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Settlement reached over incident that injured 8-year-old By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com
Some medical and living expenses will be paid to an 8-year-old boy who was injured after wandering onto a construction site at New York Elementary School. A settlement agreement approved by a Douglas County district judge Friday morning stipulated the expenses will be paid by Combes Construction, of Bucyrus, which was in charge of the site. However, a specific dollar amount for the settlement was not made public. On Nov. 8, the Trust Company of Lawrence filed a civil petition on behalf of Max McGill, who suffered collapsed lungs and broken bones after a 350-pound gate fell on top of him in August 2015 at the site, 936 New York St. McGill entered the construction site while under a babysitter’s supervision, police said. The civil petition listed Combes Construction alongside
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Representatives of the Trust Company, Combes Construction, and the boy’s father agreed that the terms of the settlement would be confidential, and a specific dollar amount was not discussed in court.
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the Lawrence school district and the legal guardians of the babysitter, who is a minor. Representatives of the Trust Company, Combes Construction, and McGill’s father, Joe McGill, agreed that the terms of the settlement would be confidential and a specific dollar amount was not discussed in court. The civil petition stated McGill’s medical expenses and suffering exceeded $75,000.
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Washington — Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump’s pick to be director of the CIA, is a hard-line Republican congressman who shares the presidentelect’s pugnacious worldview and, like Trump, spent years as a businessman before becoming a politician. Pompeo has heavily criticized the landmark Iran nuclear deal, blasted Hillary Clinton over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya and her use of a private email server and has said former National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is a traitor who deserves a death sentence. The Kansas lawmaker supports restoring the National Security Agency’s
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f you don’t count the ones who transferred or otherwise left the university in good academic standing (i.e. went pro), every University of Kansas men’s basketball player who came to KU between 2006 and 2009 went on to graduate in six years or less, according to newly released stats from the NCAA and KU Athletics. Just one other KU team equaled the men’s basketball team’s 100 percent “Graduation Success Rate”: women’s golf. The NCAA released Graduation Success Rates this week for athletes at Division I schools nationwide, and I also requested team breakdowns from KU Athletics.
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humbled” to accept the nomination, calling the decision to leave his south-central Kansas congressional seat difficult. “But ultimately the opportunity to lead the world’s finest intelligence warriors, who labor tirelessly to keep this nation and Kansas safe, is a call to service confirmed by the Senate. I cannot ignore,” PomPompeo said in a peo said. written statement that he is “honored and > SEAT, 2A
(U)ltimately the opportunity to lead the world’s finest intelligence warriors, who labor tirelessly to keep this nation and Kansas safe, is a call to service I cannot ignore.”
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Wichita — Presidentelect Donald Trump’s nomination Friday of U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo for the CIA director’s job would put Pompeo’s congressional seat up — Rep. Mike Pompeo for grabs, upending the political landscape in Before starting the Kansas amid speculation that even more top CIA job, the conservastate officials could be tive Wichita Republitapped for federal posts. can would have to be
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bulk collection of telephone metadata, a contentious terror-fighting tool Congress eliminated after Snowden’s revelations. It’s unclear if Pompeo’s views on using
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— Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee
harsh interrogation techniques completely mirror those of Trump, who says: “We should go tougher than waterboarding,” which simulates drowning. One statement issued by Pompeo in 2014 offers a glimpse into his views. After the Senate released its report on the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA, Pompeo rejected accusations that U.S. intelligence and military personnel were “torturers” for harshly interrogating terror suspects captured after 9/11. “These men and women are not torturers, they are patriots,” Pompeo said.
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KU men’s Graduation Success Rates were higher than the national rates in all sports except cross country/track, according to the breakdowns I got. KU women’s Graduation Success Rates were lower than the national rates in all sports except golf and soccer.
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I’m confident that (Pompeo) can take the party hat off and provide good, unbiased intelligence to both the administration and Congress.”
City says Santa Fe depot restoration on track By Rochelle Valverde
Deal nearly closed; project expected to start in spring
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City officials say this spring will bring the longsought restoration of the Santa Fe train depot in East Lawrence. The news comes more than three years after the city won a $1.2 million grant to restore the 1950s era brick building at
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Seventh and New Jersey streets. “We are excited that this project will soon be moving forward as it has been long awaited by many,” said Assistant City Manager Diane Stoddard.
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The building has suffered what Stoddard calls “benign neglect,” but the city has not been able to move forward with the restoration project because it doesn’t own the building. Originally, the city
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hoped to take ownership of the building in 2014, but the transaction has taken longer than expected to finalize. “The transaction is fairly complex because we
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