The day in photos, April 30, 2011.

photo by: Kevin Anderson

Dee Stone Overstreet of Moscow, Idaho, left, checked to see if she knew Jeanne Rustmeyer Kern of Lincoln, Neb., on Friday during the reception for the KU Class of 1961 reunion at the Kansas Union Ballroom. They didn’t know each other back then but they said they enjoyed getting to know each other at the reunion.

photo by: Kevin Anderson

Pray and Play's Perry Ellis (right) goes up for two points against Dreamvision in the Jayhawk Invitational Tournament on Friday, April 29, 2011 at Haskell University.

photo by: George Diepenbrock

Ali Shutt, mother of 5-year-old Cainan Shutt, who was killed in a Kansas Highway 10 accident, talks to the media Friday in Olathe at a KDOT news conference about K-10 median barriers.

photo by: Paul Selden

A fossilized Nephila jurassica, found in the Inner Mongolia region of China. Its leg span is nearly six inches long. Paul Selden, a Kansas University distinguished professor, described the find in the journal Biology Letters.

photo by: Nick Krug

These cameras, recently installed behind stoplights in the westbound lane of Clinton Parkway at the northwest corner of Clinton Parkway and Wakarusa Drive, will be used by local law enforcement to search for license plates of vehicles of people suspected in crimes.

photo by: Richard Gwin

A group of Lawrence women gathered at Jane Budde's home at 4:30 a.m. Friday, April 29, 2011, to watch the Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding ceremony.

photo by: George Diepenbrock

Jerry Younger, the state's transportation engineer, talks to Ali Shutt of Eudora after a press conference in Olathe about safety measures on Kansas Highway 10. Shutt holds her daughter, Courtlynn, who was injured in an April 16 crash on K-10 that killed her brother, Cainan Shutt, 5.