Also from August 31
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Chats
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Photos
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Polls
Do you think a digital divide exists in Lawrence?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 52% | |
| No | 26% | |
| Unsure | 21% | |
| Total | 242 | |
Have you ever boxed?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No | 53% | |
| Yes | 38% | |
| Can’t remember | 7% | |
| Total | 195 | |
How will KU's football team do this year?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| They’ll lose most of their games | 48% | |
| They’ll win half of their games | 32% | |
| They’ll win most of their games | 9% | |
| They’ll lose every game | 4% | |
| They’ll win every game | 4% | |
| Total | 540 | |
Videos
Lead stories
6:00 a.m.
Romney makes case for jobs, lots of jobs- 8:37 p.m., August 30, 2012 Updated 10:29 p.m.
- Mitt Romney launched his fall campaign for the White House in a rousing Republican National Convention finale Thursday night, proclaiming America needs “jobs, lots of jobs” and promising to create 12 million of them in perilous economic times.
2:00 p.m.
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- Rookie Steven Johnson makes Denver Broncos’ 53-man roster
- August 31, 2012
- The 2012 Denver Broncos will ultimately be known as the team led by quarterback Peyton Manning. But for fans of Kansas University football, this year’s Broncos represent something else — the professional home of a couple of former Jayhawks. Friday, the Broncos trimmed their roster from 75 to the league-mandated 53-man squad that will open the regular season and both rookie linebacker Steven Johnson and second-year cornerback Chris Harris were on it.
- Football and tailgating season kicks off Saturday, a few reminders for fans
- August 31, 2012
- Kansas University football season starts this weekend, and with it comes tailgating season.
- Brawl mars soccer game between Tonganoxie and Basehor-Linwood high schools
- August 31, 2012
- The Tonganoxie boys soccer team earned its second-straight comeback victory Thursday at Basehor-Linwood, but most of the fireworks occurred before either team got on the scoreboard.
- KU football announces select non-conference opponents through 2018
- August 31, 2012
- The Kansas football team will play non-conference games against nine different schools from seven different conferences over the next six years, KU announced Friday.
- Health concerns raised at hearing on proposed coal-burning power plant
- August 31, 2012
- The long-running dispute over a proposed coal-fired power plant in southwestern Kansas was before the state Supreme Court on Friday.
- Topeka man sentenced for poaching record deer
- August 31, 2012
- A Topeka man will spend 15 consecutive weekends in jail and pay a $1,500 fine for killing a whitetail buck that would have set a state record if it had been shot legally and not out of season.
- KUsports.com staff’s Week 1 college football picks
- August 31, 2012
- The following are the Journal-World staffers’ picks for Week 1 of the college football season.
- Suspect in Colorado theater massacre applied to Kansas University, records show
- August 31, 2012
- James Holmes, the man accused of shooting and killing 12 people and injuring 58 others in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater in July, applied to graduate school at Kansas University.
- Town Talk: Questions about the northwest recreation complex as commissioners prepare to make key vote on project; White House Black Market opens in downtown
- August 31, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Statue stolen from Wichita State in 1987 recovered in Missouri
- August 31, 2012
- A valuable statue stolen in 1987 from Wichita State University has been recovered in southwestern Missouri, and one man is under arrest.
- Funding problem could eliminate Amtrak’s Southwest Chief from 3 Kansas cities
- August 31, 2012
- Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico transportation officials have notified Amtrak that they do not have the millions of dollars the passenger rail service said is necessary to repair and maintain deteriorating tracks in western Kansas.
- Trouble with the chair: Clint Eastwood mocked for RNC bit
- August 31, 2012
- Clint Eastwood earned plenty of bad reviews for his latest performance: a bizarre, rambling endorsement of Mitt Romney.
- FACT CHECK: Romney’s deficit vow lacks specifics
- August 31, 2012
- Mitt Romney promised he would cut deficits and put America on track to a balanced budget as president, but he left voters to take it on faith that he could deliver. The details behind that pledge, and the painful spending choices involved, are conspicuously lacking in his agenda.
- Lawrence man injured after rollover accident southwest of Eudora
- 07:20 a.m., August 31, 2012 Updated 05:17 p.m.
- Two people were injured, including one critically, in a rollover accident southwest of Eudora.
- First Bell: Football kickoff; the cost of Common Core
- August 31, 2012
- News, et cetera, from around schools in Douglas County.
- Heard on the Hill: Wired magazine takes on KU mural; Newt Gingrich likes KU’s Natural History Museum; reporter says good-bye
- August 31, 2012
- Your daily dose of news, notes and links from around Kansas University.
- Guard ‘Cat’ Barber visiting Kansas
- August 31, 2012
- One of the top high school basketball point guards in the Class of 2013 will make an official recruiting visit to Kansas University this weekend.
- 25 years ago: Busy night on campus possibly includes gunfire
- August 31, 2012
- KU police were investigating recent incidents which may have involved firearms.
- 40 years ago: Several KU women proud to finally play in marching band
- August 31, 2012
- About a dozen female students this year were the first to play in the marching band that had been traditionally all male.
- KU thrower Finley transfers to Wyoming
- August 31, 2012
- Former Kansas University track distance thrower Mason Finley has transferred to the University of Wyoming for his senior season, the Wyoming athletic department has announced.
- Lawrence tennis goes 3-0 in quad
- August 31, 2012
- Kendal Pritchard, Whitney Simons and Katie Gaches each went 1-1 in singles matches, and Lawrence High’s girls tennis team defeated Gardner-Edgerton, Shawnee Mission North and Leavenworth on Thursday by 3-1 scores.
- 100 years ago: Merit system initiated for streetcar drivers
- August 31, 2012
- “They were all enthusiastic over the plan and started out to be more civil, more careful and more courteous than ever before.”
- YouTube offers first scripted series
- August 31, 2012
- The evolution of television and soap operas continues. The old daytime serials may have gone the way of “Guiding Light,” but they’re finding new places to attract viewers, particularly younger ones. Nickelodeon has experimented with nightly soaps, including the supernaturally inclined “House of Anubis” and the music-business melodrama “Hollywood Heights.”
- Horoscope for Aug. 31
- August 31, 2012
- For Friday, Aug. 31: This year you have a frenetic element in your life. Your classic organizational skills might be overwhelmed by everything that could fall on your plate. If you are single, your attractiveness to the opposite sex cannot be denied. If you are attached, the two of you sometimes feel out of sync.
- Oread plan
- August 31, 2012
- A plan to create design guidelines for the Oread neighborhood east and north of the Kansas University campus is a positive step because it recognizes that various parts of the neighborhood serve different purposes and have different needs.
- Air-conditioned Robinson is rec answer
- August 31, 2012
- For the price of an air conditioner, Lawrence can accomplish about everything it proposes to do with the Schwada-Fritzel “sports village.”
- Election a test for conservatives
- August 31, 2012 in print edition on A10
- Now begins the final phase of this cognitive dissonance campaign. America’s 57th presidential election is the first devoted to calling the nation’s bluff. When Mitt Romney selected Paul Ryan, Republicans undertook the perilous but commendable project of forcing voters to face the fact that they fervently hold flatly incompatible beliefs.
- Free State tennis cruises at J.C.
- August 31, 2012
- Free State High dropped just one match on the day and cruised to victory in the Junction City High tennis quadrangular on Thursday.
- Regional prep sports roundups: Aug. 31
- August 31, 2012
- A look at recent highlights in Baldwin, Basehor, Bonner Springs, De Soto, Eudora and Shawnee. Stay tuned each Friday for roundups.
- Harrell, Packers hammer Chiefs, 24-3
- August 31, 2012
- Graham Harrell finally showed why the Green Bay Packers believed he could be Aaron Rodgers’ primary backup.
- Seabury volleyball takes 2 victories
- August 31, 2012
- Seabury Academy opened its volleyball season Thursday with victories over Jackson Heights and Onaga.
- Free State takes to road for football opener with familiar Ravens
- August 31, 2012
- As thrilling as it is to start the season, Week 1 has the power to make some football coaches lose sleep for other reasons.
- Visiting SM West has LHS football wary of speed, air attack
- August 31, 2012
- The way Lawrence High football coach Dirk Wedd sees it, his team has spent its preseason practices cramming for a test.
- City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license May 21, 2013 · 46 comments
- House Republican leaders propose 1.5 percent cut to higher education for each of next two fiscal years May 21, 2013 · 21 comments
- Opinion: Amid crisis, Europe resists extremism May 21, 2013 · 56 comments
- City accepts recreation center bids, but won' t proceed with building until Fritzel provides infrastructure costs May 21, 2013 · 19 comments
- Blog: Push-back on Common Core not unique to Kansas May 21, 2013 · 17 comments
- Local organizations aim to support tornado victims May 21, 2013 · 8 comments
- Blog: Lawrence hosts mayor of Greek sister city this week May 22, 2013 · 4 comments
- Planning Commission recommends approval of Menards store for south Lawrence May 20, 2013 · 67 comments
- Opinion: Scandals undermine trust in Obama May 19, 2013 · 50 comments
- Opinion: Wayne Selden sizes up recruits May 21, 2013 · 1 comment
- Tarik Black strong, physical May 22, 2013
- Opinion: Wayne Selden sizes up recruits May 21, 2013
- Opinion: Scandals undermine trust in Obama May 19, 2013
- City accepts recreation center bids, but won' t proceed with building until Fritzel provides infrastructure costs May 21, 2013
- LHS student earns perfect ACT score May 21, 2013
- Editorial: Judicial joust May 22, 2013
- Budget cuts force Head Start to close Edgewood Homes facility May 21, 2013
- KU baseball gets involved in Moore, Okla., relief effort May 21, 2013
- KU makes sudden change in Statehouse presence May 20, 2013
- House Republican leaders propose 1.5 percent cut to higher education for each of next two fiscal years May 21, 2013
