LJWorld.com Headlines for July 12, 2019

ang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns=" xmlns:cctd="> [After talks break down, city and firefighters union cancel planned meetings until mediator takes over]( Negotiations between the City of Lawrence and the local firefighters union have come to a halt until a mediator takes over the proceedings next week. A local resolution governing contract negotiations states that the negotiations are ... Checkers [After talks break down, city and firefighters union cancel planned meetings until mediator takes over]( By: Dylan Lysen Negotiations between the City of Lawrence and the local firefighters union have come to a halt until a mediator takes over the proceedings next week. A local resolution governing contract negotiations states that the negotiations are ... July 11, 2019 @ 4:04pm [Prosecutors want teens tried as adults in Holcom Park double shooting case]( By: Sara Shepherd Prosecutors are now asking for two teens charged in a double shooting case to be tried as adults instead of juveniles. Motions to authorize their prosecutions as adults were filed Wednesday in the cases of Benson J. Edwards Jr., 17, and ... July 11, 2019 @ 3:58pm [KCMO man convicted in Lawrence Motel 6 murder case after plea to lesser crime]( By: Sara Shepherd Shawn K. Smith — charged with first-degree felony murder from a man’s death in a 2017 hotel room shootout — was going to get a second trial this fall. Instead, Smith entered a plea and was convicted of a less severe crime Thursday in ... July 11, 2019 @ 3:43pm [Lawrence police blotter for July 11]( By: Staff Report 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. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes ... July 11, 2019 @ 3:15pm [Go, See, Do: Friends of the Library book sale, keyboardist Mike Finnigan and more]( By: Kathy Hanks Shoppers can browse a selection of tens of thousands of books, CDs and DVDs this weekend at the Friends of the Lawrence Public Library's Summer Book Sale. “We estimate over 64,000 books are on our shelves inside," said Angela R. Hyde, ... July 11, 2019 @ 4:19pm [GOP threat ends Kansas governor's food assistance extension]( By: John Hanna, Associated Press Story updated at 2:56 p.m. Thursday TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday dropped a policy that allowed several thousand Kansas adults to keep receiving food assistance after failing to meet a work requirement, reversing course ... July 11, 2019 @ 11:29am [Lawrence private school begins $5.4 million expansion along Clinton Parkway]( By: Chad Lawhorn When I was in school, I always was nervous to have class in one of those portable trailers. Too many of my teachers had a pickup truck with a hitch. The students at Bishop Seabury may not have the same anxiety, but, regardless, they soon won’t ... July 11, 2019 @ 10:14am [Sixth Street reopened after gas leak west of downtown]( By: Sara Shepherd Story updated: 9:42 a.m. Thursday. Sixth Street has reopened after being shut down because of a gas leak in a construction area Thursday morning. The street was reopened about 9:40 a.m., Lawrence Police Department spokesman Patrick Compton ... July 11, 2019 @ 9:21am 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