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- SUN COMPOSERS CONVERGE FOR RECITALS, CONCERTS
- March 27, 2001
- Composers conference features recitals, concerts J-W Staff Reports
- CITY CONTENDERS DEBATE GROWTH ISSUES
- March 27, 2001
- jmathis@ljworld.com Growth — in the city and in property taxes — was the hot topic Monday night at a televised forum for Lawrence City Commission candidates.
- LAWRENCE BOARD CANDIDATES LOOK TO FUTURE BOND ISSUE
- March 27, 2001
- tcarpenter@ljworld.com Lawrence school board candidates agreed Monday that a massive bond issue to improve public school facilities is inevitable.
- SCOTT BAILEY CAMPAIGN FUNDS
- March 27, 2001
- Here is a listing, by candidate, of donors in the most recent Lawrence City Commission campaign reporting period. The reports, which cover the reporting period from Feb. 16-March 22, were filed with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission.
- LHS BASEBALL GLANCE
- March 27, 2001
- Roster Seniors: Damon Benitez, Brandon Bingham, Ryan Chapman.
- SOUNDOFF ON BAR PATRONS
- March 27, 2001
- Are there any regulations against bar patrons using residential parking? This is particularly an issue near Cadillac Ranch. It seems overrun by bar patrons, who generate a lot of trash and harass residents. Is there anything that can be done about that? City Manager Mike Wildgen said: “There can’t be parking restrictions just for certain establishment users. Restrictions would apply to anyone parking a vehicle.
- CANDIDATES TURN IN SECOND ROUND OF FINANCE REPORTS
- March 27, 2001
- jmathis@ljworld.com www.ljworld.com/section/election01
- KU SOFTBALL TO PLAY TODAY, WEDNESDAY
- March 27, 2001
- SOFTBALL UMKC travels to KU today
- CENSUS NUMBERS FALL SHORT
- March 27, 2001
- jludwig@ljworld.com www.ljworld.com/section/census
- LOCAL BRIEFS
- March 27, 2001
- Behind Travis Hurst’s 36-hole score of 142 strokes, Kansas University’s was tied for the lead of the Stevinson Ranch Invitational on Monday. KU and Tulsa share the team lead with 597 strokes.
- TRASH HAULER INJURED
- March 27, 2001
- kbates@ljworld.com A Lawrence trash hauler was critically injured Monday morning when a car struck him.
- MUST - GREEK ORGANIZATIONS SPONSOR SPEAKER
- March 27, 2001
- Greek organizations sponsor speaker MORE: www.willkeim.com
- MCLOUTH SHINES IN SOFTBALL DEBUT
- March 27, 2001
- J-W Staff Report Effingham — McLouth High had a ball at its softball inauguration Monday.
- LEADERSHIP DOUGLAS COUNTY BANK HIRES NEW PRESIDENT
- March 27, 2001
- mfagan@ljworld.com Douglas County Bank’s new president hadn’t planned on returning to Lawrence for work, but it turns out the city’s healthy growth, vibrant culture and solid business community were impossible to turn down.
- (BREAKOUT BOX) TAGGART FILE
- March 27, 2001
- Taggart profile Who: Ted Taggart
- S STATS ROUNDUP
- March 27, 2001
- J-W Staff Report This was a gang that COULD shoot straight.
- S LUNCH
- March 27, 2001
- srothschild@ljworld.com www.ljworld.com/section/legislature
- S CLOSE
- March 27, 2001
- Local markets As of Monday’s close, courtesy of Farmers Cooperative Assn. South Elevator — Wheat, NA; soybeans, $4.16; milo, $1.71; corn, $1.78. Midland Elevator — Wheat, NA; soybeans, $4.16; milo, NA; corn, $1.78. North Elevator — Wheat, $2.71; soybeans, $4.16; milo, $1.71; corn, $1.78.
- BLOTTER
- March 27, 2001
- Law enforcement report Burglaries and thefts reported
- MARY FOSTER OBITUARY
- March 27, 2001
- Mary Foster Services for Mary Pauline (Calvert) Foster, 82, Eudora, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery.
- EVA WRIGHT OBITUARY
- March 27, 2001
- Eva Wright Winchester - Services for Eva Mae Wright, 77, Bonner Springs, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Winchester United Methodist Church. Cremation is planned, and inurnment will be in Carlisle (Ky.) Cemetery.
- ANNA HEY OBITUARY
- March 27, 2001
- Anna Hey Baldwin — Memorial services for Anna K. Hey, 82, Baldwin, will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church, Baldwin. Cremation has taken place, and inurnment will be at a later date.
- AVA LATHROM OBITUARY
- March 27, 2001
- Ava Lathrom Private graveside services for Ava Mary Lathrom, 83, Lawrence, will be Friday at Oak Hill Cemetery.
- KU GOLF RESULTS
- March 27, 2001
- College Results STEVINSON RANCH INVITATIONAL
- Douglas County Bank hires president
- March 27, 2001
- By Mark Fagan Douglas County Bank’s new president hadn’t planned on returning to Lawrence for work, but it turns out the city’s healthy growth, vibrant culture and solid business community were impossible to turn down.
- FSHS baseball has holes to fill
- Firebirds try single-game slate to get more playing dates
- March 27, 2001
- By Robert Sinclair Free State High’s baseball team is undergoing some changes this season in more ways than one.
- Can LHS baseball top last season?
- ‘Spoiled’ Lions lost bulk of production from title team
- March 27, 2001
- By Steve Rottinghaus Imagine a Ferrari as your first car rather than a hand-me-down from grandma.
- Knight off to predictable start at Tech
- Former Indiana basketball coach demands and probably will get autonomy in Lubbock, Texas
- March 27, 2001
- Texas Tech athletics director Gerald Myers believes in Bob Knight.
- 4-1 ROGER MARTIN COLUMN
- March 27, 2001
- What does Craig Freeman see outside his office window? “Electrical transformers,” he laughs.
- TV REPLAY
- March 27, 2001
- A replay of Monday’s city commission candidates forum and a school board candidates forum taped March 12 will be cablecast next Monday, the day before the election. Tune in to Sunflower Cable channel 6 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to see both forums.
- LHS BASEBALL WILL HAVE HARD TIME MATCHING LAST YEAR
- March 27, 2001
- srottinghaus@ljworld.com Imagine a Ferrari as your first car rather than a hand-me-down from grandma.
- 3-27 DID YOU WATCH THE OSCARS?
- March 27, 2001
- Did you watch the Oscars?
- BIRTHS
- March 27, 2001
- * Matt and Anne Hyde, Lawrence, a girl, Sunday. * Jason and Morgan Acker, Overbrook, a girl, Sunday.
- ALL-AREA BBALL TEAM PICS
- March 27, 2001
- Melissa Lacey/Journal-World Photos THE JOURNAL-WORLD 2001 ALL-AREA BOYS basketball team is, from left, adam Spratt, ottawa, coach Kermit Deterding, Wellsville, Heath Knight, Baldwin, Josh Flett, Wellsville, Matt Fisher, Eudora, and NAthan Steward, Ottawa.
- TUESDAY DATEBOOK
- March 27, 2001
- TODAY 9 a.m.-11 a.m.: Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program for low-income, elderly and disabled individuals, Penn House, 1035 Pa., 842-0440. Also 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
- 3-26 LJW ONLINE PROMO
- March 27, 2001
- Current and previous articles about technology are available at www.ljworld.com/section/howto_tech.
- Friends and neighbors
- March 27, 2001
- Physical Illinois-Arizona game sounds like broken record
- March 27, 2001
- By Chuck Woodlingg It was a comment I’ve heard from losing players and coaches countless times over the years.
- Tiger tames Singh at TPC
- Woods wins by one to claim second straight tournament
- March 27, 2001
- Tiger Woods crouched and cupped his hands over his brow to study the slope in his 45-foot eagle putt on the 16th hole. Out of the corner of his eye, across the water to a tiny patch of land, he could see his final challenge.
- Topeka teen-ager admits to carjacking
- March 27, 2001
- A Topeka man pleaded guilty on Monday to a Shawnee County carjacking that resulted in an unsuccessful police chase through Douglas County.
- Briefly
- March 27, 2001
- Police called to school to investigate threat Home Depot returns to planning agenda City, board candidates share views at forums Former FBI director to appear in Ottawa
- City candidates disclose finances
- March 27, 2001
- By Joel Mathis David Dunfield ranked sixth among 12 candidates when it came to raising money during the primary campaign for Lawrence City Commission. But new campaign-finance disclosures Monday show that since the Feb. 27 primary, the incumbent commissioner has raised and spent more than any other candidate.
- Nation briefs
- March 27, 2001
- Snow records fall around Great Lakes Mars Polar Lander may have been located Traffic stop yields murder suspects
- Video recorders watching consumers
- March 27, 2001
- While you are watching television, your fancy new personal video recorder is telling others about your viewing habits.
- Capital punishment reviewed for mentally disabled inmates
- March 27, 2001
- The Supreme Court rejoined the heated national debate over the death penalty Monday, announcing it will decide whether the Constitution’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” bars execution of mentally disabled people.
- World briefs
- March 27, 2001
- Baker named to Japan post Oscar ratings worst ever White supremacist gets life for hate crime Orthodox teen monk confesses to killing nun
- Germans protest nuclear shipment
- March 27, 2001
- A train loaded with some 60 tons of nuclear waste in six sealed containers crossed into Germany from France late Monday, angrily awaited by protesters along its route to a waste dump.
- Dorm fire kills 58 in Kenya
- March 27, 2001
- A gasoline-fueled fire struck a dormitory crowded with sleeping schoolboys on Monday, killing 58 teen-agers. The building had only one unlocked door, and many boys died as they struggled to escape through the 10 barred windows.
- Bush pushes tax cuts during stopover in KC
- President seeks support for plan
- March 27, 2001
- Quentin Edwards, age 3, eyeballed George W. Bush and popped the question. “What do you do?”
- THREATENING MESSAGE FOUND AT SOUTHWEST RESTROOM
- March 27, 2001
- Police called to school to investigate threat
- TUESDAY WOODLING COLUMN
- March 27, 2001
- It was a comment I’ve heard from losing players and coaches countless times over the years. “We didn’t get any breaks today,” Illinois men’s basketball coach Bill Self remarked Sunday after a foul-filled 87-81 loss to Arizona in the NCAA Midwest Regional final.
- FSHS BASEBALL PREVIEW
- March 27, 2001
- rsinclair@ljworld.com Free State High’s baseball team is undergoing some changes this season ” in more ways than one.
- BUSINESS BRIEFCASE FOR TUESDAY
- March 27, 2001
- Comair strike cancels hundreds of flights
- STUDENT REELS IN PRESTIGIOUS AWARD
- March 27, 2001
- mbelt@ljworld.com www.ljworld.com/section/kunews
- THELMA COY OBITUARY
- March 27, 2001
- Thelma Coy Services for Thelma G. Davison Coy, 92, Lawrence, are pending and will be announced by Warren-McElwain Mortuary.
- S BASKETBALL STATS
- March 27, 2001
- G-GS Min. FG-A Pct. FT-A Pct. Reb. Pts. Avg. Drew Gooden 28-20 27.2 166-322 .516 105-162 .648 8.4 441 15.8
- S CLOSE
- March 27, 2001
- Dow Industrials +182.75, 9,687.53
- MITSCHER SERVICES
- March 27, 2001
- Military graveside services for Ronald E. Mitscher, 55, Henderson, Nev., will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Leavenworth National Cemetery. Mr. Mitscher died Friday, March 9, 2001, at his home.
- SIMIEN BRIEF
- March 27, 2001
- J-W Staff Report Kansas basketball signee Wayne Simien has re-injured his right shoulder and will not be able to play in Wednesday’s McDonald’s All-America game in Durham, N.C.
- Unwed daughter should pick response to her pregnancy
- March 27, 2001
- Blue chips continue recovery
- Analysts warn gains might not stick around
- March 27, 2001
- The Dow Jones industrials scored their second straight triple-digit gain Monday, as investors grew more optimistic that Wall Street might be recovering after two weeks of heavy losses.
- Wells to receive award
- March 27, 2001
- Former Lawrence High volleyball coach Joan Wells, who still teaches physical education at LHS, has been selected the Kansas representative for the National Assn. for Girls and Women in Sport Pathfinder Award.
- City campaign donors listed
- March 27, 2001
- Here is a listing, by candidate, of donors in the most recent Lawrence City Commission campaign reporting period. The listings, which cover the reporting period from Feb. 16-March 22, were filed with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission.
- Lawrence briefs
- March 27, 2001
- Greek organizations sponsor speaker Transformer work to close recreation center Report leads to arrests for methamphetamine Juveniles in custody for vehicle break-ins
- KU student reels in prestigious scholarship
- 21-year-old to use Truman award in pursuit of environmental law career
- March 27, 2001
- By Mike Belt Karrigan Bork had no idea a relaxing day in waders casting a fly-rod for salmon or trout would one day lead to a prestigious scholarship and point him toward a career in government.
- Rate hike could top 40 percent
- March 27, 2001
- California’s top power regulator proposed a nearly 50 percent increase in electricity rates Monday for some 10 million homes and businesses, hoping to stave off blackouts this summer by encouraging conservation.
- Poll: Consumers unaware of biotech foods’ prevalence
- March 27, 2001
- Nearly 60 percent of people in a new poll said they didn’t want genetically engineered crops introduced into the food supply. But when informed the ingredients were already in at least half the products on store shelves, almost half said they must be safe.
- Water rules win approval
- March 27, 2001
- By Scott Rothschild State and federal officials Monday announced they have reached an agreement that they said will put Kansas streams and rivers in compliance with federal water-quality regulations.
- Firm’s owner wishes Bush luck
- President’s speech leaves some greeting-card workers unmoved
- March 27, 2001
- Workers at a small greeting-card assembly plant briefly stopped folding and gluing Monday as President Bush told them why his proposed tax cut would help employers like theirs. Occasionally, some of Bajan Industries Inc.’s 100 employees joined in the more enthusiastic applause of about 300 invited guests seated in their midst.
- CARJACKER SENTENCED
- March 27, 2001
- Topeka teen-ager admits to carjacking
- Briefcase
- March 27, 2001
- Comair strike cancels hundreds of flights Conexant to cut jobs LSI Logic Corp to purchase C-Cube Microsystems Walgreen announces earnings increase
- League to players: Taunt no more
- Rules-making committee announces it will crack down on violators
- March 27, 2001
- Football’s elders will speak symbolically this week to every kid playing football professional, college and high school.
- College briefs
- March 27, 2001
- Lappas hired as UMass coach Calipari leads Memphis to semis Source: Wright to coach Villanova
- Kansas men’s golf tied for tourney lead
- March 27, 2001
- Half of abortions in Kansas performed on out-of-state women
- March 27, 2001
- Nearly half the women who had abortions in Kansas last year were from other states, an agency reported Monday, and legislators cited Dr. George Tiller’s Wichita clinic as the main reason.
- Workers cry foul over grades
- March 27, 2001
- By Claude Lewis Philadelphia Inquirer At least three of America’s largest companies now face lawsuits by employees charging management with discrimination. The complaints are aimed at a new method of ranking managers, professionals as well as entry-level workers.
- Children must come first
- March 27, 2001
- By Cal Thomas Tribune Media Services President Bush wants to spend millions of dollars on “character” education in government-run schools. My parents gave me mine for free.
- Contribution limit deserves second look
- March 27, 2001
- By David Broder Washington Post Writers Group Much has changed in America since 1974, the year that Richard Nixon was forced to resign from the presidency. Since then, we have had six other presidents, the arrival of the Internet and enough inflation to make the 1974 dollar worth about 35 cents.
- Mary Foster
- March 27, 2001
- McVeigh’s prison letters provide glimpse of psyche
- March 27, 2001
- Timothy McVeigh complains about life in his cell, jokes about his favorite TV shows and laments the children burned to death in the cult disaster at Waco.
- On the run for the money
- Bands make a dash for cash on new VH-1 game show
- March 27, 2001
- Call it “Survivor” with music.
- SUN TOPEKA BALLET CUT
- March 27, 2001
- THE METROPOLITAN BALLET of Topeka will perform “Cinderella” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. April 1 at the Topeka Performing Arts Center, 214 S.E. Eighth, Topeka.
- EPA AND STATE STRIKE WATER DEAL
- March 27, 2001
- srothschild@ljworld.com www.ljworld.com/section/legislature
- Horoscopes
- March 27, 2001
- With immigration deadline looming, marriages are blooming
- March 27, 2001
- Wearing a cream-colored spaghetti-strap gown, Ana Jimenez waited patiently in the city clerk’s office for her wedding to Dionicio Presbitero.
- SWIM TEAM OFFER NOT ENOUGH
- March 27, 2001
- dranney@ljworld.com www.kusports.com/m_swimming
- Johnson & Johnson to buy Alza
- March 27, 2001
- Health-care giant Johnson & Johnson reportedly will buy drug-delivery specialist Alza Corp. in an $11.8 billion stock deal analysts say would make it cheaper for J&J to find the most effective ways for patients to take its drugs.
- Iverson propels 76ers
- Philadelphia snaps five-game skid, 90-78
- March 27, 2001
- Allen Iverson says he knows he’s injured when someone can defend him. If that’s the case, then he must be better.
- House advances bill to finance improvements
- March 27, 2001
- The House kicked off this week’s legislative debate over the state budget by giving first-round approval Monday to the least controversial spending bill on its agenda.
- People
- March 27, 2001
- Cuba mission Balancing act Power play Performance gets thumbs-down
- JOHNSON TO BUY ALZA
- March 27, 2001
- J-W Staff and Wire Reports Health care giant Johnson & Johnson will reportedly buy drug-delivery specialist Alza Corp. in an $11.8 billion stock deal analysts say would make it cheaper for J&J to find the most effective ways for patients to take its drugs.
- OTTO BRETZ OBITUARY
- March 27, 2001
- Otto Bretz Tonganoxie — Services for Otto L. Bretz, 90, Leavenworth, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Quisenberry Chapel, Tonganoxie. Burial will be in Hubbel Hill Cemetery, Tonganoxie.
- Husband needs help after job loss triggers depression
- March 27, 2001
- Online brokers trying to survive slowdown
- Mydiscountbroker.com jingle leaves mark
- March 27, 2001
- It was an obnoxious little jingle that intruded upon the subconscious. Like an unwanted houseguest, it just wouldn’t go away. In the spring of 1998, viewers of CNBC television watched a bright red dancing dot sing: “Myyyyyyy Discount Broker is so fast and eeeeasy.”
- Grizzlies, Hornets apply to move to NBA-less Memphis
- March 27, 2001
- Faster than you can say barbecue and Elvis, Memphis has gone from no NBA teams to having two franchises that have applied to move there.
- Lend an ear
- March 27, 2001
- J-W Editorials A caring conversation may be the difference between life and death for a troubled young person.
- World briefs
- March 27, 2001
- Islamic edict bans Pokemon games Palestinian gunmen kill 10-month-old girl Pipeline opens to export oil Glitch found at new nuclear reactor
- County commission briefs
- March 27, 2001
- Skiing dates set for Lone Star Lake KDOT to reimburse for road damage Dredging permit extension approved
- COUNTY COMMISSION BRIEFS
- March 27, 2001
- Skiing dates set for Lone Star Lake
- Briefcase
- March 27, 2001
- Raytheon wins approval for jet Sears picking up 28 Ward, auto sites
- Home sales down
- Midwest leads February decline
- March 27, 2001
- Sales of new and existing homes both dipped in February, but demand remained strong as housing continued to demonstrate few adverse effects from the economic slowdown.
- Daily ticker
- March 27, 2001
- Writer says Knight’s class demanding
- March 27, 2001
- A Dallas Morning News writer who took a class from Bobby Knight at Indiana University says he was a demanding teacher who wouldn’t tolerate absence or tardiness.
- KC sinks Cincy
- March 27, 2001
- Kansas City’s Jermaine Dye hit a two-run homer, his club-leading fifth, in the seventh inning off Justin Atchley to lift the Royals to a 3-2 victory over Cincinnati on Monday.
- Gordon-Stewart feud fires up again Sunday
- Drivers trade paint during, after race
- March 27, 2001
- At the height of their feud last season, Jeff Gordon threatened to knock Tony Stewart into a wall the next chance he had.
- KU effective shooting in 2000-01
- Sophomore Collison helped Jayhawks’ percentage from field
- March 27, 2001
- This was a gang that COULD shoot straight.
- UConn, Notre Dame, Purdue advance
- March 27, 2001
- Diana Taurasi dominated with her shooting and court savvy as Connecticut rolled into the women’s Final Four again with a 67-48 victory over Louisiana Tech on Monday night.
- Bears reach Final Four, 104-87
- Stiles scores 32 points to lead SMS to trip to St. Louis
- March 27, 2001
- She wowed them in the West. Now Jackie Stiles is headed back to Missouri to the biggest stage of all.
- Senators set milestone
- Ottawa reaches 100 points in 3-3 tie with Philly
- March 27, 2001
- The Philadelphia Flyers lost a chance at a win, and might have lost Keith Primeau for a while.
- NBA briefs
- March 27, 2001
- Rockets’ Olajuwon to play against Jazz Chinese standout Wang could play next month
- KU football aides Farley, Salmon on UNI’s list
- March 27, 2001
- Two Kansas assistant coaches are on the short list of candidates for the head football job at the University of Northern Iowa.
- Williams father claims prejudice
- Family disputes claims of match-fixing at tourney
- March 27, 2001
- The father of Venus and Serena Williams said the jeers directed at his family during a tournament in Indian Wells, Calif., were racially motivated.
- Sideline
- March 27, 2001
- KC announces TV schedule Ratings up Sunday, still down
- UMKC travels to KU today
- March 27, 2001
- Fresh from a two-game weekend sweep of Texas, Kansas University’s softball team has home doubleheaders scheduled today and Wednesday.
- Griffey helped off field
- Cincinnati center fielder strains left hamstring
- March 27, 2001
- Ken Griffey Jr. had to be helped off the field Monday after sustaining another hamstring injury only a week before opening day. The Cincinnati Reds center fielder slipped as he rounded third while trying to score on a single during the seventh inning of Kansas City’s 3-2 victory, straining his left hamstring.
- KU signee re-injured, won’t play
- March 27, 2001
- Kansas basketball signee Wayne Simien has re-injured his right shoulder and will not be able to play in Wednesday’s McDonald’s All-America game in Durham, N.C. Simien re-separated his shoulder at practice Monday at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium. He watched Monday night’s slam dunk contest from the bench with his arm in a sling.
- House tentatively backs Oz extension
- March 27, 2001
- Forget going over the rainbow. Legislators just wanted to get over Oz the proposed theme park, that is.
- Smart parks
- March 27, 2001
- A beacon of hope?
- March 27, 2001
- Rural trend
- March 27, 2001
- ‘Most Wanted’ fugitive caught in Kansas
- March 27, 2001
- A weekend broadcast on the “America’s Most Wanted” television program led to the arrest in southeast Kansas of a West Virginia couple wanted there on charges of sexually abusing children.
- OKC victim’s father rethinks death penalty
- March 27, 2001
- For a while, Bud Welch wished Timothy McVeigh dead.
- Teen-ager maneuvers for bond
- Youth one of three held in Hoyt school threat
- March 27, 2001
- One of three teen-agers charged in what authorities call a Columbine-style plot against their high school may get a chance later this week to post bond because of a legal move by his attorney.
- City contenders debate growth issues
- March 27, 2001
- By Joel Mathis Growth in the city and in property taxes was the hot topic Monday night at a televised forum for Lawrence City Commission candidates.
- Facilities needs dominate school board forum
- March 27, 2001
- By Tim Carpenter Lawrence school board candidates agreed Monday that a massive bond issue to improve public school facilities is inevitable.
- Sanitation worker hit by car
- Police investigating injury accident involving 16-year-old
- March 27, 2001
- By Kevin Bates A Lawrence trash hauler was critically injured Monday morning when a car struck him.
- Lawmaker’s lunch plan leaves bad taste in some mouths
- March 27, 2001
- By Scott Rothschild A luncheon organized by a Republican congressman to discuss President Bush’s faith-based initiative has raised the ire of at least one Democratic lawmaker here.
- On the record
- March 27, 2001
- Baldwin, Eudora counted on more
- Douglas County cities surprised by population
- March 27, 2001
- By Joy Ludwig Everyone knows Douglas County is growing, but census numbers show two cities fell short of expectations. City and school officials in Baldwin and Eudora thought they had about 2,000 more people than the population numbers showed.
- N.Y.’s largest insurer takes on tobacco industry
- March 27, 2001
- The tobacco industry was back on trial Monday, this time accused by New York’s largest insurance company of conspiring to conceal the risks of smoking.
- Nurse sentenced to life in VA deaths
- March 27, 2001
- A federal jury on Monday decided on life imprisonment for a former veterans hospital nurse who killed four patients by injecting them with a heart stimulant.
- Dartmouth murders linked to teen-agers
- March 27, 2001
- Knives found in the bedroom of one of the teen-agers accused of murdering two Dartmouth College professors were stained with blood matching one of the victims, according to court documents released Monday.
- U.N. may monitor Iraq for smuggling
- March 27, 2001
- U.N. monitors may be stationed near Iraq’s borders and oil revenue placed under direct U.N. control to prevent President Saddam Hussein from smuggling in weapons of mass destruction.
- Taliban take foreigners to visit demolished Buddha statues
- March 27, 2001
- Taliban soldiers on Monday showed off the yawning chasms where two soaring Buddha statues once stood, allowing foreigners a first glimpse of the sandstone rubble that is all that remains of the ancient wonders.
- Shooting suspects appear in court
- March 27, 2001
- An 18-year-old student accused of opening fire at his high school last week told a judge through a shattered jaw Monday that he was innocent of attempted murder and assault charges.
- Acetaminophen overdoses cause concern for FDA
- March 27, 2001
- Evidence that many Americans may poison their livers by unwittingly taking toxic doses of acetaminophen has the government considering if consumers need stiffer warnings about the popular over-the-counter painkiller.
- Military reeling after pair of mishaps
- March 27, 2001
- U.S. military aviation suffered two blows Monday with the fatal crash of an Army plane in Germany and the disappearance and apparent loss of two Air Force fighter jets in Scotland.
- Child-porn suspects snared in Web site investigation
- March 27, 2001
- A Russian Web site that sold videotapes of children engaged in sexual acts has been shut down and nine people arrested, U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday. Many of the tapes were bought by people in the United States.
- Chicago superstation pulls plug on 40 years of Bozo
- March 27, 2001
- “Bozo’s Circus” is off the air. The Chicago television institution, and one of the longest-running locally produced children’s shows in the country, was canceled by national superstation WGN-TV on Friday.
- Oscar winners bring attention to threat of Hollywood strikes
- March 27, 2001
- Sure, Hollywood celebrated at Sunday’s Academy Awards show. But many of those entertainers might not be working several months from now.
- Affirmative action gets new look from court
- Justices to hear case of white contractor
- March 27, 2001
- The Supreme Court, reopening the question of affirmative action, agreed Monday to refine its view of whether federal programs intended to help minority businesses amount to reverse discrimination against whites.
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