Also from October 15
Audio clips
Births
Blog entries
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
Polls
Should the 6-year-old balloon boy in Colorado be punished?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes, ground him for a month | 41% | |
| No, he’s too young for a punishment | 17% | |
| No, boys will be boys | 15% | |
| Not sure | 15% | |
| Yes, straight to his room without dinner | 10% | |
| Total | 720 | |
Videos
- The weather should be decent tonight apart from the overcast …
- In an effort to raise awareness for breast cancer, hundreds …
- The Round Corner pharmacy will soon be transformed into a …
- Attorneys for Matthew Jaeger are seeking a new trial in …
- Health officials met with area residents to dish out information …
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital, after being publicly criticized for sending rape …
- A new arcade in Tonganoxie is attracting fans of classic …
- LRM Industries in Lawrence is expected to finalize its sale …
- One day before KU’s first official basketball practice players answered …
- The KU women’s basketball team is tied for second on …
- The Jayhawks are headed to Colorado to take on the …
- Basehor-Linwood and Tonganoxie meet Friday night in the section playoffs. …
- Kansas players revealed some surprises they think could be in …
- It’s been a cool and cloudy day for Northeast Kansas. …
- It will be a chilly afternoon for your drive home …
- We’ll continue to see mostly cloudy skies for another day, …
- Patchy fog and mist will be our only precipitation this …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Sweet dreams: Former marketing exec opens bakery downtown- October 14, 2009 in print edition on 1C
- Blueberry-lemon poundcake. Orange-cranberry scones. Sugar cookies with gently frosted faces. They’re all dreams built in butter, sugar and flour for Michele Kaminski — former marketing whiz and current proprietor of Lawrence’s newest sweets bakery: The Pink Box Bakeshop, 727 Mass., which opened earlier this month.
6:00 a.m.
Five-star rating- October 15, 2009 in print edition on 1B
- A Wednesday afternoon tour of renovated Allen Fieldhouse begins fittingly outside the northwest tunnel of the 54-year-old building. It’s the tunnel the Jayhawks sprint through — as they enter and exit James Naismith Court — each and every basketball practice and game.
- Video: Fieldhouse Panorama
- Video: Tour the renovated Allen Fieldhouse
- Video: Fieldhouse renovations put on display
- Photo gallery: Allen Fieldhouse renovations
10:00 a.m.
Thousands marched 40 years ago at KU to protest Vietnam conflict- October 15, 2009 in print edition on 3A
- October 15, 1969. A young Bob Swan remembers being surrounded by thousands of people on Jayhawk Boulevard, and making a note to himself to write to his brother in Vietnam.
2:00 p.m.
KU wants to alter 11th Street to increase parking for new Gridiron Club- October 14, 2009 in print edition on 1A
- A split formation for 11th Street near Memorial Stadium would be straightened out in conjunction with Kansas Athletics Inc.’s game plan for a new $34 million Gridiron Club.
6:00 p.m.
Motorola workers lend hand at Humane Society- October 15, 2009 in print edition on 6A
- The Lawrence Humane Society had about 20 extra helpers on Wednesday who got “down and dirty,” as Midge Grinstead put it.
All stories
- LMH training more nurses to evaluate sexual assault victims
- Nurses available to collect evidence would be increased from five to 17
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital is training more nurses to perform sexual assault exams, after coming under fire recently for sending two rape victims out-of-town to be examined.
- Moran increases lead in fundraising over Tiahrt in Senate race
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B12
- Rep. Jerry Moran has increased his campaign funding gap between himself and fellow Kansas Republican Rep. Todd Tiahrt.
- Legislative leader blasts representative behind Obama rap
- Otto denies he was targeting Obama’s race
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A1
- A southeast Kansas legislator on Thursday said he wasn’t making a racial reference as he sang an anti-President Obama “Redneck Rap” while wearing a hat that said: “OPOSSUM the other Dark Meat.”
- Poll out this morning takes temperature of Kansans
- Most want coverage for all; new poll also reveals opinions on other vital issues
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A1
- From the economy to evolution to the environment, a new poll released Thursday gives voice to the opinions of Kansans.
- KU prof nominated to national academy
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A3
- What do George Washington, Dustin Hoffman and Kansas University history professor Donald Worster have in common?
- Township firefighters sent to fire in abandoned property
- October 15, 2009
- Clinton Township firefighters at 10 a.m. Thursday were headed to check on an abandoned property that apparently was burning west of Clinton Lake.
- KU women picked to tie for second in Big 12
- 10:51 a.m., October 15, 2009 Updated 12:00 a.m. in print edition on B4
- The Kansas women’s basketball team has been picked to tie for second in the Big 12 in a vote of the conference coaches.
- State board of education names interim commissioner
- October 15, 2009
- A veteran Kansas educator has been named to serve as interim commissioner of the state education department.
- Man arrested on aggravated assault charges
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A4
- A 21-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Thursday morning on charges of aggravated assault.
- Cheap thrills: Low-budget Lawrence filmmakers finish campy caper, ‘It Starts with Murder!’
- Low-budget Lawrence filmmakers finish campy caper, ‘It Starts with Murder!’
- October 15, 2009
- Take an Agatha Christie mystery, inject it with John Waters’ raunchy camp, bathe it all in primary colors and fake blood, and you’ve got something resembling the new film out of Lawrence, “It Starts with Murder!”
- KU women eyeing Big 12 crown
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Sometime today the Big 12 Conference office will release its preseason women’s basketball poll, and it should be a bit different than the last five. On this coaches’ ballot, Kansas University should be picked to finish somewhere in the first division.
- County approves road right of way
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A4
- Douglas County commissioners Wednesday approved creation of a public road right of way to give access to a lot west of Lawrence.
- Dow closes above 10,000 for first time in a year
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- When the Dow Jones industrial average first passed 10,000, traders tossed commemorative caps and uncorked champagne. This time around, the feeling was more like relief.
- Watchdog: Treasury, Fed both failed in AIG oversight
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A8
- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is “ultimately responsible” for regulators’ failure to rein in massive bonus payments at American International Group because he led the agencies that provided AIG’s lifelines, according to a bailout watchdog.
- Five-star rating
- Players, coaches awed by fieldhouse’s fancy renovations
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B1
- A Wednesday afternoon tour of renovated Allen Fieldhouse begins fittingly outside the northwest tunnel of the 54-year-old building. It’s the tunnel the Jayhawks sprint through — as they enter and exit James Naismith Court — each and every basketball practice and game.
- Allen Fieldhouse sporting new look
- Renovations include donor atrium, bridge
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A1
- Lew Perkins has never entertained the idea of replacing 54-year-old Allen Fieldhouse.
- Wright has special plans for K.C.
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B4
- Fans need to keep a close eye on New Orleans Hornets forward Julian Wright during pre-game drills tonight in the Sprint Center.
- Students’ halftime exits disappoint Jayhawks
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Fans of the Kansas University football team have come out in droves this season — setting a single-game attendance record in the Jayhawks’ season-opener against Northern Colorado and exceeding the 50,000 mark in both of the team’s other non-conference home games.
- KU’s Bal has career finish in sixth
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B4
- Kansas University junior Meghna Bal tied for sixth individually and the Jayhawks women’s golf team placed in a tie for seventh on Wednesday at the Price’s Give Em Five Intercollegiate.
- Kansas volleyball swept by Texas
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B4
- When you open for The Beatles, your notes can’t be flat. Using that mentality, the Kansas University volleyball team played sweet music for parts of the first and second sets Wednesday against No. 2-ranked Texas at Horejsi Family Athletic Center.
- Limbaugh has only himself to blame
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B2
- Talk about irony. NFL owners, who are almost all rich, white guys, are showing little enthusiasm for allowing Rush Limbaugh into their exclusive club.
- Group drops Limbaugh
- Involvement in bid to buy Rams halted
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B2
- Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams.
- Murphy setting example
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B1
- It’s certainly not fashionable to write nice words about anyone associated with the Kansas University football team’s defense, but since fashion never has been a strength of mine, here goes:
- Residents visit Harpers Ferry
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A4
- Several Lawrence residents will be in West Virginia this week to attend the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry, Va.
- Wall Street Journal is new No. 1 in circulation
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- The Wall Street Journal has surpassed USA Today as the top-selling daily newspaper in the United States.
- Fourth-grader progress on math tests stalls
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- New math scores show fourth-graders made no gains since 2007, the first time in two decades they have failed to improve. Eighth-graders advanced for yet another year.
- Leonardo fingerprint reveals $150M artwork
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Mona Lisa has something new to smile about.
- Humane Society: IHOP eggs aren’t ‘cruelty free’
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- The Humane Society of the United States filed complaints Wednesday against the International House of Pancakes, alleging that the restaurant chain lies about the living conditions of the chickens that lay the eggs for its omelets and pancakes.
- P&G warned for adding Vitamin C to Nyquil
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Federal drug regulators warned Procter & Gamble on Wednesday for adding Vitamin C to its Vicks cold formulas, a combination not allowed by federal regulations.
- iPhone app draws fire for stereotyping
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- PepsiCo Inc. is facing criticism for an iPhone application that promises to help men “score” with two dozen stereotypes of women by giving users pickup lines and a scoreboard to keep track of their conquests.
- Motorola workers lend hand at Humane Society
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A6
- The Lawrence Humane Society had about 20 extra helpers on Wednesday who got “down and dirty,” as Midge Grinstead put it.
- Meth-scourged Missouri towns crack down on drug makers
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A8
- The meth problem in Union has gotten so bad that someone with a drug habit stole the light shades outside Marilyn Roark’s house. She got them back, but they were unusable.
- Officials: Accused terrorist in contact with al-Qaida head
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A8
- The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with al-Qaida that went nearly all the way to the top, to an Osama bin Laden confidant believed to be the terrorist group’s leader in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence officials told The Associated Press.
- Obama calls for $250 payments
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A7
- President Barack Obama called Wednesday on Congress to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million seniors to make up for no increase in Social Security next year.
- U.N.: Record 1 billion go hungry
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A7
- Parents in some of Africa’s poorest countries are cutting back on school, clothes and basic medical care just to give their children a meal once a day, experts say. Still, it is not enough.
- Governor seeks review of state prisons
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B10
- Gov. Mark Parkinson is seeking an outside review of Kansas’ prison system following allegations of widespread illegal sex between staff and inmates at the state’s prison for women.
- 1 killed in Kansas City wood-frame house fire
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B10
- A fire broke out in a house in Kansas City, Kan., killing one person.
- Leader of prostitution scheme sentenced
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B10
- A Chinese woman in the U.S. on an asylum application for religious persecution has been sentenced to eight years for running a prostitution ring out of massage parlors.
- Nonprofit to give award to Dennis Moore
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B9
- Kansas Advocates for Better Care will present the first KABC Caring Award to 3rd District Congressman Dennis Moore.
- Merc staffers attend food conference
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B9
- Community Mercantile board of directors president Carolyn Micek; Rita York, general manager; and staffers Jacqueline Victor and Taylor Hollenbeck attended the Iowa Local Foods Conference on Sept. 4 in Fairfield, Iowa.
- Payless expands shoe giveaway to world
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B9
- Retailer Payless ShoeSource is going international with a program that provides free or reduced-price shoes to needy children through community charities.
- Commodities
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B9
- Agriculture futures were mixed Wednesday.
- Thousands marched 40 years ago at KU to protest Vietnam conflict
- Event mostly peaceful, but ‘lid blew off’ with violent incidents months later
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A3
- October 15, 1969. A young Bob Swan remembers being surrounded by thousands of people on Jayhawk Boulevard, and making a note to himself to write to his brother in Vietnam.
- Workers should weigh benefit options
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B9
- It’s that time of year — open enrollment for your employment benefits package. One thing you need to do — open the documents when they arrive in the mail or read the information online. It’s a pain, but too many employees do nothing at all, allowing their employers to choose for them.
- Round Corner building awaits new restaurant
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B9
- The longtime home of a downtown drugstore is poised to become a contemporary open-air eatery.
- Pedestrian remains hospitalized at KU
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A3
- An 84-year-old Lawrence man remains hospitalized at Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., after he was struck crossing Sixth Street last week.
- Months after rescue, kidnapped woman pictured smiling in People
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A10
- Jaycee Dugard is emerging from obscurity after police say she spent 18 years as a captive in a sex offender’s yard, releasing the first photos of herself as an adult and her first statement.
- Pump patrol
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.24 at several stations.
- From Baghdad to Boston, Biden re-redefining VP job
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on C10
- Early in the 2008 campaign, when high hopes hadn’t given way to harsh realities, presidential candidate Joe Biden told his wife Jill, “I can picture myself sitting in the Oval Office. I can picture who I’d pick up the phone and call.”
- Sidewalks first
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A9
- To the editor: I feel compelled to respond to Tuesday’s Journal-World editorial regarding recreational facilities.
- People in the news
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B8
- A young man punched singer Leona Lewis in the head as she signed autographs and posed for photographs at a book signing session in central London on Wednesday, her spokesman said.
- ‘30 Rock’ spoofs its own in-joke status
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B8
- “30 Rock” (8:30 p.m., NBC) enters its fourth season with an episode sending up the show’s reputation for critical acclaim, low ratings and inside humor.
- Horoscope for October 15, 2009
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on B8
- For Thursday, Oct. 15: This year, you move in new ways and make what you want happen. Refuse to get into power plays. Learn to walk away from such manipulations. If you are attached, and this is part of your relationship, by you saying no, you have taken the first step to a better relationship. If you are single, remain centered about what you want from a relationship. Be careful, as there is a likelihood you could choose a person who is emotionally unavailable.
- Facility proposal
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A9
- To the editor: Before much more hysteria builds behind the proposal to construct a luxury recreational spa in west Lawrence, I would like to suggest a modest alternative that is more in keeping with our current economy.
- Clearer air
- The state budget situation may be dismal, but for the first time in a long while politics can be put on the back burner as elected officials seek solutions.
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A9
- The headline in Tuesday’s Journal-World was dreary: “News is not good for state budget.” With state tax receipts down 12 percent for the first quarter of the year, the headline fit the mood at the Statehouse.
- Could a political wave be building?
- October 15, 2009 in print edition on A9
- Demure Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, but since then has not made many waves. It might, however, be part of a political wave a year from now, thanks to a direct descendent of Benjamin Franklin.
- 25 years ago: Bankers reduce prime lending rate
- October 15, 2009
- Bankers Trust Co. reduced its prime lending rate to 12.25 percent from the 12.75 percent established by most of the banking industry the past month. The move by the nation’s ninth largest bank came at a time when borrowers were increasingly turning to other sources for short-term loans and it followed declines in the cost of raising funds for banks.
- 100 years ago: Police still on the lookout for bank robber
- October 15, 2009
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Oct. 15, 1909: There again is fear that Ross Bullock, the police-shooter and bank robber, is still in the area and that the arrest made in Guthrie, Okla., was not that of Bullock. He reportedly was sighted here this morning. Officer Pringle, the man Bullock shot after the bank robbery, is still unlikely to live. Police are frustrated about all the clues they get that are not solid and they fear that Bullock will strike out at others. His mother continues to say she does not believe her boy, 18, is guilty of anything. The father visited here and then returned to Missouri to his work, apparently brokenhearted by the reports of the crimes… . A two-year hunting trip through the frozen north to kill specimens for the University of Kansas Museum is being planned by Prof. L.L. Dyche. He will specialize on the frozen wilds of Alaska and plans to get a wealth of major specimens for the KU museum. KU is due to have the most complete collection of it kind in the nation.
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