Also from December 30
Audio clips
- Gophers defensive end Willie VanDeSteeg talks about the challenge of facing KU's offense
- Jayhawks center Cole Aldrich discusses how intense practice played a role in bouncing back from the loss to Arizona against Albany
- Jayhawks receiver Dezmon Briscoe talks about getting additional repetitions at kick returner
- KU coach Bill Self
- KU coach Mark Mangino
- Marcus Morris discusses his big dunk and first 3-pointer of his career
Births
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
- The Morning Rush: District attorney wants to reimburse property crime victims
- Press Conferences & Post-Game Interviews: Minnesota defensive end William VanDeSteeg
- Press Conferences & Post-Game Interviews: KU wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe
- Press Conferences & Post-Game Interviews: KU coach Mark Mangino
Polls
Now that KU routed Albany, how do you feel about Saturday's game against No. 14 Tennessee at Allen Fieldhouse?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Win by fewer than 15 | 62% | |
| Lose by fewer than 15 | 29% | |
| Win by 15 or more | 3% | |
| Lose by more than 15 | 3% | |
| Total | 811 | |
Who was KU's MVP of the first half against Albany?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Cole Aldrich | 49% | |
| Tyrel Reed | 32% | |
| Travis Releford | 15% | |
| Other | 3% | |
| Total | 65 | |
Will you make a New Year's resolution for 2009?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No. | 51% | |
| Yes. | 48% | |
| Total | 254 | |
Videos
- The forecast for Tuesday, December 31 calls for a high …
- A week ago, the Kansas men’s basketball team suffered an …
- A familiar face will head the committee responsible for finding …
- A final farewell today for a man who served more …
- Representatives from the City of Manhattan presented Lawrence city commissioners …
- After being closed nearly two years ago, Douglas County State …
- The Kansas football team went through final preparations on Tuesday …
- The Jayhawks are preparing to take on the Minnesota Golden …
- With the new year come many challenges for state lawmakers. …
- The Kansas women will play against Houston on Wednesday in …
- Afternoon temperatures will remain comfortably warm for winter but with …
- Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius talks about her goal of putting …
- Though Gov. Kathleen Sebelius opposes a general tax increase, she …
- Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius discusses the stimulus package she anticipates …
- Winds of change today: south winds early will switch around …
All stories
- Area fishing lake set to reopen this weekend
- December 30, 2008
- After being closed nearly two years ago, Douglas County State Fishing Lake will reopen this Saturday.
- Jayhawks destroy Albany, 79-43
- December 30, 2008
- Cole Aldrich scored 20 points, grabbed six boards and blocked three shots, Tyrel Reed added 12 points off 3-of-5 shooting from three-point land and Kansas shredded Albany, 79-43, on Tuesday night at Allen Fieldhouse.
- A. Drue Jennings named chairman of search committee to find KU chancellor
- 04:00 p.m., December 30, 2008 Updated 05:56 p.m. in print edition on A3
- A. Drue Jennings has been named the chairman of the search committee to find the next chancellor of Kansas University.
- Ill. governor names former attorney general to Obama’s Senate seat
- 02:20 p.m., December 30, 2008 Updated 03:06 p.m. in print edition on A2
- A defiant Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday named a black political trailblazer to Barack Obama’s Senate seat, a surprise move that put the governor’s opponents in the uncomfortable position of trying to block his choice from becoming the Senate’s only black member.
- Community pays tribute to late fire chief Jim McSwain
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A1
- Family, friends, colleagues and community leaders gathered on Tuesday to pay a final tribute to Jim McSwain, just three years after he retired as Lawrence’s longtime fire chief.
- Sebelius discusses upcoming legislative session which includes an energy plan
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A1
- In a wide-ranging interview before the Jan. 12 start of the legislative session, Sebelius said she hopes she doesn’t see a repeat of the 2008 legislative session when so much legislation and time was tied to the proposal to build two coal-burning power plants in southwest Kansas.
- Asphalt work under way at Kansas Turnpike’s East Lawrence interchange
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A4
- Asphalt work began Monday morning, Dec. 29, on the westbound replacement ramp at exit 204.
- Police to beef up patrol on New Year’s Eve
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- More police officers than usual will be on the streets of Lawrence as people celebrate, said Sgt. Bill Cory, police spokesman. No saturation patrols are planned, but officers will be focusing on alcohol violations, he said
- Basketball team brings gifts to hospital patients, big and small
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- They came bearing shirts, autographed posters and an array of other gifts for patients at Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Monday. The Kansas University women’s basketball team has been participating in the holiday tradition for 16 years. Head coach Bonnie Henrickson said her team appreciated the opportunity to visit with patients.
- Lawyer: Impeachment not justified for gov.
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s lawyer said Monday that a vague array of charges and evidence doesn’t merit removing the governor from office, and he urged a House committee not to recommend impeachment.Attorney Ed Genson complained bitterly that lawmakers were considering snippets of tape-recorded conversations that are quoted in a criminal complaint against the Democratic governor.
- Kid-friendly trends for 2009
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on C1
- Here are some tips for what will be big with kids in the year ahead.
- Set rules to keep kids safe online
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on C1
- Did you give your kid a gadget this year? Monica Vila, founder of TheOnlineMom.com, suggests setting these rules for kids.
- Job creation No. 1 concern on business front in ’09
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A1
- After enduring a year in which the biggest business victory came thanks to a coach named Bill and a clutch shooter named Mario, leaders on the community’s economic-development team are eager to get back into the game when it comes to jobs, investment and — that’s right — recruiting.
- Somali president quits amid international pressure
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A8
- Somalia’s president resigned Monday after a four-year term in which his Western-backed government failed to extend its power throughout a country crippled by infighting and a strengthening Islamic insurgency.
- Artistic transition: LHS senior hoping to turn art hobby into career
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on C1
- Amelia Magerl grew up around art, attending preschool at the Lawrence Arts Center. “Art was always my favorite class in elementary school,” she says. “And then when I got into junior high and high school I thought, ‘Oh, I can actually consider this as a career.’”
- Don’t forget Mason
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Although hardly the focal point of the Insight Bowl, the subtle ironies involving Glen Mason shouldn’t be ignored.
- Police: 7 bodies recovered in Canada avalanches; 1 missing
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Search teams recovered the bodies of seven snowmobilers Monday, a day after they were swept away by avalanches in western Canada’s backcountry, police said. An eighth man was missing and believed dead.
- Firefighters rescue boy who fell through ice
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B8
- Topeka firefighters rescued a 10-year-old boy who fell through the ice on Central Park pond while trying to retrieve a radio-controlled toy. Authorities said the boy was in the icy waters for around 15 minutes late Sunday afternoon, about 100 feet from shore. The child appeared to have been suffering from hypothermia and facial cuts that he may have received when he was pulled over the ice to the pond’s bank.
- Dugan Arnett’s KU football notebook
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B3
- Kansas junior Jake Sharp, an honorable mention all-Big 12 running back this season, missed Monday’s practice with the flu and is currently being treated by members of the team’s medical staff.
- Israel’s bombing ravages Gaza Strip
- 3-day strike has killed civilians, caused outages and food crisis
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A1
- Israel’s three-day aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip has killed dozens of civilians, along with Hamas fighters, and has paralyzed life in a territory already battered by blackouts and supply shortages during 18 months of border closures.
- Outgoing treasurer’s last day is Friday
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B8
- A spokeswoman says Lynn Jenkins’ last day as state treasurer is Friday. Jenkins, a Republican, is stepping down because in November, she won the seat for the 2nd Congressional District of eastern Kansas.Spokeswoman Mary Geiger said Jenkins would be sworn in Tuesday as a member of Congress.
- Scientists monitor unusual quakes
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A6
- Yellowstone National Park was jostled by a host of small earthquakes for a third straight day Monday, and scientists watched closely to see whether the more than 250 tremors were a sign of something bigger to come.
- Resolve to get control of credit cards
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B7
- The new year is a good time to begin new practices, especially concerning money management. As we enter 2009, it’s especially important to begin handling your credit card differently, because in a year and a half the credit card industry must change the way it treats you. And trust me, there will be little room for you to make a mistake in how you use such credit because the industry wasn’t happy about the forced changes.
- Explosive potential
- Minnesota prepares to face KU’s high-powered offense
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- After nearly a month to prepare for his team’s Insight Bowl matchup with Kansas University on Wednesday — after endless hours of game-planning and pouring over film — Minnesota coach Tim Brewster has reached the following conclusion about the Jayhawks.
- Lawrence native to fly over Insight Bowl
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- Flyovers are a specialty for Lt. Col. Garth Terlizzi Jr. A Lawrence native, Terlizzi has piloted F-16 fighters over football games, NASCAR events and even baseball games. So serving as the lead pilot during Wednesday afternoon’s flyover at the Insight Bowl will be a “milk run” — aerospeak for routine — for Terlizzi. With one exception.
- Don’t let a recession prompt a psychological depression
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on C1
- As we age, our sense of the passage of time begins to accelerate. In our high school days time plodded along as if stuck in some cosmic tar pit. As adults we increasingly found ourselves reflexively muttering an old cliché we’d previously found puzzling and quaint — where has the time gone?
- Pro-Thaksin protesters still block Parliament
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Thailand’s government was forced to change the venue of its key policy speech today as thousands of demonstrators loyal to exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra surrounded Parliament, extending months of political turmoil.
- Dad charged after girl dies on cold walk
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A6
- An Idaho man has been charged with second-degree murder after his 11-year-old daughter died walking in the snow after their vehicle got stuck. Fifty-five-year-old Robert Aragon of Jerome banged his head on the table Monday in court.
- Religious order of nuns leaving Paola
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A4
- A Roman Catholic women’s order that has been in eastern Kansas for 113 years plans to leave next year and merge with another Ursuline order in Kentucky. The Ursuline sisters plan to sell their grand convent in Paola — a local landmark — and begin moving in May.
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A7
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Dec. 30, 1908: Lawrence merchants have stood by their early shopping movement and not one of them has advertised price cuts on holiday goods so far. One of the things which operated against early buying is the hope of lesser prices later on.
- Family believes missing woman jumped ship
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A6
- The family of a missing cruise ship passenger said Monday that they suspect the woman “chose an unfortunate ending to her life” and jumped from a cruise ship balcony into the waters off Mexico’s coast on Christmas night.
- U.S. population up 2.7 million this year
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- My, how the country has grown. The United States will enter 2009 with 305,529,237 residents, the Census Bureau estimated on Monday. That’s an increase of 2,743,429 this year. The bureau says that in January, one birth is expected to occur every eight seconds in the United States and one death every 12 seconds.
- Lost love letters find way home
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B8
- Anxious eyes watched Elroy McDowell as the 94-year-old woman opened the box on Christmas Eve. It wasn’t a normal present, this bundle of love letters she found inside. Lost in the 1940s, the brittle papers sent between McDowell and her now-deceased husband were lugged around the country by a stranger for more than 30 years. Now, they were home.
- Audit alarm
- Results of a recently released legislative audit suggest that lawmakers need to clarify how some state school funds can be used.
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A7
- A legislative audit of how school districts across the state are using money designated to benefit “at risk” students raises some serious questions. Not only does it feed the underlying assumption of many state legislators that districts aren’t making the best use of their money, but it also raises some issues of basic fairness.
- Tigers squeak out OT victory
- Missouri rallies to win, 30-23
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B4
- Missouri knocks off Northwestern in overtime to win the Alamo Bowl.
- Five artists and a would-be senator at the Kennedy Center
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- For the first time in 30 years, the host of the “Kennedy Center Honors” (8 p.m., CBS) may receive more attention than the distinguished recipients. This year’s festivities were held and taped last Dec. 7. Since then, host Caroline Kennedy has announced that she wants to be considered a candidate to be appointed to fill the New York Senate seat that will become empty upon Sen. Hillary Clinton’s confirmation as Secretary of State.
- War, not peace, marks Israeli leader’s exit
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A7
- Israel’s new battle with Hamas in Gaza means that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be remembered for fighting two bloody and wasteful mini-wars in less than three years in power. The first one, in Lebanon during the summer of 2006, punished but failed to defeat or even permanently injure Hezbollah, which is politically and militarily stronger today than it was before Olmert took office.
- Branson wants victims repaid
- D.A. working to start compensation board for property crimes
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- Douglas County’s top prosecutor is looking to take from the illicit haves and give back to their victimized have-nots. Charles Branson, the county’s district attorney, is working on plans to establish a Property Crimes Compensation Board, an operation that would be financed by people who pay to receive diversions instead of jail time.
- On the record
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A4
- A Lawrence police officer tackled a burglary suspect who tried to run away Monday night, and the officer suffered a blow to the face during the struggle, said Sgt. Damon Thomas, a Lawrence police spokesman.
- Old Home Town - 40 years ago
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A7
- “I’d rather be a dull winner than an exciting loser,” said Kansas football coach Pepper Rodgers as his Jayhawks prepared to meet favored Penn State in the New Year’s Day Orange Bowl game in Miami. Joe Paterno was the Penn State coach.
- Gary Bedore’s KU basketball notebook
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B3
- KU junior Mario Little, who suffered a broken bone in his left, non-shooting hand two weeks ago, practiced without contact Monday.
- Military religion suit expanded
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- A newly expanded federal lawsuit alleged Monday that the military doesn’t take complaints of religious discrimination seriously enough and allows personnel to try to convert Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan to Christianity.
- Caution urged as revelers get into New Year’s mode
- Experts emphasize dangers of alcohol
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A1
- Bars, restaurants and revelers are gearing up to ring in 2009. But, before you tip your glass and welcome in the new year, health professionals remind revelers to be safe. “People underestimate the effects of even one drink of alcohol,” said Dr. Marc Scarbrough, a hospitalist at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. “People need to remember that even one drink can impair them and lead to a dangerous situation.”
- Underground explosion rocks downtown
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A6
- Crews were waiting for an area to cool off under the streets of downtown Savannah before they could start determining what caused an electrical explosion Monday that blew off manhole covers and knocked out power for hours to many stores, restaurants and homes.
- Old Home Town - 25 years ago
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A7
- Due to continued nagging payroll glitches involving nearly 300 faculty and staff, state officials decided to temporarily withdraw Kansas University employees from the state’s computerized payroll system.
- Jayhawks searching for identity
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self has realistic expectations for his unranked, 8-3 Jayhawks entering tonight’s game against Albany, and the rest of semester break.
- Firebirds to hold holiday clinic
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B3
- The Free State boys basketball coaches and former players will host the Firebird Holiday Basketball Clinic from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday at Free State High.
- Class project aids Sprint research
- Bonner Springs students give cell phones a workout
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B7
- Students from Bonner Springs High School have paired up with one of the largest corporations in the Kansas City area for a special project. Through a connection with a teacher at the high school, members of a BSHS marketing class joined Sprint in a research and data collection project.
- Hard to hear at holiday parties? Blame your brain
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A1
- It’s almost New Year’s Eve, a time for plunging into boisterous crowds bathed in loud music. And for some of us, that means turning to an old friend and hearing things like this: “Did you know (BOOM-da-da-BOOM) went over (Bob! You look wonder-) so she said (clink-clink) and then I (Here, have another one) what would you do?”
- Dairies to compensate sickened babies
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- The companies whose tainted milk products sickened nearly 300,000 children and were blamed in the deaths of six will likely pay $160 million in compensation to victims’ families, a state-run newspaper said today.
- We should let go of litmus tests
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A7
- President-elect Barack Obama is taking a lot of heat for selecting the Rev. Rick Warren, an ardent opponent of abortion rights and same-sex marriage, to give the inaugural invocation next month. Obama differs with the evangelical preacher on abortion and many other social issues, but he did not let those differences prevent him from extending the invitation. It was a courageous decision. It was also the correct one.
- City selling downtown parking passes
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A4
- The city once again is selling annual passes that will allow motorists to park in several downtown parking lots at reduced rates. The parking passes allow motorists to park in long-term parking lots and at 10-hour parking meters. An annual pass is sold for $192, while quarterly passes are available for $50.
- American Girl of 2009 breaks into the movies
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on C2
- The American Girl of 2009 is a newbie at school, lives in an extended-family household and loves to swim and work on crafts. And she’s learning to stand up to a bully.
- Jazz great Freddie Hubbard dead at 70
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose style influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 70.
- Postal Service lifts curtain on next year’s stamps
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on C8
- Lucy and Ethel lose their struggle with a chocolate assembly line. Joe Friday demands “just the facts” with a penetrating gaze. A secret word brings Groucho a visit from a duck. Folks who grew up as television came of age will delight in a 20-stamp set included in the Postal Service’s plans for 2009 recalling early memories of the medium.
- Japanese ‘tenant’ leaves airport
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on C8
- Easy come, easy go. A Japanese man who had been living in Terminal 1 of the Benito Juarez International Airport since Sept. 2 — for no apparent reason — left under equally mysterious circumstances. Authorities searched the terminal for Hiroshi Nohara on Monday but he was nowhere to be found, said an airport official who was not allowed to be quoted by name.
- Flooding latest weather threat in Midwest
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Utilities in Michigan scrambled Monday to restore power knocked out by a gusty weekend storm as rain and melting snow caused flooding there and in other parts of the Midwest. Power was restored to about 80 percent of the 413,000 Michigan homes and businesses that lost service, according to the state’s utilities. Some could remain without power until Wednesday because of Sunday’s storm, which carried winds gusting more than 60 mph.
- Hospitals testing ways to prevent lymphedema after breast cancer
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on C8
- Hospitals in about a dozen states are testing whether some simple steps, such as arm-strengthening exercises, could reduce the risk of one of breast cancer’s troubling legacies — the painful and sometimes severe arm swelling called lymphedema.
- Palin’s daughter gives birth
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- The teenage daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose quest for the vice presidency began to go downhill the day she announced the pregnancy, has given birth to a son, a magazine reported Monday.Bristol Palin, 18, gave birth to Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on Saturday, People magazine reported online.
- Pump patrol
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $1.37 at Presto, 602 W. Ninth St.
- Horoscopes
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- This year more than any year, how you deal with key people reflects how secure you are within. Sometimes you might have a sense that you are giving everything away, but in reality that isn’t so. If you are single, you might want to conjure up someone who likes you for who you are, not what you first seem like or what you have.
- Fallout begins after dismal holiday season
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B7
- The fallout from the horrific holiday season for retailers has begun, with the operator of an online toy seller, etoys.com, filing for bankruptcy protection and more stores are expected to do the same — meaning more empty storefronts and fewer brands on store shelves.
- Coaching axe falls hard
- Browns, Jets, Lions dismiss football coaches
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on B2
- Three NFL coaches lost their jobs on Monday, as pro football’s offseason began with a bang.
- Ex-Bush aides call Katrina ‘nail in coffin’
- December 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government’s poor handling of the natural disaster.
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