Busker Festival fundraising falls short with a week left
The Busker Festival seeks $3,500 from a Kickstarter campaign ending Aug 2 to cover artist fees shade tents and production costs for the Aug 19 21 event in downtown Lawrence. Pledges at kck.st/nHwom4 offer prizes for different levels as organizers press for more support.
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Sound Off Contact Number for Inquiries
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On the Street: Favorite Dishes From Local Street Respondents
Kansas City resident Wil Flanigan cites The Burger Stand at the Casbah and its Classic burger. Sacramento student Elisabeth Scott names a Chipotle burrito bowl with steak or chicken.
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Sacramento
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Births in Lawrence as Nunco couple welcomes a girl
Robert and Patience Nunco of Lawrence announce the birth of a girl on Monday. Gary and Mandy Tryon are also noted in the brief.
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Patience Nunco
Lawrence
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KU professor's sons' studies corrected in Sunday story
A Sunday story about Kansas University professor Barbara Anthony-Twarog contained errors. It incorrectly stated her sons' fields. Nathaniel is studying brain and cognitive science at MIT while Anthony studies screenwriting at New York University.
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Barbara Anthony-Twarog
Nathaniel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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New York University
Gas prices drop to 3.59 at multiple TT TVG stations
The Journal- World reports gasoline prices as low as 3.59 at several TT TVG stations. Readers are encouraged to call 832-7154 if a lower price is found.
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Harley stolen from Tennessee Street in Lawrence
A 24 year old Lawrence man reported his black 1998 Harley Davidson valued at $9,000 was stolen from the 1600 block of Tennessee Street. A 31 year old Lawrence man reported $2,080 stolen from his U S Bank account between 8 am and 5 pm Wednesday.
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Police report policy from The Journal World
The Journal World states it prints selective police reports. Burglaries are listed only when losses reach or exceed $1000 unless unusual factors apply. Names are withheld to protect victims. Arrest names appear after charges. Assaults and batteries are reported only with major injuries. Holdups and robberies are included.
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Bioscience Authority approves six million in new Investments
Kansas Bioscience Authority members approved six million dollars in new investments including a one point six million grant to Deciphera Pharmaceuticals in Lawrence and a one point six million grant to recruit a KU cancer researcher. The EU Cancer Center received one point one million for a Rising Star recruit Raymond Perez to lead Phase I Trials. Perez, formerly at Dartmouth, will bring five KU jobs and four point three million in research money. The board also eyed a four hundred thousand grant to an animal health company seeking a U S location in Kansas potentially creating 36 local jobs with a 72 thousand five hundred six dollar average salary. An audit by BKD LLC was discussed with results due by October.
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Kansas Bioscience Authority
Kansas University
Lawrence
EU Cancer Center
KBA
Raymond Perez
Perez
Johnson County
Roy Jensen
KU Cancer Center
Jensen
Dartmouth Medical School
Dartmouth
Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Bill Sanford
Authority
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals
Kansas
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Deciphera
U.S
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BKD LLC
David Vranicar
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Jurors Questioned as Kahler Trial Moves Forward
In Osage County Kansas hundreds of potential jurors were questioned at Lyndon High School for the quadruple murder trial of James Kraig Kahler. Kahler, a Columbia Missouri native, faces four counts of capital murder for the November 2009 killings of his ex wife Karen Kahler, their two daughters Emily and Lauren, and Karen’s mother Dorothy Wight at Wight’s Burlingame home.
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James Kraig Kahler
Columbia
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Lauren Kahler
Dorothy Wight
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Burlingame
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Kahler
Meriden
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City union seeks oversight of Fire Medical chief probe
Lawrence firefighters union asks city leaders to remove Fire Medical Chief Mark Bradford as sole investigator of department complaints. Lt. Kathy Elkins alleges misrepresentation of facts in a June 1 incident and seeks city HR oversight, while city officials treat the matter as a personnel complaint under standard practice.
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Lawrence-Douglas County
Mark Bradford
Kathy Elkins
International Association of Firefighters Local 1596
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Elkins
Lawrence Douglas County
David Corliss
Toni Wheeler
Wheeler
Union
Corliss
Arts commissioner foresees little hope for Kansas arts funding
Kansas arts officials warn that Gov. Sam Brownback's veto of the arts commission budget may end federal NEA support and other funds. With six new appointees, the commission faces a race to craft a matching-funds plan to keep federal dollars, or risk losing about 1.2 million and status with Mid-America Arts Alliance and NEA.
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Kansas Arts Commission
Sam Brownback
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Sherriene Sontag- Jones
Henry Schwaller IV
Hays
Mid- America Arts Alliance
Kansas City
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