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Judge won’t seal documents outright in Ottawa murder case By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com

A Franklin County judge refused Monday to seal all documents in a May quadruple-murder case and set the course for

a long trial process that will continue into 2014. Franklin County District Judge Thomas H. Sachse is hearing the case of Kyle T. Flack, 27, of Ottawa, who appeared in Franklin County District

Court charged in the killings of three adults and one 18-month-old child earlier this year in rural Ottawa. Sachse set a schedule of pretrial hearings that will stretch for more than sev-

LJWorld.com KYLE T. FLACK appears Monday in Franklin County District Court for a pretrial hearing in his capital murder case. Flack is accused of killing four people near Ottawa.

en months and said that some, but not necessarily all, of the documents filed by attorneys could be sealed from public view. The judge said he will

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City expected to approve final details for Marriott

Sweet news for corn fans

By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

Everybody from motorists to bus riders to downtown skyline gazers soon will start noticing signs of what is expected to be one of downtown’s larger developments in recent years. Lawrence city commissioners today are scheduled to approve the final site details for the five-story Marriott hotel and retail development at the southeast corner of Ninth and New Hampshire streets. The approval is expected to clear the way for construction to begin next week and last for the next 15 months. Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo “It is going to be a great project,� said Micah Kimball, project architect for the develLYLE NUNEMAKER, LEFT, AND LOWELL NEITZELL load a customer’s trailer Monday at Bismarck Gardens, at 1616 N. 1700 opment. “We’re trying to minimize any imRoad. Fans of locally grown sweet corn have had to wait a bit longer than usual for the crop this year because of uncooppacts on traffic or the surrounding area. It is erative weather. a tight site, but we’re used to that.� Riders of the city’s public transit system may be the first to feel the effect of the more than $10 million project. The city will close its transit hub at Ninth and New Hampshire on July 17. It will move to the 700 block of Vermont Street, across from the construcBy Peter Hancock tionwide. One of those called tion site of the Lawrence Public Library. Any new licensure system must take into acphancock@ljworld.com for reforming state licensing Please see MARRIOTT, page 2A procedures to allow “true count the fact that new generations of workers The Kansas State Depart- anticipate having multiple careers across their reciprocity� across state ment of Education wants to lines. study a proposal to make it lifetime. Education policy needs to accommodate The council is now makeasier for teachers from oth- career changers and create flexibility that allows ing grants available to states er states to become licensed them to become an education professional without to study what it would take in Kansas. to implement those 10 recundue burdens.� But some higher education ommendations. Kansas Eduofficials are worried that cation Commissioner Diane expanding “reciprocity� of — Report from the Council of Chief State School Officers DeBacker confirmed this teaching licenses could waweek that KSDE is applying ter down the quality of profor one of those grants. spective teachers because every other state, a process of Chief State School OffiShe said the Kansas State Courtesy of Treanor Architects many other states have less that will drop to the least cers, a national organization Board of Education will hear stringent criteria for enter- common denominator,� said of state education agency a report about the grant ap- AN ARTIST’S RENDERING shows the multistory hotel ing the profession. Richard Schrock, a biology heads, issued a report list- plication when it meets in and apartment building to be constructed at Ninth “The issue here is reci- education professor at Em- ing 10 recommendations for Topeka today. But she said and New Hampshire streets. This image shows the procity, that every state will poria State University. how states could improve Please see TEACHERS, page 2A northwest corner of the building at night. accept teachers trained in In December, the Council the teaching profession na-

State to explore reciprocity in teacher licenses

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Kansas University’s external research funding reached $275.2 million in 2011-12, KU has announced, increasing for the fifth straight year and marking a new record. Page 3A

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