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- The temperatures will be near zero degrees tonight as a …
- Winter continues to have its way with Lawrence as more …
- Mark Boyle learns the ropes of snow removal from a …
- Employees at Lawrence’s Humane Society have concealed carry licenses. The …
- A happy couple welcomed in the new year with a …
- With 2010 getting into gear, the Lawrence school district is …
- The Temple fans chanted, “We want Kansas,” after beating then …
- A view from the 6News towercam.
- A view from the 6News Towercam.
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Humane Society workers now armed - January 2, 2010 in print edition on 3A
- Workers at the Lawrence Humane Society have started carrying concealed guns to work, and they say it’s for a very good reason.
6:00 a.m.
Collins, Aldrich still key for Kansas- January 3, 2010 in print edition on 1C
- Now that looked like the No. 1 team in the nation that tore into the Liacouras Center and blitzed Temple, ranked 18th, 84-52, Saturday evening.
- Video: KU routs Temple on the road
- Photo gallery: KU vs. Temple
- Poll: In which phase of the game was KU better against Temple?
- Audio clips: 2010 KU-Temple
10:00 a.m.
Old-school gym offers life lessons, along with serious muscle-building- January 3, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- Ron May talks about the old days as his voice competes with the clanking of heavy iron on weight bars and heavy metal on a speaker system.
- Photo gallery: Olympic Iron Gym
2:00 p.m.
State forecast gloomy for 2010- January 3, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- When the 2009 legislative session started last January, state officials knew the Kansas economy was falling, but they didn’t know it would tank.
6:00 p.m.
All stories
- KU women falter at New Mexico State
- Former Longhorn Boyd leads Aggies with 25 points
- January 3, 2010
- Crystal Boyd scored 25 points to lead New Mexico State to a 61-60 upset of No. 21 Kansas on Sunday.
- Gardening trends for the New Year
- Expect tropicals, edibles and gadgets in 2010
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on D8
- Every January, in addition to visiting garden centers just to smell the fresh air, I start looking for hot new items…
- Roads partly snowpacked; Snow flurries to continue overnight
- Temperature expected to drop to 1 degree overnight
- 12:00 a.m., January 3, 2010 Updated 05:44 p.m. in print edition on A1
- The brunt of Sunday’s snow has passed northeast Kansas, but the National Weather Service projects flurries to continue through the night with temperatures dropping to 1 degree.
- Kansas ranks high on U.S. religious index
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B1
- How religious are Kansans?
- Oh, Brother!
- KU twins win big in return home
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Marcus and Markieff Morris completed a brief on-court interview with ESPN2’s Len Elmore Saturday night in Liacouras Center, then raced over to their own 50-person cheering section behind the Kansas University basketball bench.
- Retooled Aggies next test for Kansas women
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Danielle McCray and her Kansas University basketball teammates will finish the nonconference portion of their schedule today against the Aggies.
- People in the news
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on D5
- People in the news for January 3, 2010.
- 2010 election situation worsens for Democrats
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A5
- An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens.
- Lessons of a weekend of free health care
- Nonprofit group offers help to the uninsured through the desperate
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A4
- The two-hour drive is done, but Hannah and Jack Hurst leave the Honda’s engine running.
- Obama says suspect in airliner bomb plot linked to al-Qaida
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday.
- Broncos need help, win over Chiefs
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on C2
- Things have gotten so bad for the Denver Broncos that they’re starting to point fingers — at themselves.
- 2 charged in use of dead woman’s credit
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Two people have been charged with using a credit card of a woman whose frozen body was found in a car outside a northeast Kansas hospital.
- Woolgatherers ponder worst case scenarios
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B7
- It’s not uncommon when driving across Kansas to come upon a sign outside some small town proclaiming, “Home of Someone You’ve Never Heard of” or “Girls Class C Volleyball Champions 1954.” Why is there no sign outside Lawrence announcing, “Woolgathering Capital of the World?”
- Hunter, wife stay sharp with bows
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Tom McGee is a procrastinator, and the evidence is in his living room.
- Old-school gym offers life lessons, along with serious muscle-building
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Ron May talks about the old days as his voice competes with the clanking of heavy iron on weight bars and heavy metal on a speaker system.
- Churches offer overnight shelter to homeless
- When temperatures are below freezing, no one is left to sleep in cold
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Three downtown churches have agreed to a partnership with the Lawrence Community Shelter to provide additional sleeping space for homeless people during cold weather.
- Homeless shelter still planning move
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Lawrence Community Shelter leaders continue to focus on moving the homeless shelter to the former Don’s Steakhouse site on East 23rd Street, even though the shelter’s contract to purchase the property expired last month.
- Change of habit: Advice to make your resolutions stick
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on D1
- At their core, most new year’s resolutions are about breaking bad habits and replacing them with better ones. Out with the old unhealthy behaviors; in with the new and improved…
- Behind the Lens: Seeking plethora of photo submissions
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on D2
- I’m looking for ideas for subjects to discuss or techniques to illustrate. Whatever your interest, we want to provide answers or insight to your questions and help you become a better photographer…
- What would grandma do? Self-help from your grandmother
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on D4
- It all started with a terrible pie.
- Picasso, Rousseau works stolen
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on E8
- About 30 works of art, including paintings by Pablo Picasso and Henri Rousseau, have been stolen from the home of a private collector in southern France, police said Saturday.
- Funeral held for son of powerful mobster
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on E8
- The bells of an Italian Renaissance-style church in Montreal chimed softly Saturday as pallbearers carried the gold coffin of the son of the reputed head of Canada’s most powerful Mafia family.
- New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on E8
- O’treng village doesn’t look like the epicenter of anything.
- Down year for biodiesel ends on dour note
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on E8
- An alternative fuel for diesel engines is off to a shaky start this year though it emits fewer pollutants and cuts down on petroleum use because it’s made from environmentally friendly waste and vegetable oil.
- Horoscope for January 3, 2010
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on D5
- This year, you open a door that allows greater opportunities to come forward. Be sensitive to your spending, and support yourself in building greater strength and security. If you are attached, remember your significant other when choosing your options. If you are single, you could meet someone who is quite different and exciting. Leo pushes you hard to spend.
- Hopes fade in hunt for mudslide survivors
- At least 64 dead in S.E. Brazil
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Firefighters using heavy machinery, shovels and bare hands dug for survivors Saturday but only found corpses under a mountain of red earth and crushed lodgings — the worst of a spate of mudslides and floods that killed at least 64 people in southeastern Brazil.
- Afghan parliament rejects Cabinet list
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A7
- A chastened President Hamid Karzai must submit new Cabinet picks after defiant lawmakers rejected 17 of his 24 nominees Saturday, including a powerful warlord and the country’s only woman minister.
- Survivor of 1906 quake dies at age 107
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Jeanette Scola Trapani, one of the oldest survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, has died at age 107.
- Police: Driver passes out; meth lab in back
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Police say a driver passed out in his car at a Tennessee gas station while a batch of methamphetamine was cooking in the back seat.
- Pinball wizard: Collector dreams of opening museum
- Landscaper owns 867 machines
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A6
- David Silverman has 867 pinball machines and a $2 million dream.
- Supreme Court saves toughest cases for 2nd half
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A5
- The Supreme Court entered its holiday intermission with the starkest drama put off until the second act.
- Cities, counties take back tax breaks
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Cash-strapped communities have a message for corporations that promised jobs in return for tax breaks: A deal’s a deal.
- Looking to get rich? Try yellow undies
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A visitor here might be confused when suddenly, at the end of December, there appears in street stalls and market bins a mountain of underwear for sale.
- Pastor takes in $2.4M after plea for donations
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Evangelical pastor Rick Warren’s plea for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch brought in $2.4 million, Warren announced to cheers during a sermon at the church on Saturday.
- Alleged drug lord captured by police
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Mexican police have captured alleged drug lord Carlos Beltran Leyva, just two week after his even more powerful brother was killed in a shootout with troops — back-to-back victories in President Felipe Calderon’s drug war.
- Early 1900s plane found in Antarctica
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Remains of the first airplane ever taken to Antarctica, in 1912, have been found by Australian researchers, the team announced Saturday.
- Country says it will make own nuclear fuel
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Iran set a one-month deadline Saturday for the West to accept its counterproposal to a U.N.-drafted nuclear plan and warned that otherwise it will produce reactor fuel at a higher level of enrichment on its own.
- Collins, Aldrich still key for Kansas
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Now that looked like the No. 1 team in the nation that tore into the Liacouras Center and blitzed Temple, ranked 18th, 84-52, Saturday evening.
- U.S. commander: Troop drawdown on track
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The nearly two-month delay in holding Iraq’s nationwide elections will not keep American combat troops from leaving the country as scheduled by the end of August, the top U.S. commander in Iraq told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.
- Gary Bedore’s KU basketball notebook
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on C5
- Kansas University coach Bill Self noticed extra fire in his basketball team Saturday afternoon.
- Bigs impress Owls
- Temple overpowered in paint
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on C4
- A few times, Temple fans screamed for junior Lavoy Allen to shoot more in the first half of Saturday’s game against Kansas University.
- Seven turnovers doom Cowboys in Cotton Bowl
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on C8
- Before having to figure out life without Dexter McCluster in the backfield, Mississippi coach Houston Nutt was going to use the speedy back as much as possible.
- Longhorns’ ugly win leaves Barnes displeased
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on C3
- It’s not very often a coach calls a victory a “huge step backward.”
- Texas Tech trainer offers dissent
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on C2
- A Texas Tech athletic trainer told university officials he did not agree with Mike Leach’s treatment of receiver Adam James after the player was diagnosed with a concussion. In an affidavit released Saturday by the university, Texas Tech trainer Steve Pincock said he told James he was “sorry” for having placed the player inside an equipment shed near the practice field.
- Wichita district to vote on suing state
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B8
- The state’s largest school district is considering whether it wants to pay more to take the state to court over school funding.
- DA’s overlooked gun being investigated
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B8
- The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Department is investigating after District Attorney Chad Taylor carried a gun into the county courthouse last month.
- Wichita district to vote on suing state
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B8
- The state’s largest school district is considering whether it wants to pay more to take the state to court over school funding.
- Wichita’s Intrust Bank Arena makes its debut
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Freezing temperatures didn’t stop crowds from turning out for the grand opening of the Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita.
- Kansas City ends year with 110 homicides
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Kansas City has ended the year with 110 homicides, a 13 percent drop from 2008.
- Study: Future-minded people make healthier decisions
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Health decisions ranging from whether to smoke or wear sunscreen are rooted in people’s perspective about the future.
- City slap
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: Well, it seems the city commissioners, in their infinite benevolence, have chosen to slap those individuals, both owners and renters, and businesses of Lawrence who for whatever reason — moral grounds, safety or respect for city ordinances — cleared their sidewalks while saying to those who choose to ignore those same precepts a pass by choosing to not enforce the city ordinance covering snow removal.
- Party vote
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: I’m saddened by the fact that our two senators voted along party lines against the health care bill.
- It’s not working
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: After the Christmas Day near-terror tragedy on the plane to Detroit, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had the gall to say that “the system worked.” Only a self-serving bureaucrat could say such a thing.
- America’s to-do list for a new decade
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B7
- From the well-worn couch in front of the fire, the view out the window is obscured.
- 40 years ago: Residents renew license tags
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B6
- Kathy Sedlak, 17, managed to be No. 1 in line for the first county license tag of the year, ousting the Billy Chappell family which had managed to capture No. 1 for the previous three years.
- 100 years ago: Three drunk drivers released
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B6
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 3, 1910: “There were only three prisoners at the city jail, for being drunk on New Year’s Eve, so the doors were thrown open so they could leave.
- Feds must avoid California-style spending
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B6
- The U.S. economy survived the traumas of 2009, thanks to good policy and good luck. What worries me, looking ahead, is what might be called the “Californiaization” of America — the growing tendency of our political system to make promises in social spending programs that it isn’t prepared to pay for with tax increases.
- Obama in denial about terrorist threat
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B6
- Janet Napolitano — former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security — will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: “The system worked.”
- Texting in traffic
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B6
- Drivers encounter many potentially deadly distractions, but sending text messages on a cell phone is one of the worst.
- Abortion foes plan to renew debate
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Anti-abortion legislators in Kansas are pushing again this year to rewrite state restrictions on late-term procedures and for other initiatives, despite the murder of Dr. George Tiller.
- Wheel genius: Road work this week
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Road construction for the first full week of January, 2010.
- Tech topples MSU in thriller
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on C8
- The focus never completely returned to football even with Saturday night’s entertaining Valero Alamo Bowl after a brutally long week in Red Raider nation.
- Classes teach coping skills for cancer
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming. There are unfamiliar medical terms, tests and treatments that can leave patients and their families feeling overwhelmed.
- Township board changes meeting time
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B3
- The Wakarusa Township board has changed its meeting schedule for 2010.
- City Commission agenda for Jan. 5
- Lease for lab space considered
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B2
- The Lawrence City Commission agenda for January 5, 2010.
- Police-chase suspect dies from injuries
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B2
- A driver accused of leading Kansas City police on a chase and causing a three-vehicle wreck has died.
- Arkansas edges East Carolina in Liberty Bowl
- January 3, 2010
- Alex Tejada kicked the ball through the uprights, turned around and ran toward the opposite end of the field. His Arkansas teammates chased him all the way to the end zone amid a wild scene of celebration and relief.
- KU schedules more makeovers of student housing
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B1
- One all-women’s residence hall at Kansas University will open to men, and one more Jayhawker Tower building is in line for renovations as part of scheduled housing improvements.
- Coal plant nearing next step
- Application for permit, public hearings expected soon
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on B1
- The battle over building a coal-burning electric power plant in western Kansas is likely to arise again soon.
- Mizzou hoops mauls Georgia
- Big 12 roundup
- January 3, 2010
- Laurence Bowers scored a career-high 23 points, leading Missouri to a victory over Georgia on Saturday. Bowers put an exclamation point on the first half by completing a thunderous alley-oop dunk from Miguel Paul at the buzzer.
- State forecast gloomy for 2010
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on A1
- When the 2009 legislative session started last January, state officials knew the Kansas economy was falling, but they didn’t know it would tank.
- Mortgages
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on E1
- The Douglas County register of deeds recorded 89 mortgages in the weekly period ended Thursday.
- Bankruptcies
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on E1
- 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:
- Understanding mutual funds
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on E1
- Mutual funds allow investors to purchase a variety of stocks and bonds in a pool form.
- Film highlights the harm done by cyberbullies
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on D4
- Hundreds of Bergen County, N.J., teachers are being trained to use a new film, “Sticks and Stones,” to help students understand the irreversible consequences of cyberbullying via social networks, e-mail, cellphones, instant messages and texting.
- Boomer Girl Diary: New Year’s follow-through so difficult with good TV on
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on D1
- It all starts tomorrow, people. New year, new decade, new me.
- Here’s how your body works
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on D2
- So you’re over 50 and you’re starting to feel old. All the physical stuff you used to do, everything that used to be so easy, is much harder now that you’re the boomer age of 50 and older. But guess what? It’s not because of your age.
- Bygone ironing tools are valuable collectibles
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on D8
- The old iron your great-grandmother used to iron her clothes with would not seem to be of much use or value today, but there are many collectors who want irons and other laundry-related collectibles.
- The text-Web hybrid: As books move beyond print to multimedia experience, what happens to reading?
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Predicting the eventual death of the traditional novel sounds practically heretical. But the genre has actually existed in English for only about 300 years, and that experimentation and evolution have always been a part of the way we tell stories…
- Poet’s Showcase: ‘A Short Life’
- January 3, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Lawrence residents jump into health app market
- January 3, 2010
- Dr. David Dunlap’s venture is part of a burgeoning trend in medical mobile apps, known in the health care industry as “mHealth.”
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- Friends mourn Lynn Bretz, former voice of KU May 28, 2012
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- Kansas football scouring country May 29, 2012
- Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down May 28, 2012
- Book helps family heal after tragedy May 28, 2012
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