LJWorld.com Headlines for October 20, 2018

ang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns=" xmlns:cctd="> [Police investigate report of armed robbery in eastern Lawrence]( A 20-year-old man was allegedly robbed at gunpoint while at a friend's house on Thursday afternoon in eastern Lawrence, police say. The victim's friend was not with the victim in the house in the 1300 block of Oak Hill Avenue at the time, ... [Police investigate report of armed robbery in eastern Lawrence]( By: Staff Report A 20-year-old man was allegedly robbed at gunpoint while at a friend's house on Thursday afternoon in eastern Lawrence, police say. The victim's friend was not with the victim in the house in the 1300 block of Oak Hill Avenue at the time, ... October 19, 2018 @ 8:30pm [Lawyer says Massachusetts Street triple murder defendant plans to argue self-defense, slain men shouldn’t be called victims]( By: Sara Shepherd A 22-year-old Shawnee woman killed by gunfire leaving a downtown Lawrence bar last year was an actual victim, says the attorney for the man charged with murdering her and two other people. But the two men who died that night and two more men ... October 19, 2018 @ 8:03pm [Kobach skeptical of climate science; other candidates call it a major policy concern]( By: Peter Hancock TOPEKA — Republican candidate for governor Kris Kobach said this week that he agrees that the Earth's climate is changing, but he is skeptical about whether human activity is causing it, and whether it poses a major environmental ... October 19, 2018 @ 6:10pm [92-year-old 'Big Sonia' recounts surviving 'hell' of Holocaust, warns of rising hatred, racism]( By: Kathy Hanks Conditions in the death camp were so horrific that Sonia Warshawski watched as women took their own lives by throwing themselves on electrified fences. She felt it was a courageous thing for them to do. “But I was fighting to survive,” ... October 19, 2018 @ 5:44pm [Previously deported lawn worker paid girl $9 for sex act on Lawrence school grounds]( By: Sara Shepherd A man who’d previously been deported from the United States was mowing the lawn at a Lawrence public school the day he received oral sex from a 16-year-old student on school grounds, the Journal-World has learned. The man paid the girl $9 ... October 19, 2018 @ 3:22pm [Lawrence police blotter for Oct. 19]( 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 activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 250 ... October 19, 2018 @ 2:19pm [Community invited to KU Trunk or Treat event]( By: Staff Report The Lawrence community is invited to the second annual Trunk or Treat event from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 26 at the Adams Alumni Center parking lot. The University of Kansas Student Involvement and Leadership Center, Student Alumni Network and Center ... October 19, 2018 @ 2:05pm [Devoted KU basketball fans stand by their team; psychologists not at all surprised]( By: Kathy Hanks At Ladybird Diner in downtown Lawrence, Susan McCarthy was perusing the newspaper Thursday morning, trying to keep up with the latest news on the college basketball corruption trial underway in New York. A devout KU basketball fan, McCarthy, ... October 19, 2018 @ 12:38pm [Kansas reports job losses in September; unemployment rate unchanged]( By: Peter Hancock TOPEKA - The Kansas economy lost an estimated 6,900 jobs in September, including 3,800 private-sector jobs while people who remained employed worked more hours, according to preliminary, seasonally adjusted figures from the Kansas Department of ... October 19, 2018 @ 11:26am [KU law instructor, KCMO councilman and mayoral candidate arrested in Lawrence on suspicion of DUI]( By: Sara Shepherd Updated at 12:41 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. A University of Kansas law lecturer and Kansas City, Mo., city councilman who’s running for mayor of that city was arrested overnight in downtown Lawrence. Quinton D. Lucas, 34, of Kansas City, ... October 19, 2018 @ 9:53am [Affidavit: Calling self ‘a monster,’ Lawrence man admits to long-running sexual abuse of girl]( By: Sara Shepherd When police confronted him with a girl’s allegations that he raped and otherwise molested her for years, Dustyn D. Polk responded that he was “a monster,” according to investigators. Polk, 43, of Lawrence, told police that while he ... October 19, 2018 @ 9:40am 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