Also from October 27
Births
Blog entries
Couples
- Engagement: Atwell and Carbrey
- Anniversary: Bostick
- Anniversary: Purvis and Purvis
- Anniversary: Snodgrass
- Wedding: Robertson and Gudde
- Engagement: Green and Ness
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
Polls
Are you dressing up for Halloween this year?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No way, I’m too old | 51% | |
| No, I’m too busy | 22% | |
| Yes, I’m young at heart | 13% | |
| Yes, I never miss a chance to have fun | 12% | |
| Total | 436 | |
Lead stories
1:18 a.m.
Crucial interception helps Free State defeat rival Lawrence High- October 26, 2012
- Free State defensive lineman Cody Stanclift intercepted a fourth-quarter pass before returning it seven yards for a decisive touchdown in the City Showdown, setting the stage for a 28-14 FSHS victory, which clinched the District 1 championship for the Firebirds. By Benton Smith
- Photo gallery: Lawrence High v. Free State football
6:00 a.m.
Time marches on in homecoming parade - October 27, 2012
- Hundreds braved the 30 degree weather to watch the parade along Jayhawk Boulevard and attend the pep rally afterward at the Adams Alumni Center to celebrate KU’s 100th homecoming. The parade began with the KU Band, followed by international students bearing the flags of their country and Kansas University runner and Olympian Diamond Dixon. By Adam Strunk
4:50 p.m.
‘Not our time’: KU can’t close out lead, falls 21-17 to Texas- October 27, 2012
- A heavy Kansas rushing attack wasn’t enough, as Texas backup quarterback Case McCoy led Texas to a touchdown with 12 seconds left as the Jayhawks fell, 21-17, to the Longhorns. By Matt Tait
- Photo gallery: Kansas v. Texas football
6:00 p.m.
All stories
- Chiefs, Raiders ready to renew traditional rivalry
- October 27, 2012
- Two teams floundering near the bottom of the standings, meeting in late October, shouldn’t be enough to stoke the passions of fan bases weary of losing.
- McCaffreys lead Seabury cross country
- October 27, 2012
- Brandon McCaffrey placed 11th in the boys race, and Maddie McCaffrey took 28th in the girls race to lead Bishop Seabury Academy on Saturday in the Class 2A cross country meet.
- Claire Sanner paces LHS at state CC
- Freshman 17th; FSHS boys 10th
- October 27, 2012
- Lawrence High freshman Claire Sanner placed 17th to lead all city runners at the Class 6A state cross country meet on Saturday at Rim Rock Farm. By Benton Smith
- Annual Scotch coat drive under way
- October 27, 2012
- Scotch Fabric Care Services will be collecting coats until Nov. 21 as part of their 26th annual Scotch Share the Warmth program.
- Texas ‘woke up’ at halftime
- Longhorns forced to rally for victory over KU
- October 27, 2012
- Texas football coach Mack Brown, whose Longhorns barely defeated down-on-its-luck Kansas University on Saturday in Memorial Stadium, sees better days ahead for the Jayhawks. “They are going to beat somebody here. I’m just glad it wasn’t us,” Brown said. By Gary Bedore
- Supplying enough treats can get tricky downtown
- Businesses prep for thousands on Halloween
- October 27, 2012
- Businesses along Massachusetts Street will open their doors on Halloween night to supply hordes of zombies, vampires, princesses, celebrities and cartoon characters come to life, among others, with candy. By Adam Strunk
- Jamari Traylor looks like T-Rob
- October 27, 2012
- Jamari Traylor grinned when asked if he’s ever been approached by somebody who thinks he’s former Kansas University basketball All-American Thomas Robinson. “That happens all the time, more than I like,” Traylor, KU’s 6-foot-8, 220-pound red-shirt freshman power forward, said. By Gary Bedore
- Kansas men place fourth at Big 12 cross country
- October 27, 2012
- Kansas University’s men’s cross country team placed fourth Saturday at the Big 12 Championships, totaling 121 points for its highest conference finish since 2006. The KU women had 173 points to finish seventh.
- ’Bods first foe for KU women
- October 27, 2012
- The chance to start building upon last season’s success begins today for Kansas University’s women’s basketball team.
- Historical society sets annual meeting
- October 27, 2012
- The Douglas County Historical Society will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at the Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts.
- Kansas Senate, District 19: Anthony Hensley vs. Casey Moore
- October 27, 2012
- The race for state Senate District 19 features the state’s longest-serving legislator, state Sen. Anthony Hensley, against a political newcomer, Casey Moore. By Scott Rothschild
- Kansas Senate, District 3: Tom Holland vs. Anthony Brown
- October 27, 2012
- The gloves came off early in the campaign between state Sen. Tom Holland and state Rep. Anthony Brown for the 3rd State Senate District. Holland and Brown have tangled over school finance, tax cuts and safety issues along Kansas Highway 10.By Scott Rothschild
- Kansas Senate, District 2: Marci Francisco vs. Ron Ellis
- October 27, 2012
- While the rest of the political world is torn apart by turmoil, the race between state Sen. Marci Francisco, D-Lawrence, and Ron Ellis, a Republican from Meriden, has been relatively tame. By Scott Rothschild
- Notebook: Jayhawks find success with ‘secret’ formation
- October 27, 2012
- The name of the formation was not divulged, with quarterback Michael Cummings even going as far as to call it “a secret,” but a new-look offensive wrinkle for the Kansas University football team proved successful for the Jayhawks during Saturday’s 21-17 loss to Texas.
- Opinion: In defense of a much-improved defense
- October 27, 2012
- How did a Kansas football team that now has a 17-game losing streak in Big 12 games almost beat a roster jammed with future pros? Journal-World sports editor Tom Keegan says it was a matter of desire … and heart.
- ‘Not our time’: KU can’t close out lead, falls 21-17 to Texas
- October 27, 2012
- A heavy Kansas rushing attack wasn’t enough, as Texas backup quarterback Case McCoy led Texas to a touchdown with 12 seconds left as the Jayhawks fell, 21-17, to the Longhorns. By Matt Tait
- Volunteers across Lawrence set out to make a difference
- October 27, 2012
- More than 70 volunteers turned out Saturday for Make a Difference Day, and there was plenty of dog washing, leaf raking and hard work for all of them. By Ian Cummings
- Lawrence man arrested after answering door with a gun
- October 27, 2012
- Lawrence police arrested a man on suspicion of threatening a resident with a gun during a dispute. By Ian Cummings
- LHS soccer to face SM East in state quarterfinals
- October 27, 2012
- Coming off a thrilling overtime victory in a regional title game at Manhattan on Thursday, Lawrence High’s boys soccer team will meet one of its Sunflower League foes in the Class 6A state quarterfinals.
- Woman sentenced to probation in connection with July stabbing
- October 27, 2012
- A 32-year-old Lawrence woman was sentenced to a two-year probation term Friday in connection with a stabbing in July.
- KU football player gets DUI diversion
- October 27, 2012
- Justin E. Carnes, a 21-year-old junior and a long snapper on the team, signed a diversion agreement Tuesday for his DUI arrest Aug. 25 in the 400 block of Missouri Street. As long as Carnes follows the terms of the diversion, which include obeying the law and refraining from alcohol or drug use, the charge will be dropped after a year.
- Moran touts LMH’s electronic records system
- October 27, 2012
- Moran stopped by LMH on Friday afternoon for a tour to see how the hospital’s pharmacy uses computer systems to control the ordering and the delivery of medication. On his mind, he said, was how smaller hospitals in other parts of the state might be able to make use of the same technology. By Matt Erickson
- Time marches on in homecoming parade
- October 27, 2012
- Hundreds braved the 30 degree weather to watch the parade along Jayhawk Boulevard and attend the pep rally afterward at the Adams Alumni Center to celebrate KU’s 100th homecoming. The parade began with the KU Band, followed by international students bearing the flags of their country and Kansas University runner and Olympian Diamond Dixon. By Adam Strunk
- JCCC president to retire next year
- October 27, 2012
- The president of Johnson County Community College has announced his retirement. The 22,000-student school announced Friday that Terry Calaway plans to depart Aug. 1 to spend more time with his family.
- 25 years ago: KU faculty outraged by new health plan
- October 27, 2012
- Faculty at Kansas University were having a heated reaction to the state’s new health insurance plan.
- 40 years ago: Oklahoma man, originally arrested in Lawrence, escapes several times from prison
- October 27, 2012
- At the Douglas County jail, he had attempted to escape by sawing through a steel plate in a cell.
- Letter: Other choices
- October 27, 2012
- Oh, woe is me! I’m an undecided voter. I lack the testosterone for the alpha male act, insulted by the Big Bird issue and exhausted by the big money, mass media partnership with the two parties.
- Letter: Winning effort
- October 27, 2012
- The young people of Lawrence are doing wonderful things for our community. I would like to take this opportunity to lift up and applaud their successes. The Cordley School recently did a food drive for our Cornerstone Food Pantry. The children, parents and staff collected 71 boxes of food items. That’s a lot of food. One Saturday they went to Dillons grocery store and asked people to donate. Who could turn down a child? Evidently, no one did! The Cordley motto is “Cordley leads by the heart” and they are truly living up to that commitment.
- State’s best converge on Rim Rock today
- October 27, 2012
- The city’s top cross country runners will race against the best the rest of the state has to offer today.
- Simons’ Saturday Column: Growing deficit is critical issue in presidential race
- October 27, 2012
- How many voters in the upcoming presidential election will have given serious attention to the major issues facing this country and how will this affect for whom they vote? Will the majority of voters merely vote the party line whether this favors every Democratic candidate or every Republican candidate?
- Opinion: Romney’s calm approach wins debate
- October 27, 2012 in print edition on A8
- President Obama lost Monday’s debate with weak arguments and a petty tone.
- 100 years ago: Lawrence man to vote in his 19th presidential election
- October 27, 2012
- “D. O. Grant … cast his first vote for president in 1840.”
- Letter: A masterpiece?
- October 27, 2012
- My city-mandated piece of yard art was delivered yesterday. Now I must decide how to properly display such a masterpiece. Do I travel to the local nursery and spend close to $100 for shrubbery, take the shrubs home and instruct my significant other on how to properly plant then?
- ‘Zombies’ cast includes big names
- October 27, 2012
- Scientists and other Bay Area survivors of a sudden plague seek refuge on Alcatraz Island in the 2012 shocker “Rise of the Zombies” (8 p.m. Saturday, Syfy). While this grade Z imitation doesn’t pretend to the production values of “The Walking Dead,” it does borrow the notion of a prison as a place of safety.
- KU soccer wins finale
- October 27, 2012
- Senior Nicole Chrisopulos tallied a goal and an assist, and junior Jamie Fletcher added a pair of assists as Kansas University soccer celebrated Senior Day with a 5-0 victory over Northern Colorado on Friday in the regular-season finale at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex.
- Opinion: ‘D’ difference for Free State
- October 27, 2012
- The Lawrence High football defense opened the City Showdown playing like a team that was sick and tired of reading all about the dominance of its cross-town rival’s defense.
- Lions’ take: Loss not end of season
- October 27, 2012
- Lawrence High football coach Dirk Wedd’s postgame speech to his players wasn’t filled with anger or frustration following the Lions’ 28-14 home loss to Free State on Friday night.
- KU’s 2006-07 men’s basketball team among Hall inductees
- October 27, 2012
- Kansas University’s 2006-07 basketball team was inducted into the Kansas Athletics Hall of Fame in a ceremony Friday morning in the Booth Family Hall of Athletics. Also inducted: track and field thrower Egor Agafonov and soccer player Holly Gault.
- Bobby Cremins (finally) visits fieldhouse, speaks at clinic
- October 27, 2012
- Hard to believe, but until Friday, college coaching legend Bobby Cremins had never stepped foot in Allen Fieldhouse.
- Horoscopes for Oct. 27
- October 27, 2012
- For Saturday, Oct. 27: This year you open up to more excitement in your daily life. You could try to avoid all these unexpected events, but it will not work. If you are single, you could meet someone just in the process of being yourself. If you are attached, the two of you develop a hobby together. This shared interest makes for more closeness between you.
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