Also from April 16
Births
Blog entries
Couples
- Wedding: Young and Ewing
- Wedding: Beard and Rehmer
- Wedding: Osbern and Boland
- Wedding: Stuart and Robson
- Engagement: Hatton and Sommer
- Engagement: Berns and Minahan
- Engagement: Rogers and Long
- Anniversary: Faust
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Videos
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Kansas Advocates for Better Care selects Earl Nehring as United Way Roger Hill Volunteer Center Volunteer of the Year for Leadership/Board Service- April 14, 2011 in print edition on 3A
- When Earl Nehring’s wife, Harriet Nehring, helped found Kansas Advocates for Better Care, little did he know that the agency’s mission to advocate for those in long-term care facilities would become very personal.
6:00 a.m.
Tom Thornton resigns from Kansas Bioscience Authority- 10:50 a.m., April 15, 2011 Updated 4:06 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- Tom Thornton, the leader of the Kansas Bioscience Authority, which is under investigation and been criticized by Gov. Sam Brownback, has resigned. The announcement Friday came from KBA board chairman John Carlin.
2:00 p.m.
Cans for Community sets 5,000-pound collection goal for April - April 15, 2011
- The convergence of Earth Day and a high price for aluminum has the volunteers at Cans for the Community setting the bar high for collections this month. The organization, which gives the proceeds from recycling cans to local charities, hopes to collect 5,000 pounds of cans this month. The amount is far more than what has been collected in the past.
6:00 p.m.
Ruth Turney selected by Douglas County Correctional Facility as Volunteer of the Year for Lifetime Service- April 15, 2011 in print edition on 3A
- Ruth Turney has had a lifelong love affair with books. She taught herself to read as a preschooler and hasn’t stopped since. “If you saw my house, you can hardly move for the books,” she said, laughing.
All stories
- High school students take stand against underage drinking as part of Sticker Shock Lawrence
- 11:57 p.m., April 16, 2011 Updated 09:49 a.m. in print edition on A3
- Dozens of area high school students visited local liquor stores Saturday morning, but they weren’t trying to get anything. They had a message for of-age consumers: Don’t buy alcohol for them.
- Sumner County vying for federal immigrant detention center
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A8
- Sumner County in south-central Kansas has been trying to win a contract for a federal immigrant detention facility.
- Rep. Mike Pompeo asks Congress to act on Kapaun honor
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A14
- A Kansas congressman is pushing his House colleagues to waive regulations to approve the Medal of Honor for an Army chaplain who died in a prison camp during the Korean War.
- More shelling in last city held by rebels in western Libya
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A11
- Moammar Gadhafi’s forces poured rocket fire after dawn Saturday into Misrata, the only western city still in rebel hands, and weary residents who have endured more than a month of fighting angrily lashed out at NATO for failing to halt the deadly assault.
- Odd work schedules pose health risk
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A10
- Reports of sleeping air traffic controllers highlight a long-known and often ignored hazard: Workers on night shifts can have trouble concentrating and even staying awake.
- More than 300 volunteers pitch in around Douglas County for Day of Caring
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A5
- It certainly wasn’t the most glamorous volunteer job. But that’s OK with Tracy Gillett, who was scrubbing and cleaning metal garden bins inside Van Go Mobile Arts, 715 N.J., on Saturday as part of the annual Day of Caring volunteer event.
- More than a thousand celebrate Earth Day in South Park
- April 16, 2011
- More than a thousand people came to Saturday’s Earth Day Celebration, which had about 75 earth-friendly booths lined up in South Park. “This is the largest crowd we have seen in the afternoon,” said organizer Kathy Richardson, who is head of the city of Lawrence’s waste reduction and recycling operations. “The weather is perfect.”
- Guide dog undergoes surgery with help from community
- 07:44 p.m., April 16, 2011 Updated 09:04 a.m. in print edition on A6
- Comet the guide dog underwent surgery Wednesday to remove a life-threatening tumor and is on her way to recovery.
- Mortgages
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A6
- The Douglas County register of deeds recorded 50 mortgages in the weekly period ended Thursday.
- Wheel Genius: Road work planned this week
- April 16, 2011
- Road work planned for the week of April 17, 2011.
- Around and about in local business
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A6
- Local business news for the week ending April 16, 2011.
- Two dead, three with serious injuries after accident on Kansas Highway 10 near Eudora
- 03:46 p.m., April 16, 2011 Updated 04:17 p.m.
- A 5-year-old and a 24-year-old were killed, while three others were seriously injured in a two-vehicle accident on Kansas Highway 10, near mile marker 11 just south of Eudora.
- Police investigating body found on bench in 700 block of Vermont Street
- 10:22 a.m., April 16, 2011 Updated 10:26 p.m.
- Police are investigating a body found on a bench in front of Douglas County Senior Services, 745 Vt., around 10 a.m. Saturday.
- Woman denies making ‘true threat’ against doctor
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A2
- A Kansas woman accused of sending a threatening letter to a doctor planning to do abortions in Wichita said Friday she never intended to make a “true threat.” The affidavit filed in federal court by 44-year-old Angel Dillard offers the first glimpse of her defense strategy since the Justice Department filed a civil complaint against her last week. The lawsuit accuses the Valley Center woman of violating a law protecting abortion clinics when she mailed a letter to Dr. Mila Means after learning the physician was training to offer abortion services at her Wichita practice.
- Half of supermarket meat may have staph
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A10
- Half the meat and poultry sold in the supermarket may be tainted with the staph germ, a new report suggests.
- Few blacks attend Civil War anniversary events
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A10
- As cannons thudded around Charleston Harbor this week in commemoration of the start of the war that extinguished slavery, the audiences for the 150th-anniversary events were nearly all white. Even black scholars lecturing about black Union troops and the roots of slavery gazed out mostly on white faces.
- Historical name
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A11
- Thanks to Mary Gordon and the other Liberty Memorial High School graduates for writing the letter I intended to write concerning the naming of the building now housing Central Junior High School.
- Earn the raises
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A11
- Hooray for George Lippencott who tells it like it is in his Public Forum letter of April 10. Yes, new school board members were elected on April 5 and, on April 6, there appeared the usual plea by Lawrence school teachers for a raise. Way to help the economy!
- Quick fix
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A11
- Recently our government almost ran out of money, taking it to the last hour before shutdown, with the usual prattling and posturing by both Congress and the president. The Republicans demand we cut spending and give tax breaks to the rich, (like that plan has ever worked!)
- KU tennis drops marathon match
- April 16, 2011
- After more than five hours and a location change, the tennis match between Kansas and Oklahoma State finally ended with the Cowgirls winning.
- Fomer KU AD Bob Frederick’s son to speak in Naismith Lecture Series
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on B3
- Brian Frederick, executive director of Sportsfans.org, will speak on “Making Some Noise: Educating and Empowering Sports Fans” at 5 p.m., Thursday, in Kansas University’s Hadl Auditorium in Wagnon Student Athlete Center. His speech is part of the Naismith Lecture Series. Frederick is the son of former KU athletic director Bob Frederick.
- GM Scott Pioli prepares for third draft with Kansas City Chiefs
- April 16, 2011
- Whenever somebody points to Tom Brady as proof of Scott Pioli’s genius for evaluating football talent, he points to someone else he took in that same New England draft of 2000.
- T.J. Walz ‘special’ in KU baseball team’s victory over Missouri
- April 16, 2011
- The Kansas University baseball team evened its record at 17-17 with an 8-3 victory over Border War rival Missouri on Friday night at Taylor Stadium.
- Cold doesn’t deter Royals pitcher Luke Hochevar
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on B1
- With the temperature hovering in the 30s, a steady rain and wind howling up to 24 miles per hour, Luke Hochevar felt right at home.
- KU baseball player Jason Brunansky enjoyable to watch
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on B1
- The new college baseball bat standards that reduced the exit speed of a batted baseball have reduced batting averages 22 points and increased shutouts by 60.3 percent, according to a recent Fort Worth Star-Telegram report. In other words, the change has made the game more enjoyable to watch because baseball’s most beautiful plays come on defense and the slower the ball moves, the better chance fielders have of getting to it.
- Lawrence High baseball game washed out
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on B1
- Lawrence High’s baseball game against Shawnee Mission Northwest in the River City Baseball Festival on Friday was canceled because of inclement weather.
- Cold day, cold start: Free State baseball team heats up quickly
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on B1
- With a game-time temperature in the 30s, biting wind and intermittent rain, warming up was out of the question for Free State High’s baseball team. Once the Firebirds got in a rhythm, though, they were all set.
- Slate wiped clean for NBA playoffs
- April 16, 2011
- Once more — even if it’s the last time — NBA fans join together in that age-old prayer… Thank heavens that’s over! The season is so long that, even if you remember when the Miami Heat was loathed and feared, you may not have the slightest idea why. And what a season it was!
- NCAA approves football rule changes
- April 16, 2011
- The NCAA has approved tougher restrictions on blocking below the waist and given teams the option of taking 10 seconds off the clock in the final minute of each half this season in penalty situations.
- Oops: An open mic night for the president
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A7
- Now that the reporters were gone, President Barack Obama had some private thoughts to share with about 50 donors.
- Obama: Congress will raise debt limit
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A7
- President Barack Obama confidently predicted Friday that a divided Congress would raise the nation’s borrowing limit to cover the staggering federal debt rather than risk triggering a worldwide recession, but he conceded for the first time he would have to offer more spending cuts to Republicans to get a deal.
- Likely Republican contenders plot tea party strategies
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A9
- It’s a tricky time of courtship.
- House passes huge GOP budget cuts
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A9
- In a prelude to a summer showdown with President Barack Obama, Republicans controlling the House pushed to passage on Friday a bold but politically dangerous budget blueprint to slash social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid and fundamentally restructure Medicare health care for the elderly.
- IRS paid $513M in undeserved homebuyer tax credits
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A8
- The Internal Revenue Service has paid out more than a half-billion dollars in homebuyer tax credits to people who probably didn’t qualify, a government investigator said Friday.
- Consumers feel the pinch of pricier gas, food
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A8
- Americans are paying more for food and gas, a trend that threatens to slow the economy at a crucial time.
- Used-car prices rise as sales slump’s aftershocks arrive
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A8
- A new Toyota Prius these days starts at around $22,000, which might prompt the cost-conscious buyer in this fragile economy to scout around for a used version.
- Spending cuts essential start to reducing deficit
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A11
- The most serious charge against Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget is not the risible claim, made most prominently by President Obama in his George Washington University address, that it would “sacrifice the America we believe in.” The serious charge is that the Ryan plan fails by its own standards: Because it only cuts spending without raising taxes, it accumulates trillions of debt and doesn’t balance the budget until the 2030s. If the debt is such a national emergency, they say, Ryan never really gets you there from here.
- ‘Real King’s Speech’ charts unexpected path to throne
- April 16, 2011
- “The Real King’s Speech” (6 p.m., Discovery) examines the real-life drama behind the Oscar-winning motion picture. The story of George VI and his stammer has only recently come to light.
- Regents a key appointment for governor
- April 16, 2011 in print edition on A3
- It would be difficult to single out any one Kansas gubernatorial appointment as the most important or the one that touches and/or impacts the most Kansans. However, a strong argument could be made for the individuals a governor appoints to the Kansas Board of Regents.
- FCE news for April 16, 2011
- April 16, 2011
- The Vinland FCE will meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Vinland United Methodist Church, 1724 N. 692 Road, Baldwin City.
- Club news for April 16, 2011
- April 16, 2011
- University Bridge Club announces results of its April 9 meeting with hosts Rhetta Jo Noever and Bonnie Haney.
- Scouting news for April 16, 2011
- April 16, 2011
- The pickup date for the 24th Annual Boy Scout “Scouting-For-Food” food drive in Lawrence is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today.
- Around and About for April 16, 2011
- April 16, 2011
- Angie Fishburn will celebrate her 80th birthday with a reception from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. April 30 at Lone Star Church of the Brethren.
- Faith Forum: Easter candy: Reminder of the holiday, or commercialism?
- April 16, 2011
- The Rev. Mitch Todd and the Rev. Gary O’Flannagan answer.
- 100 years ago: Lawrence begins road to recovery after devastating tornado
- April 16, 2011
- “Unaware that his wife had been instantly killed in the [April 12] tornado, and begging his watchers to allow him to accompany him on the same train, Dave Wheeler, who was nearly killed on the Doubleday farm by the storm, was sent to Kansas City last night.”
- 25 years ago: Gov. Carlin elevates ornate box turtle to official status
- April 16, 2011
- Gov. John Carlin visited with students at Caldwell Elementary School, about 50 miles southwest of Wichita, to sign a proposal designating the ornate box turtle as the official state reptile.
- 40 years ago: Stull resident returns home to find surprise in her yard
- April 16, 2011
- A woman returning to her home two miles southwest of Stull had discovered another woman, nude, in the yard of her home.
- Horoscope for April 16
- April 16, 2011
- This year, you have more impact than you have experienced in many years.
- City approves Menards store next to Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets June 18, 2013 · 25 comments
- KU dean blasts negative national report on teacher preparation programs June 18, 2013 · 4 comments
- Letter: Two is enough June 19, 2013 · 6 comments
- Kobach considering filing charges against protesters who came to his home June 17, 2013 · 110 comments
- Blog: State seeking proposal to develop resort at Clinton Lake State Park June 18, 2013 · 23 comments
- Opinion: Redskins mascot can’t be justified June 16, 2013 · 105 comments
- Editorial: Little choice June 19, 2013 · 2 comments
- Police investigate string of almost 20 auto burglaries in west Lawrence June 18, 2013 · 5 comments
- U.S. Supreme Court strikes down voter registration law similar to the one in Kansas June 17, 2013 · 75 comments
- Letter: Arts coverage June 19, 2013 · 1 comment
- KU dean blasts negative national report on teacher preparation programs June 18, 2013
- Report says schools underfunded $657 million in FY 2015 June 17, 2013
- Agencies join forces to help homeless population acquire financial literacy June 6, 2013
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
- Day 2: From the Emerald Triangle to the Sunflower State May 27, 2013
- Free State’s Dieker, Hodison first-team all-league soccer June 4, 2013
- Police investigate string of almost 20 auto burglaries in west Lawrence June 18, 2013
- Transfer Hunter Mickelson to sit out, soak it up for a year June 19, 2013
- City girls make all-region soccer June 1, 2013
