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Will the Kansas men’s basketball team’s exhibition games in Switzerland and Paris be covered on TV? And will there be opportunities for fans to travel to the games, some kind of sponsored or packaged trip through the university?
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KU officials said that the Jayhawks’ exhibition games on Aug. 7, 8, 11 and 12 will not be televised. Anthony Travel of Dallas sponsored a tour with the KU athletic department, but according to Anthony Travel website, travel packages are no longer available.
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How many days this year do you think it has been over 100 degrees? (It has been over 100 degrees 11 days this year.) Asked on Massachusetts Street
Lauren Edwards, student, Lawrence “Eight maybe. I don’t know.”
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LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORT
• Jefferson County Sheriff’s officers Monday were still investigating an incident from Saturday in which a 49-yearold Oskaloosa man was run over with a vehicle driven by a 24-year-old woman early Saturday morning in the 1100 block of Union Street in Oskaloosa. Capt. Randy Carreno said about 4 a.m. Saturday officers believe the woman backed out the vehicle and ran over the man as she was trying to drive her boyfriend away from a physical altercation involving three of her brothers. Investigators believe the woman was not aware she had struck the man and pulled forward, running over him again. The 49-year-old man was trying to intervene in the dis-
turbance, and he was injured and taken to a Topeka-area hospital, Carreno said. A Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center spokeswoman said Monday evening the man was treated and released. Carreno said the woman had left the scene and was later arrested on a DUI charge, but officers on Monday were still trying to determine circumstances surrounding the incident. • Ottawa police on Sunday arrested a Lawrence man on dozens of counts related to theft of a debit and credit card from an acquaintance in Franklin County. The suspect is accused of using the card at multiple locations in Ottawa and elsewhere over several weeks, said Capt. Adam Weingartner, an Ottawa police spokesman.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Man accused of explosives use
Police arrested a 20-year-old Lawrence man, Dakota Jackson Kunkle, Sunday morning on suspicion of criminal use of explosives at an apartment in the 700 block of West 25th Street. Douglas County prosecutors on Monday filed two counts of criminal use of an explosive against Kunkle. In one of the counts, prosecutors accuse him of placing a public safety officer “at risk to defuse” it. The second count is related to an alleged incident on July 4, 2011, according to the charges. Kim Murphree, a Lawrence police spokeswoman, said officers were called about 11:30 p.m. Saturday to assist firefighters with items found at the scene during a fire call. Other officers and firefighters had been sent to the same residence an hour earlier to a report of gunfire. Police later determined the sounds involved firework ignition powder. According to court records, the Leavenworth Fire Department responded, and the agency has a bomb squad. “An investigation determined the occupants of the residence had been making homemade explosives with at least one possible detonation inside the residence,” Murphree said. A judge Monday set Kunkle’s bond at $20,000 and scheduled his next hearing for Wednesday.
company’s alarm system called 911. The employee made it out safely. Two fish inside a tank in the office perished in the fire, Addington said.
HHS regional head to visit Heartland U.S. Health and Human Services Acting Regional Director Jay Angoff will visit Lawrence safety net clinic Heartland Community Health Center at 1 p.m. Wednesday. Angoff, a senior adviser at HHS, will talk about how President Barack Obama’s health care plan is helping community health centers like Heartland, which is located in the east end of the Riverfront Mall, and then will tour the clinic. The event is open to the public. Heartland provides primary care for those who are uninsured and those who have Medicaid, Medicare or private insurance. Its fees are based on a person’s ability to pay. In June, HHS announced that Heartland had been designated a Federally Qualified Health Center, or FQHC, which means it will receive a renewable annual grant award of $650,000. It also will receive enhanced Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement and at-cost prescription drug pricing.
Man pleads guilty in motel incident
A 25-year-old Eudora man pleaded guilty to four charges Monday in connecCrews respond to tion with a March incident Monday morning fire at the Days Inn, 730 Iowa. Court personnel said Firefighters on Monday Aaron Jacob Coates entered fought a small fire inside a business near Clinton Park- the pleas to conspiracy to commit aggravated battery, way and Kasold Drive. aggravated assault, felony Division Chief Eve Toletheft and criminal posfree, a Lawrence-Douglas session of a firearm by a County Fire Medical convicted felon. spokeswoman, said crews Prosecutors in April were sent at 6:47 a.m. in response to an alarm at Ke- initially filed an aggravated robbery charge against mira Water Solutions Inc., 3211 Clinton Parkway Court. Coates and accused him Firefighters saw flames and of using a knife to participate in a robbery of about smoke through a first floor window. Crews had the fire $1,500 from a 32-year-old man on March 5. The man under control at 7:09 a.m., testified at an April prelimiand Tolefree said Monday afternoon investigators de- nary hearing that Coates had accused him of wearing termined the electrical fire a wire for law enforcement caused $20,000 damage. Tina Addington, Kemira’s and that he was struck in the face later when ancustomer service superviother codefendant, Melanie sor, said the fire was conSpanky Faye Brooks, 24, tained to one office inside took money from him. the building, and the office Defense attorney Hatem mostly had smoke and waChahine said the gun ter damage. The business, charge was added from which has 13 employees, a separate case that was was open Monday. dismissed Monday. Addington said one District Judge Michael employee was working in Malone is scheduled to senan upstairs office when the tence Coates on Aug. 10.
INJURY ACCIDENT • A 59-year-old rural Lawrence man and volunteer firefighter was injured early Sunday after his car struck a deer while he was headed to the Kanwaka Township fire station. Robert Rombach was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after his 2012 Chevrolet Camaro was damaged in the crash at 4:55 a.m. Sunday in the 1600 section of County Road 1029 west of Lawrence. Rombach was responding to the station for a house fire in Kanwaka Township. Belinda Rehmer, an LMH spokeswoman, said Monday that Rombach was treated and released. 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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