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- Man charged in slaying
- January 6, 2003
- (Updated Monday at 5:26 p.m.) A charge of second-degree murder was filed Monday afternoon against a man suspected in a weekend slaying in a south Lawrence apartment.
- Kansas moves up four spots in new AP Top 25
- January 6, 2003
- (Updated Monday at 4:24 p.m.) received 800 votes and moved up four spots from last week. Along with big wins over UNC Asheville and UMKC, the Jayhawks were helped by two losses by both Michigan State - which dropped from 14 to 25 - and Marquette, which fell to 24 from 13.
- Feds pick 32nd Street alignment for trafficway
- January 6, 2003
- (Updated Monday at 4:18 p.m.) The South Lawrence Trafficway should be finished by building a four-lane highway through the Baker Wetlands, the federal government concluded in a definitive study released Monday afternoon.
- Morgan running for re-election
- January 6, 2003
- (Updated Monday at 4:04 p.m.) Lawrence school board President Scott Morgan on Monday confirmed he will run for re-election.
- Authorities release name of four-wheeler accident victim
- January 6, 2003
- (Updated Monday at 11:33 a.m.) Authorities released on Monday morning the name of the man killed Sunday afternoon in a four-wheeler accident at a rock quarry south of Lawrence.
- Judge rules in Sebelius’ favor on secret meetings
- January 6, 2003
- (Updated Monday at 11:57 a.m.) TOPEKA — A state judge on Monday ruled that Gov.-elect Kathleen Sebelius was within the law in directing secret meetings of task forces to analyze state spending and services. But in his 12-page ruling, Shawnee County State District Court Judge Eric Rosen was critical of Sebelius’ decision.
- Blue Devils win, poised to ascend to No. 1 - No. 3 Duke 89, Clemson 71
- January 6, 2003
- Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski has coached a lot of No. 1 teams. These Blue Devils, he says, aren’t one of them.
- Two suicide bombers kill at least 23 in Israel
- January 6, 2003
- Two Palestinian suicide bombers set off back-to-back blasts Sunday in a central Tel Aviv area crowded with foreign workers, killing 23 bystanders and wounding more than 100 in the bloodiest attack in six months.
- State budget trouble trickles down
- January 6, 2003
- Bill Linde was so frustrated last month that he e-mailed President Bush and the state’s two U.S. senators suggesting Kansas be declared a disaster area — because of its budget problems.
- Townships sounding alarm for volunteer firefighters
- January 6, 2003
- There are 12 volunteers on the Clinton Township Fire Department roster, but firefighter Dennis Snodgrass remembers the time only two showed up in response to an emergency call.
- Hank remembered in Opry tribute
- January 6, 2003
- The Grand Ole Opry paid tribute to Hank Williams 50 years after his death, recalling a man whose honest, cutting songs about cheating, drinking and loneliness changed the direction of country music.
- Medical clinic seeks to extend its hours
- January 6, 2003
- Agency: Heartland Medical Clinic Address: 619 Vt. Contact person: Pat Mayo, 843-1758 or 832-1845
- Political speech wins in court
- January 6, 2003
- By American standards, European nations heavily restrain political speech and participation in campaigns. This is also true of our northern neighbor, Canada.
- Cut taxes by printing money
- January 6, 2003
- What would happen if Congress repealed the 16th Amendment to the Constitution? That is the amendment that created the income tax, and the question is not what would replace that tax, but what kinds of reactions would ensue if it were repealed?
- U.S. troops risk lives for low pay, long hours
- January 6, 2003
- Young U.S. troops who could be at war in Iraq within weeks would be paid less for fighting Saddam Hussein than they would if they stayed home and flipped burgers.
- Spam hurts productivity for U.S. and Europe
- January 6, 2003
- All those junk e-mail messages may promise instant wealth, but they can be quite painful to the bottom line.
- GOP must answer to blacks
- January 6, 2003
- Dear Sen. Bill Frist: I hope you won’t mind some unsolicited advice as the Senate returns to work and you assume leadership of the Republican Party.
- Attorney from Lawrence to represent consumers in utility, regulatory cases
- January 6, 2003
- It’s a good thing Lawrence resident David Springe enjoys the underdog role.
- Briefly
- January 6, 2003
- ¢ Honolulu: Democrat wins House seat ¢ New York City: Fire engulfs half a city block ¢ South Dakota: Daschle says he’s leaning toward presidential run ¢ Hong Kong: Suspects agree to extradition in al-Qaida missile plot
- Briefly
- January 6, 2003
- ¢ Lithuania: President upset in runoff election ¢ Algeria: Weekend of attacks kills more than 50 ¢ Japan: Avalanche leaves scores stranded ¢ Singapore: Hopes fading for missing sailors
- Briefly
- January 6, 2003
- ¢ New Jersey: Boy found dead in home where brothers confined ¢ New Hampshire: One killed in collapse of outdoor tennis court ¢ Florida: Endangered whale strands self on beach ¢ Miami: 11 officers on trial in shootings, cover-ups
- Law shielding drug company angers family
- Last-minute addition to bill absolves Eli Lilly of responsibility for devastating side effects
- January 6, 2003
- Seven-year-old Michael Livi sent Christmas cards this year. He included his picture, and his family members’ names are signed beneath the word “Peace.”
- American Indian lore taught McLouth resident to live off land
- January 6, 2003
- The menu at Safari’s in McLouth isn’t much different than at any other small-town Kansas deli.
- Solar system highlights for 2003 include two lunar eclipses
- January 6, 2003
- Month by month solar system highlights for 2003:
- First stop: Hilton
- Jayhawks open Big 12 season tonight at ISU
- January 6, 2003
- Kansas University’s Drew Gooden treated the basketball like a football last Jan. 23 at Hilton Coliseum, spiking the sphere as the clock ran out on the Jayhawks’ 88-81 victory over Iowa State.
- 49ers shock Giants
- Garcia leads rally in second-biggest playoff comeback
- January 6, 2003
- Nobody thought the San Francisco 49ers had it in them. Nobody imagined their 24-point hole was anything but a grave.
- Steelers stun Browns
- Maddox tosses three TD passes in final 19 minutes
- January 6, 2003
- The Cleveland Browns never have gotten over The Drive by John Elway. Now they’ve got to live with The Comeback by the quarterback who was once supposed to be the next Elway.
- Local Briefs
- January 6, 2003
- ¢ Four-wheeler rider dies in accident at quarry ¢ Homeland security: State gets $1.2 million for emergency planning
- U.S. disaster plans include blueprints for replacing national monuments
- January 6, 2003
- A team of architecture experts say their digitized model of the Statue of Liberty could be used to rebuild the national landmark if it is damaged or destroyed in a terrorist attack.
- Old home town - 100 years ago today
- January 6, 2003
- ‘Joe Millionaire’ not worthy of series
- January 6, 2003
- The caustic American journalist H.L. Mencken once said that “nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” But can you go broke overestimating the cynicism of the American viewer?
- Asteroid, Earth play cat-and-mouse game within same orbit
- January 6, 2003
- In a space game of “catch me if you can,” a small asteroid shares the same orbit with Earth — sometimes ahead, sometimes behind, but never quite touching — as the two race around the sun, astronomers say.
- New airport rules launched smoothly
- January 6, 2003
- Knowing that holiday travelers would be putting the country’s new airport baggage-screening system to its first big test, Robert Chesniak gave himself 90 minutes to check his luggage Sunday at O’Hare International Airport.
- A longer, but not fuller, life
- January 6, 2003
- I see where scientists now say that people might live 20 percent longer by cutting a normal intake of calories approximately in half.
- 6 killed in home invasion; police say drugs sought
- January 6, 2003
- Six men were tied up and shot to death early Sunday in a Lower Rio Grande Valley rural subdivision outside Edinburg in what police described as a home invasion gone wrong.
- China looking ahead to manned spaceflight
- January 6, 2003
- An unmanned Chinese space capsule returned safely to Earth on Sunday, state media said, laying the groundwork for China to attempt later this year to send an astronaut into space.
- New products reduce chore of changing furnace filters
- January 6, 2003
- “I think it’s somewhere over there,” I said, leading the way through the laundry room. Like vines and overgrown brush, the criss-crossing clotheslines, baskets and boxes partially blocked our way.
- Hypocrisy riddles Akron prep school
- While stressing education, officials shamefully showcase high school basketball whiz James
- January 6, 2003
- Before 16 of their children stalked and swaggered across John Wooden’s floor Saturday night, officials at St. Vincent-St. Mary high school of Akron, Ohio, handed out its mission statement.
- NBA Roundup: Raptors lose another
- Hornets hand harried squad tenth straight defeat
- January 6, 2003
- A balanced offensive performance by New Orleans meant another loss for the hapless Toronto Raptors.
- Jordan’s 41 prompt visions of MJs past
- January 6, 2003
- Michael Jordan wasn’t about to sit down. He played the entire fourth quarter. All of the first overtime. All of the second overtime. He scored the points that put his team ahead for good.
- Vick vs. McNabb tops 2nd round
- January 6, 2003
- Saturday night scramble: Michael Vick vs. Donovan McNabb. Except that McNabb isn’t likely to scramble much when Philadelphia plays host to the upstart Atlanta Falcons on Saturday night in the highlight game of the second round of the playoffs.
- Falcons shatter Lambeau mystique
- January 6, 2003
- The Lambeau mystique couldn’t last forever. Somebody had to finally stare down the ghost of Vince Lombardi, shrug off the unshakable confidence of Brett Favre and beat the Green Bay Packers in a playoff game in their historic home.
- Simien’s status still up in air
- Injured shoulder has KU sophomore forward out indefinitely
- January 6, 2003
- Wayne Simien didn’t learn anything new about the status of his injured shoulder after meeting with doctors Saturday night.
- Student duo sweet music for Firebirds
- January 6, 2003
- There are few things better than hearing Joe Aber play the theme to the “Beverly Hills Cop” on the synthesizer at a Free State High basketball game. Well, maybe hearing him play the theme from “Hawaii Five-O,” or “Miami Vice.”
- McGahee has surgery
- January 6, 2003
- Miami running back Willis McGahee, above being helped off the field following a crushing hit during a Fiesta Bowl loss to Ohio State, had surgery Sunday on two torn ligaments in his left knee.
- Bush: It was a bad call
- January 6, 2003
- Gov. Jeb Bush is joining many Miami fans still upset by the delayed pass interference call in overtime of the Hurricanes’ Fiesta Bowl loss.
- Columnist Sherrod retires
- January 6, 2003
- Sports writer and columnist Blackie Sherrod is retiring from The Dallas Morning News after nearly 60 years in journalism.
- Neighbor: ‘Fighting’ preceded slaying
- Ex-convict arrested in Hampton Court killing
- January 6, 2003
- In the apartment upstairs, the thumping, shouting and cursing began about 6 p.m. Friday. It went on for hours. At times, it sounded like heavy furniture being tossed around, Joe Talley and his friends said.
- General Motors to announce new line of hybrid cars, trucks, SUVs
- January 6, 2003
- In one of the clearest signs yet that hybrid cars may be going mainstream, General Motors Corp. plans to offer a variety of the gas-and-electric powered vehicles during the next four years.
- McCartney leads record year for concert tours
- January 6, 2003
- Classic acts such as Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and Cher lured more people to concerts in 2002 and helped the industry make a record $2.1 billion in ticket sales, according to figures released Friday.
- ‘Two Towers’ rises above competition
- January 6, 2003
- “The Two Towers” has scored a triple. “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” was the top film for a third weekend, taking in $25.65 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
- S. Korea leads efforts on nuclear crisis
- January 6, 2003
- South Korea won a promise from Russia on Sunday to press North Korea over its nuclear program, as Seoul prepared to unveil to the United States new proposals aimed at defusing the crisis with its communist neighbor.
- Apartment tenants caught in Iraq weapons search
- January 6, 2003
- U.N. weapons inspectors blocked off a huge complex on the edge of Baghdad Sunday, angering men, women and children who were kept from leaving the area as arms experts visited a facility inside.
- George I. Barnes
- January 6, 2003
- Richard Charles Winchester
- January 6, 2003
- Poll: Republicans more likely to take part in online surveys
- January 6, 2003
- Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to participate in online surveys, according to a poll that found a modest growth in the number of people using the Internet to get campaign news.
- INS clearance
- January 6, 2003
- Fugitive arrested in deaths of family members
- January 6, 2003
- As Linda and Thom Martin cruised through desolate eastern Oregon, something about the gray van in front of them on Interstate 84 clicked.
- K.C. pharmacist’s case among largest jury awards
- January 6, 2003
- Large jury verdict awards to individual plaintiffs lagged in the year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but the lull vanished in the last months of 2002 with some record-breaking verdicts, according to the newspaper Lawyers Weekly USA.
- Automobile, tire makers on trial in blowout
- January 6, 2003
- Bridgestone-Firestone and Ford Motor Co. are set to go on trial this week in a lawsuit blaming them for the wreck that killed civil rights leader Earl Shinhoster.
- On the record
- January 6, 2003
- Area briefs
- January 6, 2003
- ¢ One killed in scuffle after police chase ¢ Renovations to close nature center this week
- Jordanian military court upholds death penalty for terror convict
- January 6, 2003
- A military court upheld a guilty verdict and death sentence Sunday against a Jordanian-American accused of conspiring to carry out poison gas attacks on American and Israeli targets in the kingdom three years ago.
- Hospital ship prepares for possible duty
- January 6, 2003
- About 300 crew members boarded the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort on Sunday, bidding goodbye to family members and friends as they prepared to aid a possible war in Iraq.
- Seat belts could have reduced teen deaths
- January 6, 2003
- About half the 770 young Kansans who died in car crashes between 1990 and 2001 probably would have been spared if their seat belts had been fastened, experts say.
- Farmland seeks to scale back benefits
- January 6, 2003
- Former executives of Farmland Industries Inc. could lose millions of dollars in retirement benefits if the bankrupt company’s request to cancel them is approved.
- Murdoch might sell Dodgers
- Report: Media magnate may jettison unprofitable franchise
- January 6, 2003
- Rupert Murdoch might put the Los Angeles Dodgers up for sale within the next six months, an Australian newspaper reported on its Web site Sunday.
- Strike fuels bicycle boom
- January 6, 2003
- In a holiday shopping season made dreary by Venezuela’s general strike, one item was — and remains — particularly hot: The bicycle.
- German threatens to crash plane into bank
- January 6, 2003
- A man stole a small aircraft at gunpoint Sunday and flew it over downtown Frankfurt, circling skyscrapers and threatening to crash into the European Central Bank. He landed safely after about two hours and was arrested.
- Chavez supporters bury victims of political violence
- January 6, 2003
- Thousands of government supporters chanted “Justice! Popular justice!” Sunday at a funeral for two men killed at a political rally amid a month-old strike aimed at toppling the president.
- Mars comes closest since caveman times
- January 6, 2003
- Mars, the Red Planet, will be making its closest approach to Earth in at least 50,000 years this summer.
- Reverse mortgages salvation for seniors
- January 6, 2003
- Helen Grady thought she had run out of options. The 76-year-old widow was in poor health and in danger of losing her home because of mounting debts. Her roof leaked, the well was contaminated, and the dishwasher was broken.
- Sebelius, GOP headed for fight over education
- January 6, 2003
- Democratic Gov.-elect Kathleen Sebelius and Republican legislative leaders are headed toward a clash about education spending.
- Israeli missile tests successful
- January 6, 2003
- Sending a message to both Saddam Hussein and its own people, Israel conducted an ambitious test of its anti-missile system on Sunday with the simulated firing of several interceptor missiles at once at incoming rockets.
- Lawrence city commission
- January 6, 2003
- Agenda highlights ¢ 6: 35 p.m. Tuesday ¢ City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. ¢ Channel 25
- Lawyers Weekly USA’s top 10 jury awards of 2002
- January 6, 2003
- Real or contrived?
- January 6, 2003
- It makes sense to check the status of visitors from foreign nations. It is not difficult to understand why American college students from such countries as Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia are uncomfortable and displeased by immigration regulations requiring them to be photographed, fingerprinted and interviewed.
- People
- January 6, 2003
- ¢ Now for a golden education ¢ Back to acting for Clooney ¢ Hermits no more ¢ A ‘Soprano’ stiffs his guests
- Horoscopes
- January 6, 2003
- Civic fear
- January 6, 2003
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