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- Episcopal moderates, liberals struggling within dioceses
- January 3, 2004
- Nancy Key, a lifelong Episcopalian, grew uneasy as speaker after speaker at her diocesan meeting rose to denounce the confirmation of the first openly gay bishop in the history of the American church.
- Legislators to tackle law and order issues
- Push for concealed weapons law expected this session
- January 3, 2004
- Some people want to make it legal to carry concealed guns in Kansas. Some want to add more prison beds. Others want to empty those beds by releasing nonviolent drug offenders.
- Wildcat fans show loyalty with wallets, bowl trek
- January 3, 2004
- Ron Backman used to be able to see Kansas State play football — and take a friend — for the price of a roast beef sandwich, fries and a soft drink.
- Anna M. Stahel
- January 3, 2004
- Briefly
- January 3, 2004
- ¢ Police begin screening American visitors ¢ Negligence blamed for deadly gas blowout
- Briefly
- January 3, 2004
- ¢ Dulles security director suspended after DUI arrest ¢ Tip leads IRS to audit its own ¢ Navy seizes another boat with hashish in Persian Gulf
- Briefly
- January 3, 2004
- ¢ Inmate on the lam turns himself in ¢ Chandeliers secured after crash in Capitol ¢ Parking ticket arrest leads to lawsuit ¢ Injuries from explosion claim life of 52-year-old
- On the record
- January 3, 2004
- Time for Titans to halt Ravens hex
- January 3, 2004
- The Tennessee Titans are 56-24 since 1999, tied with St. Louis for the NFL’s best record during that time.
- Tucker solid for UT
- January 3, 2004
- A near-perfect night from freshman P.J. Tucker kept No. 19 Texas perfect at home this season.
- Trafficway opponents prepare for fight
- January 3, 2004
- Opponents of the state’s plans for completing the South Lawrence Trafficway are mustering their legal forces and preparing to file a lawsuit this month to stop the project. Bruce Plenk, an attorney for the Wetlands Preservation Organization, said opponents would argue that the Kansas Department of Transportation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers broke federal laws in their planning for and approval of a project to build a highway through the Baker Wetlands.
- New bond issue may be waiting in wings
- District’s action hinges on state decisions
- January 3, 2004
- Lawrence school district officials will begin discussing late this spring a new bond issue to finance building improvements, Supt. Randy Weseman said Friday. He said he expected the process to produce a package less costly and complicated than the $59 million proposal rejected by voters in April 2003. That plan included construction or renovation at 15 schools and was mingled with debate about elementary school consolidation.
- Judge blocks plan to drop disabled, poor off lists
- January 3, 2004
- A Sedgwick County judge has issued a temporary restraining order halting plans to drop more than 400 poor and disabled adults from a pair of state-funded welfare programs. “This is wonderful news,” said Sister Therese Bangert, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Catholic Conference on issues affecting the poor.
- Astaris to add jobs, equipment
- North Lawrence phosphate plant to expand product offerings
- January 3, 2004
- A North Lawrence manufacturing plant that was spared closure in October is adding 10 high-paying jobs and $5 million in new equipment. Officials with Astaris, 440 N. Ninth St., announced Friday that they’ve begun an expansion project that will add a new product and new jobs to the phosphate production facility that formerly operated under the name FMC.
- ‘Sex and the City’ begins final fling
- January 3, 2004
- If “Sex and the City” puts its fans in the mood for anything these days, it might just be a good cry.
- Wildcats’ ‘weak’ inside costly
- January 3, 2004
- Kansas University’s clash Friday with Villanova was a battle of teams trying to find their identities.
- Exhibit combines art, eats
- January 3, 2004
- Religion briefs
- January 3, 2004
- LHS girls fall to Hickman
- January 3, 2004
- Seems that when the Lawrence High girls basketball team needed to force a few bricks, Kansas City (Mo.) Hickman Mills had the accuracy of a marksman.
- People
- January 3, 2004
- ¢ Crikey! This babe raises a fuss ¢ Imbruglia weds in Australia ¢ Norwegian named ‘World Idol’ ¢ Rush guitarist arrested
- Survey finds region’s business leaders bullish
- January 3, 2004
- The mid-America business conditions index declined in December, although though confidence remains high, according to the monthly survey of supply managers and business leaders in a nine-state region. The overall index closed at 55.9 for December, down from 59.4 in November. This was the lowest reading since May 2003 for the overall index, compiled from a survey conducted by Creighton University economics professor Ernie Goss.
- Republican moves strengthen federal powers
- January 3, 2004
- Traditionally the champions of small government and states’ rights, President Bush and his allies in Congress have aggressively pursued policies that expand the powers of Washington in the schoolroom, the courthouse, the home and the doctor’s office.
- N.Y. family seeks answers for rare chromosome disorder
- January 3, 2004
- Four-year-old Dalton Eisenhardt and his 2-year-old brother, Wyatt, don’t protest or complain about the machines that hold onto them with tubes and cords during every moment of their lives. Despite the tracheotomies, the feeding tubes and ever-present nurses, the boys smile.
- Jailhouse graduate
- Douglas County inmate first to earn diploma in ‘Learning Lab’
- January 3, 2004
- There was no cap and gown and no tassel to flip, but there was still pomp and circumstance when 36-year-old Eric Horch, dressed in a blue jail jumpsuit, received his high school diploma at the Douglas County Jail. “To be honest with you, I never thought I’d do it — never,” Horch said Friday, proudly holding the black leather case containing his new Lawrence High School diploma.
- Morgyn Cathlin Murphy
- January 3, 2004
- Padgett performs for family
- January 3, 2004
- Here a Padgett, there a Padgett, everywhere a Padgett. Or so it seemed. Less than 17 hours after watching David Padgett play against Villanova Friday night, the Padgett clan will be back in Allen Fieldhouse today to cheer for Melissa Padgett.
- Roberson plays, but ‘Cats fall
- January 3, 2004
- Craig Krenzel carried the MVP trophy off the Fiesta Bowl field for the second year in a row. His counterpart, Kansas State quarterback Ell Roberson, left knowing he might have cost his team dearly.
- People and places
- January 3, 2004
- Calendar
- January 3, 2004
- Around and about
- January 3, 2004
- Faith forum
- As the new year begins, how can I expand my conciousness of God?
- January 3, 2004
- Briefly
- January 3, 2004
- ¢ Caregiver saves client after plane crash ¢ VA gives top priority to service-related ills ¢ Gephardt revives attack on Dean’s health record
- Preach ‘em, cowboy
- Nashville church draws hundreds of worshippers
- January 3, 2004
- Wearing a cowboy hat, boots and string tie, Harry Yates doesn’t look like a typical preacher.
- Rover set for Mars landing
- NASA anticipates evening arrival for spacecraft
- January 3, 2004
- After a journey of seven months and 303 million miles, a six-wheeled NASA rover will speed like a bullet tonight toward the surface of Mars and, if all goes as planned, stop with a bounce.
- Charges against food mogul shock Italy
- January 3, 2004
- Episcopal moderates, liberals struggling within dioceses
- January 3, 2004
- Nancy Key, a lifelong Episcopalian, grew uneasy as speaker after speaker at her diocesan meeting rose to denounce the confirmation of the first openly gay bishop in the history of the American church.
- Daily ticker
- January 3, 2004
- Roberta Ruth Hoskinson
- January 3, 2004
- Horoscopes
- January 3, 2004
- Horoscope
- January 3, 2004
- KU women keeping eye on San Diego’s Padgett
- January 3, 2004
- All Kansas University’s women’s basketball team needs to do to find out what to expect from San Diego’s post players is watch the KU men’s team play.
- Religion briefs
- January 3, 2004
- Briefly
- January 3, 2004
- ¢ State’s oldest lawmaker tenders his resignation ¢ Court refuses evaluation before molester sentence ¢ City to adjust meters to reflect new rates
- Ottawa boys paste Baldwin
- Defense powers OHS; Bulldog girls rout Cyclones
- January 3, 2004
- Defensive pressure was key for Ottawa High in its 69-46 win Friday over Baldwin.
- Religion briefs
- January 3, 2004
- ¢ Pope remembers victims of persecution ¢ President Bush honored by United Methodist Men
- Achieving inner peace
- Meditation provides relaxation
- January 3, 2004
- Joe Mentesana got into meditation by happenstance. “I just came across an old self-help psychology book of my dad’s from the ‘60s. It had a little snippet that said not to meditate for more than 20 minutes a day, because it would be an infringement on your relationship to the universe,” said Mentesana, a December graduate of Kansas University with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies.
- Controversy puts spotlight on movement
- Ultraconservative beliefs scrutinized as Gibson prepares to release movie on crucifixion
- January 3, 2004
- They attend Mass in Latin, using a liturgy Rome abolished. They abstain from meat on Fridays and women cover their heads in church. For more than three decades, a small group of American Roman Catholics has been quietly worshipping in ways the Vatican told them to abandon.
- Wedding
- January 3, 2004
- Engagement
- January 3, 2004
- Scouting news
- January 3, 2004
- Briefs
- January 3, 2004
- Probe collects particles from distant comet
- January 3, 2004
- A NASA spacecraft flew through the bright halo of a distant comet Friday and scooped up less than a thimbleful of dust that could someday shed light on how our solar system was formed.
- N.C. couple claim $110 million jackpot
- January 3, 2004
- So where do two of America’s newest multimillion-dollar lottery winners eat lunch to celebrate? Try the Steak n Shake. Norman and Deanna Shue went to the burger joint Thursday after finding out they had won half of Wednesday’s $221.5 million Powerball jackpot. They wanted to claim the prize but couldn’t because state offices were closed for New Year’s Day.
- Helicopter attack kills U.S. soldier
- January 3, 2004
- Insurgents shot down a U.S. helicopter on Friday west of Baghdad, killing one soldier, and U.S. forces said they came under fire with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades as they guarded the burning aircraft.
- Pack rats really preservationists
- January 3, 2004
- “Man Trapped Under Mountain of Junk in New York Apartment” shouts a New York news story deeply disturbing to that portion of the population that have ever been called pack rats. According to news accounts, “Patrice Moore, 43, said he called for help when the mountain of mail, books and other paper items collapsed on him Saturday. However no one heard him.”
- 6News video: Stolen cash turns up at Lawrence car wash
- January 3, 2004
- A manager from a Lawrence car wash discovered money stolen last month from a local bank.
- Brown v. Board site receives final touches
- Historic school will open to public in May
- January 3, 2004
- As the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case approaches, work on the former segregated elementary school that plaintiff Linda Brown attended is nearing completion. National Park Service staff began moving this week from their temporary quarters into Monroe School.
- Teach facts, concepts for well-rounded student
- January 3, 2004
- I assume that you favor a highly structured curriculum that emphasizes the memorization of facts, which I consider to be a very low level of learning. We need to teach concepts to our kids and help them learn how to think — not just fill their heads with a bunch of details.
- 6News video: Art a la carte
- January 3, 2004
- Theaters and classical music venues are still on winter break, but art galleries are picking up the slack this weekend.
- 6News video: Inmate gets diploma from Lawrence High
- January 3, 2004
- An inmate from the Douglas County Jail waited nearly twenty years, but finally got his high school diploma.
- Kansas continues to lose jobs, survey finds
- January 3, 2004
- The leading economic indicator for Kansas rose to 59.4 in December from November’s 56.9, according to Creighton University economics professor Ernie Goss.
- 6Sports video: Lawrence High girls fall to Hickman Mills
- January 3, 2004
- The Lawrence High School girl’s basketball team lost to Hickman Mills, 76-66.
- Battle brews for title of world’s busiest airport
- January 3, 2004
- There hasn’t been a competition between Chicago and Atlanta this fierce since the Cubs beat the Braves in the baseball playoffs. Chicago is claiming victory again in having the world’s busiest airport, but Atlanta is saying, “Not so fast.” The perennial rivalry between the airports is a game of definitions and numbers on which even the experts don’t agree.
- Atchison Casting Corp. seeks to liquidate
- January 3, 2004
- Atchison Casting Corp. is asking the bankruptcy court overseeing its Chapter 11 case to convert the proceedings to a Chapter 7 liquidation, according to court papers obtained Friday by Dow Jones Newswires.
- 6Sports video: KU defeats Villanova in close game
- January 3, 2004
- The Jayhawks held off the Wildcats Friday night at Allen Fieldhouse.
- Governors seek USDA briefings on safeguarding of meat supply
- January 3, 2004
- Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and nine other top executives from beef-producing states have sent a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman asking for regular briefings on steps being taken to safeguard the nation’s meat supply against mad cow disease.
- State treasurer proposes increasing contributions for college savings plan
- Change also sought in unclaimed property law
- January 3, 2004
- State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins wants to allow parents to squirrel away more money for college nest eggs and the state to earn more money from unclaimed property under two proposals she is sending to legislators.
- Vietnamese monk kills himself to call for freedom
- January 3, 2004
- A Buddhist monk who died after setting himself on fire on Christmas Eve in the United States sacrificed his life to demand religious freedom in his native Vietnam, a Paris-based Buddhist support organization said.
- MU pounds Miami-Ohio
- January 3, 2004
- Evan Unruh scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and Stretch James added 22 points as Missouri defeated Miami of Ohio, 92-68, Friday night. Unruh went 10-of-14 from the field and James 11-of-14 for the Tigers (8-2), who led 47-39 at halftime before taking control in the second half.
- Musical ‘Dreams’ are right on key
- January 3, 2004
- How do you top yourself after playing Audrey Hepburn? If you’re Jennifer Love Hewitt, you strap on some white go-go boots and take a walk over to Makeup so you can impersonate Nancy Sinatra performing her signature hit, “These Boots are Made for Walking,” on “American Dreams” (7 p.m. Sunday, NBC).
- Home for the holidays
- Finally, life back to normal for soldier’s Wichita family
- January 3, 2004
- Lydia Schleicher knows all about miracles. And as the magical Christmas of 2003 fades into history, she feels like she’s maybe had more than her share. Her husband, Rob, knows for sure that he got the greatest Christmas gift any dad could wish for late Christmas Eve when his plane touched down at Mid-Continent Airport and his family was there to greet him — Lydia, 3-year-old Connor, almost-2-year-old Colin and 8-month-old miracle, Catie Grace.
- Lee suits, but his return delayed
- January 3, 2004
- Michael Lee wore a sports coat the first half of Kansas University’s basketball game against Villanova Friday night at Allen Fieldhouse.
- This time, red ink proves helpful
- Observant manager at car wash leads police to suspect in bank robberies
- January 3, 2004
- Daryl Messer knew something was wrong when he found $270 in red ink-stained bills in the change machines at the Iowa Street car wash where he works. The Dec. 14 discovery, police say, helped them solve a string of Lawrence bank robberies and nab the former Kansas University student now accused of the crimes.
- War in Iraq offers women new opportunities, dangers
- January 3, 2004
- Female American troops in Iraq have killed Iraqis with bombs and bullets. They’ve won medals for valor and Purple Hearts for combat wounds. They’ve been captured as prisoners of war, killed by enemy fire and buried as heroes in Arlington National Cemetery. American women have participated more extensively in combat in Iraq than in any previous war in U.S. history. They’ve taken roles nearly inconceivable just a decade or two ago — flying fighter jets and attack helicopters, patrolling streets armed with machine guns and commanding units of mostly male soldiers. Seven have been killed in combat.
- Floyd Earl Landreth
- January 3, 2004
- U.S. links another cow to infected herd
- January 3, 2004
- Agriculture Department officials said Friday they had located another cow in Washington state believed to have entered the United States in the same herd as the Holstein that was recently diagnosed with the nation’s first known case of mad cow disease.
- U.S. group to visit N. Korean nuclear sites
- January 3, 2004
- The Bush administration Friday warned that private visits to North Korea’s nuclear complex shouldn’t interfere with efforts to reconvene international talks on dismantling the secretive communist country’s nuclear weapons program.
- Jayhawks hold off ‘Nova
- Inside game, free throws lift Kansas
- January 3, 2004
- One of the New Year’s resolutions for Kansas University’s men’s basketball team is to feed big man Wayne Simien the ball. “Coach has been emphasizing it over and over again. My teammates definitely made a concerted effort to pound it inside tonight,” Simien, KU’s once-ignored junior forward, said after feasting for 23 points in the Jayhawks’ 86-79 victory Friday over Villanova at Allen Fieldhouse.
- Security concerns scrap more flights
- January 3, 2004
- The safety net tightened around air travel Friday as British flights to Washington and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, were canceled, while law enforcement officials acknowledged that some delays were caused by mistaken identities. Mexican authorities also reported another cancellation.
- 2003 saw fewest airline crashes ever in world
- January 3, 2004
- Last year was the safest ever for the world’s airline passengers.
- Manning ignites Ole Miss
- Oklahoma State handed 31-28 setback
- January 3, 2004
- Eli Manning stayed another year at Mississippi in hopes of a season just like this: 10 wins and a January victory.
- Clemson snares win in Peach
- January 3, 2004
- Clemson extended Tennessee’s woes in the Peach Bowl, thanks to a lot of help from the Volunteers. Chad Jasmin ran for a career-high 130 yards and a touchdown, helping the Tigers defeat No. 6 Tennessee, 27-14, Friday.
- 4-H, FCE news
- January 3, 2004
- Club news
- January 3, 2004
- U.S. group denied
- January 3, 2004
- Iran rebuffed on Friday the Bush administration’s offer of a humanitarian delegation headed by a high-profile Republican senator to deliver earthquake relief.
- Humanity
- January 3, 2004
- Critics of the United States should consider America’s readiness to provide humanitarian aid for an adversary such as Iran. In the constant rush of people at home and abroad to depict Uncle Sam as a Great Satan trying to gobble up the world and its people, let us put a little focus on the way the United States responded to a “rogue” nation at a critical time.
- Drug war targets legitimate pain relief
- January 3, 2004
- Everyone’s had a good laugh this season at Rush Limbaugh’s expense: The news that Mr. Know-It-All Conservative was addicted to prescription painkillers was nearly as pleasing to critics as the prospect of his indictment for buying controlled substances. Not since the pursuit of Linda Tripp by a zealous prosecutor in Maryland has there been such excitement among people ordinarily skeptical about law enforcement.
- Bush shakes image of enemy
- January 3, 2004
- In politics, too many of us confuse the word opponent with the word enemy, even though the difference is both obvious and vast. Let me cite an example from another discipline: Two prizefighters often can stand toe-to-toe and beat one another to pulp, then hug one another with mutual admiration at the sound of the final bell. Why? They recognize each other as opponents rather than enemies.
- Little incentive
- January 3, 2004
- Briefcase
- January 3, 2004
- ¢ Economists predict fall in unemployment rate ¢ Mad cow case prompts Chick-fil-A to delay ads ¢ Miner deaths fall ¢ South Asian countries agree on free-trade zone
- McNair, Manning MVPs
- Tennessee, Indianapolis QBs share award
- January 3, 2004
- It seems fitting Peyton Manning and Steve McNair shared The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player award Friday. After all, their teams finished with the same record and tied atop the AFC South.
- New conversational heights
- January 3, 2004
- Topsy-turvy day
- January 3, 2004
- Judge limits liability for groundwater cleanup
- Companies to pay less than a third of costs as taxpayers pick up majority of pollution tab
- January 3, 2004
- Wichita wanted four companies to pay more than $13 million toward investigating and cleaning up groundwater pollution in a six-square mile area south of downtown, but a federal judge’s order sharply limits what they’ll be liable for.
- Afghans cite progress at private crisis talks
- January 3, 2004
- Afghans on both sides of an ugly ethnic divide at the country’s constitutional convention said they narrowed their differences during crisis talks with American and U.N. officials Friday.
- Iran vows to rebuild historic citadel
- January 3, 2004
- Most of the 30 circular guard towers have crumbled into avalanches of dirt, along with parts of the thick, mud-brick walls. The bathhouses, gymnasiums and a Zoroastrian temple that survived for centuries now resemble a moonscape.
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