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Police still searching for Subway robbery suspect By Stephen Montemayor Twitter: @smontemayor
Police are still looking for a man who robbed a Lawrence Subway restaurant at gunpoint Monday morning. Sgt. Trent McKinley, a Lawrence Police spokesman, said the suspect remained unidentified as of Tuesday. On Monday, Lawrence police described the suspect as a black male, 23 to 35 years old and wearing a “Carhartt-type” workman’s jacket and a black baseball cap with a red brim. The robbery occurred about 7 a.m. at the restaurant’s 1601 W. 23rd St. location. As a clerk prepared to open the store, a man walked in and pulled out a pistol, demanding money. McKinley said that the man entered the store through its north door and exited through
the west side of the store after taking cash and the clerk’s cellphone. McKinley said attempts to locate the phone have so far been unsuccessful. The suspect immediately turned south and fled through a breezeway adjacent to Pizza Shuttle, McKinley said. From there, McKinley said, the man’s direction and mode of travel is unknown. “At that hour, few businesses in that immediate area were open,” McKinley said. McKinley added that police have not yet found anyone who saw the suspect fleeing. Police are asking anyone with information to call the Lawrence Police Department at 832-7509 or the TIPS Hotline at 843-TIPS(8477). — Reporter Stephen Montemayor can be reached at 832-7160 or smontemayor@ljworld.com.
BRIEFLY Extra time given in voter citizenship case Wichita — Kansas and Arizona will get more time to respond to the request by federal election officials for a stay in his ruling requiring them to enforce state laws requiring new voters to document their U.S. citizenship. U.S. District Court Eric Melgren on Monday gave the states until Friday to file their arguments against his ruling. In March, Melgren had ordered the agency to immediately modify its national voter registration form to add special instructions for Arizona and Kansas residents about those states’ proof-of-citizenship requirements. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission and voting rights groups want Melgren to stay that ruling while the case goes to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Both states contend the requirements prevent voter fraud. Critics of such laws view them as suppressing voter turnout.
Dodge City water park to be tax project Dodge City — After 14 years of discussion, plans for a water park in Dodge City took another step toward reality when city and Ford County commissions approved making the project eligible for funding
from a special sales tax. The joint commissions also voted Monday night to make the first $50,000 available for initial designs of a proposed $10 million water park. The Dodge City Daily Globe reports the project is still a long way off. Monday’s vote sends the project back to a sales tax project committee to work with city staff and a consultant on details for the park. Dodge City Manager Cherise Tieben says if all goes as planned, the park could open in May 2016.
Wichita — A registered Kansas sex offender has pleaded guilty to one count of sending obscene material to a minor while he was a patient at Larned State Hospital. The U.S. Attorney’s office announced Monday that 34-year-old Christopher M. Case pleaded guilty to transferring the material. Case was a resident of the state’s sexual predator treatment program at Larned when the crime was committed. Prosecutors say Case used a cell phone to send an obscene video to a 13-year-old girl in Montana. Case is expected to be sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
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Water planning task force to meet at KU this month By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
A task force appointed by Gov. Sam Brownback to develop a 50-year vision for Kansas water resources will conduct a public meeting at Kansas University later this month. According to a news release from KU, the “Vision Team” is seeking input from KU faculty, staff and students, area businesses and local government leaders, as well as from the general public, about a long-term plan for the protection and use of water resources.
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KU has long played an active role in water research and data analysis.” — Jackie McClasky, Kansas agriculture secretary
At a meeting last week in Manhattan, the Vision Team held a daylong planning session to develop an initial draft of a plan to address varied water concerns in different parts of the state. Among the issues discussed were proposals for dredging silt out of eastern Kansas reservoirs and building a 450-mile aqueduct to carry water
from the Missouri River to drought-stricken areas of southwestern Kansas. Following that meeting, Kansas Agriculture Secretary Jackie McClaskey said the Vision Team would schedule local public meetings throughout the state to solicit additional input. “KU has long played an active role in water research and data analy-
sis,” McClaskey said of the upcoming meeting in Lawrence. “The Vision Team wants community as well as campus information, ideas and strategies so we can make sure water is available to keep Kansas’ economy strong.” The meeting is scheduled for 4:30 to 6 p.m. April 24 in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. People who want to attend are asked to RSVP at KURES@KU.edu. — Peter Hancock can be reached at 832-7259. Follow him at Twitter.com/ LJWpqhancock.
Over 80 distinguished professors sign letter approving social media revision By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
More than 80 distinguished professors from Kansas universities signed a letter addressed to the Kansas Board of Regents that endorses the proposal by a group reviewing the regents’ controversial social media policy. The professors said in their letter that the proposal “meets, supports,
and exemplifies the role of scholarship for public intellectuals in a democracy.” The work group proposed a strictly advisory social media KANSAS UNIVERSITY policy that would replace the current one, which allows university CEOs to fire employees for social media posts
that conflict with a university’s best interests, among other violations. The regents formed the group in January after faculty, staff and academic groups said the current policy was too broad and restrained free speech. The group, made up of faculty and staff from regents universities, approved the proposal earlier in April and will present its recommendations to the
regents at a meeting Wednesday. The regents passed the social media policy in December after an anti-NRA tweet by KU journalism professor David Guth sparked a national uproar and prompted some Kansas lawmakers to call for Guth to be fired. — Reporter Ben Unglesbee can be reached at 832-7173.
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