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Kansas a leader in pursuing federal gun prosecutions U.S. Attorney seeks stricter penalties on weapons violations
By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
In the past five months, three people arrested by Lawrence police have ended up in federal court to face gun charges that carry potential 10-year prison sentences. They are just a few of dozens of local cases sent to federal
prosecutors in Kansas each year under a U.S. Attorney’s Office that has become one of the most aggressive in the nation when it comes to firearms violations. Local law enforcement agencies are finding it advantageous to use federal gun laws to prosecute suspects when they don’t
have enough evidence for statelevel charges. Kansas is ranked second in the nation in federal firearms prosecutions, with charges filed against 130 people in the first seven months of the fiscal year, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records
Access Clearinghouse, which tracks federal data. Among 93 federal judicial districts across the country, only the Western District of Missouri — which includes Kansas City — has prosecuted more cases in that time. When population is factored in, Kansas ranks fourth in
the country in federal firearms prosecutions. Nationally, the majority of those cases come from investigations by federal agencies such the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. But in Lawrence, they just as often come from routine traffic stops by local officers. Please see GUN, page 2A
KU keeps sharp eye on trademark protection
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ing minority member on the Senate budget committee. Rhoades was unavailable to be interviewed about the budget proviso this week, but he forwarded copies of earlier emails that both he and a company official had written in response to other questions about it. In one of those, Don Fast, a sales and management representative for the company, denied there were any political or financial ties between EDS and Rhoades.
It’s not every month that a cease-anddesist letter lands Kansas University in national headlines. But that’s about how often, on average, one of those letters lands in the mailbox of someone accused of violating KU’s trademarks. Every day, Kansas Athletics, along with national groups it enlists to help, works to keep Kansas University people from profiting from the use of and Kansas Athletics KU’s trademarks: split royalties earned “KU,” “Jayhawk,” from trademark licensed “Rock Chalk” and goods each year, usually more. From T- collecting 10 percent shirts to bracelets of the wholesale price. to beanbag games, Royalties earned in the unlicensed prod- past five fiscal years: • 2008: $2.2 million ucts that use those • 2009: $1.8 million words threaten • 2010: $1.9 million KU’s ability to con• 2011: $2.1 million tinue to claim those • 2012: $2.3 million words or phrases as its own — and to take in around $2 million in revenue each year from the sales of products it has licensed to include them. A cease-and-desist letter from KU attracted a good deal of attention last week from area and national media outlets. Perhaps not coincidentally, it concerned a group that operates a Twitter account that shares photos of women’s chests adorned with KU-themed clothing. KU asked the group to stop selling merchandise with “KU” on it. But that’s just one of about a dozen such letters Kansas Athletics has sent out over the past year, Paul Vander Tuig, KU’s trademark licensing director, estimates. And that’s just a portion of the instances of potential trademark
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COLIN HARTIGAN JR., 2, AND HIS FATHER, COLIN SR., hunt for butterflies in South Park on Sunday afternoon. The two spent part of Father’s Day playing in the park.
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Money for Brownback’s elementary literacy proposal goes to Newton company By Peter Hancock
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It is very unusual, if not unprecedented, for The Kansas Legisla- us to earmark a particuture did not pass Gov. Sam lar company.” Brownback’s reading initiaphancock@ljworld.com
tive this year, and that’s good news for at least one Kansas business that stands to make a lot of money from what lawmakers did approve instead. That’s because instead of passing the governor’s proposal, Republican lawmakers inserted a proviso in this year’s budget bill that
— Sen. Laura Kelly, D-Topeka requires the $12 million that Brownback had proposed using over the next two years be distributed in grants to schools that agree to use one proprietary reading program called Lexia Reading Core5. In addition, the proviso
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requires that schools applying for the grants be selected “by a statewide application process supported by Educational Design Solutions,” a company located in Newton, which is also the hometown of Rep. Marc Rhoades, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee who personally pushed for the budget amendment. “It is very unusual, if not unprecedented, for us to earmark a particular company,” said Sen. Laura Kelly, a Topeka Democrat and rank-
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