Lawrence Journal-World 05-09-13

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CITY CHAMPS

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Free State girls win local showdown Sports 1B

Indian restaurants feed cravings Going Out 5A

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Low: 51

Today’s forecast, page 12A

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OTTAWA HOMICIDES

Police ID victims, question local man By Shaun Hittle and Ian Cummings sdhittle@ljworld.com; icummings@ljworld.com

Disabled plead with gov. about services Hundreds of people with developmental disabilities and their parents and guardians gathered Wednesday to plead with Gov. Sam Brownback to leave their current system for receiving services alone. Page 3A

State passes costs to local levels Douglas County is seeing an increase in funding requests from local agencies that are experiencing budget cuts from the state. Commissioners and department heads will have to decide how much of the costs the county can absorb. Page 7A

QUOTABLE

Don’t be a blockhead.” — Superior Court Judge Dwayne Moring to Peter Robbins, who was the original voice of Charlie Brown. Robbins, 56, was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail for threatening his former girlfriend and stalking her plastic surgeon, then immediately released to a residential drug treatment center. Page 7A

Stefanie Stuever/Special to the Journal-World

LAWRENCE HIGH SENIOR C.J. STUEVER INTERACTS WITH A CHILD in the rain at a clinic in a Peruvian village of the Rio Napo, a branch of the Amazon River.

LHS player’s global trips provide rare perspective By Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

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INDEX Business 2A Classified 7B-10B Comics 11A Deaths 2A Events listings 12A, 2B Going Out 5A-6A Horoscope 11B Movies 4A Opinion 9A Puzzles 11B Sports 1B-6B, 10B Television 12A, 2B, 11B Vol.155/No.129 24 pages

Batting leadoff for the Lawrence High baseball team today against rival Free State, playing whatever position his team needs him to play, will be C.J. Stuever, No. 13. Tris-

upon himself for daring to wear that number. To hear Stuever tell it, his is a lucky life. For parts of the past three summers, Stuever, kaidekaphobics need not his two older sisters and waste time trying to per- his parents have been on suade the LHS senior he Please see PLAYER, page 2A is bound to bring bad luck

See sports, page 1B, for more on today’s intracity baseball rivalry.

Please see OTTAWA, page 2A

LEGISLATIVE WRAP-UP

House, Senate Republicans far apart on taxes By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — A monthlong break didn’t bring Republican legislative leaders any closer to resolving their standoff over taxes as the wrap-up session started Wednesday. Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, said she was sticking by the Senate-approved plan that would make permanent the 6.3 percent state sales tax rate, which under current law will de-

crease to 5.7 percent on July 1. The higher rate is necessary, she said, to help balance the budget and provide enough revenue to start phasing out the state in- Wagle come tax. And that, she said, will lead to economic growth. “Clearly, our position on tax issues is the opposite philosophy

of the House,” Wagle said. The House plan would allow the sales tax rate to drop to 5.7 percent as scheduled. It would whittle Carlson down income tax rates more slowly than the Senate plan. State Rep. Richard Carlson, R-St. Marys, and chairman of the House Taxation Committee, said

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Law enforcement authorities Wednesday identified the victims in a triple homicide discovered earlier this week in rural Ottawa, and said they were still looking for the 18-month-old daughter of one of those killed. Police also said they were questioning 27-year-old Kyle T. Flack, of Ottawa, as a “person of interest” in the case. The whirlwind day of developments brought some clarity to the bizarre crime, which includes links to several excons and a previous local killing. But many questions remained, including the cause of death of the three victims, the where- Lana-Leigh Bailey is now abouts of the little the subject of an offical girl and the iden- search by law enforcement tity of the killer. Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Richards said the homicide victims were Kaylie Kathleen Bailey, 22, of Olathe; Andrew Adam Stout, 30, of Ottawa; and Steven Eugene White, 31, of Ottawa. Richards said the three — all found on the property at 3197 Georgia Road, five miles west of Ottawa — had not been positively identified until Wednesday. Stout and White lived at the house where the bodies were found; Bailey apparently was Stout’s girlfriend. Bailey’s 18-month-old daughter, LanaLeigh Bailey, remains missing. The child was last seen alive on April 28 at the Georgia Road property. She was reported missing along with her mother on May 3. Friends say Bailey may have gone to the Ottawa house

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the House made an informal offer to the Senate, but the Senate hasn’t replied. “We’re willing to negotiate,” Carlson said. He declined to provide any details of the offer. Senate leaders, however, said the House position to allow the sales tax to drop would put the state in a big budget crunch next year, especially if the Kansas Supreme Court rules against the Legislature in the pending $500 Please see TAXES, page 2A


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