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- U.S., British planes attack radar sites near Baghdad
- February 16, 2001
- (Updated Friday at 3:48 p.m.) Ordering his first military strike, President Bush sent U.S. warplanes Friday to bomb five Iraqi military sites around Baghdad that the Pentagon said had posed an increasing danger to American and British patrol aircraft.
- National briefs
- February 16, 2001
- No Powerball jackpot winner Eighth-grade girl suspended for ‘hit list’ Conviction overturned when victim recants
- National briefs
- February 16, 2001
- Victim’s family awarded $4 million for his death More funding urged for anti-smoking ads
- National briefs
- February 16, 2001
- Buffalo nickel reprints OK’d Inmate doesn’t run this time
- Proposed sales tax hike would assist schools
- Four senators outline plan to raise state aid
- February 16, 2001
- A group of senators proposes raising the state sales tax to 5.5 cents on the dollar during three years to enhance public education.
- Blazers hammer Kings
- Losing Webber takes luster off Western showdown
- February 16, 2001
- The Sacramento Kings were lost without Chris Webber, and the Portland Trail Blazers even admitted there was a certain lack of drama without him.
- Dean services
- February 16, 2001
- Insurance commissioner won’t commit to governor’s race
- February 16, 2001
- By Terry Rombeck Kansas Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius spoke as much about the economy and education as she did about insurance during a speech Thursday morning at the Lawrence Rotary Club.
- Briefly
- February 16, 2001
- Rescue workers too late to save dog from icy river Medication, ignition key missing from fire station Newspaper recognizes student achievements
- Education reform plans waiting for Bush budget
- February 16, 2001
- Education Secretary Roderick Paige told a Senate committee Thursday that the Bush administration has yet to develop a budget to accompany its education reform plan. That prompted some Democrats to warn that they will measure the president’s commitment to the issue largely by his willingness to contribute new money to it.
- Evansville clips WSU
- February 16, 2001
- Craig Snow and Dan Lytle each scored 20 points to lead Evansville to a 74-61 victory Thursday night over Wichita State.
- Purdue wins share of title
- February 16, 2001
- Camille Cooper made Indiana regret its decision not to use a double-team. Cooper scored 25 points as No. 7 Purdue beat Indiana 87-46 Thursday night and clinched a tie for its sixth Big Ten championship in the last 10 years.
- Potato farmers giving spuds away
- Low prices make crop worthless, so food banks are beneficiaries
- February 16, 2001
- Idaho’s potato crop last year was so big the spuds are practically worthless. The government wouldn’t take them, so at the suggestion of their wives, the growers decided to give about 24 million potatoes to the poor.
- Arrowhead experiment worthwhile
- February 16, 2001
- By Chuck Woodling Twenty years ago, I thought a Kansas-Missouri football game in Arrowhead Stadium made sense. Kansas had seven home games scheduled in 1981, so why not play a game in Kansas City? KU students and faculty would still have their customary half-dozen home games, and so would the downtown merchants.
- Jon Stewart to play host at Grammys
- February 16, 2001
- Comedian Jon Stewart has stepped in last minute to play host to next week’s Grammy Awards, it was announced Wednesday.
- New York gets strong whiff of ‘Onion’
- No reason for tears as Midwestern humor magazine moves to Big Apple
- February 16, 2001
- Twelve years after taking root in the funky college town of Madison, Wis., The Onion wants more room to grow. So this burgeoning humor publication is transplanting itself to New York. Or, as one of The Onion’s own deadpan headlines might put it, “Odorous Bulb Descends Upon City; Eyes Water, Breath Mints Stockpiled.”
- Menninger programs to make early exit
- Two outpatient centers in Topeka to close May 1
- February 16, 2001
- By Kevin Bates Two programs within the Menninger Clinic will be closing earlier than expected, according to an internal newsletter issued to hospital management this week. The changes will affect two outpatient centers in Topeka, which will close May 1 about two months earlier than previously scheduled.
- KU, KSU tighten belts
- Money problems raise questions about promises in 1999 restructuring
- February 16, 2001
- By Scott Rothschild The state’s two major universities are taking immediate steps to reduce spending in response to cuts under Gov. Bill Graves’ budget proposal, officials said Thursday. In addition, some higher education officials for the first time are publicly questioning Graves’ commitment to Kansas’ universities.
- Apartment fire moves city to contemplate code change
- February 16, 2001
- By Terry Rombeck Cindy Foster went through 20 light bulbs in her kitchen in the past month and a half. Her closet light flickered on without warning. She knew something was wrong with her apartment’s electricity.
- Young competitors face the music
- February 16, 2001
- Competition takes center stage tonight, from L.A. to Big D. The final five contestants get the nod tonight on a one-hour “Popstars” (7:30 p.m., WB). Of the thousands who entered, only 10 girls are left as tonight’s episode begins.
- Horoscopes
- February 16, 2001
- Questioning authority
- KU group embraces ‘radical’ thought
- February 16, 2001
- By Jim Baker Not all Christians think alike. Some are pro-life; others are pro-choice.
- Opponents lobby Allies against gifts to monument
- Critics say museum’s design would ruin architectural integrity of Liberty Memorial
- February 16, 2001
- While city officials work to interest foreign investors in donating for a museum under the Liberty Memorial, opponents are urging foreigners to spurn the donation requests for the World War I project.
- Meadows agrees to deal with Royals
- February 16, 2001
- Right-hander Brian Meadows and the Kansas City Royals agreed Thursday to a $1.9 million, one-year contract, more than five times his $360,000 salary last season.
- Sideline
- February 16, 2001
- Daytona grandstand sold out Nicklaus, Player captains Joyner-Kersee retires Cards mull move to suburbs
- Dell Computer unplugs 1,700 jobs
- Cuts are first in company’s 16-year history
- February 16, 2001
- Dell Computer Corp. said Thursday it was cutting 1,700 jobs in response to slowing personal computer sales, which have stalled profit growth at the nation’s leading PC seller. Dell never before had announced job cuts in its 16-year history.
- Column spurs monologues
- February 16, 2001
- By Ellen Goodman The Boston Globe There is a story that the Brazilian director Augusto Boal, an advocate of political theater, likes to tell about a class he once taught on the history of drama.
- AirLifeLine support provides opportunity to help more people
- February 16, 2001
- Democrats join tax-cut brigade
- February 16, 2001
- By David Shribman The Boston Globe Tax-cut Fever Grips Hill. Washington doesn’t have an afternoon tabloid, but if it did, that message would scream from the front page.
- Briefcase
- February 16, 2001
- Ford rehatches the hatchback Home Show 2001 set for weekend Card companies end legal battle Mortgage rates rise
- Bible series shows what Southern Baptist battle is all about
- February 16, 2001
- The part-way schism in America’s biggest Protestant denomination, the 15.7 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, is heating up again. In it, a self-described “moderate” minority charges that conservatives (which it calls “fundamentalists”) have taken control of seminaries and denominational agencies in order to enhance leaders’ power.
- Vacationing in space?
- February 16, 2001
- By Lenore Skenazy New York Daily News If anyone had told Wilbur and Orville Wright that someday millions of people would be crisscrossing the globe in their strange new machine scarfing tiny bags of roasted peanuts along the way it probably would have sounded as wacky to them as this next bit of information is going to sound to you:
- KU depleted for ISU
- Kinsey leaves team; Axtell to rest bad back
- February 16, 2001
- By Gary Bedore Kansas is running out of men’s basketball players for Saturday’s noon battle at Iowa State. The Jayhawks, already without Drew Gooden (wrist injury), announced Thursday they would not have Luke Axtell and Mario Kinsey for the showdown between the Big 12’s top two teams.
- Fox’s ‘Logogate’ saga continues
- Network embarrassed by lack of computerized images of sponsor logos
- February 16, 2001
- Fox Sports got a graphic example of how embarrassing poor preparation can be.
- Lawrence briefs
- February 16, 2001
- Innocent plea entered to child abuse charge Infant workshops, first-aid course scheduled at LMH Suspect surrenders in marijuana case Sheriff’s Department makes arrest for burglary KU to play host to research symposium
- If qualifier any sign, race should be doozy
- February 16, 2001
- After finishing Thursday’s first 125-mile qualifying race for the Daytona 500, Jerry Nadeau made a colorful prediction. “This is just a taste of what the 500 is going to be like,” said Nadeau, whose Chevrolet finished .103 second behind winner Sterling Marlin’s Dodge. “It’s going to be a madhouse. We’re like a bunch of cannibals chasing a deer.”
- Judge tosses aging liquor law
- Demise of half-century-old prohibition clears way for out-of-state businesses
- February 16, 2001
- By Kevin Bates Out-of-state liquor wholesale companies are free to do business in Kansas after a federal judge struck down a 52-year-old law that had kept them out. The ruling clears the way for a large Texas liquor wholesaler to buy Premier Beverage of Lenexa and A.B. Sales of Wichita.
- People
- February 16, 2001
- Marriages: Coming … Out of the crowd, on the runway A royal reception Pavarotti seeks Madonna duet
- Sub’s visitors describe accident
- February 16, 2001
- President Bush said Thursday that the Defense Department should review its policy of inviting civilians to participate in military exercises, a practice that resulted in the presence of 16 civilians aboard a nuclear-powered submarine when it surfaced beneath a Japanese trawler off Hawaii last Friday.
- Graves says he’d accept one-year lottery bill
- February 16, 2001
- Gov. Bill Graves will accept a mere one-year extension of the Kansas Lottery’s life, but he describes legislators’ complaints about how its revenues are spent as “bogus.”
- Garner: Sexual harassment in state government an ‘epidemic’
- February 16, 2001
- The House’s Democratic leader thinks incidents of sexual harassment are “epidemic” in state government, but Gov. Bill Graves disagrees.
- Leafs fall to Philly, 5-2
- February 16, 2001
- The Toronto Maple Leafs left Philadelphia without a victory or Eric Lindros.
- Union Station’s executive director resigns
- February 16, 2001
- Andy Scott, executive director of the Union Station Assistance Corp., has resigned. Scott is best known as the station’s caretaker, the man who, amid all the plans and changes, always put priority on the building’s preservation.
- Military looks forward to raises
- Morale should improve with president’s proposal, captain says
- February 16, 2001
- Airmen at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita and Troops at Fort Riley in northeastern Kansas are optimistic about President Bush’s proposed pay raises for military personnel.
- Regents approve new law school
- Wichita college allowed four years to receive accreditation
- February 16, 2001
- By Scott Rothschild A new law school, financed by conservative businessman Willard Garvey, was approved Thursday by the Kansas Board of Regents.
- Search continues for missing brothers
- Police think suspects have left Lawrence
- February 16, 2001
- By Mike Belt More than two months after they were freed from jail amid confusion about their speedy trial rights, two brothers charged in last summer’s shooting of a Lawrence man continue to elude police.
- Beebe services
- February 16, 2001
- Noe services
- February 16, 2001
- Goodrich services
- February 16, 2001
- Samuel Mumford
- February 16, 2001
- Lois Riley and John Becerra
- February 16, 2001
- Martin Bauer
- February 16, 2001
- Perry drops DeSoto
- February 16, 2001
- Perry-Lecompton survived a shootout with DeSoto and snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 67-64 victory in a Kaw Valley League boys basketball game Thursday night.
- College briefs
- February 16, 2001
- BU men cruise Correction
- False ID traced to travel papers
- February 16, 2001
- By Mike Belt A 19-year-old used an identification card issued by a travel agency to get into a Lawrence bar, a turn of events that has focused police attention on the agency.
- KU women’s track has four winners
- February 16, 2001
- Kansas University’s women’s track team competed Thursday at the KSU Open in preparation for next week’s Big 12 Championships.
- On the record
- February 16, 2001
- Landlords battling housing bill
- February 16, 2001
- By Joel Mathis Kansas landlords are fighting proposed legislation that backers say would pump millions into state coffers to make housing more affordable for the poor. “Basically, this organization would be a property owner, rental agent, banker, landlord and holding firm,” said Lawrence landlord Bob Ebey, the legislative liaison for the Association of Kansas Landlords, which is against the bill.
- Mother wants ‘Merchant’ axed from high school reading list
- February 16, 2001
- By Tim Carpenter A request to remove a Shakespeare play from Free State High School’s approved reading list is about to turn district staff into literary critics. Phyllis Allen, who has a 10th-grade son at Free State, filed a formal challenge to “The Merchant of Venice,” stating the text was permeated with anti-Semitic venom.
- Area wrestling regionals begin today
- February 16, 2001
- Several area schools will begin competing in regional wrestling tournaments today.
- World briefs
- February 16, 2001
- Kids’ sodas pack on the pounds War crimes suspects face extradition
- Israel forms unity coalition
- February 16, 2001
- Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon and Ehud Barak agreed on formation of a unity government Thursday, with Barak’s party saying it will get the top posts: the foreign and defense ministries.
- Afghanistan’s opium fields nearly wiped out
- February 16, 2001
- U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has virtually wiped out opium production in Afghanistan once the world’s largest producer since banning poppy cultivation in July.
- KU sets records at Big 12 meet
- February 16, 2001
- Kansas juniors Carrie Kirkham and Rebecca McFall each had personal-best performances Thursday night, leading the Jayhawks in the Big 12 swimming and diving championships at the Jamail Texas Swim Center.
- KU wins again
- Jayhawks remain perfect with 13-10 victory
- February 16, 2001
- An eight-run fourth inning and stingy pitching at the beginning and end helped Kansas University improve to 4-0 on the season with a 13-10 victory over St. Mary’s (Calif.) in the Oakland A’s/Rawlings Spring Training Tournament on Thursday.
- Democrats unveil their tax cut plans
- February 16, 2001
- Congress’ top Democrats announced their party’s budget priorities on Thursday, including a tax cut less than half the size of President Bush’s $1.6 trillion, 10-year plan.
- Government briefs
- February 16, 2001
- Democrat wonders why Bush left her off his trip Adoption tax credit doubling sought
- LHS, FSHS optimistic despite limited numbers
- February 16, 2001
- By Steve Rottinghaus Pat Grzenda wants her seven swimmers and one diver to make the most of their appearance at state this weekend at KSU Natatorium in Manhattan. “This is a pretty young, pretty inexperienced group we have going,” said Grzenda, the head swimming coach at Lawrence High and Free State High the past four years. “I just want the small group that we have to step up and do their best. If they do that, that’s the best we can do.”
- Robinson struggling at Florida State
- February 16, 2001
- Working in the shadows of the nation’s most successful football program, Florida State’s Steve Robinson has struggled to put together a respectable basketball team in the ACC.
- Dyslexia brain function found
- February 16, 2001
- Discovery of a deficit in key reading and visual centers of the brain could lead to early diagnosis and treatment for a disorder that affects about 15 percent of the population, researchers report.
- Kansan volunteers in India quake relief
- February 16, 2001
- A Hesston man working for a relief agency in India said most homes destroyed in an earthquake there last month were fairly new, although there’s no pattern to the damage.
- Impostor tires of serving someone else’s jail time
- February 16, 2001
- Pierre Carlton easily fooled federal authorities, who, after all, aren’t used to people trying to sneak into prison.
- UCLA knocks off No. 8 Arizona
- February 16, 2001
- Dan Gadzuric shook off the effects of a sprained ankle to score 22 points and grab 17 rebounds as 24th-ranked UCLA upended No. 8 Arizona 79-77 in overtime Thursday night. Gadzuric tied his career highs after missing practice and spending most of the week on crutches because of the left ankle he sprained Saturday.
- Gretzky group takes over
- Hall of Famer has several decisions to make with Coyotes
- February 16, 2001
- The Wayne Gretzky era began Thursday for the Phoenix Coyotes when the former hockey great and developer Steve Ellman completed their $88 million deal to buy the team.
- LHS basketball falls to SM Northwest, 74-61
- February 16, 2001
- By Steve Rottinghaus Shawnee Mission Northwest wreaked more havoc on Lawrence High on Thursday night than a pothole on a Lawrence street. The Cougars, who average just 49 points a game, erupted for 50 second-half points to dump the Lions, 74-61, in a Sunflower League boys basketball game in the SM Northwest gym.
- Lions’ Patton motivated by losses to nemesis
- February 16, 2001
- By Steve Rottinghaus If not for Shawnee Mission North’s Scott Millstead, Lawrence High senior Sean Patton would be an undefeated wrestler. Patton, a 135-pounder, is 31-3 with all three losses to Millstead by close decisions. Millstead eked out a 3-1 win over Patton with a takedown in the last two seconds of their Sunflower League final.
- Driver testifies against ‘Puff Daddy’
- February 16, 2001
- Minutes before he entered a Manhattan hip-hop club, Sean “Puffy” Combs allegedly stuffed a black handgun into the waistband of his pants, his driver testified Thursday.
- United’s Internet special a flight of fancy
- Airline reneges on $25 roundtrip fares to Paris sold last month via Web site
- February 16, 2001
- Want to fly round-trip to Paris for less than $25? United Airlines mistakenly listed such eye-popping fares on its Web site for nearly an hour last month. A total of 143 tickets were sold at the near-giveaway prices before the airline informed the buyers that the fares that looked too good to be true were just that, United said.
- McVeigh doesn’t ask for clemency
- February 16, 2001
- Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh allowed a deadline to pass Thursday without asking the president to spare his life. McVeigh, 32, is scheduled to die by lethal injection May 16 in the first execution by the federal government in 37 years.
- Technology stocks rise despite disappointing earnings
- February 16, 2001
- Technology buying boosted the overall stock market Thursday as investor confidence in the battered sector seemed to be growing.
- Alltel to reduce work force by 1,000
- February 16, 2001
- Alltel Corp. said Thursday that it was eliminating about 1,000 jobs, or 3.7 percent of its work force, through early retirement and layoffs. Alltel, which has about 27,000 employees and customers in 24 states, will reorganize telecommunications offices in Tampa, Fla.; Phoenix; Little Rock, Ark.; Cleveland; and Charlotte, N.C., company spokesman George Smith said.
- Nortel boosts job cuts to 10,000
- Spooked investors wipe out quarter of company’s market value
- February 16, 2001
- Nortel Networks slashed its profit forecasts for 2001 and now plans to cut 10,000 jobs this year, blaming a sharp drop in demand for its fiber-optic equipment on the U.S. economic slowdown.
- Daily ticker
- February 16, 2001
- Depression can have medical consequences
- February 16, 2001
- My wife has been severely depressed for nearly three months. What kind of treatment or therapy would you recommend for her? Get her to a physician, perhaps an internist, as soon as possible.
- Religion briefs
- February 16, 2001
- Catholic singles to have Mardi Gras party Basketball teams win tourney honors Education classes focus on Indian issues Randy Lee slated for Pomona concert Youths to lead Sunday service Richie thomas to talk at Overbrook
- Readers have their say on Delaney sisters’ book
- February 16, 2001
- By Jim Baker The second in a series of five book discussions being held this month for the “Read Across Lawrence” community literacy project featured a lively exchange of ideas about how personal faith shaped the lives of two black sisters depicted in the book “Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters’ First 100 Years.”
- Christian Science’s democratic tenets guide Wisconsin governor
- February 16, 2001
- Believers in Wisconsin, where the world’s first Christian Scientist church was built in 1886, waited a long time for a member of the now-global faith to rise to the state’s highest elective office.
- Spirituality
- February 16, 2001
- Rabbi writes book after murder in congregation Catholic agency names ‘Crouching Tiger’ best movie
- Nuclear power
- February 16, 2001
- Capitol Hill collision is coming
- February 16, 2001
- By Jack Anderson and Douglas Cohn United Feature Syndicate A collision is coming on Capitol Hill. In one direction, speeding ahead at full throttle, is President George W. Bush’s tax cut plan. In the other direction, moving slower but inexorably, is the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform bill.
- Farming mission
- February 16, 2001
- J-W Editorials The work of Kansas farmers and Catholic bishops isn’t as far apart as it may seem. A group of Catholic bishops may seem an unlikely champion for American farmers. But when you think again, maybe it’s an appropriate match religious leaders supporting family farmers, most of whom look at the land they work as a sacred trust.
- Iowa State shorthanded, just like KU
- February 16, 2001
- By Gary Bedore Kansas isn’t the only team with personnel problems entering Saturday’s showdown with Iowa State in Ames, Iowa. ISU senior point guard Jamaal Tinsley has been in his hometown of Brooklyn, N.Y., since Sunday, spending time with his grandmother, who suffered a stroke last weekend.
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