After-Christmas shopping attracts crowds in full force
Shoppers mob retail streets as after-Christmas deals and returns fill parking lots. Erin Besson tests cameras at Best Buy while Randy Haeffner seeks a vacuum at Kohl’s and Debbie Green buys half price frames. Target reports lines and hour extensions as customers balance deals with exchanges.
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Journal-World
Nick Rausten
Mike Bergman
Lawrence
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Best Buy
Erin Besson
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Randy Haeffner
Kohl’s
Haeffner
Debbie Green
Kohl
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Missy Stirling
Target
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Tanya Treadway
Treadway
Weaver’s Department Store
Kansas texting ban takes full effect January first
Kansas motorists face a $60 ticket and Douglas County fines of $93.50 after a six month warning period ends at the start of 2011. The law bans writing sending or reading a written communication on a wireless device while driving with limited exceptions for emergency services and on job use.
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Kansas
Douglas County
Robert Baker
Kansas Highway Patrol
Road work returns to I 70 near Lawrence in 2011
Crews resume reconstruction March on a three mile segment east of the Lawrence service area. The $23 million project funded by the Kansas Turnpike Authority replaces six old concrete miles with a 10 inch rock base and 18 inches of asphalt. Traffic will again face closures and delays during peak periods.
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Lawrence
Kansas Turnpike Authority
East Lawrence
Implementing full-day kindergarten faces financial hurdles
Full-day kindergarten offers more learning time and social growth according to Woodlawn principal Jeanne Fridell, but Lawrence district faces a $500,000 cost funded for at risk students with half-day sites needing $650,000 more for teachers and furnishings. Budget pressures loom as district foresees revenue cuts of $3 million to $4 million, threatening expansion.
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Jeanne Fridell
Woodlawn School
Lawrence
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Quilting Women Bring Comfort to Hospital Kids
A group of women gathers to donate quilts to children in a hospital, sharing warmth, care, and acts of kindness that brighten young patients' days and foster hope through handmade quilts and heartfelt support.
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