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- Shooting investigated in south Lawrence
- December 29, 2004
- (Web Posted Wednesday at 11:53 p.m.) Lawrence Police are investigating reports of a shooting Wednesday around Holcom Park, 27th Street and Lawrence Avenue.
- Police searching for man who sexually attacked two women
- December 29, 2004
- (Updated Wednesday at 4:11 p.m.) Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted two women early this morning inside their central Lawrence home.
- Evolution hearings postponed
- December 29, 2004
- (Updated Wednesday at 11:17 a.m.) KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Concerns raised by members of the State Board of Education about teaching evolution has led a committee assigned to rewrite the state’s science education standards to postpone four public hearings that were scheduled for next month.
- Crash kills man, two children
- December 29, 2004
- (Web Posted Wednesday at 8:59 a.m.) WILLIAMSBURG, Kan. — A man and two children were killed Tuesday night in a one-vehicle accident in Osage County, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.
- Winter ‘heat wave’ continues
- December 29, 2004
- (Updated Wednesday at 8:43 a.m.) More unusually warm temperatures and sunny skies are expected today — and a winter “heat wave” will continue for the next few days. “It says winter on the calendar but not really — it’s going to feel more like spring today,” said Tim Reith, 6News meteorologist.
- Briefly
- December 29, 2004
- ¢ Official warns security of ports shortchanged ¢ Surrogate, 55, delivers triplets for daughter ¢ Arson suspect didn’t get Christmas presents ¢ Nation denies helping Iraqi insurgentsjavascript:body_doublesp()
- - Private - Veritas Christian School
- December 29, 2004
- Veritas Christian School school is a non-denominational Christian school serving students in kindergarten through grade 12.
- Cowboys, Wildcats each suffer first loss
- December 29, 2004
- With his team’s best player limited by an ankle injury, J.P. Batista came off the bench to lift No. 12 Gonzaga to another big victory.
- Nuggets fire head coach Bzdelik
- ‘Change of voice’ cited as need for Denver to begin looking for new coach
- December 29, 2004
- Following a lackluster loss to Cleveland earlier this month, Denver coach Jeff Bzdelik questioned whether his players were in shape and said he was losing sleep because of the Nuggets’ inconsistent play.
- Commentary: Weed Eater lives in lore of bowls
- Poulan didn’t start the name game, but it came along as the postseason party was filling up
- December 29, 2004
- Did you enjoy Monday’s MPC Computers Bowl? Or did you turn on the TV, see the blue turf of Bronco Stadium and feel a little more despair?
- Embarrassing result
- Minors looking for a place to buy cigarettes apparently can find easy pickings in Lawrence.
- December 29, 2004
- What irony. After a heated battle to pass a smoking ban to protect residents from the effects of secondhand smoke, Lawrence now learns that a state sting operation shows that local stores failed to enforce laws banning the sale of cigarettes to minors almost three times out of four.
- Suicide bombers redefine terrorism
- December 29, 2004
- Kris Kringle and George W. Bush, Time’s re-elected Person of the Year, must share the spotlight in this holiday season of retrospective rumination with a spectral figure intent on changing our times: the suicide bomber.
- Making amends at year’s end
- December 29, 2004
- This year, we were tempted to pass up our traditional fess up. After all, 2004 was not a bull market for confessions and corrections. Denial was in, repentance was out. To err was human, to admit it was a strategic blunder.
- Ruby E. Jansen
- December 29, 2004
- Rushing carries Cyclones
- 295 yards on ground doom Miami of Ohio
- December 29, 2004
- Iowa State returned to its foundation to finally get the Big 12 Conference a victory in the Independence Bowl.
- Self gives Jayhawks early season grade of ‘B’
- December 29, 2004
- Kansas University professor of basketball Bill Self, who teaches hoops class daily on James Naismith Court and in Horejsi Center, gives his student-athletes a solid grade of “B” for their work first semester.
- Sorenstam named athlete of year
- Swede won 10 of 20 golf tournaments, topped money list
- December 29, 2004
- She won early and often, and often by overwhelming margins. She won on four continents — in Australia, Sweden and Japan and in six of the 50 United States. She won a major, the most money and a remarkable 10 times in just 20 starts worldwide.
- Caviar: Dress up your New Year’s Eve bash with an affordable American variety
- December 29, 2004
- When most people think of caviar, a luxury item often linked to special occasions such as New Year’s Eve, they likely picture a delicacy that’s as Russian as a chilled bottle of Stolichnaya vodka.
- Shrimp and grits for the holiday
- December 29, 2004
- The only thing I like better than stumbling upon an absolutely scrumptious restaurant meal that I’d like to eat again and again is finding the recipe for this meal published in a cookbook.
- Party-loving chef offers tips for ‘bubbles and bites’
- December 29, 2004
- During a workshop demonstration of easy ways to make canapes for parties, chef Alice Weingarten mentions her credentials: She’s been giving parties since she was 8 years old and at 12 was catering parties for her parents, she says.
- Horoscopes
- December 29, 2004
- Briefly
- December 29, 2004
- ¢ Yushchenko calls for new blockade ¢ Nation celebrates day of pranks ¢ Former Yukos chief accuses Kremlin of theft ¢ Abbas campaigning receives warm reception
- Briefly
- December 29, 2004
- ¢ FDA approves drug for severe pain ¢ Bush, Kerry about 300 votes closer in recount ¢ GOP seeks voter list; challenge uncertain ¢ FBI names another counterterrorism chief ¢ Police report 154 officers died in 2004 ¢ Three workers killed in building explosion ¢ Firing upheld for worker without cosmetics
- New KU research facility construction on fast track
- December 29, 2004
- The race is on to finish a new Kansas University research building by the end of 2005. The building must be completed and occupied by the end of the year for KU to capitalize on additional federal research dollars.
- Eldridge closing for renovation
- Investors expect overhaul to last three months
- December 29, 2004
- The Eldridge Hotel is closing next week for a $1.5 million makeover designed to give the downtown landmark building new life.
- It isn’t a crisis; it’s just life
- December 29, 2004
- An admissions adviser for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talking on National Public Radio the other morning, called the stress that high school students and their parents go through when participating in the college application process “a public health crisis.”
- Death penalty, racial profiling proposals await lawmakers
- December 29, 2004
- Abolishing the death penalty, making racial profiling a crime and setting up government health insurance for all Kansans are among a wide range of proposals already in the Legislature’s in-basket.
- Freshmen filling needs for Georgia Tech
- Morrow’s 20, Dickey’s 15 lift Jackets; UNC routs N.C.-Wilmington
- December 29, 2004
- Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt was a man of his word.
- Inauguration to be top-dollar affair
- Record spending planned for Bush galas
- December 29, 2004
- Soldiers will dance free of charge at President Bush’s second inauguration, a record $40 million-plus celebration for “a nation at war” financed by some of the same big donors who bankrolled Bush’s re-election campaign.
- - Private - Century School
- December 29, 2004
- Century School is a private school just west of Lawrence’s historic downtown. Located at 816 Kentucky St., the kindergarden through grade six school had 62 students enrolled in the fall of 2004.
- Good example
- December 29, 2004
- Wecker lifts K-State over Villanova
- December 29, 2004
- Kendra Wecker scored 25 points, leading No. 22 Kansas State past Villanova, 75-63, on Tuesday.
- Wrong measures
- December 29, 2004
- Happy holidays
- December 29, 2004
- Fellowship program taking applications for inaugural award
- December 29, 2004
- The Hall Center for the Humanities at Kansas University is accepting applications for its first-ever Simons Distinguished Citizen Fellowship.
- KU student’s death ruled accidental
- December 29, 2004
- A Kansas University student who died last week was the victim of an accidental shooting, authorities said.
- Kansan rewarded for using environmentally friendly farming techniques
- December 29, 2004
- For more than four decades, Rod Arbuthnot has run his farm in a fashion many conservationists love.
- On the record
- December 29, 2004
- Little Apple to mirror NYC New Year’s Eve
- December 29, 2004
- New York, eat your heart out.
- Lois Irene Goff
- December 29, 2004
- Raymond D. Reed
- December 29, 2004
- Virginia M. Schutz
- December 29, 2004
- Chaney Services
- December 29, 2004
- Area briefs
- December 29, 2004
- ¢ Analysis confirms blood on sandwich ¢ Commissioner suggests new computer program ¢ Coins stolen from downtown meters ¢ Nominate teachers for hall of fame ¢ County attorney goes from GOP to Libertarian
- Slaying suspect to receive public defender
- December 29, 2004
- A woman accused of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb asked for a public defender Tuesday in one of her first steps of what’s likely to be a long legal journey.
- Stance on illegal immigrants draws ire
- State BOE member’s proposed curriculum changes re-ignite controversy
- December 29, 2004
- State Board of Education member Connie Morris has once again fanned controversy with her comments about illegal immigrants.
- Local briefs
- December 29, 2004
- ¢ Officer barely escapes injury in vehicle crash ¢ Red Kettle campaign collects record amount ¢ Debate on evolution delayed until February
- Daily ticker
- December 29, 2004
- Aztec smacking
- 24-0 spurt lifts Jayhawks to easy win
- December 29, 2004
- For nine minutes, Kansas University looked like it had the best women’s basketball team in America. The Jayhawks dropped two dozen unanswered points on San Diego State during the first half on their way to a 71-45 triumph Tuesday night in Allen Fieldhouse.
- Recruiting period slowing but not yet finished
- December 29, 2004
- Finally, a chance to breathe. In what might be a record, nobody is known to have committed to Kansas University’s 2005 football recruiting class in seven whole days.
- Lawrence motel managers drop Super 8 affiliation
- December 29, 2004
- The former Super 8 Motel in Lawrence now is living by the Golden Rule.
- More schools replacing milk cartons with plastic bottles
- Lawrence secondary schools offer choices
- December 29, 2004
- Yet another familiar school-days object may be going the way of the inkwell and the slide rule.
- Labor market, energy prices boost confidence
- December 29, 2004
- Improving labor market conditions and cheaper energy prices led to a sharp increase in a widely watched indicator of consumer confidence in the economy in December, a good sign for growth heading into the new year.
- Commodities
- December 29, 2004
- Miles, Oklahoma State finding home in Texas
- December 29, 2004
- Oklahoma State coach Les Miles wants to be where Southern Cal’s Pete Carroll and Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops are.
- Barnett, Price each emerging from scandal
- December 29, 2004
- When Gary Barnett was mired in scandal earlier this year, the Colorado coach could always count on an encouraging word from longtime friend Mike Price.
- Oregon St. pounds Irish
- December 29, 2004
- Derek Anderson and Oregon State finished off Notre Dame’s dreary season with a 38-21 beating of the Irish on Tuesday night in the Insight Bowl.
- Titanic showdown goes to Spurs
- Stoudemire drops 37, but San Antonio runs away
- December 29, 2004
- The Phoenix Suns weren’t as good as their record indicated.
- HINU men earn first win
- December 29, 2004
- Topah Spoonhunter scored 15 points, Lati Hill had 14 and Brandon Stevens added 13, leading the Haskell Indian Nations University men’s basketball squad to its first victory of the season, a 77-75 win Tuesday night over University of Great Falls.
- Death toll tops 58,000
- U.N.: Disease could double number killed
- December 29, 2004
- A new day brought new horror Tuesday as the toll from the Asian tsunami disaster shot past 58,000 dead — with tens of thousands, including hundreds of Americans, still missing in the most far-reaching catastrophe in recorded history.
- Lawrence resident survives disaster
- Judge’s two sons also reported safe
- December 29, 2004
- A Lawrence businessman traveling in Thailand lost his belongings, but he survived the earthquake and tsunamis that killed tens of thousands in southern Asia, a friend said.
- Turnpike work to begin Monday
- Roadway to expand from 4 to 6 lanes between E. Topeka, Lecompton
- December 29, 2004
- Commuters driving the Kansas Turnpike between the Lecompton interchange and East Topeka exit will see early stages of construction when they head to work Monday.
- Longtime buddies bound for Iraq together
- December 29, 2004
- Lance Cpls. Kyle Case and Michael Waisner were buddies in high school and roommates in college. Now they’re in the same Marine platoon headed for the Middle East.
- At least 30 killed in attacks on Iraqi forces
- December 29, 2004
- Insurgents launched a series of attacks Tuesday on Iraqi police and national guardsmen that killed more than 30 people, a day after the leading Sunni Muslim political party withdrew from parliamentary elections set for Jan. 30, citing the escalating violence.
- People
- December 29, 2004
- ¢ Guitarist Hank Garland dies ¢ Liza Minnelli hospitalized after fall from bed ¢ Jet Li injured in tsunami ¢ Berlin Film fest in works ¢ Monty Python’s ‘Spamalot’ ¢ More Broadway news
- President expected to delay tax overhaul
- December 29, 2004
- Wholesale changes to the tax code that just weeks ago were identified as a Bush administration goal by the end of 2005 are being pushed back for at least another year.
- Severe storms pounding California
- December 29, 2004
- A powerful storm pounded California for a second day Tuesday, flooding freeways and desert roads, tossing boats ashore and triggering a rockslide that blocked Highway 1 on the central coast.
- Fuel tank addresses shuttle concerns
- December 29, 2004
- NASA takes a major step toward returning astronauts to space when engineers this week ship an improved rocket fuel tank that has been refitted to avoid the falling debris that caused the destruction of Columbia and the death of seven astronauts.
- Record grizzly deaths worry environmentalists
- December 29, 2004
- Seven were hit by trains or cars. Ten were killed illegally, often shot and left to die. Thirteen were killed by wildlife officials because they had menaced humans or had otherwise become a nuisance. One was killed in self-defense.
- Author Susan Sontag dies
- Acclaimed activist won National Book Award
- December 29, 2004
- Susan Sontag, a leading intellectual and activist of the past half-century who introduced the concept of “camp” to mainstream culture and also influenced the way many thought about art, illness and photography, died Tuesday. She was 71.
- Agencies don’t want food, clothes
- December 29, 2004
- If you want to help the tsunami victims, send money, not clothes or food, which often piles up unused and burdens relief groups.
- Swedish toddler lost in Thailand claimed by uncle
- December 29, 2004
- A 2-year-old boy who was found dazed and alone on a roadside in the wasteland of a tsunami-devastated Thai resort was reunited Tuesday with his uncle, who spotted the child’s picture on the Internet.
- At least a dozen Americans killed
- Powell: Hundreds still missing
- December 29, 2004
- Like many Sri Lankans who live abroad, Dr. Anton Ambrose and his wife, Beulah, traveled to their homeland during the holiday season for rest and relaxation.
- New Year’s resolutions require many sacrifices
- December 29, 2004
- Nearly all of us have had the experience of making resolutions. And most of us also have had the experience — perhaps consistently — of failing to follow through on our good intentions. When this happens regularly, it’s easy to become discouraged and to write off resolutions as a painful exercise in futility that undermines our sense of confidence and hope.
- Kevin Bacon sizzles in dark role as sex offender in ‘Woodsman’
- December 29, 2004
- Kevin Bacon wants you to know the same thing he told his kids: No children were harmed during the making of his latest film.
- - Private - Bishop Seabury Academy
- December 29, 2004
- Bishop Seabury Academy is a private Episcopal day school for girls and boys in grades seven through 12. The school, which was started in the 1997-98, teaches a traditional, college preparatory curriculum.
- - Private - Lawrence Catholic School
- December 29, 2004
- Lawrence Catholic School is a Catholic parochial school that serves the Roman Catholic church congregations in Lawrence.
- - Private - Raintree Montessori School
- December 29, 2004
- Raintree Montessori, located in southwest Lawrence, began in 1978 with two primary classrooms. It now has a toddler classroom, nine primary classrooms, two lower elementary classrooms and two upper elementary classrooms.
- TBS embarks on a commercial endeavor
- December 29, 2004
- With every series in repeats tonight, TBS invites viewers to sample “The Funniest Commercials of the Year: 2004” (8 p.m., TBS). Kevin Nealon (“Saturday Night Live”) hosts this one-hour roundup of 30-second spots from the United States and abroad. More than 50 commercials will be featured, including 10 chosen by viewers on an online poll.
- Bush’s low approval ratings set record
- December 29, 2004
- Despite a clear-cut re-election and the prospect of lasting GOP dominance in Congress, President Bush prepares to kick off his second term with the lowest approval ratings of any just-elected sitting president in a half-century, according to a series of new surveys.
- Briefcase
- December 29, 2004
- ¢ US Airways appeals for free holiday work ¢ Blockbuster to launch bid for Hollywood ¢ Edward Jones partner paying $3 million fine ¢ Last-minute shoppers lift retailers’ spirits ¢ Egg plant planned in Cherokee County
- Baldwin reporter trades in press pass for police badge
- December 29, 2004
- Kristen Dymacek switched careers earlier this month when she traded her pen and reporter’s notebook for a badge and a gun.
- Corrections
- December 29, 2004
- A bird pictured on page 1B of Tuesday’s Journal-World was a mute swan. The photo caption incorrectly identified the bird as a trumpeter swan, which has a black beak.
- 6Sports video: Former Eudora standout taking stand in MIAA
- December 29, 2004
- For four years, Lauren Kracl terrorized the Frontier League in volleyball and basketball. Now, the former Eudora Lady Cardinal is doing the same in her freshman year at Missouri Western.
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