Also from August 30
Audio clips
Births
Couples
- Engagement: Coffman and Curtis
- Engagement: Chapin and Van Zant
- Engagement: Henry and Cline
- Engagement: Garcia
- Engagement: Palmberg and Hansen
- Engagement: Gordon and Buchanan
- Engagement: Harvey and Gunn
- Wedding: McQueeney
- Wedding: Pearson
- Anniversary: Smith
- Anniversary: Griffin
- Anniversary: Culbertson
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
Polls
Who is KU's first-half MVP against FIU?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Todd Reesing | 40% | |
| Dezmon Briscoe | 25% | |
| Daymond Patterson | 20% | |
| Kerry Meier | 15% | |
| Other | 0% | |
| Alonso Rojas | 0% | |
| Jocques Crawford | 0% | |
| Total | 20 | |
Who will score KU's first points against FIU on Saturday?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Jake Sharp | 40% | |
| Kerry Meier | 18% | |
| Jocques Crawford | 11% | |
| Dezmon Briscoe | 9% | |
| Todd Reesing | 6% | |
| Defensive TD | 4% | |
| Dexton Fields | 4% | |
| Grady Fowler | 2% | |
| Other | 2% | |
| Alonso Rojas | 0% | |
| Total | 44 | |
Videos
All stories
- KU basketball defeats Carleton, 84-83
- August 30, 2008
- The Kansas men’s basketball beat Carleton, 84-83, on Saturday night in Ottawa, Canada.
- Baldwin City railfest offers vintage train rides
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- The Midland Railway Railfest 2008 began Saturday in Baldwin City. The main attraction is the train rides throughout the Labor Day weekend, which will leave at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday and Monday from the Midland Depot in western Baldwin City.
- Lawrence police tase and arrest 54-year-old Lawrence man downtown
- August 30, 2008
- Lawrence police tased a 54-year-old Lawrence man in the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street Saturday afternoon after he refused arrest.
- KU basketball defeats McGill, 72-67
- Jayhawks win exhibition opener in Canada
- 11:02 a.m., August 30, 2008 Updated 12:20 p.m.
- The Kansas men’s basketball team recovered from a slow start to take a 72-67 victory over McGill University at Montpetit Hall in Ottawa, Canada.
- Briscoe’s 3 TDs lead KU to 40-10 victory over FIU
- The Newell Post
- 10:09 a.m., August 30, 2008 Updated 02:16 a.m.
- Jayhawks open season with blowout win.
- Longhorns counting on freshmen on defense
- August 30, 2008
- The Texas Longhorns revealed their first depth chart for the season with a few new faces and a bit of anxiety about their pass defense.
- McCain’s VP choice seen as a gamble
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A1
- Win or lose, Sen. John McCain threw the long ball Friday when he stunned the nation by picking Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. His choice of a young, largely unknown woman from as far outside Washington shakes up the presidential campaign and has the potential either to help him win the White House or to doom his chances.
- Old Home Town - 40 years ago
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- Juvenile Court Judge Charles Rankin urged the City Commission to approve the proposed curfew law “as soon as possible.”
- Sprint to the finish
- LHS wins 3-2, double-overtime thriller to open season
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C1
- The Lawrence High boys soccer team played a season’s worth of soccer in its opener Friday night. If the season goes anything like this, it’s going to be one heck of a ride. From actual time - 95 minutes - to the range of emotions the Lions’ experienced - elation, anger, frustration, fatigue - LHS left the field at Youth Sports Inc. with a 3-2, double-overtime victory over Manhattan High and the sense that it was all worth it.
- Coach changing FIU’s ‘culture’
- August 30, 2008
- The first things to go, the new coach with the funny name told them, were the cell phones and the iPods. Hats and pants that sagged halfway down butts? Those were history, too. Players, this new coach said, would sit in the first three rows of class. They would not slouch. They would ask questions. Oh, and if a practice began at 5 a.m., that was simply an easier way of saying that it started at 4:45 a.m.
- Report on absenteeism infuriates federal workers
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has been checking up on the attendance records of federal employees. And he doesn’t like what he’s found.
- Bears’ Tillman reveals daughter’s illness
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C6
- Bears cornerback Charles “Peanut” Tillman recalled handing coach Lovie Smith a slip of paper with a doctor’s excuse for missing offseason workouts.
- Horoscopes
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on D7
- This year, you could decide to venture in a new direction in some segment of your life. Wherever you so choose, you get a new beginning. If you are single, you are a magnet for the opposite sex this year. If you are attached, curb a tendency to be too me-oriented.
- Weatherwax remembered as great friend, musician
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B3
- With a genuine smile and zest for life, John T. Weatherwax made people from “all walks of life” feel comfortable, his family and friends said. Whether people met him while he was serving as city commissioner or mayor in the 1950s and ‘60s, as an accountant or when he was singing or playing his trombone in the Lawrence City Band at South Park or with his Junk Yard Jazz band at the American Legion, it was evident he was a special person.
- Slowdown begins to show in state
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B4
- Labor Secretary Jim Garner said Friday that the Kansas economy is starting to show the effects of rising energy prices and trouble in the credit markets.
- Presidential favorite under guard
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Pakistan’s presidential front-runner has moved into a tightly guarded government compound over security fears, officials said as a militant campaign against the government led to more violence in the country’s volatile northwest.
- Report: Chiefs pick Novak
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C6
- A Kansas City Chiefs spokesman declined comment on a report Friday that the team has picked Nick Novak over Connor Barth as the winner in a months-long battle for place kicker.
- Commentary: What’s next, LPGA? Weight limits?
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C2
- Beginning in 2010, you learn to speak English or you can’t play on the Ladies Professional Golf Tour. Obviously a fence was too expensive.
- Incomes fall by largest amount in 3 years
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A4
- Personal incomes plunged in July while consumer spending slowed significantly as the impact of billions of dollars in government rebate checks began to wane.
- OSU receiver Woods back from scary injury
- August 30, 2008
- Artrell Woods was in the Oklahoma State weight room when his life came crashing down.
- On the record
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B2
- Lawrence police and Lawrence Douglas-County Fire & Medical responded to a call Friday evening about a death in the 100 block of East 17th Terrace.
- Son of former U.S. senator dies
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B2
- A son of former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a Kansas Republican, has died.
- Michelle Obama blends tradition, progress
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- In almost any other setting, Michelle Obama would represent the epitome of an accomplished woman from a traditional, hard-working, humble American family. Neither of her parents went to college - but they made sure she and her brother had the confidence and preparation to go.
- Protests call for PM to resign
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A4
- Thai police fired tear gas at thousands of right-wing protesters besieging their headquarters Friday, while demonstrators outside the capital disrupted air and rail service in a growing campaign to unseat the prime minister.
- Airliners just evade collision
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A4
- Two airliners were one minute from colliding when at least one of the planes turned away from the other over the Atlantic Ocean this week, federal authorities said Friday.
- Pelini’s goal to erase sour 2007 memory
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C8
- Those fans who chanted “We Want Bo” after Nebraska’s 2003 Alamo Bowl victory have waited five long years for this. The Bo Pelini era at Nebraska begins tonight when Western Michigan visits.
- Georgia to cut Moscow ties
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A5
- Georgia severed diplomatic ties with Moscow on Friday to protest the presence of Russian troops on its territory. Russia said the move would only make things worse.
- Two-wheeled parking on game day has free options
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B5
- Free bus shuttles aren’t the only way to avoid parking fees in campus lots leading up to today’s season-opening Kansas University football game at Memorial Stadium.
- Human aid builds safer world
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B7
- Russia’s invasion of Georgia has led to a more serious foreign policy discussion in the presidential campaign. As tensions rise in the Caucasus and violence once again erupts in Afghanistan, we should recall the lessons we learned from our response to earlier Russian adventurism.
- Self to value progress over results
- Jayhawks won’t have set lineup in exhibition trip to Canada
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C1
- A fierce competitor, Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self would rather win than lose three exhibition games in Canada this Labor Day weekend. Yet the Jayhawks’ sixth-year coach realizes the scores of today’s twinbill against McGill University (10 a.m., Central time, Montpetit Hall) and Carleton University (6 p.m., Scotiabank Place) and Sunday’s game against the University of Ottawa (6 p.m., Montpetit Hall) mean zip, zero, nada, nothing in the big scheme of things.
- Precious Doe trial guidelines are set
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B8
- Prosecutors announced Friday that they won’t seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a 3-year-old girl once known only as “Precious Doe” and that the case will be heard by a Jackson County jury.
- Open upsets keep coming
- Ex-champion Kuznetsova stumbles
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C2
- Former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova became the last upset victim at the U.S. Open, beaten by 28th-ranked Katarina Srebotnik, 6-3, 6-7 (1), 6-3, in the third round Friday.
- Simons: Democratic Convention tough act for GOP to follow
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- One U.S. presidential nomination convention is over, and the other gathering is about to begin. Democrats wrapped up their show in Denver on Thursday night with a tremendous and powerful display. Their nominee, Barack Obama, is an eloquent and effective speaker and delivered an extremely well-crafted speech.
- ‘Slow Food’ movement accelerates within US
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- A lush, under-the-stars spread of bread, olives and wine makes an unlikely launch for a weekend dedicated to ending hunger, empowering poor nations and transforming farming as we know it.
- Jury convicts mom in microwaved-baby case
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- A mother was convicted Friday in Dayton of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven, with jurors rejecting a defense attorney’s claims there was evidence that someone else was responsible.
- People in the news
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on D7
- ¢ Jennifer Aniston to return to NBC¢ Usher’s performance to kick off NFL season¢ Michael Jackson at 50: The best ‘yet to come’¢ Diddy halts private jet flights over fuel prices
- Origin of bodies in exhibit questioned
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B5
- An anatomical donation form that was presented as having been signed by people whose bodies have been featured in an exhibit here was not authentic, according to officials with Union Station, where the “Bodies Revealed” show has been for months.
- Royals slide continues at Detroit
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C1
- The Detroit Tigers needed only one inning to end their four-game losing streak.
- Kansas vs. FIU: Head to head
- August 30, 2008
- Today, fans will get their first look at junior transfer Jocques Crawford, who rushed for over 1,900 yards at Cisco Junior College last year on the way to earning national junior college offensive player of the year honors. In last year’s meeting with FIU, three Kansas players rushed for 40 yards or more against the Golden Panthers, who struggled to stop the run throughout the season.
- Military news
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on D3
- Source: Petraeus mulls Iraq drawdown
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, has given his military superiors and Defense Secretary Robert Gates his initial recommendation on when to resume a U.S. troop withdrawal and at what pace, a senior military officer close to the process said Friday.
- Off on the right foot
- KU counting on freshman WR/returner
- August 30, 2008
- A few weeks back, during the Kansas University football team’s annual media day, Daymond Patterson was not sure what his immediate future would entail. A true freshman competing in his first college training camp, Patterson was in the process of making the sometimes-smooth, sometimes-bumpy transition from high school to Div. I football, and despite whispers that he stood the best chance to forgo a red-shirt season, he stopped short of saying he’d prefer to play right away.
- Second callings: Lawrence pastors leave business world for ministry
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on D1
- When Ted Mosher finally told his secret to his wife, Kim, she didn’t bat an eye. Instead, she squared up and told him point-blank: “I think you may have a brain tumor.” Kim Mosher had every reason to believe her husband wasn’t right in the head. He told her that he wanted to leave his lucrative job in the medical malpractice insurance industry for, of all things, the ministry.
- Gary Bedore’s KU basketball notebook
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C3
- Kansas University’s basketball players and coaches were greeted by about 50 Jayhawk fans upon entering the lobby of the downtown Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel at 8:30 p.m., Friday, in Ottawa, Ontario.
- American League Roundup: Matsuzaka checks Chisox
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C4
- Daisuke Matsuzaka allowed two hits in eight innings, Dustin Pedroia had four hits and Jason Bay drove in three runs to help Boston beat Chicago.
- National League Roundup: Cubs stretch win streak to seven
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C4
- Alfonso Soriano hit a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning, and Chicago beat Philadelphia for its seventh straight victory. Soriano’s first homer in 15 days and 23rd of the season came off Clay Condrey (3-4).
- Sherman generating buzz again at A&M
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C8
- The Mike Sherman era at Texas A&M begins against the same opponent that the last coach faced in his first game.
- Scouting the KU opponents: Carleton a Canadian power
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C3
- Here are some tidbits on Kansas University’s Labor Day weekend exhibition basketball opponents: McGill University of Montreal, Carleton University of Ottawa as well as the University of Ottawa:
- Aid agencies prepare to start work again
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- Power-sharing talks over a unity government resumed Friday as President Robert Mugabe’s government made good on a promise to allow aid agencies to resume operations in economically shattered Zimbabwe.
- New Orleans readies for Gustav
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- Police with bullhorns plan to go street to street this weekend with a tough message about getting out ahead of Hurricane Gustav: This time there will be no shelter of last resort. The doors to the Superdome will be locked. Those who stay will be on their own.
- Undercurrent
- Will an “effect” from the 1982 California governor’s race be a significant factor in the Barack Obama bid for the presidency?
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- Democrats’ spirits are high as they view a presidential election that could put the Barack Obama-Joe Biden ticket in the victory column in November. However, after a stirring national convention in Denver and apparent moves toward more unity for the Democrats, there still are countless other factors to contend with if McCain is to be beaten.
- Keegan: Still no respect for KU
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- The best measure of the respect level a nation of college football fans has for any given school can be found in Las Vegas, where oddsmakers offer action on all sorts of propositions. Only one conclusion can be reached based on a number offered in one revealing proposition and that is that America still doesn’t respect Kansas University football. America still thinks Kansas is a basketball school coming off a fluke of a 12-1 football season.
- FCE news
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on D3
- Appellate court rejects case against liquor store owners
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B4
- The Kansas Court of Appeals said on Friday that it could not rule in cases involving two Lawrence liquor store owners’ licenses. The appeals court said Dan and Jill Blomgren haven’t exhausted their options with the Kansas Department of Revenue.
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- From the Lawrence Daily World of Aug. 30, 1908: “Lawrence truly is in the midst of a building boom, with several hundreds of thousands of dollars involved in local projects.
- Analysis: Alaska governor excels in beating expectations
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A7
- She’s a former beauty queen, a fierce competitor known as “Sarah Barracuda,” a political insider-turned-outsider and the first female governor of Alaska. Now 44-year-old Sarah Palin, a mother of five who gave birth to her last child in April, could be a heartbeat away from the presidency, should her 72-year-old running mate win in November.
- Edwards to emerge for September speech
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- In a return to the public stage, John Edwards has confirmed plans to talk politics a month after admitting to an extramarital affair. But his wife won’t be at his side.
- State utilities, FEMA at disagreement
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B3
- A group of electric utilities in Kansas has so far been unable to resolve differences with the Federal Emergency Management Agency over how to proceed with repairs to facilities damaged in December’s ice storm.
- Grieving Hillary backers must regroup
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- I didn’t make it to Denver. A death in the family kept me close to home where words like healing, closure, catharsis - those theme songs of the convention - took on a whole different meaning.
- Charges return missing girl’s mom to jail
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Investigators took Casey Anthony - the mother of missing 3-year-old Caylee Marie - back into custody Friday night as people gathered outside her home jeered, calling her a murderer and baby killer.
- Report: NASA may extend shuttle to 2015
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- NASA’s staff will study whether the space shuttle program could continue operating past its scheduled retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail sent this week.
- Club news
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on D5
- Knicks trade for Ewing
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C2
- The New York Knicks acquired Patrick Ewing Jr. in a trade with the Houston Rockets on Friday.
- Tribe asks judge to stop Harrah’s casino in Kansas
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B5
- A judge was told Friday that blocking Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. from going forward with plans to build and manage a state-owned casino in Sumner County could doom the project.
- ECM to take ownership of ministry’s building
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on D1
- Soon, Ecumenical Christian Ministries can truly call its building home.
- State primary results certified
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B8
- The results of the primary earlier this month became final and official Friday, showing that turnout was higher than expected.
- Ex-Marine’s acquittal sparks debate over law
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A5
- Some members of the civilian jury that acquitted a former Marine accused of war crimes in Iraq say they weren’t qualified to judge actions in combat, and military and legal experts said the case raises serious questions about whether federal prosecutors should even pursue such cases.
- KU volleyball drops season opener to VCU
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C3
- The Kansas University volleyball team was swept in its season opener against Virginia Commonwealth, 3-0, on Friday night.
- Faith Forum: What is atonement theology?
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on D1
- After the fall of Adam, atonement was instituted by God to reconcile man’s fellowship with him. This was accomplished by the shedding of blood to “cover” or atone for sin - “: for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul” (Leviticus 17:11).
- ‘Grace’ puts spin on Cinderella tale
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on D7
- The 2008 cable romance “For the Love of Grace” (8 p.m. today, Hallmark) puts a reverse spin on the old and moldy Cinderella formula. In this case, a strong woman needs to be rescued from herself.
- Pump patrol
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $3.52 at several locations.
- Banker-turned-teacher wins Lawrence Horizon Award
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Four hundred boisterous children cheered on Prairie Park School second-grade teacher Amanda Vail as she was presented with the Lawrence Horizon Award on Friday. The award honors second-year teachers for exemplary work and dedication. Superintendent Randy Weseman presented the award to Vail and praised her work at Prairie Park.
- 3 KU grads ranked as most powerful women
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Three Kansas University graduates are among the top 100 most powerful women in the world, according to Forbes magazine.
- NFL Preseason Roundup: Broncos’ backups triumph
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C6
- Third-string quarterback Darrell Hackney threw for 208 yards, including an 87-yard touchdown to Keary Colbert, and Denver beat Arizona on Friday night’s in the preseason finale for both teams.
- Football’s return puts superstitions back in play
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A1
- You stick with what works. A year after Kansas University’s football team vaulted to its most successful season in decades - with 12 wins and its first Orange Bowl title - Jayhawk fans vow to continue using the lucky rituals and charms they picked up last year.
- Gas cards help boost attendance at churches
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on D8
- Carol Umsted got more than the word of God during services this summer at the Congregational United Church of Christ of Valley City.
- Punk rocker goes on trial in Cuba, charged with ‘social dangerousness’
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Cuban punk rocker Gorki Aguila is irreverent, vulgar - and bolder than any other performance artist in modern Cuban history.
- Machinists’ union leaders call for Boeing strike
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on B4
- Leaders of Boeing Co.’s Machinists union called Friday for a strike after rejecting the aerospace giant’s “best and final” contract offer. They urged union members to reject the offer in a vote set for Wednesday.
- Bosnian Serb leader refuses to enter UN tribunal plea
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on A8
- Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic made a defiant stand before a U.N. court preparing to try him on genocide charges, refusing to enter pleas Friday and branding the tribunal a NATO proxy out to “liquidate” him.
- Around and about
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on D5
- MU’s Maclin, Daniel develop into dynamic duo
- August 30, 2008
- This time last year, Jeremy Maclin was a backup wide receiver at Missouri. Highly touted, definitely, but still a red-shirt freshman coming off major knee surgery.
- Scouting news
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on D3
- MU-Illinois not just about hoops
- August 30, 2008 in print edition on C8
- Coming off a 12-win season and ranked higher than ever before to start the season, No. 6 Missouri is counting on an immediate test from Illinois. The 20th-ranked Fighting Illini feel likewise.
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