Lawrence Journal-World 09-10-2016

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Firebirds shut out SM South; Lions roll past SM North. 1D U.S., RUSSIA REACH CEASE-FIRE DEAL IN 5-YEAR-OLD SYRIAN CIVIL WAR.

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KU requests second sex assault suit be thrown out

Here there were no prior allegations of sexual assault. And when (McClure) reported the matter two months later, KU investigated the matter (and) the assailant was expelled.”

gender-based discrimination in education and requires the school to work to prevent sexual harassment and violence. McClure said she was sexually assaulted by a KU — University of Kansas’ motion to dismiss football player and that her rowing coach retaliated McClure, claims the uni- Federal Title IX require- against her versity failed to follow ments, which forbid > KU, 2A

By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com

The University of Kansas is requesting a federal judge throw out a lawsuit claiming the school violated laws requiring students to be protected from sexual assault. The lawsuit, filed by former KU rower Sarah

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Firefighter drops suit against city ——

Lawyer: Judge’s ruling ‘gutted’ case

INTERVIEW IN OUTER SPACE

By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com

The firefighter who accused Lawrence police of breaking his arm and smashing another man’s head into a car has dropped his lawsuit against the city. The firefighter, Miguel Armenta, claims that he voiced disapproval over Lawrence Police Officer Frank McClel- Armenta land allegedly beating another man’s head against a car door and was then arrested himself, ultimately leaving the scene with a broken arm. > FIREFIGHTER, 2A

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HAM RADIO OPERATORS KEN FILARDO, LEFT, AND MATT HILT work to maintain contact with astronaut Takuya Onishi onboard the International Space Station as Bannon Beall, 16, steps up to a microphone held by Brandon Graham to ask Onishi a question. About 200 people filled the auditorium at the Lawrence Public Library to listen to the contact as area youth communicated with Onishi for about ten minutes Friday. At right is Starlet Blanshan, 16. See a video of the event at ljworld.com/spacestation2016.

Crowd packs library auditorium for astronaut chat Space Station, jhlavacek@ljworld.com eliciting cheers from the apen Filardo has been proximately tinkering with 200 onlookers radios since he was in the Lawa little boy. On Frirence Public day, more than five Library’s audidecades after his lifelong love torium. affair with the gadgets began, The project, Onishi the 64-year-old engineer and which was amateur radio enthusiast took facilitated through the Amapart in an experiment far beteur Radio on the International yond child’s play. Space Station program, was a Shortly after 11:25 a.m., Filardo coordinated effort between the and his fellow radio buffs from library and the Radio Club that the Douglas County Amateur had been more than a year in Radio Club made contact with the making. Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi aboard the International > SPACE, 2A

Motel owner gets more than 5 years probation in wife’s stabbing By Conrad Swanson

By Joanna Hlavacek

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BISHOP SEABURY ACADEMY STUDENT CELIA TAYLOR-PUCKETT reads her question to Onishi during the radio communication with the International Space Station.

The man who stabbed his wife twice last summer was sentenced on Thursday to serve more than five years of closecontact probation. Navinkumar Patel, 46, of Shawnee, was arrested in June 2015 after stabbing his wife in the Patel abdomen at Lawrence’s Super 8 Motel, 515 McDonald Drive, which he owns.

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