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Why is the stoplight at Sixth and Maine not on a sensor? I’ve sat southbound at the intersection for over 90 seconds without another car coming before without the stoplight changing colors.
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Megan Gilliland, the city’s communications manager, provided this answer: The intersection is coordinated with other signals along Sixth Street; therefore, it must have the same cycle-length and stay green for the main street (regardless of the traffic) until the point in the cycle when the side street can be given a green.
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What do you think is the biggest issue facing Kansas in 2012? Asked at Dillons, 3000 Sixth St.
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Linda Brandenburger, student financial aid officer, Lawrence “The state of education funding.”
Donna Bell, director of senior living facility, Lawrence “School funding and social services funding.”
BRIEFLY Man pleads no contest to touching girl
had earlier pleaded no contest to one count of conspiracy in connection with a robbery in A 55-year-old Lawrence December 2010 at Walmart, man pleaded no contest to 3300 Iowa. an aggravated battery charge Maier did not Wednesday for an incident show up on last summer in which he was time for his accused of inappropriately sentencing touching a 14-year-old girl last week, while in a car. and he was Edward E. Morrison in arrested on a August was charged with bench warrant after he showed indecent liberties with a child. up 30 minutes late. Attorneys said that under the “I’ll never show up late for reduced charge he was exanything again. I’m sorry for pected to qualify for probation wasting the court’s time,” based on his criminal record. Maier said. “I’m not going to Chief assistant district atstop until the job’s done. I’m torney Amy McGowan said the embarrassed of most of the girl and her mother approved things I’ve done in my life.” of the plea agreement. District Judge Michael Prosecutors and Lawrence Malone did say he was impolice accused Morrison of pressed with what Maier had touching the girl through her accomplished earlier while he clothing during the incident was out on bond, and defense that occurred between June 1 attorney John Kerns said Maier and Aug. 11 as they were drivwas working to turn around his ing in the 1900 block of Harper life. Maier was one of seven Street. Morrison will also be people charged in connection required to undergo an evalua- with the robbery. tion for alcohol. Prosecutors accused Maier District Judge Michael and four other defendants of Malone is scheduled to senserving as lookouts for the robtence Morrison on Feb. 17. bery, which Lonnie S. Schaefer, 23, and William O. Patterson, are accused of planning and Man pleads no contest 19, committing. in KU campus robbery Patterson, who was accused of pointing a plastic BB gun at A Belton, Mo., man pleaded Walmart clerks in the robno contest Wednesday for his bery and taking money from a involvement in a 2009 robbery register, has pleaded guilty to on the Kansas University camseveral charges and received pus. nearly five years in prison. ProsMaier faces 16 months in ecutors had prison if he violates terms of his accused probation. Malone said Maier Mykel Dantae could have his probation term Karlyle, 21, shortened based on his perforof using a mance. He also must complete handgun to drug and alcohol treatment. rob a student of marijuana on April 29, 2009, Man, 24, arrested on in the parking lot outside McCollum Hall. Prosecutors said battery, theft charges the victim in the case believed Lawrence police arrested he was going to sell marijuana a 24-year-old Ottawa man when he was robbed. Karlyle Wednesday and alleged he entered the plea to one count injured another man and stole of aggravated robbery. a vehicle from Kwik Shop, 1846 His attorney Matthew Mass. Works said both sides expect Police were called at 12:30 Karlyle to face about five years a.m. Wednesday to Lawrence in prison. Assistant district Memorial Hospital, where a attorney Eve Kemple said Karlyle would also be required 26-year-old Lawrence man to register as a violent offender was being treated in the emerbecause a firearm was used in gency room. Officers discovered he was hurt during an the robbery. incident at a social gathering at According to Shawnee a residence in the 1100 block County Court records, Karlyle of Mississippi Street. also faces a March 12 trial on Police alerted Ottawa auaggravated robbery and aggravated battery charges for a thorities because they discovered the assailant, Joshua M. 2011 case there. Jeffcoat, might be staying there. Douglas County District At 2:35 a.m., the vehicle was Judge Kay Huff is scheduled reported stolen in Lawrence, to sentence Karlyle in the KU and it and Jeffcoat were found robbery case at 11:30 a.m. in Ottawa. Douglas County prosFeb. 14. Huff also ordered ecutors filed one count of agKarlyle to concurrently serve gravated battery and one count an 18-month sentence for a of felony theft against Jeffcoat probation violation in a 2009 on Wednesday afternoon. misdemeanor criminal use of “Further investigation weapons and drug possession revealed that the suspect was case. involved in the aggravated A co-defendant in the KU battery in Lawrence,” said Kim robbery case, Terrance Anthony Dean, 21, of Topeka, has Murphree, a police spokeswoman. “Lawrence police are a trial scheduled for later this still investigating this incident to year. determine what kind of weapon used to batter the victim Man gets probation for was and other details of the case.” role in Walmart robbery A judge set Jeffcoat’s bond at $4,000, and he is next due A Douglas County judge in court Jan. 23. sentenced a Lawrence man to Jeffcoat was also booked serve probation for two years into jail on a 2011 domestic for serving as a lookout in a battery warrant and a Law2010 robbery at Walmart. rence Municipal Court traffic Christopher Coty Maier, 24, warrant.
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Dan Partridge, director of Douglas County health department, rural Lawrence “Jobs.”
• A 52-year-old Lawrence man was arrested in connection with a battery of a nurse at Lawrence Memorial Hospital early Tuesday morning, according to police and sheriff’s department records. • A 33-year-old Lawrence woman reported a criminal discharge of a firearm in the 2500 block of Alabama Street on Tuesday, according to police records. • A 21-year-old Lawrence man reported that his Rino motorbike valued at $1,000 was stolen between noon and 11 p.m. Monday from the 1700 block of Ohio Street, according to police records.
ACCIDENT REPORT • A car left the Kansas Turnpike on Tuesday and came to rest on an embankment of rocks after the driver had an apparent seizure, a dis-
Gary O’Doneil contractor, Lawrence “Brownback and the government itself.”
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patcher for the Kansas Turnpike Authority said Wednesday. The driver was headed east on Interstate 70 around milepost 194 shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday when the accident occurred. A second, two-car accident occurred shortly after, possibly as a result of drivers looking at the original accident. No one received serious injuries as a result of the accidents, the dispatcher said. The Journal-World does not print accounts of all police reports filed. The newspaper generally reports: • Burglaries, only with a loss of $1,000 or more, unless there are unusual circumstances. To protect victims, we generally don’t identify them by name. • The names and circumstances of people arrested, only after they are charged. • Assaults and batteries, only if major injuries are reported. • Holdups and robberies.
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Low risk of heart incidents found for marathoners By Malcolm Ritter Associated Press
NEW YORK — It’s dramatic news when a marathon runner collapses with no pulse. Now a big study finds such calamities are rare and usually due to a pre-existing heart problem. The study also found such incidents are increasing as more runners try to go the distance. “You hear about this more and more,” said Dr. Aaron Baggish, senior author of the study Baggish, who runs a program for athletes with heart issues at Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-authors present their analysis in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study covers 10.9 million runners who participated in marathons or half-marathons in the United States from 2000 to 2010. By scouring media reports and checking with medical staff of races, the researchers identified 59 cases of cardiac arrest, where a runner became unconscious with no pulse during the race or within an hour of finishing. Cardiac arrest is when the heart stops because of a heart attack, a rhythm problem or other disorder. Forty-two of the runners died. The overall figures translate to 1 cardiac arrest per 184,000 participants and 1 death per 259,000 participants, the researchers said. Those numbers are low compared to other athletic activities, as shown by prior
studies of deaths in college said. But more recently peoathletes, triathlon partici- ple have come to think of it pants and previously healthy as “something anyone can middle-aged joggers, re- do,” and even as a healthy activity for lowering the risk searchers said. Most of the cardiac arrests of heart disease, he said. So involved marathons rather it has attracted people with a than half-marathons, and 51 family history of early heart of the 59 cases happened in disease or early deaths, and “these are just the people men. who are likely to More cases get into trouble.” showed up during In the 31 cardiac 2005-2010 than in arrests for which rethe preceding fivesearchers could find year span, but that’s a cause, most were just because more due to clogged, people are particihardened arterpating in the races, HEALTH ies or hypertrophic Baggish said. More cardiomyopathy, worrisome was the finding that among male a sometimes inherited conmarathoners, the rate of dition in which an unusucardiac arrest per 100,000 ally thick heart muscle can runners was higher during interfere with the pumping the latter half of the decade rhythm. Most of the victims were unaware of their prethan in the first half. Baggish thinks that’s be- existing conditions, Baggish cause of a shift in attitudes said. Baggish said he would enabout who can run long distances. Even a decade ago, courage aspiring and experi26.2-mile marathons were enced runners to talk to their considered appropriate only doctors about their heart for very athletic people, he risks for distance running.
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