Also from May 13
Births
Obituaries
- Loraine Gjording Vosper, Santa Monica, Calif.
- Ralph ‘Wayne’ Jenkins, Lawrence
- Kay Prather Rodriguez
- Tammy Stevens Stamatakis, Leavenworth
- Richard D. Hamilton, Lawrence
- Almeda O. ‘Gran’ Blake, Lawrence
- Marie Elizabeth Williams Decker, Lawrence
- Richard D. ‘Dick’ Hamilton
- Harold R. Fuller Sr., Lawrence
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Polls
Will you attend a high school or college graduation ceremony this year?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| I won’t attend a graduation ceremony this year | 49% | |
| Yes, high school | 23% | |
| Yes, college | 20% | |
| Yes, both | 6% | |
| Total | 517 | |
Videos
- Lawrence Bridge player Eldon Herd explains why he enjoys the …
- Doug Nickel conquers Mount Oread’s hills daily on his commute …
- Doug Nickel conquers Mount Oread’s hills daily on his commute …
- Diane Johnson of Linwood-based Operation WildLife talks about the demands …
- Mathew Shepard will carry the class banner for the Kansas …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Alvamar to turn over daily operations to golf course management company- May 11, 2011
- Alvamar’s two Lawrence golf courses are about to join the roster of a major course management company.
6:00 a.m.
Area officials support K-10 cable barriers at meeting- May 13, 2011 in print edition on 1A
- The Kansas Department of Transportation’s secretary Thursday promised to work with area leaders to get input in the study of the safety of Kansas Highway 10 in the wake of last month’s double fatality near Eudora’s Church Street interchange.
- Video: Candlelight vigil held for boy killed in fatal crash on K-10
- Video: Fatality accident on K-10 diverts traffic
9:30 a.m.
KU, U.S. Attorney focus on recovering money lost in cash-for-tickets scam- May 12, 2011 in print edition on 8A
- Now that former Kansas Athletics Inc. employees are headed to prison for their roles in a $2 million scheme to steal and sell Kansas University football and basketball tickets, the next step for authorities and campus officials dealing with the repercussions is clear.
1:00 p.m.
Citizen survey shows Lawrence streets still a concern, but other areas fare well- May 12, 2011 in print edition on 1A
- According to a new survey, Lawrence residents are pretty pleased these days — unless they happen to be on a city street.
4:30 p.m.
Lawrence breweries prepare for American Craft Beer Week- May 13, 2011
- Free State Brewery and 23rd Street Brewery have partnered to celebrate American Craft Beer Week.
7:00 p.m.
Playing with fire: Kukuk sparks Firebirds past Lions, 7-5- May 13, 2011 in print edition on 1B
- Free State High senior Cody Kukuk usually doesn’t play with much emotion. But after belting an opposite-field solo homer over the left-field fence and off a light pole to tie Thursday’s game against Lawrence High in the fifth inning, Kukuk couldn’t contain his energy.
- Photo gallery: Free State baseball vs. LHS
All stories
- Feds deny Kansas’ request for waiver on No Child Left Behind requirements
- May 13, 2011
- Federal education officials have rejected a request by the state for a waiver this year to increased student performance requirements under No Child Left Behind, officials said Friday.
- Tonganoxie man, 37, pleads guilty to raping young girl
- May 13, 2011
- A 37-year-old Tonganoxie man pleaded guilty to child rape and three other counts Friday for molesting a girl when she was first 6 years old, Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said.
- Shawnee County deputy pleads no contest in confrontation with Topeka officer
- May 13, 2011
- A Shawnee County sheriff’s deputy pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors filed after a confrontation with a Topeka police officer.
- Gray-Little praises plans for KU medical school in Salina
- May 13, 2011
- University of Kansas Chancellor says students at the university’s new medical school in Salina will be delighted with their school.
- State legislators shift role of Kansas Bioscience Authority
- May 13, 2011
- Legislators have sent Gov. Sam Brownback a bill removing the Kansas Bioscience Authority’s role in issuing bonds to help finance a new national biodefense lab in Manhattan.
- Farms thriving as income, land values grow
- May 13, 2011
- The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City says the farm boom is continuing this year as high crop prices and improved livestock prices combine to drive farm income higher.
- Kansas Legislature moving to end economic development agency
- May 13, 2011
- The Kansas Legislature has approved Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to abolish an economic development agency that nurtures new high-tech businesses.
- Kansan gets 5 years in Nebraska prison for sexual assault
- May 13, 2011
- A 45-year-old Kansas man has been given five years in a Nebraska prison for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl.
- Wichita cancer survivor beats odds with upcoming high school graduation
- May 13, 2011
- There was a time Nick Jones and his family didn’t know whether he’d live to see 10th grade. Now the Wichita Southeast High School senior, having continued his studies through cancer treatments, surgeries and a life-saving bone marrow transplant, will soon graduate with his peers.
- Campaign charges dropped against Iowa gaming execs planning casino in Kansas
- May 13, 2011
- Charges were dismissed Friday against executives with an Iowa gaming company who were accused of violating the state’s campaign disclosure laws.
- Legislature passes bill strengthening Kansas DUI law
- May 13, 2011
- Both chambers of the Kansas Legislature unanimously backed a measure that would strengthen the state’s DUI penalties, despite a concern by some that the bill didn’t go far enough.
- KU student reports purse snatching to police
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on A5
- A 21-year-old female Kansas University student reported to Lawrence police early Friday that someone had snatched her purse in a robbery in the 1500 block of Kentucky Street.
- KU engineering school receives $32 million gift from Spahr family
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on A1
- The Kansas University School of Engineering is the beneficiary of a $32 million gift from the estate of Charles E. and Mary Jane Bruckmiller Spahr, the largest estate gift received in the history of the university.
- Haskell graduates heading on to “the real world”
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on A3
- Graduates celebrate their academic achievements with family, friends and members of the Haskell community Friday.
- Planned Parenthood criticizes Kansas budget provision
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on A1
- Buried in the $13.8 billion state budget approved by the Legislature early Friday is a provision that Planned Parenthood says essentially ends federal family planning funding to its Kansas clinics.
- Police write 18 citations in patrol for underage drinking in Lawrence
- May 13, 2011
- Four Lawrence police officers enforcing underage drinking laws on a special patrol Thursday night wrote tickets for 18 alcohol-related offenses, said Jen Jordan, director of prevention for DCCCA and a member of the New Tradition Coalition.
- Lawrence Humane Society waiving adoption fees on cats to make room at shelter
- May 13, 2011
- Some kitties are looking for a new permanent home in Lawrence.
- Kansas Legislature ends session without acting on resolution condemning Rep. Virgil Peck for comparing illegal immigrants to feral pigs
- May 13, 2011
- A resolution condemning a legislator’s comment that caused a national furor remained in committee as the Kansas Legislature adjourned its 2011 session on Friday.
- KU: Students not selling magazines door-to-door in Kansas City area
- May 13, 2011
- Kansas University says door-to-door sales of magazines, supposedly to fund university-related functions, are not legitimate.
- Kansas bill restricting private health insurance for abortions clears Legislature
- May 13, 2011
- A proposal in Kansas to restrict private health insurance for abortions has cleared the Legislature.
- Town Talk: The Bourgeois Pig lands on national list of best coffee houses; enjoy your summer driving; Santa Fe Depot misses out on federal funding
- May 13, 2011
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County:
- First Bell: Prizes piling up for seniors partying at Project Graduation; teachers actually want more paperwork; New York educators to walk down the aisle
- May 13, 2011
- Time for another edition of First Bell, a look at news and other educational items involving schools in the area.
- Heard on the Hill: Expansion coming to Wescoe’s Underground; students looking to universities to help with personal finance problems; graduating KU seniors to put on art show
- May 13, 2011
- Your daily dose of news, notes and links from around Kansas University.
- Area officials support K-10 cable barriers at meeting
- KDOT visit results in no firm action
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on A1
- The Kansas Department of Transportation’s secretary Thursday promised to work with area leaders to get input in the study of the safety of Kansas Highway 10 in the wake of last month’s double fatality near Eudora’s Church Street interchange.
- Bill would give $65 million boost to KU engineering school
- 12:49 a.m., May 13, 2011 Updated 04:54 a.m. in print edition on A1
- Both measures were approved by the House and Senate and sent to Gov. Sam Brownback for his consideration.
- Republicans pass Kansas budget, send it to supportive governor
- 12:47 a.m., May 13, 2011 Updated 03:38 a.m. in print edition on A9
- Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican and former U.S. senator in his first session as governor, said the $13.8 billion budget did “the most good with the least harm in a tough atmosphere.”
- Lawrence breweries prepare for American Craft Beer Week
- May 13, 2011
- Free State Brewery and 23rd Street Brewery have partnered to celebrate American Craft Beer Week.
- FSHS baseball’s Showdown win a total team victory
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on B1
- When taking in a Free State High baseball game, it can be easy — too easy, in fact — to become infatuated with watching all-world senior Cody Kukuk at the plate or on the mound.
- Playing with fire: Kukuk sparks Firebirds past Lions, 7-5
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on B1
- Free State High senior Cody Kukuk usually doesn’t play with much emotion. But after belting an opposite-field solo homer over the left-field fence and off a light pole to tie Thursday’s game against Lawrence High in the fifth inning, Kukuk couldn’t contain his energy.
- Royals thump Yankees, 11-5
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on B4
- Eric Hosmer and Melky Cabrera homered, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Yankees on Thursday night, sending New York to its first series loss of the season.
- Six Jayhawks named to softball grade team
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on B3
- Six members of the Kansas University softball team were named Academic All-Big 12.
- Kansas rowing puts 3 on academic team
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on B3
- For the second-straight year, Kansas University tied for the most student-athletes on the Conference USA Rowing All-Academic Team, with three selections of the 15 honored, including two rowers who were selected unanimously.
- Lon Kruger’s Oklahoma deal approved
- May 13, 2011
- The University of Oklahoma’s Board of Regents voted Thursday to approve a seven-year, $16.6 million contract for new men’s basketball coach Lon Kruger.
- Ex-Aggie joins KU women’s basketball staff
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on B3
- Former professional basketball player and Texas A&M standout A’Quonesia Franklin has been named an assistant coach of the Kansas University women’s basketball program, head coach Bonnie Henrickson announced Thursday. “Aqua” Franklin spent last season as an assistant coach at Stephen F. Austin.
- Texas lawmakers criticize raise given to Longhorns basketball coach Rick Barnes
- May 13, 2011
- Several Texas senators on Thursday criticized the recent $200,000 raise for Texas basketball coach Rick Barnes, calling it “nuts” and “tone deaf” during a state budget crisis that threatens deep cuts to higher education.
- FSHS soccer settles for tie against former coach Pendleton
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on B1
- On most nights, a tie feels more like a loss than anything else. But Thursday evening, given the circumstances surrounding Free State High’s soccer game, something about a draw felt appropriate.
- School support
- Although its policy on private donations needs review, the Lawrence school district should be grateful for those willing to lend a financial hand.
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on A10
- The Lawrence school district is fortunate to have so many great friends. Private donations over the years have allowed the district to expand its preschool programs and provide many “extras” that benefit Lawrence students every day.
- Arts attack
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on A10
- How the Kansas Arts Commission was bumped off.
- GOP holds redistricting ace
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on A10
- In politics, as in life, what goes around comes around. Many House Republicans have received a raucous reminder in recent weeks.
- History shapes sense of possibilities
- May 13, 2011 in print edition on A10
- Outside the venue where Rep. Paul Ryan recently spoke in Madison, Wis., a university town never lacking protesters, one product of America’s education system shouted that Ryan’s budget proposal would return America to the bad old days of the “18th-century robber barons.” The young man, full of zeal and destitute of information, does not know that those capitalists of whom he disapproves — the ones who built the railroads and other sinews of the nation’s industrial might — operated in the second half of the 19th century, not in 18th-century agrarian America
- Horoscope for May 13
- May 13, 2011
- This year, you express your feelings much more. The end result will be that many people are more comfortable and open with you. Insights that come forth will surprise you. If you are single, a relationship could be a bit rocky until next winter. You could meet someone quite special at that time. If you are attached, your openness adds to the interaction between you as a couple. Libra has a similar attitude but is more cerebral.
- Tune In: ‘Swamp Brothers’ stuck in the mud
- May 13, 2011
- What’s the difference between “reality TV” and the old-fashioned scripted kind? Money. A whole lot of money.
- 100 years ago: Potter Lake regatta set for Commencement weekend
- May 13, 2011
- “A regatta on Potter Lake under myriads of specially strung electric lights is to be the feature of the thirty-ninth annual commencement of the University of Kansas.”
- 40 years ago: Jury returns guilty verdict in local shooting death
- May 13, 2011
- A jury in Douglas County District Court had returned a guilty verdict for Andrew Leroy Hill, 26, of Chicago.
- 25 years ago: Lawrence city commissioners plan to approve bypass
- May 13, 2011
- The Lawrence City Commission was expected to show its first formal support for the southern bypass project.
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- Republican tax plans would increase state revenue, analyses say May 22, 2013 · 8 comments
- 40 years ago: Fun water feature installed in South Park wading pool May 23, 2013 · 1 comment
- City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license May 21, 2013 · 74 comments
- Two men face charges in Sunday morning shooting May 22, 2013 · 6 comments
- Opinion: Appointments negate NLRB actions May 23, 2013 · 1 comment
- Planning Commission recommends approval of Menards store for south Lawrence May 20, 2013 · 78 comments
- Weekday graduations get mixed reviews from parents and families May 22, 2013 · 3 comments
- No consensus on McLemore's draft position after lottery May 23, 2013 · 1 comment
- LHS student earns perfect ACT score May 21, 2013
- Opinion: Wayne Selden sizes up recruits May 21, 2013
- Two men face charges in Sunday morning shooting May 22, 2013
- They said it ... about Tarik Black May 20, 2013
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