While revelers rang in the New Year at midnight in Lawrence, Hussain Alantari was rushing his wife, Asail Aljmeeli, to the hospital. Their daughter, Durar Alantari, came into the world at 9:06 a.m. Tuesday, weighing 6 pounds and 12 ounces and measuring 20 inches long. “'Durar' means 'pearls' in Arabic,” Aljmeeli said. Durar’s entrance came a few days early, earning her the title of the first baby of ...
During the second week of a partial shutdown of the federal government, Haskell Indian Nations University is still operating, but it's had to get creative to pay some key employees, including its facilities workers. “Haskell remains open,” said Dan Wildcat, acting president of the university, on Wednesday afternoon. “That’s good news. We are looking forward to new students arriving Jan. 9, and classes ...
Lawrence elementary school children shared their New Year’s resolutions with the Journal-World before the winter break. Students spoke about their resolve to do such things as accomplish new goals and make their lives better in 2019. Grace Oparaji, 7 second-grader at Prairie Park Elementary School “My New Year’s resolution is to appreciate more things that I have because other people are less ...
Sarah Bodle couldn’t just come to Lawrence and spend Christmas with her family; she had to squeeze in a performance. The 28-year-old opera singer, who lives and studies in Berlin, will give a winter-themed recital at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1263 North 1100 Road. She’ll be singing excerpts from German composer Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel," and Russian ...
Like clockwork, during the first week in January, a crew with the Kansas Geological Survey will make its annual trek west to measure groundwater levels in the High Plains Aquifer, one of the largest reserves of groundwater in the world. “At some wells, we’ll arrive at the same hour we arrived the year before,” said Brownie Wilson, KGS support services manager, during a phone interview Thursday. For 22 ...
After a career spent on construction sites, University of Kansas alumnus Craig Martin knows how quickly an accident can occur. Martin, the former CEO of Jacobs Engineering Group in Dallas, has never forgotten a co-worker who knew all about safety on the job site, but who died while doing a project at home when his metal ladder touched a power line. “I grew up in the industry and, unfortunately, serious ...