Local events calendar highlights in Lawrence and area
Story Slam and music at 7 p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center, plus family events at Woodchip Sale and Perry-Lecompton Farmers Market. Comedian Brad Stine at Christ Community Church. Bayanihan Dance at Lied Center. theatre productions including Shout! The Mod Musical, Lost In Yonkers, and Cosi Fan Tutte. Community fairs, book programs, charity runs, and a leukemia walk listed with times, locations, and contact details.
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Perry-Lecompton
U.S. Highway 24
Ferguson Road
Perry
Brad Stine
Christ Community Church
Kasold
Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company
Lied Center
Stewart Dr
Lawrence Community Theatre
N.H
Yonkers
Crafton-Preyer Theater
Murphy Hall
Naismith
Robert Baustian
Crafton-Preyer
N.H. Lawrence
Eldridge Hotel
Mass
Ghosttoursofkansas.com
Downtown Lawrence Farmers Market and Fall Festival Events
Saturday listings include Downtown Lawrence Farmers Market 7 to 11 a.m. on 800 block of New Hampshire Street and an Octoginta sale 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Massachusetts streets. Highlights run from an airport open house 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. to Wings for a Wish fundraiser with airplane rides for Make A Wish Kansas.
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Bonner Springs
Lawrence Community Nursery School
Tonganoxie Historical Society
Washington St
Tonganoxie
Bookworms United
Lawrence Public Library
Seventh
Massachusetts
South Park
12Th
Jenn.Melling
Lls.org
Conroy's
Sixth St
Lawrence Noon Lions Club
Turtle Island Quartet
Lied
Stewart Dr
Lawrence
New Hampshire
Lawrence Municipal Airport
U.S. Highway
Kansas
Make A Wish Foundation
Lawrence Municipal
River City
Kansas City
Fall Book Sale at Library This Sunday
The library at 707 Wt. offers a fall book sale this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A full listing of upcoming events is available online at LJWorld.com/events.
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Kansas City
Bonner Springs
Lawrence Public Library
Ljworld.com
Lawrence man in serious condition after two-vehicle crash
Jonathan C. Pogge, a 20 year old Lawrence resident, remains in serious condition at Kansas University Hospital after a two vehicle collision near the Jefferson County Douglas County line. Airport officials reported the accident occurred Tuesday as authorities investigated the scene.
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Jonathan C. Pogge
Lawrence
Kansas University Hospital
Kansas City
Kan
Pogge
Jefferson County
Douglas County
Davis and Coty Willingham Queneno Thursday
Hattie Myers and Damacius White of Ottawa are listed for Thursday, noting a boy and a girl respectively in the local notices segment.
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Davis
Coty Willingham
Queneno
Hattie Myers
Damacius White
Ottawa
Journal-World invites corrections for significant errors
The Journal-World states its policy is to correct all significant errors brought to editors. Readers are urged to report errors by calling the provided phone number or emailing the newsroom contact at ljworld.com.
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Journal-World
Ljworld.com
Fourth annual zombie walk draws crowd and pantry donations
Zombies gathered for the fourth annual walk from South Park to Seventh Street and back in Lawrence. Participants varied from frightening to friendly while the event also collected items for the local food pantry and the Lawrence Humane Society, drawing enthusiastic responses from the crowd.
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South Park
Seventh Street
Lawrence Humane Society
Kary Decunha
Decunha
Sunflower Games to stay in Topeka through 2013
The Sunflower Games will remain in Topeka through 2013 after Visit Topeka Inc. accepted a three year bid. Visit Topeka will pay $20,000 annually for the festival, which draws thousands of athletes to more than 40 sports over three July weekends. Olivia Simmons, Visit Topeka president, said the minimum bid was agreed after residents voiced support to keep the games in Topeka.
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Topeka
Sunflower State Games Organization
Visit Topeka Inc
Visit
Former KU football players to stand trial for burglary
A Douglas County judge ordered Vernon Brooks and Jamal Greene to stand trial on aggravated burglary and assault counts tied to a May incident at Tuckaway Apartments in Lawrence. Witnesses testified two masked men with handguns forced four KU students to the ground as police later arrested Brooks and Greene. Greene faces a Jan. 17 trial and Brooks a Feb. 21 jury trial, both free on bond.
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Douglas County
Kansas University
Lawrence
Tuckaway Apartments
Sixth St
Ryan Kearns
Vernon Brooks
Jamal Greene
Kearns
Catherine Martin
Brooks
Greene
Lance Flachsbarth
Flachsbarth
Paula Martin
Mid-America Nazarene University
Death notice for Chester McMillen of Baldwin City
Funeral services for Chester McMillen, 93, Baldwin City, are pending and will be announced by Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. McMillen died Wednesday October 6, 2010 at his home.
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Chester McMillen
Baldwin City
Rumsey-Yost
McMillen
Life sentences asked for doctor and wife in overdose scheme
Prosecutors seek life in prison for Dr. Stephen Schneider and Linda Schneider over a Kansas clinic tied to 68 overdose deaths. U.S. District Court in Wichita heard they were convicted of drug prescribing fraud and money laundering with 10 deaths and 14 serious injuries cited. Sentencing set for October 19.
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Kansas
U.S. District Court
Monti Belot
Stephen Schneider
Linda Schneider
Schneiders
Belot
Haysville
U.S
Tanya Treadway
Lawrence Williamson
Williamson
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