Also from August 19
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Obituaries
On the street
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Podcasts
Polls
How would you grade the taste of the city's tap water?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| F | 23% | |
| C | 19% | |
| B | 19% | |
| D | 17% | |
| A | 12% | |
| I’ve never tasted it | 7% | |
| Total | 611 | |
Will the KU football team make a bowl in 2010?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 49% | |
| No | 42% | |
| Undecided | 7% | |
| Total | 405 | |
Videos
- Algae in the Kansas River and Clinton Lake are to …
- We’re looking at a mild night with temperatures around 65. …
- Leslie Ross, who taught second grade last year but is …
- The organizers said mistakes land many in jail for crimes …
- The 23-year-old woman was in a head-on collision with a …
- Two bicyclist were riding down the street when they hit …
- Some of the eggs have been sold in Walgreens stores …
- Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little made the announcement. She said a faculty …
- Today three professors were awarded the Kemper, the first few …
- The school’s dorms are full, so new freshmen are living …
- Pick got the coveted spot, and Toben Opurum will be …
- Visitors to Pendleton’s County Market can tag butterflies and participate …
- There will be plenty of sun shining on the drive …
- With plenty of sun and temperatures in the mid 90s, …
- This video by LJWorld.com reader Brian Heili was taken about …
- One person was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital Thursday morning …
- Get ready for lots of sun and only a few …
- We might see some fog this morning with temperatures in …
- Kei Kamara, player for the Kansas City Wizards and the …
- Kei Kamara, player for the Kansas City Wizards and the …
- Kei Kamara, player for the Kansas City Wizards and the …
- Kei Kamara, player for the Kansas City Wizards and the …
- Laurel Nagengast, a senior at Lawrence High School, explains what …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
A lesson in food- August 18, 2010 in print edition on 1C
- When he’s not teaching in the classroom, Stu Shafer is teaching in the fields
- Video: Farming with Stu Shafer
6:00 a.m.
Walk-ons C.J. Henry, Chase Buford leave KU basketball team- August 18, 2010 in print edition on 1B
- Kansas guards C.J. Henry and Chase Buford have left the KU men’s basketball team, KU coach Bill Self announced Wednesday.
10:00 a.m.
City’s request for grant to upgrade train depot rejected- August 18, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- Plans for the city to assume ownership and restore the Santa Fe Depot in east Lawrence have been dealt a blow.
6:00 p.m.
Family celebrating 150 years of farming in Douglas County- August 18, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- In 1860, Phillip Metsker and his two brothers transformed 240 acres of prairie grass into farmland. Today, another Phillip Metsker, the settler’s great-grandson, grows corn and soybeans while also working full-time as district manager for Taylor Seed Farms.
- Video: Douglas County farm to celebrate 150th birthday
- Photo gallery: The Metsker family through the years
All stories
- School board members to set goals during Monday afternoon meeting
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Members of the Lawrence school board on Monday will meet to discuss their goals for the coming year — a year with plans already underway for moving sixth-graders into middle schools, shifting ninth-graders into high schools and, yes, working to boost assessment scores district-wide.
- Pick the pick: Sophomore from Dodge City will be KU starting QB
- 03:22 p.m., August 19, 2010 Updated 12:00 a.m. in print edition on B1
- The quarterback on the roster who spent the most time with Todd Reesing will get the first crack at replacing him.
- Event to benefit homeless veterans
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Heavy Weather Films, a Lawrence-based production company, is hosting a pancake breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vt.
- Malnourished child found in De Soto attic
- 11:18 a.m., August 19, 2010 Updated 04:16 p.m. in print edition on A1
- A 26-year-old De Soto woman is facing child abuse and aggravated child endangerment charges involving her 6-year-old son.
- LifeStar helicopter called to accident at Bob Billings and Crestline
- One patient taken to LMH with non life threatening injuries
- 11:06 a.m., August 19, 2010 Updated 11:47 a.m. in print edition on A4
- A LifeStar helicopter was called to the scene of a bike accident just before 11 a.m. Thursday.
- Three KU profs receive Kemper awards
- 10:13 a.m., August 19, 2010 Updated 04:18 p.m. in print edition on A3
- Though it took a little extra effort to find her, Kansas University visual art professor Judith McCrea got a happy surprise on KU’s first day of classes.
- KU restructures athletics board; chancellor considering non-university members
- 10:11 a.m., August 19, 2010 Updated 05:47 p.m. in print edition on A1
- State higher education officials on Thursday agreed with a decision by Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little to remove Athletic Director Lew Perkins as chairman of the Kansas Athletics Corp. Board of Directors.
- City: Algae in lakes to blame for musty-tasting water
- 09:47 a.m., August 19, 2010 Updated 05:23 p.m. in print edition on A1
- Your tongue isn’t playing a dirty trick on you. Lawrence’s drinking water really does taste odd.
- Woman killed in head-on collision on K-10
- 09:08 a.m., August 19, 2010 Updated 03:29 p.m. in print edition on A3
- A 23-year-old Lawrence woman died Thursday morning in a head-on collision on Kansas Highway 10.
- Campaign Notebook: Republicans lead all Kansas statewide races, according to poll
- August 19, 2010
- The poll was conducted Thursday, Aug. 12 through Sunday, Aug. 15 for KWCH-TV in Wichita.
- Kansas Highway Patrol graduates first class since 2008
- August 19, 2010
- The newest members of the Kansas Highway Patrol are completing their training and graduating from the state’s academy.
- KU women’s basketball lands commitment
- August 19, 2010
- Catherine “Bunny” Williams, a 6-foot-2 senior forward from Duncanville (Texas) High, has orally committed to the Kansas women’s basketball team, according to Rivals.com.
- Watchdogs
- An unsavory situation in California reminds us of the importance of government watchdogs.
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Until a few weeks ago, most Americans knew almost nothing about the city of Bell, Calif. That, apparently, is exactly how the people running the Bell city government wanted it.
- Israel needs no lectures on peace risks
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A7
- In the intifada that began in 2000, Palestinian terrorism killed more than 1,000 Israelis. As a portion of U.S. population, that would be 42,000, approaching the toll of America’s eight years in Vietnam. During the onslaught, which began 10 Septembers ago, Israeli parents sending two children to a school would put them on separate buses to decrease the chance that neither would return for dinner. Surely most Americans can imagine, even if their tone-deaf leaders cannot, how grating it is when those leaders lecture Israel on the need to take “risks for peace.”
- Narratives drown out truths
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Asking a conservative pundit for advice on race is like asking an ayatollah for advice on preparing the Christmas ham.
- Going strong: Organizers gear up for 2nd year of unique fitness competition
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on C1
- You say you’re feeling stronger, more buff than ever? But can you pull a truck with your bare hands or flip a tractor tire end-over-end at top speed?
- Academic focus
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A7
- KU student body President Michael Wade Smith, I like your ambitious platform. Hats off to you.
- Style Scout: Roxanna Silva
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on C1
- I dress according to the weather.
- 100 years ago: Fairgoers will no longer have access to public drinking cups
- August 19, 2010
- When Douglas county people come to the annual fair in Lawrence next month, there will be no tin cups attached with a chain to a barrel of ice water. The law forbidding public drinking cups on railway trains and public buildings, has been extended to include county fairs.
- 40 years ago: Buses now available for North Lawrence schoolkids
- August 19, 2010
- Delegations of North Lawrence parents had requested school bus service the previous year, but board members had turned them down. Now, however, Federal Title I funds were approved for the rental of a 60-passenger bus. North Lawrence parents had protested their children having to walk across the Kansas River bridge during the winter months.
- 25 years ago: Cromer’s department store declines to join riverfront mall
- August 19, 2010
- Development firm Two Crowns Inc. was no longer looking to A.J. Cromer’s department store to anchor their project of a riverfront shopping mall in Lawrence. “Cromer’s is not coming in. We couldn’t reach an agreement…. We’ll get a department store, but obviously not a local store,” said Two Crowns president Bob Wright. Cromer said that the rent and “common area” charges proposed by Two Crowns had made the project unfeasible for them.
- $1.2 million in funds to help clear health care backlog
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on B8
- The state has received a $1.2 million bonus that will be used to clear a backlog of 16,000 applications for health care, officials said Tuesday.
- County OKs nearly 3 mill tax increase
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Despite pleas from residents to not raise property taxes, two Douglas County commissioners held firm to a $69 million budget and the 2.993 mill increase that came with it.
- Lawrence man reports car stolen
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A 24-year-old Lawrence man reported Monday the theft of a gray 1990 Toyota Camry from the intersection of 19th and Ousdahl streets.
- Man punched in face, transported to hospital after fight
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A 22-year-old man was the victim of an aggravated battery early Monday morning in the 900 block of Illinois Street.
- Egg recall grows to 380M
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Hundreds of people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs in four states and possibly more, health officials said Wednesday as a company dramatically expanded a recall to 380 million eggs.
- Dozens of dignitaries attend Stevens’ funeral
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Vice President Joe Biden recalled that when he was new to the Senate and had just lost his wife and daughter in a car accident, Ted Stevens walked over to him and offered his friendship.
- Poll: BP image recovering from spill, but confidence still low
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A2
- BP’s image, which took an ugly beating after the Gulf oil spill, is recovering since the company capped the well, though the oil giant’s approval level is still anything but robust. A majority of Americans still aren’t convinced it is safe to eat seafood from parts of the Gulf or swim in its waters, a new AP poll shows.
- Fetuses found in trunk dating to ’30s
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Remains of two fetuses wrapped in 1930s newspapers and placed in doctor’s bags were found inside an unclaimed steamer trunk by women cleaning out the basement of a 1924 apartment building that’s being converted to condominiums, authorities and witnesses said.
- Obama on political tour
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Admittedly wary of losing touch, President Barack Obama returned to the comfort of backyard politics on Wednesday, assuring a polite gathering of middle-class neighbors that the economy is coming around “slowly but surely.”
- Blagojevich retrial looms
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A2
- “Blago on Trial, The Sequel” promises to be as circus-like and nearly as expensive as the first trial of the former Illinois governor. And in a state with a huge budget deficit, some people would prefer not to see it at all.
- Poll: Many call Obama Muslim
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Americans increasingly are convinced — incorrectly — that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, and a growing number are thoroughly confused about his religion.
- ‘Nightline’ probes secrets in primetime
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on B7
- The hazy, lazy, low-rated days of summer often provide the ABC news division with a few dollops of primetime exposure. Even a “news” show not devoted to hyping “The Bachelor.”
- Horoscope for August 19, 2010
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on B7
- This year, focus on the quality of your daily life. You discover that some changes and tweaks here and there make all the difference. For some, it might be a change of hours; for others, a new hobby; and yet for some, a new way of eating. If you are single, you also will meet different people because of this change. If you are attached, the two of you opt to take up a new pastime. Capricorn tends to ground you.
- Police investigating plastic surgeon’s crash
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Police are investigating the accident that killed celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan, including whether texting or tweeting may have played a role.
- Steven Tyler joins ‘American Idol’ as judge
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on B7
- The “American Idol” judges table is beginning to take shape: Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler has signed a deal to join the Fox talent competition for Season 10.
- Special Olympian to compete in World Games
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Brady Tanner is strong. Like, bench 415 pounds strong.
- Goodbye Iraq: Last U.S. combat brigade heads home
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A8
- As their convoy reached the barbed wire at the border crossing out of Iraq on Wednesday, the soldiers whooped and cheered. Then they scrambled out of their stifling hot armored vehicles, unfurled an American flag and posed for group photos.
- Coral reefs dying at alarming rate
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A8
- Coral that survived the 2004 tsunami is now dying at one of the fastest rates ever recorded because of a dramatic rise in water temperatures off northwestern Indonesia, conservationists said, warning Wednesday that the threat extends to other reefs across Asia.
- GM takes step to shed government ownership
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A8
- General Motors Co. on Wednesday filed the first batch of paperwork required to sell stock to the public, a significant step toward shedding government ownership.
- MagnaGro could face more charges
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A3
- City Hall leaders are taking more action against MagnaGro International after city inspectors found people violating a condemnation order at the eastern Lawrence business.
- Nov. trial date set in sex crime case
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A3
- A 29-year-old Lawrence man faces a November trial on multiple child sex crime charges.
- Pump patrol
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.59 at several stations.
- Putting out the welcome mat
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Encouraging new students to become good citizens of the “Jayhawk Nation,” Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little called on students to enjoy their upcoming year, but to accept certain responsibilities as well.
- Tax increase needed to support Nebraska immigration ordinance
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A1
- City officials in Fremont, Neb., have said a property tax increase will be needed to cover the cost of defending its immigration ordinance, which was written by and will be defended by Kris Kobach, the Republican candidate for secretary of state in Kansas.
- Mother slaps child; flight attendant intervenes
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on A1
- A mother told aviation police she slapped her crying 13-month-old daughter on a flight between Dallas and Albuquerque because the child kicked her, authorities said.
- Lawrence High senior collects donations with help of Wizards soccer player
- August 19, 2010
- Kids in Sierra Leone can look forward to barrels arriving sometime soon, filled with new and gently used soccer jerseys, T-shirts, shorts and soccer balls.
- Royals hold off Tribe
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Bruce Chen was hardly fine. Thanks to the Kansas City hitters, he didn’t need to be so sharp.
- Our town sports
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on B3
- A weekly roundup of local results, happenings and goings-on.
- MWC invites Fresno State, Nevada
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on B2
- The conference shuffle has restarted.
- Commentary: Like Favre or dislike him: you will still pay attention
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Brett Favre took eight questions during his news conference Wednesday. He spun those eight questions into 33 minutes of Storytime with Grandpa.
- Pelini may relent on media lockdown
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Nebraska coach Bo Pelini’s hard line with the media Wednesday morning seemed to be softening by nightfall.
- Favre returns for 2nd season with Vikes
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on B2
- As far as Brett Favre was concerned, he was finished.
- Style Scout: Antony Vigil
- August 19, 2010 in print edition on C1
- When it comes to fashion, I prefer subtlety.
- 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 · 35 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 · 18 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
- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp May 29, 2012
- Friends mourn Lynn Bretz, former voice of KU May 28, 2012
- Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down May 28, 2012
- Kansas football scouring country May 29, 2012
- Experts: Remedial college classes need fixing May 28, 2012
- Famed author takes on Kansas October 7, 2005
- Retreat offered for writers May 28, 2012
- Town Talk: UPDATE: Thellman files for re-election to county commission; News of salvage yards, curbside recycling and a pig May 25, 2012
