LAWRENCE, Kan. – 23 year-old Yelekal Alemu, known as “Kal,” has been missing from Lawrence since Saturday.  His friends and family say it’s not like him to not keep in touch, and it’s definitely not in Kal’s nature to blow off important plans.  That has police concerned and looking for clues.

Kal’s roommate and best friend, Senanem Gizaw was quick to call police when Kal’s mother said he’d missed a family reunion Saturday afternoon.

“There was a reason we were friends for a long time, so I don’t know.  Just a good guy.”

Senanem says Kal wouldn’t have missed seeing his family.  Lawrence police say they hear the same thing from everyone who knew him.

“He was very much in touch with friends and family, very reliable, and so they immediately became concerned,” Trent McKinley from the Lawrence Police Department said.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Lawrence police are using K-9 teams to search for a Lawrence man missing since Saturday.  Yelekal “Kal” Alemu, 23,  never made it to a family reunion in Olathe Saturday afternoon.

Police found his car in a remote area of Douglas County southeast of Lawrence.  That’s where police dogs have focused their search but detectives admit they’ve found no new clues.

Alemu graduated from Oalthe South High School and attended the University of Kansas up until December of 2011 but did not graduate. Relatives have been keeping vigil at his parents house in Olathe. His mother issued a plea.

” Please anybody who knows about Kal let us know a little hint,” said  Helen Alemu. I want him to be alive where ever he’s at. I just want to hear that he’s okay, that’s only my goal.”

TOPEKA, Kan. — As FOX 4  News first reported Monday, former Attorney General and Johnson county D.A. Phill Kline filed a motion  Tuesday to have two Kansas Supreme Court justices removed from his appeal to keep his law license. A court spokesman confirmed the filings Tuesday afternoon. They include an appeal brief and the motion for the recusal of justices Carol Beier and Lawton Nuss, the court’s chief justice.

Click here to see Kline’s recusal motion.

Kline’s attorney Tom Condit of Cincinnati said his filing demands justice Carol Beier be removed from hearing Kline’s ethics appeal-citing among other things-a 2008 opinion she authored. Condit says the opinion relied on falsehoods about Kline’s handling of abortion records-and was critical of Kline based on those falsehoods.