Lawrence kicked off the holiday season on Friday with the annual downtown lighting ceremony — and Santa, as usual, got stuck atop Weaver's and had to be rescued by a Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical truck.

Long before most of its stateside fans had sat down to Thanksgiving dinner, the Kansas women's basketball had already picked up its first power-conference win of the year in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In their opening matchup of the three-day Paradise Jam tournament, the Jayhawks took down Pitt ...