Also from September 2
Births
- Gina and Brandon Holloman, Lawrence, a girl.
- Miranda and Heath Cummings, Lawrence, a girl.
- Jake and Katie McDaniel, Lawrence, a boy.
- Nick and Tara Hill, Lawrence, a girl.
- Olaide and Oluwatoyin Babalola, Lawrence, a boy.
- Sungoy and Lisa Oh, Lawrence, a boy.
- Josh and Michelle Saunders, Lawrence, a girl.
Blog entries
- Conference chatter: ConferenceChatterTV debut, and Dezmon or Dez? Can’t go wrong with either
- The Newell Post: KU coaches made right call by keeping Briscoe at kick returner
- The Dividing Line: The Fans Guide to Bandwagon Jumping for fall high school sports
- Lawrence Weather Watch: This morning’s lightning show
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
Polls
The Kansas Highway Patrol is cutting the number of miles troopers drive by 10 percent to save money. Do you support this move?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 66% | |
| No | 25% | |
| Not sure | 8% | |
| Total | 829 | |
Videos
- Pending approval for an expansion to Memorial Stadium, KU’s athletics …
- The sunflower fields at Grinter Farms are a little bit …
- The evening will be mostly dry, cloudy and cool. The …
- The Kansas Highway Patrol is cutting back on the number …
- The City of Lawrence is considering adding a Greek city …
- An Emporia wedding shop was seized by the government for …
- A candlelight vigil was held at South Park Wednesday. The …
- Kerry Meier is looking to record more receptions in the …
- KU football’s Darrell Stuckey has been named to the Lowe’s …
- The Piper High football team is looking to improve on …
- A few more storms are expected to light up the …
- The construction near the East Lawrence Interchange and some repaving …
- There will be quite a lightning show this morning as …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
City gathers input on Kasold reconstruction- September 1, 2009 in print edition on 4A
- Before a contractor is hired to rebuild the southern stretch of Kasold Drive, city officials want to know just how much inconvenience nearby residents might be willing to endure.
6:00 a.m.
Though in disbelief, many Lawrence residents pleased with cooler-than-average summer- September 1, 2009 in print edition on 1A
- “Unbelievable,” is how Bill Wood, director of Douglas County’s K-State Research & Extension office, summed up this summer’s weather.
10:00 a.m.
Health reform forum lively- September 2, 2009 in print edition on 3A
- Some of the 150 people at the Dole Institute of Politics erupted into cheers Tuesday when Kent Henson voiced his support for a public health insurance option.
2:00 p.m.
Tractors provide a fitting send-off- September 2, 2009 in print edition on 3A
- Funeral processions to Lawrence’s Memorial Park Cemetery rarely arrive in the style that brought Elmer Johanning to his final resting place.
6:00 p.m.
All stories
- Roof work planned at indoor aquatic center; pooch plunge planned
- At Outdoor Aquatic Center, traditional Pooch Plunge set for Tuesday
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Roofs and woofs. News about both soon will impact the city’s indoor and outdoor swimming pools.
- Bikers for Babies ride to benefit March of Dimes
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A5
- A Bikers for Babies ride to benefit the March of Dimes is set for Sept. 20 at the Kansas Speedway.
- KDHE changes testing procedures for swine flu virus
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A4
- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Wednesday a change to its testing procedures for the swine flu virus.
- Kansas Highway Patrol reducing driving miles, adopting other measures to save money
- Other measures also being taken to reduce costs
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A1
- The Kansas Highway Patrol has cut the number of miles troopers spend traveling state highways by 10 percent, in response to the state’s economic pinch.
- KU to power Hawk Zone fun with biofuels
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A3
- For the first time, eco-friendly biodiesel will power generators in the Hy-Vee Hawk Zone just south of the stadium, giving rise to more than a massive inflatable Jayhawk, bounce house and slide popular among the younger set.
- KU names 16 people to search committee for provost
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A4
- A 16-member committee will conduct a national search for the next provost and executive vice chancellor of Kansas University’s Lawrence campus, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little announced Wednesday.
- Eudora students pushing school board to take district smoke free
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A4
- Eudora High School sophomore Madeline Dickerson remembers leaving the soccer field gasping for air, only to get an unpleasant surprise.
- Officials take action after Tonganoxie 9-year-old brings BB gun to school
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A3
- A 9-year-old boy brought an unloaded CO2 gun Monday to Tonganoxie Elementary School, which prompted the Leavenworth County attorney to request a hearing in District Court.
- Candlelight vigil set on health care reform
- September 2, 2009
- The Lawrence-area council of Move On, a national political advocacy organization, is hosting a candlelight vigil Wednesday night in support of health care reform and in remembrance of the work of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.
- Kansas Athletics to give $40 million to academic programs at KU
- Revenue would come from proposed 3,000-seat addition to east side of stadium
- 11:19 a.m., September 2, 2009 Updated 07:06 p.m. in print edition on A1
- Kansas Athletics will direct $40 million — a portion of revenue expected from an addition to Memorial Stadium — to academic programs at Kansas University.
- Statehouse Live: Jenkins criticized over comments at another meeting
- 10:02 a.m., September 2, 2009 Updated 04:38 p.m.
- State is part of national settlement with world’s largest drug maker
- Networks offer glimpses of autumn
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B8
- Hints of seasonal change abound as several networks show off their fall wares.
- Weighty words
- Praise for WR McDougald continues
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Bradley McDougald smiled like he knew the question was coming.
- Rodriguez survival at Michigan unlikely
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B2
- It was bad enough not being a Michigan man. It was bad enough going 3-9. But now that allegations have surfaced that Rich Rodriguez violated NCAA rules governing workouts, can he survive this season?
- 40 years ago: Child injured by stove
- September 2, 2009
- A local child was listed in critical condition after a discarded stove near which he was playing had tipped over and fallen on him.
- Hometown flavor: Former KU student joins Eldridge staff as chef following celebrity culinary adventures
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on C1
- Unless you’re a celebrity or a high-flying traveling salesman, it’s rare to call a hotel home.
- Fitness myths exposed
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on C1
- I recently had the opportunity to attend a three-day course at The Cooper Institute in Dallas on “Weight Management Leadership.”
- March of Dimes sale features kids’ items
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B1
- A garage sale this month in Lawrence will benefit the March of Dimes, and organizers are accepting items to sell.
- City hires consultant for sewer line project
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A4
- Area engineers soon will begin focusing on an east Lawrence block.
- Thornburgh to join Brownback at event
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A4
- U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh, who briefly were political rivals, will make a joint announcement on Thursday.
- People in the news
- Boxing legend traces roots to Irish town
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B8
- People in the news for Sept. 2, 2009.
- King of Pop to rest among quiet, history
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B8
- Michael Jackson’s life played out on a world stage, headlines screaming his every move, frenzy following his footsteps.
- Horoscope for September 2, 2009
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B8
- This year, study ways to shorten your work hours, allowing you more free time. Sometimes you can be too diligent! If you are single, greet a new beginning because of a special person. Don’t decide that this is it. If you are attached, the two of you need to bond more deeply. Aquarius often introduces new technology.
- Obama hosts dinner for Islamic holy month
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A10
- President Barack Obama on Tuesday praised American Muslims for enriching the nation’s culture at a dinner to celebrate the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
- Twitter opens door to operations
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A10
- From anesthesia to the recovery room, 70-year-old Monna Cleary’s children followed her surgery — 140 characters or less at a time.
- Video: Chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A10
- An animal rights group publicized a video Tuesday showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa plant and accused egg hatcheries of being “perhaps the cruelest industry” in the world.
- Kennedy friendship defended
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A9
- Opinion columnists, like the rest of humanity, walk a fine line between judgment (holding people accountable to a standard we did not create) and judgmentalness (thinking ourselves morally superior because we haven’t committed the acts of others).
- Sex offenders who prey on children are special case
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A9
- And what should we do with our monsters?
- U.S. shouldn’t press deadline in Iran
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A8
- The September deadline set by President Obama for Iran to restart talks about its nuclear program is upon us.
- California in for long fire season
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A7
- Firefighters reported progress Tuesday against a gigantic blaze on the edge of Los Angeles that might be just a preview of even greater dangers ahead.
- Pilots, airlines wrangle over new rules to fight fatigue
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A7
- Crowded skies and exhausted pilots are a bad mix, the airline industry and pilot unions agree, but they’re struggling over what to do about it.
- Day of Action lines up volunteers
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B10
- The Roger Hill Volunteer Center is organizing its first Day of Action event for Sept. 11 and Sept. 12.
- Know what can affect your credit score?
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B9
- You know how the credit crisis and recession have battered important national economic indicators, such as home prices, stock market indexes and retail sales.
- FedEx, UPS adjust to consumer slowdown
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B9
- When Wall Street collapsed, the paper stopped. Memos, invoices and order forms were left unsent.
- Clunkers aid Ford, Toyota sales; GM, Chrysler fall
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B9
- U.S. sales of cars and light trucks rose to 1.3 million in August, a roughly 30 percent increase from July.
- Europe marks anniversary of WWII start
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A2
- On a wind-swept peninsula where shells lobbed from a German battleship ignited World War II 70 years ago, European leaders vowed Tuesday never to forget the lessons of the 20th century’s bloodiest conflict.
- Hopeful economic signs tempered by wary consumers
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A2
- New signs of economic recovery emerged Tuesday only to be overshadowed by new worries that they won’t last.
- Doctor: JFK had autoimmune disease
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A2
- John F. Kennedy’s Addison’s disease, which came to light only after his election as president in 1960, was most likely caused by a rare autoimmune disease, according to a Navy doctor who reviewed Kennedy’s medical records.
- Spacewalkers tackle hefty tank removal
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A2
- A pair of spacewalkers successfully tackled a hefty tank removal job at the international space station Tuesday as their crewmates unloaded comedian Stephen Colbert’s namesake treadmill for all “those famously fat astronauts.”
- U.S., Cuba to discuss resuming direct mail
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A2
- The United States and Cuba will start talks this month on resuming direct mail service between the two countries for the first time in nearly half a century as the Obama administration continues to try to engage the communist island, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
- UT pulls out of merit scholarship program
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A2
- The University of Texas at Austin is pulling out of the National Merit Scholarship Program to focus on needs-based financial assistance.
- State begins allowing same-sex marriages
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A2
- After 17 years together, Bill Slimback and Bob Sullivan couldn’t wait another minute to get married. So they didn’t.
- Callaspo helps Royals slip past A’s
- Davies wins consecutive starts for first time all season
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B5
- Alberto Callaspo hit a go-ahead two-run single in the sixth, Kyle Davies struck out six and won consecutive starts for the first time all season, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Oakland Athletics, 4-3, on Tuesday night.
- Dugan Arnett’s KU football notebook
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B3
- Meet Sal Capra, “Program Guy.”
- Portis takes issue with Riggins
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B2
- On his 28th birthday, Clinton Portis was trying to be low-key. No big party this year. “I’m going to mind my business,” he said Tuesday as he walked off the Washington Redskins practice field.
- Chiefs release two veterans
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Amani Toomer played 13 successful seasons with the Giants and was brought in by Kansas City to provide leadership to a young group of receivers. Alfonso Boone is a nine-year veteran and opened training camp as a starter at defensive end.
- LHS soccer bounces back
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B1
- One night after opening the 2009 season with a tough loss at Manhattan, Lawrence High’s boys soccer team rebounded with a 3-0 home victory against Junction City on Tuesday.
- Soccer team breaks in new LHS football field
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A4
- The Lawrence High School boys soccer team opened its home season Tuesday night in a new — yet incomplete — stadium.
- Moore cancels overcrowded event
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A4
- Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., canceled a Tuesday morning Overland Park panel discussion on senior health issues because of fire code concerns, a spokeswoman for the congressman said.
- Jo Shmo’s approved for sidewalk dining
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A4
- Pedestrians should expect another sidewalk dining and drinking area on Massachusetts Streets.
- City sells notes, bonds to pay for projects
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A4
- The city officially took on new debt Tuesday night to pay for a host of previously approved projects.
- Sentence given in Kohl’s kidnapping
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A5
- A Wichita man was ordered Tuesday to serve more than 19 years in prison for robbing and kidnapping a woman at knifepoint from the parking lot of a south Lawrence department store.
- KU ranked in pair of magazines
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A5
- Two publications have included Kansas University on their most recent college rankings.
- Hadl a quiet closer
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Closers come in all different personality types. The quintessential Type-A closer portrayed by Alec Baldwin in an unforgettable way in the 1992 film “Glengarry Glen Ross” drives a fancy car and wears expensive threads.
- TE Mosley leaves OSU
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B6
- Sophomore tight end Jamal Mosley has left the Oklahoma State football team a week after a woman filed for a protective order against him.
- Osborne: NU improved
- Huskers’ AD says challenges await
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B6
- Tom Osborne says he expects Bo Pelini’s second Nebraska team to be better than the first, even though it might not be reflected in the win-loss record.
- Tractors provide a fitting send-off
- Procession of antique farm vehicles escorts ‘The Case Man’ to the cemetery
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Funeral processions to Lawrence’s Memorial Park Cemetery rarely arrive in the style that brought Elmer Johanning to his final resting place.
- Health reform forum lively
- Jenkins draws crowds both for, against public option
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Some of the 150 people at the Dole Institute of Politics erupted into cheers Tuesday when Kent Henson voiced his support for a public health insurance option.
- OU’s Stoops not wild about neutral-site games
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B6
- Bob Stoops doesn’t want to make a habit of playing away from home.
- KSU taps starting QB
- Junior Coffman edges out Gregory
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B6
- Kansas State coach Bill Snyder waited until nearly the last possible moment to name a starting quarterback, giving the nod to Carson Coffman over Grant Gregory four days before the season opener.
- Two Jayhawk soccer players honored
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B3
- Kansas junior defender Lauren Jackson and freshman goalkeeper Kat Liebetrau have been honored by the Big 12 after their performances at the Lady Vol Invite over the weekend.
- Seabury volleyball splits with KSD
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on B3
- The Seabury volleyball team split two matches with the Kansas School for the Deaf on Tuesday.
- Jenkins misstep
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A8
- To the editor: Sorry, Rep. Jenkins. Your apology may have been sincere, but it is not enough.
- Doublespeak
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A8
- To the editor: With her call to her Republican audience for a “white hope” presidential candidate (Aug. 27), Rep. Lynn Jenkins unwittingly echoed a century-old call.
- Paper waste
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A8
- To the editor: We hear so much in today’s world about saving energy, conserving resources and other environmental concerns.
- Texas trend?
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A8
- It will be interesting to see the effects of the University of Texas decision to bow out of the National Merit Scholarship Program.
- 100 years ago: Man killed in accident at shooting gallery
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on A8
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Sept. 2, 1909: “Walter Fisher who lives in the 1200 block of Kentucky was killed yesterday by the accidental discharge of a target rifle at Brown’s Grove. Mr. Fisher was conducting a shooting gallery at the Harvest Home picnic. A loaded gun had been placed on the counter and in some way was accidentally discharged as Fisher passed in front of the muzzle.”
- 25 years ago: Preliminary work to expand 15th Street westward begns
- September 2, 2009
- Preliminary work, including clearing of trees and brush, was begun for the West 15th Street extension on the city’s western edge. The extension was to go from Monterey Way to Wakarusa Drive and was to cost about $1.68 million.
- Book of simple recipes lets cooks call their own shots
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on C3
- Mark Bittman wants you to be free. In his new book “Kitchen Express” the New York Times columnist and best-selling cookbook author offers more than 400 “recipes” that are more creative cooking suggestions than staunch commands.
- Labor Day potluck will feature ‘slow foods’
- September 2, 2009 in print edition on C1
- Though most people may think of Labor Day as one final chance to barbecue outside before the cold weather comes, local supporters of the international “slow food” movement want you to think of it as a day to eat in.
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