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Body of missing toddler believed found Sheriff: ‘It is not the outcome we’d hoped for’ By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
Police said early Sunday they believed they had found the body of 18-month-old Lana Leigh Bailey, who was killed last week with her mother and two men at a home in rural Ottawa. Speaking at a hastily called news conference shortly after 1 a.m. today, Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Richards said the
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body had been found in Osage County. Final identification had not yet been made, he said, pending a medical examination. “It is not the outcome
we’d hoped for, but (we) knew we couldn’t stop searching until Lana was home,” Richards said. An Osage County sheriff’s deputy was checking an area believed to contain items related to the homicides and found the body. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office crime scene unit was requested to respond and process the new crime scene, Richards said. Kyle T. Flack, 27, has
Arrest raises more questions By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
The young man in an orange-and-white jail uniform and flanked by sheriff’s deputies flipped his middle finger at onlookers on his way to Franklin County District Court to face charges of capital murder and other crimes Friday afternoon. He was defiant in court,
telling the judge that he was eager to see his court-appointed lawyer because, “The sooner I can see him, the sooner I can wrap this up.” Kyle T. Flack will make his next court appearance Monday. He’s accused of killing Lana Leigh Bailey, 18 months; her mother, Kaylie K. Bailey, 21, of Olathe; and two friends of Bailey’s,
Andrew Adam Stout, 30, and Steven Eugene White, 31. The charges filed against Flack, 27, began to answer some questions about the quadruple homicides in rural Ottawa. But many other questions remained: What exactly happened at 3197 Georgia Road? Please see FLACK, page 7A
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KANSAS UNIVERSITY
Faculty, staff push for better tuition benefits By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com
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KATHY BOURGEOIS, OF LECOMPTON, WATCHES FROM THE SIDELINE AS HER SON COLE BROWNE, 31, PLAYS BASKETBALL with Demarcus Dreiling, a neighborhood resident, Thursday down the street from Cole’s Lawrence home. Bourgeois and Cole, who has cerebral palsy but lives independently, enjoy a unique mother-son relationship that involves daily phone calls and frequent visits.
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ven on the cloudiest of days, Kathy Bourgeois can count on a ray of sunshine during her 30-minute daily drive from Lecompton to Baldwin City. Her son calls her every day as she drives to her third-grade teaching job in the Baldwin City school district. Often the conversation begins or ends with a song: “You are My Sunshine.” Bourgeois gets more than a serenade out of the routine. She gets something most mothers can hardly fathom: daily interaction with her 31-year-old son. I guess it could go without saying that other mothers don’t have Cole Browne as a son. At 6 foot 5 and shoulders built like a blocker’s, Cole could be described as a hulk of a man, if hulks had tender, childlike voices. But in Baldwin City, where Cole grew up with Bourgeois and his father —
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Gary Browne, Bourgeois’ first husband — no one is likely to describe Cole as either a hulk or a blocker. He’s the boy they’ve known since birth — sitting on the curb waving at the buses of people at the town’s Maple Leaf Festival or caring for the equipment of his beloved Baldwin Bulldog football team. Yes, Cole has cerebral
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palsy, but that’s not likely how they would describe him, either. That’s not the attribute that makes him special. “He has a real way about
him because he knows how to say what is true and honest,” Bourgeois says. That indeed is sweet music to a mother. Please see MOTHER, page 6A
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IN THIS FAMILY PHOTO FROM 2007, COLE IS PICTURED with Kathy and her husband Claude Bourgeois on their wedding day in which Cole walked Kathy down the aisle.
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Rick Levy is a distinguished professor of law at Kansas University. But when his son, who graduated from KU in 2011, enrolled in courses at the school, he paid the same tuition rate as his classmates. He did receive a $1,000 annual scholarship available only for the dependents of KU faculty or staff, but he lost it a few years later when there was not enough funding available for all of the students who qualified. Contrast that with a friend of Levy’s, who is a faculty member at a private university elsewhere in the country. Levy’s friend sent five children to expensive, highly ranked schools KANSAS for college — all on his UNIVERSITY employer’s dime. Granted, Levy said, it’s probably not reasonable to expect KU to offer the same benefits as deep-pocketed private universities. But even among public universities, KU trails others in the state and some across the nation when it comes to tuition assistance benefits for faculty, staff and their families. That was the conclusion of a report released last month by a small group that included faculty, staff and student representatives. The report recommended that KU expand tuition benefits to match its neighbors and peers. Such a move, Levy said, would fit nicely with the university’s oftenstated desire to recruit and keep top-flight faculty members. “It provides a reason for people to come here and stay here — or not go elsewhere where they might get better benefits,” Levy said. Donna Ginther, a KU professor of economics who studies labor markets in academia, led the task force that produced last month’s report, which was about a year and a half in the making.
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More than a dozen women volunteers helped lift the walls on a new home Saturday in celebration of National Women Build Week. Page 3A
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