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KU basketball star Josh Jackson won’t miss games after misdemeanor property damage charge

Two days after the University of Kansas men’s basketball team won its 13th consecutive conference title, one of the Jayhawks’ star players has been charged with allegedly damaging the car of a women’s basketball player in early December.

Josh Jackson, 20, was charged Friday in Douglas County District Court with one count of criminal damage to property, less than $1,000, which is a Class B non-person misdemeanor that is punishable by up to six months in jail. Jackson later issued a statement in which he said he was sorry and that he had “offered to pay for any damage that I directly caused.