Also from July 1
Births
Blog entries
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Polls
Will you go watch the Tour of Lawrence this weekend?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No | 85% | |
| Yes, I’ll watch the races downtown | 11% | |
| Yes, I’ll watch the races on KU’s campus | 2% | |
| Total | 334 | |
Videos
- Cyclists took to New Hampshire street in the Tour of …
- City Manager David Corliss explains what residents may see if …
- Lawrence teens volunteering with the Youth Volunteer Corps Summer of …
- Baker head men’s basketball coach Brett Ballard discussed the transition …
- Kansas men’s basketball player Thomas Robinson worked as a counselor …
- Kansas freshman Ben McLemore was on hand for the Baker …
Lead stories
6:00 a.m.
The Boy in the Attic: De Soto mother Rachel Perez discusses horrific child abuse case- June 30, 2011
- On Aug. 17, 2010, Rachel Perez, 26, phoned her grandmother from the Johnson County Jail to say she’d been arrested on a traffic warrant. Perez asked about getting a lawyer and making bail. When the De Soto woman called back a half-hour later, things had taken a dramatic turn. Perez’s father, Martin Foster, answered this time and unleashed an expletive-laced tirade. The angry, disappointed Foster couldn’t believe what his daughter had done.
- Videos: Rachel Perez talks about her case
- Videos: Rachel Perez, Johnson County officials discuss child abuse case
- Photo gallery: De Soto mother Rachel Perez convicted in shocking child abuse case
- Source document: Medical testimony transcript in the Rachel Perez child abuse case
- Audio clips: De Soto mother Rachel Perez speaks with her father from the Johnson County Jail
9:30 a.m.
Deal near for KU Coach Bill Self to donate $1 million for new west Lawrence recreation center- June 30, 2011 in print edition on 1A
- A deal is in the works for Kansas University men’s basketball coach Bill Self to make a more than $1 million donation to spur construction of a new West Lawrence recreation center.
1:00 p.m.
Planned Parenthood says it will receive abortion license, expects to withdraw federal lawsuit- 8:47 a.m., June 30, 2011 Updated 12:22 a.m. in print edition on 1A
- Planned Parenthood confirms that its Kansas clinic will get a state license to continue performing abortions.
4:30 p.m.
Olive Garden’s future cloudy after board rejects financial incentives- July 1, 2011 in print edition on 1A
- A key city board rejected proposed financial incentives for a South Lawrence project that would feature an Olive Garden, leaving the restaurant’s Lawrence future as tangled as a large plate of spaghetti.
7:00 p.m.
Lawrence school district plans to add online classes to help prevent dropouts- June 30, 2011 in print edition on 3A
- Students on the brink of dropping out of school will be given another reason to stay on campus for the new year. The Lawrence school district plans to add an online curriculum at both Free State and Lawrence high schools, a course structure designed to give such students the focus, freedom and flexibility to complete their studies.
All stories
- Lawrence residents, visitors enjoy Tour of Lawrence event
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A3
- Marc Mondi, of Des Moines, Iowa, was one of hundreds who stood along New Hampshire Street downtown Friday night to take in some national-class cycling at the third annual Tour of Lawrence.
- Northbound New Hampshire Street to close between 6th and 7th streets for road work
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A2
- Downtown motorists will face delays near the area of Sixth and New Hampshire streets beginning on Tuesday.
- County will handle DUI cases until cities pass ordinances to match new, stricter state law
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A1
- Douglas County prosecutors on Friday were preparing to handle an influx of drunken-driving cases normally prosecuted in municipal courts as Lawrence, Baldwin City and Eudora were still researching the effects of the state’s new DUI law.
- Lawrence city manager’s 2012 budget calls for tax increase
- 05:22 p.m., July 1, 2011 Updated 01:26 a.m. in print edition on A1
- An expanded public library, an increase in wages at City Hall and a handful of new police officers all have the city’s property tax rate on the rise, under a budget recommended by City Manager David Corliss on Friday.
- Federal judge blocks Kansas licensing rules for abortion clinics
- 05:10 p.m., July 1, 2011 Updated 01:22 a.m. in print edition on A1
- A federal judge temporarily blocked Kansas from enforcing new abortion regulations Friday that would have prevented two of the state’s three abortion providers from continuing to terminate pregnancies.
- 2011 KUSports.com NBA Draft contest winner announced
- July 1, 2011
- The picks are in, the scores are tallied and we have a winner for the 2011 KUSports.com NBA Draft contest.
- Bennington man uses encyclopedic knowledge to write books
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A4
- A voracious reader from childhood, Rod Beemer remembered the day in 1960 when he purchased an entire set of the Encyclopedia Britannica with his own money. It was a proud moment until his mother, a teacher, found out how much her 18-year-old son had spent on the multivolume set — nearly $700. “My mom told me she could have bought the books for half the price,” he said.
- Liberal’s Dorothy program for junior high, high school girls gains national attention
- July 1, 2011
- Oz needed only one Dorothy to free the country from wicked witches; however, Liberal has 20 at its beck and call.
- Swim meet to close indoor aquatic center next weekend
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A4
- The Lawrence Aquahawks swim team is hosting the Wave the Wheat swim meet July 7-10 at the Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center, 4706 Overland Drive.
- Kansas City car dealer sentenced for aiding drug traffickers
- July 1, 2011
- A northeast Kansas auto dealer has drawn a 30-month prison term for helping drug dealers hide purchases of vehicles from law enforcement.
- KCK Community College names new president
- July 1, 2011
- A top official of a community college district in California has been named president of Kansas City, Kan., Community College.
- Ford County bans fireworks in rural areas because of dry conditions
- July 1, 2011
- The Ford County Commission says anyone wanting to shoot off fireworks this year is going to have to wait until it lifts a ban for rural areas.
- Skull identified as American Indian man
- July 1, 2011
- The Barton County Sheriff’s Office says a partial human skull found in December is that of an American Indian male who probably died before 1900.
- Survey suggests Midwest’s economic growth slowing
- July 1, 2011
- Growing energy prices combined with weather-related supply problems has slowed economic growth in nine Midwestern and Plains states, according to a new monthly survey released Friday.
- Law enforcement wiretaps doubled in Kansas and Missouri in 2010
- July 1, 2011
- Law enforcement authorities nationwide are intercepting more and more cellphone calls, text messages and other communications, with federal judges in Kansas and Missouri authorizing more than twice as many wiretaps in 2010 than the previous year, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said.
- Douglas County judge sentences 19-year-old Lawrence man to nearly 5-year prison term for using BB gun in Walmart robbery
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A7
- A Douglas County judge Friday sentenced a 19-year-old Lawrence man to serve nearly five years in prison for using a BB gun to rob a Walmart store last December.
- Westbound I-70 reopens east of Lawrence following accident on Kansas Turnpike
- 02:31 p.m., July 1, 2011 Updated 12:08 a.m. in print edition on A5
- Westbound lanes on the Kansas Turnpike east of Lawrence have reopened following an injury accident Friday afternoon.
- Kansas abortion rules face test in federal court
- July 1, 2011
- Kansas still has one abortion provider, but two others that have had to halt services because they don’t have state licenses hoped Friday to persuade a federal judge to block a new licensing law and health department regulations they consider burdensome.
- Atchison man accused of attacking Lawrence man taking late-night walk
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A6
- Douglas County prosecutors have filed an aggravated battery charge against a 22-year-old Atchison man who is accused of punching and injuring a Lawrence man early Thursday morning.
- Lawrence community devastated, shocked by closing of its SRS office
- District attorney: This isn’t a reduction, but a ‘flat-out amputation’
- 11:52 a.m., July 1, 2011 Updated 05:35 p.m. in print edition on A1
- The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services is closing its Lawrence service center at 19th and Delaware streets. The 87 employees will be reassigned to neighboring offices based upon service needs.
- Heat advisory in effect for Douglas County until 8 p.m.
- July 1, 2011
- The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for Douglas and surrounding counties effective until 8 p.m. Friday.
- Helicopter inspections of roofs on county-owned buildings postponed due to wind
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A2
- The roof inspections of four Douglas County buildings by helicopter originally scheduled for Friday have been postponed due to wind conditions in the Kansas City area, county officials said.
- Rural Jefferson County man electrocuted while working at his home
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A2
- A Jefferson County man died Thursday afternoon after he was electrocuted while working on a water line in the crawl space underneath his house west of Nortonville, Sheriff Jeff Herrig said.
- Town Talk: Lawrence’s efforts to land Mars; mini-golf not in K-10 course’s immediate future; home sales, building permits struggle in May
- July 1, 2011
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Kansas treasurer returns $516K in unclaimed property to largest single beneficiary in state history
- July 1, 2011
- The Kansas state treasurer’s Unclaimed Property Division says it has returned more than half a million dollars to the largest single beneficiary in state history.
- Heard on the Hill: Lists of college costs hope to increase accountability; KU hires new director of professional military education; new parking gates coming to parking garage
- July 1, 2011
- Your daily dose of news, notes and links from around Kansas University.
- Upward Bound program helps students prepare for higher education
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A3
- They may not be related, but they’re definitely a family. That’s what any member of the Haskell Upward Bound program will tell you.
- Pump patrol
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A4
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $3.36 at several stations.
- Larger corn crop may slow inflation
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A6
- U.S. food prices may ease later this year now that farmers have planted the second-largest corn crop in nearly seven decades.
- Olive Garden’s future cloudy after board rejects financial incentives
- Downtown building project receives $280,000
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A1
- A key city board rejected proposed financial incentives for a South Lawrence project that would feature an Olive Garden, leaving the restaurant’s Lawrence future as tangled as a large plate of spaghetti.
- Time to speculate: Diana would have turned 50 today
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A6
- Princess Diana would have been 50 years old today, perhaps the only certainty about what might have been in a life abruptly cut short by a 1997 car crash in Paris, with a new boyfriend, two months past her 36th birthday.
- Minnesota government shuts down
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A5
- Minnesota stumbled into its second government shutdown in six years on Thursday, with a partisan divide over taxes and spending to close a $5 billion deficit becoming only more bitter as a midnight deadline came and went without agreement.
- 100 years ago: Residents not missing Sunday post-office hours
- July 1, 2011
- “Going to the post office was popular more for the stroll it afforded than for anything else. The mail itself was not important.”
- 40 years ago: Health officials find high bacteria counts in Lawrence milk
- July 1, 2011
- Lawrence residents were voicing their concerns over the unusually high bacteria counts found in milk being marketed in the city.
- 25 years ago: Sales tax, seat belts included in new laws taking effect today
- July 1, 2011
- Several changes in state law took effect today.
- Petraeus reflects on years in uniform
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A8
- A week ago, late on the night that President Obama announced he would be withdrawing troops from Afghanistan faster than the military had wanted, Gen. David Petraeus held a videoconference from Washington with his senior staff, who were assembled in Kabul for their 7:30 a.m. meeting. He assured them their campaign plan was still “doable,” even with fewer numbers over time, and told them to stay on the offensive.
- Obama should ‘evolve’ faster
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A8
- “Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” — Martin Luther King
- New cartoon feels recycled
- July 1, 2011
- It’s probably not wise to get too worked up about live-action cartoons aimed at 11-year-olds. But I found it difficult to watch “Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures” (7 p.m., Nickelodeon) without a haunting sense that pop culture is stuck in an epic rut more than a half century in the making.
- Veteran hire
- A veteran Lawrence school administrator is coming out of retirement to serve the Tonganoxie district.
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on A8
- The Tonganoxie school district this week hired a veteran northeast Kansas administrator to a one-year contract to head the district while the school board searches for its next superintendent.
- In complete control: Former Jayhawk Brett Ballard has high hopes for future of Baker hoops
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on B1
- It’s only been 15 months since he was introduced as the head men’s basketball coach at Baker University, but he carries himself like a man who’s been running the Wildcats’ program for 15 years.
- Randall recalls earlier lockout
- Former KU forward hopes 2011 dispute doesn’t last as long
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on B1
- Denver Nuggets community relations director Mark Randall hopes the current NBA lockout does not stretch as long as the last.
- Street sprints kick off Tour of Lawrence tonight
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on B1
- For the most part, organizing the third annual Tour of Lawrence has been a lot easier than previous years when the event was still getting off the ground.
- Ritchie Price to rejoin KU baseball team
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on B3
- Former Kansas University baseball standout Ritchie Price was named an assistant coach for the KU baseball program on Thursday.
- Ex-Jayhawk Talib won’t stand trial until 2012
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on B3
- Former Kansas University star cornerback Aqib Talib reportedly will not stand trial for a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon until 2012.
- NBA to lock out players
- July 1, 2011 in print edition on B3
- The NBA’s thrilling season came with a high price tag.
- Clinic controversy
- Regulations that could eliminate abortion services in Kansas are drawing new attention to the state.
- 12:00 a.m., July 1, 2011 Updated 01:29 p.m. in print edition on A8
- Six years after Kansas became known as the state that wouldn’t allow evolution to be taught in its schools, the state now is gaining national attention for its efforts to become the first state in the nation without a clinic licensed to perform abortions.
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- U.S. military sees new appreciation May 28, 2012 · 16 comments
- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012 · 248 comments
- Parents have electronic tether to campus May 28, 2012 · 13 comments
- Heard on the Hill: Chesapeake Energy donation is still on track; State Department hits the brakes on Confucius Institute directive; website ranks KU as best university to work for May 29, 2012 · 1 comment
- God, marriage May 25, 2012 · 191 comments
- Sound Off: How much does the city’s transit system collect in fares compared with how much it costs May 27, 2012 · 126 comments
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