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First time open for this lovely Quail Run 2 story with wooded lot on cul-de-sac. View this great family home with 4 bedrooms plus an office/living room, 4 bathrooms, 3 car garage, and walkout basement. Included are lovely trim details, a large master suite, updated kitchenhearth room, screened porch and new roof. MLS 135293
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DER shooting at Fort Hood near Hometown Lawrence Killeen, Texas. Her injuries included a bullet graze On Oct. 14, just three to her head and a bullet days before giving birth lodged to in her back. She her second son, wounded had been scheduled for veteran Keara Torkelson deployment to Iraq at the and her husband, Joe, time of the shooting. Due received the key to their to complications caused mortgage-free home in by her injuries, she is now Baldwin City. The home medically retired from the was awarded to them Army. Keara is originally through the national from the Kansas City area, non-profit Operation but she, Joe, and their 4 Homefront, which From left, Realtor Bill year-old-son had been Bowers Torkelson, Amanda Shaunessyfrom Re/Max Excel in Lawrence, Joe partnered with Wells Fargo living in Minnesota. Army veteran Keara Torkelson of Operation Homefront and wounded Bank in Baldwin City are shown at the Baldwin Torkelsons recently received to from Operation Homefront. City home the “This house allows us donate the home. to be a lot closer to Keara’s is great organization Keara is a former a national non-profit that family, and allows our for veterans looking for Army reservist who was provides emergency and family to expand,� said support.� wounded in the 2009 mass Joe. “Operatio other financial assistanc n Homefront e Operation Homefront is to the families of service
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Beautiful one owner home on corner lot. Two living areas on main level. Open kitchen with lots of storage space and great space for entertaining. Formal dining area. All bedrooms conveniently located on the second level. Unfinished basement ready for your finishing touches. Move in ready! MLS 134770
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Cracking concrete eyed at rec center 4504 Winged Foot Ct
First time open for this lovely Quail Run 2 story with wooded on cul-de-sac. View this great lot family home with 4 bedroom s plus an office/living room, 4 bathroo ms, 3 car garage, and walkout basement. Included are lovely trim details, a large master suite, updated hearth room, screened porch kitchenand new roof. MLS 135293
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Beautiful one owner home on corner lot. Two living areas on main level. Open kitchen with lots of storage space and great space for entertaining. Formal dining area. All bedrooms conveni ently located on the second level. Unfinish ed basement ready for your finishing touches. Move in ready! MLS 134770
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ONE OF THE CRACKS IN CONCRETE at the newly constructed Sports Pavilion Lawrence is shown next to a dime, for scale.
wants to ensure the cracks don’t widen, or that concrete doesn’t begin to chip off along the edges of the cracks. He said in addition to being unsightly, such problems could create tripping hazards in the highly traveled area of the building. The Journal-World was alerted of the cracks by a frequent user of the facility, Please see CRACKING, page 2A
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Democrats point fingers in wake of big defeat
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Criticism has centered on failure to turn out voters in rural counties, minority groups By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
Topeka — In the wake of crushing losses in Tuesday’s general election, Kansas Democrats have begun the painful process of trying to figure out what went wrong, and some are pointing the blame at top leaders in the state party and major campaign organizations. The rift between some factions within the Democratic Party came into full view Thursday in a blog post on the liberal website The Daily Kos under the headline, “How the Kansas Democratic Party Drove Itself to Near Extinction (Pt 1).�
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IT WAS A CHILLY MORNING AT THE MIDLAND CO-OP north of Lawrence on Thursday as Jake Richardson, who works for the Ottawa Cooperative, watches a load of soybeans being loaded for shipment to Topeka. Current Kansas soybean harvest projections — 140 million bushels — put the state on a near-record pace.
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After 67 years, Francis Sporting Goods closing Town Talk
JON FRANCIS, RIGHT, and his father, George, have carried on the family business of Francis Sporting Goods, 731 Massachusetts St., across the street from its original location shown in the black-andwhite photo. Now plans call for the longtime downtown Lawrence store to close by the end of the year.
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t has been well established that there is no crying in baseball. But there may be a few moist eyes in coming weeks inside a Lawrence institution that has sold many a bat, glove, ball and other athletic items to area residents. Francis Sporting Goods is closing its downtown store after 67 years in business. The company is not going entirely out of business. Owner Jon Francis told me the company now will solely focus on its
team business, which sells uniforms and equipment to everybody from youth baseball teams to college football programs. “The retail store has been a big part of our lives, but for us to succeed, we have to choose a business that is
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Douglas County District Judge Sally Pokorny ruled Thursday that a redacted version of a previously sealed probable cause affidavit should be released to the public. Last month, Pokorny sealed the document that justified Carlton M. Grass’ September arrest on suspicion of rape after both the prosecution and defense agreed the affidavit should be withheld from the public. The attorneys had argued Journal-World File Photo that potential witnesses Grass could be affected by seeing the end of the year. The his- detailed testimony from others and that Grass’ right to a fair trial could be at stake. toric building that houses Grass is charged with one count of rape the store will continue to in connection with an alleged incident in be owned by the Francis family, but Francis said the downtown Lawrence on June 15. On July 1, a new law went into effect that store will move out of the presumes that an arrest warrant is a public space and a new tenant Please see FRANCIS, page 2A
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best for us,� said Francis, who followed his father and grandfather into the business. “That is our team business. That is where we make our money.� Francis said plans call for the store at 731 Massachusetts St. to close by
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