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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 2011
Page
3
President Barack Obama called on major oil producers including Saudi Arabia to increase supplies to stabilize prices as high gasoline costs strain politics and the economy. He warned that continued high prices would harm the global economy and pressed Congress to repeal oil industry tax breaks.
Census figures show women now surpass men in earning bachelor and advanced degrees for the first time, reflecting rising workplace participation and shifting domestic roles. Stay‑at‑home dads as primary caregivers total nearly 2 million last year, about one in 15 fathers.
Pew Hispanic Center finds 6.6 million Latinos voted in 2010, up from 5.6 million in 2006, accounting for 6.9 percent of 96 million voters. The surge includes 600,000 Latinos turning 18 annually 2006 to 2010 and 1.4 million foreign-born Latinos becoming citizens eligible to vote.
Federal and local officials say 65-year-old Earl Albert Moore planted a pipe bomb and propane tanks in Southwest Plaza Mall last week but did not detonate them. He was captured outside a Denver area grocery store after being spotted having coffee. The April 20 discovery coincided with the Columbine anniversary near the planned target.
Storms unleashed more than a foot of rain across the region with continued threat of flooding and tornadoes. Another system brewing along the same path could bring several more days of rain as far north as Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. In Arkansas, a tornado killed four in Vilonia while floods claimed six lives in other areas.
Advocates urge continued fight to fund the Kansas Arts Commission as lawmakers reconvene. Senate adds 698000 in funding while the House keeps 200000 for the Kansas Arts Foundation, Brownback will veto arts funding, says spokesman. Citizens for the Arts backs rural economic support via arts funding.
Staff photographer Richard Gwin discusses finding morel mushrooms at LJWorld.com. The writer recalls first encountering them in Lawrence in the 1970s with Kathy Hogard and Chuck Bemis. Best spots include rivers, fallen cottonwood bases, elm bases, and shady hillside slopes with buckbrush.
Lawrence High School will undergo a makeover with a schedule shift to favor class time. The plan includes a new roof for the original science addition, lockers replaced with shorter wider models, updated security cameras, a numbering system to assign unique classroom numbers, and removal of asbestos in the annex to add more classrooms for foreign languages business debate and special education.
Well Spring School of Allied Health students in Lawrence Massachusetts hold a benefit Thursday from 5 to 9 pm offering 10 minute chair massages for a minimum $15 donation to assist Ashley Schendel and her family after a Richmond house fire that killed her husband Bryce and three of their four children.
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