged then-President Donald
Trump in 2020 to push for a
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“very large” cut of the sale pro-
ceeds, was later halted in court.
mnuchin declined to give details
on the group’s investors or the
sources of their funds.
Bobby Kotick, the former chief
of video game giant Activision
Blizzard, and Kevin o’Leary, the
Canadian investor from the TV
show “Shark Tank,” have both ex-
pressed interest in a TikTok deal.
But they may not have the money
to seriously pursue a takeover,
and pooling their funds as part of
an investment consortium would
present its own headaches, Loca-
la said. (microsoft bought Activi-
sion Blizzard last year for $69 bil-
lion; that deal didn’t close for 633
days after it was announced.)
With consortia, “you never
know whether somebody is really
in or not until the end in those
things,” Locala said. “The more
parties you introduce to it, [the
more] it just gets unwieldy to be
able to make any progress.”
Even beyond the “eye-popping”
price tag, a TikTok sale probably
would be subject to a set of “ag-
gressive legal challenges” that
could further run down the clock,
Wedbush Securities research ana-
lyst Dan Ives said in a note to
investors.
“Detaching the algorithm from
ByteDance would be a very com-
plex process,” Ives said. China and
ByteDance “will never allow the
source code to be sold to a U.S.
tech company in our view, which
makes this all a spiderweb issue
for any potential strategic buyer.”
China said last year that it
would strongly oppose any forced
sale of TikTok, and its foreign
ministry spokesperson, Wang
Wenbin, said the House bill was
built on “robber’s logic” around a
valuable asset.
After Trump pushed to force
TikTok’s sale in 2020, China add-
ed recommendation algorithms
— the nerve center of TikTok’s
video feed — onto its export-con-
trol list, mandating that any sale
be subject to government approv-
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Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for
the Chinese Embassy in Washing-
ton, said in a statement that a
forced sale would contradict “the
principle of fair competition and
norms of international trade.”
“It is unfair to use national
security as a pretext to bring
down successful companies of
other countries,” Liu said. “It is
wrong to try all means to snatch
from others the good things that
they have.”
A Biden official, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity to
describe internal thinking, said
the administration’s goal was for
TikTok to be divested, not
banned, for the sake of national
security. The official accused Chi-
na of calling for an absurd double
standard, given its years-old pol-
icy of blocking foreign social me-
dia apps.
A forced sale of TikTok also
raises the specter of retaliation
against U.S. companies in China,
with Beijing having taken a tit-
for-tat approach in the past. Some
major American businesses, such
as Apple, derive a large share of
their revenue from China.
Top-level U.S.-China diploma-
cy has at times shaken free deals
that had seemed hopeless, includ-
ing China’s acquiescing to chip
maker Broadcom’s purchase of
cloud computing company Vm-
ware in November, shortly after
Biden met in California with Chi-
na’s leader, Xi Jinping.
Beijing had claimed regulatory
authority in the deal, even though
both companies are headquar-
tered in the United States. But
they also do robust business in
China, and in the current tense
diplomatic environment, “every-
body was thinking the deal was
going to get blocked,” Locala said.
(It’s unclear why China relented,
though some suspect the Biden-
Xi meeting played a role.)
The forced sale of TikTok,
though, would be a harder pill for
Beijing officials to swallow. China
probably would balk at allowing
the United States to dictate what
happens to one of its trophy com-
panies, said Paul Triolo, a technol-
ogy policy lead at the Washing-
ton-based business consulting
firm Albright Stonebridge Group
who specializes in Chinese busi-
ness and economics.
“Beijing will object in principle
to both the political circus it sees
in Washington over the TikTok
issue and to any forced divesti-
ture which involves a company …
being pressured entirely based on
its China links,” Triolo said.
The ByteDance technology
that powers TikTok, he said, “is a
critical piece of intellectual prop-
erty for the company, and again
Beijing would object to the prec-
edent a forced divestiture involv-
ing AI algorithms could set.”
There is recent precedent for a
forced sale. In 2019, the United
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CEO, Intel
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Vice President of Global
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States demanded that a China-
based tech company reverse its
purchase of the LGBTQ+ dating
app Grindr due to federal offi-
cials’ concerns over its data on
American users, including mili-
tary service members. The com-
pany, Kunlun Tech, sold the app
for $608 million to a U.S.-based
investment group, San Vicente
Acquisition, which has since tak-
en it public. But the sale took a
year to arrange.
And that deal was a small frac-
tion of the size of any likely TikTok
divestiture: Grindr at the time
had 13 million global users, com-
pared with TikTok’s 170 million in
the United States alone, and sold
for less than 1 percent of TikTok’s
expected sale price. That deal re-
quired merely undoing an acqui-
sition, rather than carving off a
business from its longtime own-
ership.
TikTok saw numerous suitors
for a complete or partial acquisi-
tion in 2020, including microsoft,
Walmart and oracle. Those com-
panies might show interest again,
especially given that TikTok’s U.S.
user base has nearly doubled in
the last four years.
oracle already has a working
relationship with TikTok, first ne-
gotiated under lobbying by
mnuchin in 2020, as its “trusted
technology partner,” housing its
U.S. user data and conducting
algorithm reviews. oracle’s home
state is also the namesake of Tik-
Stefanie Tompkins
Director, DARPA
Sen. Todd Young
(R-Ind.)
Content from Mozilla
Linda Griffin
Vice President,
Global Policy, Mozilla
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Tok’s Project Texas proposal, a
$1.5 billion plan the company
submitted to regulators in 2022 in
hopes of satisfying U.S. national
security concerns.
representatives from oracle,
microsoft and Walmart did not
respond to requests for comment.
It’s unclear what ByteDance in-
tends to do, or if it’s made any
preparations for such a divesti-
ture demand after years of regula-
tory pressure in Washington. Tik-
Tok’s chief executive, Shou Zi
Chew, said after the House vote
that the company would exercise
its “legal rights” to block the bill.
ByteDance says it is 60 percent
owned by big international inves-
tors, including the U.S. invest-
ment firms Susquehanna Invest-
ment Group and General Atlan-
tic, some of whom could push to
use that stake to gain control of a
TikTok spinoff. The other 40 per-
cent is split between ByteDance’s
Chinese founders and its 150,000
employees, thousands of whom
are Americans.
Any of them might pursue their
own actions against being co-
erced to sell off a stake in the
company’s biggest global success
story. Without a complete buyout
of Chinese shareholders, federal
authorities — such as the Com-
mittee on foreign Investment in
the United States, or CfIUS,
which has been negotiating with
TikTok for years — could still
push for further scrutiny of
whether the deal goes far enough.
If the bill quickly cleared the
Senate, the 180-day sale window
could conclude just before the
2024 presidential election, poten-
tially raising questions over how
TikTok’s new owner might
change the app’s rules and inner
workings for its own political ben-
efit.
But if TikTok isn’t sold, the
federal government could work to
block the platform by exerting
pressure on Apple, Google and
other tech companies who run
the app stores, cloud-computing
and web-hosting services that
power and distribute it.
That process could be easily
circumvented through loopholes
and workarounds, said Bruce
Schneier, a security technologist
and Harvard Kennedy School lec-
turer who reviewed the possible
outcomes last year.
A more effective blanket ban,
he said, “would necessitate a na-
tional firewall, like the one China
currently has, to spy on and cen-
sor Americans’ access to the inter-
net.”
Hemant Taneja
CEO & Managing Director,
General Catalyst
Sen. Mark Warner
(D-Va.)
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Economy & Business

Politicians sway social
media decisions. Are
they going too far?
High court to determine
if ‘jawboning’ violates
First Amendment
BY N AOMI N IX,
C AT Z AKRZEWSKI
AND A NN E . M ARIMOW
In the weeks after the Jan. 6
attack on the U.S. Capitol, activ-
ists gathered outside the Hous-
ton home of Sen. Ted Cruz to
protest his refusal to certify Pres-
ident Biden’s election victory —
as well as his decision to jet off to
Cancún on vacation during a
deadly local storm.
As images of the protesters
rippled across Twitter (now X),
Cruz’s team called and texted
people in Twitter’s D.C. office,
insisting that some of their posts
violated his safety and demand-
ing that they be removed, accord-
Republicans led by Rep. Jim Jor-
dan (R-Ohio) are investigating
how tech companies handle re-
quests from Biden administra-
tion officials, demanding thou-
sands of documents from inter-
net platforms. Conservative ac-
tivists also have filed lawsuits
and records requests for private
correspondence between tech
companies and academic re-
searchers studying election- and
health-related conspiracies.
“We have uncovered substan-
tial evidence that the Biden ad-
ministration directed and co-
erced Big Tech companies to cen-
sor Americans’ free speech,” Jor-
dan spokeswoman Nadgey
Louis-Charles said in a state-
ment.
The legal campaign has blunt-
ed coordination as the 2024 elec-
tion looms. Federal agencies have
stopped sharing information
with some social networks about
foreign disinformation cam-
paigns, shutting down a line of MArie D. De Jesús/AP

ing to people familiar with the
matter who spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity to discuss pri-
vate deliberations.
“We would hear very frequent-
ly from [Cruz’s] office,” said one
former employee. “They were one
of the more frequent congres-
sional offices to complain.”
A spokesman for Cruz told The
Post on Sunday that “safety
threats against Sen. Cruz and his
family are well documented, and
his office has asked them to avoid
doxing his home address — as
The Post does in the picture
accompanying this article.”
For years, politicians like Cruz
(R-Tex.) have tapped private con-
tacts at social media firms to
influence a range of decisions,
from deleting a specific post to
changing policies around hate
speech, voter suppression and
public health misinformation,
according to more than a dozen
people familiar with the tech
companies’ operations, many of
whom spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss internal
matters.
The practice has become so
routine it even has a nickname —
“jawboning” — and tech compa-
nies have responded by establish-
ing internal systems to ensure
that influential users receive
prompt responses, the people
said. The complex rules also help
guard against such requests hav-
ing undue influence, the people
said.
Now, the Supreme Court is set
communications opened after
revelations of Russian interfer-
ence in the 2016 elections.
Tech industry executives and
civil society groups say the case
now before the Supreme Court
requires a nuanced review, espe-
cially as the evolution of artificial
intelligence presents new disin-
formation risks in a critical elec-
tion year. Alex Abdo, litigation
director of the Knight First
Amendment Institute at Colum-
bia University, which filed a brief
in support of neither party, urged
the court to clarify the constitu-
tional line between coercion and
persuasion.
“The government has no au-
thority to threaten platforms into
censoring protected speech, but
it must have the ability to partici-
pate in public discourse so that it
can effectively govern and inform
the public of its view,” he said.
A complicated relationship
During the Obama administra-
tion, Facebook, Google and other
tech juggernauts were the dar-
lings of Washington. Silicon Val-
ley employees would often weave
in and out of Capitol Hill offices
showing congressional staffers
how to use their platforms. But in
August 2014, a video of journalist
James Foley being executed by
ISIS circulated on YouTube, Twit-
ter and other services — and the
relationship grew complicated.
As ISIS increasingly used the
tech platforms to recruit new
members, Lisa Monaco, now dep-
As activists protested at the home of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) in 2021, Cruz’s team pressured Twitter’s D.C. office over some social media
posts of the demonstration, claiming they violated his safety and needed to be removed, according to people familiar with the matter.
“I never felt pressured by the
FBI or the White House because I
wasn’t … dealing with them,” said
Anika Collier Navaroli, a senior
fellow at the Tow Center for
Digital Journalism at Columbia
University and a former senior
Twitter policy official.
‘We were under pressure’
In 2021, as the Biden adminis-
tration urged Americans to get
the coronavirus vaccine, the
White House and federal public
health officials bickered with
tech companies about how their
actions might impact the push,
according to documents publicly
released through the Murthy v.
Missouri case, House Republi-
cans’ probe and X owner Elon
Musk’s Twitter Files. The White
House referred The Post to the
Justice Department’s brief.
Soon after Inauguration Day in
January 2021, then-White House
staffer Clarke Humphrey pressed
Twitter to remove a tweet by
anti-vaccine activist Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. linking baseball
player Hank Aaron’s death to
coronavirus vaccines. The tweet
remains up.
Former White House staffer
Rob Flaherty questioned why
Meta was hosting a video of
conservative talk show host
Tucker Carlson voicing skepti-
cism about the vaccine. A Meta
employee, whose name is redact-
state attorneys general failed to porarily allowed the Biden ad- publicly.
show the government tied regu- ministration to resume commu- Such openness might have
latory threats to specific content nications with social media com- been revelatory back in Septem-
moderation decisions. panies while the litigation con- ber 2019. That’s when the Trump
In July, a federal judge in tinued. White House asked Twitter to
Louisiana sided with the state Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., remove a tweet by celebrity
attorneys general, issuing a joined by Justices Clarence Chrissy Teigen calling former
sweeping injunction that limited Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch, president Donald Trump “a p---- a
how thousands of employees in a called the majority’s decision to -- b----.”
wide range of government de- block a lower-court ruling The company declined, said
partments and agencies can com- against the Biden administration Navaroli.
municate with the tech compa- “highly disturbing,” saying that “I think that there are genuine
nies. In September, the U.S. Court “government censorship of pri- conversations that should be had
of Appeals for the 5th Circuit vate speech is antithetical to our about the role of the American
narrowed that order to the White democratic form of government.” First Amendment,” Navaroli said
House, the surgeon general’s of- Perault and other experts said in an interview. But there is this
fice, the center and the FBI. the Murthy v. Missouri case has “theory out there that social me-
As the case heads to the convinced many in the tech in- dia companies were being co-
Supreme Court, there are early dustry of the need to establish erced into taking down content.
indications of how some justices clearer rules around government It’s literally just not been proved
view these issues. In October, the actors. One idea that’s gained and the information that we have
three most conservative justices traction is registering complaints that’s out there has said the exact
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the constitutional bounds of the
practice. On Monday, Supreme
Court justices are scheduled to
hear oral arguments in Murthy v.
Missouri, a landmark case that
uty attorney general, and other
Obama aides pushed companies
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could define the future of free
speech on social media.
The case was initiated by Re-
publican attorneys general in
Louisiana and Missouri, who
sued the Biden administration,
alleging its communications with
platforms urging the removal of
posts containing misinformation
about the pandemic and elec-
tions amounted to illegal censor-
ship. The Justice Department is
defending the Biden administra-
tion, arguing that the Constitu-
tion permits the use of the bully
pulpit to protect the public.
“This case has potential to
really reshape the rules of the
road here,” said Daphne Keller,
who directs the program on plat-
form regulation at Stanford’s Cy-
ber Policy Center and is a former
associate general counsel for
Google. “It’s the fundamental
question of how we govern what
speech is and isn’t allowed on
platforms and what information
they’re allowed to use.”
While the case focuses on the
Biden administration, politicians
from both parties frequently lev-
erage relationships to try to re-
move unfavorable posts, the peo-
ple said. In one instance, the
office of former House speaker
John A. Boehner, a Republican
ties. YouTube also invested in
detecting and taking down ter-
rorist videos.
Tech companies deepened
their relationships with govern-
ment and law enforcement fol-
lowing revelations of Russian in-
terference, sharing findings on
how foreign operatives, terrorists
and extremists were using the
internet to mislead people. When
the pandemic hit and social me-
dia became a hot spot for con-
spiracies, public health officials
kept social media companies up-
dated on the latest develop-
ments.
As Washington policymakers
increasingly scrutinized social
media, they more frequently
sought to influence the compa-
nies’ decisions.
“Both parties do it,” said Nu
Wexler, a former congressional
aide who also worked at Google,
Meta and Twitter. “A lot of them
are at war with political oppo-
nents on social media. They think
their access to social media com-
panies will help them get their
opponents suspended.”
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developed systems to handle the
deluge of requests. Meta lobby-
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House said it was reviewing pol-
icies to hold tech companies re-
sponsible for misinformation, in-
cluding amending tech compa-
nies’ prized legal shield, Section
230 — an idea Biden had floated
as early as 2020. Humphrey and
Flaherty did not respond to re-
quests for comment.
These emails — along with
thousands of messages between
Biden administration officials
and social media companies —
are included in the record as part
of the Supreme Court case, which
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FBI, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and other federal
offices coerced social media com-
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posts.
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agent, advertised the number
prominently on her own website,
one of the people said. Neither
Boehner nor Cruz responded to
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figures to an email alias for an
expedited review. Meta declined
to comment.
Before Elon Musk’s takeover,
Twitter largely prohibited lobby-
ists or advertising reps — who
might have connections to politi-
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Crime is falling almost everywhere except D.C.
Who’s responsible?
L
AST YEAR saw the most homicides in Wash-
ington since 1997. Nineteen children, includ-
ing a 10-year-old, were among the 274 slain, a
sixfold increase in juvenile murders since
2012. Teens held up Uber and Lyft drivers at gun-
point and literally killed for cars. A congressman was
carjacked in October.
Violent crime declined in nearly every major
U.S. city last year. The District was a tragic outlier.
Many perpetrators apparently believed they could
get away with breaking the law, and
EdiTOriaL they were somewhat correct. The
D.C. police force was the smallest in
half a century. Arrests fell sharply during the pan-
demic and stayed low. Prosecutions plunged, with
only 33 percent of adult arrests leading to immediate
charges in fiscal 2022. D.C.’s crime lab, which analyz-
es forensic evidence, lost its accreditation for two
years, making it harder to bring gun and drug cases.
(This was finally fixed in December.) On top of that,
D.C. courts were impeded during the pandemic,
creating a massive backlog and leading to strikingly
low numbers held in the D.C. Jail last year. Almost
every part of the District’s fragmented public safety
system fell short.
Effective law enforcement requires that those who
have the authority to combat crime also take respon-
sibility for doing so. This is hard to achieve in the
unusual hybrid system of government in the nation’s
capital, with multiple federal and local agencies (and
differing elected officials) in control of various
aspects of criminal justice. The tangled lines of
accountability encourage finger-pointing rather
than problem-solving.
Two D.C. Council members face recall efforts
because of public outcry over crime. Yet all key
players need to be held to account: Mayor Muriel
E. Bowser (D) and every member of the council;
D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb (D), who is
chiefly responsible for prosecuting juveniles;
U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, who chiefly pros-
ecutes adults; and D.C.’s judges, who have made it
unduly difficult to secure convictions.
Recent actions create grounds for optimism.
Police are making more arrests. Prosecutors are
bringing more cases. And the council passed the
Secure D.C. Omnibus Amendment Act, which
the mayor signed this past Monday. There are
encouraging indicators that the worst of the crime
wave is behind us. But what else do city leaders need
to do?
Mayor Bowser
Ms. Bowser deserves credit for advocating emer-
gency legislation last summer that made it easier for
police to go after violent criminals by, among many
other things, expanding the circumstances under
which defendants should be detained awaiting trial.
But the deterioration of the Department of Forensic
Sciences’ crime lab on her watch — it lost accredita-
tion from mid-2021 to the end of 2023 — was a
management failure. Where’s the plan to prevent a
repeat?
Similarly, the 911 call center suffers from insuffi-
LETTErs TO ThE EdiTOr
What these moms and women
think Ms. Britt missed
Regarding Monica Hesse’s March 9 Style column
“Do women feel welcome in Katie Britt’s kitchen?”:
I guess I’m the target audience of Sen. Katie Boyd
Britt’s (R-Ala.) rebuttal to the State of the Union
speech. I’m a stay-at-home mom of three kids, with
a fourth on the way. I’m college-educated. I’m a
Christian. And I’m a registered independent, with
nuanced views, who voted for Nikki Haley in the
Republican primary. I live outside a major city in a
swing state.
There’s been a lot of mockery of the choice to
deliver the speech in a kitchen instead from the
Senate floor and of her delivery. But what stood out
to me was a small but powerful detail: the cross
Ms. Britt wore around her neck.
Last week, I led a Bible study focusing on the
sixth chapter of the Book of John. The apostle John
juxtaposes the thousands who wanted to get
something from Jesus with the tiny handful who
were willing to actually follow Him and His
teachings. For years, I have continually struggled
with seeing politician after politician slap the name
of Jesus on top of behavior, positions and rhetoric I
believe Jesus would find reprehensible.
In Ms. Britt’s speech, she used the tragic story of
the trafficking of a brave advocate, Karla Jacinto, as
a warning against President Biden’s border policies.
The senator’s recounting of the story was carefully
worded to evoke the fears of mothers like me. Yet it
was not truthful.
Ms. Britt claimed that “the cartels put
[Ms. Jacinto] on a mattress,” but this woman was
not trafficked by cartels. Ms. Britt implied this
crime happened in the United States, but it took
place in Mexico — and more than a decade before
President Biden was elected. Frankly, as someone
who has mentored children who have crossed the
border, I find that these political tactics exploit the
vulnerable, confuse the public and contribute to
political polarization that hinders the bipartisan
cooperation necessary to make the world safer for
at-risk children. By twisting and exploiting
Ms. Jacinto’s story for political purposes, Ms. Britt
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cient staffing. Desperate callers can be put on hold
for several minutes, with tragic and, at times, deadly
results. Then there are the parents of children in the
juvenile system pleading for better support coping
with kids’ addiction, mental health and school
attendance issues. This falls largely on the city’s
executive branch.
U.S. Attorney Graves
Mr. Graves, who is a presidential appointee, not an
elected official, needs to prosecute more cases. It’s
true the number has gone up since the nadir in fiscal
2022, but his office’s day-of-arrest charging rate
was 44 percent in fiscal 2023. Mr. Graves’s latest
public data shows an increase to 55 percent from
October to December. But the recent norm is above
65 percent. There are always reasons — some more
valid than others — that a given arrest might not
lead to charges. Sometimes police botch evidence-
gathering; sometimes victims fear testifying, espe-
cially in domestic violence situations. The new crime
law expands the definition of carjacking to make
those cases easier to prosecute; Mr. Graves should
make aggressive use of it.
D.C. Attorney General Schwalb
Mr. Schwalb’s office brought charges against
46 percent of juveniles arrested in fiscal 2022 and
53 percent in fiscal 2023. Only 60 percent of juvenile
carjacking cases were charged in fiscal 2023, along
with an estimated 43 percent of nonviolent, non-gun
offenses. Because anyone charged as a youth can be
confined in D.C.’s juvenile system only until they’re
21, prosecutors argue they don’t need to bring cases
for every crime an individual has committed to
secure the maximum sentence.
But the attorney general, elected in 2022, testified
last summer against Ms. Bowser’s proposal to make
it easier to hold more youths who are considered
dangerous. He insisted that juveniles released
pretrial weren’t committing serious offenses. In fact,
police say juveniles (and adults) are frequently
arrested for new crimes while wearing court-
ordered GPS ankle monitors stemming from previ-
ous charges.
Last month, for example, a 14-year-old was
charged with breaking into a Secret Service vehicle
used by President Biden’s granddaughter in George-
town while wearing a court-ordered bracelet. He was
also charged with the armed carjacking of three
ride-hailing drivers. Because D.C. law shields the
names of minors charged with crimes, the public
doesn’t know the extent of his previous interactions
with police.
Senior D.C. government officials complain that
the attorney general uses confidentiality surround-
ing youth criminal proceedings to conceal how many
minors are getting unjustified deals that keep them
out of the criminal justice system. The attorney
general’s office says D.C. already has one of the
highest rates of juvenile incarceration in America
and does not divert youths charged with gun posses-
sion or serious violent crimes into programs created
for nonviolent offenses.
draWing bOard
is causing harm to these children,
I don’t know Ms. Britt, but I would implore her, if
she follows Jesus and wears His symbol — a
representation of laying down power for others —
to do what most politicians claiming the name of
Jesus often don’t do: wholeheartedly repent for the
misuse of this woman’s story. And if not, to consider
taking off the cross around her neck. To
Ms. Jacinto, I don’t know you, either. But you are
standing for those with no voice, and you’re
continuing to tell the truth. I don’t know whether
you follow Jesus. But you look like Him to me.
Kim Muhich, Davidson, N.C.
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arrests are starting to rise again
monthly adult and juvenile arrests per sworn officer
in the metropolitan police Department
0.75
0.50
0.25
0
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adult prosecutions in d.c. remain low
by historical standards
Same-day prosecution rate by fiscal year
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40
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for the District of Columbia
Effective law enforcement
requires that those who have
the authority to combat crime
also take responsibility for
doing so. This is hard to achieve
in the unusual hybrid system of
government in the nation’s capital.
Mr. Schwalb has recently modulated his tone.
Actions will speak louder, especially if he closes the
catch-and-release pipeline by keeping the relatively
small number of teens who commit a disproportion-
ate share of crimes off the streets for as long as
is consistent with the seriousness of their alleged
conduct.
D.C. Police Chief Pamela A. Smith
After taking over the department in July,
Ms. Smith surged more officers onto the streets at
night on Thursdays through Sundays to combat
violent crime. She’s also trying to enhance the
police’s real-time data center (which was supposed to
open last month but has been delayed) and better
coordinate with other law enforcement agencies.
Arrests per officer have started to rebound under her
Tim Campbell
As a mom, I listened with interest to Ms. Britt’s
response to the State of the Union address. She
piqued my interest with her comments about
Laken Riley.
Where she lost me was when she said she was
fearful of the same fate befalling her daughter. Moms
have enough to worry about without adding the fear
of a child being assaulted by an undocumented
immigrant. In fact, statistically speaking, your child
is much more likely to be killed or injured just by
going to school or to a neighborhood park, or even in
your own home from gun violence.
What happened to Laken Riley is tragic. However,
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watch. Still, police closed only 52 percent of homicide
cases last year. At least that’s better than the rates for
robbery (27 percent) and nonfatal shootings
(26 percent).
Ms. Smith needs to focus hard on boosting all
these numbers. She also needs to improve officer
0.5 retention and recruitment, admittedly a task that
will take years. The easiest way to free up more sworn
officers to do real policing is to hire more civilians for
desk jobs or as crime scene technicians. The depart-
ment has repeatedly failed to meet its own goals in
Jan. ’22 Jan. ’24 this area.
The D.C. Council
Four years ago, the D.C. Council slashed the police
budget by $15 million in response to the nationwide
protests against police brutality. This year, all but one
of the council’s 13 members voted for the crime bill
Ms. Bowser favored, though some clearly did so
reluctantly. The city faces a fiscal 2025 budget deficit
of $600 million to $800 million, which will force
44%
difficult trade-offs.
The next focus must be children. Truancy is
alarmingly high, and there aren’t enough services to
help with mental health, addiction and absentee
2023 tion programs, some duplicative, but D.C. Auditor
Kathy Patterson has found that agencies fail to
measure their success in a credible way. Stronger
oversight is essential.
D.C. judges
Several rulings by the D.C. Court of Appeals in
recent years have raised the burdens of proof for
prosecutors, discouraging them from bringing
charges they see as solid but don’t think would stick.
In one notorious case, the appellate court ruled that a
gun couldn’t be linked to a suspect even though it
was found under his mattress in a bag with mail
addressed to him. The court has also made it harder
to establish that police had probable cause to pursue
suspects who run away from them. The solicitor
general of the United States should appeal decisions
by D.C. courts that are at odds with Supreme Court
precedent.
Beyond covid-related delays, which added to a
massive backlog, the D.C. Superior Court now has
12 vacancies, with two more departures coming soon.
There are also two openings on the Court of Appeals.
Nine nominations for the lower court are pending in
the U.S. Senate, including six who are awaiting a floor
vote. The Senate should swiftly confirm them.
D.C.’s new crime law requires judges to issue
written explanations if they choose to release defen-
dants before trial who are charged with crimes in
which there’s a presumption they should be held.
This flows from frustrations that some judges seem
more sympathetic to the accused than the victims.
To rebalance the local courts, Mr. Biden ought to
nominate experienced prosecutors to fill the remain-
ing vacancies, especially for the appellate court.
Crime in Washington isn’t just the mayor’s prob-
lem, or the council’s. All of those with power to
improve the situation owe the city more.
Congress could keep even more children and women
safe by passing sensible gun control measures.
Peg Blomme, Oakton
Seated at her kitchen table in Montgomery, Ala.,
Sen. Katie Boyd Britt delivered a dramatic rebuttal
to President Biden’s State of the Union aimed at
female voters. What Ms. Britt left out was far more
critical than what she said.
After much dramatic fanfare about the dire
conditions along the southern border, she wholly
neglected to mention that she was one of the
Republican negotiators who helped broker a
bipartisan border bill — or that she then voted
against it at Donald Trump’s behest.
Though Ms. Britt says she supports continued
access to in vitro fertilization after her home state’s
Supreme Court threw that practice into jeopardy,
she declined to mention her vehement opposition to
abortion rights.
And while she repeatedly invoked the “dangers”
facing our country, Ms. Britt conveniently ignored
the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, the attempt to subvert
the peaceful transition of power and the former
president’s promise to pardon the insurrectionists.
Ms. Britt did suburban women voters — and
herself — no favors. She underestimated their
intelligence, omitted the critical facts and failed to
address the pressing issues of our day.
Elizabeth Langer, New York
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Graduates at New York University’s commencement ceremony in 1978.
Does admissions fairness
make my campus look too female?
W
hen the Supreme Court banned race-
based affirmative action last summer,
some colleges immediately ended their
practice of giving admissions boosts to
the relatives of alumni — because, as Wesleyan
University President Michael Roth explained, giv-
ing an advantage to people who were already
advantaged was “a glaring sign of unfairness.”
But Wesleyan is one of many selective colleges
that continue to give preferential treatment to
another advantaged group: boys.
Girls constitute two-thirds of the top 10 percent
of their high school classes and apply to college at a
higher rate than boys. A college that receives more
(and more-qualified) female applicants than male
but desires a “balanced” student body has to lower
its standards for boys — and raise standards for
girls.
If you’re looking for gender parity on campus,
“there’s not a lot you can do other than discrimi-
nate,” Charles Deacon, dean of admissions at
Georgetown University, told the Hechinger Report.
Articles on this so-called affirmative action for
men sometimes mention that girls get admissions
boosts, too — when they apply to schools with an
emphasis on science or technology, where girls are
underrepresented in the applicant pool. Girls are
twice as likely as boys to get into Caltech or MIT,
to make up for the fact that they are half as likely
to apply.
That’s different, though. Those schools are doing
what affirmative action is supposed to do: redress
deeply embedded societal discrimination that has
led to persistent inequality.
When a liberal-arts college lowers its standards
for boys — especially White boys — it gives an
advantage to a population that has not suffered
historical disadvantage and continues to enjoy
outsize prominence in almost every professional
sphere.
Men are overrepresented in Congress, in the
judiciary and law, in medicine, in technology and in
E.J. DionnE Jr.
Schumer said out loud what many of Israel’s friends are thinking
A
mong liberals and many moderates who sup-
port the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish
homeland, the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 and the
ensuing war in Gaza have called forth anger,
agony and a reckoning.
This constituency, which looms large in the Demo-
cratic Party and among American Jews, has been
whipsawed by competing moral commitments: justi-
fied rage over Hamas’s slaughter of innocents; an
insistence that Israel has a right to defend itself; alarm
over the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian
civilians as the war has dragged on; and a conviction
that peace will require a settlement based on two states
for Israelis and Palestinians.
Underlying all these concerns is exasperation with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in
thrall to his government’s extreme-right coalition
partners and whose policies are alienating his coun-
try’s longtime friends, in the United States and
elsewhere.
This constellation of views has been common
enough in synagogues and in political conversations
over kitchen tables. But it took genuine courage for
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) to
articulate it in a remarkable speech on the Senate floor
Thursday. Schumer spoke simultaneously of his pas-
sion for Israel — “We love Israel in our bones,” he said —
and an insistence that “Palestinian civilians do not
deserve to suffer for the sins of Hamas.”
What grabbed headlines around the world was his
frank assessment of Netanyahu’s government. “As a
lifelong supporter of Israel, it has become clear to me:
The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of
Israel after October 7,” he said. “The world has changed
— radically — since then, and the Israeli people are
being stifled right now by a governing vision that is
stuck in the past.” He called for a new election as
“the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-
making process about the future.”
A brief summary doesn’t do justice to the nuances
opinion
KatE CohEn
finance. Women make up only 44 percent of
tenure-track faculty, 36 percent of full professors
and 33 percent of college presidents. At every level
of academia, they are paid less than men.
All of which raises the question: Why doesn’t
educational achievement translate to professional
equality?
Women have enrolled in college at greater rates
than men since the early 1980s. They get better
grades, drop out less frequently and are more likely
to earn a four-year degree. In other words, women in
higher education have long been exceeding the
criteria that men established for academic success.
So why do women still earn 82 cents to the male
dollar?
Here’s my theory: Girls and women excel at
school, which features ostensibly objective criteria
of achievement — grades, scores, classes taken,
honors received. I say “ostensibly” because these
criteria remain deeply unfair; literally the richer
you are, the higher your SAT score. Still, measurable
criteria keep unconscious bias in check.
In the world beyond school, however, uncon-
scious bias is rarely restrained by the guardrails of,
say, GPAs. When we choose our political candidates
and our chief executives, we deploy non-metrics
such as “electability” and “leadership” — qualities
traditionally ascribed to men.
Colleges that tip their scales in favor of boys are
bringing those biases to bear four years early,
overriding the guardrails to create a student body
that feels desirable. In “To All the Girls I’ve Reject-
ed,” a 2006 essay for the New York Times, Jennifer
Delahunty Britz, then the dean of admissions at
Kenyon College, explained ruefully: “Once you
become decidedly female in enrollment, fewer
males and, as it turns out, fewer females find your
campus attractive.”
Maybe that’s true. I can imagine parents down-
grading a college when they see more women than
men on the campus tour. I can imagine female
applicants, accustomed to comprising half their
and personal anguish conveyed in the 6,000-word
speech, which cast aside diplomatic niceties and
identified “four major obstacles” standing in the way of
peace and a two-state settlement: “Hamas, and the
Palestinians who support and tolerate their evil ways.
Radical right-wing Israelis in government and society.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”
We live in a time when crass political motives are
regularly ascribed to whatever elected officials do.
Lord knows, Schumer is no stranger to the imperatives
of politics. He’s very skilled at the business.
For Schumer to split with Netanyahu
so sharply and so publicly speaks
to the profound change in opinion
among Israel’s sympathizers since
the Gaza war began.
But there was no guaranteed political upside to this
speech. It immediately earned criticism both from
Republicans as interfering in Israeli politics and from
parts of the Democratic left for being insufficiently
critical of Israel and lacking policy specifics on ending
the war.
What the speech does represent is a watershed, as
the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz called it. It’s hard
to find anyone who has been as pro-Israel as Schumer
during his 43-year congressional career. For him to
split with Netanyahu so sharply and so publicly speaks
to the profound change in opinion among Israel’s
sympathizers since the Gaza war began. But this shift
builds upon on a far longer estrangement between
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high school class, balking at the idea of comprising
two-thirds, even if their own accomplishments
made it so. Even if the price of having an “attractive”
gender ratio is accepting discrimination against
themselves.
That entrenched bias is precisely why colleges
should stop giving boys a boost. Every time colleges
bend their criteria to keep from becoming “decided-
ly female,” they perpetuate the notion that there is
such a thing as having too many female students —
and by extension, too many women in any given
space.
The high-achieving girl who loses out to a slightly
lower-achieving boy — at Brown University, say,
where in the 2021-2022 application cycle, the
acceptance rate was 4 percent for girls and 6.7 per-
cent for boys; or at Vassar College, where in 2020,
the acceptance rate was 23 percent for girls and
28 percent for boys — what happens to her?
She’s fine. Let’s face it, we’re talking about a very
particular socio-educational group. Only 3 percent
of four-year college students attend an institution as
selective as Vassar (which accepts fewer than a
quarter of applicants), and less than 1 percent
attend one as selective as Brown (which accepts
fewer than one-tenth). Our high-achieving reject
doesn’t give up on college; she goes to a less selective
one.
But it won’t be the last time she works harder
than a boy to get not quite as far, based on what
people imagine is the right amount of “female.”
Wesleyan’s Roth defended the practice of tipping
the scale toward a 50-50 gender ratio by invoking
life after college: “I think when schools become
unintentionally focused on one gender, they have a
diminished capacity to prepare people for the world
beyond graduation.” True. Women who get a fair
shot at college might graduate unprepared to accept
unfairness in their professional lives. Men who
learn in female-majority spaces might graduate
unprepared to assume they should be in charge.
Imagine that.
Netanyahu and American liberals.
“Chuck Schumer’s speech is proof that one by one,
Netanyahu is losing Israel’s biggest supporters in the
U.S.,” said Israeli centrist opposition leader Yair Lapid.
“Even worse — he’s doing it on purpose.”
That Schumer reflected a current running deep
among traditionally pro-Israel Democrats was brought
home Friday when President Biden called his effort “a
good speech” that “expressed a serious concern shared
not only by him but by many Americans.”
There was nothing precipitous about this interven-
tion. “I spent two months thinking about this and
wrestling with it,” Schumer told me in an interview
Friday. Far from being an attack on Israel, Schumer
said, it was an attempt to shore up support for the
Jewish state, particularly among young Americans
who have known Israel only under Netanyahu’s
leadership.
“Too many people are turning against Israel because
of their dislike for Netanyahu,” he said. “And I felt an
imperative to show that you could be against Netanya-
hu and still be very pro-Israel, which of course I am.”
And he defended his call for early elections as
consistent with the wishes Israelis themselves have
expressed to pollsters. Surveys also show that Netanya-
hu would be voted out if an election were held now.
“We’re not determining who Israel should pick,”
Schumer told me. “We’re just asking that they get a
right to choose when so many people are just upset
with the direction of the present government in Israel.”
It’s rare for a speech on the Senate floor to create a
sense of relief, but this was the effect of Schumer’s
willingness to say out loud what so many were
thinking. “No one else could have done it other than
Chuck,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said in a statement.
“No one has the spiritual and emotional connections to
Israel.”
Schumer’s bottom line is hard to dispute. “Israel
cannot survive,” he said in his speech, “if it becomes
a pariah.”
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FarEED ZaKaria
Putin and
the West are
locked in a
war of wills
I
n a recent interview with Russian
state TV, Vladimir Putin said some-
thing that was, in his words, “impor-
tant for us ourselves, and even more
so for our listeners and viewers abroad, to
understand our way of thinking.” The war
in Ukraine, the Russian president ex-
plained, is for the West a way of improving
its tactical position vis-à-vis Russia. “But
for us it is our fate, it is a matter of life and
death,” he said. The fundamental mistake
in Western strategy against Russia has
been to ignore this reality.
New data confirms that the Russian
economy has withstood Western sanc-
tions far better than most predicted. Its
gross domestic product grew at over
3 percent last year, and now inflation,
which reached around 18 percent in early
2022, seems to be steadying at about
7.5 percent. Russia’s largest bank, state-
owned Sberbank, recently announced
that profits last year, fueled by a mortgage
boom, surged more than fivefold to their
highest-ever levels.
Moscow has survived Western sanc-
tions for a variety of reasons. These
sanctions are not comprehensive; for ex-
ample, they do not completely prohibit
Russia’s energy exports. Nor can they. The
world is too dependent on these resources
— a total ban, if enforceable, would lead
oil prices to skyrocket and trigger a global
recession.
And as Western companies fled Russia,
non-Western ones simply replaced them.
Russians addicted to Starbucks will find
that those outlets have simply been taken
over by Stars Coffee, a locally owned
brand. Indian business executives tell me
they were able to buy Western companies’
assets at fire-sale prices and now operate
those businesses profitably.
There are lessons here. The world
economy is interdependent enough that it
is hard to ban something such as oil
without imposing huge costs on everyone.
Non-Western economies now make up a
large enough part of the world that if they
don’t go along with sanctions, those sanc-
tions lose much of their bite.
But the largest lesson is surely that
economic pressure alone rarely causes
countries to capitulate. Over the decades,
Washington has placed ruinous sanctions
on Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela
and now Russia. Can one say in any of
these cases that the regime reversed its
policies?
The Russian economy has survived
because Putin has done whatever it takes.
He has put his country on war footing,
rallying its citizens with patriotic rhetoric
that often works when a people feel
besieged. (For what it’s worth, the respect-
ed, independent Levada Center survey
recently reported that Putin’s favorability
ratings have risen to 86 percent.) The
Central Bank raised interest rates sharply,
the finance ministry put in place foreign
exchange controls, government spending
has dramatically risen — all to create a
military-industrial economy. These pol-
icies will create severe, long-term costs for
Russia’s economy and society. But slow
stagnation is something a country can
often bear far more easily than a sharp
shock.
Putin sees himself in a take-no-prison-
ers battle with the West. He has often
indicated that he would not shirk from
using tactical nuclear weapons. He has
directed an ongoing and vast information
war against key Western nations, notably
the United States. By one European com-
mission estimate, posts by accounts
linked to the Kremlin were viewed at least
16 billion times in the West in the first year
of the war in Ukraine. As the United States
considers banning TikTok, it is worth
recognizing that the issue is not really
who owns the platform but how malign
forces can use any platform to get their
message out, make it viral and undermine
truth and facts.
President Biden has done many big
things right in this war. He has rallied the
West and many non-Western allies such as
Japan, South Korea and Singapore. He
has provided moral and material support
on a vast scale to Kyiv. Republican oppo-
nents of aid to Ukraine are embracing a
policy that is deeply irresponsible and
unsafe, one that if it succeeds would make
America weak and the world far more
dangerous.
And yet Biden and other Western lead-
ers must demonstrate that they, too, will
do what it takes — and that time is not on
Putin’s side. That means using Russia’s
Central Bank reserves, now frozen, to help
Ukraine. It means accelerating delivery of
every kind of weapon that Kyiv needs. The
pressure that Putin needs to feel is not
long-term economic decline but short-
term military setbacks, loss of conquered
territory, higher casualty rates and a
collapse in morale.
French President Emmanuel Macron is
surely right that the central fact that must
guide Western strategy is that Putin can-
not win. If that means greater Western
involvement, even military forces of some
kind on the ground, that’s better than
watching Russian aggression succeed.
Macron gave a speech last week in which
he said that conflict was “existential” for
France and Europe. The West can only
gain the upper hand in this war if it truly
believes this — and acts on that belief.
A16
Flags no longer fly for covid victims, but families still grieve
COVID from A1
The doctor’s widow
margie Eyman Perez had to do
something with her grief, so she
volunteered to help others with
theirs.
She was on the mall when she
met the couple who wanted to
dedicate a flag to their doctor — a
man known for his sense of hu-
mor and for taking his time with
patients.
“What was his name?” she
asked them.
“Steven John Perez,” they said.
“I’m Dr. Perez’s widow,” she
said. They hugged.
Later, she would learn that two
other families had dedicated flags
to her husband, a former military
physician to presidents ronald
reagan and George H.W. Bush
who went on to build a practice
with 3,000 patients.
He was devoted to them, she
recalled, continuing to see elderly
patients in person as the virus
began to rage. Then, on April 20,
2020, he came home sick, too.
Within days, he was on a venti-
lator, and then in a medically
induced coma. By may 7, it was
time.
She played Leonard Cohen’s
“Hallelujah,” placed her gloved
hand over his gloved hand and
“watched the heartbeat on the
machine just click down slowly,”
she recalled.
She took the metro home from
George Washington University
Hospital to Chantilly, Va., sobbing
the whole way.
The National Institutes of
Health autopsied his body to
study the effects of covid. His
ashes were interred at the Nation-
al memorial Cemetery at Quanti-
co. At a drive-through funeral,
family and friends spent two
hours passing tents filled with
some of his favorite things: a
poster from the Nationals’ 2019
World Series win, golf clubs, a
chair from the front porch where
he loved to read.
most of all, he put others first.
So months later, when margie
Eyman Perez heard about the ex-
hibit, she was all in — teaming up
to replant thousands of flags from
an earlier iteration of the installa-
tion even as a thunderstorm bore
down.
“It was empowering. It wasn’t
just my grief; it was a collective
grief down there,” she said.
A sister grieves
Debbie Darling Norris, 65, took
every pandemic precaution and
followed every rule, finding com-
fort in what little she could con-
trol. Then, covid came for her
sister.
Wendy Darling-minore, 60, en-
tered a florida hospital in the fall
of 2020 and never left.
Social distancing rules would
delay a memorial service, leaving
Norris, of Germantown, md., to
shoulder the loss alone. A memo-
rial of flags at rfK Stadium gave
her a ritual; “a place to put my
grief,” she said.
She returned often and helped
break down the site, bonding with
other helpers who would jokingly
ask one another, “What are you in
for?”
When the exhibit moved to the
mall in September 2021, she tran-
scribed digital messages onto
flags with permanent marker for
people who couldn’t be there.
The messages captured a range
of emotions, from anger to bitter-
sweet memories, Norris said.
“It’s an awful thing: not being
able to grieve,” Norris said. “The
wind and the way the flags flut-
tered — you could see the grief go.”
Without the peace she felt
among the flags, Norris said, she
might have fallen into despair.
She and several other volun-
teers involved in the exhibit ex-
pressed support in interviews for
a permanent memorial, a quiet
place to remember lives lost to the
pandemic.
for many, the jumble of emo-
tions was complicated by others’
distrust for public health institu-
tions.
“It was really hard in those days
not to judge people for their be-
liefs because we were all so con-
fused in the beginning,” Norris
said. “And some people are still
confused.”
A son’s memoir
When Nicholas montemara-
no’s parents were diagnosed with
covid a few days before Christmas
in 2020, he was more worried
about his father, who had preex-
isting conditions.
The doctor gave Catherine
montemarano, 79, steroids and
antibiotics and sent her home,
but her fever rose and she was
admitted to an Indiana hospital
on New Year’s Eve.
But by Jan. 6, 2021, the doctor
summoned the family. Nicholas
montemarano drove 600 miles
from his home in Lancaster, Pa.,
worrying about his mother as the
insurrection unfolded at the U.S.
Capitol. for a while, her health
seemed to improve, but soon doc-
IN AMeRIcA: ReMeMBeR
“It’s an awful thing: not being able to grieve. The wind and
the way the flags fluttered — you could see the grief go.”
tors were recommending pallia-
tive care.
on Jan. 15, doctors allowed
montemarano and his twin sister,
a nurse, to blanket themselves in
personal protective equipment
and be there for the final day of
their mother’s life.
“I just cannot imagine how
much harder it would have been
and would still be if we were not
able to be with her,” he said.
The family held a mass with 10
people, including his wife and
son. A legal secretary, a Catholic
and devoted grandmother of
three, Catherine montemarano
supported foster children around
the world, writing them letters
and sending photos.
months later, he learned of the
flags project from a virtual sup-
port group and registered one
online, writing, “We miss you,
mom.” and drove to D.C. with his
eZ Re
Debbie Darling Norris, whose sister died of the coronavirus
family.
He began to cry as soon as he
approached the installation and
saw the death toll sign, and he
didn’t stop until he found her flag.
“It was almost like I was visit-
ing my mother’s grave,” he said. “It
gave us tangible space and a place
for collective mourning.”
They sat in the grass, taking in
the one public place where he
could shed tears without anyone
wondering why. “They all knew,”
he said.
Until his mother’s death, mon-
temarano, a creative writing pro-
fessor at franklin & marshall Col-
lege and novelist, wrote almost
exclusively fiction. In less than a
month, he found himself with a
memoir.
He said writing the book, “If
There Are Any Heavens,” pub-
lished in July 2022, helped him to
heal.
the washington post
NIcOLe MIcheLs IN AMeRIcA: ReMeMBeR
FROM TOP: Sarah E.
Wagner, a professor of
anthropology at George
Washington University,
geotags memorial flags in
the “In America:
Remember” exhibit on the
National Mall in
September 2021. Flags
commemorate, from left,
Jody Settle, Catherine
Montemarano and Steven
John Perez, who all died of
covid. Artist Suzanne
Brennan Firstenberg
watches as Debbie Darling
Norris gets a photo of the
flag honoring her late
sister.
BILL O'LeARy/the WAshINgtON POst
“for people who lost a loved gency room, saying, “That’s a
one, we’re never going back to death sentence.”
normal,” he said. Around-the-clock Tylenol and
rest seemed to help until Settle
He lost his husband woke up gasping for air. This time
Ed Koenig searched up one row the medic said his lungs sounded
and down the next, up and down, like a kaleidoscope, “full of bro-
for hours. But on that warm, ken glass.”
breezy day in September 2021, he As medics loaded Settle into
couldn’t find the flag he had dedi- the hospital-bound ambulance,
cated online to Jody Settle, his he sat up and said, “I’ll see you in a
partner of 33 years. couple days,” Koenig said.
“I had already lost him once. I A doctor said his husband
can’t lose him again,” he recalled probably wouldn’t make it
thinking, feeling his stress build- through the night. He stayed up
ing about the pandemic and his staring at the phone on the night-
looming train trip home to New stand, willing it not to ring.
York. Settle’s condition improved
Settle died April 19, 2020, after and worsened several times be-
a 10-day bout with covid. fore nurses moved him to an
It started on Easter Sunday in-hospital hospice unit and said
with a 102-degree fever, fatigue Koenig should come quick.
and a below-normal blood oxygen Dressed in head-to-toe protec-
level, Koenig said. A medic tive gear, Koenig had 30 minutes
warned them to avoid the emer- with Settle, telling him, “You
. monday, march 18 , 2024
cRAIg hudsON fOR the WAshINgtON POst
fought your whole life. maybe
now you can let go and relax, take
it easy.” He died within the hour at
age 58; Settle’s watch stopped the
moment Koenig, 68, found out
the news.
“The time that our life together
ended,” he said.
They met at the 1987 New York
City gay pride parade. Settle, who
had multiple sclerosis, loved their
beagle, Sugar, and Patsy Cline.
Through an online support
group — the WTf Group, short for
Widowers to friends — Koenig
learned about the flags, dedicated
one online to Settle, “Always in my
heart,” and quickly boarded a
train to D.C.
feeling like he was walking on
“sacred ground,” he clocked that
day’s death toll at 693,323 and
searched for Settle’s flag until he
returned, dejected, to the spot
where he started.
He said aloud to Settle, “I tried,
but I can’t find your flag,” Then a
flag right in front of him unfurled.
“I just fell to my knees,” he said.
“I said, ‘I know you’re watching
over me.’ ”
The anthropologist
Wagner, an anthropology pro-
fessor at George Washington Uni-
versity, spent the first year of the
pandemic afraid.
She knew a coronavirus infec-
tion could prove fatal for her
mother, who was in the late stages
of Alzheimer’s.
She didn’t want her to go alone
at a time when family members
could not hold a hand or stroke a
cheek — knowing some families
were haunted by uncertainty as
news reports featured mobile
morgues on a doom loop.
She felt it all, working among
the flags eight to 12 hours a day
and immersed in the suffering of
others as she taught classes and
gathered research for a five-year
study funded by the National Sci-
ence foundation.
Her research, called rituals in
the making, examines this inter-
ruption in death customs and
memorialization at a time when
covid isolation made rituals such
as caring for a sick relative, being
at their bedside in the final mo-
ments of life and mourning to-
gether impossible.
The moral injury surfaces in
messages on the flags. “I’m sorry
you had to leave without your
loved ones at your side,” read one
inscription.
often grief was complicated by
misinformation or vaccine hesi-
tancy, politicizing the mourning
process, she said. families also
had to decide how to mourn — in
small groups, virtually or wheth-
er to delay gathering until restric-
tions lifted.
“for a lot of families, that just
didn’t give them that tactile sense
and of being able to hold one
another, to cry together, to have
that meal afterwards . . . and lin-
ger over your memories of that
loved one,” Wagner said.
She began working on the mall
about four months after her
mother was vaccinated and
moved to a memory care facility
in rockville.
“Some of them just were like a
gut punch because I felt like I was
so fortunate. There but for the
grace of God, go I,” she said,
welling up. “This still is so pain-
ful.”
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Prosecution rate is up in the District

BY S PENCER S . H SU,
P ETER H ERMANN
AND E MILY D AVIES
The U.s. attorney’s office for the
District is on track to prosecute
more than half of those arrested
by police in D.C. in 2024, a turn-
about from recent years when the
office declined to prosecute more
cases than it took on, officials said
last week.
At a news conference on Thurs-
day, U.s. Attorney Matthew M.
Graves said that the office de-
clined to prosecute 45 percent of
cases between October through
Graves said was not tied to the
over 50% of arrests leading to charges charging rate but to federal and
D.C. law enforcement efforts tar-
U.S. attorney had faced criticism over declinations geting violent offenders, and to a
nationwide trend experienced by
several major U.s. cities recover-
ing from pandemic-fueled crime
before. An additional 4 percent thirds, of cases in fiscal 2022. The surges.
were referred for prosecution top prosecutor for the District “We are taking enough people
elsewhere, meaning the declina- said he expects the improvement off the streets that at a point you
tion rate is closer to 40 percent, to level off in 2024 for reasons will start to see the impact of it,
and that the office is effectively outside prosecutors’ control. and I think we have reached that
prosecuting nearly 6 in 10 arrests, But he called the rate a flawed point,” Graves said. “D.C. is basi-
Graves said. metric that was “not in the top 50” cally on the same trend line as
In comparison, the office de- of important factors in fighting everybody else, just behind it for
clined to prosecute 56 percent of crime. For instance, the District six months to 12 months.”
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December 2023, down from the fiscal year ending in septem- since January in homicides and reported a 36 percent drop in U.s. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, seen in August in Washington,
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Metro fare
“The blossoms are opening & putting on a splendid spring spectacle.”
The National Park Service, in a post on X announcing peak bloom evaders
in D.C. face
fine, arrest
A new District law gives
Metro police power to
punish offenders

BY D ANNY N GUYEN

Metro police will crack down

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on fare evasion in the District
starting Monday, issuing fines of
up to $100 or arresting people
who refuse to pay for rides.
Until now, Metro Transit Po-
lice officers have only been able
to ask fare evaders to pay their
fare or leave the station, accord-
ing to Metro. But a new D.C. law
grants them greater powers to
punish people who jump fare
gates or otherwise avoid paying
their fare.
Beginning Monday, Metro will
require people who are stopped
for fare evasion to provide their
ID or name and address so offi-
cers can issue civil citations that
carry fines up to $50. If they
refuse to do so, they can be
arrested and face a fine of up to
$100.
The new law will also increase
fines and jail time for assaulting
bus and rail operators and other
Metro workers in D.C.
The changes follow the D.C.

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D.C. cherry trees hit their flowering peak at second-earliest date on record, reflecting climate change’s impact
BY J ASON S AMENOW
AND K EVIN A MBROSE
Exceptionally warm March weather pro-
pelled Washington’s cherry blossoms to their
second-earliest peak bloom in more than a
century of records sunday, reflecting the
growing influence of human-caused climate
change on the famed trees.
“PEAK BLOOM! PEAK BLOOM! PEAK
BLOOM! Did we say PEAK BLOOM?!,” the
National Park service wrote on X at 4 p.m.
sunday. “The blossoms are opening & putting
on a splendid spring spectacle.”
sunday’s peak bloom at the Tidal Basin,
about two weeks earlier than normal, tied
with 2000 as the second earliest on record;
only the March 15, 1990, bloom came sooner
in observations that date to 1921. This year’s
peak bloom was so early, it preceded the
official start of the National Cherry Blossom
Festival, which runs from March 20 to
April 14, and was also ahead of the earliest
projections.
Peak bloom, the last phase of a six-stage
bud development cycle, occurs when 70 per-
cent of the cherry trees are flowering. The
buds sped through this cycle in just 15 days,
faster than any other year in at least the past
two decades.
The early bloom fits right into recent
trends.
As March temperatures have climbed over
the past century, the average peak bloom date
has advanced about six days, from April 4 to
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Va. school
looking for
fifth leader
in 12 years
BY K ARINA E LWOOD
Parents at Justice High school
in Northern Virginia are calling
for more involvement in the
selection of its next principal as
the high school gears up to have
its fifth leader in a span of 12
years.
The school’s current principal,
Tiffany Narcisse, announced late
last month that she will be
leaving at the end of the aca-
demic year for an opportunity
abroad after leading Justice for
three years. With the position
vacant again, some parents are
voicing concerns about the turn-
over and want Fairfax County
Public schools to better consider
community input to help find
someone who can help bring
stability to the school.
“The unique fabric of our
Kevin AMbrose community cannot be overstat-
toP: blooming cherry trees frame visitors at the tidal basin at sunrise sunday. Mild weather drew ed, which is exhibited in many
thousands to the second-earliest peak bloom on record. the average date for the phenomenon has beautiful ways, but also includes
advanced about six days as March temperatures have climbed. AboVe: stumpy the cherry tree at full a wide and deep breadth of
bloom on saturday. the beloved tree will be removed as part of a multiyear plan to repair sea walls. needs,” the school’s Parent Teach-
er student Association stated in
a recent letter to district leaders.
“We are requesting that you
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As Calif. readies for universal pre-K, rollout is bumpy for some districts
BY K ATE R IX
OaKlaND, Calif. — Teacher Yas-
min Kudrolli sat on a low chair
and lit a candle to start the morn-
ing meeting in her prekindergar-
ten classroom in oakland. Speak-
ing quietly to her 4-year-old stu-
dents, she picked one boy from the
group to count his classmates: 22.
California mandates one adult
for every 12 students in what it
calls “transitional kindergarten,”
so there’s an aide standing by the
door, ready to take any child who
needs to use the bathroom into
the main building. families from
oakland’s higher-income neigh-
borhoods have been drawn to the
transitional kindergarten pro-
gram in her school, which had a
waiting list at the beginning of the
school year.
Across town, but in the same
school district, teacher Alicia Sim-
ba leads 13 students, all 4-year-
olds, in a breathing exercise in her
classroom. Her 14th student is
crying in the reading nook. She
wants to go home.
“You’re going to be okay, sweet-
heart,” Simba says soothingly. She
brings out a basket of percussion
instruments, and the crying child
smiles broadly.
When a boy says he has to use
the bathroom, Simba asks him to
hold it until lunch, which is 30
minutes away. She should have an
aide to take him, but she doesn’t.
The school where she works can’t
afford to hire extra staff members
because of very low enrollment.
It’s the second year of Califor-
nia’s uneven four-year rollout of
universal transitional kindergar-
ten, an ambitious, multibillion-
dollar initiative to make high-
quality education available to
each of the state’s 4-year-olds — an
estimated 400,000 children.
The plan is that the $2.7 billion
program will be fully implement-
ed by the 2025-2026 school year
across the nearly 900 districts in
the state that include elementary
grades. It will be the largest uni-
versal prekindergarten program
in the country.
But like the children in these
two classrooms — some of whom
are ready for school and others
who aren’t even potty-trained —
some districts are on schedule
and some are not.
There are teachers who should
have aides but don’t. There are
districts, such as rural mendoci-
no, where some transitional kin-
dergarten classrooms don’t have
attached bathrooms and where
school playgrounds aren’t de-
signed for 4-year-olds. many dis-
tricts can’t hire enough staff mem-
bers for after-school programs to
accommodate the new transition-
al kindergarten students, forcing
Neek Nasiri, left, and Yuv Desai, right, play outside before lunch at Kaiser Early Childhood Center in
Oakland, Calif. They are enrolled in a program for 4-year-olds called transitional kindergarten.
working families to scramble for
care. The state has not provided
learning expectations for this new
grade. Handling toileting issues
for young pupils is a headache.
Some, but not all, of these kinks
might be worked out by the time
the program is fully implemented.
By the 2025-2026 school year, all
children who are 4 years old by the
beginning of the school year in
September will be eligible. That
year, classroom ratios will also go
down, requiring one adult for ev-
ery 10 students.
By offering free, high-quality
transitional kindergarten in pub-
lic schools, California will go a
long way in helping to level the
playing field for children entering
kindergarten, officials say. re-
gardless of income, families will
have access to top-notch early
schooling. Additionally, officials
say the state’s massive investment
will shine a light on the earliest
years of education and make it
more likely that districts will align
curriculums from preschool
through third grade.
That’s the hope. In the mean-
time, districts are figuring out
how to serve this new, and quite
different, age group without a uni-
fying road map.
“There’s a new grade out there
and no clear guidance yet from
the state as to what should be
covered in it,” said Alix Gallagher,
director of strategic partnerships
for Policy Analysis for California
Education, based at Stanford Uni-
versity.
on the one hand, Gallagher
said, the state could be criticized
education
for not having clear guidance
about what transitional kinder-
garten should look like when it
started the expansion, especially
because some districts had been
offering transitional kindergar-
ten for a decade before the state-
wide mandate.
“on the other hand,” Gallagher
said, “making a new grade and
requiring universal access is not
something that is always political-
ly available.”
In this case, politics favor advo-
cates of early-childhood learning.
They have a powerful ally in Cali-
fornia Gov. Gavin Newsom (D),
who campaigned on his support
for early learning and announced
his intention to propose universal
preschool, which includes transi-
tional kindergarten, in a 2020
legislative master plan.
The bill Newsom signed in 2021
to expand transitional kindergar-
ten to all districts calls specifically
for high-quality programs. A 2017
study of California’s pre-expan-
sion transitional kindergarten
programs found that children
who attended were better pre-
pared for kindergarten than those
who didn’t. But another more re-
cent report found that early ben-
efits did not lead to improved test
scores in grades three and four.
That’s why it’s critical that dis-
tricts ensure that their early-
grade teachers collaborate to de-
velop a vision for the grades from
prekindergarten to third grade, so
instruction and assessments are
linked, said Steven Kellner, direc-
tor of program sustainability and
growth at California Education
Alison Yin foR tHe HecHingeR RepoRt
Partners. A 2021 report by the
educational law firm foresight
Law and Policy notes that Califor-
nia schools are held accountable
for student learning outcomes, in
the form of standardized test
scores, only from grades three and
up.
“The statewide incentive sys-
tem doesn’t promote districts to
focus on the early grades,” Kellner
said. “They’re untested on the
state dashboard, and under No
Child Left Behind, but they’re the
most essential.”
It’s significant, he said, that the
state’s initiative requires that
transitional kindergarten teach-
ers be fully credentialed and have
at least 24 units in early-child-
hood education, childhood devel-
opment or both. Essentially, Cali-
fornia has added a new grade:
Teachers working with 4-year-
olds are now part of an elemen-
tary school’s teaching staff. Keller
said that the presence of these
new teachers, and students, in
schools may have the effect of
linking high-quality early educa-
tion to success at higher grades —
a perspective that isn’t front-of-
mind for many administrators.
“If you want kids to be reading
at grade level in third grade, you
can’t start that work in third
grade,” Kellner said. “But if stu-
dents reach third grade at grade
level, they have an outstanding
chance of maintaining that [rate
of progress] all the way to gradua-
tion.”
The state has yet to release an
update to its Preschool Learning
foundations, which will spell out
what students are expected learn
in transitional kindergarten
classrooms. Experts say the best
curriculum should be play-based.
Districts are deciding for them-
selves which curriculum to use.
“Can students in [transitional
kindergarten] learn their letters?
Absolutely,” said Noemi Valdez,
director of early-childhood educa-
tion in oxnard School District.
“But not necessarily by writing.
They can tear tissue and use glue
to paste the letters to paper.”
oxnard, a district of about
14,000 students 60 miles from Los
Angeles, began offering transi-
tional kindergarten in 2017 when
it became clear that most of the
district’s kindergartners weren’t
ready for school. When its first
transitional kindergarten class-
rooms opened, some 60 percent of
its kindergartners had not been to
preschool. Today, the district has
more than 700 transitional kin-
dergarten students.
many transitional kindergar-
ten activities are designed to help
children develop their fine motor
skills so they will be able to hold a
pencil steady for writing, Valdez
said. Stations where children can
play with dough and sort through
buckets of rice to find scattered
paper clips will help students at-
tain these skills and meet the
goals of cutting with scissors on
their own and drawing a straight
line, she said.
“All of our centers are manipu-
lated by the teacher for a certain
goal or learning experience,” Val-
dez said. “Play-based is not a free-
for-all. It is a context for learning.”
So what does high-quality tran-
sitional kindergarten look like?
California requires a transitional
kindergarten classroom to have
no more than 12 students with one
teacher, or up to 24 students with
one teacher and an aide. It
shouldn’t be a combo class with
kindergarten.
The room should have space for
children to rotate through learn-
ing centers that might include
tables with puzzles and manipula-
tive toys, drawing and painting,
musical instruments and building
blocks. objects should be labeled
with their names in every lan-
guage spoken by children in the
class. Bathrooms used by kids in
preschool, transitional kindergar-
ten and kindergarten, the state
says, should be accessible only to
those students.
But for 4-year-olds, using bath-
rooms independently is often a
major milestone.
Before Sara LaPietra’s son The-
odore started transitional kinder-
garten in San Diego in 2022, LaPi-
etra was worried he might not be
completely ready to use the bath-
room on his own. It turned out
that he was ready, but the bath-
rooms themselves weren’t.
“It just seems like the state
overlooked some details that
seem obvious as a parent,” she
said. “A 4-year-old needs to be able
to reach the toilet and the paper
towels.”
Access to care outside of school
hours is another barrier to family
participation in transitional kin-
dergarten. In fresno, for example,
nearly 2,000 children attend tran-
sitional kindergarten and the dis-
trict offers after-school care at all
school sites. But the district can’t
keep up with demand, even after
more than doubling its staff.
“Addressing students on the
waitlist [for after-school pro-
grams] is ongoing work,” said Jer-
emy Ward, assistant superinten-
dent of college and career readi-
ness for fresno Unified Schools.
“As soon as we’re able to provide
more staffing for an elementary
school to take students off the
waitlist, more step forward want-
ing access.”
Although districts have money
to pay for staff members — in 2021
California allocated $4.6 billion
for expanded learning opportuni-
ties, including after-school and
summer learning programs — in
many communities there simply
aren’t enough people applying for
the jobs.
School districts are also strug-
gling to predict where 4-year-olds
will go. While officials in districts
such as oakland and fresno study
birthrates to anticipate which
schools will have full transitional
kindergarten classrooms, parents
may be unaware that transitional
kindergarten exists or are con-
fused by the age requirement.
“It’s quite complicated for par-
ents to know if their 4-year-olds
are eligible,” Kellner said, “and for
districts to know how many 4-
year-olds will come. That’s why
progress has been so uneven.”
But teachers of students who
are enrolled in transitional kin-
dergarten now say that it is mak-
ing a positive difference, even
amid the statewide challenges.
“You can tell the children who
haven’t been to preschool. They
aren’t used to the socializing and
the routines,” said Kudrolli, one of
the oakland teachers. “Last year
there was one boy who stood in
the middle of the room for the first
month and just soaked it all in,
like, ‘What happened? Where am
I?’ By the end of the year he was
completely adjusted.”
this story about transitional
kindergarten was produced by the
Hechinger Report, a nonprofit,
independent news organization
focused on inequality and innovation
in education.

Va. parents want a say in selection of new principal
PRINCIPAL from B1
maximize the spirit, not the let-
ter, of the selection process, so
that our community can more
readily trust and invest in the
process of selecting our school-
leader.”
The letter, which was co-
signed by the PTAs at Glasgow
middle School and the six el-
ementary schools that feed into
Justice, details specific charac-
teristics the parent group is look-
ing for in a principal as well as
expectations for the community
input process.
Justice High is one of the most
diverse schools in fairfax Coun-
ty, home to the state’s largest
school system. more than 70 per-
cent of the school’s students are
economically disadvantaged —
one of the highest rates for a high
school in the county — and more
than 45 percent are English lan-
guage learners.
the next steps of the selection
process. region 2 Assistant Su-
perintendent megan Vroman
said that the school district is
committed to taking seriously
the feedback of parents and
community members and that
leaders plan to meet with stu-
dents and employees in small
groups in the coming weeks to
learn more about their needs and
what they want to see in the next
principal.
impact it has had on the school’s
continuity, and community per-
ception,” he wrote. “rest assured,
we are committed to addressing
these issues and selecting a can-
didate who not only meets the
needs of our diverse student
body but also fosters a sense of
stability and continuity within
the school.”
Kim Lanoue, president of the
Justice PTSA, said in an inter-
view that she was encouraged by

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In a separate letter, school
faculty and staff members simi-
larly asked district leadership to
seek out and consider their in-
“We want to get this right. We the open discussion during the
want to get this right for our virtual meeting. She hopes that
kids. We want to get this right for the school district will share
our community. And so this is clear findings on the input it

just the way you like it.

put.
“This turnover inhibits sus-
tained academic and profession-
al growth and the development
of a positive school culture,” the
letter reads. “The impact of these
frequent changes in leadership
on students, families, and teach-
ers is palpable. This is why it is a
Free advice. A detailed scope of
priority to select a principal who
work with a fixed price. Passionate is committed to lead our school
and background checked team long-term.”
School staff retention has
members. All backed by a 5-year been a key education issue across
workmanship warranty. Offering the country, as schools have
struggled with staffing shortages
peace of mind since 1961. since the pandemic began. High-
er-poverty schools traditionally
see higher levels of teacher and
staff turnover, which only in-
creased after the pandemic. A
report by the rand Corp. found
that the percentage of principals
who retired or resigned in a
given year jumped from about
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“We are requesting that
you maximize the spirit,
not the letter, of the
selection process, so
that our community can
more readily trust and
invest in the process.”
The Justice High Parent Teacher
Student Association, in a letter
something where, you know, we
are open to ideas and thoughts
and where we can do things,”
Vroman said.
on Thursday, fairfax Chief of
Schools Geovanny Ponce sent a
letter to the Justice school com-
munity. “We understand and
share your concerns regarding
the turnover of principals at
Justice High School and the
receives and that leaders will
explain to parents how the dis-
trict will use that feedback to
inform its selection of a princi-
pal.
“our situation is sort of reflec-
tive of, in some ways, where we
are in education as a whole at
the moment,” Lanoue said. “I
think being a principal is a very
difficult job. I think it is ex-
tremely difficult at a high school
level and requires a uniquely
situated individual to be suc-
cessful in a school like Justice
High School.”
Anne Woodbury, 51, who has a
10th-grader at Justice, said in an
interview she worries about how
disruptive bringing in new lead-
ership every couple years can be
to the school community. She
said it can make it more difficult
to retain staff members and
cultivate a strong school culture.
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had at Justice has been detri-
mental to our community and
our kids,” Woodbury said. “We
hope we find a candidate that is
going to stick with our school.”

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Forecast favors blossoms
blossoMs from b1
march 30. Including this year,
each of the past five has seen a
peak before march 29. Last year,
it was on march 23 — more than
a week early.
Temperatures this march have
averaged more than 9 degrees
above normal, ranking second
warmest on record. freezing
temperatures haven’t occurred
since feb. 26.
The mild weather drew thou-
sands to the Tidal Basin on
Saturday and Sunday as the
blossoms reached their peak and
temperatures soared into the
mid-60s to the low 70s, about 10
to 15 degrees above normal.
Groups flocked to catch a
glimpse of the beloved tree
known as Stumpy before it is
removed as part of multiyear
plan to repair sea walls that have
deteriorated since their con-
struction. Some of the sea walls
have settled by as much as five
feet, the National Park Service
U.S. attorney expects prosecution rate to level o≠
PRosECUTIoNs from b1
homicides, a 34 percent drop in
assaults with a dangerous weapon
and a 15 percent decline in overall
violent crimes reported as of
Thursday, compared with the
same time the prior year.
“If you had a 36 percent reduc-
tion in homicides year over year,
at the end of the year, you would
be hard-pressed to find any other
jurisdictions that had that much
of a drop in time. Anything close
to that would be historical,”
Graves said.
Graves’s office and other parts
of the D.C. criminal justice system
have faced months of criticism for
surging crime in the nation’s capi-
tal, including from House repub-
licans who have used the spike in
homicides, carjackings and
armed robberies to pummel pub-
lic safety policies in overwhelm-
ingly Democratic D.C.
District officials acknowledged
what they called a “crisis” and
recently passed a sweeping public
safety bill that increases punish-
ments for a range of crimes and
adjusts or unwinds police ac-
the District
Police make arrests in killings of teenager in Northwest, adult in Southeast
BY P ETER H ERMANN
D.C. police have arrested sus-
pects in two unrelated shootings
in february in which a 17-year-old
in Northwest Washington and a
51-year-old man in Southeast were
killed.
In the death of the teenager,
Jabari malloy, police said they
charged a family acquaintance
who had spent part of the day with
the youth, who was found shot in
an alley near where he lived with
his aunt.
Police identified the suspect as
rico Antjuan Parker, 42, of South-
virginia
Ex-boyfriend of woman fatally shot during 911 call is charged with murder
BY O LIVIA D IAZ
A 30-year-old man was
charged with second-degree mur-
der in the friday killing of a
woman who had a protective
order against him and was on a
call with 911 seeking help in the
Annandale area when she was
fatally shot, according to fairfax
County police.
Authorities said they arrested
Tylen Jennings, of maryland, on
friday night, hours after Anesha
Isaacs was fatally shot outside
her workplace in the 3200 block
of Woodburn road. Isaacs, 30,
the District
2 people killed, 5 injured in shooting at 7th and P streets NW
BYL IZZIE J OHNSON,
W ILLIAM W AN
AND A LEXANDRA M A
Two people were killed and five
others injured in a shooting Sun-
day morning at Seventh and P
streets NW, D.C. police said.
officers, responding to reports
of a shooting about 3 a.m. Sunday,
found two men with gunshot
said, while tidal water levels are
increasing because of sea level
rise — another indicator of cli-
mate change. As Stumpy reached
peak bloom for the last time,
floodwater surrounded it.
Mild weather drew
thousands to the Tidal
Basin on Saturday and
Sunday as the blossoms
reached their peak and
temperatures soared.
Elsewhere along the basin’s
2.1-mile trail Saturday, a bride
and groom posed for photos
under a cherry tree in full bloom
near the Jefferson memorial, tak-
ing advantage of cloudless skies
and a gentle breeze.
countability measures that ad-
dressed transparency, rules for
neck restraints and vehicular pur-
suits.
The charging rate has been a
sensitive point in the debate as
elected officials, police, prosecu-
tors and the courts have traded
blame over who bears responsibil-
ity for the violence. D.C. police
officials have complained of a lack
of accountability for repeat of-
fenders. Graves cited what he con-
tended is the “system that D.C. has
created,” including laws that drive
up arrests in unchargeable cases
or limit incarceration, court rul-
ings that make achieving convic-
tions in gun possession cases
harder, and problems with the city
crime lab and other pandemic-era
bottlenecks.
D.C. police responded by refer-
ring questions to Deputy mayor
for Public Safety and Justice Lind-
sey Appiah.
In a statement, Appiah cited
passage of the Secure DC omnibus
crime law and said that mayor
muriel E. Bowser (D) has worked
to “rebalance the ecosystem” to
help police and prosecutors do
east. He was charged with first-de-
gree murder while armed and was
ordered detained during a hear-
ing on friday in D.C. Superior
Court. Efforts to reach his attor-
ney were not successful on friday.
malloy was shot shortly after
7:30 p.m. on feb. 25 in an alley
between the 700 blocks of morton
and Lamont streets NW.
In an interview last month,
malloy’s aunt, Sadelaraye malloy,
said her nephew had spent the day
with a family acquaintance. An
arrest affidavit filed in court con-
firmed that account and identified
that acquaintance as the suspect.
Anesha Isaacs had a
protective order against
suspect, authorities say
had called 911 to report that her
ex-boyfriend was preventing her
from leaving the parking lot, po-
lice said Saturday in a news
release.
The victim’s older brother,
raymond Isaacs, said his sister
had known Jennings for about a
year and a half and had a protec-
wounds who died at the scene,
according to a police news release.
The two slain men were identi-
fied by police Sunday night as
Anthony Brown, 32, of Southeast,
and Jay Lucks, also 32, of Balti-
more.
Authorities found four more
adults who were shot and trans-
ported them to hospitals. A fifth
injured adult walked into a hospi-
opposite the Jefferson, a
crowd assembled for a gender
reveal party. Pink glitter explod-
ed under a cluster of cherry
trees, heralding a baby girl. The
flying glitter looked like cherry
blossom petals blowing in the
breeze.
Almost every cherry tree at the
Tidal Basin attracted people tak-
ing selfies and portraits or pro-
viding shade for family picnics.
A favorable forecast may allow
visitors to enjoy the blossoms for
another week or so. Whereas
rainy and windy weather can
strip the blossom petals and
curtail the peak bloom period,
this week is predicted to be
mostly dry.
Some gusty winds on Tuesday
could dislodge petals, but breez-
es are forecast to ease after that.
The trend toward chillier
weather should prolong the
bloom period. (Very warm
weather tends to shorten it.) As
long as there isn’t an unforeseen
hard freeze, which would cause
their jobs after “significant chang-
es over the past 10 years” in the
city’s criminal justice system.
“We must continue sending the
message that we will not tolerate
violence and crime that disrupts
our sense of safety and our ability
to build thriving neighborhoods.
We know that prosecution is criti-
cal to those efforts so we look
forward to continued partnership
with the US Attorney to keep DC
safe,” Appiah said.
D.C. Council Chairman Phil
mendelson (D) attributed the im-
provement in the charging rate to
public pressure on prosecutors
and said that he “can only imag-
ine” that Graves was “trying to
deflect attention from the role of
his office in fighting crime.”
mendelson said that a 60 per-
cent prosecution rate was “not
satisfactory” and that the U.S. at-
torney’s office should provide “full
transparency” and more data
about his declination decisions
crime-by-crime. He also rejected
criticism that the District’s elect-
ed officials or judges bear some
responsibility for enacting, ad-
ministering or interpreting crimi-
The affidavit does not provide a
motive in the killing and says that
Parker, in early interviews with
detectives, denied being involved
in the death, telling police he had
dropped malloy off at a store near
his home before the shooting.
But police said they have sur-
veillance video of a vehicle that
resembles Parker’s near the scene
of the killing. on friday, Sad-
elaraye malloy said she was
pleased police made an arrest but
was shocked at the suspect’s iden-
tity.
The aunt said malloy had been a
senior in high school and had reg-
tive order against him for a sub-
stantial amount of that time.
“Anesha was a beautiful per-
son,” raymond Isaacs said. “I
know that could be said for a lot
of people, but it’s true. That was
my sister.”
He said a few months ago, his
sister moved out of her maryland
apartment and in with family
because she became increasingly
uncomfortable with Jennings.
Her brother said she made sure
her protective orders covered
D.C., maryland and Virginia,
though he recalled other instanc-
es in which Jennings did not
tal with a gunshot wound, police
said.
The scene of the shooting is
near the Kennedy recreation Cen-
ter. Police said in a social media
post that they were searching for a
male assailant of average build,
wearing light pants and a blue
shirt, who was “last seen on foot
south bound on 7th Street NW.”
They did not release any addition-
eZ sU
petals to wilt, the highs in the 50s
and lows in the 30s should help
extend the blossoms’ shelf life.
nal justice laws in ways that limit
charging rates.
“I think he realized it is not a
good look for the prosecutor to be
declining two-thirds of the arrests
brought to him,” mendelson said.
“The determining factor is not in
the law, but in the arrest and the
prosecution.”
D.C. Council member robert C.
White Jr. (D-At Large) agreed. “Ac-
countability has more to do with
consistency than the length of
sentences,” he said. “We’ve got to
focus on fixing the system, not
satisfying the need for good talk-
ing points or seeming tough on
crime.”
Graves said charging rates will
probably flatten at this level be-
cause half of uncharged arrests
arise from domestic violence calls.
D.C. law requires police called to
the scene to make an arrest, al-
though many complainants
choose not to cooperate further.
most of the rest are cases in which
evidence is insufficient to secure a
conviction or is inadmissible in
court. only about roughly 7 per-
cent of declinations are at pros-
ecutors’ discretion, almost all in-
istered for the mayor’s summer
job program. She said he wanted a
car because so many of his friends
had been killed that he thought it
would be safer to drive.
“He was preparing for his fu-
ture,” Sadelaraye malloy said.
In the other case, police said
they arrested 24-year-old Kyree
Hairston, of Southeast, and
charged him with first-degree
murder in the feb. 4 shooting of
David Coe, 51. Police said Coe was
found fatally shot about 2:45 p.m.
near an apartment building in the
1200 block of Southern Avenue
SE.
respect those guidelines.
“He had no respect for those
protective orders,” raymond
Isaacs said, later adding, “She did
everything she was supposed to
do. Unfortunately, she was not
protected, and she should have
been.”
Police said Isaacs had called
emergency dispatchers at about
4:45 p.m. on friday, saying her
ex-boyfriend, Jennings, was
blocking her car with his vehicle.
She told 911 that “the man was
wanted, and she had an active
protective order against him,”
police said.
al information on a suspect or a
motive.
on Sunday morning, police
closed a stretch of Seventh Street.
But by noon, the crime scene had
shrunk to a square of brick side-
walk on P Street NW, cordoned off
with police tape.
A woman in a black jacket —
labeled with DfS, which stands
for the Department of forensic
People enjoy the cherry blossoms at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Memorial on sunday. Almost every tree at the Tidal basin attracted
visitors, who snapped photos and had picnics.
volving would-be first offenders
accused of misdemeanor viola-
tions, Graves said.
Charging 3 in 10 cases was “not
a place we wanted to be,” Graves
said friday on WAmU’s “Politics
Hour with Kojo Nnamdi.” “We’ve
worked hard to get it up to 6 in 10.
And given where D.C. law is, 6 in
10 is about what you should ex-
pect from the system right now.”
mendelson and White disputed
Graves’s claim that the District’s
domestic violence law is a major
factor in the charging rate. Graves
said that the D.C. rate is compara-
ble to a sampling of nine states
with mandatory domestic vio-
lence arrest laws that publicly re-
port their prosecution data.
“Everybody has gotten too hy-
per-focused on this single specific
statistic,” Graves told WAmU. “I
would argue to you it’s a poor use
of resources to charge a bunch of
cases that you’re only going to
turn around and dismiss.” He told
reporters that the question is
whether the D.C. criminal justice
system is doing everything it can
to send “a message of swift and
certain consequences” in cases of
gun-related and violent offenses,
in particular, through pretrial de-
tention and appropriate sen-
tences upon conviction.
In an arrest affidavit filed in
court, police said a surveillance
camera captured Coe and a man
later identified as Hairston argu-
ing on a sidewalk. At one point, the
affidavit says, Hairston told him,
“Step out back.” Coe replied: “You
gonna hit me? Hit me then,” the
affidavit says.
Police said in the affidavit that
Hairston “raises his gun and
points it at the decedent. The dece-
dent lunges at the gun with his
right hand, which is open and
appears empty.” Police said the
suspect fired. After Coe fell to the
sidewalk, police said in an affida-
officers arriving at the scene
found Isaacs with multiple gun-
shot wounds and took her to a
hospital across the street, where
she died, police said.
Jennings had fled the scene
before police arrived, officials
said. Prince George’s police ar-
rested him friday evening after a
license plate reader indicated he
would be driving toward mary-
land, according to the fairfax
County police. officials said they
found a firearm inside his vehi-
cle.
fairfax County police also
charged Jennings with felony
Sciences — took photos of a yellow
placard, marked “1.” As she
snapped on blue gloves, tucking
evidence into an envelope, tennis
balls thwacked on a nearby court,
where two men in pale shorts were
enjoying the crisp spring morn-
ing.
Across the street, near a vacant
lot bordered by a chain-link fence,
three men lined a bench, watching
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The declination rate in 2015
was 35 percent. But Graves said
the rate grew after the de-accredi-
tation of the city’s troubled D.C.
forensic lab, which required pros-
ecutors to use federal agencies
and private laboratories to pick
up the slack and process evidence
involving drugs, firearms and
DNA. most of the improvement
came since prosecutors regained
the lab capacity to test and pros-
ecute all drug cases last summer,
Graves said.
Graves also remarked on what
he called the “irony” of complaints
that federal prosecutors in the
District are soft on crime, when
until recently, he said, elected offi-
cials and community critics cast
them as “a bunch of mass incar-
cerators” and denounced charg-
ing juveniles as adults, for exam-
ple.
“This is somewhat predictable;
once [crime rate] numbers flip,
everybody’s perspective shifts,”
Graves said. But he said it was
worth recognizing that from 2016
through 2022, “there was extreme
resistance within the community
and from our elected officials to
the practice.”
Michael Brice-saddler contributed to
this report.
vit, the man fired one additional
shot at the victim’s back.
Authorities said in the affidavit
they do not know what the argu-
ment was about.
Last month, Coe’s sister, Brenda
Coe, said her brother had spent
part of his life working in con-
struction and had no children. His
wife died several years ago. “my
brother was a very quiet person.
He was to himself; he wasn’t like a
talkative person,” she said.
A D.C. Superior Court judge on
friday ordered Hairston detained.
Efforts to reach his attorney were
not successful.
firearm use, abduction and vio-
lating a protective order. Police
said he was jailed in maryland,
awaiting extradition to Virginia.
Attorney information for Jen-
nings was not immediately avail-
able in court records.
meanwhile, her family is griev-
ing, said raymond Isaacs, who
described his sister as loving and
openhearted.
“It has had a great impact on
our family, my mother, father,
brother, sisters,” he said. “We no
longer have the opportunity to
have a sister and a daughter —
and that is a lot to deal with.”
the scene. The people in the area
had heard news of the shooting in
the wee hours but said they were
not around when it happened. The
shooting occurred about three
blocks north of the mount Vernon
Square metro station and on the
same weekend that police rolled
out drug-free zones in the city.
The total number of killings in
D.C. so far this year is down com-
pared with the same period in
2023. Police are investigating 30
homicides this year, compared
with 47 last year through march
15, according to the latest available
police data.
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D.C. law allows for more Police patrol near the Columbia
Heights metro station. A new
D.C. law will allow transit
metro.
In a public hearing in october,
some critics questioned whether

penalties for fare evaders police to fine or arrest people

metro from B1
Council’s march 5 passage of
Secure D.C., a public safety pack-
age that imposes harsher punish-
ments for crimes including ille-
gal gun possession, retail theft
and fare evasion on public tran-
sit. mayor muriel E. Bowser (D)
signed the bill monday. Parts of
the bill have gone into effect on
an emergency basis, allowing
metro to begin its crackdown
before the bill’s congressional
review period expires.
There will not be any change in
penalties for fare evasion in
maryland and Virginia, where it’s
already a criminal violation that
carries a fine of up to $100.
A metro spokesperson said in
an emailed statement that the
bill would “help make metro
safer.”
The legislation marked an in-
flection point for traditionally
liberal D.C. as it reckons with
increases in homicides, carjack-
ing and other crimes. metro
hasn’t been spared, with shoot-
outs and other violence spread-
ing on trains and buses.
fare evasion has resulted in
about a third of metrobus trips
and 13 percent of metrorail trips
going unpaid, according to a
metro analysis last year, and
costs the transit agency about
maTT mCClaIn/The WaShIngTon PoST
$40 million a year, or about 2
percent of its annual operating
budget.
rising fare evasion has
who evade paying fares.
prompted metro to install high
saloon-style fare gates at 25
metrorail stations. So far, metro
data shows those 25 stations have
seen fare evasion drop by more
than 70 percent. The gates will
eventually be installed at all 98
metrorail stations, at a cost of
$35 to $40 million.
fare evasion accounted for 63
percent of the crimes recorded on
metro trains and in stations last
month. metro General manager
randy Clarke and metro Transit
Police officials have said crack-
downs on fare evasions could
help reduce other crimes on
these moves would actually affect
overall crime. Carlos Andino, a
former associate counsel with the
Washington Lawyers’ Commit-
tee, wondered whether the agen-
cy had enough data to link seri-
ous crimes and fare evasion. “The
supporters of the bill make a
dangerous assumption — those
who fare evade must be more
inclined to commit violent
crimes,” he said.
others were worried about the
possibility of police violence, par-
ticularly following a 2018 inci-
dent in which metro Transit Po-
lice officers pinned a woman
down and exposed her breasts
after a confrontation that began
when they said she failed to pay
her fare.

obituaries
Paolo TaViani, 92

With brother, he
directed lauded
Italian films
BY E MILY L ANGER
Paolo Taviani, a movie director
who worked in inseparable tan-
dem with his brother to create
some of the most lauded works in
modern Italian film, among them
“Padre Padrone” and “The Night
of the Shooting Stars,” died feb. 29
at a hospital in rome. He was 92.
The cause was pulmonary ede-
ma, said his son, Ermanno Tavi-
ani.
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani co-
directed more than 20 movies
together in a career that lasted
more than half a century. They
were not the only celebrated sib-
ling duo in the industry; in the
United States, Joel and Ethan
Coen made films including “far-
go” (1996) and “No Country for
old men” (2007), and Lana and
Lilly Wachowski gave audiences
“The matrix” (1999).
Times in 1986, speaking, as both
brothers often did, for the two of
them. “Seeing it unreel before us
was glorious and tragic, and we
realized at once that film was the
one means we had to understand
our own reality.”
Neorealism, which prevailed in
Italian cinema in the late 1940s
and early 1950s, was in essence
the opposite of escapism, project-
ing on the screen the deprivations
endured by the Italian population
after the war.
Deeply influenced by the social
and political commitments of
neorealism, the Taviani brothers
added to it a poetic style all their
own.
“They charted a very important
path in postwar Italian cinema,”
said millicent marcus, a professor
of Italian studies and film studies
at Yale University, counting the
brothers among the filmmakers aP

But among connoisseurs of in- who “elaborated on the neorealist ABoVe: movie director Paolo taviani, second from left in the top row, and his brother Vittorio taviani, second from right, with actors at a
ternational cinema, the film critic premise of making films that mat- film festival in 1982. BeLoW: the brothers after receiving an award for their film “Caesar must Die” in Berlin in 2012.
Terrence rafferty once observed, ter.”
the Tavianis were known as “the Among their best known works who immigrate to the United
greatest cinematic brother act was “Padre Padrone” (1977), trans- States and find themselves build-
since Louis and Auguste Lu- lated in English as “my father, my ing sets for the film director D.W.
mière,” the frenchmen who in master,” which received the Palme Griffith’s 1916 silent movie “Intol-
1895 invented the ciné- d’or, the top prize awarded at the erance.”
matographe and made one of the Cannes film festival in france. for years, the brothers spent
first motion pictures. The film, originally made for every morning walking their dogs
Vittorio, born in 1929, and Italian TV, was based on the mem- together in a park in rome, re-
Paolo, who followed two years oir of Gavino Ledda, an illiterate flecting on life and film. Vittorio,
later, grew up in a small Tuscan shepherd who had known no who died in 2018, once remarked
town, San miniato, where they world beyond the hills of Sardinia that “we have different characters
had few opportunities to see films until he escaped his sadistic fa- but the same nature” and that
beyond “Snow White and the Sev- ther, moved to the Italian main- “our choices in life and art are the
en Dwarfs” and other animated land with the army, pursued a same,” wryly conceding that “we
Disney features. university education and became do have different wives.”
The sons of an antifascist law- a scholar of linguistics. Paolo Taviani’s wife of 66 years,
yer, they lost their home in a In the neorealist tradition of Lina Nerli Taviani, a costume de-
German attack during World War including nonprofessional actors signer, worked with her husband
II and were living in Pisa when on-screen, the Tavianis cast the and brother-in-law as well as
they saw “Paisà,” director roberto real-life Ledda as a narrator. In many other noted Italian film di-
rossellini’s 1946 drama depicting another decision that was a hall- rectors. Besides his wife, survi-
the Allied liberation of Italy in the mark of their work, they featured vors include a daughter, Valentina
searingly spare style called neo- sweeping vistas of the Italian Taviani, who is also a costume
realism. countryside, revealing its beauty designer, and his son, a professor
“There on the screen was every- without romanticizing the reality of contemporary history, all of
thing that had happened to all of of rural existence. rome; a brother; two sisters; and
us just a few months before,” Vit- “The film is vivid and very mov- four grandchildren.
torio Taviani told the New York ing, coarse but seldom blunt, and one of the final collaborations
markuS SChreIber/aFP/geTTY ImageS
between the Taviani brothers was
“Caesar must Die,” a 2012 film that
filled with raw landscapes that When one brother was behind they saw “Paisà,” they abandoned featured real-life inmates at a
ATTENTION DEATH NOTICES CLIENTS: underscore the naturalness and the camera, the other stepped their schooling and immersed high-security Italian prison re-
inevitability of the father son rit- aside, watching but never inter- themselves in film. hearsing a performance of Shake-
Death Notice placements on Sundays uals it depicts,” reviewer Janet vening. Then they traded places, They gave themselves a dead- speare’s “Julius Caesar.”
maslin wrote in the Times. and traded places again. line of 10 years to begin making The film, whose cast included
and federal holidays to be self-service only The brothers turned to their “A few years ago, we met the films. In 1954, they completed a many onetime mafia hit men, set
Starting May 1, 2024, The Washington Post Paid Death Notices own experience in “The Night of Coen brothers,” Vittorio Taviani short, “San miniato, July ’44,” up a conflict of authority that
Department will utilize a self-service only system on Sundays and the Shooting Stars” (1982), which told the Guardian in 2013. “We about their town in the final days Paolo and Vittorio had rarely if
is set in Tuscany during the war asked them: ‘How do you work of the German occupation. one of ever encountered in their previ-
federal holidays. There will not be any team members available to
and depicts the villagers of San together?’ They replied: ‘No, you their first major films, written and ously seamless directing activi-
speak with on these days. As always, team members will be available miniato who escape the occupy- started this whole thing — you tell directed with Valentino orsini, ties.
during regular, non-holiday business hours Monday-Saturday. ing Germans by fleeing south us.’ But then the four of us agreed was “A man for Burning” (1962), “Let’s make one thing very
toward the advancing Americans. that it must remain a mystery.” about a union organizer who at- clear,” Paolo recalled saying to the
The deadline to place a death notice will remain 4pm on Sunday for a many of the villagers who re- Paolo Taviani was born in San tempts to confront the mafia. former mobsters. “There is one
Monday insertion. The photo deadline for a Monday insertion is 1pm on mained behind were killed when miniato, in the province of Pisa, With their keen literary sensi- boss — and in this case there are
the cathedral where they took two directors so there are two
Saturday. On federal holidays, the deadline for next-day insertion will shelter was destroyed. bosses.”
be 3pm (photo deadline: 1pm). Paolo, Vittorio and their family “We explained how things
had been among the fleeing villag- “Film was the one means we had to understand worked in cinema,” he told the Los
Our 2024 operational hours for Death Notices will be: ers, whose story is recounted in Angeles Times. “And their boss,
Sunday (& federal holidays) Self-service only* the movie by a woman looking our own reality.” the one who plays Cassius, said,
back on her childhood. The story Vittorio Taviani, in a 1986 interview with the new York Times, ‘Yes, I understand what you are
Monday 9am- 5pm is brutal, but the brothers give to it speaking for himself and his brother, Paolo Taviani saying, but you have to keep in
Tuesday 9am- 5pm what New Yorker film critic Pau- mind you are speaking to me and I
Wednesday 9am- 5pm line Kael described as the “full have made three children or-
Thursday 9am- 5pm fresco treatment.” on Nov. 8, 1931. He and Vittorio bility, the Taviani brothers won phans.’ We said, ‘We understand
Friday 9am- 5pm “This setting is magical, like a had three siblings. Both their fa- critical acclaim for “Kaos” (1984), who we are dealing with and we
Saturday 11am-4pm Shakespearean forest, and the ther and their mother, who had an adaptation of several short are going home. If you call us, we
woman’s account has the quality been a teacher before she was stories by the Nobel Prize-win- will come back.’ ”
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and features a full suite of advertising capabilities. on the set, Paolo and Vittorio children to the arts, taking them They also adapted works by Leo “When we got back to prison,
Taviani worked so closely togeth- to the opera in nearby florence, Tolstoy, including the russian they welcomed us with big ap-
Thank you for continuing to trust The Washington Post er that they gave the impression of and instilled in them the liberal writer’s story about an impris- plause,” Paolo recounted. “Their
with the important role of publishing your death notices. being a single director. The actor ideals, antithetical to fascism, oned revolutionary, “Divine and boss came to us and said, ‘You are
marcello mastroianni, who that Paolo and Vittorio would car- Human,” which the Tavianis re- going to be our boss and do it your
starred in their post-Napoleonic ry forward into their filmmaking made as the 1972 film “St. michael way. We will accept you as our
Take The Post for a run historical drama “Allonsanfan,” career. Had a rooster.” bosses because, when you talked
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1974 film, “there were two of where Vittorio studied law and ing Babylon” (1987), about a pair and every other person lowers his
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from KELLEE L. HOLLAND-GETER
March 18, 2022
Although your soul is now at rest
and free from care and pain
This world would seem like heaven
if we had you back again
But still we say “His will be done”
Your soul is with the blest
and we who grieve for you today
are the ones who loved you best
With Love Mom,
Family and Friends
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CLARKE
JANE PICKETT CLARKE
On March 11, 2024, Jane Pickett Clarke of
Glenwood, MD, beloved wife of the late
Alan Greene Clarke, married for 67 years.
She was also the devoted mother of Jan
Clarke Bauer (Wayne) of Baltimore, MD,
Judy Clarke Kopp (Brent) of Middletown,
MD, and Paul Alan Clarke (Meredith) of Aus-
tin TX. She was a cherished grandmother
of Holly Costanzo (Sam), Megan Pawtows-
ki, Kyle Blair, Lindsay Blair Hoffman, Ryan
Blair, Caedan Clarke, Liam Clarke, and Sean
Clarke. She is also an adoring great-grand-
mother to Adalynn Hoffman, London Hoff-
man, and Mckenzie Costanzo.
Jane grew up in District Heights, MD. She is
a graduate of Capital City Nursing school,
where she worked as an RN at DC Gen-
eral Hospital for 11 years. After she mar-
ried Alan, they moved to the Washington
suburb of Lanham, MD, where the young
family lived on Finns Lane until 1978. Their
next move was to Glenwood in Howard
County, where Jane was very active in her
community. She was president for many
years of the Glenelg Club, a benevolent
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husband Tom, son Jim, and brother John
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wonderful grandchildren and one precious
great-grandson. Burial service at Chelten- All Paid Death Notices
ham Veteran’s Cemetery Friday March 22 appear on our website through
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on Saturday March 23 from 2 to 5 p.m. at
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strong personality, but was always ready
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debit/credit card.
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of people counted her as one of their best
friends, and there are many family legends

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of gatherings at her house.
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day, March 20, 2024 at 12 noon at Glenelg
United Methodist Church 13900 Burnt-

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The members of the Retired
He was born on August 4, 1947, in Corpus
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at 202-334-4122.
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Washington, DC regret to an-
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paid Death Notices at
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September 12, 1990 from Truck Company Danielle.
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thing? DEATH NOTICE 6 at the rank of Sergeant.

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doing?
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er. In lieu of flowers, please donate to
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(Captain).
com
DEATH NOTICE
He immigrated to the United States in 1970
and worked for the Archdiocese of Washing- CARTER
Why is it so ton and The Washington Post. He obtained

hard to make How muc a Masters Degree in Counseling from Fed-

eral City College in 1977. He retired from
in death, along with one sister Marion Smith
and three brothers, Maurice, Douglas and

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The Washington Post in 1996, after working Thomas.
friends as there for 25 years. He lived a very joyful and
pious life. His guiding principle in life was to Roger served in the US Army and faithfully

an adult? too much always be of service to others.

MARIASWAMY GABRIEL “Sam”
May 5, 1929 - March 4, 2024
Mariaswamy “Sam” Gabriel, 94, of Hyatts-
ville, MD, died peacefully in his home on
He was preceded in death by his parents,
as a cherished Deacon at St. Mary’s Baptist
Church in Washington, DC. He was a devot-
ed husband, father, grandfather, brother and
Gabriel and Teresa; brothers, Abel, Periyan- uncle who always prioritized God and family.
ayagam, Anthoniswamy, Lucas, Boniface,
Louis, Linus; sisters, Philomena and Louise Roger is survived by his beloved wife of 57
Mary, and is survived by his beloved wife years, Elizabeth Maddox Carter; his cher-
of 65 years, Susairegina; his loving daugh- ished daughter, Tracina Carter Adkinson; his
ters, Mary (Simon), Caroline (Satish), Punitha dedicated son-in-love, H. Ray Adkinson, and
(Keith), Ann (Ramesh), Francisca (Dorian), his adored grandson, Perry D. Adkinson. He
Kristen (Ian); grandchildren, Justin, Jessi- is also survived by his brother, Charles Pres-
ca (Neal), Melissa, Dylan, Lucas, Nicholas, ton Carter (Jennifer) of Staunton, VA, along
Priya, Jaya, Rohan, Maxim, Marcos, Jacob, with five sisters-in-love, one brother-in-love,
Sameera, Mila; great grandchildren, Jeevan

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and a host of special nieces and nephews
March 4, 2024. He was surrounded by his and Leela; brother, Jesudoss (late - Marie Jo- who will honor his legacy. Roger will be pain-
loving wife and devoted daughters when he sephine) and a host of loving nieces, neph- fully missed but never forgotten.
passed. He was born in Vettavalam, India, ews, brothers-in-laws, sisters-in-laws, family ROGER ALEXANDER CARTER JR.

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the second of 11 children to Gabriel and
Teresa. He served in the Royal Indian Air
Force in 1949. He received his Bachelor of
Arts degree from Panjab University in 1957.
He graduated with his Bachelor of Laws De-
gree (LLB) from Agra University in 1961 and
was admitted to the Bar Council of Madras
in 1962. In 1963, he joined the Indian Army,
and friends.
Visitation: March 21, 2024 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Funeral Mass: March 22, 2024 at 10 a.m.
Visitation and funeral mass will be held at
St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. Burial
to follow mass at Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
Roger Alexander Carter, Jr., 82, of Silver
Spring, Maryland peacefully transitioned on
Monday, March 11, 2024, in his home, sur-
rounded by his loving and devoted family.
He was born as the 2nd child of five siblings
to Roger Alexander, Sr. and Mabel Maupin
Carter in Staunton, VA, who preceded him
A celebration of life will be held Satur-
day, March 23, 2024, at St. Mary’s Baptist
Church, 8008 Eastern Ave. NW, Washington,
DC; visitation at 10 a.m. and service at 11
a.m. Interment Tuesday, March 26, 2024,
at 1 p.m. at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery,
13801 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20906.

STEVENSON
PAUL WOLFSON STEVENSON
Paula Wolfson Stevenson
touched millions of lives, literally
and from the beginning. The first
of three children born to Marty
and Irene Wolfson in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania in 1952, Paula was
one of the “Salk babies,” who received the
first polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk.
As a result, Polio has been effectively erad-
icated around the world within Paula’s life-
time. Paula would later become a broadcast
journalist, read, heard and seen around the
world by hundreds of millions via the Voice
of America.
Her broadcast career began at the tender
age of three. Her father, an accomplished
artist, hosted a local weekend children’s
television program. It was completely live
television at the time. One morning as he
acknowledged a local bread sponsor, Paula
shimmied free from her mother’s arms off
camera and excitedly ran to her father yell-
ing “Daddy, Daddy, that’s the kind of bread
we have at home!” The rest, as they say, is
history.
A proud journalism graduate of Penn State
with a Master’s Degree from American Uni-
tinely praised her direct but eloquent prose
and pleasantly confident delivery. Paula’s
constant, effervescent, buoyant abundance
of energy instantly made those she met a
big fan. She freely gave of her time to share
her knowledge with others, and especially
to mentor young journalists.
After VOA, she briefly covered health issues
with WTOP radio. She volunteered with Suit-
ed for Change, a non-profit organization
helping young disadvantage women dress
their best for job interviews. Her lifetime of
service to others was deeply rooted in her
Jewish faith. Paula’s youthful inquisitiveness
and wonderment of the world was infec-
tious, as was her love for Penn State foot-
ball, and Pittsburgh’s “City of Champions”
teams – Penguins, Steelers and Pirates. She
summoned the fortitude to attempt - and
complete - five marathons, her first at age
60.
Paula’s incredibly positive spirit amazed her
doctors and family as she endured her big-
gest marathon against pancreatic cancer.
Through it she was strong, went through it
without pain, and peacefully transitioned on
March 13, 2024. She is survived by a large
CHENNAULT
CLAIRE ANNA CHENNAULT
“Claire Ann” (Age 74)
Claire Ann Chennault, elder daughter of
Claire Lee Chennault and Anna Chan Chen-
nault, passed away in hospice care on Octo-
ber 22, 2023. The cause of death was meta-
static colon cancer.
She was a dedicated pianist throughout her
life who won awards in student competi-
tions during her youth. An adept learner of
foreign languages, Claire Ann spoke Chinese
fluently and became conversant in French
and Spanish. She attended Annunciation
Catholic School, and later boarded at Stone
Ridge School of the Sacred Heart and at
Holton Arms. After graduating from the Tai-
pei American School, she took courses at
George Washington University.
Claire Ann’s keen intellect and talents were
shadowed by illness. Her last residence was
at Alfred House in Rockville, MD. Her lively
interest in others, candor, and generosity of
spirit attracted friends wherever she lived.
She leaves behind a loving sister Cynthia,
brother-in-law Pierre Sikivie; and two neph-
ews Paul and Michael. Claire Ann will also
be dearly missed by her aunts Sylvia Wong
and Loretta Fung, and by 10 cousins and
their children. She will be buried at Arlington
National Cemetery on April 17. Donations in
her memory may be made to the Church of
St. Stephen Martyr, Washington, DC.

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versity, Paula briefly worked for local tele-
vision in Pittsburgh before taking an oppor-
tunity to move to Washington, DC and join
VOA. Over 33 years, Paula mostly served as
a correspondent on Capitol Hill and at the
Can stre White House, reporting on four Presidential
o damage administrations. As a result, she traveled the
world during times and at locations accessi-
ake my brain ble to only world leaders.
Her editors, colleagues, well-known top
journalists from other media outlets rou-
Coffee or tea?
family, including husband James Stevenson,
siblings Todd Wolfson and Marla Wilhelm,
nephew Josh Suchoza, and The Balks.
In lieu of flowers, Paula might suggest sub-
scribing to your local newspaper. Donations
NICHOLS
in her name to Suited for Change and/or the
2019), and his long-time companion Dottie
American Cancer Society are welcome.
Funeral services will take place at Congres- Fried (in 2008). He is survived by his ex-wife
Robbie Wallin (married 1966-1982); his son
sional Cemetery in Washington, DC on Tues-
day March 19 at 11 a.m. Austin Nichols, Austin’s wife Elaine Pirozzi
and their children Elsa and Cecilia Pirozzi;
www.hinesrinaldifuneralhome.com
his niece Moko Heathers, her husband Chris
Heathers, and her mother Dianne Nichols;
Dottie’s eldest daughter and her husband

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Ron Stanley-Trees; and Dottie’s daughter
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CONDOLENCES
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sleep that
new yoga? forever.

runches get night Keith had a BA in English but was a visual

good?
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such as the 1980 Politicards, painting and
terrors?
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What happe to express your sympathy with greater ease. netics Dance Theatre in Ellicott City, MD. He

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F. KEITH NICHOLS was a teacher at Browne Junior High School
kout? Visit today. F. Keith Nichols died at age 81 in his home in in the 1960s and worked at Palace Print-

ke? while
Silver Spring, MD, on March 11, 2024. Born ing in the 1970s, then supported Dottie’s
Why am 1942 in Murphy, NC, he grew up in Akron, ventures beginning in the 1980s. He was

is it so Why are some I hangry? GHI OH, where his father worked for Firestone.
His parents Floyd and Edna predeceased
him, as did his brother Gary Nichols (in
humorous and good-humored to the end.
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Atlanta 58/34/s 60/41/s Hartford, CT 50/33/pc 44/33/pc Pittsburgh 37/26/sf 44/34/c Baghdad 81/63/sh 73/55/r Kingston, Jam. 87/79/pc 87/77/pc Sarajevo 62/42/sh 51/25/r
Austin 65/39/c 62/46/c Honolulu 81/69/pc 82/70/sh Portland, ME 47/31/pc 42/25/sf Bangkok 98/83/s 95/79/t Kolkata 92/74/s 89/69/c Seoul 55/36/s 50/34/c
Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly cloudy. Wind Baltimore 52/35/pc 50/40/c Houston 67/43/pc 67/52/c Portland, OR 76/49/s 71/49/pc Beijing 64/40/s 60/29/pc Kyiv 40/34/r 45/35/c Shanghai 56/46/s 65/40/c
west–northwest 7–14 knots. Waves 1–3 feet. Visibility unrestricted. Billings, MT 69/38/pc 59/30/s Indianapolis 37/26/c 56/35/c Providence, RI 50/33/s 46/33/s Berlin 46/29/c 51/33/pc Lagos 91/81/t 90/79/t Singapore 91/79/s 91/79/c
• Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny. Wind Birmingham 56/28/s 59/38/s Jackson, MS 58/31/s 63/41/s Raleigh, NC 59/34/pc 57/38/s Bogota 71/50/r 69/49/r Lima 80/71/pc 80/70/c Stockholm 34/21/pc 39/26/pc
northwest 8–16 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on the Lower Potomac; 1–3 Bismarck, ND 60/32/pc 47/18/s Jacksonville, FL 70/39/t 63/36/s Reno, NV 69/38/pc 71/37/s Brussels 59/45/c 63/45/pc Lisbon 71/52/pc 68/50/pc Sydney 76/69/t 81/70/pc
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will be around 4.80 feet today, falling to 4.70 Tuesday. Flood stage at Buffalo 36/28/sf 35/32/sf Little Rock 56/34/s 67/45/s St. Louis 44/32/s 68/38/s Manila 91/74/s 90/77/c Tokyo 56/43/r 54/47/s
Caracas 79/69/pc 80/69/pc
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jokes belie
an on-edge
Washington
BY J ESÚS R ODRÍGUEZ

After sitting through hours of

Disposable cameras join the clique
jokes about his age at saturday’s
Gridiron Club and Foundation
dinner, President Biden turned
the tables on the journalists put-
ting on the skits.
“The big news this week is, two
candidates clinched their parties’
nomination for president. one
candidate is too old and mentally
unfit to be president,” Biden said.
“The other is me.”
of all the president’s jokes, that
one landed best here at the Inde-
pendence Ballroom of the Grand
Hyatt downtown. It’s the annual
white-tie affair, first held in 1885,
where Washington’s political and
media elite gather to watch per-
formances put on by the club’s 65
members and listen to stand-up
sets from Republican and Demo-
cratic officials — and, of course, to
schmooze. The tables filled up
with a cross section of more than
650 D.C. thrivers and strivers —
pols, Fourth estaters, ambassa-
dors — dining on short ribs and
trying to find a lighter side to the
news these days: two wars with no
end in sight, mass media layoffs
and a presidential rematch many
are dreading.
Biden made his first Gridiron
appearance as president, taking
the occasion to lay into former
president Donald Trump — who,
despite facing criminal charges IllusTrATIon By JACKIe BesTeMAn for THe WAsHIngTon PosT

and recent civil judgments that

could cost him hundreds of mil-
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Gen Z, used to speed, focuses on slowing down

Salvaging BY J ESSICA M . G OLDSTEIN

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ilicon Valley would have you believe that people hunger for

tradition relentless technological advancement — to communicate exclu-

sively with ChatGPT while wearing mixed-reality headsets and
listening to playlists curated by algorithms while traipsing

in Maine’s through the metaverse.

In reality, plenty of people resist the encroachment of these
inventions on every front of life, drawn instead to the tech others have

worn cabins
BY O LIVIA M C C ORMACK
ManCHeSTeR, Maine — even in
the chill of winter, tourists show
up at the Kennebec Cabin Compa-
ny just outside of Augusta, direct-
ly across from Mulligan’s gas sta-
tion and the town’s only Dunkin’.
It’s a specialty gift shop, it’s a
restaurant, it’s a brand — and it’s
the home base of the TV show
“Maine Cabin Masters,” which, for
devoted viewers, has become a
touchstone for all that is Maine.
The show’s premise? so simple,
friendly and warm it could bring
on the spring thaw: Home builder
Chase Morrill, 45, his sister, Ash-
ley Morrill, 48, her husband, Ryan
eldridge, 49, and their friends
and colleagues Dixie (Matthew
Dix) and Jedi (Jared Baker) work
together to transform aging, sag-
ging and often dangerously lean-
ing Maine cabins into beautiful
three-season properties.
each episode of “Maine Cabin
Masters” — which is wrapping up
its ninth season on the Magnolia
Network — follows Chase and his
crew through several weeks of
their busy spring and summer
seasons spent working on proper-
ties that have often been handed
down through generations:
droopy-roofed retreats that face
impossibly beautiful lakes or are
set deep in the woods, staving off
permanent decay.
With a cacophony of saws, nail
guns and heavily accented (but
good-natured) bickering and rib-
bing among the siblings and the
crew, the magic happens over and
see ‘CABIN MASTERS’ oN C4
Carolyn Hax
I’m embarrassed that
my son is a bartender. C2
Book World
reconciling Keith Haring’s
effect on marketing art. C8
left behind. savvy minimalists are swapping out smart devices for
“dumb” ones; audiophiles have replaced their AirPods with record
players. Tech you thought you’d never see again has a way of popping
back up. What’s old to some is new to the young, whose latest
discovery-slash-resurrection is the humble disposable camera.
Maybe you’ve spotted disposables at parties or vacations or wedding
receptions. Depending on your social circle, you may
have that friend (or be that friend) who brings one to
every special occasion. Disposable camera sales have CorA MArTIn
been on the rise since 2019 and continue to steadily
climb, according to Fujifilm, which says it has seen a
“sudden organic resurgence” in popularity, particular-
ly among Gen Z consumers — many of whom were “ Whene v
er I
born after the disposable camera’s first cultural peak. have a so
cial
“It’s really their first time using cameras in this way,” event tha
t feels
said Ashley Reeder Morgan, Fujifilm North America a little sp
ecial,
Corporation imaging division’s vice president of I’ll get a
marketing for consumer products. disposab
le
“Anytime I have a bigger social event, I will make camera,”
sa
an effort to get a disposable camera to capture it,” Anna Mc id
Guire,
said Anna McGuire, a 24-year-old graduate student a 24-year
-o
from D.C. she just finished her studies at the graduate ld
London school of economics and loves using student,
disposable cameras to capture her experiences seen abo
ve,
abroad, including karaoke bars and living-room at right.
concerts. “Whenever I have a social event that feels
a little special, I’ll get a disposable camera.”
see CAMERAS oN C2
AnnA MCg
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Should we forgive John Galliano?
BY R ACHEL T ASHJIAN rant. “People like you would be Margiela, he never bows at the
dead.” After the conviction, he end of shows and rarely grants
Nearly 14 years ago, John Gal- essentially disappeared. interviews. But Galliano’s designs
liano, then the creative director of But within two years, he began are not particularly Margiela-
Dior, was sitting on the terrace of making a quiet return. He worked esque; they are clearly pure, unfil-
a popular Paris restaurant when as a guest designer at oscar de la tered Galliano. And why not? He
another customer began filming Renta, a setup arranged by Vogue is, without a doubt, one of the
him. He was drunk, and he was editor Anna Wintour. He met greatest living fashion designers
hurling antisemitic words at the with prominent Jewish leaders to — whether you believe he is an
person filming and her friends, ask for forgiveness, meetings or- antisemite or not. Now comes the
who were Jewish. The video re- ganized by Condé Nast chairman moment when, more directly
surfaced a few months later, in Jonathan Newhouse. He gave an than ever before, we are asked
early 2011, when another such interview to Vanity Fair and whether we can truly hold those
incident occurred. (In fact, simi- posed for Annie Leibovitz on a two dissonant ideas in our heads
lar drunken and profane rages rock in swirling water, like a at the same time.
occurred a total of three times.) beached mermaid longing to be Galliano is the subject and star
Galliano was fired from Dior, back at sea. By the next year, he of a new documentary, “High &
charged by a Paris court and was redeemed enough that he Low: John Galliano,” by director
fAIrCHIld ArCHIve/geTTy IMAges found guilty of making antisemit- was appointed the creative direc- Kevin Macdonald, known for his
Designer John Galliano, seen in 1997, was fired from Dior in 2011 ic remarks. “I love Hitler,” he had tor of Maison Margiela. attraction to morally ambiguous
after video surfaced of him making antisemitic remarks. said to the woman in the restau- Like his predecessor, Martin see FASHION oN C3
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Falling in love (again) with disposable cameras
CAMERAS from C1
mcGuire’s tastes track with the
trends, said Neil Saunders, a re-
tail analyst. The disposable has
not displaced the phone camera
but offers something different —
and elusive. “I think people like
the technology that they’ve got
and they wouldn’t necessarily
give it up,” Saunders said. “But
they’re looking for something
alongside that that’s a bit deeper,
that represents a slower pace of
life.”
The (rude, frankly) perception
of zoomers as phone-addicted
lost causes ignores the reality,
which is that a lot of people,
especially people too young to
remember a time before smart-
phones, “feel tied to their phone
in a kind of oppressive way,” said
Keara Sullivan, a 24-year-old co-
median living in Brooklyn. “I
know people feel guilty about:
‘I’m always on my phone. I need
to cut back on my screen time.’”
Sullivan says disposable cameras
have “a cult following,” and she
can see why. “The reason I think
disposable cameras got so popu-
lar in the first place is … your
phone has a camera, but it’s not a
camera.”
for some, the appearance of a
disposable camera is itself a kind
of event, a novelty that intrigues
and enchants a crowd. “I think
there’s something fun about it
being this stand-alone, physical
object,” mcGuire said. “Literally
at New Year’s Eve this past year, it
almost became a talking point.
People I haven’t seen since high
school graduation will see the
camera and be like, ‘Wait, we
want a photo, too!’ There is this
excitement of, ‘What is this going
to look like when it gets devel-
oped later?’”
O
ne-time-use cameras first
came to market in the mid-
1980s and dominated the
space for some 15 years. If you
remember, then you know: They
were light, relatively cheap and
low-stakes. Something about
them said: relax, this is a party.
They awaited guests on the tables
at Sweet 16 parties and bar mitz-
vahs; they got tossed in purses for
proms, in backpacks for class
trips, in suitcases for family vaca-
tions; they were sneaked into
slumber parties and busted out at
bars.
When you’d finished the roll of
Parent is embarrassed to tell people that their college-grad son is a bartender
Adapted from an
online discussion.
Dear Carolyn: my
son is a college
graduate with a
Carolyn job as a bartender.
Hax I get embarrassed
telling people
what he does
when they ask. Help me.
— Embarrassed
Embarrassed: “He’s a bartender.”
Just say it, shoulders squared.
fake it till you feel it.
It’s real work, and I’m glad and
grateful for everyone who’s good
at it.
Half the people you tell will
envy him, 100 percent won’t care
as much as you do, the slim
minority who judge him as
beneath them are jerks — and
anyone who stops a moment to
think about it knows that a
college degree isn’t (just) about
getting a so-called professional
job.
It is (also) about learning how
to think critically and how to be
part of a diverse and interesting
community and how to challenge
oneself. All of these are available
outside the college experience,
obviously — plus people can get
film (24 or 27 pictures, usually),
you’d drop the camera off at a
photo shop or drugstore to get
them developed. This could take
a week or two, but at the time —
when plenty of shopping was
conducted via phone call after
flipping through the catalogue
and the internet was still rousing
to life at a dial-up pace — this did
not seem like some obscene inter-
regnum between having an ex-
perience and obtaining its evi-
dence.
The results were a mixed bag,
especially when the photogra-
phers were adolescent or intoxi-
cated, or if you had imperfect
lighting or forgot, yet again, to
use the flash. fleshy fingers
crowded picture corners, acci-
dentally beheading some sub-
jects. Even the best images would
not be considered high-quality by
today’s standards: There was
something sort of soft-focus
about the images they captured, a
good-but-not-great document.
The early 2000s brought the
mass adoption of digital cameras,
with SD cards that could take
large quantities of images and
viewing screens at the back so
you could see, immediately,
whether your eyes were closed
and you needed a redo. The pic-
tures were crisper and brighter,
with a higher resolution. Just as
disposable camera sales were
peaking, in 2004, facebook
launched, and before long, every-
body decided that half the point
of taking photos was posting
them — not in a week or two, but
right away.
Within a decade, though, the
sped-up nostalgia cycle — which
had already brought the glossy
through college successfully
while achieving zero mind-
expansion — but mind-
expansion is in fact the
commonly accepted point of an
education.
Being embarrassed just tells
people you don’t get this. Instead,
be proud that your son did the
work, and be proud that he’s
finding his own way in the world.
I hope you take this reader’s
thoughts to heart:
l Please rethink this attitude. I
guarantee your son is picking up
on it and putting unnecessary
pressure on himself to “succeed”
by your terms. I had parents like
that, where I was instilled to
believe that things such as
waiting tables and bartending
were beneath me, so when I
graduated, I had so. much.
anxiety. that I didn’t have a “real
job.” Instead of doing something
sensible and waiting tables or
doing odd jobs until I figured it
out, I ended up applying to
graduate school for a master’s
degree I didn’t care about and
was completely unprepared for. I
ended up $50,000 in debt
because I grew up in a household
that didn’t respect work that
wasn’t a 9-to-5. Please don’t do
this to your children.
eZ re
but expensive Polaroid back from
near death — would come to
revive the one-time-use camera.
Urban outfitters started selling
disposables in 2018. In 2020,
Timothée Chalamet brought a
disposable camera to the oscars.
In a sort of meta, nesting-doll
situation, he was photographed
on the red carpet taking photo-
graphs with his fujifilm Quick-
Snap. Phone pictures were tech-
nically better than they’d ever
been, and easier than ever to
manipulate, but analog images —
both 4-by-6 photos from dispos-
able and traditional cameras as
well as Polaroids (think of Taylor
Swift’s 1989 era, circa 2014) —
were becoming popular social
media fixtures.
By this point, smartphones
were ubiquitous, and the glee
that the digital cameras once
promised — you can take as many
photos as you want! — no longer
felt remarkable, or even necessar-
ily desirable. The average camera
roll on a phone today is as clut-
tered as a junk drawer, stuffed
with screenshots from old group
chats and train tickets and re-
ceipts and umpteen variations on
the same selfie.
The phone camera has be-
come, for certain tastes, a little
too good — unforgiving, unflat-
tering — and the pictures that get
posted, probably edited and run
through a filter, have an undeni-
able artifice about them. Every-
one knows that’s not what anyone
looks like in real life. Disposable
camera pictures carry an air of
legitimacy. They feel more au-
thentic than images taken digital-
ly.
“A lot of people are used to very
Dear Carolyn: my in-laws never
say thank you. my husband has
noticed this himself. How should
I deal?
— No Thank You
No Thank You: Deal by knowing
they don’t say thank you and will
never say thank you, and
relieving yourself of the burden
of any expectation they will ever
say thank you.
People are weird. This is their
weird. roll with it. Assure
yourself they are thanking you
deeply in their hearts — but can’t
say it aloud because they come
from a land where saying thank
you is punishable by life
sentences to tinny music and
unflattering haircuts.
Re: Thanks!: At least they are
equal about it. mine thank only
my husband, even when I am the
one handing over the credit card
for dinner.
— Anonymous
Anonymous: fun!
Dear Carolyn: my husband and
I have become friends with
another couple over the past
year. We like them both
individually a lot; they are
“I think there’s something
fun about it being this
stand-alone, physical
object,” said Anna
McGuire. “There is this
excitement of: What is this
going to look like when it
gets developed later?”
powerful cameras on their
phones now that are extremely
crisp and clear. They capture
everything,” Saunders said. Dis-
posables “capture things in sepia
tones, almost. People like the
warmth of the pictures. There’s a
genuineness about the pictures, a
graininess. It feels more authen-
tic and a bit softer. … There’s
something a bit raw about them,
and I think that’s very appealing
to a generation that grew up with
everything being bright and
shiny and perfect.”
The other problem with your
phone is that, well, it’s your
phone: a portal to every text, call,
email, breaking-news alert, store,
game and social media platform.
As long as your phone is on your
person, even when you’re in one
place, you are never fully there.
Taking out your phone at a party
is a way to ensure you are no
longer at the party; the party is
happening around you, and you
are on your phone. “Truly, a
phone takes you out of the mo-
ment,” Sullivan said. “Whereas if
you have a camera, you’re like:
‘oh, I want to capture that mo-
ment.’”
Not to forget what’s arguably
the most important factor in the
disposable camera’s resurgence:
“Everyone does look better on
film.”
T
here’s a great Brian Eno
line, from his book “A Year
With Swollen Appendices,”
about our inevitable infatuation
with out-of-date technology:
“Whatever you now find weird,
funny, interesting people. But
particularly when we are at
their house, the dynamic
between them is tense. They
harshly critique the other’s
decisions and tastes a lot, and
they appeal to us to choose a
side — even over small stuff.
This week, for instance, one
bought a chair the other
denounced as ugly, and they put
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photos by AnnA Mcguire
ugly, uncomfortable and nasty
about a new medium will surely
become its signature. CD distor-
tion, the jitteriness of digital vid-
eo, the crap sound of 8-bit — all of
these will be cherished and emu-
lated as soon as they can be
avoided.” The book was published
in 1996, in the very same decade
for which today’s zoomers are
most nostalgic: a pre-smart-
phone, barely online era, the
dawn of the disposable camera’s
first heyday.
In rediscovering this bygone
technology, Gen Z fulfilled Eno’s
prediction: Everything about the
disposable camera that makes it
technically “worse” is, in fact, an
asset, including the delayed grati-
fication of the development proc-
ess and the hazy quality of its
images, which look like a memory
feels: grainy and dreamlike. The
fact that you cannot check a
photo right after taking it to make
sure you like how it looks, surely
once seen as a flaw that modern
cameras eradicated, is part of the
disposable’s charm. Even the ori-
entation of the pictures — typical-
ly taken horizontally, rather than
vertically — distinguishes dispos-
able camera pictures from their
phone-taken counterparts.
mcGuire is enamored with
“the almost vintage-looking qual-
ity” of the photos she gets from
disposables. “There’s something
generally about analog film pho-
tography … [that] does look a
little, to me, more like a candid
moment from life, and a little less
staged or posed in the way an
iPhone photo can.”
Kaitlyn Harris, a 26-year-old
film photographer from Scotts-
dale, Ariz., understands the allure
of the disposable camera. “The
look is so nostalgic, that’s obvi-
ously the first word that comes to
mind. The classic flash look is
really in having that flash on. …
It’s like a flash of a memory.”
Still, she has posted some Tik-
my husband on the spot to
decide who’s right.
How do we graciously decline
to be pulled into their spats?
— Out of the Middle
Out of the Middle: “No way, not
our fight.” Could solve so many
problems at once.
or, hit the tension points with
blinding sunshine: “That is the
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Toks, under the handle @goodol-
filmphotos, imploring her follow-
ers to explore other options that
are more sustainable and less
unreliable. Her top pinned video
reads, “Please stop using this
camera (I’m begging),” as she
holds up the fujifilm QuickSnap.
“I know that sounds a little ag-
gressive,” she says in the clip. “But
there’s a very good reason why
you can move on and find a better
camera than this one right here.”
from Harris’s perspective, po-
tential for disappointment with
disposables abounds. “I’ve seen a
lot of hurt from disposable with
the photos not turning out the
way they wanted, because of user
error or just the quality of the
cameras,” she said. “And some-
times they get lost along the way.
I’ve seen a lot of TikToks of brides
saying they got five out of the 20
cameras back. or they don’t get
them developed because they
didn’t realize how expensive it
would be. or they didn’t use the
flash.” Drugstore chains can
charge anywhere from $12 to $25
for a set of prints and a CD of
digital pictures, but you won’t get
your negatives back. Higher-
quality outfits like the Darkroom
charge some $36 plus shipping
for color prints, a USB of your
images and negatives.
To avoid these likely disasters
and unnecessary waste, Harris
suggests using one of the apps,
such as Dispo, Tezza and Dazz
Cam, that can make a phone
image look like one taken on film.
(A counterpoint, from mcGuire:
“People think it’s cheugy in its
own right” to use those apps. “You
know that they’re not real.”)
Harris has also encouraged her
followers to try out “reusable
cameras” (as in, a camera, the
regular point-and-shoot kind
that has film inside), in case they
were unaware of this option.
Commenters let her know that
“they do know reusable cameras
exist,” she said. “But they want
the look of the disposable.”
Gen Z photographers also
seem to want the connection of
the disposable — that is, the link
it provides to the older genera-
tions that used these cameras
when they were new.
“Something that always makes
me laugh when I think about it is,
growing up, you see pictures of
your parents when they were in
college or in their 20s, and it’s
always these dated photos, be-
cause they didn’t have phones
back then,” mcGuire said. “In a
weird way, I’m trying to capture
some of those moments for my-
self. These high-definition
[phone] pictures of my friends
are great, but there’s something
that feels more special about the
disposable.”
“All my favorite photos of me as
a child are on disposable camer-
as,” Sullivan said, as are all the
photos in the albums from “when
my parents were in their 20s and
30s.”
She likes how it feels to flip
through the photo albums and
think of the pictures she’s taking
as part of an ongoing tradition.
Ironically, it is the photos on
phones that feel disposable, and
the photos taken by disposable
cameras that feel permanent.
“Isn’t this amazing, [that] I
have this photo and it looks the
same as my parents’ photos of
when they were young?” she said.
“And maybe one day my kids will
look back on this. It makes you
think about: Who is going to be
looking at these photos in the
future?”
“Whereas, with an iPhone pho-
to,” she said, “I never think about
that.”
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Does John Galliano deserve a chance at redemption?
FASHION from C1
or flawed characters — dictators
and terrorists, but also mick Jag-
ger and Whitney Houston.
“I’ve made a lot of films about
people who are, you know, you’re
not quite certain if they’re nice
people or not nice people, and
you’re questioning them all the
time and trying to understand
where, you know, what you
should think about them,” mac-
donald told The Washington Post
earlier this month.
macdonald said he struck on
the idea of a documentary on
Galliano because he was thinking
about canceled figures in the film
industry. “How, in a post-reli-
gious world, do you get forgive-
ness?” he said. “How are you re-
deemed, ever? In the old days, you
could go and say your Hail marys.
How does that happen [now]? So
that was really the first thing that
I thought about, and somebody
suggested John as a subject.”
Was that somebody Wintour?
Dana Thomas, a veteran fashion
reporter and author of a book on
Galliano and Alexander mc-
Queen called “Gods and Kings,”
recently wrote in her fashion
newsletter that “Wintour
shopped the project to directors
for several years—I personally
know three who turned it down—
before landing macdonald.” A
Condé Nast representative de-
clined to respond to The Post’s
request for comment.
The importance of whether
Condé Nast was the architect or
merely a helping hand is ulti-
mately up to each viewer to de-
cide. macdonald said that Win-
tour “got involved in this film
early on to offer her help, and she
was incredibly helpful,” and that
they “helped smooth introduc-
tions to Dior and various other
people” who would not have oth-
erwise participated. (Kate moss,
Naomi Campbell and, of course,
Galliano himself are all talking
heads in the film, as is The Post’s
“How, in a post-religious world, do you get
forgiveness? How are you redeemed, ever? In the
old days, you could go and say your Hail Marys.
How does that happen [now]?”
Kevin Macdonald, director of the documentary on John Galliano
A look from a Galliano collection for Christian Dior, seen in Paris
in 1997. He brought theatricality and drama to Paris fashion.
Is it polite to avoid or congratulate a proposal in public?
Dear Miss
Miss Manners: Twice,
Manners now, I have
JudIth become an
MartIN, accidental
JacobINa intruder on a
MartIN aNd couple’s proposal
NIcholas during my
Ivor MartIN regular walking
excursions (after
work and on weekends).
The first occurred on the
campus of the university where I
am employed, near a pad-
mounted transformer and busy
roundabout. I was willing to
chalk my unfortunate presence
up to his poor choice of venue.
The second, however, occurred
in a public park near an
admittedly picturesque
senior critic-at-large, robin
Givhan.)
macdonald directed with re-
markable freedom, given the con-
trolling nature of the fashion
world. (Designers rarely grant in-
terviews without their publicists
present, and often ask for ques-
tions in advance. They have also
been known to ask for quote and
photo approval, requests that
publications including The Post
do not abide by.) Galliano did not
ask for approval; macdonald set
up many of their conversations so
the designer is looking directly
into the camera, and in the open-
ing minutes lights a cigarette and
declares, “oh, I’m going to tell you
everything.” He mostly does.
And neither Wintour nor Con-
dé Nast asked for approval. “No-
body actually tried to control the
film,” macdonald said. “I had final
cut; it was independently fi-
nanced.”
The timing of the documen-
tary, which was released in thea-
ters earlier this month, is practi-
cally operatic. The margiela cou-
ture show that Galliano staged in
January was rhapsodically re-
viewed, and it’s already being
considered one of the greatest
and most important fashion
shows of the past decade, perhaps
even of the 21st century.
In Paris, at fashion Week earli-
er this month, rumors swirled
that he was being courted by
Givenchy, which is without a cre-
ative director since the departure
of matthew Williams, which was
announced in December, and
where Galliano worked for a brief
time before taking the much larg-
er stage at LVmH’s bigger Dior.
(Givenchy did not respond to a
request for comment.) one
source close to the metropolitan
museum of Art told me that the
Costume Institute, which stages
the blockbuster met Gala, had
considered putting on a Galliano-
themed show this year. (The met
does not comment on future exhi-
bitions, though Galliano’s work
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waterfall. on both occasions, I
elected to politely avert my eyes
and move along as hurriedly as
possible without becoming a
distraction, and to minimize any
chances of accidental
photobombing.
As this happenstance teeters
dangerously on the edge of
becoming a pattern, though, I
thought it prudent to request a
professional opinion: When
such an intimate moment is
made a public spectacle, what
is the mannerly course of
action for passersby? Was I
correct in my choice to look
away and swiftly move on?
Should I instead stop and wait
for them to finish before
proceeding, or return in the
has appeared in several recent
shows, and Costume Institute
head Andrew Bolton wrote a 2022
book on Galliano’s tenure at Dior.)
The timing is a potential light-
ning rod as the Israel-Gaza war
continues alongside fears of ris-
ing antisemitism.
Galliano is riding higher than
he has since his Dior was the toast
of the fashion world. Whether
this documentary is the latest
step in a highly organized cam-
paign to bring Galliano back into
the mainstream or not, are people
ready to forgive him? Should
they?
S
ince finishing filming the
documentary, Galliano’s
shows suggest that he has
gotten something off his chest —
that he feels newly free. While his
collections at margiela have been
mostly fascinating if not other-
worldly, the house is mostly
known for the explosion of its
Tabi shoes, a martin margiela
cleft-toed creation that is now the
Gen Z and millennial designer
shoe du jour.
His fall couture show in July
2022 — a “True romance”-ish film
and live performance featuring
incestual stepsiblings killing
their parents, which serves as the
denouement to macdonald’s film
— implies that he is no longer
designing apprehensively, that he
is entering a new artistic prime. It
was so provocatively violent that
Kristina o’Neill, then-editor of
WSJ magazine, told the Cut’s
fashion critic, Cathy Horyn, that
she would never go to another
Galliano show. rarely does a de-
signer today cause such a frenzy,
and when they do, they almost
immediately apologize.
“It’s one of the extraordinary
things about John: When he
should be at his most cautious
and careful, he can’t seem to help
himself, by tweaking everybody
again,” macdonald said. “I real-
ized when I was shooting [the
show], it was a reflection of mak-
ing the documentary. It was him
looking at his own life again. And
that show is his artistic response
to that.”
Along with that collection, his
Spring 2024 ready-to-wear show,
staged in Paris in october, and the
January couture show, which
took him a year to put together,
were so extraordinary that they
present a textbook test of choos-
ing to forgive or ignore or com-
partmentalize an artist’s bad be-
havior. Creativity has all but dis-
appeared from fashion, and here
is a man who takes his time, who
direction from which I came?
or, God forbid, am I obligated
to offer my congratulations (or, I
suppose, condolences, as the
case may be) to these total
strangers? Any thoughts are
appreciated.
Some thoughts might be: Why
are they making a public
spectacle of themselves?
Wouldn’t such an important
intimate moment be best
savored in private between the
two of them? Doesn’t
photographing the moment
inspire them to perform roles
instead of reacting naturally?
Do they believe that video will
not provoke ridicule in any
future children they may have?
eZ re
doesn’t want to merely sell you
clothes but make you see beauty
in a new way — the rejects and
scalawags of city life, redeemed
on the altar that a runway be-
comes when a really good design-
er puts clothes on it. Is his genius
worth it?
Galliano told macdonald that
“I don’t expect them to forgive
me, but I want to be understood.”
What do we understand about
him? That he is chastened: at the
beginning and end of the film,
you see him backstage at that
violent fall 2022 show, “in his
terrible cutoff shorts and a T-
shirt, and he’s sitting by the recy-
cling bins and trash cans,” mac-
donald said. It’s a million miles
away from the ridiculous bows he
used to take at the end of his
couture shows, dressed as a pirate
or a dandy. macdonald, in the
film, compares him to a puffed-up
Napoleon, from the 1927 silent
film by Abel Gance.
Asked why he thinks Galliano
agreed to the documentary, mac-
donald said: “He has an ego, and
[I’m guessing] he’s like, ‘Well, that
Alexander mcQueen film is really
successful. Everyone thinks that
I’m a genius. Why don’t I have a
film where people think I’m a
genius?’” (mcQueen, who died by
suicide in 2010 and was also con-
sidered one of the 21st century’s
great designers, was the subject of
a documentary, “mcQueen,” in
2018.)
It’s hard to square this man
purring with childlike delight
over movies and a simple life in
the country with the ridiculous
man who preened in fashion’s
spotlight for decades. “It’s incred-
ible, the journey that you’ve gone
from that person to that person,”
agreed macdonald. “And, you
know, his face is slightly crum-
pled, and the work that he’s had
done doesn’t look the greatest
anymore. So you see the human
being, and I think that enables
you to sympathize with him more,
probably.”
Yet he undercuts himself at
crucial moments. When asked
about his rant, he says he does not
remember that this happened
more than once. A victim of one of
his attacks, Philippe Virgitti,
speaks in tears about how Gallia-
no’s words — which included call-
ing him an “Asian bastard” —
continue to haunt him. He says
Galliano never apologized to him,
though Galliano claims he did.
Where the film is less ambigu-
ous is in its role for Dior. macdon-
ald also surmises that Dior want-
ed to speak — Sidney Toledano,
oh, well. miss manners
realizes how difficult it would
be nowadays to convince
people that real life is more
rewarding than a dramatized
version.
So, yes — as much as you can,
keep out of the way and out of
photo range. And while a cheery
“Congratulations!” would be
fine if you feel so inclined, it is
not obligatory. You have not
been hired as an extra in these
public dramas.
Dear Miss Manners: my
husband is an excellent cook
and usually prepares and serves
most, or all, of the meal when
we invite people over for dinner.
I participate in a variety of ways,
TOP: John Galliano as seen in the documentary “High & Low:
John Galliano.” ABOVE: Galliano, Tina Turner, left, and Naomi
Campbell in 1996. Since a spurt of drunken and profane rages,
Galliano has begun to make his resurgence in the fashion industry.
who was Galliano’s boss at Dior
and who is also Jewish, sits for a
lengthy interview — so they could
talk about Galliano’s collections
again. Toledano told macdonald
that when Dior recently staged a
traveling exhibition of its designs
by recent creative directors, in-
cluding maria Grazia Chiuri (the
current creative director), raf Si-
mons and Galliano, “he said, ‘I
looked and I thought, well, the
star of the show is John. These are
the great works. And yet, we’re
ashamed of that.’”
This is, macdonald continued,
“a great way for them to say, ‘okay,
we’ve laid that to rest.’ And I
think, so, for Dior and for John, I
think that was their agenda.”
It is also, of course, an agenda
that allows them to make more
money off Galliano-designed
products.
C
ancel culture has a special
place in the fashion world.
It was wielded early on by
fashion commentators, who
seized on the industry’s propensi-
ty for tokenism and appropria-
tion. The potential for virality was
enormous: Suddenly, someone
with no power or clout, or even
someone with very few followers,
could get products removed from
shelves, entice businesses to set
up new groups to encourage di-
versity or get someone fired.
But it’s also the most juvenile
thing about fashion: Those who
offend can simply be cast off or
ignored. The politics seem dan-
gerously shaped by the technol-
ogy newly available when such
callouts began. Galliano has re-
cently claimed that he was the
first victim of cancel culture, but
including finding recipes,
making suggestions about the
menu and doing some chopping
or stirring, depending on what
we are making. I also tidy up the
house beforehand and set the
table.
Surprisingly (to me), when
guests leave, they often thank
my husband for the dinner but
not me, as though I am not one
of the hosts. I think that it
would be more appropriate for
guests to thank both of us. Also,
I wonder whether it would make
a difference if the genders were
reversed.
While you presumably do not
want to hear your guests saying,
“Thank you so much for tidying
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that’s not really true.
He is actually the antidote to it
— the other model. He has asked
us to consider whether he de-
serves to create art, or maybe,
create art that warrants attention
and criticism. It can’t really be a
question with a blanket answer,
but if you dislike a designer, you
can simply choose not to buy their
products or look at their shows.
macdonald seems to be buying
what Galliano is selling. Galliano
“has not got a political bone in his
body,” he said. The things he said
in that video, “it was the most
hurtful thing you could say at the
time. And that’s horrible and un-
forgivable to some people. But he
doesn’t actually believe in a Nazi
ideology. He doesn’t want to wipe
the Jews off the face of the world. I
don’t think that’s my judgment.”
Despite Galliano’s meetings
with Jewish leaders, and a 2013
press release from the Anti-Defa-
mation League claiming that it
“welcomes [his] recovery and re-
demption,” I left the film uncon-
vinced that he knows what he
said and why it was hurtful. I also
left the film thoroughly con-
vinced of his genius, unsure
whether I liked him — and very
charmed by him.
macdonald compared Galliano
to Ye, formerly known as Kanye
West, who is also trying to inch
his way back into the spotlight.
macdonald said the difference be-
tween the two was that Ye is
suffering from mental health is-
sues rather than substance abuse.
But there’s another key difference
that should make us think twice
about allowing Ye back into our
head space: His new shoes are
extremely mediocre.
up,” miss manners agrees that
they are remiss. Whatever you
do or do not do, you are the
hostess. But while there may be
a gender factor here, there is
also, nowadays, an unfortunate
preoccupation with food as the
most important element of a
social event. So your guests may
be thinking of this as a meal out,
rather than a convivial evening.
New miss manners columns are
posted monday through Saturday on
washingtonpost.com/advice. you can
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For these ‘Cabin Masters,’ the foundation is preservation

‘CABIN MASTERS’ from C1
over. What hooks viewers are the
family dynamics but perhaps also
just the maine of it all. Typically at
an episode’s end, drone cameras
offer long, luscious, interstitial
looks at Vacationland: The trees
begin turning in autumn, the
light glints off the water, the views
stretch on forever. And all a view-
er wants is to be there.
Instead, I came to manchester
in the dark of December — my
fingers frozen to the steering
wheel of the borrowed, beaten
Volvo belonging to my sister — to
get the Cabin masters to at least
clear this matter up: Why does the
show’s title say “cabin,” when ev-
eryone in maine calls cabins
“camps”?
“We didn’t name the show,”
Chase quickly says, while sitting
in a cozy backroom of the Ken-
nebec Cabin Company store with
Ashley and ryan.
“It’s hard for us to say cabin,”
Ashley says.
The pair are generational
mainers. Their father was a home
builder. They grew up spending
some time each summer at a
camp, which most non-mainers
would call a family cabin. Ex-
plaining it verges on the existen-
tial: How is a cabin really a camp?
When is a camp not a cabin? And
how is it different from a regular
house?
show, because we all grew up
[with] not a lot of money. So camp
was an old camp, but we see
different budgets now.” Take, for
example, a sprawling camp in
Season 2 that had a budget of
$50,000 and ended up having a
life-size, outdoor checkerboard.
With higher budgets and big-
ger homes, you can see the dispar-
ity of homeownership in maine,
where, as of 2022, some 10 per-
cent of the population lived below
the poverty line. Camps are often
passed down through genera-
tions, which sometimes gives
“maine Cabin masters” a whiff of
privilege — until you see the toll
that the years of wear and tear
(and maine winters) take.
“It doesn’t take long,” ryan
says, for cabins to fall into disre-
pair. Even if the structures are still
functional, they may not be prac-
tical for a modern, growing fam-
ily.
“We see it a lot of times where
these kids who grew up going to
camp every summer are now hav-
ing kids, and they want them to
have that same experience. But
the camp might not be big enough
and might not have modern
amenities that make it possible to
stay there for a longer period of
time,” ryan says. “We try and
come and say: ‘okay, what’s going
to make this camp usable again
for you?’”
From left, Ryan Eldridge, Ashley Morrill and Chase Morrill from “Maine Cabin Masters.” The crew
combines ingenuity and power tools to restore cabins to their often meaningfully rustic essences.
In addition to the unbeatable
scenery, the show also has an
easygoing, community vibe. fam-
ily stories are shared. The crew
teases one another about the rival
high schools they attended (Cony
vs. Gardiner) and who got the
better education in measurement
ingenuity and power tools, some-
thing run-down gets restored to
its meaningfully rustic essence.
“maine Cabin masters” pre-
miered in 2017 on the former DIY
Network, a grittier offshoot of
HGTV. DIY became magnolia, the
network of Chip and Joanna
MagNolia Network
me of getting a flat tire on my way
to my own maine high school.
multiple gruff, flanneled people
halted their journeys to help.
maine kindness and maine real-
ness without airs: It radiates off
the trio.
Chase, the central figure of the
T
he Cabin masters don’t de-
cide which properties
will be featured on the
show; the network does. To make
the cut, a camp has to have a
realistic budget, a good story, a
good location and a TV-worthy
before-and-after amount of work
to do. And the masters don’t al-
ways get it right.
In 2020, the Environmental
Protection Agency alleged that
the building company completed
five renovations in residential
properties built before 1978 with-
out complying with federal lead
requirements. Since then, the
team has secured a Lead renova-
tion, repair and Painting rule
certification, has dedicated more
showtime to diving into regula-
tions, paid a $16,500 penalty and
agreed to follow the guidelines in
the future. “I’d say we try to be
smarter, . . . because we are in the
public eye and people are looking
to us for tips and advice,” Chase
says.
Along with following regula-
tions, securing permits can also
be a problem. Doing so can take
up to a year, depending on where
the cabin is located.
If this sounds like a lot, it was to
the masters when they first start-
ed filming as well. Chase wasn’t
used to running on TV time or
seeing the daylight hours and
crew wages flash before his eyes.
“When the film crew is here, we’re

Cabins stir thoughts of well-
manicured second homes; camps
are not that. To Chase: “Camp is a
place you go where you just don’t
have any worries and can relax.
You’re not worried about how
many people show up. You’re not
worried about how scratched the
floors get or —”
“How clean they are,” ryan in-
terjects.
Camp is not a second home. It
is a place to be with the people you
love and not worry whether the
chairs match, or what’s on TV
(because you usually don’t have
cable, and in some camps, you
may not even have electricity).
But, as you see in the show, there
is a large disparity between budg-
ets and camp conditions. This
monetary shift has caused Chase
to reevaluate what he considers a
camp: “I do think my understand-
ing of camps has changed for the
N
ot every family gets the op-
portunity to make their
camp usable. ryan laments
the coastal maine cabins that
were passed down through gener-
ations, only to be lost because the
property taxes got too high.
He finds it particularly special
when families are able to pool
their money to prevent the loss
and when “maine Cabin masters”
— with its low-budget, authentic
mainer ethos and Chase’s thrift-
minded stockpile of salvaged
building materials — can be a part
of that rescue effort.
Part of the appeal of “Cabin
masters” is that the show is a road
map for fixing up your own camp,
Ashley says: “So when people in-
herit [camps], they’re able to do
the simple things that you see on
the show with these guys — jack
and leveling it, to get it out of the
dirt so [there’s] not so much rot.”
math.
The ever-resourceful Ashley
visits local artisans to help with
decor ideas. She used to run a
home goods store in Hallowell
that sold upcycled furniture, and
she often uses items belonging to
an episode’s featured camp own-
ers to add personal flair to the
cabins. “recently we did a camp,
and this family is very musical,”
Ashley says. “They had this old
run-down piano — not fixable —
so I ended up taking it apart
completely and then used the pi-
ano keys to make a breakfast bar.”
(Yes, you are now trying to picture
this, but if you’ve ever seen
“maine Cabin masters,” you just
believe it.)
The show is a little more rugged
than what’s usually shown on the
relatively new magnolia Network,
but, in general, it’s in line with all
carpentry TV, where, with some
Gaines, who turned their home-
renovation show, the Texas-based
“fixer Upper,” into a bespoke me-
dia empire of simple elegance and
shiplap walls. magnolia rolled out
a lot of new programming with a
farm-to-table vibe. When asked
how their show managed to fit in
with all that, ryan joked: “We’re
more like dandelions.” much like
how dandelions can grow
through concrete, they thrive in
the harshest of conditions (maine
winters) to make something that
brings joy to those who see it.
They also don’t spend a lot of time
prettying up for the cameras. A
typical “maine Cabin masters”
season can be clocked through the
infrequency of Chase’s haircuts
and beard trims.
Chase, Ashley and ryan are
distinctly maine. It’s hard to de-
scribe, but watching their show,
or being around them, reminds
show, credits his connection to
the work with his childhood ex-
perience with cabins. “Everybody
has a spot. Whether it’s a family, a
friend or just a place you go for a
week in the summertime. our
family camp is up there right
outside of farmington. We grew
up going there, and camps always
need work,” he explains. “So I
would be following around my
grandfather and father, helping
him work on his cabin, their camp
and camps down the camp road.”
He and his colleagues had long
been in the business of camp
restorations when his oldest
daughter, maggie, learned
through a friend’s mother that a
production company was looking
for a carpentry crew in maine for
a possible show. After checking it
out, Chase applied, and soon
enough, his gang found them-
selves making television.
on their schedule. They set the
call sheet: when things start hap-
pening and there’s just a lot of
standing around waiting. When
we were first starting out, all I
could see were just dollar signs,”
he said.
After nine seasons and count-
less restored camps, the Cabin
masters have realized that not
every treasured camp can be
saved. maine is popular. Chase
said he hates hearing stories of
families selling their cabins —
only to decide they want a space
like that 15 years later. With rising
home prices, especially in south-
ern maine and along the coast, he
mourns the family sanctuaries
that are sold, because it’s almost
impossible to get back in the mar-
ket.
“It’s harder to find,” he says.
“It’s like once it’s gone, it’s so hard
to get back.”

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monday, march 18 , 2024
Can I help my boyfriend reconnect with his estranged family?
Dear Amy: My
Ask Amy boyfriend of 10
Amy years (with a few
Dickinson breaks) does not
have a close
relationship with
his parents and really no
relationship at all with his two
siblings. Little things have
happened through the years that
have upset people, and no one
ever communicates or makes up
with each other. He also doesn’t
have good relationships with his
young adult daughters. They seem
to have chosen their mom over
him.
I know it hurts him, but he
doesn’t feel he can do much about
it. He does try to reach out, with
little response from them. I have
gotten really frustrated with how
everyone acts and the horrible
communication and how badly
they treat him, so I completely
stay out of it.
I say nothing to any of them
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because I barely know them,
anyway. Is that the right thing
to do? The fact that he
doesn’t have a caring family hurts
me, too.
— Sad Woman in Ariz.
Sad: You have chosen to be with
someone who does not have a
track record of healthy
relationships with others. It
sounds as if his family system is
dysfunctional, and although this
could be the reason for his
behavior, he doesn’t seem
motivated to try to do things
differently. After 10 years with
him, you may have had
opportunities to affect this
dynamic to some degree, but
you don’t seem eager to exert
yourself, either.
The noncommunicative
conflict style followed by low or no
contact is something he learned
at home. Estrangement is
extremely common, and, yes, it
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A six-part podcast | No-knock warrants can destroy
lives. Why are they so easy to obtain and carry out?
does run in families, oftentimes
through generations.
I suggest that he concentrate on
trying to repair the relationship
with his children. You can be
helpful here by working on
developing a braver and more
functional communication style,
by supporting his efforts and by
encouraging him to keep trying,
with an open and loving attitude.
If these daughters have aligned
with their mother, they may have
been lied to and their own spirits
and relationships poisoned. He
should patiently try to rewrite the
faulty narrative with the hopes of
creating a new storyline with this
generation.
I appreciate the work of Cornell
University researcher Karl
Pillemer, whose book “Fault
Lines: Fractured Families and
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scholarship illustrating this
common phenomenon, as well as
compassionate and practical
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 2:30-
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Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
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Imaginary (PG-13) 11:45-
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Cabrini (PG-13) 12:15-3:40-
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One Life (PG) 11:00-1:45-4:35-
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The American Society of
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Love Lies Bleeding (R) 11:05-
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Knox Goes Away (R) 11:15-
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Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 4:30
Shaitaan 9:15
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Yolo (Re La Gun Tang) (PG-13)
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Arthur the King (PG-13) 1:00-
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Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 2:00-
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Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 4:45-5:15-
7:30-8:00
Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
1:45-7:15-8:00
Imaginary (PG-13) 2:15-2:30-
5:00
Cabrini (PG-13) 3:00-4:00-6:30
Snack Shack (R) 1:30-4:30-7:30
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Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 5:30-
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Poor Things (R) 2:15
Oppenheimer (R) 2:00
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Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 3:30-
6:00-7:00
Oppenheimer (R) 6:15
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 3:00-4:00-
5:00-7:15
Poor Things (R) 3:45
The Zone of Interest (PG-13)
7:45
Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
6:30
One Life (PG) 3:15-6:45
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French Girl (R) 4:15
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Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:00-
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Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
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Imaginary (PG-13) 12:05-
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Cabrini (PG-13) 12:45-3:50-
6:55
Love Lies Bleeding (R) 1:40-
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Arthur the King (PG-13) 4:00-
7:05
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5:00-7:00
Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
7:30
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The American Society of Magical
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
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Dune: Part Two - The IMAX
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Poor Things (R) 5:05
Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
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Imaginary (PG-13) 12:25-3:20-
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The American Society of
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Love Lies Bleeding (R) 12:50-
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no
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advice for how to attempt We’re not sure what to do at this blackmail, but responding to his
reconciliation. point. We both think he is brother’s honesty.
overreacting, but we don’t want to
Dear Amy: My fiancé and I are hurt his feelings. Your thoughts? Dear Amy: Responding to the
getting married this summer. My — Engaged and Worried issue of spouses taking solo trips,
fiancé, “William,” is in his mid- as a happy introvert husband who
30s. He has one brother, “Sam,” Engaged: Your fiancé has one is married to an extrovert who
who is 25. William has asked five brother. He chose a handful of loves to travel much more than I
friends to be groomsmen at the men to be groomsmen who have do, I’m always happy to have her
wedding. Some are from been “extremely important in his go off adventuring. I love the time
childhood, some from college. He life.” If he’d wanted to take a to myself — and I love it when she
really wanted to have men with shortcut to make his brother feel comes home. Takes all kinds,
him who have been extremely like chopped liver — mission right?
important in his life. accomplished! — Keep on Truckin’
He did not ask Sam to be in the “Sam” might not be the primary
wedding, because he is male connection in “William’s” Truckin’: All kinds, indeed. It’s all
significantly younger. William life (due to the 10-year age about balance.
and Sam have a good relationship, difference), but I guarantee that
and, frankly, he didn’t think Sam the elder brother is the primary Amy’s column appears seven days a
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asked. Sam did not take it well. He brother. This exclusion hurts. You Write to askamy@amydickinson.com or
has more or less stopped didn’t think it would bother Sam, Amy Dickinson, P.O. Box 194, Freeville,
communicating with William, but it does. He’s been honest about N.Y. 13068.  You can also follow her
and when William asked him why, how hurt he is, and I think that @askingamy.
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Family of Two 4:45-9:30
Knox Goes Away (R) 6:45-9:25
Cabrini (PG-13) CC: 2:45-4:45-
8:30
Imaginary (PG-13) 1:50-4:30-
9:55
Imaginary (PG-13) 2:10-4:55-
7:45
2:00-3:00-5:00-5:45-7:00-9:00 Migration (PG) 11:35AM Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) CC: Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) CC: Cabrini (PG-13) 12:05-3:30-10:20
Argylle (PG-13) 8:35
Regal Germantown Dune: Part Two - The IMAX Expe- 2:00-4:30-7:00-9:30 4:30-7:00 The American Society of Magical
20000 Century Boulevard rience (PG-13) 12:40-4:30-8:20 Pastor's Kid (R) 2:30-7:15 Sharathulu Varthisthai 2:00- Negroes (PG-13) 12:10-2:50-5:30 Cabrini (PG-13) 1:30-5:05
The American Society of Magical
Surprise Film (NR) 7:00 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:35- Snack Shack (R) CC: 1:15-9:20 5:15-8:30 Love Lies Bleeding (R) 2:00-
Negroes (PG-13) 1:35-4:25-7:15
3:10-6:10 Yolo (Re La Gun Tang) (PG-13) Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - 4:40-10:10
Arthur the King (PG-13) 4:40-
7:20 Poor Things (R) 9:10 3:00-6:00-9:00 One Loudoun Shaitaan 6:55-10:00 Love Lies Bleeding (R) 1:50-
Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) 20575 East Hampton Plaza Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 2:35 4:35-7:20
Oppenheimer (R) 1:10-5:10 AMC Potomac Mills 18
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:30- 12:50-3:30 2700 Potomac Mills Circle Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Dune: Part Two (PG-13) XD: Knox Goes Away (R) 2:05-
Imaginary (PG-13) 12:20-3:40- 1:00-4:45-8:30
2:10-4:30-6:30-8:20 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) OC: 9:00 2:15 5:00-7:55
Yodha 1:20-5:30-8:50 6:40-9:20 Arthur the King (PG-13) 12:15- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) XD: 2:05-
Cabrini (PG-13) 2:10-5:30-9:00 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 5:00; 6:00 4:35-7:05-9:40 Arthur the King (PG-13) 1:25
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The American Society of Magical Wonka (PG) CC: 5:45 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 7:30 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 1:40-
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:50- Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 7:00 Oppenheimer (R) 11:30AM
Negroes (PG-13) 11:55-2:35- 3:00-5:30
1:30-2:30-3:30-4:00-5:00-6:00- Arthur the King (PG-13) CC: Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 2:45- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 7:35
6:50-8:00 5:20-8:00 10:00 Imaginary (PG-13) 7:15 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:00-
2:15-5:00
Poor Things (R) 12:25-3:50-7:10 Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 1:10- Oppenheimer (R) CC: 5:00 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:45AM Cabrini (PG-13) 6:55 2:35-5:10
3:50; 8:40 Poor Things (R) 10:45AM The American Society of Magical
Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Migration (PG) CC: 2:45 Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 8:25
1:00-3:40 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:50- They Live 35th Anniversary Negroes (PG-13) 8:10
The Prank (R) CC: 6:00-8:30 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 8:30
Imaginary (PG-13) 12:40-3:20- 2:20-5:00-7:30 Madame Web (PG-13) CC: 3:10 (R) 7:00 Love Lies Bleeding (R) 7:20
6:10-9:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) Imaginary (PG-13) 12:45-3:45- Regal Manassas & IMAX
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: Medal of Honor Theater - NMMC
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7:10-8:50 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 11:15-
Knox Goes Away (R) 1:50- Poor Things (R) 11:45-3:00-6:50 Dune: Part Two - The IMAX Expe- We, the Marines (NR) 10:00- Arthur the King (PG-13) 3:50-6:30
4:50-7:40 4:00-4:45-5:15-8:00-8:45-9:30 11:00-12:00-1:00-2:00-3:00-4:00
rience (PG-13) CC: 2:45-6:30 Oppenheimer (R) 7:10
Manjummel Boys 12:45-4:20- Xscape Theatres Brandywine 14
Poor Things (R) CC: 2:20-8:40 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:00-
7710 Matapeake Business Drive 3:15-6:00-6:45-9:00 Regal Ballston Quarter Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 4:00-
7:50 Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
Love Lies Bleeding (R) 1:00- 671 North Glebe Road 4:30-7:50-8:10
Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 8:40 Jurassic Park (PG-13) 1:00- CC: 3:00-5:40-8:20
Arthur the King (PG-13) 1:40 4:00-7:00 1:45-4:15-7:30-10:30 The End of Evangelion (NR) 7:00 Madame Web (PG-13) 4:10
Imaginary (PG-13) CC: 2:20-7:50 Arthur the King (PG-13) 4:40-
Regal Hyattsville Royale Arthur the King (PG-13) 2:40- Argylle (PG-13) CC: 5:10-8:20 Angelika Film Center Mosaic Dune: Part Two - The IMAX Expe-
4:20-5:50-6:50-8:20-9:20 7:30
6505 America Blvd. Cabrini (PG-13) CC: 2:10-5:40 2911 District Ave rience (PG-13) 3:40-7:20
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 2:50- Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 3:10-
Surprise Film (NR) 7:00 One Life (PG) CC: 2:00-4:45 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 7:00 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 4:20-5:00-
6:20 (1948) (NR) 4:00-7:00
Arthur the King (PG-13) 3:00- Migration (PG) 1:25-3:45 The American Society of Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:20-2:20- 6:00-7:30-8:30
5:40-8:20 Magical Negroes (PG-13) CC: Oppenheimer (R) 7:40
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 2:30-3:10- 4:00-4:50-6:40 Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
Oppenheimer (R) 12:55-7:25 4:50-5:30-7:20-8:00
2:30-5:15 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:15- Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
3:45-7:15 4:50-7:40
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Love Lies Bleeding (R) CC: 12:55-3:40
12:30-1:00-2:00-3:20-4:10-6:00- 1:05-1:45-3:35-6:05-8:35 2:45-5:30 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:00- Imaginary (PG-13) 4:40-8:00
Imaginary (PG-13) 1:10-3:50-
7:20-8:00 Knox Goes Away (R) 6:00-8:45 2:35-4:45-7:00 6:30 Cabrini (PG-13) 3:45
Imaginary (PG-13) 1:10-3:40- Shayda 12:25
Madame Web (PG-13) 1:10 6:10-8:40 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Cabrini (PG-13) 2:10 Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 3:30
Problemista (R) 12:15-2:45-
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:50- The Beekeeper (R) 6:25-8:55 Yaiba - To the Hashira Training The American Society of Magical Knox Goes Away (R) 3:35-6:20
1:50-3:30-4:20-6:00-7:00 (R) 3:15 5:15-7:55
Cabrini (PG-13) 1:15 Negroes (PG-13) 1:30-4:30-7:20 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no
Poor Things (R) 4:50 Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) CC: Poor Things (R) 5:00
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Knox Goes Away (R) 2:10- Yaiba - To the Hashira Training
Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) 2:30-7:30 Perfect Days (PG) 1:00 5:00-7:50
Yaiba - To the Hashira Training (R) 8:20
12:15-3:05-5:45-8:40 (R) 6:55 Yolo (Re La Gun Tang) (PG-13) The Zone of Interest (PG-13) Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 8:00
2:00-8:50 2:30 French Girl (R) 7:00
Imaginary (PG-13) 1:30-4:30- The American Society of Magical Arthur the King (PG-13) 1:40
8:10 Arthur the King (PG-13) OC: Cabrini (PG-13) 12:35-3:40-6:45 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 1:00- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no
Negroes (PG-13) 1:20-2:10-4:05-
Cabrini (PG-13) 1:25-4:45-8:05 4:40-6:30-7:10-9:00 7:45 Love Lies Bleeding (R) 12:10 2:00-4:00-5:10-6:00-7:40 Yaiba - To the Hashira Training
American Fiction (R) 4:20-7:30 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: One Life (PG) 12:05-2:40-5:05-
Regal Dulles Town Center (R) 5:20
The American Society of Magical Yaiba - To The Hashira Training 4:15-5:20-8:00 7:35
21100 Dulles Town Circle
Negroes (PG-13) 1:25-4:15 (Dubbed) 4:25-9:25 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: Love Lies Bleeding (R) 3:00- Regal Springfield Town Center
5:30-8:00 Surprise Film (NR) 7:00
Knox Goes Away (R) 1:40- Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 1:00- 3:30-8:30 6859 Springfield Mall
5:00-7:50 Imaginary (PG-13) OC: 5:10 Arthur the King (PG-13) 1:40-
4:30-8:10 CMX Village 14 4:40-7:30 Surprise Film (NR) 7:00
Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 8:20 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:30-3:50- Cabrini (PG-13) OC: 9:00 1600 Village Market Boulevard
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:10- Arthur the King (PG-13) 12:30-
Arthur the King (PG-13) 12:20 6:40-9:10 One Life (PG) OC: 7:30 Wonka (PG) 2:40-7:55
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The American Society of Magi- 1:00-1:45-2:45-3:30-5:15-6:00- 3:40-6:30
iPic Pike & Rose Migration (PG) 12:15-5:25 8:30 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:50-
- To the Hashira Training (R) cal Negroes (PG-13) OC: 8:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 2:50-
12:40-4:40-7:00 11830 Grand Park Avenue Madame Web (PG-13) 6:45 12:50-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:20-5:20-
Love Lies Bleeding (R) OC: 6:30
Arthur the King (PG-13) (!) 2:45- Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
Regal Laurel Towne Centre 6:15-9:15
8:15 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:05- 12:20-5:30-8:15
6:20-7:00-8:00
14716 Baltimore Avenue Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 2:00- AMC Shirlington 7 1:00-1:45-2:30-3:30-4:25-5:15- Imaginary (PG-13) 1:15-4:30-
Surprise Film (NR) 7:00 2772 South Randolph St. 7:00-7:45 11:55-3:00-6:00-9:10
3:00-6:45-8:30-9:30 7:40
Arthur the King (PG-13) 1:50- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 2:30-5:30- Arthur the King (PG-13) CC: Arthur the King (PG-13) 1:30- Imaginary (PG-13) 2:50-6:10-8:50
Cabrini (PG-13) 2:10
4:40-7:30 6:00-9:00 11:55-2:40-5:20-8:00 4:45-7:30
The American Society of Magical Cabrini (PG-13) 1:20
Oppenheimer (R) 3:30 Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Negroes (PG-13) 12:50-3:40-6:30
The American Society of Magical
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 1:00- 3:45-7:15-10:45 12:00-3:20-7:00 1:15-4:00-6:45 Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 7:50
2:40-4:00-8:00 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: Imaginary (PG-13) 2:15-5:00- Negroes (PG-13) 1:40-4:30-7:20
Imaginary (PG-13) 5:00-8:00- Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:00-
Madame Web (PG-13) 12:50- 11:00 2:30-7:20 7:40 1:30-3:00-4:00-7:00-8:00 Love Lies Bleeding (R) 1:50-
3:50 One Life (PG) (!) 4:30-7:45-11:00 Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Cabrini (PG-13) 12:20-3:50-7:10 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 4:15 4:50-7:40
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:40- The American Society of Magical CC: 12:30-3:40-6:20 One Life (PG) 12:45-3:20-6:00 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -
1:30-2:20-3:20-4:10-5:10-6:00- Imaginary (PG-13) CC: 12:00- Bible Cinema Roadshow: The 7 Regal Fairfax Towne Center
Negroes (PG-13) (!) 3:30-6:30- 4110 West Ox Road To the Hashira Training (R) 12:00
6:40 10:30 2:35-5:10-7:50 Churches of Revelation: Times of
Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) The End of Evangelion (NR) 7:10 Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 9:00
Cabrini (PG-13) CC: 12:50-4:10 Deception 7:30
1:10-5:20-8:15
Imaginary (PG-13) 12:20-3:10-
VIRGINIA One Life (PG) CC: 12:10-2:50-
5:30-8:10
The American Society of Magical Surprise Film (NR) 7:00
Negroes (PG-13) 2:00-4:35-7:25 Arthur the King (PG-13) 4:40-
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:10-
12:40-3:10-4:10-4:40-8:10-8:40
AMC Courthouse Plaza 8
6:10 American Fiction (R) CC: 7:30 Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 7:50
2150 Clarendon Blvd. Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
Cabrini (PG-13) 7:40 Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) CC: 12:35-3:00 Madame Web (PG-13) 3:50
8001 Gateway Promenade Place
The American Society of Magical Arthur the King (PG-13) CC: 12:05-4:55 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:00- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:30-3:00-
Negroes (PG-13) 12:30-1:40- 12:25-3:00-5:35-8:20 12:30-2:50-3:40-4:15-5:45-6:30- 4:20-5:30-6:20-7:20 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:15-
4:30-7:20 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: AMC Tysons Corner 16
7:15-8:00 Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) 4:00-7:40
12:10-3:50-4:30-7:30-8:10 7850e Tysons Corner Center
Knox Goes Away (R) 1:20- Cinema Arts Theatre 1:10 The End of Evangelion (NR) 6:55
4:20-7:10 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 2:40- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) OC: 7:35 Imaginary (PG-13) 2:30-5:10
Snack Shack (R) 1:00-4:00-6:50 9650 Unit 14 Main St. Surprise Film (NR) 7:00
Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 7:50 5:10-7:40 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 9:50- Cabrini (PG-13) 1:00-3:10
Imaginary (PG-13) CC: 12:10- Wonka (PG) CC: 1:50 The American Society of Magical Arthur the King (PG-13) 12:50-
Regal Rockville Center 1:00-4:05-7:15
2:55-5:30-8:05 Arthur the King (PG-13) CC: Negroes (PG-13) 1:40-4:30-7:30 3:30-6:20-9:00
199 East Montgomery Avenue Plastic Earth 7:15
Cabrini (PG-13) CC: 12:20- 12:25-3:25-6:15 Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 8:00 Oppenheimer (R) 2:55
The End of Evangelion (NR) 7:00 3:40-7:00 Perfect Days (PG) 9:45-4:55
Oppenheimer (R) CC: 12:15-9:30
Arthur the King (PG-13) 1:45- The American Society of Magical Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: American Fiction (R) 12:20-2:40 Arthur the King (PG-13) 1:50 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 1:10-
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH (D)
♠ J83
♥ A84
♦ AK954
♣ J 10
WEST EAST
♠ 64 ♠ K52
♥ Q J 10 9 5 2 ♥ 6
♦ Q3 ♦ J 10 7 6 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ A65 ♣ 98432
SOUTH
♠ A Q 10 9 7
♥ K73
♦ 82
♣ KQ7

The bidding:
NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST
1♦ Pass 1 ♠ 2♥
Pass Pass 3 ♣ Pass
3♠ Pass 4 ♠ All Pass
Opening lead — ♥ Q CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE LESTER
MIKE DU JOUR

“R esult players” are

a bane of bridge.
Resulters are more impressed
by a poor play that works
than by a good play that
doesn’t.
“Is it possible to judge
by results?” a club player
asked me.
“Certainly in the long run,”
I said. “Maybe even on a
given deal.” RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
In my club’s penny game,
South won the first heart
with the king, led a diamond
to dummy’s king and let
the eight of trumps ride. He
picked up the trumps, took
the ace of diamonds and
ruffed a diamond. When
West discarded, South forced
out the ace of clubs and
claimed an overtrick.
Results aside, what do you
think of declarer’s play? LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
South deserved to go
down. If West had held the
king of trumps, he could lead
a second high heart. East
would ruff dummy’s ace and
lead a club, and West would
win and cash a heart.
South should win the first
heart in dummy and lead the
ace and a second trump. If
West won and led another
heart, East might ruff, but HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
BALDO
South saves his king and
loses only three tricks in all.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠ A Q 10 9 7 ♥ K 7 3
♦82♣KQ7
You deal and open
one spade, your partner
responds two hearts, you
raise to three hearts, and he
next bids four clubs. What do
you say?
ANSWER: Partner’s bid of BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
two hearts showed five or
more, so your raise was cor-
rect. His four clubs shows
a control — usually the ace
— and slam interest. Since
you have club honors, a high
heart and the ace of spades,
you can cooperate. Bid four
spades or five clubs.
— Frank Stewart
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SUDOKU

CURTIS RAY BILLINGSLEY

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MUTTS PATRICK McDONNELL ZITS JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN

HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | MARCH 18
You are multitalented
and resourceful. You
are also courageous
and intelligent.
Because of this, you are often
busy with many projects.
Take it easy this year. It’s
slower-paced and more laid-
back. Focus on relationships,
especially people who have
your back and want the best
for you.
HEART OF THE CITY STEENZ JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY
Moon Alert: There are no
restrictions to shopping or
important decisions today. The
Moon is in Cancer.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
You might have ambitious
plans for something related
to home and family today.
Perhaps these ideas are
related to something that you
want to do with your garden or
an outdoor space.
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL This is a positive way to begin
your week! You feel optimistic
and mentally alert. However,
do be aware that this is a
mildly accident-prone day
for you, so pay attention to
everything you say and do.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Keep an eye on your money
and belongings today. On the
upside, you have excellent
moneymaking ideas that are
ambitious. You might see
ways to boost your income.
Nevertheless, something
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK unpredictable also might
impact your assets.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Today the Moon is in your
sign dancing with both lucky
moneybags Jupiter and
unpredictable Uranus. This
means you feel optimistic and
encouraged about something.
You might deal with a group of
people. However, you’re also
impulsive and restless.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER DAN SCHKADE An unexpected opportunity
DUSTIN FLASH GORDON to act on your desire to travel
might happen today. “I’m going
places!” Similarly, you might
see opportunities related to
publishing, the law, medicine
or higher education.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
A friend might surprise you
today. Meanwhile, unexpected
travel opportunities might
come your way, along with
chances for higher education
or news related to medicine or
the law.

SCOTT STANTIS DAVE BLAZEK LIBRA

PRICKLY CITY LOOSE PARTS (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
You’re high-viz today, which
means people notice you
more than usual. Quite likely,
they will see you as affluent
and successful. They also
might see you as unusual
or unconventional, for some
reason.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
You need a change of scenery
today, which is why you
might feel a bit restless. Do
something different so you can
expand your world. Be aware
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT that a surprise or something
unexpected might occur;
therefore, pay attention to
avoid accidents.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Check your financial situation
today, because something
unexpected could impact your
banking scene or something
to do with shared property,
inheritances or insurance
matters. If you snooze, you
might lose.
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK
A friend might throw you a
curveball today. They might
ask for something you didn’t
expect or make a weird
suggestion. Possibly, you will
meet someone new who is
avant-garde, bohemian or
unusual in some way.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Work-related travel might
suddenly surprise you today.
Or something to do with a
group might catch you off
guard. Allow extra time for
unexpected delays, especially
BEETLE BAILEY GREG, BRIAN & NEAL WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS related to equipment
breakdowns, staff shortages
and computer glitches.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
Stay light on your feet because
surprise invitations might
appear. You might suddenly
have a luncheon date or an
opportunity to socialize or
attend the arts, theater, a
movie or sports event.
— Georgia Nicols
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BooK WoRLd
Keith Haring brought art to the streets. But did he sell out in the process?
BY S EBASTIAN S MEE
Keith Haring hit it big in the
early 1980s. By the time of his
death at 31, in 1990, his name had
become a byword around the
world for creative flow. Also, for
joy.
Earnest, apparently guileless,
Haring was a tireless worker who
wanted to democratize art. He
combined drawing, graffiti and
live performance with political
activism and the dynamics of
celebrity and commerce. Infusing
his work with the special energy
of 1980s New York, he connected
art with music, dance and fash-
ion, pulling it out of museums
and private homes and dragging
it into the street and the subway
system and onto the clothes peo-
ple wore.
“radiant,” Brad Gooch’s biog-
raphy of the artist, does exactly
what biographies of the excep-
tionally famous should do: Gen-
tly, graciously, it reels in the myth,
restoring the flesh-and-bone real-
ity of this skinny, gay kid from
Kutztown, Pa. Gooch, the author
of previous biographies of flan-
nery o’Connor and frank o’Hara,
among others, acknowledges
complicating facts (Haring was
not always nice) and gives voice
to forgotten but important ancil-
lary figures: early champions,
perceptive detractors, worried
parents, forgotten collaborators,
burned boyfriends, even a first
girlfriend (“No question he en-
joyed himself ” sexually, she said,
“or I would have noticed”).
Since Haring’s life was so
short, months, rather than years,
are the book’s governing unit of
time, and the consequent level of
detail — including long lists of
party attendees — occasionally
becomes repetitive. At times, the
narrative left me in a funk of
comparative exhaustion: As Har-
ing flew around the world, con-
stantly high, creating giant mu-
rals, painting public bathrooms,
befriending celebrities, cruising
for sex and partying, I struggled
to rise from the couch to put the
kettle on.
I love Haring’s work, which has
clear affinities with the art of A.r.
Penck, Jean Dubuffet, fernand
Léger and Pierre Alechinsky,
among others. When he danced,
according to a friend from his
student days in Pittsburgh, he
“had a bottom beat,” or natural
rhythm, and that sense of rhythm
is palpable in his drawing. The
explosion of graffiti on New
York’s subway, in which he partic-
ipated from 1980 on, contributed
to his vision of a more public-fac-
ing art. The dynamism of his
figures and the clean flow of his
lines feel like expressions of the
same energies that fed into hip-
hop, turn-tabling and break
dancing.
Inspired by cartoons, Haring
developed a syntax of faceless
figures with spaghetti limbs,
erect penises and pregnant bel-
lies, as well as televisions, space-
ships, snakes, dogs and crowns.
His ubiquitous accent lines popu-
lated negative space and ex-
At Gridiron dinner, Biden needles Trump on age, mental fitness and finances
GRIDIRON from C1
lions of dollars, poses a serious
threat to Biden as the two men
head toward a rematch in the fall
election.
“Just yesterday, a defeated-
looking man came up to me and
said, ‘I’m being crushed by debt.
I’m completely wiped out,’” Biden
said. “I said, ‘Sorry, Donald, I can’t
help you.’”
okay, one more: “There’ve been
some bright spots in the media,”
Biden said. “I heard the Wordle
website is actually doing news
now.”
(A couple of muted chuckles. So
Biden added: “Ya get that? The
New York Ti — anyway…”)
The $400-a-plate dinner also
featured speeches by Utah Gov.
Spencer Cox (r) and michigan
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D). At
the head table: There’s the most
powerful man in the world chat-
ting up the richest man in the
world, Jeff Bezos (who owns The
Washington Post). There’s Vice
President Harris, sitting near a
man who looks exactly like her
husband but is actually the prime
minister of Ireland, Leo Varadkar.
There’s Attorney General merrick
Garland, and Estonian Prime
minister Kaja Kallas, and Ukrai-
nian ambassador to the United
States oksana markarova next to
the homeland security secretary,
Alejandro mayorkas, recently im-
peached by House republicans.
Ambitious politicians from
both parties have, in previous
years, used the opportunity to in-
troduce themselves to a tipsy
Washington press corps in the
hopes of gaining national notice.
And at the past two dinners, re-
Keith Haring in front of an untitled painting at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in 1978, about 12 years before his death at 31 in 1990.
pressed animation. His images,
executed in the spontaneous spir-
it of “automatic writing,” accrue
meanings even as they confound
attempts to parse them defini-
tively. “At the beginning I didn’t
know what they meant,” he said,
“but after they existed, just by
their existence and repeating
them and elaborating on them,
the meanings developed.”
The way Haring’s art unfurled
almost in modular fashion made
it flexible enough to scale up or
down, and thus suitable not only
for murals but for three-dimen-
sional surfaces, from vases to
BmWs. He was of course best-
known for his “radiant Baby”
drawings — cartoon infants sur-
rounded by rays of energy, de-
scribed by one critic as “the first
believable twentieth-century
halo.” “The ‘baby’ has become my
logo or signature,” Haring said,
because “it is the purest and most
positive experience of human ex-
istence.”
Even after his breakthroughs
and ensuing fame, Haring was
conspicuously not “cool.” rather,
he was sincere, exuberant, relent-
lessly positive. He longed simply
to communicate, and his “hu-
manism,” Gooch writes, “was
unironic.” Even at its most point-
edly political, his art manifested
the special energy of American
naiveté — the belief in human
betterment, social improvement
and technological progress.
“Innocence,” Gooch writes,
“was the west wind that blew
through much of Haring’s work.”
one of his early nicknames was
“Swee’Pea,” borrowed from the
baby character in Popeye. The
publican speakers have made
headlines for taking shots at the
leader of their own party.
In 2022, New Hampshire Gov.
Chris Sununu (r) called Trump
“f---ing crazy,” prompting chatter
about a potential run for presi-
dent. Sununu ended up not run-
ning this cycle, but he’s here to-
night. “Some weird guys in tux-
edos in D.C. want me to run? I
better not do it,” he joked with
another guest.
In 2023, former vice president
mike Pence said history would
hold Trump accountable for the
Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol
by his supporters.
This year’s republican speaker,
Cox, was a perfect fit for the usual
fare of self-effacing Gridiron
jokes, playing the part of the naive
rube who suddenly finds himself
in tails and a white bow tie.
“I truly can’t believe I’m here
tonight — and neither can you,”
Cox told the audience. “It really is
such an honor to be at the famed
Gridiron dinner. See, they don’t
usually let farm kids like me into
rooms like this.”
He paused.
“Unless you count January
6th.”
The room roared.
He topped it off with: “And even
then, we had to really push and
shove our way in.”
Cox said he got a little help from
a couple of colleagues with his
speech. Like Sen. Katie Boyd Britt
(r-Ala.), who was last seen deliv-
ering a response to the State of the
Union.
“I also reached out to my friend
mitch mcConnell for some ideas,
and he said …”
Silence. Just silence.
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name, Gooch writes, “fit the boy-
ish, sweet, innocent, immature
qualities Keith projected.”
But innocence and a certain
callowness go hand in hand, and
part of a biographer’s duty is to
remind us that the self you proj-
ect doesn’t always match the self
others see. Thus we learn that
Haring could be “showoff-y, a bit
narcissistic,” and that he some-
times neglected old friends to
chase budding celebrity friend-
ships. When frustrated in a foun-
dering relationship, he could be
callous, and he was not especially
introspective. “Something I
might have wished for Keith was
more self-analysis and self-reflec-
tion,” said Julia Gruen, his former
studio manager.
So what’s new? Gifted people
are often selfish. What was spe-
cial about Haring, surely, was his
vitality. He drew on the energy of
his environment, and Gooch’s
descriptions of the booming East
Village art scene — Jean-michel
Basquiat and madonna arguing
in a corner at an opening, the fun
Gallery “smelling like bubble
gum and marijuana” — are indel-
ible.
Vitality can be amplified by
proximity to mortality, and what
makes this book heartbreaking —
I cried upon finishing it — is
having to watch on as Haring is
slowly overtaken by death. Al-
most the entire period of his
acclaim, and the joy it gave rise
to, was shadowed by the AIDS
crisis.
Haring came out early in 1978
and moved to New York later that
year. He likened arriving in the
West Village to “landing in a
Get it? Because the Senate mi-
nority leader tends to freeze up in
the middle of news conferences?
The crowd got it, responding
with a solid 20 seconds of laughter
and cheers and applause. People
pounded the tables later, when
Cox said he was taking note of the
jokes that didn’t work, “in case I
ever get asked to speak at CPAC,”
referring to the Conservative Po-
litical Action Conference. When
he was done, Biden was one of the
first on his feet for the standing o.
Then there was Whitmer, a ris-
ing Democratic star seen as a pos-
sible 2028 presidential contender.
one of the performers played her,
singing along to the tune of Taylor
Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Get-
ting Back Together,” for a skit in
which Whitmer fantasizes about a
smoke-filled room where Demo-
crats pick her to replace an “ex-
hausted” Biden at this summer’s
Democratic National Convention.
And I am never, ever, ever …
going back to Lansing!
real-life Whitmer laughed.
When it was her turn to speak,
she said “the Gridiron has come a
long way,” referencing the club
that once allowed only men. “But
on a night that we have the first
woman vice president, and ‘that
woman from michigan’” — refer-
ring to Trump’s moniker for her —
“we’re still starting with Cox and
Balz.” (The Gridiron’s president
this year is Dan Balz, chief corre-
spondent at The Post.)
Big laughs and cheers. She set
the bar high.
She needled some of those
Democratic would-be rivals, such
as the governors of California and
Illinois, Gavin Newsom and J.B.
Pritzker, respectively, for being
candy store or, better, a gay
Disneyland.” (A huge fan of Dis-
ney, he had spent 18 months as a
child living in California, 20 min-
utes from Disneyland.) “It was
almost too much,” Haring later
remembered of the Village. “You
couldn’t go to the post office
without cruising or being cruised
— without being totally aware of
sex.”
Haring thought sex was prob-
ably the single strongest impulse
he felt, and there’s no question
that it fed into his art-making.
His boyfriend Juan rivera,
toward the end of their relation-
ship, spoke of Haring’s need for
“boys … boys … boys … to keep
his creative juices flowing.”
Cognizant for many years that
he was probably infected with
HIV, Haring received confirma-
tion that he was HIV-positive in
1988. Although he said he be-
lieved the disease was an “inven-
tion,” “planted” in New York and
San francisco (implying it was
part of an anti-gay conspiracy),
he became a powerful advocate
for government intervention and
safe sex, and against bigotry and
fearmongering.
The disease led to the deaths of
an impossibly high number in his
circle, including his friend mar-
tin Burgoyne and his lover Juan
Dubose. Eventually it took him.
Through that same period, he
also lost his friends Andy Warhol
(post-surgery complications),
Basquiat (heroin overdose) and
Yves Arman (car crash). And yet
his ambition and productivity
never fell off. Among scores of
other projects, he made a power-
ful AIDS-awareness mural in Bar-
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out of touch with Americans. of
Pritzker, she said he was the “only
guy with more gold bars in his
house than Bob menendez,” refer-
ring to the Democratic New Jersey
senator indicted on bribery charg-
es. “I’m just not sure that a billion-
aire hotel heir is the right profile
after the last guy,” she said in her
michigan-nice accent.
Those Democrat-on-Democrat
ribs were too soft for the crowd,
but they seemed to like her over-
all, even if Cox had more guests on
their feet. on Sunday, Politico
Playbook wrote of her perform-
ance: “HoW NoT To Do IT.”
Whitmer finished her portion
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couRTESy oF ThE kEITh hARIng FoundATIon
celona and a beautiful, elegiac
mural — described in the New
Yorker as Haring’s “Guernica of
priapism” — in the bathroom of
New York’s Gay and Lesbian
Community Center.
In an era when fame became
self-generating, Gooch acknowl-
edges the difficulty some critics
had reconciling Haring’s worldly
success with his actual achieve-
ment. But he defends Haring
against accusations that he was a
sellout.
I think the reality is perhaps
more complicated.
Although New York, the epi-
center of the art market boom
that made Haring so wealthy, is
an unsentimental city, powered
by the brute force of money, its
art scene seems to require artists
who represent — almost in in-
verse proportion to that brute
force — a kind of innocence or
naiveté: first Warhol, then Har-
ing and Basquiat, more recently
Jeff Koons and Yayoi Kusama.
Art world insiders simulta-
neously revere and infantilize
these emblematic artists. refer-
ring to them by their first names,
they attribute special, almost
holy, gifts to them. The more
money these artists rake in — and
the more mercenary their ma-
neuvers appear to impartial out-
siders — the more the art world
insists on their guilelessness. But
if you listen to what these artists
say, it’s clear that they are highly
intelligent people with tremen-
dous managerial skills, robust
delegating instincts and a
healthy command of irony.
Today, almost half a century
after the ’80s boom, when the
on this unsubtle note: “See you in
2029.”
Then she winked.
After Biden’s remarks, the
crowd joined hands and swayed
as they sang “Auld Lang Syne,”
arguably the night’s oddest ritual.
But it’s a song that rings in a new
year, so perhaps it’s fitting as
Washington girds itself for the
potential of a second Trump term.
Would Trump change anything
for people in this room? Let’s ask
Sununu, who recently endorsed
Trump after years of criticizing
him.
“oh, it’s just great material for
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The Life and
Line of Keith
Haring
By Brad gooch
harper. 495 pp.
$40
threads connecting monetary
value to aesthetic worth have
long since snapped, critics rou-
tinely express dismay at the art
market’s distorting effect on cre-
ativity. And yet they continue to
sanctify, or at the very least
coddle, the likes of Warhol, Har-
ing and Koons.
Warhol, who coined the term
“Business Art,” is of course the
key figure. (In the wake of War-
hol’s death, Haring said: “Andy’s
life and work made my work
possible.”) Theorists of contem-
porary art presented Business
Art as a cunning new move in the
enervated endgame that was
postwar avant-gardism — a new
way to lay bare the relationship
between art and society.
In the real world, meanwhile,
its breathtaking cynicism was
self-evident. Business Art, after
all, is not Dada. It is not abstract
expressionism or minimalism. It
is a way of conceiving of art as a
commodity and building that
conception not just into its recep-
tion (through marketing and
publicity) but its creation.
Warhol was a brilliant, enliv-
ening and at times astonishingly
insightful artist, but I disagree
with his biographer Blake Go-
pnik, who has described Business
Art as his “greatest project.” Busi-
ness Art was a depressing traves-
ty — a briefly witty but nakedly
self-serving idea that contributed
to Warhol’s ineluctable slide into
mediocrity and cynicism.
Certainly, if you claim to be
disgusted by today’s art market,
you cannot be blind to this cyni-
cism and insist instead on the
guilelessness of the artists who,
emulating Warhol, pursued Busi-
ness Art. Before his own death,
Haring established merchandise
stores in New York and Tokyo,
paving the way for Takashi mu-
rakami, Damien Hirst, Kusama,
Kaws, Koons, Shepard fairey and
Kehinde Wiley, not to mention
the whole lamentable NfT phe-
nomenon.
According to Gooch, “none of
Haring’s innovations has more
influenced the contemporary art
world” than the way he blurred
the lines between art and com-
merce. He goes on to say that
Haring was instrumental in turn-
ing merchandise into what the
dealer Jeffrey Deitch “has since
labeled as ‘a new art medium: the
art product.’”
only a dealer could say such a
thing with enthusiasm. Let’s be
real: merch is merch; it’s not a
new medium. And if Gooch’s
claim about conflating art and
commerce is true, Haring, for all
his vitality and exuberance, was
in fact — among many more
admirable things — a sellout.
ratings will be skyrocketing as
they did when he was president,”
he said.
Biden, Whitmer and Cox all had
serious segments in their speech-
es, where they warned of anger
and fear in the air, of democracy
being under attack, of how impor-
tant the press is to a free society.
“Everyone thinks democracy is
ending and all, and the erosion of
democracy and so-and-so’s a
threat to America and all that.
Stop. Stop. America is in a good
place,” Sununu said.
Laugh or cry — for one night,
the Gridiron crowd went on
laughing.
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Survivor: Bracket Island

John Feinstein breaks down the men’s field, plus Neil Greenberg’s upset
picks, the women’s favorites and a look at the path for area teams. D3-D7

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Ivan Miroshnichenko was first called up as an insurance Right-hander Josiah Gray, an all-star last season, gets The Wizards, ravaged by injury and playing on the end
policy. Now the Caps can’t take him out of the lineup. D7 the call to start Opening Day for the Nationals. D8 of a back-to-back, fall at home to the Celtics. D8
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alcaraz and swiatek
prevail in indian Wells
Carlos Alcaraz defeated
Daniil Medvedev for the second
straight year in the BNP Paribas
Open final in Indian Wells, Calif.,
prevailing, 7-6 (7-5), 6-1, on
Sunday to earn his first title since
winning Wimbledon last year.
Iga Swiatek beat Maria
Sakkari, 6-4, 6-0, in just over an
hour to win the women’s title,
with Swiatek losing just 21 games
in six matches during the 12-day
tournament.
Medvedev lost, 6-3, 6-2, last
year in the Southern California
desert. Alcaraz is the first man to
defend his Indian Wells title since
Novak Djokovic won three in a
row from 2014 to 2016.
“It’s definitely your court — you
like it here,” Medvedev told
Alcaraz during the victory
ceremony. “Hopefully you can one
day let me play a little bit better
here.”
Swiatek improved to 20-2 this
year, with her wins leading the
WTA Tour.
It was a repeat of the 2022
final, in which Swiatek beat
Sakkari, 6-4, 6-1. Sakkari hasn’t
beaten the Polish star since 2021.
“Hard to compare because I
remember that last time I was
coming as world number two,”
Swiatek said in a Tennis Channel
interview. “A lot has happened
since then.”
Pro BASKetBALL
in a wild finish, irving
lifts dallas over denver
A floater, a runner, a hook shot,
call it whatever.
Maybe Kyrie Irving would
settle for a crucial game-winner.
The Dallas Mavericks star hit a
running left-handed shot at the
buzzer, capping a wild finish to a
107-105 home win over the Denver
Nuggets.
Luka Doncic scored 37 points
and Irving finished with 24 as
Dallas beat the defending
champions for its fifth win in six
games after a 1-5 stretch.
“In Kyrie we trust,” said rookie
center Dereck Lively II, who had
14 points. “Whenever we see him
get the ball, sit back and watch it
happen.”
Denver rallied from 13 points
down midway through the fourth
quarter and went ahead 105-102
on Jamal Murray’s three-pointer
with 26 seconds remaining.
Doncic answered almost
immediately on the inbounds
pass after a timeout, hitting from
several feet behind the arc to tie
the score again.
After Murray missed an elbow
jumper, the Mavericks called a
timeout with 2.8 seconds to go.
The right-handed Irving took the
inbounds pass, dribbled with his
left hand as Nuggets star Nikola
Jokic pursued and had to throw
up the shot from 21 feet to beat
the horn. . . .
Damian Lillard had 31 points
and 16 assists and Bobby Portis
added 31 points and 10 rebounds
to lead the host Milwaukee Bucks
past the Phoenix Suns, 140-129,
without star Giannis
Antetokounmpo.
Antetokounmpo, averaging
30.8 points and 11.2 rebounds,
was out with left hamstring
soreness. He missed just his
fourth game of the season and
first since March 4, when he was
out with Achilles’ tendinitis.
“It’s not an injury — we were
just concerned a little bit,”
Milwaukee Coach Doc Rivers
said.
Khris Middleton chipped in
22 points for the Bucks in his first
game back after missing 16 games
with a sprained left ankle.
Milwaukee hit 24 three-pointers,
including 18 before halftime,
which matched the NBA record
for the opening half held by the
Suns and Utah Jazz.
Bradley Beal had 28 points,
Grayson Allen scored 25 points
and Devin Booker added 23 for
Phoenix. . . .
Bam Adebayo knocked down a
three-pointer at the buzzer to lift
the Miami Heat to a 104-101 win
at the Detroit Pistons.
Cade Cunningham missed a
three for Detroit with nine
seconds left, and Terry Rozier
sprinted up the court with the
rebound. He couldn’t get to the
basket, so he passed to Adebayo,
who made the 12th three-pointer
of his seven-year career.
A week ago, Adebayo was a
career 11.8 percent shooter from
beyond the arc. He is 3 for 3 in
Miami’s past three games.
SoCCer
u.s. adds Wright for
nations league finals
One day after scoring the
winning goal in an FA Cup upset,
forward Haji Wright was added
to the U.S. men’s national soccer
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SPot LiGH t: So C Cer The previous pitcher other
than Nola to get the nod on
Opening Day for Philadelphia
was Jeremy Hellickson in
2017. . . .
The St. Louis Cardinals are
turning to Miles Mikolas as their
Opening Day starter with Sonny
Gray recovering from a strained
hamstring.
St. Louis opens its season
March 28 against the Los Angeles
Dodgers.
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Browns reach deal with
ex-ravens QB huntley
The Cleveland Browns are
taking the tough lessons they
learned last season about
quarterbacks to heart.
Cleveland agreed to terms on a
one-year contract with former
Baltimore Ravens quarterback
Tyler Huntley, adding another
veteran to give them more depth
and protection behind Deshaun
Watson.
Huntley is signing at the
veteran’s minimum salary with
the Browns, who spent last
season juggling quarterbacks
when Watson hurt his shoulder
and eventually had surgery.
Last week, Cleveland signed
2015 No. 1 pick Jameis Winston.
He will join Huntley and Dorian
Thompson-Robinson in backing
up Watson, who has made only
12 starts since signing a
$230 million contract in 2022.
Huntley, 26, was Lamar
Jackson’s primary backup the
past three seasons. He went 3-7 in
10 starts for Baltimore. Huntley
has passed for 1,957 yards with
eight touchdowns and seven
interceptions in 20 regular season
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Denny Hamlin won the
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There’s still some fight left in Man- liverpool 3 Old Trafford, however, when Antony Joe Gibbs Racing teammate
chester United. equalized in the 87th to make the score Martin Truex Jr. in the final laps
With the season hanging in the bal- 2-2. That set up a white-knuckle ride for his fourth victory at the famed
ance, Erik ten Hag’s team produced one of Win eases ten Hag’s pressure; through to the first minute of stoppage short track.
the most important wins of his tenure, Chelsea will face Man. City time in extra time, with big chances Hamlin also won at NASCAR’s
beating Liverpool, 4-3, after extra time in missed and momentum swinging one bullring in September, but this
a thrilling FA Cup quarterfinal match way and then another until United’s win- one was much different. Tire
Sunday. tion about his position in the face of a ner. issues hampered most everyone
With nearly the last kick of the match, troubled campaign and restructuring at Ten Hag hopes it can be a turning point all afternoon as only five cars
substitute Amad Diallo sent Old Trafford the club. The FA Cup represents the for his team. finished on the lead lap — the first
into raptures, ended the visitors’ bid for a Dutchman’s last chance of silverware this “Every team needs its moment into a time that has happened in the
quadruple of trophies and vaulted United season, while Champions League qualifi- season, and we never had that moment,” Cup Series in 20 years. The Gibbs
into the semifinals. cation is in doubt with United sixth in the the United manager said. cars were the class of the field.
“Listen to the noise — you can tell what English Premier League. Twelve-time FA Cup winner United “My favorite racetrack!”
a big game it is,” said Marcus Rashford, Defeat against the club’s fiercest rival was later drawn against second-tier Cov- Hamlin exclaimed over his radio
who missed a golden chance to win it at would probably have seen pressure on entry in the semifinals. Defending cham- while taking the checkered flag.
the end of regulation but leveled for 3-3 in ten Hag grow. TV cameras focused on pion Manchester City will play Chelsea, “We got another.”
extra time. “I had to score that chance at new director Dave Brailsford, who which beat Leicester, 4-2, earlier Sunday He was booed — no surprise
the end . . . but we got the job done.” looked stone-faced as the clock ticked at Stamford Bridge. considering Hamlin has become
Ten Hag has faced mounting specula- down with Liverpool leading 2-1 and the — Associated Press arguably the series’ biggest villain
— as he stood atop his No. 11
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overall and Gs titles
Lara Gut-Behrami completed
half of her mission to win four
team for this week’s Concacaf runaway Serie A leader Inter Félix, who is playing on loan member of the squad that booked crystal globes this Alpine skiing
Nations League finals in greater Milan, which was held to a 1-1 from Atletico after falling out its place at the Olympics with a World Cup season.
Dallas. home draw by defending with the club, was loudly jeered third-place finish in the Nations And the Swiss star hasn’t even
Wright and forward Brenden champion Napoli. . . . by the fans at the Metropolitano League last month. had to show her best skiing yet.
Aaronson were named as injury Fiorentina General Manager Stadium when he was replaced in Gut-Behrami secured the
replacements for midfielder Luca Joe Barone was in “critical but the 77th minute. BASeBALL overall and giant slalom titles
de la Torre (right quadriceps stable” condition after he was Elsewhere, Almeria held off after a 10th-place finish in the GS
strain) and forward Josh Sargent rushed to a hospital following a host Las Palmas, 1-0, to pick up its cohen not optimistic at the World Cup finals in
(right ankle irritation). suspected heart attack, leading to first win of the season after going on talks with alonso Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria.
The U.S. team will open the postponement of his team’s 28 consecutive games without a Her only remaining challenger
training camp Monday ahead of Serie A match at Atalanta. . . . victory, the most ever by any team New York Mets owner Steve in both classifications, Federica
Thursday’s semifinal against Patrik Schick scored his first in La Liga play. . . . Cohen doesn’t expect to sign a Brignone, won the race, but that
Jamaica at AT&T Stadium in Bundesliga goal in three months Kylian Mbappé recorded a hat long-term contract with star first was not enough for the Italian to
Arlington, Tex. Mexico and as Bayer Leverkusen won, 3-2, at trick as Paris Saint-Germain baseman Pete Alonso before the overtake Gut-Behrami.
Panama will clash in the other Freiburg to stay 10 points clear of routed Montpellier, 6-2, to move end of the season. Gut-Behrami became the first
semifinal. The third-place and Bayern Munich in the German 12 points clear of Brest at the top Alonso has a one-year, female skier from Switzerland
championship matches are league title race. of the French league. $20.5 million contract and can since Sonja Nef in 2002 to win
Sunday. With Coach Xabi Alonso Mbappé struck in the 22nd become a free agent after the the giant slalom title, though she
Wright and Aaronson are rotating his squad after a busy minute before adding two more World Series. won the world title in the
among 21 European-based run of games, unbeaten goals in the second half, the last of “We haven’t had any discipline in 2021.
players on a 23-man squad Leverkusen survived a late which was his 250th goal for PSG discussion, and I think at this The 32-year-old is a strong
seeking to win a third consecutive Freiburg comeback to take in all competitions since his point, for Pete, it’s best for him to favorite to add the season titles in
Nations League title. another step toward the title. arrival in August 2017. He is the go and have a great year and not super-G and downhill next
— Steven Goff It was Leverkusen’s 22nd leading scorer in the league this be distracted,” Cohen said. . . . weekend. That would make her
Christian Pulisic is enjoying Bundesliga win of the season, season with 24 goals. The New York Yankees may the fourth female skier to win
the most productive season of his breaking the club record. Alonso’s A late goal by Martin Satriano have finally caught a break on the four classifications in one season,
career. team now has 70 points, just one salvaged a 1-1 home draw for Brest injury front. after Lindsey Vonn, Tina Maze
The U.S. standout scored for fewer than Bayern’s title-winning against Lille, but Eric Roy’s side X-rays on the right foot of and, most recently, Mikaela
the fourth straight game for AC tally from last season. . . . will rue the dropped points. . . . leadoff hitter DJ LeMahieu came Shiffrin. . . .
Milan to help it earn a 3-1 win at Wolfsburg hired former Asisat Oshoala scored the first back clean. Although sore, Timon Haugan held on to his
relegation-threatened Hellas Southampton manager Ralph goal in Bay FC history as the LeMahieu remains day-to-day first-run lead to win the men’s
Verona as the Rossoneri Hasenhüttl to replace Niko NWSL expansion team opened after fouling a ball off his foot this slalom at the World Cup finals in
consolidated the second spot in Kovac after a three-month the season with a 1-0 win over weekend. Saalbach-Hinterglemm, giving
the Italian league. winless run left the team 14th in Angel City in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, slugger Aaron the Norwegian ski team its first
Pulisic now has 12 goals in the 18-team Bundesliga. . . . Bay FC was named the NWSL’s Judge hit off a tee, did soft toss victory of the season.
39 appearances across all João Félix struck against his 14th team last year, joining and took batting practice against Haugan beat Manuel Feller,
competitions in his first season former club again as visiting alongside the Utah Royals. . . . a pitching machine in an indoor the winner of the discipline
with Milan. His previous best Barcelona beat Atletico Madrid, Germany midfielder Svenja cage as he continues to recover season title, by 0.40 seconds after
tally was 11 in the 2019-20 3-0, in the Spanish league. Huth announced her retirement from an abdomen injury. . . . the Austrian improved from
campaign at Chelsea. Robert Lewandowski and from international soccer ahead Philadelphia Phillies ace Zack fourth after the first run.
Milan moved three points clear Fermín López also scored for of the Paris Olympics. Wheeler will take the mound on Germany’s Linus Strasser, who
of Juventus, which could only Barcelona, which moved to With 88 games played for Opening Day, ending Aaron was second, dropped to third,
draw, 0-0, at home to Genoa. The second place with its fifth straight Germany since 2011, Huth was Nola’s string of six straight 0.44 behind.
Rossoneri are 14 points behind league victory over Atletico. the third most-experienced opener starts. — From news services
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A strong Connecticut squad that includes, from left, Donovan Clingan, Jaylin Stewart and Hassan Diarra will look to defend its NCAA championship after going 31-3 and landing the East Region’s No. 1 seed.

U-Conn. stands alone, and pressure is on Purdue

It really doesn’t
matter who ends
up as the NCAA
tournament’s
overall No. 1 seed,
but for anyone
John who watched
Feinstein games this season
(something
selection committee members
apparently are often too busy to
do), there was no question
which team has been the best:
defending champion
Connecticut.
Danny Hurley did a
remarkable job of rebuilding
after losing most of his top
players from last year’s title
team. Does that mean the
Huskies will cut down the nets
again April 8? That’s a definite
maybe.
East Region
Two other teams from last
year’s Final Four — San Diego
State and Florida Atlantic — join
U-Conn. in this bracket. Neither
would appear to be as strong as
it was a season ago — though
San Diego State is a No. 5 seed,
just as it was last March. In fact,
U-Conn.’s toughest competition
might come from Auburn, the
No. 4 seed, though the Tigers
will have to get past Yale (never
an easy out under James Jones)
and possibly San Diego State
just to reach a potential
matchup with the Huskies.
If anyone has reason to
complain in this bracket, it is
Iowa State, which many people
thought might jump to a No. 1
seed after North Carolina lost
Saturday in the ACC final to
North Carolina State.
Instead, the Cyclones — who
hammered Houston, 69-41, in
the Big 12 tournament
championship game Saturday —
got stuck in the same bracket as
Connecticut. The committee will
claim their weak nonconference
schedule hurt them. How about
their record the past two
months? Just to get to a
potential region final against
U-Conn., Iowa State probably
would have to win a tough Sweet
16 matchup against Illinois.
The best story in this region is
Duquesne, which last made the
tournament in 1977 — when
Norm Nixon was the Dukes’
point guard, Dean Smith had yet
to win a national title and Mike
Krzyzewski was in his second
season at Army.
The Dukes won four games as
the sixth seed in the Atlantic 10
tournament to end their drought.
Coach Keith Dambrot, whose dad
played on powerhouse Duquesne
teams in the 1950s, might retire
Purdue center Zach Edey is hoping to make his first Final Four with
the Boilermakers after a slew of March Madness disappointments.
at season’s end at least in part to
spend more time with his wife,
Donna, who is battling breast
cancer.
I am completely unbiased, but
. . . go Dukes!
South Region
The team that has the most to
complain about in this region is
Wisconsin. Why? A No. 5 seed
seems about right for a team
that just missed winning the Big
Ten tournament Sunday, but the
Badgers’ first-round opponent is
James Madison. The Dukes are
31-3, including a victory at
Michigan State in November.
The committee insists November
wins carry weight, so how did
JMU end up as a No. 12 seed?
That’s not to say Wisconsin can’t
or won’t win the game, but it is
an unfair matchup for both
teams.
The winner probably will face
Duke, which dropped from a
possible No. 2 seed a couple of
weeks ago to a No. 4 after losing
its regular season finale at home
to North Carolina and then its
ACC tournament opener to N.C.
State, the eventual champion. If
the Blue Devils come out as flat
as they did against the Wolfpack,
they could lose to Vermont, a
perennial tournament team that
has one of the most underrated
coaches in the country in John
Becker.
Whoever emerges from that
pod almost certainly will face
top-seeded Houston. Like fellow
No. 1 seeds North Carolina and
Purdue, the Cougars lost in their
conference tournament, getting
blasted by Iowa State. Some will
pick them to lose to the winner
of Nebraska-Texas A&M — the
Aggies are capable, having
beaten Kentucky twice — but I
suspect Houston will bounce
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back and will be too much for
Duke, even if the Blue Devils
make it to the second weekend.
Speed kills.
If N.C. State has enough left
emotionally to get past Texas
Tech after winning five games in
the ACC tournament, including
victories over rivals Duke and
North Carolina, the Wolfpack
could be a difficult challenge for
Kentucky in the second round.
Kentucky is in the bottom of
the bracket — it’s amazing how
often Duke and Kentucky end up
in the same region — but the
Wildcats are a pretty good pick
to make the Final Four as a No. 3
seed if they play to their
potential. Kentucky is like Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow’s “There
Was a Little Girl”: When they’re
good, they’re very good, and
when they’re bad, they’re horrid.
They open against Oakland, a
lovely story under Coach Greg
Kampe, in his 40th season at the
school.
The biggest question in this
region is the health of
Marquette’s Tyler Kolek. With
him, the Golden Eagles can beat
anyone. Without him, they are
just a step above ordinary. Since
arriving at Marquette, Shaka
Smart has proved his middling
record at Texas was the result of
a bad fit. He is back to being the
hot young coach he was when he
took VCU to the Final Four
13 years and about four
hairstyles ago.
Midwest Region
The 7-foot-4 question in this
region is whether this will be the
year that two-time player of the
year Zach Edey and Purdue
finally make it to the Final Four.
The Boilermakers were a tick
of the clock away from beating
eventual national champion
Virginia in the 2019 South
Region final. In the three
tournaments since, Purdue lost
in the first round as a No. 4 seed
to No. 13 seed North Texas; lost
in the Sweet 16 as a No. 3 seed to
No. 15 seed St. Peter’s; and last
season lost in the first round to
16th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson,
making Purdue only the second
No. 1 seed in 39 years to lose its
tournament opener.
Matt Painter is in a club of
accomplished coaches who
never reached a Final Four that
includes Lefty Driesell, John
Chaney and Painter’s mentor,
Gene Keady. Painter would like
to join them in the Hall of Fame
someday but would prefer to
make a Final Four first.
This is Edey’s last shot. As
good as he and Purdue have
been the past three seasons, they
have shown a tendency to flame
out late in important games,
especially in March. Their
bracket doesn’t appear to be all
that daunting.
Tennessee is the No. 2 seed
and faces 2022 darling St. Peter’s
in the first round, and
Creighton, a Jekyll and Hyde
team, is the No. 3. Lurking at No.
4 is Kansas, which can be a very
tough out if Hunter Dickinson is
healthy, though this has been
Coach Bill Self ’s most difficult
season since he arrived in
Lawrence in 2003. There’s also
Virginia, Purdue’s 2019 nemesis,
opening in Dayton as one of the
last four teams in the field.
Purdue should not be in
danger in a first-round game
against Montana State or
Grambling and should reach the
Sweet 16. (Then again, it should
not have been in danger last year
against Fairleigh Dickinson.)
After Utah State or TCU in the
second round, the Boilermakers
could be looking at Gonzaga or
Kansas, assuming the Jayhawks
hold off McNeese, which at
No. 12 might be the most
underseeded team in the
tournament. Say what you want
about the Cowboys’ Will Wade —
and people say plenty — but the
guy can coach. He put together a
brand-spanking new team after
being hired in April and won
30 games. McNeese is fast, good
and dangerous.
Tennessee is another of those
hot-and-cold teams. Rick
Barnes’s teams always play good
defense, and in Dalton Knecht,
the Volunteers have a true
offensive threat. That said, they
had better beware of the
Peacock.
West Region
As usual, the committee didn’t
do the HBCU conferences any
favors, sending the Mid-Eastern
Athletic Conference and
Southwestern Athletic
Conference champions to
Dayton for play-in games:
Grambling to play Montana
State and Howard to play
Wagner.
Both can win . . . to earn the
right to face No. 1 seeds two days
later.
Oh joy.
That said, the Bison’s
presence in the tournament for a
second straight year is a tribute
to Coach Kenny Blakeney and
his players, who upset top-
seeded Norfolk State in the
MEAC tournament semifinals
and then held on against
Delaware State in the final.
Howard had one winning season
in 29 years before Blakeney
arrived. It has now had three
straight.
Despite losing in the ACC
tournament championship
game, UNC held on to a No. 1
seed and now tries for a second
Final Four in three seasons
under Coach Hubert Davis —
with no bid at all in between.
The committee did the Tar
Heels no favors with a second-
round matchup against either
Mississippi State or Michigan
State. This is not one of Tom
Izzo’s better Spartans teams, but
any team coached by Izzo is
dangerous in March.
So is St. Mary’s, which
deserved better than a No. 5 seed
after winning the WCC regular
season and tournament titles.
The Gaels’ point guard is
Augustas Marciulionis, son of
Sarunas, who led the Soviet
Union to its 1988 Olympic upset
of the last U.S. team that didn’t
include professionals.
The No. 2 seed is Arizona,
which looked like a No. 1 seed
most of the season before a late
fade. The Wildcats open against
Long Beach State, which
announced it was parting with
Coach Dan Monson and then
won the Big West tournament.
Do not count out Alabama,
which should face St. Mary’s in a
second-round game worth
watching.
The most underseeded team
in this bracket, and perhaps the
entire field? No. 14 Colgate. The
Raiders dominated the Patriot
League for a fourth straight
season, and the only mystery
bigger than why they can’t
land a decent seed is why a
bigger program hasn’t tried to
hire Coach Matt Langel.
Maybe no one can find
Hamilton, N.Y. Which is a
blessing for Colgate.
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ROUND OF 64 ROUND OF 32 SWEET 16 ELITE 8 FINaL FOUR FINaL FOUR ELITE 8 SWEET 16 ROUND OF 32 ROUND OF 64
1 Connecticut Houston 1
Friday, 2:45, CBS Friday, 9:20, TNT
16 Stetson New York Longwood 16
Memphis
Sunday Sunday
8 Florida Atlantic Nebraska 8
Friday, 12:15, CBS Friday, 6:50, TNT
9 Northwestern Texas A&M 9

5 San Diego State Wisconsin 5

Friday, 1:45, TNT Friday, 9:40, CBS
12 UAB Spokane, Wash. New York James Madison 12
Sunday Sunday
4 Auburn  See our bracket online Duke 4
Friday, 4:15, TNT postsports.com Friday, 7:10, CBS
13 Yale EaST SOUTH Vermont 13
Boston Dallas
6 BYU Thursday, March 28, Friday, March 29, Texas Tech 6
Thursday, 12:40, TruTV and Saturday, March 30 and Sunday, March 31 Thursday, 9:40, CBS
11 Duquesne N.C. State 11
Omaha Pittsburgh
Saturday Saturday
3 Illinois Kentucky 3
Thursday, 3:10, TruTV Thursday, 7:10, CBS
14 Morehead State Oakland 14

7 Washington State Florida 7

Thursday, 10:05, TruTV Friday, 4:30, TBS
10 Drake Colorado/Boise St. 10
Omaha Indianapolis
Saturday Sunday
2 Iowa State Marquette 2
Thursday, 7:35, TruTV Friday, 2, TBS
15 South Dakota State Western Kentucky 15
Saturday, April 6 National Saturday, April 6
1 North Carolina
Thursday, 2:45, CBS
championship Purdue 1
Friday, 7:25, TBS
Monday, April 8, in Glendale, Ariz.
16 Howard/Wagner Charlotte Indianapolis GSU/Montana St. 16
Saturday Sunday
8 Mississippi State Utah State 8
Thursday, 12:15, CBS Friday, 9:55, TBS
9 Michigan State TCU 9

5 St. Mary’s Gonzaga 5

Friday, 10:05, TruTV Thursday, 7:25, TBS
12 Grand Canyon McNeese 12
Spokane, Wash. Salt Lake City
Sunday Saturday
4 Alabama Kansas 4
Friday, 7:35, TruTV Thursday, 9:55, TBS
13 Charleston WEST MIDWEST Samford 13
Los Angeles Detroit
6 Clemson Thursday, March 28, Friday, March 29, South Carolina 6
Friday, 3:10, TruTV and Saturday, March 30 and Sunday, March 31 Thursday, 4, TNT
First Four
11 New Mexico Memphis in Dayton, Ohio Pittsburgh Oregon 11
Sunday Saturday
3 Baylor Tuesday Creighton 3
Friday, 12:40, TruTV Howard vs. Wagner, 6:40, TruTV Thursday, 1:30, TNT
Virginia vs. Colorado State, 9:10, TruTV
14 Colgate Akron 14
Wednesday
7 Dayton Grambling State Texas 7
Thursday, 4:30, TBS vs. Montana State, 6:40, TruTV Thursday, 6:50, TNT
Colorado vs. Boise State, 9:10, TruTV
10 Nevada Colorado St./Virginia 10
Salt Lake City Charlotte
Saturday Saturday
2 Arizona Tennessee 2
Thursday, 2, TBS All times are Eastern. Game times are approximate. Thursday, 9:20, TNT
15 Long Beach State St. Peter’s 15

aNaLYSIS

Connecticut, Creighton are among the seven best bets to cut down the nets
BY M ATT B ONESTEEL
Unheralded teams that ad-
vance in the NCAA tournament
are a big reason everyone loves
March Madness, but when it
comes to crowning a winner,
Cinderellas are usually nowhere
to be found. The men’s national
champion typically comes from a
select group of elite teams, and
we can use past data to identify
the eventual winner.
Celebrated stats guru Ken
Pomeroy ranks teams by adjusted
efficiency margin, which he lists
in the “AdjEM” column on his
website. Each team’s AdjEM “rep-
resents the number of points the
team would be expected to out-
score the average D-I team [by]
over 100 possessions,” Pomeroy
wrote in 2016. Calculating it in-
volves merely subtracting a
team’s defensive efficiency num-
ber, adjusted for strength of
schedule, from its adjusted offen-
sive efficiency number.
We can break down the past
national champions into tiers:
The low bar: 19.1. This is the
lowest adjusted efficiency margin
for any NCAA men’s tournament
champion since 2002, when
Pomeroy’s data begins. The honor
is held by the 2014 Connecticut
Huskies, a No. 7 seed that was
pretty meh statistically — enter-
ing that year’s tournament, the
Huskies ranked 57th nationally
in adjusted offensive efficiency —
but still had enough firepower to
win it all. If your title pick clears
19.1, it’s not completely insane,
but most rational picks look a
little more like . . .
The “average” champs: 27.9.
If a team enters the tournament
with an AdjEM number above
this, it’s a sound choice to be your
champ. The North Carolina team
that won the 2017 national title
came closest to this average, with
a 28 AdjEM number entering the
NCAA tournament.
The best of the best: 35.7.
Virginia raised the bar with its
2019 title run, becoming the
most efficient team in the Pome-
roy era to cut down the nets.
Considering the team the Cava-
liers overtook for the honor was
the 2008 Kansas Jayhawks, who
prevailed in a Final Four of all
No. 1 seeds, that’s a notable
achievement.
For the first time since 2021,
more than one team surpasses
Tristen Newton and Connecticut earned the East Region’s No. 1 seed in the men’s NCAA tournament.
the winners’ AdjEM average of
27.9. This year, there are four such
teams: Connecticut, Houston,
Purdue and Auburn.
The best bets. There are
22 teams that clear our low-bar
AdjEM number of 19.1.
To narrow that list, we can
point to the fact that all but two
national champions since 2002 —
U-Conn. in 2011 and 2014 — have
ranked in the top 20 of Pomeroy’s
offensive efficiency metric enter-
ing the tournament. That means
we are crossing the following
teams off our list: Iowa State,
Tennessee, North Carolina, Mar-
quette, Michigan State,
St. Mary’s, San Diego State and
Kansas.
Let’s further narrow it down to
teams that rank in the top 20 in
offensive efficiency and in the top
40 in defensive efficiency, a fea-
ture of all but three of the past
21 national champions. That
leaves us with Connecticut, Hous-
ton, Purdue, Auburn, Arizona,
Duke and Creighton.
(Odds taken Sunday night
from DraftKings Sportsbook.)
1. Connecticut (+425)
No. 1 in East Region
The defending champion Hus-
kies are the favorites to cut down
the nets again for a whole lot of
reasons: They have lost once
since Christmas and are simply
mowing down opponents (eight
of their past 10 wins came by
double digits). U-Conn. has an
effective field goal percentage —
which takes into account that
three-pointers are worth more
than two-pointers — that ranks
sixth nationally on offense and
fourth on defense, and opponents
have made 43.7 percent of their
two-point shots against U-Conn.
(Only six teams have done better
in that metric.)
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2. Houston (+500)
No. 1 in South Region
The Cougars will look to break
through after last season’s disap-
pointing Sweet 16 exit. With
point guard Jamal Shead running
the show, Houston is a beast
defensively, with opponents mak-
ing only 30 percent of their three-
pointers (13th in the nation) and
43.4 percent of their two-pointers
(fourth). But there are worrying
signs — and not simply because
the Cougars could scrape togeth-
er only 41 points in a Big 12
championship game loss to Iowa
State. Houston is one of the
tournament’s shortest teams
(none of its main contributors
stand taller than 6-foot-8) and is
facing some major depth issues
after three players suffered sea-
son-ending injuries. Forward
J’Wan Roberts, the team’s top
defender, also suffered a shin
injury in the Big 12 semifinals,
and his status bears monitoring.
3. Purdue (+600)
No. 1 in Midwest Region
Is this the year the Boilermak-
ers finally live up to expectations
in March? Purdue has been seed-
ed fifth or better in each of its
previous seven NCAA tourna-
ment appearances but has ad-
vanced past the Sweet 16 only
once and lost three times in the
first round, including last year’s
shocking loss to 16th-seeded Fair-
leigh Dickinson. The pieces cer-
tainly are there, with national
player of the year candidate Zach
Edey patrolling the paint and
three players (Braden Smith,
Fletcher Loyer and Mason Gillis)
ranking in the top 50 nationally
in three-point percentage. As a
team, the Boilermakers shoot
40.8 percent from three-point
range (only Kentucky is better),
which is a major improvement
from last year’s disappointing
team, which shot only 32.2 per-
cent from deep. (Purdue made
just 5 of 26 in the loss to Fairleigh
Dickinson.)
4. Auburn (+1800)
No. 4 in East Region
The Tigers collected them-
selves after a midseason swoon
and have won six straight enter-
ing the NCAA tournament — all
but one by at least 14 points —
while earning their first SEC
tournament title since 2019. Au-
burn is probably the deepest
team in the NCAA tournament,
with 10 players who average at
least 13 minutes per game, and it
leads the nation in opponents’
effective field goal percentage
(43.4). That depth comes in
handy because the physical Ti-
gers commit nearly 20 fouls per
game, one of the highest averages
in the tournament, and send their
opponents to the free throw line
at a high rate. Auburn might be
looking at a matchup with fellow
best bet U-Conn. in the Sweet 16,
however, which isn’t great for its
chances.
5. Arizona (+1600)
No. 2 in West Region
The Wildcats enter on a mini-
slump, having lost two of three.
Pac-12 player of the year Caleb
Love has seen his production
plummet over that span; he has
hit only 7 of 34 field goal attempts
(4 of 21 on three-pointers) with
11 turnovers. As a team, Arizona
attempts three-pointers at a well-
below-average rate, even though
its players are shooting 37.1 per-
cent from long range for the
season (23rd nationally). This
presents problems when oppo-
nents employ zone defenses as
Oregon did in the Pac-12 tourna-
ment semifinals. (The Wildcats
shot 5 for 19 from three-point
range in a 67-59 loss.)
6. Duke (+3000)
No. 4 in South Region
The Blue Devils come in having
lost two in a row, including a
five-point defeat to North Caro-
lina State in the ACC tournament
quarterfinals, which might be a
troublesome omen: Since the
NCAA tournament expanded to
64 teams in 1985, every national
champion advanced to at least
the semifinals of its conference
tournament, as did all but four
teams to play in the national
championship game (excluding
teams without conference tour-
naments). Of the 390 at-large
bids handed out to teams that did
not get past the quarterfinals of
their conference tournament
over that span, only 14 advanced
to the Final Four. Still, Duke
doesn’t commit a whole lot of
turnovers (No. 31 in offensive
turnover percentage), and its
37.7 three-point percentage ranks
15th nationally. Like Auburn, the
Blue Devils got a tough draw,
with No. 1 seed and fellow best
bet Houston looming in the
Sweet 16.
7. Creighton (+2500)
No. 3 in Midwest Region
The Bluejays won seven of
eight to close the regular season,
with a 19-point rout of U-Conn.
among the victories. But then
Creighton suffered a Big East
tournament quarterfinal loss to
Providence, which puts it in the
same boat as Duke in terms of
that concerning trend. The Blue-
jays live and die by the three-
pointer — only BYU takes a high-
er percentage of shots from long
range among NCAA tournament
teams. But if those shots aren’t
falling, Creighton tends to strug-
gle: It shot 27.6 percent or worse
from three-point range in six of
nine losses this season. And in its
two most recent losses, it com-
bined to shoot 12 for 52 from long
range.
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ROUND OF 64 ROUND OF 32 SWEET 16 ELITE 8 FINaL FOUR FINaL FOUR ELITE 8 SWEET 16 ROUND OF 32 ROUND OF 64
1 South carolina Iowa 1
Friday Saturday
16 Sacred Heart/Pres. Columbia, S.C. Iowa City Holy cross/UTM 16
Sunday March 25
8 North carolina West Virginia 8
Friday Saturday
9 Michigan State Princeton 9

5 Oklahoma colorado 5
Saturday Friday
12 Florida Gulf coast Bloomington, Drake 12
Manhattan, Kan.
Ind.
Sunday
4 Indiana March 25  See our bracket online Kansas State 4
Saturday postsports.com Friday
13 Fairfield Portland 13
aLBaNY (N.Y.) 1 aLBaNY (N.Y.) 2
Friday, March 29, Saturday, March 30,
6 Nebraska and Sunday, March 31 and Monday, April 1 Louisville 6
Friday Friday
11 Texas A&M Middle Tenn. 11
Corvallis, Ore. Baton Rouge
Sunday Sunday
3 Oregon State LSU 3
Friday Friday
14 Eastern Washington Rice 14

7 Mississippi creighton 7
Saturday Saturday
10 Marquette South Bend, Ind. Los angeles UNLV 10
March 25 March 25
2 Notre Dame UcLA 2
Saturday Saturday
15 Kent State cal. Baptist 15
Friday, April 5 National Friday, April 5
1 Texas
Friday
championship S. california 1
Saturday
Sunday, April 7, in Cleveland
16 Drexel austin Los angeles Texas A&M cc 16
Sunday March 25
8 Alabama Kansas 8
Friday Saturday
9 Florida State Michigan 9

5 Utah Baylor 5
Saturday Friday
12 South Dakota State Vand./columbia 12
Spokane, Wash. Blacksburg, Va.
March 25 Sunday
4 Gonzaga Virginia Tech 4
Saturday Friday
13 Uc Irvine Marshall 13
PORTLaND (Ore.) 4 PORTLaND (Ore.) 3
Friday, March 29, Saturday, March 30,
6 Tennessee and Sunday, March 31 and Monday, April 1 Syracuse 6
Saturday Saturday
First Four
11 Green Bay Raleigh, N.C. Storrs, Conn. Auburn/Arizona 11
March 25 Wednesday March 25
3 North carolina State Vanderbilt vs. columbia connecticut 3
Saturday In Blacksburg, Va. Saturday
Sacred Heart vs. Presbyterian
14 chattanooga in columbia, S.c. Jackson State 14

7 Iowa State Thursday Duke 7

Friday Auburn vs. Arizona Friday
in Storrs, conn.
10 Maryland Holy cross vs. UT Martin Richmond 10
Stanford, Calif. Columbus, Ohio
in Iowa city
Sunday Sunday
2 Stanford Ohio State 2
Friday Game times TBD. Friday
15 Norfolk State Maine 15

aNaLYSIS

In a starry field, expect one of these five teams to have its shining moment
BY M EGAN G AUER
The depth of talent in women’s
basketball makes this one of the
most anticipated NCAA tourna-
ments to date. Perhaps the only
constant among the top teams
this season was South Carolina,
which has been unwavering atop
the rankings since the second
week of the season and is the
tournament’s No. 1 overall seed.
The next tier’s teams have moved
up and down in the rankings with
no clear No. 2 emerging, but all
are a threat to topple the Game-
cocks. There are plenty of nation-
al championship contenders, but
here are the five that are most
likely to cut down the nets in
Cleveland on April 7.
1. South Carolina
South Carolina enters the
NCAA tournament undefeated
for the second consecutive season
and is the runaway favorite to
take home the title for the third
time. The Gamecocks’ average
margin of victory of 29.8 points
leads the country. They did show
some vulnerability in the SEC
tournament, where they were just
a buzzer-beating three-pointer
(the first made three of Kamilla
Cardoso’s career) away from be-
ing sent home by Tennessee in the
semifinals.
South Carolina has proved to
be elite on the defensive end,
holding its opponents to a nation-
best 0.64 points per play. The
Gamecocks have also improved
their offensive attack since last
season, in large part because of
their proficiency from beyond the
arc. South Carolina boasts the
country’s third-best three-point
percentage, a significant im-
provement compared with last
season, when it ranked No. 170. It
adds up to an offensive rating of
114.9 points per 100 possessions,
the program’s best during Coach
Dawn Staley’s tenure.
Oregon transfer Te-Hina
Paopao has been a main driver of
the offensive resurgence, shoot-
ing a career-high 47 percent from
three-point range this season. She
and Cardoso also bring experi-
ence to lead a relatively young
squad. The team’s young pieces,
most notably SEC tournament
most outstanding player MiLay-
sia Fulwiley (11.8 points per
game), add the depth needed for
another deep March run.
MiLaysia Fulwiley, center, and South Carolina are undefeated, but LSU and last year’s Final Four MVP, Angel Reese, left, aim to repeat.
2. Iowa
Caitlin Clark has been at the
center of the NCAA women’s bas-
ketball conversation this season,
and her seemingly limitless offen-
sive range places Iowa in the tier
of title contenders. Last season,
Clark strung together arguably
the most impressive individual
performance in NCAA tourna-
ment history, averaging more
than 30 points per game to lead
the Hawkeyes to the national
championship game before they
fell short against LSU.
Clark has accomplished almost
everything imaginable at the col-
lege level, including breaking the
NCAA scoring record this season,
but the one thing missing from
her résumé is a national champi-
onship. Getting there will take
another heroic run from Clark,
and her scoring (a career-high
31.9 points per game this season)
will be a huge part of that. Per-
haps more important are her na-
tion-leading 8.9 assists per game
and her ability to facilitate the
Hawkeyes’ offense. Iowa is at its
best when Clark is able to take
advantage of the defensive atten-
tion she draws and find an outlet
to an open Gabbie Marshall or
Kate Martin on the perimeter or
Hannah Stuelke in the post.
If the Hawkeyes fall short, it’s
likely to be because Clark’s offen-
sive dominance can’t overcome
her team’s below-average defense.
Iowa is allowing 93 points per 100
possessions on the season, which
ranks in the 41st percentile.
3. Stanford
The Pac-12 has unquestionably
been the top conference this sea-
son, with three teams ranked in
the top six of the latest Associated
Press poll. Its regular season
champion, Stanford, is right in
the mix for a trip to Cleveland for
the Final Four.
The Cardinal failed to win the
Pac-12 title after a quiet night
from its backcourt against South-
ern California in the conference
tournament final. If Stanford is
going to end up on top in April, it
will need Hannah Jump, a career
40 percent perimeter shooter, to
deliver down the stretch of her
fifth and final season.
That said, the frontcourt
makes this Cardinal team cham-
pionship-caliber. Expected con-
sensus all-American Cameron
Brink (17.8 points, 12.0 rebounds
per game) and Kiki Iriafen (18.6,
11.0) are as fearsome a duo as any
in the country at 6-foot-4 and
6-foot-3, respectively. Their pres-
ence in the paint has made Stan-
ford one of the nation’s best de-
fensive teams.
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Stanford has held its oppo-
nents to shooting just 38.3 per-
cent on two-pointers this season.
Additionally, the Cardinal ranks
in the top 25 nationally in blocked
shots and the rate at which it
collects both offensive and defen-
sive rebounds.
4. LSU
LSU features a similarly domi-
nant frontcourt duo in its quest to
repeat as national champion in
2024. The Tigers reloaded in the
offseason to pair last year’s Final
Four most outstanding player,
Angel Reese, with two of the high-
est-profile transfers in Hailey Van
Lith (Louisville) and Aneesah
Morrow (DePaul). However, a sea-
son-opening loss to Colorado and
a disappointing 5-3 start to con-
ference play have allowed the Ti-
gers to fly a little under the radar
this season.
Fast-forward to March, and
LSU has won 10 of its past 11
games, with the lone loss coming
by single digits against South
Carolina in the SEC champion-
ship game. The Tigers were one of
just four teams to play the Game-
cocks closely in the regular sea-
son, and they were able to repli-
cate that performance in the con-
ference tournament with Reese,
Morrow and Van Lith combining
for 48 points.
The Tigers also rank among the
top 10 in both the Her Hoop Stats
offensive and defensive ratings,
pace-adjusted measures of a
team’s offensive and defensive
strength that control for oppo-
nent quality. That’s a champion-
ship formula: The last dozen na-
tional champions (including LSU
last season) have ranked in the
top 10 in both metrics.
5. Connecticut
Connecticut similarly fits the
criteria of ranking among the
top teams on both ends of the
floor. Despite the Huskies failing
to win any of their marquee
matchups this season, including
an 18-point road loss to South
Carolina last month, the numbers
indicate they are again among the
top teams entering the tourna-
ment.
Five players have suffered sea-
son-ending injuries, leaving
U-Conn. with a short rotation.
While last season’s shorthanded
team became the first Huskies
squad that failed to reach the
Final Four since 2007, this group
has a healthy Paige Bueckers, who
could be a difference-maker. The
last time we saw Bueckers in
March Madness in 2022, she hung
27 points on North Carolina State
in a double-overtime thriller to
lift the Huskies to the Final Four.
Bueckers carried that team to the
national title game, all while hav-
ing just returned from a knee
injury in late February.
Bueckers is joined by forward
Aaliyah Edwards, who averaged
20 points per game in February.
While the pair failed to simulta-
neously fire on all cylinders in
U-Conn.’s early-season matchups,
they have been in sync as of late,
and Connecticut is now playing
its best basketball of the season.
Megan Gauer is a bracketologist and
contributing writer for
herhoopstats.com.
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NCAA TOURNAMENT

Virginia squeaks into the field, joins Howard with a spot in the First Four
BY G ENE W ANG

Virginia men’s basketball

coach Tony Bennett sat on the
stage for his postgame news con-
ference late Friday night follow-
ing a stinging overtime loss to
North Carolina State in the ACC
tournament semifinals at Capital
One Arena, uncertain whether
the Cavaliers had done enough to
earn an at-large berth in the
NCAA tournament.
In making his case for Virginia,
Bennett pointed to a third-place
finish in the tradition-rich ACC
during the regular season and a
body of work that included a pair
of Quadrant 1 wins and an 8-3
record in Quadrant 2 games as
testaments to why the Cavaliers
belonged in the field of 68.
The NCAA tournament selec-
tion committee agreed — but just
barely: Virginia (23-10) was given
a trip to the First Four in Dayton,
Ohio, where the 10th-seeded Cav-
aliers face Colorado State (24-10)
Tuesday night. The winner ad-
vances to play No. 7 seed Texas
(20-12) in the round of 64 in the
Midwest Region in Charlotte.
“There’s so much going on out
there — it’s too much,” Bennett
said after his team lost to North
Carolina State in the ACC tourna-
ment. “So get behind closed
doors, make the right decision,
and these guys I think represent-
ed themselves well. I think over
20 games and league play, very
proud of them. They did a lot.”
Virginia will make its 26th ap-
pearance in the NCAA tourna-
ment and 10th under Bennett,
who directed the Cavaliers to the
2019 national championship. But
the Cavaliers’ recent NCAA tour-
nament history includes losses in
the round of 64 in their past two
appearances, including last sea-
son as a No. 4 seed to 13th-seeded
Furman, 68-67, on a basket with
2.4 seconds to play.
The Cavaliers placed them-
selves in a precarious position
entering Selection Sunday, not
just in falling short of the ACC
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tournament title game but also by
closing the regular season with Reece Beekman and Virginia fell to eventual champion North Carolina State in the ACC tournament after slumping at the end of the regular season but made the field of 68.
four losses in seven games. Vir-
ginia played two Quadrant 1 op- cure automatic berths at the ex- Conference tournament final, ment, James Madison broke 79-76 overtime upset of Michigan love pressure.”
ponents in that stretch but fell by pense of programs on the fringes. 70-67, over Delaware State. through for its first appearance State, at the time ranked fourth in The only other school from the
double figures to North Carolina The Blazers are 105th in the NET The Bison (18-16) are headed to since 2013, earning a No. 12 seed the country, in East Lansing, Commonwealth to receive an
and Duke. rankings, one of the metrics the Dayton as well as a No. 16 seed to as an automatic qualifier for win- Mich. The Dukes also beat How- NCAA tournament bid was No. 16
Compounding the uncertainty selection committee considers in play Wagner (16-15) on Tuesday ning its first Sun Belt tournament ard, 107-86, in Harrisonburg, Va. seed Longwood (21-13), which
of making the NCAA tournament awarding at-large berths. Vir- night seeking the first victory in championship. The Dukes (31-3) “To get to a point like this, it is draws top-seeded Houston (30-4)
for the Cavaliers were the likes of ginia is 54th in the NET, five spots the NCAA tournament in pro- play No. 5 seed Wisconsin (23-13) difficult, and I’m so proud of the in the South Region’s round of 64.
North Carolina, San Diego State in front of the Ducks. gram history. It is Howard’s in Brooklyn on Friday and are guys,” James Madison Coach The Lancers won the Big South
and Florida Atlantic, all locks for Virginia’s relief in receiving a fourth appearance in the NCAA making a sixth trip to the NCAA Mark Byington said. “I think we tournament championship last
berths entering the week, losing bid contrasted with the pure tournament following last year, tournament, winning one game had a journey unlike any other weekend to secure an automatic
in their respective conference jubilation from players and 1992 and 1981. A victory would in four of their previous five team. I mean, we start the season bid. They are playing in their
tournaments to opponents not coaches at Howard, which one earn Howard a meeting with the appearances. winning a game at Michigan second NCAA tournament in
projected in the field. day earlier celebrated a second Tar Heels, the top seed in the James Madison beat two NCAA State and beating a top-five team three years after winning
Alabama Birmingham and Or- consecutive automatic berth to West Region. tournament teams over the first and then the pressure we had all 20 games in consecutive seasons
egon, meanwhile, captured con- the NCAA tournament after it In a lean year for area repre- three games of the regular sea- the time. What I learned these for the first time in the program’s
ference tournaments titles to se- won the Mid-Eastern Athletic sentation in the NCAA tourna- son. It opened the season with a guys, they love it. They absolutely Division I history.

Maryland women head to West Coast as No. 10 seed, will open with Iowa State
BY K AREEM C OPELAND
The Maryland women’s basket-
ball players started murmuring as
they sat inside Xfinity Center on
Sunday evening, patiently await-
ing their NCAA tournament fate.
The minutes ticked away, and
team after team was announced,
and the Terrapins ended up in the
very last pairing named. There
was little doubt the Terps would
be included — the question was
where and against whom?
When Maryland was finally
called, a bit of a good fortune came
with an upcoming West Coast trip.
Longtime Maryland coach
Brenda Frese is in the midst of her
most challenging season on the
court in more than a decade. Her
Terrapins (19-13, 9-9) posted their
worst conference record since
joining the Big Ten in 2014, and
they had their fewest league wins
since 2009-10, which was the last
time the program didn’t make the
tournament.
The program avoided that fate
Sunday night, when the selection
committee named Maryland the
No. 10 seed in the Portland 4 Re-
gion, where it will face No. 7 seed
Iowa State (20-11, 12-6 Big 12) in a
first-round game in Palo Alto,
Calif., on Friday. The Terps will
face an uphill climb to advance to
the tournament’s second weekend
for the fourth consecutive year. If
they win their opener, they will
face either No. 2 seed Stanford or
No. 15 seed Norfolk State, with the
winner advancing to the Sweet 16.
The good fortune was the fact
Frese spent four years as an assis-
tant at Iowa State (1995-99) under
current Cyclones coach Bill Fen-
nelly and has a bit of institutional
knowledge on the opponent. She
called Fennelly one of her most
influential mentors.
“Really kind of what propelled
me and my coaching career,” Frese
said. “He’s a great X and O coach,
so he’s going to individually game
plan. . . . He’s one of the best
coaches out there when you talk
Coach Brenda Frese will face her former coaching mentor Friday when the Terrapins (19-13) play Bill Fennelly and the Cyclones.
about X’s and O’s. I know their
system. I watched them in the
Big 12 tournament when they
played Texas and those games be-
cause I’ve always watched them
over the years.”
Though there’s plenty of his-
tory between the coaches, this will
be the first meeting between the
programs. The Cyclones are the
fifth-highest scoring team in the
Big 12 (74.6 points per game), and
their 37.5 percent three-point
shooting led the league. Defense is
not a strength: Iowa State ranks
12th in the conference in points
allowed (68.0).
“The fact that it’s taken 22 years
here at Maryland and in my
coaching career to finally be able
to coach against [Fennelly] is pret-
ty exciting,” Frese said.
This is the first time since 2018
the Terps will not host games on
the tournament’s opening week-
end, which doesn’t include the
pandemic-affected 2021 tourna-
ment that was played entirely in
San Antonio. That honor is re-
served for teams placed on the top
four seed lines.
“Clearly a unique element,”
Frese said about going on the
road. “But for us, that’s why we
played the schedule we played this
season. You don’t even blink when
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you go in and that first matchup is
still a neutral court when you’re
playing against Iowa State. For us,
we feel like the schedule has pre-
pared us.”
Maryland secured its spot in
the tournament after it advanced
to the Big Ten tournament semifi-
nals with wins over Illinois and
No. 1 seed Ohio State. It was con-
sidered by bracket analysts to be
squarely on the tournament bub-
ble before that run in Minneapolis
this month.
Maryland has advanced at least
to the second round in 12 consecu-
tive NCAA tournaments and in 18
of the past 19. Frese has missed the
tournament just twice since she
took over in College Park in 2002,
and the winningest coach in pro-
gram history has never lost in the
first round with the Terrapins.
The Terps went 0-8 against
ranked teams in the regular sea-
son before they upset Ohio State
in the Big Ten tournament quar-
terfinals. They closed with a 7-2
stretch with losses to only Ohio
State and Indiana. The conference
tournament win over Ohio State
was the best performance of the
season against a team considered
Final Four caliber.
“I think the biggest [lesson
learned] is just we can compete
with anyone,” guard Shyanne Sell-
ers said about the Big Ten tourna-
ment. “The Ohio State win, I know
we could have done it all along
and all season. But just getting
that win really right there just
proves that we can really compete
with anybody.”
Among other tournament
teams from D.C., Maryland and
Virginia, Virginia Tech (24-7, 14-4)
seemed set up for another deep
tournament run after it advanced
to the Final Four last season, but a
knee injury to three-time ACC
player of the year Elizabeth Kitley
has severely affected the team.
The Hokies were seeded fourth in
the Portland 3 Region and will
face No. 13 seed Marshall on Fri-
day.
Norfolk State (27-5, 13-1) will
head to the tournament after win-
ning the Mid-Eastern Athletic
Conference tournament for the
second year in a row, earning that
date with Stanford on Friday.
Richmond (29-5, 16-2) won the
Atlantic 10 tournament for the
first time. The Spiders earned a
No. 10 seed in the Portland 3 Re-
gion and will meet No. 7 seed Duke
on Friday.
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coLLege bASkeTbALL rouNdup

Shannon caps dominant run with 34 points as Illini win Big Ten tournament
illinois 93,
Wisconsin 87
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Terrence Shannon Jr. scored 34
points and drilled 15 of 17 free
throws to propel the 13th-ranked
Illinois men to a 93-87 victory over
Wisconsin in the Big Ten tourna-
ment championship game Sunday
in Minneapolis.
Marcus Domask added 26
points, eight assists and seven re-
bounds and Dain Dainja had nine
points and seven rebounds for the
Illini (26-8), who won their fourth
conference title and their second
in four years after shooting 16 for
26 from the field in the second half.
Shannon finished with 102
points in three games this week-
end, one short of the Big Ten tour-
nament scoring record, and was
voted the most outstanding play-
er. Keegan Murray had 103 points
for Iowa in 2022, but the Hawk-
eyes played four games that year
on the way to the title.
A.J. Storr had 24 points and
Chucky Hepburn added 20 points
for the Badgers (22-13), who went
7 for 20 from beyond the arc after
going 33 for 79 over their first
three games of the tournament.
l AUBURN 86, FLORIDA 67:
The 12th-ranked Tigers asked
their fans to come to Nashville and
support Auburn in the SEC tour-
nament championship game.
Fans answered.
And the Tigers did their part on
the court.
Johni Broome scored 19 points
and grabbed 11 rebounds as Au-
burn won its third SEC tourna-
ment title by routing Florida in a
game marred by a gruesome inju-
ry to Gators center Micah Hand-
logten.
Terrence Shannon Jr. scored 102 points in three games in Minneapolis and fell just a point shy of the Big Ten tournament scoring record.
“All of the Auburn family got in
their cars,” Coach Bruce Pearl said.
“They drove up north from north
Alabama, central Alabama, south
Alabama.”
The Tigers (27-7) avoided the
upset bug that took out the SEC’s
top three seeds in Friday’s quarter-
finals, leaving them as the highest
seed still standing. They never
trailed in the final, adding titles to
those won in 1985 and 2019 and
earning a second under Pearl.
The sixth-seeded Gators (24-11)
were playing their fourth game in
as many days and trying to win the
program’s fifth SEC tournament
title and first since 2014. But they
lost Handlogten, who was taken
off the court on a stretcher, to a
broken lower left leg within the
first three minutes.
l DUQUESNE 57, VCU 51:
Red, white and blue streamers fell
from the rafters at Barclays Center
with the Dukes leading the Rams
by 15 in the Atlantic 10 tournament
championship game in Brooklyn,
their first NCAA tournament bid
in 47 years within reach.
Problem was, there were still
about 18 minutes left to play.
Jimmy Clark III, Dae Dae
Grant, Coach Keith Dambrot and
Duquesne (24-11) eventually got
the full postgame celebration —
with a few less streamers — after
beating fifth-seeded VCU to earn
the Dukes’ first invite to March
Madness since 1977.
Joe Bamisile led VCU (22-13),
which was trying to repeat as A-10
tournament champion, with 20
points.
l ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM
85, TEMPLE 69: Alejandro
Vasquez sank five three-pointers
on his way to a career-high 29
points, Yaxel Lendeborg finished
with his 19th double-double of the
season, and the Blazers (23-11) led
wire-to-wire to down the Owls in
the American Athletic Conference
tournament title game in Fort
dAvId BerdInG/Getty ImAGeS
Worth and clinch the program’s
17th NCAA tournament bid.
Hysier Miller scored a career-
high 32 points for Temple (16-20).
l YALE 62, BROWN 61: Matt
Knowling hit a jumper at the buzz-
er as the Bulldogs (22-9) closed the
game on an 8-1 run to turn back
the Bears in the Ivy League tour-
nament title game in New York to
earn the program’s seventh NCAA
tournament bid.
Kino Lilly Jr. led Brown (13-18)
with 21 points.
Drexel women seize CAA title
Amaris Baker and Brooke Mull-
in led a long-distance attack and
Drexel shocked Stony Brook,
68-60, in the championship game
of the Coastal Athletic Association
women’s tournament at Enter-
tainment and Sports Arena.
The Dragons (19-14) became the
second consecutive seventh seed
to win the CAA, while the Sea-
wolves joined the list of top seeds
who have not won the tournament
since 2017.
Gigi Gonzalez, the conference
player of the year, had 19 points for
Stony Brook (27-4), whose nine-
game winning streak ended.
l DRAKE 76, MISSOURI
STATE 75: Anna Miller scored
25 points, including the winning
layup as time expired, and the
top-seeded Bulldogs (29-5) edged
the Bears to secure the Missouri
Valley Conference tournament ti-
tle in Moline, Ill.
Drake made it back-to-back
conference championships and
booked its 15th appearance in the
NCAA tournament.
l HOLY CROSS 61, BOSTON
UNIVERSITY 55: Bronagh Pow-
er-Cassidy scored 21 points, Cara
McCormack added 15 and the Cru-
saders (20-12) outlasted the Terriers
(20-12) to repeat as Patriot League
champions in Worcester, Mass.
Holy Cross became the first re-
peat champion in the Patriot
League since Navy won three in a
row from 2011 to 2013.
l SACRED HEART 69, LE
MOYNE 48: Ny’Ceara Pryor
scored 18 points and the Pioneers
(24-9), with a second consecutive
NCAA bid in hand, steamrolled
the Dolphins (18-14) to win the
Northeast Conference tourna-
ment in Fairfield, Conn.
Sacred Heart’s fifth NCAA berth
was secured in the semifinals be-
cause Le Moyne is transitioning to
Division I and is ineligible for the
NCAA tournament. The Dolphins
will play in the WNIT.

ANALYSIS

Seeking first-round upsets for a bracket edge? These will look good on paper.
BY N EIL G REENBERG
From the moment the NCAA
men’s tournament field is re-
vealed, analysts, college basket-
ball fans and all who have a blank
tournament bracket are eager to
debate the most likely first-round
upsets. Let’s take a look at some of
the contenders.
I am going to focus on teams
seeded No. 10 or lower, because
while a No. 9 seed beating a No. 8
is technically an upset by seeding,
it is not a differentiator in bracket
contests. I am also going to high-
light not just the most likely first-
round upsets but also those that
could provide value by differenti-
ating your entire roster of picks
from the competition.
For example, last year I high-
lighted No. 13 Furman to upset
No. 4 Virginia and wrote that if
the Paladins succeeded, “[No. 5]
San Diego State could have a path
all the way to the Final Four.”
Guess what? Both things hap-
pened, making it one of my most
successful brackets in years. (My
colleague Matt Bonesteel also
identified Virginia as a likely up-
set candidate on the night the
brackets were revealed.)
How do I find undervalued
teams in the Big Dance? I look at
the underlying analytics, such
as the four factors of basketball
as described by statistician Dean
Oliver: shooting (particularly
three-point shooting), rebound-
ing, turnovers and the ability to
get to the free throw line. I am
also on the hunt for effective
rebounding teams and opportu-
nistic defenders that can create
extra possessions, leading to
more points. Slowing down the
pace favors the underdog, too.
After all, fewer possessions mean
there are fewer chances for a
more talented team to run up the
score. And lastly, be on the look-
out for favorites that rely heavily
on three-pointers. If shooters go
cold, that’s often a precursor to an
upset.
With that in mind, here is a
first-round upset in each region
you’ll want to select in your
bracket, listed in order of the
chances the lower-seeded team
pulls off a surprise.
West Region
No. 11 New Mexico over No. 6
Clemson
New Mexico takes care of the
ball on offense and runs a solid
game in transition, scoring over a
point per possession, which
ranks in the 91st percentile, per
Synergy Sports. The Lobos also
generate second-chance opportu-
nities off offensive rebounds (av-
eraging 1.1 points per putback),
block shots and generate turn-
overs, skills that can lead to
March upsets.
Clemson, meanwhile, is one of
the worst offensive rebounding
teams in the country (221st, per
kenpom.com) and hardly creates
any turnovers on defense.
score 1.1 points per possession on
post-up plays (ranking in the 96th
percentile in the country), includ-
ing on passes out of the post, per
Synergy Sports. It’s a play type
that Washington State’s defense
struggles with; the Cougars rank
in just the 14th percentile. Drake
led eventual Final Four team Mi-
ami at halftime in last year’s first
round; this year, the Bulldogs
should be able to finish the job.
South Region
No. 11 North Carolina State
over No. 6 Texas Tech
North Carolina State needed to
win five games in five days during
the ACC tournament to have any
chance of an NCAA tournament
appearance. It did, claiming its
first ACC title since 1987. Now the
Wolfpack gets to face a Texas Tech
squad with cracks in its founda-
tion.
Texas Tech has one of the most
Steve mArcuS/ASSocIAted PreSS efficient offenses in the country,
New Mexico celebrated a Mountain West title this month, and the but much of that is thanks to a
Lobos might celebrate an upset over No. 6 seed Clemson this week. high volume of three-point shoot-
ing. The Red Raiders attempt
East Region per analyst Ken Pomeroy’s data — 41 percent of their field goal at-
No. 10 Drake over No. 7 and allow the lowest offensive tempts from behind the arc and
Washington State rebounding rate in the nation convert a more-than-respectable
Washington State’s strengths (22 percent). The Bulldogs also 37 percent of them, ranking 47th
include playing at a slow pace, don’t attempt an above-average in the nation. However, they are
grabbing offensive rebounds and rate of three-point shots relative not nearly as impressive in the
keeping opponents away from the to their field goal attempts, pre- other factors that support March
three-point line. Drake doesn’t ferring to focus on scoring at the contenders, such as creating turn-
care about any of that. The Bull- rim. overs, grabbing or preventing of-
dogs are fine playing slow — they The biggest mismatch should fensive rebounds and getting to
average 68 possessions per be in the post. Drake’s 6-foot-10 the free throw line. In fact, the
40 minutes, 150th in the nation Darnell Brodie helps the Bulldogs three most similar tournament
teams to this Texas Tech squad
since 2008 all flamed out in the
first round: Maryland in 2017,
Oklahoma in 2014 and Iowa State
in 2019, all as either a No. 5 or
No. 6 seed.
Midwest Region
No. 12 McNeese over No. 5
Gonzaga
Gonzaga’s seeding was a bit of a
surprise to many bracketologists,
including our own Patrick Ste-
vens, who thought the Bulldogs
would be a No. 7 seed. They are
certainly balanced enough to jus-
tify being a high seed, but there is
reason to think McNeese could
pull an upset in its first NCAA
tournament appearance in 22
years.
The Cowboys, led by former
LSU coach Will Wade, are similar-
ly well-balanced and remarkably
tenacious on the defensive side of
the ball, creating a turnover on
nearly one-fourth of all defensive
possessions (23 percent, sixth
best in the country). They also
funnel opponents away from the
rim toward the three-point line;
almost half of opponents’ field
goal attempts have come from
behind the arc. It’s easy to envi-
sion a scenario in which McNeese
not only gains extra possessions
via turnovers but Gonzaga tries to
do too much of its scoring from
long distance, which is not always
reliable, resulting in another
memorable upset for a No. 12 seed
over a No. 5.

Capitals rookie Miroshnichenko goes from insurance policy to lineup staple

BY B AILEY J OHNSON
CALGARY — On the same night
winger T.J. Oshie played in his
1,000th NHL game, Washington
Capitals rookie Ivan Mirosh-
nichenko reached a different sort
of milestone: game No. 10.
For players on entry-level con-
tracts, the jump from nine games
to 10 is significant. If Mirosh-
nichenko played nine games or
fewer with the Capitals this sea-
son, his contract would slide,
meaning this season wouldn’t
count as one of the three years on
his entry-level contract. It’s not
uncommon for rookies to get a
nine-game taste of the NHL level
before being sent back to junior
hockey — or, in Miroshnichen-
ko’s case, the Hershey Bears in
the American Hockey League —
to save the year, if the player isn’t
fully ready to play every day in
the NHL.
But there was no doubt that
Miroshnichenko, Washington’s
first-round pick in the 2022 draft,
would be in the lineup for his
10th game in Vancouver on Sat-
urday. Initially recalled by the
Capitals on Feb. 26 as an insur-
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ance policy as Washington’s inju-
ry list grew and the trade dead-
line approached, Miroshnichen-
ko made his way into the lineup
March 7 in Pittsburgh — and
promptly scored his first goal.
Miroshnichenko hasn’t left the
lineup since. He has two goals
and an assist in six games, and as
the Capitals conclude a five-
game road trip in Calgary on
Monday, the 20-year-old has
been a clear standout the past
week.
“He’s playing great, and that’s
why he’s here now for that 10th
game that we all know about,
right? He’s earned it,” Washing-
ton Coach Spencer Carbery said
after Saturday’s game. “This isn’t
a courtesy, ‘Hey, young player,
first-round pick, 20 years old,
just get your feet wet in the
National Hockey League.’ He is
earning his ice time and opportu-
nity with the way that he’s play-
ing.”
Miroshnichenko played his
first four games with the Capitals
in late December before return-
ing to Hershey. In his second
NHL stint, the growth in his
game has been evident on nearly
every shift. Listed at 6-foot-1 and
185 pounds, Miroshnichenko
plays a heavy, physical game, and
he hasn’t shied from the intensity
of Washington’s recent stretch.
In Winnipeg on March 11, a
game that was difficult for many
Capitals as they struggled to
handle the Jets’ speed and physi-
cality, Miroshnichenko was one
of the few players who appeared
ready for the moment.
“I honestly thought Miro was
probably our best player tonight
overall,” Carbery said after the
game. “I thought he had jump.
He actually was the one that
jumped out to me of being able to
win some pucks. He looked like
physically he could hang with
that team from a physical stand-
point. Was over top of the puck,
won a few, got to the interior a
couple times. I thought he was
our bright spot.”
Miroshnichenko scored his
second goal in Wednesday’s 7-2
loss in Edmonton, then set up
winger Tom Wilson for the game-
tying goal against the Canucks on
Saturday. The play emphasized
more than just what Mirosh-
nichenko can do on the ice; it
served as proof of how far Miro-
shnichenko’s ability to communi-
cate has come during the past
several months.
Against the Seattle Kraken on
Thursday, Wilson, playing on a
line with Miroshnichenko and
center Dylan Strome, grabbed
the iPad on the bench to show
Miroshnichenko that he had
been in position to receive a pass
at the back post for what could
have been a tap-in goal. Two
nights later, Wilson was again on
the back post, and this time,
Miroshnichenko found him with
a no-look backhand feed.
“It’s been fun to play with
him,” Wilson said Saturday. “He’s
got a ton of potential, made an
amazing play. You can tell he’s a
smart player. As he gets more
comfortable, he’s making really
good plays and good reads. I kind
of showed him something on the
iPad in Seattle, and then he made
sure that he passed it to the back
door tonight. We were having
some fun out there. He’s definite-
ly coming out of his shell a little
bit.”
Through a combination of
watching movies with subtitles
and working with a tutor, Mi-
roshnichenko is making a con-
certed effort to learn English. It
makes his life in North America
easier off the ice, of course, but
it’s also contributing to his in-
creased comfort level on the ice.
“It helps me a lot to learn
English and communicate better
with my partners,” Mirosh-
nichenko said Sunday, using de-
fenseman Alex Alexeyev as an
interpreter. “Those moments are
pretty critical on the ice and off
the ice, so that helps a lot.”
“It makes a massive differ-
ence,” Carbery added. “To be able
to show him things, he asks
questions now on the bench,
after games, at practice. Even
communicating with him on lit-
tle drills out there [at practice
Sunday]. It makes such a differ-
ence for a young player, too. . . .
For him to be able to communi-
cate and ask and talk to his
teammates and just even have
those simple conversations that
we take for granted, it’s, I think,
huge for his development. And
then being able to [grasp] the X’s
and O’s part of it and really
understand what we’re trying to
ask him to do from a habits
standpoint, it makes a big differ-
ence.”
As the Capitals continue their
push toward a playoff spot, the
play of young players such as
Miroshnichenko has been key.
And as Miroshnichenko gets
more comfortable on the ice and
with the language, his confidence
is growing at a crucial time for
Washington.
“I’m just getting some minutes
to play, and it’s giving me extra
confidence,” Miroshnichenko
said. “Support from my team-
mates. It’s all combined together.
I think it’s just great for me.”
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Wizards close punishing weekend in a sea of green New-look Spirit drops
celtics 130,
Wizards 104
BY A VA W ALLACE
After this weekend, the Wash-
ington Wizards might want to
have a chat with the NBA’s sched-
ule makers. To make a team play
the Chicago Bulls and Boston
Celtics back-to-back, at the end
of a week-long road trip, over
St. Patrick’s Day weekend — a
holiday perhaps celebrated more
in Chicago and Boston than any
other major U.S. city — felt a bit
beyond the pale.
For the second game in a row,
the injury-ravaged Wizards
looked out into a sea of green and
came away with a similar result,
losing to the Celtics, 130-104,
with a lineup filled with players
who usually sit at the end of the
bench.
Surprising no one, the short-
handed Wizards (11-57) did not
magically return to full strength
on the second night of a back-to-
back. They went the other direc-
tion instead, adding Bilal Couli-
baly (wrist) and Kyle Kuzma
(shoulder) to a lengthy injury
report that already included
Deni Avdija (knee), Marvin
Bagley III (back), Tyus Jones
(back), Landry Shamet (calf ) and
Isaiah Livers (hip). Kuzma’s issue
was shoulder soreness, while
Coulibaly suffered a wrist contu-
sion in Saturday’s game.
They added yet another name
to the list when backup big man
Eugene Omoruyi fell to the court
near the end of the third quarter
clutching his ankle and heel area
after landing on the foot of a
Celtics player. There appeared to
be no contact on the play, and
Omoruyi hopped to the locker
room without putting weight on
his injured foot.
The Wizards later announced
he had a left ankle sprain.
By the time Omoruyi fell, the
Wizards had long lost control.
The Celtics (53-14), owners of the
best record in the NBA, enjoyed a
home-away-from-home atmos-
phere at Capital One Arena — the
vast majority of the crowd would
have been wearing green even if
it wasn’t St. Patrick’s Day — and
even with Jaylen Brown (ankle),
Kristaps Porzingis (hamstring)
and Derrick White (hand) out,
the Celtics throttled their hosts.
They scored 45 points in the first
quarter and held a 33-point lead
near the end of the second half
thanks to lights-out three-point
shooting.
The usual “M-V-P” chants rang
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B Y D OUG F ERGUSON
PONTE VEDRa BEaCH, FLa. —
Already the best in the world,
Scottie Scheffler added another
layer to his legend Sunday. He
became the first player to win
back-to-back titles in 50 years of
the Players Championship by
matching the biggest comeback
and the lowest closing round by a
winner.
Scheffler holed out for an
eagle from the fourth fairway
and had four birdies in a five-
hole stretch around the turn,
sending him to an 8-under-par
64 and a one-shot victory that
wasn’t decided until the final
putt.
Xander Schauffele, Brian Har-
man and Wyndham Clark all had
a chance to force a playoff with a
birdie on the daunting 18th hole
at TPC Sawgrass.
Clark had the last shot, a putt
just inside 18 feet that dipped
into the cup on the left side and
came out on the right side,
leaving him stunned as he placed
his hand over his mouth.
“I don’t know how that putt
doesn’t go in,” Clark said. “Even
when it kind of lipped, I thought
it would lip in. I’m pretty gutted
it didn’t go in.”
Scheffler, who started the final
round five shots behind, was on
the practice range preparing for
a three-hole playoff when he got
the word and showed more emo-
tion than usual for someone who
is getting used to winning.
“It’s tough enough to win one
Players,” Scheffler said. “So to
have it back-to-back is extremely
special. Yeah, really thankful.”
This was no ordinary week.
He struggled to take the club
back early in his second round
because of a neck issue and
battled to a 69. He looked to be
out of it Saturday afternoon
until he finished with three
straight birdies.
And then he delivered a mas-
terpiece on the Players Stadium
Course. His 64 matched the low-
season opener on road
With seven players sidelined by various ailments, Jules Bernard and the host Wizards were throttled.
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out for Jayson Tatum, who had
30 points and shot 8 for 17 from
the field, including six three-
pointers. Sam Hauser led the way
from deep with a career-high
30 points on 10-for-13 shooting —
all from beyond the arc — in just
23 minutes, earning a standing
ovation when he checked out
after turning his ankle.
“Hauser, that’s what he does,
catch-and-shoot guy,” Wizards
interim coach Brian Keefe said.
est final round by a Players
champion, last done by Davis
Love III in 2003, and he tied
Justin Leonard (1998) with his
five-shot comeback.
“I’m a pretty competitive guy,
and I didn’t want to give up in
the tournament,” Scheffler said.
“I did what I could to hang
around until my neck got better.
Today it felt really good.”
Scheffler finished the PGA
Tour’s premier championship
without a bogey over the final
31 holes during a tense final hour
involving four of the top 10 play-
ers in the world.
All of them had their chances.
Schauffele, who started the
final round with a one-shot lead,
was still in control until he
missed tee shots to the right on
the 14th and 15th holes and
couldn’t salvage par. He had a
six-foot birdie chance on island-
green 17th — the toughest hole at
Sawgrass on Sunday — and
didn’t come close to a reasonable
birdie chance hitting out of the
pine straw on the 18th.
He finished with a 70.
“My dad told me a long time
ago to commit, execute and ac-
cept. I’m swallowing a heavy
dose of acceptance right now,”
Schauffele said. “I tried to com-
mit, I executed poorly on some
shots, and here I am accepting
it.”
Harman hung around long
enough to have a chance, but he
missed out on a birdie chance at
the par-5 16th and couldn’t con-
vert birdie chances over the last
two holes in his round of 68.
Clark also made late push. He
narrowly missed a 12-foot eagle
putt on the 16th. He rode the
slope to four feet for a birdie on
the 17th. And his birdie to force a
playoff looked good all the way
until it wasn’t. Clark shot a 69.
Scheffler finished at 20-under
268 and won $4.5 million from
the $25 million purse, pushing
the 27-year-old over the $50 mil-
lion mark in his career.
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“. . . He got loose a little bit on
some scrambles, some offensive
rebounds, a little bit in transi-
tion. He got it in a variety of
ways. Tatum’s going to make
tough shots; you try to make
that as tough as possible. I
thought he got a couple easier
looks than we probably would
have liked.”
In all, the Celtics went 24 for
50 from beyond the three-point
line, just four off the Wizards’
franchise record for three-point-
ers made by an opponent set in
Houston in 2018.
Washington had no means for
recourse. Overmatched and un-
dersized, the Wizards were reluc-
tant to venture into the paint and
instead spent too much of the
first half trying to make up for
lost ground from beyond the arc,
where shots wouldn’t fall. They
shot 10 for 34 from behind the
three-point line.
With the entire starting lineup
injured, Jordan Poole started for
Gray named Nats’ Opening Day starter
BY S PENCER N USBAUM
WEST PaLM BEaCH, FLa. — Jo-
siah Gray walked out of Washing-
ton Nationals Manager Dave Mar-
tinez’s office late last week with
good news about the future and
plenty of time to think about the
past. He thought about 2020,
when he was in the Los Angeles
Dodgers’ first wave of spring ros-
ter cuts; 2022, his first full season
with the Nationals; and 2023,
when he was named an all-star.
The 26-year-old right-hander
also thought ever so briefly about
the Cincinnati Reds, the team that
selected him in the second round
out of Le Moyne College in 2018.
The reason: The Nationals will
hand Gray the ball in Cincinnati
on March 28, when he will be the
Opening Day starter against the
Reds. Cincinnati will turn to right-
hander Frankie Montas.
Left-hander Patrick Corbin,
who started for Washington on
Opening Day in 2022 and 2023,
will pitch the second game of the
series. The team has yet to an-
nounce the starter for its home
opener against the Pittsburgh Pi-
rates on April 1.
“It means a lot,” said Gray, who
arrived in Washington as part of
the Max Scherzer-Trea Turner
trade in 2021. “It means progress.
Progress is probably the first word
that comes to mind because of
how I’ve progressed through the
league in the short amount of time
I’ve been a major leaguer.
“I just remember my first big
league camp being with the Dodg-
ers and getting cut and thinking
how that feeling was — and to say
you’re going to be our first arm out
of spring training going into the
season is really cool and really
surreal.”
Gray had the best season of his
career last year, earning his first
all-star nod as the Nationals’ lone
representative at the event.
Though his production tailed off
in the second half of the season —
he pitched to a 3.41 ERA before the
all-star break and a 4.76 ERA after
— Martinez and pitching coach
Jim Hickey have identified a
heightened level of maturity and
focus in Gray this spring.
MAnueL BALCe CeneTA/ASSoCiATed preSS
the second straight game in
Jones’s place and led the team
with 31 points on 12-for-19 shoot-
ing.
Justin Champagnie, the guard
who came to the Wizards on a
10-day contract last month and
earned a two-way deal, had
14 points and eight rebounds
starting alongside Poole, Corey
Kispert, Patrick Baldwin Jr. and
Richaun Holmes. He was a late
add to the starting lineup and
was tasked with guarding Tatum
on short notice.
“That’s tough, obviously,”
Champagnie said with a smile.
“. . . I had to take my little lumps
today. He scored a lot. But [I’ll]
just go back and watch the film,
see where I can be better, what I
can take from the game. Just
always try to constantly get bet-
ter. But it felt good to go out there
and compete, for sure.”
Forward Anthony Gill added
13 points, four rebounds and
three assists off the bench.
Josiah Gray said getting picked for his first Opening Day start “is really cool and really surreal.”
He showed he was ready, in
other words, for a bigger stage. In
the All-Star Game he threw a per-
fect inning. He allowed a .217 bat-
ting average against in high-
leverage moments in 2023, better
than his season average of .251.
The decision also signaled a gen-
erational shift, from the veteran
guard of Corbin (with Scherzer
and Stephen Strasburg before
him) to a younger cadre led by
Gray, 25-year-old left-hander
MacKenzie Gore and the stable of
Gen Z arms behind them.
“Coming into camp, he’s been
so much, so much different as far
as his growth,” Martinez said. “He
finally is understanding who he is,
working on things that he needs
to work on, not trying to reinvent
the wheel. He knows that he needs
to go out there and attack and
throw strikes. So he’s been a lot
different this spring. I’m proud of
him.”
Gray said the list for Opening
Day attendees includes his mom,
aunt, brother, girlfriend, agent,
girlfriend’s family and, well ...
“We’ll see because it just got
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reign 1,
spirit 0
BY S APNA B ANSIL
The Washington Spirit — with a
new coach, new color scheme and
a revamped roster — encountered
some familiar problems in a 1-0
season-opening loss to the Seattle
Reign on Sunday night at Lumen
Field.
The biggest of those problems
was also the most immediate:
About 10 seconds into the game,
Washington defender Gabrielle
Carle made an awkward challenge
on Jordyn Huitema in the penalty
area that led to a penalty kick for
the Reign. Bethany Balcer con-
verted a few minutes later, a goal
that proved to be decisive, beating
Aubrey Kingsbury with a low
drive into the left corner.
The Spirit, starting three rook-
ies and wearing its new highlight-
er-yellow uniforms, had no an-
swers, particularly during a list-
less first half.
“Anytime you start like that, it’s
unfortunate,” defender Casey
Krueger said. “It’s not how we
wanted to start. It’s a big mistake,
but it’s something we’re going to
learn from, I’ll tell you that. But
the group rallied, and we fought,
and I think that was a really big
positive that came out of it.”
Outshot 15-2, including 12-1 in
the first half, Washington with-
stood several attempts by Seattle
to double its lead. Kingsbury,
wearing the captain’s armband,
was credited with five saves, a few
of which were of the high-danger
variety. But she was sent off during
second-half stoppage time for in-
terfering with a scoring opportu-
nity just outside the box, a deci-
Bethany Balcer, second from right, scored on a third-minute
penalty kick, which was all the Reign needed vs. the visiting Spirit.
announced,” he said about an
hour after the Nationals made the
decision official Sunday morning.
“So I’ll probably get a lot of re-
quests pretty shortly.”
Just a few friends are left from
Gray’s time in Cincinnati’s minor
league system — Jonathan India,
Hunter Greene and Lyon Richard-
son came to mind. Cincinnati, he
said, is young and hungry. Just
like Washington.
“A really cool feeling,” Gray said
of the Opening Day opportunity.
“When you get to the big leagues,
you don’t really think about that.
But it was really cool to hear that
from [Martinez] and just to be
able to enjoy the moment with my
family.”
Nats make more roster moves
Washington made its second
round of roster decisions after
Sunday’s 9-8 win over the New
York Mets, optioning right-hand-
er Jackson Rutledge to Class AAA
Rochester while reassigning
right-handers Robert Gsellman
and Luis Perdomo, second base-
man Darren Baker, first baseman
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sion upheld after a lengthy video
review.
After ending last season score-
less in four of its final five games —
culminating in the team missing
the playoffs for the second consec-
utive season — the Spirit managed
one shot on goal in its 2024 season
opener. Krueger appeared to head
in a corner kick in the 69th min-
ute, but the goal was waived off
following a video review because
of goalkeeper interference by mid-
fielder Croix Bethune.
Bethune, the No. 3 overall selec-
tion in the NWSL draft, was one of
several newcomers to appear Sun-
day for Washington. The Spirit
deployed five rookies from its six-
player draft class, including Hal
Hershfelt and Kate Wiesner as
starters, while Makenna Morris
and Courtney Brown entered as
second-half substitutes. Washing-
ton’s two main free agent acquisi-
tions, Krueger and forward Britta-
ny Ratcliffe, also appeared in the
starting 11.
“For me, one of the key points
today was that some new players
had a chance to debut, especially
young players coming from col-
lege,” said interim coach Adrián
González, who also was making
his debut for the Spirit. “We be-
lieve a lot in their talent. We want
to help them to develop, so we
think that’s really positive for
them to get experience and to see
and understand what the league
demands.”
Wiesner left late in the first half
with an apparent left thigh injury.
The Spirit played without Trini-
ty Rodman, who was suspended
after receiving a red card in last
year’s season finale. The 21-year-
old forward is expected back for
Washington’s home opener at
7:30 p.m. Saturday against expan-
sion Bay FC at Audi Field.
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Gene J. puSkAr/ASSoCiATed preSS
Lewin Díaz and catcher Brady
Lindsly to minor league camp.
Martinez said he anticipates
Rutledge will join the rotation at
some point this season — noting
that the eight starters Washington
needed last year were probably an
aberration, in terms of health —
but wanted him to pitch every five
days in minor league camp.
Notable among the decisions
were Gsellman (allowed just one
run in nine innings this spring),
whom Martinez sees as a two-to-
three inning pitcher for Washing-
ton down the road, and Baker, the
son of former Nationals manager
Dusty Baker.
Finnegan out with back issue
Martinez announced that clos-
er Kyle Finnegan is out with a stiff
back and won’t return until after
the team’s day off Tuesday. The
right-hander led the Nationals
with 28 saves last season and had
a 3.76 ERA but hasn’t pitched
since March 12. Martinez said the
team is being cautious; he spoke
with Finnegan on Sunday, who
relayed that he feels “way better.”
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nba Magic 111, raptors 96 nHl Penguins 6, red Wings 3 Mls Dynamo 1, timbers 0
EAStErN cONFErENcE tOrONtO ........................... 24 23 26 23 — 96 AtLANtIc gp W L Ot pts gF gA dEtrOIt .................................. 1 1 1 — 3 EASt W L t pts gF gA Late Saturday
OrLANdO ........................... 26 26 35 24 — 111 Boston ........................ 69 40 14 15 95 231 190 pIttSBUrgH ........................... 3 2 1 — 6 Inter Miami CF ..................3 1 1 10 13 5
AtLANtIc W L pct gB pOrtLANd 0 0 0
Florida......................... 68 45 19 4 94 224 165 FIrSt pErIOd Columbus ..........................3 0 1 10 7 2 HOUStON 1 0 1
y-Boston..................................... 53 14 .791 — tOrONtO: Agbaji 4-10 0-0 9, Dick 4-11 0-0 10, Olynyk Toronto ....................... 66 38 19 9 85 241 208 Cincinnati ..........................2 0 2 8 4 2
New York .................................... 40 27 .597 13 5-8 0-0 11, Quickley 4-15 4-5 12, Trent Jr. 6-12 1-1 15, Tampa Bay.................. 67 36 25 6 78 235 225 Scoring: 1, Pittsburgh, Smith 12 (Pettersson, Karlsson), CF Montreal ......................2 1 1 7 8 7 First Half: 1, Houston, Aliyu, 2, 43rd minute.
Philadelphia................................ 37 30 .552 16 McDaniels 0-1 0-0 0, Nwora 7-9 3-3 18, Porter 2-5 0-0 4, Detroit ........................ 68 34 28 6 74 232 229 10:10. 2, Detroit, Raymond 21 (Chiarot, Perron), 15:39. 3, Toronto FC ........................2 1 1 7 3 2 Second Half: None.
Brooklyn ..................................... 26 42 .382 271/2 Brown 3-6 6-6 12, Freeman-Liberty 0-1 0-0 0, Ramsey Buffalo........................ 68 32 31 5 69 201 202 Pittsburgh, Crosby 33, 18:53. 4, Pittsburgh, Puustinen 4 New York...........................2 1 1 7 4 5 goalies: Portland, Maxime Crepeau, James Pantemis;
Toronto....................................... 23 45 .338 301/2 2-6 0-0 5. totals 37-84 14-15 96. Montreal..................... 67 25 31 11 61 186 236 (Eller, Smith), 19:16. Atlanta..............................2 1 0 6 6 2 Houston, Steve Clark, Andrew Tarbell.
Ottawa........................ 66 28 34 4 60 211 233 Nashville ...........................1 0 3 6 5 4 yellow cards: Dorsey, Houston, 52nd; Zuparic, Portland,
OrLANdO: Banchero 11-16 3-6 29, F.Wagner 8-13 6-6 SEcONd pErIOd 57th; Miller, Portland, 64th; Kowalczyk, Houston, 70th;
SOUtHEASt W L pct gB 22, Carter Jr. 4-8 0-0 9, G.Harris 3-9 0-1 7, Suggs 3-6 2-2 D.C. United ........................1 1 2 5 6 6
Orlando....................................... 40 28 .588 — Scoring: 5, Pittsburgh, Bunting 15 (Puustinen, Malkin), Chicago..............................1 2 1 4 8 9 Artur, Houston, 80th.
10, Howard 0-1 0-0 0, Okeke 0-1 0-0 0, Schofield 0-1 0-0 mEtrOpOLItAN gp W L Ot pts gF gA Portland, Maxime Crepeau; Eric Miller, Kamal Miller
Miami ......................................... 37 30 .552 21/2 0, Bitadze 0-0 0-0 0, M.Wagner 6-9 1-1 14, Ingles 1-1 2-2 N.Y. Rangers............... 68 45 19 4 94 229 185 9:34. 6, Detroit, Fischer 4 (Rasmussen, Petry), 17:35. 7, Charlotte FC ......................1 2 1 4 3 4
x-Atlanta .................................... 29 37 .439 10 Pittsburgh, Eller 14 (Crosby, Letang), 19:39 (pp). New York City FC ..............1 3 0 3 3 6 (David Ayala, 87th), Juan David Mosquera, Dario Zuparic
5, Anthony 3-8 0-0 6, Black 1-1 0-2 2, Fultz 2-7 0-0 4, Carolina....................... 68 42 20 6 90 232 184 (Miguel Araujo, 88th); Diego Chara, Evander, Santiago
Charlotte .................................... 17 51 .250 23 Houstan 1-4 0-0 3. totals 43-85 14-20 111. Philadelphia................ 68 34 26 8 76 202 208 Philadelphia ......................0 0 3 3 5 5
Washington................................ 11 57 .162 29 tHIrd pErIOd Orlando City ......................0 3 1 1 2 10 Moreno, Cristhian Paredes (Eryk Williamson, 65th);
three-point goals: Toronto 8-31 (Dick 2-3, Trent Jr. 2-6, Washington ................ 66 32 25 9 73 176 206 Antony Alves Santos, Dairon Asprilla (Nathan Fogaca,
N.Y. Islanders ............. 67 29 23 15 73 202 222 Scoring: 8, Detroit, Raymond 22 (Kane, Gostisbehere), New England .....................0 4 0 0 3 10
Olynyk 1-1, Agbaji 1-3, Nwora 1-3, Ramsey 1-4, Brown 76th).
cENtrAL W L pct gB Pittsburgh .................. 67 30 28 9 69 197 199 16:37 (pp). 9, Pittsburgh, O’Connor 10 (Rust, Graves),
0-1, Freeman-Liberty 0-1, McDaniels 0-1, Porter 0-2, Houston, Steve Clark; Ethan Bartlow, Griffin Dorsey,
Milwaukee.................................. 44 24 .647 — New Jersey ................. 68 32 32 4 68 220 236 19:34 (en). WESt W L t pts gF gA
Quickley 0-6), Orlando 11-36 (Banchero 4-7, Suggs 2-2, Franco Escobar, Micael; Artur, Adalberto Carrasquilla,
Cleveland.................................... 42 25 .627 11/2 Ingles 1-1, M.Wagner 1-3, Carter Jr. 1-4, Houstan 1-4, Columbus.................... 68 23 34 11 57 199 246 Minnesota United .............3 0 1 10 8 4 Jan Gregus, Sebastian Kowalczyk (Gabe Segal, 76th);
SHOtS ON gOAL Vancouver .........................2 0 1 7 6 2
Indiana........................................ 38 30 .559 6 G.Harris 1-7, Fultz 0-1, Howard 0-1, Okeke 0-1, F.Wagner Ibrahim Aliyu (Brad Smith, 83rd), Amine Bassi (Brooklyn
Chicago ....................................... 33 35 .485 11 dEtrOIt .................................. 4 12 11 — 27 Portland ............................2 1 1 7 8 5 Raines, 90th+3).
0-2, Anthony 0-3). Fouled Out: None. rebounds: Toronto cENtrAL gp W L Ot pts gF gA
Detroit ........................................ 12 55 .179 311/2 pIttSBUrgH ......................... 15 11 14 — 40 LA Galaxy ..........................1 0 3 6 9 7
37 (Agbaji, Nwora, Porter, Quickley 7), Orlando 39 Winnipeg .................... 67 43 19 5 91 210 158
(F.Wagner 8). Assists: Toronto 23 (Quickley 5), Orlando Colorado...................... 68 43 20 5 91 254 204 power-play opportunities: Detroit 1 of 2; Pittsburgh 1 of St. Louis City SC ...............1 0 3 6 8 6
WEStErN cONFErENcE 4. goalies: Detroit, Lyon 18-15-2 (39 shots-34 saves). Sporting KC .......................1 0 3 6 4 3
22 (Banchero 5). total Fouls: Toronto 18, Orlando 16. A: Dallas.......................... 69 41 19 9 91 251 210
Pittsburgh, Nedeljkovic 10-6-4 (27-24). A: 17,191 Colorado ............................1 1 2 5 5 7 Minnesota united 2,
SOUtHWESt W L pct gB 18,846 (18,846) Nashville..................... 68 39 25 4 82 219 204
New Orleans............................... 41 26 .612 — St. Louis...................... 68 36 29 3 75 194 205 (18,387). t: 2:27. Real Salt Lake ...................1 2 1 4 5 5 los angeles Fc 0
Minnesota .................. 68 33 27 8 74 212 219 Houston ............................1 1 1 4 3 3
Dallas.......................................... 39
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Chicago ....................... 68 19 44 5 43 150 242 FC Dallas ...........................1 3 0 3 5 8
Memphis..................................... 23 45 .338 181/2
San Antonio................................ 15 53 .221 261/2 spurs 122, nets 115 (ot) blues 4, Ducks 2 Austin FC ..........................0 1 3 3 5 6 LOS ANgELES Fc
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pAcIFIc gp W L Ot pts gF gA ANAHEIm ................................ 1 0 1 — 2 San Jose............................0 4 0 0 3 9 First Half: 1, Minnesota, Lod, 2 (Jeong), 16th minute.
BrOOKLyN .................... 29 27 27 27 5 — 115 Vancouver................... 68 42 18 8 92 238 184 St. LOUIS ................................. 0 1 3 — 4
NOrtHWESt W L pct gB SAN ANtONIO ............... 25 30 25 30 12 — 122 Second Half: 2, Minnesota, Hlongwane, 2 (Tapias), 88th.
Oklahoma City............................ 47 20 .701 — Edmonton ................... 65 40 21 4 84 231 185 SUNdAy’S rESULtS goalies: Los Angeles FC, Hugo Lloris, Abraham Romero;
1/ Los Angeles ................ 67 34 22 11 79 204 178 FIrSt pErIOd
Denver ........................................ 47 21 .691 2 BrOOKLyN: Bridges 5-16 1-1 14, Finney-Smith 4-9 0-0 8, D.C. United 0, at Cincinnati 0 Minnesota, Dayne St. Clair, Clint Irwin.
Minnesota .................................. 46 21 .687 1 Claxton 5-9 1-3 11, Schroder 8-19 1-2 19, Thomas 12-23 Vegas .......................... 67 36 24 7 79 216 200 Scoring: 1, Anaheim, Terry 18 (Mintyukov, LaCombe), yellow cards: Murillo, Los Angeles FC, 22nd; Clark,
Calgary........................ 67 33 29 5 71 211 215 13:41. LA Galaxy 2, at Nashville 2
Utah............................................ 29 38 .433 18 6-6 31, C.Johnson 4-9 3-4 12, Sharpe 7-9 1-3 15, Smith Jr. Minnesota, 32nd; Oluwaseyi, Minnesota, 86th; Atuesta,
Portland...................................... 19 48 .284 28 Seattle ........................ 66 28 26 12 68 180 190 CF Montreal 3, at Miami 2
2-6 0-0 5, Walker IV 0-2 0-0 0. totals 47-102 13-19 115. SEcONd pErIOd Los Angeles FC, 90th+3.
Anaheim ..................... 68 23 42 3 49 171 248 Los Angeles FC, Hugo Lloris; Ryan Hollingshead (Sergi
SAN ANtONIO: Champagnie 0-3 0-0 0, Sochan 1-8 2-2 4, San Jose ..................... 67 16 44 7 39 148 268 SAtUrdAy’S rESULtS
pAcIFIc W L pct gB Scoring: 2, St. Louis, Hayes 13 (Bolduc, Krug), 14:56. Palencia, 69th), Aaron Long, Jesus Murillo (Eddie
Wembanyama 14-26 4-6 33, Jones 4-7 3-3 11, Vassell Miami 3, at D.C. United 1
x-L.A. Clippers............................ 42 24 .636 — SAtUrdAy’S rESULtS Segura, 68th); Eduard Atuesta, Mateusz Bogusz, Omar
11-21 2-2 25, Osman 4-7 0-0 10, Collins 1-3 4-4 6, tHIrd pErIOd at Chicago 4, CF Montreal 3
Sacramento ................................ 38 28 .576 4 Chagoya, Ilie Sanchez (David Emmanuel Martinez Mo-
Kel.Johnson 8-12 3-3 24, Branham 2-8 3-3 7, Wesley 1-4 Washington 2, at Vancouver 1 Colorado 1, at Seattle 1
Phoenix....................................... 39 29 .574 4 Scoring: 3, St. Louis, Thomas 22 (Buchnevich, Faulk), rales, 68th), Timothy Tillmann; Denis Bouanga, Cristian
0-0 2. totals 46-99 21-23 122. at Detroit 4, Buffalo 1 at Columbus 3, New York 0
Golden State .............................. 35 31 .530 7 1:53 (pp). 4, St. Louis, Neighbours 22 (Schenn, Buchnev- Olivera (Nathan Ordaz, 82nd).
L.A. Lakers.................................. 36 32 .529 7 three-point goals: Brooklyn 8-31 (Bridges 3-7, Schroder Ottawa 4, at N.Y. Islanders 3 (OT) ich), 6:12 (pp). 5, St. Louis, Thomas 23 (Faulk, Buchnev- at New York City FC 2, Toronto FC 1 Minnesota, Dayne St. Clair; Michael Boxall, Devin
2-6, Smith Jr. 1-2, C.Johnson 1-5, Thomas 1-5, Claxton N.Y. Rangers 7, at Pittsburgh 4 ich), 9:33 (pp). 6, Anaheim, Terry 19 (Killorn, Carlsson), Philadelphia 2, at Austin FC 2 Padelford, D.J. Taylor; Caden Clark (Franco Fragapane,
x-Late game; y-Clinched playoff spot 0-1, Walker IV 0-2, Finney-Smith 0-3), San Antonio 9-37 at Arizona 4, New Jersey 1 19:52. Vancouver 3, at FC Dallas 1 61st), Hassani Dotson, Robin Lod (Emanuel Reynoso,
(Kel.Johnson 5-8, Osman 2-4, Vassell 1-7, Wembanya- Tampa Bay 5, at Florida 3 at Houston 1, Portland 0 60th), Miguel Tapias, Wil Trapp (Kervin Arriaga,
SAtUrdAy’S rESULtS ma 1-7, Collins 0-1, Jones 0-1, Wesley 0-1, Sochan 0-2, SHOtS ON gOAL 90th+1); Sang-bin Jeong (Tani Oluwaseyi, 70th), Teemu
at Columbus 4, San Jose 2 at Sporting KC 2, San Jose 1
at Chicago 127, Washington 98 Branham 0-3, Champagnie 0-3). Fouled Out: None. ANAHEIm ................................ 7 11 10 — 28 Pukki (Bongokuhle Hlongwane, 70th).
rebounds: Brooklyn 48 (Claxton 14), San Antonio 50 at Calgary 5, Montreal 2 at Minnesota 2, Los Angeles FC 0
at Houston 117, Cleveland 103 St. LOUIS ................................. 9 10 8 — 27
(Wembanyama 15). Assists: Brooklyn 29 (Schroder 7), at Boston 6, Philadelphia 5 at Nashville 2, Charlotte FC 1
at Philadelphia 109, Charlotte 98 power-play opportunities: Anaheim 0 of 2; St. Louis 3 of
San Antonio 30 (Vassell 8). total Fouls: Brooklyn 20, San Carolina 5, at Toronto 4 (SO) St. Louis City SC 3, at LA Galaxy 3
at Indiana 121, Brooklyn 100
Antonio 17. A: 16,057 (15,000) at Dallas 4, Los Angeles 1
6. goalies: Anaheim, Dostal 10-19-1 (27 shots-23
saves). St. Louis, Hofer 12-11-0 (28-26). A: 18,096
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at New Orleans 126, Portland 107 SUNdAy’S rESULtS
at St. Louis 3, Minnesota 2 (18,096). t: 2:30. W L t pts gF gA
Oklahoma City 118, at Memphis 112 Cincinnati 2, at New England 1
Nashville 4, at Seattle 1 North Carolina...................1 0 0 3 5 1
Golden State 128, at L.A. Lakers 121 at Atlanta 2, Orlando City 0
Colorado 3, at Edmonton 2 (OT) Chicago..............................1 0 0 3 2 0
Minnesota 119, at Utah 100
New York 98, at Sacramento 91 bulls 127, Wizards 98 SUNdAy’S rESULtS SAtUrdAy’S mAtcHES Kansas City .......................1 0 0 3 5 4

Late Saturday at N.Y. Rangers 5, N.Y. Islanders 2 capitals 2, canucks 1 D.C. United at St. Louis City SC, 8:30
Bay FC ...............................1
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Boston 130, at Washington 104 WASHINgtON ................... 19 26 24 29 — 98
at Vegas 3, New Jersey 1 Late Saturday Chicago at New England, 2 Orlando .............................0 0 1 1 2 2
Carolina 7, at Ottawa 2 Miami at New York, 2 Louisville...........................0 0 1 1 2 2
at Milwaukee 140, Phoenix 129 cHIcAgO ............................ 32 35 28 32 — 127 WASHINgtON ......................... 0 2 0 — 2 Real Salt Lake at Vancouver, 7:30 Gotham FC ........................0 0 0 0 0 0
at Chicago 5, San Jose 2 vANcOUvEr ........................... 1 0 0 — 1
Miami 104, at Detroit 101 Columbus at Charlotte FC, 7:30 San Diego ..........................0 0 0 0 0 0
WASHINgtON: Kispert 6-12 1-1 16, Kuzma 5-10 1-2 11, Winnipeg 6, at Columbus 1
at Dallas 107, Denver 105 FIrSt pErIOd New York City FC at Cincinnati, 7:30 Portland ............................0 1 0 0 4 5
Holmes 3-8 1-2 7, Coulibaly 5-9 4-8 15, Poole 4-12 2-2 13, at Pittsburgh 6, Detroit 3
at Orlando 111, Toronto 96 Baldwin Jr. 2-6 0-0 6, Gill 1-3 0-0 2, Omoruyi 2-3 3-6 7, Austin FC at Orlando City, 7:30 Angel City .........................0 1 0 0 0 1
at St. Louis 4, Anaheim 2 Scoring: 1, Vancouver, Boeser 36 (Hughes, Mikheyev), Washington ......................0 1 0 0 0 1
at San Antonio 122, Brooklyn 115 (OT) Champagnie 4-9 0-0 11, Bernard 0-1 0-0 0, Butler 2-5 1-1 Atlanta at Toronto FC, 7:30
1:11. Utah Royals FC..................0 1 0 0 0 2
Atlanta at L.A. Clippers, late 5, Davis 2-6 0-0 5. totals 36-84 13-22 98. mONdAy’S gAmES LA Galaxy at Sporting KC, 8:30
SEcONd pErIOd Houston ............................0 1 0 0 1 5
mONdAy’S gAmES cHIcAgO: Craig 2-5 0-0 4, DeRozan 3-7 7-11 13, Vucevic Washington at Calgary, 8:30 Houston at Colorado, 9:30
11-19 6-6 29, Caruso 7-12 0-0 16, Dosunmu 14-22 2-2 34, Buffalo at Seattle, 10 Scoring: 2, Washington, Wilson 16 (Miroshnichenko, Nashville at Los Angeles FC, 10:30
Cleveland at Indiana, 7 SAtUrdAy’S rESULtS
Taylor 1-1 0-0 2, Terry 2-3 1-2 6, Bitim 3-5 0-0 6, Carlson), 6:01. 3, Washington, Ovechkin 19 (Alexeyev, Philadelphia at Portland, 10:30
Detroit at Boston, 7:30 tUESdAy’S gAmES McMichael), 7:54. at Kansas City 5, Portland 4
Drummond 4-5 5-8 13, Sanogo 1-1 0-0 2, Carter 1-4 0-0 2, Seattle at San Jose, 10:30
Miami at Philadelphia, 7:30 Funk 0-1 0-0 0. totals 49-85 21-29 127. Columbus at Detroit, 7 Orlando 2, at Louisville 2
Portland at Chicago, 8 Ottawa at Boston, 7 SHOtS ON gOAL at North Carolina 5, Houston 1
Minnesota at Utah, 9 three-point goals: Washington 13-32 (Champagnie 3-6,
Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 7 WASHINgtON ......................... 6 14 4 — 24 Chicago 2, at Utah Royals FC 0
Kispert 3-6, Poole 3-6, Baldwin Jr. 2-5, Coulibaly 1-3, Davis
Memphis at Sacramento, 10
1-3, Butler 0-1, Gill 0-1, Holmes 0-1), Chicago 8-24 (Dosunmu Toronto at Philadelphia, 7 vANcOUvEr ........................... 6 5 11 — 22 Fc cincinnati 2, revolution 1 SUNdAy’S rESULtS
New York at Golden State, 10 4-7, Caruso 2-4, Terry 1-1, Vucevic 1-3, DeRozan 0-1, Bitim Winnipeg at N.Y. Rangers, 7 power-play opportunities: Washington 0 of 1; Vancouver
Atlanta at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 0-2, Carter 0-3, Craig 0-3). Fouled Out: None. rebounds: Carolina at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 0 of 1. goalies: Washington, Lindgren 17-11-5 (22 cINcINNAtI 0 2 2 at OL Reign 1, Washington 0
Washington 32 (Coulibaly 8), Chicago 51 (Vucevic 13). Colorado at St. Louis, 8 shots-21 saves). Vancouver, DeSmith 8-5-6 (24-22). A: NEW ENgLANd 0 1 1 Bay FC 1, at Angel City 0
tUESdAy’S gAmES 18,859 (18,910). t: 2:22.
Assists: Washington 27 (Poole 8), Chicago 33 (Dosunmu 9). San Jose at Nashville, 8 First Half: None. FrIdAy’S mAtcHES
Houston at Washington, 7 total Fouls: Washington 21, Chicago 16. A: 21,697 (20,917) Second Half: 1, Cincinnati, Kubo, 1, 52nd minute; 2,
Montreal at Edmonton, 9 Angel City at Orlando, 8
Charlotte at Orlando, 7 Cincinnati, Acosta, 1, 54th; 3, New England, Vrioni, 1,
Buffalo at Vancouver, 10 North Carolina at Utah Royals FC, 9:30
New Orleans at Brooklyn, 7:30 62nd.
Chicago at Los Angeles, 10
Dallas at San Antonio, 8
Minnesota at Anaheim, 10 bruins 6, Flyers 5 goalies: Cincinnati, Roman Celentano, Evan Louro; New SAtUrdAy’S mAtcHES
Denver at Minnesota, 9 thunder 118, grizzlies 112 England, Henrich Ravas, Earl Edwards Jr..
Tampa Bay at Vegas, 10 Late Saturday yellow cards: Harkes, New England, 48th; Yedlin, Bay FC at Washington, 7:30
WEdNESdAy’S gAmES Late Saturday pHILAdELpHIA ........................ 1 1 3 — 5
Cincinnati, 63rd; Luca Orellano, Cincinnati, 69th; Acosta, OL Reign at Chicago, 4
Indiana at Detroit, 7 Cincinnati, 72nd; Jones, New England, 83rd; Bucha, Louisville at Houston, 8:30
OKLAHOmA cIty ............... 29 27 35 27 — 118 BOStON ................................... 1 1 4 — 6 Cincinnati, 85th; Vrioni, New England, 90th+5; Gil, New
Miami at Cleveland, 7 Kansas City at San Diego, 10
mEmpHIS ........................... 27 27 24 34 — 112
Milwaukee at Boston, 7:30 rangers 5, islanders 2 FIrSt pErIOd England, 90th+8; Boupendza, Cincinnati, 90th+9.
Cincinnati, Roman Celentano; Kipp Keller (Ian Murphy,
Sacramento at Toronto, 7:30 OKLAHOmA cIty: Dort 3-6 4-4 12, Jal.Williams 9-17 4-5 N.y. ISLANdErS ...................... 1 1 0 — 2 Scoring: 1, Philadelphia, Poehling 9 (Hathaway, Zamu- 74th), Matt Miazga, Miles Robinson, DeAndre Yedlin;
Utah at Oklahoma City, 8 23, Holmgren 8-13 4-4 22, Giddey 6-12 0-0 13, Gilgeous- N.y. rANgErS ......................... 0 3 2 — 5 la), 4:18. 2, Boston, Geekie 16 (Wotherspoon, DeBrusk), Corey Baird (Stiven Jimenez, 87th), Pavel Bucha, Malik
L.A. Clippers at Portland, 10 Alexander 8-16 3-6 20, Hayward 2-3 1-2 6, Jay.Williams 15:51. Pinto (Luciano Acosta, 50th); Yuya Kubo, Sergio Santos c ol l ege b ask etba ll
Memphis at Golden State, 10 0-1 0-0 0, Muscala 0-0 0-0 0, K.Williams 2-4 0-0 6, Joe 4-8 FIrSt pErIOd (Aaron Boupendza, 66th), Gerardo Valenzuela (Luca
0-0 10, Wallace 2-5 0-0 4, Wiggins 1-2 0-0 2. totals 45-87 SEcONd pErIOd
Philadelphia at Phoenix, 10 Scoring: 1, N.Y. Islanders, Horvat 28 (Nelson), 14:08 Orellano, 46th).
16-21 118.
(sh). Scoring: 3, Philadelphia, Farabee 20 (York, Tippett), New England, Henrich Ravas; DeJuan Jones, Henry ncaa men
mEmpHIS: Aldama 6-12 1-3 16, Jackson 5-14 7-8 19, 12:01. 4, Boston, Coyle 22 (Marchand, Zacha), 15:22 (pp). Kessler, Nick Lima (Ryan Spaulding, 66th), Dave Rom-
Jackson Jr. 7-11 2-2 19, Bane 7-17 4-6 22, Kennard 3-7 SEcONd pErIOd ney; Esmir Bajraktarevic (Nacho Gil, 66th), Carles Gil, Ian SUNdAy’S rESULtS
celtics 130, Wizards 104 0-0 9, Gabriel 1-4 0-0 2, LaRavia 4-9 4-4 14, Konchar 3-5 tHIrd pErIOd Harkes (Emmanuel Boateng, 86th), Mark-Anthony Alabama Birmingham 85, Temple 69
Scoring: 2, N.Y. Rangers, Zibanejad 22 (Roslovic), 0:27. 3,
2-3 9, Jarreau 1-2 0-0 2. totals 37-81 20-26 112. Scoring: 5, Boston, Coyle 23 (Lindholm, Pastrnak), 1:08. Kaye; Tomas Chancalay, Giacomo Vrioni. Auburn 86, Florida 67
Boston ................................ 45 36 27 22 — 130 N.Y. Rangers, Cuylle 12 (Lindgren, Fox), 10:14. 4, N.Y. Duquesne 57, VCU 51
three-point goals: Oklahoma City 12-35 (Holmgren 2-4, Islanders, Horvat 29 (Reilly, Nelson), 13:55. 5, N.Y. 6, Boston, Beecher 6 (Peeke, Boqvist), 3:45. 7, Boston,
Washington ........................ 27 26 25 26 — 104 Illinois 93, Wisconsin 87
K.Williams 2-4, Dort 2-5, Joe 2-5, Hayward 1-1, Jal.Wil- Rangers, Brodzinski 5 (Miller, Wennberg), 15:01. DeBrusk 17 (Marchand, Lindholm), 4:04. 8, Philadelphia,
Deslauriers 1, 14:12. 9, Philadelphia, Frost 11 (York, Yale 62, Brown 61
BOStON mIN Fg Ft O-t A pF ptS
Brissett 28:54 1-5 5-6 3-4 2 3 7
liams 1-3, Gilgeous-Alexander 1-4, Giddey 1-6, Wallace
0-3), Memphis 18-44 (Bane 4-9, Jackson Jr. 3-4, Aldama
tHIrd pErIOd Tippett), 15:14. 10, Boston, Heinen 13 (Frederic), 17:01. atlanta united 2, orlando city 0
Tatum 26:36 8-17 8-10 0-6 6 1 30 3-7, Kennard 3-7, LaRavia 2-5, Jackson 2-8, Konchar 1-2, Scoring: 6, N.Y. Rangers, Kakko 10 (Jones, Gustafsson), 11, Philadelphia, Farabee 21 (Tippett, Konecny), 17:56.
OrLANdO cIty 0 0 0
Horford 22:48 5-7 2-2 2-4 2 3 14 Gabriel 0-1, Jarreau 0-1). Fouled Out: None. rebounds: 2:36. 7, N.Y. Rangers, Lafreniere 19 (Panarin, Miller),
Hauser 22:49 10-13 0-0 0-6 1 1 30 Oklahoma City 45 (Holmgren 11), Memphis 36 (Aldama, 10:42.
SHOtS ON gOAL AtLANtA 1 1 2 no. 13 illinois 93, Wisconsin 87
Holiday 22:13 3-7 0-0 0-1 3 2 7 pHILAdELpHIA ........................ 8 10 11 — 29 First Half: 1, Atlanta, Lobzhanidze, 1, 9th minute.
Jackson Jr. 6). Assists: Oklahoma City 25 (Jal.Williams Wisconsin (22-13)
Pritchard 34:54 6-15 0-0 2-5 13 0 14 6), Memphis 34 (Kennard 9). total Fouls: Oklahoma City SHOtS ON gOAL BOStON ................................... 5 15 10 — 30 Second Half: 2, Atlanta, Giakoumakis, 4 (Lennon), 71st.
goalies: Orlando City, Pedro Gallese, Mason Stajduhar; Crowl 5-12 0-0 11, Wahl 2-3 3-4 7, Hepburn 7-13 6-6 20,
Mykhailiuk 22:35 3-7 0-0 0-5 2 0 9 19, Memphis 20. A: 17,012 (18,119) N.y. ISLANdErS ...................... 7 14 6 — 27 power-play opportunities: Philadelphia 0 of 3; Boston 1
Atlanta, Brad Guzan, Joshua Cohen. Klesmit 6-8 0-0 16, Storr 7-20 8-10 24, Gilmore 2-3 3-3 7,
Kornet 20:03 5-9 4-4 3-6 1 1 14 N.y. rANgErS ....................... 12 11 8 — 31 of 2. goalies: Philadelphia, Sandstrom 1-1-0 (30 shots-
yellow cards: Wiley, Atlanta, 23rd; Muyumba, Atlanta, Blackwell 0-2 0-0 0, McGee 1-2 0-0 2, Winter 0-1 0-0 0.
Springer 16:00 1-3 0-0 1-2 0 4 2 power-play opportunities: N.Y. Islanders 0 of 3; N.Y. 24 saves). Boston, Swayman 22-7-8 (29-24). A: 17,850
45th+1; Jansson, Orlando City, 49th; Silva, Atlanta, 51st; totals 30-64 20-23 87.
Tillman 14:46 1-4 1-2 1-2 0 1 3 Rangers 0 of 1. goalies: N.Y. Islanders, Sorokin 22-16-11 (17,565). t: 2:34.
Guzan, Atlanta, 74th; Almada, Atlanta, 90th+6. Illinois (26-8)
Queta 8:22 0-0 0-0 0-2 0 1 0 (31 shots-26 saves). N.Y. Rangers, Shesterkin 29-14-2 Hawkins 3-8 0-0 7, Shannon 8-15 15-17 34, Domask 8-11
Orlando City, Pedro Gallese; David Brekalo, Robin
tOtALS 240 43-87 20-24 12-43 30 17 130 b a s eb a l l (27-25). A: 18,006 (18,006). t: 2:26. Jansson, Rafael Santos, Kyle Smith; Nicolas Lodeiro 9-10 26, Guerrier 2-7 0-0 6, Rodgers 3-6 1-2 7, Dainja 4-4
(Shak Mohammed, 87th), Martin Ojeda (Facundo Torres, 1-1 9, Goode 0-2 0-0 0, Harmon 1-2 0-0 2, Gibbs-Lawhorn
percentages: FG .494, FT .833. 3-point goals: 24-50, .480
(Hauser 10-13, Tatum 6-12, Mykhailiuk 3-6, Horford 2-4,
blues 3, Wild 2 (so) 74th), Dagur Dan Thorhallsson (Michael Halliday, 87th); 1-2 0-0 2. totals 30-57 26-30 93.
Pritchard 2-5, Holiday 1-2, Springer 0-2, Brissett 0-3, Mlb spring training Late Saturday Ivan Angulo, Duncan McGuire, Luis Muriel (Jeorgio Halftime: Illinois 41-40. three-point goals: Wisconsin 7-20
Tillman 0-3). team rebounds: 8. team turnovers: 1. golden knights 3, Devils 1 Kocevski, 81st). (Klesmit 4-6, Storr 2-7, Crowl 1-4, Gilmore 0-1, Hepburn
SAtUrdAy’S rESULtS mINNESOtA ...................... 0 0 2 0 — 2 Atlanta, Brad Guzan; Stian Gregersen, Brooks Lennon, 0-2), Illinois 7-20 (Shannon 3-6, Guerrier 2-4, Domask 1-1,
Blocked Shots: 6 (Holiday 2, Kornet 2, Tatum, Tillman). NEW JErSEy ........................... 0 0 1 — 1 Hawkins 1-5, Gibbs-Lawhorn 0-1, Harmon 0-1, Goode 0-2).
turnovers: 14 (Holiday 3, Springer 3, Tatum 2, Brissett, St. Louis 8, Washington 5 St. LOUIS ........................... 0 1 1 1 — 3 Caleb Wiley, Derrick Williams (Ronald Hernandez, 85th);
vEgAS ..................................... 0 0 3 — 3 Fouled out: Wahl. rebounds: Wisconsin 25 (Crowl, Hep-
Horford, Kornet, Pritchard, Queta, Tillman). Steals: 9 Baltimore 5, Boston 4 Thiago Almada, Saba Lobzhanidze (Edwin Mosquera,
Minnesota 6, Tampa Bay 5 tHIrd pErIOd St. LOUIS WON SHOOtOUt 2-1 85th), Bartosz Slisz; Giorgos Giakoumakis (Jamal Thi- burn, Storr 5), Illinois 35 (Domask, Dainja 7). Assists:
(Tatum 3, Tillman 2, Hauser, Holiday, Pritchard, Spring- SEcONd pErIOd Wisconsin 17 (Crowl, Hepburn 5), Illinois 14 (Domask 8).
N.Y. Yankees 10, Toronto 9 are, 85th), Tristan Muyumba (Luis Abram, 78th), Xande
er). technical Fouls: Springer, 3:19 third. Philadelphia 3, Miami 3 Scoring: 1, New Jersey, Hischier 22, 0:38. 2, Vegas, total fouls: Wisconsin 20, Illinois 19. A: 13,991 (19,356).
Scoring: 1, St. Louis, Kyrou 21 (Thomas, Neighbours), Silva (Ajani Fortune, 70th).
WASHINgtON mIN Fg Ft O-t A pF ptS Chi. Cubs (ss) 7, Kansas City 6 Carrier 6 (Pietrangelo, Hanifin), 2:57. 3, Vegas, Eichel 21
Arizona 5, Texas (ss) 4 (Hanifin), 11:06. 4, Vegas, Karlsson 24 (Stephenson, 5:49 (pp).
Baldwin Jr. 31:50 2-11 0-0 0-7 4 1 6 Theodore), 19:41 (en).
San Francisco (ss) 6, Cleveland 0 tHIrd pErIOd
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Detroit 6, Pittsburgh (ss) 4
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San Francisco (ss) 11, Chi. White Sox (ss) 7 Scoring: 2, St. Louis, Schenn 14 (Kyrou, Leddy), 0:27. 3,
Kispert 21:09 1-5 1-2 0-2 1 3 4 Seattle (ss) 11, Cincinnati 7 NEW JErSEy ........................... 7 7 6 — 20 Minnesota, Rossi 18 (Kaprizov), 1:10. 4, Minnesota, Late Saturday SUNdAy’S rESULtS
Poole 23:23 12-19 4-5 1-2 4 2 31 Milwaukee (ss) 11, Oakland (ss) 4 Kaprizov 35 (Bogosian, Zuccarello), 16:01. 1 0 1 Drake 76, Missouri State 75
vEgAS ................................... 13 11 13 — 37 tOrONtO Fc
Gill 24:44 5-11 2-2 2-4 3 4 13 Milwaukee (ss) 5, Texas (ss) 1 Drexel 68, Stony Brook 60
Bernard 23:49 5-12 1-1 2-4 1 0 12 power-play opportunities: New Jersey 0 of 2; Vegas 0 of SHOOtOUt NEW yOrK cIty Fc 1 1 2
Seattle (ss) 8, Chi. White Sox (ss) 2 Sacred Heart 69, Le Moyne 48
Davis 22:24 4-7 0-0 1-4 1 3 8 Chi. Cubs (ss) 4, L.A. Angels 3 2. goalies: New Jersey, Allen 7-13-3 (36 shots-34
saves). Vegas, Thompson 18-12-5 (20-19). A: 18,234 St. Louis 2 (Thomas NG, Neighbours NG, Schenn G, First Half: 1, Toronto FC, Marshall-Rutty, 1 (Coello), 7th Holy Cross 61, Boston U. 55
Butler 22:07 3-6 2-2 1-3 6 0 8 Colorado 11, Oakland (ss) 9 minute; 2, New York City FC, Rodriguez, 2, 24th.
N.Y. Mets 6, Houston 1 (17,367). t: 2:28. Kyrou G), Minnesota 1 (Zuccarello NG, Kaprizov NG,
Omoruyi 15:20 0-1 0-0 1-2 2 2 0 Second Half: 3, New York City FC, O’Toole, 1 (Fernan-
Pittsburgh (ss) 4, Atlanta 2 Boldy G, Gaudreau NG).
tOtALS 240 41-89 12-14 10-40 24 20 104 dez), 64th.
L.A. Dodgers 14, Kiwoom Heroes 3 SHOtS ON gOAL goalies: Toronto FC, Luka Gavran, Greg Ranjitsingh; New golF
percentages: FG .461, FT .857. 3-point goals: 10-34, .294
(Poole 3-6, Champagnie 2-4, Baldwin Jr. 2-7, Bernard
SUNdAy’S rESULtS Hurricanes 7, senators 2 mINNESOtA ...................... 6 8 8 2 — 24 York City FC, Matt Freese, Luis Barraza.
yellow cards: Long, Toronto FC, 23rd; Bernardeschi,
Washington 9, N.Y. Mets (ss) 8 St. LOUIS ......................... 11 12 13 1 — 37
1-4, Gill 1-4, Kispert 1-5, Butler 0-1, Omoruyi 0-1, Davis
0-2). team rebounds: 7. team turnovers: None. Blocked
Baltimore (ss) 8, Atlanta (ss) 2 cArOLINA ............................... 1 2 4 — 7 power-play opportunities: Minnesota 0 of 0; St. Louis 1 Toronto FC, 28th; Risa, New York City FC, 42nd; Parks, Pga tour
Baltimore (ss) 4, Detroit 4 OttAWA .................................. 1 1 0 — 2 of 2. goalies: Minnesota, Fleury 16-11-4 (37 shots-35 New York City FC, 63rd; O’Neill, Toronto FC, 72nd; Haak,
Shots: 5 (Baldwin Jr. 2, Davis 2, Holmes). turnovers: 16 San Diego 1, Korea 0 New York City FC, 90th+3; Sands, New York City FC, pLAyErS cHAmpIONSHIp
(Butler 3, Champagnie 3, Baldwin Jr. 2, Bernard 2, Gill 2, FIrSt pErIOd saves). St. Louis, Binnington 24-18-3 (24-22). A: 18,096
Pittsburgh 8, Tampa Bay 4 90th+5; Insigne, Toronto FC, 90th+7. At TPC Sawgrass (Stadium Course)
Holmes, Kispert, Omoruyi, Poole). Steals: 3 (Champag- (18,096). t: 2:44. In Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
St. Louis 10, Houston 6 Scoring: 1, Carolina, Orlov 4 (Lemieux, Necas), 7:19. 2, red cards: Parks, New York City FC, 68th.
nie 2, Baldwin Jr.). technical Fouls: Omoruyi, 3:19 third. Boston (ss) 12, N.Y. Yankees 6 Ottawa, Chabot 7 (Kelly, Tkachuk), 13:50. A: 90. purse: $25 million
A: 20,333 (20,356). t: 2:12. Boston (ss) 3, Atlanta (ss) 3 Toronto FC, Luka Gavran; Kevin Long, Shane O’Neill, yardage: 7,275; par: 72
Toronto (ss) 5, Philadelphia 5 SEcONd pErIOd Sigurd Rosted (Tyrese Spicer, 75th); Alonso Coello (Ayo
Toronto (ss) 9, Minnesota 4 FINAL rOUNd
N.Y. Mets (ss) 7, Miami 6 Scoring: 3, Carolina, Kuznetsov 8 (Skjei, Orlov), 2:03 stars 4, kings 1 Akinola, 75th), Deybi Flores, Matthew Longstaff (Kobe
Franklin, 46th); Federico Bernardeschi, Lorenzo Insigne, $4,500,000
bucks 140, suns 129 Chi. White Sox 3, Oakland 3 (pp). 4, Ottawa, Stutzle 17 (Giroux, Chabot), 4:51. 5,
Carolina, Jarvis 23 (Guentzel, Aho), 19:38. Late Saturday Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty (Deandre Kerr, 90th+4), Scottie Scheffler (750) ............. 67 69 68 64 —268 -20
Chi. Cubs 8, Texas 6
Colorado 5, San Francisco 3 Prince-Osei Owusu (Kosi Thompson, 57th). $1,891,667
pHOENIX ............................ 36 24 34 35 — 129 tHIrd pErIOd LOS ANgELES .......................... 0 0 1 — 1 New York City FC, Matt Freese; Mitja Ilenic, Thiago
mILWAUKEE ...................... 39 43 27 31 — 140 Arizona (ss) 2, L.A. Angels 0 dALLAS .................................... 3 1 0 — 4 Wyndham Clark (358) ............... 65 65 70 69 —269 -19
Arizona (ss) 5, Seattle 4 Martins, Birk Risa; Keaton Parks, Santiago Rodriguez, Brian Harman (358) .................. 72 65 64 68 —269 -19
Scoring: 6, Carolina, Chatfield 7 (Aho, Orlov), 4:41. 7,
pHOENIX: Allen 8-14 3-3 25, Durant 4-10 2-2 11, Nurkic Cleveland 4, Cincinnati 2 FIrSt pErIOd James Sands, Hannes Wolf (Tayvon Gray, 83rd); Monsef Xander Schauffele (358) ........... 65 69 65 70 —269 -19
Carolina, Orlov 5 (Kuznetsov, Svechnikov), 7:14. 8,
3-5 2-2 8, Beal 11-15 5-6 28, Booker 11-22 1-2 23, Milwaukee 6, Kansas City 4 Bakrar (Justin Haak, 90th), Julian Fernandez (Andres
Carolina, Guentzel 23 (Chatfield, Aho), 8:52. 9, Carolina, Scoring: 1, Dallas, Harley 15 (Faksa), 2:28. 2, Dallas, $1,025,000
O’Neale 6-12 0-0 16, Roddy 1-1 0-0 2, Wainright 0-0 0-0 LG Twins vs. San Diego in Seoul, late Perea, 70th), Kevin O’Toole.
Lemieux 3 (Slavin, Burns), 13:07. Smith 9 (Harley, Heiskanen), 8:49. 3, Dallas, Johnston 26 Matt Fitzpatrick (300) .............. 66 69 68 69 —272 -16
0, Bol 1-1 0-0 2, Eubanks 2-2 0-0 4, Little 0-0 0-0 0, mONdAy’S gAmES (Stankoven, Suter), 15:15.
Gordon 4-5 0-0 10. totals 51-87 13-15 129. SHOtS ON gOAL $875,000
Houston (ss) vs. Washington, 6 Si Woo Kim (263) ...................... 70 71 68 64 —273 -15
mILWAUKEE: Crowder 7-11 0-0 18, Middleton 8-15 4-4 L.A. Dodgers vs. Korea in Seoul, 6 a.m. cArOLINA ............................. 13 9 16 — 38 SEcONd pErIOd union 2, austin Fc 2 Hideki Matsuyama (263) .......... 69 69 68 67 —273 -15
OttAWA .................................. 7 14 12 — 33
22, Lopez 4-8 0-0 10, Beasley 6-11 0-0 17, Lillard 10-19 Minnesota vs. Boston, 1
N.Y. Yankees vs. Philadelphia (ss), 1 power-play opportunities: Carolina 1 of 3; Ottawa 0 of 2.
Scoring: 4, Dallas, Benn 12 (Robertson, Pavelski), 2:30 (pp). Late Saturday $781,250
7-7 31, Portis 13-20 0-0 31, Beverley 1-6 0-0 3, Ludvig Aberg (225) .................... 67 73 67 67 —274 -14
Connaughton 1-3 1-1 3, Green 1-1 2-2 5. totals 51-94 Tampa Bay vs. Atlanta, 1 goalies: Carolina, Andersen 8-1-0 (33 shots-31 saves). Otta- tHIrd pErIOd pHILAdELpHIA 1 1 2
14-14 140. Philadelphia (ss) vs. Pittsburgh, 1 wa, Forsberg 12-11-0 (38-31). A: 16,273 (18,572). t: 2:20. AUStIN Fc 0 2 2 $706,250
Miami vs. Houston (ss), 1:10 Scoring: 5, Los Angeles, Fiala 22 (Dubois), 1:11.
Maverick McNealy (188) ........... 67 68 68 72 —275 -13
three-point goals: Phoenix 14-33 (Allen 6-11, O’Neale Chi. White Sox vs. Cleveland, 4 First Half: 1, Philadelphia, Gazdag, 2 (penalty kick), 14th Sahith Theegala (188) ............... 70 67 67 71 —275 -13
SHOtS ON gOAL minute.
4-9, Gordon 2-2, Beal 1-3, Durant 1-3, Booker 0-5), Texas vs. Seattle, 4
$606,250
Milwaukee 24-41 (Portis 5-5, Beasley 5-8, Crowder 4-6, Arizona vs. Oakland, 4:10 blackhawks 5, sharks 2 LOS ANgELES ........................ 12
dALLAS .................................. 12
7
10
9 — 28
7 — 29
Second Half: 2, Austin FC, Rubio, 1 (Jimenez), 56th; 3,
Joel Dahmen (160) .................... 74 67 67 68 —276 -12
Lillard 4-8, Middleton 2-4, Lopez 2-5, Green 1-1, Beverley Milwaukee vs. L.A. Angels, 4:10 Austin FC, Gallagher, 1 (Ring), 58th; 4, Philadelphia,
1-3, Connaughton 0-1). Fouled Out: None. rebounds: Cincinnati vs. San Francisco, 9 SAN JOSE ................................ 2 0 0 — 2 power-play opportunities: Los Angeles 0 of 1; Dallas 1 of Uhre, 2 (Harriel), 65th. Taylor Montgomery (160) ......... 68 70 68 70 —276 -12
Phoenix 39 (Booker, Durant 9), Milwaukee 35 (Portis 10). cHIcAgO .................................. 0 1 4 — 5 2. goalies: Los Angeles, Rittich 10-5-3 (29 shots-25 goalies: Philadelphia, Andre Blake, Oliver Semmle; $489,583
Assists: Phoenix 36 (Allen 8), Milwaukee 35 (Lillard 16). FIrSt pErIOd saves). Dallas, Wedgewood 15-6-5 (28-27). A: 18,532 Austin FC, Brad Stuver, Stefan Cleveland. Christiaan Bezuidenhout (135) . 69 70 68 70 —277 -11
total Fouls: Phoenix 16, Milwaukee 12. A: 17,783 (17,500) (18,532). t: 2:27. yellow cards: Sullivan, Philadelphia, 33rd; Carranza, Corey Conners (135) .................. 68 68 73 68 —277 -11
Scoring: 1, San Jose, Carpenter 5 (Barabanov, Labanc), Philadelphia, 45th+6; Biro, Austin FC, 46th; Rubio, Nate Lashley (135) .................... 68 70 67 72 —277 -11
nationals 9, Mets 8 10:33. 2, San Jose, Kostin 5 (Granlund, Ferraro), 16:32. Austin FC, 57th; Martinez, Philadelphia, 62nd; Cascante,
Heat 104, Pistons 101 NEW yOrK AB r H BI WASHINgtON AB r H BI SEcONd pErIOd
Austin FC, 67th; Elliott, Philadelphia, 70th; Gazdag,
avalanche 3, oilers 2 (ot) Philadelphia, 81st; Lowe, Philadelphia, 87th.
mIAmI ................................ 21 39 19 25 — 104 Stewart lf-rf 3 1 0 0 Abrams ss 3 0 1 1 Scoring: 3, Chicago, Kurashev 14 (T.Johnson, Bedard), Philadelphia, Andre Blake; Jack Elliott, Damion Onandi a uto r ac in g
dEtrOIt ............................. 23 27 26 25 — 101 O.D Ls Santos rf 1 0 0 0 Wood rf 2 0 1 1 14:02. Late Saturday Lowe, Kai Wagner; Nathan Harriel, Jose Martinez, Jack
T.Thompson cf 5 1 1 0 L.Thomas rf 3 1 1 0 cOLOrAdO ........................ 0 1 1 1 — 3 McGlynn, Quinn Sullivan (Chris Donovan, 86th); Julian
mIAmI: Highsmith 1-6 1-2 3, Jaquez Jr. 6-14 2-4 15, R.Thomas cf
Alonso 1b
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tHIrd pErIOd EdmONtON ....................... 0 0 2 0 — 2 Carranza, Daniel Gazdag, Mikael Uhre (Alejandro nascar cup series
Adebayo 9-13 1-2 20, D.Robinson 10-15 3-3 30, Rozier Scoring: 4, Chicago, Donato 10 (Megna, Tinordi), 10:39. Bedoya, 68th).
8-20 0-0 17, Martin 3-9 2-2 10, Bryant 0-1 2-2 2, Mills 0-4 Cuevas pr-1b 2 1 0 0 Nunez ss 2 1 1 1 5, Chicago, Korchinski 4 (Reichel), 11:51. 6, Chicago, SEcONd pErIOd Austin FC, Brad Stuver; Guilherme Biro (Zan Kolmanic, FOOd cIty 500
1-1 1, Wright 3-7 0-0 6. totals 40-89 12-16 104. Baty 3b 3 1 0 0 Meneses dh 3 0 2 1 Anderson 3 (Vlasic, Blackwell), 12:02. 7, Chicago, Bedard 46th, Hector Jimenez, 55th), Julio Cascante, Jon Gal- At Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway
Ritter 3b 1 0 1 0 Yepez ph-dh 1 0 0 0 Scoring: 1, Colorado, Walker 7 (Lehkonen, Johnson),
dEtrOIt: Fontecchio 5-12 1-1 13, Stewart 5-9 0-0 12, 21 (T.Johnson, Kurashev), 19:59 (en). 10:39. lagher, Matt Hedges; Daniel Pereira, Alexander Ring, Lap length: 0.53 miles
Voit dh 5 1 1 1 Gallo 1b 2 0 0 0 Jhojan Valencia (Owen Wolff, 46th); Jader Obrian (Start position in parentheses)
Duren 4-10 3-4 11, Cunningham 8-19 0-0 17, Ivey 4-7 1-2 Narváez c 2 1 2 2 L.Díaz pr-1b 1 0 1 1
10, Fournier 6-14 2-3 18, Wiseman 0-2 4-4 4, Sasser 3-5 SHOtS ON gOAL tHIrd pErIOd (Sebastian Driussi, 71st), Emiliano Rigoni, Diego Rubio 1. (3) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 500 laps, 44 points.
Senger c 1 0 0 0 Rosario cf 2 0 0 1 (Gyasi Zardes, 82nd).
0-0 7, Umude 3-5 0-0 9. totals 38-83 11-14 101. SAN JOSE .............................. 11 8 8 — 27 Scoring: 2, Edmonton, Foegele 16 (Bouchard), 5:46. 3, 2. (11) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 500, 44.
Wendle ss 4 1 3 1 Crews pr-cf 1 0 0 0
cHIcAgO .................................. 8 15 8 — 31 Edmonton, Carrick 9 (Perry, Janmark), 11:48. 4, Colora- 3. (17) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 500, 50.
three-point goals: Miami 12-35 (D.Robinson 7-12, W.Young pr-ss 0 0 0 0 Senzel 3b 2 1 1 0
power-play opportunities: San Jose 0 of 0; Chicago 0 of 2. do, Walker 8 (Mittelstadt, Drouin), 14:40. 4. (29) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 500, 33.
Martin 2-6, Adebayo 1-1, Jaquez Jr. 1-3, Rozier 1-6, Short 2b 4 0 1 1 House 3b 2 0 0 0
goalies: San Jose, Cooley 0-1-0 (30 shots-26 saves). 5. (10) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 500, 44.
Highsmith 0-3, Mills 0-4), Detroit 14-36 (Fournier 4-8, Tilien 2b 0 0 0 0 García 2b 3 1 2 0
Umude 3-5, Stewart 2-5, Fontecchio 2-7, Sasser 1-2, Ivey Gamel rf-lf 4 0 1 1 Baker pr-2b 1 1 0 0 Chicago, Mrazek 15-25-4 (27-25). A: 18,426 (19,717). t: OvErtImE st. louis city sc 3, galaxy 3 6. (26) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 499, 44.
2:22. 7. (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, 499, 38.
1-3, Cunningham 1-6). Fouled Out: None. rebounds: J.D Ls Santos lf 0 0 0 0 Millas c 4 1 1 1 Scoring: 5, Colorado, Lehkonen 12 (MacKinnon, Makar), Late Saturday 8. (5) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 499, 29.
Miami 47 (Adebayo 17), Detroit 44 (Duren 10). Assists: Pineda c 0 0 0 0 4:59.
St. LOUIS cIty Sc 1 2 3 9. (19) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 499, 48.
Miami 24 (Rozier 9), Detroit 24 (Cunningham 9). total tOtALS 38 8 12 7 tOtALS 36 9 14 9 10. (12) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 499, 36.
SHOtS ON gOAL LOS ANgELES gALAXy 1 2 3
Fouls: Miami 11, Detroit 19. A: 20,004 (20,491)
NEW yOrK 010 250 000 — 8
Jets 6, blue Jackets 1 cOLOrAdO ........................ 7 16 17 3 — 43 First Half: 1, Los Angeles Galaxy, Joveljic, 4 (Aude), 3rd
11. (7) Michael McDowell, Ford, 499, 26.
WINNIpEg ............................... 1 4 1 — 6 12. (2) Josh Berry, Ford, 499, 26.
WASHINgtON 101 214 00X — 9 EdmONtON ..................... 10 9 11 4 — 34 minute; 2, Saint Louis City SC, Ostrak, 1, 27th.
cOLUmBUS .............................. 0 0 1 — 1 13. (6) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 498, 24.
power-play opportunities: Colorado 0 of 1; Edmonton 0 Second Half: 3, Los Angeles Galaxy, Paintsil, 2 (Delga-
Mavericks 107, nuggets 105 E: T.Thompson (1), A.Adams (1), Millas (1). dp: New
of 1. goalies: Colorado, Georgiev 35-15-3 (34 shots-32 do), 51st; 4, Saint Louis City SC, Nilsson, 1 (Adeniran),
14. (25) Ryan Preece, Ford, 498, 26.
York 1, Washington 1. LOB: New York 6, Washington 7. FIrSt pErIOd 15. (36) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 498, 22.
dENvEr .............................. 34 27 18 26 — 105 2B: T.Thompson (1), Narváez (1), Senzel (1), Abrams saves). Edmonton, Skinner 30-13-4 (43-40). A: 18,347 60th; 5, Saint Louis City SC, McCarthy, 88th; 6, Los 16. (1) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 498, 26.
dALLAS .............................. 30 28 26 23 — 107 (1), Meneses (1), Call 2 (2), L.Díaz (1). Hr: Voit (1), Scoring: 1, Winnipeg, Connor 29 (Scheifele, DeMelo), (18,641). t: 2:38. Angeles Galaxy, Yoshida, 1 (Brugman), 90th+5. 17. (32) Justin Haley, Ford, 498, 20.
Winker (1). SB: Rosario (1). 1:26. goalies: Saint Louis City SC, Roman Burki, Christian 18. (28) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 498, 19.
dENvEr: Gordon 4-7 3-4 11, Porter Jr. 6-13 4-4 20, Jokic Olivares; Los Angeles Galaxy, John McCarthy, Novak 19. (33) Kaz Grala, Ford, 498, 18.
6-16 4-5 16, Caldwell-Pope 4-8 0-0 10, Murray 7-20 7-7
NEW yOrK Ip H r Er BB SO SEcONd pErIOd Micovic. 20. (15) Erik Jones, Toyota, 498, 17.
23, Nnaji 2-2 0-0 4, Holiday 0-1 0-0 0, Braun 4-5 1-2 10, Megill 32/3
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5 4 4 2 1 Scoring: 2, Winnipeg, Ehlers 20 (Toffoli, Monahan), 1:10. tennis yellow cards: Totland, Saint Louis City SC, 25th; 21. (18) Corey LaJoie, Chevrolet, 498, 16.
Jackson 3-8 0-0 8, Watson 1-4 0-0 3. totals 37-84 19-22 Cornielly 3 1 0 0 0 1 3, Winnipeg, Toffoli 29 (Monahan, Ehlers), 9:45. 4, Caceres, Los Angeles Galaxy, 35th; Paintsil, Los Angeles 22. (4) Joey Logano, Ford, 498, 23.
105. Ottavino 1 1 1 1 2 0 Winnipeg, Stanley 1, 12:00. 5, Winnipeg, Namestnikov 9 Galaxy, 45th+1; Jackson, Saint Louis City SC, 51st; Puig, 23. (30) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 498, 0.
dALLAS: Jones Jr. 4-11 1-2 9, Washington 2-10 0-0 4,
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(Pionk, Barron), 18:24. atP/Wta Los Angeles Galaxy, 65th; Nilsson, Saint Louis City SC, 24. (31) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 498, 13.
3 70th; Adeniran, Saint Louis City SC, 83rd. 25. (14) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 498, 12.
Gafford 4-7 0-0 8, Doncic 12-27 8-10 37, Irving 9-23 2-2 Geber 2 1 0 0 0 3 tHIrd pErIOd BNp pArIBAS OpEN red cards: Caceres, Los Angeles Galaxy, 90th+9.
24, Kleber 0-3 0-0 0, Hardaway Jr. 0-3 1-2 1, Lively II 7-8 26. (24) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 497, 11.
Scoring: 6, Columbus, Gaunce 2 (Olivier, Christiansen), At Indian Wells (Calif.) Tennis Garden Saint Louis City SC, Roman Burki; Anthony Markanich 27. (35) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 497, 10.
0-3 14, Exum 4-8 0-0 8, Hardy 0-0 2-2 2. totals 42-100 WASHINgtON Ip H r Er BB SO
0:39. 7, Winnipeg, Toffoli 30, 17:34. purse: $9,495,555 (Nikolas Dyhr, 59th), Joakim Nilsson, Tomas Totland, 28. (20) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 496, 9.
14-21 107. Gore 42/3 9 8 8 2 10 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Joshua Yaro; Chris Durkin, Aziel Jackson (Hosei Kijima,
Bleier (W,1-0) 11/3 1 0 0 0 2 29. (9) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 496, 10.
three-point goals: Denver 12-28 (Porter Jr. 4-9, Jackson SHOtS ON gOAL 71st), Tomas Ostrak (Samuel Adeniran, 60th), Celio 30. (23) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 495, 7.
2-3, Caldwell-Pope 2-5, Murray 2-5, Braun 1-1, Watson Barnes 2 1 0 0 0 4 mEN’S SINgLES — cHAmpIONSHIp Pompeu, Indiana Vassilev (Rasmus Alm, 70th); Joao
La Sorsa (S,1-1) 1 1 0 0 0 1 WINNIpEg ............................... 7 13 7 — 27 31. (21) Austin Cindric, Ford, 495, 6.
1-1, Gordon 0-2, Jokic 0-2), Dallas 9-35 (Doncic 5-11, cOLUmBUS ............................ 11 8 12 — 31 Carlos Alcaraz (2), Spain, def. Daniil Medvedev (4), Klauss (Kyle Hiebert, 81st). 32. (13) Harrison Burton, Ford, 495, 5.
Irving 4-11, Exum 0-1, Hardaway Jr. 0-2, Jones Jr. 0-3, HBp: Gore (Stewart). Russia, 7-6 (7-5), 6-1. Los Angeles Galaxy, John McCarthy; Julian Aude, Martin 33. (27) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 495, 4.
power-play opportunities: Winnipeg 0 of 1; Columbus 0 Caceres, Miki Yamane, Maya Yoshida; Edwin Cerrillo
Kleber 0-3, Washington 0-4). Fouled Out: None. re- Umpires: Home, Jacob Metz; First, Larry Vanover; of 2. goalies: Winnipeg, Hellebuyck 31-15-3 (31 shots-30 34. (22) Noah Gragson, Ford, 494, 3.
bounds: Denver 37 (Jokic 11), Dallas 59 (Washington 11).
WOmEN’S SINgLES — cHAmpIONSHIp (Gaston Brugman, 69th), Marky Delgado, Diego Fagun-
Second, John Tumpane; Third, Ramon De Jesus. saves). Columbus, Merzlikins 12-15-8 (27-21). A: 16,193 35. (8) William Byron, Chevrolet, 492, 2.
Assists: Denver 26 (Jokic, Murray 7), Dallas 22 (Irving 9). Iga Swiatek (1), Poland, def. Maria Sakkari (9), Greece, dez (Gabriel Pec, 61st), Joseph Paintsil, Riqui Puig (Eriq
t: 2:57. A: 4,392 (6,500). (18,500). t: 2:26. 36. (16) Zane Smith, Chevrolet, engine, 192, 1.
total Fouls: Denver 16, Dallas 21. A: 20,377 (19,200) 6-4, 6-0. Zavaleta, 90th+10); Dejan Joveljic (Miguel Berry, 69th).

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IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF
THE BAHAMAS
IN THE SUPREME COURT
COMMON LAW &
EQUITY DIVISION
CLAIM NO. 2023/CLE/
gen/00658
BETWEEN:
DEEP WATER CAY HOLDINGS
LTD.
Claimant
And
ROGER WILLIAM CRANDALL
Defendant
To:Mr. Roger William Crandall
Bethesda, Maryland
TAKE NOTICE that an Action has
been commenced against you in
the Supreme Court of the Baha-
mas, Common Law and Equity
Division, Action No. 2023/CLE/
gen/00658 in which Deep Water
Cay Holdings Ltd. has issued a
Claim Form filed on the 11th day
of August A.D. 2023.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that
on the 5th day of September
A.D. 2023 the Claim Form was
amended to correct the spelling
of your name.
AND TAKE FURTHER NOTICE
that on the 1st day of February
2024, the Claimant obtained an
Order from the Supreme Court of
the Bahamas to serve you alter-
natively, out of the jurisdiction by
inserting and publishing notice of
the Action herein within a news-
paper in Massachusetts.
ALSO TAKE FURTHER NOTICE
that the said Writ of Summons
and Amended Writ of Summons
can be collected from the Cham-
bers of the Claimant’s Counsel as
set out below.
AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE
that you must within 14 days
from the date of publication of
this advertisement respond to
the claim by;
a. Filing appearances in the Su-
preme Court of the Bahamas and
serving the same on counsel for
the Claimants;
b. Admitting the claim; or
c. Filing and serving a defence
in the Supreme Court of the Ba-
hamas and serving the same on
counsel for the Claimant
Otherwise judgement may be
entered against you.
Dated the 4th day of March A.D.
2024
SCOTT & CO
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Unit 12
Windsor Field Road
Nassau, Bahamas
Attorneys for the Claimant
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The Washington Health Insti-
tute (WHI) is applying for a Cer-
tificate of Need to establish an
Urgent Care Center. A Letter of
Intent will be filed with the Dis-
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Planning and Development
Agency (SHPDA). The facility
will be located at 1140 Varnum
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Montgomery County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND
Brennan Ferguson, et al.
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs,
V.
Donald David Ramsey,
Defendant.
Case No. 477060V
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this 6
day of March, 2024, that the
sale of the property in this case,
8116 Roanoke Ave Apt B, Ta-
koma Park, Maryland 20912,
reported by Brennan Ferguson,
Christine N. Johnson, Rob-
ert A. Oliveri, Melissa Alcocer,
Substitute Trustees, be ratified
and confirmed, unless cause
to the contrary be shown on or
before the 8 day of April, 2024
provided a copy of this Notice
be inserted in The Washington
Post, a newspaper published in
Montgomery County, Maryland,
once in each of three (3) suc-
cessive weeks on or before the
8 day of April, 2024. The report
states the amount of sale to be
$380,000.00.
Karen A. Bushell
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Mar 11,18,25 2024 0012454384
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND
BENJAMIN P. SMITH
Substitute Trustee
Plaintiff
vs.
HENRY STUART
Defendant
Civil No. C-15-CV-23-004241
NOTICE PURSUANT TO
RULE 14-305(d)
Pursuant to Rule 14-305(d),
Notice is hereby given this 29
day of February, 2024, by the
Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Maryland, that the sale
of the property mentioned in
these proceedings, made and
reported by Benjamin P. Smith,
Substitute Trustee herein, will
be ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary thereof
be shown on or before the 29
day of March, 2024, provided
a copy of this Notice be inserted
in some newspaper published
in said County once in each of
three successive weeks before
the 29 day of March, 2024. The
report states the amount of sale
to be $400,000.00. The proper-
ty sold has the following” street
address:
Tax ID No. 04-00077960
13208 Valley Drive
Rockville, MD 20850
File No. 113852.00892
KAREN A. BUSHELL
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Mar 4,11,18 2024 0012453855
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Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
CASSANDRA ROSS
(DECEASED)
3201 Marcando Lane
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Defendant(s).
Case No.C-16-CV-23-004805
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 28
day of February, 2024, by the
Circuit Court for Prince George’s
County, Maryland, that the sale
of the property mentioned in
these proceedings and described
as 3201 Marcando Lane, Upper
Marlboro, MD 20774, made
and reported by the Substitute
Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on
or before the 28 day of March,
2024, provided a copy of this
NOTICE be inserted in some daily
newspaper printed in said Coun-
ty, once in each of three succes-
sive weeks before the 28 day of
March 2024. The report states
the purchase price at the Fore-
closure sale to be $400,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Prince George’s County,
Maryland
BWW#MD-85052
Mar 4,11,18 2024 0012453721
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
SHEVAWN SHERKEN
SONJAE STONE AKA
SHEVAWN STONE
3926 Warner Avenue
Hyattsville, MD 20784
Defendant(s).
Case No.C-16-CV-23-003030
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 4th
day of March 2024, by the Cir-
cuit Court for Prince George’s
County, Maryland, that the sale
of the property mentioned in
these proceedings and described
as 3926 Warner Avenue, Hy-
attsville, MD 20784, made
and reported by the Substitute
Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on
or before the 4th day of April,
2024, provided a copy of this
NOTICE be inserted in some daily
newspaper printed in said Coun-
ty, once in each of three succes-
sive weeks before the 4th day
of April, 2024. The report states
the purchase price at the Fore-
closure sale to be $285,770.00.
Mahasin El Amin
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Prince George’s County,
Maryland
BWW#MD-358367
Mar 11,18,25 2024 0012454290
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR THE COUNTY OF
PRINCE GEORGE’S,
MARYLAND
WILLIAM M. SAVAGE, et al.
Trustee(s)
Plaintiff(s)
vs.
MELANIE E GAYLORD
Defendant(s)
Mortgagor(s)
CIVIL NO: C-16-CV-23-004643
NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this
4th day of March, 2024 by the
Circuit Court for the County of
Prince George’s, Maryland and
by the authority thereof, that the
sale made by William M. Savage,
Gregory N. Britto, Trustees, of
the Real Property designated as
229 Seneca Drive, Oxon Hill,
MD 20745, and reported in the
above entitled cause, will be
finally ratified and confirmed,
unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before
the 4th day of April, 2024, next;
provided a copy of this order be
inserted in THE WASHINGTON
post, 1150 15th Street, Wash-
ington DC, MD published in said
County of Prince George’s once
a week for three successive
weeks before the 4th day of
April, 2024. The report states
the amount of the sale to be
$220,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT FOR COUNTY OF
PRINCE GEORGE’S
Trustees File#: 20-286442
Mar 11,18,25 2024 0012454321
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
LINDA TOLSON (DECEASED)
7105 Donnell Place
Unit D4
District Heights, MD 20747
Defendant(s).
Case No.C-16-CV-23-003587
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 13th
day of March, 2024, by the Cir-
cuit Court for Prince George’s
County, Maryland, that the sale
of the property mentioned in
these proceedings and described
as 7105 Donnell Place, Unit D4,
District Heights, MD 20747,
made and reported by the Sub-
stitute Trustee, will be RATIFIED
AND CONFIRMED, unless cause
to the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 15th day of
April, 2024, provided a copy of
this NOTICE be inserted in some
daily newspaper printed in said
County, once in each of three
successive weeks before the
15th day of April, 2024. The
report states the purchase price
at the Foreclosure sale to be
$87,500.00.
Mahasin El Amin
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Prince George’s County,
BWW#MD-172902
Maryland
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1711 KALMIA ROAD NW, WASHINGTON DC 20012 2608 4TH STREET NE, WASHINGTON DC 20002 Law Office of Allan P. Feigelson PA Law Offices of
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In execution of the Superior Court for the District of 20011 In execution of the Superior Court for the District of
3812 Thoroughbred Lane
Owings Mills, Maryland 21117
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case: 2016 CA 002141 R(RP), Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case 2023-CAB-000219 the 410-504-5608 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property known APARTMENT BUILDING
KNOWN AS
known as 1711 KALMIA ROAD NW, WASHINGTON DC 20012 as 2608 4TH STREET NE, WASHINGTON DC 20002 at a public SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST AUCTIONEERS, OF
101 41ST STREET, N.E., WASHINGTON, DC 20019
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in the Purchase
AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440, Washington, DC VALUABLE RESIDENTIAL DWELLING KNOWN AS: Money Deed of Trust and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated June
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On APRIL 9, 2024 AT 20015 202-463-4567 On MARCH 26, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M, 3628 Georgia Avenue (Units 1-8, C-1, P-1 and P-2), NW, 17, 2022 from 101 41st St NE LLC (“Trustor”) to the trustee named
therein and recorded on June 23, 2022 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at
11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated in the District of the land and premises situated in the District of Columbia, Washington, DC 20011 Document # 2022067719 (“Deed of Trust”), the holder of the indebted-
Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0006 in Square and designated as and being Lot 0045 AND Square 3551, ness secured by said Deed of Trust (“Noteholder”) having subsequently
appointed Michael D. Nord and Michael C. Bolesta as Substitute Trust-
2748, and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust By virtue of Deed of Trust recorded in the land records of ees (“Trustees”) in the place of the trustee under the Deed of Trust by
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, the District of Columbia recorded on September 28, 2020, a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees recorded on February
14, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at Document # 2024014036,
MAY 31, 2005 as Instrument Number 2005074011 on OCTOBER 1, 2019 as Instrument Number:.2019105558 as Instrument Number 2020117441, in case 2022 CAB default having occurred under the terms of the Deed of Trust and at
005810 and at the request of the party secured thereby, the the request of the Noteholder, and pursuant to a Notice of Foreclosure
Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit filed on February 15, 2024
The property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed “as is” without The property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed “as is” without undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer to sell at public at the DC Recorder of Deeds in accordance with D.C. Code § 42-815
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject to any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, auction, within the office of HARVEY WEST AUCTIONEERS, and the applicable laws of the District of Columbia, the Trustees will
offer for sale to the highest qualified bidder at a public auction to be
conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded subject to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all INC., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440 Washington, held at 1615 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, other recorded instruments superior to the Deed of Trust DC 20015-2034 on 20009, on:
and subject to ratification by the Court referenced above, and subject to ratification by the Court. Wednesday, March 27, 2024
MARCH 19, 2024 AT 1:00 PM. at 1:15 p.m.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $50,000.00 TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $50,000.00 or ALL THAT piece, tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the
or 10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale 10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash the land and premises situated in the District of Columbia District of Columbia, together with any buildings, structures, improve-
ments and appurtenances thereon, more particularly described as
in cash or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction and more particularly described in the above referenced follows (the “Property”):
the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of its is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors or Deed of Trust and as of the date hereof designated on Part of Lot numbered Two Hundred Ninety Two (292), in a subdivision
made by Thomas H. Ryon Co. in Square numbered Fifty Hundred Eighty
successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and may the Records of the Assessor of the District of Columbia Four (5084), as per plat recorded in Liber 142 at Folio 54 in the Office of
credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be announced for assessment purposes as 3628 Georgia Avenue (Units the Surveyor for the District of Columbia, described as follows:
BEGINNING for the same at the Northwest corner of said lot and run-
shall be announced at sale. The balance of the purchase at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be paid in cash 1-8, C-1, P-1 and P-2), NW, Washington, DC 20011, Lot ning thence East on the South line of Blaine Street, 100.0 Feet; thence
price is to be paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification within 45 days of final ratification of the sale by the Court. Numbered 0134 and Square Numbered 2897 South 175.0 feet to a point, thence West 100.0 feet to a point on 41st
Street, thence North 175.0 feet to the point of beginning.
of the sale by the Court. NOTE: At the date hereof the above described land is designated on the
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to settle within The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS” Records of the Assessor of the District of Columbia for assessment and
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to settle the aforesaid forty-five (45) days of the ratification, the condition without either express or implied warranty or taxation purposes as Lot 0820 in Square 5084.
Property Address known as: 101 41st Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.
within the aforesaid sixty (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable attorney representation, including but not limited to the description, 20019
purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity, TERMS OF SALE: A deposit in the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000.00), payable by certified or cashier’s check, will be required
attorney fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court physical condition, construction, extent of construction, of the purchaser at the time and place of sale. Within three (3) busi-
incurred, if the Trustees have filed the appropriate motion to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision, ness days after the date of the sale, the purchaser of the Property shall
deliver a certified or cashier’s check to the Trustees to increase the
with the Court to resell the property. Purchaser waives of any paper filed with the Court in connection with such environmental condition, merchantability, compliance purchaser’s deposit to an amount that is equal to ten percent (10%) of
personal service of any paper filed with the Court in motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the Court with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances the full amount bid by such purchaser at the sale. The balance of the
purchase price, together with interest thereon at the rate of six percent
connection with such motion and any Show Cause Order and expressly agrees to accept service of any such paper or regulations, the ability of the purchaser to obtain (6%) per annum from the date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be
issued by the Court and expressly agrees to accept service or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to the title insurance or other similar matters, and subject to due from the purchaser by wire transfer or certified check within thirty
(30) calendar days from the date of sale, unless such closing deadline
of any such paper or Order by certified mail and regular address provided by the purchaser and as recorded on the easements, agreements and restrictions of record which is extended in writing by the Trustees. Time is of the essence. If settle-
mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser and documents executed by the purchaser at the time of the affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject ment is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of interest
on the unpaid purchase price. Settlement shall be held at such place
as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the purchaser to any assessments including assessment pursuant to D.C. as may be agreed to by the Trustees. In the event the Noteholder, or an
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective 3 days after postmarked by the United States Post Office. It Code Section 42-1903.13. affiliate or subsidiary thereof, is the successful bidder at the sale, such
party will not be required to make a deposit or to pay interest on the
upon the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual receipt of unpaid purchase money. The Trustees reserve the right to withdraw the
States Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser the certified mail is not required for service to be effective. TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY Property from sale, to reject any and all bids at the sale, and to extend
the time for settlement, at their discretion.
that actual receipt of the certified mail is not required If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit shall BY certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. The Property is being sold in an “AS IS” condition and without any war-
for service to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to be forfeited to the Trustees and all expenses of this sale CASH WILL NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The ranties or representations of any kind, either express or implied, as to
the value, nature, condition, use or description of the Property or the
settlement the deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees (including attorney fees and full commission on the gross balance of the purchase price with interest on the unpaid improvements thereon. The Property is also being sold subject to: (a)
and all expenses of this sale (including attorney fees and sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of any existing building and zoning code violations; (b) any environmental
problems and conditions, lead paint conditions, encroachments and/
full commission on the gross sales price of the sale) shall paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the Trust Note (9.00% per annum) from the date of sale to the or violations which may exist on or with respect to the Property; (c)
be charged against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus date funds are received by the Trustees, payable in cash or any senior liens, encumbrances, easements, conditions, restrictions,
agreements, declarations and covenants of record which are not ex-
the event of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property certified funds within THIRTY DAYS after the final ratification tinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale; (d) any rights
entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from regardless of any improvements made to the real property. of the sale. There will be no abatement of interest due from of redemption; and (e) such state of facts that an accurate survey or
physical inspection of the Property might disclose, if any. The purchas-
any resale of the property regardless of any improvements Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered er is responsible for conducting its own due diligence regarding the
made to the real property. Interest is to be paid on the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale before settlement. Adjustment of current year’s real property Property.
All senior liens, real estate taxes, water charges and municipal charges
unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in the Deed to the date the funds are received in the office of the Trustees. taxes are adjusted as of the date of sale, and thereafter and assessments owed against the Property which are not extin-
of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the funds In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON assumed by the purchaser. All other public and/or private guished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale shall be the sole
responsibility of the purchaser and shall be paid for by the purchaser
are received in the office of the Trustees. In the event that WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts at settlement. The cost of all documentary stamps, recordation taxes,
the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, Taxes, water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges, transfer taxes, document preparation costs, title examination costs
and other costs associated with conveying the Property to the pur-
there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent, association dues, all public charges/assessments payable ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale are chaser shall also be the sole responsibility of the purchaser and shall
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan to be paid by the purchaser. All costs of deed recordation be paid for by the purchaser at settlement.
The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for
all public charges/assessments payable on an annual district charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the including but not limited to title examination, conveyancing, the Property immediately after the sale takes place. It shall be the pur-
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district current year to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the city revenue stamps, transfer taxes, title insurance, and all chaser’s responsibility to obtain possession of the Property after the
closing. The purchaser shall not be entitled to receive any rent relating
charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for the costs of other costs incident to settlement are to be paid by the to the Property until the Purchaser pays the entire purchase price and
to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. all transfer taxes, documentary stamps and all other costs purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical closes on its purchase of the Property.
In the event the purchaser fails to go to settlement and pay the en-
Purchaser shall be responsible for the costs of all transfer incident to settlement. Purchaser shall be responsible for possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or tire purchase price as required herein, in addition to any other legal or
taxes, documentary stamps and all other costs incident physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the damage to the property from date of sale. Time is of the equitable remedies available to the Trustees and the Noteholder, the
Trustees may declare the aforementioned deposit forfeited by the pur-
to settlement. Purchaser shall be responsible for physical risk of loss from the date of sale forward. The sale is subject essence for the Purchaser. If the Purchaser fails to settle chaser and resell the Property at the purchaser’s sole risk and expense.
possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder to determine within thirty days of ratification, Purchaser agrees that the In such event, the defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment
of any deficiency in the purchase price sustained by the Trustees and/
loss from the date of sale forward. The sale is subject to whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered into any property will be resold and the entire deposit retained by or the Noteholder, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorneys’ fees,
post sale audit by the Mortgage holder to determine whether repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid off the Substitute Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses and any other damages sustained by the Trustees and/or the Notehold-
er, including, without limitation, all incidental damages. In the event a
the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/ prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall resale of the Property results in a sale in excess of the amount origi-
forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the that upon notification by the Trustees of such event the have no further liability. The purchaser agrees to accept nally bid by the defaulting purchaser, the defaulting purchaser waives
any and all claims, rights and interest to any such excess amount and
sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees that upon sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit service by first class mail and certified mail addressed to shall not be entitled to any distribution whatsoever from the resale
notification by the Trustees of such event the sale is null returned without interest. Trustees’ File No 22-009679 the address provided by said Purchaser as identified on proceeds or a return of any portion of the purchaser’s forfeited deposit.
and void and of no legal effect and the deposit returned the Memorandum of Sale for all correspondence including If the Trustees are unable to convey the Property as described above,
the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a
without interest. Trustees’ File No 15-900076 JAMES E. CLARKE AND DANIEL K. EISENHAUSER any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale. The refund of the aforementioned deposit, without interest thereon. Upon
refund of the deposit to the purchaser as aforesaid, the sale shall be
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim
JAMES E. CLARKE, AND RENEE DYSON , proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus against the Trustees, the Noteholder or the Auctioneer conducting the
sale of the Property.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES C/O ORLANS PC results from improvements to the property by said defaulted The parties’ respective rights and obligations regarding the terms and
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310 purchaser. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the conduct of the sale shall be governed by the laws of the District of
C/O ORLANS PC Leesburg, VA 20175 status of the loan with the loan servicer including but not Columbia.
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310 (703) 777-7101 limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered Michael D. Nord and
Leesburg, VA 20175 into and repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustees
(703) 777-7101 loan prior to sale. In any such event or if the sale is not For further information, please contact:
Michael D. Nord, Substitute Trustee
ratified, the purchaser’s only remedy is return of the deposit Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustee
without interest. Trustee’s File No. 22-0028 Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Allan P. Feigelson, PA.
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Tel: (410) 385-5072
Feb 26,Mar 4,11,18 2024 0012450074 Auction Company:
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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, RAS CRANE, LLC, et al, James E. Clarke, et al. Feb 26,Mar 4,11,18 2024 0012453138
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
MARYLAND MARYLAND Substitute Trustee, Substitute Trustees
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
Plaintiff, Plaintiffs PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
851 851 PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 v. V.
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County MARYLAND MARYLAND
Rockville, MD 20852 Rockville, MD 20852 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
James E. Clarke, et al. ROBERT A. JONES, et al
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, MONICA Y. YOUNG AND Chrisleen M. Dixon AKA PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees
KEITH W. YOUNG, et al, Chrisleen Miriam Dixon MARYLAND MARYLAND
Plaintiffs
vs. vs. Defendants. Defendant(s) v.
SYDNEY E. ROBERSON SYDNEY E. ROBERSON
V.
MALIK I. KEENE SEAN M. GRAHAM Case No. CAEF19-26704 Civil No. CAEF22-20225 201 International Circle, Ste. 230 201 International Circle, Ste. 230 JALEESA R LANCASTER
7173 Donnell Place 8505 86th Court Hunt Valley, MD 21030 Hunt Valley, MD 21030
Fannie Prince DARRYL J LANCASTER
Unit A2 New Carrollton, MD 20784 NOTICE NOTICE PURSUANT TO Substitute Trustee Substitute Trustee Defendant(s) Defendant(s)
District Heights, MD 20747 Defendant(s). MD RULE 14-215 (A) Plaintiff Plaintiff
Defendant(s). Notice is hereby issued this 4th
Civil No. CAEF22-30111 Civil Action No.
Case No.CAEF22-22247 day of March, 2024, that the ORDERED, by the Circuit Court V. V. C-16-CV-23-003802
Case No.C-16-CV-23-004847 sale of the property in this case, for Prince George’s County,
NOTICE PURSUANT TO
NOTICE 9011 SIMPSON LN CLINTON, Maryland, this 28th day of Feb- RODEAN SHEPHERD, et al ANDRE L. GILES MD RULE 14-215 (A) NOTICE
NOTICE MD 20735, reported by Jenni- ruary, 2024, that the foreclosure Defendant Defendant
Notice is hereby given this 13th fer Deardorff, Attorney for the sale of the property described
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court Notice is hereby given on Feb-
Notice is hereby given this 4th day of March, 2024, by the Cir- Substitute Trustee, be ratified in the deed of trust docketed Civil No.: C-16-CV-23-003359 Civil No.: C-16-CV-23-003770 for Prince George’s County, ruary 28, 2024, by the Circuit
day March, 2024, by the Circuit cuit Court for Prince George’s and confirmed, unless cause herein and located at 11209
Maryland, this 29th day of Feb- Court for Prince George’s Coun-
Court for Prince George’s Coun- County, Maryland, that the sale to the contrary be shown on or Basswood Terrace, Laurel, NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE OF SALE ruary, 2024, that the foreclosure ty, Maryland, that the sale of the
ty, Maryland, that the sale of the ofthe property mentioned in before the 4 day of April, 2024, MD 20708 made and reported sale of the property described in property mentioned in these
property mentioned in these pro- these proceedings and described provided a copy of this Notice be by James E. Clarke, Christine M. 11346 CHERRY HILL ROAD, 13816 CHURCHVILLE DR, the deed of trust docketed here- proceedings and described as
ceedings and described as 7173 as 8505 86th Court, New Car- inserted in Washington Post, a Drexel and Joanna Foronda, Sub- BELTSVILLE, MD 20705 UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 in and located at 7106 West- 12207 Kingsford Court, Bow-
Donnell Place, Unit A2, District rollton, MD 20784, made and newspaper published in PRINCE stitute Trustees, be RATIFIED and chester Drive, Temple Hills, ie, MD 20721 will be ratified
Heights, MD 20747, made reported by the Substitute GEORGE’S County, Maryland, CONFIRMED, unless cause to the Notice is hereby issued by the Notice is hereby issued by the MD 20748 made and reported and confirmed, unless cause to
and reported by the Substitute Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND once in each of three (3) succes- contrary be shown on or before Circuit Court of PRINCE GEORG- Circuit Court of PRINCE GEORG- by James E. Clarke, Christine M. the contrary thereof be shown
Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the sive weeks on or before the 4th the 28th day of March, 2024; ES COUNTY this 29th day of ES COUNTY this 29th day of Drexel and Joanna Foronda, Sub- on or before March 28, 2024,
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or day of April, 2024. The report provided a copy of this Order February, 2024 that the sale of February, 2024 that the sale of stitute Trustees, be RATIFIED and provided a copy of this NOTICE
contrary thereof be shown on before the 15th day of April, states the amount of sale to be be inserted in THE WASHINGTON the property mentioned in these the property mentioned in these CONFIRMED, unless cause to the be published at least once a
or before the 4th day of April, 2024, provided a copy of this $300,000.00. POST, once in each of three (3) proceedings, made and report- proceedings, made and report- contrary be shown on or before week in each of three succes-
2024, provided a copy of this NOTICE be inserted in some daily successive weeks before the ed by NICOLE LIPINSKI, Sub- ed by NICOLE LIPINSKI, Sub- the 29th day of March, 2024; sive weeks in some newspaper
NOTICE be inserte in some daily newspaper printed in said Coun- Mahasin El Amin 28th day of March 2024. The stitute Trustee, be ratified and stitute Trustee, be ratified and provided a copy of this Order of general circulation published
newspaper printed in said Coun- ty, once in each of three succes- Clerk Report of Sale states the amount confirmed, unless cause to the confirmed, unless cause to the
be inserted in THE WASHINGTON in said County before March 28,
ty, once in each of three succes- sive weeks before the 15th day of the sale at $354,000.00. contrary thereof be shown on or contrary thereof be shown on or POST, once in each of three (3) 2024. The Report of Sale states
sive weeks before the 4th day of April, 2024. The report states
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before the 29th day of March, before the 29th day of March,
successive weeks before the the amount of the sale to be
of April, 2024. The report states the purchase price at the Fore- BY THE COURT: 2024, provided, a copy of this no- 2024, provided, a copy of this no- 29th day of March 2024. The $317,000.00.
the purchase price at the Fore- closure sale to be $328,000.00. Mahasin El Amin tice be inserted in WASHINGTON tice be inserted in WASHINGTON
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR Report of Sale states the amount
closure sale to be $65,000.00. Clerk of the Circuit Court POST a newspaper published POST a newspaper published of the sale at $337,000.00. Mahasin El Amin
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Mahasin El Amin Clerk, Circuit Court for Orlans 22-006267 once in each of three successive once in each of three successive BY THE COURT: FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
Clerk, Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, weeks, before the 29th day of weeks, before the 29th day of
JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al Mar 4,11,18 2024 0012453768 Mahasin El Amin MARYLAND
Prince George’s County, Maryland March, 2024. The Report of Sale March, 2024. The Report of Sale Clerk of the Circuit Court
Maryland Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees states the amount of sale to be states the amount of sale to be
SIWPC File# 85490
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Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
Law Offices of
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
APARTMENT BUILDING
KNOWN AS
4257 - 4261 6TH STREET, S.E., WASHINGTON, DC 20032
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in the Purchase
Money Deed of Trust and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated June
30, 2020 from 4257-61 St SE LLC (“Trustor”) to the trustee named
therein and recorded on July 17, 2020 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at
Document # 2020086068 (“Deed of Trust”), the holder of the indebted-
ness secured by said Deed of Trust (“Noteholder”) having subsequently
appointed Michael D. Nord and Michael C. Bolesta as Substitute Trust-
ees (“Trustees”) in the place of the trustee under the Deed of Trust by
a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees recorded on February
14, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at Document # 2024014028,
default having occurred under the terms of the Deed of Trust and at
the request of the Noteholder, and pursuant to a Notice of Foreclosure
Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit filed on February 15, 2024
at the DC Recorder of Deeds in accordance with D.C. Code § 42-815
and the applicable laws of the District of Columbia, the Trustees will
offer for sale to the highest qualified bidder at a public auction to be
held at 1615 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC
20009, on:
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
at 11:00 a.m.
ALL THAT piece, tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the
District of Columbia, together with any buildings, structures, improve-
ments and appurtenances thereon, more particularly described as
follows (the “Property”):
Lot numbered Forty Five (45), in Square numbered Sixty Two Hundred
Seven (6207), in a subdivision made by Jacob Katz and others, as per
plat recorded in Liber 132 at Folio 181 in the Office of the Surveyor for
the District of Columbia.
Property address known as: 4257 - 4261 6th Street, S.E., Washington,
D.C. 20032
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit in the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000.00), payable by certified or cashier’s check, will be required
of the purchaser at the time and place of sale. Within three (3) busi-
ness days after the date of the sale, the purchaser of the Property shall
deliver a certified or cashier’s check to the Trustees to increase the
purchaser’s deposit to an amount that is equal to ten percent (10%) of
the full amount bid by such purchaser at the sale. The balance of the
purchase price, together with interest thereon at the rate of six percent
(6%) per annum from the date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be
due from the purchaser by wire transfer or certified check within thirty
(30) calendar days from the date of sale, unless such closing deadline
is extended in writing by the Trustees. Time is of the essence. If settle-
ment is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of interest
on the unpaid purchase price. Settlement shall be held at such place
as may be agreed to by the Trustees. In the event the Noteholder, or an
affiliate or subsidiary thereof, is the successful bidder at the sale, such
party will not be required to make a deposit or to pay interest on the
unpaid purchase money. The Trustees reserve the right to withdraw the
Property from sale, to reject any and all bids at the sale, and to extend
the time for settlement, at their discretion.
The Property is being sold in an “AS IS” condition and without any war-
ranties or representations of any kind, either express or implied, as to
the value, nature, condition, use or description of the Property or the
improvements thereon. The Property is also being sold subject to: (a)
any existing building and zoning code violations; (b) any environmental
problems and conditions, lead paint conditions, encroachments and/
or violations which may exist on or with respect to the Property; (c)
any senior liens, encumbrances, easements, conditions, restrictions,
agreements, declarations and covenants of record which are not ex-
tinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale; (d) any rights
of redemption; and (e) such state of facts that an accurate survey or
physical inspection of the Property might disclose, if any. The purchas-
er is responsible for conducting its own due diligence regarding the
Property.
All senior liens, real estate taxes, water charges and municipal charges
and assessments owed against the Property which are not extin-
guished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale shall be the sole
responsibility of the purchaser and shall be paid for by the purchaser
at settlement. The cost of all documentary stamps, recordation taxes,
transfer taxes, document preparation costs, title examination costs
and other costs associated with conveying the Property to the pur-
chaser shall also be the sole responsibility of the purchaser and shall
be paid for by the purchaser at settlement.
The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for
the Property immediately after the sale takes place. It shall be the pur-
chaser’s responsibility to obtain possession of the Property after the
closing. The purchaser shall not be entitled to receive any rent relating
to the Property until the Purchaser pays the entire purchase price and
closes on its purchase of the Property.
In the event the purchaser fails to go to settlement and pay the en-
tire purchase price as required herein, in addition to any other legal or
equitable remedies available to the Trustees and the Noteholder, the
Trustees may declare the aforementioned deposit forfeited by the pur-
chaser and resell the Property at the purchaser’s sole risk and expense.
In such event, the defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment
of any deficiency in the purchase price sustained by the Trustees and/
or the Noteholder, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorneys’ fees,
and any other damages sustained by the Trustees and/or the Notehold-
er, including, without limitation, all incidental damages. In the event a
resale of the Property results in a sale in excess of the amount origi-
nally bid by the defaulting purchaser, the defaulting purchaser waives
any and all claims, rights and interest to any such excess amount and
shall not be entitled to any distribution whatsoever from the resale
proceeds or a return of any portion of the purchaser’s forfeited deposit.
If the Trustees are unable to convey the Property as described above,
the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the aforementioned deposit, without interest thereon. Upon
refund of the deposit to the purchaser as aforesaid, the sale shall be
void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim
against the Trustees, the Noteholder or the Auctioneer conducting the
sale of the Property.
The parties’ respective rights and obligations regarding the terms and
conduct of the sale shall be governed by the laws of the District of
Columbia.
Michael D. Nord and
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustees
For further information, please contact:
Michael D. Nord, Substitute Trustee
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustee
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Tel: (410) 385-5072
Auction Company:
Tranzon Key
Jeff Stein
703-539-8111
www.tranzon.com
Mar 15,18,20,22,26 2024 0012454215
Law Offices of
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
APARTMENT BUILDING
KNOWN AS
5012 BASS PLACE, S.E., WASHINGTON, DC 20019
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in the Purchase
Money Deed of Trust and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated June
30, 2020 from 5012 Bass Place SE LLC (“Trustor”) to the trustee named
therein and recorded on July 17, 2020 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at
Document # 2020086065 (“Deed of Trust”), the holder of the indebted-
ness secured by said Deed of Trust (“Noteholder”) having subsequently
appointed Michael D. Nord and Michael C. Bolesta as Substitute Trust-
ees (“Trustees”) in the place of the trustee under the Deed of Trust by
a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees recorded on February
14, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at Document # 2024014029,
default having occurred under the terms of the Deed of Trust and at
the request of the Noteholder, and pursuant to a Notice of Foreclosure
Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit filed on February 15, 2024
at the DC Recorder of Deeds in accordance with D.C. Code § 42-815
and the applicable laws of the District of Columbia, the Trustees will
offer for sale to the highest qualified bidder at a public auction to be
held at 1615 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC
20009, on:
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
at 11:15 a.m.
ALL THAT piece, tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the
District of Columbia, together with any buildings, structures, improve-
ments and appurtenances thereon, more particularly described as
follows (the “Property”):
Lot numbered Thirty One (31), in Square numbered Fifty Three Hundred
Twenty Five (5325), in the subdivision made by Joel B. Heffler and oth-
ers, as per plat recorded in the Office of the Surveyor for the District of
Columbia in Liber 146 at Folio 11.
Property Address: 5012 Bass Place, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20019
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit in the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000.00), payable by certified or cashier’s check, will be required
of the purchaser at the time and place of sale. Within three (3) busi-
ness days after the date of the sale, the purchaser of the Property shall
deliver a certified or cashier’s check to the Trustees to increase the
purchaser’s deposit to an amount that is equal to ten percent (10%) of
the full amount bid by such purchaser at the sale. The balance of the
purchase price, together with interest thereon at the rate of six percent
(6%) per annum from the date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be
due from the purchaser by wire transfer or certified check within thirty
(30) calendar days from the date of sale, unless such closing deadline
is extended in writing by the Trustees. Time is of the essence. If settle-
ment is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of interest
on the unpaid purchase price. Settlement shall be held at such place
as may be agreed to by the Trustees. In the event the Noteholder, or an
affiliate or subsidiary thereof, is the successful bidder at the sale, such
party will not be required to make a deposit or to pay interest on the
unpaid purchase money. The Trustees reserve the right to withdraw the
Property from sale, to reject any and all bids at the sale, and to extend
the time for settlement, at their discretion.
The Property is being sold in an “AS IS” condition and without any war-
ranties or representations of any kind, either express or implied, as to
the value, nature, condition, use or description of the Property or the
improvements thereon. The Property is also being sold subject to: (a)
any existing building and zoning code violations; (b) any environmental
problems and conditions, lead paint conditions, encroachments and/
or violations which may exist on or with respect to the Property; (c)
any senior liens, encumbrances, easements, conditions, restrictions,
agreements, declarations and covenants of record which are not ex-
tinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale; (d) any rights
of redemption; and (e) such state of facts that an accurate survey or
physical inspection of the Property might disclose, if any. The purchas-
er is responsible for conducting its own due diligence regarding the
Property.
All senior liens, real estate taxes, water charges and municipal charges
and assessments owed against the Property which are not extin-
guished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale shall be the sole
responsibility of the purchaser and shall be paid for by the purchaser
at settlement. The cost of all documentary stamps, recordation taxes,
transfer taxes, document preparation costs, title examination costs
and other costs associated with conveying the Property to the pur-
chaser shall also be the sole responsibility of the purchaser and shall
be paid for by the purchaser at settlement.
The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for
the Property immediately after the sale takes place. It shall be the pur-
chaser’s responsibility to obtain possession of the Property after the
closing. The purchaser shall not be entitled to receive any rent relating
to the Property until the Purchaser pays the entire purchase price and
closes on its purchase of the Property.
In the event the purchaser fails to go to settlement and pay the en-
tire purchase price as required herein, in addition to any other legal or
equitable remedies available to the Trustees and the Noteholder, the
Trustees may declare the aforementioned deposit forfeited by the pur-
chaser and resell the Property at the purchaser’s sole risk and expense.
In such event, the defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment
of any deficiency in the purchase price sustained by the Trustees and/
or the Noteholder, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorneys’ fees,
and any other damages sustained by the Trustees and/or the Notehold-
er, including, without limitation, all incidental damages. In the event a
resale of the Property results in a sale in excess of the amount origi-
nally bid by the defaulting purchaser, the defaulting purchaser waives
any and all claims, rights and interest to any such excess amount and
shall not be entitled to any distribution whatsoever from the resale
proceeds or a return of any portion of the purchaser’s forfeited deposit.
If the Trustees are unable to convey the Property as described above,
the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the aforementioned deposit, without interest thereon. Upon
refund of the deposit to the purchaser as aforesaid, the sale shall be
void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim
against the Trustees, the Noteholder or the Auctioneer conducting the
sale of the Property.
The parties’ respective rights and obligations regarding the terms and
conduct of the sale shall be governed by the laws of the District of
Columbia.
Michael D. Nord and
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustees
For further information, please contact:
Michael D. Nord, Substitute Trustee
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustee
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Tel: (410) 385-5072
Auction Company:
Tranzon Key
Jeff Stein
703-539-8111
www.tranzon.com
Mar 15,18,20,22,26 2024 0012454216
840 840
Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
Law Offices of
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
APARTMENT BUILDING
KNOWN AS
4641 HILLSIDE ROAD, S.E., WASHINGTON, DC 20019
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in the Purchase
Money Deed of Trust and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated De-
cember 30, 2020 from 4641 Hillside Rd SE LLC (“Trustor”) to the trustee
named therein and recorded on January 8, 2021 at the DC Recorder
of Deeds at Document # 2021003095 (“Deed of Trust”), the holder of
the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust (“Noteholder”) having
subsequently appointed Michael D. Nord and Michael C. Bolesta as
Substitute Trustees (“Trustees”) in the place of the trustee under the
Deed of Trust by a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees record-
ed on February 14, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at Document #
2024014033, default having occurred under the terms of the Deed of
Trust and at the request of the Noteholder, and pursuant to a Notice of
Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit filed on Feb-
ruary 15, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds in accordance with D.C.
Code § 42-815 and the applicable laws of the District of Columbia, the
Trustees will offer for sale to the highest qualified bidder at a public
auction to be held at 1615 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Third Floor,
Washington, DC 20009, on:
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
at 12:00 p.m.
ALL THAT piece, tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the
District of Columbia, together with any buildings, structures, improve-
ments and appurtenances thereon, more particularly described as
follows (the “Property”):
Lot numbered One Hundred Fourteen (114), in Square numbered Fifty
Three Hundred Sixty Three (5363) in the subdivision made by Marche-
giani and Carozza and known as “BRADBURY HEIGHTS”, as per plat
recorded in the Office of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia in
Liber 121 at Folio 1.
NOTE: At the date hereof the above described land is designated on the
Records of the Assessor of the District of Columbia for assessment and
taxation purposes as Lot 114 in Square 5363.
Property Address known as: 4641 Hillside Road, S.E., Washington, D.C.
20019
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit in the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000.00), payable by certified or cashier’s check, will be required
of the purchaser at the time and place of sale. Within three (3) busi-
ness days after the date of the sale, the purchaser of the Property shall
deliver a certified or cashier’s check to the Trustees to increase the
purchaser’s deposit to an amount that is equal to ten percent (10%) of
the full amount bid by such purchaser at the sale. The balance of the
purchase price, together with interest thereon at the rate of six percent
(6%) per annum from the date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be
due from the purchaser by wire transfer or certified check within thirty
(30) calendar days from the date of sale, unless such closing deadline
is extended in writing by the Trustees. Time is of the essence. If settle-
ment is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of interest
on the unpaid purchase price. Settlement shall be held at such place
as may be agreed to by the Trustees. In the event the Noteholder, or an
affiliate or subsidiary thereof, is the successful bidder at the sale, such
party will not be required to make a deposit or to pay interest on the
unpaid purchase money. The Trustees reserve the right to withdraw the
Property from sale, to reject any and all bids at the sale, and to extend
the time for settlement, at their discretion.
The Property is being sold in an “AS IS” condition and without any war-
ranties or representations of any kind, either express or implied, as to
the value, nature, condition, use or description of the Property or the
improvements thereon. The Property is also being sold subject to: (a)
any existing building and zoning code violations; (b) any environmental
problems and conditions, lead paint conditions, encroachments and/
or violations which may exist on or with respect to the Property; (c)
any senior liens, encumbrances, easements, conditions, restrictions,
agreements, declarations and covenants of record which are not ex-
tinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale; (d) any rights
of redemption; and (e) such state of facts that an accurate survey or
physical inspection of the Property might disclose, if any. The purchas-
er is responsible for conducting its own due diligence regarding the
Property.
All senior liens, real estate taxes, water charges and municipal charges
and assessments owed against the Property which are not extin-
guished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale shall be the sole
responsibility of the purchaser and shall be paid for by the purchaser
at settlement. The cost of all documentary stamps, recordation taxes,
transfer taxes, document preparation costs, title examination costs
and other costs associated with conveying the Property to the pur-
chaser shall also be the sole responsibility of the purchaser and shall
be paid for by the purchaser at settlement.
The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for
the Property immediately after the sale takes place. It shall be the pur-
chaser’s responsibility to obtain possession of the Property after the
closing. The purchaser shall not be entitled to receive any rent relating
to the Property until the Purchaser pays the entire purchase price and
closes on its purchase of the Property.
In the event the purchaser fails to go to settlement and pay the en-
tire purchase price as required herein, in addition to any other legal or
equitable remedies available to the Trustees and the Noteholder, the
Trustees may declare the aforementioned deposit forfeited by the pur-
chaser and resell the Property at the purchaser’s sole risk and expense.
In such event, the defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment
of any deficiency in the purchase price sustained by the Trustees and/
or the Noteholder, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorneys’ fees,
and any other damages sustained by the Trustees and/or the Notehold-
er, including, without limitation, all incidental damages. In the event a
resale of the Property results in a sale in excess of the amount origi-
nally bid by the defaulting purchaser, the defaulting purchaser waives
any and all claims, rights and interest to any such excess amount and
shall not be entitled to any distribution whatsoever from the resale
proceeds or a return of any portion of the purchaser’s forfeited deposit.
If the Trustees are unable to convey the Property as described above,
the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the aforementioned deposit, without interest thereon. Upon
refund of the deposit to the purchaser as aforesaid, the sale shall be
void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim
against the Trustees, the Noteholder or the Auctioneer conducting the
sale of the Property.
The parties’ respective rights and obligations regarding the terms and
conduct of the sale shall be governed by the laws of the District of
Columbia.
Michael D. Nord and
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustees
For further information, please contact:
Michael D. Nord, Substitute Trustee
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustee
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Tel: (410) 385-5072
Auction Company:
Tranzon Key
Jeff Stein
703-539-8111
www.tranzon.com
Mar 15,18,20,22,26 2024 0012454213
Law Offices of
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
APARTMENT BUILDING
KNOWN AS
2812 POMEROY ROAD, S.E., WASHINGTON, DC 20020
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in the Purchase
Money Deed of Trust and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated Au-
gust 30, 2021 from 2812 Pomeroy Rd SE LLC (“Trustor”) to the trustee
named therein and recorded on September 8, 2021 at the DC Recorder
of Deeds at Document # 2021120308 (“Deed of Trust”), the holder of
the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust (“Noteholder”) having
subsequently appointed Michael D. Nord and Michael C. Bolesta as
Substitute Trustees (“Trustees”) in the place of the trustee under the
Deed of Trust by a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees record-
ed on February 14, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at Document #
2024014031, default having occurred under the terms of the Deed of
Trust and at the request of the Noteholder, and pursuant to a Notice of
Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit filed on Feb-
ruary 15, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds in accordance with D.C.
Code § 42-815 and the applicable laws of the District of Columbia, the
Trustees will offer for sale to the highest qualified bidder at a public
auction to be held at 1615 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Third Floor,
Washington, DC 20009, on:
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
at 11:45 a.m.
ALL THAT piece, tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the
District of Columbia, together with any buildings, structures, improve-
ments and appurtenances thereon, more particularly described as
follows (the “Property”):
Lot 134 in Square 5868 in a subdivision made by Robert E. Goldsten,
as per plat recorded in Liber No. 118 at Folio 192 in the Office of the
Surveyor for the District of Columbia.
Property address known as: 2812 Pomeroy Road, SE., Washington.,
D.C. 20020
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit in the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000.00), payable by certified or cashier’s check, will be required
of the purchaser at the time and place of sale. Within three (3) busi-
ness days after the date of the sale, the purchaser of the Property shall
deliver a certified or cashier’s check to the Trustees to increase the
purchaser’s deposit to an amount that is equal to ten percent (10%) of
the full amount bid by such purchaser at the sale. The balance of the
purchase price, together with interest thereon at the rate of six percent
(6%) per annum from the date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be
due from the purchaser by wire transfer or certified check within thirty
(30) calendar days from the date of sale, unless such closing deadline
is extended in writing by the Trustees. Time is of the essence. If settle-
ment is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of interest
on the unpaid purchase price. Settlement shall be held at such place
as may be agreed to by the Trustees. In the event the Noteholder, or an
affiliate or subsidiary thereof, is the successful bidder at the sale, such
party will not be required to make a deposit or to pay interest on the
unpaid purchase money. The Trustees reserve the right to withdraw the
Property from sale, to reject any and all bids at the sale, and to extend
the time for settlement, at their discretion.
The Property is being sold in an “AS IS” condition and without any war-
ranties or representations of any kind, either express or implied, as to
the value, nature, condition, use or description of the Property or the
improvements thereon. The Property is also being sold subject to: (a)
any existing building and zoning code violations; (b) any environmental
problems and conditions, lead paint conditions, encroachments and/
or violations which may exist on or with respect to the Property; (c)
any senior liens, encumbrances, easements, conditions, restrictions,
agreements, declarations and covenants of record which are not ex-
tinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale; (d) any rights
of redemption; and (e) such state of facts that an accurate survey or
physical inspection of the Property might disclose, if any. The purchas-
er is responsible for conducting its own due diligence regarding the
Property.
All senior liens, real estate taxes, water charges and municipal charges
and assessments owed against the Property which are not extin-
guished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale shall be the sole
responsibility of the purchaser and shall be paid for by the purchaser
at settlement. The cost of all documentary stamps, recordation taxes,
transfer taxes, document preparation costs, title examination costs
and other costs associated with conveying the Property to the pur-
chaser shall also be the sole responsibility of the purchaser and shall
be paid for by the purchaser at settlement.
The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for
the Property immediately after the sale takes place. It shall be the pur-
chaser’s responsibility to obtain possession of the Property after the
closing. The purchaser shall not be entitled to receive any rent relating
to the Property until the Purchaser pays the entire purchase price and
closes on its purchase of the Property.
In the event the purchaser fails to go to settlement and pay the en-
tire purchase price as required herein, in addition to any other legal or
equitable remedies available to the Trustees and the Noteholder, the
Trustees may declare the aforementioned deposit forfeited by the pur-
chaser and resell the Property at the purchaser’s sole risk and expense.
In such event, the defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment
of any deficiency in the purchase price sustained by the Trustees and/
or the Noteholder, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorneys’ fees,
and any other damages sustained by the Trustees and/or the Notehold-
er, including, without limitation, all incidental damages. In the event a
resale of the Property results in a sale in excess of the amount origi-
nally bid by the defaulting purchaser, the defaulting purchaser waives
any and all claims, rights and interest to any such excess amount and
shall not be entitled to any distribution whatsoever from the resale
proceeds or a return of any portion of the purchaser’s forfeited deposit.
If the Trustees are unable to convey the Property as described above,
the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the aforementioned deposit, without interest thereon. Upon
refund of the deposit to the purchaser as aforesaid, the sale shall be
void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim
against the Trustees, the Noteholder or the Auctioneer conducting the
sale of the Property.
The parties’ respective rights and obligations regarding the terms and
conduct of the sale shall be governed by the laws of the District of
Columbia.
Michael D. Nord and
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustees
For further information, please contact:
Michael D. Nord, Substitute Trustee
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustee
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Tel: (410) 385-5072
Auction Company:
Tranzon Key
Jeff Stein
703-539-8111
www.tranzon.com
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Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
Law Offices of
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
APARTMENT BUILDING
KNOWN AS
2100 15TH STREET, S.E., WASHINGTON, DC 20020
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in the Purchase
Money Deed of Trust and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated June
17, 2022 from 2100 15th St SE LLC (“Trustor”) to the trustee named
therein and recorded on June 24, 2022 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at
Document # 2022068171 (“Deed of Trust”), the holder of the indebted-
ness secured by said Deed of Trust (“Noteholder”) having subsequently
appointed Michael D. Nord and Michael C. Bolesta as Substitute Trust-
ees (“Trustees”) in the place of the trustee under the Deed of Trust by
a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees recorded on February
14, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at Document # 2024014035,
default having occurred under the terms of the Deed of Trust and at
the request of the Noteholder, and pursuant to a Notice of Foreclosure
Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit filed on February 15, 2024
at the DC Recorder of Deeds in accordance with D.C. Code § 42-815
and the applicable laws of the District of Columbia, the Trustees will
offer for sale to the highest qualified bidder at a public auction to be
held at 1615 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC
20009, on:
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
at 1:30 p.m.
ALL THAT piece, tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the
District of Columbia, together with any buildings, structures, improve-
ments and appurtenances thereon, more particularly described as
follows (the “Property”):
Lot numbered Ten Hundred Eleven (1011), in Square numbered Fifty
Seven Hundred Seventy Nine (5779), in the subdivision made by Alice
W. Hill, as per plat recorded in the Office of the Surveyor for the District
of Columbia in Liber 104 at Folio 185.
Property address known as: 2100 15th Street, S.E., Washington, D.C.
20020
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit in the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000.00), payable by certified or cashier’s check, will be required
of the purchaser at the time and place of sale. Within three (3) busi-
ness days after the date of the sale, the purchaser of the Property shall
deliver a certified or cashier’s check to the Trustees to increase the
purchaser’s deposit to an amount that is equal to ten percent (10%) of
the full amount bid by such purchaser at the sale. The balance of the
purchase price, together with interest thereon at the rate of six percent
(6%) per annum from the date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be
due from the purchaser by wire transfer or certified check within thirty
(30) calendar days from the date of sale, unless such closing deadline
is extended in writing by the Trustees. Time is of the essence. If settle-
ment is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of interest
on the unpaid purchase price. Settlement shall be held at such place
as may be agreed to by the Trustees. In the event the Noteholder, or an
affiliate or subsidiary thereof, is the successful bidder at the sale, such
party will not be required to make a deposit or to pay interest on the
unpaid purchase money. The Trustees reserve the right to withdraw the
Property from sale, to reject any and all bids at the sale, and to extend
the time for settlement, at their discretion.
The Property is being sold in an “AS IS” condition and without any war-
ranties or representations of any kind, either express or implied, as to
the value, nature, condition, use or description of the Property or the
improvements thereon. The Property is also being sold subject to: (a)
any existing building and zoning code violations; (b) any environmental
problems and conditions, lead paint conditions, encroachments and/
or violations which may exist on or with respect to the Property; (c)
any senior liens, encumbrances, easements, conditions, restrictions,
agreements, declarations and covenants of record which are not ex-
tinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale; (d) any rights
of redemption; and (e) such state of facts that an accurate survey or
physical inspection of the Property might disclose, if any. The purchas-
er is responsible for conducting its own due diligence regarding the
Property.
All senior liens, real estate taxes, water charges and municipal charges
and assessments owed against the Property which are not extin-
guished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale shall be the sole
responsibility of the purchaser and shall be paid for by the purchaser
at settlement. The cost of all documentary stamps, recordation taxes,
transfer taxes, document preparation costs, title examination costs
and other costs associated with conveying the Property to the pur-
chaser shall also be the sole responsibility of the purchaser and shall
be paid for by the purchaser at settlement.
The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for
the Property immediately after the sale takes place. It shall be the pur-
chaser’s responsibility to obtain possession of the Property after the
closing. The purchaser shall not be entitled to receive any rent relating
to the Property until the Purchaser pays the entire purchase price and
closes on its purchase of the Property.
In the event the purchaser fails to go to settlement and pay the en-
tire purchase price as required herein, in addition to any other legal or
equitable remedies available to the Trustees and the Noteholder, the
Trustees may declare the aforementioned deposit forfeited by the pur-
chaser and resell the Property at the purchaser’s sole risk and expense.
In such event, the defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment
of any deficiency in the purchase price sustained by the Trustees and/
or the Noteholder, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorneys’ fees,
and any other damages sustained by the Trustees and/or the Notehold-
er, including, without limitation, all incidental damages. In the event a
resale of the Property results in a sale in excess of the amount origi-
nally bid by the defaulting purchaser, the defaulting purchaser waives
any and all claims, rights and interest to any such excess amount and
shall not be entitled to any distribution whatsoever from the resale
proceeds or a return of any portion of the purchaser’s forfeited deposit.
If the Trustees are unable to convey the Property as described above,
the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the aforementioned deposit, without interest thereon. Upon
refund of the deposit to the purchaser as aforesaid, the sale shall be
void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim
against the Trustees, the Noteholder or the Auctioneer conducting the
sale of the Property.
The parties’ respective rights and obligations regarding the terms and
conduct of the sale shall be governed by the laws of the District of
Columbia.
Michael D. Nord and
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustees
For further information, please contact:
Michael D. Nord, Substitute Trustee
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustee
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Tel: (410) 385-5072
Auction Company:
Tranzon Key
Jeff Stein
703-539-8111
www.tranzon.com
Mar 15,18,20,22,26 2024 0012454211
Law Offices of
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
APARTMENT BUILDING
KNOWN AS
4001 1ST STREET, S.E., WASHINGTON, DC 20032
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in the Purchase
Money Deed of Trust and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated No-
vember 1, 2021 from 4001 First St SE LLC (“Trustor”) to the trustee
named therein and recorded on November 10, 2021 at the DC Record-
er of Deeds at Document # 2021148545 (“Deed of Trust”), the holder of
the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust (“Noteholder”) having
subsequently appointed Michael D. Nord and Michael C. Bolesta as
Substitute Trustees (“Trustees”) in the place of the trustee under the
Deed of Trust by a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees record-
ed on February 14, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at Document #
2024014030, default having occurred under the terms of the Deed of
Trust and at the request of the Noteholder, and pursuant to a Notice of
Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit filed on Feb-
ruary 15, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds in accordance with D.C.
Code § 42-815 and the applicable laws of the District of Columbia, the
Trustees will offer for sale to the highest qualified bidder at a public
auction to be held at 1615 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Third Floor,
Washington, DC 20009, on:
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
at 11:30 a.m.
ALL THAT piece, tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the
District of Columbia, together with any buildings, structures, improve-
ments and appurtenances thereon, more particularly described as
follows (the “Property”):
Lot 40, in the subdivision made by Francis M. Cannon and Dora Cannon
of Lots in Square 6170 in “HUNGERFORD’S ADDITION TO WASHINGTON
HIGHLANDS”, as per plat recorded in the Office of the Surveyor for the
District of Columbia in Liber 68 at Folio 69.
Property address: 4001 1st Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20032
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit in the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000.00), payable by certified or cashier’s check, will be required
of the purchaser at the time and place of sale. Within three (3) busi-
ness days after the date of the sale, the purchaser of the Property shall
deliver a certified or cashier’s check to the Trustees to increase the
purchaser’s deposit to an amount that is equal to ten percent (10%) of
the full amount bid by such purchaser at the sale. The balance of the
purchase price, together with interest thereon at the rate of six percent
(6%) per annum from the date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be
due from the purchaser by wire transfer or certified check within thirty
(30) calendar days from the date of sale, unless such closing deadline
is extended in writing by the Trustees. Time is of the essence. If settle-
ment is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of interest
on the unpaid purchase price. Settlement shall be held at such place
as may be agreed to by the Trustees. In the event the Noteholder, or an
affiliate or subsidiary thereof, is the successful bidder at the sale, such
party will not be required to make a deposit or to pay interest on the
unpaid purchase money. The Trustees reserve the right to withdraw the
Property from sale, to reject any and all bids at the sale, and to extend
the time for settlement, at their discretion.
The Property is being sold in an “AS IS” condition and without any war-
ranties or representations of any kind, either express or implied, as to
the value, nature, condition, use or description of the Property or the
improvements thereon. The Property is also being sold subject to: (a)
any existing building and zoning code violations; (b) any environmental
problems and conditions, lead paint conditions, encroachments and/
or violations which may exist on or with respect to the Property; (c)
any senior liens, encumbrances, easements, conditions, restrictions,
agreements, declarations and covenants of record which are not ex-
tinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale; (d) any rights
of redemption; and (e) such state of facts that an accurate survey or
physical inspection of the Property might disclose, if any. The purchas-
er is responsible for conducting its own due diligence regarding the
Property.
All senior liens, real estate taxes, water charges and municipal charges
and assessments owed against the Property which are not extin-
guished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale shall be the sole
responsibility of the purchaser and shall be paid for by the purchaser
at settlement. The cost of all documentary stamps, recordation taxes,
transfer taxes, document preparation costs, title examination costs
and other costs associated with conveying the Property to the pur-
chaser shall also be the sole responsibility of the purchaser and shall
be paid for by the purchaser at settlement.
The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for
the Property immediately after the sale takes place. It shall be the pur-
chaser’s responsibility to obtain possession of the Property after the
closing. The purchaser shall not be entitled to receive any rent relating
to the Property until the Purchaser pays the entire purchase price and
closes on its purchase of the Property.
In the event the purchaser fails to go to settlement and pay the en-
tire purchase price as required herein, in addition to any other legal or
equitable remedies available to the Trustees and the Noteholder, the
Trustees may declare the aforementioned deposit forfeited by the pur-
chaser and resell the Property at the purchaser’s sole risk and expense.
In such event, the defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment
of any deficiency in the purchase price sustained by the Trustees and/
or the Noteholder, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorneys’ fees,
and any other damages sustained by the Trustees and/or the Notehold-
er, including, without limitation, all incidental damages. In the event a
resale of the Property results in a sale in excess of the amount origi-
nally bid by the defaulting purchaser, the defaulting purchaser waives
any and all claims, rights and interest to any such excess amount and
shall not be entitled to any distribution whatsoever from the resale
proceeds or a return of any portion of the purchaser’s forfeited deposit.
If the Trustees are unable to convey the Property as described above,
the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the aforementioned deposit, without interest thereon. Upon
refund of the deposit to the purchaser as aforesaid, the sale shall be
void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim
against the Trustees, the Noteholder or the Auctioneer conducting the
sale of the Property.
The parties’ respective rights and obligations regarding the terms and
conduct of the sale shall be governed by the laws of the District of
Columbia.
Michael D. Nord and
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustees
For further information, please contact:
Michael D. Nord, Substitute Trustee
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustee
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Tel: (410) 385-5072
Auction Company:
Tranzon Key
Jeff Stein
703-539-8111
www.tranzon.com
Mar 15,18,20,22,26 2024 0012454212
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Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
Law Offices of Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Jason A. Pardo, Attorney
Baltimore, Maryland 21202 4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
Washington, DC 20015
APARTMENT BUILDING 202-223-7900
KNOWN AS
3205 D STREET, S.E., WASHINGTON, DC 20019
TRUSTEE’S JUDICIAL SALE OF REAL PROPERTY
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in the Purchase
Money Deed of Trust and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated Jan-
1222 18th Street, NE
uary 27, 2021 from 3205 D Street SE LLC (“Trustor”) to the trustee Washington, DC 20002
named therein and recorded on January 29, 2021 at the DC Recorder
of Deeds at Document # 2021012174 (“Deed of Trust”), the holder of
Lot 0107 in Square 4445
the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust (“Noteholder”) having
subsequently appointed Michael D. Nord and Michael C. Bolesta as
Substitute Trustees (“Trustees”) in the place of the trustee under the
In execution of an Order/Decree (“Sale Decree”) from the
Deed of Trust by a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees record- Superior Court of the District of Columbia (“Court”) in
ed on February 14, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at Document #
2024014034, default having occurred under the terms of the Deed of
Case No. 2022-CA-002097-R(RP) (“Foreclosure Case”), the
Trust and at the request of the Noteholder, and pursuant to a Notice of Trustee will offer for sale at public auction the real property
Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit filed on Feb-
ruary 15, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds in accordance with D.C.
located at 1222 18th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002,
Code § 42-815 and the applicable laws of the District of Columbia, the designated as being Lot 0107 in Square 4445, and as more
Trustees will offer for sale to the highest qualified bidder at a public fully described in the Indemnity Deed of Trust, Security
auction to be held at 1615 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Third Floor,
Washington, DC 20009, on: Agreement and Assignment of Contracts, Leases and Rents
(“Deed of Trust”) dated November 27, 2017 and recorded on
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
at 1:00 p.m. December 12, 2017 as Instrument No. 2017136079, from
Stephen Babatunde (“Borrower”), as grantor, to Demetris
ALL THAT piece, tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the
District of Columbia, together with any buildings, structures, improve- Voudouris and Jason A. Pardo (collectively, “Trustee”), as
ments and appurtenances thereon, more particularly described as trustees. The sale will occur at the office of Harvey West
follows (the “Property”):
Lot numbered Forty (40), in Square numbered Fifty Four Hundred Forty Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440,
Seven (5447), in the subdivision made by Anthony Izzo and Dallas M. Washington, DC 20015 on
Grady, as per plat recorded in the Office of the Surveyor for the District
of Columbia in Liber 119 at Folio 23.
Property Address: 3205 D Street, S.E., Washington, DC 20019 APRIL 9, 2024 AT 10:00 AM
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit in the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000.00), payable by certified or cashier’s check, will be required
of the purchaser at the time and place of sale. Within three (3) busi- The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
ness days after the date of the sale, the purchaser of the Property shall
deliver a certified or cashier’s check to the Trustees to increase the warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
purchaser’s deposit to an amount that is equal to ten percent (10%) of agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting
the full amount bid by such purchaser at the sale. The balance of the
purchase price, together with interest thereon at the rate of six percent the same – except those encumbrances of record that are
(6%) per annum from the date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be extinguished by operation of District of Columbia law by
due from the purchaser by wire transfer or certified check within thirty
(30) calendar days from the date of sale, unless such closing deadline virtue of the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust. The sale will be
is extended in writing by the Trustees. Time is of the essence. If settle- subject to ratification by the Court.
ment is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of interest
on the unpaid purchase price. Settlement shall be held at such place
as may be agreed to by the Trustees. In the event the Noteholder, or an Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes
affiliate or subsidiary thereof, is the successful bidder at the sale, such
party will not be required to make a deposit or to pay interest on the
and water/sewer charges, if any. Purchaser assumes the
unpaid purchase money. The Trustees reserve the right to withdraw the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of
Property from sale, to reject any and all bids at the sale, and to extend
the time for settlement, at their discretion.
sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
The Property is being sold in an “AS IS” condition and without any war- physical possession of the property.
ranties or representations of any kind, either express or implied, as to
the value, nature, condition, use or description of the Property or the
improvements thereon. The Property is also being sold subject to: (a) TERMS OF SALE: A nonrefundable deposit of at least ten
any existing building and zoning code violations; (b) any environmental
problems and conditions, lead paint conditions, encroachments and/
percent (10%) of the bid price by certified funds will be
or violations which may exist on or with respect to the Property; (c) required of purchaser at the time and place of sale. Trustee
any senior liens, encumbrances, easements, conditions, restrictions,
agreements, declarations and covenants of record which are not ex-
may condition the right to bid or acceptance of bids upon a
tinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale; (d) any rights showing of said deposits, and may reserve the right to reject
of redemption; and (e) such state of facts that an accurate survey or
physical inspection of the Property might disclose, if any. The purchas-
any bid made by anyone who does not have the deposit in
er is responsible for conducting its own due diligence regarding the hand at the auction. Trustee shall hold any deposit in a non-
Property.
All senior liens, real estate taxes, water charges and municipal charges
interest bearing trust account. The deposit required to bid at
and assessments owed against the Property which are not extin- the auction is waived for noteholder and any of noteholder’s
guished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale shall be the sole
responsibility of the purchaser and shall be paid for by the purchaser
successors or assigns. Noteholder may bid up to the amount
at settlement. The cost of all documentary stamps, recordation taxes, owed on the note plus all costs and expenses of sale on
transfer taxes, document preparation costs, title examination costs
and other costs associated with conveying the Property to the pur-
credit and may submit a written bid to Trustee that shall be
chaser shall also be the sole responsibility of the purchaser and shall announced at the sale. Trustee may enter into a contract of
be paid for by the purchaser at settlement.
The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for
sale with the highest qualified bidder subject to ratification
the Property immediately after the sale takes place. It shall be the pur- by the Court, and any memorandum of sale must indicate
chaser’s responsibility to obtain possession of the Property after the
closing. The purchaser shall not be entitled to receive any rent relating
that the sale is subject to said ratification. If a third party
to the Property until the Purchaser pays the entire purchase price and bidder is successful at the auction, the bond filed in the
closes on its purchase of the Property.
In the event the purchaser fails to go to settlement and pay the en-
Foreclosure Case shall be increased to the full amount of the
tire purchase price as required herein, in addition to any other legal or purchase price, which shall be posted prior to ratification
equitable remedies available to the Trustees and the Noteholder, the
Trustees may declare the aforementioned deposit forfeited by the pur-
by the Court. Trustee shall file a Verified Report of Sale
chaser and resell the Property at the purchaser’s sole risk and expense. with the Court within thirty (30) days of the auction. The
In such event, the defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment
of any deficiency in the purchase price sustained by the Trustees and/
Verified Report of Sale shall specify the time, place, terms
or the Noteholder, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorneys’ fees, of the sale, the purchaser, the purchase amount, and the
and any other damages sustained by the Trustees and/or the Notehold- deposit held, together with an affidavit and documentation
er, including, without limitation, all incidental damages. In the event a
resale of the Property results in a sale in excess of the amount origi- establishing that Trustee complied with the notice and
nally bid by the defaulting purchaser, the defaulting purchaser waives advertisement requirements of the Deed of Trust and Sale
any and all claims, rights and interest to any such excess amount and
shall not be entitled to any distribution whatsoever from the resale Decree. Unless otherwise ordered at the time of ratification,
proceeds or a return of any portion of the purchaser’s forfeited deposit. settlement shall occur by payment of all sums due under the
If the Trustees are unable to convey the Property as described above,
the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a bid in certified funds to Trustee within thirty (30) calendar
refund of the aforementioned deposit, without interest thereon. Upon days from the entry of an order ratifying the sale. TIME
refund of the deposit to the purchaser as aforesaid, the sale shall be
void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT
against the Trustees, the Noteholder or the Auctioneer conducting the BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price to be paid
sale of the Property.
The parties’ respective rights and obligations regarding the terms and in certified funds at settlement. Interest to be paid on the
conduct of the sale shall be governed by the laws of the District of unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the date of
Columbia.
settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in the
Michael D. Nord and debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Noteholder
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustees
and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required to post
For further information, please contact: a deposit or to pay interest. Purchaser shall be responsible
Michael D. Nord, Substitute Trustee
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustee for payment of all settlement costs. If purchaser fails or
Gebhardt & Smith LLP refuses to settle within the allotted time frame, the deposit
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202 will be forfeited and Trustee may apply the deposit toward
Tel: (410) 385-5072 costs, fees and his compensation associated with the initial
Auction Company: auction and the resale process. Any remaining amount shall
Tranzon Key be credited to the underlying debt. Defaulting purchaser
Jeff Stein
703-539-8111 shall be liable to Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by
www.tranzon.com Trustee in connection with such default. If Trustee is unable
Mar 15,18,20,22,26 2024 0012454209 to settle as set forth herein, purchaser’s sole remedy at law
and in equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit and
the sale shall be considered null and void and of no effect
whatsoever. After purchaser’s funds submitted to Trustee
have cleared, Trustee shall execute and deliver a Trustee’s
Deed, transferring title to purchaser. The costs of recording
the Trustee’s Deed shall be the responsibility of purchaser.
Trustee shall be entitled to recover his costs incurred,
Law Offices of
including reasonable attorney’s fees and commissions as
Gebhardt & Smith LLP authorized by the Deed of Trust for the execution of duties
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
performed in accordance with the foreclosure and the Sale
Decree as part of the settlement. Within sixty (60) days of
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
APARTMENT BUILDING
settlement, Trustee shall file evidence of the settlement
KNOWN AS including a copy of the Trustee’s Deed, a proposed
4318 HALLEY TERRACE, S.E., WASHINGTON, DC 20032 accounting and distribution of funds, and a proposed order
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in the Purchase ratifying the distribution. A copy of those documents shall
Money Deed of Trust and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated Au-
gust 30, 2021 from 4318 Halley Terrace SE LLC (“Trustor”) to the trustee
be sent to Borrower and all junior lien holders, together
named therein and recorded on September 15, 2021 at the DC Record- with a notice that any claim or dispute with the proposed
er of Deeds at Document # 2021123838 (“Deed of Trust”), the holder of
the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust (“Noteholder”) having
accounting and distribution must be filed within fourteen
subsequently appointed Michael D. Nord and Michael C. Bolesta as (14) days, and that if no claim or objection is filed, the
Substitute Trustees (“Trustees”) in the place of the trustee under the accounting and distribution may be ratified by the Court
Deed of Trust by a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees record-
ed on February 14, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds at Document # without further hearing. Any unclaimed funds due to junior
2024014032, default having occurred under the terms of the Deed of lienholders, owners, or any other party, may be identified for
Trust and at the request of the Noteholder, and pursuant to a Notice of
Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit filed on Feb- payment into the Court registry, and upon payment thereof,
ruary 15, 2024 at the DC Recorder of Deeds in accordance with D.C. Trustee may request a determination that his duties have
Code § 42-815 and the applicable laws of the District of Columbia, the
Trustees will offer for sale to the highest qualified bidder at a public been discharged and the Foreclosure Case be closed with
auction to be held at 1615 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Third Floor, the bond released. Trustee may establish additional terms
Washington, DC 20009, on:
of sale as may be appropriate in his judgment to promote
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 the best price at the auction so long as any additional terms
at 1:45 p.m.
remain consistent with and do not alter the specific terms
ALL THAT piece, tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the and conditions of the Deed of Trust and the Sale Decree.
District of Columbia, together with any buildings, structures, improve-
ments and appurtenances thereon, more particularly described as
follows (the “Property”): Jason A. Pardo, Trustee
Lot numbered Twenty (20), in Square numbered Sixty Two Hundred
Fourteen (6214), in the subdivision made by Dan Pollin, as per plat
recorded in the Office of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia in
Liber 118 at Folio 158.
Property address: 4318 Halley Terrace, SE., Washington, D.C. 20032
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit in the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000.00), payable by certified or cashier’s check, will be required
of the purchaser at the time and place of sale. Within three (3) busi-
ness days after the date of the sale, the purchaser of the Property shall
deliver a certified or cashier’s check to the Trustees to increase the
purchaser’s deposit to an amount that is equal to ten percent (10%) of
the full amount bid by such purchaser at the sale. The balance of the
Mar 18,25,Apr 1,8 2024 0012454054
purchase price, together with interest thereon at the rate of six percent
(6%) per annum from the date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be
due from the purchaser by wire transfer or certified check within thirty
(30) calendar days from the date of sale, unless such closing deadline
is extended in writing by the Trustees. Time is of the essence. If settle-
ment is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of interest
on the unpaid purchase price. Settlement shall be held at such place
as may be agreed to by the Trustees. In the event the Noteholder, or an
affiliate or subsidiary thereof, is the successful bidder at the sale, such
party will not be required to make a deposit or to pay interest on the
unpaid purchase money. The Trustees reserve the right to withdraw the
Property from sale, to reject any and all bids at the sale, and to extend
the time for settlement, at their discretion.
The Property is being sold in an “AS IS” condition and without any war-
ranties or representations of any kind, either express or implied, as to
the value, nature, condition, use or description of the Property or the
improvements thereon. The Property is also being sold subject to: (a)
any existing building and zoning code violations; (b) any environmental
problems and conditions, lead paint conditions, encroachments and/
or violations which may exist on or with respect to the Property; (c)
any senior liens, encumbrances, easements, conditions, restrictions,
agreements, declarations and covenants of record which are not ex-
SPO TS?
tinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale; (d) any rights
of redemption; and (e) such state of facts that an accurate survey or
physical inspection of the Property might disclose, if any. The purchas-
er is responsible for conducting its own due diligence regarding the
Property.
All senior liens, real estate taxes, water charges and municipal charges
and assessments owed against the Property which are not extin-
guished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale shall be the sole
responsibility of the purchaser and shall be paid for by the purchaser
at settlement. The cost of all documentary stamps, recordation taxes,
transfer taxes, document preparation costs, title examination costs
and other costs associated with conveying the Property to the pur-
chaser shall also be the sole responsibility of the purchaser and shall
be paid for by the purchaser at settlement.
The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for
the Property immediately after the sale takes place. It shall be the pur-
chaser’s responsibility to obtain possession of the Property after the
closing. The purchaser shall not be entitled to receive any rent relating
to the Property until the Purchaser pays the entire purchase price and
closes on its purchase of the Property.
In the event the purchaser fails to go to settlement and pay the en-
tire purchase price as required herein, in addition to any other legal or
equitable remedies available to the Trustees and the Noteholder, the
Trustees may declare the aforementioned deposit forfeited by the pur-
chaser and resell the Property at the purchaser’s sole risk and expense.
In such event, the defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment
of any deficiency in the purchase price sustained by the Trustees and/
or the Noteholder, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorneys’ fees,
and any other damages sustained by the Trustees and/or the Notehold-
er, including, without limitation, all incidental damages. In the event a
resale of the Property results in a sale in excess of the amount origi-
nally bid by the defaulting purchaser, the defaulting purchaser waives
any and all claims, rights and interest to any such excess amount and
shall not be entitled to any distribution whatsoever from the resale
proceeds or a return of any portion of the purchaser’s forfeited deposit.
If the Trustees are unable to convey the Property as described above,
the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the aforementioned deposit, without interest thereon. Upon
refund of the deposit to the purchaser as aforesaid, the sale shall be
void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim
against the Trustees, the Noteholder or the Auctioneer conducting the
sale of the Property.
The parties’ respective rights and obligations regarding the terms and
conduct of the sale shall be governed by the laws of the District of
Columbia.
Michael D. Nord and
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustees
For further information, please contact:
Michael D. Nord, Substitute Trustee
Michael C. Bolesta, Substitute Trustee
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Tel: (410) 385-5072
Auction Company:
Tranzon Key
Jeff Stein
703-539-8111
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Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Montgomery County
Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
COURT APPOINTED SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE
JUDICIAL SALE OF REAL PROPERTY
3461 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20010
Lot 0099 in Square 2835
In execution of an Order/Decree (“Sale Decree”) from the
Superior Court of the District of Columbia (“Court”) in Case
No. 2023-CAB-005746 (“Foreclosure Case”), the Court
Appointed Substitute Trustee (“Substitute Trustee”) will
offer for sale at public auction the real property located at
3461 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20010, designated as
being Lot 0099 in Square 2835, and as more fully described
in the Deed of Trust, Security Agreement and Assignment
of Leases and Rents (“Deed of Trust”) dated March 25,
2019 and recorded on April 26, 2019 as Instrument No.
2019042816, from Milagro D. Morejon (“Borrower”), as
grantor, to T. D. Service Company (“Original Trustee”), as
trustee. The sale will occur at the office of Harvey West
Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 on
MARCH 26, 2024 AT 2:00 PM
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting
the same – except those conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record that are
extinguished by operation of District of Columbia law by
virtue of the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust. The sale will be
subject to ratification by the Court.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes
and water/sewer charges, if any. Purchaser assumes the
risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of
sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: A nonrefundable deposit of at least
ten percent (10%) of the bid price by certified funds
will be required of purchaser at the time and place of
sale. Substitute Trustee may condition the right to bid or
acceptance of bids upon a showing of said deposits, and
may reserve the right to reject any bid made by anyone who
does not have the deposit in hand at the auction. Substitute
Trustee shall hold any deposit in a non-interest bearing
trust account. The deposit required to bid at the auction is
waived for noteholder and any of noteholder’s successors
or assigns. Noteholder may bid up to the amount owed on
the note plus all costs and expenses of sale on credit and
may submit a written bid to Substitute Trustee that shall be
announced at the sale. Substitute Trustee may enter into a
contract of sale with the highest qualified bidder subject
to ratification by the Court, and any memorandum of sale
must indicate that the sale is subject to said ratification. If
a third party bidder is successful at the auction, the bond
filed in the Foreclosure Case shall be increased to the full
amount of the purchase price, which shall be posted prior
to ratification by the Court. Substitute Trustee shall file a
Verified Report of Sale with the Court within thirty (30) days
of the auction. The Verified Report of Sale shall specify the
time, place, terms of the sale, the purchaser, the purchase
amount, and the deposit held, together with an affidavit
and documentation establishing that Substitute Trustee
complied with the notice and advertisement requirements
of the Deed of Trust and Sale Decree. Unless otherwise
ordered at the time of ratification, settlement shall occur by
payment of all sums due under the bid in certified funds to
Substitute Trustee within thirty (30) calendar days from the
entry of an order ratifying the sale. TIME SHALL BE OF THE
ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in certified funds
at settlement. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase
money from the date of sale to the date of settlement at
the applicable interest rate set forth in the debt instrument
secured by the Deed of Trust. Noteholder and its affiliates,
if a bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit or to
pay interest. Purchaser shall be responsible for payment
of all settlement costs. If purchaser fails or refuses to
settle within the allotted time frame, the deposit will be
forfeited and Substitute Trustee may apply the deposit
toward costs, fees and his compensation associated with
the initial auction and the resale process. Any remaining
amount shall be credited to the underlying debt. Defaulting
purchaser shall be liable to Substitute Trustee for legal fees
and costs incurred by Substitute Trustee in connection with
such default. If Substitute Trustee is unable to settle as set
forth herein, purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity
shall be limited to a refund of the deposit and the sale shall
be considered null and void and of no effect whatsoever.
After purchaser’s funds submitted to Substitute Trustee
have cleared, Substitute Trustee shall execute and deliver
a Substitute Trustee’s Deed, transferring title to purchaser.
The costs of recording the Substitute Trustee’s Deed shall be
the responsibility of purchaser. Substitute Trustee shall be
entitled to recover his costs incurred, including reasonable
attorney’s fees and commissions as authorized by the Deed
of Trust for the execution of duties performed in accordance
with the foreclosure and the Sale Decree as part of the
settlement. Within sixty (60) days of settlement, Substitute
Trustee shall file evidence of the settlement including
a copy of the Substitute Trustee’s Deed, a proposed
accounting and distribution of funds, and a proposed order
ratifying the distribution. A copy of those documents shall
be sent to Borrower and all junior lien holders, together
with a notice that any claim or dispute with the proposed
accounting and distribution must be filed within fourteen
(14) days, and that if no claim or objection is filed, the
accounting and distribution may be ratified by the Court
without further hearing. Any unclaimed funds due to junior
lienholders, owners, or any other party, may be identified for
payment into the Court registry, and upon payment thereof,
Substitute Trustee may request a determination that his
duties have been discharged and the Foreclosure Case
be closed with the bond released. Substitute Trustee may
establish additional terms of sale as may be appropriate
in his judgment to promote the best price at the auction so
long as any additional terms remain consistent with and do
not alter the specific terms and conditions of the Deed of
Trust and the Sale Decree.
Russell S. Drazin, Court Appointed Substitute Trustee
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Montgomery County
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
470-321-7112
TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
14212 NORTH GATE DRIVE
SILVER SPRING, MD 20906
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust
dated September 5, 2003, and recorded in Liber 25661,
folio 579, of the land records of MONTGOMERY COUNTY ,
with an original principal balance of $305,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the appointed
Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 50
MARYLAND AVENUE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 ON,
MARCH 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with
any buildings or improvements thereon situated in
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD, located at the above address
and more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of
Trust.
TAX-ID# - 13-01439891
The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS
IS” physical condition without warranty of any kind and
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, including any condominium or
homeowners association assessments pursuant to MD Real
Property Article §11-110 and §11B-117.
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of
$26,500.00 by cashier’s/certified check or such other form
as the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole
discretion, required at time of sale except for the party
secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser
from date and time of auction. The balance of the purchase
price together with interest thereon at 5.375% per annum
from date of sale to receipt of purchase price by Substitute
Trustees must be paid by cashier’s check within 10 days
after final ratification of sale. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There will be
no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event
that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if
settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes
and other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted
as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
If applicable, any condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due
after the date of sale shall be purchaser’s responsibility.
Purchaser shall pay all transfer, documentary and recording
taxes/fees and all other settlement costs. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining possession of the property. Time
is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser defaults,
deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk and
cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any
deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and
attorney’s fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not
convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return
of deposit without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale
audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust
including but not limited to determining whether prior to
sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or
other agreement was entered into; or loan was reinstated
or paid off. In any such even this sale shall be null and
void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit
without interest. File No. (22-084161)
Keith Yacko, David Williamson,
Bryson Stephen, Thomas Gartner,
Substitute Trustees
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Samuel I. White, P.C.
448 Viking Drive, Suite 350
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
18131 Chalet Dr, #202
Germantown, MD 20874
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in
a certain Deed of Trust to PRLAP, INC. , Trustee(s), dated
October 22, 2007, and recorded among the Land Records
of MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 35050, folio
476, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed
of Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute
Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid
Land Records, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, and at the request of the party secured thereby,
the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at
public auction at THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE
LOCATED AT 50 MARYLAND AVENUE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850
ON,
APRIL 3, 2024 at 1:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
ALL THAT PROPERTY CONVEYED BY DEED OF TRUST
RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 13, 2007 IN LIBER 35050, FOLIO
476.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH
WILL NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance
of the purchase price with interest at 5.24% per annum from
the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. There will be
no abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all
taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. There will be no abatement of taxes, public
charges and special or regular assessments for any reason.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner association
dues and assessments that may become due after the
time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps,
transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident
to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of
the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs
of the defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to
pay reasonable attorneys’ fees for the Substitute trustees,
plus all cost incurred, if the Substitute Trustee’s have filed
the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property.
The purchasers waives personal service of any papers filed
in connection with such a motion and expressly agrees to
The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class mail
at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on
the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratified or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy
is return of the deposit.
The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation and audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into a repayment agreement, reinstated, or paid
off the loan prior to sale. In any such event, this sale shall
be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sol remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Trustee’s File No. (84202)
Robert A. Jones, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
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Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
5401 Lorraine Drive
Temple Hills, MD 20748
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
TRINITA E. DORSEY AND RODNEY DORSEY, dated July 24,
2006 and recorded in Liber 25897, folio 536 among the
Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default
having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed
as Case No.C-16-CV-22-001219; Tax ID No.06-0623280 )
the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at FRONT OF THE
DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN
ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772, on
APRIL 3, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $40,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 21-003732)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
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ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
2512 Fairlawn Street
Temple Hills, MD 20748
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
BERNICE E. BELL, dated September 30, 2010 and recorded
in Liber 32129, folio 285 among the Land Records of
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default having occurred
thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.C-16-
CV-23-004571; Tax ID No.06-0425470 ) the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE, located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE
COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO,
MD 20772, on
APRIL 3, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $15,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 23-004572)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
JOANNA FORONDA,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012453791
D 12 | EZ
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
1122 Blue Wing Terrace
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
ANTHONY D. PEARSON AND KELLY M. PEARSON, dated June
13, 2006 and recorded in Liber 25628, folio 685 among the
Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default
having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed
as Case No.C-16-CV-23-003867; Tax ID No.03-3313079 )
the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at FRONT OF THE
DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN
ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772, on
APRIL 3, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $50,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 20-700525)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
JOANNA FORONDA,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012453385
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
2007 Ode Rd
District Heights, MD 20747
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
ESTHER L. BAGLEY, dated March 28, 2005 and recorded
in Liber 22241, folio 223 among the Land Records of
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default having occurred
thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.C-16-
CV-23-001567; Tax ID No.06-0469122 ) the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE, located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE
COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO,
MD 20772, on
APRIL 3, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $30,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 22-007235)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
JOANNA FORONDA,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012453432
EZ MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2024
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
8108 51st Avenue
College Park, MD 20740
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
CYNTHIA D. HARDING, dated June 6, 2005 and recorded
in Liber 25798, folio 125 among the Land Records of
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default having occurred
thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.C-16-
CV-23-004270; Tax ID No.21-2400950 ) the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE, located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE
COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO,
MD 20772, on
APRIL 3, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $20,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 23-007087)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
JOANNA FORONDA,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012453382
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
6909 Furness Avenue
Oxon Hill, MD 20745
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
WILIAN ENRIQUE GONZALEZ AMAYA, dated September 28,
2021 and recorded in Liber 47270, folio 346 among the
Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default
having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed
as Case No.C-16-CV-23-005135; Tax ID No.12 1297803 )
the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at FRONT OF THE
DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN
ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772, on
APRIL 3, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $30,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 23-012121)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
JOANNA FORONDA,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012453383
 EZ
MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2024 EZ
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
1131 Blue Wing Terrace
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
ROXANN L. COOPER, dated December 23, 2005 and
recorded in Liber 27592, folio 176 among the Land Records
of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default having occurred
thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.C-16-
CV-23-001154; Tax ID No.03-3313186 ) the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE, located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE
COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO,
MD 20772, on
APRIL 3, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $50,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 22-005793)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
JOANNA FORONDA,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012453380
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
11704 Holly Hock Court
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
TAMMY HILL, dated July 28, 2005 and recorded in Liber
23182, folio 529 among the Land Records of PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default having occurred thereunder
(Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.CAEF19-04062; Tax
ID No.15-2765162 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE,
located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE
COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772, on
APRIL 3, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $40,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 18-700293)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
HUGH J. GREEN,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
BRIAN THOMAS,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012453377
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MCMICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY, LLC
7470 Technology Way
Suite P
Frederick, MD 21703
(470) 480-1820
TRUSTEE’S SALE
9278 ADELPHI ROAD #304
Hyattsville, MD 20783
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated August 19, 1991 and recorded in Deed Book 8047
at Page 19 among the Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S
COUNTY, Maryland, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, the Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction at
the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772, on
MARCH 26, 2024 AT 1:45 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY, Maryland, located at the above address
and more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of
Trust (the “Property”).
TAX ID#: 17-1951748
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $5,000 by cashier’s/certified
check or such other form as the Substitute Trustee may
allow, in their sole discretion, required at time of sale except
for the party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on
purchaser from date and time of auction. The property and
improvements will be sold in “as is” physical condition
without either express or implied warranty of any kind and
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of
sale. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at
the rate of 8% from the date of sale to the date funds are
received in the office of the Substitute Trustees. There will
be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed
for any reason.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment
of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if
applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges
or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground
rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser
from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the Property. If the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey title for any
reason, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall
be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the
Purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited to the
Substitute Trustees for application against all expenses,
attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of
the above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default,
all expenses of this sale (including attorney’s fees and the
full commission on the gross sale price of this sale) shall
be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit.
The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the Property
at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may
avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies against
the defaulting purchaser without re-selling the Property.
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall
not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such
surplus results from improvements to the Property by said
defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall
be liable to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable
attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection with
all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the
resale. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status
of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust including, but not
limited to, determining whether prior to sale a bankruptcy
was filed; forbearance, repayment or other agreement was
entered into; or the loan was reinstated or paid off. In any
such event, this sale shall be null and void and Purchaser’s
sole remedy shall be return of deposit without interest.
DIANA THEOLOGOU, GREGORY THORNE,
ADRIAN JACOBS, BRIAN CAMPBELL,
CHRISTINE COTTON, Substitute Trustees
File No.: 23-001942-01
Mar 11,18,25 2024 0012451769
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852 852
Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
Brock and Scott, PLLC
5431 Oleander Drive
Wilmington NC, 28403
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
2705 OAK LEAF COURT
Odenton, MD 21113
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to LAWYERS TITLE REALTY SRVC INC,
Trustee(s), dated February 13, 2009, and recorded among
the Land Records of ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND
in Liber 20724 , folio 309, RERECORDED IN BOOK 40183,
PAGE 138, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this
Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute
Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid
Land Records, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, and at the request of the party secured thereby, the
undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public
auction at THE ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURTHOUSE
LOCATED AT 8 CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401 ON,
MARCH 19, 2024 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN CONDOMINIUM UNIT SITUATED IN THE
COUNTY OF ANNE ARUNDEL, STATE OF MARYLAND, BEING
KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS UNIT 2705, BUILDING 3,
LOT 3, AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT ENTITLED “PLANNED UNIT
DEVELOPMENT, PHASE 3, LOT 3, BUILDING 3, CONDOMINIUM
PLAT WOODLAND WALK CONDOMINIUM AT PINEY ORCHARD
A TRIPLEX DWELLING” AS RECORDED AMONG THE LAND
RECORDS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK E93,
FOLIO 50 AND E94, FOLIO 1 THRU 3. TAX/PARCEL ID: 04-
571-90102247
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $13,500.00 payable in
certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from
purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available
funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at
the rate of 4.375 % on unpaid purchase money from date
of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a
bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party
purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to
complete full settlement of the purchase of the property
within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit
shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk
and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public
charges and private charges or assessments, including
water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be
adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement
shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will
be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not
ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title
or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights
and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known
or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the
Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review
of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel
the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit
shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and
conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time
and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the
Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s
order of 10.16.2020. File No. (22-18767 )
JOHN ANSELL, JEREMY B. WILKINS, ROBERT A. OLIVERI,
AMANDA DRISCOLE, PAUL HEINMULLER,
JOHN C. HANRAHAN, KRISTOPHER HAWKINS,
Substitute Trustees
A181, A316, A311, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463, A508
Mar 4,11,18 2024 0012453027
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852 852
Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
MCMICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY, LLC
7470 Technology Way
Suite P
Frederick, MD 21703
(470) 480-1820
TRUSTEE’S SALE
7143 HUMMINGBIRD DRIVE
GLEN BURNIE, MD 21060
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated November 19, 2015 and recorded in Deed Book 29057
at Page 123 among the Land Records of ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTY, Maryland, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, the Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction at
the ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, 8 CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS,
MD 21401, on
APRIL 2, 2024 AT 3:45 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in ANNE
ARUNDEL COUNTY, Maryland, located at the above address
and more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of
Trust (the “Property”).
TAX ID#: 03-797-90228256
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $28,000 by cashier’s/certified
check or such other form as the Substitute Trustee may
allow, in their sole discretion, required at time of sale except
for the party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on
purchaser from date and time of auction. The property and
improvements will be sold in “as is” physical condition
without either express or implied warranty of any kind and
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of
sale. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at
the rate of 7% from the date of sale to the date funds are
received in the office of the Substitute Trustees. There will
be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed
for any reason.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment
of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if
applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges
or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground
rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser
from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the Property. If the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey title for any
reason, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall
be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the
Purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited to the
Substitute Trustees for application against all expenses,
attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of
the above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default,
all expenses of this sale (including attorney’s fees and the
full commission on the gross sale price of this sale) shall
be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit.
The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the Property
at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may
avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies against
the defaulting purchaser without re-selling the Property.
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall
not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such
surplus results from improvements to the Property by said
defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall
be liable to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable
attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection with
all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the
resale. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status
of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust including, but not
limited to, determining whether prior to sale a bankruptcy
was filed; forbearance, repayment or other agreement was
entered into; or the loan was reinstated or paid off. In any
such event, this sale shall be null and void and Purchaser’s
sole remedy shall be return of deposit without interest.
DIANA THEOLOGOU, GREGORY THORNE,
ADRIAN JACOBS, BRIAN CAMPBELL, CHRISTINE COTTON,
Substitute Trustees
File No.: 22-002376-02
A181, A316, A311, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463, A508
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012452487
855 855
Charles County Charles County
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
2375 Progress Ct
Waldorf, MD 20601
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
RONALD L. JENKINS, CHRISTY L. MUNDINGER, SHIRLEY
R. RIVENBACH AND JENNIFER JENKINS, dated October 28,
2003 and recorded in Liber 4434, folio 315 MODIFIED ON
JUNE 20, 2014 IN LIBER 08586 FOLIO 0411 AND MODIFIED
ON MARCH 27, 2017 IN LIBER 9774 FOLIO 254; among the
Land Records of CHARLES COUNTY, MD, default having
occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case
No.C-08-CV-23-000578; Tax ID No.06-257461 ) the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the CHARLES COUNTY
COURTHOUSE, located at 200 CHARLES STREET ( IN THE
BREEZEWAY BETWEEN CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS ), LA
PLATA, MD 20646, on
APRIL 3, 2024 at 12:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in CHARLES COUNTY, MD and more fully
described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $20,000.00 will be required at the
time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR BY
CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Balance
of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of
final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for CHARLES
COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the
purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the
property shall be resold at the purchaser’s risk and expense.
The purchaser waives personal service and accepts service
by first class mail and certified mail addressed to the
address provided by said Purchaser as identified on the
Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or Show Cause Order
incident to this sale including a Motion to Default Purchaser
and for Resale of the Property. In the event of a resale,
the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to receive
any benefit from the resale, including, but not limited to,
additional proceeds or surplus which may arise therefrom.
Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Substitute Trustees. There
will be no abatement of interest in the event additional
funds are tendered at the time of sale or any time prior to
settlement or if the settlement is delayed for any reason.
In the event that the Secured Party executes a forbearance
agreement with the borrower(s) described in the above-
mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to
execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan,
prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee’s
prior knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and
of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be the
return of the deposit without interest. Purchaser shall pay
for documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement
expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, condominium fees
and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/
assessments payable on an annual basis, including
sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable,
shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed
thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee(s) are unable
to convey insurable title for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to a refund
of the aforementioned deposit without interest. In the event
the sale is not ratified for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole
remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without
interest. (File # 23-000303)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
JOANNA FORONDA,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012453372
NOTICES H Trustee Sales—MD D13
855 855
Charles County Charles County
MCMICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY, LLC
7470 Technology Way
Suite P
Frederick, MD 21703
(470) 480-1820
TRUSTEE’S SALE
11582 LANTERN LANE
Waldorf, MD 20601
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated March 21, 2005 and recorded in Deed Book 5175 at
Page 607 among the Land Records of CHARLES COUNTY,
Maryland, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, the Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction
at the CHARLES COUNTY, 200 CHARLES STREET ( IN THE
BREEZEWAY BETWEEN CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS ), LA
PLATA, MD 20646, on
MARCH 26, 2024 AT 12:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in CHARLES
COUNTY, Maryland, located at the above address and more
fully described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust (the
“Property”).
TAX ID#: 06-054501
Said property is subject to a prior mortgage.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $13,000 by cashier’s/certified
check or such other form as the Substitute Trustee may
allow, in their sole discretion, required at time of sale except
for the party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on
purchaser from date and time of auction. The property and
improvements will be sold in “as is” physical condition
without either express or implied warranty of any kind and
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of
sale. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at
the rate of 8% from the date of sale to the date funds are
received in the office of the Substitute Trustees. There will
be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed
for any reason.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment
of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if
applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges
or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground
rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser
from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the Property. If the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey title for any
reason, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall
be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the
Purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited to the
Substitute Trustees for application against all expenses,
attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price
of the above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of
default, all expenses of this sale (including attorney’s
fees and the full commission on the gross sale price of
this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the
forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and
resell the Property at the risk and expense of the defaulting
purchaser or may avail themselves of any legal or equitable
remedies against the defaulting purchaser without re-
selling the Property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if
any, even if such surplus results from improvements to the
Property by said defaulting purchaser and the defaulting
purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured party
for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in
connection with all litigation involving the Property or the
proceeds of the resale. This sale is subject to post-sale
audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust
including, but not limited to, determining whether prior to
sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or other
agreement was entered into; or the loan was reinstated or
paid off. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void
and Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit
without interest.
DIANA THEOLOGOU, GREGORY THORNE, ADRIAN JACOBS,
BRIAN CAMPBELL, CHRISTINE COTTON,
Substitute Trustees
File No.: 23-001319-01
Mar 11,18,25 2024 0012453467
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
8709 Fendley Way
Waldorf, MD 20603
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
VINCENT L. CURRY AND LISA N. CURRY, dated July 26,
2005 and recorded in Liber 5396, folio 598 MODIFIED ON
APRIL 20, 2021 IN LIBER 11763 FOLIO 468; among the
Land Records of CHARLES COUNTY, MD, default having
occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case
No.C-08-CV-23-000954; Tax ID No.06-120466 ) the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the CHARLES COUNTY
COURTHOUSE, located at 200 CHARLES STREET ( IN THE
BREEZEWAY BETWEEN CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS ), LA
PLATA, MD 20646, on
APRIL 3, 2024 at 12:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in CHARLES COUNTY, MD and more fully
described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $45,000.00 will be required at the
time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR BY
CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Balance
of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of
final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for CHARLES
COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the
purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the
property shall be resold at the purchaser’s risk and expense.
The purchaser waives personal service and accepts service
by first class mail and certified mail addressed to the
address provided by said Purchaser as identified on the
Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or Show Cause Order
incident to this sale including a Motion to Default Purchaser
and for Resale of the Property. In the event of a resale,
the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to receive
any benefit from the resale, including, but not limited to,
additional proceeds or surplus which may arise therefrom.
Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Substitute Trustees. There
will be no abatement of interest in the event additional
funds are tendered at the time of sale or any time prior to
settlement or if the settlement is delayed for any reason.
In the event that the Secured Party executes a forbearance
agreement with the borrower(s) described in the above-
mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to
execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan,
prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee’s
prior knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and
of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be the
return of the deposit without interest. Purchaser shall pay
for documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement
expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, condominium fees
and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/
assessments payable on an annual basis, including
sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable,
shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed
thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee(s) are unable
to convey insurable title for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to a refund
of the aforementioned deposit without interest. In the event
the sale is not ratified for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole
remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without
interest. (File # 22-007198)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
JOANNA FORONDA,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012453772
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Frederick County Frederick County Frederick County Frederick County Frederick County Frederick County Frederick County Prince William County Stafford County Culpeper County
Brock and Scott, PLLC Brock and Scott, PLLC Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC CIRCUIT COURT FOR TRUSTEE’S SALE OF TRUSTEE SALE Trustee’s Sale
3012 Jenny Lane, 898 Woodcrest Loop,
5431 Oleander Drive 5431 Oleander Drive 11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302 FREDERICK COUNTY,
MARYLAND Woodbridge, VA 22192
1902 Sierra Drive,
Fredericksburg, VA 22405 Culpeper, VA 22701
Wilmington NC, 28403 Wilmington NC, 28403 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 100 West Patrick Street Stafford County (Parcel ID: 40U 3 191)
In execution of a Deed of Trust
470-321-7112 Frederick, Maryland 21701
Clerk of the Court: 301-600-1976 in the original principal amount In execution of a Deed of Trust Default having been made in
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF Assignment Office: of $417,000.00 dated December in the original principal amount the terms of a certain Deed of
2, 2009 recorded among the land
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY TRUSTEES’ SALE OF 301-600-2015
records of the Circuit Court for
of $374,600.00, dated January
4, 2008 recorded in the Clerk’s
Trust dated March 28, 2014, in
the original principal amount
KNOWN AS KNOWN AS VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY Case Number: Prince William County on De- Office of the Circuit Court of of $255,102.00 and recorded in
cember 4, 2009 as Instrument
6582 NYASA BEND 5512 UPSHUR SQUARE KNOWN AS C-10-CV-23-000565
Other Reference Numbers: Number: 200912040115796, the
the Stafford County, Virginia,
in Document No. LR080000773
the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit
Court of the County of Cul-
New Market, MD 21774 Frederick, MD 21703 1706 HEATHER LANE undersigned appointed Substi- and modified in Document No. peper, Virginia on March 31,
FREDERICK, MD 21702 DIANE ROSENBERG tute Trustee will offer for sale at
public auction, at the Main en-
110015495, at the request of
the holder of the Note, the un-
2014, as Instrument Number
140001369, and modified by a
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a VS. trance of the courthouse for the dersigned Substitute Trustee will Loan Modification Agreement
certain Deed of Trust to WILLIAM J. PETRINA, Trustee(s), certain Deed of Trust to JOHN M. MERCER, Trustee(s), Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated ROY RIPPEON, JR., ET AL.
Circuit Court of Prince William
County, 9311 Lee Ave, Manassas,
offer for sale at public auction at
the entrance to the Judicial Cen-
recorded on June 25, 2019, as
Instrument Number 190003139,
dated September 19, 2013, and recorded among the Land dated June 6, 2006, and recorded among the Land Records June 2, 2020, and recorded in Liber 13865, folio 175, of VA 20110 on April 15, 2024 at ter, 1300 Courthouse Road, Staf- further modified by a Loan Mod-
Records of FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 9791 of FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 6165, folio the land records of FREDERICK COUNTY , with an original Date: 2/29/2024 4:00 PM the property described
in said deed of trust, located at
ford, on April 23, 2024 at 10:00
AM the property described in
ification Agreement recorded
on July 26, 2021, as Instrument
, folio 452 , the holder of the indebtedness secured by this 248, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed principal balance of $208,550.00, default having occurred NOTICE OF SALE the above address and briefly said deed, located at the above Number 210006661, the under-
Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute of Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees Notice is hereby issued by the
described as: Lot Two (2), LONG-
WOOD ESTATES, as the same
address and briefly described as: signed Substitute Trustees will
sell at public auction on April 22,
Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid will offer for sale at public auction at THE FREDERICK Circuit Court for Frederick Coun- is duly dedicated, platted and Lot 2, EMJ Subdivision, with any 2024 at 10:00 AM, in front of
Land Records, default having occurred under the terms Land Records, default having occurred under the terms COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 100 W. PATRICK ST, ty this 29th day of February,
2024 that the sale made and
recorded in Deed Book 1202 at
Page 1168; rededicated in Deed
improvements thereon. the building housing the County
of Culpeper Circuit Court, 135
thereof, and at the request of the party secured thereby, the thereof, and at the request of the party secured thereby, the FREDERICK, MD 21701 ON, recorded by Miroslav Nikolov Book 1255 at Page 286, among Subject to any and all covenants, W. Cameron Street, Culpeper, VA
the Land Records of Prince
undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public for the sale of the property de-
scribed in these proceedings William County, Virginia. Tax ID:
conditions, restrictions, ease-
ments, and all other matters of
22701, the property designated
as Lot 191, Lakeview of Culpeper,
auction at THE FREDERICK COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED auction at THE FREDERICK COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED MARCH 20, 2024 at 9:30 AM 14521 Stottlemyer Road, 8292-47-4005. record taking priority over the Phase 3-A, as the same appears
AT 100 W. PATRICK ST, FREDERICK, MD 21701 ON, AT 100 W. PATRICK ST, FREDERICK, MD 21701 ON, Smithsburg, MD 21783 be rat-
ified and confirmed thirty (30) TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s
Deed of Trust, if any, affecting the
aforesaid property.
duly dedicated, platted and re-
corded in Instrument Number
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any days from the date of this Notice, deposit of $13,000.00 or 10% of 020006557, plat recorded in
MARCH 27, 2024 at 9:30 AM MARCH 27, 2024 at 9:30 AM buildings or improvements thereon situated in FREDERICK unless cause to the contrary
be shown, provided a copy of
the sale price, whichever is low-
er, will be required in the form
TERMS OF SALE: CASH: A de-
posit of $20,000.00 or 10% of the
Plat Cabinet 7 at Pages 480-
487, among the land records of
COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more fully this Notice be inserted in some of a certified or cashier’s check. sales price, whichever is lower, Culpeper County, Virginia. Sale
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust. Newspaper published in this
County, once in each of three (3)
Cash will not be accepted as a
deposit. Settlement within fif-
cash or certified check will be
required at the time of sale, but
is subject to all prior liens, ease-
ments, restrictions, covenants,
thereon situated in FREDERICK COUNTY, MD and described thereon situated in FREDERICK COUNTY, MD and described successive weeks. The report teen (15) days of sale, otherwise no more than $10,000.00 of cash and conditions, if any, of record,
as follows: as follows: TAX ID# - 02-072599 states the amount of the sale to
be $466,200.00.
Trustee may forfeit deposit. Ad-
ditional terms to be announced
will be accepted, with settlement
within fifteen (15) days from the
or other matters which would be
disclosed by an accurate survey
at sale. This is a communication date of sale. Sale is subject to or inspection of the premises.
LOT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED NINETY-SIX (196) IN BLOCK LOT NUMBERED ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY- The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS Sandra K. Dalton
Clerk of the Circuit Court
from a debt collector. This notice
is an attempt to collect on a debt
post sale confirmation that the
borrower did not file for protec- TERMS: CASH. A deposit of
LETTERED “E” IN THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS “PLAT TWO (1122) IN THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS “FINAL PLAT, IS” physical condition without warranty of any kind and and any information obtained tion under the U.S. Bankruptcy $25,000.00 or 10% of the sale
THREE, EAGLEHEAD COLDSTREAM-SECTION ONE” AS PER BALLINGER CROSSING, SECTION V, PLAT 2, LOTS 1113- subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of Mar 4,11,18 2024 0012453813
will be used for that purpose.
(Trustee # 24-000058)
Code prior to the sale which af- price, whichever is lower, will
be required of the successful
fects the validity of the sale, as
PLAT THEREOF DULY RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 6 AT PLAT 1128”, AS PER PLAT THEREOF DULY RECORDED AMONG THE record affecting the same, including any condominium or 872
Fairfax County well as to post-sale confirmation bidder at time of sale. Prior to
NO. 15 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF FREDERICK COUNTY, LAND RECORDS OF FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND IN PLAT homeowners association assessments pursuant to MD Real Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee,
LLC C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548,
of the status of the loan with the sale, interested bidders will
be required to register with and
the loan servicer including, but
MARYLAND. BOOK 1113 AT PLAT NO. 1128. Property Article § 11-110 and § 11B-117 . Leesburg, VA 20177 (703) 777- not limited to, determination of must present a bid deposit which
7101 website: www.Orlans.com whether the borrower entered may be held during the sale by
The Vendor auction.com will be into any repayment agreement, the trustee. The bid deposit must
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS” The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS” TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of used in conjunction with this reinstated or paid off the loan be certified funds and/or cash,
condition without either express or implied warranty or condition without either express or implied warranty or $20,000.00 by cashier’s/certified check or such other form TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
sale.Potential Bidders: For sale
information, please visit www.
prior to the sale. In any such but no more than $9,900.00 of
event, the sale shall be null and cash will be accepted. The suc-
representation, including but not limited to the description, representation, including but not limited to the description, as the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole 10405 Hunter Station Road, Auction.com or call (800) 280- void, and the Purchaser’s sole cessful bidder’s deposit will be
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity, fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity, discretion, required at time of sale except for the party Vienna, VA 22181 2832. remedy, in law or equity, shall be retained at the sale and applied
the return of his deposit without to the sale price. If held by the
physical condition, construction, extent of construction, physical condition, construction, extent of construction, secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser In execution of a Deed of Trust Mar 11,18 2024 0012451303
interest. Additional terms may trustee, all other bid deposits
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision, workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision, from date and time of auction. The balance of the purchase in the original principal amount
876 be announced at the time of will be returned to the unsuc-
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance environmental condition, merchantability, compliance price together with interest thereon at 3.990% per annum of $875,000.00 dated Novem-
ber 24, 2006 recorded among
Loudoun County sale. Pursuant to the Federal Fair
Debt Collection Practices Act,
cessful bidders. Settlement is
to be made within 15 days. The
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances from date of sale to receipt of purchase price by Substitute the land records of the Circuit
Court for Fairfax County on
we advise you that this firm is a successful bidder will be respon-
debt collector attempting to col- sible for obtaining poss! ession
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to Trustees must be paid by cashier’s check within 10 days December 4, 2006 as Instrument lect the indebtedness referred of! the property, and for all costs
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which easements, agreements and restrictions of record which after final ratification of sale. The noteholder shall not be Number: 2006037121.009, the
undersigned appointed Substi-
to herein and any information and fees related to recording
we obtain will be used for that the Trustee’s Deed, including
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There will be tute Trustee will offer for sale purpose. the grantors tax. The successful
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event at public auction, at the Main bidder will be required to exe-
entrance of the courthouse SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C., cute a Memorandum of Trustee’s
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA affecting same including any condominium and of HOA that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if for the Circuit Court of Fairfax Substitute Trustee Sale, available for review upon
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110. assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110. settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes County, 4110 Chain Bridge Rd,
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
request before the sale, outlining
Fairfax, VA 22030 on April 15, additional terms of sale and set-
and other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted 2024 at 12:45 PM the property 19182 Chartier Drive,
This is a communication from a
debt collector. tlement. A Trustee’s Deed will be
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $14,000.00 payable in TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $23,000.00 payable in as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. described in said deed of trust, Leesburg, VA 20176 FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: prepared by Trustee’s attorney
located at the above address at high bidder’s expense. This is
certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from If applicable, any condominium and/or homeowners and briefly described as: Lot In execution of a Deed of Trust
SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C. (82329)
448 Viking Drive Suite 350 a communication from a debt
purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available association dues and assessments that may become due Two-A (2-A), HUNTER STATION in the original principal amount Virginia Beach, VA 23452 collector. Tromberg, Morris &
KNOLL, as the same appears duly of $417,000.00 dated Febru-
funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of after the date of sale shall be purchaser’s responsibility. dedicated, platted and record- ary 18, 2014 recorded among
757-457-1460 - Call Between
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Poulin, PLLC on behalf of South-
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FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at the FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at the Purchaser shall pay all transfer, documentary and recording ed in Deed Book 7507 at Page the land records of the Circuit or visit our website at or Auction.com-VA, LLC, and/or
1903,and re-subdivided in Deed Court for Loudoun County on
rate of 4.54 % on unpaid purchase money from date of rate of 3.625% on unpaid purchase money from date of taxes/fees and all other settlement costs. Purchaser is Book 8386 at Page 1778 among February 21, 2014 as Instrument
www.siwpc.net NFPDS-VA LLC, Substitute Trust-
ee(s), 413 Stuart Circle, Suite 314,
sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a responsible for obtaining possession of the property. Time the land records of Fairfax Coun- Number: 20140221-0008566, Mar 18,25 2024 0012454851
Richmond, VA 23220, File No. 23-
ty, Virginia. Tax ID: 0272 01 0019E. the undersigned appointed Sub-
bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser defaults, stitute Trustee will offer for sale DC H NORTHEAST 000765, Tel: 804-525-1570.

purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk and TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s at public auction, at the Main
Apartments
Mar 18,25 2024 0012453098

deposit of $17,000.00 or 10% of entrance of the courthouse for

complete full settlement of the purchase of the property complete full settlement of the purchase of the property cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any 265
within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and
the sale price, whichever is low-
er, will be required in the form
the Circuit Court of Loudoun
County, 18 E Market St, Leesburg, Condos • Co-ops Home & Garden
of a certified or cashier’s check. VA 20176 on April 15, 2024 at
sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit attorney’s fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not Cash will not be accepted as a 2:30 PM the property described
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teen (15) days of sale, otherwise the above address and briefly
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water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be including but not limited to determining whether prior to at sale. This is a communication
from a debt collector. This notice DULY DEDICATED, PLATTED AND Must bring valid government-issued Call 1-844-566-3227.
adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or is an attempt to collect on a debt RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 2173 Non-drivers or driver’s card, original
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AT PAGE 2263, AMONG THE
transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement other agreement was entered into; or loan was reinstated and any information obtained
will be used for that purpose. LAND RECORDS OF LOUNDOUN cards for all household members. If
shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium or paid off. In any such event this sale shall be null and (Trustee # 24-000652) COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Tax ID: 082- you need to make a reasonable
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and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit Substitute Trustee: ALG Trust- at: compliance@horningdc.com dewormed. Ready April 5.
be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not without interest. File No. (23-118688) ee, LLC C/O Orlans PC PO Box TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s please no lining up at night
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$2500. Call 240-778-3528
2548, Leesburg, VA 20177 (703) deposit of $13,000.00 or 10% of
ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title KEITH YACKO, DAVID WILLIAMSON,
777-7101 website: www.Orlans.
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the sale price, whichever is low-
er, will be required in the form DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS
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or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s) or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s) BRYSON STEPHEN, THOMAS GARTNER, will be used in conjunction with
this sale.
of a certified or cashier’s check.
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deposit. Settlement within fif-
teen (15) days of sale, otherwise
the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights Trustee may forfeit deposit. Ad-
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at sale. This is a communication
or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon from a debt collector. This notice MARYLAND ity. $2000. In Rio, WV. 732-740-6300
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect, refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect, is an attempt to collect on a debt
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and any information obtained
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the will be used for that purpose.
black & tan. 3 males & 3 females.
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bsmt $1200. House to shr. All util
GOLDEN RET AKC & GOLDEN /
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Case No. C-04-CV-23-000211
Substitute Trustees Substitute Trustees Case No. C-04-CV-22-000315 2024 at 12:45 PM the property
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1202 CORDOVA DR LUSBY,
MD 20657, reported by Jenni-
fer Deardorff, Attorney for the
Substitute Trustee, be ratified
9910 Jonathan Drive, Dunkirk,
Maryland 20754, reported by
John Ansell, John C. Hanrahan,
Brennan Ferguson, Jeremy B.
Give the
RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 1872, 106 Adams Drive NE,
PAGE 505, AMONG THE LAND Leesburg, VA 20176
RECORDS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY,

Mar 11,18,25 2024
851
Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al
Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees
v.
ESTATE OF JAMES T. MALLOY
Defendant(s)
Civil Action No. CAEF18-23909
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 14th
day of March, 2024, by the Cir-
cuit Court for Prince George’s
County, Maryland, that the sale
of the property mentioned in
these proceedings and de-
scribed as 6902 Mackson Drive,
Temple Hills, MD 20748 will be
ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary thereof
be shown on or before the 15th
day of April, 2024, provided a
copy of this NOTICE be published
at least once a week in each of
three successive weeks in some
newspaper of general circulation
published in said County before
the 15th day of April, 2024. The
Report of Sale states the amount
of the sale to be $327,250.00.
Mahasin El Amin
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
SIWPC File# 60605
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012455302
0012452750
851
Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
DIANA THEOLOGOU, ET. AL
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
vs.
SHERRIE M. BROWN
Defendant(s).
Case No.: C-16-CV-23-000163
NOTICE
ORDERED this 28th day of
February, 2024 by the Circuit
Court for Prince George’s Coun-
ty, Maryland, that the sale of
the property at 9200 Edwards
Way, Unit 102, Hyattsville,
MD 20783 mentioned in these
proceedings, made and reported
Diana C. Theologou, et. al, Sub-
stitute Trustees, be ratified and
confirmed, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on or
before the 28th day of March,
2024 next, provided a copy of
this notice be inserted in some
newspaper published in said
County once in each of three
successive weeks before the
28th day of March, 2024 next.
The report states the amount of
sale to be $89,700.00.
Mahasin El Amin
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
Mar 4,11,18 2024 0012453798
Mar 11,18,25 2024
853
Calvert County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
CALVERT COUNTY, MARYLAND
John Ansell, et al.
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs,
v.
Lisa A. Mowatt a/k/a
Lisa A. Hurst,
Defendant.
Case No. C-04-CV-23-000292
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this
12th day of March, 2024, that
the sale of the property in this
case, 323 Maverick Road, Lus-
by, Maryland 20657, reported
by John Ansell, John C. Hanrah-
an, Brennan Ferguson, Jeremy
B. Wilkins, Amanda Driscole,
Robert Oliveri, and Paul Heni-
muller, Substitute Trustees, be
ratified and confirmed, unless
casue to the contrary be shown
on or before the 11th day of
April, 2024, provided a copy of
this Notice be inserted in The
Washington Post, a newspaper
published in Calvert County,
Maryland, once in each of three
(3) successive weeks on or be-
fore the 11th day of April, 2024.
The report states the amount
of sale to be $210,500.00.
Kathy P. Smith
Clerk
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012455121
0012451794
853
Calvert County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
CALVERT COUNTY, MARYLAND
John Ansell, et al.
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs,
v.
Cheryl L Mckinlay,
Defendant.
Case No. C-04-CV-23-000446
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this 27th
day of Feb., 2024, that the sale
of the property in this case, 5650
Cheryl Ln, Chesapeake Beach,
Maryland 20732, reported by
John Ansell, John C. Hanrahan,
Brennan Ferguson, Jermery
B. Wilkins, Amanda Driscole,
Robert Oliveri and Paul Hein-
muller, Substitute Trustees, be
ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary be shown
on or before the 28th day of
March, 2024, provided a copy
of this Notice be inserted in The
Washington Post, a newspaper
published in Calvert County,
Maryland, once in each of (3)
successive weeks on or before
the 28th day of March, 2024.
The report states the amount
of sale to be $219,000.00.
Kathy P. Smith
Clerk
Mar 4,11,18 2024 0012453804
and confirmed, unless cause
to the contrary be shown on or
before the 4th day April, 2024,
provided a copy of this No-
tice be inserted in Washington
Post, a newspaper publioshed
in CALVERT County, Maryland,
once in each of three (3) suc-
cessive weeks on or before
the 4th day of April, 2024.
The report states the amount
of sale to be $251,000.00.
Kathy P. Smith
Clerk
Mar 11,18,25 2024 0012454372
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
CALVERT COUNTY, MARYLAND
DAVID WILLIAMSON, et al,
Substitute Trustee,
Plaintiff,
v.
CYNTHIA ANN FOLEY, et al,
Defendants.
Case No. C-04-CV-22-000430
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this 5th
day of March, 2024, that the
sale of the property in this case,
4551 DARES BEACH ROAD
PRINCE FREDERICK, MD 20678,
reported by Jennifer Deardorff,
Attorney for the Substitute Trust-
ee, be ratified and confirmed,
unless cause to the contrary
be shown on or before the 4th
day of April, 2024, provided a
copy of this Notice be inserted
in Washington Post, a newspaper
published in CALVERT County,
Maryland, once in each of three
(3) successive weeks on or be-
fore the 4th day of April, 2024.
The report states the amount
of sale to be $355,512.22.
Kathy P. Smith
Clerk
Mar 11,18,25 2024 0012454380
VIRGINIA. Tax ID: 1013 16 0004.
Wilkins, Amanda Driscole, Rob-
ert Oliveri and Paul Heinmuller, TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s
Substitute Trustees, be ratified deposit of $11,000.00 or 10% of
and confirmed, unless cause the sale price, whichever is low-
to the contrary be shown on or er, will be required in the form
before the 10th day of April,
2024, provided a copy of this
of a certified or cashier’s check.
Cash will not be accepted as a
Notice be inserted in The Wash- deposit. Settlement within fif-
ington Post, a newspaper pub-
lished in Calvert County, Mary-
teen (15) days of sale, otherwise
Trustee may forfeit deposit. Ad-
land, once in each of three (3) ditional terms to be announced
successive weeks on or before at sale. This is a communication
the 10th day of April, 2024. from a debt collector. This notice
The report states the amount is an attempt to collect on a debt
of sale to be $444,600.00. and any information obtained
will be used for that purpose.
Kathy P. Smith (Trustee # 23-005507)
Clerk
Mar 18,25,Apr 1 2024 0012455118 Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee,
LLC C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548,
Leesburg, VA 20177 (703) 777-
7101 website: www.Orlans.com
The Vendor auction.com will be
used in conjunction with this
sale.Potential Bidders: For sale
information, please visit www.
Auction.com or call (800) 280-
2832.
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age for 350 plus procedures. Real
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2:30 PM the property described dental50plus.com/MDDC#6258
in said deed of trust, located at S0390-1x1.5
the above address and briefly
described as: Unit 45, Phase
Three (3), Heritage Square, a
Condominium, together with the
undivided interest in the General
Common Elements and Limit-
ed Common Elements which
attach to said unit as described
in that certain Declaration with
attached Plats designating the
relative location and identifica-
tion of each unit and Limited
Common Elements located in
the Town of Leesburg, Virginia,
and recorded in Deed Book 642
at Page 183 and as amend-
ed among the land records of
Loudoun County, Virginia. Tax ID:
188285198005.
TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s
deposit of $10,000.00 or 10% of
the sale price, whichever is low-
er, will be required in the form
of a certified or cashier’s check.
Cash will not be accepted as a
deposit. Settlement within fif-
teen (15) days of sale, otherwise
Trustee may forfeit deposit. Ad-
ditional terms to be announced
at sale. This is a communication
from a debt collector. This notice
is an attempt to collect on a debt
and any information obtained
will be used for that purpose.
(Trustee # 23-015076)
Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee,
LLC C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548,
Leesburg, VA 20177 (703) 777-
7101 website: www.Orlans.com
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