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School district, others sued over incident that injured boy By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com
Two days after a lawsuit accused the Lawrence Public School District and an area construction company of negligence, a settlement has been proposed in the case of an 8-year-old boy who was
Settlement in the works; amount offered unknown injured while New York Elementary School was under renovation. However, exactly how much the defendants have offered to pay to settle the case remains
obscured. On Nov. 8, the Trust Company of Lawrence filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of Max McGill, who suffered collapsed lungs as well as a broken
nose, collarbone and rib after McGill had wandered onto a 350 pound gate fell on top the site while under a babyof him in August 2015 at the sitter’s supervision, police New York Elementary School said. construction site at 936 New > INCIDENT, 2A York St.
City to file suit against Oread hotel
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The City of Lawrence will be taking legal action against the developers of The Oread hotel. In December, the city demanded more than $500,000 from the developers after CITY a city-ordered COMMISSION audit found the develop- Inside: City ment group approves filed incor- Oread rect sales tax Neighborreturns in or- hood Design der to receive Guidelines. sales tax re- 8A bates from the city and the county. The development group has denied those allegations. After meeting in executive session as part of their meeting Tuesday night, city commissioners unanimously voted to file a lawsuit on behalf of the city regarding The Oread hotel tax district. Commissioners said the lawsuit will be filed today.
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KANSAS GUARD FRANK MASON III (0) IS HOISTED UP BY TEAMMATE JOSH JACKSON as he is congratulated by center Udoka Azubuike and forward Dwight Coleby after Mason hit the game-winning shot to beat Duke 77-75 during the Champions Classic on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden in New York. See more photos online at KUsports.com/kubball111516. More game coverage in Sports, page 1C.
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Retired Gen. Richard Myers announced as K-State president By John Hanna Associated Press
Manhattan — The Kansas Board of Regents on Tuesday made Richard Myers, a retired four-star general and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, president
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at Kansas State University, promoting him after he served as interim president since April. The regents voted unanimously to promote Myers to president of the landgrant university in Manhattan, which has about 24,000
students. “Well, I guess the honeymoon is over,” Myers joked after the vote. “I think we have a role in the future, and that is granting access to all who want to come to a university. We have some challenges ahead of us.”
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Myers, 74, replaced former president Kirk Schulz, who left in March to become Washington State University’s president. Myers graduated from Kansas State in 1965 and joined the military through the ROTC program at the
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