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District expecting to repay $672K in state aid
Rowin’ on the river
By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
John English/Special to the Journal-World
AN AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHER recently captured Kansas University rowers practicing on the Kansas River.
Topeka — Lawrence school district officials said Monday they expect they will have to repay nearly $672,000 in state aid by the end of this fiscal year because of the new “block grant” school finance SCHOOLS law that Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law last month. That could mean a hiring freeze for nonteaching staff for the rest of this year, Superintendent Rick Doll said, as well as Please see DISTRICT, page 6A
Coroner testifies that 2004 death City expecting was a homicide; friends cite stress to spend 30% By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
Douglas County Coroner Erik Mitchell testified Monday that physiological signs and criminal investigation concerns led him to rule that Mary E. Miller died by homicide in 2004. Mitchell was questioned during the fourth day of testimony in the retrial of Martin K. Miller, who is charged with first-degree murder in the July 28, 2004, death of his wife, Mary
State rests case in retrial of Martin Miller; defense begins Miller, 46, at the family’s central Lawrence home. Mitchell conducted Mary Miller’s autopsy and con- Martin Miller cluded the death was a homicide by asphyxiation. Mitchell testified Friday that an interior bruise on
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Upon cross-examination by defense attorney Richard Ney, Mitchell said that even with his knowledge of anatomy he could not guarantee he could strangle someone without leaving a bruise. Still, Mitchell said it is possible that interior bruising could occur without exterior bruising if one were to lay a pillow across the neck and apply pressure.
As city commissioners continue to have discussions about rearranging budget priorities, there are new numbers about an old subject at Lawrence City Hall: street maintenance. The latest numbers from the city’s public works department show the amount of money budgeted for contracted street
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Mary Miller’s throat and dot-like hemorrhages underneath her eyelids indicated strangulation had Mary Miller occurred. Mitchell said Monday that there were not any bruises, scratches or lacerations on the exterior of Mary Miller’s body.
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Meet a local chef and high school student named this year’s 2015 Douglas County Health Champions. In WellCommons, 1C
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