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- Two postal workers die apparently of anthrax
- Two more hospitalized
- October 22, 2001
- (Web Posted Monday at 4:04 p.m.) Two postal workers at a site that handles mail for the Capitol died Monday, apparently from anthrax, officials said, and two more remained hospitalized with the life-threatening disease as the nation’s bioterror casualty count mounted.
- Second D.C. postal worker has inhalation anthrax
- Two other postal workers’ deaths seen as suspicious
- October 22, 2001
- (Updated Monday at 1:06 p.m.) Two Washington-area postal workers have been diagnosed with inhalation anthrax and two more employees at the same facility have died of symptoms consistent with the disease, officials said Monday as the nation grappled with an unprecedented bioterrorism threat.
- U.S. jets press attacks on Taliban positions
- Taliban claim hospital was hit
- October 22, 2001
- (Updated Monday at 12:55 p.m.) U.S. jets pounded Taliban positions Monday near front lines outside the Afghan capital and a key northern city, the Taliban said. The attacks appeared aimed at helping Afghan opposition forces advance.
- City Slow-Pitch Standings
- October 22, 2001
- City Standings Men’s Friday One (Final): Stuff 9-1, Ray’s Liquor 6-4, Antiplayers 5-5, ‘85 Royals 5-5, Morningstar Painting 0-10.
- City volleyball standings
- October 22, 2001
- City Standings Coed Power One: Out of Control 15-0, Bollo 11-4, Brady Chiropractic 6-6, Playing for Beer 5-7, Chickamajones 5-7, Spike Mine 3-12, Serve & Volleyballers 3-12.
- City basketball standings
- October 22, 2001
- City Standings Men’s 1-2: Bad News Ballers 1-0, Green 1-0, Captains 1-0, Big Boyz Club 0-1, Phi Delta Theta 0-1, CMB 0-1.
- What’s new
- October 22, 2001
- New-generation wireless makes waves in Korea Site to see: Etree.org Software helps you go face-to-face with your PC
- Kansan hoping for greater success with Christmas song
- October 22, 2001
- After a Christmas song he wrote 10 years ago sold many times over what he expected when marketed for the first time last year, Tim Schumacher has high hopes as he gears up for a second season.
- Country stands united
- Nashville concert wraps up weekend of musical benefits
- October 22, 2001
- Themes of patriotism, generosity and defiance of terrorism sounded as top country stars staged the Country Freedom Concert, the third benefit concert of the weekend.
- Lawrence briefs
- October 22, 2001
- Four robbed at gunpoint in Lawrence apartment Flu shots available for high-risk residents Employee closes store after harassing call
- City considers ‘big box’ rezoning
- October 22, 2001
- The Lawrence City Commission will consider giving approval to rezoning requests for a “big box” home improvement store on the northwest corner of Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive
- Former Green Beret offers insight on war
- Special forces probably got involved weeks ago, retired officer says
- October 22, 2001
- By Mike Belt When U.S. Army Rangers launched raids in Afghanistan, most likely Green Berets were already there scouting the target. And former Green Beret Mark Johnson knows what that’s like.
- Repeat difficult for Super Bowl teams
- Ravens struggling much like St. Louis did following championship season
- October 22, 2001
- Take it from Adam Timmerman, who’s been on Super Bowl winners in St. Louis and Green Bay. No matter how much a team thinks it’s ready to repeat, it isn’t.
- Charities expect fewer donations
- Gifts toward Sept. 11 relief may deter contributions for local causes
- October 22, 2001
- By Scott Rothschild Local charities and non-profit groups are concerned donations to relief efforts related to the Sept. 11 attack may reduce giving to other worthy causes.
- Sand and gravel industry upset by water-use law
- Regulations could drive companies out of business, operators say
- October 22, 2001
- Kansas’ $125 million sand and gravel industry is warning that a newly passed water-use regulation designed to protect groundwater could eventually spell the industry’s end. The regulation requires sand and gravel companies whose digs cause groundwater evaporation to buy water rights when they expand or move to a new location.
- America battles Taliban abroad, anthrax at home
- U.S. jets strike close to front line
- October 22, 2001
- U.S. warplanes bombarded Taliban positions Sunday near a front line north of the capital, Kabul, marking what could be the start of a more aggressive campaign on behalf of opposition forces fighting the Islamic regime. In Kabul, meanwhile, grieving neighbors pulled dust-covered bodies of seven civilians three women and four children from the ruins of two homes destroyed Sunday by a U.S. bomb. “This pilot was like he was blind!” sobbed one neighbor.v
- Shrine to Elian Gonzalez opens at Miami home
- October 22, 2001
- The small home where Elian Gonzalez lived while at the center of an international custody battle opened Sunday as a shrine to honor him.
- Horoscopes
- October 22, 2001
- CIA given new powers, funds to hunt down bin Laden
- October 22, 2001
- As the U.S. military pursues its mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network, the CIA has been given new powers and money to wage its own war against America’s most wanted terrorist suspect.
- Online matchmaking
- Cyberspace increasingly a place to snare a soul mate
- October 22, 2001
- Turn-ons? Good spelling, proper grammar and long walks on the beach. Turnoffs? Wordy sentences, no punctuation and greasy hair.
- Ottawa to open state against No. 2 Scott City
- October 22, 2001
- Ottawa High (29-10) is the No. 7 seed for the Class 4A state volleyball tournament this weekend at the Bicentennial Center in Salina.
- U.S. prepared to deal justice with bullets
- October 22, 2001
- U.S. commandos are prepared to use deadly force on Osama bin Laden, the nation’s top general said Sunday, as the Pentagon pressed its bombing and covert ground campaign to hunt down America’s No. 1 terrorist suspect. Opening a third week of air strikes, U.S. warplanes hit north of the capital, Kabul. And Afghan officials reported air attacks Sunday around the western city of Herat, Kandahar in the south and the front line positions near the city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
- Kansas clunkers
- October 22, 2001
- J-W Editorials We complain about our state’s image but look what people do to besmirch it. The state of Kansas has had more than its share of silly incidents to tarnish its image, and we can only hope things are going to get better.
- Beau shouldn’t spend the night if it upsets children
- October 22, 2001
- Arizona wins pennant
- October 22, 2001
- Randy Johnson won this one for himself and all the other Arizona old-timers who had never made it to a World Series. The Diamondbacks reached the Series faster than any expansion team ever, doing it in only their fourth year of existence when Johnson pitched them past the Atlanta Braves, 3-2, Sunday night in Game 5 of the NL Championship Series.
- People
- October 22, 2001
- Indian honors Jazz history Quick-change artist A new frontier
- Georgia A. Freeman
- October 22, 2001
- News briefs
- October 22, 2001
- Study: Private prisons provide poor payoff Appeal of execution cites international law Officials test samples of crop duster spray Serb defendant absent from torture trial
- N.Y. looking less liberal
- October 22, 2001
- By George Will Washington Post Writers Group Mark Green’s long shinny up the greasy pole of city politics will almost certainly be crowned with success when he is elected mayor Nov. 6. He has a difficult act to follow. However, he may find governing after Rudy Giuliani made easier, in a sense, by the task of galvanizing the city’s recovery from the trauma of terrorism. The encompassing nature of that challenge will force him to temper his liberalism.
- Paus lifts UCLA over Cal
- October 22, 2001
- California wasn’t about to let DeShaun Foster run wild, as Washington did a week earlier.
- On the money: Municipal bonds offer way to earn money tax-free
- October 22, 2001
- Municipal bonds allow state and local governments to raise money for public service projects, such as highway and school construction. In addition to helping provide the services we need, many municipal bonds also offer a way to earn money tax-free.
- Expert: Parents should teach children money management with allowances
- October 22, 2001
- With children becoming consumers years before the word even appears on their school vocabulary lists, some parents are scrambling to teach their children money management.
- Donors should be flexible when helping victims of attacks
- October 22, 2001
- I don’t think I will ever forget the stories of firefighters and police officers who became victims themselves trying to save people following the Sept. 11 attacks. But there also are the untold stories of those aid workers called collateral victims. During a recent visit to the World Trade Center wreckage, Ani Hurwitz, a senior consultant with the New York Community Trust, put the plight of the victims in perspective.
- Tips for locating health insurance
- October 22, 2001
- Experts have plenty of tips for finding individual health insurance, including these suggestions: Seek professional help. Consulting with an experienced health insurance broker does not increase your costs. Find a broker who offers a wide selection of plans, rather than one who sells a particular company’s products.
- Jobless face unhealthy consequences
- When workers lose their jobs, they often discover finding affordable coverage is difficult
- October 22, 2001
- First, the economy sank Dick Magner’s company and took his telecommunications jobs. Now it’s threatening his health. Magner’s medical coverage, one of the benefits his employer provided, expired in September. And with questions about when or whether he’ll get new health insurance, the soft-spoken electronics engineer faces the uncomfortable prospect of joining the ranks of the uninsured, compounding the strain of being unemployed.
- War sites range from the front lines to ‘Frontline’
- October 22, 2001
- With war on our minds, we go hunting for Web sites about that frightening art.
- Digital recording, storing options abound
- Devices, from disks to DVDs, key to keeping pictures safe at home
- October 22, 2001
- Recently, a friend asked me if there is a difference in image quality when a digital picture is recorded on a CD, compact flash card, smart media card, memory stick or micro drive. He also asked if the recording media had an effect on the life of a picture. The answer to all those good questions is, simply, no. Digital pictures (digital files) look the same when they are recorded on different media.
- First ‘Internet war’ gives Americans non-American viewpoints
- Web sites provide news and perspectives from organizations throughout the world
- October 22, 2001
- For a better understanding of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan and the regional fallout, Robert Greenan turns to Web sites from surrounding countries. Relying on U.S. media alone would leave him with viewpoints diluted “through our cultural upbringing and the way we see the world,” said Greenan, who compiles an online “Global Views” newsletter for the nonprofit Foreign Policy Assn. in New York.
- Plate racing upsetting to drivers
- October 22, 2001
- One by one the drivers poured out of NASCAR’s hauler on Sunday after giving the officials an earful over their dislike for restrictor-plate racing.
- Earnhardt Jr. takes EA Sports 500
- October 22, 2001
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. wanted this victory for all the naysayers out there.
- Blackhawks bump Colorado
- October 22, 2001
- Jon Klemm’s first goal with Chicago snapped a third-period tie as the Blackhawks beat his former team, the Colorado Avalanche, 4-2 Sunday night.
- Braves’ season ends early again
- October 22, 2001
- A 10th straight trip to the postseason ended like nine others. The Braves watched another team celebrate, then tried to figure out why they fell short.
- Dixon might not help Giants tonight
- October 22, 2001
- When the New York Giants beat the Philadelphia Eagles in the playoffs last year, Ron Dixon set the tone.
- Carolina’s Biakabutuka likely out for year
- October 22, 2001
- Junior Seau’s early departure didn’t slow the San Diego Chargers on Sunday. Several other teams could have trouble replacing key offensive players who were injured.
- Wellsville to open with Hillsboro at 3A
- October 22, 2001
- Wellsville High, third at state last fall, is the No. 5 seed with a 27-8 record for the Class 3A state volleyball tournament this weekend at the Bicentennial Center in Salina.
- Free State receives No. 3 seed for state
- October 22, 2001
- Free State High, making its third Class 6A state volleyball appearance in four years, is the No. 3 seed for the weekend tournament at the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka.
- Pats’ Patten does it all
- Player runs, catches and passes for touchdowns
- October 22, 2001
- David Patten did anything and everything the New England Patriots needed. His performance was unlike any other in the NFL in exactly 22 years.
- Davenport dominates Dokic
- American wins sixth tournament title of season
- October 22, 2001
- Lindsay Davenport defeated Jelena Dokic, 6-3, 6-1, Sunday to win the Swisscom Challenge for her sixth title of the season.
- Miami retains top spot in poll
- October 22, 2001
- Miami will enjoy at least another week as the No. 1 team in the AP media poll. The Hurricanes (5-0), idle on a weekend in which two top-10 teams lost for the first time, easily held the top spot in The Associated Press poll.
- Background checks disqualify 300 volunteers
- October 22, 2001
- About 300 people who signed up to volunteer or work for the Winter Olympics have been rejected during criminal background checks. Utah’s Bureau of Criminal Identification says about 3 percent of all Olympic applicants are failing background checks, so thousands more could be turned away.
- New York outlasts Seattle
- October 22, 2001
- In one of the grittiest, yet wildest, postseason games ever, Alfonso Soriano hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the New York Yankees a 3-1 victory over Seattle on Sunday night and move them a win from their fourth straight trip to the World Series. After Seattle’s Bret Boone broke up a scoreless game with an eighth-inning homer off Ramiro Mendoza, Bernie Williams answered with a drive off Arthur Rhodes in the bottom half.
- Chiefs fall short again
- KC drops to 1-5 after Cards stop late drive with interception
- October 22, 2001
- Jake Plummer built his reputation on last-minute comebacks. This time, he watched helplessly from the sidelines as Trent Green tried to perform a miracle finish for the Kansas City Chiefs. Green fell 2 yards short.
- Small investments pay big dividends
- October 22, 2001
- By Dave Ranney Without DCCCA, Tonya Daniels is sure her sister’s children three boys and a girl would be in foster homes. Instead, they’re with her.
- Briefly
- October 22, 2001
- Pentagon identifies soldiers killed in helicopter crash Port closed to prevent extremists from leavingv Coca-Cola plant attacked in anti-U.S. protest
- CIA told to do ‘whatever necessary’ to kill bin Laden
- October 22, 2001
- President Bush last month signed an intelligence order directing the CIA to undertake its most sweeping and lethal covert action since the founding of the agency in 1947, explicitly calling for the destruction of Osama bin Laden and his worldwide al-Qaida network, according to senior government officials.
- Bush, Putin make progress on nuclear weapons issues
- Arsenal cuts, missile defense are top concerns
- October 22, 2001
- President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday they had made progress on a plan to dramatically reduce their nations’ nuclear arsenals and could reach agreement over Bush’s proposal to scrap the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that has helped define U.S.-Russian relations for decades. After meeting with the Russian president for more than an hour on the last day of an Asian-Pacific summit meeting in this Chinese city, Bush said the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings bolstered his case that the U.S. should build a missile defense system to thwart “terrorists who might acquire weapons of mass destruction to be delivered on ballistic missiles,” even though such a system violates the 1972 treaty.
- ‘Riding in Cars’ stops short of ‘Hell’ at box office
- October 22, 2001
- It was an odd mix of kiss kiss, slash slash at the weekend box office as movie-goers split their attention between a 1960s chick flick and a tale of Victorian-era mass murder.
- 16 Muslim rebels killed in Philippines
- October 22, 2001
- Muslim guerrillas and government troops clashed Sunday in the Philippines’ southern Sulu province on Sunday, the military said. Sixteen rebels and one soldier were killed.
- Congress will wrap up year with post-attack measures
- Kansas senators rally support for disease defense, lifting sanctions on Pakistan, additional INS screening
- October 22, 2001
- Measures in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are claiming the lion’s share of the action as Congress wraps up work for the year.
- Two charged in police shooting
- October 22, 2001
- Two Kansas City men were charged Sunday with shooting two off-duty police officers who were providing security near Halloween haunted houses, authorities said. One of the suspects, Joachim B. Jagetz, 22, was shot in the ankle in an exchange of gunfire Saturday night in the city’s West Bottoms warehouse district, said Kansas City police Det. Jarrett Lanpher. The area was crowded with patrons who had lined up to enter the Halloween attractions.
- Yankee-haters change tune
- October 22, 2001
- By Mark Shields Creators Syndicate To be born a Boston Red Sox fan is to learn early, if not always well, that the sick colt will not miraculously recover to win the Kentucky Derby, that the deserving night-school graduate probably will not prevail over the spoiled rich kid, that underdogs are underdogs for a good reason they usually lose. To be a Red Sox fan is both to know that life is not going to work out and to live with a seething hatred for the too rich, too arrogant, and altogether too successful New York Yankees.
- Minority patriot
- October 22, 2001
- Drawing boundaries
- October 22, 2001
- The aftershocks of terrorism
- October 22, 2001
- By Ellen Goodman The Boston Globe Right after Sept. 11, when stunned Americans first looked darkly into the unknown, they asked each other what will it be like to live under a cloud of terrorism.\ The question was shaped rather like a riddle: What do you call a country where people go about life as random targets of suicidal bombers? The answer was one word: Israel.
- Wartime may reap poor behavior by youths
- October 22, 2001
- Teachers and parents shouldn’t be surprised if they see an increase in child behavior problems in the coming months, said David Osher, managing research scientist and director of the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, D.C.
- Sheriff admits to racist e-mail, drops marshal bid
- October 22, 2001
- Pettis County Sheriff Gary Starke, admitting that he distributed a racist joke list by e-mail, has withdrawn his name from consideration for appointment as a U.S. marshal.
- KU Med offers free program on heartburn
- October 22, 2001
- As many as 40 percent of Americans are affected by gastric reflux. Kansas University Medical Center is offering a free program on how to deal with gastroesophageal reflux disease and heartburn at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Wyandotte Room, located just off the main hospital cafeteria.
- Garrett services
- October 22, 2001
- Harsher winter expected
- October 22, 2001
- Old Man Winter is expected to bring below-average temperatures to Missouri and Kansas again during this coming season. “Brace for the cold,” said meteorologist Suzanne Fortin of the weather service office in Pleasant Hill.
- Local briefs
- October 22, 2001
- Zoning: County examines compliance with home occupation rules Douglas County commissioners will receive an update today on efforts to enforce the county’s new home occupation regulations. Staff members with the zoning and codes department will discuss with commissioners the slow response they have received from rural, home-based businesses to register their properties with the county. New regulations require all rural, home-based businesses to register with the county by the end of this year. Some of the largest and most industrial home-based business will be required to relocate or rezone their property within five years, but if they aren’t registered and are detected after the first of the year, they won’t be eligible for the five-year transition period. Commissioners meet at 9 a.m. Monday at the courthouse, 1100 Mass. ___________ Diplomacy: Ex-ambassador to discuss U.S.-Russian relations The last U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union will speak today at Kansas University on relations between the United States and Russia. Jack F. Matlock Jr., who served as ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991, will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Big 12 Room on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union. Matlock also served as a special assistant for national security affairs and senior director for European and Soviet affairs on the National Security Council from 1983 to 1986 under President Reagan. He wrote about his experiences in the 1995 book “Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union.” The lecture is sponsored by the KU Center for Russian and East European Studies and the department of history. ___________ Gasoline: Pump Patrol tracks down lowest prices in town The Journal-World has found a gasoline price as low as $1.079 per gallon at Citgo, West Ninth and Iowa streets. If you find a lower price, please call us at 832-7154. Be prepared to leave the name and address of the business and the price. Or go to www.ljworld.com/section/gasoline to join our Pump Patrol message board.
- Fund-raiser for Democrats pays homage to party’s roots at historic site in Lecompton
- October 22, 2001
- By Mindie Paget The state’s first Democrats used to meet here in a quaint limestone building overlooking the Kansas River. Sunday afternoon, present-day Kansas Democrats rubbed elbows with their counterparts from Kansas’ turbulent territorial period during a fund-raiser at the restored Democratic Headquarters
- Tour touts area’s energy-efficient homes
- Residences made of earth-friendly materials, use renewable sources of power
- October 22, 2001
- By Mindie Paget Just about the only thing not energy-efficient in Tom and Linda McCoy’s Leavenworth County home is the ice maker in their freezer. Tom McCoy, a recently retired Kansas University architecture professor who taught courses in “green” architecture and design, almost growls when he talks about it.
- KU professor’s database can aid terror response
- October 22, 2001
- By Terry Rombeck If terrorists spray hazardous chemicals over a city, Jerry Dobson can tell you how many people it will affect. Dobson, a Kansas University adjunct professor of geography and researcher in the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program, helped design LandScan 2000, a database that combines Census data with other information to give officials a good idea how many people live in a square kilometer anywhere in the world.
- Postal worker’s life in danger from lethal form of bacterium
- October 22, 2001
- A District of Columbia postal worker is “gravely ill” from inhalation anthrax, a rare and lethal form of the disease, officials said Sunday, and five others are sick with suspicious symptoms. The Postal Service closed two facilities and began testing more than 2,200 workers for exposure. The diagnosed man, who was not identified, is the third person in the nation to come down with the most serious form of the disease, where anthrax spores enter the respiratory system and lodge deep in the lungs. Six others, including two postal workers in New Jersey, have been infected with a highly treatable form that is contracted through the skin.
- States turn to tobacco money to balance budgets
- October 22, 2001
- Faced with a ballooning budget deficit, Gov. Bob Taft has proposed borrowing $100 million of the state’s share of the national tobacco settlement to balance the books.
- Jane’s Addiction seeks to move fans at spiritual Jubilee 2001 tour
- October 22, 2001
- When Perry Farrell began working five years ago on a music festival grounded in spirituality, few were interested in his theological views. But that was before planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.
- ‘Raymond’ is a must-see
- October 22, 2001
- Once again, “Everybody Loves Raymond” (8 p.m., CBS) raises the bar for television comedy. In an uproariously funny episode, Marie surprises Ray and Debra with an abstract creation from her sculpture class. They don’t have the heart to tell Marie that it bears a striking resemblance to a part of the female anatomy.
- Former Yugoslav general turns self in
- October 22, 2001
- A former Yugoslav army general charged in the 1991 shelling of the ancient Croatian coastal town of Dubrovnik turned himself over to an international war crimes tribunal Sunday. Dozens of civilians were killed in the attack.
- Winter harsh for homeless
- Organizations stocking up on warm clothing, blankets as cold weather nears
- October 22, 2001
- By Joel Mathis The bitter winter of 2000-2001 taught a lesson to those who run the Community Drop-In Center. “There’s something,” said board member Dan Gardner, “about clean, dry socks.”
- Budget slashing, layoffs expected to harm families
- October 22, 2001
- By Dave Ranney A Lawrence-based program that has helped thousands of troubled Kansas families keep their children from becoming wards of the state and its taxpayers will lay off 30 of 200 workers today. Another 30 will lose their jobs during the next 90 days. Bruce Beale, executive director of DCCCA, ordered the layoffs after learning the program’s family-preservation contract with the state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services would be cut from a projected $12 million to $8.4 million.
- Publishers rush to update history textbooks
- October 22, 2001
- New editions of McGraw-Hill’s history textbooks were ready for the printer when terrorists hijacked airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Suddenly, the books seemed horribly outdated.
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