Also from May 29
Births
Blog entries
- The Lasso: Beer, rock n’ roll, alpacas and more
- Heard on the Hill: Student residents forced out of KU apartment building because of drought-related damage
- Town Talk: City to consider using gated, pay-as-you-leave system for new downtown parking garage
- Eat Your Vegetables: Cooking away the CSA, week 10: The best flourless peanut butter cookies
Obituaries
Photos
Polls
Have you ever considered running for public office?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No | 55% | |
| Yes | 44% | |
| Total | 338 | |
Videos
Lead stories
6:00 a.m.
Lawrence community honors sacrifices on Memorial Day 2012- May 28, 2012
- Veterans groups and members of the Lawrence community came together Monday at local cemeteries to honor those who sacrificed themselves for their country.
- Photo gallery: Memorial Day 2012
2:00 p.m.
Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down- May 28, 2012
- When Pat Pisani started working at Hilltop Child Development Center, it was housed in the Wesley Building, an old three-story building east of Smith Hall on the Kansas University campus. Today, the retiring executive director oversees a facility licensed for 290 children, nearly double its previous capacity. In 2000, the center also moved into its current home at 1605 Irving Hill Road.
All stories
- City Band makes backup plan in case of rain
- May 29, 2012
- The City Band Wednesday night concert series begins at 8 p.m. tonight in the gazebo at South Park.
- Lawrence businessman to run for seat on County Commission
- May 29, 2012
- A longtime area businessman and former planning commissioner will seek a seat on the Douglas County Commission.
- Police searching for suspect in robbery of Sonic on 6th St.
- May 29, 2012
- Lawrence police are looking for a man suspected of robbing a Sonic Drive-In, 3201 W. Sixth St., at knife point last Saturday.
- Lawrence earns ‘Playful City’ title
- May 29, 2012
- Lawrence is one of about 200 communities across the country that has received a special designation for its “playful” nature.
- Process to assess teachers may change
- May 29, 2012
- The Lawrence school district could change the way it grades its teachers.
- Romney clinches GOP nomination
- May 29, 2012
- Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a win in the Texas primary, a triumph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago and had to fight hard this year as voters flirted with a carousel of GOP rivals.
- Bowersock hydroelectric plant to get tall in a hurry
- ‘It definitely will be a skyline-changer’
- May 29, 2012
- Crews are 12 months into constructing a new hydroelectric power plant for Sarah Hill-Nelson’s family’s Bowersock Mills & Power Co. For decades, motorists will drive over the Kansas River bridges and wonder how this plant works and what lurks beneath the surface of the Kaw.
- Pump Patrol
- May 29, 2012
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $3.32 at several stations. If you find a lower price, call 832-7154.
- Man injured in accident at Highway 59 construction site
- May 29, 2012
- A 69-year-old man was injured Tuesday morning at the highway construction site of the new U.S. Highway 59 south of Lawrence.
- Woman charged with fleeing police twice in one weekend
- May 29, 2012
- Douglas County prosecutors Tuesday charged a 52-year-old Lawrence woman with eluding police, reckless driving and driving while suspended related to a weekend chase with Lawrence police.
- Brownback tells federal judicial panel to toss legislative redistricting maps
- May 29, 2012
- Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday told a three-judge panel to throw out all the state House and Senate redistricting plans that have been considered by the Legislature.
- Senator: Gov. tried to end impasse
- 04:58 p.m., May 29, 2012 Updated 11:57 p.m.
- The first morning of a federal court trial over the redrawing of Kansas political boundaries was mostly filled with procedural issues.
- New law seen as way to increase independence for those with disabilities
- May 29, 2012
- Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday signed into law a bill that is designed to provide an incentive for businesses to hire Kansans with disabilities.
- Officials vow to fight for NBAF funding
- May 29, 2012
- Kansas leaders on Tuesday vowed to continue fighting in Congress for funding of a state-of-the-art federal laboratory in Manhattan that will focus on contagious animal diseases.
- A garden revolution on Delaware Street
- May 29, 2012
- Delaware Street’s gardens figure prominently in this Saturdays Lawrence Food Garden Tour.
- Study suggests continued population drop in Kansas
- May 29, 2012
- A decades-long decline in population is likely to continue in Kansas, particularly in the west of the state, and four counties could have fewer than 1,000 residents by 2040, according to a study by Wichita State University’s Center for Economic Development and Business Research.
- District Attorney Charles Branson to run for third term
- May 29, 2012
- Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson announced Tuesday he would seek a third term in office.
- KU basketball player Ben McLemore enters into diversion agreement
- May 29, 2012
- A Kansas University basketball player has entered into a diversion agreement with Douglas County prosecutors over a minor in possession of alcohol citation, according to court records.
- Town Talk: UPDATE: Frank Male files for county commission; keep an ear open for local sales tax talk; city hires new city engineer; wholesale water district buys land near Kaw; weekly land transfers
- 09:52 a.m., May 29, 2012 Updated 10:41 a.m.
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Land transfers for the week ending May 21
- May 29, 2012
- Douglas County land transfers for the week ending May 21, 2012, as recorded by the Douglas County Register of Deeds.
- Heard on the Hill: Chesapeake Energy donation is still on track; State Department hits the brakes on Confucius Institute directive; website ranks KU as best university to work for
- May 29, 2012
- Your daily dose of news, notes and links from around Kansas University.
- Kansas football scouring country
- A quick look at some KU targets
- May 29, 2012
- While most of April was spent coaching the players they had in front of them, a good chunk of May has been spent trying to find new ones.
- 100 years ago: Automobile owners asked to help area veterans
- May 29, 2012
- “Tomorrow is Decoration Day on which these old veterans pay tribute to those of their ranks who died in battle and since the war.”
- 25 years ago: Convenience store owner runs afoul of city sign ordinance
- May 29, 2012
- “It happens to be across from my office,” Judge Catt told Gaffney. “I can’t help but see it.”
- 40 years ago: Kansas governor speaks at LHS graduation
- May 29, 2012
- Gov. Docking had graduated from LHS in 1943.
- Jayhawks in the NBA (May 28)
- May 29, 2012
- How former Jayhawks fared in the NBA playoff game on May 28.
- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp
- May 29, 2012
- Kansas University senior Elijah Johnson accepted a pass from Kansas State’s Rodney McGruder, then bounced the basketball off the court into the hands of high-flying Jayhawk junior Justin Wesley, who finished a memorable Memorial Day dunk before 100 KC Gym Rats Collegiate All-Star campers in Blue Valley Northwest High’s gym.
- Information gap
- Releasing more information about police complaints would help build public confidence in the department.
- May 29, 2012
- The city of Lawrence recently did its police department a significant disservice.
- Iran, West seek retreat from brink
- May 29, 2012
- It’s a classic case of brinkmanship bargaining: Iran and the West, each seeking to squeeze concessions from the other side, have decided to continue their nuclear negotiations on June 17, a few weeks before a punishing new round of sanctions takes effect.
- Critics may bolster Roberts’ resolve
- May 29, 2012
- In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism’s first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that.” TR was as mistaken about Holmes’ spine as are various progressives today about Chief Justice John Roberts’.
- On the street: What is your favorite Shakespearean play? June 19, 2013 · 7 comments
- Blog: City to consider using gated, pay-as-you-leave system for new downtown parking garage June 19, 2013 · 14 comments
- City approves Menards store next to Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets June 18, 2013 · 72 comments
- Blog: State seeking proposal to develop resort at Clinton Lake State Park June 18, 2013 · 32 comments
- Letter: Two is enough June 19, 2013 · 24 comments
- Blog: Student residents forced out of KU apartment building because of drought-related damage June 19, 2013 · 5 comments
- Kobach considering filing charges against protesters who came to his home June 17, 2013 · 122 comments
- Senate Democratic leader asks attorney general whether Supreme Court's voter decision affects Kansas June 18, 2013 · 13 comments
- Opinion: Redskins mascot can’t be justified June 16, 2013 · 100 comments
- Lawrence man sentenced to 52 months in prison for February bank robbery June 18, 2013 · 5 comments
- City approves Menards store next to Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets June 18, 2013
- Opinion: Dick Vitale loves life, wife and Andrew Wiggins June 19, 2013
- Transfer Hunter Mickelson to sit out, soak it up for a year June 19, 2013
- KU geographers win defense grant to study Central American communities June 19, 2013
- KU dean blasts negative national report on teacher preparation programs June 18, 2013
- Lawrence Outdoor Aquatic Center to host "Beach Bash" June 18, 2013
- Police investigate string of almost 20 auto burglaries in west Lawrence June 18, 2013
- Report says schools underfunded $657 million in FY 2015 June 17, 2013
- Ms. Wheelchair Kansas to speak out on disabilities March 13, 2008
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
