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- Judge clears transsexual of charges
- November 16, 2004
- (Updated Tuesday at 3:52 p.m.) A transsexual accused of filing a false marriage license application was cleared today by a Leavenworth County District Court judge.
- Man severely injured in explosion, fire at rural barn
- Relatives say man working on gasoline tank of truck
- November 16, 2004
- (Web Posted Tuesday at 1:26 p.m.) A rural Basehor man was severely burned Tuesday morning in an explosion and fire inside a barn on 182nd Street, between U.S. Highway 24-40 and Evans Road.
- Dress for drizzle
- November 16, 2004
- (Updated Tuesday at 8:01 a.m.) Cloudy skies, high humidity and warmer temperatures were bringing some light drizzle, mist and even some patchy fog this morning to the Lawrencea area.
- Briefly
- November 16, 2004
- ¢ T reports ridership increase in October ¢ Blood drive scheduled
- Big loss
- November 16, 2004
- The loss of his secretary of state is a blow to President Bush at a crucial time.
- It’s not too early to look at 2008 race
- November 16, 2004
- It snowed way up in the northern hills the other day. Not a whole lot, just enough to get people talking. Just enough to make people realize that New Hampshire has reached one of those passages, the beginning of a new season. It happens, with awesome regularity, in nature. It happens in politics, too.
- Life and deaths
- November 16, 2004
- Failure factors
- November 16, 2004
- More walkouts
- November 16, 2004
- Homeless reality
- November 16, 2004
- Smiles hide U.S., China worries
- November 16, 2004
- Expect smiles all around when President Bush meets Chinese leader Hu Jintao later this week in Chile at the annual summit of Asian Pacific leaders.
- Gonzales lives America’s promise
- November 16, 2004
- I’ve never met Alberto Gonzales, but for 20 minutes last spring he made me very proud to be an American.
- New Serologicals division oversees Lawrence plant
- November 16, 2004
- Serologicals Corp.’s newest division is being groomed for rapid revenue growth, and a Lawrence plant is poised to play a leading role.
- Capitol Federal reports earnings decline
- November 16, 2004
- A refinancing prepayment penalty drove a fourth quarter and fiscal year loss for Capitol Federal Financial, the company said Monday.
- Nintendo makes play for young adults
- Game system to reach U.S. stores Sunday
- November 16, 2004
- Get ready for a lot of sore thumbs.
- ‘Out’ in school
- Being gay in high school can be lonely and scary, but student clubs in Lawrence are doing their part to promote tolerance for those who are
- November 16, 2004
- It’s called the Gay Straight Alliance, but most students zero in on “Gay” and ignore the rest.
- Dr. House’s personality short-circuits most of drama
- November 16, 2004
- Is there a doctor in the “House” (8 p.m., Fox)? Or is he just a louse? Hugh Laurie stars as Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant physician who can’t stand dealing with patients. Why talk to the sick when your favorite motto is “everybody lies”? His brutal honesty and intolerance for handholding chitchat frightens some patients and stimulates others. When the mother of an asthmatic child says she worries about his medicine, House curtly reminds her that she should worry more about his inability to breathe. The doctor also offers a hypochondriac a “medicine” bottle containing nothing but candy, and the deluded patient returns for a refill.
- Cohesive chamber orchestra unites for priceless performance
- November 16, 2004
- Not even technical difficulties involving the Lied Center’s stage lighting could dim the musical fire emanating from the stage Sunday afternoon during the concert by Camerata Sweden. Also known as Camerata Nordica or Camerata Roman, the 15-member chamber orchestra performs without a conductor, relying on the heightened sense of collective unity usually reserved for small chamber ensembles.
- Tips offered for keeping children safe for traveling
- November 16, 2004
- Many young children take their first plane trip during the holiday season — maybe to a relatives’ home or to a warm-weather amusement park.
- In the halls
- November 16, 2004
- If you could have any car, which car would you choose?
- Diversions
- November 16, 2004
- ¢ Send in a poem ¢ Words that taunt ¢ Surprise Salad ¢ Teen board meets this Thursday
- Used-car sales tax to be reconsidered
- Committee recommends repealing law after hearing from consumers
- November 16, 2004
- Thousands of used-car buyers in Kansas would get an estimated $10 million in tax breaks or refunds under a recommendation made Monday by a legislative panel.
- Legislator shelves gambling compact
- November 16, 2004
- A compact permitting two Indian tribes to open a casino in Wyandotte County won’t be reviewed by legislative leaders this week, House Speaker Doug Mays said Monday.
- As cold weather creeps closer, veteran questions smoking ban
- November 16, 2004
- Speedy takes one more sip of his whiskey and Coke and decides it’s time to light one up. It’s 2:45 p.m. on a Friday.
- KU’s Student Recreation Center planning to expand
- November 16, 2004
- It’s only been open a year, but the Student Recreation Fitness Center at Kansas University is about to undergo a major expansion.
- Bonds claims seventh MVP trophy
- Giants slugger oldest athlete earn honor in major pro sports
- November 16, 2004
- Barry Bonds won his record seventh NL MVP award in a walk.
- Computers keep Sooners No. 2 in BCS
- November 16, 2004
- Computers prefer Oklahoma over Auburn — and Southern Cal.
- All-Stars’ schedule loaded
- Henrickson says KU must come to play
- November 16, 2004
- One could point out to Kansas University women’s basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson that the West Coast All-Stars — the last team the Jayhawks will play before the regular season begins — have been outscored, 532-308, in six exhibition losses.
- KU Journalism School’s dean can drop ‘interim’ from title
- November 16, 2004
- For Ann Brill, the test drive worked.
- Service club honors non-members’ good works
- November 16, 2004
- The Lawrence Rotary Club honored two Lawrence residents Monday with the organization’s highest award for non-Rotarians.
- SFT’s Boss to sign with WIU
- November 16, 2004
- Santa Fe Trail guard Lindsay Boss will sign a letter of intent to play basketball for Western Illinois on Wednesday.
- Paul comes through for Wake Forest
- November 16, 2004
- Wake Forest struggled with turnovers, shaky ballhandling and poor free-throw shooting in its first game of the season.
- FBI informant sets self afire outside White House
- November 16, 2004
- A man who set himself afire Monday just outside a White House gate reportedly worked for the FBI as an informant and was distraught over his inability to return to Yemen to visit his critically ill wife.
- More top CIA officials quit amid infighting
- November 16, 2004
- The top two officials in the CIA’s clandestine service have resigned after confrontations with the agency’s new leadership in an unusually public shake-up at the nation’s spy service.
- Research backs low-fat over low-carb diet results
- November 16, 2004
- Regardless of how they shed pounds in the first place, big losers stayed that way by limiting fat rather than carbohydrates, according to new research that could add fuel to the backlash against low-carb diets.
- Datebook
- November 16, 2004
- Harry Lee Parker Sr.
- November 16, 2004
- Dorene V. White
- November 16, 2004
- Young services
- November 16, 2004
- On the record
- November 16, 2004
- State ag secretary approves of Veneman’s departure
- November 16, 2004
- Kansas Agriculture Secretary Adrian Polansky said Monday he was “looking forward to new leadership” with the resignation of Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman.
- Briefly
- November 16, 2004
- ¢ Commission approves gate for little-used road ¢ Middle school invites public to Thanksgiving
- Briefly
- November 16, 2004
- ¢ Youth symphonies to present concerts ¢ New book addresses colliding cultures
- Marine shoots wounded Iraqi
- TV footage captures grisly death
- November 16, 2004
- A U.S. Marine shot and killed a wounded and apparently unarmed Iraqi prisoner in a mosque in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, according to dramatic pool television pictures broadcast Monday. A Marine spokesman in Washington said the shooting was under investigation.
- Inspection back Iran’s nuclear program assurances
- November 16, 2004
- The U.N. nuclear watchdog said Monday that inspectors had uncovered no new evidence of concealed nuclear activities or an atomic weapons program in Iran, though it cautioned that the agency could not rule out covert activities.
- Familiar faces debut on TV
- November 16, 2004
- Children are offered a glimpse of what their lives might have been like a century ago in two new TV movies that make their debut Thanksgiving week. One features the American Girl character Samantha, the other Pollyanna.
- More teens getting wheels
- Safety concerns lead some parents to balk at giving a car
- November 16, 2004
- Nearly every culture has a recognized turning point between childhood and adulthood, when rules must be learned, tests passed, talismans awarded. In the United States, for the past half-century, the iconic rite of passage for a teenager has been this: You take your driver’s test. You get your license. You slide behind the wheel and drive into the grown-up world.
- Briefly
- November 16, 2004
- ¢ Nine pit bulls found chained in back yard ¢ Narcotics stolen from pharmacy ¢ KU student who fell in fair condition ¢ Sunflower Quarry focus of public hearing
- Robinson’s play drawing high praise
- November 16, 2004
- In a defensive stance, long-armed, steely eyed Russell Robinson resembles one of the top point guards in Kansas University history — Cedric Hunter.
- Briefly
- November 16, 2004
- ¢ Wrigley agrees to buy Kraft’s candy brands ¢ Ex-Boeing CFO pleads guilty in hiring plot ¢ Boeing Co. to launch 777 freighter version ¢ Ousted Hollinger CEO faces another lawsuit
- Prairie Elf pine to spruce up Cedar Crest for holidays
- Tree farm near Lone Star helps promote agritourism in Kansas
- November 16, 2004
- Kansas may be the Sunflower State, but Christmas tree growers also are taking root.
- Transsexual marriage license trial opens in Leavenworth
- November 16, 2004
- Sandy Gast insists she was telling the truth earlier this year when she told the Leavenworth county clerk of the district court’s office she was a woman intent on marrying Georgi Somers.
- NFL briefs
- November 16, 2004
- ¢ Titans’ safety out ¢ Bears’ Urlacher ailing ¢ Ravens punter hurt ¢ Vikes’ Moss still out
- With spotlight on Powell, three other secretaries quietly step down
- November 16, 2004
- One will be remembered for keeping a lid on mad cows. Another’s tenure was marked by a controversial and sweeping education reform plan. And a third tried to do the same with energy policy but narrowly failed.
- Powerful, rich voices carry youth choir
- November 16, 2004
- “People who make music together Cannot be enemies … Cannot be enemies … at least while the music lasts.”
- Lawrence Marine wounded in Fallujah
- Family in spotlight after cable news conference
- November 16, 2004
- A Marine from Lawrence wounded in Fallujah brought himself and his family some international attention Monday when he appeared in a televised news conference while recovering at a military hospital in Germany.
- The Who planning new album
- November 16, 2004
- The Who may be returning, again.
- Mizzou barely beats Brown
- Gardner’s double-double lifts MU; Colorado cruises
- November 16, 2004
- Thomas Gardner perhaps is Missouri’s best three-point threat, so he shrugged off some early misfires. He also retrieved some of his teammates’ misses.
- McNabb helps Eagles bounce back
- QB throws for 345 yards as Philadelphia throttles Dallas, 49-21
- November 16, 2004
- Donovan McNabb spun away from one would-be tackler and sprinted to his right, only to find another defender waiting. So he went back to his left, chased by two more players, and finally heaved the ball, letting loose a 60-yard pass that looked more like a punt.
- James has Cavs over .500 for first time in years
- November 16, 2004
- LeBron James is playing for an NBA winner. Around here, that’s saying something.
- David E. ‘Jack’ Allen
- November 16, 2004
- Around the world
- November 16, 2004
- ¢ Justice minister calls for more arrest powers ¢ Group split over fate of U.N. hostages ¢ Former ruling party wins two key races ¢ Unions suspend strike threat targeting oil
- Woodling: From beans to BoSox
- November 16, 2004
- A month or so ago when the Boston Red Sox were celebrating their World Series championship on the Busch Stadium turf, I couldn’t help but think of Bill James.
- Next: Golf ban?
- November 16, 2004
- Daily ticker
- November 16, 2004
- Protection One secures ‘fresh start’
- November 16, 2004
- Richard Ginsburg awakened Monday with $120 million less to worry about.
- Powell to step down
- White House confirms 4 Cabinet departures
- November 16, 2004
- Secretary of State Colin Powell announced his resignation Monday, ending four years of battles with Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over the course of U.S. foreign policy.
- Closed school to house virtual activities
- Centennial building will be meeting place for students
- November 16, 2004
- About 18 months after closing it to save money, the Lawrence school district is partly reopening Centennial School for its new virtual school.
- People
- November 16, 2004
- ¢ Rachel Hunter joins ‘Gilligan’s Island’ reality show ¢ Kinsey film prognosis good ¢ G.I. Joe honored
- Chiefs’ Holmes won’t play against Pats
- November 16, 2004
- Priest Holmes definitely will miss Monday night’s game against New England, coach Dick Vermeil said Monday.
- Paul H. Whitworth
- November 16, 2004
- Horoscopes
- November 16, 2004
- Around the world
- November 16, 2004
- ¢ New York Times’ William Safire to retire ¢ Number of adolescents giving birth decreases ¢ U.S. bishops elect new president ¢ NASA delays flight of hypersonic jet
- Here they go again
- FSHS swimmers strong as fall practices begin
- November 16, 2004
- Free State High waited seven years for its first state championship.
- Still no word from Big 12 on possible Mangino penalty
- November 16, 2004
- Kansas University still is awaiting word on how the Big 12 Conference will handle postgame comments made Saturday by football coach Mark Mangino.
- FSHS senior signs UCF volleyball letter
- November 16, 2004
- Jenny Heppert had plenty of choices when it was time to pick a college.
- Raising her Native Voice
- Lawrence playwright’s ‘Weaving the Rain’ speaks to American Indian struggles
- November 16, 2004
- Margie Two Crow doesn’t trust these doctors. These doctors can’t be very good if they ended up at Indian Health Services.
- 6Sports video: High school basketball gears up for winter
- November 16, 2004
- After a few weeks of practice, the high school basketball season will begin on November 29.
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