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- Cease-fire declared in Israel
- October 3, 2000
- Israel and the Palestinians have declared a cease-fire, an Israeli officer said today, bringing a tentative end to five days of bloodshed that threatened to scuttle the fragile peace. Col. Marcel Aviv, a commander of the Etzion brigade in the West Bank, told Army radio that quiet had prevailed in the West Bank since the predawn hours, when the sides agreed to stop shooting.
- On the record
- October 3, 2000
- Iverson plans to be ‘professional’
- Being on time priority for Philadelphia guard
- October 3, 2000
- Allen Iverson’s new attitude doesn’t seem much different than his old one. After a tumultuous summer that included several trade rumors and endless criticism from his coach, Iverson returned to the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday and finally broke his silence.
- Can anyone catch Rams this year?
- October 3, 2000
- There’s a little stirring these days among those gents from the 1972 Dolphins. Not a lot yet. The St. Louis Rams are 5-0 and have 11 games plus the playoffs to go to match Miami’s record as the only unbeaten team of the Super Bowl era.
- Do the inside line dance
- Writer offers predictions on CMA Awards winners
- October 3, 2000
- Whoever ends up holding trophies at the Country Music Assn. Awards, some things are certain about the ceremony airing Wednesday.
- Firebirds capture league golf
- October 3, 2000
- Free State High’s golf team might be peaking the right time. Led by senior Lauren Phlegar’s third-place finish at 14-over-par 86, the Firebirds won their first Sunflower League championship Monday at Meadowbrook Golf Course.
- Twelve evangelists rescued from Philippine rebels
- October 3, 2000
- In the first major success of a 17-day rescue assault, Philippine troops freed a group of Christian evangelists Monday after one escaped and alerted the military.
- Opponents’ strike paralyzes Yugoslavia
- Milosevic defiant in face of opposition
- October 3, 2000
- In his first address to the nation since a disputed election, Slobodan Milosevic on Monday branded his opponents puppets of the West. A wave of unrest aimed at driving him from power swept Yugoslavia, and the government responded by arresting dozens of strike leaders.
- Bigger might be better for Kentucky’s QB
- October 3, 2000
- Jared Lorenzen was born big really big. He was 13 pounds at birth and by the time he was in school he was the biggest kid around. Now a redshirt freshman, Lorenzen is listed at 6-foot-4, 275 pounds. Coaches say he’s probably closer to 300 pounds.
- Mideast death toll continues to rise
- October 3, 2000
- Clashes between security forces and Israel’s Arabs spread so widely Monday that both sides spoke fearfully of the violence spiraling into a communal war between the country’s Jewish majority and the Arab minority.
- Baseball players union loses Supreme Court appeal
- October 3, 2000
- The Major League Baseball Players Association lost a Supreme Court bid Monday for constitutional protection against a lawsuit filed by a baseball card marketer.
- Who needs Griffey? M’s survive
- October 3, 2000
- Randy Johnson left and so did Ken Griffey Jr. Instead of being devastated and depleted, the Seattle Mariners are back in the playoffs for the first time since 1997, and it’s A-Rod’s team now.
- ‘Experienced’ Mets may give Giants fits
- October 3, 2000
- Wearing sunglasses and an open-collared black shirt, Brian Sabean exudes California cool in the afternoon sun at Pacific Bell Park.
- Yankees bring ‘mystique’
- Will young A’s fold during best-of-five series?
- October 3, 2000
- One has the last two World Series championships, the highest payroll in baseball and superstars like Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams. The other hasn’t seen the playoffs since 1992, ranks near the bottom of the payroll list and features what’s-their-names like Eric Chavez and Terrence Long.
- Cardinals turn to rookie Ankiel
- Braves counter with veteran Maddux in today’s NL playoff game
- October 3, 2000
- Tony La Russa pulled a surprise even before the Cardinals-Braves series began. First, he sent Darryl Kile to the interview room, making it appear the 20-game winner would start today’s playoff opener against Greg Maddux.
- Royals ‘made improvement’
- October 3, 2000
- Despite a fourth-place finish, the Kansas City Royals should feel good about their future. “We’re 13 better than last year and I think we made improvement,” manager Tony Muser said. “We played aggressive. It’s a long season and a tough season. I appreciate them staying with the plan.”
- All Stars get chance at playoff redemption
- October 3, 2000
- Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Mike Piazza have spent their whole careers winning awards, making All-Star appearances and posting Hall of Fame stats. In October, though, their numbers don’t always add up. Bonds and Piazza have barely hit .200 without much power, and Clemens is merely a .500 pitcher in the postseason.
- Boston begins camp without Pierce
- October 3, 2000
- It was 4:30 a.m. when Rick Pitino got the phone call that jolted him out of his sleep: Paul Pierce had been stabbed. “I did fear the worst,” the coach of the Boston Celtics said Monday. One week after the attack, Pitino predicted his young star would be ready for the season opener Nov. 1.
- Kansas Football coach not worried about Smith
- Despite recent woes, Allen confident in QB
- October 3, 2000
- By Andrew Hartsock If Kansas University’s struggling quarterback were anyone other than Dylen Smith, KU coach Terry Allen would worry about how he’d respond in his next outing. After all, last time out Smith threw a school record-tying five interceptions and lost two fumbles, and Oklahoma turned six of the seven turnovers into scores in a 34-16 victory over the Jayhawks on Saturday in Norman, Okla.
- Study suggests smoking causes depression in teens
- October 3, 2000
- A new study suggests smoking may be a cause of depression in teen-agers, contradicting the current thinking that says depressed people may smoke to feel better.
- Tobacco company claims less toxic cigarette
- October 3, 2000
- A small tobacco company is test-marketing in Virginia and Kentucky a new type of cigarette that it says has lower levels of one type of cancer-causing substance than regular brands.
- British law adds bill of rights
- October 3, 2000
- Two centuries after its former American colonies adopted a Bill of Rights, the rights of English, Welsh and Northern Irish citizens are now laid out in a comprehensive written charter of rights.
- Belize battered by hurricane
- Worst may be yet to come as tidal wave builds
- October 3, 2000
- Hurricane Keith toppled homes, ripped the roofs off hotels and caused flooding throughout Belize as it swirled just off the country’s Caribbean coast Monday with 75 mph winds.
- Florence M. Allison
- October 3, 2000
- Frank E. Miers
- October 3, 2000
- Musick Services
- October 3, 2000
- Business Briefcase
- October 3, 2000
- County commission briefs
- October 3, 2000
- Commission rejects land-easement petition Sheriff’s department to get new defibrillators
- Daily Ticker
- October 3, 2000
- KU calendar, kusports.com team up for promotional effort
- October 3, 2000
- By Dave Toplikar Kusports.com, the Journal-World’s Web site for Kansas University sports, has teamed up with a new Lawrence-based calendar business in a cross-promotional effort. Kusports.com now has a special section to promote the “Women of KU” swimsuit calendar, recently released by University Calendar Productions LLC, a business put together by several KU students.
- Financial business to buy meatpacker
- Few changes expected at IBP’s Kansas plants
- October 3, 2000
- A subsidiary of investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette has agreed to buy South Dakota-based IBP Inc., the world’s largest producer of fresh beef and pork, the companies said Monday. The deal calls for Rawhide Holdings Corp. to buy all shares of IBP common stock for about $2.4 billion and assume about $1.4 billion in debt
- Napster, recording industry back in court
- Online music-trading service, artists locked in fight for survival before federal appeals panel
- October 3, 2000
- A federal court began hearing arguments Monday in the recording industry’s copyright infringement case against Napster Inc. a company considered a joy for more than 22 million music-trading users but the bane of major record labels who say it cheats artists out of sales.
- ‘Ties’ bind KU, person with disabilities
- October 3, 2000
- By Erwin Seba Those who participate in Natural Ties say they do it for the smiles. The student-run program that builds relationships between Kansas University students and Lawrence residents with disabilities is in its ninth year of operation. One student explained how it works.
- Old Home Town - 25, 40, and 100 years ago today
- October 3, 2000
- Legal response
- October 3, 2000
- Casino asks tribe to explain allegations
- October 3, 2000
- By Erwin Seba Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. is telling the Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribal Council to put up or shut up. In a letter sent to the tribal council on Friday, a lawyer for the $3 billion casino operator wrote that Harrah’s wanted proof of allegations it engaged in questionable negotiations with embattled Tribal Chairwoman Mamie Rupnicki.
- News briefs
- October 3, 2000
- Fox offers free hour of airtime to Gore, Bush Trial opens in case of former Playmate
- News briefs
- October 3, 2000
- WWII memorial opponents file suit Thurmond opens Senate session
- ‘Normal’ styles back in fashion
- ‘Normal’ styles back in fashion
- October 3, 2000
- Prada and Gucci set the pace of contemporary Italian style. Yet they walk on opposite sides of the fashion street.
- Record label releases rap album attacking DEA
- October 3, 2000
- A record label whose founder was under investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration is releasing an album that taunts the DEA and talks about killing informants, The Dallas Morning News reported Monday.
- Backups contributing for Firebirds
- October 3, 2000
- By Robert Sinclair At least there was some good to come of Free State High’s 49-6 football loss to Olathe North on Friday night at Haskell Stadium.
- College for home schoolers opens
- October 3, 2000
- The nation’s first college for students who were schooled at home is not what you would call a party school. The 90 students who began classes this month at the new Patrick Henry College can expect coursework with a Christian perspective, mandatory morning chapel services and a requirement to show “evidence of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.” Men and women won’t be permitted in each other’s dorm rooms.
- Negative comparison poisons woman’s relationship with niece
- October 3, 2000
- Horoscopes
- October 3, 2000
- People
- October 3, 2000
- ‘Peanuts’ gallery The name game
- Chiefs’ plan to set NFL attendance record falls short
- Fewer than 4,500 fans pay $10 to watch Kansas City-Seattle Monday night game on video board inside Kauffmn Stadium
- October 3, 2000
- The season ended Sunday for the Kansas City Royals, but 4,391 fans showed up Monday night at Kauffman Stadium to watch football, not baseball.
- Turnovers cost LHS against Olathe South
- October 3, 2000
- By Steve Rottinghaus If Lawrence High had controlled the ball as well as it did the clock, the margin in Olathe South’s 49-7 football victory over the Lions would have been much closer. The Lions committed five turnovers three fumbles and two interceptions to the No. 2-ranked Falcons. All five miscues resulted in Olathe South scores.
- Candidates lack familiarity
- October 3, 2000
- By Carl Leubsdorf Washington Bureau chief of The Dallas Morning News When George W. Bush and Al Gore meet tonight for the first of their three presidential debates, they will spend more time together in one night than they ever have before. That is because, to a degree unusual in recent presidential elections, the two candidates barely know each other.
- Immoral majority surfaces
- October 3, 2000
- By Cal Thomas Columnist for Los Angeles Times Syndicate A curious new national poll shows a slight majority of the public favors Democrats on the issue of moral leadership. The survey conducted by Harvard University, the Henry J.
- Area briefs
- October 3, 2000
- Fight breaks out at party, leads to two stabbing KU police will learn how to use defibrillators Baldwin City Council to have special meeting Student recital set for Thursday City commission to look at library branch ideas Meeting to focus on health benefits State official criticizes living wage proposal 3rd District candidate stumps in Lawrence
- KC sinks Seattle
- Chiefs come from behind to win, 24-17
- October 3, 2000
- By Jason Franchuk For all the complaints that have been made about instant replay in the NFL, sometimes it can be a good thing. Just ask the Chiefs, who benefited from coach Gunther Cunningham’s challenge of a late fourth-quarter play that helped Kansas City defeat Seattle, 24-17, on Monday night at Arrowhead Stadium.
- Hoss leads city entries at All-Around
- Lee’s Summit, Mo., dominates Lawrence gymnastics meet
- October 3, 2000
- By Christina Woods Lawrence High and Free State High competed with not against each other at the Lawrence All-Around Invitational on Monday night in the Lions’ gym. Neither the Lions nor Firebirds placed in the top ten individually or as a team. Lee’s Summit, Mo., however, captured first place in every event and won the team title.
- Supreme Court rejects case from Kansas
- October 3, 2000
- A Kansas youth suspended from school for three days after he drew a picture of a Confederate flag lost a Supreme Court appeal Monday. The court, without comment, turned away arguments that the suspension violated the youth’s freedom of speech and other constitutionally protected rights.
- High expectations lead to quick dismissals
- Reds’ McKeon, Diamondbacks’ Showalter, Pirates’ Lamont recent casualties
- October 3, 2000
- Cincinnati manager Jack McKeon and Arizona’s Buck Showalter were fired Monday after finishing seasons that didn’t duplicate last year’s success despite adding high-priced star players.
- American Eagle site OK’d
- Ottawa city, Franklin County officials back abatements
- October 3, 2000
- By Tom Meagher Turning away from months of negotiations with Lawrence officials, American Eagle Outfitters came here Monday seeking 10 years of tax breaks on a planned distribution center. Officials wasted no time signaling their interest in the company’s planned $10 million center. City commissioners approved a “resolution of intent” to grant the abatements and scheduled a public hearing on the matter for 7 p.m. Wednesday.
- Refugees found in squalor
- More than 50 removed from Catholic agency’s housing
- October 3, 2000
- The Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta has moved 58 refugees to a hotel from the crime-ridden, rodent-infested apartment complex where a church relief agency had housed them.
- Robert P. Hagen
- October 3, 2000
- ‘Dark Angel’ is both stunning, bleak
- Director of ‘Titanic,’ ‘Terminator’ makes TV debut
- October 3, 2000
- Don’t get me wrong. Jessica Alba looks nothing like Humphrey Bogart. But like Bogart’s character Rick in “Casablanca,” Max (Alba), the sexy mutant heroine of “Dark Angel” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14, D, L, S) has to slowly come to the conclusions that fighting for the good guys is more important that saving her own skin.
- City to try to find balance while calming 23rd Street
- October 3, 2000
- By Kendrick Blackwood From the neighborhood perspective, 23rd Street is a mess, sending frustrated drivers to side streets, where they detract from neighborhood life. From the business perspective, it is heaven, offering a high volume of potential customers passing at relatively slow speeds.
- Block schedule muddles board
- School officials ask junior high summit members to meet again
- October 3, 2000
- By Tim Carpenter The Lawrence school board is asking participants in this summer’s junior high summit to meet Oct. 11 in an attempt to make headway on a complicated revision of class scheduling. A board study session scheduled for Wednesday was canceled because too many details were unresolved.
- Students explore waterway
- Snakes and insects provide hands-on learning for excited youngsters
- October 3, 2000
- By Tim Carpenter Fourth-grader Ashleigh Ward swept a net into the Wakarusa River, expecting to capture a tiny red shiner or bullhead minnow. The northern watersnake that slithered in her hand-held net was more than Ashleigh expected, but twice as exciting.
- Co-op reopens
- Lawrence-based business owes $20 million
- October 3, 2000
- By Mark Fagan The state’s largest farmer-owned cooperative association was back in business Monday, less than a week after filing for bankruptcy protection. But it wasn’t exactly business as usual.
- Briefly
- October 3, 2000
- ISU not bowl-bound yet
- Undefeated Cyclones seeking first bid since ‘78
- October 3, 2000
- Is that the “B” word being bandied about at Iowa State? Not if coach Dan McCarney can help it even though his Cyclones are 4-0 for the first time since 1980 and two wins away from being eligible for their first bowl bid since 1978.
- Family lobbies for DWI law change
- October 3, 2000
- By Erwin Seba Every night, Dennis and Linda Beaver go to Sunset Memory Gardens on the north edge of town to visit their first-born son, Casey They stand over his grave with their younger son, Aaron.
- National drunken driving standard meets opposition in Washington
- October 3, 2000
- Just as Congress appears poised to impose a national drunken driving standard for the first time, opponents are launching a furious, last-minute lobbying campaign to derail the measure.
- House passes crime bills
- October 3, 2000
- Rape victims could demand HIV tests of their suspected assailants upon arrest, and adults could be jailed for 10 years for sending pornography to 17-year-olds or younger under a last-minute flurry of bills in the House.
- Police briefs
- October 3, 2000
- Infant’s broken skull suspected as abuse Police investigate alleged assault of teen
- Menninger site’s future generates speculation
- Topeka officials mull possible uses, such as high-tech center
- October 3, 2000
- City officials already are thinking about what to do with Menninger’s 242-acre campus in northwest Topeka after the famed psychiatric clinic leaves town. Possibilities include a psychiatric clinic run by Menninger staffers who decide to stay in Topeka or a group of technology firms, said John Arnold, chief administrative officer for the city of Topeka.
- Oil markets already are rigged
- October 3, 2000
- By Robert Reno The great winter fuel oil crisis is shaping up to be the biggest non-event since the Y2K hysteria was promoted by a lot of economists and politicians who should have known better.
- Olympics or debate, live is better
- October 3, 2000
- By David Broder Columnist for Washington Post Writers Group I’ve seen it live, and I’ve seen it taped. And live is better. That’s true of Olympics coverage, now that I’ve had a chance to compare the live broadcasts from Sydney on Canadian television, from across the river in Windsor, and the taped coverage on NBC.
- Street talk
- October 3, 2000
- Journal-World Editorial With or without a southern bypass, Lawrence must look at ways to ease traffic problems on 23rd Street. Traffic problems on 23rd Street didn’t develop overnight, and it also will take some time to develop solutions to congestion and safety issues on the street.
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