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- Two Boulder, Colorado, residents were taken to area hospitals after …
- Open your windows tonight because temperatures will be in the …
- Firefighters responded to a fire about 8:15 p.m.
- Initially police called a helicopter for transport, but they sent …
- At the press conference on the scandal, KU officials made …
- District Attorney Charles Branson said there wasn’t sufficient evidence to …
- Park rangers will be out in full force to help …
- Cowboys ranked in the top five in the nation are …
- Some downtown business owners hope a rink, which would be …
- The Firebirds run-ruled Northwest 11-0 in five innings in their …
- The team won 3-0 against Colby.
- The Jayhawks lost 10-5 to the K-State Wildcats, but will …
- The Lawrence Children’s Choir recorded a song for the Outside …
- Two men who robbed a Pizza Shuttle delivery person at …
- Our skies will remain clear tonight as the overnight low …
- It’s looking like a good afternoon for a drive, to …
- Mostly sunny skies and warm temperatures will continue today with …
- Expect a few delays and some patchy fog, but overall …
Lead stories
6:00 a.m.
Lawrence first responders join colleagues in paying tribute to fallen Shawnee firefighter- May 27, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- Lawrence emergency service workers joined thousands of other emergency service personnel Thursday in paying tribute to a fallen firefighter.
- Video: Thousands gather to honor slain firefighter
- Photo gallery: Funeral of Shawnee firefighter John Glaser
10:00 a.m.
Suspect in McCollum Hall incident pleads guilty- 10:51 a.m., May 27, 2010 Updated 5:57 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- Rather than face a trial, a 20-year-old Kansas City, Kan., man pleaded guilty Thursday morning to lying to police officers in connection with an incident that caused chaos on April 30 in a Kansas University residence hall.
2:00 p.m.
KU faculty, Gov. Parkinson express concerns over ticket scandal- May 27, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- A report of ticket misconduct at Kansas Athletics caused concern and disappointment among Kansas University’s faculty as they began to process the news.
- Video: Kansas University faculty reacts to ticket scandal
- Source document: Supporting exhibits for KU’s investigation
- Source document: KU report on investigation into ticket scandal
6:00 p.m.
Theater camp: KU drama students save a venue and found a repertory troupe- May 28, 2010 in print edition on 1C
- The year was 1966, and the tiny mountain city of Creede, Colo., was in imminent danger of becoming a ghost town. Half a dozen local silver mines, the burg’s economic lifeline for decades, were closing. Something had to be done, and fast…
7:41 p.m.
All stories
- Two injured in rollover accident on Interstate 70
- 11:40 p.m., May 28, 2010 Updated 12:01 a.m. in print edition on B2
- Two Boulder, Colorado, residents were injured in a rollover accident about 9:30 p.m. Friday night.
- Car accident injures four south of Clinton Lake
- May 28, 2010
- Four people were involved in a car accident south of Clinton Lake around 7:30 p.m. Friday.
- Structure fire closes block of Mississippi Street
- 09:02 p.m., May 28, 2010 Updated 12:02 a.m. in print edition on B1
- A two-alarm fire is under control in a residence near KU’s Memorial Stadium.
- Firebirds knock off Wichita Northwest 11-0, advance to semis
- No. 4 Free State to face No. 1 Maize at 12:30 Saturday
- 06:48 p.m., May 28, 2010 Updated 09:58 p.m.
- The Free State High baseball team is playing in the 2010 Class 6A state tourney game at Kansas University’s Hoglund Ballpark. The fourth-seeded Firebirds are battling No. 5 Wichita Northwest.
- No charges planned in March post-fight death
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson said Friday his office won’t file criminal charges in the March death of Lawrence resident Douglas Fleming.
- 2010 Legislative season comes to end with scarcely a whimper
- May revenue comes up $24 million short
- May 28, 2010
- Kansas legislators formally ended the 2010 session Friday without attempts override several vetoes in the budget by Gov. Mark Parkinson, and on the same day learned that revenue estimates missed the mark in May by $24 million.
- Finalists announced for Kansas Court of Appeals vacancy
- May 28, 2010
- Two lower-court judges and an attorney are finalists for a seat on the Kansas Court of Appeals.
- Kansas Athletics pledges to go ‘above and beyond’ to restore confidence of Jayhawk community
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Kansas Athletics Inc. officials plan to go “above and beyond” the recommended fixes for their broken ticket-distribution system, one that permitted the documented diversion of nearly 20,000 football and basketball tickets for the personal gain of five former employees and a paid consultant.
- Free State’s Davis earns second state pole vault title
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Free State senior Drue Davis won her second consecutive state pole vaulting title Friday, jumping 12 feet, 6 inches at the Class 6A state meet at Cessna Stadium to set the state meet record by five inches.
- Flags, bell ceremony mark Memorial Day commemoration in Lawrence
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B3
- The 150 flags lining the entrance to Oak Hill Cemetery are a familiar Memorial Day sight for many area residents. The American Legion in Lawrence will place the flags again this year.
- Pump brothers release statement on KU ticket scandal through CBSsports.com
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Dana and David Pump, who were linked to the current Kansas University ticket scandal in a Yahoo! Sports report Wednesday, have released a statement, according to a blog post by CBSsports.com’s Gary Parrish.
- Full slate of activities scheduled to commemorate veterans over Memorial Day weekend
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Here are some Memorial Day weekend services in the area:
- Statehouse Live: Parkinson “dismayed” by Kansas Chamber comments
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Governor and leading business organization have been at odds all year.
- Embattled Kansas House speaker will seek re-election
- 01:26 p.m., May 28, 2010 Updated 05:28 p.m. in print edition on B4
- Embattled Speaker Mike O’Neal filed Friday for re-election to the Kansas House, undeterred by a past ethics inquiry and successful efforts this year by GOP moderates to pass a tax increase over his opposition.
- Former state senator says he’s not Brownback’s running mate
- May 28, 2010
- Former Kansas state Sen. Nick Jordan says he’s not running for lieutenant governor this year.
- Two Lawrence men sentenced to prison for armed robbery of Pizza Shuttle delivery driver
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B1
- A Douglas County judge has sent two men to prison for their role in the armed robbery of a Lawrence pizza delivery driver.
- Jayhawk Flashback: Video of 1952 NCAA championship game
- 11:36 a.m., May 28, 2010 Updated 10:19 a.m.
- I had to go deep into our dusty 6Sports archives for today’s Jayhawk Flashback — one that will take us back some 58 years.
- Downtown Lawrence leaders looking to bring outdoor skating to Lawrence during part of the winter
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Downtown Lawrence Inc. leaders are working on an idea to add an outdoor, temporary ice skating rink to downtown in hopes of attracting more holiday shoppers.
- KU scandal prompts universities to look at ticket rules
- May 28, 2010
- Athletic departments around the country said Thursday they are taking a close look at their ticket policies, one day after the University of Kansas admitted losing at least $1 million in an alleged scalping scheme run by a handful of school employees.
- Sporting News taps KU football No. 31
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B4
- The Sporting News Preseason Top 100 list ranked the Kansas University football team No. 31 in the country for the upcoming 2010 season.
- Net Worth: Splicing and morphing are all the rage on Internet
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on C1
- Few things have burrowed under my skin lately like “The Human Centipede.” As with last year’s “Paranormal Activity,” it’s become the movie that everyone is talking about but few have actually seen.
- Shawnee County settles lawsuit filed over Lawrence man’s death
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A3
- On Thursday, Shawnee County commissioners agreed to pay $350,000 to the family of a Lawrence man who died shortly after Shawnee County deputies used a Taser on him at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in Topeka.
- Two people injured in accident near Linwood released from hospital
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Two people involved in a five-vehicle accident Saturday on Kansas Highway 32 just west of Linwood have been released from the hospital.
- Passenger: I woke up alone on plane
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B9
- A Michigan woman who fell asleep on a United Express flight to Philadelphia says she woke up and was shocked to find she was alone on the plane.
- Fire chief, pastor remember Glaser as remarkable man
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A6
- Shawnee Fire Chief Jeff Hudson on Thursday praised the courage and commitment of John Glaser, the first Shawnee firefighter to die in the line of duty.
- House approves repeal of gay ban in military
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The House on Thursday delivered a victory to President Barack Obama and gay rights groups by approving a proposal to repeal the law that allows gays to serve in the military only if they don’t disclose their sexual orientation.
- AP tally: U.S. military suffers 1,000th death
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The U.S. military suffered its 1,000th death of the Afghan war today, according to an Associated Press count, when NATO reported an American service member was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.
- Vehicle breaks record for hypersonic flight
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A2
- An experimental aircraft has set a record for hypersonic flight, flying more than 3 minutes at Mach 6 — six times the speed of sound.
- Up to 7 major Atlantic hurricanes predicted
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The Atlantic hurricane season could be the busiest since 2005, when Katrina and Rita caused massive destruction along the same part of the Gulf Coast now struggling with the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, government scientists said Thursday.
- New $23B for teacher subsidies falters
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A $23 billion payout to save thousands of educators’ jobs faltered Thursday — perhaps for good — to election-year jitters among moderate Democrats over deficit spending and only lukewarm support from the White House.
- Official: At least 65 dead in train collision
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A2
- An explosion today derailed an overnight passenger train that was then hit by a cargo train in eastern India, killing at least 65 people and injuring more than 200, officials said.
- Obama: Fixing oil spill my responsibility
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Thrown on the defensive, President Barack Obama acknowledged his administration could have done better in dealing with the biggest oil spill in the nation’s history and misjudged the industry’s ability to cope with a worst-case scenario. Obama will make his second tour of the battered Gulf Coast today.
- Gulf oil leak eclipses Exxon Valdez as worst U.S. spill
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A2
- As BP labored for a second day Thursday to choke off the leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, dire new government estimates showed the disaster has easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
- Lawrence man reports truck stolen
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A 33-year-old Lawrence man reported Thursday the theft of a truck from the 500 block of Florida Street.
- Two women injured in motorcycle accident remain in hospital
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Two women injured in a weekend motorcycle accident near Lawrence Municipal Airport remained at Kansas University Hospital on Thursday, a spokesman for the Kansas City, Kan., hospital said.
- Baker’s education school receives accreditation
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Baker University’s School of Education has received accreditation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
- Child released from hospital after wreck
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A3
- A child was released from a Topeka hospital Thursday after being treated for injuries after a Wednesday wreck that killed two Olathe residents on the Kansas Turnpike between Topeka and Lawrence.
- Barbecue contest set for June 19
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A3
- A new barbecue contest, “Fire in the Hole,” is coming to Lawrence in June, sponsored by the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
- KU volleyball adds four
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Kansas University volleyball coach Ray Bechard announced the addition of four players on Friday.
- KU thrower Finley 2nd
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Kansas University freshman Mason Finley placed second in the shot put at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West preliminary Thursday.
- Firebird sophomore distance runner a pleasant surprise
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B1
- While Free State High sophomore distance runner Kain Anderson didn’t exactly come out of nowhere this spring — following his junior-high season in ’09, he moved up to the Firebirds’ varsity team for the final two weeks of the season and qualified for last fall’s state cross country meet — it would have been hard (even for him) to predict this.
- Legal eagles circling
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Local legal eagles, their ears aflame with anger vented from Williams Fund members who feel cheated by the ticket scandal, are circling, looking for prey that could lead to a class-action lawsuit.
- Fox hoping that ‘Good Guys’ sticks
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B8
- With May sweeps and the TV season behind us, Fox offers a peek, or at least half a peek, at their fall schedule. The network repeats the pilot for the buddy-cop parody “The Good Guys” (8 p.m., Fox) that will air on Fridays at this time in the fall.
- Horoscope for May 28, 2010
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B8
- This year, you open up to new beginnings. You will have to wade through an enormous amount of facts and trivia that others deem important. You will tend to indulge yourself more often than not. If you are single, open up to meeting people more often. If you are attached, defer to your sweetie more often. Sagittarius can be challenging.
- The gold standard: Sustained success, lofty expectations part of FSHS baseball culture
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Scroll through the resume of the Free State High baseball team over the course of the past decade, and you won’t find many holes. Today, the Firebirds will be making their sixth state tournament appearance in the past eight seasons.
- Child TV star Gary Coleman hospitalized
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Former child television star Gary Coleman is in critical condition near his Utah home with what his family calls a “serious medical problem.”
- Drew Carey shares ideas with city council
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Comedian Drew Carey, wearing a loud black-and-white checkered blazer, marched into City Hall in his hometown on Thursday and told council members what they’re doing wrong.
- Palin makes good on fence threat
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B8
- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is making good on a threat to build a fence around her Wasilla home to keep her new neighbor — an author who is writing a book about her — from peering in.
- U.S. military base to stay in Okinawa
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A8
- Washington and Tokyo agreed today to keep a contentious U.S. Marine base in the southern island of Okinawa, reaffirming the importance of their security alliance and the need to maintain American troops in Japan.
- Checks to be mailed earlier to seniors with high drug bills
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A8
- Government checks to seniors with high prescription drug bills are going out early, Obama administration officials said Thursday, plugging the advantages of the new health care overhaul law.
- N. Korea scraps sea accords; South holds anti-sub drills
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A8
- Military tension on the Korean peninsula rose Thursday after North Korea threatened to attack any South Korean ships entering its waters and Seoul held anti-submarine drills in response to the March sinking of a navy vessel blamed on Pyongyang.
- How the scam happened and what KU is doing about it
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Employees took tickets that otherwise would go to donors, then sold them to brokers.
- Doctor admits knowing patients overdosed
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B10
- A Kansas doctor accused of illegally prescribing drugs linked to 68 deaths testified that he knew some patients had died from overdoses, but he said his clinic changed its practices to prevent future overdoses.
- Questionable honor
- Before Kansas adopts a policy on honorary university degrees, it should consider whether such degrees are as big an honor as they once were.
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A9
- Giving state universities in Kansas permission to award honorary degrees may seem innocent enough, but it’s not something the Kansas Board of Regents should rush into without due consideration.
- Health group: Donor cuts hurting AIDS fight
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on C10
- Doctors are being forced to turn away people with HIV/AIDS — meaning they will fall ill and almost certainly die — in eight African countries as donors cut funding amid the global economic meltdown, an aid group said Thursday.
- 73 killed in hunt for alleged drug lord
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on C10
- Jamaican security forces kicked down doors and arrested dozens of people in a bullet-pocked slum Thursday, and said the death toll from four days of fighting sparked by the search for a reputed drug lord has risen to 73.
- N.H. church at center of teen rape case
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on C10
- Tina Anderson was a scared 15-year-old when she was summoned by church leaders to stand before her congregation and apologize for getting pregnant out of wedlock.
- Congress should ease credit score access
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B9
- Why in the world would Congress provide some consumers free access to credit scores, but not others?
- Theater camp: KU drama students save a venue and found a repertory troupe
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on C1
- The year was 1966, and the tiny mountain city of Creede, Colo., was in imminent danger of becoming a ghost town. Half a dozen local silver mines, the burg’s economic lifeline for decades, were closing. Something had to be done, and fast…
- Dale Willey Automotive buys Chevy dealership
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B9
- Lawrence will keep its Chevrolet dealership, but it will move to a new spot on South Iowa Street.
- Mortgage rates fall near record low
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B9
- Turmoil in the stock market and the European debt crisis are making life easier for American homebuyers and families looking to refinance: Mortgage rates are inching closer to a record low.
- ‘Dr. Beach’ says Southampton spot best in U.S.
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on C9
- Hamptons hoi polloi probably assumed it was always No. 1.
- Doubts raised about ‘Ardi’ as man’s ancestor
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on C9
- Last fall, a fossil skeleton named “Ardi” shook up the field of human evolution. Now, some scientists are raising doubts about what exactly the creature from Ethiopia was and what kind of landscape it inhabited.
- Slow-motion recovery keeps jobless rate high
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on C9
- High unemployment isn’t going away.
- Environmentalists also share Gulf blame
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A9
- Here’s my question: Why are we drilling in 5,000 feet of water in the first place? Many reasons, but this one goes unmentioned: Environmental chic has driven us out there. As production from the shallower Gulf of Mexico wells declines, we go deep (1,000 feet and more) and ultra deep (5,000 feet and more), in part because environmentalists have succeeded in rendering the Pacific and nearly all the Atlantic coast off-limits to oil production. (President Obama’s tentative, selective opening of some Atlantic and offshore Alaska sites is now dead.) And of course, in the safest of all places, on land, we’ve had a 30-year ban on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
- Super Bowl vote shows NFL power
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B2
- The biggest surprise about the New York area landing a Super Bowl turned out to be that the NFL owners were more concerned about the cold than they should have been.
- FSHS baseball senior Davis soaks up run to 6A state
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B4
- Free State baseball coach Mike Hill was up front with Big Baby when tryouts rolled around this spring.
- Kansans accuse N.M. police of profiling
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B10
- Two Kansas residents have accused police of racial profiling and of improperly seizing $57,000 in cash from them after they were pulled over for speeding on an eastern New Mexico highway.
- Blubaugh resigns from university
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Charlette Blubaugh, who was the executive administrative assistant to the athletic director at the University of Central Oklahoma, resigned that position Wednesday, the Daily Oklahoman reported Thursday.
- 6A state baseball capsules
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B4
- A look at each team competing in this weekend’s Class 6A state baseball tournament at Hoglund Ballpark.
- Royals end Boston’s run
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on B6
- Brian Bannister did everything he could to stop Boston’s winning streak.
- Study: Kansans best drivers in America
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on C9
- New York drivers are the worst in the nation for a second straight year and neighboring New Jersey motorists are almost as bad, according to a test by GMAC Insurance Personal Lines on rules-of-the-road knowledge.
- Publishing faces end of an era
- May 28, 2010 in print edition on A9
- I ran into my daughter’s favorite author, Mary Pope Osborne, in New York the other night, whose Magic Tree House books I’ve read to the child at night, and a moment later, Scott Turow, who writes legal thrillers that keep people awake all night, and David Remnick, the biographer of Obama. Bang bang bang, one heavyweight after another. Erica Jong, Jeffrey Toobin, Judy Blume. It was a rooftop party in Tribeca that I got invited to via a well-connected pal, wall-to-wall authors and agents and editors and elegant young women in little black dresses, standing, white wine in hand, looking out across the Hudson at the lights of Hoboken and Jersey City, eating shrimp and scallops and spanikopita on toothpicks, all talking at once the way New Yorkers do.
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- 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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