Also from April 29
Births
Blog entries
Couples
- Anniversary: Wehr
- Wedding: Inhulsen and Harvey
- Wedding: Allen and Scott
- Engagement: Sigler and Porter
- Engagement: Nieman and Schmidt
Multimedia stories
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Polls
What do you think of the city of Lawrence's decision to rename part of Missouri Street "Fambrough Drive"?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Like the idea | 76% | |
| Don’t care either way | 14% | |
| Don’t like the idea | 9% | |
| Total | 892 | |
Who do you think will have a bigger breakout year in 2012-13?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Elijah Johnson | 66% | |
| Jeff Withey | 24% | |
| Undecided | 9% | |
| Total | 1625 | |
Lead stories
10:00 a.m.
Renamed streets honor memory of Fambrough- April 28, 2012
- KU students have a new place to tailgate on gamedays: the corner of Fambrough and Fambrough.
2:00 p.m.
$1.2B goal set for KU capital campaign- April 29, 2012
- After four years of fundraising, Kansas University leaders announced Saturday night that they hope an ongoing campaign will raise $1.2 billion for the school, adding that they are already halfway toward that goal.
10:00 p.m.
All stories
- Seabury losing standout Khadre Lane to FSHS
- April 29, 2012
- Lawrence basketball standout Khadre Lane has confirmed in a direct Facebook message to the Journal-World that he has transferred from Seabury Academy to Free State High.
- Writer shares horse tales
- April 29, 2012
- A series of fateful occurrences all led to the Secretariat of turf writers becoming Secretariat’s biographer. Without any one of those events, a riveted crowd numbering well over 100 would not have gathered Sunday afternoon in the Dole Institute to listen to William Nack tell stories about his life and that of the horse who became such a big part of it.
- It’s a wrap: Game caps dramatic spring
- April 29, 2012
- Saturday’s 45-0 romp by the first-string Blue team in Kansas University’s annual spring game marked the final activity of one of the most intense and trying springs at KU in recent memory.
- Royals’ win streak ends
- April 29, 2012
- Josh Willingham picked up right where he left off and helped the Twins end a six-game losing streak.
- At least one injured in ambulance accident
- April 29, 2012
- An ambulance driver, en route to an emergency call on Interstate 70, hydroplaned and lost control of the vehicle in a one-vehicle accident at noon Sunday.
- Baldwin City woman injured in Interstate 35 accident
- April 29, 2012
- An Olathe man driving a Dodge truck lost control of his vehicle and struck a Subaru on I-35 in Lenexa on Sunday morning.
- KanCare delay on developmental disabilities still touchy subject
- April 29, 2012
- Last week, Gov. Sam Brownback agreed to delay putting long-term care services for those with developmental disabilities into his Medicaid privatization plan.
- KU Medical Center says new education building vital
- 11:29 p.m., April 29, 2012 Updated 01:37 p.m.
- Kansas University Medical Center is looking for ways to build a $75 million medical education building, which administrators say is key for its future, on its Kansas City, Kan., campus.
- KU law professor makes case for juror privacy
- April 29, 2012
- A Kansas University law professor says personal questions asked in the jury selection process have led potential jurors to lie or withhold important information, undercutting an attempt to give the accused a fair trial.
- Free State teacher reverses gender roles in traditionally female domain
- April 29, 2012
- As a 29-year-old football coach, former car salesman and one-time stand-up comic, Nolan Henderson is about the last person you would expect teaching a class that has roots in home economics.
- How to help: Small World seeks volunteer teachers to lead ESL classes
- April 29, 2012
- Small World is looking for two new volunteer lead teachers to start in the fall. Small World focuses on helping international women and children adjust to living in Lawrence.
- Ottawa man dies after pedestrian-car accident in Johnson County
- April 29, 2012
- A 23-year-old Ottawa man died early Sunday morning after a car struck him on Interstate 35 in Johnson County.
- No peace without justice
- April 29, 2012 in print edition on A8
- Twenty years ago today, my hometown burned. I had moved to Miami the year before and there is, let me tell you, something surreal about watching on television from a continent away as places you’ve been and streets you know are smashed and burned.
- KU fundraising campaigns through the years
- April 29, 2012
- Fundraising campaigns have come a long way since Kansas University’s first comprehensive campaign, Program for Progress, which started in 1964 with an original goal of $18 million.
- $1.2B goal set for KU capital campaign
- April 29, 2012
- After four years of fundraising, Kansas University leaders announced Saturday night that they hope an ongoing campaign will raise $1.2 billion for the school, adding that they are already halfway toward that goal.
- 25 years ago: Stolen parrots recovering after rescue by police
- April 29, 2012
- Two rare and valuable parrots, recently stolen from the Earl May Garden Center, 3200 Iowa, were now safely back in their home.
- 40 years ago: Haskell to be placed under centralized BIA, regents say
- April 29, 2012
- Several resolutions had been approved at a meeting by the Haskel Indian Junior College Board of Regents this week.
- 100 years ago: College students endure 13 hours without food
- April 29, 2012
- “In vain they tried to get something to eat, but there was no way of doing this. They thought and thought of food but that didn’t help much.”
- KU football notebook: Cummings coming along as backup QB
- April 29, 2012
- A lot has been made about Kansas University football coach Charlie Weis upgrading KU’s quarterback position by bringing in two former five-star QBs with Div. I experience and a junior-college transfer who has won everywhere he’s been.
- Dayne Crist crisp in 45-0 spring game debut
- April 29, 2012
- With about a dozen friends and family members enjoying the weather and tossing the football around him, Kansas University quarterback Dayne Crist wolfed down a plate of tailgate food about an hour after Saturday’s spring game at Memorial Stadium.
- Reynolds has the talent, needs the consistency
- April 29, 2012
- This corporate sports world in which we live feeds us so many football coaches skilled in the art of dancing around questions as if they’re land mines.
- KU men’s golf 10th at Big 12
- April 29, 2012
- The Jayhawks remained in 10th place after 54 holes of competition at the Big 12 Championship Saturday at Whispering Pines Golf Club in Trinity, Texas.
- Kansas rowing ties for third
- April 29, 2012
- Kansas finished tied for third at the Big 12 Rowing Championships on Saturday in Oklahoma City, while Texas won its fourth-straight title by one point over Oklahoma, 105-104.
- Author, former Sports Illustrated writer to talk at Dole Institute
- April 29, 2012
- William Nack, author of “Secretariat: The Making of a Champion” and former Sports Illustrated writer, will appear at the Dole Institute today at 3 p.m.
- Sooners sink Jayhawk baseball, 8-2
- April 29, 2012
- There was more bad news on the scoreboard, but some positive information on the injury front Saturday night at Hoglund Ballpark.
- Lawrence High baseball loses, 6-4, to hot-hitting Rockhurst
- April 29, 2012
- Lawrence High’s baseball team yielded five runs in the first three innings Saturday and fell to Rockhurst, 6-4.
- Firebirds baseball overcomes rocky stretch, wins 2-1
- April 29, 2012
- By the time Free State High baseball junior Anthony Miele stepped into the batter’s box in the bottom of the ninth Saturday against Blue Valley North, the Firebirds had gone 20 batters in a row without a hit and seen a one-run lead with two outs in the bottom of the seventh disappear.
- Junior’s walk-off single sweetens KU softball Senior Day
- April 29, 2012
- Down a run entering the bottom of the seventh Saturday afternoon at Arrocha Ballpark, Kansas University’s softball team had plenty of reasons to rally for a win.
- Kansas women’s golf sits in 10th despite big turnaround
- April 29, 2012
- After a pep talk from her dad — and also one from herself — Kansas University sophomore Meghan Potee posted the conference’s biggest turnaround Saturday during the second round of the three-day Big 12 championships.
- Chiefs select Fresno State wide receiver Wylie
- April 29, 2012 in print edition on B2
- Devon Wylie has gotten Wes Welker comparisons “every day of my life.”
- How former Jayhawks fared (April 29)
- April 29, 2012 in print edition on B9
- Here’s a look at how former Kansas University players fared in Saturday’s NBA playoff games.
- Behind the Lens: Get photos off the fence and into the game
- April 29, 2012
- I was covering a high school baseball game Tuesday night while pondering what to write in my column this week. It occurred to me that the very thing I was photographing would be of interest — or at least the method I was using to photograph the subject.
- Faith Forum: What’s your favorite movie about religion?
- April 29, 2012
- The Rev. Kara Eidson and Pastor Deacon Godsey answer.
- 51st Art in the Park scheduled for May 6
- April 29, 2012
- The Lawrence Art Guild’s annual Art in the Park event will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 6 in South Park in downtown Lawrence.
- Chuck Mead to perform Saturday at Arts Center
- April 29, 2012
- Country artist Chuck Mead, alongside band His Grassy Knoll Boys, will play at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H.
- Around and about in local business
- April 29, 2012
- Local business news for the week ending April 27, 2012.
- Needed change
- The best news that could come out of this year’s contentious redistricting process would be passage of a measure to put future redistricting into the hands of an independent commission.
- April 29, 2012
- Republican leaders in the Kansas Senate want to strike while the iron is hot on a proposal to turn the legislative and congressional redistricting process over to a bipartisan commission.
- Lawrence City Commission agenda for May 1, 2012
- Bid to repave section of Sixth St. likely to be approved
- April 29, 2012
- City commissioners are set to approve a $1.14 million bid to repave Sixth Street from Iowa Street to Monterey Way.
- KU student documents Brazilian shanty town
- April 29, 2012
- Sarah Stern, a Lawrence native and Kansas University junior, still thinks about Rocinha. It’s been a year since her trip to the Brazilian favela, but her memories are still clear and unshakable.
- Kovel’s Antiques: Popular hobby led to unique fishbowls
- April 29, 2012
- Did you have a bowl filled with pet fish when you were young?
- Garden Calendar: New resource helps community gardens get growing
- April 29, 2012
- A frequent question to the garden hotline is: “My (church, school, organization, neighborhood, friends, etc.) want to start a garden. Can you help us?”
- Ripa rips up TV Land Awards
- April 29, 2012
- Proof that critical insights can arrive at any time: While I was in a dentist’s chair some months back, enduring a procedure that straddled the line between discomfort and pain, the hygienist left the television on for me. It was tuned to “Live! With Kelly,” a morning show hosted by Kelly Ripa. Fifteen seconds into her banal chitchat, I was praying for the drilling to resume.
- Horoscope for April 29
- April 29, 2012
- Your dynamic personality attracts many people. People open up to you. If you get some odd reactions this year, it might be because you’re sending out mixed signals. If you are single, this behavior could end a good relationship. If you are attached, your sweetie most likely is used to your mixed signals.
- Caro caps LBJ biography series
- April 29, 2012 in print edition on A8
- Around noon on Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963, almost exactly 24 hours after the assassination in Dallas, while the president’s casket lay in the East Room of the White House, Arthur Schlesinger, John Kennedy’s kept historian, convened a lunch at Washington’s Occidental restaurant with some other administration liberals. Their purpose was to discuss how to deny the 1964 Democratic presidential nomination to the new incumbent, Lyndon Johnson, and instead run a ticket of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Sen. Hubert Humphrey.
- Borromeo String Quartet coming to KU Tuesday
- April 29, 2012
- The acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet will play at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Swarthout Recital Hall on Kansas University’s campus. Admission is free.
- Thad Holcombe’s ministry of the open mind
- April 29, 2012
- Under Thad Holcombe’s leadership, programs at Ecumenical Campus Ministries at Kansas University continue to evolve. Veggie Lunch, University-Community Forum, Sexuality Education Committee, Faith Forum, Fair Trade Committee — these and other programs draw about 1,000 people a month through the doors of the ECM building.
- Chancellor’s husband has embraced Lawrence, KU
- April 29, 2012
- It’s not unusual to find the husband of Kansas University’s chancellor just about anywhere in Lawrence, whether at a women’s basketball practice, on the board of a nonprofit, at a desk working with a student or just walking down the street.
- Elementary music teacher Lois Orth-Lopes brings the world to her classroom
- April 29, 2012
- Lois Orth-Lopes has swum in a Mayan cave, explored holy Middle Eastern shrines and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. And no matter where she has roamed, Orth-Lopes has found a way to bring the experience back into her Cordley School music classroom.
- Children’s excitement, passion are longtime teacher’s muse
- April 29, 2012
- Kathy Martin has taught at Giving Tree for 34 years and has been its director for the past 19. She started teaching at Giving Tree at the same time that her son, Grant, started preschool there. An early-childhood education major, Martin has always found children to be her muse.
- South Middle School custodian is the ‘glue of the building that holds things together’
- April 29, 2012
- Before most of us down our first cup of coffee, Mike White, the lead custodian at South Middle School, has been hard at work for several hours.
- KU professor James Carothers teaches students how to read baseball
- April 29, 2012
- Baseball is a reflection of an ever-changing and turbulent society, say James Carothers.
- For Carolyn Landgrebe, a life of volunteering is a life well spent
- April 29, 2012
- With the fast pace of today’s on-the-go world, people often complain that there isn’t enough time to do everything they want. These people aren’t Carolyn Landgrebe.
- Lawrence’s unique history has a home at Watkins Museum
- April 29, 2012
- Watkins Community Museum of History in downtown Lawrence is filled with reminders of the city’s colorful past.
- For 30 years, crisis center director has held dear the ‘right to be listened to’
- April 29, 2012
- Marcia Epstein planned to stay with Headquarters for two years. That was more than 30 years ago.
- Free State coach Barah forges community around ubuntu
- April 29, 2012
- Barah has constructed a family environment using ubuntu, an African philosophy that means “I am who I am because of who we are.” It has become Free State’s soccer slogan.
- Area genealogist finds family histories are a booming business
- April 29, 2012
- What started as a hobby nearly 50 years ago for Lecompton resident and genealogist Iona Spencer, has blossomed into an effort to give a whole community its forgotten history back.
- Guarding Bill Self a ‘dream job’ for Sgt. Gary Wieden
- April 29, 2012
- A public safety officer for 33 years, it took Sgt. Gary Wieden three decades to find his dream assignment.
- First-responder proves her mettle in life-and-death crises
- April 29, 2012
- We all have gifts, Mary Tye says, and we all have calls to serve. Hers is helping her community in times of crisis. Quite literally, she’s a lifesaver.
- Zumba, tai chi or spinning, Susan Pomeroy lends a life of lessons to fitness classes
- April 29, 2012
- “I usually teach somewhere between 24 and 26 hours a week,” says Susan Pomeroy, 61, in her typical upbeat, cheery tone. “Isn’t that fun?”
- Longtime Lone Star anglers find peace in quiet
- April 29, 2012
- Queen Shorter and her family, Lawrence transplants from the Mississippi Delta, can be found several evenings a week — and often on the weekends — fishing at the star-shaped lake appropriately named Lone Star, in southwest Douglas County.
- It’s a ‘privilege’ to serve Lawrence says LINK matriarch Katie Studebaker
- April 29, 2012
- “I have to stay busy,” says Katie Studebaker. “I am not good playing cards.”
- From Neil’s Atomic Fireballs to Tharpe Has My Heart, KU ticket campout is serious, fun business
- April 29, 2012
- At KU, the students park themselves in the fieldhouse for hours on end to get prime seats. Because seats in the student section are unassigned, it’s first-come, first-served. And the competition is tough.
- ‘Tough and demanding’ teacher ‘made us care’
- April 29, 2012
- In his time as a mentor, teacher and friend, it’s clear the kids loved Chuck Holley as much as he loved them.
- At 89, former teacher Mary Gauthier is anything but retiring in her retirement
- April 29, 2012
- You won’t find Lawrence resident Mary Gauthier sitting back and relaxing during her retirement. At age 89, she’s a go-getter.
- By the Numbers: Education in Lawrence
- April 29, 2012
- Here are some interesting numbers about the Lawrence school district and Kansas University. Julie Boyle, the school district’s communications director, provided information about the district. The information about KU was provided by Office of University Relations and KU Info.
- The Rev. Bill Dulin draws on experience, integrity to make Lawrence more inclusive
- April 29, 2012
- “I don’t want to be a figurehead,” he says. “I think you got to have integrity, otherwise it don’t amount to much.”
- Architect Dennis Domer documents way we live
- April 29, 2012
- Dennis Domer promises that Kansas never has to be boring again.
- Teacher draws on own life story in special classroom
- April 29, 2012
- Watching Jake Thibodeau, 35, relate to the students with jokes and animated gestures, it’s difficult to imagine his description of himself as a student at Lawrence High School nearly two decades ago.
- Pop quiz: Test your knowledge of Lawrence schools’ origins
- April 29, 2012
- Test your knowledge of the origin of Lawrence schools.
- What’s in a name? Lawrence school names are a nod to (sometimes obscure) history
- April 29, 2012
- Lawrence schools have been named for historical figures, directional markers and all sorts of wildlife.
- KU recording engineer Colin Mahoney is ‘a wizard in the studio’
- April 29, 2012
- “He’s as good as it gets — I could tell him the intention of a guitar solo and he came up with magnificent sound coloring,” says guitarist Roger Holden. “He’s a wizard in the studio.”
- The ‘Umbrella Incident,’ and the yard art that inspired KT Walsh to activism
- April 29, 2012
- The “Umbrella Incident” was a watershed moment for KT Walsh, who up to that point had never been political. With support from friends and family, she decided to fight.
- The New Horizons Band plays on
- April 29, 2012
- For some members, the New Horizons Band is just another musical outlet on top of a music profession. For others, it is a place for returning to an instrument long unplayed, perhaps even since high school.
- Devoted administrator Danny Lenz learns from Special Olympians
- April 29, 2012
- Danny Lenz is the kind of guy who is there when you have a question. He’ll stick by your side if your parents can’t make it to a game and tease you when you’ve done something silly. And, he’s always the one standing on the sideline cheering.
- Can We Talk creator paves a path to success
- April 29, 2012
- After a career in education, Willie Amison is devoted to helping a diverse group of young people.
- Retired coach Garvin relishing ‘great life’
- April 29, 2012
- Ron Garvin says he’s been lucky in life; finding a career he loved, marrying his high school sweetheart, and being blessed with good health. Now it’s time to take things a little easier.
- KU clean-up crews leave fieldhouse pristine
- April 29, 2012
- Just minutes after the (usually happy) fans begin to file out of Allen Fieldhouse after a Kansas basketball game, another team begins warming up.
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