Back in 2005, Sean Pauzauskie, then a senior at KU, took the advice that many an English major ignores.
“You can be a writer, but get a day job,” he was told by his mentor David Bergeron, a professor of English and well-known Shakespearean scholar.
It turned out to be a good advice — not just from the perspective of paying the bills, but also from the perspective of telling stories.
The day job ...
It's been more than five months since a 20-year-old KU student's body was found on the side of the road, but little headway appears to have been made in the case of the driver accused of killing her.
On Tuesday, the defense attorney for William Klingler was granted another 30-day continuance. However, Judge Stacey Donovan said that would be the last.
"I'm not going to give another continuance," Donovan told ...
Updated at 11:15 a.m. Monday, April 13
The families of two men who were shot in January at The Hawk, one fatally, expressed disbelief Monday when they got word, last minute, that another continuance was granted for the defense.
"Are you (expletive) kidding me?" one relative said as prosecutor Eve Kemple returned from the judge's chambers with the news.
"This is ridiculous," another said through tears as ...
A speech pathologist accused of molesting multiple children at a Lawrence elementary school pleaded not guilty Monday afternoon at his formal arraignment in Douglas County District Court.
Mark Gridley on Monday waived a formal reading of his charges and pleaded not guilty to all of the felony counts against him. As the Journal-World reported, Judge Amy Hanley, following a two-day preliminary hearing last ...
A City of Lawrence bus driver on Monday testified that a woman pried the bus doors open, physically intimidated her, called her foul names, then stole her bus and drove it across town last September.
"Bitch, we're going to the TRC," the woman told her, she testified. TRC is a reference to the Treatment and Recovery Center at 1000 W. Second St.
The driver said that at the time she was seated in her bus, ...
Judge Sally Pokorny warned the crowd at her retirement ceremony Friday that she was a "crier," and sure enough she shed a few tears almost immediately as she declared "I'm the luckiest woman in the world."
That was the "bottom line of my entire life," she said: luck.
Luck in having the parents, neighbors, teachers and lifelong friends she made growing up in Independence, Kansas. Luck in her education, ...
