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Murder charge filed; police ask for public’s help By Nikki Wentling nwentling@ljworld.com
A Lawrence man arrested Saturday has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a man at the victim’s apartment, and police are seeking in-
formation about other potential suspects. Dustin D. Walker, 29, was charged Monday in Douglas County District Court in the death of Lawrence resident Patrick Roberts, 39. Walker is being held in Douglas County Jail on a $1 million
bond, according to the District Attorney’s Office. Walker is suspected of shooting Roberts while attempting to commit aggravated burglary, according to the District Attorney’s Office. Police were sent to an
apartment in the 2400 block of Cedarwood Avenue for a reported shooting at 3:10 a.m. Saturday. Several individuals, including relatives who lived with Roberts, were present in the apartment when the incident occurred, according to the
District Attorney’s Office and Sgt. Trent McKinley, a Lawrence Police Department spokesman. At least two people fled the scene, and investigators detained two people for questioning, Please see CHARGE, page 4A
Walker
Senator deletes $2M research plan from KU budget
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Fellow lawmaker suggests removal is simply a vendetta By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild
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A KANSAS UNIVERSITY CLASS TAKES ITS STUDIES outdoors Monday and ends up looking like a spring bloom on a tree. Temperatures warmed up into the mid-70s on Monday and, with the exception of a dip on Wednesday, are expected to be in the 60s and 70s most of the week.
Jenna Lyons and Tilly
Lawrence dog represents state in national project
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eally scruffy looking. Pretty ador-
the little black schnauzer mix (Or maybe
able. A little emotional baggage.
terrier? No one knows.). Lyons submitted
Age unknown. Likes to hang out in
her name online for the rescue project,
the laundry basket.
and the photographer visited last year.
That’s Lawrence resident Jenna Lyons’
It’s a big month for Tilly, who’s come
dog, Tilly, representing Kansas in a Purina-
out of her shell and now enjoys play dates
sponsored documentary project called
with other dogs and leading the pack at
“Why We Rescue: 50 Rescue Stories Across her doggie day care, Lyons said. Tilly was America,” online at whywerescue.com.
pictured in a Why We Rescue slideshow
Lyons, a Kansas University graduate
Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo
student, was living in Michigan when she
and on Sunday she’ll celebrate her two-year
stopped in an animal control center she
“adoptiversary” with Lyons.
drove by each day and fell in love with
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Topeka — A Senate budget subcommittee on Monday deleted $2 million for a proposed institute at Kansas University to develop new technologies and drugs in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies. The deletion was proposed by state Sen. Tom Arpke, RSalina, and was blasted by state Sen. Laura Kelly, D-Topeka. “This is the only project that is singled out for removal. I want to know why,” Kelly said. “This looks like a personal vendetta,” she said to Arpke, Arpke who has been a frequent critic of funding to KU. Arpke denied it was. He said if KU’s budget was based on declining student enrollment at the Lawrence campus in the past five years, it would have faced a $13 million cut. Arpke also put the deleted $2 million toward a scholar- Kelly ship program for low-income students, with 75 percent of that going to independent and private colleges. The current breakdown of the program is 50 percent to public universities and 50 to independents and private colleges. Gov. Sam Brownback had proposed setting aside $2 million in his budget for the Kansas
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