Also from September 8
Births
Blog entries
- Tale of the Tait: Around the Web in 7 Days: A look at the Yellow Jackets
- The Newell Post: Breakdown: Kale Pick’s pick simply a poor decision
- Election headline roundup: Hartman may run as a Libertarian; Cleaver concerned about political discourse; Moore opposes Obama proposal
- Shop Talk with Jenn and Julie: Subscriptions getting cheaper
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
Polls
Lawrence was recently named one of America's top 10 college communities. Other than Lawrence, what is your favorite Big 12 North college town?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Boulder, Colo. | 55% | |
| Manhattan, Kan. | 20% | |
| Lincoln, Neb. | 10% | |
| Ames, Iowa | 6% | |
| Columbia, Mo. | 6% | |
| Total | 1113 | |
Videos
- Grab your umbrella because we’ll see scattered showers tonight and …
- The parade may be half a year away, but organizers …
- The historic downtown hotel wants to expand into the empty …
- The new 30,000-square-foot building will be at Sixth and Wakarusa …
- Kansas Magazine gave the Columbian Theatre the honor. The theatre, …
- This week is National Suicide Prevention Week, and this presentation …
- The KU Police posted a report that a person in …
- The year-long class teachers local community members how the city …
- Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little hopes to have a search committee together …
- The stand, located in north Topeka, has sold more than …
- KU redshirt freshman Jordan Webb will start this game in …
- Coach Craig Bohl went on the record to say he …
- ESPN.com rated KU tied for fifth as the worst team …
- Brad Strauss started at quarterback for the first game of …
- The Firebirds won 11 matches at the meet.
- Bands of rain will move into the area overnight as …
- It should be a fairly typical commute for most of …
- Clouds will be on the increase through the day as …
- The morning commute will feel cool with temperatures in the …
- Turner Gill discusses the Jayhawks’ first home game of the …
All stories
- Gill names Webb starting QB for Saturday
- Junior lineman Hatch also to return to starting lineup
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University football coach Turner Gill has named red-shirt freshman Jordan Webb the starting quarterback for Saturday’s game against Georgia Tech.
- Downtown Eldridge hotel getting a multi-story addition, upgrade
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Downtown Lawrence’s venerable Eldridge Hotel is set to get a modern, multi-story expansion.
- Style Scout: Jane Leek
- September 8, 2010
- I have a pretzel tattoo and pierced ears.
- Style Scout: Jeff Stolz
- September 8, 2010
- I don’t have any least favorites, I try to be positive.
- EPA concerned about dredging sand, gravel from Missouri River
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A5
- The regional office of the EPA on Wednesday announced it opposes a plan to dredge 11.6 million tons of sand and gravel each year from the Missouri River.
- Jim Barnett resigning from Kansas state Senate
- September 8, 2010
- Republican Jim Barnett is resigning from the Kansas state Senate with two years left in his latest term.
- Basehor police capture escaped inmates from West Virginia youth home
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A3
- On a routine check of a neighborhood early Wednesday morning, Basehor police captured three escaped inmates from a youth home in West Virginia.
- Charities invited to apply for St. Patrick’s Day funds
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A5
- St. Patrick’s Day is still six months away, but a Lawrence group already is thinking green.
- Lawrence lands No. 9 spot in ranking of top 10 college communities
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The city’s low unemployment, its high number of youthful students and its growing ranks of highly educated residents helped Lawrence land at No. 9 on a new ranking of college destinations from the American Institute for Economic Research. The ranking is up from 14th a year earlier.
- Former Easton teacher given probation for sexual relationship with high school student
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A3
- A former teacher in Leavenworth County who pleaded guilty to having sex with a high school student has been sentenced to probation for three years.
- Budget cuts mean elimination of dental benefits to thousands of elderly, disabled Kansans
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Cuts in dental benefits for elderly, poor and disabled Kansans have been devastating, social service advocates said Wednesday.
- Jeffries, Simmons ask for sentencing delay in KU ticket scandal case
- 01:18 p.m., September 8, 2010 Updated 02:45 p.m. in print edition on A4
- A former University of Kansas athletics official has asked a federal judge to delay his sentencing in a case tied to a $1 million ticket scalping scandal at the school.
- ‘Domestic Debris’ exhibit at KU explores everyday junk
- September 8, 2010
- That pile of junk in your home might be more than clutter.
- Trial date set for Lawrence woman accused in Missouri homicide
- September 8, 2010
- A trial date has been set for a Kansas woman charged with killing her ex-boyfriend in Missouri.
- Kansas State University gets patent for type of stem cells
- September 8, 2010
- Kansas State University has been issued a patent for a type of stem cells obtained from a substance in the umbilical cord.
- Burning more than the Quran
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A9
- Saturday is International Burn a Quran Day. Perhaps you hadn’t heard. The day is the brainchild of one Terry Jones, pastor of the tiny Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla. You will not be surprised to hear that his plan to build a bonfire of Qurans has stirred passions around the world.
- 25 years ago: Legislators reconsider statewide lottery
- September 8, 2010
- Some Kansas legislators were reconsidering their positions on a statewide lottery. Twenty-two states plus the District of Columbia had state lotteries, and multi-state lotteries had recently been initiated by Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
- 40 years ago: Package of marijuana discovered on KU campus labeled as gift
- September 8, 2010
- For the fourth time in recent days, a package of marijuana had been discovered on the KU campus. This one had been found near Haworth Hall, and like the others, it had contained a note saying that it was a gift to the finder from “the grass man.”
- Make the best of your own Family Day
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on C3
- In 2001, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse created Family Day: A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children, as a national effort to promote family dinners as an effective way to reduce substance abuse among children and teens.
- For athletes, milk might be best drink
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A1
- At the end of nearly every training session, Matt Whitmore downs a pint of milk straight from the bottle.
- Boise State gains seven first-place votes
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B7
- More AP Top 25 voters are buying into Boise State as the No. 1 team in the country.
- Contest offers dinner, movie
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Who wants dinner and a movie on us?
- Pump patrol
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.49 at several stations.
- Hermine weakens to depression
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Tropical Storm Hermine gave a wet and windy punch to Texas on Tuesday before weakening into a tropical depression, leaving only minor scrapes in the storm-weary Rio Grande Valley, which is proving resilient this hurricane season after taking a third tropical system on the chin.
- Muslims tone down Eid festivities
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Each year on Eid al-Fitr, the end of the Ramadan month of fasting, 8,000 to 10,000 Muslims stream into the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Md., in shifts for special Eid services, followed by food, singing, dancing and henna decorating to celebrate one of Islam’s most festive holidays.
- Grim outlook for Democrats puts House up for grabs in Nov. election
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Their control of the House in peril, Democrats are scratching to survive in races all across the country. Disgruntled voters, a sluggish economy and vanishing enthusiasm for President Barack Obama have put 75 seats or more — the vast majority held by Democrats — at risk of changing hands.
- Microbes eating BP oil without using up oxygen
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating “dead zones” where fish cannot survive.
- Officer implicated in CIA abuse now a contractor
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A former CIA officer accused of revving an electric drill near the head of an imprisoned terror suspect has returned to U.S. intelligence as a contractor, training CIA operatives after leaving the agency, The Associated Press has learned.
- Lawrence man pleads guilty in domestic battery case
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A 33-year-old Lawrence man has pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and other charges after he disobeyed a judge’s bond condition to stay away from a victim in the case.
- Tonganoxie couple share important dates
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A.L. “Jim” and Dorothy Smith are celebrating 70 years of marriage.
- Lawrence man reports property stolen
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A 23-year-old Lawrence man reported Sunday the burglary and theft of personal property from the 1200 block of Connecticut Street.
- Charges filed in sex crime case
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Douglas County prosecutors have charged a 23-year-old Lawrence man with committing lewd fondling or touching against a 7-year-old child earlier this month.
- Three arrested in connection with south Lawrence robbery
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A4
- Three Lawrence men were arrested early Tuesday morning in connection with a south Lawrence robbery investigation, and police said more arrests are possible.
- Gov’t launches plan to help ‘underwater’ borrowers
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A6
- The Obama administration is trying to jump-start its sputtering attempts to tackle the foreclosure crisis with an effort to assist homeowners who owe more on their properties than their homes are worth.
- Obama’s tax-break proposals unlikely to gain GOP support
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A8
- President Barack Obama’s proposed tax breaks for business sound like ideas that have enjoyed broad Republican backing in the past. But in today’s toxic political atmosphere, he’s unlikely to get much — if any — GOP help.
- Perkins should have left KU much sooner
- KU’s athletic director should have left the university long before now
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A9
- Tuesday’s surprise announcement by Lew Perkins that he is resigning after seven years as Kansas University’s athletics director is good news.
- Mideast peace talks unlikely to succeed
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A9
- For as long as I’ve been a journalist, I’ve been covering the Mideast peace process. I was at Ben Gurion airport in 1977 when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat landed, and on the White House lawn in 1993 when Bill Clinton, Yassir Arafat, and Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo accords. Back then, a two-state solution seemed possible.
- Examine issues
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A9
- The growing idea that Barack Obama is a Muslim is symbolic of a bigger problem in America. President Obama is a Christian. He has been a Christian since his mid 20s. His presidential campaign was almost derailed because of comments made by his “Christian” minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
- 100 years ago: Fraternity reinstated, exonerated in matter of ‘keg party’
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A9
- At a special called meeting this morning the Board of Regents of the state university formally reinstated the Sigma Nu chapter to all privileges of the institution. The regents exonerated the chapter from all guilt in the alleged ‘keg party’ in the house last spring and rescinded all previous action taken in the matter.
- Horoscope for September 8, 2010
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B9
- This year, you open up to new possibilities; you can manifest much of what you desire. Creativity marks your days, actions and words. If you’re single, your charm and energy could attract an exotic personality. If you are attached, defer to your sweetie and remain sensitive to him or her. You could become quite me-oriented. A fellow Virgo can be like you used to be — nit-picky and critical.
- People in the news
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B9
- People in the new for September 8, 2010.
- ‘Terriers’ has bite; ‘Hellcats’ just bites
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B9
- Donal Logue (“Grounded for Life”) returns to prime time in “Terriers” (9 p.m., FX). It’s a detective series set in a deceptively sunny California that spends most of its time in the neighborhoods where you can smell the garbage curdling in the streets.
- Nonword ‘refudiate’ gets most searches
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on C10
- Merriam-Webster’s “Word of the Summer” is not even a word. That’s something no one can “refudiate.”
- EU decries ‘barbaric’ plans to stone woman
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on C10
- The international crossfire over Iran’s stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery intensified Tuesday with a top European Union official calling it “barbaric” and an Iranian spokesman saying it’s about punishing a criminal and not a human rights issue.
- Consumer Reports finds low-phosphate dishwasher detergents that clean up
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on C10
- Laws that took effect in 16 states on July 1 limit phosphorus in household dishwasher detergents to 0.5 percent. Previous products could contain up to 8.7 percent. As a result, major manufacturers have reformulated their products for the entire United States.
- Carolina falls back to sleaze
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Give the North Carolina football program credit. Until this season, the Tar Heels lost the right way.
- Report: Reggie Bush to be stripped of ’05 Heisman
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Yahoo! Sports reported Tuesday that 2005 Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush is expected to be stripped of the award by the end of the month
- KU volleyball swept for first loss
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B3
- After opening its season with seven straight victories for its best start since 2004, the Kansas University volleyball team suffered its first loss on Tuesday.
- Blue Valley West tops LHS soccer, 9-1
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Lawrence High’s soccer team fell to Blue Valley West, 9-1, on Tuesday.
- Twins rout Royals
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Jim Thome hit another towering homer, Delmon Young drove in four runs, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals, 10-3, on Tuesday night to take their largest AL Central lead in 10 days.
- Georgia Tech coach warns team about KU
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B5
- Paul Johnson is warning his Georgia Tech players they better not be distracted as they prepare for the program’s first road game at a Big 12 school since 1992.
- Perkins’ reign over: New athletic director must be subject to checks and balances
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Money, the very thing that enabled Lew Perkins to gain such unfettered power during his reign as athletic director of Kansas University, raised its voice, screamed “Enough is enough,” and brought about the end of his reign.
- Lawrence commission to look at trash options
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A3
- City commissioners promised to be deliberate in making any changes to the city’s trash system, as sanitation workers filled City Hall on Tuesday evening.
- Students, public invited to appeals court hearings at Dole Institute
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A3
- When a panel of Kansas appellate court judges hears arguments on three cases next week, they won’t be in the normal courtroom setting.
- Daley says he’s served his last term as Chicago’s mayor
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Mayor Richard M. Daley, who wielded more control over Chicago than anyone but his father decades before, said Tuesday he will not seek re-election, bringing a surprising end to a dynasty whose name became synonymous with the city’s legendary political machine.
- Skin infections pose risk to trapped miners
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Rescuers have sent down antibiotics and ointments and were working Tuesday to blast cool, dry air to 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground for more than a month.
- Asteroids to zoom harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A2
- NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth today, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope.
- Tonganoxie hires former KBI administrator as new police chief
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A8
- A former administrator with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation will be the next Tonganoxie police chief.
- Pressure on Florida pastor to not burn Qurans
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on A10
- The government turned up the pressure Tuesday on the head of a small Florida church who plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, warning him that doing so could endanger U.S. troops and Americans everywhere.
- Ancient Egyptian city by the sea rises amid resorts
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on C10
- Today, it’s a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt’s wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade.
- Venus Williams lone singles hope in U.S. Open
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Venus Williams arrived at this U.S. Open with a bum knee. She hadn’t played a match in more than two months. She hadn’t reached the semifinals at any Grand Slam tournament in more than a year. And now? Williams is two victories away from her first U.S. Open title since 2001.
- AD successor with Midwestern ties likely
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Not even two hours after Kansas University acting athletic director Sean Lester said he wants to become an athletic director at Kansas or elsewhere, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little issued a statement that said, in part: “While I am confident in Sean Lester’s ability to lead Kansas Athletics as interim athletics director, he has expressed to me that he is not a candidate to be our next athletics director.” Clearly, the search for a replacement for Lew Perkins got off to a confusing start Tuesday.
- Kansas offensive line struggling
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B5
- All offseason, coaches and players talked about the offensive line — and its five returning starters — being a strength of the Kansas University football team heading into 2010. But then Saturday happened, and all that talk went flying out the window after a 6-3 loss to North Dakota State.
- Self: KU in much better place than 8 years ago
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Bill Self made it perfectly clear Tuesday that he’s not a candidate to replace Lew Perkins as athletic director at Kansas University.
- Gary Bedore’s KU basketball notebook
- September 8, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Kansas University freshman basketball point guard Josh Selby attended his first classes of the semester Tuesday.
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- God, marriage May 25, 2012 · 192 comments
- Kansas extends major development tool for 5 years May 28, 2012 · 13 comments
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012
- Friends mourn Lynn Bretz, former voice of KU May 28, 2012
- Kansas football scouring country May 29, 2012
- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp May 29, 2012
- Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down May 28, 2012
- City, county mull upgrade to emergency radio system May 28, 2012
- Book helps family heal after tragedy May 28, 2012
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- Retreat offered for writers May 28, 2012
