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- Crime Stoppers fugitive surrenders
- June 30, 2000
- Roy Williams statement
- June 30, 2000
- The following is a statement issued Friday by Roy Williams in response to reports that he will be the next head basketball coach at North Carolina::
- Williams to discuss coaching job with North Carolina
- June 30, 2000
- By DOUG TUCKER AP Sports Writer Kansas Jayhawk fans always knew this could happen. Sources told The Associated Press Friday that Roy Williams, the winningest basketball coach in the decade of the ‘90s and the fastest in history to win 300 games, was headed back to his alma mater, North Carolina, following Bill Guthridge’s resignation.
- Guthridge retires as North Carolina coach
- June 30, 2000
- (Updated at 2:22 p.m.) By Elizabeth A. Davis Associated Press Writer North Carolina coach Bill Guthridge retired Friday after three years as Dean Smith’s successor, a move that opens one of the most prestigious jobs in college sports. Guthridge spent 31 seasons as an assistant to Smith, the winningest coach in college basketball history.
- Guthridge retires, Williams denies he’s accepted job
- June 30, 2000
- (Updated at 3:14 p.m. Friday) Elizabeth A. Davis Associated Press Writer North Carolina coach Bill Guthridge retired Friday after three years as Dean Smith’s successor, a move that opens one of the most prestigious jobs in college sports. Kansas coach Roy Williams, a former North Carolina assistant under Smith, will succeed Guthridge, a source close to the university told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Williams said in a statement Friday he has agreed to talk to North Carolina athletic director Dick Baddour, but it is “completely false” that he has accepted the job.
- Marguerite Harmon
- June 30, 2000
- Royals topple Indians
- June 30, 2000
- Chad Durbin pitched Kansas City to a 6-1 victory over Cleveland. Chad Durbin gained his revenge. In May when the 22-year-old rookie faced Cleveland’s power-laden lineup, he lasted just 11/3 innings and the Indians routed Kansas City, 16-0.
- Rocker gives Mets more than they want
- June 30, 2000
- John Rocker pitched a perfect eighth inning in Atlanta’s 6-4 win over the Mets. New York Mets fans had been waiting for this moment long before opening day. They even began calling for John Rocker while he was merely sitting in the bullpen.
- Horoscopes
- June 30, 2000
- KU football player agrees to diversion
- June 30, 2000
- Kansas University football player Algie Atkinson signed a diversion agreement with Douglas County prosecutors on Thursday.
- List of ‘failures’ may give courage to other geniuses
- June 30, 2000
- Ann Landers Dear Ann: I read the letter from “A Mom from New Hyde Park, N.Y.,” who told of the unlikely jobs held by Albert Einstein, Philip Glass and Charles Ives. I am enclosing “The Failure List,” which has been distributed to players for many years by former basketball coaches Don Meyer and David Lipscomb. I hope you will print it in your column. It could give hope to readers who lack confidence. Alex in Horton, Ala.
- MLB Briefs
- June 30, 2000
- Wilderness experiment
- June 30, 2000
- Day campers at Lawrence’s Hidden Valley Girl Scout Camp, along with camp co-director Jill Baringer, left, wade into the middle of a stream to do a chemical assessment using a kit and instructions provided by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
- Ex-KU player faces charges
- June 30, 2000
- Speculation revolves around KU’s Williams
- June 30, 2000
- By Gary Bedore Journal-World Assistant Sports Editor Roy Williams definitely can have the North Carolina basketball job now if he wants it, sources said Thursday night.
- Global icon Armstrong vows he’s still focused
- June 30, 2000
- Winning the Tour de France after beating cancer made Lance Armstrong a global star. But fame, he says, hasn’t spoiled his appetite for victory or his desire to make a statement.
- Fri Tune
- June 30, 2000
- One of the hundreds of things I love about “The Simpsons,” the greatest TV show of all time, is the fact that Marge’s bitter sister, Patty Bouvier, is obsessed with the old show “MacGyver.” For years, “The Simpsons” was the only show where characters actually liked television, watched television and talked about the shows they loved. And Patty Bouvier couldn’t even think of “MacGyver” star Richard Dean Anderson without snorting with desire.
- TitleIX defended
- June 30, 2000
- A Supreme Court appeal by male athletes challenging Illinois State University’s elimination of its men’s wrestling and soccer teams to help equalize opportunities for both genders failed Thursday.
- Lazier leading IRL points race despite having so-so year
- June 30, 2000
- Despite a victory, two second-place finishes and a lead for much of this season in the IRL points race, Buddy Lazier isn’t having a great year.
- Teens troubled at Wimbledon
- Stevenson complains of racisim, hazing on tour
- June 30, 2000
- Alexandra Stevenson and Jelena Dokic, teens who blithely made brilliant Wimbledon debuts a year ago, are embroiled in uglier issues this year.
- Boeing lands $4.5 billion order
- June 30, 2000
- By Mark Fagan Journal-World Business Editor Boeing Co.’s $4.5 billion deal also means big business for some area companies. Southwest Airlines is buying 94 new 737-700 jetliners from Boeing Co. for an estimated $4.5 billion, and has options for another 196 during the next 12 years. The deal announced Thursday is good news not only for Boeing — which makes the airplane’s fuselages in Wichita — but Ottawa-based Air Technologies Inc. as well. “It should be a nice increase for us,” said Wayne McGrew, national sales and marketing manager for ATI, which provides air filters for Boeing’s painting operations. “It means more business. It gives us a golden opportunity to continue to work with them.”
- Daily ticker - Thursday’s close
- June 30, 2000
- Reports show slowing economy
- June 30, 2000
- Three more pieces of economic data released Thursday suggested that U.S. economic growth is slowing and that the nation’s extremely tight labor markets, a keen concern of Federal Reserve officials, may be loosening up a bit.
- Developer close to selling half of mall empire
- June 30, 2000
- J-W Staff and Wire Reports Cleveland developer Richard Jacobs is close to an agreement to sell half his shopping mall empire to a Tennessee real estate investment trust for as much as $2 billion, sources said.
- Business briefcase for Friday
- June 30, 2000
- Dodge City junior college appoints new president
- June 30, 2000
- Richard K. Burke, an interim president at Dodge City Community College, has been awarded the job on a permanent basis.
- Police investigate strangulation
- June 30, 2000
- State budget picture starts to look better, Graves said
- June 30, 2000
- The governor said revenues for this fiscal year may surpass initial estimates.
- Jayhawk salaries don’t match ‘Cats
- June 30, 2000
- By Chuck Woodling Journal-World Sports Editor Hopscotching the Kansas University summer sports scene while wondering if Eric Chenowith will go in the first round of the 2001 NBA Draft. “
- Indonesia ferry sinks; hundreds feared dead
- June 30, 2000
- Hundreds of refugees fleeing bloody religious fighting were feared drowned Thursday after their overloaded ship sank without a trace in the stormy waters of eastern Indonesia.
- Injured Sampras expected to play today
- June 30, 2000
- Apparently it will take more than a “mysterious” leg injury to prevent Pete Sampras from pursuing his seventh Wimbledon title.
- China experts urge Clinton reject missile defense shield
- June 30, 2000
- Forty-five U.S. experts on China have written to President Clinton urging him to delay his decision on building a national missile defense. They argue that a “precipitous decision” would increase tensions and lead China to accelerate the modernization of its relatively small nuclear arsenal.
- Nuclear waste site threatened by wildfires
- June 30, 2000
- It is the second blaze in two months to threaten a U.S. nuclear weapons installation.
- Campaign financing restrictions OK’d
- McCain calls legislation ‘a first step’ toward reforming political system
- June 30, 2000
- Legislation uncovering donors to secret groups heads to Clinton
- Teens injured in one-car accident
- June 30, 2000
- Three Leavenworth County teen-agers were injured Wednesday night when their convertible entered a ditch and overturned.
- Lawyer says client wasn’t trying to kill
- June 30, 2000
- By Joel Mathis Journal-World Writer The attempted murder case should go to jurors today.
- Lawrence Bus Co. asks FTA to look at complaint
- June 30, 2000
- By Kendrick Blackwood Journal-World Writer The owner of the Lawrence Bus Co. said he will ask for federal review of his complaint about the bidding process for city bus service.
- KDHE cautions travelers about shigellosis in KC metro area
- June 30, 2000
- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is warning travelers in the Kansas City metro area about an outbreak of shigellosis.
- Chemical seen to cut fat intake
- June 30, 2000
- Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have produced a substance that rapidly shuts down appetite in mice, leading to a loss of as much as 30 percent in total body weight within a week, with no apparent toxic side effects in the short term.
- Residents say squatters still squatting
- June 30, 2000
- By Tom Meagher Journal-World Writer In April, the city evicted a small group of squatters living north of the river. One teepee still remains, although city officials maintain the camp has been vacated.
- Governor says board member should resign
- June 30, 2000
- A State Board of Education member who registered to vote in Montana earlier this year “should have resigned months ago,” Gov. Bill Graves said Thursday.
- Trucker’s kindness saves cat
- June 30, 2000
- By Tim Carpenter Journal-World Writer Nearly killed by high-speed traffic, Highway, a plucky three-legged cat, survived with help from a soft-hearted truck driver.
- High court keeps river suit afloat
- June 30, 2000
- The U.S. Supreme Court refused Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit in which Kansas accuses Nebraska of using too much water from the Republican River basin.
- Distraught dad holds Disneyland hostages
- June 30, 2000
- Man holding worker, boy hostage at Disney World hotel
- Keep business here
- June 30, 2000
- The city of Lawrence has the opportunity to award a multi-million dollar contract to a local business which has provided cost-effective transportation services to area residents for many years.
- Cat’s cause
- June 30, 2000
- Thank you so very much for the great coverage you gave our KC Midwest Cat show last weekend!
- Old Home Town - 25, 40 and 100 years ago
- June 30, 2000
- The missile ‘shield of dreams’
- June 30, 2000
- By Geneva Overholser Washington Post Writers Group What a time this missile-shield dream has been having lately.
- History dolts
- June 30, 2000
- Journal-World Editorial How bad will we let it get before we alter our shocking trend toward educational disaster? Just when one is inclined to be encouraged about the educational levels of our young people, we encounter reports like a recent one by the Center for Survey Research and Analysis at Connecticut University.
- FAA to inspect maintenance records of major airlines
- June 30, 2000
- The airline safety agency was auditing Alaska Airlines maintenance logs after a crash that killed 8 people.
- Ex-German chancellor denies bribes
- June 30, 2000
- In long-awaited testimony on allegations he sold government favors, former Chancellor Helmut Kohl attacked his accusers Thursday and condemned their parliamentary investigation as a politically motivated smear campaign “to drag 16 good, successful years for Germany through the garbage.”
- World Briefs - Family reunions, spy exchange set
- June 30, 2000
- Bald eagle still on endangered list
- June 30, 2000
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not ready to remove the American bald eagle from the endangered species list in time for the Fourth of July after all.
- Meningitis alert given to colleges
- June 30, 2000
- The infection of the central nervous system causes inflammation of the spinal cord or brain and can spread rapidly.
- Declaration copy sells for $7.4 million
- June 30, 2000
- New commerce secretary named
- June 30, 2000
- Iraq claims civilians die in U.S. raids
- June 30, 2000
- U.S. and British warplanes bombed sites in southern Iraq on Thursday, killing one person and injuring another, the official Iraqi News Agency said.
- Tobacco companies unity goes up in smoke
- June 30, 2000
- The split in a once-united front on smoking and health has widened with testimony from the last of five tobacco executives whose companies are fighting punitive damages in a landmark smokers’ lawsuit.
- Fire guts carousel shop
- June 30, 2000
- Smoke from the fire killed about a fourth of a group of reptiles that were part of a tourist attraction.
- Graves foresees changes on BOE
- June 30, 2000
- Gov. Bill Graves is confident enough that change is coming to the State Board of Education that he doesn’t feel the need to help critics of the board’s decision to de-emphasize evolution in science testing standards.
- Roy Williams’ statement on Guthridge
- June 30, 2000
- The following is a statement from Roy Williams about the retirement of Bill Guthridge as North Carolina head basketball coach.
- Reports of affair could taint Medicare drugs bill
- June 30, 2000
- By Sandy Grady Philadelphia Daily News When they noisly embarked on their crusade to impeach Bill Clinton, it was inevitable Republicans would be burned by their own sexual scandals.
- Ford wins bid to purchase S. Korean carmaker
- June 30, 2000
- Ford Motor Co. won a bidding contest Thursday to become the sole negotiating partner of debt-ridden Daewoo Motors Co., giving the American automaker a chance to expand its foothold in Asia’s fast-growing market.
- Williams asks for fan patience as he ponders decision
- June 30, 2000
- (Updated 9:15 p.m. Friday) By Doug Tucker AP Sports Writer Should he stay at his beloved Kansas or return to his beloved North Carolina? Facing the biggest decision of his professional life, Roy Williams is pleading for patience as two of the nation’s premier basketball programs and their legions of fans await word from the winningest coach of the ‘90s.
- Thelma Stone
- June 30, 2000
- Clippers pull off impressive draft day
- June 30, 2000
- To the still-dazzled millions who think the Los Angeles Clippers finally got their arms around so much young talent that even they can’t screw up, here are two words:
- Stevenson involved in fight
- June 30, 2000
- DeShawn Stevenson got into a brawl at a gym shortly after the high school star was drafted in the first round by the Utah Jazz.
- Elian return to Cuba low-key for now
- June 30, 2000
- Gone were the massive crowds that had rallied during the official “Return Elian” campaign.
- Ruling places abortion laws in peril
- June 30, 2000
- Some abortion foes acknowledge their states’ bans on “partial-birth” abortion are doomed by a new Supreme Court ruling. But others vow to fight for some type of restriction that would survive legal challenge.
- Guthridge to step down
- North Carolina coach says he lacks energy to continue
- June 30, 2000
- Bill Guthridge compiled an 80-28 record in three seasons as coach of the Tar Heels. Guthridge, who led North Carolina to two Final Four appearances in his three seasons as coach of the Tar Heels, will announce his retirement at a news conference today, the Associated Press has learned.
- ‘Grease’ is the word for youth theater
- June 30, 2000
- By Jan Biles Journal-World Features-Arts Editor The Summer Youth Theatre kids rarely disappoint their audiences, and “Grease!” is no exception. The energetic show opened Thursday night to a packed house at the Lawrence Arts Center, and received a standing ovation and plenty of hoots and yollers from the audience.
- GOP senators push through patients’ rights bill
- June 30, 2000
- The Republican-controlled Senate voted Thursday night for limited new patient protections, including a restricted right to sue HMOs, overriding Democratic protests that the plan was an election-year sham.
- Southern Baptist split? Texas moderates consider leaving
- June 30, 2000
- The Southern Baptist Convention’s largest state unit may sever ties with the denomination — a move that would dramatically drain membership and financial support.
- Clothes don’t make the Christian
- Church dress codes loosen as mercury rises
- June 30, 2000
- By Jim Baker Journal-World Writer Casual attire’s become the norm in summer worship services, pastors say, but leave those tube tops and short shorts in the closet. Summertime is here, and as the heat and humidity become stifling, the first thing to fall by the wayside in churches is formal dress. Rather than putting on their Sunday best, more and more Lawrence worshippers don shorts, summer dresses, casual pants, short-sleeve knit shirts and sandals.
- Christian group aims to bring races together
- June 30, 2000
- Findings show only 10 percent of the nation’s churches are integrated or interracial.
- Nelson glad to be back at LHS
- Having a ball
- June 30, 2000
- By Steve Rottinghaus Journal-World Sports Writer Keith Nelson never imagined life without soccer. “I’ve always known what I wanted to do and that’s play soccer and be a soccer coach,” the new Lawrence High boys and girls soccer coach said Wednesday.
- NL Roundup
- June 30, 2000
- AL Roundup
- June 30, 2000
- Airlines form site to sell cheaper tickets
- June 30, 2000
- An estimated 3.5 million airline seats go unfilled each week, and Hotwire.com wants to offer them for sale at fixed prices.
- Canada ranked best, Sierra Leone worst in quality of life list
- June 30, 2000
- Human and individual rights are tallied along with economic and political conditions to establish the United Nations ranking.
- Census count in Douglas County likely to top 100,000
- June 30, 2000
- By Tim Carpenter Journal-World Writer Douglas County organizations are supporting the U.S. Census Bureau because a count greater than 100,000 could signal more government aid for the county.
- Anti-drug program falls to budget ax
- June 30, 2000
- By Joy Ludwig Journal-World Writer Douglas County Sheriff Loren Anderson said he had to drop DARE this coming school year. He said he needs the deputies in other areas and doesn’t have the money to hire more.
- Jarrett claims pole in Pepsi 400
- June 30, 2000
- Dale Jarrett got a jump on his quest for a third straight victory at Daytona and a piece of history Thursday night, winning the pole position for the Pepsi 400.
- New contractors taking over state adoption cases
- June 30, 2000
- By Dave Ranney Journal-World Writer DCCCA will take over family preservation services for the entire state, while The Shelter will share in an adoption contract for several northeast Kansas counties.
- Tax-cut proposals are plentiful
- June 30, 2000
- By Froma Harrop Providence Journal You have to wonder whether politicians aren’t getting paid by the tax-cut proposal. New estimates that the budget surplus will reach $4 trillion over the decade will only encourage them to crank up production. Our leaders could opt for a simple across-the-board tax cut. But then they would lose the opportunity to do favors for narrow constituencies.
- Parents: Family should come first
- June 30, 2000
- By Dr. James Dobson What has been your greatest challenge as a father? What did you learn from it?
- Religion Briefs
- June 30, 2000
- Altman staying at Creighton
- June 30, 2000
- Creighton coach Dana Altman has withdrawn his name from consideration for the head coaching vacancy at Miami.
- Program puts teens on path to college
- June 30, 2000
- Students in the program, which is in its first year at Haskell, are learning how to make a smooth transition from high school to college.
- Family reflects on whether infant survived
- June 30, 2000
- The infant, whose disappearence being investigated with a group of bodies found in barrels, would be a teen-ager now and some reports say she is living with an adoptive family.
- Testaments Pork ban was not unique to Jews
- June 30, 2000
- It turns out that Judaism’s ban on pork wasn’t unique.
- Yankees deal for Cleveland’s Justice
- June 30, 2000
- In an effort to boost their struggling team, the Yankees traded outfielder Ricky Ledee and two players to be named to the Cleveland Indians on Thursday for David Justice.
- People
- June 30, 2000
- Trade ends talks for Cubs’ Sosa
- June 30, 2000
- The New York Yankees’ pursuit of Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa ended Thursday night when the Yankees traded for Cleveland outfielder David Justice, according to Sosa’s agent.
- Government database keeps disciplined doctors’ records
- June 30, 2000
- In a database kept secret from patients, the government has recorded the names of nearly 500 doctors and dentists across the country who have been slapped with at least 10 disciplinary actions and malpractice payments over the last decade.
- Nation briefs - FTC takes bite out of shark product ads
- June 30, 2000
- French town prepares for McDonald’s trial
- June 30, 2000
- The raid on McDonald’s turned farmers’ activist Jose Bove into an instant folk hero.
- New state laws touch on crime, pastries
- June 30, 2000
- Many states focused on the day-to-day: on education, health care, taxes and crime.
- Some HMOs dropping Medicare
- June 30, 2000
- At least 711,000 elderly and disabled Americans would be jettisoned by HMOs planning to close their doors to Medicare beneficiaries next year, an industry group says.
- Nation briefs
- June 30, 2000
- Abortion ruling a travesty
- June 30, 2000
- By George Will Washington Post Writers Group It probably was inevitable that partial-birth abortion would become, as it did some while ago, a sacrament in the Church of “Choice.” That sect’s theology cannot risk conceding that what is killed in an abortion ever possesses more moral significance than a tumor. Hence it cannot concede that society’s sensibilities should be lacerated by, or that its respect for life might be damaged by, any method of abortion.
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