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Photos for March 7, 2009
Texas Longhorn Damion James shoots for two of his twenty first-half points on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse. James finished with 26 points.
KU's Tyshawn Taylor puts up a shot against Texas on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
Kansas guard Brady Morningstar tries to drive against Texas point guard A.J. Abrams on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
Texas' Dexter Pittman works against KU's Cole Aldrich in the second half on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
KU's Cole Aldrich fights for the ball with Texas point guard A.J. Abrams on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
KU's Mario Little defends Texas Longhorn Dexter Pittman's shot on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
A snapshot of radar showing the line of storms moving toward northeast Kansas as of 9:45 p.m. Saturday.
Kansas guard Sherron Collins looks to pass against the Texas defense on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius watches the Kansas men's basketball team take on, and defeat, the Texas Longhorns with Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
Senior Matt Kleinmann points at the Big 12 championship trophy after the Jayhawks defeated Texas 83-73 in KU's final regular-season game, and last game of the season in Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday, March 7, 2009.
KU's Brady Morningstar defends Texas point guard A.J. Abrams on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
The Jayhawks celebrate their 2008-09 Big 12 championship after defeating Texas 83-73 on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
KU senior Matt Kleinmann hoists the Big 12 championship trophy after Kansas' victory over Texas and Kleinmann's last game in Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday, March 7, 2009.
KU seniors Matt Kleinmann and Brennan Bechard are showered with roses and cheers on senior night before the Jayhawks took on the Texas Longhorns Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
KU's Sherron Collins comes up with a loose ball against Texas' Dexter Pittman on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
Texas Longhorn Dexter Pittman defends against KU's Marcus Morris in the second half on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
Kansas won its fifth straight Big 12 title last season and celebrated with a trophy ceremony.
KU's Tyshawn Taylor blows by Texas defender Texas Connor Atchley in the second half of Kansas' 83-73 victory on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
The 2008-09 Kansas men's basketball team checks out the Jumbotron in Allen Fieldhouse after clenching the Big 12 championship with a win over Texas on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
KU point guard Sherron Collins shoots over the Texas defense on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
KU guard Brady Morningstar comes up with a loose ball against Texas on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
Kansas fans hold up a banner declaring the Jayhawks the Big 12 champions after beating Texas on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
KU center Cole Aldrich blocks a hook shot by Dexter Pittman as Kansas takes on Texas on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
Kansas point guard Sherron Collins tries a layup around Texas' A.J. Abrams in the second half on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
KU's Tyshawn Taylor looks to pass against Texas' Dogus Balbay in the first half on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
UT's Clint Chapman tries to take the ball from Kansas forward Marcus Morris on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
KU's Tyshawn Taylor shoots over Texas' Clint Chapman Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius watches the Jayhawks take on the Texas Longhorns at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday, March 7, 2009
Kansas players, from left, Matt Kleinmann, Chase Buford, and Brennan Bechard relax on the bench before taking on Texas on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.
Kansas senior Matt Kleinmann warms up before taking on Texas in his last regular season game as a Jayhawk on Saturday, March 7, 2009.
Kansas University Athletics Director Lew Perkins walks the halls at Texas Tech after KU fell to the Red Raiders on March 4th, 2009.
Knights of Columbus Council 1372 donated food to ECKAN on Feb. 11 at the Knights of Columbus Hall. From left are Jeanette Collier, ECKAN coordinator; Brain Walter, Knights of Columbus; Jim Easter, ECKAN co-coordinator; and the Rev. Earl Meyer, St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church associate pastor.
Knights of Columbus Council 1372 members, from left, Ty Hicklin, Brian Walter and Grand Knight Paul Clark serve chili Feb. 7 after 4:30 p.m. Mass at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church. Donations from the chili feed will benefit pro-life organizations.
Brain Habjen, center, with his children Mary, 3, and Jack, 5, celebrate the 100th anniversary of Council 1372 Knights of Columbus along with other Knights and family members Feb. 11 at Knights of Columbus Hall. The council’s official anniversary was Feb. 22.
King candidate Murphy Ray escorts queen candidate Emily Teefey Feb. 13 at Lawrence High School during its winter court activities.
Waiting for lunch are Nifty Fifty Social Club members Mildred Rohlings, front, and, from left behind her, Tom Green, Jody Green, Dave Nordlund, Bob Heacock, Alice DeFries, Clark Havenor, Dixie Kincaid and Stan DeFries. The club met Dec. 19 to celebrate the holidays with a Swedish smorgasbord at First Baptist Church.
Nifty Fifty Social Club members celebrated the holidays Dec. 19 with a Swedish smorgasbord at First Baptist Church in Lawrence. Standing from left are Vera DeMott, Tom Green, Jody Green, Clark Havenor, Ann Havenor, Stan DeFries, Alice Jo DeFries, Dottie Nordlund, Dave Nordlund, Bob Heacock, Norma Sellburg, Bob Sellburg, Carolyn Lasher, Fred Viebrock and Helen Edwards; sitting, from left are, Hazel Nitcher and Mildred Rohlings. The Sellbergs went to Lindsborg to purchase food for the meal which included homemade Swedish breads and soup, pork, brown beans, dill potatoes, beets, potato sausage, fresh fruits, spritz cookies, spice pepparkakor, ice cream and Swedish coffee.
Lawrence High School king candidate Clint Pinnick escorts queen candidate Madison Orth Feb. 13 during LHS winter court activities.
Sunflower Bank customer service manager Karen McGrath, left, presents a check for $250 to Nikki King, executive director of Health Care Access. The check, presented Feb. 13 at Health Care Access, was determined by the usage of Sunflower Bank’s health care professional debit card, which earmarks 5 cents per transaction to be donated to a local health care organization.
Lawrence High School winter court queen Tayler Tolefree and King Brent Wilson pose for a photo during the crowning ceremony Feb. 13 at LHS.
Nifty Fifty Social Club members, from left, Vera DeMott, Hazel Nitcher and Mary Workman celebrated the holidays with a Swedish smorgasbord at Lawrence’s First Baptist Church. The Dec. 19 event, hosted by John and Vera DeMott, included singing, storytelling, traditional food and decorations.
Andrea Chao and Eric Allen
Daniel Vannicola and Katherine Martin
Hannah Peterson and Tanner Lacy
Senior Val Chapple pops one up in the fourth inning. The Kansas softball team played North Dakota State Friday at home.
Pitcher Shaeffer Hall releases a pitch to a Northwestern batter in the fifth. The Kansas baseball team started a four-game weekend series Friday with Northwestern.
Senior KU quarterback Todd Reesing talks to the media Friday during a spring football news conference.
Kansas starting pitcher Val George delivers. The Jayhawks suffered a 5-4 loss to North Dakota State on Friday at Arrocha Ballpark.
Kansas Freshman Zac Elgie, center, accepts congratulations after singling in the seventh inning of the first game of KU’s doubleheader with Northwestern. The Jayhawks swept the twinbill, 9-8 and 7-3, on Friday at Hoglund Ballpark.
KU coach Mark Mangino speaks with members of the media on Friday at Mrkonic Auditorium.
President Barack Obama smiles during the Columbus Police Graduation Exercises on Friday in Columbus, Ohio.
Electric Time Company employees James Simonini, left, and Dan LaMoore test the lights in three large clocks being constructed at the company’s production facility Friday in Medfield, Mass. Early Sunday, most of the United States will set their clocks forward to 3 a.m. from 2 a.m., commencing daylight saving time. Daylight saving time is not observed in Arizona or Hawaii.
Emmett A. Casey
The Building Blocks preschool class celebrates Veterans Day. Gina Petry, Lawrence, submitted the picture.
A couple, right, reads through the list of attending employers as they stand near one of the recruiting tables during the New Jersey Diversity Career Day job fair at Rutgers University on Feb. 20 in New Brunswick, N.J. In the current economic meltdown, virtually no group of workers is immune from unemployment.
A worker arranges Barbie dolls at the display at Barbie’s Shanghai flagship store Thursday in Shanghai, China. A half-century after Barbie’s first appearance in a demure black-and-white striped swimsuit, the pink and sparkling Barbie Shanghai flagship store opens today to a Chinese public that less than a decade ago couldn’t even buy the iconic doll in local stores.
Mary Ann Sell loads a View-Master photo reel into a viewer from her collection at her Maineville, Ohio, home.
Kansas University students from Delta Delta Delta and Sigma Phi Epsilon perform during their skit “The Jayhawk Jackpot” for the Rock Chalk Revue on Friday at the Lied Center. The show began 60 years ago.
In this Feb. 3, 2003, file photo, Morgan Tsvangirai, right, arrives at the Harare High Court, accompanied by his wife Susan, left. Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s spokesman says the premier was hurt in a car accident, and that the injuries are not life-threatening.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, looks on as she presents Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a device with a red knob during their meeting Friday in Geneva, Switzerland. Clinton said Friday she hopes her first discussion with her Russian counterpart will begin a new era in U.S.-Russian relations without raising doubts about American support for European allies.
A parishioner attends Sunday service Feb. 8 at St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church in Scituate, Mass. She and others are involved in a string of sit-ins going on round-the-clock for more than four years at five Roman Catholic churches closed by the Boston Archdiocese.
In this May 27, 2008, file photo, a microphone hangs over the gurney in the Texas death house in Huntsville, Texas. In hard economic times, more states say it costs more to execute killers than to imprison them for life.
An aerial photograph, made on Wednesday, shows the new Lawrence High School football field with an artificial turf just west of the school. Angling through the photo at top left is 19th Street with the intersection of 19th and Louisiana at the top. Free State and Lawrence high schools are both getting artificial turf soccer, football, softball and baseball fields. Lawrence High School will also get more parking and new tennis courts. If everything, including lights, bleachers and the parking, is done by the Aug. 15 deadline, the project will have been completed in less than a year.
Dan Biles speaks from the bench after being sworn in as the newest member of the Kansas Supreme Court on Friday. Biles took his seat as the seventh justice at the far right seat on the bench, the traditional place for the court’s newest member.
A model displays a creation by fashion design students of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana during a fashion show Friday in Medellin, Colombia.
Kansas University student Stephanie Naar, center, performs as "Tess" during Disco Nights, a skit by Sigma Kappa and Theta Chi, during the Rock Chalk Revue on Friday, March 6, 2009, at the Lied Center.
Kansas University student Whitney Juneau, center, and Nick Carroll, left, perform as "Heidi Heartthrob" and "Spades Trump" during The Jayhawk Jackpot, a skit by Delta Delta Delta and Sigma Phi Epsilon, during the Rock Chalk Revue on Friday, March 6, 2009, at the Lied Center.
Kansas University student Amanda Cromer, center, performs as "Candy" during Disco Nights, a skit by Sigma Kappa and Theta Chi, during the Rock Chalk Revue on Friday, March 6, 2009, at the Lied Center.
Lawrence High School basketball coach Chris Davis shouts instructions to his team on Friday.
Lawrence high players watch Shawnee Mission East receive the sub-state trophy after a stunning defeat. A bank-shot three-pointer with 3.4 seconds left lifted the Lancers to a 53-52 victory over the Lions on Friday at the Free State gym.
Lawrence High School senior Dorian Green shoots in the lane for a basket in the first half of the Lions sub-state final.
Bobby Davis (20) attempts a shot and fouls a Shawnee Mission East defender.
Members of the Shawnee Mission East basketball team celebrate their last-second win against Lawrence High School.
Robbie Wright (34) takes the ball to the hoop past two Shawnee Mission East defenders.
A trio of Lawrence High defenders surround a Shawnee Mission East player during the sub-state game Friday.
Lawrence High School basketball coach Chris Davis, right, celebrates with his team after a basket in the second half. The Lions lost to Shawnee Mission East after a last-second shot in the sub-state final at Free State High School on Friday.
Former lawrence high school students Alexia Welch, left, and Sarah Ybarra, right, are pictured with LHS film teacher Jeff Kuhr in this 2007 file photo. The girls’ film, “No Child Left Unrecruited,” will be screened as part of this year’s Lunafest.
Free State soccer coach Jason Pendleton, right, organizes an afternoon practice Friday with the girl’s team on the new artificial turf football field.
Stephen Hill, president of Bowersock Mills & Power Co., left of center, gives a tour of the facility on the Kansas River to members of the House Energy and Utilities Committee. The group also toured the Lawrence Energy Center on Friday.
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