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• Paging Warren Wilhoite…

Someone found your Big Eight Championship ring, so says the Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union. It was in the middle of the road in Jacksonville near a hospital on April 1.

A kind Samaritan named Katie Dompe found it on West Eighth Street and she’s looking for the owner.

She’s traced it back to you, Warren Wilhoite. Your name is on it, after all. And she knows all about your Big Eight championships in track and field and the NCAA records you set in 1982 and 1983.

She thinks you might live in North Jacksonville, but it’s a little hard to say, because no one’s picking up the phone at the place where you live.

“His name is in there [in the record books] from 1982 and 1983, winning a long jump, so this guy worked hard for this ring and I can’t imagine putting it away,” Dompe told the newspaper. “Someone wants this ring.”

She doesn’t know who the owner might be, but she figures you probably might have some idea. So if you’re out there, give the Jacksonville Union-Tribune a call. Dan Scanlan wrote the story, so he probably can put you in touch with Katie. He’s at 904-359-4549 or dan.scanlan@jacksonville.com.

UPDATE: Warren has indeed been found after the Jacksonville paper shared its article with the Topeka Capital-Journal (both papers are owned by Morris Communications). A Topeka firefighter was able to track him down, and he was able to recover his stolen ring.

Here’s the updated story.

Glad he was found, and thanks to alert readers and tipsters for pointing me to the new story. They remind me every day that you don’t need a journalism degree to know what’s going on.

• It’s tax time, and if you’re anything like me, you haven’t sent in your taxes yet. Mine are done — just not sent.

But if you’re stressing about the whole thing, Legal Services for Students is providing free workshops for students. You can get the specific times and places here, but they’ll be going on all week.

In addition to students on the Lawrence campus, the tax attorneys and interns also help international students, faculty and staff with their returns.

Free appointments with tax attorneys are also available for students if you can’t make a workshop.

It’s worth reminding students about Legal Services for Students in the first place — it’s a good resource to go for free legal services for all students who have paid the fee for the service (which is pretty much anyone enrolled in any class at KU).

They offer free legal advice for students, and will even provide some representation for non-felony cases.

And it’s not just for people in bigger legal trouble. They do a lot of speeding tickets and landlord-tenant disputes. So if you’re a student and need some legal advice, look them up on the third floor of the Burge Union.

• Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is coming to the law school soon to deliver a public lecture.

You can catch him at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in 104 Green Hall. The speech is sponsored by the law school’s student chapter of the Federalist Society.

Schmidt took office in January after serving 10 years as a Kansas state senator.

He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from KU, and is a student as well — pursuing a doctor of juridicial science degree from KU law.

He earned his law degree from Georgetown University.

• People who have bachelor’s degrees in journalism from KU are some of the smartest, most awesome people you’ll ever meet. And I’m not just saying that because I have one. Well, OK. Maybe I am. Keep sending your tips for Heard on the Hill to ahyland@ljworld.com.