From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 17, 1985:

• Lawrence city commissioners were scheduled to consider whether to have city staff draft a proposed ordinance requiring a three-day waiting period for buying a handgun. Opinion was still split on the commission. Supporters of the regulation were David Longhurst, who had proposed the idea, and Howard Hill, who said that even 72 hours might not be a long enough waiting period. One opponent of the issue was Mayor Mike Amyx, who doubted the regulation would be effective. The two remaining commissioners, Ernest Angino and Sandy Praeger, were still undecided.
• Kansas University’s Deanell Tacha had been confirmed by the U. S. Senate for a lifetime appointment as a federal judge. KU administrators immediately began the process of hiring a new vice chancellor for academic affairs.
• Fred W. Phelps Sr. and three other lawyers in his family had been ordered by three federal judges to answer a complaint lodged by Kansas’ federal judges. The complaint accused the Topeka family of making false and reckless allegations against the court as part of a “vicious pattern of intimidation.”