KU grad screens film on assault at Liberty Hall
Benjamin Waller, a KU film and media studies graduate, screens The Hardest Thing to Earn at Liberty Hall 644 Massachusetts St. Seating begins 7 p.m. with a 7 30 p.m. start and a post screening Q A. The feature-wlength project, his honors film about sexual assault consequences in a small town college setting, aims to spur public action.
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State's 1st female chief justice dies
Kay McFarland, the first woman to serve as Kansas Supreme Court chief justice and the first female district court judge in Kansas, died Tuesday at age 80. Appointed to the court in 1977 by Gov. Bennett, she led as chief justice from 1995 until retirement in 2009, after reaching the mandatory retirement age. Born in Coffeyville and raised in Topeka, she was a Washburn graduate and longtime jurist.
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Local groups share nearly $500K AmeriCorps grants
The Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence and the United Way of Douglas County received almost $500,000 in AmeriCorps funds to support 44 members in Kansas. The two grants are part of $1.4 million awarded to eight organizations statewide, funding 160 members. Lawrence will back 24 members with a $222,990 grant to work with district personnel and club staff on academic interventions across 14 after school programs.
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Louisiana Street reopens stretches north of 31st to Broken Arrow Park
Parts of Louisiana Street north of 31st Street reopened at 4 p.m. Tuesday after reconstruction tied to the Kansas Highway 10 South Lawrence Trafficway project. The southbound segment remains to be reopened by the end of September, and the rebuilt 31st Street section between Ousdahl Road and Haskell Avenue already reopened on August 7.
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