Also from July 17
Births
Couples
- Wedding: Fisher
- Engagement: Dupy and Hornbaker
- Wedding: Jones
- Engagement: Weber and Cole
- Wedding: Baize
- Anniversary: Mullenix
- Wedding: Myers
- Anniversary: Sooby
- Engagement: Simon
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Videos
Lead stories
12:00 a.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.
10:00 a.m.
Peaceful point: Poles are a diverse call for one message- July 17, 2010 in print edition on 1D
- They stand for peace, rain or shine, in places filled with peace and those filled by war, around the world and around Lawrence. They are peace poles — international symbols of hope with a single message said a variety of different ways: May peace prevail on earth.
2:00 p.m.
MagnaGro still operating, despite code violations- July 17, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- Significant fire code violations have been found at the site of a deadly April industrial accident, and questions are mounting about why city regulators have not shut down the plant.
6:00 p.m.
Video cameras have helped solve but not deter crimes- July 17, 2010 in print edition on 1B
- Lawrence attorney Mike Riling has seen it all.
All stories
- Former KU track standout Dick Wilson dies at age 78
- July 17, 2010
- Kansas University Hall of Famer Dick Wilson passed away on Saturday after a battle with a brain tumor and terminal cancer.
- Lawrence man arrested on weapons, drug charges
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B2
- A 26-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Saturday afternoon after police believed he pointed a handgun at a motorist. He was also found in possession of marijuana and cocaine.
- Accidents along I-70 cleared, traffic flow restored
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Two accidents on I-70 near mile marker 205 created a traffic jam near the West Lawrence exit around 4 p.m. Saturday. While no lanes are closed, traffic is backed up by about 3 miles.
- Nine children seriously injured in school bus crash on I-35 near Wellsville
- 9 children injured
- 11:38 a.m., July 17, 2010 Updated 04:45 p.m. in print edition on A1
- A school bus carrying more than 20 children rolled over in a one-vehicle accident near Wellsville Saturday, according to Franklin County dispatch.
- Police searching for suspect in hit-and-run incident
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Lawrence police are searching for a suspect in an early-morning hit-and-run incident.
- Lawrence man arrested after threatening to hit couple with vehicle
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B2
- A 28-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Saturday morning after he reportedly tried to strike two people with his vehicle.
- One arrested after threatening others with knife
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B2
- A 26-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Saturday morning after threatening people outside Burrito King, 900 Illinois St.
- Faith Forum: Why is peace important?
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on D1
- • We share a connection to all life • Peace builds, strengthens and restores
- Peaceful point: Poles are a diverse call for one message
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on D1
- They stand for peace, rain or shine, in places filled with peace and those filled by war, around the world and around Lawrence. They are peace poles — international symbols of hope with a single message said a variety of different ways: May peace prevail on earth.
- 40 years ago: 19-year-old shot by police
- July 17, 2010
- At about 10:30 p.m. on the preceding night, police had received reports of shooting in the 900 block of New York. Approaching officers were fired upon, and after following a car leaving the scene, officers engaged in an exchange of gunfire that left a 19-year-old black man dead. It was the first fatal shooting by a Lawrence police officer since 1966.
- 25 years ago: Equipment malfunction yields bizarre temperature readings
- July 17, 2010
- A May thunderstorm had caused some of the weather equipment at Sunflower Cablevision to malfunction. Channel 6 was currently showing a temperature of minus 40 degrees and a humidity of 98 percent. New equipment was expected to be shipped soon which would correct the problem.
- Hubris may hinder U.S. foreign policy
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B9
- The story mocks a cliché: As they were leaving the Garden of Eden, Adam said to Eve, “Darling, we live in an age of transition.” The first sentence of Barack Obama’s letter introducing his new strategic review says Americans have often coped with “moments of transition” such as today’s “time of sweeping change.” Such boilerplate makes one weep — and yearn for serious, meaning unsentimental, assessments of America’s foreign policy tradition.
- Sen. Byrd served W. Virginia well
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B9
- It was to be a day of celebration for the people of West Virginia. More than 60,000 from across the state jammed the new Mountaineer Field on Sept. 6, 1980, for the inaugural football game, in the imposing structure that many thought would help assure long-term national standing and respect.
- Simple, profound
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B9
- In the “Go!” section of the July 12 Journal-World, Judith Roitman writes about disaster randomness and (I would add) choice.
- Actions vs. ideology
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B9
- I thank Bruce Springsteen for honoring me with a rebuttal (Journal-World, July 9), which naturally I take issue with.
- Self gets breather from recruiting
- First half of summer evaluation period ends
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Bill Self sorted through a stack of mail on his office desk late Friday afternoon. He was catching up with correspondence after 10 days on the road.
- What’shisname takes British Open lead
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on C1
- After two rounds of this year’s prestigious British Open, it is pretty much as we all thought. Louis Oosthuizen is leading by five shots.
- Cactus go 1-1 at Wichita Pastime Tournament
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on C3
- The Lawrence Cactus lost a one-run game and won another Friday in the Wichita State Pastime Tournament.
- Arthur scores four in summer league
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Former Kansas University forward Darrell Arthur scored four points in Memphis’ 66-65 loss to Minnesota on Friday in the NBA summer league.
- 94 charged in Medicare scams totaling $251 million
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A5
- Authorities said busts carried out this week in Miami, New York City, Detroit, Houston and Baton Rouge, La., were the largest Medicare fraud takedown in history.
- Democrats accomplish agenda, yet still face voters’ punishment
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Midterm elections are rarely kind to the party in control of the White House
- 25,000 new asteroids found by NASA’s sky mapping
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A4
- One of NASA’s newest space telescopes has spotted 25,000 never-before-seen asteroids in just six months.
- Club news
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Club news for July 17, 2010.
- FCE News
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B7
- FCE news for July 17, 2010.
- Gulf’s pain may last years after oil leak
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Tar from a 1979 spill is still washing ashore in the Gulf.
- Iranian defector could spend rest of his life in fear
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Shahram Amiri will likely face intense questioning about his defection from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security and a future etched in fear.
- Around and about
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B7
- News from around and about Lawrence for July 17, 2010.
- MagnaGro still operating, despite code violations
- Company was site of deadly accident in April
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Significant fire code violations have been found at the site of a deadly April industrial accident, and questions are mounting about why city regulators have not shut down the plant.
- Analyst sentenced for spying for Cuba
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Retired intelligence analyst Kendall Myers, a great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell, said he meant his country no harm
- Yankees pay distinguished tribute to Boss
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on C2
- Every Yankee stood in front of the home dugout, caps off, as Bob Sheppard’s distinct and distinguished voice echoed through the public-address system once more.
- Pump charity now off-limits to coaches
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on C2
- The NCAA has barred college basketball coaches from financial relationships with the Harold Pump Foundation, a charity run by college basketball power brokers David and Dana Pump, Yahoo! Sports reported Friday.
- New playhouse planned for Shakespeare theater site
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A1
- In the middle of London, a plot of earth is dug across with trenches and studded with old bricks. If the world of theater ever has hallowed ground, this is it.
- Genetically modified mosquito may block spread of malaria
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Malaria kills nearly 1 million people a year, but it has a weakness — to infect humans, it needs mosquitoes.
- Minor earthquake shakes up D.C.
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Earthquakes are so rare in the Washington area that even a geology student wasn’t quite sure what was going on when a minor one hit early Friday. Was it a truck passing by? A low-flying plane?
- Fidel Castro warns of war
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Fidel Castro took questions from Cuban ambassadors at the Foreign Ministry on Friday and warned them of the threat of global nuclear war in his most overtly political public act since re-emerging from four years of near total seclusion.
- Ex-gov.’s aide tapped for Byrd seat
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Gov. Joe Manchin appointed former chief counsel Carte Goodwin, a member of a prominent West Virginia family, on Friday to succeed the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd.
- Lacrosse team out of tournament
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Time ran out on Friday for a team of Iroquois lacrosse players who have been blocked from traveling to a tournament in England because of a passport dispute.
- Scientists try to make sense of well puzzle
- Cap on Gulf oil leak holding tight so far during wait period
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- In a nail-biting day across the Gulf Coast, engineers struggled to make sense of puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea Friday to determine whether BP’s capped oil well was holding tight.
- Bulldogs, pugs make up bulk of plane dog deaths
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Owners of bulldogs and pugs, beware: Short-snouted breeds accounted for roughly half the purebred dog deaths on airplanes in the past five years, government data released Friday shows.
- Disrupted sleep may add to risk of diabetes, obesity
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Disrupted sleep patterns seem to contribute to the risk of obesity and diabetes, according to numerous studies. Researchers have theorized that disrupted circadian rhythms throw off various hormonal processes in the body that contribute to disease.
- Looking for medical marijuana? Get in line
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Len Goodman can’t grow enough marijuana to keep up with demand.
- City paid MagnaGro $28K for easements
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A5
- During a time when MagnaGro International’s production facility was out of compliance with several city codes, the owner of the building also received $28,000 from the city.
- 28 killed in blaze at Iraq hotel with no fire escapes
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A7
- A fierce blaze at a hotel without fire escapes sent some desperate guests plunging to their deaths in a northern Iraqi oil boomtown, killing 28 people.
- Sunni group claims mosque bombing that killed 27
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A7
- A Sunni insurgent group said it carried out a double suicide bombing against a Shiite mosque in southeast Iran to avenge the execution of its leader, as Iranian authorities Friday said the death toll rose to 27 people, including members of the elite Revolutionary Guard.
- Quake troubles wash away in sacred Haiti waterfall
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Pilgrims, partiers and profit-seekers flocked to a sacred Haitian waterfall Friday where Voodoo and Christian faithful prayed for a better life after six grueling months of post-earthquake trouble.
- Car bomb signals new dimension to Mexican drug war
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A7
- A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico’s decades-long fight against traffickers, setting a deadly trap against federal police in a city across the border from Texas, the mayor of Ciudad Juarez said Friday.
- Turkey unveils its own drone plane for first time
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Turkey on Friday unveiled its first drone airplane, a surveillance craft able to fly for 24-hour stretches over the rugged mountains where Kurdish rebels are waging a deadly insurgency.
- Video cameras have helped solve but not deter crimes
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Lawrence attorney Mike Riling has seen it all.
- Dismal rankings reflect leadership issues at KU
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B1
- With Kansas University fall semester classes due to start within a few weeks, it’s reasonable for those deeply interested in the welfare and success of the school to wonder who will be driving the KU school bus during the 2010-11 year.
- Pump patrol
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B1
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.52 at several stations.
- Entries sought for homes tour
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B2
- City Hall leaders are looking for Lawrence homes that have taken steps to become more energy efficient and sustainable.
- Chamber seminar looks at health reform
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B2
- The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce will present a seminar and panel discussion this month on the federal health care reform’s impact on small employers.
- Man reports truck tires, wheels stolen
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B2
- A 22-year-old Lawrence man reported Thursday the theft of personal property from the 200 block of North Sixth Street.
- Apple on iPhone: ’We aren’t perfect’
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B4
- A perfect iPhone? There’s no app for that.
- Consumers’ fears could stall recovery
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Consumers are having second thoughts about the recovery.
- Banks eye higher fees to boost declining revenue
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Big banks facing big drops in revenue are looking to Main Street to make up the difference.
- Hutchinson woman fulfills NASA dream
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Over the years there have been plenty of last days at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center for Teresa Sindelar.
- Donors pay for repair to Veterans Memorial
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Many of the panels that make up the Vietnam Memorial at Pittsburg State University’s Veterans Memorial Amphitheater are in disrepair, the printed names of fallen U.S. soldiers faded and smeared. The state of the panels has often infuriated veterans and their families, but university officials say a long-awaited solution is nearly complete.
- Man treated for fall with 0.57 BAC level
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B5
- A man who was treated at a Wichita hospital after falling and hit his head had a blood alcohol level seven times higher than the legal limit.
- Woman charged after bizarre crime spree
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Wichita police say a woman is in big trouble after after going on a bizarre crime spree earlier this week.
- Brake maker closing plant in SE Kansas
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B5
- About 160 jobs will be lost in southeast Kansas when a factory that makes parts for commercial vehicle brakes is closed later this year.
- Foreign officers visit state sites
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B5
- International officers are receiving a crash course in state government during a visit to the Kansas Statehouse and other facilities.
- First responders get bearings at bio lab
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Ten emergency responders have gotten their first look at Kansas State’s Biosecurity Research Institute.
- Brother stages home makeover for sister with cancer
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B6
- “I can’t wait to see her expression.” A lawn-full of volunteers seemed to echo Steve Stegman’s sentiment as they waited for Judy Stegman to step out of the car Tuesday evening, her eyes covered with a T-shirt.
- Final roll of iconic Kodachrome film developed in Parsons store
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B6
- Freelance photojournalist Steve McCurry, whose work has graced the pages of National Geographic, laid 36 slides representing the last frames of Kodachrome film on the light board sitting on a counter in Dwayne’s Photo Service in Parsons.
- Wichita State gets $4M gift for anthropology
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on B10
- Wichita State University’s Department of Anthropology is getting a $4 million gift from a late businessman.
- Horoscope for July 17, 2010
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on C7
- This year, you grow in a new direction. At times though, you will pull back and go for the tried-and-true. Your domestic and personal lives increase in importance. Some of you will be buying your first homes. If you are single, you will dream of a home life with a significant other. Don’t hook up just because of this reason. If you are attached, the two of you nestle in more than ever. Libra can be an anchor.
- Discovery miniseries looks at future crunch of clean energy
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on C7
- Everybody wants clean, green energy. But nobody wants a power line in his or her backyard. We hear a lot about the imminent electric car, but what happens to the energy grid when thousands of consumers add a car-charger to the heavy load already required for air conditioners, clothes dryers and other appliances? And where will emerging economic superpowers like China and India get their power? Why do we seem to lurch from one energy crisis to the next?
- Clooney radiates cool on the stand
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on C7
- It’s no wonder the Italian businessmen claimed George Clooney was behind their fashion line — the actor knows how to wow an audience whether he’s on the red carpet or the witness stand.
- Same ol’ Stuckey: NFL trappings haven’t changed safety
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Former Kansas University safety Darrell Stuckey was back in Lawrence this week and, from the look of things, joining the NFL hasn’t changed him much.
- Packers’ Jolly suspended indefinitely
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on C2
- The NFL suspended Green Bay Packers defensive end Johnny Jolly without pay for the upcoming season and perhaps beyond for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy.
- Contador puts dent in Schleck’s lead
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on C2
- Alberto Contador sent a message Friday to Tour de France leader Andy Schleck: Here I come.
- 100 years ago: Laundry wagon collides with street car
- July 17, 2010
- From the Lawrence Daily World for July 17, 1910: “In a tug of war with a street car the odds are greatly in favor of the car, as W. B. Sweanger discovered this morning. In any event his laundry wagon which collided with a passing car this morning, was distributed over the street for a quarter of a block.”
- Iroquois passport dispute raises sovereignty issue
- Lacrosse team denied entry into England
- July 17, 2010 in print edition on A4
- An American Indian lacrosse team’s refusal to travel on passports not issued by the Iroquois confederacy goes to the heart of one of the most sensitive issues in Indian Country: sovereignty.
- Remove politics, and redistricting map falls in line May 27, 2012 · 40 comments
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- Sound Off: What kind of herbicides and chemicals does the city use in the parks and other areas? And May 22, 2012 · 59 comments
- 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 · 27 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 · 41 comments
- Tax gamble May 26, 2012 · 81 comments
- God, marriage May 25, 2012 · 193 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
- Book helps family heal after tragedy May 28, 2012
- Fraternal reorder: Clubs, lodges face dwindling membership in modern world January 10, 2010
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