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- Professor enters not guilty plea
- Thomas Murray’s trial to begin Feb. 14, expected to last six weeks
- December 18, 2004
- A Kansas State University English professor pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of murdering his ex-wife.
- KU doctoral student merges research, previous knowledge to coin traffic term
- December 18, 2004
- You’ve seen it before: a cluster of cars muscling their way from the on-ramp to the highway, causing on-coming vehicles to slow down and change lanes. Now, thanks to a Kansas University doctoral candidate, the phenomenon has a name: platoon merge.
- Simons: Regents must take lead role in promoting state universities
- December 18, 2004
- A report early this week told of a state audit claiming that, since 1985, faculty salaries at Kansas Board of Regents universities have risen by more than the inflation rate.
- Faith forum
- December 18, 2004
- Is everything in the Bible historically accurate? Does it matter?
- Bush signs broad intelligence reform
- Tommy Franks among potential directors
- December 18, 2004
- President Bush signed into law Friday the broadest reorganization of the nation’s intelligence community in more than half a century, overhauling a sprawling system that failed to head off devastating terrorist attacks three years ago and then misjudged the threat posed by Iraq a year later.
- Ardean B. Volk
- December 18, 2004
- Seabury takes split
- Seahawks’ boys fall; girls clip Knights
- December 18, 2004
- In a boys basketball game showcasing each team’s biggest stars, it was the smallest — and most shy — person on the court Friday night at Seabury High whose actions shined the brightest for Englewood Christian.
- Redskins, 49ers equally disappointing
- December 18, 2004
- A few days ago, coach Dennis Erickson honestly didn’t know whether he would be on the San Francisco 49ers’ sideline this weekend.
- FCE and 4-H News
- December 18, 2004
- Religion briefs
- December 18, 2004
- Engagements
- December 18, 2004
- Weddings
- December 18, 2004
- Society calendar
- December 18, 2004
- History important to present
- December 18, 2004
- Granted, it is not the sexiest subject in the world, not the kind of thing that gets people het up enough to write letters to the editor. Yet there are few things more vitally important to understanding the world and our role in it.
- Polls show gay-rights progress
- December 18, 2004
- Ever since the election, I’ve been carrying around a small newspaper clipping with an Alabama dateline. It tells how the voters rejected a referendum to cleanse their constitution of language that once required segregated schools.
- Drop in unemployment rate signals growing economy
- December 18, 2004
- The Kansas economy added 5,300 new jobs in November, dropping the unemployment rate to 4.6 percent, the state Department of Labor said Friday.
- Boeing delays decision on Wichita facility
- December 18, 2004
- Boeing Co. will not decide until early next year whether to sell its commercial airplane operations in Kansas and Oklahoma, company officials told employees Friday.
- Briefcase
- December 18, 2004
- ¢ Consumer prices rise by mild 0.2 percent ¢ Bush predicts steady economic growth ¢ United Airlines pilots OK another pay cut ¢ MetLife subsidiary gets notice from SEC
- Baby cut from womb found alive
- Police arrest suspect in slaying, kidnapping
- December 18, 2004
- Authorities Friday arrested a woman they allege came to the home of an eight-months-pregnant woman — purportedly to buy a dog — then strangled her and cut the baby from her womb.
- Friends mourn homeless woman who died in park
- 34-year-old had been temporarily barred from shelter
- December 18, 2004
- Lawrence’s homeless community was reeling Friday from the death of a woman found lying on the ground in the middle of the night in the gazebo at Buford M. Watson Jr. Park.
- On the Record
- December 18, 2004
- Glen Allen Edlin
- December 18, 2004
- Lions come out on fire against Firebirds
- LHS connects on 12 of first 15 shots in rout
- December 18, 2004
- Blazing. Torrid. Blistering. White hot. Flaming. Pick an adjective, any adjective, and it underscores Lawrence High’s early shooting in Friday night’s 51-37 girls basketball victory over Free State in the LHS gym.
- Mayer: Four-year players a blessing for KU basketball
- December 18, 2004
- One of the most enjoyable aspects of this Kansas University basketball season is that there’s no hourly blather over which Jayhawks will go professional and which ones will stay. With four seniors and sophomore J.R. Giddens, who clearly needs at least another year of seasoning, there’s no bait for a feeding frenzy among rumor-mongers.
- Falcons have owned Panthers at home
- December 18, 2004
- For a team still below .500 this season and woefully below .500 in its all-time series with division rival Atlanta, the Carolina Panthers bring substantial momentum and confidence to the Georgia Dome for tonight’s game.
- So far, Steelers have best rookie QB
- December 18, 2004
- Eight months ago, the New York Giants were patting themselves on the back after engineering a draft-day trade to get Eli Manning. No one seemed to care the Giants mortgaged the franchise in the deal with San Diego for the No. 1 overall pick.
- Horoscopes
- December 18, 2004
- More Republicans pointing critical eye at Rumsfeld
- December 18, 2004
- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is accustomed to the barbs of public life. Any number of people, for the most part Democrats, have been complaining about him since 1969, when he joined the Nixon administration.
- Consistent education programs cited for drop in teen pregnancy
- December 18, 2004
- Fewer Kansas teens are giving birth, a sign advocates say points to successful efforts to educate teenagers about the risks of underage sex.
- Ex-Jayhawk questionable for Titans
- December 18, 2004
- Former Kansas University football player Justin Hartwig, now the starting center for the Tennessee Titans, is listed as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Oakland Raiders.
- Miami’s win streak hits seven
- O’Neal helps Heat claim victory over Nuggets
- December 18, 2004
- Shaquille O’Neal expected the Miami Heat to endure some growing pains during the early portion of the season, as new teammates got used to each other’s nuances.
- People and Places
- December 18, 2004
- Photo: Fried by Free State
- December 18, 2004
- Westar jurors deadlock on 22 counts
- December 18, 2004
- Jurors struggling to reach a verdict in the federal fraud trial of two former Westar Energy Inc. executives have recessed for the weekend after they told a judge Friday that they are deadlocked on about half of the counts faced by former chief executive David Wittig and his top deputy.
- Dual duty
- A state representative called to active duty in Iraq should resign his seat so someone else can pick up his legislative duties
- December 18, 2004
- It’s unfortunate there’s not a third choice in this situation. Although Rep. Lee Tafanelli, R-Ozawkie, was duly re-elected last month to his seat in the Kansas House, he isn’t expected to be in his statehouse seat in January.
- Court appointments will be battle royal
- December 18, 2004
- For years before a presidential election, the political and chattering classes obsess, stockpile fortunes and organize outside the public eye for what they consider the ultimate battle of good vs. evil.
- Absorb the cost
- December 18, 2004
- Flawed bill
- December 18, 2004
- Abbas blasts Israeli plan for West Bank
- December 18, 2004
- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, the leading contender to succeed Yasser Arafat, said Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s hope of annexing West Bank settlements and keeping all of Jerusalem in a final peace deal is a disaster that could torpedo efforts to restart peace talks.
- Briefly - Nation
- December 18, 2004
- ¢ Voters refile challenge of presidential results ¢ Whitman says catering to right will hurt GOP ¢ Suspect in arson was angry at employer ¢ Jury recommends death for quintuple murderer ¢ Panel advises easing restrictions on flu shots ¢ 44 percent in U.S. say limit rights of Muslims ¢ Judge blocks count of newly discovered ballots ¢ Saudi detainee’s lawyer urges U.S. for release ¢ U.S. forgives $4.1 billion in debt Iraq owed it
- Hearse driver was officially dead, according to Social Security Administration
- December 18, 2004
- The dead driving the dead. That’s the simplest way to describe the plight of Frank Jansky, a 75-year-old Kansas City man who drives a hearse part-time.
- K-10 corridor to land bioscience jobs
- State investment begins to pay off
- December 18, 2004
- A company bringing about 100 new bioscience jobs at average salaries of $70,000 soon will be announced for the K-10 corridor, the chairman of the Kansas Bioscience Authority Board said Friday.
- U.S. wireless use lags developed countries
- Low usage blamed on credit checks, poor network quality
- December 18, 2004
- On a trip on the Tokyo subway last year, almost everyone ignored the young man talking on one wireless phone, messaging with another and juggling a third.
- Commodities
- December 18, 2004
- Enough with the gall-bladder surgery!
- Holiday letters should update, not bore and disgust
- December 18, 2004
- The holiday letter is first and foremost a matter of convenience, a way to deliver the same news to hundreds of relatives and friends at a busy time of year. With convenience, as anyone who has received a holiday letter knows, often comes tedium and worse — too much information.
- Away with the manger
- To many, it seems Christ has been removed from Christmas
- December 18, 2004
- As Dec. 25 approaches, many Americans find themselves amidst the annual, frenzied season of marathon shopping, endless gift giving and compulsive overeating — in other words, overindulgence in all things Christmas. Except, it would seem, for one thing: Jesus Christ.
- Home schooling can create right kind of socialization
- December 18, 2004
- Don’t you think home schooling might negatively impact the socialization process? I don’t want my children growing up to be misfits.
- Living Nativity becomes tradition at Lawrence Free Methodist Church
- December 18, 2004
- Everyone’s heard of the Living Nativity put on at Christmastime by the Vinland United Methodist Church — a tradition going into its 29th year.
- Churches plan Christmas services
- December 18, 2004
- Here’s a list of Christmas Eve and Christmas services planned at Lawrence and area churches:
- Master violin maker still practicing craft at age 95
- December 18, 2004
- Joseph Rashid has just finished making his 95th violin, in time for his 95th birthday. “This is my best yet,” he says, running his hand over the amber wood and pronouncing it as fine as his favorite, the esteemed No. 4, which he completed in 1937.
- More sermons get group approach
- December 18, 2004
- Many worshippers see it as the loneliest part of a minister’s job: crafting a sermon, in the wee hours, the only aids a Bible and some reference books before presenting the fully formed product to the congregation.
- Restoring history
- Supporters breathe new life into theater where Ronald Reagan movie premiered
- December 18, 2004
- Ronald Reagan was still an actor and a Democrat when he visited Springfield in 1952. Warner Bros. had arranged for the world premiere of “The Winning Team,” in which Reagan starred as pitching legend Grover Cleveland Alexander, on June 6 of that year at the Gillioz Theatre.
- Animated theologians return for holidays
- December 18, 2004
- You don’t have to be Lutheran to love “Davey and Goliath.” The classic stop-motion animated morality-tale series featuring a little rubber boy and his faithful talking dog returns to television after more than 30 years with the holiday special “Davey and Goliath’s Snowboard Christmas” (11 a.m. Sunday, Hallmark).
- Jackson welcomes 200 kids
- December 18, 2004
- An ebullient Michael Jackson greeted about 200 children who were brought Friday to the fairy-tale theme park at his countryside ranch — and looked at one point like he might stay to play.
- People
- December 18, 2004
- ¢ Oscar honors ‘Network’ filmmaker Sidney Lumet ¢ Sheen, Richards to have child ¢ Updike yields book collection ¢ Royal bubbly sold after all ¢ Rock items on auction block ¢ Birthday: Brad Pitt
- Supreme Court overturns death penalty in Kansas
- Ruling clears six from death row
- December 18, 2004
- In a stunning decision that rocked state leaders, a sharply divided Kansas Supreme Court on Friday declared the state’s death penalty unconstitutional and re-ignited the debate over capital punishment.
- Grandson accused of theft killed family
- December 18, 2004
- Michael Wurm’s appearance Friday before a Jefferson County judge was not his first time in a courtroom. Now 43, the Meriden resident killed his parents and younger brother in 1977 when the family lived near Macksville, a small town in Stafford County.
- Celebrex linked to heart attacks
- December 18, 2004
- The Food and Drug Administration Friday warned physicians to consider alternatives to the popular arthritis drug Celebrex because of new evidence that, like a similar drug, Vioxx, removed from the market in October, it doubles the chances of heart attacks and strokes.
- EPA: 225 counties fail to meet clean air standards
- December 18, 2004
- The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday identified 225 counties in 20 states that don’t meet new clean air standards designed to protect against one of the tiniest but most harmful pollutants: microscopic soot.
- Lawrence Datebook
- December 18, 2004
- Cathedral conductor kills himself after standoff
- December 18, 2004
- The longtime conductor of the Crystal Cathedral Orchestra — a composer and arranger who worked with Celine Dion and John Tesh — shot himself to death at the soaring glass-and-steel church Friday after a nine-hour standoff that started just before a Christmas pageant was to begin.
- Turkey one step closer to EU after recognition of Cyprus
- December 18, 2004
- For both parties it felt more like a shotgun wedding than a match made in heaven, but in the end the European Union proposed and Turkey accepted.
- Iraq gunmen kill four Turks
- December 18, 2004
- Masked gunmen in the turbulent Iraqi city of Mosul ambushed a car carrying Turkish police officers Friday, shooting three to death and decapitating a fourth who tried to run away, witnesses said.
- Marjorie Anna Daigh
- December 18, 2004
- Dean Eldwin Wilson
- December 18, 2004
- Noel Paige Lanci
- December 18, 2004
- Miles on verge of assists mark
- December 18, 2004
- Kansas University senior point guard Aaron Miles needs 10 assists to tie and 11 to pass Oklahoma State’s Doug Gottlieb for first place on the Big 12’s all-time assist list.
- Wind farm proposal advances
- Issue has divided area for two years, attorney says settlement reached
- December 18, 2004
- Construction of a wind farm that would become the state’s biggest producer of wind energy could begin this spring.
- Missouri asks residents to recycle gifts
- December 18, 2004
- After the Christmas presents are unwrapped, the new couch is in place and the holiday dinner is over, there is one more thing to do: Recycle.
- School administrator files to run for City Commission
- Bracciano will focus on planning issues, smoking ban
- December 18, 2004
- A longtime Lawrence school district administrator who has concerns about city planning and a controversial smoking ban filed Friday for a spot on the Lawrence City Commission.
- S.C.’s Odom ‘appreciates great basketball tradition’
- December 18, 2004
- Dave Odom had one big regret after leaving Wake Forest for South Carolina following the 2000-01 season. His departure from the Winston-Salem, N.C., school after 12 seasons meant the basketball traditionalist, who always had wanted to coach a game in Allen Fieldhouse, wouldn’t be able to join his Demon Deacons in Lawrence for the final game of a two-year series in ‘01-‘02.
- Jayhawks’ next test after finals: Big Green
- Kansas women return to action tonight against Dartmouth
- December 18, 2004
- Just seven games into the season, Kansas University’s women’s basketball team has experienced its fair share of highs and lows. But, starting with a convincing victory over Western Illinois on Dec. 8, the team is expecting to remain on its high though today’s game against Dartmouth.
- Free State dunks LHS
- Morningstar sparks FSHS
- December 18, 2004
- Brady Morningstar picked a good time for the first dunk of his high school basketball career. Free State High’s boys missed their first 10 shots Friday night at Lawrence High, and the Firebirds trailed the rival Lions, 5-0, when Danny Pike threw up brick No. 10.
- Report: Johnson deal done
- Yankees, D’backs, Dodgers agree on trade
- December 18, 2004
- The Big Unit is coming to the Yankees. After day-long negotiations at the highest level, the Yankees, Diamondbacks and Dodgers agreed in principle to the blockbuster trade that will put Randy Johnson in pinstripes, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
- Baseball needs to move on D.C. deal
- December 18, 2004
- Michael MacCambridge’s latest tome hit the bookstores recently. It is titled America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation. It is 576 pages thick.
- Bones, Ottawa win easy
- December 18, 2004
- Luke Bones, Matt Leecy and the Ottawa High boys basketball team made quick work of Prairie View.
- Veritas boys hold on for victory
- December 18, 2004
- Veritas Christian tightened its defense on 6-foot-7 Billy Davenport in the second half and scored a 63-54 high school boys basketball victory over Topeka Cornerstone on Friday night.
- Gimzo’s late free throw lifts Perry-Lecompton
- December 18, 2004
- With the game tied at 46 and .6 seconds left, Perry-Lecompton’s Tonya Gimzo stepped to the line for two free throws.
- SFT 53, Immaculata 35
- December 18, 2004
- Lindsay Boss powered the Chargers with 23 points as Santa Fe Trail ended its 2004 on a high note.
- Ottawa 59, Prairie View 39
- December 18, 2004
- Jara Vance scored 17 points, Megan Ramsey 14 and Kelsie Studley 13 as Ottawa improved to 5-0. Ottawa built a 32-17 lead at halftime, then put the game out of reach by outscoring Prairie View 20-9 in the third quarter.
- LHS volleyball player signs with Washburn
- December 18, 2004
- Lawrence High setter Carolyn Raynes has signed a letter of intent to play volleyball for Washburn.
- Cavaliers’ Snow, coach clash during game
- December 18, 2004
- Paul Silas is fond of saying that no season or player-coach relationship will be a bed of roses. Well, there were plenty of thorns Thursday night at the Palace of Auburn Hills, and the Cavaliers came away physically and emotionally bloodied.
- Raptors send Carter to Nets
- Toronto acquires Mourning, two first-round picks
- December 18, 2004
- Vince Carter wanted out of Toronto and received his wish Friday, getting traded to the Nets for three players and two No. 1 picks in a deal that immediately raised the question: Will Jason Kidd still want out of New Jersey?
- Colorado players say chemistry improved
- December 18, 2004
- Colorado’s men’s basketball program is just 3-2 this season, but players and coaches alike say they are a much happier team than last year.
- Kansas high school basketball scores from Dec. 17
- December 18, 2004
- Scouting news
- December 18, 2004
- Club news
- December 18, 2004
- Military news
- December 18, 2004
- Around and about
- December 18, 2004
- James Madison class of I-AA
- Dukes run past Montana, 31-21, in title game
- December 18, 2004
- James Madison ran its way to its first Division I-AA national championship.
- N.C. State’s Hodge brash
- ‘I feel like I’m the best player in college basketball’
- December 18, 2004
- Julius Hodge drove to the basket and scored, then turned to run back on defense. On the way, for a brief moment, he held the Heisman Trophy pose.
- Wesley ‘excited’ about honor
- Jayhawks to pay tribute to former player tonight
- December 18, 2004
- Walt Wesley hasn’t spent any time stressing out about the speech he’ll give to 16,300 fans at halftime of tonight’s Kansas University-South Carolina basketball game at Allen Fieldhouse.
- Pistora, Deaver power Tonganoxie girls
- December 18, 2004
- Though Christmas is not until next week, Tonganoxie High senior Ali Pistora considered her basketball team’s 52-30 victory Friday against Bonner Springs an early present.
- Article alleges U.S. used Africans as ‘guinea pigs’
- S. Africans say U.S. lied about AIDS drug
- December 18, 2004
- President Thabo Mbeki’s ruling party published a stinging attack Friday on top U.S. health officials, accusing them of treating Africans like “guinea pigs” and lying to promote a key AIDS drug.
- Briefly - World
- December 18, 2004
- ¢ U.N. says listening device found at office ¢ Soldiers storm jail, end bloody inmate standoff ¢ U.N. peacekeepers force way into Aristide estate ¢ Briton describes abuse at Guantanamo Bay ¢ Two U.N. peacekeepers laid off for misconduct ¢ Doctors say stem cells from fat help heal skull ¢ Russia vows to proceed with Yukos auction
- Local briefs
- December 18, 2004
- ¢ Role model essay earns student $1,000 ¢ Bus system celebrates fourth anniversary ¢ Winter wear wanted ¢ Hall Center seeks nominees for award ¢ South Park rec center to close for remodeling ¢ Rep. Moore has new Capitol Hill address ¢ LHS senior chosen for U.S. Senate program ¢ Parks and Rec offers aquatic certification ¢ Pharmacy Assn. wins ‘chapter of the year’
- 6Sports video: Seahawks’ boys fall; girls clip Knights
- December 18, 2004
- The Seabury boy’s basketball team lost by one point to Englewood Christian while the Seabury girls were victorious over Englewood.
- 6Sports video: Free State boys prevail
- December 18, 2004
- The Firebirds defeated the Lions, 59-48, in the city showdown Friday night at Lawrence High School.
- 6Sports video: LHS girls cruise past Free State
- December 18, 2004
- The Lions knocked off the Firebirds, 51-37, Friday at Lawrence High School.
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