Also from March 3
Audio clips
Births
Blog entries
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
Polls
Where would Sherron Collins rank in your list of all-time favorite KU basketball players?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Top 5 | 44% | |
| Top 10 | 30% | |
| Top 20 | 11% | |
| No. 1 | 9% | |
| Top 30 | 2% | |
| Top 100 | 1% | |
| He wouldn’t rank in my top 100 | 0% | |
| Undecided | 0% | |
| Total | 8066 | |
Have you ever used the word "retard" to refer to someone in a derogatory way?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 75% | |
| No | 24% | |
| Total | 1199 | |
Videos
- Sherron Collins gives his senior speech Wednesday, March 3, 2010 …
- Kansas head coach Bill Self introduces Sherron Collins before his …
- The family of the late Bob Frederick has filed a …
- Local tourism numbers have dropped along with the economy. The …
- The Lawrence school board concluded its public hearings saying it …
- KU chancellor Gray-Little is optimistic about the future of higher …
- Students on the Kansas University campus are working to halt …
- A home just east of Lawrence that was recently raided …
- The temperatures will drop into the low 20s overnight and …
- Students at Lawrence High School created a fashion runway show …
- Sherron Collins played his final home game in Allen Fieldhouse …
- The Free State girls basketball team took care of business …
- 6News Sports Director Kevin Romary previews KU’s match-up with Kansas …
- Kevin Romary tries to stump Andrew Baker in Useless Fieldhouse …
- LHS students put on a fashion show Wednesday using only …
- Kansas University students have been camping for the Kansas State …
- The sunshine will continue for Thursday, with highs into the …
- Expect another beautiful day with mostly sunny skies, light winds …
- The Wednesday commute could include patchy fog and normal traffic …
- A collection of almost 600 photos from Sherron Collins’ years …
- Sherron Collins discusses his most memorable game at Allen Fieldhouse, …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Apocalypse on the Kaw: Memoir explores Lawrence’s history of violence and the nuclear paranoia of ‘The Day After’- March 2, 2010
- When Steven Church sat down to write his memoir about growing up in Kansas, he recalled fond childhood memories of mushroom clouds, irradiated ghouls and the total collapse of human civilization.
- Videos: “The Day After”
6:00 a.m.
Fighting for Social Security benefits: Resident finds long, hard road to getting disability claim approved- March 3, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- For three years, four months and 11 days, Debra Shirar waited for the Social Security Administration to say yes to her disability claim.
10:00 a.m.
Hillcrest teacher named Lawrence’s Elementary Teacher of the Year - March 2, 2010 in print edition on 3A
- Longtime Hillcrest School teacher Leellyn Tuel sat in the school’s library Tuesday, listening to Superintendent Rick Doll rattle off positive attributes about a teacher.
2:00 p.m.
N. Lawrence project nears end of road- March 3, 2010 in print edition on 3A
- The sun is out. The mercury is rising. And Brad Meek is smiling.
7:00 p.m.
FINAL: Big second-half run pushes KU to 82-65 victory over K-State- 6:01 p.m., March 3, 2010 Updated 9:44 p.m.
- The Jayhawks used a 27-10 spurt in the second half to send senior guard Sherron Collins to a win in his final home game.
- Videos: KU vs. KSU
- Photo gallery: KU vs. Kansas State
- Poll: Where would Sherron Collins rank in your list of all-time favorite KU basketball players?
- Audio clips: Kansas-Kansas State
All stories
- FINAL: Big second-half run pushes KU to 82-65 victory over K-State
- 06:01 p.m., March 3, 2010 Updated 09:44 p.m.
- The Jayhawks used a 27-10 spurt in the second half to send senior guard Sherron Collins to a win in his final home game.
- Baker University named among top game design schools
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B8
- The school has been ranked among The Princeton Review’s top 50 best undergraduate institutions to study game design.
- Auction scheduled for this weekend to dispose of assets at house raided last month
- Home was alleged to be home of meth trafficker
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A3
- And all of the property from a house suspected to be home to a meth operation shut down last month may or may not fetch anywhere from $80,000 to $180,000, as expected, at auction Saturday at the eastern edge of Lawrence.
- Advocates at KU event seek to end use of ‘R’ word
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Disability rights advocates urged students at KU to sign a pledge not to use the word “retard.”
- Kansas House speaker challenges Democrat critics to file ethics complaint against him
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B10
- Kansas’ Republican House speaker is challenging Democratic critics to file an ethics complaint against him or stop attacking him.
- Lawrence winter has been unusually cold
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A1
- The ice sheet on your roof, permafrost on your lawn and seemingly essential antifreeze in your car represent mere indications of a colder-than-cold winter thus far. A chilling set of numbers confirms it.
- KU chancellor says budget cuts have hurt but school officials remain optimistic
- 03:08 p.m., March 3, 2010 Updated 03:27 p.m. in print edition on A3
- Kansas University has incurred $37.3 million in state budget cuts and unfunded mandates over the past year, Gray-Little said.
- Lax ethics action drives Washington cynicism
- March 3, 2010
- Sometimes I think I’ve gotten too cynical after so many years in Washington. Then I remember the House Ethics Committee. This panel almost never fails to disappoint. It tends to be sluggish in its work and supine in its conclusions. But even by its own indulgent standards, the committee reached new heights — lows? — of fecklessness last week as it brushed off complaints about lawmakers’ acceptance of corporate-funded travel.
- Family of former KU athletics director Frederick files suit against city, gas utility
- 01:55 p.m., March 3, 2010 Updated 05:48 p.m. in print edition on A1
- The suit alleges that both the city of Lawrence and Black Hills Energy were negligent in failing to ensure that a pothole at Sixth and Kasold was fully repaired after repair work was done in the area.
- Statehouse Live: House gives first-round approval to state grass
- 12:18 p.m., March 3, 2010 Updated 12:26 p.m. in print edition on A1
- The 30-minute debate was dominated by amendments proposing different grasses, and comments from legislators who said the House was wasting time.
- Senators prepare legislation to regulate campaigns to oust, retain sitting judges
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B10
- Kansas senators have drafted proposals to regulate campaigns to oust or retain members of the state’s appellate courts.
- Governor appoints panel to help Treece residents relocate
- March 3, 2010
- Gov. Mark Parkinson has appointed a five-member panel to help residents move out of a contaminated southeast Kansas town.
- 10 teams that can win it all: No. 3, Syracuse
- Inside play makes Orange dangerous
- March 3, 2010
- Each week in this space, KUSports.com online editor Jesse Newell will take a statistical look at one of the 10 teams that has the best chance of taking this year’s NCAA title.
- Court may extend gun owner rights nationwide
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The Supreme Court suggested Tuesday it will strike down U.S. cities’ outright bans on handguns, a ruling that could establish a nationwide ownership right fervently sought by gun advocates.
- People in the news
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B7
- News and notes from the celebrity circuit.
- Alcatraz hosts ‘Ghost Hunters’
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B7
- Prisoners couldn’t wait to get out of the place, but since closing in 1963, the island penitentiary Alcatraz has attracted countless visitors and hosted many events, including the 100th episode — a live version — of “Ghost Hunters” (8 p.m., Syfy).
- Don’t forget Aldrich
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Not everybody playing in his last game in Allen Fieldhouse gets to give a speech tonight.
- N. Lawrence project nears end of road
- Intersection taking shape
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The sun is out. The mercury is rising. And Brad Meek is smiling.
- ’Cats set sights on streak
- K-State, Kansas gird for another ‘Showdown War’
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Kansas State’s basketball team halted rival Kansas’ 55-game homecourt win streak on Jan. 30, 1988, in Allen Fieldhouse. That incredible stretch ranks as the third-best in Jayhawk history. At 7 tonight, the No. 5-ranked Wildcats (24-4, 11-3) are in town hoping to put an end to the Jayhawks’ current 58-game streak, which is just four games off the school-record 62-gamer set from 1993 to ’98.
- ‘Practice’ over for Lawrence High, Free State girls
- March 3, 2010
- As far as Nick Wood and Bryan Duncan are concerned, you might as well take a big ol’ eraser and scratch out everything that has happened over the past three months of the girls prep basketball season.
- KU women face tall order at NU
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B5
- It’s certainly not over until it’s over, but the outlook isn’t rosy for Kansas University’s women’s basketball team.
- Mother’s day: Senior Night special for Collins’ mom
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Sherron Collins — who readily admits to being a “mama’s boy” — tonight gives his mother the best present ever.
- Big inning dooms KU baseball against Arkansas
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Arkansas right fielder Jarrod McKinney’s three-run homer capped a five-run fifth inning, which powered the No. 15 Razorbacks to a 15-3 victory over No. 25 Kansas University Tuesday afternoon at Baum Stadium.
- U.S. may require accelerator override
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The Obama administration is considering requiring all cars and trucks sold in the U.S. to have brakes that can override gas pedals to prevent sudden acceleration problems like those that led to reports of deaths and the recall of millions of Toyotas, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Congress on Tuesday.
- Poll: 80% think federal government is broken
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- An overwhelming majority of Americans think their federal government is gridlocked by partisan infighting and turf battles and can’t accomplish anything, according to a new McClatchy-Ipsos poll.
- Postal Service wants to drop Saturday mail
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The post office is renewing its drive to drop Saturday delivery — and plans a rate increase — in an effort to fend off a projected $7 billion loss this year.
- $10B unemployment benefits bill signed
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The Senate on Tuesday passed a $10 billion measure to maintain unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and provide stopgap funding for highway programs after a holdout Republican dropped stalling tactics that had generated a Washington firestorm.
- Northwest at risk of megaquake like Chile’s — the question is when
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Just 50 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast is an earthquake hotspot that threatens to unleash on Seattle, Portland and Vancouver the kind of damage that has shattered Chile.
- Obama may include GOP ideas in revamped health care plan
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A2
- President Barack Obama embraced a handful of Republican health care ideas Tuesday to lure votes of Democrats wary of a more partisan approach as he prepared to spell out his final package for a sharply divided House and Senate, where its fate is unsure.
- Horoscope for March 3, 2010
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B7
- For Wednesday, March 3: This year, you’ll have many opportunities to blaze a new trail or head in a new direction. Many of you will opt to go to school or to travel. Some of you will take seminars or meet foreigners. If you are single, you could meet someone who is quite unique and different. If you are attached, the two of you might plan that special, long-talked-about trip.
- Some parents not against closings at last forum
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Nothing brought the crowd to its feet this time. Compared with Monday night when school district patrons at Central Junior High were united against closing any schools, the Lawrence school board’s final budget forum Tuesday at West Junior High was more of a back-and-forth.
- Fighting for Social Security benefits: Resident finds long, hard road to getting disability claim approved
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A1
- For three years, four months and 11 days, Debra Shirar waited for the Social Security Administration to say yes to her disability claim.
- Pump patrol
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.52 at several stations.
- North Carolina logs 2,000th victory
- March 3, 2010
- Deon Thompson scored 14 points in his final home game to help North Carolina hold off Miami, 69-62, on Tuesday night and become just the second team in NCAA history with 2,000 victories.
- Conservatives reject tea party element
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A7
- “At some point, you have to use the word ‘crazy.’” It will not surprise you to hear that the speaker is referring to extremists within the tea party movement. What might surprise you is that the speaker is Erick Erickson, editor in chief of RedState, a prominent conservative blog.
- Ford leads way as auto sales spike
- Toyota only major carmaker that doesn’t see increase
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Automakers plowed through a snowy February to better-than-expected sales, and new incentives led by beleaguered Toyota will keep the momentum going into spring.
- Tools to help you get fit on any budget
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Even the most dedicated jogger, walker or aerobics junkie can lose motivation. And we all know what happens if you’re not motivated (hello, Haagen-Dazs!).
- Commodities
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Agriculture futures were mixed Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
- Aid groups in Haiti enlist Google’s help
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Aid workers, with the help of Google Earth, are uploading key information onto the Web to illustrate the needs of hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by Haiti’s earthquake — an innovation that could significantly boost the ability to respond to future disasters.
- What do I do with vanilla beans?
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Vanilla beans aren’t just for fancy chefs and frighteningly fragrant body lotions — they’re perfect for home cooks who want to infuse real flavor.
- Carefree view
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Monday morning, I was at Dillons on 23rd Street to purchase the New York Times and a tall cup of coffee at Starbucks. An attractive young woman (blonde) brought me the coffee and saw the paper and the four-column picture on the front page and asked me, “What is that?”
- Lax enforcement
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A7
- What are the rules of the road anymore? Many in this town either have not properly learned them or feel they don’t pertain to them.
- Excellence breeds success
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A7
- When Toyota President Akio Toyoda testified last week before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, an attitude was exposed that Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, correctly characterized as fostering a “cutthroat corporate” environment that placed costs ahead of quality and safety. Such a priority would have been anathema to Toyoda’s grandfather, Kiichiro Toyoda, who founded the company and turned it into an automotive juggernaut thanks to a business philosophy created by an American named W. Edwards Deming.
- Haskell concern
- The Kansas congressional delegation should move quickly to try to remedy leadership questions at Haskell Indian Nations University.
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on A7
- It’s good that members of the Kansas delegation in Congress are continuing to press for answers concerning the unsettled situation at Haskell Indian Nations University.
- Study raises safety concerns about ‘ready to eat’ greens
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Consumer Reports magazine recently sampled 208 packages from 16 brands of leafy greens and found disturbing results.
- Greatest KU games No. 3: ‘It wasn’t such a big deal’
- KU’s 1952 title-winners recall Lovellette, Dean Smith’s smoking
- March 3, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Three members of the 1952 national championship basketball team who reside in Lawrence gathered for coffee on a recent morning and looked back one more time on Kansas University’s first NCAA Tournament title.
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- National group seeks repeal of 'Stand Your Ground' law in Kansas May 27, 2012 · 128 comments
- Tax gamble May 26, 2012 · 77 comments
- On the street: How did you spend your Memorial Day? May 28, 2012 · 15 comments
- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012 · 249 comments
- Kansas extends major development tool for 5 years May 28, 2012 · 13 comments
- Sound Off: How much does the city’s transit system collect in fares compared with how much it costs May 27, 2012 · 127 comments
- God, marriage May 25, 2012 · 192 comments
- Critics may bolster Roberts’ resolve May 29, 2012 · 13 comments
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012
- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp May 29, 2012
- Friends mourn Lynn Bretz, former voice of KU May 28, 2012
- Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down May 28, 2012
- Kansas football scouring country May 29, 2012
- Experts: Remedial college classes need fixing May 28, 2012
- Famed author takes on Kansas October 7, 2005
- Retreat offered for writers May 28, 2012
- Town Talk: UPDATE: Thellman files for re-election to county commission; News of salvage yards, curbside recycling and a pig May 25, 2012
