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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 2011
Page
3
The Lawrence Police Department announced a new website featuring a map of all 2010 city crimes. It will show burglaries batteries thefts liquor violations and sexual assaults with per-area details. Public access will also include warrants lists stolen vehicles and officer feedback while PDFs of reports remain available.
Verbanic, a Lawrence officer since 1991, is promoted to detective amid a record of handling domestic disturbance cases including 975 calls in 2009 plus 71 rapes and 598 domestic battery incidents. He aims to maintain victim contact throughout prosecutions. His twin brother Steve is also a patrol officer and Mike began as a juvenile investigator in 2005. Reporter George Diepenbrock can be Twitter.com/lawrencecrime.
Raymond Glen Sawyer, 59, owner of MagnaGro International, was arrested on a probation violation warrant and sent to Douglas County Jail then Topeka for a Friday hearing. The 2009 case involved discharging fertilizer waste into Lawrence’s sewer system, for which Sawyer and MagnaGro paid a $240,000 fine. An EPA civil complaint followed in 2010 over hazardous wastes at MagnaGro’s site, later declared unfit for occupancy after deadly fumes in 2010.
Westar notes nationwide meter accuracy concerns and emphasizes customer communication as the key issue. California tests showed some meters out of accuracy limits, while Texas results echoed communication problems. Westar plans ongoing community outreach and updates on its site. The company is near completing a pilot in Lawrence and expects citywide exchange to begin in late May, with RSS updates available.
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