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- World Briefs
- August 31, 2000
- John Marshall
- August 31, 2000
- Donna Haling
- August 31, 2000
- Lawrence Briefs
- August 31, 2000
- Ali television biography a real knockout
- August 31, 2000
- By Steven Linan, Los Angeles Times
- O’s demote Parrish
- August 31, 2000
- The Baltimore Orioles optioned slumping rookie left-hander John Parrish to Triple-A Rochester on Wednesday night and activated reliever Alan Mills off the 15-day disabled list.
- Royals release Spradlin after poor outing
- August 31, 2000
- Royals reliever Jerry Spradlin was released Wednesday shortly after almost blowing a four-run lead in the ninth inning for Kansas City against Minnesota.
- Little drama on courts as seeded players roll
- Dokic’s father even more unpopular than Ashe statue
- August 31, 2000
- Away from the antics of an abrasive tennis dad and the muttering of fans unhappy about a new statue at the U.S. Open, Magnus Norman labored like a forgotten man in pursuit of the No. 1 ranking.
- U.S. jumpers incensed by racial slur
- Australian critical of black athletes
- August 31, 2000
- John Rocker revisited. That’s the way U.S. Olympic long jumpers Melvin Lister and Savante Stringfellow reacted to racial remarks by Australian jumper Jai Taurima.
- Kansas City survives Twins’ rally
- Royals 8, Twins 7
- August 31, 2000
- With 30 games remaining, hardly anything seems safe in the Kansas City record book. Mike Sweeney hit a three-run double to give him 121 RBIs, second most in Royals history, and Kansas City held on to beat the Minnesota Twins, 8-7, Wednesday in 100-degree heat.
- Ailing Knoblauch may miss final month
- Sore right elbow keeping Yankee second baseman out of lineup
- August 31, 2000
- Chuck Knoblauch’s sore elbow might sideline him for the remainder of the season.
- AL Roundup
- August 31, 2000
- McEnroe challenges Williams sisters
- August 31, 2000
- John McEnroe has all but challenged the Williams sisters to a grudge match. In New Yorker magazine, the tennis legend is quoted as saying, “Any good college male player could beat the Williams sisters, and so could any man on the Senior Tour.”
- MU coach at odds with media
- August 31, 2000
- Missouri coach Larry Smith insists no one is circling the wagons around his program days before the Tigers open their season against Western Illinois.
- Payton life of Dream Team party
- Trash-talking guard named one of captains for U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team
- August 31, 2000
- Gary Payton has been trash-talking nonstop during scrimmages, after practice and on the team bus. No one is immune and no topic is off-limits to Payton, who on Wednesday became one of the captains of the U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team.
- Kemp shipped to Portland
- August 31, 2000
- Portland, Cleveland and Miami completed a five-player deal Wednesday, with the Trail Blazers sending power forward Brian Grant to the Heat and getting Shawn Kemp.
- City Police Blotter
- August 31, 2000
- Jerusalem negotiators include God in peace talks
- August 31, 2000
- Israelis and Palestinians who have spent months wrangling over which side should control Jerusalem’s holy sites are turning their attention to an idea floated after Camp David’s failure: put God in charge.
- Mercury contamination probed in Chicago suburb
- August 31, 2000
- A gas company announced Wednesday that it will test 200,000 homes across Chicago’s far northern and western suburbs for possible contamination by mercury, a toxic metal that can damage the kidneys and brain.
- Researchers engineer decaf plants
- August 31, 2000
- A new way to keep the caffeine out of coffee and tea, without having to take it out, could soon be developed through genetic engineering, scientists announced Wednesday.
- Failed merger saps Sprint stock
- August 31, 2000
- The failed merger between Sprint Corp. and WorldCom Inc. has brought a blow to the pocketbook for Sprint shareholders and executives alike.
- State adoption audit delayed for want of legislators
- Democratic leaders question need for audit, plan to present alternative next week
- August 31, 2000
- A committee couldn’t order an audit Wednesday of how the state provides adoption and foster care programs because too few members showed up. Four Republicans turned up for the meeting of the Legislative Post Audit Committee, but six members are required to conduct business. The 10-member committee plans to discuss the proposed audit during its Sept. 18 meeting.
- State pushes 31st Street
- Opposition stands firm; deal on 38th Street also sought
- August 31, 2000
- By Kendrick Blackwood Unlike the South Lawrence Trafficway itself, the quest to revive the controversial road has come full circle. Mike Rees, chief counsel for the Kansas Department of Transportation, is trying to gain support from environmentalists and others for a completed trafficway along 31st Street.
- U.S. stays away from U.N. gathering
- August 31, 2000
- A first meeting of presiding officers of the world’s parliaments opened in protest Wednesday with lawmakers from more than 140 countries — but not the United States.
- Vigilantes attack wrong house
- August 31, 2000
- Vigilantes vandalized the home of a prominent children’s doctor in Wales, apparently after confusing her title of pediatrician with “pedophile,” police said Wednesday.
- Heat doesn’t mean water restriction - yet
- August 31, 2000
- By Amber Stuever Although the sweltering heat continues, water usage in and around Lawrence has dropped from this week’s record amounts, keeping mandatory water restrictions at bay. High-volume water users such as Kansas University and Eagle Bend Golf Course were urged Monday to cut back. Since Tuesday, officials said, the amount of water pumped through the system has dropped noticeably.
- County tables rezoning plan
- Commission cites access as concern in subdivision
- August 31, 2000
- By Joy Ludwig Flood plain and road-access concerns prompted Douglas County commissioners Wednesday to back off approving the rezoning for a rural subdivision south of Lawrence. Instead, commissioners voted to table rezoning for Shank Hill East, a 10-lot development on the east side of U.S. Highway 59 just south of Berg Acres, about 2 miles south of Lawrence.
- County commision briefs
- August 31, 2000
- Clinton ferries aid to Colombia
- August 31, 2000
- President Clinton on Wednesday formally inaugurated a $1.3 billion U.S. aid package to fight drugs in Colombia, insisting that the commitment of U.S. troops and military hardware would not turn this nation into a Vietnam-style quagmire.
- Daily ticker — Wednesday’s close
- August 31, 2000
- Osteoporosis drug also works in males
- August 31, 2000
- A drug used to treat osteoporosis in women works just as well in men who have the brittle-bone disease, a study found.
- ‘Abolitionist’ visits Capitol, Brownback
- Anti-slavery leader fights to stop illegal trafficking
- August 31, 2000
- Charles Jacobs had never visited the Statehouse, but he felt at home Wednesday, especially when he studied its famous second-floor mural of abolitionist John Brown. Jacobs calls himself a new abolitionist. He is president of the Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group, which is fighting to end slave labor and trafficking in slaves.
- Boyfriend charged with death improves
- August 31, 2000
- Steven Papen, the ailing boyfriend of a Wichita woman whose decomposing body was found in her car at a Colorado Springs airport, was upgraded Wednesday to serious condition in a Seattle hospital, the hospital said.
- Business Briefcase
- August 31, 2000
- Lobsters rebound from oil spill
- Money from settlement pays to restock Rhode Island coast
- August 31, 2000
- Four years after a barge spilled its load of oil into Block Island Sound and killed off marine life, the government is restocking the waters with 1.25 million female lobsters.
- Survey: Kansans support research
- Roberts uses numbers to back drive to increase university funding
- August 31, 2000
- By Erwin Seba More than 90 percent of Kansans think university research is important to the state, according to a statewide survey to be released this morning at a Statehouse news conference.
- Feds want data on Ford tire recall
- August 31, 2000
- The federal government wants more information from Ford Motor Co. about the overseas recall of Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. tires that began nine months before U.S. officials started looking into whether the tires played a role in scores of fatal accidents.
- Pilot’s kin watches F-16 crash
- August 31, 2000
- Pilot Steve Simons always let his family and friends know when a flight pattern for the Air Force reserves would take him over their tiny Panhandle town.
- Black Secret Service agents allege racial discrimination
- August 31, 2000
- Eight current or former Secret Service agents who are black charged Wednesday that top officials are dragging their feet on ridding the agency of deep-rooted racial discrimination, which they said has also infected Vice President Al Gore’s protective detail.
- Buzztopia’s so-so lineup delivers improv romp
- August 31, 2000
- By Geoff Harkness Buzztopia proved to be somewhat of a buzzkill for those looking forward to a cold shot of down-home New Orleans funk. The evening’s stellar lineup was severely diminished by the last-minute cancellation of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, though the two remaining acts on the bill worked hard to make up for it.
- County administrator’s son facing charges
- August 31, 2000
- Police say the son of the Douglas County administrator tried to break into a Lawrence apartment Tuesday night. Charles R. Weinaug, 18, was charged Wednesday in Douglas County District Court with a felony count of obstructing official duty and misdemeanor counts of possessing drug paraphernalia, criminal damage and attempted criminal trespass.
- Revenue chief defends new sales tax system
- Cities, counties may have miscalculated revenue forecasts, Pierce tells lawmakers
- August 31, 2000
- A new sales tax system isn’t to blame for complaints that cities and counties aren’t getting enough revenues from such taxes, Revenue Secretary Karla Pierce told legislators Wednesday.
- Playing with their food
- August 31, 2000
- Here’s the scientific explanation for how the Xploder bar get its bang: The popping crystals are made by superheating sugar to 186 degrees Celsius, which turns it into a gooey liquid, according to Willy Wonka Candy Factory executive Chuck Dodson. Then, the sugar is bathed in a supercold nitrogen gas.
- Money Matters
- August 31, 2000
- You would think that with one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history, today’s parents would be more than willing to offer their kids a decent allowance. Not so, according to a new, nationwide survey by IHateFinancialPlanning.com, the Web site for people who hate or dread financial planning.
- ‘Carrot’ proves to be a big attraction
- August 31, 2000
- Alyssa Buecker, Lawrence, creator of the “Carrot Wars” film featuring guinea pigs, has had a busy summer.
- Traffic frustration
- August 31, 2000
- A new motto?
- August 31, 2000
- Robots programmed to ‘evolve’
- August 31, 2000
- Computer researchers near Boston report they’ve taken a vital step toward creating robot systems that act as if they’re alive; the little buggers even evolve and get reproduced automatically.
- Bush showing confidence
- August 31, 2000
- By Cal Thomas Columnist for Los Angeles Times Syndicate Gov. George W. Bush exudes a quiet confidence these days that contrasts sharply with recent media portrayals of him as off-message and stumbling. In a lengthy interview, Bush told me he will soon ratchet up the debate with Vice President Al Gore on several major issues.
- NABC reveals plans for tourney in KC, hall of honor
- August 31, 2000
- Seeking to expand its voice and presence, the National Association of Basketball Coaches announced Wednesday that Kansas City will be its permanent home.
- Old Home Town - 25, 40, and 100 years ago today
- August 31, 2000
- Zoning Issue
- August 31, 2000
- School prayer advocates don’t know when to give up
- August 31, 2000
- By Leonard Pitts Columnist for the Miami Herald Apparently, some folks just can’t take no for an answer. At least that’s what I find myself thinking after reading published reports about the new grass-roots movement in the South to circumvent the recent Supreme Court ruling that outlaws state-sanctioned prayer at high school sporting events.
- Burton loses main sponsor as Exide bails
- August 31, 2000
- Exide Batteries is dropping primary sponsorship of the Jeff Burton-driven Roush Racing Ford.
- Lowe’s officials testing ‘soft wall’
- August 31, 2000
- Lowe’s Motor Speedway, reacting to the on-track deaths of Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin, has tested a new “soft wall” that could lessen the trauma on a driver when cars hit the retaining wall.
- Darlington reaches half-century mark
- Asphalt-paved ‘Lady in Black’ now stands as relic in multibillion-dollar industry
- August 31, 2000
- Dirt track ace Cotton Owens didn’t know what to expect in the first Southern 500. But he wasn’t alone that Labor Day weekend a half-century ago, when NASCAR’s first superspeedway event was run on Harold Brasington’s misshaped monster called Darlington Raceway.
- Photographer captures routine of street life
- Resident taps into people-watching skills
- August 31, 2000
- By Jan Biles For 20 years, Lawrence photographer Gary Mark Smith, Lawrence, has traveled the Earth searching for “Washington Squares,” places where he could observe people as they go about the routines of their daily lives.
- EAT kicks off season with ‘Labor Day Special’
- August 31, 2000
- English Alternative Theatre will open its season at 8 p.m. Monday with its “Labor Day Special,” eight 10-minute staged readings of plays from the Actors Theatre of Louisville.
- Perry set to perform
- Comedian bringing solo show to Lawrence
- August 31, 2000
- Janice Perry, an internationally acclaimed performance artist, will bring her solo show, “Holy Sh*t! Stories from Heaven and Hell,” to Kansas University as part of the department of theater and film’s Third Annual Labor Day Festival.
- Lawrence folk musician finding niche
- Singer Lance Fahy discusses latest effort, local music scene
- August 31, 2000
- By Geoff Harkness Lance Fahy is not your run-of-the mill Lawrence folk musician. With an increasing reputation as a live performer, a recently released CD, and a bluesy, grassroots sound, the 28-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist is carving out a serious niche in the regional music scene.
- Arts notes
- August 31, 2000
- Events in Logan celebrate Labor Day Train rides slated to Lawrence, DeSoto
- Farmers seek disaster aid
- Wheat growers fear summer’s heat threatens 2001 crop
- August 31, 2000
- Sizzling heat has already withered most of the Kansas soybean crop. Across the state, farmers rush to harvest their deteriorating corn and sorghum fields — baked by triple-digit temperatures and no rain.
- Texas’ treatment of children chastised
- Judge blasts Medicaid program’s failings
- August 31, 2000
- Texas has failed to adequately care for the 1.5 million low-income children in its Medicaid program, a federal judge ruled, giving the state until October to find a solution.
- Elderly face tough choices on insurance plans
- August 31, 2000
- Some senior citizens are considering not taking some of their medications. Others are thinking about selling their homes. Some say they won’t be able to visit the grandchildren as often.
- Nice guy wakes up as a monstor
- ‘Becoming Dick’ looks at Hollywoood soul-selling
- August 31, 2000
- What if you woke up and all of your dreams came true, only to find that you had lost your soul in the bargain? That, in a nutshell, is the plot of the Hollywood morality tale “Becoming Dick” (8 p.m., E!).
- State Briefs
- August 31, 2000
- KU staying positive
- Jayhawks hope to start season on right foot
- August 31, 2000
- By Andrew Hartsock Given all the added significance Kansas University’s football team has placed on its season opener with Southern Methodist, perhaps it’s no surprise the Jayhawks haven’t given much thought to what would happen should they falter.
- NL Roundup
- August 31, 2000
- Gateway Country coming to Lawrence
- Growing city, technology-savvy residents attract retail outlet
- August 31, 2000
- By Mark Fagan A new computer store is coming to town but leaving its products in the warehouse. Gateway Inc. plans to open a Gateway Country computer store Sept. 29 at 3113 Nieder Road, between SuperTarget and Steak ‘n Shake southwest of 31st and Iowa streets.
- Firefighting costs likely to top $1 billion
- August 31, 2000
- The federal cost of fighting wildfires across the West soon will exceed $1 billion with Congress likely to dip into the treasury again this year to pay the final tab, federal officials said Wednesday.
- Profit fears send stocks tumbling
- Trading slows as Labor Day approaches
- August 31, 2000
- Blue chip stocks tumbled in sluggish trading Wednesday as investors remained wary of a slowdown in profits in the second half of the year.
- People, Faces & Things
- August 31, 2000
- Nader candidacy giving Gore serious race in Northwest
- August 31, 2000
- As Vice President Al Gore’s motorcade pulled into town, scores of supporters of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader waved signs, blew whistles and screamed behind a police line, threatening to drown out Gore’s speech on a street corner, one block away.
- Campaign spending tracked
- August 31, 2000
- George W. Bush spent more than $40 million trying to reach voters through advertising, mail and telephone, nearly as much as Al Gore doled out for his entire campaign during the presidential primaries, an analysis of campaign spending records show.
- Coating slows soybean plants
- Polymer-glazed seeds would allow double crop in single field
- August 31, 2000
- A Purdue University agronomist is testing a polymer-coated soybean that could allow farmers to squeeze two crops into the same field in a single season.
- Boulder and booze
- August 31, 2000
- Journal-World Editorial Our schools have substance abuse problems but Colorado has even more severe difficulties. Kansas University and Kansas State University periodically show up on lists of “trendy” or “good party” schools. That is distressing to many who would prefer that our tremendous educational bargains not have such a reputation for fun and foolishness.
- This week at a glance
- August 31, 2000
- NASCAR CART CHRA Indy Racing League Formula One
- Ethnic remarks may bring end to relationship
- August 31, 2000
- Renaissance Festival begins this weekend
- August 31, 2000
- Henry VIII and his royal crown is returning this year to the Renaissance Festival, which kicks off Saturday at the festival grounds north of Bonner Springs.
- ‘Road House’ is top cheese
- Author Michael Nelson pokes fun at movie starring Swayze
- August 31, 2000
- When it comes to the cheesiest movie of all time, “Road House” the 1989 beat-‘em-up bouncer’s tale starring Patrick Swayze tops Michael J. Nelson’s list.
- Actor’s odd roles reach new heights
- D’Onofrio enjoys diversity of characters
- August 31, 2000
- The guy on the other end of Vincent D’Onofrio’s cell phone has no idea how much trouble he’s in.
- Survival depends on interaction
- Video game’s creature tends to be insulting, yet entertaining
- August 31, 2000
- And now for something completely different …
- Boy wonders hit the Web
- Backstreet Boys become ‘The Cyber Crusaders’
- August 31, 2000
- They sell records faster than a speeding bullet! They’re able to leap over other boy bands in a single bound!
- Ozzy talks ‘Ozzfest’
- Heavy metal singer deals with ‘his bat act’
- August 31, 2000
- Heavy metal vocalist Ozzy Osbourne is dressed in a blue pinstriped suit with his eyes ghoulishly covered in black mascara. It’s a look that crosses business with shock rock.
- Briefly
- August 31, 2000
- Cards bearing gifts are best opened after party, in private
- August 31, 2000
- Nation Briefs
- August 31, 2000
- News Briefs
- August 31, 2000
- It’s a bad week to be underdogs
- Seven games involving ranked teams have point spreads of 30 points or higher
- August 31, 2000
- It’s rout week. The college football season swings into high gear this weekend, and it looks like there are plenty of creampuffs to go around for the Top 25 teams.
- Hostage endangered by gunmen, heat
- August 31, 2000
- A woman held hostage inside a sport utility vehicle was getting progressively sicker as the ordeal stretched into its 18th hour Wednesday night. An FBI doctor talked to the woman about 9 p.m. and said she was “sick and getting progressively worse,” FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said.
- Small-town players, big-time swindle
- Illinois-based scam bilked investors out of at least $12.5 million
- August 31, 2000
- Something funny was going on in the small town of Mattoon. Bankers started getting millions of dollars in deposits from local folks who held modest jobs. A retired electrician began driving a Lincoln, vacationing overseas and leaving $5 tips for $2 coffees. A contractor bought fancy offices and a fleet of 41 new trucks practically overnight.
- GOP moderates take charge
- Douglas County Republicans unite behind Don Johnston in amicable meeting
- August 31, 2000
- By Mike Belt Douglas County Republicans have a new leader, and his name is Don Johnston. Johnston, 66, was unanimously elected by voice vote in a strong showing of party unity during Wednesday night’s Republican Central Committee reorganization meeting. He replaces two-term chairman Jim Mullins, who decided not to run again.
- Movies
- August 31, 2000
- Olerud misses first game
- Wife gives birth to daughter
- August 31, 2000
- Mariners first baseman John Olerud missed Seattle’s game against the New York Yankees on Wednesday night because his wife, Kelly, gave birth to have the couple’s second child, a girl.
- Claims filed against Haskell Foundation
- Creditors claim debts of up to $25,000
- August 31, 2000
- By Dave Ranney A Lawrence couple and a Chicago-based computer firm have each filed notices in Douglas County District Court, claiming they are owed money by Haskell Foundation. In its affidavit, CDW Government, a company that specializes in selling computers and software to government and education programs, says it’s owed $6,729, a claim already upheld in Cook County, Ill., District Court.
- Chubby still twists to his own beat
- Forty years ago, Chubby Checker and ‘The Twist’ revolutionized pop dancing
- August 31, 2000
- Back in the era of sock hops and soda shops, couples held hands and bopped to the hits of Chuck Berry and Bill Haley. Then came Chubby Checker.
- Speed doctor
- Rookies get scoop on each track from veteran Rudd
- August 31, 2000
- An exclusive club will hold its annual dinner meeting Friday night as part of the Southern 500 weekend activities at Darlington Raceway.
- Pearl Jam rocks on
- Grunge band pays tribute to the King
- August 31, 2000
- By Geoff Harkness Memphis was a city in ancient Egypt, so it seems fitting that its Tennessee namesake boasts its very own pyramid in this case The Pyramid, a 12,000-seat arena.
- Lawrence learns life lessons
- Country singer Tracy Lawrence making comeback with new CD
- August 31, 2000
- By Mitchell J. Near Tracy Lawrence is a country singer riding the comeback trail, and he isn’t afraid to admit it. The last several years often found Lawrence fighting his private battles including a divorce in the public’s view, so he took the last two years off from recording, and then he re-emerged earlier this year with a new album, “Lessons Learned.”
- Justice clears wireless deal
- SBC, BellSouth must divest untis in 16 U.S. markets
- August 31, 2000
- SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. agreed Wednesday to sell wireless business in 16 markets, including Los Angeles, Indianapolis and New Orleans, in order to win Justice Department approval of a joint venture in wireless telephone service.
- Bad ignition switch may prompt recall
- August 31, 2000
- A judge said he may order a recall of as many as 2 million Ford Motor Co. vehicles over concerns that they are prone to stalling, and accused the company of deceiving federal safety investigators and consumers.
- Meat inspection changes proposed
- August 31, 2000
- The government says its overburdened meat inspectors spend too much time on jobs that processors could do themselves, such as checking scales and monitoring the water content of meat products, and wants to focus more on stopping harmful bacteria.
- Walnut pickers’ strike begins 10th year
- Workers walked out on Labor Day 1991
- August 31, 2000
- When more than 600 workers at the world’s largest walnut processing plant walked off the job in a fit of Labor Day euphoria in 1991, they were certain they were days from victory.
- Scoot along now
- Youths get a kick from foot-powered transport
- August 31, 2000
- By Mike Belt They’re light, fast and nimble. And they’re certainly not your father’s or your grandfather’s scooter. In Lawrence, as well as across the nation, a new generation of motorless scooters are appearing in greater numbers on residential and downtown sidewalks.
- The year air travel fell apart
- August 31, 2000
- By Geneva Overholser Columnist for Washington Post Writers Group Remember when bad air and cramped legs were the major annoyances of air travel? How sweet it was. This summer, far from griping about conditions on board, you’re likely to have passed long hours listening to airline agents talk gobbledygook about “ground delays” and “provisional status” to explain why everyone’s still stuck in the airport.
- New German track ready for races
- EuroSpeedway is the first facility in Europe to combine an oval track with a road course
- August 31, 2000
- When Bryan Herta took a spin around the new EuroSpeedway oval, he was accompanied by the nonstop roar of 80,000 spectators. No race or qualifying was taking place at the 1,500-acre complex just opening ceremonies earlier this month. But German fans were clearly delighted to watch a Champ car race around the two-mile oval for the first time.
- Horoscopes
- August 31, 2000
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- August 31, 2000
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- August 31, 2000
- Top music
- August 31, 2000
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- August 31, 2000
- Friends and neighbors
- August 31, 2000
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- August 31, 2000
- KC Symphony to perform at zoo Silver Dollar City plans fall festival
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