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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 2022
Page
3
A Douglas County jury acquitted 25 year old Lawrence man Brian Samuel Stubbs of first degree murder in a spring stabbing case. He was convicted on two misdemeanor charges after police found a 38 year old man with stab wounds at Cedar Apartments.
The estate of Richard Dick Smith donates 5.5 million to the University of Kansas and 5.5 million to Wichita State University, totaling 11 million. KU receives half for undergraduates and geology students while WSU awards scholarships to undergraduates in any field. Smith, founder of Range Oil, died in 2021 at 87, and his widow Sondra Langel notes the gift advances Kansan educational opportunities.
Lawrence Douglas County Public Health says the county added 248 new COVID-19 cases in the past two days, bringing totals since March 2020 to 24,459 with 3,256 active. Hospitalizations at LMH Health eased slightly to 20, while the 14 day moving average sits at 143.71. LMH Health urges continued caution.
Lawrence School Board President Erica Hill has called a 6 p.m. February 21 special meeting to discuss budget shortfall options including potential closures. The district aims to publish a notice of public hearing for closures with tentative hearings March 21 to 23 amid resident opposition and equity concerns centered in eastern and North Lawrence.
The Kansas GOP overrode Gov. Kelly's veto to enact new congressional lines by Feb 17, moving Lawrence into the 1st District and shifting parts of northern Kansas City into the 2nd. Davids, the state's only openly gay Native American woman in Congress, sees her district altered to reduce minority voting power. Democratic lawmakers criticize the plan as partisan and harmful to minority representation.
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