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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 2015
Page
3
A weekend festival showcases a slate of local performers led by punk band Are Flash. Also on the docket, Kansas Legislature debates budget balancing measures as a city softball showdown heads to Lawrence High for Part II.
Lester Mitscher, 83, longtime professor in Kansas University’s Department of Medicinal Chemistry, died Friday after a brief cancer battle. Tom Prisinzano, chair of KU's chemistry department, recalls Mitscher as a “gentleman scholar” and a mentor. A 2010 Central America trip to Panama offered a vivid memory of Mitscher guiding a medicinal chemistry course in the Panamanian rainforest near Panama City.
Lawrence residents report unauthorized debit card transactions after a weekend breach affecting about 1,500 Commerce Bank customers nationwide. Bank official Carl Bradbury cautioned the figure is a rough estimate and details remain under investigation.
Lawrence resident Orion Mark Graf, 37, pleaded no contest to attempted rape and aggravated criminal sodomy in a separate case after existing charges from 2014 and a prior plea to two counts of breach of privacy for secretly filming people in downtown dressing rooms.
Lawrence city commissioners urged staff to draft a plan for temporary four way stop signs along 27th Street between Iowa and Louisiana to curb traffic. They noted the measure should be temporary until 31st Street reopens mid summer after the South Lawrence Trafficway project caused traffic to rise by about 6000 vehicles per day.
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