Also from January 27
Births
Couples
- Wedding: McCormick and Imel
- Wedding: Cherry and Johnson
- Engagement: Rew and Sharmacharya
- Engagement: Jackson and Hulse
- Engagement: Burnside and Speer
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Lead stories
12:25 a.m.
Life of the party: Jeff Withey’s blocks highlight KU’s win over OU- 9:26 p.m., January 26, 2013 Updated 9:47 p.m.
- Kansas center Jeff Withey’s defensive performance — he blocked four shots and came away with three steals — helped the Jayhawks improve to 18-1 overall and 6-0 in the Big 12 following a 67-54 victory over Oklahoma on Saturday. By Gary Bedore• Box score• KU coach Bill Self postgame audio
- Photo gallery: KU basketball v. Oklahoma
6:00 a.m.
Remodeled house just off campus gives KU Lutheran ministry first-ever home of its own- January 27, 2013
- Six months ago, it was a dreary ranch-style home, inhabited by Kansas University students for 50 years or so. Now it’s a first-ever permanent home for a KU campus ministry, one that leaders hope will draw students to its doors to take a peak and brighten the landscape around the university’s south entrance. By Matt Erickson
12:00 p.m.
Lawhorn’s Lawrence: You thought recruiting a point guard was tough? Try recruiting a doctor- January 27, 2013
- Who would have thought it? In this town, where there is a whole subset of Jayhawk fans who are experts on the next great eighth-grade basketball player at some private academy, there is a recruiting battle that happens here — month after month — that really can be a matter of life and death. By Chad Lawhorn
All stories
- Ex-Jayhawk Zach Peters enrolls at Collin College
- January 27, 2013
- Former Kansas University basketball forward Zach Peters, who left KU after first-semester final exams following a series of concussions, has enrolled at Collin College in Texas, the Dallas Morning News reports.
- Opinion: A look at best recent NCAA Tournament coaches
- January 27, 2013
- Now that this is the 10th season since the coaching dominoes rippled shortly after Roy Williams used a bad word talking to Bonnie Bernstein on national TV, it’s a good time to see which college basketball coaches have made the most noise in the NCAA Tournament since the shake-up. By Tom Keegan
- First ascent: Mountaineers, Huggins await Jayhawks
- January 27, 2013
- Someday, Kansas and West Virginia may become fierce Big 12 Conference basketball rivals. As of today, however, the teams coached by Bill Self and Bob Huggins classify as strangers preparing to meet for the first time in the history of the two proud programs. By Gary Bedore
- How former Jayhawks fared in Jan. 27 NBA games
- January 27, 2013
- A look at how former Kansas University players fared in Sunday’s NBA games.
- Analysis: Path not easy for plan to overhaul judicial selection process in Kansas
- January 27, 2013
- Conservative Republican legislators are pushing aggressively for an overhaul of how Kansas fills vacancies on its two highest courts, but they face significant obstacles in getting a proposed amendment to the state constitution on the ballot. By John Hanna, Associated Press
- Capitol Report: judges, political advocacy on tap; concealed carry expansion filed; action on arts still draws controversy
- January 27, 2013
- In this week’s Capitol Report, a proposed constitutional amendment on that issue will be debated in the Senate; House Bill 2055 is before the Legislature; and Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission had its first meeting since the new budget was signed into law. By Scott Rothschild
- Proposed legislation aimed at online privacy, including employers’ access to Facebook and Twitter accounts
- January 27, 2013
- Employers and post-secondary institutions may soon have minimized access to the Facebook and Twitter accounts of employees or students. State Rep. Gail Finney, D-Wichita, has introduced three bills directed at electronic privacy. By Nikki Wentling
- Opinion: Relationship rules changing
- January 27, 2013 in print edition on A9
- You are missing the point. Or at least, you are if you’re one of the bazillion people following the Manti Te’o story, dutifully trying to determine whether the Notre Dame football star was the victim or the perpetrator of a bizarre hoax. Granted, the story is irresistible as one of those 15-minutes-of-fame-kitten-stuck-in-the-well fables without which people who gather around the water cooler wouldn’t have anything to talk about.
- Lawhorn’s Lawrence: You thought recruiting a point guard was tough? Try recruiting a doctor
- January 27, 2013
- Who would have thought it? In this town, where there is a whole subset of Jayhawk fans who are experts on the next great eighth-grade basketball player at some private academy, there is a recruiting battle that happens here — month after month — that really can be a matter of life and death. By Chad Lawhorn
- LHS wrestling seventh at Olathe North dual tourney
- January 27, 2013
- Competing without a few of its regular starters, Lawrence High’s wrestling team placed seventh on Saturday at the 12-team Olathe North dual tournament.
- Ozark wins individual title for Free State wrestling
- January 27, 2013
- Sterling Ozark won an individual championship, and Free State High’s wrestling team placed sixth among 16 teams Saturday at the Osawatomie Invitational.
- Area basketball roundup: Baldwin girls fall in title game
- January 27, 2013
- Bonner Springs High’s girls basketball team clamped down on defense in the fourth quarter, earning a come-from-behind victory, 41-40, over Baldwin on Saturday in the championship game of the Wellsville Top Gun Tournament.
- Second-half surge propels Veritas boys to victory
- January 27, 2013
- Veritas Christian’s boys basketball team rallied from an early eight-point deficit Saturday to defeat Wichita Sunrise, 46-33.
- Lawrence High girls fall in triple overtime in Emporia finale
- January 27, 2013
- The Lawrence High girls basketball team fell to Goddard Eisenhower, 69-67 in triple overtime, in the seventh-place game of the Emporia Tournament on Saturday.
- Remodeled house just off campus gives KU Lutheran ministry first-ever home of its own
- January 27, 2013
- Six months ago, it was a dreary ranch-style home, inhabited by Kansas University students for 50 years or so. Now it’s a first-ever permanent home for a KU campus ministry, one that leaders hope will draw students to its doors to take a peak and brighten the landscape around the university’s south entrance. By Matt Erickson
- Lawrence City Commission candidates explain views on proposed $25M recreation center
- January 27, 2013
- The Journal-World this week found that the field of City Commission candidates is fairly evenly divided on the project that would build a 181,000-square-foot recreation center, lighted tennis courts and other amenities adjacent to the proposed Rock Chalk Park development that will house Kansas University track, soccer and softball facilities. By Chad Lawhorn
- Lawrence woman helps make dream weddings a reality on low budget
- January 27, 2013
- Lawrence woman helps brides on low budgets create dreamy weddings.By Rebekka Schlichting
- Wheel Genius: Road work planned this week
- January 27, 2013
- Road work planned for the week of January 28, 2012.
- Editorial: Election shift
- Any benefits from shifting local elections to a November schedule aren’t worth the trade-offs.
- January 27, 2013
- Saving money and increasing participation in local city and school elections certainly are desirable goals, but the problems that would come from moving city elections from April to November far outweigh the advantages.
- Letter: Call to action
- January 27, 2013
- Alex Lenferna, Lawrence, encourages others to respond to Obama’s call to action on climate change from his inaugural speech.
- 40 years ago: Nation says farewall to former president
- January 27, 2013
- About 2,000 people had stood in total silence on the U.S. Capitol grounds.
- How former Jayhawks fared in Jan. 26 NBA games
- January 27, 2013
- A look at how former Kansas University players fared in Saturday’s NBA games.
- Vega brings songwriting prowess to audience, aspiring musicians
- January 27, 2013
- If you were familiar with Suzanne Vega’s hits, it takes but a snippet of each for them to zoom forward a few decades and re-stick in your head. Since “Luka”and “Tom’s Diner,” Vega has kept on singing, writing songs, recording and performing. By Sara Shepherd.
- Presbyterian Manor seeking work by artists 65 and up
- January 27, 2013
- Artists who are 65 or older are invited to submit work for Lawrence Presbyterian Manor’s upcoming “Art is Ageless” exhibit.
- Spencer Museum to host Xijing Men for ‘art summit’
- January 27, 2013
- This week, the Xijing Men will open their first North American exhibition in Kansas City, Mo.
- Indie photo books on display for ‘A Fair’ exhibit
- January 27, 2013
- A new exhibit at Kansas University’s Art and Design Gallery features more than 200 independently published photography books, journals and magazines from across the globe.
- Visiting student musicians to give free concert at Lied
- January 27, 2013
- Outstanding high school musicians participating in this year’s Prairie Winds Festival will culminate a weekend of instruction with a free performance for the public.
- Langston Hughes writing award winners announced
- January 27, 2013
- The Lawrence Arts Center and Raven Book Store have announced the winners of this year’s Langston Hughes Creative Writing Awards.
- 25 yeras ago: Public vote on downtown retail delayed until spring
- January 27, 2013
- A public vote was not to be held until late April or early May.
- 100 years ago: Playing marbles not a gateway to gambling, KU prof says
- January 27, 2013
- “Willie comes home with more marbles than he went away with and it is sure evidence that he has been indulging in juvenile ‘gambling.’”
- Lawrence mandolin quartet celebrates 40 years with free concert
- January 27, 2013
- Beth Dearinger didn’t know how to play mandolin. But when she heard several of the unique instruments playing tremolo together, she was entranced. By Sara Shepherd.
- Tune In Tonight: Shaw tale remade for our time
- January 27, 2013
- Sometimes formulaic romances are more interesting than they first appear. Julia Stiles returns to literary adaptation in the 2013 romantic comedy “The Makeover” (8 p.m. Sunday, ABC). She gained fame as a young actress in “10 Things I Hate About You,” a 1990s update of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.” ‘‘The Makeover” takes a gender-bending look at George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” the basis for the musical “My Fair Lady” and the 1983 Dan Aykroyd-Eddie Murphy comedy “Trading Places.”
- Opinion: Obama wasting time on climate issues
- January 27, 2013 in print edition on A9
- Happy days are not here again, but they are coming for conservatives. Barack Obama — with the lowest approval rating (according to Gallup, 50 percent, four points lower than that of the National Rifle Association) of any re-elected president when inaugurated since the Second World War — has a contradictory agenda certain to stimulate a conservative revival.
- Horoscopes for Jan. 27
- January 27, 2013
- For Sunday, Jan. 27: This year you become even more aware of the differences between you and others. You often could become discouraged by the demands of a professional situation. If you are single, be careful not to give up your power for a relationship; be yourself. If you are attached, you each will work on making an equal contribution, whether it is regarding your bills, your home or even walking the dog.
- Off the Beaten Plate: Drive-thru Tamales at Burrito King
- January 27, 2013
- Tamales from a drive-thru? Decorated with a mural of a Jayhawk in a sombrero? Until 2 a.m.? Burrito King has that market cornered. By Sara Shepherd.
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- Budget provision would block state funding for Common Core standards May 16, 2013 · 73 comments
- Opinion: Benghazi, IRS: Son of Watergate? May 15, 2013 · 97 comments
- Senate approves bill banning use of tax dollars to advocate for gun control May 17, 2013 · 40 comments
- Police to aggressively enforce seat-belt laws in 2013 Click It or Ticket campaign May 17, 2013 · 21 comments
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- Opinion: Benghazi triggers a major credibility crisis May 18, 2013 · 9 comments
- McLemore shows off athleticism at NBA combine May 17, 2013
- McLemore speaks about AAU coach, agent allegations May 17, 2013
- KU student arrested after fight sends Lawrence man to trauma center May 17, 2013
- Lawrence High grad Srinivasan nears confimation to federal appeals court in D.C. May 16, 2013
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- Police to aggressively enforce seat-belt laws in 2013 Click It or Ticket campaign May 17, 2013
- Chiefs sign KU football's Opurum as fullback May 17, 2013
- Kansas men's golfer Gilbert moves up at NCAA regional May 18, 2013
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