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- Briefly
- May 30, 2004
- ¢ Hamas leader killed in Gaza ¢ Navy commissions destroyer ¢ Soldiers see high school graduations via satellite ¢ Dozens of tribesmen detained
- Monument honors World War II veterans
- May 30, 2004
- America dedicated a memorial Saturday to the fast-thinning ranks of World War II veterans, a poignant last hurrah drawing together tens of thousands of old soldiers, sailors and heroes of the home front.
- Grizzly bears may be taken off endangered list
- May 30, 2004
- For 23 years, Chris Servheen has devoted himself to saving the grizzly bear from dying out in the American West. Now, he’s ready to declare victory.
- Law likely to end ‘float’ on checks
- May 30, 2004
- A new federal law designed to speed up electronic processing of checks and reduce costs for banks has another feature some bank customers might not be as happy about.
- K.C. plant keeps industrywide problem in check
- May 30, 2004
- Americans’ growing preference for paying bills via the Internet and shopping with debit cards spells bad news for companies that print checks but good news, at least in the short term, for a printing plant here.
- County jobs open; applicants are few
- Elective offices often have uncontested races
- May 30, 2004
- In Douglas County, good jobs tend to go quickly. But there are a few professional jobs available that hardly anyone is seeking.
- Jeff Gordon celebrates 10th anniversary of first win
- May 30, 2004
- Ten years ago, Jeff Gordon was a bit of an outcast when he sped to the first victory of his NASCAR career.
- Sinking of Baltimore’s Pride focus of new book
- May 30, 2004
- The Pride of Baltimore rose from the banks of the Inner Harbor in 1976 like a ghost, a regal reminder of the old city’s fading industry and vitality.
- Commentary: Cottonwood challenges
- Are state trees dignitary or common criminal?
- May 30, 2004
- Let me preface this by saying that I have been called a tree-hugger. The label fits. In fact, I embrace it. That’s why it is with great shame that I report my feelings toward the trees in my back yard. I want to hack them limb from limb, even though they are more than 50 feet tall and likely much older than my parents. I’ll admit the trees are gorgeous and provide wonderful shade in the heat of the summer.
- Clopyralid helps control broadleaf weeds
- May 30, 2004
- Summer days are best spent enjoying picnics on lush, green lawns.
- Bookstore
- May 30, 2004
- Pressure? What pressure? Mind games abound
- May 30, 2004
- The pressure is mounting with the Eastern Conference finals series between Indiana and Detroit tied at two games each.
- Employers use computers in hiring process
- Growing number of companies screen job applicants with high-tech approach
- May 30, 2004
- The Pathmark supermarket here is hiring. But walk-in applicants need not bother asking for a manager.
- 3 soldiers find place in history
- May 30, 2004
- ¢ 1st Lt. Russell Lee Harris ¢ Army Master Sgt. Glenn E. Nicholson ¢ Army Capt. Loyd Meredith Willson
- Gallery owner attacked over Iraq abuse painting
- May 30, 2004
- A San Francisco gallery owner bears a painful reminder of the nation’s unresolved anguish over the incidents at the Abu Ghraib prison: a black eye delivered by an unknown assailant who apparently objected to a painting that depicts U.S. soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners.
- VW devotees flock to Beetle, bus blowout
- Free two-day event continues today at fairgrounds
- May 30, 2004
- Dr. Feelgood was at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds this weekend, but minus the marijuana and live music.
- Resident on mission for home storm shelters
- City to consider new requirement
- May 30, 2004
- When a severe storm struck Lawrence last Monday — carrying with it the possibility of a tornado — Jane Graves didn’t take her family to the basement. She doesn’t have one in her west Lawrence home.
- WWII memorial pleases area veterans
- May 30, 2004
- Lawrence’s World War II veterans will never forget their sacrifices, and they are glad others are remembering them, too.
- Faces and places
- May 30, 2004
- Horoscopes
- May 30, 2004
- Briefcase
- May 30, 2004
- ¢ State officials to show appreciation for firms ¢ SnagAJob.com offers teens employment tips ¢ Name that company
- 1854 law altered course of nation
- Historians celebrate 150th anniversary of Kansas-Nebraska Act
- May 30, 2004
- Take out your pencils and a clean sheet of notebook paper. Today being the 150th anniversary of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, here’s a pop history quiz.
- Arts notes
- May 30, 2004
- ¢ ‘River City Chronicles’ focuses on historic act ¢ Olive Gallery opens show by kid-at-heart artist ¢ Acoustic folk artist to play at Unity Church ¢ Haskell playwright receives award ¢ English landscape painters to give gallery talk ¢ Signs of Life Gallery artist wins top prize ¢ Topeka festival features artists from 11 states ¢ Youth theater offers workshops for kids
- Review: Chronicle of a flood lets readers share experience of victims
- May 30, 2004
- When the Red River of the North inundated Grand Forks, N.D., in April 1997, images of the water-filled streets and burning downtown buildings filled the TV news. In the following weeks and months came the stories of victims who lost their homes and the long-term effort of recovery.
- Kuerten chases Federer
- Top seed falls during third round in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
- May 30, 2004
- Inspired by the familiar chants of “Guga! Guga!” at Roland Garros, three-time champion Gustavo Kuerten pulled off the latest French Open shocker.
- Pet post
- May 30, 2004
- Strong field could return race’s luster
- Today’s Brickyard battle features finest lineup since CART/IRL split
- May 30, 2004
- Slowly but surely the big boys have returned to Indy. Today’s race will feature the strongest field since 1995, the year before many of the top teams and drivers in the established CART series began a boycott of the Brickyard because of the newly formed Indy Racing League.
- What are you reading?
- May 30, 2004
- Bush to blame
- May 30, 2004
- Pump Patrol seeks deals
- May 30, 2004
- The Journal-World has found gasoline prices as low as $1.94 a gallon at Presto Phillips 66, 602 W. Ninth St., and Jayhawk Food Mart, 701 W. Ninth St.
- Lost wallet at March Madness leads to identity theft headaches
- May 30, 2004
- Marian Wilbur has been afraid to check her mailbox lately. She doesn’t want to see any more billing statements from the mall in Chicago.
- PETA undertakes effort to convince Garden City zoo to move elephants
- May 30, 2004
- An animal rights group is continuing its campaign to persuade the Lee Richardson Zoo to send its two elephants to a more spacious sanctuary, despite the zoo’s plans to expand the elephants’ living quarters.
- Report: Friendly fire killed Pat Tillman
- Misidentification led to football player’s death
- May 30, 2004
- Pat Tillman, the former pro football player, was killed by other American troops in a friendly fire episode in Afghanistan last month instead of by enemy bullets, according to a U.S. investigation of the incident.
- Briefly
- May 30, 2004
- ¢ Tanned teens targeted ¢ City rethinks making dogs wear seat belts ¢ Lawsuit allowed in singer’s death ¢ City may be sinking
- Angels’ Sele improves to 4-0
- Anaheim takes 5-1 triumph over White Sox in battle of divisional leaders
- May 30, 2004
- Anaheim’s Aaron Sele showed the pitching smarts and ability that have allowed him to stick around the majors for 12 years.
- Pujols powers Cardinals
- St. Louis takes 10-3 victory over Astros
- May 30, 2004
- Tony La Russa saw signs that Albert Pujols was ready for a big game.
- FSHS falls short
- Goddard downs Free State in final, 5-4
- May 30, 2004
- If baseballs had eyes, there’d be little doubt that the game ball from Saturday’s Class 6A state championship game was a big Goddard High fan.
- Rose pruning doesn’t have to be difficult
- May 30, 2004
- Pruning a rose bush need not be complicated. The rose, after all, is just another flowering shrub, albeit one that inspires poets and painters, the formation of societies, and an undue amount of words on “special” pruning needs. Despite the fanfare, a rose responds to pruning as does any other shrub.
- Weighing in
- Some food companies and restaurants are changing menus and messages to address childhood obesity
- May 30, 2004
- When not one but three reports came out recently blaming everything from advertising to restaurant menus for childhood obesity, officials at H.J. Heinz Co. could take some satisfaction in knowing the company had already acted on the issue.
- Lighten up, brighten up and don’t forget SPF
- May 30, 2004
- It’s time to let your hair down. Or is it time to pull it back?
- The great feature-photo hunt
- May 30, 2004
- What makes an interesting photograph doesn’t always make for a good story. And vice versa.
- Fruits of the loom
- Artist weaves gallery idea from interest in fiber art
- May 30, 2004
- Diane Horning describes her new Lawrence gallery as “part studio, part gallery and part retreat.” That may seem like a lot of roles for one space, but this is no ordinary gallery.
- City band raises baton on summer concert season
- May 30, 2004
- For many Lawrence residents, summer doesn’t truly begin until they unfold their lawn chairs at South Park and hear the first trumpet calls from the Lawrence City Band.
- Flames fight past Lightning
- Iginla sets tone with early altercation in 3-0 win
- May 30, 2004
- Jarome Iginla says he’ll do anything possible to help Calgary win the Stanley Cup, even trade punches with another star. Now the Tampa Bay Lightning will find out if there’s any fight left in them.
- T’wolves force Game 6
- Minnesota avoids elimination with 98-96 win
- May 30, 2004
- Kevin Garnett wiggled his leg and drummed his fingers. A few seconds into his only rest of the game, he leaped up to put himself back in.
- Mizzou, Oklahoma State reach title game
- May 30, 2004
- Cody Ehlers hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the seventh inning to send Missouri into its first Big 12 Conference tournament championship game with a 10-7 victory over Baylor on Saturday.
- Commentary: Colorado officials should be ashamed
- May 30, 2004
- If they’re not blushing in Boulder, Colo., they should be.
- Toms takes control
- St. Jude Classic leader up by seven
- May 30, 2004
- David Toms’ struggles appear to be a thing of the past.
- Eagle-decorated pieces popular with collectors
- May 30, 2004
- Since becoming a part of the Great Seal of the United States in June 20, 1782, the bald eagle emerged as a popular symbol for the country.
- Older pets often develop white eye
- May 30, 2004
- The complaint “Doctor, Fluffy’s eye is white all of a sudden ” is common by pet owners.
- Is wine a beautiful thing?
- Beauty experts debate benefits of wine-based products for skin
- May 30, 2004
- The debate about whether a little wine is good for your health has gone on for years and likely will continue for many more. The new question is: Is wine — or at least wine-based products — good for your skin?
- Area fishing report
- May 30, 2004
- Light kayak paddles come with heavy price stickers
- May 30, 2004
- If you’re up the creek, you need a paddle. A kayak requires a two-bladed model, and that means spending anything from about $30 to more than $300.
- Anglers, campers need to beware of thieves
- If it isn’t put away or tied down, it’s vulnerable
- May 30, 2004
- Thousands of people flock to state park and recreation areas to enjoy outdoor activities and law enforcement officials encourage anglers and campers to exercise reasonable care to ensure their outdoor gear is safe.
- Boats, booze bad news
- Too many take to water woefully unprepared
- May 30, 2004
- You wake up one Monday morning, jump in your car and head for work in a downtown office.
- Schumacher bounces back, snares pole
- May 30, 2004
- Michael Schumacher rebounded from last week’s crash to capture the pole position for the European Grand Prix, the 60th pole of his career.
- Good luck favors Kyle Busch
- May 30, 2004
- Kyle Busch needed a bit of good fortune to take the lead late in Saturday’s Carquest Auto Parts 300 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
- Space constraints squeeze ‘Gypsy’ cast
- May 30, 2004
- Mary Doveton has overseen a lot of shows at the Lawrence Community Theatre. But the upcoming production of the Broadway musical “Gypsy” stands out, in her mind, as a special challenge.
- In plain sight
- Former KU dean focuses on ordinary objects and makes extraordinary pictures
- May 30, 2004
- There’s a memorable scene in the film “American Beauty” in which obsessive videophile Ricky Fitts zeros in on a wind-whipped plastic bag, recording its irregular flight pattern and reveling in its understated beauty.
- A river runs through them
- Artist pays homage to the Kaw in new paintings, prints
- May 30, 2004
- From the air, the Kansas River looks like a contorted serpent. Loose, lazy bends give way to straights that twist into abrupt turns and unwind again during a 170-mile journey from Junction City to Kansas City.
- Kansas sending three to NCAA Track Outdoor
- May 30, 2004
- Laura Lavoie, Brooklyn Hann and Benson Chesang will represent Kansas University at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
- Mayer: Hall inductee Mehringer had notable history
- May 30, 2004
- You might be familiar with a number of the 20 fellows recently inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame — such as basketball’s Lucius Allen and Charlie B. Black, trackster Wes Santee, football’s Gary Spani and baseball’s Murry Dickson and Gene Mauch.
- Olathe East takes crown
- May 30, 2004
- Free State High didn’t win the Class 6A softball championship, but the Firebirds can brag anyway. Free State was the only school to defeat the 6A champions.
- Reyes finally gets win
- Quiet lefty ends skid in Royals’ 5-2 victory
- May 30, 2004
- If Dennys Reyes craved instant gratification, he would have quit baseball long ago.
- Firebirds fly to relay title again
- May 30, 2004
- Free State High track and field fans must have thought senior Nick Squier had nerves of steel just seconds after he secured the Firebirds’ fourth consecutive state title in the 3,200-meter relay Saturday at the state track and field championships at Wichita State’s Cessna Stadium.
- Baldwin’s Miles wins 400
- May 30, 2004
- In the span of .005 of a second, Baldwin High’s Rachel Miles probably couldn’t have turned her head to check and see were she stood in the 400 meters at the state track meet.
- Market investors should stay the course
- May 30, 2004
- With stocks slumping, what should small investors do? Not to be glib, but how about nothing?
- Spyware invasion
- Computer software tracks users’ online activities
- May 30, 2004
- Computer viruses are rampant and spam is epidemic. But the fastest-growing Internet malady is spyware, and chances are your computer is infected.
- California town embraces Larry Flynt
- Hustler publisher wins mainstream affections with casino venture
- May 30, 2004
- City Hall is smitten with the smut peddler.
- City briefs
- May 30, 2004
- ¢ Five DUI arrests made at checkpoint ¢ Big Brothers Big Sisters receives $25,000 grant
- Analysis: New Iraqi leader must address security issues
- May 30, 2004
- Iyad Allawi’s selection as Iraqi prime minister gives Washington a major policy success after a series of embarrassing and costly setbacks. The U.S.-backed Shiite politician started his duties right away, consulting Saturday with the U.N. special envoy to pick his 26-member Cabinet, officials said.
- Four indicted in plot to kill witness in federal drug case
- Shooting occurred April 29 in North Lawrence
- May 30, 2004
- Three Lawrence residents were among four people who were indicted on charges of conspiring to kill a witness in a federal drug case.
- Deadly Iran earthquake unleashes landslides
- Governor’s party killed while surveying damage
- May 30, 2004
- Giant boulders and crushed cars littered a mountain road Saturday, a day after landslides were unleashed by a strong earthquake in northern and central Iran that killed at least 35 people and injured 250 others.
- 4 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan
- May 30, 2004
- Four members of the American Special Forces were killed in action in a southern Afghan province at the heart of a stubborn Taliban-led insurgency, the U.S. military said Sunday.
- Lawrence commuter report
- May 30, 2004
- The following construction projects and events may affect commuter traffic in the region this week.
- Council opposes U.S., U.N. on leader choices
- May 30, 2004
- U.S. officials and a U.N. envoy were unable to reach consensus with Iraqi leaders Saturday over the selection of an interim president, with many members of the country’s Governing Council opposing the U.S. and U.N. choice, according to Iraqi politicians and international officials involved in the process.
- Nancy Worthington Merriman
- May 30, 2004
- Fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox, 92, dies
- May 30, 2004
- Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor fired by President Nixon for refusing to curtail his Watergate investigation, died Saturday at his home, his daughter said. He was 92.
- On the record
- May 30, 2004
- Saudis storm resort where hostages held
- Web site claims attackers are ‘al-Qaida in the Arab Peninsula’
- May 30, 2004
- Suspected Islamic militants wearing military-style uniforms Saturday sprayed gunfire inside two office compounds in the heart of the Saudi oil production region, killing at least 10 people — including an American — and then taking dozens of hostages at a luxury expatriate resort.
- Storms batter Kansas
- Several tornadoes reportedly touch down in state
- May 30, 2004
- Homes were damaged and power lines and trees uprooted by several tornadoes that touched down Saturday across Kansas.
- Dole says war memorial is a tribute to peace
- May 30, 2004
- He’s become a symbol of “the greatest generation,” those fighting men who saved the world from the German and Japanese war machines nearly 60 years ago. So when it came time to build a memorial to the 16 million Americans who fought in World War II, Bob Dole, now 80, was the natural choice to lead the effort.
- Alaska quake affected geysers in Yellowstone
- May 30, 2004
- A major earthquake that hit Alaska in 2002 set off a flurry of smaller quakes in far-off Yellowstone National Park and changed eruption intervals in several geysers, according to a new study.
- Skull casts doubt on continental split theory
- May 30, 2004
- The fossil skull of a peculiar, wrinkle-faced dinosaur unearthed four years ago in the Sahara is providing new evidence that Africa split from the other southern continents more recently than previously thought.
- Army report criticized detentions of Iraqis
- May 30, 2004
- An internal Army report warned last November that Iraqis were being detained too long and without appropriate review in an immense U.S.-run prison system that failed to keep track of them, did not provide proper sanitation and medical care, was understaffed and mixed juveniles and adults inappropriately.
- Calendar
- May 30, 2004
- Beauty blooms for 50 years
- Missouri couple have created landscaping gem
- May 30, 2004
- If you listen carefully you’ll hear the deep-throated call of the bullfrog late in the afternoon and the buzz of a bumblebee near one of the banks of blooming azaleas. Koi splash in the pond, and birds chirp overhead in the gardens of Joe and Marie Haupt.
- Area briefs
- May 30, 2004
- ¢ Morning fire destroys house near Tonganoxie ¢ State bike tour to make 30th anniversary trek ¢ Dole’s speech at PSU being offered on DVD
- Watergate counsel Sam Dash, 79, dies
- May 30, 2004
- Attorney Sam Dash, whose probing questions during televised Senate hearings into the Watergate scandal made him a household name in the 1970s, died Saturday after a lengthy illness.
- A day to remember
- Name additions bring county’s Vietnam memorial to completion
- May 30, 2004
- Finally, Stanley and Shirley Harris have some peace of mind when they think about the death of a son killed 35 years ago in South Vietnam. The names of Army 1st Lt. Russell Lee Harris and two other soldiers have been added to the Douglas County Vietnam Memorial. A solemn ceremony Saturday commemorated the engraving of the additional names on the memorial, located outside the front door of the Samuel J. Churchill Army Reserve Center, near 21st and Iowa streets.
- When camera rolls, the brain goes blank
- May 30, 2004
- I figured out why movie stars generally are young. It’s not just because they look good naked. It’s also because their brains still work.
- New appreciation for the WWII generation
- May 30, 2004
- Back home, Bing Crosby had a new movie out, “Going My Way.” A singer named Nat Cole had released his first hit, “Straighten Up And Fly Right.” And 176,000 allied soldiers stepped into the surf off the French province of Normandy into a hail of bullets. Hell, never too tightly tethered in those years, broke loose.
- Should America dip into oil reserves?
- May 30, 2004
- Is now the time for the United States to dip into its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)?
- Dogma or truth?
- May 30, 2004
- Al-Qaida strength
- May 30, 2004
- Ryun doublespeak
- May 30, 2004
- History may be repeating itself in Iraq
- May 30, 2004
- George Shultz says that life in official Washington is not one damn thing after another. It is the same damn thing over and over again. A sudden lurch by the Bush administration to using Iraq’s Sunnis to contain Iran’s Shiite rulers shows that the former secretary of state is on to something, again.
- Maybe next year
- There is little chance additional state money will be available to raise teachers salaries for the coming year.
- May 30, 2004
- If the only hope for salary increases for Lawrence teachers lies with legislative action to provide more funding for the coming school year, the teachers shouldn’t be holding their breath in anticipation.
- Book notes
- May 30, 2004
- ¢ Women mystery writers to talk, sign books ¢ Kansas author visits England to celebrate mystery writer
- Poet’s showcase
- May 30, 2004
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