State regulators are seeking to close two of the city’s largest liquor stores and impose fines of nearly $120,000 against their owners.

Investigators with the state’s division of Alcoholic Beverage Control have filed 13 separate charges against the owners of Lawrence’s two Cork & Barrel liquor stores, located at 901 Mississippi Street and 2000 W. 23rd Street.

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The charges allege, in part, that the owners, Dan Blomgren and his wife, Jill, illegally owned a third west Lawrence liquor store.

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