Lawrence Journal-World 12-27-13

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Commercial vehicles will have to go elsewhere to register

New shelter marks one year

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photos

LORING HENDERSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER, 3655 E. 25th St., shows visitors the playground at the shelter. The shelter’s new location opened a year ago this month, and additions like the fenced playground on the south side of the building have helped make for a successful first year.

Farther to reach but more help for city’s homeless By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com

The Lawrence Community Shelter’s 13-year-old Pontiac Montana — mileage 195,925 — is one busy minivan. In the first year at its new location, the homeless shelter significantly increased capacity, permanent housing placement and programming activity. All that combined with being at the far edge of town — an industrial

The owners of commercial vehicles in Douglas County will have to register those vehicles in another county to meet the Feb. 28, 2014 deadline, Douglas County Treasurer Paula Gilchrist said Thursday. Gilchrist said the comWe just bination of really a law taking effect Jan. haven’t had 1, 2014, and the mannew state power” to computer system that accommowill not be date the available un- changes in the law and til the first of to the computer system. the year led her to decide not to do — Douglas County Treasurer Paula commercial Gilchrist vehicle registrations for 2014. The nearest counties to get this year’s registrations will be Shawnee or Johnson, she said. “We just really haven’t had the manpower,” to accommodate the changes, Gilchrist said. She said memories of the headaches from the roll out of the state’s new motor vehicle system in 2012 are fresh in her mind, and she wants the state to work out the bugs in the

park east of O’Connell Road and Kansas Highway 10 — means transportation needs have increased, too. “It’s a lot like a Rubik’s cube,” shelter Director Loring Henderson said of the travel schedule. “We have constant demands on the van.” On Dec. 29 last year, the shelROXANNE HAYDEN, OF LAWRENCE, talks ter moved from its 7,700-squarefoot home at 214 W. 10th St. to about her experience as a guest at both the old and new Lawrence Community Please see SHELTER, page 2A shelters. She now lives in an apartment.

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Lawrence woman charged with murder in stabbing By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com

A 27-year-old Lawrence woman was charged on Thursday with seconddegree murder in connection with a fatal stabbing early Christmas morning. Marci Deshayna Cully was arrested and jailed on Wednesday after what police described as a domestic disturbance. Appearing

in Douglas County District C o u r t by video from jail, Cully was charged on Thursday Cully with intentionally killing Wayne Francisco, a potential level-one felony that carries a maximum penalty of 54

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years in prison. Douglas County District Court Judge James George appointed an attorney, Courtney Henderson, to represent Cully and set her bond at $150,000. Cully asked for lower

bail, saying she lived with her parents and had a job, and therefor had no intention of fleeing the state. George denied her request. Chrissy Abramovitz, a trial assistant with the Douglas County District

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Judge James George appointed an attorney, Courtney Henderson, to represent Cully and set her bond at $150,000.

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Attorney’s office, said the office would not comment on the details of the relationship between Cully and Francisco. At 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, police and medical personnel responded to a reported stabbing at The Grove at Lawrence apartments in the 4300 block of West 24th Place. Francisco died after medics’ efforts to save

him failed, Sgt. Trent McKinley, Lawrence Police Department spokesman, said on Wednesday. Police arrested Cully after interviewing her at the Law Enforcement Center later Wednesday morning, McKinley said. The court set a preliminary hearing for 9:30 a.m. Dec. 31. Wednesday’s alleged homicide would be the third in Lawrence this year.

Water plant repairs planned

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Major construction work is expected to take place on the Kansas River as part of a $3.8 million project to make repairs at the Kaw Water Treatment Plant. Page 3A

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