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Kansas City, Kan. (ap) — A second lab has confirmed that a Kansas City, Kan., man who came to Kansas University Hospital this week with Ebolalike symptoms does not have the deadly disease. The hospital announced Wednesday that the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta had confirmed negative results from a Nebraska lab, and that the patient had been moved to lower-level isolation. Dr. Lee Norman said Monday the man was a medic on a commercial ship off Africa’s west coast and had treated patients for all kinds of illnesses, including typhoid fever. The man became ill while on the ship and flew back to Kansas last week. He was placed in tight isolation at the Kansas City hospital because he had been working in an area where Ebola had broken out. l Another Ebola case
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Chancellor: Halting sexual violence is a top priority
The final debate
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INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE GREG ORMAN, LEFT, shakes hands with Sen. Pat Roberts, following their debate Wednesday in Wichita.
Orman, Roberts square off; polls suggest tightening race By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
Republican Sen. Pat Roberts and independent challenger Greg Orman used their final debate of the campaign Wednesday night to launch fresh attacks on each other before
a live television auvance balloting dience while making got underway in what may be their county courthouses last direct appeals and other locations to voters before the throughout Kansas. Nov. 4 general elecRoberts contintion. ued to paint Orman as a The debate at the Wich- “liberal Democrat” for his ita studio of KSN-TV came Please see DEBATE, page 2A on the same day that ad-
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Topeka — Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little told the Kansas Board of Regents Wednesday that the university is improving its handling of sexual assault complaints and working to prevent sexual assaults from happening in the first place. “The really critical thing we need to do is to decrease the occurrence and to change the culture of the campus in a way that makes this a less likely thing to happen,” Gray-Little said. KU is one of three universities in Kansas, along Gray-Little with Kansas State University and Washburn University, that are currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights for their handling of sexual assault complaints. They are among 85 universities nationwide currently under investigation, according to the Office of Civil Rights. In response to concerns raised by students, Gray-Little noted that KU has established a Please see REGENTS, page 2A
Town Talk Sam’s Club interested in building Lawrence store
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Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
know we’re all busy wearing 1985 sports memorabilia, urging our mullets to return, and watching baseball on a 25inch Zenith TV to recreate the environment of the last time the Kansas City Royals went to that big event that rhymes with Hurled Theories. (No true Royals fan should yet utter its
been told that the development group that is proposing a major new retail area southeast of the Iowa Street and South Lawrence Trafficway interchange has told city officials that Sam’s Club has expressed a very serious interest in locating at the proposed shopping center. Now, take that for whatever
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real name for fear of a jinx.) But perhaps we all can take a brief break for a juicy piece of speculation: Sam’s Club is interested in building a store in Lawrence. Talk of Sam’s Club — the wholesale shopping club run by Wal-Mart — certainly has been the quiet talk in certain real estate circles around town. I’ve
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you think it is worth. The point man for the North Carolinabased development group hasn’t yet talked to me about Sam’s Club. But I’m confident information about Sam’s Club’s interest has been relayed to city officials. — This is an excerpt from Chad Lawhorn’s Town Talk column, which appears each weekday at LJWorld.com.
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