Also from August 31
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Blog entries
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
Polls
What are your plans for Labor Day weekend?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| A whole lot of nothing | 49% | |
| Hanging out with family and friends | 38% | |
| Taking a weekend getaway | 12% | |
| Total | 557 | |
Videos
- We’ll see some scattered showers tonight, but make sure to …
- A pot left unattended on the stove caught fire at …
- School started August 18 for the school, which was recently …
- Wayne Briscoe wants to run in the 3rd Congressional district, …
- Sheriff’s deputies found one suspect on the Farmland Industries land …
- The truck was on its side near Fairlawn Road and …
- The state collected $38 million more than expected this month.
- The money would go toward renovating the Supreme Court room …
- Jennifer Clarkson was given the Horizon Award, which recognizes newer …
- Educational Support Services is made possible by a grant of …
- The Jayhawks lost seven consecutive games and ended the season …
- The Jayhawks rolled over UMKC to get their fourth-straight win …
- The team is coming off it’s winningest season in school …
- The Wheel and the Replay Lounge were on the list …
- Jennifer Clarkson, a second-year math teacher at Central Junior High …
- Jennifer Clarkson, a second-year math teacher at Central Junior High …
- KU football coach Turner Gill addresses the media prior to …
- KU football coach Turner Gill addresses the media prior to …
- KU football coach Turner Gill addresses the media prior to …
- The area will have increased storm chances beginning Tuesday afternoon …
- Expect delays from the construction near the East Lawrence Interchange …
- KU football coach Turner Gill addresses the media prior to …
- Another very hot and humid day is expected for Northeast …
- Smoke was seen coming from the attic of a house …
- The morning is already warming up and we’re in the …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Summer in a glass- August 30, 2010
- The days of summer are winding down, bringing with them nights perfect for sitting on your deck/patio/porch/balcony /couch and enjoying yourself before the temperature plummets us into fall and (shudder!) winter.
6:00 a.m.
New apartment project in Oread Neighborhood may lead to demolition of Varsity House- August 30, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- A new apartment project for the Oread Neighborhood may mean the end of an old boarding house that once gained fame as the home of the Kansas University football team.
10:00 a.m.
Prayers answered: Steven Johnson’s strenuous journey leads to rewarding opportunity to start at linebacker for KU- August 31, 2010 in print edition on 1B
- Steven Johnson sits on the steps on the north side of the Kansas University football practice facility, his arms resting on his knees in front of him. The junior linebacker — with brown eyes, curly black hair and a few scraggly hairs on his chin straining to form a goatee — wants to talk about the upcoming season.
2:00 p.m.
Animal lab forum has elements of ‘biosci-fi’- August 31, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- Their names seemed to be pulled out of a science-fiction novel: Rift Valley Fever, exotic blue tongue, Chinese porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome.
6:00 p.m.
New sixth-graders to get more out-of-classroom opportunities with change to middle schools- August 30, 2010 in print edition on 3A
- This year’s fifth-graders will get more opportunities next year to participate in athletics, academic clubs and other organized after-school activities. Thanks, middle schools.
All stories
- Two Topeka men arrested on suspicion of stealing copper from Farmland Industries
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A5
- Douglas County Sheriff’s officers have arrested two Topeka men suspected of stealing copper from the former Farmland Industries plant Tuesday night.
- Obama on Iraq: It’s time to turn the page
- 07:25 p.m., August 31, 2010 Updated 09:40 p.m.
- Claiming no victory, President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declaring firmly Tuesday night: “It’s time to turn the page.” Now, he said, the nation’s most urgent priority is fixing its own sickly economy.
- Downtown pep rally to celebrate start of KU football season
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Downtown Lawrence will be filled with a sea of crimson and blue Thursday night as Jayhawk football fans take over Massachusetts Street.
- Escaped Kansas sex offender captured at Missouri DMV
- August 31, 2010
- An escaped Kansas sex offender is back in custody after attempting to register a used car at a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Missouri.
- Two Lawrence bars named to national ‘Top 50’ list
- August 31, 2010
- Apparently finding a good college bar isn’t really that difficult for Complex Magazine, especially if you look in Lawrence.
- Sweet Alternatives: These substitutes to sugar are only natural
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on C1
- White sugar might as well be the Casanova of the culinary world. So sweet and seductive that it’s hard to get enough, but so sly and bad-to-the-bone that, at its heart, it’s only a few steps removed from its villainous modern cousin, high-fructose corn syrup.
- Regents to consider giving former KU Chancellor Gene Budig a new title
- 12:02 p.m., August 31, 2010 Updated 03:04 p.m. in print edition on A3
- In recognition of 30 years of service to Kansas University, the school is seeking approval to grant Gene Budig the title of chancellor emeritus.
- Statehouse Live: Newly renovated Statehouse room needs $250,000 in acoustical work, officials say
- 10:53 a.m., August 31, 2010 Updated 04:07 p.m. in print edition on A1
- Aside from the House and Senate chambers, the old Supreme Court Room is the largest and most ornate meeting room in the Capitol.
- Kansas officials hope August tax collections meet expectations
- August 31, 2010
- Kansas officials are hoping the state’s tax collections in August met expectations.
- Kansas Army National Guard’s top personnel officer retiring
- August 31, 2010
- The Kansas Army National Guard’s top personnel officer is retiring next month after a career spanning 36 years.
- Morning house fire displaces mom, four children
- 08:13 a.m., August 31, 2010 Updated 11:38 a.m. in print edition on A4
- Katrice Woods returned to her east Lawrence home Tuesday morning to see smoke coming from the back of the house, 1300 Del.
- 25 years ago: State turns down Montana’s offer of grizzly bears
- August 31, 2010
- The State of Montana had recently requested to send some of its grizzly bears to Kansas, but the Kansas Fish and Game Commission turned them down, claiming that the state already had an overabundance of the bears, who went by a different name here. “We call them state legislators,” wrote the fish and game director.
- 40 years ago: 15-year-old Florida boy serves 2 stints in Vietnam
- August 31, 2010
- A 15-year-old Florida boy was reported to have successfully served two hitches in Vietnam, but the Army was refusing to recognize his service.
- 100 years ago: Lawrence’s first aero glider destroyed in storm
- August 31, 2010
- The wreck of the first aero glider built and successfully tried in Lawrence lies in a pasture west of town. The machine was constructed by two Lawrence young men, Ogden Jones and Frank Pryor, and was built after the model of an aeroplane, although without a motor. The machine was used in numerous trips and was successful. It was left out of the shed one night last week, and in the storm that came up the glider was torn from its moorings and the uprights broken.
- Education seen as key in Afghanistan
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A7
- There’s been a barrage of bad news lately from Afghanistan. So I was glad for the chance to discuss “what should be done?” with Greg Mortenson, the author of the best seller “Three Cups of Tea” who has built more than 151 schools, mostly for girls, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I’ve traveled with him to some of his schools in Pakistan; he stopped to see me in Philadelphia between interviews in New York and Washington.
- For fun, not profit
- There’s nothing wrong with going to a casino for fun, as long as you’re not going there to win.
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Mark Blakeslee, who teaches a course at Dodge City Community College on treating problem gambling has a refreshingly realistic, if pragmatic, view of the new Boot Hill Casino & Resort in Dodge City.
- Proud profs
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A7
- This is for Keith Langford: Thanks for your guest column in the Journal-World (Sports, Aug. 29) so that your friends here in Lawrence can learn about your accomplishments and aspirations as well as your disappointments and frustrations.
- No gains
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Economics offers much to teach us. Dolph Simons’ Saturday Column of Aug. 28 states that Lowe’s would add sales taxes, jobs and property taxes. Economics shows this to be incorrect.
- Fueling conflict
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Charles Krauthammer’s opinion piece (Journal-World, Aug. 27) proposes a sinister form of democracy buttressed by claims of race-baiting by strawman liberals on four political hot buttons. Based on this he bellows with early senility that voters should determine policy.
- Sucking it in: Guys starting to take underwear cue from women
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Further signs of the impending apocalypse: Men’s girdles are now all the rage.
- All-in-one flu shots already available to public
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A1
- It’s flu-shot season already, and for the first time health authorities are urging nearly everyone to get vaccinated. There is even a new high-dose version for people 65 or older.
- Car stickers to include environmental info
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Will your new car get an A in fuel efficiency? A government proposal may add letter grades to showroom window stickers on new cars and trucks to reflect a vehicle’s overall fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions.
- Earl batters Caribbean, threatens eastern U.S.
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Hurricane Earl battered tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and roof-ripping winds Monday as it rapidly intensified into a major Category 4 storm taking a path projected to menace the United States.
- Americans spend more as economy limps along
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Americans are spending a little more this summer, but hardly enough to rejuvenate the weakening economy.
- Pump patrol
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.49 at several stations.
- In first 8 months, returns good for Kansas casino
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Despite the poor economy, the first state-owned casino in Kansas is exceeding revenue projections and drawing customers from throughout the Midwest, according to lottery officials.
- Vital stats system now running for KDHE
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B8
- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says it now has access to electronic versions of birth certificates and other vital statistics records.
- Marriages
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Marriages for the week of August 31, 2010.
- Divorces granted
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Divorces for the week of August 31, 2010.
- Diabetes now tops Vietnam vets’ claims
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on C12
- By his own reckoning, a Navy electrician spent just eight hours in Vietnam, during a layover on his flight back to the U.S. in 1966. He bought some cigarettes and snapped a few photos.
- Private colleges ‘act local’ with financial aid offers
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on C12
- Hoping to portray themselves as more affordable and all-around better neighbors, private colleges from Appalachia to Boston are sweetening financial aid packages for students from their own backyards.
- Nationwide bedbug infestation spurs pesticide misuse
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on C12
- A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night exterminators.
- Impatience may drive high rate of C-sections
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on C12
- Cesarean deliveries have doubled since 1996 and now account for one-third of all births in the United States. A new study suggests that a big dose of patience on the part of women and their health care providers during delivery might help to lower the rate substantially.
- Horoscope for August 31, 2010
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B7
- This year, look past the obvious. Finally, you will learn to trigger less and allow greater give-and-take between you and others. Empathy increases with understanding. Sometimes you will have to flow with a loved one’s unpredictability. If you are single, don’t count on any relationship being long term until you pass the year mark. Gemini expects a lot from you.
- Baseball-as-metaphor abuse endures on ESPN
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Does America suffer from too many baseball meta-phors?
- Louisiana man arrested by Seagal pleads guilty
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B7
- A Louisiana man who was arrested by Steven Seagal and other sheriff’s deputies last year has pleaded guilty to a minor drug charge.
- Rocker Slash files for divorce in Los Angeles
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Slash is preparing to go solo in his love life.
- Bristol Palin will be among ‘Dancing’ stars
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B7
- The mother of “The Brady Bunch,” a former NFL quarterback, one of the self-proclaimed “guidos” from “Jersey Shore” and the daughter of Sarah Palin are among the celebrities who will cha-cha-cha on the 11th season of “Dancing with the Stars.”
- Purse, cocaine not hers, Hilton told Vegas police
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Paris Hilton had an explanation for police: The rolling papers, $1,300 in cash and several credit cards were hers, but not the purse they were in.
- Mexico says drug lord ‘the Barbie’ captured
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Federal police on Monday captured a long-sought, alleged Texas-born gang kingpin who faces drug trafficking charges in the U.S. and has been blamed for a vicious turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges and shootouts in central Mexico.
- Number of women in Congress could fall
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A2
- For the first time in a generation, the number of women serving in Congress could drop as a result of this fall’s midterm elections, an odd twist on a political season many had dubbed “the year of the woman” as female candidates made runs in several high-profile races.
- Mideast peace plan next for Obama
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Firmly and finally ending the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, President Barack Obama will have but a moment before trying to hasten peace nearby between Israelis and Palestinians. Left unclear is whether winding down the war that inflamed Arab passions will do anything to help long-shot Mideast talks.
- Biden says U.S. won’t abandon Iraq
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Vice President Joe Biden sought Monday to reassure Iraq that America is not abandoning it as the U.S. military steps back and a stalemate over who will run the war-battered nation’s next government approaches its sixth month.
- Wilson, Texas blank Royals, 3-0
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B5
- The more familiar C.J. Wilson becomes with teams, the more dominant he is.
- U.S. survives first test in Turkey
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B2
- The shot bounced off the back rim, then the front, then finally fell out. With that, the United States walked off the court with a victory, and another warning: A world championship won’t come easily for this young team — if it comes at all.
- Past champs Roddick, Federer, Venus win at U.S. Open
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Once you reach a certain age, birthdays tend to make you reflect on your own mortality. They also, in the case of a professional athlete such as Andy Roddick, tend to prompt questions about the state of your career.
- Prayers answered: Steven Johnson’s strenuous journey leads to rewarding opportunity to start at linebacker for KU
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Steven Johnson sits on the steps on the north side of the Kansas University football practice facility, his arms resting on his knees in front of him. The junior linebacker — with brown eyes, curly black hair and a few scraggly hairs on his chin straining to form a goatee — wants to talk about the upcoming season.
- Position battles still brewing for KU football
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University football coach Turner Gill went through his first weekly Big 12 coaches teleconference Monday morning and, in doing so, shed some light on loose ends the Jayhawks are trying to tie up before Saturday’s season opener.
- Kaun making impact for Russia at World Championships
- Rush’s Pacers future unclear after incident
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Former Kansas University basketball player Sasha Kaun is the starting center for Russia at the World Championships in Turkey.
- Drilling effort to free Chilean miners begins
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A2
- An enormous drill began preliminary work Monday on carving a half-mile chimney through solid rock to free the 33 men trapped in a Chilean mine, their ordeal now having equaled the longest known survival in an underground disaster.
- North Korean leader’s trip to China confirmed
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A2
- After Kim Jong Il’s safe return, North Korea confirmed what for days had been clear: the Dear Leader was on a not-so-secret trip to northeastern China.
- Bombs kill 8 coalition troops in Afghanistan
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Roadside bombs killed eight members of the international force in Afghanistan — including seven U.S. troops — raising to more than a dozen the number who have died in the previous three days, NATO said today.
- Interfaith center envisioned near ground zero
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The chairwoman of the community board that voted for an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero said she believes adding an interfaith dimension would help unite people, saying a nondenominational chapel built at the Pentagon as part of a Sept. 11 memorial did just that.
- 65-carat emerald found at North Carolina farm
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A2
- An emerald so large it’s being compared with the crown jewels of Russian empress Catherine the Great was pulled from a pit near corn rows at a North Carolina farm.
- RV dealer challenges ‘Twighlight’ star Lautner to push-ups
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B7
- The owner of an RV dealership sued by Taylor Lautner over a customized vehicle challenged the “Twilight” star Monday to use his muscles instead of his lawyers to resolve the case.
- Salina church secretary sentenced for embezzlement
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A5
- A former church secretary in Salina has been granted probation in an embezzlement case.
- Delegation from Lawrence sister city calls for stronger ties
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A4
- During a visit to Kansas University, representatives from a university in one of Lawrence’s sister cities on Monday called for strengthened ties between the two schools.
- Kansas man sentenced for stealing from mom
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B8
- A northeast Kansas man has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for stealing more than $500,000 from his mother’s trust fund.
- Two questioned after suspicious items found in checked luggage
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Two men on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Amsterdam were questioned by Dutch authorities after U.S. officials found a cell phone taped to a Pepto Bismol bottle and a knife and box cutter in checked luggage connected with the men, a law enforcement official said.
- Seabury tennis beats De Soto
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Seabury Academy’s girls tennis team held off De Soto, 6-3, on Monday at Jayhawk Tennis Center.
- Animal lab forum has elements of ‘biosci-fi’
- August 31, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Their names seemed to be pulled out of a science-fiction novel: Rift Valley Fever, exotic blue tongue, Chinese porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome.
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- U.S. military sees new appreciation May 28, 2012 · 30 comments
- Blog: Reasonable Gun Laws May 18, 2012 · 40 comments
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- Remove politics, and redistricting map falls in line May 27, 2012 · 39 comments
- Sound Off: How much does the city’s transit system collect in fares compared with how much it costs May 27, 2012 · 130 comments
- Tax gamble May 26, 2012 · 81 comments
- God, marriage May 25, 2012 · 193 comments
- Poll: Do you support Gov. Sam Brownback's income tax cuts? May 23, 2012 · 85 comments
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012
- Friends mourn Lynn Bretz, former voice of KU May 28, 2012
- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp May 29, 2012
- Kansas football scouring country May 29, 2012
- Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down May 28, 2012
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