Also from January 30
Births
Blog entries
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Polls
Should the cairn terrier, the dog breed that played Toto in “The Wizard of Oz,” be the official state dog of Kansas?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No | 53% | |
| Yes | 46% | |
| Total | 584 | |
Videos
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Lawrence couple help rescue children in Third World countries through Kids Alive International- January 29, 2012
- On the wall in Carol Schaub’s study is a map of the world. Pinned to it are all the countries where Carol and her husband, Sherry, sponsor children through Kids Alive International.
6:00 a.m.
Lawrence school leader applauds Obama plan to reduce dropouts- January 29, 2012
- In his State of the Union address last Tuesday, Obama called on every state to require students to stay in school until they have graduated or turned 18.
2:00 p.m.
School district ahead of the curve on lunch menu upgrades- January 29, 2012
- Goodbye hot dog. Hello whole wheat spaghetti. Last week, the federal government released new standards for school lunches that would boost the amount of healthy foods school children are offered.
6:00 p.m.
Taxi driver gets glimpse into many walks of life - January 29, 2012
- It’s part comedy club, part retail operation. Randall Barnes should know — he’s been working the night shift, 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., for more than a year.
10:00 p.m.
All stories
- County to consider plans for sand-dredging operation near Eudora
- January 30, 2012
- On Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission will continue its consideration of a sand-dredging operation in a Kansas River floodplain north of Eudora.
- Lawrence man, 24, pleads no contest to aggravated battery
- 05:34 p.m., January 30, 2012 Updated 06:16 p.m.
- A 24-year-old Lawrence man pleaded no contest Monday to aggravated battery in connection with an October altercation in downtown Lawrence.
- Tax checkoff for the arts draws little interest at public hearing
- January 30, 2012
- House Bill 2454 would allow taxpayers the option of adding a donation on their Kansas individual income tax form to the Kansas Arts Commission Checkoff Fund. The monies would be used by the Arts Commission.
- Residential real estate market endures dismal 2011
- January 30, 2012
- It seems 2011 was the year for sitting — or perhaps cowering — in your house, not buying a new one.
- Explosion levels home in southwest Topeka
- January 30, 2012
- Police in Topeka say natural gas is suspected as the cause of an explosion that leveled a home in the southwestern part of the city.
- Woman involved in accident Jan. 3 on U.S. Highway 56 near Worden dies
- January 30, 2012
- A 47-year-old Overbrook woman who was injured in a head-on crash Jan. 3 on U.S. Highway 56 has since died, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.
- Pentagon prepares for new military talks with Iraq
- January 30, 2012
- The Obama administration is preparing to begin talks with Iraq on defining a long-term defense relationship that may include expanded U.S. training help, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s chief policy aide.
- Emboldened GOP wants to abolish state income taxes
- January 30, 2012
- A year after Republicans swept into office across the country, many have trained their sights on what has long been a fiscal conservative’s dream: the steep reduction or even outright elimination of state income taxes.
- State Dept: Americans take refuge at Cairo embassy
- January 30, 2012
- Three American citizens barred from leaving Egypt have sought refuge at the American Embassy in Cairo amid growing tensions between the two allies over an Egyptian investigation into foreign-funded pro-democracy groups.
- Redistricting plans consolidate Lawrence in 2nd District
- January 30, 2012
- Lawrence would be consolidated into the 2nd U.S. House District under two congressional redistricting plans that emerged Monday.
- Forms for free birth certificates will be online
- January 30, 2012
- State officials say an affidavit needed to obtain a free Kansas birth certificate will be online sometime this week.
- Baldwin City youth injured in Friday night accident listed in good condition
- January 30, 2012
- A 15-year-old Baldwin City boy was in good condition Monday at a Kansas City hospital after a one-vehicle crash Friday evening.
- Statehouse Live: Consumer, elderly advocates pitted against natural gas utilities
- January 30, 2012
- Currently, if a utility wants a rate increase, it files the request with the KCC, which has up to 240 days to review the request and issue a decision.
- KU drops to eighth in both polls
- January 30, 2012
- The Kansas men’s basketball team dropped three spots to eighth in both the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today coaches polls released Monday.
- How Tom Keegan voted: AP college basketball poll for Jan. 30, 2012
- January 30, 2012
- The following is Journal-World sports editor Tom Keegan’s ballot for the Associated Press college basketball poll on Jan. 30, 2012.
- Two more in Class of 2012 pick Kansas
- Jayhawks add QB Turner Baty and CB Tyree Williams
- 12:17 p.m., January 30, 2012 Updated 08:44 p.m.
- Recent recruiting visits continue to be fruitful for the Kansas University football program. One day after landing two commitments in the Class of 2012 — Dallas linebacker Courtney Arnick and El Camino CC defensive tackle Jordan Tavai committed to KU on Sunday — the KU coaches picked up two more oral commitments on Monday, as City College of San Francisco quarterback Turner Baty and Sugar Land, Texas, athlete Tyree Williams both pledged their services to the Jayhawks.
- League of Women Voters hosting meeting on proposed changes to Kansas tax structure
- January 30, 2012
- A forum to examine the implications of Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposed changes to the Kansas tax structure will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt.
- Suspects in robbery of Cirilla’s arrested in Wichita
- 12:02 p.m., January 30, 2012 Updated 05:21 p.m.
- Police said Monday that two Topeka residents, a man and a woman, who were arrested during a robbery last weekend in Wichita are possible suspects in last Thursday’s armed robbery at Cirilla’s in Lawrence.
- Brownback names new IT chief
- January 30, 2012
- Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has hirred a new chief information technology officer.
- Newest Kansas Speedway casino doing test run for regulators
- January 30, 2012
- Hollywood casino is opening its doors for a nine-hour demonstration that will allow invited guests to be the first to place their bets at Kansas’ newest gambling hall.
- Boeing closure spurs interest by job recruiters
- January 30, 2012
- Aerospace companies looking to hire engineers and other workers are stepping up recruiting in Wichita in response to the Boeing Co.’s plans to close its facility in that city.
- Proposal would make cairn terrier state dog
- January 30, 2012
- The dog breed that played Toto in “The Wizard of Oz” might become a state symbol.
- Colyer touts plan to push jobs for disabled
- January 30, 2012
- Kansas Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer is promoting a measure that he says will encourage private companies to hire disabled Kansans.
- Town Talk: Radio station apologizes for KU mistake of ‘epic proportions’; sand plant slated for Jeff. Co. but traffic slated for Douglas; a three-story office building for cheap
- January 30, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Kansas official defends food stamp policy as fair
- 10:22 a.m., January 30, 2012 Updated 12:09 a.m.
- A top Kansas social services official argued Monday that a new policy reducing or denying food stamps to hundreds of U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants is fairer to tens of thousands of other families, and some Republican legislators said they agreed with the change.
- U.S. Highway 59 reopens after accident north of Baldwin Junction
- 09:40 a.m., January 30, 2012 Updated 08:53 a.m.
- Law enforcement officials have responded to a traffic accident on U.S. Highway 59 about two miles north of the intersection with U.S. Highway 56.
- U.S. Highway 59 shut down south of Lawrence after accident
- January 30, 2012
- Traffic has been shut down on U.S. Highway 59 about eight miles south of Lawrence Monday morning after a two-vehicle accident.
- Horoscope for Jan. 30
- January 30, 2012
- For Monday, Jan. 30: Many crosscurrents mark your life this year. Some of you might be scattered, whereas others decide to become involved with one or two opportunities. If you are single, the timing for a major commitment could be off. If you are attached, the two of you like spending time alone together. TAURUS can be a stick in the mud.
- Is reality TV a horror, or merely horrible?
- January 30, 2012
- Whenever reality TV shows bore me — and that’s practically all the time — I like to reimagine them as grade-Z horror movies in the making.
- Lawrence man, 20, charged with DWI, drug possession, reckless driving
- January 30, 2012
- About 5:30 a.m. Sunday, a Lawrence police officer attempted to pull over a car with significant damage near Engel Road and Crescent Drive.
- Heard on the Hill: Natural History Museum hosts event on popular horse Comanche; University of Nebraska looking for cancer money, too; Dance Marathoners will stand for classes on Wednesday
- January 30, 2012
- Your daily dose of news, notes and links from around Kansas University.
- Jayhawks in the NBA
- January 30, 2012
- A look at how former Jayhawks fared in NBA action Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012.
- KU men’s bowling No. 15 nationally
- January 30, 2012
- Kansas University’s men’s bowling club placed ninth of 53 teams in the Blue and Gold Tournament and ascended to 15th in the national rankings.
- Track stars have more than hyphens in common
- January 30, 2012
- Anybody concerned that Alexa Harmon-Thomas might be putting too much on herself by participating in both track and field and soccer in the spring for Free State High needs to listen to Alexa’s idol talk about her teenage years.
- Jayhawks land two recruits, lose one
- January 30, 2012
- The final recruiting weekend for the Class of 2012 produced some mixed results for the Kansas University football team, as KU coach Charlie Weis picked up two commitments and may have lost another.
- Happier campers: Clinic helps Jayhawks put loss behind
- January 30, 2012
- Upset with himself and the world after Kansas University’s 72-64 loss to Iowa State on Saturday, Bill Self elected to delay the agonizing task of reviewing game film for 24 hours.
- Divorces
- January 30, 2012
- Divorces granted in Douglas County District Court the week ending January 28, 2012.
- Bankruptcies
- January 30, 2012
- Douglas County residents or businesses filing for bankruptcy protection recently in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Kansas, according to court records.
- Lax enforcement
- January 30, 2012
- The Kansas House is hearing HB 2471 this week. It requires the Board of Adult Care Home Administrators to reserve a seat for each of the three nursing home provider associations
- Statehouse bully
- January 30, 2012
- The school counselor in a third-grade classroom where I was substitute teaching told the 9-year-olds about bullying. She told them bullying is hurtful behavior over and over.
- Death penalty protesters call Brownback; Natural gas bill considered; A Proposal to save on Capitol landscaping
- January 30, 2012
- News from the Kansas Statehouse compiled by Scott Rothschild.
- Marriages
- January 30, 2012
- Marriage licenses issued in Douglas County District Court the week ending January 28, 2012.
- Renaming policy
- The decision to rename even a short stretch of a city street shouldn’t be taken lightly.
- January 30, 2012
- The vote was unanimous. Lawrence city commissioners voted to name a city street immediately north of Kansas University’s Memorial Stadium as “Fambrough Drive” in honor of the late Jayhawk football coach, Don Fambrough.
- 25 years ago: Kansas House passes death-penalty bill
- January 30, 2012
- In the 126 years since statehood, Kansas had legally executed 24 men.
- 40 years ago: KU student robbed in parking-lot tunnel
- January 30, 2012
- An armed robbery had recently occurred in the tunnel between the “Zone X” parking lot and the Kansas Union.
- 100 years ago: Local men enjoy another ‘wolf hunt’
- January 30, 2012
- “When Judge Benson arrived at his office in the city hall this morning and found that there was nothing on the docket he immediately joined the wolf hunters for the day.”
- Republican ground is shifting
- January 30, 2012
- Against all odds, against all expectations, perhaps even against all reason, the Republican presidential nomination fight is centered in Florida this week and then moves to a hopelessly complex process here in Maine next week. This is a far different contest than the Republicans conducted a few weeks, a few miles, and a political lifetime away across the border in New Hampshire.
- iPhone, iPad app rewards being a couch potato
- January 30, 2012
- Want to earn stuff by watching TV? A free app for that debuted Wednesday.
- Fix-It Chick: Replace an old door closer with new hydraulic type
- January 30, 2012
- If your storm door is closing too fast or not shutting all the way, consider replacing its pneumatic door closer with a new hydraulic door closer.
- Cheap eats: How to save money but not sacrifice health
- January 30, 2012
- This winter, struggling Greeks found space in their economy-trashed budgets for a little book called “Starvation Recipes” by Eleni Nikolaidou.
- River City Jules: The inner diva comes out
- January 30, 2012
- My heart thumps a million beats a minute as the music starts and the curtain opens to reveal one River City Jules decked out in sequins and bling while the crowd goes wild.
- Double Take: Daughter’s IEP addition worth fighting for
- January 30, 2012
- We asked to have athletic participation added to our daughter’s IEP to ensure she could continue, but the special-ed director told us “under no circumstances can that be dictated in an IEP, only an opportunity to participate is required.” The school never provided any documentation to prove this. I found multiple references online to “when athletic participation is added to an IEP,” and nothing saying it can’t be done. What’s going on here?
- Tarik Black strong, physical May 22, 2013
- LHS student earns perfect ACT score May 21, 2013
- Local organizations aim to support tornado victims May 21, 2013
- Planning Commission recommends approval of Menards store for south Lawrence May 20, 2013
- Budget cuts force Head Start to close Edgewood Homes facility May 21, 2013
- Longo services December 11, 2003
- City accepts recreation center bids, but won' t proceed with building until Fritzel provides infrastructure costs May 21, 2013
- KU baseball gets involved in Moore, Okla., relief effort May 21, 2013
- Lions face one more test February 29, 2008
- Opinion: Wayne Selden sizes up recruits May 21, 2013
