Charges reduced in sex assault case in Douglas County
Eduardo G. Gonzalez, 22, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal restraint and battery in a June incident at a Lawrence apartment on Alabama Street. Judge Paula Martin gave 12 months probation. A 20-year-old co defendant will plead next week to a lower level felony and a misdemeanor. Prosecutors had charged rape and aggravated kidnapping. The woman says she was assaulted after meeting the men. the defendants say she agreed to sex for money.
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Eudora
Alabama
Eduardo G. Gonzalez
Douglas County District Court
Paula Martin
Dist. Atty
Charles Branson
Trials ordered in meth seizure at Lawrence duplex
A Douglas County judge ordered two women to stand trial on charges tied to a May meth seizure at a west Lawrence duplex on Overland Drive. One defendant, Kelly M. Martin, 24, had a charge dismissed for lack of evidence she possessed the drug. Mary D. Reed, 31, was found to have probable cause for drug possession and child endangerment, with September trial dates set for both cases. Kansas University surplus auction set for 10 a.m. Saturday at 1851 Westbrooke, listing office equipment and shop items for sale including tables, chairs, tractors, mowers and more.
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West Lawrence
Overland Drive
Michael Malone
Kelly M. Martin
Malone
Martin
Mary D. Reed
Kansas University
Westbrooke
Kansasauctions.net
Paxton
Gas price as low as two nineteen at several locations
The Journal-World reports gas prices as low as $2.19 at multiple stations. Readers are invited to call Pump Patrol at 832-7154 if they spot a lower price.
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Highway 59 expansion plans shown to landowners
Kansas officials unveiled a $207 million plan to widen U S 59 from Lawrence to Ottawa to four lanes. KDOT mapped routes east of the current road, detailing land acquisitions across multiple tracts and inviting owner input at Baldwin High School.
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KDOT
Balowin
Lawrence
Ottawa
Douglas
Franklin County
Baldwin High School
Kansas Department of Transportation
Newton McClug
Haskell Wins $100000 DoD Grant For Fort Polk Grassland Work
Haskell Indian Nations University lands a $100,000 two year grant from the U S Department of Defense. Natural resources instructor Bill Welton and about a dozen students study restoration of Fort Polk Louisiana grasslands battered by military training as troops head to Iraq.
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Journal World Photo
Delinda Pushetonequa
Tama
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Haskell Indian Nations University
Haskell
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Fort Polk
Iraq
Ft. Polk
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Welton
Haskell to Dedicate Eric Allen Greenhouse Today
Haskell Indian Nations University will dedicate a new greenhouse named for Eric Allen at 11 30 a m behind Tam Nead Hall. Allen died at 33 after a stroke and was a beloved outdoors enthusiast. his parents Virgil and Ellen Allen hold key roles at the university. The dedication includes a lunch and a study on switchgrass varieties with about 50 strains noted by Welton, highlighting switchgrass as a hardy member of the tall grass prairie along with big bluestem little bluestem and Indian grass.
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Haskell Indian Nations University
Tam--Nead Hall
Eric Allen
Haskell
Allen
Virgil
Ellen Allen
Virgil Allen
Tam--Nend Hall
Welton
Murder conviction overturned over jailhouse letter in 1996
A Douglas County judge vacated the 1990s murder conviction of Damon L. McCray after finding prosecutors failed to disclose a jailhouse informant’s recantation about a 1996 confession. The Aug 14 1996 shooting outside Langston's Nightclub in Topeka led to McCray's trial, with judge Malone ruling the failure undermined fair proceedings.
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Douglas County
Michael Malone
Damon L. McCray
Malone
McCray
Jeremy Rhoads
Rhoads
Fetter McCray
Topeka
Onzie
Langston
W. 24Th St
Lawrence shelter launches cookie venture to aid homelessness
Ricky Edwards, staying at the Lawrence Community Shelter since November, leads Melting Pot Cookies and Biscotti, a Lawrence venture using shelter residents to market sweets at area farmers markets. The program is part of new shelter efforts with Cottonwood Inc to provide a job coach, a rock selling project, and a sign-walking fundraiser, backed by grants from Easterday Foundation and others.
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Lawrence
Cookie Project
Rocks and Paper
Cottonwood Inc
Massachusetts
Change of Heart
Loring Henderson
Henderson
Cottonwood
Therogram
Tensie Oldfather
Easterday Foundation
Good News Fund
First Presbyterian Church
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