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WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 22 • 2014
Committee questions costs for broadband
See the eagles of Kansas
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Advisory board members consider Wicked proposal By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo
A BALD EAGLE SNAGS A FISH from the Kansas River near the downtown Lawrence bridge. This weekend, Lawrencearea residents will have the opportunity to see the noble birds during presentations and children’s activities at the Kaw Valley Eagles Day from 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Saturday in the Free State High School commons area. Read the story on page 6A and see a photo gallery and video online at LJWorld.com.
A proposal to provide a $500,000 grant to Lawrence-based Wicked Broadband to spur a super-fast broadband service similar to Kansas City’s Google Fiber project has some support among members of a key city advisory board. But it also has some questions: Like whether a $500,000 grant may turn into millions of dollars in city investment in the next several years. “This is going to cost us more than a halfmillion dollars,” said Douglas County Commissioner Mike Gaughan, who is a member Please see WICKED, page 8A
Family still hopeful that missing woman will call Police seeking 19-year-old who lived with Lawrence homicide victim; car and dog also unaccounted for
By Stephen Montemayor smontemayor@ljworld.com
An older sister of the 19-yearold Lawrence woman reported missing Saturday after the discovery of a man’s body in their Southwest Lawrence home is still hopeful that she will call. Ashley McLinn, 22, of Topeka, told the Journal-World she wanted to share her cellphone number in hopes that her sister, Sarah Brooke Gonzales McLinn, will see it and call.
Ashley McLinn said she first became concerned last Wednesday Sarah McLinn when Sarah did not show up for dinner with family in Topeka. Ashley McLinn said she last talked to her sister on Jan. 14, when they made plans to spend
time together. “She never doesn’t show up — so that rang a bell,” said Ashley McLinn, who said she soon after began calling around for information. When the McLinn family contacted Lawrence police on Friday, police went to the home at which Sarah Brooke Gonzales McLinn lived with Harold
Sasko, a 52-year-old owner of several area CiCi’s Pizza franchises. Sgt. Trent McKinley, a Lawrence Police Department spokesman, said that police saw someone inside the home shortly after arriving after 11 p.m. Friday. Police entered the home after the man did not respond and discovered Sasko dead, having suffered traumat-
ic injuries. Lawrence police reported McLinn missing when they announced the Sasko homicide investigation after 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. Also missing was a 2008 Please see MISSING, page 2A
Haskell Avenue from 27th to 29th to close until spring 2015 he northbound and southbound lanes
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Starting at 7 a.m. Monday, workers will
of Haskell Avenue from 27th to 29th
be doing utility work, box culvert installation
advises that drivers should plan alternate
streets will close on Monday until the
and reconstruction during the closure, in
routes and expect delays during the closure.
spring of 2015 because of construction on
furtherance of connecting K-10 to the South
Kansas Highway 10 and the South Lawrence
Lawrence Trafficway.
Trafficway.
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For updated traffic information for the K-10/ South Lawrence Trafficway project, visit www.
The Kansas Department of Transportation
Partly sunny Business Classified Comics Deaths
says no marked detours will be provided and
7A 4C 1B-5B 8A, 2B
ksdot.org/topekametro/laneclose.asp.
Review of fracking Geologists tell a Kansas House committee that more seismic monitoring could help detect whether fracking is connected to earthquakes. Page 3A
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