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- Williams suing KU Alumni Association
- August 27, 2004
- (Updated Friday at 2:26 p.m.) The former president and CEO of the Kansas University Alumni Association is suing the association for more than $2.2 million. Fred Williams, who had been in the position 21 years, claims he has a right to the money through salary and benefits under his contract, which ran through 2008.
- Governor promises health insurance initiatives
- August 27, 2004
- (Updated Friday at 11:25 a.m.) TOPEKA — Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Friday promised major initiatives to increase availability of health insurance and steer state contracts to companies that provide sound benefits to their employees.
- Douglas County under flash flood warning until 2 a.m.
- August 27, 2004
- (Updated Friday at 11:24 p.m.) A line of thunderstorms was rumbling through the Lawrence area tonight, bringing crackling lightning strikes, heavy rain and widespread flooding. Douglas County was under a severe thunderstorm warning tonight through 9:15 p.m. and a flash flood warning was extended through 2 a.m. Saturday.
- Briefly
- August 27, 2004
- ¢ Four killed, 54 wounded in spate of attacks ¢ U.N.: World slips behind on sanitation goals
- Cleric brokers peace in Najaf
- Government agrees to pull U.S. out of city; al-Sadr to be ‘free’
- August 27, 2004
- Rebellious Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr agreed Thursday night to withdraw his militia from a contested shrine and other parts of the city of Najaf after three weeks of fighting against U.S. and Iraqi forces, government and religious leaders said. The last-minute deal, brokered by Iraq’s top Shiite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, commits the country’s interim government to significant concessions.
- Stem cells used to grow jaw bone for cancer patient
- August 27, 2004
- A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years — a bratwurst sandwich — after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his mouth in what experts call an “ambitious” experiment.
- Pendleton confident Firebirds can thrive
- August 27, 2004
- He’s quite the realistic type, really. So if you think coach Jason Pendleton is sugarcoating things when discussing the 2004 Free State High boys soccer team, think again.
- Injuries help Beisel land gig as starting middle linebacker
- August 27, 2004
- Since being drafted in the fourth round in 2001, Monty Beisel has gone from defensive end to outside linebacker to middle linebacker then back to outside linebacker.
- Appleseed Cast singer worships folk roots in Old Canes
- August 27, 2004
- As far as songwriters go, Christopher Crisci is extraordinarily candid.
- Sudan official declares progress as deadline nears
- August 27, 2004
- Sudan’s minister for humanitarian affairs said Thursday his government had made “serious progress” in improving security and humanitarian relief in the troubled region of Darfur, as a U.N. team prepared an assessment that could decide whether the African country would be penalized.
- Husband of slain social worker against stopping in-home visits
- August 27, 2004
- The new husband of a social worker killed when she went to a boy’s home to be sure he was taking his medication doesn’t want to see such home visits discontinued, but he’s pushing efforts to prevent another tragedy.
- Briefly
- August 27, 2004
- ¢ Survey: Powell, Giuliani top potential VP choices ¢ Poll: Kerry loses ground in some key areas ¢ Democrats unveil ad as convention preview
- Judge throws out 2 Wal-Mart lawsuits
- August 27, 2004
- Seven lawsuits apparently were two too many.
- Deep Purple delivers colorful performance
- August 27, 2004
- Deep Purple reminded audiences that you don’t have to be an angst-ridden, pierced 20-year-old to know how to rock.
- Marbury lifts Americans into semifinals
- August 27, 2004
- Written off after their opener and branded failures back home, Stephon Marbury and the Americans are showing signs that they just might be the team to beat.
- White Sox need massive makeover
- August 27, 2004
- First off, let’s extend a blanket apology to Jerry Manuel. The former manager wasn’t the problem with the White Sox. If we’re going to blame him, then we’re going to have to revisit every man-made disaster for new culprits. We’re going to have to blame Custer’s tailor, the Edsel’s pine-tree air freshener and Mike Ditka’s voice coach.
- Horejsi could fill quickly
- Self’s advice to KU fans: Go to scrimmage early
- August 27, 2004
- Kansas University men’s basketball coach Bill Self has advice for KU fans who wish to attend Saturday’s intrasquad scrimmage at Horejsi Center.
- Firebirds need conditioning
- Football squad hurriedly practicing for opener
- August 27, 2004
- With one week to go before its season opener at Shawnee Mission North, the Free State High football team huffed and puffed its way to a realization Thursday.
- Grace Julia Bagby
- August 27, 2004
- Bush, Kerry bow to McCain
- Ads at center of dispute
- August 27, 2004
- President Bush and Sen. John Kerry gave in to the wishes of popular maverick John McCain on Thursday, as the president embraced the Republican senator’s legal fight against big-money special interest groups airing negative ads and the Democratic nominee scrapped a commercial that featured McCain.
- Do you know what you’re drinking?
- City says Lawrence water doesn’t deserve low ranking
- August 27, 2004
- Does quantity affect quality?
- Ethics officials want to speed campaign finance reporting
- August 27, 2004
- After numerous complaints about shadowy groups influencing the Republican Party primary through last-minute campaign contributions, Kansas ethics officials said Thursday it may be time to increase disclosure of campaign finance in state races.
- ‘Anacondas’ star on quest to bring ‘a real man’ back to Hollywood
- August 27, 2004
- Snakes don’t scare Johnny Messner.
- Association’s new home turf: Lawrence
- City resident named executive director of national Sports Turf Managers Assn.
- August 27, 2004
- A national association that provides training to professionals who maintain sports fields has hired a Lawrence resident as its executive director and is moving its headquarters to Lawrence.
- Krispy Kreme profits plunge
- Chief executive says company plans to focus on earnings, less on growth
- August 27, 2004
- Once the darling of Wall Street, doughnut-maker Krispy Kreme reported second-quarter profits Thursday that were less than half what the company earned a year ago, widely missing analysts’ expectations. Shares of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. fell 10 percent on the news.
- Kilborn calls it quits before atrophy sets in
- August 27, 2004
- After five years of “The Late, Late Show” (11:37 p.m., CBS), Craig Kilborn has decided to move on to other ventures. Good for him. A half-decade stint on a talk show is a good, long run.
- Steelers trip Eagles
- August 27, 2004
- Duce Staley showed the Philadelphia Eagles what they’re missing. Willie Parker showed the Pittsburgh Steelers what he can do.
- Russia admits crashes were most likely terror
- August 27, 2004
- A top Russian official acknowledged Thursday what many citizens already suspected — that terrorism was the most likely cause of two jetliners crashing minutes apart, a feeling reflected in a newspaper headline warning that “Russia now has a Sept. 11.”
- Disc dance
- August 27, 2004
- Briefly
- August 27, 2004
- ¢ Flu vaccine is found tainted in factory ¢ MIT appoints its first female president ¢ Crews gaining control of wildfire south of Reno ¢ Government taking over terror lists from airlines
- Briefly
- August 27, 2004
- ¢ West Nile virus fever strikes 2 more Kansans ¢ Congressional candidate to speak at convention ¢ Cosby agrees to appear for KU homecoming ¢ Pump Patrol seeks deals
- Briefly
- August 27, 2004
- ¢ Radical cleric arrested under British anti-terrorism law ¢ Government keeping more secrets, report says ¢ Effort to nab Web criminals nets 156 arrests, convictions
- Mangino concerned with special teams
- August 27, 2004
- With a little more than a week remaining before Kansas University’s football season opener, coach Mark Mangino said special teams were among his biggest concerns heading into his third season.
- Dorothy C. Siscoe
- August 27, 2004
- Lawrence veteran speaks out against Kerry critics
- August 27, 2004
- Gil Zemansky, 60, knows why John Kerry spoke out against the war in Vietnam.
- Nader dismisses ‘spoiler’ notion in visit to region
- August 27, 2004
- Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, venturing Thursday into Kansas and Missouri, has a message for his backers.
- People
- August 27, 2004
- ¢ Wayans brothers try ‘Munsters’ ¢ Horn makes appearance at show ¢ Britney’s video all in the family ¢ Theron signs with Christian Dior
- Wichita Police identify 1979 poem as BTK’s work
- Investigators want to talk to anyone familiar with writing
- August 27, 2004
- Investigators in the BTK serial killings said Thursday that a 1979 poem appeared to be an original writing from the killer and asked the public’s help in tracking it down.
- Governor ‘realigns talent’ in Cabinet
- August 27, 2004
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday she was shuffling her Cabinet as her administration works on proposals to increase education spending and tackle rising health-care costs.
- Class and dignity
- August 27, 2004
- The Olympics should have special medals for the kinds of sportsmanship shown by Russian Alexei Nemov.
- ‘30s memories
- August 27, 2004
- Circus life
- August 27, 2004
- Bush bashers
- August 27, 2004
- Positive pageant
- August 27, 2004
- Statistics skew jobs picture
- August 27, 2004
- Few people missed the headlines when the latest employment figures were unveiled earlier this month by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The addition of 32,000 new jobs, 200,000 fewer than expected, alarmed everyone. Stocks swooned, reporters wrote economic obituaries and President Bush’s political opponents crowed.
- Test doesn’t predict success
- August 27, 2004
- They’re trying to reform the SAT again, which is like trying to turn a pit bull into a toy poodle. What they ought to do is euthanize this mutt.
- Attempted-murder filings surprise family
- Charges stem from night in 2002 when 9-year-old was stabbed, left for dead
- August 27, 2004
- Lisa Boothe hadn’t heard the news.
- City’s airport flying toward future
- 75th anniversary of airfield to be marked this weekend
- August 27, 2004
- The Lawrence Municipal Airport will celebrate its 75th birthday this weekend, but the focus won’t be on the past; it’ll be on the future.
- Chile strips Pinochet of immunity
- August 27, 2004
- Chile’s Supreme Court stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution Thursday in a ruling that revived hopes of his foes that he might stand trial on charges of human rights abuses during his rule.
- Continental edge
- Victor Continental’s hammy variety show returns to skewer Lawrence
- August 27, 2004
- When the Victor Continental show announced two years ago that its Christmas performance would be its last, the end was in sight for popular segments like (Expletive) Deal Puppet Theater, The Justice League of Lawrence and general lampoonery at the expense of Lawrence.
- Oversized snakes devour cast of amusing sequel
- August 27, 2004
- Some people view a B movie with a certain air of contempt.
- MTV show known for its wildness may be a bit tamer in wake of Jackson brouhaha
- August 27, 2004
- In the 21-year history of MTV’s Video Music Awards, viewers have been treated to some eye-popping moments — Prince’s bare buttocks, Lil’ Kim’s sequined pasty, Britney and Madonna’s steamy kiss last year.
- Reservoir Frogs: Kermit and Tarantino join forces
- August 27, 2004
- Disney is developing for ABC’s “Wonderful World of Disney” a remake of “The Wizard of Oz” that will feature Kermit the Frog as the Scarecrow, Miss Piggy as the Wicked Witch of the West, other adorable Muppets playing various residents of the Land of Oz, and singers Ashanti and Queen Latifah playing Dorothy and Auntie Em, respectively.
- Daily ticker
- August 27, 2004
- K.C. plant to build new Saturn
- General Motors expects line to provide 280 jobs
- August 27, 2004
- General Motors Corp. made it official Thursday, saying it will build a new mid-sized vehicle for the company’s Saturn brand at its assembly plant in Kansas City’s Fairfax Industrial District northeast of downtown.
- Briefcase
- August 27, 2004
- ¢ Canadian financial group seeks to tap U.S. market ¢ Kansas City milk co-op subject of federal probe ¢ Kansas to net $337,000 from two settlements
- Longtime Wichita city manager dead at 71
- August 27, 2004
- Former Wichita city manager Chris Cherches died Thursday of pancreatic cancer, city officials said.
- Poverty numbers climb in Kansas
- August 27, 2004
- Census figures released Thursday suggested that slightly more Kansans were living in poverty in recent years, while the percentage of residents without health insurance remained constant.
- Williams reinstatement denied
- NCAA won’t allow receiver to return to Southern Cal
- August 27, 2004
- Mike Williams was shut out again.
- ‘Scream’ joins legion of art loot
- August 27, 2004
- Al Franken wants you to get up out of your chairs, open your windows, stick your heads out and yell … fuggedaboutdit?
- Williams calls Dolphins before trek to India
- August 27, 2004
- Ricky Williams phoned the Miami Dolphins this week, but said his next destination will be India, not a return to the NFL.
- Two old timers added to ballot
- August 27, 2004
- Two of the NFL’s oldest old-timers will be on the final ballot for the Pro Football Hall of Fame next year.
- Bush readies reform orders on intelligence
- August 27, 2004
- The White House has drafted executive orders aimed at implementing the Sept. 11 commission’s recommendations for a more powerful intelligence director and a new national counterterrorism center.
- Charley response beats Andrew hands down
- August 27, 2004
- Betty Babitzke and her husband were so frustrated after Hurricane Andrew slammed into Florida in 1992 that they pulled out a map and started looking for a safer part of the state in which to spend their retirement. They settled on Punta Gorda.
- Accuser details Kennedy Smith rape allegations
- August 27, 2004
- A woman who sued William Kennedy Smith said Thursday that the member of the prominent political family sexually assaulted her five years ago “in a manner that will haunt me to the day I die.”
- Children found in Africa to remain in state custody
- August 27, 2004
- The lawyer for the adoptive mother of seven children found malnourished in a Nigerian orphanage agreed Thursday to allow the kids to remain in state foster care.
- On top of the world again
- Overtime win lifts U.S. squad to gold medal
- August 27, 2004
- More than 100 American reporters jostled for position in the interview pen two hours after the U.S. women’s soccer team won the Olympic gold medal 2-1 over Brazil in extra time Thursday night. “Where’s Mia?” “We need Julie!” “Can you get us Brandi?”
- Pope lands with Pistons
- August 27, 2004
- Bill Pope, a student manager on Kansas University’s 1988 national championship basketball team, has been named assistant coach/video coordinator for the NBA’s Detroit Pistons.
- ‘Hawk Talk’ set to begin
- August 27, 2004
- Kansas University coach Mark Mangino’s weekly radio show will make its season debut at 6:06 p.m. Thursday on the Jayhawk Radio Network, including KLWN-AM (1320). Fans are invited to attend the live broadcast of “Hawk Talk” every Thursday night during the football season at 75th Street Brewery, 3512 Clinton Parkway.
- Lobbyist agrees to pay record fine
- August 27, 2004
- A Statehouse lobbyist Thursday agreed to pay a record $5,000 fine for a violation of Kansas lobbying laws.
- Jennifer D. Germann
- August 27, 2004
- John Austin Logan III
- August 27, 2004
- Ethel Katherine Hottman
- August 27, 2004
- Author to speak at Lions Club
- August 27, 2004
- New shuttle tanks won’t shed foam
- Big wing holes still will be unfixable
- August 27, 2004
- NASA’s redesigned space shuttle fuel tanks should no longer shed dangerous pieces of foam when launches resume next spring, officials said Thursday.
- California pharmacies sue drugmakers
- August 27, 2004
- Nineteen California pharmacies filed a state lawsuit Thursday accusing the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies of conspiring to inflate U.S. drug prices.
- Israel blocks Gaza roads after Palestinian rocket fire
- August 27, 2004
- Israeli forces cut main Gaza roads on Thursday after militants fired rockets at an Israeli town, and soldiers tore down houses in a refugee camp on the Egyptian border.
- Lawrence briefs
- August 27, 2004
- ¢ Rec center to be closed ¢ Lawrence student’s work featured in quilt
- Cubs’ Sosa packs punch
- Three-run homer keys victory over Houston
- August 27, 2004
- Sammy Sosa’s struggles were so prolonged that last week he volunteered to drop to No. 5 in the Chicago Cubs’ batting order.
- Zito loses focus but wins game
- Athletics turn back Baltimore for ninth victory in 10 outings
- August 27, 2004
- Barry Zito won on an empty stomach.
- Brain scans show planning revenge really can be sweet
- August 27, 2004
- Dirty Harry had it right: Brain scans show revenge really might make your day.
- Gates leads effort for Calif. stem cell research funding
- August 27, 2004
- Silicon Valley tycoons, Nobel laureates and Hollywood celebrities are backing a measure on California’s Nov. 2 ballot to devote $3 billion to human embryonic stem cell experiments in what would be the biggest-ever state-supported scientific research program in the country.
- MLB briefs
- August 27, 2004
- ¢ Portland stadium financing unveiled ¢ White Sox scratch Garcia from start ¢ Announcer rehired at McGreevey’s urging
- Number of poor, uninsured rise again
- August 27, 2004
- The number of Americans living in poverty and without health insurance rose for the third straight year in 2003, the Census Bureau reported Thursday in a pair of reports that delivered a double dose of bad economic news for the Bush administration.
- Detainee pledges loyalty to al-Qaida
- Yemeni also seeks to represent himself
- August 27, 2004
- In the most chaotic day so far of the war crimes tribunal here, a Yemeni captive on Thursday rejected his Pentagon defense team and dramatically declared loyalty to al-Qaida before he was cut off just as he seemed about to explain his links to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
- Second federal judge declares abortion ban unconstitutional
- August 27, 2004
- A federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday in the second such ruling in three months — even though he called the procedure “gruesome, brutal, barbaric and uncivilized.”
- Bristol’s influence growing
- August 27, 2004
- It’s one of the toughest tickets to get in NASCAR, and the atmosphere always is electric as 43 cars bang around the tight turns of Bristol Motor Speedway.
- Nazareth running last race
- August 27, 2004
- Nazareth Speedway is history after the IRL race Sunday, and points leader Tony Kanaan would love to win the finale for team owner Michael Andretti.
- Cool summer makes for big spiders
- August 27, 2004
- Midwestern spiders always get big as they prepare to lay eggs, but this year they’re even fatter thanks to a cool, wet summer that sustained their favorite snack: insects.
- Royals sink Seattle, 7-3
- August 27, 2004
- Ichiro Suzuki homered for his 200th hit of the season, but Abraham Nunez hit his second grand slam in two weeks, leading the Kansas City Royals over the Seattle Mariners, 7-3, Thursday night.
- Boring-to-Bland bride gains national attention
- August 27, 2004
- If going from the sublime to the ridiculous is not your idea of a good time, how about the bride who made the switch from Boring to Bland?
- Virtual school expenses OK’d
- August 27, 2004
- The Lawrence school district could spend more than a half-million dollars on computer equipment and curriculum for students in the new Lawrence Virtual School.
- Horoscopes
- August 27, 2004
- Candidate charges go both ways
- August 27, 2004
- For months, the big media and Democratic politicians have hammered on President Bush and his service in the National Guard, suggesting it was less than honorable. They called John Kerry a “war hero” almost as many times as Kerry himself brought up his Vietnam service.
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