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Polls
Are you satisfied with BP's fix of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No | 57% | |
| Yes | 25% | |
| Not sure | 17% | |
| Total | 794 | |
Videos
- Temperatures will be a little more bearable tonight as they …
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital was finally able to break ground on …
- A crowd gathered in north Topeka to wish luck to …
- An inspection of the MagnaGro facility revealed numerous fire code …
- Video cameras are set up to monitor an alley behind …
- Two people sustained serious injuries in an accident Friday morning. …
- The National Transportation Safety Board released initial findings from the …
- With just three weeks left until the first step toward …
- The 6News anchors competed in their first Sports Challenge of …
- Four Lawrence high school teachers spent a week each working …
- Lawrence resident Renee Babin got a chance to plant her …
- The heat and humidity will begin to build again today …
- Some delays are possible near the East Lawrence Interchange on …
- Emergency response personnel respond to the scene of an accident …
- Weather should be pleasant this morning and there shouldn’t be …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Former KU Athletics employee Brandon Simmons pleads guilty in ticket scandal- 12:06 p.m., July 15, 2010 Updated 2:41 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- A former assistant athletics director became the second Kansas Athletics Inc. employee to plead guilty in connection with a scandal involving more than $1 million worth of tickets the university says were stolen by insiders.
6:00 a.m.
City sidewalk sale draws early crowds- July 16, 2010 in print edition on 4A
- Too many to count, that’s how many Lawrence sidewalk sales Carol Supancic has attended.
- Videos: Shoppers analyze their purchases, spending
- Photo gallery: 2010 Sidewalk Sale Photos
10:00 a.m.
Statehouse Live: Parkinson delays last call on cheap drinks; puts brakes on new alcoholic beverage pricing policy- 4:25 p.m., July 15, 2010 Updated 6:29 p.m. in print edition on 3A
- Gov. Mark Parkinson gave a reprieve to bar owners Thursday by delaying implementation of a policy that some complained would have driven up the cost of alcoholic beverages.
2:00 p.m.
With $2.95 million offer, couple outbid development group for prime property near Lecompton interchange - 11:20 a.m., July 15, 2010 Updated 5:50 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- A crowded room watched as multimillion-dollar bids bounced from one side of the room and then the other. At stake in this closely watched Douglas County Sheriff’s auction was the future of one of Lawrence’s prime pieces of industrial property: 155 acres just north of the Lecompton interchange on the Kansas Turnpike.
6:00 p.m.
A Friend in need: Noon Group golfers embrace widow as one of guys- July 16, 2010 in print edition on 1B
- Of all the thousands and thousands of conversations that have taken place over the past 30 years or so among Noon Group golfers at Alvamar Country Club, one stands above the rest as the defining moment of the unofficial fraternity.
All stories
- Crack-sealing set for Saturday along parts of Sixth Street, Bob Billings Parkway
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Work to fill cracks along portions of Sixth Street and Bob Billings Parkway could lead to minor delays Saturday for drivers.
- KNEA endorses Holland for governor
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B3
- The Kansas National Education Association has endorsed Tom Holland for governor.
- Lawrence public schools warn police, residents of magazine scam
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Lawrence public schools alerted police to the latest wave of magazine-selling scam on July 8.
- NTSB releases preliminary report in fatal Jefferson County plane crash
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B1
- The National Transportation Safety Board released preliminary findings in the investigation of a fatal plane crash near Perry on July 1.
- Moore raises over $350,000 in first three months of Third District campaign
- July 16, 2010
- Kansas congressman Dennis Moore’s wife raised $352,000 in the first three months of her campaign to succeed him in the 3rd Congressional District.
- Jenkins leading Second District fundraising efforts
- July 16, 2010
- Kansas Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins has a huge financial advantage over her challenger in the Republican primary in the state’s 2nd Congressional District.
- Statehouse Live: Sunflower Electric joins group seeking development of nuclear energy
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A1
- The consortium is promoting the technology to build smaller commercial nuclear reactors and the regulatory changes needed to bring them to market.
- Two men seriously injured in accident north of Lawrence
- 09:14 a.m., July 16, 2010 Updated 10:49 a.m. in print edition on B5
- Two men were seriously injured after an accident in the 2000 block of E. 1400 Road on Friday morning.
- Bureau of Land Management to auction Kansas parcel for oil and gas lease
- July 16, 2010
- The Bureau of Land Management says it will offer oil and gas leasing mineral rights on parcels totaling more than 42,000 acres in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas at its next lease sale.
- Taxed enough
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A7
- After wading past Mr. Stauffer’s inane letter concerning the virtues of government and the evils of business (Public Forum, July 13), I made it to Mr. Meyer’s comments. Is it possible that anyone reading his thoughts doesn’t understand them? Do people in government at all levels not understand the “taxed enough already” (TEA) movement? People have had enough.
- Tax choices
- Local government should continue to invest to the future, but choices have to be made.
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A7
- The critical mass of requested tax increases facing residents of Lawrence and Douglas County is hard to ignore. Even in difficult economic times, it’s not smart to simply hunker down and offer no initiatives for the future, but voters and elected officials are going to have to choose carefully the projects that are important enough to justify tax increases in the next year or two.
- GOP shouldn’t underestimate Obama
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A7
- In the political marketplace, there’s now a run on Obama shares. The left is disappointed with the president. Independents are abandoning him in droves. And the right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November when, his own press secretary admitted Sunday, Democrats might lose the House. I have a warning for Republicans: Don’t underestimate Barack Obama.
- ‘Inception’ a dazzling mix of action, concepts
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on C2
- Christopher Nolan’s first project since “The Dark Knight” offers an ambitious blend of fantasy, science fiction and action.
- Foo Fighter laments technology in rock
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on C2
- Technology helped the Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins record with two of his rock idols on his solo project, but the drummer doesn’t think much about how it has impacted the music world on the whole.
- Rock Kansas: Two books dispel notion that Kansas is flat and boring
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on C1
- State’s shifting geology compels authors to update bibles of the landscape.
- Net Worth: New site helps compare your literary merits to famous authors
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on C1
- It’s tempting when unleashing a critical opinion about those in the creative arts to immediately leap to comparisons.
- Lawrence Cactus routed by K.C. Pioneers
- July 16, 2010
- The Lawrence Cactus lost to the Kansas City Pioneers, 10-3, on Thursday at the Wichita State Pastime Tournament.
- Statehouse panel to review ethics rules
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A3
- A Kansas House committee has been given the job of rewriting the chamber’s ethics rules so members know exactly what behavior will get them in trouble.
- Pump patrol
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.52 at several stations.
- Country’s health care a horror
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A2
- North Korea’s health care system is unable to provide sterilized needles, clean water, food and medicine, and patients are forced to undergo agonizing surgery without anesthesia, Amnesty International reported Thursday.
- Iroquois lacrosse team misses game
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A2
- There were cheers and hollers aboard the Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team bus on Thursday as the players geared up for a very different encounter than what they had planned for Day 1 of the World Lacrosse Championships in England.
- Europe wilts in heat wave
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A2
- It’s so hot that women in bikinis are sunbathing in Moscow.
- Fidel Castro in public again
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A2
- There’s just no keeping Fidel Castro at home these days.
- Well finally stops spewing oil in Gulf
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The oil has stopped. For now.
- Argentina legalizes same-sex marriage
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Argentina on Thursday became the first nation in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, turning aside protest from the Roman Catholic Church to give gay couples the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts.
- GOP raising more funds in open Senate seat races
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Republicans are outraising Democrats in nearly a dozen open Senate races, increasing their hopes of significantly narrowing the Democrats’ majority in November.
- City sidewalk sale draws early crowds
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Too many to count, that’s how many Lawrence sidewalk sales Carol Supancic has attended.
- Nonprofits benefit during sale’s largesse
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A4
- There were a lot of loose wallets out on Massachusetts Street during Thursday’s annual Downtown Lawrence Sidewalk Sale.
- Top finishers in KU competition for young musicians to play Saturday
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A5
- The six top finishers in Kansas University’s International Institute for Young Musicians’ piano competition will perform at a concert on Saturday.
- Concert move
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Forgot to say “thank you” to the Lawrence City Band, Lawrence Parks and Recreation and Kansas University earlier for all the extra work they put out moving the weekly concert to the band room at KU.
- Bad plan
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Public comments to the City Commission, the Sunday editorial and a letter to the editor sum up the many strong arguments against city approval of the Oread Inn’s proposal to hold football game-day street parties on public right of way.
- National greed
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Oliphant’s July 12 cartoon about families moving in with grandpa and grandma suggests that he recognizes hard times are coming as a result of unemployment. I believe a more fundamental financial reason is our lack of spending discipline, as a nation and as individuals, where we spend more than we make. This is evident from the sharp rise in the national debt with President Reagan (from $2+ trillion) to our current president ($13+ trillion).
- 25 years ago: Transportation Secretary Dole says bypass will face stiff competition for federal funds
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, campaigning in Lawrence on behalf of her husband Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, spoke about the proposed bypass south and west of Lawrence. The project, estimated at that time to cost $16 million, would be facing stiff competition for federal funds in the year 1985, when only $5 million was available for 117 similar projects nationwide.
- 40 years ago: 4 Boys State attendees say program is too strict regarding hair length
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Four young men from Wichita were charging that the Boys State program, which had met for its annual session on the Kansas University campus in June, was too militaristic in its regulations, particularly those regarding hair length.
- 100 years ago: Firemen rescue horse from cistern
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on A7
- The versatile fire laddies received an emergency call last evening to assist in extricating a horse from the old brewery cistern. The animal was one of a team, with which Thos. Drisdom was plowing in the little field across Brewery Run. Suddenly and without warning one horse sank out of sight.
- Horoscope for July 16, 2010
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B6
- This year, open up to new possibilities and better friendships. You also might notice that your professional associations are slightly more quirky or eccentric than in the past. If you are single, you yearn to share your life with someone. If you are attached, your personal and domestic life proves to be a tremendous solace. Libra can test your patience.
- Detectives investigate Gibson
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B6
- Detectives investigating Mel Gibson on a possible domestic violence case have received audio recordings from a court handling a child custody matter, authorities said Thursday.
- Couple convicted in extortion case
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B6
- A Michigan couple were convicted Thursday of trying to extort $680,000 from actor John Stamos by threatening to sell old photos of him with strippers and cocaine to the tabloids unless he paid up.
- The Great Recession Cupcake theory
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B6
- When faced with the mysterious in life or on television, I comfort, or delude, myself with theories. Why, I wondered, would anyone watch, or for that matter produce and broadcast, something called “DC Cupcakes” (9 p.m., TLC)?
- Panel to focus on access to broadband
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B7
- A new task force has been formed to help expand broadband access in Kansas.
- Manufacturing cools as recovery slows
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B7
- New evidence of a slowing economic rebound emerged Thursday in reports that manufacturing activity is slowing after helping drive the early stages of the recovery.
- Google’s earnings rise 24% but miss target
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Google Inc.’s second-quarter earnings missed analysts’ target as higher expenses and the fallout from the European debt crisis dragged down the Internet search leader.
- Congress OKs financial reform
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Congress on Thursday passed the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression, clamping down on lending practices and expanding consumer protections to prevent a repeat of the 2008 meltdown that knocked the economy to its knees.
- Official: Legislation will protect investors
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Kansas Securities Commissioner Marc Wilson on Thursday said the financial overhaul will provide Kansans with more protections.
- Report: Poverty a threat for future retirees
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B7
- The nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute regularly delivers the dreadful news of how unprepared so many Americans are for retirement. The findings give you a chill, much like seeing a photo of the iconic black-robed, scythe-carrying personification of death.
- Holocaust survivor’s Auschwitz dance sparks controversy
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on C10
- He’s a Holocaust survivor dancing with his family on what easily could have been his own grave.
- Friends: Accused killer dropped hints
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on C10
- In hindsight, the investigation into the Grim Sleeper serial killings could have led to Lonnie Franklin Jr.’s doorstep much sooner.
- Experts work to free buried ship hull
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on C10
- Workers at the World Trade Center site are excavating a 32-foot-long ship hull that apparently was used in the 18th century as part of the fill that extended lower Manhattan into the Hudson River.
- Even in heat of summer, retailers are already feeling a holiday shiver
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on C10
- It may be hot and sticky outside, but stores across the nation are already getting a chill thinking about Christmas.
- A Friend in need: Noon Group golfers embrace widow as one of guys
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Of all the thousands and thousands of conversations that have taken place over the past 30 years or so among Noon Group golfers at Alvamar Country Club, one stands above the rest as the defining moment of the unofficial fraternity.
- Miami doesn’t interest former Jayhawk Simien
- All-American happy in Lawrence raising family, working as director of Called to Greatness ministry
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B1
- A 2005 first-round draft pick of the Miami Heat, Wayne Simien isn’t tempted to come out of retirement to join the LeBron James-Dwyane Wade-Chris Bosh-led squad in South Beach during the 2010-11 season.
- McIlroy rips through ‘defenseless’ Old Course
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B1
- In the 137 years since the British Open first came to St. Andrews, the Old Course rarely has been such a pushover. Rarer still was the score Rory McIlroy delivered.
- Pierce officially re-signs with Boston
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Paul Pierce never planned to leave Boston when he opted out of the final year of his contract. He just wanted to help the Celtics find him some teammates.
- Miller joins LeBron, Wade, Bosh in Miami
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B2
- By the time next season’s NBA playoffs arrive, nine years will have passed since Mike Miller last enjoyed a postseason victory.
- Rec calendar
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Area sports goings-ons for July 16, 2010.
- Darrell Arthur scores 17 for Memphis
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Former Kansas University forward Darrell Arthur scored 17 points in Memphis’ 101-85 victory over the NBADL all-stars on Thursday in the NBA summer league.
- Jacque Vaughn coaching in NBA summer league
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Former Kansas University point guard Jacque Vaughn is working as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs’ summer league squad.
- Athletes hone leadership skills at Big 12 summit
- July 16, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Kansas University junior track and field athlete Rebeka Stowe won the 3,000-meter steeplechase title Sunday at the NACAC Track and Field Championships.
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- U.S. military sees new appreciation May 28, 2012 · 30 comments
- On the street: How did you spend your Memorial Day? May 28, 2012 · 27 comments
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- Blog: Reasonable Gun Laws May 18, 2012 · 41 comments
- Tax gamble May 26, 2012 · 81 comments
- God, marriage May 25, 2012 · 193 comments
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- 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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