Police investigating death of infant girl

A 2-month-old baby girl died Sunday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after police and emergency medical crews found her in full respiratory arrest, Lawrence Police said.

The cause of death for the girl, identified as Bailey Marie King, born April 27, will have to be determined by the Douglas County coroner, police said. There were no obvious signs of foul play, according to a police news release.

At 7:30 a.m. police responded to a medical emergency involving a baby not breathing in the 1200 block of George Court. An ambulance took the girl to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.

No other information was available late Sunday.

Business

Lawrence executive joins Kansas Inc. board

Topeka — A Lawrence businesswoman has been named to the Kansas Inc. board of directors by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

Donna Johnson, president of Pinnacle Technology Inc., a product development company, will serve a four-year term on the board, which conducts strategic planning for the state.

Johnson also serves as president of the Kansas Energy Education Foundation and is a member of the Kansas Renewable Energy Working Group.

Others named to Kansas Inc. are Gene Argo, of Hays; Stanley Ahlerich, of Winfield; Patti Bossert, of Topeka; and Wil Leiker, of Topeka.

Automotive

Lawrence’s Great Race car still running strong

Despite windshield damage from a rock, a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air driven by Lawrence high school students in a cross-country race continued to run well Sunday.

The car, shown above during a June 17 pit stop in Lawrence, was in second place as it headed toward Breckenridge, Colo., where it was to stop for the night, said Dave Tenpenny, auto mechanics instructor at Lawrence High School. A team of students from LHS and Free State High School entered the car in the Great Race X Cup Division. The race began a week ago in Jacksonville, Fla. It ends Saturday in Monterey, Calif.

Friday, as the car neared Hays, a rock kicked up by a tractor-trailer caused a silver-dollar-size nick in the front windshield. But the car was running well Sunday in the high Colorado mountain altitudes, Tenpenny said, even though some teams opted to haul their cars by trailer. Teams have a total of four days they can use during the race for towing or hauling purposes, he said.

Elections

Town-hall meeting to look at voting act

A meeting this week will take a look at how a federal elections law is affecting the voting process locally.

The League of Women Voters of Lawrence-Douglas County is sponsoring a town-hall meeting on the Help America Vote Act of 2002. The meeting is at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium of the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt.

Marni Penrod, Douglas County deputy clerk for elections, will discuss how the act and election standards subsequently adopted by the state of Kansas will affect elections in Douglas County.