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Police warn residents about slew of burglaries By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
Lawrence police are asking residents to keep their garage doors closed and locked as officers investigate a pattern of burglaries in central and northern Lawrence. In the past five weeks, thieves have taken advantage of unlocked garages to steal more
than $12,000 in tools, bicycles and other items in a series of at least eight burglaries identified by a crime analyst with the Lawrence Police Department. In all but one of those cases, the garage door was unlocked, said Sgt. Trent McKinley, a police department spokesman.
It isn’t clear whether all of the thefts are related, and police have not yet identified suspects, McKinley said. The burglaries have occurred at night and during the day, McKinley said, in several different neighborhoods, and have involved both attached and detached garages. The thieves appear to be targeting power tools and bicycles,
and also are stealing items from vehicles parked inside the garages. In one case, in the 3200 block of Riverview Road, a burglar entered a home through the garage at night and stole items from a purse on the dining room table. The first burglary identified in the pattern was reported on May 16 in the 700 block of North Fifth Street in North
Lawrence. In the weeks since then, more reports have come from the 1700 block of Louisiana Street, the 900 block of Missouri Street, and the 100 block of Tumbleweed Drive, among other locations. Police say residents should remember to always keep their garage doors closed and locked to avoid being the victim of a crime.
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GWYNEDD VETTER-DRUSCH, 22, a professional dancer from New York, demonstrates a dance Friday on Kansas University’s West Campus that she is performing as part of her film project “Moving for Monarchs.” The project is intended as a call to action to help save monarch butterfly populations and their habitats. Vetter-Drusch, featured in the 2012 New York Times Best-Seller “Dancers Among Us,” was inspired to do the project by the work of KU professor and Monarch Watch director Chip Taylor.
Athlete winning races after losing both legs Colby Liston’s achievement just 9 months after Lawrence crash called ‘extraordinary’
COLBY LISTON competes earlier this month in the 14th annual Endeavor Games at the University of Central Oklahoma. Liston was pinned between two cars in August 2012 while attending Kansas University. His legs were severed just above the knee and he now wears prosthetic limbs.
DERBY (AP) — In less than half the time it normally takes, Colby Liston is running again. The former Derby High School athlete competed in the University of Central Oklahoma Endeavor Games in Edmond, Okla., earlier this month, nine months after an auto accident in Lawrence claimed both of his legs from above the knee, The Wichita Eagle reported. Competing on carbon-fiber running blades, Liston ran the 100-, 200- and 400-meter races at the Games, a national multisport competition for athletes with disabilities that drew more than 550 competitors. He won
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his age group in the 200 and 400. Typically it takes about two years for double amputees to get out on a track and run, said Chad Simpson, clinic manager and certified prosthetist at the Hanger Clinic in Oklahoma City, which provided Liston’s prosthetic legs and helped him learn how to use them. “Any individual who is missing both legs above the knees, to get back up and walking in that nine-month period is pretty astonishing,” Simpson said. “And to move into a competitive situ-
Perhaps the Kansas University football team could work a bus into its game plan. A new idea out of Lawrence City Hall calls for building a nearly $3 million public transit center on the grounds of KU’s Memorial StaThe Memorial dium complex. A city-hired con- Stadium option sultant says a site just would place northeast of the stadium, where the shot the bus hub put and discus rings northeast of are, may be the best lo- the football cation to build a main stadium, an hub for the city’s bus area that is system. “I think it could heavily used change the whole cli- for tailgating mate in those neighborhoods,” said Bob on game days. Nugent, the city’s public transit administrator. “There is so much congestion on game days. If fans could get on a bus near their house and take it to the game, they wouldn’t have to drive around and try to hunt for a parking spot in those neighborhoods near the stadium.” But the city’s consulting firm — the national engineering firm Olsson Associates — has given the city two other locations it thinks deserves serious consideration as well: 2029 Becker Drive, which is the
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