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Polls
If you were Kansas coach Bill Self, what advice would you give Xavier Henry and Cole Aldrich?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Tell Aldrich to go pro and Henry to return to KU | 36% | |
| Tell them both to return to KU | 35% | |
| Tell both to go pro | 17% | |
| Tell Henry to go pro and Aldrich to return to KU | 7% | |
| Undecided | 2% | |
| Total | 1831 | |
How would you rate the ease of using the 2010 U.S. Census form?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Easy | 86% | |
| I haven’t filled it out yet | 7% | |
| I haven’t received my form yet | 3% | |
| Difficult | 2% | |
| Total | 961 | |
Videos
- Temperatures will drop to the 30s overnight but rise back …
- Sunflower Elementary School students learned how to walk to school …
- The apartment complex where a deadly fire happened in 2005 …
- Fans say they hope the problem with KU Athletics tickets …
- Dennis Moore’s wife may aim for the Democratic nomination for …
- A northwest Lawrence woman came home to find her door …
- General Motors told Crown Chevrolet it must close as part …
- The monarch butterfly population spends winter in Mexico, but storms …
- The Jayhawks will play three games against the Baylor Bears …
- The Lions lose to the Shawnee Mission North Indians in …
- March’s Scholar Athlete of the Month is Nick Hassig, a …
- Construction crews worked at demolishing the Boardwalk Apartments on Thursday …
- Winds will become lighter tonight, with skies clearing, allowing temperatures …
- Expect a fairly uneventful afternoon commute today, with only minor …
- Sgt. Bill Cory, of the Lawrence Police Department, discusses an …
- Expect cloudy skies to begin the day, with clouds gradually …
- There is a chance for rain early Thursday morning and …
- Amy Hough, marketing director for Strasburg-Jarvis and member of the …
- Amy Hough (a.k.a. “Extremely Frank”) and Mary Harmon (a.k.a. “Hail …
- Mary Harmon, associate professor of science at JCCC and member …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Super Rice Fighter 5: Can I eat 5 rice bowls in an hour (while wearing a diaper) for the DonDon Sumo Challenge?- March 24, 2010 in print edition on 1C
- Though our men’s basketball team is already knocked out of the NCAAs, it doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy other homegrown athletics…
- Video: The Sumo Challenge
6:00 a.m.
House approves concealed carry on campus- 11:00 a.m., March 24, 2010 Updated 12:00 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- Under the bill, persons who are licensed to carry a concealed gun would be allowed to bring a weapon into a state or city facility unless the building had adequate security measures, such as electric scanners, to ensure that no weapons could be brought in.
10:00 a.m.
Preliminary discussions under way about Boys and Girls Club taking over East Heights building- March 24, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence has expressed interest in using the school district’s East Heights building after the early-childhood programs move into Kennedy School next school year.
2:00 p.m.
Dealership works to keep Chevys - March 25, 2010 in print edition on 3A
- Lawrence’s Chevrolet dealership is in negotiations to remain open, despite previously being placed on a list of dealerships that would lose its franchise as part of General Motors’ bankruptcy reorganization.
6:00 p.m.
Roll players: Two 30-something professionals take a shot at the KC Roller Warriors- March 25, 2010 in print edition on 1C
- “I realized for the first time that there was this part of me that hadn’t had an outlet for a really long time,” says Amy Hough. “Not that it was the part of me that wanted to go around and smack people or kick people” …
All stories
- Pullen’s key 3 helps K-State advance to round of 8
- 11:41 p.m., March 25, 2010 Updated 11:49 a.m.
- Jacob Pullen made a 3-pointer with 31.2 seconds left in the second overtime Thursday night for the go-ahead points in second-seeded Kansas State’s 101-96 victory over No. 6 Xavier in the West Regional semifinals.
- Wall, top-seeded Kentucky outscrap Cornell 62-45
- 11:29 p.m., March 25, 2010 Updated 11:38 a.m.
- John Wall saw red in nearly every corner he looked. Cornell’s loudest and largest pep rally was held at the Carrier Dome and turned the regional semifinal into an instant road game for Kentucky.
- Butler, West Virginia beat Washington 69-56
- March 25, 2010
- Da’Sean Butler shook off a sore right hand and helped West Virginia shake off feisty Washington to reach the East Regional finals.
- Butler rallies to beat top-seeded Syracuse 63-59
- March 25, 2010
- Butler became the latest mid-major team to knock off a top seed in the NCAA tournament.
- Down and out: Cold-shooting KU women eliminated by ISU in WNIT
- Jayhawks finish with 17-16 record
- 07:13 p.m., March 25, 2010 Updated 12:00 a.m. in print edition on B1
- The Kansas women’s basketball team fell to Illinois State, 71-49, on Thursday night in the Sweet 16 of the WNIT in Normal, Ill.
- Owners begin to tear down Boardwalk Apartments, make way for new complex
- One building was site of deadly 2005 fire
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B9
- The end has come for a northwest Lawrence apartment complex that was the scene of a deadly 2005 fire.
- Governor makes appointments to KTEC, KU Hospital boards
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Gov. Mark Parkinson on Thursday made appointments to the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp., Kansas University Hospital Authority and the Kansas Securities Commission.
- Reports say Moore’s wife to run for Congress
- 05:40 p.m., March 25, 2010 Updated 05:40 p.m. in print edition on A1
- Dennis Moore, a six-term incumbent, announced in November that he would not run again for the seat
- Former KU Athletics Board Chair calls allegations of impropriety ‘disturbing’
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A1
- With an independent review seeking answers regarding operations involving Kansas Athletics Inc.’s ticket office and Williams Fund, others are posing questions of their own.
- Statewide chamber of commerce criticizes local chambers for backing tax increases
- 05:13 p.m., March 25, 2010 Updated 05:13 p.m. in print edition on A3
- Kent Beisner, the interim president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Chamber, accused the local chambers of throwing “businesses under the bus.”
- Lawrence High junior varsity softball canceled today; varsity game still on
- March 25, 2010
- Lawrence High School has canceled its junior varsity softball games scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today.
- High school students team with Safe Kids group to teach area youngsters about pedestrian safety
- Eudora High School students share lessons on pedestrian safety
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Pedestrian accidents statewide are on the decline, according to the Kansas Department of Transportation, and that’s great news for kids who walk to school and for those trying to keep them safe.
- NW Lawrence woman comes home to discover man in her house
- Police searching for suspect
- 12:01 p.m., March 25, 2010 Updated 12:13 p.m.
- Lawrence police on Thursday were searching for a man who was inside a woman’s house in northwest Lawrence when she came home.
- Republican secretary of state candidate picks up endorsements
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Two former Kansas secretaries of state have endorsed Republican Elizabeth Ensley in this year’s race.
- Roll players: Two 30-something professionals take a shot at the KC Roller Warriors
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on C1
- “I realized for the first time that there was this part of me that hadn’t had an outlet for a really long time,” says Amy Hough. “Not that it was the part of me that wanted to go around and smack people or kick people” …
- Style scout: Chris Lovely
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on C1
- I describe my style as Mr. Rogers chic. I wear a lot of loafers. Haven’t had to tie shoe laces in years. If I’m not dressed for work I’m usually wearing a plain T-shirt and a pair of jeans. Mostly muted/neutral colors, probably because of the fair skin and bright red hair…
- Style scout: Lucy Robertson
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Although I’m all for team spirit and all-day drinking, I’d like to see less women wearing sloppy game-day outfits - fanny packs and pastel-pink KU shirts…
- Royals split squads lose two
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Torii Hunter hit his first two homers of spring, Hideki Matsui connected for the first time and Mike Napoli for his fifth, and Los Angeles beat a Kansas City split squad Wednesday using what likely will be the Angels’ opening-day lineup.
- FSHS baseball opens with win
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B3
- A trio of Free State High pitchers struck out 12 batters in the Firebirds’ 3-1 baseball victory over St. James Academy on Wednesday at Free State.
- Our town sports
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B3
- A roundup of local events, awards and happenings.
- Dealership works to keep Chevys
- Crown automotive in negotiations with GM to keep franchise
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Lawrence’s Chevrolet dealership is in negotiations to remain open, despite previously being placed on a list of dealerships that would lose its franchise as part of General Motors’ bankruptcy reorganization.
- At least 50% of monarch butterfly population lost to bad weather
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Bad news has turned to worse for an already suffering monarch butterfly population.
- Lower speed limit sought on U.S. Highway 40 area
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B8
- First United Methodist Church won’t need to install new turn lanes outside its campus along U.S. Highway 40 at the northwestern edge of Lawrence.
- People in the news
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B7
- People in the news for March 25, 2010.
- 100 years ago: New sources of natural gas sought
- March 25, 2010
- From the Lawrence Daily World for March 25, 1910: While Lawrence has never been troubled by a shortage of natural gas, a number of towns in the area, including Ottawa, have had trouble. New gas sources are being sought to prevent new problems.
- Elgie powers Jayhawks’ baseball rout of Baker
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Zac Elgie was in need of a good, old-fashioned slump-buster entering the Kansas University baseball team’s Wednesday-night matchup with visiting Baker University, and that’s precisely what the Jayhawks’ struggling first baseman got.
- All-Area Coach of the Year: McKowen leads Ottawa to title game
- Cyclones roll to a program-best 22-4 record, finish as runners-up in Class 4A
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Throughout the 2009-10 high school basketball season, Ottawa High boys coach Jon McKowen faced what you might call a fortunate problem.
- Trading places: Gill allows position changes for KU spring football
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B1
- When Kansas University football coach Turner Gill takes the field with his team for the first time at 1 p.m. Saturday, he’ll do so with a handful of Jayhawks in new positions.
- Freshman Davis could be key for KU women
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Practice makes perfect, the old adage goes, but not necessarily for Carolyn Davis. Davis, a 6-foot-3 freshman, hasn’t practiced in nearly three weeks, yet has sparkled for Kansas University’s women’s basketball team.
- Journal-World All-Area Boys Basketball First Team
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Keaton Schaffer, senior, Tonganoxie Finished senior season averaging a league-best 19.4 points per game, adding 5.2 rebounds and 3.3 assists a night for the 13-9 Chieftains. Led Kaw Valley League in scoring in each of the past two seasons. Was an all-state honorable-mention selection in 2009. Had an 18-point quarter against Bonner Springs this season. Journal-World’s Player of the Year.
- Horoscope for March 25, 2010
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B7
- This year, events often catch you off guard. Know that even if you are surprised, you are capable of handling whatever comes up. You are in the last year of a 12-year cycle. If you are single, romance can be passionate and exciting. Enjoy, but take your time making long-term commitments. If you are attached, share your challenges and desires more often with your significant other. Leo displays passion.
- Jayhawks the best
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A7
- For those thrilled by underdogs winning NCAA games, they may well consider moving out of this area since Kansas University will continue to be top-seeded on a frequent basis year after year. It is because of their ability to perform so consistently that the best future NBA players are produced. It is because of KU’s coaches that Jayhawk players frequently excel in every area of life, regardless of their chosen career paths.
- Abortion ‘care’
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Health care reform has passed. All of the quid pro quo deals have been struck. Now people will not die unnecessarily, each day, from lack of health insurance. Not health care, health insurance. The question is: Will this “reform” really do anything to reduce the number of unnecessary deaths?
- Bill makes health care worse
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Pork is the preferred metaphor in Washington for misspending. But last weekend, pork took a backseat to baloney, which was present in abundance as President Obama and House Democrats tried to convince the public — and themselves — that their takeover of one-sixth of the economy is going to improve health insurance and the availability of medical treatment.
- Shield law
- It’s good to see movement on a measure to protect journalists from revealing confidential sources and information.
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A7
- On a more serious matter, Kansas legislators should be congratulated on moving forward on a law that would protect reporters from being forced to reveal confidential sources.
- Obama issues low-key order on abortions
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Anything but jubilant, President Barack Obama awkwardly kept a promise Wednesday he made to ensure passage of historic health care legislation, pledging the administration would not allow federal funds to pay for elective abortions covered by private insurance.
- Aluminum cans stolen from humane society
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A5
- The recycled aluminum can bin at the Lawrence Humane Society, 1805 E. 19th St., was broken into late Tuesday or early Wednesday, and cans valued at $75 were stolen.
- Lawrence woman reports red toolbox stolen
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A 79-year-old Lawrence woman reported Monday the burglary and theft of a toolbox from the 900 block of Pamela Lane.
- Pump patrol
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.61 at several stations.
- Forums to discuss 4-year high schools
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Lawrence school board members will have two public forums in April as they consider whether to move ninth-graders into the district’s two high schools for the 2011-2012 school year.
- Scientists ponder DNA from Siberia
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A2
- In the latest use of DNA to investigate the story of humankind, scientists have decoded genetic material from an unidentified human ancestor that lived in Siberia and concluded it might be a new member of the human family tree.
- Treaty would further cut U.S., Russian nuclear arsenals
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The U.S. and Russia reached a breakthrough agreement Wednesday for a historic treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the former Cold War rivals, the most significant pact in a generation and an important milestone in the decades-long quest to lower the risk of global nuclear war.
- Family wants SeaWorld death video sealed
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Relatives of a SeaWorld trainer dragged into the water by a killer whale last month will suffer severe harm if video of her death is made public, their attorney told a judge Wednesday.
- Study adds evidence that bone drugs work
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A new study gives reassuring news about the safety of Fosamax and Reclast, bone-building drugs taken by millions of American women. It found that long-term use does not significantly raise the risk of a rare type of fracture near the hip.
- Xavier, Kansas State aren’t strangers
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Time is supposed to ease the pain of past embarrassments.
- NFL mulls regular-season OT change
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B2
- NFL players should be safer during games thanks to several rules changes passed at the league meetings. They also might be playing longer in regular-season overtimes.
- Cable-broadcasting wars inspire comedy
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B7
- NBC has become the punching bag of two of television’s best comedies. And both air on NBC.
- KU hoops to play LHS grad’s Rams in K.C.
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University’s men’s basketball team will play Colorado State in the Jayhawks’ annual nonconference game in Kansas City’s Sprint Center next season.
- Gloom, doom relative
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B1
- A junior from the Chicago suburb of Western Springs, Ben Pera was driving home from spring break, wondering how in the world he was going to fill a week that was supposed to revolve around watching hype leading up to his school, Kansas University, competing in the Midwest Regional in St. Louis.
- All-Area Boys Basketball Player of the Year: Tonganoxie’s Schaffer shows confidence
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Back when he was a scrawny sophomore trying to find his way on the Tonganoxie High varsity boys basketball team, Keaton Schaffer didn’t exactly appear destined for basketball greatness.
- Turf battle
- State legislators are finding ways to keep themselves occupied while awaiting new revenue figures.
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Assuming Gov. Mark Parkinson signs the measure approved by the Kansas Senate on Wednesday, Kansans will be able to breath a huge sigh of relief. Finally, Kansas has an official state grass.
- Bishop apologizes to abuse victims, resigns
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of an Irish bishop Wednesday for his failure to report child-molesting priests to police — and faced a renewed reminder of the German abuse case most closely linked to his own time in charge of Munich.
- Reading scores hold steady nationwide
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Reading scores for fourth and eighth grade students held mostly steady last year, continuing a stubborn trend of minimal improvement across most racial, economic and geographic groups.
- 1 in 10 Chinese adults are diabetics
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A2
- After working overtime to catch up to life in the West, China now faces a whole new problem: the world’s biggest diabetes epidemic.
- U.S.-Israeli talks end without accord
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The U.S. and Israel failed to heal their deepest dispute in decades as a two-day visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended late Wednesday without resolving a rift over new Israeli housing planned in east Jerusalem.
- Health care bill worthy of celebration
- March 25, 2010 in print edition on A7
- No one waited longer for the passage of health care reform than John Dingell, so it was only right that no one smiled more broadly than the 83-year-old congressman while seated at the president’s side for the bill-signing ceremony in the White House East Room.
- 40 years ago: Shultz considers entering gubernatorial race
- March 25, 2010
- State Sen. Reynolds Shultz, R-Lawrence, said he definitely was considering entering the race for the GOP nomination for governor. He was a 49-year-old farmer-businessman who had been an outspoken critic of KU’s handling of disorders and demonstrations over the past year.
- 25 years ago: County counselor says no to resignation
- March 25, 2010
- The county commission formally moved to end the part-time job of county counselor but the man who had helt the job for 14 years, Dan Young, said he did not intend to go quietly. He said he would not resign as the commission had asked after ending the job.
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