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- Recount to nail down House seat
- Handful of primary races still undecided
- August 5, 2000
- By Joy Ludwig Journal-World Writer The official canvass of Tuesday’s primary election gave seven more votes to Lana Leach in the Democratic race for the 47th Kansas House seat, enough to break her tie with Bruce Hanson.
- KC Post 83 eliminates Raiders, 8-6
- August 5, 2000
- By Jason Franchuk Journal-World Sports Writer Kansas City Post 83 overcame a four-run deficit en route to an 8-6 victory over the Raiders.
- Appeals court upholds dismissal
- August 5, 2000
- By Joel Mathis Journal-World Writer A Lawrence company didn’t break the law when it fired an employee who had refused to ship guns and ammunition with a parcel service, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
- City Police Blotter
- August 5, 2000
- Britain’s favorite grandmother turns 100
- August 5, 2000
- The royal with a commoner’s touch, credited with seeing Britain through a world war, an abdication crisis and assorted House of Windsor scandals, the queen mother received sackfuls of birthday greetings and gifts.
- Documents link tobacco, candy firms
- August 5, 2000
- Internal tobacco industry documents recently made public confirm that tobacco companies cooperated with the makers of candy cigarettes in designing snacks that promoted smoking to children, according to new research.
- Confession stands in molestation case
- August 5, 2000
- By Joel Mathis Journal-World Writer A Topeka man’s admission that he improperly touched a Lawrence girl can be used at trial, a judge ruled Friday. The 61-year-old man is charged in Douglas County District Court with a single count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child.
- Wildfire danger rated ‘extreme’
- August 5, 2000
- Two hundred Canadian firefighters and 500 additional Army troops will reinforce beleaguered crews battling wildfires across the West, the head of the U.S. Forest Service said Friday.
- Chiefs on witness list for Morris trial
- August 5, 2000
- Three members of the Kansas City Chiefs and a former Chiefs player now with New Orleans were among 93 people on the witness list for the drug trial of former running back Bam Morris.
- Family sues city, police over death
- August 5, 2000
- The family of a girl murdered in 1998 have sued Overland Park and the police, alleging they took no action when she told them she had been threatened. The suit also named the man convicted of the murder and three other men.
- Police lawsuits cost Detroit $32 million
- August 5, 2000
- Lawsuits against Detroit police have cost the city more than $32 million in the last three years, with 78 percent of that money paid in cases involving a small number of officers who were sued multiple times, a City Council analysis shows.
- Pioneer for Sister City dies
- August 5, 2000
- By Mike Belt Journal-World Writer Friends of a man who helped solidify the Sister City relationship between his hometown of Eutin, Germany, and Lawrence are saddened by the news of his death this week. Joachim Neumeister, 84, died Tuesday in Germany after being hospitalized for three weeks following a stroke.
- City schedules budget hearing
- August 5, 2000
- By Kendrick Blackwood Journal-World Writer Lawrence city officials plan to spend about $95.5 million next year to provide city residents with services from trash collection and street repair to library books and golf course maintenance.
- Sentencing again postponed for Free State bathroom fire
- August 5, 2000
- By Joel Mathis Journal-World Writer Once again Friday, Jeremy Boileau was told to wait. Boileau, 19, was convicted in May of setting a March bathroom fire at Free State High School. Friday was the third time since he had been scheduled to face sentencing — prison or boot camp — for the act.
- WNBA Roundup
- August 5, 2000
- NL Roundup
- August 5, 2000
- Eagle Bend GC cancels event
- August 5, 2000
- Due to lack of interest, the City Golf Championship scheduled today and Sunday at Eagle Bend Golf Course, has been canceled.
- Earnhardt claims crown
- August 5, 2000
- For Mark Martin, Indy just isn’t enough. Despite winning the Indianapolis round of the International Race of Champions series for the third consecutive year, Martin again failed to beat fellow NASCAR Winston Cup driver Dale Earnhardt for the championship.
- Rumors situate Graves in Cabinet
- August 5, 2000
- Bill Graves supported George Bush the father, not the son when it wasn’t really cool in GOP circles. That’s one reason Kansas Republicans are speculating that their governor has a chance to join the Cabinet should George W. Bush win the presidential race.
- Bush and Cheney riding the rails
- August 5, 2000
- George W. Bush tired, triumphant and at long last the Republican nominee for president left his party’s convention Friday morning on a four-state tour through the battleground Midwest, vowing to “keep the momentum alive.”
- Free agent Clemons to pressure QBs for KC
- August 5, 2000
- Former Minnesota lineman Duane Clemons will recieve a $500,000 bonus if he records 10 or more sacks for the Chiefs.
- Kansas City ready for exhibition opener
- August 5, 2000
- The Chiefs face Tennessee tonight in their first exhibition game of the year. In the final practice before Kansas City’s first exhibition game, coach Gunther Cunningham wasn’t taking anything for granted.
- Mayfield injured in crash
- August 5, 2000
- Jeremy Mayfield will miss the Brickyard 400 after being knocked unconscious in a hard crash Friday during practice for the race.
- Canvassers face final challenge
- August 5, 2000
- By Joy Ludwig Journal-World Writer Douglas County’s canvassing board Friday made few changes from the unofficial results of Tuesday’s primary election. The board received 399 provisional ballots that were not counted Tuesday because they were challenged for some reason.
- Coin toss reverses political fortune
- August 5, 2000
- By Erwin Seba Journal-World Writer When Brad and Sheila Weathers went to the Douglas County Courthouse Friday morning they thought everything was decided. Sheila expected to be confirmed as the winner by one vote in the First Precinct, First Ward race for Republican precinct committeewoman and Brad would be confirmed as the loser by four votes in the GOP committeeman race in the same precinct.
- George Stayman
- August 5, 2000
- Lucrecia Russell
- August 5, 2000
- Saturday Column
- August 5, 2000
- By Dolph C. Simons Jr. Wow, what a park! Last week this reporter had the opportunity to visit Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, the largest unit in the United States system of parks. It’s huge, it’s beautiful, it’s true wilderness, and yet it is doubtful whether many Americans know the location of this magnificent 13.2-million-acre park.
- New general takes helm at Fort Riley
- August 5, 2000
- The outgoing commanding general at Fort Riley is returning to his native state with a bit of reluctance, but said Friday that he leaves the Army post in good hands. “I’m a Texan, but I have a lot of Kansas blood in me,” said Maj. Gen. Freddy E. McFarren, who will take command of III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas, after serving as Fort Riley’s commanding general since February 1998.
- Kansas still not free from drought
- August 5, 2000
- While the drought is considered over for now in all but a sliver of Missouri, some sections of Kansas are still suffering from a lack of rain. A new map released Tuesday by the National Drought Mitigation Center showed Missouri with no drought conditions, except for a small slice of Dunklin and Pemiscot counties in the Bootheel.
- Illnesses puzzle experts
- August 5, 2000
- Hospital and public health officials are baffled by recent cases in which otherwise healthy adults have been stricken by mysterious respiratory ailments. The cases, three from southwest Missouri and one from southeast Kansas, all occurred within the past month and were detected by emergency medical staff at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin. They, in turn, alerted public health officials.
- City official under fire after profane outburst
- August 5, 2000
- Hays is still buzzing about a city commissioner’s profanity-laced tirade last month against an auto dealership he’s been feuding with about warranty repairs. When Larry Schmidt’s colleagues asked him to apologize for his widely publicized comments, the commissioner insisted there was nothing to apologize for. He pointed the finger instead at The Hays Daily News, itself getting flak from some readers for its detailed coverage of the commissioner’s remarks.
- N.Y. Post Office is nation’s best
- August 5, 2000
- This year’s Great American Post Office is Chautauqua, N.Y. The suburban Buffalo office topped 150 local offices entered in the contest that rates offices according to historical significance, service and architecture.
- English-only school lessons on fall ballot in Arizona
- August 5, 2000
- Arizona voters will decide this fall whether to dismantle the state’s bilingual education program and require all public school instruction to be in English. The ballot measure officially certified Friday as Proposition 203 was modeled after California’s pioneering 1998 initiative. It would place students not fluent in English in an intensive one-year immersion program.
- Gay GOP group endorses Bush
- August 5, 2000
- The Log Cabin Republicans, the GOP’s largest gay group, endorsed George W. Bush for president Friday, saying the Texas governor has reached out to gay and lesbian members of his party.
- Ford stroke recovery delayed
- August 5, 2000
- Former President Ford was doing well Friday in his stroke recovery, although an unrelated problem with his tongue will likely keep him hospitalized for several more days, doctors said.
- Protester conspiracy alleged
- August 5, 2000
- Police on Friday accused the leaders of several prominent protest training groups of orchestrating property damage and violence during the just-ended Republican National Convention and in other cities around the country.
- Planet found in Earth’s ‘back yard’
- August 5, 2000
- A Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a young star in Earth’s “back yard” could help reveal whether Earth, with its variety of life forms, is a unique jewel in the universe.
- Business Briefcase
- August 5, 2000
- Fed chair discloses growth in assets
- August 5, 2000
- Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan tucks most of his money in the world’s safest investment, U.S. Treasury securities. Forget about “irrational exuberance.” Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who once used the phrase to worry about investors getting carried away in these good economic times, is doing all right for himself.
- Today In History
- August 5, 2000
- Wall St. applauds jobs report
- August 5, 2000
- A steady jobs report pushed stock markets higher Friday and bolstered views that the Federal Reserve won’t need to raise interest rates later this month.
- Old Home Town - 25, 40, and 100 years ago today
- August 5, 2000
- A human problem
- August 5, 2000
- Cord blood transfusions look positive
- Survival rates for children who’ve had procedure similar to those who received bone marrow
- August 5, 2000
- Children who get cord blood transplants survive diseases ranging from leukemia to immune disorders as often as children who receive bone marrow transplants and have less risk of rejection, a new study suggests.
- Today in History
- August 5, 2000
- * On Aug. 5, 1864, during the Civil War, Union Adm. David G. Farragut is said to have given his famous order, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” as he led his fleet against Mobile Bay, Ala.
- Clinton vetoes ‘marriage penalty’ tax cut
- August 5, 2000
- President Clinton will use his weekly radio address today to announce that he has vetoed one of the congressional Republicans’ top legislative priorities, a $292 billion, 10-year tax cut for married couples, a Democratic source said Friday.
- Lawrence Briefs
- August 5, 2000
- Crime Stoppers fugitive captured. Inspectors report bribery attempt. American Eagle awaits final OK.
- State inmates could do time on telephone
- August 5, 2000
- A telemarketing company has received approval to use inmates at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility as workers, pending a security audit. The Kansas Department of Corrections signed a contract with White Wolf Telemarketing Co. last month.
- People, Faces & Things
- August 5, 2000
- NFL Exhibitions
- August 5, 2000
- K-State mourns loss of Bates
- August 5, 2000
- Almost a year after lightning struck and killed the wife of assistant coach Phil Bennett, the Kansas State football program was in mourning once again.
- KDOT puts money on Sixth
- August 5, 2000
- By Joy Ludwig Journal-World Writer The Kansas Department of Transportation will spend an estimated $21.3 million to improve and widen West Sixth Street from Kansas Highway 10 east to Wakarusa Drive, Dean Carlson, Kansas secretary of transportation, announced Friday.
- Progressive Oregon to vote on anti-gay initiative
- August 5, 2000
- That the measure qualified for a spot on the ballot probably says more about Oregonians’ fondness for voting on such initiatives than it does about the state’s attitudes on homosexuality.
- Cheney’s gay daughter prompts questions about GOP policies
- August 5, 2000
- There’s something about Mary Cheney. And it has unsettled the carefully orchestrated Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, where her father, Dick Cheney, accepted the GOP’s nomination for vice president Wednesday night. And it has the potential to become a political hot potato for the Bush campaign.
- Undecided voters skeptical of Bush policies
- August 5, 2000
- A focus group watching George W. Bush’s speech agreed it was well-written, well-delivered and certainly well-received. But much of the rhetoric that captivated the delegates fell flat with this group of independent voters.
- Officer arrested for murder after fatal shooting
- August 5, 2000
- Shannon Smith drove off from a service station without paying for a tank of gas, something the mentally disabled man had done on other occasions. In the past, he usually returned to pay for the fuel. But this time, on July 24, police gave chase. Hours later, the 27-year-old Smith was dead, shot in the back as he sat behind the wheel of his car, boxed in by police vehicles.
- Debris found on runway of crashed Concorde
- August 5, 2000
- French investigators trying to determine the cause of the Concorde crash said Friday that they found a strip of metal on the runway that did not belong to the doomed aircraft.
- Nation Briefs
- August 5, 2000
- Miami: Tropical Storm Alberto forms. Georgia: Former legislator killed in plane crash. Colorado: Hurricane season forecast revised.
- City housing market slows
- Residential permits down 12 percent for year
- August 5, 2000
- By Mark Fagan Journal-World Business Editor Lawrence’s residential market is Lawrence is beginning to show signs of a slowdown. In July the number of homes sold in Lawrence dropped to 174, down 19 percent from a year earlier, according to the Douglas County Appraiser’s office. Home construction also cooled. The city issued 18 building permits for new homes last month, down nearly 31 percent from July 1999.
- George W’s ‘dirty little secret’
- August 5, 2000
- By Dick Ahles Retired vice president of WFSB-TV in Hartford, Conn. George W. Bush is the first Connecticut native to run for president as a candidate of a major party.
- Autistic boy teaches hard lessons
- August 5, 2000
- By Leonard Pitts Miami Herald Columnist An old joke: “If you want to give God a really good laugh, tell Him your plans.”
- ‘They think he’s a winner’
- August 5, 2000
- By David Broder Washington Post Writers Group - Syndicated Columnist Lifted by an acceptance speech of exceptional eloquence and powered by a party enjoying unusual unity, Texas Gov. George W. Bush embarks on the final stage of his quest for the White House with prospects that almost measure up to his brimming self-confidence.
- A Grand Old Party
- August 5, 2000
- Journal-World Editorial Republicans left Philadelphia full of hope and optimism for their chances in November. Time will tell if they can sustain the energy.
- Ultimate Frisbee
- The game with an honor system, Ultimate Frisbee is making a comeback
- August 5, 2000
- It is noon on a Saturday and the sky over Heman Park in University City in St. Louis is gray. At the far end of the park, a couple stand about 10 yards apart and leisurely toss an orange plastic disc back and forth. This is Frisbee.
- Protect yourself from growing health woes
- August 5, 2000
- This column is aimed at three groups of people with the power to affect a lot of other people’s health: those who handle diapers; those who handle food; and those who allow their pets on school property and in parks where children eat and play.
- ‘Intent’ targets hit-man manual
- Tune In
- August 5, 2000
- Can a book kill? The flawed, but provocative TV drama, “Deliberate Intent” (7 p.m., Sunday, FX) explores the real-life case of a murder victim who successfully sued the publisher of a hit-man manual that served as a blueprint for a hideous crime.
- ‘Psycho Beach Party’ destined for cult status
- August 5, 2000
- If Gidget had gone insane instead of Hawaiian, the result would be “Psycho Beach Party,” a funny if uneven combination of gee-whiz innocence and John Waters-style camp. The indie film is a twisted take-off on the sickly sweet beach movies of the 1960s, especially the “Gidget” films. In fact, every character in “Psycho Beach Party” corresponds to a “Gidget” character.
- Society Calendar
- August 5, 2000
- Anniversaries
- August 5, 2000
- Engagements
- August 5, 2000
- Club news
- August 5, 2000
- Military News
- August 5, 2000
- Scouting news
- August 5, 2000
- Republican party precincts results
- August 5, 2000
- The following are results of the precinct races for the Republican party. Some precincts are not listed because there were no candidates for those positions. The Democratic races are not listed because they were uncontested.
- 3rd District primary losers divert support to Kline
- August 5, 2000
- By Mike Belt Journal-World Writer The Republican losers in Tuesday’s 3rd Congressional District primary are asking their supporters to send money to the winner. Lots of money. A letter signed by Greg Musil and Gary Morsch was mailed last week to all registered Republicans in the district, which includes most of Douglas and all of Wyandotte, Johnson and Miami counties.
- NFL Camps
- Teams to try hearing aids to combat dome noise
- August 5, 2000
- Winning would make life easier for Allen
- August 5, 2000
- Given a fair and full chance, he’s going to get the job done. But you can’t blame Kansas football coach Terry Allen if he occasionally wonders if some hostile harpy has floated a Joe Blitzspflk storm cloud over his office.
- Nine Tigers ineligible
- August 5, 2000
- Missouri coach Larry Smith was considering red-shirting all his freshman players this fall. But he might have to change his plans because eight of the program’s 25 recruits are ineligible.
- Axtell begins comeback
- August 5, 2000
- By Gary Bedore Journal-World Assistant Sports Editor KU’s Luke Axtell starts practicing with the Big 12 Foreign Tour Team today.
- Dorothy Kent
- August 5, 2000
- WWII airmen’s remains come home for burial
- August 5, 2000
- Anthony DeLucia loved to swim almost as much as he loved to fly. For years, his family held out hope that the Army Air Corps flight engineer had paddled his way to a Pacific island after a bomber crash during World War II.
- AL Roundup
- August 5, 2000
- Doctors decry FDA restrictions on abortion pill
- August 5, 2000
- Two influential physicians organizations have denounced U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposals for approving RU486 with restrictions that would sharply limit access to the controversial abortion pill.
- GOLF ROUNDUP: Tourney suspended because of lightning
- August 5, 2000
- Daily Ticker
- August 5, 2000
- Around & About
- August 5, 2000
- Herbicide leads to ‘sour grapes’
- August 5, 2000
- By Kendrick Blackwood Journal-World Writer Les Meyer knew what the problem was as soon as he saw his crinkled, leathery grape leaves. 2,4-D, a herbicide used by farmers to kill certain weeds, had instead found his 13-acre vineyard in Basehor, a few miles from Tonganoxie. “If you see it on the leaves once, you know it,” Meyer, of the Holy-Field Vineyard and Winery, said.
- Daughter’s attempt at shoplifting worries her mother
- August 5, 2000
- Horoscopes
- August 5, 2000
- Recreation Calendar
- August 5, 2000
- Clinton announces visit to Colombia
- August 5, 2000
- President Clinton will travel to Colombia on Aug. 30 to show solidarity with President Andres Pastrana in his efforts to defeat narcotics traffickers and end the country’s 36-year civil war.
- Brickyard special to drivers
- August 5, 2000
- Bobby Labonte, the Winston Cup points leader, has finished in the top three in the last three Brickyard 400 races.
- Anna Yahn
- August 5, 2000
- Oregon mushroom found to cover 2,200 acres
- August 5, 2000
- Beneath the soil of the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon, a fungus that has been slowly weaving its way through the roots of trees for centuries has become the largest living organism ever found.
- Forgotten patient’s past emerging from WWII
- August 5, 2000
- He has spent the last 53 years trapped in time, never leaving the confines of a small psychiatric hospital in provincial Russia, with no identity, fading memories and speaking a language nobody understood.
- Palestinian camps teach war games
- August 5, 2000
- Four blindfolded children, chosen as the most nimble-fingered, raced to see who could first assemble an assault rifle. Friends, parents and military commanders proudly cheered on the youngsters this week at their summer camp graduation ceremony in a high school yard.
- World Briefs
- August 5, 2000
- Fiji: Coup leader, rebels face court hearing. India: Slain tourist’s body identified. Israel: Wounded camel saved from minefield.
- Daubach’s homer sinks Royals, 5-4
- August 5, 2000
- Kansas City lost for the seventh time in eight games.
- Police lawsuits cost Detroit $32 million
- August 5, 2000
- Lawsuits against Detroit police have cost the city more than $32 million in the last three years, with 78 percent of that money paid in cases involving a small number of officers who were sued multiple times, a City Council analysis shows.
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