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State heading for record corn crop
By Mike Belt
August 26, 2008
Kent Nunemaker launched his corn harvest this week by cutting a 40-acre field northeast of Lawrence. He was pleased with the results. “The corn looks pretty good this year,” he said on Thursday. “It’s a little above average.”
Mediocre wheat crop
By Mike Belt
July 30, 2008
The wheat harvest is over in the Douglas County area, and the results were unimpressive at best, farmers and agriculture experts said. “It wasn’t that great,” said Bill Wood, agricultural agent for K-State Research & Extension in Douglas County.
County approves of 2.9-mill increase
By Mike Belt
July 17, 2008

After some last-minute finagling, Douglas County commissioners Wednesday night unanimously agreed to a 2.92 mill levy increase to support its 2009 budget.

In “miserable” budget discussion, county arrives at 3.4 mill increase; decision not final
By Mike Belt
July 14, 2008

Douglas County commissioners crunched their own budget numbers Monday morning and came up with a mill levy increase of 3.4 mills.

Defense says hit-and-run case should be dismissed based on double jeopardy
By Mike Belt
July 11, 2008

Charges that a woman killed two highway workers in a hit-and-run incident last year should be dismissed because of violations of double jeopardy clauses, according to a motion filed recently in Douglas County District Court.

One of two murder charges dropped in shooting of Baker student
By Mike Belt
July 2, 2008
One of two felony murder charges was dropped today against a Lawrence teenager charged in last month’s shooting at a house in the 1300 block of Delaware.
Battling childhood cancer in Washington, D.C.
By Mike Belt
June 25, 2008

While her young son fights what appears to be a winning battle against cancer, Kara Cunningham is taking action in another direction: Washington, D.C.

County voters can register online
By Mike Belt
June 19, 2008
Douglas County is making it easier to register to vote. No longer do you have to mail or personally drop off a registration form at the county clerk’s office. You can do it by fax or by sending a document file by e-mail.
Prosecutors want to try juvenile suspect in Lawrence shooting as adult
By Mike Belt
June 13, 2008

Douglas County prosecutors are seeking to have a 16-year-old boy tried as an adult in the shooting deaths of two men last weekend in east Lawrence.

Homicide suspect’s trial is scheduled for June 23
By Mike Belt
June 12, 2008
A trial in juvenile court has been set for later this month for a Lawrence teenager charged with two counts of murder, crimes his mother and a neighbor say the boy didn’t commit.

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