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- Miserable ending
- Reesing, Jayhawks go down slinging
- 12:00 a.m., November 29, 2009 Updated 09:51 a.m.
- Todd Reesing went out firing Saturday, which shouldn’t have come as too big a surprise to anyone who heard his midgame exchange with Kansas University football coach Mark Mangino on the sidelines.
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Video: Season over, seniors done
Seniors on the football team react after losing their last game of their college football careers. The Jayhawks fell to the Tigers of Missouri Saturday. Watch »
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Pickup game
The action at Kansas University’s Allen Fieldhouse doesn’t cease with the game-ending buzzer. After the screaming fans have cleared out, a crew is dispatched to clean up the considerable amount of garbage left in the stands. University clubs sign up for cleaning duty throughout the year to raise money for their clubs and for professional development training for club members.
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Home sweet home
Members of the Clinton Eagles 4-H Club and their families got an early start to holiday decorating as they crafted gingerbread houses — actually made of graham crackers — Sunday at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds. The houses will be auctioned at the 15th annual Eldridge Hotel Gingerbread House Festival and Auction, set for Dec. 4-8 at the Eldridge Extended, 201 W. Eighth St. The event is a benefit for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County.
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- Suicide numbers climbing
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- How to Help: Donations for children
- November 29, 2009
- Two organizations are accepting donations for youth holiday gifts. Possibilities include clothing, toys, books, gift certificates for groceries, diapers and school supplies.
- Expanded vespers: KU holiday concert celebrates 85th year with special guest
- November 29, 2009
- Nicole Smith knows how important the Kansas University Holiday Vespers program is. “This whole production is for the audience,” says Smith, a senior from Las Vegas. “It’s for the people who love to come out and feel the holiday spirit. We put this on for them, and we make sure things are just right.”
- Downtown lights up with holiday spirit, Santa Claus
- Relatively warm weather draws crowd to annual city tradition
- November 28, 2009
- In a tradition that has been celebrated in downtown Lawrence for nearly 40 years, the holiday lights came on and Santa Claus himself made an appearance to meet with area children.
- City commission agenda for Dec. 1
- City prepared to treat snow, ice on roads
- November 28, 2009
- City commission agenda for December 1, 2009.
- Lawrence City Commission expected to approve $800,000 in improvements to Kasold Drive
- November 27, 2009
- City commissioners on Tuesday are expected to approve the city’s 2010 street maintenance plan, with an $800,000 project on a portion of Kasold Drive at the center of the proposal.
- Santa arriving in Downtown Lawrence Friday night
- November 27, 2009
- Santa Claus and his team of reindeer are expected to land on the roof of Weaver’s Department Store, 901 Mass., at 6 p.m. Friday.
- Shoppers hunt for door buster bargains
- 06:08 a.m., November 27, 2009 Updated 08:49 a.m.
- Shoppers stood in line for up to five hours hoping to nab a Black Friday deal or two.
- KU follows Cal financing game plan
- November 27, 2009
- Kansas Athletics Inc. didn’t come up with the idea for a new Gridiron Club on its own, or at least not the vehicle for financing it.
- The Oread Hotel targets concerns over fire
- Safety measures taken to secure underground club
- November 27, 2009
- As finishing touches are being made to a new hotel that towers 10 stories above Lawrence, it’s not what Fire Chief Mark Bradford sees from the outside that concerns him most.
- FBI agent, KU alumnus to speak at Lied
- November 27, 2009
- An FBI agent whose work on a major price-fixing case was portrayed in a recent movie is scheduled to speak at Kansas University on Tuesday. Robert Herndon is an agent with the White Collar Crime Squad in the Kansas City FBI Field Office.
- LINK supplies food, fellowship
- November 27, 2009
- Whether they were serving up spoonfuls of hot yams or savoring the stuffing, those attending the LINK Community Thanksgiving Dinner said they were there just as much for the company as the food.
- Kansas Athletics seeks football fans to invest $34M for Gridiron Club
- November 27, 2009
- Kansas football stock is taking a beating this season, just as its top officials ask fans to invest in what could amount to more than a $200 million Initial Public Offering.
- Recession makes large donations harder to come by
- November 27, 2009
- As Kansas Athletics Inc. seeks support for building a $34 million Gridiron Club atop Memorial Stadium, pumping $25 million into building an Olympic Village for nonrevenue sports, and sending $40 million up Mount Oread to address academic needs, officials are counting on loyal KU fans and supporters to make the vision a reality.
- Let’s make a deal
- Retailers aggressively push sales as Americans expected to spend less
- November 27, 2009
- By the time newspapers land on doorsteps Friday, lines already will have formed outside the rows of big box stores along South Iowa Street as shoppers waited for doors to open to the best deals of the year.
- Company as much of a draw as the food at annual community dinner
- November 26, 2009
- Whether they were serving up spoonfuls of hot yams or savoring the stuffing, those attending the LINK Community Thanksgiving Dinner said they were there just as much for the company as the food.
- Heeding heart attack’s message
- Close call changes city official’s focus
- November 26, 2009
- Mike Amyx thought maybe a can of Coca-Cola would do the trick.
- KDHE nears final plan to clean up Farmland plant east of Lawrence
- $13M is estimated cost for removing pollutants at site
- November 25, 2009
- Kansas Department of Health and Environment leaders are close to having a formal plan to clean up the former Farmland Industries fertilizer plant east of Lawrence.
- Local residents work together to make donation to Locks of Love
- November 25, 2009
- Carl Stover got 10 inches of hair snipped off — making it his first haircut in 10 years.
- Keep safety tips in mind to avoid Thanksgiving regrets
- November 25, 2009
- As your Thanksgiving menu gets finalized, don’t forget to add safety to your holiday to-do list.
- City gives signal for traffic lights
- November 25, 2009
- By this time next year, Lawrence should have a smarter batch of traffic signals.
- Dropping home values may not accurately reflect market
- November 25, 2009
- When Douglas County homeowners received their tax bills this week, most of them likely noticed a 2 percent to 4 percent drop in valuation — even though the federal home buyer tax credit has helped breathe life into the local real estate market.
- Lawrence likely to land distribution center
- November 24, 2009
- Lawrence is likely to be chosen as the site for a multimillion-dollar distribution center in early 2010, the leader of a local manufacturing company confirmed Tuesday. Steve Brown, plant manager for Berry Plastics’ Lawrence operations, said his company has all but settled on Lawrence as the site for a new distribution and warehouse facility that is needed to serve the company’s growing drink cup business.
- Turbine manufacturer passes on Lawrence site
- November 24, 2009
- Lawrence made it to the final four — but fell just short — in its efforts to land a new plant that would manufacture components for wind turbines.
- KU students develop marketing plans for Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area
- November 24, 2009
- Kansas University students are scheduled to present their ideas for new marketing plans for the Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area next month.
- Tax credits to aid campaign for new child center
- November 24, 2009
- A new early education center for underprivileged children in Lawrence has taken a big step forward.
- $260 million in state budget cuts will lead to state employee furloughs, less funding for highway maintenance, schools
- Schools, highways cut; furloughs expected
- November 23, 2009
- Gov. Mark Parkinson on Monday announced another round of budget cuts that officials said will mean more state employee layoffs, unpaid furloughs, crowded classrooms and bigger holes in the social service safety net.
- Higher fuel prices not predicted to slow holiday travel
- November 23, 2009
- Even an 80 cents-per-gallon rise in fuel prices won’t put the brakes on families getting together for the Thanksgiving holiday, AAA says.
- Police encourage Lawrence residents to focus on safety during holidays
- Patrols to guard against car break-ins
- November 23, 2009
- As the busy holiday season fast approaches, Lawrence police are encouraging people not to get so caught up in the hubbub that they become careless and vulnerable to crooks.
- Lawrence native a Rhodes Scholar
- November 23, 2009
- Ellie Ott volunteered at a displacement camp in Zambia where she listened to Congolese refugees’ stories of rape, and she helped a Somali Bantu student with little schooling become a member of the National Honor Society.
- Reported rapes hit six-year high
- 12:00 a.m., November 23, 2009 Updated 12:30 p.m.
- Rapes reported to police in Lawrence have reached a six-year high in just the first nine months of 2009, rising from 37 in 2008 to 53 so far this year, according to information obtained by the Journal-World through a public records request.
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