A former day-care provider entered a no-contest plea today to felony child endangerment for an April 2005 incident in which a baby suffered suspicious injuries while in her care. Maryanna Rose Rawlings, former operator of a day care at her home at 1824 North 1100 Road, faces probation under state sentencing guidelines and is due to be sentenced Nov. 28. She was charged last month by Dist. Atty. Charles Branson’s office with allowing the 8-month old girl to be put in a situation “in which the child’s life, body or health could be injured or endangered.”Rawlings’ state day-care license was suspended when the incident came to light and she voluntarily surrendered it in summer 2005 after an administrative hearing.The baby’s mother testified at the administrative hearing last year that when she went to pick up her daughter at Rawlings’ house on April 7, 2005, the girl was motionless, pale and barely breathing.Rawlings told her the baby had passed out, and the mother took her to the hospital.The mother testified that after several days of testing at Children’s Mercy Hospital, doctors told her and her husband that the baby had been “shaken not once but twice” and that it appeared her skull had struck a flat surface, most likely a wall or floor.See past story here.Drug sentencing: A Kansas University student charged with keeping a house full of marijuana plants in an upscale Lawrence neighborhood received a probation sentence this morning in District Court.”I am truly apologetic… I was a different person two years ago,” Steven A. Soby, 23, told a judge before apologizing publicly to his parents. According to state sentencing guidelines, Soby could have received either prison or probation based on his plea to cultivation of marijuana and felony possession of drug paraphernalia. Judge Stephen Six granted him 18 months’ probation.Members of the city-county Drug Enforcement Unit said they began investigating Soby and Nolan H. Smith, 24, after informants said they had knowledge of marijuana growth at 3710 Hartford Ave., a home that backs up onto Alvamar Golf Course.Police alleged that no one lived in the home at the time, but that the two men used it exclusively for an indoor growing operation. Evidence in the case included electricity bills that were three times higher than that of a neighboring home. Smith also entered a plea in the case and is due to be sentenced Nov. 9.Other police reports:Window-peeping: A 25-year-old woman reported to police Thursday that for the past three nights, a prowler had been standing near her apartment building and looking in her windows in the 2000 block of Heatherwood Drive. She told police she last saw him about 12:40 a.m. Thursday when she went outside to smoke and saw the man standing on the sidewalk near her balcony. He ran away when the woman yelled at him, she told police. Officers canvassed the area and reported it to the complex’s security company.Missing-person report: A 27-year-old Lawrence woman has been reported missing, but police say there’s no evidence of foul play and she possibly could be with friends. Christina Dawn Vandegrift’s partner reported her missing early this morning after he came home from work and found she wasn’t there. The couple live in the 200 block of Illinois Street. She is described as a white female, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 140 pounds, with blonde hair and brown eyes. Police ask anyone with information to call 832-7501. Burglaries and thefts:¢ 2500 block of Redbud Lane: A 23-year-old Lawrence man reported being awakened at 4:30 a.m. this morning by noises coming from the front window of his home. He got up and found the living-room window open and an unidentified man looking through it into the living room. The man told officers the suspect fled when he saw him. Police found the window screen removed but didn’t find the screen in the area. ¢ 600 block of Tennessee: A 55-year-old woman reported her 1995 Chevrolet Cavalier stolen between Oct. 18 and Tuesday.¢ 1600 block of West 24th Street: An 18-year-old Kansas University student’s Chevrolet Blazer was burglarized and more than $1,100 worth of stereo equipment was stolen from inside between midnight and 3 p.m. Tuesday.¢ 1500 block of Wimbledon Drive: More than $1,000 worth of tools and stereo equipment was stolen from a vehicle between 2 a.m. Oct. 19 and 10:30 a.m. Oct. 20.-contributed by Eric Weslander. target=”blank