Also from April 11
Audio clips
Births
- Amber and Keith Loudermilk, Lawrence, a boy.
- Ayrick Madeira and Poppy Reumond, Lawrence, a boy.
- Amanda and Stephen Radcliff, Oskaloosa, a boy.
- Amanda Turner and Josh Meisel, Eudora, a girl.
- Sandra Valencia, a boy.
- Kenneth Seel and Tiffany Swank, Topeka, twin boys.
- Justin Coleman and Ashley Groom, Lawrence, a boy.
Couples
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
- Press Conferences & Post-Game Interviews: KU wide receiver Johnathan Wilson
- Press Conferences & Post-Game Interviews: KU quarterback Kale Pick
- Press Conferences & Post-Game Interviews: KU quarterback Todd Reesing
- Press Conferences & Post-Game Interviews: KU running back Rell Lewis
- Press Conferences & Post-Game Interviews: KU coach Mark Mangino
Polls
Who is your favorite current KU football player?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Todd Reesing | 34% | |
| Kerry Meier | 31% | |
| Dezmon Briscoe | 10% | |
| Darrell Stuckey | 8% | |
| Jake Laptad | 7% | |
| Jake Sharp | 5% | |
| Other | 1% | |
| Total | 1738 | |
Videos
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
The little church that could: Longtime East Lawrence church undergoes aesthetic resurrection- April 10, 2009 in print edition on 1C
- It started life as a German Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872. In the 137 years since, it has seen the death of at least five churches, was home to an indoor basketball court and nearly became a foreclosed-upon ghost. The small white building at 1000 N.Y. is nothing if not the little building that could.
- Photo gallery: The little church that could
6:00 a.m.
New principal named at Lawrence High School- 7:42 a.m., April 10, 2009 Updated 3:47 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- Matt Brungardt was announced this week as the new principal of the school, 1901 La., known as “the home of the chesty lion.” He was selected from 20 applicants to lead 1,255 students and about 150 teachers beginning in July.
10:00 a.m.
Employment trouble- April 11, 2009 in print edition on 1A
- More signs have emerged that Lawrence is on a long losing streak when it comes to jobs, and that local job losses have been happening faster than in many other parts of the state.
2:00 p.m.
FINAL: Johnathan Wilson posts 133 receiving yards; Blue team takes 20-7 victory in KU Spring Game- 12:48 p.m., April 11, 2009 Updated 5:57 p.m.
- KU football coach Mark Mangino also announced Saturday that running back Jocques Crawford was suspended for violation of team policy.
- Photo gallery: 2009 Spring Game
- Photo gallery: 2009 Spring Game
- Poll: Who is your favorite current KU football player?
- Audio clips: 2009 Spring Game
All stories
- Four pets dead after two separate house fires
- 06:00 p.m., April 11, 2009 Updated 07:49 p.m. in print edition on B2
- Two separate house fires left a total of four pets dead and two families homeless on Saturday. The first fire occurred late Saturday morning at 2313 Atchison Ave. The fire caused roughly $60,000 worth of damage, was confined to the kitchen and took the life of one of the occupants’ dogs.
- FINAL: Johnathan Wilson posts 133 receiving yards; Blue team takes 20-7 victory in KU Spring Game
- 12:48 p.m., April 11, 2009 Updated 05:57 p.m.
- KU football coach Mark Mangino also announced Saturday that running back Jocques Crawford was suspended for violation of team policy.
- Mickelson’s legacy swayed by Tiger
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C2
- In a world without Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson would not challenge Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major titles, nor would he inspire comparisons to Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali.
- Praeger to discuss health insurance
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger will address the hot-button issue of health insurance in Kansas and the nation.
- New leader to take office Monday
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Lawrence resident Mike Gaughan will take office Monday as the newest Douglas County commissioner.
- Pump patrol
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B1
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $1.89 at several locations.
- Employment trouble
- Lawrence’s job loss rate exceeds state’s
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A1
- More signs have emerged that Lawrence is on a long losing streak when it comes to jobs, and that local job losses have been happening faster than in many other parts of the state.
- Module name to be announced on ‘Colbert’
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Stephen Colbert is still clinging to hope that NASA will name a new room at the international space station after him.
- Chicagoans miffed at Obama’s pizza order
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A2
- The news is hitting Chicago deep dish pizza makers’ eye like a big pizza pie.
- Priest runs over churchgoers, cops say
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Authorities and witnesses say a priest drove into a group of churchgoers after a Good Friday service near Pittsburgh, killing an 89-year-old woman and wounding four other people.
- Mehl paces FSHS track
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C6
- Zach Mehl led the Free State High track team with a first-place finish in the boys pole vault on Friday at the KT Woodman Invitational. Mehl vaulted 12-6 feet to win the event.
- Environmental agency offices pollute creek
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Washington state environmental regulators say they’ve finally found the source of pollution that has been fouling a creek near Vancouver Lake: the agency’s own sewer pipes.
- LHS track third, fifth
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C6
- Lawrence High’s girls track team placed third Friday in the Topeka Relays, and LHS finished fifth in the boys meet.
- Arson cause of at least 1 deadly wildfire
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Washington state environmental regulators say they’ve finally found the source of pollution that has been fouling a creek near Vancouver Lake: the agency’s own sewer pipes.
- KU men’s golf in 14th
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C6
- Andrew Storm shot a two-round total of 147 (74-73) on Friday to lead the Kansas University men’s Golf team to a 14th-place standing at the River Landing Intercollegiate.
- 2 students dead in murder-suicide
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A2
- A student fatally shot a female classmate before turning the gun on himself Friday in an apparent murder-suicide that prompted a lockdown at a community college west of Detroit, police said.
- Pelathe fundraisers to benefit food bank
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B3
- The Pelathe Community Resource Center will host fundraisers this month and over the rest of the summer to help reopen the center’s food bank.
- KU tennis rips Tulane
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C6
- The Kansas University tennis team swept its three doubles matches for the fourth time this season, and the Jayhawks beat Tulane, 6-1, on Friday at First Serve Tennis Center.
- Gender imbalance expected to worsen
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A2
- China has 32 million more young men than young women — a gender gap that could lead to increasing crime — because parents facing strict birth limits abort female fetuses to have a son, a study released Friday said.
- Sought-after Appleton looking for major minutes
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C1
- Tyrone Appleton, who announced his decision to leave Kansas University’s basketball program Thursday afternoon, had college coaches eager to speak with him Thursday night and Friday.
- Justice Department: Military religion suit should be dropped
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B8
- Government lawyers are seeking the dismissal of a federal lawsuit in Kansas alleging widespread religious discrimination within the military, arguing many of its claims are only “general grievances” and not wrongs against specific soldiers.
- I, robot - and gardener: Droids tend plants
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A6
- These gardeners would have green thumbs — if they had thumbs. A class of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a set of robots that can water, harvest and pollinate cherry tomato plants.
- Defense cuts may add to growing jobless numbers
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A6
- Jason Rhoads landed a job last summer that seemed secure enough to support his young family through the recession — building military planes for the nation’s largest defense contractor.
- Around and about
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on D3
- Fort Hays State University announces students accepting scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year at a Student Recognition Program Feb. 22 at the Doubletree Hotel in Overland Park.
- For Greek Easter, a month of prep
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on D8
- It’s the aromas that are driving everyone crazy. The scent of garlic, lemon and oregano from the pans of slow-cooked lamb. The warm, buttery perfume oozing from the bowls of crisp potato chunks. The sweetly tantalizing smell of braided egg bread.
- KU senior class wants new flagpole
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University’s senior class of 2009 is trying to replace the flagpole in front of Strong Hall.
- A whiff of luxury: Yes, it’s inhalable chocolate
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on D1
- It had to happen eventually. Someone — a Harvard professor and Illinois Institute of Technology graduate — has developed inhalable chocolate. The product, called Le whiff, will make its debut in the United States at next month’s All Candy Expo, a massive confection-industry gathering at Chicago’s McCormick Place.
- Griffin wins Wooden Award
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C2
- Blake Griffin keeps picking up trophies on his way to the NBA.
- Perry, Campbell tied
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C2
- Kenny Perry thought he had a storybook ending to his career when he helped the Americans to a Ryder Cup victory on his native Kentucky soil and shared an emotional embrace with his father.
- Nutrition class targets children, families
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B2
- Kansas University is offering a class for families who are looking to improve their health.
- KU benefactor, alumnus dies at 95
- Former oil executive lent name to campus icons
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B2
- A former oil executive and longtime benefactor of Kansas University died Tuesday at the age of 95.
- Homes that use natural gas could save big
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A1
- The 60 million American homes that rely on natural gas for heat can expect substantially lower bills next winter thanks to a glut in supply and the weak economy.
- President coy on topic of White House puppy
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A2
- The White House could soon hear the pitter-patter of padded paws.
- Yankees spoil Kansas City’s home opener
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C1
- Andy Pettitte beats Kansas City so often, even he has trouble keeping track.
- OU softball roughs up KU
- Sooners claim 8-0 rout; cancer benefit game today
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C8
- Oklahoma run-ruled the Jayhawks, 8-0, at Arrocha Ballpark.
- County certifies election results
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B3
- Tuesday’s election results are now official, and the addition of 70 provisional ballots did not change the outcomes of any Douglas County races.
- President re-elected, but fraud alleged
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A7
- President Abdelaziz Bouteflika hailed his landslide re-election for a third term as a “lesson in democracy” on Friday, but opposition politicians and independent media alleged fraud at the polls, and the U.S. government expressed concern.
- 5 soldiers killed in suicide bomb
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A7
- A suicide truck driver detonated a ton of explosives near a police headquarters in the northern city of Mosul on Friday, killing five American soldiers in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in more than a year.
- Full-time job
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: Only one in seven eligible voters thought that this election was worth their time and attention.
- Another misuse
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: In his opinion column on April 8, Professor Hoeflich expressed shock over the discovery that Chancellor Hemenway has been transferring university funds to KU Athletics to pay for a faculty discount on tickets.
- Football slight
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: I just wanted to drop a line saying how disappointed I am with the off-season football coverage. I’m an avid fan of the Journal-World’s KU-sports.com Web site. It’s the clear leader for just about all things pertaining to KU athletics — except for football.
- Stimulus money invested in volcanoes
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A6
- Weeks after Mount Redoubt erupted in Alaska, the Interior Department is spending some of its first stimulus dollars to improve volcano monitoring.
- Family violence rising: Is recession a cause?
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A5
- Some hospitals report seeing more than twice as many shaken babies as a year ago. Deaths from domestic violence have increased sharply in areas.
- Headhunters go green: Company hosts Web cam interviews
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on D5
- Recruiting for jobs can be expensive: around $1,000, say, to fly someone in, put him up in a hotel room, provide meals and rent a car.
- Club news
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on D5
- University Club Bridge announces results from its April 4 meeting. Hosts were John and Willi Stark and Ray and Myrna Ikenberry.
- KU’s Powers selected
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C6
- Kansas University junior golfer Emily Powers received a sponsor’s exemption to compete in the Mercedes-Benz Championship of Kansas City from May 15-17 at Leawood South Country Club.
- U.S. hostage fails in escape bid from Somali pirates
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A2
- An American skipper held hostage by pirates tried to swim to freedom Friday but was recaptured seconds later when the bandits opened fire within view of a U.S. destroyer.
- Juco PG visiting KU
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C6
- Rhea Codio, a 5-foot-8 point guard from Independence Community College, is making an official women’s basketball recruiting visit to Kansas University this weekend. Codio, who hails from Brooklyn, N.Y., averaged 16.0 points and 7.0 assists for the Pirates last season.
- LHS, Free State renew rivalry
- Lions, Firebirds to square off at noon today
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C6
- Neither team has lost a game on Kansas soil this season, and the last time these two squads faced each other was in the first round of the 2008 Class 6A state tournament.
- Kansas baseball silencing doubters
- Hall leads Jayhawks to 8-1 rout of OSU
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C1
- Apparently, someone has forgotten to inform the Kansas University baseball team that it’s not supposed to be winning games this season.
- Seals of approval
- Ex-Jayhawks impressed with KU football’s transformation
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on C1
- Perhaps the greatest testament to the progress enjoyed by the Kansas University football program is this: Even at an event held primarily to celebrate the past, talk was never far from the future.
- Designer of WTC memorial to speak
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B8
- Michael Arad, the designer of the national Sept. 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center, will speak at Kansas University on April 27.
- KU Medical School rises in rankings
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B8
- Kansas University’s School of Medicine improved its rank among schools of medicines in 2008.
- KU panel to discuss sustainability’s effect
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B5
- A panel of three experts will deliver a lecture on sustainability later this month at Kansas University.
- K.C. Green Zone project gets praise from representative
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B5
- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver says $200 million in federal stimulus money aims to make some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods a model for green living.
- Theater restoration takes center stage
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B5
- This small south-central Kansas town of 2,200 residents is taking on a task of Hollywood proportions — raising $1.2 million to restore its Main Street theater to its former movie palace grandeur.
- Horse breeder charged with cruelty to animals
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A3
- A prominent thoroughbred breeder who once owned a Kentucky Derby favorite was charged Friday with cruelty to animals, two days after authorities seized 177 malnourished horses at his Hudson Valley farm.
- Biden says Bush didn’t lead, Rove says VP lies
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Vice President Joe Biden said he gave then-President George W. Bush an earful in the Oval Office. Former Bush adviser Karl Rove says Biden’s version of that encounter is at best an exaggeration — at worst a lie — and part of a pattern.
- Jobless woman hopes it pays to advertise
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A3
- An unemployed Connecticut woman has taken her job search to the side of a highway.
- Tears, tributes as Italy mourns quake dead
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A7
- It was a scene that moved a nation: mourners clinging to one another and sobbing over neat rows of more than 200 coffins, some with the tiny caskets of children resting on top.
- Worth a look
- Some changes in university policies on parental notification are at least worth discussing.
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B6
- Kansas University officials deserve credit for trying to address two difficult issues related to the recent death of a 19-year-old student.
- World must fight for Afghan women
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B6
- Maybe it was the sex that caught our attention. Sex has a way of doing that. The lead of the story, after all, was that any Shiite woman in Afghanistan would be required by law “to fulfill the sexual desires of her husband.”
- Umpires in search of perfection
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B6
- In Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” a time-traveling American brought baseball to 6th-century England, where arguments with umpires were robust: “The umpire’s first decision was usually his last. … When it was noticed that no umpire ever survived a game, umpiring got to be unpopular.” But it remains a necessary, extraordinarily demanding and insufficiently appreciated craft.
- ‘Thrilla’ recalls savage rivalry
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on D7
- No grudge match in sports compares to that between boxers Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, who fought three bouts between 1971 and 1975. The first was considered the most anticipated event in sports history. And the last, the subject of the documentary “Thrilla in Manila” (7 p.m., today, HBO), is thought of as the greatest fight ever.
- People in the news
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on D7
- Farrah Fawcett has been released from a Los Angeles hospital after being treated for internal bleeding not directly related to her cancer, People.com reported.
- Horoscopes
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on D7
- For Saturday, April 11: Focus on your direction this year. You will be especially good in a field that demands research and in-depth perceptions. If you are single, you will have several interesting possibilities to choose from. If you are attached, don’t always be the natural-born leader that you are — learn to defer, slow down and not always be right.
- Internet business announces new hire
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B4
- Revolution Systems, a Lawrence based Internet consultancy, announces Jacob Kaplan-Moss has joined the firm.
- Treatment center names program director
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B4
- Professional Treatment Services, 3205 Clinton Parkway Court, announces Kendall Heiman has been promoted to program director.
- Chamber announces ribbon-cutting events
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B4
- The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce announces upcoming ribbon-cutting ceremonies.
- Tri-State reviews long-term coal plans
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B4
- A Colorado-based electricity supplier for 1.4 million customers in four states is reviewing its plans for coal-based power, as a dispute over a proposed plant in Kansas drags on.
- Study: Tax changes worth billions to businesses
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B4
- Three law professors at Kansas University have completed a study suggesting that large U.S. corporations won billions of dollars in tax savings by lobbying Congress to change the tax code four years ago.
- Obama says economy showing ‘glimmers of hope’
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A5
- President Barack Obama declared Friday that the slumping economy has begun to show “glimmers of hope,” but cautioned that it remains severely stressed and will require lots more work to turn it around.
- FCE news
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on D5
- The Douglas County FCE Council will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Deal Six Auditorium at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds, 2110 Harper.
- Scouting news
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on D3
- Troop 53, charted to Christ Community Church and celebrating 90 years of service in Lawrence, welcomed 19 new Scouts on March 30 at the church. Connor Chestnut, senior patrol leader; Jay Morris, membership chair; and Mitch Yulich, scoutmaster; introduced the 90th “freshman class.”
- Behind the stacks: Volunteers prep for big sale
- April 11, 2009
- Sorting through English and grammar books for the last 14 years, Marian Wilbur has come to a conclusion. “My advice to anyone writing a book is don’t use the word ‘new,’ ‘modern’ or anything like that in the title,” Wilbur says. “It looks silly after three to five years.” These are the types of things you learn when you’re sorting through thousands of books, preparing for the twice-a-year phenomenon that is the Friends of the Lawrence Public Library Book Sale, which benefits the library.
- Tornado kills 2, injures 41
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A3
- A tornado killed a woman and her 9-week-old infant and also injured dozens Friday in central Tennessee as a line of storms lifted homes, ripped off roofs and dumped hail in the Southeast.
- Low-tech tools take out phones in Calif.
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Forget, for a moment, computer viruses and sophisticated cybercrimes. A hacksaw and a few other tools were probably all it took for someone to sever eight fiber-optic cables in Silicon Valley this week, knocking out cell phone, landline and Internet service.
- Federal budget deficit sets March record, nears $1T
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A3
- The Treasury Department said Friday that the budget deficit increased by $192.3 billion in March, and is near $1 trillion just halfway through the budget year, as costs of the financial bailout and recession mount.
- Discussion to address end-of-life decisions
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B3
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital Connect Care and the Coalition to Honor End-of-Life Choices will provide an interactive discussion from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. April 16 in the Lawrence Memorial Hospital Auditorium, 325 Maine.
- Breakfast celebrates senior citizens
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on B3
- Trinity In-Home Care is having a community breakfast to celebrate Older Americans Month.
- Pope presides over Way of the Cross
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A7
- Pope Benedict XVI presided over a torch-lit Way of the Cross procession at the Colosseum on Good Friday and said he was praying so that people who suffered losses in Italy’s devastating quake can see the light of hope in their dark hour.
- Military chief returns to prime minister post
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on A7
- Fiji’s armed forces chief returned to power as this troubled country’s prime minister today, a day after the president suspended the constitution and fired the judges who had declared the military leader’s government illegal.
- Faith Forum: Why is Easter critical to the Christian faith?
- April 11, 2009 in print edition on D1
- Without Easter, Christianity a farce
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- Friends mourn Lynn Bretz, former voice of KU May 28, 2012
- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp May 29, 2012
- Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down May 28, 2012
- Kansas football scouring country May 29, 2012
- City, county mull upgrade to emergency radio system May 28, 2012
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