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- Eudora and Baldwin public schools to be canceled Monday
- February 23, 2003
- (Updated Sunday at 10:37 p.m.) Eudora and Baldwin public school officials announced Sunday night that classes would be canceled on Monday because of the winter storm. Other area school districts announcing class cancellations include Ottawa, Wellsville and Santa Fe Trail. There has been no word yet on Lawrence schools.
- Pet talks can bring family together
- February 23, 2003
- Pets are part of the family. They are domesticated animals living in the human world; we keep them for pleasure, not utility.
- Six more drug cases dismissed
- Fired Lawrence Police officer was to be a witness at trials
- February 23, 2003
- The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office has thrown out at least six more criminal cases in which fired Lawrence Police Officer Stuart “Mike” Peck was supposed to be a witness.
- City study weighing what we consume
- February 23, 2003
- Richard Herries arrived Saturday morning at Wal-Mart with a vehicle stuffed full of plastics, newspapers and bottles ready for the recycling bin.
- Event honors life, works of Kansas Renaissance man
- February 23, 2003
- Gordon Parks was in his 80s when John Pultz visited him in New York, hoping to buy some prints from the famous black photographer.
- ‘At the Hands of Persons Unknown’ details racism
- February 23, 2003
- In 1918 in Valdosta, Ga., a white planter, Hampton Smith, was killed by a rifle shot into his home. His wife, wounded in the shooting, accused a black man, Sidney Johnson, of doing it. But he could not be found. So a frustrated lynch mob hanged other black men instead, including Haynes Turner.
- Start your search engines
- Web sites influence do-it-yourselfers
- February 23, 2003
- I sometimes get teased writing about home improvement since I am much handier in the garden than in the home repair department.
- Pro-marriage policy is like reality TV
- February 23, 2003
- No sooner do we recover from the abject humiliation of “Joe Millionaire” — I can’t believe I saw the whole thing — than along come our friends from Fox with another variation on the theme.
- Obscure game is perfect sport for aging guy
- February 23, 2003
- I decided to take up a sport. I’m 55 years old, and it’s time I did something good for my body, other than occasionally burp it.
- Peril awaits U.S. troops in Philippines
- February 23, 2003
- Opening a new front in the war on terrorism, American soldiers are heading into combat on a rugged island in the southern Philippines long notorious for lawlessness and bloodshed.
- Birthing season can turn house pets into killers
- February 23, 2003
- Game and non-game animals are beginning the most vulnerable time of their lives — birthing season.
- Briefly
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ Florida: Inmate seeks reprieve after inconclusive tests ¢ Illinois: Juveniles must register for life as sex offenders
- Briefly
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ Tokyo: Powell focuses on Koreas during visit to Japan ¢ California: No damage reported after earthquake ¢ Ivory Coast: Rebels insist peace deal grants control of forces
- Arts notes
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ “Blast II” to send shockwaves through Lied ¢ Music service celebrates churches’ founding father ¢ Music service celebrates churches’ founding father
- Arts notes
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ Honor Recital calls for young musicians ¢ Community Theatre to hold auditions
- Kline, Health Midwest claim victory in appellate ruling
- February 23, 2003
- Whether Health Midwest will meet a March 31 deadline to sell its hospital system to HCA Inc. seemed little closer to resolution after a Kansas appellate court ruling Friday.
- Agencies plan cleanup, beautification along Missouri, Kansas rivers
- February 23, 2003
- A coalition of agencies will conduct a cleanup of almost 30 miles of the Missouri and Kansas rivers to boost a future trail system and raise awareness for its natural beauty.
- U.S. hopes to send troops into Turkey this week
- February 23, 2003
- The United States hopes to begin moving troops and supplies into Turkey as early as this week, preparing for an expected second front in a possible war with Iraq, Pentagon officials said Saturday.
- Lawrence commuter report
- February 23, 2003
- Lawrence Art Guild hangs annual All Members Show
- Ann Durham draws inspiration from Southwest
- February 23, 2003
- Ann Durham’s watercolors are infused with the intense hues of the Southwest. One trip to the region back in the 1970s and she was hooked. “I have gone to the Southwest for many, many summers — probably over 20 — to paint,” the Lawrence artist says. “I’m kind of enchanted by the brilliant color and the shifting shadows.”
- Russian folk is signature of Trio Voronezh
- Threesome to play Friday at Lied Center
- February 23, 2003
- Trio Voronezh has come a long way since playing Bach in a subway station in Frankfurt, Germany. That’s where the Russian trio was discovered back in 1993.
- ‘Royal Family’ shines light on theater life
- KU to stage comedy beginning Friday
- February 23, 2003
- In the roaring 20s, before Hollywood celebrities became cultural icons, the spotlight shined on the flamboyant on- and off-stage antics of families in American theater.
- Vending machines dispense tiny art
- February 23, 2003
- Pull a knob on one of these vintage cigarette machine and you may pick up a new habit — buying art. The Art-o-Mat offers miniature paintings, sculpture and other tiny trinkets for not much more than a pack of Parliaments. The concept has hooked accidental art investors with refurbished vending machines in art galleries, coffee shops and grocery stores nationwide.
- Artist’s work colored by railroad career
- February 23, 2003
- Each stroke of Charles L. Amos’ slender brush is colored by a lifetime spent dreaming, learning and teaching people about trains. Enchanted by steam locomotives while growing up in the Baltimore area, Amos became, by turns, a railroad executive, a federal transportation official and the leader of a rail industry trade group.
- On the record
- February 23, 2003
- Area briefs
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ Fatal collision leads to manslaughter arrest ¢ LPD to hire officers ¢ Drivers talking on phone could face $1,000 fine ¢ Groups seek nominees for women’s awards
- A question of faith
- Play’s story of autistic child challenges validity of miracles
- February 23, 2003
- Eve flaps the third and fourth fingers of her left hand rapidly against her palm. She shifts from her left foot to her right and back. She avoids locking eyes with anyone else in the room as she spins a stuffed killer whale named Shamu through somersaults above her head.
- Painter explores life through color
- Creative process helps Filipina-American artist discover identity
- February 23, 2003
- Artist Henri Doner-Hedrick has a “thing about color.” It floods her paintings and pervades her thoughts. It’s inescapably etched on her face, brown with Filipino heritage handed down from her father, who died when she w
- KU professor mines composer’s life for series
- Radio programs capitalize on lifelong fascination with Robert Schumann
- February 23, 2003
- Even in his youth, Tibbetts heard something magnetic in the music of 19th-century German composer and pianist Robert Schumann. On his 16th birthday, Tibbetts’ parents gave him a biography of Schumann for which he’d been lobbying for months.
- Former polio sufferers feel disease’s pull from past
- February 23, 2003
- Ed Bollenbach thought he had had his final encounter with polio in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1954, when the disease cut his legs out from under him while he was walking home from second grade.
- Modern looks from ‘60s part of vintage trend
- February 23, 2003
- In the fashion world, 2003 will be a vintage year for wine. The rich-yet-soothing color flowed freely on the runways during New York Fashion Week.
- Pet owners need to look out for dental disease warning signs
- February 23, 2003
- February marks the ninth consecutive year of the “Pets Need Dental Care, Too” campaign. This is National Pet Dental Health Month, and the national campaign is co-sponsored by the American Veterinary Dental Society, the American Veterinary Medical Association and Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Inc.
- New wine bars savor success
- Trend revives Argentina’s centuries-old wineries
- February 23, 2003
- Spanish monks in the 16th century introduced winemaking here, bent on colonizing the Americas while reticent to give up the Old World pleasures that could be wrung from some of the most fertile farmland on Earth.
- School board candidate survey
- February 23, 2003
- Funding strategy
- February 23, 2003
- A decision that may benefit state universities in the short-term could have a devastating effect on state funding in the long run.
- Lawrence resident critical after crash
- February 23, 2003
- A Lawrence man was in critical condition late Saturday after suffering injuries in an accident in Osage County.
- Oklahoma State outlasts Longhorns
- February 23, 2003
- Third-ranked Texas ran out of time before No. 16 Oklahoma State ran out of players.
- Roundup: Cyclones rally past KSU
- Wildcats blow 16-point second-half lead, fall to ISU, 64-61
- February 23, 2003
- Everything seemed so obvious. Kansas State finally was going to win a Big 12 Conference road game and Iowa State was headed for its fifth straight loss.
- Handicap doesn’t slow crew chief
- Barker, Blaney looking for first Winston Cup victory today
- February 23, 2003
- Robert “Bootie” Barker will talk about the spectacular set of wheels he’s put under Dave Blaney. But not about the wheelchair he sits in.
- NBA Roundup: Hornets punch out Pistons
- Mashburn’s late jumper decisive in 93-91 victory
- February 23, 2003
- Jamal Mashburn couldn’t score 50 points for the second game in a row, but his effort Saturday night was enough for the New Orleans Hornets.
- Buhler explains vote against bi-state tax
- February 23, 2003
- The following is a journal from Sen. Mark Buhler, R-Lawrence, for the week ending Feb. 21.
- Horoscopes
- February 23, 2003
- News shows announce guest lineups
- February 23, 2003
- Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
- ‘Waiting With Gabriel’ tells story of preparing for death, birth of son
- February 23, 2003
- He had 10 tiny fingers, 10 tiny toes and a hint of downy dark hair. He was a perfect newborn — except for his heart.
- Americans literally are scared to death
- February 23, 2003
- I don’t mean to discount the fact that dozens of people were injured and that 21 of them died.
- School option
- February 23, 2003
- 2004 Democrats unified on Bush
- February 23, 2003
- Sen. John Edwards led Democratic presidential candidates in attacking President Bush’s policies Saturday, but differences began to emerge in their strategies to force Bush out of the White House next year.
- Big 12 Women: Wildcats rout Aggies
- Dutmer scores 20 as Kansas State cruises past Texas A&M
- February 23, 2003
- Kansas State reserve Amy Dutmer rendered inconsequential the absence of three-point specialist Laurie Koehn for a seventh straight game.
- Top 25 Roundup: Louisville falls; Pitino ejected
- Free throws help Cincinnati upend No. 4 Cardinals, 101-80
- February 23, 2003
- As the fouls added up and Cincinnati pulled away, Louisville coach Rick Pitino decided he had seen enough.
- Calhoun returns to spark Huskies
- UConn coach back on sideline 16 days after surgery
- February 23, 2003
- Connecticut got off to its fastest start of the season Saturday, and the main man being back on the bench had a lot to do with it.
- NASCAR: Rain not what Rockingham track needed
- February 23, 2003
- Gray skies, high winds and a steady rain is not what North Carolina Speedway needed in its bid to keep two races.
- Arts notes
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ Art in the Park seeking musicians ¢ KU trombone professor, colleagues to perform ¢ Art department students to exhibit works ¢ Recital to honor Polish composer ¢ National evangelist to address Baker ¢ Ozark Mountain Jubilee heads to Ottawa stage ¢ Art department students to exhibit works ¢ KC Symphony to play baroque music concert
- Vera Jean Bylaska
- February 23, 2003
- Fashion briefs
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ Smooth talk ¢ Paisley, please
- City commission candidate survey
- February 23, 2003
- Bookstore
- February 23, 2003
- Diabetes patients may benefit from in-home dialysis device
- February 23, 2003
- There’s no doubt that dialysis saves the lives of people with advanced kidney disease — without it, the toxins in their blood would quickly overwhelm their organs and kill them. But it comes with a price.
- Growth questions fuel city campaigns
- February 23, 2003
- You can’t wait for the new Home Depot near South Iowa Street to open or you cuss it as one more “big box” store in an area that doesn’t need any more.
- In arrears at U.N.
- February 23, 2003
- Well-traveled hurler DeHart finally healthy
- February 23, 2003
- Rick DeHart had scant time between playing in the Mexican League this winter and arriving at the Kansas City Royals’ camp.
- Business briefs
- February 23, 2003
- Arts notes
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ Soloists to perform with Free State orchestra ¢ New art space seeking olive-inspired work ¢ Topeka Civic Theatre to stage ‘Chicago’ ¢ Submissions requested for Lied’s anniversary ¢ Ceramic artist to speak about craft at KU
- People
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ Carey gets his star ¢ Armstrongs on the rocks ¢ Jones chips in for PayCheck’ ¢ Doonesbury’ goes to school
- FBI’s post-Sept. 11 changes also foiling domestic terrorists
- February 23, 2003
- From Ku Klux Klan members to Jewish militants, federal prosecutors have thwarted several would-be domestic terrorists in recent months, using FBI-led task forces whose primary duty is stopping al-Qaida and other international groups.
- Briefly
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ New York: Bayer may have known dangers of drug Baycol ¢ Texas: Professor carried vials of plague on airlines
- Mardi Gras-themed party to benefit Independence Inc.
- February 23, 2003
- “Mardi Gras on the Kaw” will bring the tastes, sights and sounds of Cajun culture to the Kansas River for an evening of costumes and festivities. In the spirit of Fat Tuesday, guests will be presented with a mix of food, wine tasting, and live music with funds benefiting Independence Inc.
- Baker University to hold Gospel Fest
- February 23, 2003
- Baldwin area church and high school choirs will perform Friday during a Gospel Fest organized by Baker University’s Multicultural Affairs Office.
- KU ensemble to premiere professor’s composition
- February 23, 2003
- The KU Wind Ensemble will perform a concert that includes the premiere of a new composition by a Kansas University professor at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Lied Center.
- Danish choreographer says ballet about life of Princess Diana a tribute
- February 23, 2003
- Turning the life of Princess Diana into a ballet was not an easy project for Peter Schaufuss. Schaufuss, a former international ballet star who has created dances based on Elvis Presley and the Beatles, said Friday that it would have been easier to do a ballet about Hans Christian Andersen, the famous Danish author of fairy tales.
- Shoveling snow can cause injuries, death
- February 23, 2003
- Every year, people die from heart attacks triggered by snow shoveling, and uncounted numbers hurt their backs. In the recent snowstorm, two fairly young Rhode Island men — one was in his late 20s — died while shoveling snow, according to Nancy Thomas, spokeswoman for the American Heart Assn.
- How to tell if your pet is in mood to chat
- February 23, 2003
- No one likes the silent treatment — and that goes for pets, too. Jean Craighead George, a naturalist and author of the new children’s books “How to Talk to Your Dog” and “How to Talk to Your Cat” (HarperTrophy) offers these tips to get human-animal conversations started and how to read your cat’s or dog’s mood.
- Bronzed shoes are popular items
- February 23, 2003
- Baby dresses, silver rattles and cups, spoons, dishes, cribs, cradles, even baby walkers from centuries past are popular collector items.
- Bears trap Jayhawks - Baylor 77, Kansas women 61
- BU’s torrid outside shooting proves deadly in KU defeat
- February 23, 2003
- The Kansas University women’s basketball team knew Baylor had a strong inside game.
- Drowning in a sea of fees
- Cable subscribers may see fewer channels, higher rates
- February 23, 2003
- Want to see a good, knock-down, drag-out fight? Think you need to order the latest boxing match on pay-per-view? Think again.
- OU’s Price can deliver knockout
- February 23, 2003
- Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson never tires of watching footage of NBA Hall of Famer Larry Bird, one of the best crunch-time basketball players in history.
- Investors should consider Bush plan
- Education accounts, 401(k)s safe bets
- February 23, 2003
- The two new types of tax-exempt investment accounts proposed by President Bush sound just great, but it could be months before Congress decides whether to go along.
- KU’s bats stay hot in victory
- February 23, 2003
- A 27-degree atmosphere couldn’t cool the Kansas University baseball team’s hot streak. KU pounded 11 hits, including six doubles, and the Jayhawks upended Eastern Michigan, 6-2, Saturday at Hoglund Ballpark for their sixth consecutive win.
- IRS alerts taxpayers to most common scams
- February 23, 2003
- The IRS is urging taxpayers not to be taken in this tax season by a “dirty dozen” of common scams.
- Firebirds, Lions each qualify six for state
- February 23, 2003
- Wrestling coaches talk about how the back door can make a team win or lose a tournament.
- Free State’s Brunfeldt wins 400-freestyle crown
- February 23, 2003
- Free State High’s Alex Brunfeldt wore a sweatshirt and his usual smile Saturday after the Kansas state swimming and diving meet at Kansas State Natatorium.
- Mayer: Roy’s boys show class after fracas
- February 23, 2003
- Nick Collison sacrificed his body for the good of the Kansas University basketball team Sunday against Iowa State, and the officials really shortchanged him. Nick absorbed a terrible working-over by the infamous Jackson Vroman.
- Briefcase
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ Consumers should be on lookout for trickery ¢ Energy: Public given opportunity to invest in ethanol plant ¢ Motley Fool: Name that company
- Bond issue defines school board race
- February 23, 2003
- Lawrence school board members knew their 160-word resolution would light a fuse. And the ensuing fireworks over the official request for voter approval of $59 million in construction bonds have defined the primary election campaign for school board.
- Cowboy, 76, finds fame from years on the ranch
- February 23, 2003
- Mamas who won’t let their babies grow up to be cowboys haven’t met Ross Umholtz.
- Counselors advise on prescription costs
- February 23, 2003
- The nearly 400 counselors in Kansas who field questions about Medicare are asked about one topic more than any other. The callers want advice on how to obtain prescription drugs at prices they can afford, said Cynthia Bailey of the Kansas Insurance Department.
- Welfare cuts strain family
- Subsidy loss not part of unspoken deal between Baldwin household, state
- February 23, 2003
- Until last month, 11-year-old Ayla Vesecky’s special diapers cost taxpayers about $150 a month.
- Bereaved mourn as fire probe continues
- Club’s owner says blaze ‘is a horror that will haunt my family for the rest of our lives’
- February 23, 2003
- They chainsmoked, dialed and redialed cell phones and hugged friends tight. But hope faded to mourning for the families of the 96 victims of the nightclub inferno, as coroners examined wedding rings and tattoos, and identified the first 15 bodies Saturday.
- Douglas County Senior Services
- February 23, 2003
- Douglas County Senior Services, 745 Vt., offers several classes. All Douglas County residents age 55 and older may participate. Future seniors are welcome to participate if space allows.
- Stamp celebrates West Point bicentennial
- February 23, 2003
- The United States is on a war footing in far-flung parts of the world. This is a time when our nation relies on our brave men and women in uniform, especially their leaders in the various branches of the service.
- Travel briefs
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ Companion Air ready to transport pets ¢ Free guide highlights British golf courses ¢ Theater plans festival featuring Rogers films
- Local Briefs
- February 23, 2003
- ¢ NAACP reception honors state Cabinet secretary ¢ Education: Perry-Lecompton schools set forum to discuss bond ¢ Gasoline: Pump patrol tracks down lowest prices in Lawrence
- Film festival to return to N.Y. for second year
- February 23, 2003
- The film festival that gave downtown an economic and psychological boost last year after the World Trade Center attack will return in May, organizers announced Thursday.
- Electric fireplaces look like real thing
- February 23, 2003
- Electric fireplaces used to be a joke. Now they’re the fireplace industry’s growth leader.
- Leftist rebels admit holding Americans
- Group calls for end to military operations
- February 23, 2003
- Leftist rebels on Saturday acknowledged for the first time that they shot down a U.S. plane and are holding hostage three Americans they accuse of being CIA agents.
- Teen dies after 2nd organ transplant
- February 23, 2003
- Jesica Santillan, the teenager who survived a botched heart-lung transplant long enough to get an odds-shattering second set of donated organs, died Saturday, two days after the second transplant.
- David “Fuzzy” Lavenburg
- February 23, 2003
- Nellie J. Eudy Deaver Smart
- February 23, 2003
- James L. Denton
- February 23, 2003
- City action
- February 23, 2003
- Invest in schools
- February 23, 2003
- Gift of fertility
- February 23, 2003
- Careful choice
- February 23, 2003
- U.N.’s call
- February 23, 2003
- Offer a choice
- February 23, 2003
- The survey says
- February 23, 2003
- Grant thanks
- February 23, 2003
- Wheat or chaff?
- February 23, 2003
- Lawrence school board
- District to consider progress on antihazing efforts
- February 23, 2003
- Agenda highlights ¢ 7 p.m. Monday ¢ 110 McDonald Drive
- Firefighters find victim handcuffed to toilet
- February 23, 2003
- Firefighters and a motel manager who responded to cries for help in a smoke-filled motel room found a mattress set on fire and a naked man handcuffed to the toilet.
- Bush demands Senate vote
- February 23, 2003
- President Bush charged Saturday that Democratic senators were stalling Miguel Estrada’s nomination to a federal appeals court. Democrats said Estrada’s unwillingness to be more open has made it impossible for them to evaluate him.
- Cities argue exemption from ban on Sunday liquor sales
- February 23, 2003
- Two Wyandotte County cities are arguing they have the right to exempt themselves from provisions of the state’s ban on Sunday liquor sales.
- Court to hear vets’ Agent Orange case
- February 23, 2003
- During an appendectomy in 1996, surgeons discovered that Vietnam veteran Joseph Isaacson had a form of cancer associated with exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange.
- U.S. will offer new resolution on Iraq
- Bush says time is short to force Saddam to disarm
- February 23, 2003
- President Bush, declaring that Saddam Hussein has not disarmed and does not intend to, said Saturday the United States would submit a new resolution to the U.N. Security Council early in the week to set the stage for war against Iraq.
- Pakistan mosque shooting kills 9
- February 23, 2003
- Attackers stormed into a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan and sprayed worshippers with automatic weapons fire Saturday, killing at least nine people — including a 7-year-old boy — and wounding nine others, police and hospital officials said.
- Tyson wastes no time
- Etienne counted out after 49 seconds of first round
- February 23, 2003
- There is still some badness left in Iron Mike after all. In desperate need of a devastating win, Mike Tyson got just that Saturday night, flattening Clifford Etienne with a savage right hand reminiscent of Tyson in his prime.
- KU sweeps pair at softball tournament
- Jayhawks have won 10 of 12 for best start in Bunge’s seven seasons as coach
- February 23, 2003
- Kansas University bounced back from a loss Friday with a pair of victories Saturday at the Softball By the Beach Tournament.
- Haskell wins finale
- February 23, 2003
- Senior Kateri Schaaf scored 26 points in her final collegiate game Saturday night, leading Haskell Indian Nations University to a 74-65 women’s basketball victory over Oklahoma Wesleyan at Coffin Complex.
- Longhorns dominate Big 12 swim meet
- February 23, 2003
- Brendan Hansen broke his record in the 200-yard breaststroke and led Texas to its seventh straight men’s Big 12 swimming and diving championships Saturday.
- KU claims three events at Kansas State meet
- February 23, 2003
- Kansas University’s women’s track team won two events Saturday at the KSU Open. Freshman Angela Pichardo recorded the third-best 1,000-meter time in school history while winning in 2:53.20.
- Ottawa women stumble
- February 23, 2003
- Gina Wheat’s 21 points and eight rebounds weren’t enough for Ottawa University’s women’s basketball team in a 72-60 loss Saturday to Friends University. Ottawa held a 35-32 rebounding advantage and made seven fewer turnovers, but Friends sank 10 of 19 three-point attempts while Ottawa was 2-of-15.
- Santa Fe Trail charges into state meet
- Chargers claim Class 4A regional wrestling team title, nine individual qualifiers
- February 23, 2003
- It was Santa Fe Trail High’s day at the Class 4A regional wrestling tournament on Saturday at Santa Fe Trail.
- Notebook: Jayhawks enjoy Big 12 road success
- February 23, 2003
- Winner of three of the first six regular-season Big 12 Conference championships, the Kansas University men’s basketball team wants another title this season.
- Rookie wins pole in first CART event
- February 23, 2003
- Champ Car rookie Sebastien Bourdais is a quick study. The 23-year-old Frenchman retained the top spot in Saturday’s qualifying for today’s inaugural St. Petersburg Grand Prix, becoming the first CART driver since Nigel Mansell in 1993 to win a pole in his first race.
- Pistol’s sons prospering in papa’s sport
- Maravich brothers chasing basketball dreams
- February 23, 2003
- The lanky point guard for tiny William Carey College has a slick handle, keen court vision and funky looking shot. The tattoo on his left arm explains why he looks familiar.
- Baldwin wants role on Royals’ staff
- February 23, 2003
- When James Baldwin looks at the young pitchers assembled in the Kansas City Royals’ spring clubhouse, he is astonished by their talent.
- Missouri trout season to open Saturday
- Marshfield angler plans to be at Bennett Springs for 50th consecutive March 1
- February 23, 2003
- Fair-weather fisherman is anything but an apt description of Marshfield, Mo., resident Joe Jackson.
- Big bass caught in Oklahoma
- February 23, 2003
- Dave Masters caught the third largest largemouth bass in Oklahoma’s recorded history on Feb. 12 when he hauled in a 14-pound, 8.5-ounce fish.
- Survery at Clinton Lake shows large population of crappie, channel cats
- February 23, 2003
- Using electrofishing and netting gear, Wildlife and Parks officials have completed their assessment of fishing prospects at Clinton Lake.
- State offers quail incentives in four southeast counties
- February 23, 2003
- For the third year in a row, landowners in Allen, Bourbon, Crawford and Neosho counties may receive financial incentives or cost-share payments for creating and enhancing habitat beneficial to quail.
- Tejada arrives in Athletics’ camp
- February 23, 2003
- Miguel Tejada wants his two children to have a stable education in the United States, and that’s why he says he is so eager to get a long-term commitment from the Oakland Athletics.
- Ottawa men triumph
- February 23, 2003
- Bret Lickteig sank five three-pointers and scored 26 points, and Scott McCoy made six three-pointers and scored 20 Saturday in Ottawa University’s 96-80 men’s basketball victory against Friends.
- Where to vote
- February 23, 2003
- Roof of toy store collapses; 9 injured
- February 23, 2003
- The roof of a Toys ‘R’ Us store collapsed Saturday, injuring at least nine people, as heavy rain soaked an area already stressed by the weight of snow from the Presidents Day blizzard, authorities said.
- Bypasses bring blessings, problems to small towns
- February 23, 2003
- Times was when there was an endless stream of big trucks rumbling down Main Street. But not anymore, and for that Willis Baker is very happy.
- Be careful in selecting perfect plants
- February 23, 2003
- Last week, I discussed the steps gardeners should take when selecting trees and shrubs for the landscape. If you did your homework, you now have a list of plants and an appropriate place to plant them. Now you are ready to shop.
- Garden, home show inspires visitors
- February 23, 2003
- After buying property with two water gardens on it, Steve and Linda Bruce needed to learn how to take care of them.
- Art lovers start small with machines
- February 23, 2003
- Pull a knob on the vintage cigarette machine and you may pick up a new habit — buying art.
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