Also from September 20
Births
Blog entries
- The Newell Post: 25 interesting stats, facts and quirks about this year’s KU football team
- Tale of the Tait: Realignment Today: 10:22 p.m. - Big 12 sources: Pac-12 not expanding; Pac-12 releases statement confirming news
- Sarah Henning’s Blog: Bye-Bye Bounty: CSA Week 21 — The Perfect Fall Soup
- Early morning wrap up : September 20th Overnight Law Enforcement & Fire/Medical wrap up
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Polls
How many people know your personal password other than you?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| I’m the only person who knows my password | 57% | |
| One person | 31% | |
| Two people | 6% | |
| Five people or more | 2% | |
| Three people | 1% | |
| Four people | 0% | |
| Total | 499 | |
Videos
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
History museum throws Lawrence a birthday bash- September 19, 2011 in print edition on 3A
- The Watkins Community Museum of History hosted a birthday party for the city of Lawrence on Sunday.
6:00 a.m.
Library expansion project raises the question of whether the city of Lawrence would violate its debt policy- September 19, 2011 in print edition on 1A
- Will the $18 million renovation of the Lawrence Public Library push the city out of compliance with its own debt policy?
10:00 a.m.
Viktor Yushchenko, former Ukrainian president, accepts 2011 Dole Leadership Prize- September 20, 2011 in print edition on 1A
- Viktor Yushchenko’s answer was partly diplomatic and partly sarcastic Monday night. Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute of Politics, asked the former Ukrainian president about the argument that the United States and other nations from the outside were responsible for 2004 Ukrainian protests that became known as the Orange Revolution, which ultimately got the pro-Western Yushchenko elected.
2:00 p.m.
Lawrence pilot witnesses fatal crash at Reno air race- September 19, 2011 in print edition on 1A
- Lawrence aviator, local attorney and real estate developer Steve Craig was standing less than 500 yards away from the air show plane crash that killed 10 people and injured dozens more last weekend in Reno, Nev.
6:00 p.m.
Secretary Siedlecki proud of agreements with Lawrence, other cities on SRS offices; lawmakers say he’s taking undue credit - September 19, 2011 in print edition on 3A
- Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services Secretary Robert Siedlecki Jr. said Monday that decisions by communities, such as Lawrence, to pay to keep open the local SRS office represent “the essence of local control.”
All stories
- IMF: World economy in ‘dangerous new phase’
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A6
- The world economy has entered a “dangerous new phase,” according to the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
- Kansas City schools lose state accreditation
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A6
- Missouri education officials revoked the accreditation of the Kansas City School District on Tuesday after it failed for several years to meet most of the state’s academic performance standards, an embarrassing blow to the beleaguered district that is also trying to find a new superintendent.
- K-10 commuters get another reprieve; construction now delayed indefinitely
- September 20, 2011
- The Kansas Department of Transportation has again delayed construction work that was scheduled to begin Wednesday on Kansas Highway 10 east of Lawrence.
- Central National Bank to close two Lawrence locations; four others to remain open
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A5
- Central National Bank will close two Lawrence branches by early next year in response to changing banking habits by customers.
- Sierra Club criticizes Kansas lawsuit against EPA on power plant emissions
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A2
- Environmentalists on Tuesday criticized the state for filing a lawsuit against a federal air pollution rule that requires utilities to clean up power plant emissions.
- Pickup truck driver cited after striking motorcyclist on Sixth Street
- 04:32 p.m., September 20, 2011 Updated 07:57 p.m.
- One person was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital Tuesday afternoon after an accident involving a motorcycle near Sixth and Iowa streets.
- Leavenworth County Commissioner J.C. Tellefson to seek Tom Holland’s 3rd District Senate seat
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A4
- Saying he would like to lower the volume of political discourse, former Leavenworth County Commissioner J.C. Tellefson has announced he will run for the 3rd District Kansas Senate seat.
- Lawrence’s Fall Parade of Homes opens this weekend, featuring energy-efficient residences
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A7
- Up northwest of Free State High School, in a new home with five bedrooms and four bathrooms and a chef’s kitchen and two fireplaces and a finished walk-out basement with a home theater and 55-inch flatscreen LCD TV, Hubert Kettler knows he’s offering plenty of upscale living for his $549,000 list price.
- Kansas prison system overcrowded and understaffed, says Department of Corrections secretary
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A1
- The state prison system is overcrowded and understaffed, Kansas Department of Corrections Secretary Ray Roberts said Tuesday.
- Sen. Jerry Moran names former astronaut Steve Hawley to service academy selection group
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A6
- Former astronaut Steve Hawley has been named by U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., to his 2011 Kansas Service Academy Selection Board.
- Suspect in 2009 robbery on KU campus brought to Lawrence
- 01:43 p.m., September 20, 2011 Updated 05:43 p.m.
- Douglas County authorities on Tuesday morning brought a 21-year-old Belton, Mo., man to Lawrence in connection with a 2009 robbery on the Kansas University campus.
- Council member storms out of meeting after Basehor City Administrator Mark Loughry fired
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A6
- The Basehor City Council voted Monday night to oust City Administrator Mark Loughry from his position.
- Five years in the making: KU leaders celebrate submission of application for designation as a National Cancer Institute
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A1
- A document of more than 600 pages, five years in the making, lay on a small table in the front of the room on Tuesday as state and Kansas University leaders celebrated the submission of their application for designation as a National Cancer Institute.
- Two people injured in motorcycle accident Monday night in Franklin County
- 12:50 p.m., September 20, 2011 Updated 08:32 p.m.
- A Pleasant Hill, Mo., man was flown to a Kansas City area hospital Monday night after his motorcycle struck a deer in eastern Franklin County.
- Town Talk:UPDATE Central National to close two local branches; Pine family sells sod business to Wichita firm; gourmet food store set to open on 23rd; open house planned for arboretum
- 09:50 a.m., September 20, 2011 Updated 04:00 p.m.
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County:
- Wichita attorney sentenced for embezzling from vets
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A10
- A disbarred Wichita attorney convicted of embezzling more than $300,000 from military veterans whose funds she administered has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
- Greensburg’s Big Well to get new museum
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A10
- Four years after it was destroyed by a tornado, construction for a bigger and better Big Well Museum is beginning in Greensburg.
- Leavenworth man dies at Grand Canyon
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A10
- The National Park Service says a Kansas man has died during a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon.
- First Bell: Consultants to help Consolidation Working Group; principals keep tabs on process as they ‘multitask’
- September 20, 2011
- Time for another edition of “First Bell,” a look at issues and items involving education in and around Lawrence.
- Heard on the Hill: Chancellor gets a fake Twitter account; KU libertarian group to promote free speech in front of Watson Library today; Student Senate is angry at conference shifting
- September 20, 2011
- Your daily dose of news, notes and links from around Kansas University.
- Program key to passing free trade deals
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A6
- A half-century-old program that helps workers who lose their jobs to foreign trade holds the key to whether Congress may finally approve three long-delayed free trade agreements viewed by both the Obama White House and congressional Republicans as a way to invigorate the economy and create jobs.
- New government fees pepper Obama deficit plan
- September 20, 2011
- It’s not just millionaires who’d pay more under President Barack Obama’s latest plan to combat the deficit.
- Obama proposal calls for the rich to pay higher taxes
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A6
- Drawing clear battle lines for next year’s elections, a combative President Barack Obama on Monday demanded that the richest Americans pay higher taxes to help cut soaring U.S. deficits by more than $3 trillion.
- Lenexa family sustains heavy losses in Reno air show crash
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A5
- A 71-year-old Kansas woman has been reported missing while her husband, two sons and a daughter-in-law all are hospitalized with leg injuries requiring amputation after a World War II-era racing plane crashed at a Nevada air show, family members posted on a website providing updates about their conditions.
- Creditor talks to continue today in Greece
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A7
- Greek authorities and international officials were due for more talks today on whether debt inspectors will return to Athens, a key issue that could affect whether the nation gets more bailout funds or defaults on its debts.
- Palestinians will submit U.N. membership request
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A7
- The Palestinians brushed aside heated Israeli objections and a promised U.S. veto Monday, vowing to submit a letter formally requesting full U.N. membership when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the General Assembly.
- Viktor Yushchenko, former Ukrainian president, accepts 2011 Dole Leadership Prize
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A1
- Viktor Yushchenko’s answer was partly diplomatic and partly sarcastic Monday night. Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute of Politics, asked the former Ukrainian president about the argument that the United States and other nations from the outside were responsible for 2004 Ukrainian protests that became known as the Orange Revolution, which ultimately got the pro-Western Yushchenko elected.
- Netflix separates DVD, streaming businesses
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A7
- Netflix Inc. is separating its DVD-by-mail business from the online movie streaming service it sees as the future of entertainment consumption.
- School consolidation group reaches consensus on how to make decisions
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A5
- Voting members of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group on Monday moved closer to deciding how to make decisions in the coming months, as they mull options for recommending closure of at least two of their own schools.
- Horoscopes for September 20
- September 20, 2011
- This year, you might not be as conscious of your words as you might like to be. Note a tendency to give mixed messages. You can only grow from understanding and acknowledging this behavior. If you are single, you could meet someone on a trip or when you least expect it. If you are attached, open up to the possibility that you and your mate can both be right about an issue but hold different resolutions. Cancer is a true friend.
- ‘New Girl’ comes in with a bang
- September 20, 2011
- “New Girl” (8 p.m., Fox) has a lot of familiar facets to it, not that there’s anything wrong with that. It also has Zooey Deschanel, a lot of charm and that rarest of all sitcom ingredients — evidence of a human heart.
- Tulsa time
- In Tulsa, it was all about the television money.
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A8
- Amid the current college athletic conference chaos, there was a timely example this weekend of the need to take a breath and reconsider how television dollars dominate college athletics decisions.
- Missile would be missed
- Sometimes we just don’t appreciate what we have until someone else wants to take it away.
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A8
- Local residents may not be that attached to the Polaris missile in Lawrence’s Centennial Park, but if the Kansas Cosmosphere wants the missile, it suddenly could become a much more important part of the city’s landscape.
- U.S. must expedite visas for Iraqi friends
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A8
- In July, I wrote about the plight of Iraqis who worked with U.S. soldiers and civilians but face death as “collaborators” when we leave. Their situation remains unresolved.
- Mistrust hampers European economy
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A8
- Global financial markets depend on trust. So it wasn’t a good sign when Laurence Parisot, the head of the French business federation known as “Medef,” last month charged that reports about the weakness of French banks were an American plot.
- Trash fees too high
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A8
- I moved to Lawrence a little over a month ago and just received my first utility bill (water/sewer/trash). I’m shocked.
- Man arrested on aggravated battery charge
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A5
- Lawrence police arrested Patrick J. Spates, a 30-year-old Leavenworth man, after his ex-girlfriend alleged he came into her apartment, took items while she was sleeping and then later hit her in the face during an argument, according to Lawrence Police Sgt. Matt Sarna.
- Man arrested on aggravated assault charge
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A5
- Timothy W. Craddick, a 48-year-old Lawrence man, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault folllwing a Sunday evening incident in Lawrence.
- Criminal damage to vehicle reported
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A5
- A 53-year-old Lawrence man reported to Lawrence police that someone cut 18 radial tires and caused $2,450 in damage to a vehicle on his property in the 1900 block of East 19th Street. The damage occurred between midnight and 9 a.m. Sunday.
- Utility truck reported stolen
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A5
- A 63-year-old Kansas City, Mo., man reported to reported to Lawrence police Saturday that someone had stolen a 2005 Isuzu flatbed utility truck valued at $25,000 between 9 p.m. Friday and 9:15 a.m. Saturday from the 1100 block of North Third Street in North Lawrence. A 46-year-old Kansas City, Mo., man is listed as the victim.
- Damage to car reported
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on A5
- A 22-year-old female Kansas University student reported to Lawrence police Saturday that someone had dented and scratched her Ford Focus, causing $1,200 in damage. The incident occurred between 1 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday in the 4100 block of West 24th Place.
- 100 years ago: Security in place for President’s visit
- September 20, 2011
- “If there are any anarchists in Lawrence or other parties with questionable tendencies, these will all be watched on Sunday morning.”
- 40 years ago: Sheriffs chase down ticketless driver on turnpike
- September 20, 2011
- Douglas County deputy sheriffs and other local law-enforcement officials had just concluded a three-and-a-half-hour morning search for “some joker” on the Kansas Turnpike.
- 25 years ago: Workers escape train-truck collision
- September 20, 2011
- No injuries were reported in the wake of a train-truck collision on the Santa Fe railroad tracks north of Lawrence.
- Exit strategy: Oklahoma, Texas regents give presidents authority to leave Big 12
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on B1
- Oklahoma cleared the way Monday for its possible departure from the Big 12, with university president David Boren demanding the league move toward an equal revenue-sharing model and create stability or else lose the Sooners to the Pac-12.
- OU, UT better off in Big 12
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on B1
- The New York Times, not claiming to have conducted a scientific study, used various data to calculate an estimate on the size of each of the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision schools fan bases.
- Chiefs suffer another loss: Jamaal Charles
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on B2
- The season is over for Jamaal Charles.
- Giants take advantage of Rams
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on B2
- Steve Spagnuolo and the St. Louis Rams came to the Meadowlands bearing gifts and the New York Giants readily accepted them.
- Turner Gill: KU’s bye week comes at a good time
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on B3
- Fresh off one of the worst defensive performances in school history, Kansas University’s football team laced up the cleats and got back to work quickly despite not having a game to prepare for this week.
- Lawrence High players use tough match-ups to improve
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on B3
- Several weeks into the season, Lawrence High’s tennis team is still trying to find where each player ranks.
- Kansas men’s golf ends day in fourth
- 12:00 a.m., September 20, 2011 Updated 12:00 a.m. in print edition on B3
- Kansas University golfer Paul Harris tied for seventh overall and finished five shots back of the leader after the first two rounds of the Kansas Invitational Monday at Alvamar Golf Club.
- Big 12 notebook: Sooners say focus solely on Missouri
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on B4
- Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops insists he hasn’t thought too much about the possibility that it could be the last season of the Big 12 as he knows it.
- Cowboys shrug off fatigue
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on B4
- A full night of rest, and then some, has done the Oklahoma State Cowboys some good — so much so that coach Mike Gundy isn’t concerned about the fatigue factor heading into one of his team’s biggest games of the season.
- Bob Stoops’ extension worth $34.5 million
- September 20, 2011 in print edition on B4
- Two days after winning one of the college football season’s early marquee games, Bob Stoops was rewarded Monday with a new contract extension that could keep him as the coach of top-ranked Oklahoma through 2018 and pay him $34.5 million over the next seven years.
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