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Lindsey Slater (Education Reporter)
Lindsey grew up in Edwardsville, IL, a suburb of St. Louis. This means she’d wear Cardinal red at the I-70 series, even in Kauffman Stadium.
In high school, Lindsey’s mother decided she should be a journalist. She actually listened and attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago. She graduated with a BSJ in June 2007.
Lindsey first appeared in Lawrence in March 2006 after NU sent her there to intern at the NewsCenter. That summer, she interned at KSDK-TV in St. Louis where she got to watch Brian Williams anchor live on the roof of the station. After deciding that he’s even more handsome in person, Lindsey graduated college and knew she wanted to come back to Lawrence. She began reporting on the K-12 education beat in October 2007.
Since moving to Lawrence, she is now an avid KU fan, and even bought her Mizzou-loving father some Jayhawk gear as a birthday present.
When she’s not in the NewsCenter, Lindsey enjoys reading, learning useless trivia, roaming Massachusetts Street and attempting to play golf.
Recent stories
- Students bike into Lawrence to build home
- 12:42 p.m., July 3, 2008 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- College students are spending their summer cycling across the country and building Habitat homes.
- Antique cars make way through Lawrence
- July 1, 2008
- Blasts from the past rolled into Lawrence on Tuesday. About 22 different years and models of the Hupmobile, manufactured from 1909 to 1941 in Detroit, found their way to the Dole Institute of Politics on Kansas University’s West Campus. The touring cars were celebrating the Hupmobile’s 100th anniversary.
- Oskaloosa resident gets his truck ‘tricked’
- 11:28 a.m., June 26, 2008 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- An Oskaloosa man got a makeover — on his tractor-trailer. Dave Tenpenny, an automotive teacher at Oskaloosa High School, was chosen to be on “Trick My Truck,” a show on Country Music Television that specializes in accessorizing semitrailers. But he had nothing to do with getting on the show.
- Natural History Museum camp lets kids have a blast
- June 26, 2008
- Three. Two. One. Blast off. They may not be working for NASA, but about 20 children at Kansas University’s Natural History Museum’s summer camp got a chance to launch a rocket Wednesday. The rockets were made of 20-ounce soda bottles and filled with water and air from a bicycle pump.
- Victims of plane crash identified
- 11:09 a.m., June 24, 2008 Updated 12:25 a.m.
- Federal aviation officials will work Wednesday in a southern Leavenworth County field, trying to determine the cause of a small-plane crash that killed two people Tuesday morning. Late Tuesday, the Kansas Highway Patrol identified the occupants as two Central Airlines employees.
- Students investigate fake crimes at KU’s Natural History Museum
- June 23, 2008
- A crime has taken place in Dyche Hall on Kansas University’s campus. Okay, not really, but some summer campers put their newly learned forensic skills to the test to solve the case of the missing Madagascar hissing cockroach.
- Kaw remains under flood stage
- Douglas County is monitoring river, which is running at average depth
- June 20, 2008
- Flooding is happening throughout the Midwest, but the Kansas River is under control for now. The Kaw is just under 14 feet, about 4 feet from flood stage, according to Douglas County Emergency Management, which is monitoring the river daily. Flooding here isn’t imminent.
- 6News video: Kansas River appears under control from flooding
- June 19, 2008
- There's major flooding in the Midwest, but the Kansas River seems to be under control - at least for now.
- Kaw River rises, virtually no danger of flooding
- 03:58 p.m., June 19, 2008 Updated 06:07 p.m.
- There’s major flooding going on in the Midwest and we’ve seen our fair share of severe weather recently. But, it seems like the Kansas River is under control.
- Chautauqua: History under the tent
- June 19, 2008
- In 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to travel solo across the Atlantic Ocean and on Wednesday, exactly 80 years later, she told her story to children in Lawrence. Well, someone who plays her did. A group of children participating in the Youth Chautauqua Camp saw firsthand how the art of playing a historical figure is accomplished, and they heard about the 1930s from people who lived through the decade in Lawrence.
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