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WEDNESDAY WAS HOTTEST DAY IN LAWRENCE SO FAR THIS YEAR Wednesday was the hottest day of the year for Lawrence — at least so far. The official high temperature in Lawrence was 108 degrees, measured at about 3 p.m. Manhattan and Salina both saw their
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mercuries rise to 108, too, said Scott Blair, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka. The next hottest days of 2012 were June 28 and July 7, when the NWS recorded the temperature at 107 degrees.
Lawrence hasn’t had a certified measurement station long enough to have a completely official “warmest-day-ever” record, Blair said, and it could take some time to confirm if it was a record for the area or for the day of the year,
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Another resident wakes up to burglar in home By George Diepenbrock gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com
After another recent burglary in which a sleeping Lawrence resident woke up to find an intruder in her home, police said Wednesday that several dozen aggravated burglaries have been reported in the last three months. Sgt. Trent McKinley, a police spokesman, called it an “uptick” for a crime that’s not common in Lawrence. “It is a priority right now. We have detectives that are assigned to the cases as well as working a coordinated effort with both evening and midnight shift patrols,” he said. “We are basically giving them the best information that we can about what’s gone on and what data we’ve collected. So hopefully we can catch another one of these individuals in the process of committing a crime.” Police arrested a 32-year-old Lawrence man, William D. Washington III, on June 9 after they allegedly caught him trying to enter someone’s home as they investigated a burglary reported minutes earlier nearby, in the 3400 block of Augusta Drive. Washington has not been charged with any other aggravated burglaries. Prosecutors said this week Washington is in custody in another jurisdiction.
but 108, he agreed, is pretty hot. Today’s high is expected to be 104 with a slight chance of some isolated thunderstorms in the afternoon. Friday’s forecast? A still-balmy 102. — Alex Garrison
Report blasts voter ID laws ——
Hundreds of thousands will have problems, study says By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
TOPEKA — Thousands of eligible voters in Kansas may be denied their right to vote because of the law Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo that requires a governSUSAN KING, A FITNESS INSTRUCTOR with Lawrence Parks and Recreation, leads a group in Wednesday’s ment-issued photo ID to Zumba in the Park event amid triple-digit temperatures. The exercise event was part of a Community Wellness cast a ballot, according to Fair and Lawrence Parks and Recreation Month celebration. a report released Wednesday. “Let’s be clear: Election integrity is vital. The problem is not requiring voter ID, per se; the problem is requiring ID that many voters simply do not have,” said Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. “Study after study confirms that one in 10 eligible By Chad Lawhorn Such a public show of voters lack these specific clawhorn@ljworld.com support didn’t happen by government documents,” accident. About a dozen Waldman said. Something interesting Lawrence residents who The study said hunhappened at Lawrence believe Lawrence needs a dreds of thousands of votCity Hall when commis- more positive voice when ers in 10 states with “unsioners at a meeting last it comes to growth and precedented restrictive month asked for public economic development Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo voter ID laws” will have comment about a contro- have formed CadreLawtrouble getting the IDs versial proposal to build a rence. The group began to GARY REXROAD, LEFT, AND ZAK BOLICK are co-chairmen of a because they don’t have new group, CadreLawrence, that hopes to get people more multistory hotel and retail quietly reach out to memaccess to a vehicle and building at Ninth and New bers of the public before active at City Hall in voicing their support for growth and ecolive more than 10 miles Hampshire streets. last month’s vote on the nomic development projects. from the nearest state Despite bitter opposi- Ninth and New HampID-issuing office that is tion from the East Law- shire project, and presentopen more than two days rence Neighborhood As- ed what group members the founders of the group, a City Commission leca week. sociation, more people believed were the com- said the most important tern isn’t just for people “Federal courts have stepped to the lectern to munity benefits of the ho- thing group members did who oppose a project. previously declared that speak in favor of the proj- tel/retail proposal. is urge people to show up. Please see BURGLARIES, page 2A ect than against it. Please see GROUP, page 2A Please see VOTER, page 2A But Zak Bolick, one of They reminded folks that
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