Also from May 11
Births
Blog entries
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Polls
Would you use an at-home genetic testing kit that offers health and ancestry reports?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 44% | |
| No | 41% | |
| Not sure | 13% | |
| Total | 551 | |
Who will score more points per game next season?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Marcus Morris | 62% | |
| Josh Selby | 32% | |
| Undecided | 5% | |
| Total | 441 | |
Videos
- The City Commission gave the project $60,000 to the project, …
- The penny increase will mean hundreds in increases on large …
- At this time last year when cuts started rolling in, …
- The Good Morning America anchor visited Loring Henderson at the …
- The company, EMR Inc., has sent at least 180 employees …
- The restriction would put a $100 fine on the action …
- The storm killed a girl and damaged many buildings, moving …
- Expect thundershowers tonight and temperatures in the ‘50s. Tomorrow it …
- Gail Griffin, a 73-year-old Lawrence woman, was in a car …
- The Lions defeated the Firebirds 2-1.
- Lawrence High and Free State will meet Wednesday at 6 …
- Westar Energy said the power outage couldn’t be attributed to …
- Barclay Hagen, program coordinator for EMR Inc. in Lawrence, outlines …
- Barclay Hagen, program coordinator for EMR Inc. in Lawrence, discusses …
- Barclay Hagen, program coordinator for EMR, Inc., in Lawrence, explains …
- As a warm front pushes into our area, strong to …
- Expect a fairly typical drive for your afternoon commute today.
- Expect a break in the storm chances today, with decreasing …
- Partly cloudy skies and possibly some patchy fog will accompany …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Kitchen wisdom: Eighteen Lawrence culinary masters share some of their best tips - May 10, 2010
- Lawrence’s restaurant scene has come a long way since the turn of the century. Massachusetts Street has become a bona-fide Restaurant Row, an asset to local culture and prestige…
- On the street: What is your best cooking secret?
6:00 a.m.
Power failure disrupts daily routines- May 11, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- Westar Energy is still investigating the cause of the first of two power outages in Lawrence that affected thousands of customers Monday.
10:00 a.m.
School board seeks diversity on task force- May 11, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- Lawrence school board members and administrators Monday said a diverse group of people would make up a district task force studying elementary school facilities in coming months.
- Video: Hopes unveiled for new task force
- Source document: Task force application
- Source document: Task force details
2:00 p.m.
Search and recovery divers practice at Potter Lake- May 11, 2010 in print edition on 3A
- Though they weren’t looking for any goalposts Monday morning, divers from Douglas County’s underwater search and recovery team took advantage of an upcoming dredging at Potter Lake as a training opportunity.
- Video: Divers train in Potter Lake
All stories
- Westar officials pinpoint causes of power outage
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The mystery of what caused Monday’s power outage that cut electricity to more than 7,000 Westar Energy customers in Lawrence has been solved.
- Kansas lawmakers approve tougher seat belt law
- 03:48 p.m., May 11, 2010 Updated 05:10 p.m.
- Kansas legislators approved a bill Tuesday making the failure to wear a seat belt a primary traffic offense, ending a nearly decade-long battle over the issue.
- Kansas House OKs transportation plan
- 03:46 p.m., May 11, 2010 Updated 04:49 p.m.
- The Kansas House has approved creation of a new transportation program on promises of renewed investment in jobs and state infrastructure.
- Statehouse Live: Proposal to make Prairie Spirit Rail Trail a state park advanced to governor
- May 11, 2010
- The trail is currently state-operated, but the legislation would designate it a state park, which means it would receive additional signage, and be included in state park guides and maps.
- Obama staffer to speak Thursday afternoon at the Dole Institute
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A3
- These are busy days in the Obama White House with an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a debt crisis in Europe and a Supreme Court justice nominee introduced this week.
- Lawrence child molester sentenced to 10 years; attorney blames client’s sex crimes on meth
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A Douglas County judge sentenced a Lawrence man to more than 10 years in prison for sexually abusing three teenagers over a six-year period.
- Benton man sentenced in 2004 death
- May 11, 2010
- A southern Kansas man has been sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison for the death of a woman he met through their sons’ Boy Scout troop.
- Kansas space museum theater needs renovation work
- May 11, 2010
- The 30-year-old IMAX Theatre at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center needs major renovation.
- Dean of Ottawa University’s new business school begins work
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Ottawa University has hired Charles Williams as its dean of the university’s new School of Business.
- Statehouse Live: Tax, budget bills sent to governor
- 02:22 a.m., May 11, 2010 Updated 02:50 a.m.
- The 64-61 vote came after months of bitter debate and required some last minute vote-shifting after the roll call was kept open for more than 4 hours.
- Reesing one step closer to Canada?
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Todd Reesing appears to be one step closer to calling Canada home.
- Power failure disrupts daily routines
- Two outages create a bit of havoc
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Westar Energy is still investigating the cause of the first of two power outages in Lawrence that affected thousands of customers Monday.
- School board seeks diversity on task force
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Lawrence school board members and administrators Monday said a diverse group of people would make up a district task force studying elementary school facilities in coming months.
- Deciphera receives almost $400K for drug programs
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A5
- A local bioscience company received a significant boost from the Kansas Bioscience Authority on Monday afternoon.
- A wake-up call
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A7
- There is only one worthwhile response to the appalling oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and that is to create an American clean-energy infrastructure that would set our country on a long-term path to ending our addiction to oil. It’s the right thing to do for our environment, national security and long-term economic security.
- Deadly tornadoes rip through Plains
- 12:00 a.m., May 11, 2010 Updated 03:45 p.m. in print edition on A2
- Violent storms that tore through the southern Plains killed five people and injured dozens more, leaving behind flattened homes, toppled semitrailers and downed power lines.
- Search and recovery divers practice at Potter Lake
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Though they weren’t looking for any goalposts Monday morning, divers from Douglas County’s underwater search and recovery team took advantage of an upcoming dredging at Potter Lake as a training opportunity.
- KU’s Barbee selected to play in golf regional
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Junior Nate Barbee was selected as an individual and will represent the Kansas men’s golf team at the 2010 NCAA Championship Regional on May 20-22 at Carlton Oaks Golf Club in San Diego, Calif.
- Falcon family in Topeka grows
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on B10
- The first of four peregrine falcon hatchlings nesting in a downtown Topeka building decided to make its debut on Mother’s Day.
- Receptions recognize retiring school staff
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on B10
- Quail Run School will honor retiring staff members with a reception today at the school, 1130 Inverness Drive.
- Teacher placed on probation
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on B10
- A former Basehor-Linwood High School teacher will see no jail time for inappropriate behavior with a student.
- Patient recovering from Sunday morning accident
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A Baldwin City woman who was injured in an accident early Sunday morning has been upgraded to fair condition. The accident happened on U.S. Highway 59 near Pleasant Grove.
- Obama’s court pick has limited record on issues
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is known to be circumspect with her personal views and has a limited public record on some of the hot-button social issues that have dominated past confirmation hearings.
- Head injury claims Eastern Oregon freshman’s life
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Eastern Oregon University officials are trying to learn why an apparently normal play during a spring football scrimmage led to the death of a freshman player from a head injury Sunday afternoon
- Free State, LHS to collide again
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on B1
- In the eyes of Free State High softball coach Lee Ice, his team’s 2010 season is becoming a kind of case study in Murphy’s Law —a collection of unfortunate gaffes and unforeseen late-game breakdowns that have cost the Firebirds at least a handful of games.
- Lions’ soccer coach to resign after season
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Matt Anderson, who spent the past two years as the Lawrence High boys soccer coach and is in his sixth season as head coach of the girls program, will step down from both positions at the conclusion of the current girls season, the school announced Monday.
- LHS shortstop doing OK
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on B1
- As members of the Lawrence High baseball team trickled into Monday evening’s team dinner at a local brewery, they were greeted by a familiar face.
- Horse riding provides autism relief for son
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A9
- Heartbreak is too weak a word to describe a parent’s reaction to a child’s autism.
- People in the news
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A9
- People in the news for May 11, 2010.
- Horoscope for May 11, 2010
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A9
- This year, you might need more downtime. Much comes at you from out of left field. The unexpected aspect of what happens can tire you more than you think, even if it is good news. If you are single, don’t move in with each other too quickly. You are better off waiting. If you are attached, the two of you could quarrel more than usual. Is this about control? Neither of you will win. Aries reads you cold.
- Fairgrounds plans set for review Wednesday
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A5
- Plans for the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds and a potential new owner for a county park near Baldwin City will be up for discussion Wednesday by Douglas County commissioners.
- Planet still losing too many species
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Far too many of the world’s plants and animals — and the wild places that support them — are at risk of collapse, a U.N. report finds, despite a global goal set in 2002 for major improvement by this year.
- Oil spill swells to 4M gallons; potential fixes days off yet
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Black Hawk helicopters peppered Louisiana’s barrier islands with 1-ton sacks of sand Monday to bolster the state’s crucial wetlands against the epic Gulf of Mexico oil spill — 4 million gallons and growing.
- Brown to resign as prime minister
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A2
- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a dramatic bid to keep his beleaguered Labour Party in power after it was punished in elections last week, announcing he will resign by September at the latest even if the Liberal Democrats — being wooed by the Conservatives — decide to join his party in government.
- Dozens killed in series of attacks
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A series of assassinations and bombings across Iraq on Monday killed at least 85 people, an apparent show of force by a weakened insurgency.
- More kids’ jewelry recalls in works
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Federal regulators are expanding their investigation into children’s jewelry that contains the toxic metal cadmium, promising that a recall announced Monday of “Best Friends” charm bracelets will not be the last.
- Euro rescue won’t solve core problems
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A bold $1 trillion rescue by the European Union halted the slide of the euro on Monday and sent markets soaring worldwide in a gambit that may ultimately be seen as the moment Europe truly became a union.
- 100 years ago: State officials studying cattle illness
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A7
- The U.S. Battleship Florida, the largest gunship in the world, was launched in the Brooklyn Navy Yard this morning. Great throngs gathered to see the ceremony for the large, strong weapon.
- 40 years ago: Thousands attend non-violence talk
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A7
- U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie spoke at Allen Fieldhouse and focused on the issue of non-violence to solve problems spotlighted by protest groups across the nation.
- Retail draw
- Creating an attractive market in Lawrence is the best way to attract new retailers.
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A7
- The city has a brand new retail task force, but there’s nothing new about most of the retail issues that face Lawrence.
- Soccer oversight
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A7
- You blew it. Thursday night was Free State Soccer’s senior night, and nothing on Friday but a short video clip on the 10 p.m. news and online.
- Wrong priority
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Why do President Obama and the lame-stream media continue to focus on the human rights of illegal immigrants in the immigration law recently passed by Arizona? It is my understanding that this state law mirrors the federal law, which is not and never has been enforced in the state of Arizona or anywhere else in the United States.
- Extra effort
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A7
- The next time we run into our postal carrier, let’s give him or her a special acknowledgment for the effort involved in collecting for the food pantries last Saturday.
- Pump patrol
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.74 at several stations.
- Monarch Watch has plants for sale
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Following Saturday’s Monarch Watch Open House, the program still has plants available for butterfly gardens.
- Plan for lighted path takes funding hit
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Hopes for a lighted pathway from downtown to Kansas University’s campus may be dimming as a city committee is recommending only limited funding for the project.
- U.S. leaders differ on Afghanistan strategy
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A7
- During Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s visit to Washington this week, U.S. officials hope to repair their frayed relationship. But there’s another troubled relationship that’s affecting the Afghan war effort: the tension between senior U.S. military and civilian officials in Kabul. Gone are the days of the Iraq surge when the U.S. commander in Baghdad, Gen. David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker worked out of the same building, conferred constantly, and even jogged together in the morning.
- A ‘Bridge’ to learning: Gifted students expand their brains with traditional card game
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Janice Fullerton’s job is to engage some of the smartest students in Lawrence. But this semester the lesson plan went from mostly work to mostly play — with the card game bridge…
- Double Take: New student author selected for teen advice column
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Again this year I had the chance to select a new Double Take co-author from a strong group of completed applications, one each from LHS, Free State and Bishop Seabury.
- State plans website for sesquicentennial
- May 11, 2010 in print edition on B10
- The state plans to launch a website on Friday designed to keep track of the many events being planned to celebrate the state’s 150th birthday next year.
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- Remove politics, and redistricting map falls in line May 27, 2012 · 35 comments
- National group seeks repeal of 'Stand Your Ground' law in Kansas May 27, 2012 · 132 comments
- Tax gamble May 26, 2012 · 77 comments
- On the street: How did you spend your Memorial Day? May 28, 2012 · 16 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
