Also from December 29
Audio clips
Births
Blog entries
Obituaries
- Karen Sue Stamey, Decatur, Texas
- Mary Mellott Corcoran, Lawrence
- Robert E. Lewis, Lawrence
- David O. Hodgkins, Lawrence
- Nancy Adelaide Tomlinson Roderick, Salina
- Douglas Kent Williams, Eudora
- Larry Duane Housworth, Lawrence
- Daniel W. Koger, Topeka
- Marjorie Jean Tate
- Les Stauffer, Lawrence
- Norma Jean Frasier, Tonganoxie
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
Polls
Which of these four freshmen do you think will increase their minutes most as the season progresses?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Robinson | 41% | |
| Elijah Johnson | 26% | |
| C.J. Henry | 19% | |
| Jeff Withey | 11% | |
| Total | 2931 | |
Who do you believe is KU's player of the decade?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Collison | 29% | |
| Mario Chalmers | 21% | |
| Kirk Hinrich | 19% | |
| Sherron Collins | 12% | |
| Wayne Simien | 8% | |
| Brandon Rush | 4% | |
| Drew Gooden | 2% | |
| Cole Aldrich | 1% | |
| Other | 0% | |
| Total | 4005 | |
Will you call the city to report property owners who haven't shoveled their sidewalks?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No, It’s not that much of a hazard. | 65% | |
| No, I’ll talk to the owner first. | 21% | |
| Yes. | 13% | |
| Total | 1005 | |
Videos
- Kansas defeated Belmont, 81-51, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009 at Allen …
- Snow looks to be on the way, but not as …
- A local health clinic catering to those without insurance has …
- The city decided to postpone fining Lawrence residents for unclear …
- Lawrence city crews will continue to work to clear all …
- The Tipsy Taxi service will be available for those who …
- Five juveniles were arrested after an armed robbery near the …
- A new interchange on the turnpike near Tonganoxie is now …
- Federal stimulus dollars coming to Lawrence for construction projects may …
- The KU women’s basketball team returns to action Wednesday after …
- 6News Sports Director Kevin Romary previews KU’s matchup against Belmont …
- 6News Sports Director Kevin Romary tries to stump Andrew Baker …
- Skies will become mostly cloudy by Tuesday evening, and there …
- Temperatures are low, but that shouldn’t delay this afternoon’s commute.
- It will be chilly to start off your Thursday morning. …
- Staff photographer Nick Krug shows off his favorite images from …
- KUSports.com online editor Jesse Newell and Journal-World sports editor Tom …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Saved energy = saved money: Lawrence experts suggest which home tax credits to tackle- December 28, 2009
- Odds are, somewhere in your house is a black hole that’s sucking down a constant stream of wasted energy. And wasted money.
6:00 a.m.
City to begin issuing tickets on Tuesday for unshoveled sidewalks- 2:44 p.m., December 28, 2009 Updated 3:58 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- The first tickets issued under the city’s stricter sidewalk snow shoveling ordinance may come as early as Tuesday morning.
- Video: Unshoveled sidewalks to cause fine
- Photo gallery: 2009 Christmas storm
- Photo gallery: Winter Weather 2009-10
10:00 a.m.
Holiday snowstorm will prove costly to city- December 28, 2009 in print edition on 1A
- By at least one measure, Lawrence’s Christmas Blizzard was as powerful as about nine storms combined.
- Video: Snow removal costing city
- Photo gallery: 2009 Christmas storm
- Photo gallery: Winter Weather 2009-10
2:00 p.m.
Tonganoxie couple taking retirement as an opportunity to move somewhere warmer: Kenya- December 28, 2009 in print edition on 3A
- Tonganoxie’s John and Cindy Korb will be using their retirement to move to a warmer locale, but the destination will come by anything but the routine retirement migration.
7:34 p.m.
FINAL: Aldrich’s defensive effort helps KU to 81-51 victory over Belmont- 6:23 p.m., December 29, 2009 Updated 10:54 p.m.
- KU’s junior center recorded 11 points, 14 rebounds and six blocks, as the Jayhawks held the Bruins to 31-percent shooting.
- Video: KU handles Belmont, 81-51
- Videos: KU vs. Belmont
- Photo gallery: KU vs. Belmont
- Poll: Which of these four freshmen do you think will increase their minutes most as the season progresses?
- Poll: Who do you believe is KU’s player of the decade?
- Source document: KU men’s basketball turnover percentage
- Audio clips: 2009 KU-Belmont
All stories
- KU football’s Parish arrested on four charges
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B3
- Kansas University offensive lineman Darius Parish was released from the Johnson County jail Sunday night after being charged with one count of making a criminal threat, one count of criminal trespassing and two counts of criminal damage.
- FINAL: Aldrich’s defensive effort helps KU to 81-51 victory over Belmont
- 06:23 p.m., December 29, 2009 Updated 10:54 p.m.
- KU’s junior center recorded 11 points, 14 rebounds and six blocks, as the Jayhawks held the Bruins to 31-percent shooting.
- Work continues to get Lawrence streets back to normal
- Street maintenance supervisor tells City Commission what’s been done, still to come
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A4
- The city’s snow plow supervisor assured city commissioners Tuesday that his crews were still battling to remove the snow from Lawrence’s streets.
- City of Lawrence backs off issuing tickets over unshoveled sidewalks — until next week
- City decides against issuing tickets this week
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A1
- Stressed snow shovelers now have a little extra time.
- Bids for brick street, bike path projects in Lawrence come in below estimates
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A3
- In their last meeting of the year, Lawrence city commissioners received a nice parting gift, courtesy of the federal stimulus and local contractors.
- Health Care Access raises $450,000 needed to relocate
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A1
- The Lawrence community has reason to celebrate. Health Care Access — which provides medical care for the uninsured in Douglas County — has raised the $453,000 that it needed to move into a bigger, more convenient location at 330 Maine, across from Lawrence Memorial Hospital’s emergency room.
- New Kansas Turnpike interchange in Leavenworth County a first of its kind
- 07:51 a.m., December 29, 2009 Updated 05:00 p.m. in print edition on A3
- The Kansas Turnpike’s first fully automated interchange is now open. Tuesday morning, a car carrying three men headed through the interchange, which is eight miles east of Lawrence.
- Kennedy Center lauds 5 for the ages
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B6
- An annual post-Christmas treat for 32 years, “The Kennedy Center Honors” (8 p.m., CBS) is the closest thing America has to an official academy, a pantheon of the performing arts.
- Antibiotics at farms ‘the big, bad wolf’
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A6
- The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.
- Growing pains: Slow starts for LHS basketball teams not indicative of new leadership
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Their teams have stumbled out to a combined start of 1-11, and they won’t get a chance to improve that record until early January.
- Lawrence man reports stolen vehicle
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A4
- A 60-year-old Lawrence man reported Thursday the theft of a vehicle from the 300 block of Sharon Drive.
- Disney looking for next superhero
- Acquisition of Marvel Comics to be completed this week
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B7
- Moviegoers have shown a willingness to be entangled by Spider-Man’s web over and over again.
- Parents seek right message on alcohol
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on C1
- Should parents let their teenagers have Champagne at home on New Year’s Eve?
- Double Take: Breakups — Suggestions on how to make the split for good
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on C1
- My relationship with my boyfriend isn’t going very well. We fight all the time, and both of us have found ourselves talking to other people, but somehow we end up back together.
- Five juveniles arrested after armed robbery near KU campus
- 12:00 a.m., December 29, 2009 Updated 03:57 p.m. in print edition on A5
- Five juveniles were arrested in connection with a Monday night armed robbery reported near the Kansas University campus, police said.
- Kidcast: Brenna Brown
- December 29, 2009
- The Kidcast weather segment for December 28, 2009.
- People in the news
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B6
- People in the news for December 29, 2009.
- Charlie Sheen’s wife says he threatened her with a knife
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B6
- Charlie Sheen’s wife told police the actor pinned her on a bed, put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her in a Christmas Day fight in Aspen that began when she said she wanted a divorce.
- Horoscope for December 29, 2009
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B6
- This year, others find you to be unusually mercurial and changeable. You do accomplish more, as you are lighter, easier to communicate with and don’t need the same answers and commitments as others. If you are single, you often feel at odds with your responsibilities and what you would like to do. If you are attached, the two of you simply need to lighten up and enjoy more. Sagittarius reads you cold.
- Ponzi collapses quadrupled in ’09
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A2
- It was a rough year for Ponzi schemes.
- Privacy issues delay better scanners
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A2
- High-tech security scanners that might have prevented the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a jetliner have been installed in only a small number of airports around the world, in large part because of privacy concerns over the way the machines see through clothing.
- Obama promises to take steps to thwart terrorists
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A2
- President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to use “every element of our national power” to keep Americans safe and said the failed Christmas Day plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner was “a serious reminder” of the need to continually adapt security measures against changing terrorist threats.
- Memo aims to resolve intelligence disputes
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A2
- The White House issued a classified order this month to resolve mounting frictions between the nation’s intelligence director and the CIA over issues including how the agency conducts covert operations, U.S. officials said.
- Toll in suicide attack on Shiites rises to 33
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A2
- The death toll from an overnight suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession in Pakistan’s biggest city rose today to 33, in violence blamed on extremists trying to hamper the fight against militants by sparking a sectarian war.
- Briton executed despite appeals for clemency
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A2
- China brushed aside international appeals today and executed a British man convicted of drug smuggling who relatives said was mentally unstable and unwittingly lured into the crime.
- Authorities keep bodies of slain protesters
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Iranian authorities said Monday that they were holding the bodies of five slain anti-government protesters, including the nephew of the opposition leader, in what appeared to be an attempt to prevent activists from using their funerals as a platform for more demonstrations.
- American detained after illegal entry
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A2
- North Korea said Tuesday it has detained an American who entered the country illegally, after activists claimed that a 28-year-old from Arizona went to the communist nation on a mission to call attention to the regime’s human rights abuses.
- Fewer police officers died on job in ’09
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Law enforcement deaths this year dropped to their lowest level since 1959, while the decade of the 2000s was among the safest for officers — despite the deadliest single day for police on Sept. 11, 2001.
- Bulldogs bulldoze Ags
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B3
- Brandon Boykin’s teammates were giving him all kinds of kudos after his school record-setting kickoff return for a touchdown sparked Georgia’s victory over Texas A&M in the Independence Bowl.
- Cutler’s OT bomb lifts Chicago
- Favre’s fourth-quarter heroics not enough for Minnesota
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B2
- Brett Favre cranked up and made one more impossible throw, zinging a touchdown pass in the fading seconds. Too bad for the Minnesota Vikings, that merely put them into overtime.
- KU hoping to win 50th straight at home
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Cole Aldrich has played in 45 games in Allen Fieldhouse during his three-year college basketball career. He’s won ’em all.
- Police create YouTube channel
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B8
- The Wichita Police Department is using social networking tools to try to catch criminals and recruit new officers.
- Friends testify Topeka teen admitted to killing stepfather
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B8
- Two witnesses testified Monday that a 19-year-old man admitted he shot his stepfather, who was found slain in his bed with a bullet through his head.
- ’Defense of others’ mulled in abortion case
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A5
- A Kansas judge will hear further arguments on whether a man who has confessed to shooting a Wichita abortion provider may present evidence on the “use of force in defense of another.”
- Lawrence man reports electronics stolen
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A4
- A 27-year-old Lawrence man reported Thursday the burglary and theft of property from a residence in the 3400 block of West 10th Place.
- LINK to serve New Year meal
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A4
- LINK needs servers to volunteer their time to the New Year’s Day lunch.
- Even good money managers can do better
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B7
- Despite a still funky economy, many people are doing well.
- Rural Center presents farm profits workshop
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B7
- The Kansas Rural Center will host a farm profits workshop from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Jan. 9 at the Lawrence Holidome Conference Center, 200 McDonald Drive.
- Accounting firm promotes tax manager
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B7
- Yvonne Brownell, CPA, has been promoted to tax manager at Mize, Houser & Company, P.A., effective Jan. 1.
- Depot Redux chairwoman honored
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B7
- Carey Maynard-Moody, chairwoman of Depot Redux, has been selected as one of eight “2009 Distinguished Kansans” by the Topeka Capital-Journal.
- 100 years ago: Former KU coach not playing by rules
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A7
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Dec. 29, 1909: “Recent disclosures that recent football players at Michigan were not even enrolled in school casts more bad light on coach Fielding Yost.
- Portable gifts
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A7
- The Christmas edition (Pulse, Dec. 25) quoted someone repeating the story of how if there were three wise women, they would have brought soup and diapers.
- Holiday miracle
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A7
- To the editor: This year more than any other we witnessed a “miracle on Elm Street.”
- Amtrak option
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A7
- To the editor: Reading about the holiday travel woes of the Jayhawks’ Morris brothers (“Many happy returns”, Dec. 28) reminded some of us of a secret that Lawrence-based travelers rarely consider.
- Private option
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A7
- To the editor: Dr. Bruner and Mr. Burkhart recently had letters in the paper taking opposing positions on the public option in the health care debate. I would like to add my two cents’ worth.
- 25 years ago: Gas drops below 90 cents per gallon
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A7
- Gov. John Carlin was hoping for a 10 percent hike in teacher pay in the state the coming year but skeptics abounded.
- Near disaster reveals security flaws
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A7
- Had it not been for a malfunctioning detonator, nearly 300 people traveling on a Christmas Day flight might have perished.
- Good investment
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A7
- Efforts to promote bioscience businesses in Kansas are paying off.
- Pump patrol
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.36 at several stations.
- Audiologist donates hearing aids to tumor patient
- Money collected in Facebook fundraiser will help others
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Bonnie Cherry will get the hearing aids she needed, and it looks like she won’t be the only one, either.
- American expression: Bishop Seabury senior’s artistic range flourishes in U.S.
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on C1
- Ceramics. Jewelry. Sculpture. Painting. Sketching. Song and dance. Piano. Bishop Seabury Academy senior Jasmine Tse dabbles in all sorts of art and excels at each one of them. But she’s not one to brag…
- 40 years ago: National Guard vacancies not filling
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on A7
- William Moore was to retire as dean of the Kansas School of Religion here in June.
- McCray dominates highlights
- December 29, 2009 in print edition on B1
- A surprisingly large crowd, stunning performances by Danielle McCray, a long-time coach’s departure and unprecedented territory for Haskell Indian Nations University.
- Kobach considering filing charges against protesters who came to his home June 17, 2013 · 112 comments
- City approves Menards store next to Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets June 18, 2013 · 29 comments
- Letter: Two is enough June 19, 2013 · 7 comments
- KU dean blasts negative national report on teacher preparation programs June 18, 2013 · 5 comments
- Editorial: Little choice June 19, 2013 · 3 comments
- Opinion: Redskins mascot can’t be justified June 16, 2013 · 105 comments
- Blog: State seeking proposal to develop resort at Clinton Lake State Park June 18, 2013 · 23 comments
- U.S. Supreme Court strikes down voter registration law similar to the one in Kansas June 17, 2013 · 75 comments
- Residents irate over quarry blasting June 18, 2013 · 12 comments
- Police investigate string of almost 20 auto burglaries in west Lawrence June 18, 2013 · 5 comments
- KU dean blasts negative national report on teacher preparation programs June 18, 2013
- Police investigate string of almost 20 auto burglaries in west Lawrence June 18, 2013
- Report says schools underfunded $657 million in FY 2015 June 17, 2013
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
- Free State’s Dieker, Hodison first-team all-league soccer June 4, 2013
- Transfer Hunter Mickelson to sit out, soak it up for a year June 19, 2013
- City approves Menards store next to Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets June 18, 2013
- City girls make all-region soccer June 1, 2013
- Agencies join forces to help homeless population acquire financial literacy June 6, 2013
