Also from November 21
Births
Blog entries
- The Irish Chronicles: Going Rogue by Sarah Palin
- givingisfun: Coaches TEMPER & ABUSIVE behavior = BAD SPORTSMANSHIP
- BigPrune: How has Obama’s Stimulus Helped You?
- Multidisciplinary: Top Tens Reasons The Oprah Show Is Like Boil.
- Yes, We Noticed: A space for those who resist fear, lies, intimidation, and death threats against the President of the United States
- Going Into Overtime: 3 Questions: Kansas at Texas
Couples
- Engagement: Gist and Streeter
- Engagement: Bjornstad and Bell
- Engagement: Orton and McCarty
- Engagement: Naff and Philhour
- Engagement: Bolton and Pyle
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Polls
How would you grade the KU football team's performance against Texas?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| C | 28% | |
| F | 21% | |
| D | 21% | |
| B | 21% | |
| A | 7% | |
| Total | 14 | |
Will Todd Reesing throw for more that 300 yards against Texas?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No | 71% | |
| Yes | 28% | |
| Undecided | 0% | |
| Total | 42 | |
How much are you contributing to the United Way this year?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| I do not give to the United Way | 71% | |
| The same as in previous years | 12% | |
| Less than in previous years | 11% | |
| More than in previous years | 5% | |
| Total | 506 | |
Videos
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Former independent counsel praises Constitution in speech- November 20, 2009 in print edition on 3A
- If Ken Starr could change the U.S. Constitution, he would eliminate the requirement that the president must be a natural-born citizen.
- Video: Ken Starr takes stage at KU
6:00 a.m.
Four decades in crisis mode- November 21, 2009 in print edition on 1A
- “We Never Close.” That was the short but clear slogan for the Headquarters Counseling Center in central Lawrence when a small group started it in November 1969. Four decades later it’s a Lawrence institution.
10:00 a.m.
Historic church gets makeover- November 21, 2009 in print edition on 1B
- Instead of the sounds of a choir, the buzzing noises of saws fill St. Luke’s AME Church in East Lawrence. After several weeks of construction, the church got new steel supports for its roof Friday.
- Video: Crews get to work on St. Luke’s Church
- Photo gallery: Renovating a historic house of worship
2:00 p.m.
Obesity activist crossing country to urge American Indians to embrace healthier diet- November 20, 2009 in print edition on 4B
- Terrol Dew Johnson has stopped in Lawrence during a 3,000-mile journey to raise awareness of the obesity rate among American Indians. Johnson started in Maine in June 2008 and is on his way home to Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona. The reservation has the highest rate of adult-onset diabetes in the world with over half of the population suffering from the disease. Johnson, 37, is one of them.
7:00 p.m.
FINAL: McCoy leads Longhorns over Jayhawks, 51-20- 5:56 p.m., November 21, 2009 Updated 10:23 p.m.
- Kansas falls to 5-6 overall and 1-6 in the Big 12 after Saturday’s loss to Texas.
- Photo gallery: KU vs. Texas
- Poll: Will Todd Reesing throw for more that 300 yards against Texas?
All stories
- KU’s Wright didn’t approach Perkins
- November 21, 2009
- A source familiar with how the investigation into Kansas University football coach Mark Mangino started said that a clarification is in order in regards to Arist Wright’s role in it.
- FINAL: McCoy leads Longhorns over Jayhawks, 51-20
- 05:56 p.m., November 21, 2009 Updated 10:23 p.m.
- Kansas falls to 5-6 overall and 1-6 in the Big 12 after Saturday’s loss to Texas.
- No line at H1N1 immunization clinic
- 09:01 a.m., November 21, 2009 Updated 10:09 a.m.
- About 100 people lined up to get the H1N1 vaccine this morning outside the Community Health Facility.
- What’s the ideal prayer for Thanksgiving?
- November 21, 2009
- Rev. Josh Longbottom and Rev. Maria Campbell give their takes on the ideal prayer for Thanksgiving.
- KU vs. UT Head to Head
- November 21, 2009
- A look at the matchup between KU and Texas Saturday, November 21, 2009 in Austin.
- Offenses sputtering: Without standout quarterbacks, league teams struggling
- November 21, 2009
- Colt McCoy remembers the Year of the Quarterback in the Big 12 last season. It’s no mystery to him why the league’s offenses haven’t been able to keep up the blistering scoring pace this year.
- Nothing to lose: Reeling KU huge underdog for a change
- November 21, 2009
- For each of the past five weeks, the Kansas University football team either has been favored or a single-digit underdog according to Las Vegas oddsmakers. Not this week.
- Club news
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on D3
- University Bridge Club announces results of its Nov. 14 meeting, with hosts Dale and Wanda Kring, Donna Gatts and Janet Dunn.
- Around and about
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on D3
- Lindsey and Corey Ingram, Lenexa, announce the birth of their son, Aiden Allen Ingram, on Nov. 6, 2009, in Overland Park.
- Scouting news
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on D5
- Fifty-two Scouts from Troop 55 earned nearly 270 merit badges while attending Camp Bartle from July 16-25 in Osceola, Mo.
- Table of contents: Food adds spice to creative centerpieces
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on D5
- The food may be the crowning glory of any Thanksgiving table, but an imaginative centerpiece on the holiday table can whet the appetite and make a meal memorable.
- It takes two
- A tuition/budget compromise could help Kansas students, but it only works if both sides play along.
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B6
- With college tuition continuing to rise, a strategy being pursued by Missouri officials might be worth a look in Kansas and elsewhere.
- Where but in Lawrence?
- It would be nice to give a local entrepreneur the chance to try out his rickshaw venture.
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B6
- A pedal-driven rickshaw service could be a fun addition to downtown Lawrence. Doing it in a way that won’t create a traffic hazard could be tricky, but the city should try to give this would-be entrepreneur a chance to try it out.
- Palin stirs feminist ambivalence
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B6
- You have to hand it to Sarah Palin. I don’t mean you have to hand her the 2012 nomination. Nor do you have to hand her the $24.64 I overpaid for “Going Rogue.”
- GOP should give Palin some competition
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B6
- For Sarah Palin, with her personality and history, to tell Rush Limbaugh that Republicans should welcome primary fights within their own ranks is hardly surprising.
- No busker ban
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B6
- To the editor: Controversy swirls about banning panhandling in downtown Lawrence.
- Safe pathways
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B6
- To the editor: Perhaps the city of Lawrence should be green enough to provide two “pedestrian/cyclist safe pathways.”
- Nation has right to ask ‘why?’
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B7
- It was a cold, cloudy day at the Dole Institute on Nov. 10, the time when Marines from the Lawrence area came together to celebrate the 234th birthday of the Corps.
- Just 2 years left: It’s not too soon to start missing Oprah
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on D7
- Is it too soon to begin missing Oprah?
- Horoscope for November 21, 2009
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on D7
- For Saturday, Nov. 21:This year, you make waves. Others back off in the face of your excellent verbal skills. Consider possibilities in your immediate environment. If you are single, don’t count on a relationship being long-term until it actually has gone a year. If you are attached, it is as if someone put TNT in your lives.
- The cowboy way: Williamstown church ministry draws unique following
- November 21, 2009
- They arrive in their coats and jeans, huddled on metal folding chairs that have seen better days. They dodge raindrops springing from holes in the yellow-and-white striped tent.
- Lawrence couple excel in triathlons
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on C1
- At the Ironman World Championship 70.3 on Nov. 14 in Clearwater, Fla., one Lawrence couple stood happily on the winner’s podium.
- On target
- Shots start dropping for guard Reed
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on C1
- Kansas University junior Tyrel Reed’s personal stat line wasn’t pretty heading into Game Three of the 2009-10 basketball season.
- Johnson closes in on Sprint Cup title
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on C2
- Jimmie Johnson’s run for his fourth straight Cup title starts from the pole.
- Mangino facing long odds to stay
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on C2
- Apparently, Mark Mangino has made it successfully to tonight’s game at Texas as the football coach at Kansas.
- KU’s Proehl takes fifth
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on C3
- Kansas University diver Meg Proehl captured fifth place in the three-meter diving competition on the first day of the Cougar Classic Fall Invitational on Friday. Kansas finished the day in eighth place.
- TV evergreens have Santa splitting heirs
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on D7
- Even the most forgettable Christmas movie says something about the time in which it was made. Long before the real estate bubble burst, Kelsey Grammer starred in the fascinatingly preposterous 2002 TV movie “Mr. St. Nick” (7 p.m., today, Hallmark).
- Americans save more but earn less as interest rates fall
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B5
- The U.S. is finally becoming a nation of savers. Now if only we could get something for our money.
- Independence Inc. elects board officers
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B5
- Independence Inc., Lawrence, announces the election of officers for the organization’s board of directors.
- Financial consultant opens in Lawrence
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B5
- Patrick Brown has founded Abram Brown Financial Consultants LLC, Lawrence.
- Leaders offer tips for chancellor’s successful tenure
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Last week, this column focused on the challenges facing Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little as she nears her 100th day as KU’s 17th chancellor.
- Historic church gets makeover
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Instead of the sounds of a choir, the buzzing noises of saws fill St. Luke’s AME Church in East Lawrence. After several weeks of construction, the church got new steel supports for its roof Friday.
- Pump patrol
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B1
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.52 at several locations. If you find a lower price, call Pump Patrol at 832-7154.
- Researcher: Writing proves Shroud of Turin is real
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A5
- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.
- Big Bang machine up and running
- World’s largest atom smasher broke last year
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A5
- Scientists switched on the world’s largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago.
- Four decades in crisis mode
- Headquarters Counseling Center has become a Lawrence institution
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A1
- “We Never Close.” That was the short but clear slogan for the Headquarters Counseling Center in central Lawrence when a small group started it in November 1969. Four decades later it’s a Lawrence institution.
- GOP: Women’s health recommendations could affect care
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Republicans are seizing on this week’s recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul.
- More states add jobs; many just temporary
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A3
- In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.
- Fired therapist: Stressed Marines get shoddy care
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.
- Law banning genetic discrimination in effect
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A3
- The first federal anti-discrimination law in nearly 20 years takes effect today, prohibiting employers from hiring, firing or determining promotions based on genetic makeup.
- FBI looking into use of Taser on 10-year-old
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A3
- The FBI has dispatched investigators to Arkansas to look into a police officer’s use of a stun gun on a 10-year-old girl who refused to take a shower.
- 23 dead, 90 trapped in mine explosion
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A3
- A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China today, killing 23 people and trapping another 90 nearly a third of a mile under ground, central government authorities said.
- Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.
- Know the foe: Texas
- UT boasts two Heisman hopefuls
- November 21, 2009
- When Kansas University’s football players first saw the 2009 football schedule, they knew they’d be facing a likely Heisman Trophy candidate during the Nov. 21 game at Texas.
- Defendant in indecent liberties case sentenced
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B4
- A 67-year-old Basehor man was sentenced Friday to more than 10 years in prison for engaging in inappropriate sexual behavior with elementary-age students.
- Reward increased in missing person case
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B4
- The reward for information in the case of a missing 58-year-old Atchison County woman has reached $50,000.
- Pregnant woman arrested in thefts
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B4
- Wichita police say a pregnant woman has been arrested after she allegedly robbed homes.
- Center for East Asian Studies celebrates 50 years of accomplishments
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B4
- Kansas University’s Center for East Asian Studies turned 50 this week.
- Moderate Democrats pivotal in today’s health care vote
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
- Museum to display Galileo’s lost fingers, tooth
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
- Authorities: Man tied lizards to chest
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.
- Floods devastate U.K., much of Ireland
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Raging floods engulfed northern England’s picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.
- Blackwater shooting case to be dropped
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A2
- The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.
- More e-mails may have warned of shooting
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on A2
- There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday.
- Lawrence man arrested on assault, kidnapping charges
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B2
- A 22-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Friday on charges of aggravated assault and kidnapping.
- Pendleton’s to offer Christmas sale
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B2
- Lawrence-area farmers and crafters will be having a “Christmas Sale in the Country.”
- Ohio State-Michigan not what it used to be
- November 21, 2009
- The Game has lost a lot of luster. Ohio State has beaten Michigan five straight times, its best winning streak and the longest in the series since the 1920s.
- Ashcroft endorses Todd Tiahrt
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B8
- Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who on Friday endorsed fellow Republican Todd Tiahrt’s U.S. Senate campaign, condemned the Obama administration for moving the trial of Sept. 11 terrorism suspects to civilian rather than military court.
- Boise State routs Utah State, 52-21
- November 21, 2009
- Doug Martin ran for 121 yards and four touchdowns, and No. 6 Boise State remained unbeaten and in BCS contention with a 52-21 victory over Utah State on Friday night.
- City commission agenda for November 24
- Wesleyan Church seeks property annexation, rezoning
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B8
- City commissioners will consider several ordinances for the Lawrence Wesleyan Church development near 31st Street and Kasold Drive.
- Cy Young has new look
- November 21, 2009
- For so many years, the formula for winning a Cy Young Award was pretty simple: win a lot of games.
- Nebraska, KSU playing for Big 12 North title
- November 21, 2009
- The North Division representative in the Big 12 championship game will be decided in a back-to-the-future matchup tonight.
- Tech seeking bowl-eligibility
- November 21, 2009
- Mike Leach wants his Texas Tech team to leave behind last year’s loss at Oklahoma when the Red Raiders play the Sooners on Saturday.
- Tigers looking for win at home
- November 21, 2009
- Blaine Gabbert is coming off one of his best games, even if he occasionally threw to the wrong guy. That’s a good sign for Missouri heading into the finale of what has been a most disappointing home schedule.
- Meier mature, classy
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on C1
- With all the mud-slinging flying through the eight years of Mark Mangino’s soon-to-end reign as coach of the Kansas University football team hogging the headlines, it ought to come as no surprise that one man standing above the fray is a guy who always has managed to sound a voice of reason and conduct himself with class and maturity.
- 100 years ago: Turkey as high as 25 cents per pound this year
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B7
- If you are planning on a nice fat turkey for Thanksgiving, you better plan to pay a high price for it. There seems to be an absolute dearth of birds in our area since so many sent their birds to Chicago. Wet weather in the spring also added to the shortage and some may have to pay as high as 25 cents a pound for a bird this year.
- 40 years ago: Construction begins on Meadowlark addition
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B7
- Preliminary construction was begun on a $2.4 million addition to the Meadowbrook apartment complex at 15th and Crestline. There were to 132 new units, boosting the total well past 300.
- 25 years ago: Firefighters test new equipment
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on B7
- Local firefighters tested their new attire and equipment in simulated emergencies and the report on the results was gratifying to city officials.
- KUsports.com staff’s Week 12 football picks
- 12:00 a.m., November 21, 2009 Updated 05:41 p.m.
- The following are the Journal-World/6Sports staffers’ picks for Week 12 of the college football season.
- Mangino’s contract outlines probe
- Investigation is first step for potential ‘termination for cause’
- November 21, 2009 in print edition on C1
- News this week that Kansas University administrators have launched an investigation into the actions of football coach Mark Mangino might have come as a bizarre development to some, but those familiar with the wording of the coach’s contract might not be surprised.
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- No line at H1N1 immunization clinic November 21, 2009
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