Also from April 24
Births
Blog entries
Couples
- Engagement: Buxton and Alvey
- Engagement: Colson and Wilson
- Engagement: Morrey and Korthanke
- Engagement: Maley and Houk
- Engagement: Moore
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
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Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
‘Celebrity Art Party’: Embarrassment founder Goffrier returns to Lawrence for gallery and guitar showcase- April 23, 2010 in print edition on 1C
- It’s been three decades since Bill Goffrier staged an art show in Kansas. Of course, that depends on your concept of “art” and “show.”
6:00 a.m.
City pays more than twice the regular amount for snow removal in 2009-2010- April 23, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- The snow shoveling is done, but Lawrence City Hall leaders are still trying to dig out from the unexpected expense that came with clearing the city’s streets of snow.
10:00 a.m.
City Commissioners to consider rebuilding busy stretch of Iowa Street- April 23, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- A center turn lane and $5.5 million for a busy portion of Iowa Street will be on the wish list of city engineers Tuesday.
2:00 p.m.
More applicants competing for fewer spots in KU’s nursing school- April 23, 2010 in print edition on 1B
- As applicants line up to get into Kansas University’s School of Nursing, they’ll be facing an increasingly tough road, thanks to state budget cuts.
6:00 p.m.
Dios mio: Spanish speakers in Lawrence now have church services to call their own- April 24, 2010 in print edition on 1D
- For Christians worldwide, God is God, whether you call him “Dios,” “Dieu,” “Gott” or something else entirely. But talking to and about God in a language that’s not your own? That can be, well, difficult…
- Photo gallery: Spanish church services
All stories
- Truck fire stops traffic on U.S. Highway 59
- April 24, 2010
- Traffic was stopped because of a pickup truck fire.
- Strong storms possible, but severe storms not expected
- April 24, 2010
- National Weather Service reports thunderstorms throughout evening, but no severe warnings or watches.
- Bengals grab Briscoe in 6th Round
- 01:41 p.m., April 24, 2010 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- Although he expected to be a mid-round selection, former Kansas wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe had to wait until the 22nd pick of the sixth round (191st overall) of the NFL Draft to hear his name called.
- Kerry Meier taken by Atlanta Falcons in 5th round
- 12:34 p.m., April 24, 2010 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- Many believed that former Kansas University wide receiver Kerry Meier possessed too much versatility to be passed over in this year’s NFL Draft.
- FINAL: Kale Pick looks sharp in Blue team’s 14-10 win at Spring Game
- Pick throws for TDs of 73 and 37 yards
- 12:04 p.m., April 24, 2010 Updated 03:46 p.m.
- Pick’s final numbers (when you combine his Blue and White team stats): 14-for-22, 214 yards, two TDs, 0 interceptions.
- Stuckey scooped up by San Diego in Rd. 4
- 09:47 a.m., April 24, 2010 Updated 12:00 a.m. in print edition on C1
- One of the first people that former Kansas University safety Darrell Stuckey spoke with after being selected by the San Diego Chargers with the 12th pick in the fourth round (110 overall) of Saturday’s NFL Draft was San Diego secondary coach Steven Wilks.
- Pump patrol
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B1
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.69 at several stations.
- Kansas City adds speed, athleticism on Day 2 of NFL Draft
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Two days into the three-day NFL Draft, the Kansas City Chiefs have become quicker and more athletic and probably quite a bit better at returning kicks.
- Club news
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Club news for April 24, 2010.
- Should secular parents consider a religious education for their child?
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on D1
- Reverands Peter Luckey and Kara Eidson discuss religious education for children of secular parents.
- TKE fraternity members move outside their comfort zone
- Weekend spent in makeshift shelter offers perspective on homeless plight
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B1
- As members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity chapter set up their cardboard shelter for the weekend, they knew what they were getting into.
- Muddy Waters: Stellar defense highlights KU baseball’s pummeling of Texas Tech
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C1
- A ballplayer wears no greater badge of honor than a dirty uniform. Kansas University left fielder Jimmy “Muddy” Waters, a junior from Council Bluffs, Iowa, looked as if he had been pinned in a mud-wrestling match after doing a little bit of everything to help the Jayhawks tag Texas Tech, 10-2, in Friday night’s Big 12 series opener at Hoglund Ballpark.
- Jayhawk tennis tumbles, 6-1
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Sophomore Ekaterina Morozova won her singles and doubles matches, but Kansas University’s tennis team fell to Texas Tech, 6-1, at the Jayhawk Tennis Facility.
- Dios mio: Spanish speakers in Lawrence now have church services to call their own
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on D1
- For Christians worldwide, God is God, whether you call him “Dios,” “Dieu,” “Gott” or something else entirely. But talking to and about God in a language that’s not your own? That can be, well, difficult…
- Royals fall to Twins
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C8
- Jim Thome homered and drove in three runs, and Carl Pavano survived a bizarre inside-the-park homer by David DeJesus to lift the Minnesota Twins to an 8-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night.
- KU soph wins hammer throw
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Kansas University sophomore Alena Krechyk won the women’s hammer throw title Friday at the UCSD Triton Invitational in San Diego. Krechyk threw 204-feet, 5-inches.
- FSHS baseball hammers SM South
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Free State High’s baseball team clobbered Shawnee Mission South, 11-1, in a five-inning, run-rule-shortened game on Friday at Free State’s field.
- Wichita prep Ellis named top soph
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Perry Ellis, a 6-8 sophomore from Wichita Heights High School, on Friday was named ESPN RISE’s national sophomore of the year.
- Free State soccer rolls
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Chelsea Casady gave Free State a goal in the first five minutes, and Elena Auer and Kylie Dever recorded a shutout in goal as the Firebirds blanked Topeka High, 4-0, in high school soccer on Friday at FSHS.
- Ochoa says goodbye
- Golfer could play limited schedule
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C2
- Her voice breaking and eyes watering, Lorena Ochoa said goodbye to golf.
- NCAA’s move to 68 makes sense
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C2
- Scaring your customers silly might not sound like much of a business strategy.
- Eudora students show movie project
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B2
- The public is invited to view a movie-making project undertaken by Eudora elementary students.
- Mel Brooks gets star on Walk of Fame
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Nobody could say people walk all over Mel Brooks. Until now.
- Anita Baker headlines New Orleans festival
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Grammy winner Anita Baker wants to give her audience the best that she’s got at this weekend’s New Orleans jazz fest.
- Woody Allen heads to Paris for next film
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Woody Allen’s European detours from his native New York will continue with his next film, “Midnight in Paris.”
- Michaels hospitalized with brain hemorrhage
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Bret Michaels is in critical condition suffering from a brain hemorrhage, his publicist said Friday.
- Pacino is killer in Kevorkian role
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on D3
- The best actors get lost in a role. Al Pacino does just that in “You Don’t Know Jack” (8 p.m., Saturday, HBO). The Pacino you know from “The Godfather” movies, “Scent of a Woman” and a generation of memorable films vanishes as he becomes the celebrated, notorious, iconic and — to director Barry Levinson — a deeply misunderstood American original, Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
- Horoscope for April 24, 2010
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on D3
- This year, you develop a new talent. Not only will you find it rewarding, but it also might become an excellent second source of revenue. If you are single, go exotic, and you could be delighted by the type of relationship you form. If you are attached, plan on that special trip you have always talked about. Virgo understands you much better than you think.
- State’s groundwater levels keep rising
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Evidence of one of the wetter periods in the past decade lingers on Todd Zimmerman’s Rice County farm.
- Administration trims bailout cost estimate to $87 billion
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is telling Congress that the administration believes the final cost of the government’s heavily criticized financial bailout effort could be as low as $87 billion.
- Alaska dog honored for leading troopers to fire in owners’ workshop
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Buddy the German shepherd was hailed Friday as a hero for guiding Alaska State Troopers through winding back roads to a fire at his owners’ workshop.
- Oil accidents prompt new safety rules
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Federal regulators did not need this week’s explosion aboard a state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries over the last several years had already convinced them that changes were needed.
- Convicted Utah killer chooses execution by firing squad
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A Utah inmate facing the death penalty for a violent 1985 escape attempt is scheduled to die on June 18 by firing squad, an execution method that has been phased out in nearly every state, including Utah.
- Allies to start handing over to Afghans
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Fearful of losing public support for the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. and NATO on Friday agreed to start transferring control of the country back to its leaders by year’s end but acknowledged that achieving stability will take decades.
- Series of bombings marks Iraq’s deadliest day of ’10
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A4
- The bloodiest day of the year in Iraq left at least 69 people dead in a series of bombings in mainly Shiite areas Friday — concerted attacks seen as demonstrating the resilience of the Sunni-led insurgency after the slaying of two al-Qaida leaders last weekend.
- Greece seeking bailout
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Hobbled by exorbitant borrowing costs, Greece triggered an emergency aid plan Friday to draw cash from the International Monetary Fund and countries that use the euro — the first test of whether the EU is prepared to bail out one of its members.
- Fake mop top finds cops at TV appearance
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A7
- It’s going to be a hard day’s night in jail for a Beatles impersonator after police arrested him on an old warrant outside an appearance on a San Diego morning news show.
- Ex-Rwandan diplomat, now in U.S., probed in genocide
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Aside from his name and accent, Jean-Damascene Bizimana blends in almost perfectly in small-town Alabama. He has a house on a corner lot, SUV, Polo shirt, job and mortgage.
- Arizona governor signs stiff immigration enforcement bill
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Gov. Jan Brewer ignored criticism from President Barack Obama on Friday and signed into law a bill supporters said would take handcuffs off police in dealing with illegal immigration in Arizona, the nation’s busiest gateway for human and drug smuggling from Mexico.
- Delta passenger detained after trying to open plane’s door
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A flight from Los Angeles to Florida was diverted to Albuquerque early Friday after a passenger sprayed the first-class cabin with a water bottle, tried to open a cabin door and threatened to blow up the aircraft.
- Scouts ordered to pay $18.5M in abuse case
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A jury on Friday ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $18.5 million to a man sexually abused by a former assistant Scoutmaster in what is believed to be the largest such award against the national organization.
- Guilty plea given in subway bomb plot
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A New York man said Friday that a plan to attack the city subway system was ordered by al-Qaida leaders two years ago while he was in Pakistan with a friend, a former airport shuttle driver who has admitted to building the homemade explosives in the plot.
- Attacks against contractors surging
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Attacks on U.S. contractors, construction companies and aid organizations have been rising just as the U.S. pushes faster development of Afghanistan as a priority in its strategy to counter the insurgency.
- Police: Strip club employed 14-year-old
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The manager of a Detroit strip club was charged after authorities learned a 14-year-old girl was employed as a topless dancer, making several hundred dollars a night, authorities said Friday.
- Breathing tubes recalled after 3 deaths
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A Massachusetts company is recalling tracheostomy tubes used to help patients on ventilators breathe after receiving reports that three people died while using them.
- Fundraiser benefits agency on aging
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B3
- The Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging will conduct its annual “There’s No Place Like Home” fundraiser from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. May 15 at Topeka’s Great Overland Station, 701 N. Kansas Ave.
- Panthers tap Clausen
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C8
- The big crowd at Radio City Music Hall for the second night of the NFL draft had to wait for the big names to go. They got a star-studded show while they hung around Friday.
- Matt Tait’s KU football notebook
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C5
- A slew of new faces will be on the field at 1 p.m. today, when the Kansas University football program kicks off its annual spring game at Memorial Stadium.
- New look on display at spring game
- Kansas takes field at 1 p.m. today
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Most years, the Kansas University football team’s annual spring game is a lopsided affair that features a bunch of fan favorites beating up on a pile of backups.
- KU women struggle at Big 12 golf meet
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Megan Gockel, Emily Powers and Grace Thiry were tied for 35th place with first-round 78s as Kansas University got off to a rocky start at the Big 12 Women’s Golf Championships at Austin OU Golf Club.
- Barbee, KU men’s golf in 10th at Big 12
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Kansas University’s Nate Barbee shot 70-72—142 and sat in a tie for 10th place after the first day of the Big 12 Men’s Golf Championships on Friday at Whispering Pines Golf Club.
- KSU leader foresees 100% private funding
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Kansas State University President Kirk Schulz says the Manhattan university could be completely funded by private money within two decades.
- Actor Gary Sinise to perform at Fort Riley
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Lt. Dan and his band are reporting for duty this weekend at Fort Riley.
- Veteran gets prison for faking paralysis
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B4
- A military veteran who claimed a rollover wreck left him paralyzed collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer benefits and was kept stateside when his Army unit shipped off to Iraq. Yet doctors could never pinpoint why he couldn’t use his legs.
- Global wheat glut drives farmers to other crops
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B4
- This year might not be a good one for local farm incomes. A global glut in wheat has driven down prices significantly from their heyday in 2008. Australia and Russia have seen their harvests rise by a third in the past two years, creating the biggest worldwide glut of wheat since 2002. The wheat supply is at a 22-year high in the U.S.
- Check the facts
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B5
- The health care debate has been fraught with lies and misinformation. The latest is that Medicare provider reimbursement is being cut by 21 percent. Therefore, doctors may no longer take Medicare patients. The truth is the reform rescinds that cut and restores the reimbursement rate. Don’t be fooled by the misinformation campaign. Go to www.healthreform.gov or www.medicare.gov and get the truth.
- Kind gift
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Every day, we hear negative things about young people. I would like to share my experiences of the generosity of youth despite the current era of economic hard times.
- Spanish hospital claims first full-face transplant
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A6
- A team of surgeons has carried out the world’s first full-face transplant on a young Spanish farmer unable to breathe or eat on his own since accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago.
- Sarah Palin testifies in e-mail-hacking trial
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A5
- Sarah Palin testified Friday about the disruption and hurt caused when her e-mail account was hacked during the 2008 presidential campaign and said outside court that there should be consequences for what happened.
- Kyrgyzstan adoption process frustrates U.S. families
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on A5
- Amid high-profile furor over adoptions from Haiti and Russia, about 60 American families are persevering with a two-year struggle to complete adoptions from Kyrgyzstan — an already emotionally draining quest further complicated by recent political upheaval.
- Around and about
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Around and about
- 4-H News
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B7
- 4-H News for April 24, 2010.
- Scouting news
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Scouting news for April 24, 2010.
- Professor takes a closer look at university rankings game
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Every spring, not long after March Madness, there is another kind of tournament of interest to many Kansas University faculty, students and administrators. This is not a sports tournament by which the winners and losers of games are determined but a tournament by which some universities and university programs are claimed to be better than others: the annual rankings of colleges and universities and their degree programs by U.S. News & World Report and other organizations.
- New Jersey governor attacks tax burden
- April 24, 2010 in print edition on B5
- The bridge spanning the Delaware River connects New Jersey’s capital with this town where the nation’s most interesting governor occasionally eats lunch at Cafe Antonio. It also connects New Jersey’s government with reality.
- Kansas extends major development tool for 5 years May 28, 2012 · 13 comments
- On the street: How did you spend your Memorial Day? May 28, 2012 · 15 comments
- National group seeks repeal of 'Stand Your Ground' law in Kansas May 27, 2012 · 128 comments
- Sound Off: How much does the city’s transit system collect in fares compared with how much it costs May 27, 2012 · 127 comments
- Remove politics, and redistricting map falls in line May 27, 2012 · 34 comments
- Sound Off: How can I check someone’s criminal record? May 28, 2012 · 3 comments
- God, marriage May 25, 2012 · 192 comments
- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012 · 249 comments
- 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
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012
- 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
- Fraternal reorder: Clubs, lodges face dwindling membership in modern world January 10, 2010
- Lives forever changed by skywalk collapse July 15, 2001
