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By By Jake Coyle - Associated Press Writer

Sunday, June 28, 2009

It was the last day of shooting for a Pepsi commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1984, and the only hiccup had been an argument between Michael Jackson and an ad executive over whether the young superstar would take off his sunglasses.

By Martin Dickinson

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Gov. Sam Brownback’s signing of the new Kansas Tax Act on Tuesday was a historic event. The act will shape the lives of Kansans for many years to come.

By Scott Rothschild

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday signed into law massive tax cuts that he says will boost the economy but critics say will bankrupt state government.

By Meagan Thomas

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Pieces of Lawrence history will be up for auction Saturday after a push from the city to restore the deteriorating buildings and lot at 1106 R.I.

By Chad Lawhorn

Sunday, May 27, 2012

In late 2008, city officials declared that a wooded corner on the northwest end of Oak Hill Cemetery would serve as a “natural burial” area. It became the first such natural burial cemetery in the state of Kansas, and city officials think it was the first municipally run natural burial area in the country.

By Alex Garrison

Friday, May 25, 2012

Four teenagers were taken to area hospitals after a single-car accident Thursday night.

By Andy Hyland

Monday, May 28, 2012

Friends and colleagues remembered Lynn Bretz on Monday as a consummate professional who worked hard to tell Kansas University’s story.

By Gary Bedore

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Incoming Kansas University basketball forward Perry Ellis served as one of four valedictorians at Wichita Heights High School’s graduation ceremony on Tuesday.

By Alex Garrison

Friday, May 25, 2012

Go anywhere near the Kansas University Fitch Natural History Reservation north of Lawrence, and you’re in for a treat. If you make it within the next week, experts say, you’ll be able to see firsthand tens of thousands of butterflies, the result of a “population outbreak” that resulted from a wide variety of factors, including the very mild winter.

By Alex Parker

Sunday, May 27, 2012

It started right away, the singing. Turned on like a light as soon as the first beer was cracked, a Midwesternized version of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” rang out from a black bus that could have been carrying a crop of convicts. Instead, it was a different type of mob: soccer fans. Specifically, the Mass Street Mob, a rowdy group of fans who call Lawrence home and Sporting Kansas City their team.