Also from February 12
Births
Blog entries
Couples
- Engagement: Conner and Gipson
- Engagement: Bodiya and Treanor
- Engagement: Chadwick and Nanne
- Engagement: Uhlmansiek and Mishler
- Engagement: Toplikar and Skepnek
- Engagement: Petr and Vaughn
- Engagement: Walrod and Woodworth
- Engagement: Lafond and Johnson
- Wedding: Sharpe and Dunlap
- Wedding: Jones and Neuhart
- Wedding: Rosencrants and Peavey
- Anniversary: Orlowski and Orlowski
- Anniversary: McCain
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
Polls
Who should be ranked No. 1 when the new polls are released Monday?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 74% | |
| Texas | 19% | |
| Ohio State | 4% | |
| Other | 0% | |
| Total | 1278 | |
Videos
- Kansas head coach Bill Self addressed the media after defeating …
- Kansas head coach Bill Self addressed the media after defeating …
- Iowa State head coach Fred Hoiberg addressed the media after …
- Kansas head coach Bill Self addressed the media after defeating …
- Kansas players Tyshawn Taylor, Marcus Morris and Jeff Withey addressed …
- Kansas players Tyshawn Taylor, Marcus Morris and Jeff Withey addressed …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Agile dogs have their day at Triune Agility Club of Lawrence contest- February 11, 2011 in print edition on 3A
- Carol Easterley drove more than four hours to Lawrence for a long weekend on Wednesday. She’ll spend most of her time in a large dirt-floored building filled with what looks like playground equipment at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. She’s not alone, though. She will be there with hundreds of other people, and just as many dogs.
- Video: Dogs test agility skills at Douglas County Fairgrounds
- On the street: If you could teach a dog to do any trick, what would it be?
6:00 a.m.
IRS could end up with forfeited funds from those convicted in KU ticket scandal - 11:51 a.m., February 11, 2011 Updated 9:09 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- Three former employees of Kansas Athletics Inc. must pay up to $2 million for scamming to steal, sell and profit from the diversion of tickets to Kansas University football and basketball games, a federal judge has ruled.
10:00 a.m.
Fire destroys belongings, but not spirit, of family thanks to generosity of others- February 12, 2011 in print edition on 1A
- Jason Dye is picking through rubble after a fire Tuesday destroyed his fiancee’s trailer home, incinerating all but a drawer filled with kids’ underwear and the contents of a jewelry box, including $39 cash given to his soon-to-be 11-year-old stepdaughter for her birthday. So why is this guy smiling?
All stories
- Lawrence school district weighs elementary school needs as it seeks bond issue for consolidation, updates
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A1
- Officials acknowledge that the next bond issue in the Lawrence school district will address needs in the district’s elementary schools: eliminating portables, adding classrooms, fixing roofs, remodeling kitchens and embarking on dozens of other projects — large and small — considered necessary to bring equitable and effective educational opportunities to all students in grades kindergarten through five.
- Kansas law change may allow even blind to carry concealed
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A1
- In the state of Kansas, to carry a concealed firearm you need a gun — preferably something that fits nice under your jacket, in your pocket or perhaps in your purse. You also need a license, the state’s seal of approval that you can hide a firearm on your person. What’s less clear is whether you need eyesight.
- Bill would outlaw anti-gender identification bias
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A3
- Last week, Stephanie Mott, a transsexual woman, asked the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee to approve Senate Bill 53 that would protect Kansans from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
- KU seeks approval of bonds to revamp Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A3
- Kansas University on Wednesday will seek authorization from the Board of Regents for $13.1 million in bonds to renovate Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall.
- Mortgages
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A5
- The Douglas County register of deeds recorded 78 mortgages in the weekly period ended Thursday.
- Around and about in local business
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A5
- Farmers are invited to an educational agronomy meeting, “Technology on the Farm - Does it Pay?”; Lawrence Technology Association’s annual meeting coming up; Mary Kay sales director earns sixth car; Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence Board of Directors hires new executive director; director of Lawrence Convention and Visitor’s Bureau steps down.
- Bill in Kansas Legislature would restrict where sex offenders can live
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A6
- A bill under consideration in the Kansas Legislature seeks to keep sex offenders away from children.
- States’ tax breaks no guarantee for jobs
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A7
- It’s recently become an article of faith for many governors as they try to attract jobs: raising taxes during a recession is a nonstarter, choking off growth and damaging a state’s fragile economic recovery.
- Protesters press for voice in Egyptian democracy
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A7
- On Egypt’s first day in nearly 30 years without Hosni Mubarak as president, its new military rulers promised Saturday to abide by the peace treaty with Israel and eventually hand power to an elected government.
- Brownback approves 3 highway projects
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A12
- Gov. Sam Brownback has approved three major highway projects.
- KU women blown out by No. 6 Texas A&M, 81-58
- February 12, 2011
- The Kansas women’s basketball team committed 31 turnovers in an 81-58 loss to No. 6 Texas A&M on Saturday night in College Station, Texas.
- Wheel Genius: Road work planned this week
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A6
- Road work planned for the week of February 13, 2011.
- City commission agenda for February 15, 2011
- T-hangars at Lawrence Municipal Airport to be discussed
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A4
- City commissioners will receive a report on the feasibility of constructing 20 T-hangars at the Lawrence Municipal Airport.
- Two Wichita men arrested on robbery, burglary charges
- 10:22 a.m., February 12, 2011 Updated 01:57 p.m. in print edition on A5
- Two Wichita men were booked into the Douglas County Jail Friday afternoon on warrants for aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery, according to the jail booking log.
- Fire destroys belongings, but not spirit, of family thanks to generosity of others
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A1
- Jason Dye is picking through rubble after a fire Tuesday destroyed his fiancee’s trailer home, incinerating all but a drawer filled with kids’ underwear and the contents of a jewelry box, including $39 cash given to his soon-to-be 11-year-old stepdaughter for her birthday. So why is this guy smiling?
- Pump patrol
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A5
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.99 at several stations.
- Hearing continued in U.S. 24-59 fatality
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A5
- A defense attorney for a 23-year-old Air Force airman who faces charges in connection with a fatal November accident north of Lawrence said Friday the two sides were waiting on further lab test results of samples taken from his client.
- Man who fired gun at car receives jail time for ‘shock’ value
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A5
- A Douglas County judge on Friday ordered a 38-year-old Fairway man to serve two months in jail as part of his punishment for firing a gun into a vehicle his stepdaughter was riding in last August in Lawrence.
- Kan. Senate may block health care ‘freedom’ measure
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A2
- Even some state senators who support a proposed “Health Care Freedom Amendment” to the Kansas Constitution said Friday that they doubt it can pass their chamber, although the House showed strong support for the measure protesting last year’s federal health care law.
- Crowds chant ‘Egypt is free’ after Mubarak quits
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A7
- Cries of “Egypt is free” rang out and fireworks lit up the sky as hundreds of thousands danced, wept and prayed in joyful pandemonium after 18 days of peaceful pro-democracy protests forced President Hosni Mubarak to surrender power to the military, ending three decades of authoritarian rule.
- 25 years ago: Phelps family lawsuits against Washburn law school dismissed
- February 12, 2011
- A federal judge in Wichita had recently dismissed two lawsuits filed against Washburn University in connection with Washburn’s refusal to admit three members of the Phelps family to its law school.
- 100 years ago: Nebraska hands KU its first basketball loss of the season
- February 12, 2011
- “It was an unkind fate that permitted the Cornhuskers to invade the Kansas camp and score the first defeat of the season against the champion K.U. basket ball five last night.”
- 40 years ago: Plans approved for new library
- February 12, 2011
- The Lawrence City Commission approved the plans and specifications for a new $1.4 million city library.
- Horoscopes for Feb. 12
- February 12, 2011
- This year, you simply seem to have more fun.
- Matters of life and death, cats and monsters
- February 12, 2011
- A believer and an agnostic walk into a room. That sounds like the setup for an existential joke — and not unlike the premise for “The Sunset Limited” (8 p.m., HBO), an adaptation of a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy.
- Funds would help drug trial at CritiTech
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A3
- A Lawrence-based drug research company could receive a $197,500 boost from the Kansas Bioscience Authority to complete the first phase of a drug trial.
- U.S. should help support change in Egypt
- February 12, 2011
- Wael Ghonim, the charismatic young Google executive who helped launch the protests in Tahrir Square, sounded the trumpet in a Twitter message: “Mission accomplished. Thanks to all the brave young Egyptians.” But the struggle for the future of Egypt is just beginning, and the next stage is one where the U.S. truly can help.
- Not opposed
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A9
- There’s been no neighbor opposition to a new store on Dillons Massachusetts Street property.
- Shoveling repeal?
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A9
- Winter snows have come again, and we are still stuck with Lawrence’s onerous (for some) snow-shoveling ordinance. But the passage of a year does not make a bad law good.
- Unfair to retirees
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A9
- A Jan. 16, J-W headline reads “Lack of funding hurts KPERS.”
- Health care amendment to Kansas Constitution passes through House, faces difficult future in Senate
- February 12, 2011
- Even some state senators who support a proposed “Health Care Freedom Amendment” to the Kansas Constitution said Friday that they doubt it can pass their chamber, although the House showed strong support for the measure protesting last year’s federal health care law.
- House committee OKs closing of Kansas center for disabled
- February 12, 2011
- A Kansas House committee has approved a proposal from Gov. Sam Brownback to close a center for the profoundly disabled and move the residents to community-based living areas.
- Kansas veteran creates database of Vietnam fatalities
- February 12, 2011
- A Korean War veteran himself, Richard Coffelt thought Vietnam War veterans received little or no respect when they came home.
- Kansas House panel delays action on Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s election fraud bill until Feb. 21
- February 12, 2011
- A Kansas House committee is delaying action on Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s proposals for attacking potential election fraud.
- Bill in Kansas House would require paternity testing for every Kansas newborn
- February 12, 2011
- A bill introduced in the Kansas House would require every newborn in the state to be genetically tested to identify the child’s father.
- KU continues to refine hazing policies after recurring issues this year
- February 12, 2011
- Kansas University continues to refine its policies toward hazing after the issue flared up twice this academic year.
- Damage to local business reported Wednesday
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A5
- A burglary was reported to Lawrence police Wednesday morning at All of E Solutions, 2510 W. Sixth St., and $1,275 worth of damage to a window, dry wall and floor lamp in the business.
- Employee reports siding stolen from mobile home park
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A5
- An employee of Riverview Mobile Home Park, 827 Walnut St., reported to police Wednesday that someone had damaged and stolen $3,000 worth of metal siding from the park sometime between 1:15 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. that afternoon.
- KU continues to face key challenges
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A3
- One phase of the ticket mess in the Kansas University athletics department supposedly will be put to rest with the upcoming sentencing of those involved in the illegal, embarrassing, criminal and long-running scam.
- Former editor receives William Allen White national citation
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A4
- John S. Carroll, former editor of the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and Lexington Herald-Leader, accepted the William Allen White Foundation’s national citation on Friday.
- Reform process in Egypt could hold risk for U.S.
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A8
- The Obama administration got what it wanted when Hosni Mubarak surrendered power. Now it faces another daunting task: coaxing the country’s new military rulers to deliver the genuine democratic reforms they have resisted for decades.
- Plan calls for dissolving Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A8
- The Obama administration wants to shrink the government’s role in the mortgage system — a proposal that would remake decades of federal policy aimed at getting Americans to buy homes and would probably make home loans more expensive across the board.
- Haskell women win
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on B4
- Haskell Indian Nations University’s women’s basketball team defeated Oklahoma Wesleyan, 57-56, on Friday.
- Seabury boys triumph
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on B4
- Reed Grabill scored 18 points and Seabury Academy’s boys basketball team defeated Elwood, 59-52, on Friday at home.
- Area Roundup: Tonganoxie boys lose in final seconds
- February 12, 2011
- Bishop Ward junior CJ Vallejo hit a clutch shot in the final seconds Friday that sent the Tonganoxie High boys basketball team home with a 53-51 loss.
- Kansas softball starts season 2-0
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on B4
- Not a bad way to start the season.
- Woods in contention, 4 shots back in Dubai
- February 12, 2011
- Tiger Woods surged into contention at the Dubai Desert Classic on Friday, shooting a bogey-free 6-under 66 in his bid to win his first tournament in more than a year.
- National Briefs: Longhorns guard Brown says he didn’t post offending tweet
- February 12, 2011
- Texas point guard J’Covan Brown said Friday that he didn’t write profane Twitter posts under his account that complained about getting pulled from the No. 3 Longhorns’ win over Oklahoma.
- Lions lackluster against Hawks
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on B1
- The quotation “confidence is contagious” adorned the Lawrence High boys basketball team’s scouting report for Olathe East.
- Injured senior Rothwell key for Free State girls basketball
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on B5
- These days, Free State High girls basketball coach Bryan Duncan might as well give senior Paige Rothwell a whistle and clipboard.
- Free State girls upended by O-Northwest
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on B5
- If basketball was solely based in how well you could shoot it, Free State High’s girls basketball team might have fared much better on Friday.
- Newspaper publishers see towns bounce back
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on A3
- Kansas newspaper publishers say they are beginning to see signs of economic recovery in their cities.
- LHS girls suffer setback to Olathe East
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on B4
- Coach Nick Wood couldn’t explain why his team looked so rattled in the first quarter.
- Danny Manning, Fred Hoiberg to cross paths Saturday
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University’s Danny Manning, who is the Jayhawks’ all-time leading scorer, and Iowa State’s Fred Hoiberg, the Cyclones’ No. 3 point producer, didn’t compete against each other in college.
- KU women to take tough test at A&M
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on B4
- For a couple of weeks back in January, the Kansas University women’s basketball team was beginning to wonder if it ever would wind up on the winning side of a game again.
- LHS grad Baba Diallo displays pride at Div. I Centenary
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on B1
- Two Div. I basketball games take place and all that separates two of the participating teams are 43 miles and 343 spots in the national rankings.
- Signature victory: Firebirds finish this time, topple Ravens
- February 12, 2011 in print edition on B1
- Only a few weeks ago, the close ones seemed to slip away from the Free State High boys basketball team.
- Club news for February 12, 2011
- February 12, 2011
- The Monday Evening Duplicate Bridge Club’s game on Feb. 7 was directed by Virginia Seaver.
- Around and About for February 12, 2011
- February 12, 2011
- Ashley Wagner and Jeremiah Ingerson, both of Tonganoxie, announce the birth of their son, Carter Braylon Ingerson, Feb. 3, 2011, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
- 4-H and FCE news for February 12, 2011
- February 12, 2011
- The Meadowlark 4-H Club met Jan. 13 at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds.
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