Also from April 17
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Puppetry & tragedy: ‘House of Atreus’ finds fresh way to render savagery of Greek theater- April 16, 2010 in print edition on 1C
- Director Spencer Lott faced a bit of an unusual dilemma. How to portray cannibalism, mutilation and slow-motion murder on stage at the Lawrence Arts Center?
6:00 a.m.
Another city commissioner raises concerns about proposed shelter location as threat of lawsuit looms- April 16, 2010 in print edition on 1B
- Add the threat of a lawsuit to the list of reasons Lawrence city commissioners may reject a proposal to move the community’s homeless shelter to a site near the Douglas County Jail.
10:00 a.m.
Budget deficit grows deeper- April 17, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- The lines deepened Friday between those wanting a tax increase and those wanting more cuts as a new revenue estimate revealed a $510 million state budget hole and a shaky economy.
2:00 p.m.
As many as 30 Lawrence teachers may not get new contracts for next school year- April 16, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- Lawrence school district administrators on Friday said they expected to not offer contracts next year to up to 30 teachers once they finish evaluating $4.6 million in cuts and staffing needs at schools.
All stories
- Independent Kansas gubernatorial candidate arrested on charges of battery
- April 17, 2010
- A Kansas gubernatorial candidate has been arrested over an alleged altercation at a recent tea party event in central Kansas.
- Josh Selby chooses Kansas
- As expected, Doron Lamb chooses Kentucky
- 07:30 p.m., April 17, 2010 Updated 08:39 p.m.
- Josh Selby, the No. 4 ranked basketball senior according to Rivals.com, will be attending Kansas University next year.
- KU baseball’s rally falls short at Nebraska
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on C6
- Kansas senior Robby Price and junior Jimmy Waters hit late home runs, but it was too little too late.
- Alcohol-awareness gathering honors memory of KU students
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B3
- The alcohol-related deaths of two Kansas University students in March and April of 2009 were remembered Friday night at an event designed to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself.
- GOP blasts liberal court nominee
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A5
- Senate Republicans fiercely criticized President Barack Obama’s choice for a seat on a San Francisco-based federal appellate court Friday, in an intensifying test of his ability to install an unabashed liberal.
- Flight disruptions in Europe get even worse
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Thick drifts of volcanic ash blanketed parts of rural Iceland on Friday as a vast, invisible plume of grit drifted over Europe, emptying the skies of planes and sending hundreds of thousands in search of hotel rooms, train tickets or rental cars.
- Dust cloud casts gloom over interwoven world
- Volcanic ash affects life in several continents
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A3
- A cloud of ash hovered over Europe on Friday, casting a pall over an interwoven world.
- Monks, government workers seek life after earthquakes
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Tibetan monks in crimson robes dug through earthquake rubble alongside government rescue workers, a startling image for a Chinese region long strained by suspicion and unrest.
- Pole vaulter continues Northern Iowa success
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Northern Iowa assistant track coach Jacob Pauli decided against driving a university van from Cedar Falls to Lawrence for the 2010 Kansas Relays.
- Ex-Blackwater president indicted
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A6
- The former president of Blackwater Worldwide was charged Friday with using straw purchases to stockpile automatic weapons at the security firm and filing false documents to cover up gifts given to the king of Jordan.
- Mexico drug cartels empty border towns
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on E6
- The 14-year-old boy tied a few mattresses and a bedstead to the family pickup truck. He went back into his single-story yellow house for the cat, and chained up the gate. Then he drove off with his family, who were abandoning home, jobs, school and country.
- Flood insurance stoppage hits thousands
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on E6
- Many people trying to buy a house with a riverfront view were up a creek the past few weeks because of the temporary shutdown of the federal program that provides flood insurance.
- Thoughtful gifts show appreciation for bridesmaids
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D5
- Being a bridesmaid is meant to be an honor but it’s often a big demand.
- Jayhawk cheer
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Thanks very much for the article on Jayhawks in Afghanistan (Journal-World, April 9). Our daughter-in-law, Maj. Nicole Dobson, a medical doctor in the U.S. Army, served last year as director of the intensive care unit at Bagram Airbase Hospital. She sent out the call for Jayhawks, and we passed it to friends who sent lots of paraphernalia.
- Running on faith: The Half-Marathon for the Master promotes being spiritually and physically active
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D1
- Everett Ledbetter was taken aback by how formerly obese and sickly contestants on NBC’s hit weight-loss show, “The Biggest Loser,” were able to finish a 26.2-mile marathon just months after stepping into a gym…
- No clarity offered on U.S. adoptions freeze
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Russian and U.S. officials gave birthday gifts Friday to the 8-year-old boy who was returned to Russia by his adoptive American mother, as Russia sent conflicting signals about whether all adoptions to the United States were now suspended.
- Police ties to Roethlisberger questioned
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on C2
- Pennsylvania state police say a trooper with Ben Roethlisberger the night he was accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old college student in a Georgia nightclub is subject to the department’s code of conduct whether he was working for the Steelers quarterback or along as a friend.
- Greinke falls short of 2009 form
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on C2
- With their middle relief in shambles, the Kansas City Royals need Zack Greinke to be almost perfect to have a chance to win these days. Too bad for them that he hasn’t looked anything like his Cy Young-winning self early this season.
- Rough week for LHS soccer ends in third shutout
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on C3
- How bad a stretch has it been for Lawrence High’s girls soccer team?
- Events recall fire at Kansas Union
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Tuesday will mark the 40th anniversary of the Kansas Union fire.
- Forum to address seniors’ health care
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Ageism in the health care debate will be the topic of a spring community forum sponsored by the Douglas County Coalition on Aging next week.
- Couple booked into jail for aggravated assault, domestic battery
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B2
- A Lawrence woman and her husband were arrested in the 2400 block of Brett Drive early Friday morning.
- 2 arrested in auto burglary case
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Lawrence police arrested two men Friday morning who were suspected of breaking into cars near Ninth and Louisiana streets.
- 2-year-old boy unfazed by pending brain surgery
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Kade Swepston stood on the bathroom counter, admiring his hair in the mirror. The smiling 2-year-old appeared pleased with his spiked-do that was growing taller by the day.
- UFL calls first minister
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D8
- For the first time in its 53-year history the Unitarian Fellowship of Lawrence has called its first “settled” minister. The church, 1263 N. 1100 Road, voted Sunday to call the Rev. Jill Jarvis, previously the church’s consulting minister to half-time settled ministry.
- Man who flipped off cop receives $4,000
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B8
- An Overland Park man who flashed an obscene gesture at an Olathe police officer after getting a ticket is getting rewarded for his behavior.
- No major violations in Topeka Zoo report
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Federal inspectors have cited the Topeka Zoo for eight noncompliance issues but no major violations.
- Restraining order dissolved in Missouri judicial dispute
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B8
- A Missouri judge on Friday dissolved a temporary restraining order against a political action committee run by a former state Supreme Court judge in a dispute over efforts to change the way judges are chosen.
- Applegate engaged to rocker boyfriend
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D7
- Christina Applegate is engaged to marry musician Martyn Lenoble.
- Lawsuit against Harrelson dismissed
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D7
- Court records show a lawsuit filed by a former TMZ photographer who accused Woody Harrelson of attacking him has been dismissed.
- Singer pleads not guilty to drug charge
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D7
- A member of the pop group Girlicious has pleaded not guilty in Southern California to possession of cocaine with the intent to sell.
- Danny Glover, 11 others arrested in Md.
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D7
- Actor Danny Glover and 11 others have been arrested during a labor union protest at the Maryland headquarters of a food service company.
- Who? Promising new ‘Doctor’ returns to save the world
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D7
- “Doctor Who” (8 p.m., today, BBC America) returns with a new Doctor. Matt Smith takes over the role as the time traveling world-saver and becomes the 11th actor in the title role of the long-playing series.
- Horoscope for April 17, 2010
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D7
- This year, many opportunities come your way. Try not to be too ambitious. By this time next year, you will have begun another life and luck cycle. If you are single, check out a new person with care. As much as there is an attraction, there also could be an element of elusiveness or unavailability. If you are attached, the two of you will gain through more open communication and perhaps some old-fashioned dating. Gemini makes you laugh.
- Voters split on whether Obama deserves 2nd term
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A5
- Barack Obama isn’t even halfway through his term as the nation’s 44th president, but the latest Gallup poll released Friday shows that registered voters are about evenly divided over whether he deserves another.
- Obama’s expansion of gay rights draws tepid praise
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A5
- President Barack Obama’s move to grant same-sex partners full visitation rights in hospitals is the latest example of his making concessions to liberals without getting too far ahead of public opinion
- Obama urges part of bank bill be dropped
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A3
- In the face of stiff GOP opposition, Obama administration officials want Senate Democrats to purge a $50 billion fund for dismantling “too big to fail” banks from legislation that aims to protect against a new financial crisis. Republicans contend the provision would simply continue government bailouts of Wall Street.
- Toyota to recall 600K Sienna minivans
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday it was recalling 600,000 Sienna minivans sold in the United States to address potential rusting spare tire cables that could break and create a road hazard in the latest safety problem to strike the beleaguered automaker.
- Spanish helicopter crashes, 4 killed
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Four soldiers died in the fiery crash of a Spanish military helicopter Friday in the rugged mountains of eastern Haiti, the United Nations said.
- Concealed weapons without permit allowed
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Favoring the constitutional right to bear arms over others’ concerns about gun safety, Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill making Arizona the third state allowing people to carry a concealed weapon without requiring a permit.
- Serious problems found at mines since blast
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Federal inspectors have found more than 60 serious safety violations at Massey Energy operations since the explosion that killed 29 miners, adding to fallout from the disaster that includes a wrongful death lawsuit by one of the men’s widows.
- Obama asks businesses to support climate bill
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- President Barack Obama wants business leaders to push Congress to pass long-stalled climate legislation awaiting action in the Senate.
- What’s news today SEC files fraud charges against Goldman Sachs
- Agency accuses Wall Street bank of defrauding investors
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The Securities and Exchange Commission filed fraud charges against Goldman Sachs on Friday, alleging that the famously successful but vilified Wall Street bank sold investors a subprime-mortgage investment that was secretly designed to lose value.
- Check it out: Some libraries offer ways to avoid fines
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Twelve-year-old Audrey Conner owed about $7 in fines to the Salt Lake City public library system, but the voracious reader was a little short.
- Report sees increase in campus violence
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Targeted college campus violence, from serious assaults to the mass shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007, is up sharply over the last two decades.
- Army chief takes charge of restoring order in Thailand
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Thailand’s prime minister talked tough and handed more law and order powers to the army after security forces were humiliated when an anti-government protest leader escaped a police raid by clambering down a rope from a hotel balcony in broad daylight with the help of supporters.
- Problem pets boss owners around
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Angie Best-Boss has tried changing litter boxes, types of litter, brands of litter. But something has gone terribly wrong with Tiger.
- Budget deficit grows deeper
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A1
- The lines deepened Friday between those wanting a tax increase and those wanting more cuts as a new revenue estimate revealed a $510 million state budget hole and a shaky economy.
- College football taunting rule excessive
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on C2
- As if college football’s beleaguered referees didn’t have enough to worry about, soon they’ll be pressed into service as talent judges, too.
- Oregon to talk to Anderson
- April 17, 2010
- One year after signing a seven-year contract extension at Missouri, Mike Anderson is talking with Oregon about its head coaching job.
- FSHS, Anderson excel in distance events
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Free State track and field coach Steve Heffernan knew sophomore distance runner Kain Anderson was on the verge of a breakout performance.
- Counterfeit goods worth $1M seized
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Investigators have seized more than $1 million in counterfeit merchandise and a large sum of cash from a St. Louis home.
- Judge OKs KKK event at historic site
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B5
- A federal judge has ruled that a Ku Klux Klan splinter group cannot be barred from holding an event today at a Missouri historic site — a site where one of the state’s biggest Civil War battles took place.
- LHS baseball falls in 12 innings
- Topeka Hayden wins marathon game, 7-5
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on C1
- It was a battle to see what team could last the longest. Call it an Ironman match.
- River City gem: Free State’s Kukuk strikes out 10 in complete-game shutout
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Players and coaches on the Free State High baseball team admitted they’d like to see more of a spark from their offense this season. The way Cody Kukuk pitched on Friday, however, the Firebirds could have bunted every time they stepped to the batters box and still had a chance to win.
- KU tennis falls
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on C6
- Kansas freshman Victoria Khanevskaya won her third consecutive singles match in Big 12 play, but it was not enough as the KU tennis team lost to Oklahoma State, 6-1, on Friday at Jayhawk Tennis Center.
- KU-MU baseball tickets on sale
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on C6
- The Kansas City Royals have announced ticket prices for the baseball game between Kansas and Missouri on Wednesday at Kauffman Stadium.
- As hope almost lost, dog was found
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B6
- Bob and Tammy Young of Overland started a high-tech search when their sheltie Sophie ran away in December, but an old-fashioned dog tag is what reunited them nearly three months later.
- K-State students map sin across U.S.
- Some of the 7 Deadly Sins harder to track than others
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B6
- America’s newest authorities on sin — an unassuming quartet of post-graduate geography students at (gasp!) Kansas State University — couldn’t exactly consult a road map before striking out on their path to unexpected fame and/or notoriety.
- Obama’s asteroid goal tougher, riskier than moon
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Landing a man on the moon was a towering achievement. Now the president has given NASA an even harder job, one with a certain Hollywood quality: sending astronauts to an asteroid, a giant speeding rock, just 15 years from now.
- Rolling Stone rolls out online subscriptions
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B4
- For the first time Rolling Stone is inviting its readers on the long, strange trip though the magazine’s 43-year archive, putting complete digital replicas online along with the latest edition. But you’ll have to pay to see it all.
- Housing construction points to recovery
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B4
- There were more signs of a moderate housing recovery Friday as the government reported an increase in construction and building permits.
- Pentagon could scuttle giant wind-farm plan
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B4
- One of the Obama administration’s prime initiatives — the development of sources of alternative energy to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil, create American jobs and combat climate change — is being undermined by the Defense Department. The department is threatening to scuttle what promises to be the world’s largest wind farm in eastern Oregon, arguing that the giant turbines could interfere with the Air Force’s radar detection system.
- Cruel bullying
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B7
- I read with great sadness the story of Phoebe Prince, the Massachusetts teen who hanged herself after being subjected to a torrent of cruel bullying. It dredged up my own memories of being bullied as a youth. I like to think that bullying made me a better person. I befriend the friendless. I stick up for people who are being picked on. I taught my daughter to treat everyone with kindness, and she is a beautiful person.
- Pump patrol
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B1
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.73 at several stations.
- Man gets 7 years for August robbery
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B1
- A Lawrence man was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for his role in an August robbery.
- FDIC leader to give Dole Lecture
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B1
- One of the key regulators responsible for overseeing the health of the U.S. banking system will be speaking at Kansas University on Monday.
- New leaders vow to prosecute ex-president
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on E6
- With the tremors of Kyrgyzstan’s violent revolution subsiding, the country’s provisional leader said Friday that her government will push for an international probe of the former president, who has fled the country.
- New stamps to honor movie cowboy heroes
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on E6
- Back in the days when there were good guys and bad guys and it was easy to tell the difference, some of the most beloved heroes were movie cowboys.
- Petty actions seek to downplay success of former KBA chair
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B1
- “Petty” is an adjective defined as “small-minded,” “small in nature,” “mean or ungenerous,” “jealous” and/or “inferior.”
- The heat goes on: March was warmest on record
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on E6
- And the heat goes on.
- Pakistan sets new probe in Bhutto killing after report
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on E6
- Pakistan’s government said Friday that it would revive its criminal investigation into the murder of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto after a U.N. report blamed the former military-led government of Pervez Musharraf for failing to provide adequate security for her.
- 7 top spring furniture trends
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D5
- Welcome, spring. We’ve anxiously awaited your return.
- Military news
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Military news for April 17, 2010.
- FCE News
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D3
- FCE news for April 17, 2010.
- Club news
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Club news for April 17, 2010.
- Around and about
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Around and about for April 17, 2010
- Wedding couple boldly goes where no one has gone before
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D8
- The bride wore a burnt umber Uhura number, and the groom turned out in tasteful Vulcan blue. Standing at the threshold between the perpetual darkness of deep space and the perpetual light of deep love, Nancy Kerr and Kyle Sessions, of Berkeley, Calif., said “I do” last Saturday in a “Star Trek” wedding at San Jose’s Tech Museum.
- Are a healthy faith and a healthy body related?
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on D1
- Reverends Jeff Barclay and Nate Rovenstine discuss the relation of a healthy faith and a healthy body.
- Local trial lawyer defends profession’s role
- April 17, 2010 in print edition on B7
- There is a myth out there that has been perpetuated and promoted for years by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the health care industry, the Republican Party and now the tea party groups, that all that ails this country is primarily caused by the “trial lawyers.” They want to pin the tag on the “trial lawyers” as being, as George W. Bush would say, “evil doers” as if the equivalent of the “Scarlet Letter.” Well, I am one of those “trial lawyers” and I wear that label as a badge of honor.
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- U.S. military sees new appreciation May 28, 2012 · 17 comments
- Heard on the Hill: Chesapeake Energy donation is still on track; State Department hits the brakes on Confucius Institute directive; website ranks KU as best university to work for May 29, 2012 · 3 comments
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- Kansas football scouring country May 29, 2012
- Friends mourn Lynn Bretz, former voice of KU May 28, 2012
- Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down May 28, 2012
- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp May 29, 2012
- Experts: Remedial college classes need fixing May 28, 2012
- City, county mull upgrade to emergency radio system May 28, 2012
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