Also from May 7
Births
Blog entries
- Heard on the Hill: How the center of the KU campus has moved over 140-plus years
- First Bell: Early results from speech and debate nationals
- Tale of the Tait: FINAL: Red alums top Blue current players, 66-61, at Bill Self basketball camp
- The Lasso: Beer, rock n’ roll, alpacas and more
- Heard on the Hill: Student residents forced out of KU apartment building because of drought-related damage
- Town Talk: City to consider using gated, pay-as-you-leave system for new downtown parking garage
- Eat Your Vegetables: Cooking away the CSA, week 10: The best flourless peanut butter cookies
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Polls
Should texting or reading texts while driving be illegal?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 86% | |
| No | 11% | |
| Not sure | 2% | |
| Total | 2550 | |
Videos
- It’s been a long time since an officer has been …
- The governor ordered flags at half-mast to honor officers killed …
- The 78-year-old man was thought to be cutting down trees …
- Graduates say they came to Haskell to feel part of …
- Lawrence residents can help judge the contest from 11 a.m. …
- Legislators say the current system is broken.
- A $13 million plant could be built on the northern …
- The lab building will be 35,000 square feet and partially …
- It’s going to be chilly tonight, and temperatures will dip …
- Hite Collision used to see downtime during the year, but …
- The Jayhawks beat the Tigers 10-3.
- Junior Lauren Massey has pitched 1,500 times for the Lions.
- Teahan has bowed out of his quest to be on …
- Tomorrow the high schoolers will take the stage with their …
- More than 16,000 students state-wide did physical activities today to …
- Members of the Lawrence Police Department gathered Friday to honor …
- KU officials were on hand Friday morning for the ground …
- Winds will be breezy out of the north at 15 …
- Expect a strong north wind to accompany your afternoon commute.
- After a stormy night, expect mostly cloudy skies to begin …
- Topeka is eyeing Lawrence’s community workout record, but Lawrence is …
- Storms have passed the area but expect mostly cloudy skies …
- Douglas County is still under a severe thunderstorm watch.
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
One of trees planted at Lawrence’s Prairie Park School honors student who died last year- May 5, 2010 in print edition on 3A
- Students in Cathy White’s sixth-grade class at Prairie Park School cleared out dirt and prepared a maple tree for its new home in front of the school, 2711 Kensington Road.
6:00 a.m.
Oldest Haskell graduate returns- May 7, 2010 in print edition on 3A
- A college diploma can be just a piece of paper, but it can also be much more. It’s what you do with that diploma that really matters.
- Video: Oldest Haskell alumna visits current students
- Special coverage: 2010 College Graduation
10:00 a.m.
KTA bridge work continues- May 7, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- Travel along U.S. Highway 59/North Third Street in Lawrence has been slow since April 5, but it was especially slow Wednesday and Thursday as construction on a Kansas Turnpike bridge continued.
6:00 p.m.
The man behind ‘A Man Within’- May 7, 2010 in print edition on 1C
- “I knew I wanted to make a documentary about Burroughs, but I didn’t know I’d be making THE documentary about Burroughs,” Yony Leyser says. After four years of work, he’s done just that…
- Audio clips: Yony Leyser
All stories
- LB Love commits to KU
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on C5
- KU has received an oral commitment from Tonkawa, Okla., linebacker Jake Love.
- Conner Teahan to stick with basketball at KU
- Junior guard won’t be playing for football team in fall
- 06:28 p.m., May 7, 2010 Updated 06:45 p.m. in print edition on C1
- Conner Teahan told coach Bill Self on Friday that he’s sticking with basketball and won’t be playing football at KU.
- Haskell holds 2010 commencement
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Families and friends of Haskell Indian Nations University’s Class of 2010 braved a brisk morning wind Friday to watch the graduates take the next step in their lives. The graduates came from all corners of the country, and many represented the first in their families to receive a college degree.
- In often-moderate Kansas, Senate race leans right
- May 7, 2010
- Reps. Jerry Moran and Todd Tiahrt both put a big Tax Day rally in Kansas City, Kan. on their calendars. After all, in their run for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, the tea party movement is an important group.
- Kansas House debates budget; leaders hoping end of session is near
- 03:14 p.m., May 7, 2010 Updated 09:09 p.m. in print edition on A1
- In the House, the group of nearly all Democrats and some Republicans, was holding fast against deeper budget cuts sought by House GOP leaders.
- Kansas Senate debates rewriting gambling law
- May 7, 2010
- The Kansas Senate is considering a bill that attempts to revive the state’s racing industry with slot machines at tracks.
- Immigration rally planned in Garden City
- May 7, 2010
- Organizers of an immigration rally in Garden City say they want to teach Hispanic and Latino communities that they have rights.
- Lawrence JV baseball canceled for Saturday
- May 7, 2010
- The Lawrence High School junior varsity baseball games scheduled for Saturday, May 8, at Leavenworth have been canceled.
- Ground-breaking ceremony held for new KU engineering lab building
- 12:00 p.m., May 7, 2010 Updated 04:40 p.m. in print edition on B1
- A new 34,600-square-foot engineering building on the Kansas University campus will house laboratories for research in a number of multi-disciplinary areas.
- Boy Scouts to landscape eight-block stretch of new eastside trail on Saturday
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B1
- East Lawrence residents should expect to see a mass of Boy Scouts on Saturday.
- LHS associate principal to lead Highland Park High School
- 09:54 a.m., May 7, 2010 Updated 02:37 p.m. in print edition on B3
- Another member of Lawrence High School’s administrative team is leaving at the end of the school year. Beryl New Thursday night was hired as the new Highland Park High School principal in the Topeka district.
- Severe thunderstorm watch canceled for Douglas County
- 12:42 a.m., May 7, 2010 Updated 03:54 a.m.
- The National Weather Service has canceled the severe thunderstorm watch for Douglas County and some surrounding counties.
- Mystery solved: Humans did indeed mate with Neanderthals
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A1
- The first modern humans to leave Africa 80,000 years ago encountered Neanderthal settlements in the Middle East and — on at least some occasions — chose to make love instead of war, according to an international team of scientists who have pieced together the genetic code of humanity’s closest relatives.
- KTA bridge work continues
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Travel along U.S. Highway 59/North Third Street in Lawrence has been slow since April 5, but it was especially slow Wednesday and Thursday as construction on a Kansas Turnpike bridge continued.
- Pakistani Taliban calls Times Square bombing attempt a ‘brave’ act
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A8
- The Pakistani Taliban on Thursday denied any role in the botched car bombing in Times Square but praised the suspect for a “brave job,” as New York authorities pressed him on his claims of terrorist training.
- Crews put out 140 miles of boom for oil
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A8
- An executive with BP PLC says the good weather in the Gulf of Mexico is continuing to help crews clean up the oil and that more than 140 miles of containment boom have been put out.
- Giant box lowered in Gulf to battle oil spill
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A8
- Workers eased a giant concrete-and-steel box into the Gulf of Mexico late Thursday, starting the long process of lowering the contraption over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea in an untested bid to capture most of the gushing crude and avert a wider environmental disaster.
- ‘Massive’ ash cloud closing Irish airports
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Iceland’s volcano has produced a 1,000-mile-wide ash cloud off the west coast of Ireland that will force western Irish airports to shut down again today, the Irish Aviation Authority announced.
- Two women report electronics stolen
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A 20-year-old Lawrence woman reported Wednesday the burglary and theft of electronics from the 1700 block of Ohio Street.
- Name of bicyclist in wreck released
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Lawrence police have released the names of two people involved in an accident Wednesday night.
- K.C. rapes may not be linked to local crimes
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A “person of interest” was arrested Wednesday in connection with a series of rapes in Kansas City, Mo.
- Demand for veterinarians grows in Kansas and across the nation
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A5
- Bigger classes and new student loan forgiveness programs are increasing the number of veterinarians in Kansas, but demand continues to far exceed supply — a situation that has implications for the health of humans as well as animals.
- Swift donates $500K for Nashville flood
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Taylor Swift is donating $500,000 to flood relief in Nashville.
- Series about Jesus Christ in the works
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Having already caused a fuss this spring with the depiction of the prophet Muhammad on “South Park,” Comedy Central said Thursday that it has a cartoon series about Jesus Christ in the works.
- Chaz Bono granted name, gender change
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Chaz Bono is officially a man and has his new name.
- Chris Brown in court for probation update
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Chris Brown’s attorney says the R&B singer has completed nearly 300 hours of community service since being sentenced for beating Rihanna.
- Gandolfini developing potential HBO series
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B8
- James Gandolfini may find himself at the wheel of his first TV series since “The Sopranos.”
- ‘Friday Night Lights’ returns on NBC
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B8
- “Friday Night Lights” (7 p.m., NBC) returns to network television for a fourth season, featuring the same top-notch acting and documentary-style melodrama that have made it one of the most highly praised series of any TV season.
- Horoscope for May 7, 2010
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B8
- This year, you open up to new ideas, new friends and a very different lifestyle. Those who are content might want to revitalize their existing commitments, and not take them for granted. If you are single, curb the impulse to move in a new sweetie. If you are attached, the two of you could argue more. Respect your differences, as you will never be able to control each other. Pisces proves to be a friend.
- Mosque going in building damaged on 9/11
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on C9
- In a 13-story building, damaged by debris from the Sept. 11 airliners that brought down the World Trade Center and soon to become a mosque, some see the bridging of a cultural divide and an opportunity to serve a burgeoning, peaceful religious population. Others see a painful reminder of the religious extremism that killed their loved ones.
- FDA approves Bayer’s new birth control pill
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B9
- The Food and Drug Administration has approved a novel birth control pill from Bayer Healthcare that combines two female hormones.
- Sexual satisfaction ebbs with age
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on C9
- Americans 45 and older are far more open to sex outside marriage than they were 10 years ago, but they’re engaging in sex less often and with less satisfaction, according to a major new survey by AARP.
- Feds investigating diaper-rash complaints
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B9
- Government safety officials are looking into a handful of reports of severe rashes caused by new types of Pampers diapers.
- Readers tackle fiscally reckless relatives
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B9
- Every now and then I answer questions culled from my e-mail or left over from my regular online discussions.
- Keep weapons off of playing fields
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Let others debate whether a Philadelphia policeman overreacted in taking down a rogue fan with a Taser.
- Firebird signs baseball letter
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Eric Anderson, a senior pitcher at Free State High, has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball at Harper College in Palatine, Ill.
- 10-run sixth inning propels Free State baseball to 13-3 victory
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Even Joe’s Bakery never had anything as sweet as Free State High junior Cody Kukuk’s swing from the left side. So when Kukuk stood at the plate with first base open after a passed ball in the sixth inning of a one-run game Thursday, nobody was surprised to see Shawnee Mission North coach Jayson Poppinga order a free pass.
- Recreation Calendar
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B6
- Recreation calendar for May 7, 2010
- Hudy: UNI loss in hoops ‘brutal’
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University’s basketball players needed some time to get over their shocking season-ending loss to Northern Iowa. “I don’t want to sound cheesy, but there was a dream that died there in the locker room. It was brutal,” Andrea Hudy, KU’s assistant athletic director for sports performance, said, referring to the tears that flowed after KU’s 69-67 second-round NCAA Tournament setback in Oklahoma City’s Ford Center.
- 40 years ago: Federal food stamps debut
- May 7, 2010
- Federal food stamps were being sold for the first time in Douglas County.
- Impossible task
- Whether they are trying to bash or entice a potential sports recruit, users of online networking sites will be tough to rein in.
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A9
- NCAA and major college compliance officials trying to curb recruiting infractions by Internet users have their work cut out for them.
- Threats don’t shut down New York
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A9
- I often walk through Times Square where the Incompetent Bomber parked his 1993 Nissan Pathfinder last Saturday with the alarm clocks wired to the M88 firecrackers in the canister between the five-gallon gasoline containers and the three propane tanks, the bags of nonexplosive fertilizer, and so I take a personal interest in the case.
- Miranda rights vs. public safety concern
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A9
- “(Law enforcement) interviewed Mr. Shahzad … under the public safety exception to the Miranda rule. … He was eventually … Mirandized and continued talking.” — John Pistole, FBI deputy director, May 4 All well and good. But what if Faisal Shahzad, the confessed Times Square bomber, had stopped talking? When you tell someone he has the right to remain silent, there is a distinct possibility that he will remain silent, is there not? And then what?
- Net Worth: Technology allows even the least talented to dabble in ‘artistry’
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Everything is so easy these days. With the click of a button, you can become a “musician” or an “artist” or an “experimental filmmaker.”
- Woods opens with 70 at Players
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B2
- The Players Championship was such a pushover Thursday that more than half the field broke par. Even Tiger Woods.
- Prosecutor recalls Grissom case
- Morrison recounts overcoming challenges in murder trial
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A4
- To convict a man in the murders of three women occurring in areas from Wichita to Lawrence to Kansas City, Mo., it took many small details to create a big picture.
- House passes Cash for Caulkers bill
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B9
- Homeowners could collect thousands of dollars in Cash for Caulkers rebates for renovating their homes with better insulation and energy-saving windows and doors under a new economic stimulus bill the House passed Thursday.
- Pump patrol
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.79 at several stations.
- Lions sweep Pioneers
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B1
- It’s safe to assume that Lawrence High senior Landon Moseley has a few nicknames. But based on his performance on the diamond this week, he might have earned one more.
- Clash of rivals: LHS softball continues to roll, tops Free State, 9-1
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Jamie Jarrett probably needed an Advil after the softball game she played on Thursday. Not to worry, though. The Lawrence High senior was loving every minute of it.
- Work stalls in Legislature on DUI proposal
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A4
- The Kansas House and Senate are at odds on requiring first-time drunken driving offenders to install ignition interlock devices on their vehicles for a year.
- Vandal suspected in zoo’s bobcat breakout
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B10
- A 26-pound bobcat described docile is back in custody at the Topeka Zoo after someone pried upon its cage in an apparent act of vandalism.
- Kan. National Guard troops off to Africa
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B10
- A deployment ceremony takes place next week for about 560 Kansas Army National Guard soldiers heading for a year-long mission in the Horn of Africa.
- Oldest Haskell graduate returns
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A3
- A college diploma can be just a piece of paper, but it can also be much more. It’s what you do with that diploma that really matters.
- 25 years ago: Lone Star Lake hours expanded
- May 7, 2010
- Area water-skiers were pleased about getting more hours to use Lone Star Lake. The county commission had set the new time schedule since Lone Star was a county-owned lake.
- 100 years ago: Noted professor resigns in favor of Pennsylvania job
- May 7, 2010
- From the Lawrence Daily World for May 7, 1910: Sunday is Mother’s Day and many special sermons on motherhood will be delivered at virtually all local churches. Ministers are asking that all children who are away from their homes send letters to their mothers to let them know again that “all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my mother.”
- The man behind ‘A Man Within’
- Former KU student creates signature documentary about William S. Burroughs
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on C1
- “I knew I wanted to make a documentary about Burroughs, but I didn’t know I’d be making THE documentary about Burroughs,” Yony Leyser says. After four years of work, he’s done just that…
- KU depth chart doesn’t reveal No. 1 QB
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B1
- The first official Kansas University football depth chart of the Turner Gill era is out and, as expected, it provides no definitive answer to the question of who will start under center for the Jayhawks this fall.
- KU men’s golf signs pair of recruits
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B3
- The Kansas men’s golf team completed its incoming recruiting class by announcing the signings of Bryce Brown and Jordan Lowery during the spring signing period.
- Soccer freshman invited to Canadian camp
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Kansas University freshman midfielder Sarah Robbins has been invited to attend the U-20 Canadian National Team Camp next weekend in Toronto.
- ‘Bark in the Park’ at KU softball Sunday
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Kansas University softball will host the fifth annual Bark in the Park at noon on Sunday at Arrocha Ballpark when the Jayhawks play host to Iowa State.
- Negro Leagues display to visit Hoglund
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B3
- An exhibit from the Negro Leagues Museum in Kansas City will be displayed this weekend at Hoglund Ballpark during the Kansas-Missouri Border Showdown series.
- Kansas pitcher Walz named to all-star lineup
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Kansas University right-handed pitcher T.J. Walz has been named to the National All-Star Lineup by the College Baseball Foundation for the week of May 5.
- Royals lose slugfest
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Vladimir Guerrero got the desired result on his second big swing, and the Texas Rangers escaped with a victory after blowing a huge lead.
- LHS senior headlines KU rowing class
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Lawrence High senior Jasmyn Turner headlines a list of 18 additions to the Kansas University rowing team, announced by coach Rob Catloth on Thursday.
- Lions’ tennis team wins
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B5
- The Lawrence High boys tennis team swept three doubles matches on its way to a 7-2 dual victory over Shawnee Mission West on Thursday at Lawrence High.
- LHS soccer falls, 6-1
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B5
- The Lawrence High soccer team fell, 6-1, to Shawnee Mission South on Thursday at LHS.
- Top 2 U.K. parties in election standoff
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Britain’s two main parties locked horns in a political standoff today after an inconclusive election — with Labour’s Gordon Brown signaling he would try to form a coalition and Conservative leader David Cameron declaring the prime minister had lost his mandate to govern.
- New clashes after austerity bill passed
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Greek lawmakers approved drastic austerity cuts Thursday needed to secure international rescue loans worth $140 billion and clashes briefly erupted in the streets outside parliament, forcing police to use tear gas.
- Russian forces storm oil tanker, 1 pirate killed
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A Russian warship hunted down an oil tanker hijacked by Somali pirates and special forces rappelled on board Thursday, surprising the outlaws, who surrendered after a 22-minute gunbattle. Twenty-three Russian sailors were freed.
- China says Kim reaffirms nuke talks
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A2
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reaffirmed the importance of nuclear disarmament talks during his visit to China this week, Chinese state media reported today, in Beijing’s first official confirmation of the secretive but widely reported trip.
- Cancer panel: ‘Grievous harm’ posed by unchecked chemicals in U.S.
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A2
- An expert panel that advises the president on cancer said Thursday that Americans are facing “grievous harm” from chemicals in the air, food and water that have largely gone unregulated and ignored.
- Wall Street roller coaster: Stocks fall nearly 10 percent
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on A12
- A computerized selloff possibly caused by a simple typographical error triggered one of the most turbulent days in Wall Street history Thursday and sent the Dow Jones industrials to a loss of almost 1,000 points, nearly a tenth of their value, in less than half an hour. It was the biggest drop ever during a trading day.
- Nature center may be turned over to state
- May 7, 2010 in print edition on B10
- Linda Phipps is planning for a day when she won’t be as involved in the Southeast Kansas Nature Center as she is now.
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- Mass Street Mile -- 06/30/13 at Downtown Lawrence 1 comment
- "Why I Left the Republican Party" -- 03/16/13 at Lawrence Arts Center 46 comments
- Loads of Hound Dogs w/ Darrell Lea -- 06/15/13 at Jackpot Music Hall 2 comments
- Kansas Memorial Wake -- 06/08/13 at Plymouth Congregational Church 2 comments
- Black Flag -- 06/06/13 at Granada 1 comment
- Art Tougeau Parade -- 06/01/13 at Downtown Lawrence 1 comment
- Haiti Garage Sale -- 06/01/13 at Christ Community Church, 1100 Kasold 1 comment
- Americana Music Academy House Concert featuring NU BLU Bluegrass Band -- 05/26/13 at Americana Music Academy 1 comment
- City approves Menards store next to Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets June 18, 2013
- KU geographers win defense grant to study Central American communities June 19, 2013
- Opinion: Dick Vitale loves life, wife and Andrew Wiggins June 19, 2013
- Transfer Hunter Mickelson to sit out, soak it up for a year June 19, 2013
- Police investigate string of almost 20 auto burglaries in west Lawrence June 18, 2013
- Lawrence Outdoor Aquatic Center to host "Beach Bash" June 18, 2013
- Local teen recovers from massive stroke June 4, 2013
- Bierocks: Old World culinary icons live on in Kansas January 18, 2010
- Regents to consider bonds for new engineering building June 18, 2013
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