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Free State High's No. 1 singles player, Keith Pipkin, returns a
serve. Pipkin went 2-1 during a quadrangular Wednesday at FSHS

Kansas University's Gus Milner, right, gets congratulations from
teammate Sean Land after scoring a run against Wichita State. The
Jayhawks beat WSU, 13-6, Wednesday at Hoglund Ballpark

KU's Marcus Herford (13) tries to get away from Kenneth Thompson
during spring drills. Herford, who started spring at quarterback,
worked out with the first-team receivers Wednesday on the KU
practice fields

Seabury Academy has added tennis and golf, led by Charlie Moffet,
left, a ninth-grader, and senior Gary Gardner. Both teams will open
their seasons today

Meadowlark Garden Club members recently had a meeting with Cindy
Goldring, foreground, floral manager at Hy-Vee, Clinton Parkway and
Kasold. She gave a demonstration on how to make a floral
arrangements

Meadowlark Garden Club members Dorothy Curnes, left, and Virginia
Curran look over an arrangement created by Hy-Vee floral manager
Cindy Goldring. The club heard a presentation from Goldring at its
monthly meeting on Tuesday

Photographer Robert Clark stops Rhonda Sander along Seven Hills
Road outside of Hays to shoot a photo during his nationwide trek
using a camera phone

Andy Tompkins, commissioner of the Kansas State Department of
Education, places emphasis on a quote while speaking to a group of
Lawrence residents at West Junior High

Election workers, from left, Jackie Hout, Yvonne Rapp and Maureen
Wustefeld feed ballots into a vibrating machine, which aids in
separating the ballots before being fed into a ballot scanner

Scott Emanuel, a community marketing coordinator for Wild Oats,
displays some of the literature on superfoods that the store
supplies to customers at a store in St. Louis. Superfoods help
fight disease or make people healthier

With the school finance bill in hand, Matt All, chief counsel to
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, descends the Statehouse steps headed
for the Kansas Supreme Court across the street. All hand-delivered
the bill to the court on Wednesday in Topeka

Yello Sub driver Nathan Judd delivers an order Wednesday. Judd's
wages are suffering from the increase in gasoline prices

As a delivery driver for Yello Sub, Nathan Judd gets paid for each
delivery and get tips from customers but also has to pay for his
own gasoline expenses. As gas prices go up, Judd's profit
decreases

The coffin containing the body of attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.
is removed from the cathedral after funeral services at the West
Angeles Cathedral in Los Angeles. The Rev. Al Sharpton, the Rev.
Jesse Jackson, O.J. Simpson and Sean "P

From left, President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, former presidents
George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice kneel by the body of late Pope John Paul II
Wednesday inside St. Peter's Baslica at the Vatican

Dark clouds roll over Cecil B. Pos Long Field in Paris, Texas,
where a high school baseball game was canceled ahead of strong
thunderstorms in the state's northeast region

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State tax receipts up from last year: By Scott Rothschild; April 7, 2005; (Web Posted Thursday at 1:32 p.m.) State tax receipts are up 4.7 percent, the Kansas Legislative Research Department reports.
Sex-offender arrested for violating probation: By Eric Weslander; April 7, 2005; (Updated Thursday at 12:58 p.m.) One of three men who received probation in the controversial 2003 rape of an intoxicated 13-year-old girl will be back in court today to face an allegation he’s not living up to terms of his probation.
Clear skies expected this evening: By Dave Toplikar; April 7, 2005; (Updated Thursday at 5:02 p.m.) Lawrence has had overcast skies today, keeping the temperature down in the 50s. But the clouds will finally push off to the east by this evening, says Tim Reith, 6News meteorologist.
Vaughn among six finalists for Sportsmanship Award: J-W Staff Reports; April 7, 2005; The last few days have been bittersweet for New Jersey Nets reserve point guard Jacque Vaughn.
‘Hotel Rwanda’ DVD maintains propriety of topic: By Jen Chaney - Special to The Washington Post; April 7, 2005; When 800,000 Rwandans were killed in a 1993 civil war that can only be described as genocide, America and the rest of the Western world virtually ignored the crisis. The film “Hotel Rwanda” — available on DVD next week — stands as a sobering, cinematic reminder of what a heartless decision that was.
Watchdogs: April 7, 2005
Briefly: April 7, 2005; ¢ Warring factions agree to end hostilities ¢ Al-Qaida suspect acquitted of terrorism ¢ Gunmen storm tourism complex in Kashmir
Woods still Masters’ marquee attraction: Coming off victory in tournament tuneup, Mickelson covets his second straight green jacket; By Doug Ferguson - Associated Press Golf Writer; April 7, 2005; Tiger Woods is still the main attraction at the Masters.
Paradox rules modern age: By Jim Hoagland; April 7, 2005; The 21st century announces itself as an era of backlash and paradox. This owes much to an uneasily shifting equilibrium between religion and politics, a disturbed equilibrium that was on display this week in capitals as dissimilar as Rome, Baghdad, Jerusalem and Washington.
Being busy not an end in itself: By Ellen Goodman; April 7, 2005; A friend of mine once worked for a Hollywood executive as chief assistant in charge of the calendar. That wasn’t the actual title, of course, but it was the job description.
Bike race to disrupt business cycle: Some downtown merchants upset at street closings; By Joel Mathis; April 7, 2005; Though plans have been in motion for months, some Lawrence merchants were surprised this week to find out that some downtown streets and parking lots will be closed Friday, May 13, for a national bicycle race.
Seabury golf, tennis to make debuts today: By Andy Samuelson; April 7, 2005; Today will be the busiest day in the history of Seabury Academy athletics. In addition to the Seahawks girls soccer game, two Seabury squads will be making their debuts in golf and tennis.
Our town sports: April 7, 2005
Garden collectibles easy to display: By Ralph and Terry Kovel; April 7, 2005; Gardening was an important pastime in America in the late 19th century.
Saddam watches as Iraqi parliament elects Kurd as president: By Mariam Fam - Associated Press Writer; April 7, 2005; Two months after elections, Iraq’s new government finally began to take shape Wednesday as lawmakers elected as president a Kurdish leader who promised to represent all ethnic and religious groups. Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein watched the session, broadcast across the country, from his prison cell.
Mourners pay respects to Johnnie Cochran: By Linda Deutsch - Associated Press Writer; April 7, 2005; The call came several times from the stage: Will all the celebrity clients Johnnie Cochran Jr. represented please rise?
White supremacist gets 40 years for plot to kill judge: By Mike Robinson - Associated Press Writer; April 7, 2005; Avowed white supremacist Matthew Hale was sentenced to 40 years in prison Wednesday for trying to have a federal judge killed — the same judge whose husband and mother were murdered five weeks ago by a man with no connection to Hale.
Gas pains growing sharper: By Mark Fagan; April 7, 2005; Like his fellow Lawrence residents, Nathan Judd is paying record prices at the pump. But as a delivery driver for Yello Sub, he’s not ready to eat the difference between rising costs and unwavering reimbursements.
‘Progressive’ candidates win majority on City Commission: By Chad Lawhorn; April 7, 2005; Mike Amyx is still looking at the number — 10,635. That’s the number of votes he garnered as the top finisher in Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission election. The downtown barber shop owner — who was a political mainstay in the 1980s and early 1990s as a city and county commissioner — said the results were a bit overwhelming.
Civility in community dialogue discussed again: By Jay Senter; April 7, 2005; It’s about listening to all voices — particularly those in the middle — and respectfully engaging in dialogue.
Area briefs: April 7, 2005; ¢ Man pleads no contest in pedestrian’s death ¢ Trial scheduled on rape charge ¢ Fort Riley soldier dies during attack in Iraq ¢ Driver gets 41 months in double-fatality crash
Proper mower safety can prevent injuries: By Bruce Chladny; April 7, 2005; Isn’t spring great? A loud roar and smelly fumes filled the air the past weekend as countless Douglas County residents fired up their lawn mowers for the first time this season.
Shocks rocked: KU’s Milner clubs 2 homers in rout; By Andy Samuelson; April 7, 2005; The way Kansas University baseball coach Ritch Price sees it, Jayhawk Gus Milner helped his team win the game and perhaps future in-state recruiting battles — and he might have gotten himself quite a pay increase as well Wednesday night.
Ex-Jayhawks in NBA happy for former coach: By Gary Bedore; April 7, 2005; Scot Pollard reserves his cheers for just one college basketball team — his alma mater, Kansas University.
Tulsa thumps Kansas tennis, 6-1: By Steve Schmidt; April 7, 2005; If the Kansas University tennis team were looking for an analogy for its recent play, it needed to look no farther than the surrounding skies at the Robinson courts during a 6-1 loss to Tulsa on Wednesday.
Review: ‘Miss Saigon’ suffers vocal shortcomings: By Becca Ramspott - Special to the Journal-World; April 7, 2005; “Miss Saigon,” a musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schnberg, is a longtime Broadway favorite because it taps into one of the oldest and most pervasive themes of all time: the idea that during our darkest moments, our dreams sustain us and keep us alive.
Bulls put Magic in precarious position: The Associated Press; April 7, 2005; The Orlando Magic are running out of time to make a playoff push.
Briefcase: April 7, 2005; ¢ Lawrence plays role in ‘Extreme Makeover’ ¢ MCI board rebuffs Qwest’s takeover bid ¢ Anheuser-Busch cuts earnings forecast ¢ Guilford expects profit in 2008
New England top holdout on gay marriage bans: By Robert Tanner - Associated Press Writer; April 7, 2005; It seems a can’t-lose proposition: Ask voters to ban same-sex marriages, and they consistently endorse the idea, from the South to the West.
Briefly: April 7, 2005; ¢ Study: Drug-resistant staph infections spread ¢ Seven injured in dorm gas explosion ¢ Government to consider moving nuclear waste ¢ Nuclear plants vulnerable, advisers say
Same-sex marriage foes set broader agenda: Conservatives target abortion, evolution, adoptions by gays; By Scott Rothschild; April 7, 2005; Now that Kansas voters have changed the state constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage, what’s next?
School finance plan delivered to state Supreme Court: By Scott Rothschild; April 7, 2005; The fate of funding public schools is now in the hands of the Kansas Supreme Court.
Daily ticker: April 7, 2005
Horoscopes: By Jacqueline Bigar; April 7, 2005
Flamenco!: Guitarist, dancers interrupt European tour to inoculate city; April 7, 2005; Gerald Lubensky was just a youngster when his heart was pierced by the beauty and power of flamenco, a distinctive style of dancing — more of an art form, really — that comes from Andalucia, the eight-province region of southern Spain.
Briefly: April 7, 2005; ¢ Shuttle rollout delayed ¢ Campaign targets DeLay legal fund donors ¢ Powerball changes lower chances of winning
Broad subject offers little: Kevin McDonough; April 7, 2005; The three part series “The Meaning of Food” (9 p.m., PBS) travels around the globe to explore the profound, if self-evident notion that what we eat and how we eat speaks volumes about our lives. Hosted by chef Marcus Samuelsson of New York’s Aquavit restaurant, “Food” visits an Italian-American wedding, a burger joint and a Bengali fertility feast to offer theories about the social, economic and cultural messages found in every menu.
Europe’s longest-reigning monarch, Prince Rainier III, dies: By Thierry Boinet - Associated Press Writer; April 7, 2005; Prince Rainier III, who reshaped Monaco and worked to overcome its reputation as “a sunny place for shady people,” died Wednesday, leaving the throne to Prince Albert II, his only son with actress Grace Kelly.
Living a dream: Working for RCR fulfills childhood fantasy for Harron; By David Poole - Knight Ridder Newspapers; April 7, 2005; When he was just a boy, Wayne Harron would walk about a mile down the railroad tracks behind his house in Welcome, N.C., over to the Richard Childress Racing shop.
Voting technology: It probably is time to update Douglas County’s voting technology, but officials should be sure that any equipment it purchases will be a good, long-term investment.; J-W Editorials; April 7, 2005; Considering the number of races and voters in Tuesday’s general election, it’s disappointing that it was after midnight before the Douglas County Clerk’s office could announce final unofficial vote totals to the public.
Fixing health care should be top priority: By David Broder; April 7, 2005; At a moment when the whole world is rightly celebrating the life of a man of faith, Pope John Paul II, it may seem perverse to write of the value of skepticism. But in a long span of years covering public affairs, I have come to value the contributions of the naysayers, those brave spirits who — right or wrong — challenge the conventional wisdom.
Tice in trouble for scalping tickets: Tagliabue: Vikings coach likely to be fined for violations; The Associated Press; April 7, 2005; Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Tice likely will be fined by the NFL for scalping Super Bowl tickets.
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Violent storms batter southern U.S.: By Joedy McCreary - Associated Press Writer; April 7, 2005; Lines of violent thunderstorms rolled through the South on Wednesday, blowing apart mobile homes, snapping dozens of trees and power lines, and ripping the roof off a school while classes were in session.
Studies back claims about early ancestor: By Bryn Nelson - Newsday; April 7, 2005; A virtual face-lift, two new jawbones and a partial set of teeth have solidified the stature of Chad’s most famous fossilized resident, according to a pair of studies that will be published today.
U.S. military helicopter crashes: At least 16 killed; By Stephen Graham - Associated Press Writer; April 7, 2005; A U.S. military helicopter returning from a mission smashed into the southern Afghan desert Wednesday, killing at least 16 people in the deadliest military crash since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001. An Afghan official said most of the dead appeared to be Americans.
College of Cardinals sets date to select new pontiff: By Victor Simpson - Associated Press Writer; April 7, 2005; After electronic highway signs and cell phone text messages failed to stanch the flow of pilgrims, police stepped in Wednesday to turn back mourners hoping to join the 24-hour line to view the body of Pope John Paul II, on a day that brought almost 1 million people to the Vatican.
Health-conscious consumers in market for superfoods: By Libby Quaid - Associated Press Writer; April 7, 2005; There is food, and then there is superfood.
Fed chair fears mortgage firms’ debt: Greenspan asks Congress to restrict Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac holdings; By Marcy Gordon - Associated Press Writer; April 7, 2005; Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan urged Congress on Wednesday to restrict the multibillion-dollar holdings of the mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, warning that their huge debt could imperil U.S. financial markets.
Monsanto profit rises on seed sales: By Jim Suhr - Associated Press Writer; April 7, 2005; Agriculture biotechnology leader Monsanto Co. said Wednesday its second-quarter profit more than doubled, reflecting fewer restructuring charges and growth in its seeds business.
Toplikar: Antimatter offers vast potential: By Dave Toplikar; April 7, 2005; “Antimatter? What?” I asked my daughter. “Don’t you remember? That was a big part of the story — the bomb in the Vatican,” Katy said.
Commodities: April 7, 2005
Vote count done; commissioners ready to work: Ballot counters took their time to ensure accuracy; By Alicia Henrikson; April 7, 2005; Counting ballots for Tuesday’s local election in Douglas County went into the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Ronald A. Grey Sr., Tonganoxie: April 7, 2005
Cleavinger top vote-getter in Baldwin City Council race: By Alicia Henrikson; April 7, 2005; Amy Cleavinger had no expectations in her run for Baldwin City Council.
Mental care unit is No. 1 priority: By Chad Lawhorn; April 7, 2005; City commissioners likely will be told that reopening the inpatient mental health unit at Lawrence Memorial Hospital is the most pressing need to address the community’s homeless issue.
Photo assignment done by phone: By Diane Gasper-O'Brien - Hays Daily News; April 7, 2005; Something seemed to be missing as Robert Clark jumped out of his van and headed up the chalk road north of Hays to take pictures on a recent morning.
Professor testifies before Congress on Schiavo case: J-W Staff and Wire Reports; April 7, 2005; Using his own developmentally disabled son as an example, a Kansas University professor on Wednesday urged a U.S. Senate committee to steer clear of legislation that would define which cases deserve life-sustaining care.
Federal courts likely to overturn state’s constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage, supporter says: By John Hanna - Associated Press Writer; April 7, 2005; Federal courts ultimately will strike down an amendment to the Kansas Constitution banning gay marriage and similar measures in other states, the leader of a group favoring such prohibitions predicted Wednesday.
Mayoral candidate died day before election: The Associated Press; April 7, 2005; Alice Eitel, a Dighton City Council member running for mayor, died the day before Tuesday’s election.
Local briefs: April 7, 2005; ¢ Red Cross kicks off Heroes Campaign ¢ Three-day giveaway of compost begins today
Lloyd Charles Douglas, Lawrence: April 7, 2005
Edgar J. ‘Ted’ Hamby, Lawrence: April 7, 2005
Knapp services: April 7, 2005
Borland services: April 7, 2005
Hesper road project OK’d: By Alicia Henrikson; April 7, 2005; The Hesper community could start losing gravel roads and gaining paved ones this summer.
FSHS softball drops pair: J-W Staff Reports; April 7, 2005; Free State High’s softball team will be hoping for better luck today after bowing to the defending Class 6A state champs in their season openers Tuesday.
School district commits to pay raises for senior teachers: By Dave Ranney; April 7, 2005; School district officials agreed Wednesday to find an additional $60,000 in next year’s budget to underwrite a $300 raise this year for teachers who’ve taught for more than 25 years.
On the record: April 7, 2005
International Awareness Week events planned: J-W Staff Reports; April 7, 2005; Kansas University’s International Student Assn. will be host to International Awareness Week Sunday through Friday.
Arts notes: April 7, 2005; ¢ Fine folk art to be on display ¢ Theater group to have auditions ¢ Penn State professor to speak at Hall Center
Baseball amiable for Lions, Firebirds: By Ryan Greene; April 7, 2005; First-year Lawrence High baseball coach Brad Stoll already has discussed today’s city showdown with his former boss, Free State coach Mike Hill.
Royals hammer Tigers: Hernandez proves recovery complete in 7-2 victory; The Associated Press; April 7, 2005; After a layoff of more than a year, Runelvys Hernandez was eager to prove his recovery from elbow surgery is complete.
Futures Tour sponsorships remain: J-W Staff Reports; April 7, 2005; Corporate pro-am sponsorships still are available for the girls Lawrence Futures Golf Classic next month at Eagle Bend Golf Course.
Herford catching on as wideout for KU: By Ryan Wood; April 7, 2005; During Kansas University’s intrasquad scrimmage on Wednesday, quarterback Jason Swanson dropped back in the pocket and fired a perfect strike to Marcus Herford, who juked and streaked his way just short of the end zone against KU’s vaunted defense for a nice chunk of yards after the catch.
FSHS tennis 2-1: By Ryan Greene; April 7, 2005; It’s small and quaint, but the tennis facility at Free State High is a place the Firebirds wish they could have competed at more than once last season.
Kansas’ Gruber 22nd at swimming trials: J-W Staff Reports; April 7, 2005; Kansas University senior swimmer Amy Gruber placed 22nd in the 100-meter freestyle Wednesday at the World Championship Trials.
Clubs give gardeners chance to share ideas, beautify town: By Jennifer Oldridge; April 7, 2005; Gardeners are a communal group of people. We like to share our plants. We like to share gardening solutions. We like to share our knowledge of the Kansas landscape. And we like to share our time. If you’re looking for a forum in which to exchange gardening ideas with like-minded people, you may want to consider joining one of Lawrence’s many gardening clubs.

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