Lawrence Journal-World 12-06-12

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By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

McLemore rising high on, off court Guard Ben McLemore says he loves being at Kansas University, not just for basketball, but because of what being a student has done for his personal development. Page 1B CRIME

3 arrested after rape reported Three men have been arrested in connection with a sexual assault that allegedly occurred Tuesday night at a Lawrence apartment. Page 3A

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What I am not going to do — and what I won’t sign — is putting taxes back on small businesses and raising the income tax rate back up. Certainty is a key issue on tax policy.”

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GRETA CARTER-WILSON, LEFT, AND JENNIFER METZGER work as volunteers at the Toys for Tots Store at 1540 Wakarusa Drive, Suite F, sorting toys for children and families who need assistance with Christmas gifts. The shop’s hours will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday (Thursday until 7 p.m.) and Saturday 9 a.m. to noon through Dec. 22. Toys for Tots continues to accept toy donations at the store.

TOPEKA — Kansas’ top elected officials refused to help the Topeka school district’s efforts to try to secure a $40 million, threeyear federal education grant. Topeka School Superintendent Julie Ford said Wednesday that she was surprised Gov. Sam Brownback and U.S. Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, all Republicans, declined to assist in the district’s effort to land the Race to the Top Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. “It’s our tax money, and it’s going to go somewhere. Roberts So why not Kansas kids?” Ford said. As part of its grant submission, Topeka school officials sought letters of support from Kansas political leaders. The grant was aimed at raising student achievement, narrowing the achievement Moran gap and improving teachers’ effectiveness. “These are all goals the governor supports,” Brownback’s policy director Jon Hummell said in an email to Topeka school officials. But Hummell said the grant encouraged the use of Common Core standards, which he said have “been questioned by legislators at the state and federal level.” Please see GRANT, page 2A

$150K gift to KU honors children killed in crash By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com

ten, that they live on,” Anderson said. And they will, through a $150,000 gift announced Wednesday by Kansas Univer- Anderson sity Endowment. It’s from Vergie and her husband, Mark Anderson, who live in the south-central Kansas town of Kinsley. It

It’s something felt by just about any parent who outlives any of his or her children, Vergie Anderson says: the desire to make sure people remember. It’s no different for Anderson, whose two children — Jason, 13, and Brooke, almost 6 — died in a car accident in 1980. “One of the most important Business 5A Classified 5B-10B things is that they are not forgotComics 9A Deaths 2A Events listings 10A, 2B Home & Garden 8A Horoscope 9B just 17 cases that were Movies 4A By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com confirmed in all of 2011, Opinion 7A the department said. Puzzles 9B An outbreak of pertusPertussis, also known Sports 1B-4B, 10B sis is continuing in Doug- as whooping cough, is a Television 10A, 2B, 9B las County, with 86 cases highly contagious disease Vol.154/No.341 20 pages being confirmed through caused by bacteria. It is October, and another 46 easily preventable with possible cases that are immunizations, but health still under investigation, officials say those immuaccording to the Law- nizations do wear off, and rence-Douglas County they recommend that even Health Department. adults check with their That compares with doctors to see if they need

— Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, who urged legislators to bridge the revenue gap created by massive income tax cuts he signed into law earlier this year. Page 3A

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will fund scholarships for graduate students in KU’s School of Social Welfare. Anderson earned a Master of Social Welfare degree from the school in 1990, after earning a bachelor’s degree at St. Mary of the Plains College in Dodge City in 1988. After that, she spent 20 years working as a therapist and then as clinical director at Iroquois Center for Human Development, a small community mental health center in Greens-

burg. That included the period following the tornado that devastated the town in 2007, forcing the center to relocate for a time to nearby Haviland. “For someone with a socialwork heart, this is just a natural choice,” Anderson said in a phone interview Wednesday. The Mark and Vergie Anderson Scholarship fund in honor of Jason and Brooke Meckfessel Please see GIFT, page 2A

Whooping cough cases continue in Douglas County booster shots. T h e sickness can strike people of any age, HEALTH but it is most common in infants younger than 6 months of age and children 10 to 14 years old. The disease causes symptoms similar to a

cold or flu. Early symptoms include runny nose, sneezing, fever and coughing, which generally last one to two weeks. The next stage includes uncontrolled coughing spells followed by a whooping noise when a person breathes in. That second stage can last four to six weeks and can cause serious complications, or even death,

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Giving a series of immunization shots to children at 2, 4, 6 and 15 months of age, and again before a child enters school.

Giving booster doses to adolescents 11 to Please see COUGH, page 2A


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