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Lawrence prepares for unofficial start of summer- May 23, 2013
- Memorial Day weekend is upon us, the time each year when Americans fill up the pool, dust off the grill and load up the family in the car for an abbreviated vacation. Several events are planned locally to celebrate the holiday, in which we remember U.S. soldiers lost in battle and mark the unofficial start to summer. By Giles Bruce
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- Kansas football adds KC stop to Weis tour
- May 24, 2013
- Kansas Athletics and the KU Alumni Association announced Thursday the addition of June 27 in Kansas City, Mo., as the final stop on the Kansas Football Preview Party with Charlie Weis tour.
- Kansas swimming hires diving coach
- May 24, 2013
- Kansas has hired former Tennessee volunteer assistant Brian Pritt as its new diving coach, the university announced Thursday.
- KU track qualifies four for NCAA Outdoor Championship
- May 24, 2013
- On the opening day of the NCAA West Preliminary on Thursday, Kansas University qualified four track and field athletes for the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
- Basketball notebook: UNC hires son of ex-KU athletic director
- May 24, 2013
- Former Lawrence High basketball player Brad Frederick, an assistant coach the past 14 years at Vanderbilt and the son of a former KU athletic director, will be joining Roy Williams’ North Carolina staff, the website Inside Carolina reported Thursday night. Notes by Gary Bedore
- Free State girls take aim at state track title
- May 24, 2013
- When Free State High’s girls track and field athletes make their way to their events at Cessna Stadium beginning this afternoon in Wichita, at the state track championships, many expect to contend for medals. With so many Firebirds competing in 15 different events today and Saturday, coach Steve Heffernan knows in the back of their minds, they’ll be thinking about beating out Olathe East for the Class 6A team title. By Benton Smith
- KU softball’s Maggie Hull named Academic All-American
- May 24, 2013
- Kansas University senior softball player Maggie Hull’s relentless self-improvement agenda earned her what both she and her coach called the most meaningful of her many honors when she was named Thursday first-team Academic All-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America. By Tom Keegan
- Opinion: Firebirds’ window for state softball title not shut
- May 24, 2013
- The tears flowed, the hugs seemed never-ending, and the pain of bowing out of the Class 6A state softball tournament before they could even get comfortable was just beginning. The only thing that came close to alleviating the pain felt by Free State High’s softball players after Thursday’s crushing 3-2, eight-inning loss to Derby at Blue Valley West High was the immediate talk about making it back to the state tournament again a year from now. Column by Matt Tait
- Wichita might fine residents over use of water
- May 24, 2013
- Wichita officials will consider imposing fines of $1,000 per month on residents and businesses that use too much water as part of a short-term plan to respond to dwindling water supplies.
- FSHS softball season ends in extra-inning heartbreak at state
- May 24, 2013
- Free State High’s softball team fell to Derby, 3-2 in eight innings, in the first round of the Class 6A state tournament on Thursday in Overland Park. By Benton Smith
- Wildflower Walk set for Saturday
- May 24, 2013
- The Kansas Land Trust, a land preservation and protection nonprofit organization, is sponsoring the Akin Prairie Wildflower Walk at 1 p.m. Saturday at Akin Prairie.
- Horoscopes for May 24
- May 24, 2013
- For Friday, May 24: This year you opt for a new beginning. You will be happier if you act like the master of your own destiny. If you are single, you will open up new doors, but first, you must completely detach from someone in your past. If you are attached, the two of you struggle with your differences.
- Opinion: OAS breaks ground on marijuana
- May 24, 2013 in print edition on A8
- Latin American presidents who support decriminalization of marijuana won a big diplomatic victory in recent days when the 34-country Organization of American States issued a report that considers that option as one of several policies that might help reduce the region’s drug-related violence.
- Opinion: Obama shares strong message
- May 24, 2013 in print edition on A8
- President Obama gave two commencement addresses in one to graduates of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., last weekend. It would be easy for this conservative to critique the political and social elements of his speech. Instead, I choose to focus on the inspirational part.
- Editorial: Development shift?
- Will city officials be less concerned about downtown Lawrence as they consider future development proposals?
- May 24, 2013
- Now that the Rock Chalk Park deal is under way, it is likely City Hall officials and city commissioners will shift gears on their policies relative to encouraging and accepting proposals for new retail development.
- Letter: Vet responds
- May 24, 2013
- This a follow-up to my May, 8 response to the May 5 Journal-World article “Concert … baby wildlife.”
- Wildflower Walk set for Saturday May 24, 2013
- Former Lawrence resident Sri Srinivasan confirmed for prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals May 23, 2013
- Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax May 23, 2013
- 100 years ago: 'The vulturous Kaw triumped' over Billie Bob Atkinson May 23, 2013
- Opinion: Obama shares strong message May 24, 2013
- Theatre Lawrence warns customers of credit card information stolen in cyber attack May 23, 2013
- Arrest made in death of former Jayhawk McMillan May 23, 2013
- No consensus on McLemore's draft position after lottery May 23, 2013
- 100 years ago: Exhausted man rescued after collapse on railroad tracks May 22, 2013
- 40 years ago: Liquor-by-the-drink banned on trains passing through Kansas May 17, 2013
