Judy Weide has made her wishes known to her family: She wants to donate her body to science. She learned about the demand for cadavers from her niece, who was going through medical school and had to share a cadaver for dissection with 20 students. Weide realized that was one way she could someday help. “If I am finished with my body, then maybe someone else can benefit,” Weide said. Her son Todd Miller, a ...
Acrobats, sword swallowers, magicians and comedians will fill downtown Lawrence on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the 12th annual Lawrence Busker Festival — and, for the first time in the event's history, all the performers will be female. Busker Martika Daniels, whose act includes hula hooping with barbed wire, fire breathing and walking on glass, anticipates that this weekend's festival will have a more ...
Wednesday's bright blue sky was a welcome sight, especially for folks dealing with wet basements and leaky roofs, but it's not likely to repeat itself in coming days. "The stuff will be moving back,” said Shawn Byrne, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Topeka. There was a 60% chance of rain for Wednesday night. Byrne said heavy rain was possible in coming days, with the forecast ...
Before Lawrence High School's 145th commencement, as the 352 graduates were lining up in the hallway of Allen Fieldhouse, Hanna Liebegott said she wasn't nervous about delivering an address to her classmates. “I do debate and perform with the choir,” Liebegott said before Tuesday's ceremony, shrugging off any thought of jitters. When it was her turn to speak, she tried to pass on that sense of calm to ...
Heavy showers drenched an already saturated Lawrence overnight with more than 2 inches of rain falling since Monday afternoon. Between Monday afternoon and 7 a.m. Tuesday, the National Weather Service in Topeka reported that 2.05 inches of rain fell, bringing the total rainfall for May to 7.82 inches. The rain was expected to diminish with potentially clear skies by Tuesday afternoon. “If we do clear off, we ...
At Perry Lake, where recent rains have forced the closing of boat ramps as well as 90% of the campsites, the park manager isn't looking forward to more precipitation in the forecast. But that's what's expected in the area in the next couple of days. On Monday Perry Lake was already at its third highest level in its 50-year history, said R.J. Harms, Army Corps of Engineers project manager for Perry and Clinton ...