Stop signs eyed at Eighth and New Hampshire streets
Lawrence city Traffic Safety Commission backs installing stop signs at the Eighth Street and New Hampshire Street intersection to curb speeding near downtown pedestrians. The 5-4 vote also calls for removing two downtown parking spaces and adding similar changes near a residential area and the new Wal-Mart, with the City Commission to decide final approval.
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Eighth
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Street
Eighth Street
Traffic Safety Commission
Terese Gorman
Gorman
Wal-Mart
Lawrence City Commission
Kerry Altenbernd
Forrest
TSC
18Th Street
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ruth Hulteen
Tenn
38Rd Street
Iowa Street
Ousdahl Road
Ousdahl
31St
33Rd
Public Works Department
George Williams
Public Works
Police to guard Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week parade
Lawrence police say they will take all necessary steps to protect participants and protesters in Saturday downtown parade supporting Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week. Disbarred attorney Fred Phelps of Topeka and his congregation plan to protest, citing death threats against himself and followers. Police stress safeguarding rights while ensuring safety amid protests.
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Lawrence
Fred Phelps
Topeka
Phelps
Kansas
Massachusetts Street
Susan Had
Sixth
Massachusetts
Warren
Phelps target in criminal defamation complaint filed in Topeka
In Topeka an opposing city council candidate filed a criminal defamation complaint with police against Rev. Fred W. Phelps Sr. The filing followed flier distribution in the council district claiming Ptacek is homosexual and pledged to promote the homosexual agenda. Ptacek acknowledged he is gay.
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Topeka
Fred W. Phelps
Russ Ptacek
Ptacek
Defendant denies mistreating boys in DeMolay case
A Topeka man, 24, on trial in Douglas County faces three counts of sexual mistreatment with teenage Lawrence boys he recruited for DeMolay. His testimony said the youths lied about his involvement. he admitted awareness of acts but claimed no crime. Earlier witnesses described coercive pressure and control. He previously received a Shawnee County sentence of 70 years to life for related aggravated sodomy and child-liberties counts.
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Topeka
Lawrence
Eric Dean Sims
Douglas County
Sims
Craig Stancliffe
Eric
Sixth Street
Wakarusa Drive
Christine Kenney
DeMolay
Stancliffe
Charles Etherington
Kansas City
Order of DeMolay
Shawnee County
Trial ordered in murder case in Jefferson County
The second suspect in a Jefferson County murder, Franklin Eugene Sutton of Topeka, was ordered bound over for trial after a Monday preliminary hearing. Sutton and Bradley Wade Johnson, also of Topeka, face first degree murder and related charges in the death of Ben Creek, found March 5 southeast of Grantville. Arraignment set for 9 a.m. Wednesday. Creek died from knife wounds to the throat and inner thighs with head bruising. Sutton previously aided and abetted a 1979 murder in Topeka and was released from prison in 1990.
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Oskaloosa
Jefferson County
Franklin Eugene Sutton
Topeka
Bradley Wade Johnson
Ben Creek
Grantville
Sutton
Johnson
Creek
Larry Bauman
Richter
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