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Crisis $60.5M GOAL NEARLY REACHED training New business school is KU’s “ aims to most expensive building F save lives By Sara Shepherd
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undraising is all but complete for Kansas University’s most expensive privately funded academic building to date, according to KU Endowment. KU Endowment’s fundKANSAS raising goal for UNIVERSITY Capitol Federal Hall, the new School of Business building on Naismith Drive, is $60.5 million, and the
campaign has $3.4 million left to raise, Endowment President Dale Seuferling said this month. The total project cost is $70.5 million, with donations funding construction and KU funding $10 million for site preparation, utilities and furnishings, Seuferling said. To what does he attribute the fundraising success?
“The KU School of Business has a proud tradition and has quality graduates who have gone on to have great successes in the business world and our society,” Seuferling said. “You really have a quality program that has outgrown the size of the facility and
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You really have a quality program that has outgrown the size of the facility and needs a higherquality facility with up-to-date technology.” — KU Endowment President Dale Seuferling
Officers learning to avoid encounters like one that ended in Ottawa man’s death By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
Construction continues on the new School of Business building at Kansas University on Monday. The cost of the project, scheduled for completion by April 2016, has risen to $70.5 million. Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo
When 18-year-old Joseph Jennings, of Ottawa, was fatally shot by Ottawa police officers in August 2014, it was the end of a life riddled by seizures, migraines and depression, Jennings’ aunt, Brandy Smith, said after the incident. Smith said her Joseph Jennings nephew had attempted suicide at was killed by Ottawa police her home 12 hours before his death. last year He’d been admitafter pulling sunglasses from ted to the hospital his waistband. following the atA 911 caller told tempt in an apparent mental health police he had crisis, and had been waving been released just a handgun. three hours before his confrontation with police. “He was very intelligent, loved animals and his family,” Smith told the Journal-World last year. “He will be missed.” A concerned citizen had called 911, reporting a young man was “waving a handgun and putting the weapon in his waistband” in the Orscheln Farm and Home Please see CRISIS, page 2A
Domino’s experiment Fireworks calls up on Fourth of July coming to 23rd Street T Lights
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ig news on the date night front in the Lawhorn household: No longer when I take my beautiful bride out for a fancy dinner at Domino’s will I have to put the candelabrum on the dash. Plans have been filed for Domino’s to open a new sit-down restaurant along 23rd Street. Plans have been filed at City Hall for Domino’s to renovate a portion of the former GTM Sportswear building at 1008 W. 23rd St. This will be the second
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location for Domino’s in Lawrence. The other one is Please see DOMINO’S, page 2A
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year, during the same enforcement period, police responded to 226 fireworks calls. Though there were more fireworks reported, fewer citations were issued in 2015 as opposed to last year. According to the memorandum, Lawrence police issued 10 citations this year between June 30 and July 5. Last year, 34 fireworks citations were issued during the
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he Lawrence Police Department has released the tally of fireworks calls and citations issued over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. From June 30 to July 5, Lawrence police responded to 261 calls for service regarding reports of fireworks, according to a city memorandum submitted by Capt. Paul Fellers, of the police department. Last
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same timeframe. According to the city ordinance, a first fireworks violation can yield a fine of
up to $200. Lawrence police confiscated more fireworks in 2015 than in recent history. A total of 45 fireworks were seized over the holiday weekend, compared to just 15 confiscated last year. Before 2015, the largest total was 24 fireworks confiscated in 2008.
– This is an excerpt from Lights & Sirens, LJWorld.com/lights-sirens, a public safety blog by reporter Caitlin Doornbos. She can be reached at 832-7146 or cvdoornbos@ljworld.com.
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A 10-year-old boy suffered serious but non-lethal wounds Friday night after he was accidentally shot at a Lawrence home, according to police. Page 2A
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