LJWorld.com Headlines for March 23

TOP STORY [What you should know before Saturday's March for Our Lives; protests planned in Lawrence, Topeka]( [An estimated 1,000 students from Topeka High School took part in a national walkout Wednesday, March 14, 2018, to protest gun violence and marched three blocks to the Kansas Statehouse where they briefly merged with another rally organized by the Kansas chapter of the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.]( By: Joanna Hlavacek More than 800 March for Our Lives rallies are taking place across the globe Saturday, including a planned sit-in on the steps of the Kansas ... Posted yesterday at 12:42 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- Lights & Sirens: [Douglas County court clerk’s office warns of phone scammers posing as U.S. Marshals]( [Douglas County court clerk’s office warns of phone scammers posing as U.S. Marshals]( By: Sara Shepherd First of all, the federal U.S. Marshals Service has nothing to do with court proceedings in Douglas County. Second, they definitely won’t be ... Posted today at 12:00 a.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reform of Kansas asset seizure law heads to governor's desk]( [This file photo from 2008 shows a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper approaching a vehicle after a traffic stop on Kansas Highway 10.]( By: Peter Hancock The bill is intended to make it easier for individuals who have had property or assets seized by law enforcement agencies to challenge those seizures ... Posted yesterday at 7:27 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kansas Senate passes bill easing access to police body camera video and 2 others]( [The Senate chamber of the Kansas Statehouse is pictured July 23, 2014 in Topeka.]( By: Peter Hancock House Bill 2571 would provide greater public access to video from police body and vehicle cameras. The Senate also passed and sent to the House ... Posted yesterday at 5:58 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kansas lawmakers advance first part of school funding fix]( [J.G. Scott, left, the chief fiscal analyst for the Kansas Legislature's research staff, confers with Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning, R-Overland Park, after a Senate committee approved a school finance bill, Thursday, March 22, 2018, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The bill makes changes in the state's education funding formula to make it fairer to poor school district and satisfy part of a Kansas Supreme Court mandate (AP Photo/John Hanna)]( By: John Hanna, Associated Press Kansas lawmakers on Thursday advanced the first piece of a plan to satisfy a state Supreme Court mandate on public school funding, a bill designed ... Last updated yesterday at 5:32 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- Lights & Sirens: [Lawrence police blotter for March 22]( [Lawrence police blotter for March 22]( By: Sara Shepherd Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer ... Posted yesterday at 3:56 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lawrence man who threatened law enforcement during armed standoff ordered to probation, including treatment and apology letters to officers]( [Lawrence police block off 27th Street just east of Haskell Avenue during a standoff with a man at a house who was reportedly armed with a gun, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017.]( By: Sara Shepherd Instead of prison, an armed man who threatened law enforcement officers during an eight-hour standoff last fall in Lawrence is headed for a treatment program ... Posted yesterday at 2:55 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- [City to revise model that helps determine eligibility for tax breaks]( [Lawrence City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., Thursday, July 7, 2016]( By: Rochelle Valverde City officials say one of the calculations it uses to determine whether to award tax breaks and other incentives needs an update, and a team ... Posted yesterday at 1:30 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- Town Talk: [Longtime downtown restaurant expands by opening a food truck]( [Longtime downtown restaurant expands by opening a food truck ]( By: Chad Lawhorn A Mad Greek on wheels may sound like a dangerous thing at first, but likely the only danger will be to your waistline. The longtime ... Posted yesterday at 12:00 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- [Advocacy group forms to support county referendum on jail expansion, behavioral health initiatives]( [Douglas County Jail]( By: Elvyn Jones A pro-referendum group has formed to campaign in favor of the proposed countywide half-cent sales tax and the jail expansion and behavioral health initiatives it ... Posted yesterday at 11:52 a.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sentencing delayed again for man convicted of 2016 sex crime against teen]( By: Sara Shepherd Sentencing for a man convicted of a 2016 sex crime against a teenage girl has been delayed a third time. Posted yesterday at 11:50 a.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Court says university student group can't file brief in Kansas school finance case]( [Justices return from recess during hearings before the Kansas Supreme Court in Topeka, Kan., Thursday, May 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) ]( By: Peter Hancock The Kansas Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request by an organization representing state university students to file a brief in the ongoing school finance ... Posted yesterday at 11:19 a.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.S. News & World Report ranks several KU graduate programs in top 10 among public universities]( [A bus whirs by as University of Kansas students wait along Jayhawk Boulevard on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016.]( By: Joanna Hlavacek Nine graduate programs at the University of Kansas are among the top 10 of public universities nationwide, according to the 2019 edition of the U ... Posted yesterday at 10:22 a.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this email because of your relationship with the Lawrence Journal-World or because at some point in the past you shared your email address with us. If you no longer want to receive emails from us, follow instructions at the link below. [Click here to manage your email subscriptions.]( Lawrence Journal-World P.O Box 888, Lawrence, Kansas 66044