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- Scattered showers expected tonight
- December 6, 2004
- (Updated Monday at 4:16 p.m.) If you’re headed out this evening, expect to get wet — scattered showers are expected throughout the Lawrence area, says Matt Sayers, 6News meteorologist.
- GOP moderates win most Kansas Senate leadership posts
- Caucus elections show GOP majority deeply divided
- December 6, 2004
- (Updated Monday at 3:26 p.m.) So-called moderate Republicans in the Kansas Senate held the upper hand Monday after the caucus elected its leaders for the legislative session that starts next month.
- Testimony begins in murder case
- December 6, 2004
- (Updated Monday at 12:39 p.m.) Testimony is underway today in the case of a Kansas State University professor charged with first-degree murder in the death of his ex-wife.
- Morris elected as president of Kansas Senate
- December 6, 2004
- (Updated Monday at 11:13 a.m.) BULLETIN — Kansas Senate Republicans tap Sen. Steve Morris of Hugoton to be the new Senate president.
- Fog advisory issued for northeast Kansas
- December 6, 2004
- (Updated Monday at 8:44 a.m.) A thick fog blanketed Lawrence this morning, reducing visibility to one-tenth of a mile in some areas, said Jennifer Schack, 6News meteorologist. “Be extra cautious on your drive to work,” Schack said. A dense fog advisory has been issued for most of northeast Kansas.
- Alternative high school serves as asset for Lawrence district
- December 6, 2004
- When Lawrence Alternative High School closes at the end of this school year, the Lawrence educational system will lose a valuable asset.
- Missing children mystery frustrates family, police
- December 6, 2004
- Six months after two Independence children left for a weekend with their father, the children remain missing, the father remains in jail and frustrated family members are questioning the police’s handling of the case.
- People
- December 6, 2004
- ¢ Kennedy Center honorees feted ¢ Michael Jackson gives DNA sample to authorities ¢ Married to the ‘mob’? ¢ ‘Treasure’ keeps up gold streak at box office ¢ An expensive ‘fire’
- Green rallies Chiefs
- Kennison grabs decisive score in 34-27 victory
- December 6, 2004
- A smiling Dick Vermeil scurried through the tight quarters of the visiting locker room hugging and high-fiving his players.
- KU ready to reload
- Three defensive linemen commit during visits
- December 6, 2004
- The Kansas University football team’s first big weekend of the recruiting season culminated Sunday with three commitments from defensive linemen — the position losing the most senior starters.
- Club seeks referees for youth basketball
- December 6, 2004
- The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence needs volunteer referees for its after-school basketball games on Wednesdays. Participating children are mostly ages 9 to 11, grades three through six. Referees must know the basic rules of the game and will support good sportsmanship among players.
- Briefcase
- December 6, 2004
- ¢ Gasoline prices dropping again ¢ Treasury official says U.S. economy to grow ¢ Nation prioritizes ‘macroeconomic control’ ¢ Aon Corp. CEO ready for investigation
- Prisoner swap bodes well for Israel-Egypt relations
- December 6, 2004
- Egypt on Sunday released an Israeli man convicted of spying in exchange for Israel’s release of six Egyptian students, a deal that signaled a warming of relations between the two countries, officials here said. As part of the deal, Israel may also release Palestinian prisoners in the future, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said.
- Technology reshapes wartime correspondence
- December 6, 2004
- The U.S. military depends on high-tech weapons and equipment to give it an edge over enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan, but technology also affects the way military personnel communicate with their families back home.
- Area briefs
- December 6, 2004
- ¢ Volunteers sought to help at flu clinic ¢ Blast injures parents but spares newborn ¢ County commissioners cancel two meetings ¢ Community center seeks holiday helpers
- Briefly
- December 6, 2004
- ¢ Lawmakers press MLB to fix steroids problem ¢ Parks will live rent-free ¢ Review sought for abstinence programs ¢ Sickle cell study halted after kids have strokes ¢ Frist: Retirement age may need to increase
- Briefly
- December 6, 2004
- ¢ Payloads for peace dropped over provinces ¢ UNICEF chief: 170M children malnourished ¢ Russian leader makes first visit to nation ¢ Drug trafficking suspect claims innocence
- Athletic dishonesty
- Recent firings of coaches at some of the nation’s most highly regarded academic institutions raise the stakes in the national quest to win at all costs.
- December 6, 2004
- Several weeks ago Michael Josephson, a nationally recognized speaker, was in Lawrence to visit with several audiences. At each presentation, panelists were queried by Josephson about how ethics, character and honesty interfaced with their jobs or professions.
- Late tidings
- December 6, 2004
- Auburn left out of BCS
- Sugar Bowl awaits undefeated Tigers; USC, OU to play for coaches’ crown
- December 6, 2004
- Now Auburn knows what it’s like to be the odd team out — a feeling Southern California knew only too well last year.
- Have some faith
- December 6, 2004
- Ban commission
- December 6, 2004
- Truly sad
- December 6, 2004
- Solution: wages
- December 6, 2004
- Can of worms
- December 6, 2004
- Genes or sales?
- December 6, 2004
- Concealed guns
- December 6, 2004
- KU student mixes bartending, DJing
- Business owner offers his spin on smoking ban
- December 6, 2004
- Bartender and disc jockey Nick Reddell has become a fixture in the Lawrence nightlife scene.
- Kansas senior Langford displays passing prowess
- December 6, 2004
- He never has been compared to Magic Johnson or Isiah Thomas … or, for that matter, Aaron Miles, Jacque Vaughn or Cedric Hunter. But, hey, Keith Langford can pass the basketball, too.
- To-do list
- December 6, 2004
- ¢ Lawrence theater extends hit show ¢ Watkins celebrating holidays with sweets ¢ Horned Frogs to hop into Allen Fieldhouse ¢ Farmers market offers unique gifts
- Discovery of foreign snail halts trout supply to Kansas lakes
- December 6, 2004
- The discovery of a destructive foreign snail at a Colorado fish farm is expected to hurt trout fishing in southwestern Kansas for at least the next few weeks.
- Spain clinches Davis Cup crown
- Roddick loses deciding match for United States
- December 6, 2004
- Andy Roddick searched out Carlos Moya in the throng of jumping, screaming Spanish tennis players, hoping to shake hands.
- Colonials upend Terrapins
- December 6, 2004
- George Washington coach Karl Hobbs hopes the Colonials’ weekend sweep of ranked teams isn’t a two-day aberration.
- Baylor routs East Carolina
- December 6, 2004
- Emily Niemann scored a game-high 18 points, and Sophia Young added 17 Sunday to lift Baylor past East Carolina, 80-59, in the final of the Lady Pirate Invitational.
- City basketball capsules
- December 6, 2004
- ¢ Lawrence High girls at K.C. Washington ¢ Free State boys vs. Blue Valley West ¢ Hyman Brand at Veritas boys
- Kings rally for 4th straight win
- December 6, 2004
- The Sacramento Kings didn’t let an 18-point deficit ruin their winning streak.
- League won’t seek restraining order
- December 6, 2004
- The NBA informed the players’ union Sunday it would not seek a temporary restraining order in federal court, clearing the way for a grievance hearing over suspensions for the Pacers-Pistons brawl.
- Gophers push past Jayhawks
- Minnesota too tough, tall for KU in 62-45 victory
- December 6, 2004
- Depth and defense saved Minnesota after a miserable first half Sunday.
- Chester Alden Fleming
- December 6, 2004
- State expected to push for commuter bus plan
- Service likely to roll out in Douglas, Johnson counties
- December 6, 2004
- Commuters partake in all types of activities during their daily drives from Lawrence to Johnson County, but Terry Heidner is betting napping isn’t one of them. It soon could be.
- Tax reform ideas stirring
- Legislators vow to pursue bill of rights as Colorado has
- December 6, 2004
- In Colorado, critics say the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights — TABOR for short — has created a budgetary mess.
- Communication breakdown figured in Pat Tillman’s death
- Newspaper publishes account of friendly-fire horror in Afghanistan
- December 6, 2004
- The last minutes of Pat Tillman’s life were a horror of misdirected machine-gun fire and signals to firing colleagues that were misunderstood as hostile acts, according to an account published Sunday of the death of the NFL-player-turned-soldier.
- City commissioner lobbies for transit project
- December 6, 2004
- Lawrence residents should throw their support behind efforts to build a major commuter rail project in the Kansas City metro area, City Commissioner Boog Highberger said last week.
- Lawmakers urge vote on intelligence overhaul
- December 6, 2004
- If House GOP leaders would allow a vote on post-9-11 legislation overhauling the nation’s intelligence community, it would easily pass, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle predicted Sunday.
- Military’s policy on gays faces challenge
- December 6, 2004
- The Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy is being challenged by 12 gays who have been separated from the military because of their homosexuality.
- American Medical Assn. considers backing imported drug plans
- December 6, 2004
- The American Medical Assn. is weighing support of importing prescription drugs from outside the United States as the nation’s physicians address pleas from patients about the high cost of medicines.
- Economists say job market will improve
- December 6, 2004
- For a while, it looked as if the conclusion to the 2004 election would prove to be a rejuvenating tonic for the nation’s economy. Then, as has happened so often over the past three years, news on the jobs front fell short of expectations.
- The week ahead
- December 6, 2004
- Opposition leader seeks electoral changes
- December 6, 2004
- Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko kicked off campaigning for the Dec. 26 presidential election rerun Sunday with a call for passage of anti-fraud legislation. Supporters signed up by the thousands to monitor balloting.
- Seasonal sounds abound
- Annual concerts carry on holiday traditions
- December 6, 2004
- The weather outside may have been frightful, thanks to a steady rain Sunday afternoon, but inside Kansas University’s Lied Center the charm and sound of Christmas music buoyed holiday spirits.
- LHS grad gets legal notice in D.C.
- Son of KU professor to argue this week before Supreme Court
- December 6, 2004
- A Lawrence High School graduate is one of the fastest-rising “legal stars” in Washington, D.C., according to an article in the latest issue of Washingtonian magazine.
- City’s weatherization program faces funding freeze
- December 6, 2004
- Carol Taylor was getting some $300 heating bills — and paying more than $100 a bottle for her glaucoma medication.
- Photo: Santa Claus has pet project
- December 6, 2004
- A trip down memory lane
- December 6, 2004
- There’s a certain science to nostalgia, an inexact math that tells us when the time has come for misty recollection. And to my reckoning, it’s about a decade too early for “The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember” (7 p.m., Lifetime). Don’t get me wrong. I was a fan of that slapstick comedy, a British farce with a Yiddish accent. But let’s face it: “The Nanny” ran for six years (beginning in 1993) and has been off the air for five years, ending in 1999. And it’s been in repeats for most of that half-decade.
- Cooperation with U.S. puts target on Iraqis
- At least 70 workers killed over weekend
- December 6, 2004
- Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying unarmed Iraqis to work at a U.S. ammo dump near Tikrit on Sunday, killing 17 and raising the toll from three days of intensified and bloody insurgent attacks to at least 70 Iraqi dead and dozens wounded.
- Selig to seek more frequent testing
- Baseball commissioner probably won’t discipline Bonds, Giambi, Sheffield, merely look ahead
- December 6, 2004
- For all the fuss over reported admissions of steroid use by Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, major league baseball probably won’t discipline them.
- Horoscopes
- December 6, 2004
- On the record
- December 6, 2004
- Chargers shock Broncos, 20-17
- San Diego takes two-game lead in AFC West
- December 6, 2004
- The San Diego Chargers’ long nightmare is coming to an end.
- About school bullying … so what?
- December 6, 2004
- Some people are going to think I’m insensitive. I refer to the news out of the suburbs of Tacoma, Wash., that three teen-agers were arrested last week for allegedly plotting a Columbine-style massacre at their high school. It is unknown how serious the alleged plan was. Authorities say the students — an 18-year-old female and two males, ages 16 and 18 — had amassed no weapons and were a long way from carrying out the purported plot.
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