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Tea party group, Paul weigh in on Senate race

After you fill the can, this happens

By Thomas Beaumont and David A. Lieb Associated Press

Wichita — Kansas U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts won a big tea party endorsement Tuesday from a group that had backed his primary challenger, providing a boost for the threeterm Republican on a day his embattled campaign also got a visit from Kentucky U.S. Roberts Sen. Rand Paul. As the unexpectedly competitive race entered its final week, the endorsement from the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund signaled some conservatives once determined to oust the 78-year-old senator may now be accepting him as a more palatable Please see SENATE, page 2A Orman

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LAWRENCE COMMISSIONERS AND CITY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL tour the Hamm Material Recovery Facility, 26195 Linwood Road, on Tuesday. The plant receives, sorts and processes recyclable materials from the city’s new residential program.

Recycling tour shows hidden workflow By Chad Lawhorn Twitter: @clawhorn_ljw

City leaders got a glimpse Tuesday of what happens to all the material that gets thrown into the city’s new blue, curbside recycling carts. It involves aluminum cans that pop, plastic bottles that are blasted by shots of air and many pairs of human hands that get to touch lots of what you throw away. “This machine creates a forcefield that aluminum really doesn’t like,” Charlie Sedlock, director of waste services for Hamm Inc., said of a giant magnetic machine called the Eddy Current. “It causes aluminum cans to pop like popcorn and bounce off this conveyor belt into a bin below.” Please see RECYCLING, page 2A

Proposed amendment would allow raffle fundraisers

COMMERCIAL RECYCLING PROGRAM NEXT? Lawrence officials are pleased enough with the kick-off of the city’s residential curbside recycling program that they may soon consider starting a commercial service. Tammy Bennett, assistant director of public works, said the department plans to present information to city commissioners in early 2015 about how the recycling program can be expanded to businesses and other commercial users. “That discussion is coming sooner than we once anticipated,” Bennett said. Kathy Richardson, manager of

the solid waste division, said the department is exploring ways to implement a commercial recycling program after many businesses have asked about a program following last week’s roll-out of the residential program. “Interest has been very strong from businesses,” Richardson said. “I think people have seen how easy it is to recycle at home, and they want to do that at their businesses.” City commissioners will make the final decision on whether to expand the program to commercial users and what rates would be charged to commercial customers.

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Martin Miller murder retrial put on hold By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos

A Lawrence man once convicted of his wife’s murder plans to ask the Kansas Supreme Court to force the Douglas County District Court to disqualify the Douglas County District Attor-

ney’s office as prosecuting agency in his retrial. A Douglas County jury convicted Martin Miller in 2005 of first-degree murder in the July 28, 2004, death of his wife, Mary E. Miller, 46, at the family’s central Lawrence home. Prosecutors accused Miller, a former Law-

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rence carpenter and Christian school leader, of strangling his wife in her sleep because he had been having an affair with another woman and he wanted to collect $300,000 in life insurance money.

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Topeka — Proposals to expand legalized gambling usually stir huge controversy in Kansas. But a proposed constitutional amendment on Tuesday’s ballot regarding raffles has drawn relatively little attention. If approved, the amendment would allow nonprofit, religious, charitable, fraternal, educational or veterans organizations to operate raffles as fundraisers. A raffle is defined as a game of chance in which each participant buys a ticket from one of the qualifying organizations, with each ticket having an equal chance to win a prize and with the winner determined by a random drawing. Organizations conducting raffles would not be allowed to sell tickets through electronic gaming or vending machines. They also would not be allowed to contract with

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Ballot-battle bill Kansas taxpayers paid more than $34,000 in legal fees to defend Secretary of State Kris Kobach against a lawsuit by Democrat Chad Taylor. Page 3A

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