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THURSDAY • MAY 8 • 2014
Feels like summer
KU says it hasn’t been involved in FBI probe
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Agency reportedly looking into lobbyist switch as part of broader investigation By Peter Hancock and Scott Rothschild phancock@ljworld.com; srothschild@ljworld.com
Kansas University officials said Wednesday that they have not been contacted by the FBI as part of a reported probe into payto-play allegations involving Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration. “There has been no contact with the university by anybody involved with the investigation,” said Tim Caboni, KU’s vice chancellor for public affairs. “The FBI has not contacted KU.” Brownback Caboni was responding to a story by the New York Times that reported that as part of a broader investigation, the FBI is looking at why KU reassigned its longtime Statehouse lobbyist Kathy Damron and hired Riley Scott. Scott is a former congressional aide to both Brown- Caboni back and U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran. He is also a son-in-law of Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita. At the time, KU and other regents universities were battling efforts in the
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LAWRENCE RESIDENT BETH WILKINSON is shaded from the midday sun by a wide-brimmed gardening hat as she waters her tomato plants Wednesday. Top photo: Eiliko Pubill wipes away perspiration while paving a street in western Lawrence.
May temperatures hit modern-day record Storms expected to cool things off today
By Giles Bruce Twitter: @GilesBruce
Lawrence residents could have been forgiven for waking up Wednesday morning and thinking they’d slept through to July. It felt like the dog days of summer rather than the middle of spring as temperatures reached 90 degrees for the first time this
year. It was the hottest May 7 since weather officials started keeping track of Lawrence temps in 1996. The average high for May 7 is 74 degrees. You can blame — or thank, depending on how much you like hot weather — the drought for the
unusually high temperatures. “The air is so dry and there’s not a lot of moisture in the soil at all,” said Chad Omitt, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka. “When there’s not much
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Town Talk Tension flares at meeting over city, county relationship By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
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ou know at a family reunion how your cousin throws a chair at you because of a dispute over the last deviled egg? I knew you did. Well, the Lawrence City Commission meeting on Tuesday kind of had that feel to it.
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Certainly no chairs were thrown, but there was a good amount of tension between city and county officials, and just like at the family reunion, there was some history fueling it. A dispute was brewing between the city and the county over whether the city should
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