Photo gallery: The day in photos, Dec. 2, 2011

photo by: Mike Yoder

Students leave Lawrence Free State High School Thursday morning after the administration and Lawrence Police evacuated the building because of a bomb threat. It was reported by some students that a note that mentioned a bomb had been found on a door to the school Thursday morning.

photo by: Earl Richardson

Exhibit B

photo by: Mike Yoder

Connie Werner with Werner Wagon Works, of Horton, decorates a wagon Thursday afternoon at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. Werner will join over 100 other wagon owners for the annual Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday starting at 11 a.m. in downtown Lawrence.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Connie Werner with Werner Wagon Works, of Horton, closes up one of her wagons Thursday afternoon at the Douglas County Fairground. Werner will join over 100 other wagon and horse team owners for the annual Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday starting at 11 a.m. in downtown Lawrence.

The ornament is one of 12 designed and made by 4-year-old children working with their parents earlier this month at the Kansas Children’s Discovery Center in Topeka, an interactive educational operation. It will hang on the Kansas Christmas tree at the White House.