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Brittny Adams could spend up to 54 years in jail if convicted By Stephen Montemayor smontemayor@ljworld.com
A 20-year-old Topeka woman pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder in the July 2013 shooting death of Gary Edens, 51, of Lawrence. Brittny Marie Adams will be sentenced by District Judge Sally D. Pokorny on Feb. 28 in Douglas County District Court. Appearing in court on Friday, Adams also entered a plea of no contest to two counts of felony criminal threats made to a corrections officer at the Douglas County Jail. Adams had been accused Adams of shooting Edens in the back of the head just outside the front door of his home in the 600 block of Michigan Street on July 17, 2013. The court proceedings so far have not revealed a motive for the killing.
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PATROL OFFICER ASHLEY DURAZO, 24, SITS BELOW PORTRAITS OF POLICE OFFICERS from years past during a shift briefing on Friday, at the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. Durazo has been with the Lawrence Police Department for a little more than two years and is among the youngest of the officers.
Police recruitment facing new challenges
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By Stephen Montemayor
Now two years removed from an intensive application process, Lawrence Police Officer Dominique Sloan thinks the most challenging part of becoming an officer was the interview. “It humanizes you,” said Sloan, who was hired in 2012. “When you sit down across from a person — especially a person who’s
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I don’t think people realize how smart you have The task of finding new officers is changing the to be to be a police officer or how challenging this career-planning habits of job really is.” potential recruits.
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— Sgt. Dave Hogue, Lawrence Police Department been doing it for 15 to 20 years — they can really see a sense of who you are and who you are going to become.” The Lawrence Police De-
partment recently began accepting applications for its 35th Basic Recruit Academy and will begin testing applicants on Feb. 22, continuing until the online application’s
Sgt. Dave Hogue has been a large part of the hiring process for five years. During that time, the number of applications received (about 300) and additions to the academy (about a dozen each year) has been
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Lawrence women hit new heights at top of Kilimanjaro By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com
Finishing an Ironman triathlon versus summiting the world’s tallest free-standing peak? Both difficult, but totally different, say two Lawrence women who can now compare the two. Cheryl Denton, 53, and Liz Dobbins, 60, flew home from Africa on Wednesday after climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. Denton, an attorney at Petefish, Immel, Heeb and Hird, and Dobbins, a lecturer in the Kansas
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I had no idea what to expect — everything was unknown to me.” — Liz Dobbins, Lawrence resident
University Health, Sport and Exercise Sciences Department, have completed Ironman triathlons (a 2.4-mile swim followed by a 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile run) and are regulars at Bikram yoga (practiced in a studio heated to 105 degrees). But the mountain was a new kind of challenge. In a triathlon, you know
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how far the finish line is and what you have to do to get there, Dobbins said. On Kilimanjaro, they knew they’d be climbing to 19,341 feet, but each step was unlike the last. “It’s a whole different perspective,” Dobbins said. “I LIZ DOBBINS, LEFT, AND CHERYL DENTON at had no idea what to expect the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, — everything was unknown 19,341 feet. The Lawrence women to me.” spent nine days climbing and descendPlease see HIKE, page 2A ing the mountain.
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Appeals court holds up tenure denial at KU By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
Topeka — A panel of the Kansas Court of Appeals on Friday upheld Kansas University’s decision to deny tenure to an assistant professor in a case that drew national attention. Albert Romkes, who had taught mechanical engineering, was denied tenure in 2011 by KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. KU officials had COURTS said Romkes failed to attract research funds. The appeals court wrote: “We are loathe to substitute our judgment for the University’s business judgment on whether to award academic tenure to a faculty member in a research-driven scientific discipline who
KU Med gets $10M KU’s medical school gets $10 million from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to conduct three new research projects. Page 3A
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