Also from March 12
Births
Couples
- Engagement: Kort and Kane
- Engagement: DeLaTorre and Mock
- Engagement: Nickell and Shoff
- Wedding: McManness and Gerber
- Wedding: Butler and Aldis-Wilson
- Anniversary: Fisher
- Anniversary: Heffner
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Videos
- Hundreds of Kansas fans gathered in Kansas City’s Power & …
- The Jayhawks cut down the nets after winning the 2011 …
- The Kansas Jayhawks celebrated on stage with their Big 12 …
- Kansas forward Markieff Morris gave his opinion on Tyrel Reed’s …
- Kansas players Tyshawn Taylor, Marcus Morris and Markieff Morris addressed …
- Kansas head coach Bill Self addressed the media after defeating …
- West Lawrence homeowner Tony Schmidt decided to get a $100 …
- Tour inside one of Lawrence’s oldest homes.
- Tour the inside of a couple rooms of one of …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Inaugural UFO summit comes to Lawrence- March 11, 2011
- Lawrence resident Daniel Lauing brings together UFOlogists from around the country to discuss the existence and repercussions of extraterrestrial life.
6:00 a.m.
Kansas can count on Tyrel Reed- March 12, 2011 in print edition on 1A
- On a night Kansas University, the nation’s second-ranked basketball team, defeated Colorado, 90-83, Friday in the Sprint Center and ran its record to 31-2 and its two-year mark to 64-5, it rode its preferred inside-out approach to scoring.
- Videos: KU vs. Colorado
- Photo gallery: KU vs. Colorado
10:00 a.m.
Statehouse Live: Brownback cuts $50 million from public schools- 11:28 a.m., March 11, 2011 Updated 9:27 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- Brownback, a Republican, said the move is necessary because legislators have been unable to come to an agreement on budget cuts for the current fiscal year.
2:00 p.m.
I-70 commuters, get ready for construction delays east of Lawrence- March 11, 2011 in print edition on 1A
- Come Monday, orange cones and construction workers will return to a stretch of Interstate 70 just east of Lawrence.
- Video: I-70 road construction
8:00 p.m.
All stories
- Call system helps find Ottawa man
- LPD officer: Program could be useful in Lawrence
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A1
- Ottawa police credit a phone-calling system for saving the life of an elderly man who had wandered away from his home last month. That system, which is free for law enforcement agencies across the country, isn’t in use in Douglas County. But local law enforcement officials said having such a system in place could come in handy when people go missing.
- D.A. wants sentence for man not testifying
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B4
- The Reno County district attorney is asking that a man who refused to testify in a murder trial be sentenced to nine years in prison on three contempt charges.
- Sales tax districts a hot topic in City Commission race
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A1
- $30 million. That’s the number that’s never far from the minds of City Hall budget makers.
- KU building to showcase sustainable technology near Chamney dairy farm
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B1
- Sandwiched in between an 80-year-old barn and farmhouse on KU’s West Campus is the new foundation for what will be the home of the Center for Design Research.
- State lawmakers field questions about education funding at Eggs and Issues event
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B7
- Less than 24 hours after Gov. Sam Brownback cut $50 million in public school funding, education was again the hot topic at the year’s second Eggs and Issues event Saturday morning.
- Wheel Genius: Road work planned for this week
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B7
- Road work planned the week of March 13, 2011.
- Mortgages
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B9
- The Douglas County register of deeds recorded 65 mortgages in the weekly period ended Thursday.
- Around and about in local business
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B9
- Local business news the week ending March 13, 2011.
- KU’s Student Senate may change how it funds social services in Lawrence
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B9
- As Kansas University’s Student Senate is making funding choices for all kinds of student fees, its members are looking to change how the group funds social services in Lawrence.
- Tyrel Reed’s first dunk earns high marks from KU teammates
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A4
- Forget the style points, throw the scorecards they use at the NBA’s slam dunk contest away. Saturday’s dunk by Kansas University senior Tyrel Reed during KU’s 85-73 victory over Texas in the Big 12 tournament title game earned high marks from the rest of the Jayhawks for one reason and one reason alone.
- Douglas County burn ban lifted
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B2
- Douglas County Commission Chairman Jim Flory lifted the burn ban Saturday night that had been put into effect the day before.
- Statehouse Live: Groups criticize Brownback over budget cuts
- March 12, 2011
- Brownback said the cuts were needed to bring the budget into balance by the end of the fiscal year as required by law.
- Japan braces for nuclear-reactor meltdown after tsunami
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on C6
- Japan launched a massive military rescue operation Saturday after a giant, quake-fed tsunami killed hundreds of people and turned the northeastern coast into a swampy wasteland, while authorities braced for a possible meltdown at a nuclear reactor.
- Obama, GOP agree, disagree on budget
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B5
- President Barack Obama and the Senate’s top Republican both declared on Friday they want to take on the huge entitlement programs driving America’s long-term deficits — but their lines of attack differed sharply and that could lead to a showdown over government borrowing.
- Senators review alternative to Kobach voter ID measure
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B2
- A Kansas Senate committee on Friday considered a Democratic legislator’s alternative to Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s bill to require voters to show photo identification at the polls, and the lawmaker said her measure would attack election fraud without suppressing turnout.
- Kansas can count on Tyrel Reed
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A1
- On a night Kansas University, the nation’s second-ranked basketball team, defeated Colorado, 90-83, Friday in the Sprint Center and ran its record to 31-2 and its two-year mark to 64-5, it rode its preferred inside-out approach to scoring.
- Big 12 women’s roundup: No. 3 Baylor blasts K-State
- Bears, Texas A&M to clash in tournament final
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A7
- Offense is a given for Baylor, so coach Kim Mulkey was especially pleased with the defense and rebounding effort that advanced the Lady Bears to the Big 12 tournament final Friday.
- Gary Bedore’s KU hoops notebook
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A5
- Kansas sophomore forward Thomas Robinson, who reportedly said on ustream.com Thursday night that he is definitely returning to KU for his junior season, confirmed that is indeed the case.
- Colorado guards Higgins, Burks hounded by KU
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A5
- After combining for 52 points Thursday against Kansas State, Colorado guards Cory Higgins and Alec Burks mustered just 29 points on 10-for-29 shooting in Friday’s 90-83 loss to Kansas.
- Helton rallies Rockies past Royals
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A2
- Todd Helton is looking more like the hitter who owns a career .324 batting average. Last year’s subpar effort appears to be an aberration.
- Labor talks dissolve; players locked out
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A2
- Unable to decide how to divvy up $9 billion a year, NFL owners and players put the country’s most popular sport in limbo Friday by breaking off labor negotiations hours before their contract expired. The union decertified; the league imposed a lockout.
- KU’s Finley takes 2nd in shot put
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A3
- Kansas University sophomore thrower Mason Finley finished second in the shot put at the 2011 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships to score eight points for KU on Friday at the Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium on the Texas A&M campus.
- KU gets rematch it wanted: UT
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A4
- Kansas University’s basketball players were in a bit of a daze the last time the Jayhawks played Texas.
- Playing with heavy heart, Marasco lifts Jayhawks
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A3
- Last March, Kansas University sophomore Jake Marasco answered his phone and received the worst possible news. The day after he smacked a career-high four hits against Iowa, Marasco learned that his mother, Carol, had unexpectedly passed away at 54.
- KU softball triumphs
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on A3
- For the second time in three games, freshman Kendra Cullum drove in what proved to be the game-winning run for Kansas University’s softball team.
- Regents beef up executive evaluations
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B3
- Members of the Kansas Board of Regents conduct annual performance evaluations of the chancellor and presidents of the six state universities. In past years, this evaluation exercise has been relatively superficial, and regents have not been aware of many troubling situations or problems on the various campuses.
- Lawrence man reports laptop, property stolen
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B5
- A 30-year-old man reported Thursday the theft of a laptop and personal property from the 1000 block of Emery Road.
- KU student reports property stolen from vehicle
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B5
- A 20-year-old Kansas University student reported to police Wednesday the burglary and theft of personal property from a vehicle in the 1000 block of Tennessee Street.
- Health care arguments miss the point
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B11
- When the Supreme Court considers whether Congress has the constitutional power to compel individuals to buy health insurance, the argument supporting Congress may rest on a non sequitur and a semantic fiat.
- Demographics create new victims
- March 12, 2011
- There is a scholarship for students who wear outfits made of duct tape to their proms.
- Workers lauded
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B6
- I would like to compliment the workers of Nowak Construction from Goddard, who are replacing the sewer line in the 1500 block of New Hampshire Street.
- Israel response
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B6
- In his letter “Israel opening?” (Public Forum, March 8), Don Conrad states that he is not a political scientist, but he offers his interpretation of Israel’s actions and future.
- A driving force: Taylor helps KU subdue CU, reach title game
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University junior point guard Tyshawn Taylor had only been in the game 15 seconds Friday night when he heard a familiar voice booming instructions in his direction.
- GOP strategy
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B6
- From the moment Barack Obama was inaugurated, the GOP’s strategy appeared to be an all-out attempt to make sure nothing positive or productive occurred during his presidency, even to the point of disavowing and mocking their own former policies and positions if, god forbid, they made sense and Obama agreed with them.
- Social Security trust fund solvency is a myth
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B6
- Everyone knows that the U.S. budget is being devoured by entitlements. Everyone also knows that of the Big Three — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — Social Security is the most solvable.
- 4-H and FCE news for March 12, 2011
- March 12, 2011
- The Four Leaf Clover 4H Club met Feb. 14 in the Dreher building at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. President Kate McCurdy called the meeting to order and led the club in saying the flag salute.
- Around and About for March 12, 2011
- March 12, 2011
- Madeline Glass, Lawrence, was named to the president’s list for fall 2010 semester at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss., by earning a grade- point average between 3.8 and 4.0.
- Club news for March 12, 2011
- March 12, 2011
- University Bridge Club announces the results of its March 5 meeting with hosts Mary Gaumer, Julie Zajic, and John and Willi Stark.
- Scouting news for March 12, 2011
- March 12, 2011
- Cub Pack 3064 held its annual Blue and Gold Celebration Feb. 26 at the Eudora United Methodist Church. A potluck meal was enjoyed before the presentations.
- 25 years ago: Anti-hazing bill passed by Kansas Senate
- March 12, 2011
- In Topeka, the Kansas Senate had passed a bill that would prohibit dangerous hazing by student and social organizations.
- Public, private
- Privatizing government functions as a way to save taxpayer money could have some unintended consequences.
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B11
- Facing a $492 million revenue shortfall in the next fiscal year, Kansas lawmakers are looking for dollars just about everywhere.
- Faith Forum: How do alternative spring breaks reinforce the tenants of faith?
- March 12, 2011
- The Rev. Thad Holcombe of the ECM and KU student Jeff Miller answer.
- 40 years ago: Dog protects owner from car-jacking, assault
- March 12, 2011
- A woman described as a “Lawrence housewife” had been driving near Sixth and Maine when, at a traffic stop, a man forced his way into her car.
- 100 years ago: Recent KU law graduate and new legislator recalls difficult beginnings
- March 12, 2011
- “Hiram C. Davis of Wichita, who graduated from the School of Law in June nearly a year ago to be immediately sent to the legislature, met with all the difficulties that have to be dealt with by the self-supporting student.”
- Vaccination debate
- March 12, 2011 in print edition on B6
- As one of the families suffering from whooping cough in the Lawrence area this winter, I take issue with your article that definitively states that vaccination is the best protection against the disease.
- Horoscope for March 12, 2011
- March 12, 2011
- For Saturday, March 12: This year, tension could build. Many of you will know the reason for this stress.
- ‘Rebels’ follows the rise of UNLV from the unknown
- March 12, 2011
- Games past, present, real and virtual dominate the weekend’s offering as March Madness looms and Daylight Saving Time begins.
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