Also from March 6
Births
Blog entries
Chats
Couples
- Engagement: Campbell and Pelsma
- Engagement: Sheely and Reynolds
- Engagement: Phillips and Metsker
- Anniversary: Stevens
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
Polls
What was KU's most impressive road victory this season?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| 81-79 (OT) at Kansas State | 60% | |
| 84-52 at Temple | 18% | |
| 77-56 at Missouri | 11% | |
| 80-68 at Texas | 9% | |
| Other | 0% | |
| Total | 4737 | |
Which Jayhawk will score the most points against Missouri today?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Xavier Henry | 45% | |
| Marcus Morris | 19% | |
| Sherron Collins | 19% | |
| Cole Aldrich | 14% | |
| Other | 1% | |
| Total | 82 | |
Videos
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Oscar night: Academy Awards offer Lawrence movie fans an excuse to stage year’s most anticipated party- March 5, 2010 in print edition on 1C
- For some, watching the Super Bowl or the Olympics or even the presidential election pales in comparison. That’s because the Academy Awards are still the ultimate touchstone for drama and glamour, sentiment and lunacy…
10:00 a.m.
Parkinson announces budget changes, slams Legislature’s tax breaks; Senate president advances tax increase plan- 11:05 a.m., March 5, 2010 Updated 3:54 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- Gov. Mark Parkinson on Friday announced $85 million in budget adjustments and then sharply criticized the Legislature for going on a 20-year “tax-cutting binge” that has helped the wealthy and hurt average Kansans.
1:00 p.m.
FINAL: KU overwhelms Missouri, 77-56- 11:58 a.m., March 6, 2010 Updated 4:32 p.m.
- Five KU players scored in double figures as the Jayhawks closed out the regular season with a runaway victory over the Tigers.
- Video: GameDay Cram Session: Missouri
- Photo gallery: KU vs. Missouri
- Poll: Which Jayhawk will score the most points against Missouri today?
- Poll: What was KU’s most impressive road victory this season?
- Audio clips: KU-Missouri basketball
- Chat: KU-Missouri pregame
6:00 p.m.
Jew Ball! KU students put their own spin on Shabbat- March 6, 2010 in print edition on 1C
- Jew Ball. The phrase sounds like something you shouldn’t say. Like it’s not right for polite company or un-PC or something that could get you fired if you Googled it at work.
- Video: Jew Ball
All stories
- Police investigating multiple burglaries
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Lawrence Police are investigating multiple burglaries that occurred Saturday evening.
- No. 14 Texas A&M women rout KU, 78-54
- 09:12 p.m., March 6, 2010 Updated 09:53 p.m.
- The Kansas women’s basketball team suffered its worst home loss of the season Saturday, falling 78-54 to No. 14 Texas A&M on Senior Night at Allen Fieldhouse.
- FINAL: KU overwhelms Missouri, 77-56
- 11:58 a.m., March 6, 2010 Updated 04:32 p.m.
- Five KU players scored in double figures as the Jayhawks closed out the regular season with a runaway victory over the Tigers.
- Crews respond to Harper Street fire, one in critical condition
- 03:29 a.m., March 6, 2010 Updated 12:41 a.m. in print edition on B2
- Emergency crews responded early Saturday morning to a structure fire in the 2400 block of Harper Street.
- Book feeds U.S. child-rearing obsession
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B6
- Memo to that Massachusetts school where children in physical education classes jump rope without using ropes: Get some ropes. And you — you are about 85 percent of all parents — who are constantly telling your children how intelligent they are: Do your children a favor and pipe down.
- Americans losing freedoms
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B7
- As more Americans, especially the unemployed, come to rely on government to take care of them, we risk losing our independence.
- Congress struggles in effort to pass job-creation measures
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Despite reports of relentless job losses, including Friday’s news that payrolls shed 36,000 more positions last month, Congress is having trouble approving significant legislation to create jobs.
- Bed bug complaint lacks teeth at hotel
- State budget cuts bring suspension of lodging inspections
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Becky Andrews checked into the Super 8 hotel in Bonner Springs last fall as she prepared to watch her son act in a play at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
- Pump patrol
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B1
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.69 at several locations.
- KU cross country team earns honor
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C3
- The Kansas women’s cross country squad earned All-Academic Team honors, it was announced Friday by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
- Free State girls basketball team advances to state
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Over the past four months, Chantay Caron and Ashli Hill have been the focal points of a Free State girls basketball team that has established itself as the area’s best.
- Reed big against Missouri
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Fathers who coach their sons would do well to follow the blueprint drawn by Stacy Reed, father of Kansas University junior guard Tyrel Reed: Coach him until you can find a better coach for him, and then enjoy watching him play.
- Sectarian divide stymies Iraq stability
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B6
- Here’s an update of the column I wrote early last month about my missing Iraqi driver/fixer/friend, Salam, who disappeared into Baghdad’s jail system last year.
- Tax strategy
- The Kansas governor and Senate leaders are closer together on state budget matters, but differences still exist.
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B6
- The governor and leaders in the Kansas Senate finally are on the same budget page — sort of.
- Kidnap victim shares glimpse of new life
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, held captive for 18 years in a ramshackle backyard compound, was seen cooking with her sister and mother and riding horses in recently shot home videos aired on ABC Friday.
- Former Oscar nominees have no sour grapes
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Oscar is forever. Even Oscar nominations. In a recent interview on the “20/20” (7 p.m. Saturday, ABC) special “Before they Were Stars” (repeating tonight), Gabourey Sidibe observed that her Best Actress nomination for “Precious” would follow her for the rest of her life and that no matter what she does, they can’t take that away from her.
- Horoscope for March 6, 2010
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B5
- You start a new life and luck cycle this year. Please don’t expect to play it low-key. Many people will want to be around you. Pick and choose your company and friends with care. If you are single, you no longer need to maintain that status. If you’re attached, the two of you need to become more visible as a couple. Sagittarius pushes you into the limelight.
- Frigid Fla. winter bad news for tomato lovers
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A6
- A frigid Florida winter is taking its toll on your sandwich. The Sunshine State is the main U.S. source for fresh winter tomatoes, and its growers lost some 70 percent of their crop during January’s prolonged cold snap.
- cuba Hunger striker vows to go until he dies
- Journalist stopped eating, drinking Feb. 24 to draw attention to political prisoners
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A6
- A dissident journalist who has gone nine days without eating or drinking told The Associated Press on Friday that he is willing to give his life to call attention to the plight of Cuba’s political prisoners.
- Upper Midwest braces for flooding
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A5
- Salesmen in Fargo are hawking products with names like the Muscle Wall and the Sandbagging Buddy.
- Shooter had history of mental illness
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A5
- The man who opened fire in front of the Pentagon had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that his parents reached out to local authorities weeks ago with a warning that he was unstable and might have a gun, authorities said Friday.
- Pentagon shooting another case of anti-government violence
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A5
- The river of discontent running through America turned toxic in the fevered mind of the Pentagon shooter and others of his ilk.
- General Motors to reinstate 600 dealerships slated to be cut
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A3
- General Motors Co. will reinstate 661 dealerships it sought to drop from its sales network.
- Military court may try 9/11 suspects
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Looking to breathe life into President Barack Obama’s stalled pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, White House advisers are inching toward recommending military trials for alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four accused henchmen.
- Foreign hospitals help Chile’s quake-damaged health system
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Chile launched a hepatitis and tetanus vaccination campaign Friday and doctors warned of outbreaks of diarrhea and infection among thousands of people displaced by the earthquake and the tsunami that heavily damaged or destroyed 36 hospitals and made garbage dumps of coastal towns and cities.
- Government backs off national anthem change
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Canadians basked in glory hearing their national anthem played a record 14 times at gold medal ceremonies at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. But they raised an outcry when the Conservative government surprised everyone by announcing it was considering changing a lyric to “O Canada.”
- Princess bullied at elementary school
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Japan’s Princess Aiko, granddaughter of the emperor, has missed several days of classes because of bullying by boys at her elementary school, a spokesman for the royal family said Friday.
- 6 people killed in bus crash south of Phoenix
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The bus that rolled over on a busy interstate outside Phoenix, killing six people and leaving 16 others injured early Friday, was operating illegally, federal transportation officials said.
- Waste watchers? U.K. group fears trash bin spies
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A2
- It’s the new front in the nanny state: Microchips placed in garbage bins to monitor how much people throw away.
- Sage grouse won’t be listed as endangered
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A2
- An Interior Department announcement Friday that it won’t list sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species opens the way for continued development of the West’s wind energy and oil and gas industries.
- Afghan ‘civilian surge’ struggling, report says
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The so-called “civilian surge” in Afghanistan is mired in bureaucracy and may not succeed in time to help the war effort, a State Department report found.
- Congressman resigns facing complaint
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A2
- New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa, facing a harassment complaint by a male staffer, said Friday that he is stepping down from his seat with “a profound sense of failure.”
- Lawmakers want more Toyota testing details
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A House committee on Friday questioned the rigor of Toyota’s sudden acceleration tests, challenging the automaker’s commitment to finding the causes of safety problems that have led to millions of recalled vehicles. Other lawmakers zeroed in on federal investigators’ response.
- Economic promises focus on creating jobs
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged Friday to redouble the country’s stimulus program to focus on job creation, signaling that Beijing’s main worry is keeping its factories humming and its restive workers making money from strong exports to the world.
- Future uncertain as U.S. prepares to leave
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A7
- When the Bush administration invaded Iraq seven years ago, it pledged to leave behind a democracy that would be a model for the entire Middle East. Instead, it now appears that the United States will leave behind a big question mark.
- Billions in aid given for Haiti, but every dollar criticized
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A7
- The world’s bill for the Haitian earthquake is large and growing — now $2.2 billion — and so is the criticism about how the money is being spent.
- KU medley relay team breaks school record
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Not only did the Kansas University women’s distance medley relay team turn in its best performance of the season Friday evening at the Alex Wilson Invitational, but the quartet of Rebeka Stowe, Taylor Washington, Cori Christensen and Lauren Bonds recorded the best time in school history.
- New KU volleyball assistant named
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Former Ball State standout Todd Chamberlain has been named an assistant volleyball coach at Kansas University, coach Ray Bechard announced.
- Number of overdose deaths tied to state clinic reaches 68
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B8
- A new federal indictment implicates a Kansas doctor and his wife in nine additional patient deaths, bringing to 68 the number of fatal overdoses the government contends are linked to illegal prescription writing and a moneymaking conspiracy at their clinic.
- Police lodge to offer free hunter’s ed course
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B8
- A local police lodge is sponsoring a free hunter education course in April for people wanting to learn more about gun safety and who want to continue on to get a hunting license.
- Bishop Seabury Academy honor roll
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Bishop Seabury Academy has announced students named to its fall 2009 honor roll, by earning a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher and no grade lower than a B-.
- Salina Quilter shares her art with students
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Linda Brown was starting her first year as the family and consumer sciences teacher at Salina Central High School back in the fall of 2008, and her initial aim was to bring some focus to the subject that in an earlier era went by the name home economics.
- Atlanta case draws concerns about states’ water supplies
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Sixty years ago, the late Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield resisted helping to pay for Lake Lanier, a new federal reservoir being built north of town. Atlanta had plenty of water, he wrote Congress. Thanks, but no thanks.
- State may revive cold case squad
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B2
- When Raymond Lundin and other cold case investigators reopened an unsolved slaying, they would post a photograph of the victim to look at as they worked.
- Closing dates planned for 6 more armories
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B2
- The Kansas National Guard has scheduled the closings of six more armories around the state, starting with the Cherryvale armory today.
- Lawrence boy on bike hit by car Thursday
- Boy released from hospital
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B2
- A 12-year-old Lawrence boy received minor injuries after being hit by a car while riding his bike about 6:15 p.m. Thursday, police confirmed Friday.
- Spouses can play key role in success of KU administrators
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Times are changing. In fact, “change” was a central theme in President Obama’s successful bid for the White House.
- Students nominated for scholarships
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Three Haskell Indian Nations University students have been nominated for Udall Undergraduate Scholarships.
- City makes Web site to attract Google
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B1
- The city of Lawrence has created a Web site in its effort to be chosen for a high-speed broadband project by Google.
- Pancake Day to aid baseball program
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B1
- The American Legion Dorsey-Liberty Post will be host to its 61st annual Pancake Day from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at Legionacres II, 3408 W. Sixth St.
- KU researcher leaves Chile hours before earthquake
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B1
- While a Kansas University botany researcher didn’t get stuck in Chile last week after a massive earthquake struck the nation, it was pretty close.
- Judge: Death penalty unconstitutional
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A Texas judge in the county that sends more inmates to death row than any other in the nation is apparently taking a stand.
- National job market healing, but slowly
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on A1
- At last, the unemployment crisis seems to be easing. That’s the good news.
- Free State’s Briand 18th at state bowling tourney
- March 6, 2010
- Free State High’s Gretel Briand finished 18th as an individual at the Class 6A Bowling State Tournament at Wichita North Rock.
- KU women’s golf team in fifth
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Junior Meghna Bal shot a 74 in the first round of play at the Duramed/Rio Verde Collegiate to help Kansas University finish day one of the tournament in fifth place.
- Area Roundup: Eudora, Tonganoxie boys fall
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Justin Ballock scored 11 points and Brian Katzfey added eight, but the Eudora High boys basketball team fell, 42-37, to Basehor-Linwood in a Class 4A sub-state semifinal Friday at Basehor.
- Free State’s Briand 18th at state bowling tourney
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C3
- Free State High’s Gretel Briand finished 18th as an individual at the Class 6A Bowling State Tournament at Wichita North Rock.
- 100 years ago: KU students working as conductors
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B6
- From the Lawrence Daily World for March 6, 1910: “A novel way for students to pay their way through the university is to become an employee, such as a conductor, on local street cars.
- Mizzou Arena magic
- Tigers 16-1 at home this season; KU 2-3 at arena
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Recent Kansas University basketball history indicates no lead is safe in Mizzou Arena.
- 40 years ago: Lid placed on property taxes
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B6
- The Kansas Senate passed by a 22-17 vote Gov. Bob Docking’s bill to place lids on property taxes and spending by local units of government. Cities protested the “handcuffing” of their operations by the state.
- KU baseball splits doubleheader with Iowa
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C1
- After handling the Hawkeyes, 8-1, in the home opener, the Kansas University baseball team did little right in Game 2 of Friday’s doubleheader, which ended with a 5-3 loss to the University of Iowa at Hoglund Ballpark.
- Trainer death
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B6
- I was sorry to hear about the death of the killer whale trainer at Sea World last week.
- Share the burden
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on B6
- This is an open letter to the parents from Quail Run that spoke at the school district’s forum Tuesday night. I thought I would introduce myself. According to the district, if Hillcrest closes, my daughter will be transferred to Quail Run. According to the district’s Web site, closing Hillcrest will increase the enrollment of Quail Run to 527. I also hope you had the opportunity to meet parents from Sunset Hill. If their school closes, the district says that the enrollment at Quail Run will increase to 580. Either way, I guess things will get kind of cozy.
- Greinke dazzles in first start
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C4
- Zack Greinke spent spring training last year working on a changeup and ended up with a 9.21 earned-run average — then he dominated the regular season and won the Cy Young Award. What will he do this year now that he’s off to a stellar start?
- Reeling KU women to entertain No. 17 Aggies
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C4
- Four losses in a row is a tailspin, not a crash dive.
- Club news
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Club news for March 6, 2010.
- Scouting news
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Scouting news for March 6, 2010.
- FCE News
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on D3
- FCE news for March 6, 2010.
- Military news
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on D3
- Military news for March 6, 2010.
- Jew Ball! KU students put their own spin on Shabbat
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Jew Ball. The phrase sounds like something you shouldn’t say. Like it’s not right for polite company or un-PC or something that could get you fired if you Googled it at work.
- Faith Forum: How important is fellowship in one’s religious experience?
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on D1
- • Avoid the pitfalls of going it alone spiritually • Fellowship encourages sharing life together
- Around and about
- March 6, 2010 in print edition on D3
- News from around and about for March 6, 2010.
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- 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
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- Experts: Remedial college classes need fixing May 28, 2012
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