Also from January 12
Births
Blog entries
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Polls
If a person who is under age 21 dies from drinking too much alcohol, who is most responsible?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| The person doing the drinking | 78% | |
| The person who served or sold the alcohol | 10% | |
| The person who owns the location where the person is drinking | 3% | |
| The people with whom the person is drinking | 2% | |
| The person’s parents | 2% | |
| Other | 2% | |
| Total | 1829 | |
Videos
- Video of Kansas State head coach Frank Martin making contact …
- The forecast for Wednesday, January 13 calls for a sunny …
- The parents of a Kansas University student who died inside …
- Groups of Lawrence third-through-sixth graders enjoyed a Wednesday full of …
- Piper split two games: The boys lost by one point …
- The governor’s plan to raise taxes could mean more money …
- The KU women’s basketball team lost to Oklahoma State at …
- City commissioners came close Tuesday to signing a lease allowing …
- In Monday’s State of the State Address, Gov. Mark Parkinson …
- The Lawrence High boys basketball team defeated Shawnee Mission North, …
- Northeast Kansas is facing a critical blood shortage. The Community …
- The Free State girls basketball team held SM Northwest to …
- The LHS girls basketball team defeated Shawnee Mission North by …
- The Free State boys basketball team lost to Shawnee Mission …
- The Kansas Turnpike plans to blast another section of the …
- A Douglas County judge on Tuesday scheduled a July jury …
- KUSports.com online editor Jesse Newell and Journal-World sports editor Tom …
- Mostly clear for tonight, with winds from the south at …
- The evening commute will be cold, but should be smooth …
- Expect fog and clouds to continue clearing throughout the day. …
- Patchy fog could keep visibility low this morning. Some slush …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Parkinson proposes sales, cigarette tax increases to start session- 6:48 p.m., January 11, 2010 Updated 9:52 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- Governor Mark Parkinson says further budget cuts would harm the state.
- Videos: 2010 State of the State address
- Photo gallery: State of the State Address
10:00 a.m.
Legislator, law enforcement officials call for end to K2- 1:56 p.m., January 11, 2010 Updated 3:06 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- House bill would make herbal mixture illegal.
2:00 p.m.
Lawrence leaders looking to be more aggressive in using incentives for economic development- January 11, 2010 in print edition on 3A
- Commissioners at their weekly meeting will consider approving two economic development projects, and both involve financial incentives that are new to the Lawrence landscape.
6:00 p.m.
The invisible world: Young adult book ‘The Secret of Invisibility’ sets its fantasy adventure in Lawrence- January 12, 2010 in print edition on 6A
- Most of the time in pop culture, Harry Potter’s cloak being a notable exception, invisibility leads to sinister scenarios involving mad scientists or perverts in locker rooms…
All stories
- Devastating earthquake jolts Haiti
- Death toll expected to be in thousands
- 11:41 p.m., January 12, 2010 Updated 02:50 p.m. in print edition on A1
- A mighty earthquake rocked the small, impoverished island nation of Haiti Tuesday, collapsing a hospital, the presidential palace and other buildings, triggering massive panic and claiming an as-yet uncounted number of lives — perhaps thousands.
- Education leaders excited by Parkinson’s education funding proposals but not optimistic they will succeed
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Gov. Mark Parkinson’s proposal to funnel more money into state coffers by increasing sales and cigarette taxes drew applause from education officials in Lawrence.
- Northeast Kansas facing critical blood shortage
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Northeast Kansas is facing a critical blood shortage. The Community Blood Center, which supplies blood to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, is asking for your help.
- Road on top of Clinton Lake dam reopens
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A4
- The road on top of the Clinton Lake dam opened Tuesday.
- Judge in trial of accused killer of George Tiller refuses to block manslaughter defense
- 03:10 p.m., January 12, 2010 Updated 05:27 p.m. in print edition on B8
- A judge turned away objections from prosecutors Tuesday, allowing confessed killer Scott Roeder the chance to build a defense to the slaying of a Kansas abortion provider based on his belief the action was justified to save unborn children.
- KU’s Goodrich to miss remainder of season with torn ACL
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Angel Goodrich, a red-shirt freshman on the Kansas University women’s basketball team, will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus damage in her right knee during Tuesday’s 70-68 loss to No. 15 Oklahoma State.
- Missing Lawrence teen found in Spokane, Wash.
- 03:01 p.m., January 12, 2010 Updated 12:00 a.m. in print edition on A4
- Caleb Christopher-Marley Sheridan, who had been missing since early Sunday morning, has been found, police said Tuesday afternoon.
- ‘Furlough’ plan for Kansas legislators questioned
- GOP lawmakers propose cut in own pay
- 02:49 p.m., January 12, 2010 Updated 03:26 p.m. in print edition on A1
- Under the deal, legislators will take 10 days of unpaid furloughs during the 2010 session. It would reduce the pay of each legislator by $2,047.
- Candidates report fundraising totals in statewide races
- January 12, 2010
- Kansas Attorney General Steve Six reports raising more than $375,000 in 2009 for his re-election campaign.
- Kansas attorney general asks Congressional leaders to remove pro-Nebraska provisions from health reform bill
- January 12, 2010
- Kansas Attorney General Steve Six is asking Democratic leaders in Congress to remove language in the Senate health care bill that benefits Nebraska.
- KU guard Taylor says, at times, he’s unsure of his role
- 02:02 p.m., January 12, 2010 Updated 12:00 a.m. in print edition on B1
- Tyshawn Taylor, who was a starter last season and is a starter playing similar minutes this season, nonetheless said Tuesday he’s unsure of his role on the 2009-10 Kansas University basketball team.
- Parents file lawsuit against fraternity over son’s death from alcohol poisoning
- SAE fraternity and 10 members named in suit
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A1
- The parents of a Kansas University student who died inside his fraternity house last spring have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the fraternity and 10 of its members.
- KU women’s basketball falls in final seconds
- Jayhawks confident after near upset
- 01:11 p.m., January 12, 2010 Updated 12:00 a.m. in print edition on B1
- The outcome might not have been perfect, but following a week members of the Kansas University women’s basketball team would just as soon forget, Tuesday’s promising showing during a 70-68 loss at the hands of visiting Oklahoma State was at least a step forward.
- Kansas Land Trust receives four conservation easements; two are in Douglas County
- January 12, 2010
- A 49-acre patch of native and replanted prairie overlooking Clinton Lake is designated to remain native and replanted prairie overlooking Clinton Lake, under a conservation easement recently donated to the Kansas Land Trust.
- Princeton Review ranks KU among 50 best values for public universities
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The Princeton Review has named Kansas University as one of the top 50 best values among public universities in the nation.
- July trial scheduled in lawsuit over Cat Tracker fatal accident in 2006
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A Douglas County judge on Tuesday scheduled a July jury trial in the fatal accident involving the Kansas State Cat Tracker fan bus in November 2006.
- Statehouse Live: GOP plan to furlough Legislature criticized
- 11:23 a.m., January 12, 2010 Updated 11:23 a.m.
- Some say proposal is misleading
- Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department to offer H1N1 vaccine on walk-in basis at clinic
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A5
- Starting tomorrow — Wednesday, Jan. 13 — the H1N1 vaccine will be readily available at the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department’s clinic.
- Free class offered in Lawrence for new dads, grandpas
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A free class “Conscious Fathering” is being offered in Lawrence. It will be from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, in the Doud Room on the first floor of the United Way Building, 2518 Ridge Court. The research, evidence-based course will provide hands-on experience with “lifelike” babies.
- Kansas receives failing grades for lack of tobacco control policies
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Three Fs and a D. Ouch. That’s what the American Lung Association gave Kansas for its tobacco control policies and regulations.
- The invisible world: Young adult book ‘The Secret of Invisibility’ sets its fantasy adventure in Lawrence
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Most of the time in pop culture, Harry Potter’s cloak being a notable exception, invisibility leads to sinister scenarios involving mad scientists or perverts in locker rooms…
- Oklahoma State’s Riley to provide tough test for Kansas women
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B1
- While members of the Kansas University women’s basketball team surely could have used a break following a week in which they were beaten twice and saw themselves drop from the national rankings, they won’t get one today against No. 15 Oklahoma State.
- KU press effective, but hardly the difference
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University’s frantic fullcourt press forced a pair of turnovers in the final 1:24 of the Jayhawks’ 76-68 loss to Tennessee on Sunday in Knoxville.
- U.S. weighs fees on banks to recover bailout costs
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Obama administration officials and lawmakers are scrambling to find a way to funnel some of the financial industry’s record earnings back to the still-struggling taxpayers who helped rescue the industry from looming disaster.
- Pump patrol
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.49 at several stations.
- Carroll couldn’t pass up challenge
- After 9 years, coach leaves USC for NFL’s Seahawks
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Pete Carroll loves challenges and the NFL game. The Seattle Seahawks offered both, and not even Southern California could compete.
- People in the news
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A9
- Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, will return to her broadcast roots and take her conservative message to Fox News as a regular commentator, the cable channel announced Monday.
- Lawrence police searching for teen missing since 1:30 a.m. Sunday
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Lawrence police were searching Monday night for Caleb Christopher-Marley Sheridan, a 15-year-old boy last seen in southeast Lawrence on Saturday.
- Double Take: Inappropriate situation calls for further consequences
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A6
- I read your column last year on teaching kids not to get into trouble with their sexual behavior. Unfortunately that’s what we’re facing right now.
- Kicker backs out of commitment to KU
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Justin Castor, a kicker from Arvada, Col., has backed out of his commitment to play football next season at Kansas University, according to Rivals.com.
- Road stimulus projects don’t affect job growth
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A federal spending surge of more than $20 billion for roads and bridges in President Barack Obama’s first stimulus has had no effect on local unemployment rates, raising questions about his argument for billions more to address an “urgent need to accelerate job growth.”
- Trial over ban on gay marriage begins
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A widely anticipated federal trial over the constitutionality of California’s ban on same-sex marriage opened Monday, with lawyers and witnesses debating the meaning of marriage and sexual orientation and gay couples testifying about the humiliation of being denied matrimony.
- 5 Western troops killed
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Five NATO service members, including three Americans, were killed in Afghanistan on Monday, underscoring fears that casualties will rise as more foreign troops stream into the country.
- Automakers start to see improvement
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The vital signs are improving for American automakers.
- Woman who helped hide Anne Frank dies
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Miep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager’s diary, has died, the Anne Frank Museum said today. She was 100.
- Study: Watching TV can shorten life
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Watching television for hour upon hour obviously isn’t the best way to spend leisure time — copious inactivity has been linked to obesity and heart disease. But now a new study quantifies TV viewing’s effect on risk of death.
- Tax rebates approved
- Tonganoxie might soon have own stimulus package
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Tonganoxie might soon have its own stimulus package to help spur new home construction and sales.
- Topeka man arrested on assault, drug, gun charges
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A 37-year-old Topeka man was arrested Monday on charges of aggravated assault, battery, and weapons, drugs and stolen property possession.
- Mark McGwire coming clean? Please. This was a swing and a miss
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Anti-hero Mark McGwire took a long, hard swing Monday at redemption and connected with nothing but air, hot, empty air rising from his non-apology “apology.”
- Burglaries reported overnight Friday
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Two burglaries reportedly occurred overnight Friday.
- Carroll’s impact on Pac-10 huge
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Late last July, on the USC campus, offensive guard Jeff Byers took stock of the phenomenon of Pete Carroll.
- OU hoops bests OSU in Bedlam
- January 12, 2010
- Willie Warren scored 15 points, freshman Tiny Gallon had 13 points and 18 boards and Oklahoma beat Oklahoma State, 62-57 in overtime, Monday night in the Bedlam game.
- Egypt: Slaves didn’t build pyramids
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B10
- Egypt displayed on Monday newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza, presenting the discovery as more evidence that slaves did not build the ancient monuments.
- Silence is broken: McGwire admits to using steroids for nearly a decade
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Mark McGwire finally came clean, admitting he used steroids when he broke baseball’s home run record in 1998.
- Vicar invokes blessing on BlackBerrys
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B10
- God bless this BlackBerry. A venerable British church has done what e-mail addicts and workaholics have been doing for years — invoking the Almighty’s blessing on their high-tech gadgets.
- Northern Ireland’s leader steps down after wife’s affair with teen
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B10
- The peace process faces a new challenge as Northern Ireland’s leader was forced to step down — at least temporarily — amid outrage following revelations of his wife’s affair with a teenager.
- Calorie counts: Rare nugget of bipartisan support in health bill
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B10
- Calorie counts for every pizza, blueberry muffin, chef’s salad or anything else that comes from many chain restaurants and vending machines would be instantly available to consumers, thanks to a few paragraphs in Congress’ health care legislation.
- Walmart pulls items after toxic metal report
- Investigation found high levels of cadmium in kids’ jewelry from China
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on B10
- Federal and state watchdogs opened a new front Monday in the campaign to keep poisons out of Chinese imports, launching inquiries into high levels of cadmium in children’s jewelry while Walmart pulled many suspect items from its store shelves.
- ‘American Idol’ returns to mixed expectations“American Idol” (7 p.m., Fox) is back! Paula’s gone, replaced by Ellen DeGeneres. We’ll see. Last year, I wrote that Kara DioGuardi’s addition to the group
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A9
- “American Idol” (7 p.m., Fox) is back! Paula’s gone, replaced by Ellen DeGeneres. We’ll see.
- What will Conan O’Brien do?
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A9
- If “Tonight” show host Conan O’Brien decides he doesn’t want to shift back to a later time slot at NBC, Fox executives have a clear message for him: We love you.
- Horoscope for January 11, 2010
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A9
- For Tuesday, Jan. 12: This year, the unexpected often jolts you. You might wonder if you are taking matters too personally or making a big deal out of something that really isn’t that big of a deal. If you are single, others find you to be very desirable. If you are attached, go back to those old romantic dates. You both will smile. Sag understands you — at times too well for your comfort.
- Honest debate
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A7
- To the editor: This is in response to Jack Hinton’s Jan. 9 letter “Climate Debate.”
- Evolving truth
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A7
- To the editor: Some wrong things were once legal: slavery, forced marriages, racial discrimination, forced sterilization.
- Trust the science
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A7
- To the editor: Al Gore may not be the world’s foremost authority for he is not a scientist. So why keep bringing him up? People were claiming Gore invented the Internet, which he never claimed; as a senator he helped with legislation/funding on the issue.
- School options
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A7
- To the editor: My child attends Cordley Elementary School and I’m writing regarding the recent talk of school closings.
- Is truth a defense in a politically correct age?
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid acted like an idiot. Also, he was right.
- Curtailing calls
- Fewer robo-calls from political campaigns and other entities would be a great gift to Kansans.
- January 12, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Many, many Kansans surely are applauding Attorney General Steve Six’s plan to pursue legislation he believes will drastically curtail “robo-calls.”
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- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012 · 255 comments
- U.S. military sees new appreciation May 28, 2012 · 30 comments
- On the street: How did you spend your Memorial Day? May 28, 2012 · 26 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
- Blog: Reasonable Gun Laws May 18, 2012 · 40 comments
- Tax gamble May 26, 2012 · 81 comments
- God, marriage May 25, 2012 · 193 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
- Book helps family heal after tragedy May 28, 2012
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