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STAY CONNECTED KANSASCITY.COM FACEBOOK.COM/KANSASCITYSTAR TWITTER.COM/KCSTAR KEEPING YOU CONNECTED SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22 2018 $4 KANSASCITY.COM Business 6A Classified 9B Comics 7B Lotteries 2A Obituaries 8A Opinion 9A Puzzles 6B, 8-9B Sports 1B TV 6B CUSTOMER SERVICE To subscribe or report delivery issues, 877-962-7827 or kansascity.com/customer-service Sunny See 10B SPORTS Line plays a big role in early success 1B FYI an ode to first female star 7A The woman who ignited gallons of flammable liquids in her nail salon looking to get an insurance check but ended up killing two Kansas City fire- fighters was sentenced Friday to 74 years in prison. The stiff sentence for Thu Hong Nguyen was punishment for causing what Assistant Jackson County Prosecutor Dan Nelson called that is real, is ragged and is for the families and friends of firefighters John V. Mesh and Larry J. Leggio and for the community. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Joel P.

Fahnestock sen- tenced Nguyen to 30 years each for two counts of felony murder, to run consecutively, and seven years each for two counts of second-degree as- sault for two firefighters who were permanently injured. Those sentences will run con- secutive to each other and to the murder sentences. She also sentenced Nguyen Woman sentenced to 74 years in prison for fatal fire PHOTOS BY KEITH MYERS Following the sentencing of Thu Hong Nguyen for the killing of two Kansas City firefighters, Missy Leggio, the widow of Larry Leggio, hugged assistant prosecutor Dan Portnoy outside the courtroom on Friday at the Jackson County Courthouse. Families remember 2 firefighters who died in salon blaze BY MATT CAMPBELL Thu Hong Nguyen was led from court on Friday after being sentenced to 74 years in prison for the deaths of two firefighters.SEE ARSON, 2A In the summer of 2015, as the Royals were on their way to a World Series championship, the then-Secretary of the Navy made an announcement at Kauffman Stadium alongside Mayor Sly James: There would be a new combat ship named USS Kansas City. Throughout the Barack Oba- ma administration, Ray Mabus held the honor of naming Navy vessels.

he described it. Along the way, Mabus also earned the honor of being the only known person to throw the ceremonial first pitch at all 30 major league ballparks and that July day, he got his first shot at tossing one at The K. Less than a year later, after wrapping up his first-pitch supremacy at Pro- gressive Field, the New York Times wrote up the feat in an article headlined Secre- tary Ray Mabus Knows a Thing or 30 about First In a phone interview Thurs- day, though, he laughed and denied a connection JOHN SLEEZER Kansas City Star A rendering of the USS Kansas City was unveiled at Kauffman Stadium on July 20, 2015, by then-Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Mayor Sly James. The warship will be christened Saturday at a ceremony at Austal USA manufacturing plant in Mobile, Ala. Navy official had first pitch, then named USS Kansas City BY RICK MONTGOMERY SEE USS KANSAS CITY, 10A SPRINGFIELD In the early stages of his cam- paign for the U.S.

Senate, Mis- souri Attorney General Josh Hawley faced criticism from some in his party over a sense that he was trying to distance himself from President Donald Trump. No one is saying that any- more. Hawley shared the stage with the president Friday night in Springfield, rallying thousands of Trump supporters on behalf of his campaign to unseat Dem- ocratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCas- kill.

become increasingly devotional to the president in recent months, and Trump has enthusiastically reciprocated. are finally putting Amer- ica Trump told an ebul- lient crowd Friday night. all gonna start with Josh Hawley. We love Josh. a The stakes of the November midterm elections, Trump add- ed, be more clear.

out in he said, voting for Trump won Missouri by 18 percentage points in 2016, a fact Hawley mentions regularly on the campaign trail. you noticed something about our Hawley asked the crowd Friday night. he makes a promise, he keeps it. When he makes a com- mitment, he delivers. I tell you what, delivering big for the state of Missouri and the United States of Hawley skipped first presidential visit to the which was also to Trump urges his supporters to back Hawley BY JASON HANCOCK, ANITA KUMAR AND BRYAN LOWRY MORE INSIDE Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein denies he talked of Trump ouster, 3A SEE TRUMP, 2A LOCAL ETHICS REFORM PROPOSAL IS BACK ON BALLOT Clean Missouri should stay on the November ballot, an appellate court rules.

4A LOCAL EX-DEPUTY CHARGED WITH SEXUAL BATTERY A former Wyandotte County deputy sheriff has been charged with two counts of sexual battery. 5A.