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20 years, 1 request: ‘Simply equal’ Lawrence’s gay rights movement charted history against the grain of Kansas into the Watkins Museum of History Brittany Keegan, curator and colin Lawrence, toting a bag full of pa- lections manager at the museum, pers and documents, along with a was eagerly waiting for them. On a hot, muggy evening Thurs- colorful banner that had been rolled Slowly, they unfurled the banner, day, Mike Silverman and his hus- up and stowed away for most of the Please see EQUAL, page 10A band, David Greenbaum, walked last 20 years. By Peter Hancock
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Historical buttons supporting the Lawrence gay rights movement at the Watkins Museum of History
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46-year-old Shawnee man was arrested June 24 By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
The owner of Lawrence’s Super 8 motel accused of stabbing his wife last month allegedly did so because his wife was “fat,” according to the recently released affidavit that supported the man’s arrest. Navinkumar Patel, 46, of Shawnee, is charged with attempted first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing his wife twice in the abdomen at his Super 8 motel, 515 McDonald Drive. Patel According to the arrest affidavit — which details allegations only, not proven facts — Patel’s wife was standing in the motel lobby around 1 p.m. on June 24 preparing a bowl of cereal when Patel approached her with “an item behind his back.”
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STACY STRINGER WALTERS SINGS WITH THE JAZZHAUS BIG BAND during a memorial performance for her grandfather Clyde Bysom on Saturday evening in front of the South Park gazebo. Bysom, the longtime Lawrence City Band musician, played his first concert at the gazebo in 1929. He died in June at age 97. See the slideshow at LJWorld.com/clydebysom
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Police study session discussion will address facility needs, body cameras By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
Lawrence city commissioners will hold a study session Monday to reopen discussions about facility needs for the city police department and to discuss community policing in general. Last year, the city proposed building a new $28 million headquarters facility
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that would have been funded with since 1976. In response to a 0.2 percent sales tax. But Lawgrowing needs for additional rence voters rejected the sales tax space, the department opened proposal in November, 52 percent an annex on Bob Billings Parkto 48 percent. way in 1999. The police headquarters An agenda for the meeting, CITY has been sharing space with posted on the city’s website, calls COMMISSION the Douglas County Sheriff’s for a presentation on the history Office at the Joint Law Enforcement of the department’s facility needs. It also Center near the county courthouse calls for discussion of the department’s
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use of body cameras, and of regular annual reports about the department’s record for racial profiling and other biasbased policing. The study session is open to the public, and commissioners plan to take public comment at the meeting. The study session is scheduled for 5:45 p.m. Monday in the commission chambers at City Hall.
Court backlog The departures of two federal judges in Kansas are expected to exacerbate a backlog of cases in U.S. District Court. Page 3A
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