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- When it comes to Valentine’s Day, which do you prefer: food or flowers?
- The most common demographic of robbery victims in Lawrence is men under the age of 25 who are near downtown late at night. On a recent Saturday night in downtown Lawrence, we asked these men whether they walk home alone from the downtown area.
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- The forecast for Monday, February 15 calls for a high …
- Over the past 30 years, Eddie Lowery has been a …
- Traffic in both directions on Interstate 70 was blocked by …
- A Lawrence ER doctor traveled to Haiti to help with …
- The Jayhawks topped Iowa state, 73-59, on Saturday to notch …
- Film students at LHS put together a challenging lip-syncing project …
- The Kansas women’s basketball team came up just short against …
- The Lawrence school board has many options to balance its …
- The number of homes sold in Lawrence declined for the …
- Jayhawk tennis lost to Iowa but defeated South Dakota on …
- A woman was transported to the hospital Saturday evening after …
- Students at St. John’s School took donations Sunday for the …
- Icy roads caused about 40 vehicles to slide and collide …
- A view from the 6News Towercam.
- A view from the 6News Towercam.
- A view from the 6News towercam.
- Mike McGrew, chairman of McGrew Real Estate, describes his outlook …
- Mike McGrew, chairman of McGrew Real Estate, explains why he’s …
- Kari Jackson, marketing director for McGrew Real Estate, discusses what …
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- Winter weather advisory in effect for neighboring counties
- February 14, 2010
- The National Weather Service in Topeka has issued a winter weather advisory for several neighboring counties.
- Pileups close highways
- Freak weather sets chain-reaction crashes in motion across K.C. metro
- 01:49 p.m., February 14, 2010 Updated 11:23 p.m. in print edition on A1
- Traffic in both directions on Interstate 70 was blocked by multiple car pile-ups Sunday afternoon.
- Falling in Love: Lawrence shares its best Valentine’s Day memories
- February 14, 2010
- We asked the Lawrence community to share their most memorable February 14s spent with their loved ones. You sent us well over 100 stories of all kinds — here are the best ones!
- 40 years ago: Drawings of proposed law enforcement center revealed
- February 14, 2010
- An architect’s drawing was published for the proposed judicial and law enforcement center being sought for the area just to the east of the county courthouse at a cost of about $3.5 million.
- KU coach Bill Self gets milestone victory No. 400
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Kansas University’s basketball players huddled around Bill Self as athletic director Lew Perkins presented a game-ball memento to the Jayhawks’ seventh-year coach moments after Saturday’s 73-59 victory over Iowa State in Allen Fieldhouse.
- Lawrence resident recounts phone scam attempt
- February 14, 2010
- This is a first-person account of a telephone scam attempt conversation.
- Brackins lauds KU
- Cyclone especially keen on Marcus
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C4
- Iowa State forward Craig Brackins has the feeling that in a few years he’ll still be hearing about Kansas University sophomore Marcus Morris.
- Miller breaks KU track record
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Kansas University junior Amanda Miller broke the school record in the 5,000 meters at 16:27.03 on Saturday and earned an NCAA provisional qualifying standard at the ISU Classic in Ames, Iowa.
- Danica’s day ends in 12-car pileup
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C2
- Even as her mangled race car belched steam from its radiator in the background, Danica Patrick remained confident she would have good days in NASCAR. This wasn’t one of them.
- Kiss off! Carnival-goers collect lip-locks
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A kiss is just a kiss, but at Rio’s Carnival, collecting as many pecking partners as possible at one of the 650 massive street parties that hit high gear on Saturday is truly a competitive sport.
- City commission agenda for Feb. 16
- Depot may need ADA improvements
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B8
- City commissioners again will discuss their willingness to take over ownership of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Depot in east Lawrence.
- Luge competition goes ahead
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C10
- Someone had to be first, and it was Tony Benshoof. Overlooking a labyrinth that claimed the life of one of his competitors a day earlier, Benshoof, the top U.S. medal hope in men’s luge, drew a breath of mountain air, secured the visor over his face and dropped down this elevator shaft of ice not knowing what to expect.
- Anthem to delay insurance rate hike
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Health insurer Anthem Blue Cross will postpone its much-criticized plan to raise rates for some California residents who buy insurance on their own, after reaching a deal Saturday with state regulators.
- Behind the Lens: Mechanics of photography: The ISO is exposed!
- February 14, 2010
- The third leg of the exposure equation, ISO, controls your camera’s sensor or film sensitivity…
- 25 years ago: House approves reinstating death penalty
- February 14, 2010
- The Kansas House approved by a 78-46 vote a bill which would reinstitute the death penalty in Kansas for those convicted of premeditated murder and certain other “cruel and heinous” killings. There had been two hours of debate before the vote.
- 100 years ago: Eudora pastor runs afoul of the Ladies Aid Society
- February 14, 2010
- A Eudora pastor who has criticized officials and government got into serious trouble yesterday when he criticized the Ladies Aid Society. Reaction was instant.
- District has options for budget cuts, none painless
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Recent Lawrence school board meetings and public forums have featured some tense moments amid discussions of cutting school programs, increasing class sizes, offering fewer courses, laying off teachers and even closing schools.
- EPA sets $3.5M budget for Treece buyout
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A1
- The Environmental Protection Agency will have a $3.5 million budget to buy out the toxic southeast Kansas town of Treece and will consider public comments before deciding whether to go through with the plan.
- City’s compost sale coming next month
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The city of Lawrence will conduct its annual Spring Compost Sale at the Wood Recovery and Composting Facility, 1420 E. 11th St.
- One injured in car-pedestrian accident
- 12:00 a.m., February 14, 2010 Updated 05:58 p.m. in print edition on B2
- A woman was transported to the hospital Saturday evening after a car-pedestrian accident.
- Elderly targeted in phone scam
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Lawrence resident Dick Brown received a call last week from his grandson, who told him he had been arrested on charges of drunken driving in Canada.
- Local housing market dealing for ‘slow recovery’
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C6
- The number of homes sold in Lawrence declined for the sixth consecutive year in 2009, but the slide shed some speed heading into 2010.
- Gary Bedore’s KU hoops notebook
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C5
- Former Kansas University power forward Darnell Jackson decided to work up a sweat before Saturday’s KU-Iowa State game.
- Victims of violent crimes at risk of PTSD
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A3
- In July, Kansas University student Ross Maddock was robbed in the 1200 block of Tennessee Street as he walked home from a party.
- Store robberies have decreased last 3 years
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A3
- It was a terrifying end to a shift for Great Harvest Bread Co. employee Tolgay Figarelli.
- Robberies on the rise
- Typical victim is young man, late at night
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A1
- As Kansas University student Kyle Rhodes walked home from a party last September, a group of people approached him in an alley near Ohio Street. “I felt something cold at my head,” Rhodes said.
- LHS 6th, FSHS 12th at Sunflower League
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Lawrence High’s wrestling team placed sixth, while Free State finished 12th on Saturday at the Sunflower League Championships at Shawnee Mission Northwest.
- Full-court press gives Kansas lift
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C1
- It happens from Miami to Seattle, from Orono, Maine, to San Diego and every college basketball town in between.
- Accused professor shot, killed brother in ’86
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The professor accused of killing three colleagues during a faculty meeting is a Harvard-educated neurobiologist, inventor and mother whose life had been marred by a violent episode in her distant past.
- Bomb kills 9, wounds 57 at bakery
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A bomb detonated in a crowded bakery popular with foreigners in western India, killing nine people and wounding 57, officials said today, the first terrorist attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai massacre.
- Obama: New budget rules to rein in spending
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A2
- President Barack Obama said Saturday new budget rules that say spending cuts must accompany spending increases will force Congress to “pay for what it spends, just like everybody else.”
- KU softball wins two
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Junior Allie Clark tossed five innings of no-hit ball, and the Kansas University softball team edged Houston, 4-3, Saturday at the Marriott Hobby Invite.
- Baby boomers cut into Social Security surplus
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A surge of early retirements and a decline in payroll tax revenue caused by the recession have begun to cut deeply into Social Security’s surplus funding.
- Embracing history: Man sets hugs record
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A 51-year-old Ohio man has embraced the Valentine’s Day spirit faster than anyone before, giving 7,777 hugs in 24 hours for a new world record.
- Bombs, booby-traps slow U.S. advance in Afghan town
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Bombs and booby-traps slowed the advance of thousands of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers moving through the Taliban-controlled town of Marjah — NATO’s most ambitious effort yet to break the militants’ grip over their southern heartland.
- Veritas boys hoops falls, 38-30
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C3
- The Veritas Christian boys basketball team saw opportunity slip away in the fourth quarter of a 38-30 loss to Topeka Cair Paravel on Saturday at Veritas.
- Haskell women topple Wesleyan
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Senior Justina George scored 29 points, and Haskell Indian Nations University defeated Oklahoma Wesleyan, 66-50, in women’s college basketball Saturday at Coffin Complex.
- Tax program feeds into Meals on Wheels
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Consider it a tip that actually puts food on the table.
- IRS seeks taxpayers who qualify for credit
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Low-wage earners and others in Douglas County will be expected to collect more than $10 million this year from the federal Earned Income Tax Credit. That’s Uncle Sam’s hope, anyway.
- Gaming officials sign off on KCK casino
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Developers can begin construction of a Wyandotte County casino after the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission signed off Friday on background checks for licensing.
- KCKCC purchases ex-retail sites
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Kansas City Kansas Community College has completed the purchase of two former retail sites to house its technical and vocational programs.
- Wheel Genius: Road work this week
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Road work slated for the next week in the Lawrence area.
- Mother of 2 dies of H1N1 complications
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B3
- A mother of two hospitalized for more than three months because of complications from H1N1 has died.
- Use of crash video disturbs some viewers
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C10
- NBC promised viewers of its Olympics telecast on Saturday that it would no longer air the disturbing video of a Georgian luger who died after flying off the track and slamming into a steel beam during a training run.
- Astronauts hook up Space Station plumbing
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A5
- A pair of spacewalking astronauts floated back outside Saturday night to hook up plumbing on the newest room of the International Space Station and bring it alive with power.
- Business Hall of Fame project to elect 3 honorees from community
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B1
- An exclusive group of Lawrence business pioneers will be recognized this year for their contributions to the community with election to the new Business Hall of Fame.
- Nothing runs like a (restored) Deere
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Thurman Duncan did a lot of work behind the wheel of John Deere tractors while growing up on his parents’ Missouri dairy farm in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Businesses grapple with rising unemployment payments
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B1
- State unemployment payments are helping thousands of Kansans make ends meet during this recession. But now business leaders are saying those same payments may make it tougher for Kansans to find a job in the future.
- No health care reform would bring more problems
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A7
- What could be worse than health care overhaul? No health care overhaul. It’s anybody’s guess whether President Barack Obama’s health remake will survive in Congress.
- Horoscope for February 14, 2010
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B4
- For Sunday, Feb. 14: This year, your caring could change many of your relationships. You feel like demonstrating your caring more often through actions, cards and gifts. If you are single, you don’t have to maintain that status. If you are attached, let your sweetie know how special he or she is. Pisces adores you.
- No health care reform would bring more problems
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A7
- What could be worse than health care overhaul? No health care overhaul. It’s anybody’s guess whether President Barack Obama’s health remake will survive in Congress.
- Gone fishing: CIA confirms secret hunt for sunken Soviet submarine
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A9
- In 1974, far out in the Pacific, a U.S. ship pretending to be a deep-sea mining vessel fished a sunken Soviet nuclear-armed submarine out of the ocean depths, took what it could of the wreck and made off to Hawaii with its purloined prize.
- Homeless get tarps, want tents
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A8
- Ask any of the hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims living outdoors in Haiti’s shattered capital and you’re apt to get the same plea: “Give us a tent.”
- Wireless devices causing data traffic jam
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A8
- With the exploding popularity of smartphones, wireless laptops and, if Steve Jobs has his way, tablet computers, it’s fast becoming a wireless world.
- Republican strategy: Filibuster everything, win in Nov.
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on A8
- Senate Republicans are using the filibuster to limit and often derail Democrats’ initiatives, paralyzing the Senate and making it nearly impossible to accomplish even the most routine matters.
- Mixing work and romance
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C6
- It’s natural to find love at work. It’s where people spend most of their time. But an office romance can be risky for the lovebirds and the companies they work for.
- Mortgages
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C6
- The Douglas County register of deeds recorded 79 mortgages in the weekly period ended Thursday.
- Bankruptcies
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C6
- Douglas County residents or businesses filing for bankruptcy protection during the week ended Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Kansas, according to court records:
- Around & about in local business
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on C6
- The Conservation Reserve Program will host an informational meeting at 10 a.m. Feb. 24 in the Dreher Building at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds.
- Time needed
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B7
- “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. … Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.” These words from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. implore us to search our hearts as we look for solutions for our underfunded public schools, a crisis started at the state level.
- Ethical issue
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Mike Hoeflich’s opinion column of Feb. 10 on the actions of House Speaker Mike O’Neal completely and totally misses the point.
- Save our district
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Unfortunately, the reality is that even if the USD 497 school board manages to keep all schools open for the 2010-11 school year, the question of closing schools will resurface. Until the Kansas Legislature forthrightly addresses the current tax system, the problem of adequate public school funding will not go away.
- Poll sends a bipartisan warning
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B7
- There are warning signs to both parties in the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, and this should be a help as President Obama tries to spur a rebirth of bipartisanship in Washington.
- Sarah Palin for president? Bring it on
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B6
- Dear Sarah Palin: I hear you’re pondering a run for the White House in 2012. Last week, you told Fox news it would be “absurd” to rule it out. I’m writing to ask that you rule it in. I very badly want you to run for — and “win” — the Republican nomination for the presidency.
- Obama surprisingly indistinctive
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B6
- He sprinkles the phrase “you guys” throughout his remarks, as in, “You guys, I just want to remind you …” He drops quotes from William Wilberforce, the 19th-century British abolitionist, into his speeches. He appears in the Oval Office in shirtsleeves. He gave a major speech last weekend in Washington without wearing a tie. He grants interviews at baseball’s All Star Game and before the Super Bowl. But just how distinctive a president is Barack Obama?
- School charity
- Setting at least some broad parameters for how money will be used, would encourage more charitable donations for Lawrence public schools.
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on B6
- It’s unfortunate that the Lawrence school district may have to turn to charitable donations to fund its basic operations, but it’s good that the district has the Lawrence Schools Foundation that is ready and willing to help facilitate that process.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Make ‘love coupon’ redeemable for a massage
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on D2
- I hate to be a killjoy, especially where love is concerned. But with Valentine’s Day upon us, I feel compelled to speak for women everywhere (and probably a lot of men) when I say that those so-called love coupons people think are cute and sexy are a bunch of Hallmark-inspired bull nuggets.
- Make your Valentine’s flowers last
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on D8
- Fresh flowers can brighten a room (and a face) at any time of year, but more bouquets are given on Valentine’s Day than any other day of the year.
- Museums might have interest in ornithological charts
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on D8
- I’m a retired elementary-school teacher. I used to spend time in the spring teaching about bird migration, so through the years I picked up four old Audubon bird charts.
- Poet’s Showcase: ‘January 4th — Morning — 8 degrees’
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on D3
- This can’t be snow
- Inhumanity’s front lines: Sacco produces comic books from hot zones
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on D3
- f our present era constitutes a sort of End Times for mainstream media, it’s proving to be a golden age for Joe Sacco and other practitioners of comic-book reportage.
- ‘Valentine’ trilogy well-served by Book 2
- February 14, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Fans of the “Big Stone Gap” series loved Adriana Trigiani’s writing style and ability to bring voice to characters.
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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
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- 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
- Fraternal reorder: Clubs, lodges face dwindling membership in modern world January 10, 2010
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