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TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court ruled 6-1 Friday to vacate the death sentences of two brothers convicted of multiple homicides in Wichita in December 2000. In two separate opinions, the justices said the district court erred when it refused to separate the sentencing of Jonathan and Reginald Carr, who were convicted in a crime spree that came to be known as the “Wichita Massacre.” The decisions mean the court still has
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LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY SPOKESWOMAN JENI DALEY leads a tour Tuesday around the expanded Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., which is set to open today. See the photo gallery at LJWorld.com.
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Library is reopening the doors to its Vermont Street locale after an $18 million facelift and 20,000-squarefoot expansion. There will be new spac-
Rapist gets 25 years after 2nd conviction in 1997 case ter a retrial in May found him guilty for a second time of raping a Kansas A 41-year-old Lawrence University student in man was sentenced to 25 1997. years in prison Friday afJudge Michael Malone
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junior. The new sentence is 16 months shorter than the one Judge Peggy Kittel issued after Grey’s first conviction in 2009. A Kansas Court of Ap-
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sentenced Robert E. Grey to 300 months in prison, the least amount of time possible under Kansas sentencing guidelines, for the rape of a 20-year-old KU
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peals panel awarded Grey a retrial last year. The panel found that prosecutorial misconduct deprived Please see SENTENCE, page 2A
Betty Jo Charlton dies
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Betty Jo Charlton, the first female state legislator from Lawrence, died Tuesday. She was 91. Page 3A
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