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Developer plans apartments with robotic garage near stadium By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
A new five-story apartment and retail building — complete with a robotic-powered parking garage — may be coming to a site across the street from Kansas University’s Memorial Stadium. Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall for a major mixed-used development on the existing site of the Berkeley Flats apartment complex at 1101 Indiana St. “We think it is a very strategic site in the city that is being underutilized currently,” said Jim Heffernan, a principal with Chicago-based student housing d e v e l o p e r The building would feaHERE LLC. The site is ture 156 apartments on directly east three floors. Retail and of the stadium restaurant space would and is along the Mississippi occupy street levels, and Street gateway the 592-space garage to campus. would be automated roDetails of the botically. proposed development include:
156 apartments — totaling about 600 bedrooms — would be located on three of the building’s five floors. Each apartment would include an 18-foot-high great room, designed to give the units the feel of an urban loft.
Retail and restaurant uses would be located along both the Mississippi Street and Indiana Street levels of the building. In total, the plans call for about 11,000 square feet of retail shops or restaurants.
The development would have a 592-space
Officers spread cheer ABOVE: LAWRENCE POLICE OFFICER AARON HACHMEISTER, RIGHT, and Jacob have breakfast together on Friday at McDonald’s, 4911 W. Sixth St. Right: Lawrence police officer Amy Price shops at Wal-Mart on Friday with Serenity, center, and Adrianna. The children are participants in the Ballard Community Service Early Education program, which partnered for the second year with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Lawrence Police Department, the Kansas State Highway Patrol and KU Office of Public Safety in T.O.Y.S. (Take Our Youth Shopping) holiday programs.
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Judge OKs request for DNA test on evidence in murders
Osher learning program will stay in Lawrence By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
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KYLE FLACK, of Ottawa, appears in A Franklin County judge granted Franklin County District Court in a second request by state prosecu- October. tors to perform DNA testing on evidence in the capital murder case of a who heads the Kansas Death Penalty man accused of killing four people, Defense Unit in Topeka. “When they including an 18-month-old child, in destroy evidence by consuming it, it rural Ottawa in May. denies us the right to confront the Franklin County District Judge evidence.” Thomas H. Sachse granted the reEvans cited the Confrontation quest in the state’s case Clause in the state and federal conagainst Kyle T. Flack, stitutions in arguing that evidence 28, of Ottawa, over an destroyed before the defense could objection by Flack’s review it would be inadmissible in court-appointed attor- court. “Whether there was bad faith ney, Ron Evans. in destroying it or not,” he added. Evans has asked that In July, Sachse granted prosecuCOURTS the testing not be al- tors’ requests for DNA testing on 13 lowed on grounds that items that might be introduced as forensic scientists have said that evidence at trial. Those items, and some items could be destroyed dur- the additional five requested in the ing testing that could otherwise be state’s second motion, have not been used as evidence in a trial. Prosecu- publicly described because the retors filed the motion for the second quests were made under seal. round of testing last month. Deputy Attorney General Victor “It denies Mr. Flack an opportunity Please see DNA, page 2A to inspect the evidence,” said Evans,
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TOPEKA (AP) — A man chosen to administer a new drug testing program for state lawmakers said those who fail the tests won’t be penalized, and their names might not be made public. The law allowing the drug testing for lawmakers also requires testing of some people who receive government benefits. If those people fail drug tests, they will have their welfare benefits frozen
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throughout the state, the institute serves more than 2,745 people a year in Kansas, nearly half of them in Lawrence. Next year, the institute will offer 22 classes on everything from Italian civilization to pastel painting. The uncertainty had caused concern among many fans of the institute’s local Please see OSHER, page 2A
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Lawrence classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, a unit of Kansas University’s Continuing Education program, will stay where they are. After November’s announcement that Continuing Education would move to the KU Edwards campus this spring, the location of Law-
rence’s Osher classes were uncertain. But this week, KU administrators announced to staff that classes would stay in the building at 1515 St. Andrews Drive in Lawrence. KANSAS UNIVERSITY Osher provides educational opportunities for people over 50. With courses
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unless they complete a treatment program. Jeff Russell, director of the Legislative Administrative Services, will run the testing program, a LEGISLATURE decision made by the Legislative Coordinating Council. He told The Topeka CapitalJournal on Thursday that the
bill does not give anyone authority to penalize lawmakers. “None whatsoever,” Russell said. And he said he doesn’t think he can disclose names of lawmakers who fail the tests because of privacy laws concerning medical records. The lack of penalties has upset one freshman legislator
City wants depot ownership City leaders are hopeful that Lawrence will take over the Santa Fe Depot by mid-2014. The city has already secured a grant to restore it. Page 3A
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