It’s been a busy week in the newsroom, and the news keeps coming. If you haven’t heard, KDOT has committed $192 million to complete the South Lawrence Trafficway.

Here are Thursday’s most-viewed stories and the most-commented items in the past 24 hours.

Most-viewed stories

1. McLouth student Justin Johnston shot, killed on school trip to Costa Rica; classmates returning to Kansas
2. South Lawrence Trafficway fatal accident victim is from Lyndon
3. Town Talk: Banquet business looking to open on Conn. Street; Olive Garden questions keep coming; a Wichita grocery deal to keep an eye on
4. Olive Garden considering building restaurant on South Iowa Street
5. Quick flooding prompts evacuations in Manhattan

Most-commented items

1. McLouth student Justin Johnston shot, killed on school trip to Costa Rica; classmates returning to Kansas
2. Olive Garden considering building restaurant on South Iowa Street
3. What is your favorite place to camp?
4. Reproductive rights supporters criticize legislator for controversial comments on abortion
5. Film paints infuriating picture

Back in “the day” at KU, Staci Baird was my GTA in the KUJH newsroom. She came to visit Jonathan Kealing and me at the news center Friday morning (she’s now a journalism instructor at San Francisco State) and took some neat pics of us in action. The one of me was taken while I was getting information from Chad Lawhorn on the SLT press conference.

Finally, today’s Friday Food War is salsa vs. queso! You can vote in the Facebook poll and talk smack using the #DipWars hashtag on Twitter.