Dog bite case resolved without ‘Judge Judy’

A lawsuit involving a 10-year-old Lawrence girl bitten by a dog didn’t end up going Hollywood, after all.

Last week a judge in Douglas County’s small-claims court ordered dog owner Jeffery Frye to pay Claire Hunt’s family $340.84 for medical bills and a new pair of jeans, plus $31 in court costs. Frye, a local financial adviser, lost the case by default when he failed to appear at a Thursday hearing, according to records.

Claire claimed that Frye’s dog ran after her and bit her on the leg March 24 in the 1000 block of Columbine Court.

The case almost was settled on the TV airwaves instead of in Lawrence. Last month, after a scout for the “Judge Judy” show came to Douglas County and spotted the case, a producer asked Hunt and Frye to settle their dispute on the show.

Frye initially said he was interested, then reconsidered.

ECKAN relocates central, housing offices

The East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corp. is moving its central office and housing office to 1320 S. Ash, Ottawa, on Thursday and Friday.

The Head Start Central Office will move the week of Dec. 20.

The new ECKAN mailing address will be P.O. Box 100, Ottawa, 66067. The phone numbers for all three offices will remain the same.

KU sets final exams

Kansas University has announced the following final examinations:

• Jared Spletstoser, medicinal chemistry, “The Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Paclitaxel Analogs Able to Probe Interactions with Tubulin and P-glycoprotein,” 9 a.m. Thursday, 2049 Malott.
• Nurur Rahman, physics and astronomy, “A New Technique for Measuring Morphological Properties of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies,” 10 a.m. Thursday, 2089 Malott Hall.
• Samuel E. Watson, history of art, “Childhood’s End: Representing the American Child, 1940-1970,” 2 p.m. Jan. 18, 212 Smith.
• Carla Wood Jackson, intercampus program in communicative disorders, “Family Outcomes of Children who are Deaf: Results of a National Survey,” 3 p.m. Jan. 21, 2132 Haworth Hall.