Lawrence Journal-World 10-07-2015

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Road sinkage at Bob Billings will delay SLT, cost $2.1M By Mackenzie Clark Twitter: @mclark59

The South Lawrence Trafficway interchange at Bob Billings Parkway will require a few weeks longer — and $2.1 million more — than planned because portions of the constructed roads sunk. Kim Qualls, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Transportation northeast district, said portions must be redone on the eastbound and westbound lanes of the extended Bob Billings Parkway west of the SLT, as well as on the nearby southbound ramp. Please see SLT, page 2A

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NEW LAWRENCE CITY COMMISSIONER LISA LARSEN CELEBRATES with her father, Robert Larsen, of Lawrence, after commissioners chose her Tuesday evening to fill the vacancy left by former Mayor Jeremy Farmer’s resignation.

Commission picks Larsen for fifth seat

By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling

At the meeting, commissioners Stuart Boley, Matthew Herbert and Leslie Soden and Mayor Mike Amyx chose between Larsen, a geologist who sold her environmental consulting firm in 2014, and Scott Morgan, a former school board member who sold a small publishing business in 2007.

City commissioners elected Lisa Larsen on Tuesday to Lawrence’s governing body, filling the vacancy created when former Mayor Jeremy Farmer resigned in August. Larsen was sworn in and seated Please see LARSEN, page 5A as the fifth commissioner during Tuesday evening’s City Commission meeting at City Hall. She will serve l Haskell students, staff ask the remainder of Farmer’s unexpired city for annual recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day. Page 3A term, which ends in January 2018.

Davis refuses to step down from voting suit Statehouse Live

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awrence attorney and former Democratic Rep. Paul Davis on Tuesday dismissed suggestions by Republicans that he should recuse himself from a federal lawsuit challenging a controversial state voting law. “These guys either need a good lawyer or they’re trying to mislead you,” Davis said in response to a statement from Kansas GOP Chairman Kelly Arnold.

Davis is representing two clients who are challenging a law enacted in 2011 that requires voters to show proof of U.S. citizenship to register. Since that law took effect, more than 30,000 would-be voters have had their registrations placed “in suspense” because they have not provided the required documentation. Davis is also challenging a new administrative regulation that requires county

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ON THIS RENDERING of the South Lawrence Trafficway’s Bob Billings interchange, the areas where the roadway is sinking are marked with a red rectangle. See a more detailed map at LJWorld.com/2015interchangemap.

Study: Reported sex offenses up on KU campus By Sara Shepherd

election officers to cancel those applications after 90 days. That new regulation took effect Oct. 2. Arnold said Tuesday that Davis should step aside from that case, citing a Kansas statute that says: “No individual, while a legislator or within one year after the expiration of a term as a legislator, shall represent any person in a court proceeding Please see DAVIS, page 8A

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Forcible sex offenses reported on the Kansas University campus shot up for the second year in a row, according to KU’s newly released Clery Act Annual Security Report. In 2014, there were 24 forcible sex offenses reported on the KU campus, according to the report. Of those, 14 were rape (10 in dorms) and 10 were fondling (six in dorms). There were eight forcible sex offenses reported at KU-affiliated offcampus locations, including four rape and four fondling. Please see KU, page 8A l KU enters agreement with Sexual

Trauma & Abuse Care Center. Page 3A

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Kansas officials hired consultants Alvarez & Marsal to study the state’s budget, even though another firm offered to do the job for more than $1 million less. Page 3A

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