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LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL work the scene of a triple homicide Tuesday in Franklin County, about five miles west of Ottawa. Police are searching for a person of interest in connection with the crimes.
Police searching for 1 man in murder case By Shaun Hittle and Ian Cummings sdhittle@ljworld.com; icummings@ljworld.com
OTTAWA — Police searched Tuesday for a “person of interest” in connection with a multiple homicide at a house in rural Ottawa, after a third body, of an adult male, was discovered on the property late Monday. Questions also remain about a missing 18-month-old girl, the daughter of a missing Olathe woman who might be one of the three victims. Police were looking for Kyle Flack, 27 in connection with the murders, according to numerous reports issued by Douglas County Emergency Dispatch Tuesday afternoon. Police had also been seeking Cyle Bailey, 23, but Bailey spoke to police, and they are no longer seeking him, according to a report from KCTV5. Tuesday evening, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office is-
FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFF JEFF RICHARDS holds a news conference Tuesday morning, saying police had found a third body at a property near Ottawa. sued a statement asking for the public’s help in locating a black 2007 Toyota Corolla, Kansas license plate number 618 DAA. The passenger side mirror is being held together by duct tape. Earlier dispatch reports
stated that Flack might be driving the vehicle. Flack served four years in prison for the 2005 shooting of Steven Dale Free, 47, of Ottawa, who was found in his front yard with multiple small-
caliber gunshot wounds. Flack was convicted in Franklin County of attempted second-degree murder and was paroled in Flack 2009. Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Richards announced at that news conference that a third body was found on the property at 3197 Georgia Road, about five miles west of Ottawa. The announcement followed a Monday evening news conference in which Richards reported that two bodies had been recovered. The victims are two men and one woman, Richards said. Richards did not release the names of the victims and said police were still working on identifying them. However, friends who discovered one of
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The street is still public, but at least a couple of the parking spaces on it essentially will be private. Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday approved a new six-month pilot project that will create a “residents-only parking zone” on a congested portion of
Edgehill Road near Kansas University. But how the city defines resident is important — it won’t include the CITY more than 100 fraternity or sorority COMMISSION members who live on houses along Edgehill. The project drew objections from fraternity and sorority
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Watts, a resident who lives yearround in a home along Edgehill. “There is simply nowhere to park on Edgehill,” Watts said. “I think this is a reasonable compromise.” The pilot project will involve installing “Resident Parking Only” signs on 50 feet of street on the north side of Edgehill
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Lawrence fell short in its bid to win a competitive national grant that would have been a major springboard for the city’s creative placemaking efforts, the Lawrence Arts Center learned this week. Feedback from ArtPlace grant reviewers called the Tate city’s proposal “too young” and said it needed greater city and business buy-in, Arts Center executive director Susan Tate said in an email to the JournalWorld. “We are determined and
City tests plan for private parking on public street By Chad Lawhorn
Chris Redman, the president of Haskell Indian Nations University, plans to resign soon to take another position in Oklahoma, he said in a message to students, faculty and staff Tuesday. In a memo sent Tuesday afternoon, which H a s k e l l Redman shared with the Journal-World, Redman said he’d be moving closer to his family after being offered a new position. “The choice was difficult for me,” Redman wrote.
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