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- Lions take Blue Valley Shootout title
- December 11, 2005
- Lawrence High beat Blue Valley, 71-50, Saturday in the Blue Valley Shootout. After falling behind 13-2, the Lions turned it on with outside shooting and up-tempo plays and never looked back.
- Eudora escapes Piper to win Cardinal Invite
- December 11, 2005
- The Eudora Cardinals narrowly escaped the Piper Pirates Saturday to win the Cardinal Invitational, 49-48. Eudora head coach Kyle Deterding says the big guys did a nice job on the boards.
- Area wrestlers place in top 10 at Eudora competition
- December 11, 2005
- The Cardinal wrestling team hosted the Tournament of Champions Saturday where Lansing took first place. Free State High placed sixth while Lawrence High placed eighth.
- Tonganoxie’s Danni Boatwright wins ‘Survivor’
- December 11, 2005
- Danni Boatwright, Tonganoxie, outwitted, outplayed and outlasted all the other competitors in CBS’s ‘Survivor Guatemala’ game to win the million-dollar top prize.
- Snow-melting temperatures to stick around
- December 11, 2005
- The snow that remains from last week’s winter storm will continue to melt today as the high reaches the upper 40s.
- City growth plans open to interpretation
- December 11, 2005
- The crystal ball at Lawrence City Hall envisions significant amounts of new growth south of the Wakarusa River. In fact, the city’s wastewater plan calls for 20,000 people to be living in that newest part of Lawrence by 2025.
- Morrison sinks Cowboys
- Standout’s buzzer-beating three gives Gonzaga win
- December 11, 2005
- Adam Morrison took the ball with his Gonzaga Bulldogs trailing by a point to the rugged Oklahoma State Cowboys and less than 10 seconds left. The nation’s leading scorer stood about 20 feet from the basket as the clock ticked down to five seconds.
- On the record
- December 11, 2005
- Lawrence datebook
- December 11, 2005
- Former Sen. McCarthy dies at 89
- December 11, 2005
- Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 89.
- Jesse Jackson calls for clemency for gang founder
- December 11, 2005
- With only two days left before the scheduled execution of Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the Rev. Jesse Jackson made another appeal for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare the life of the reformed gang leader Saturday.
- The Motley Fool
- December 11, 2005
- ¢ Name that company ¢ Last week’s question and answer ¢ Pork profits ¢ Snack earnings ¢ Quarterly stock checkup ¢ Foolanthropic tips on worthwhile charities
- Snow evokes comfort - not cold - in books
- December 11, 2005
- Few things make kids happier than snow. Smart authors know that.
- Nutrition books make fine gifts
- December 11, 2005
- Still need a gift for the health-minded members of your family? Here are some new books that they might appreciate.
- Goff: Dreaming of a Charlie Brown Christmas
- December 11, 2005
- Nothing has ever smelled more like Christmas to me than the short-needled, sparse-branched fir tree my parents bought at the grocery store each long-ago December. Its trunk was nailed to a wooden X, its needles were already shedding, but it brought the glorious smell of piney woods into our living room.
- Early results of firearms deer season mixed
- December 11, 2005
- Halfway through the Kansas firearms deer season, hunters were reporting mixed but generally good hunting.
- Not the economy
- December 11, 2005
- To the editor: President Bush and all the dumb people in power need to be told that time has passed and this is the year 2005!
- Guidelines for developing land
- December 11, 2005
- Before a vacant piece of ground can be developed, there are several approval processes developers face.
- Iran to produce nuclear fuel, enrich uranium
- December 11, 2005
- Iran will enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel domestically despite international efforts to curb its atomic program, the nation’s nuclear chief said Saturday, drawing sharp criticism from the United States.
- KU opens indoor track season
- December 11, 2005
- The Kansas University track and field teams recorded 10 top-four finishes Saturday at the K-State All-Comers Meet.
- Free State breaks through for first victory
- Unselfish play keys rout of Wichita North in tournament’s seventh-place game
- December 11, 2005
- By all accounts, the Free State High boys basketball team shouldn’t have been energized for Saturday’s matchup against Wichita North.
- Report: Plane’s thrusters weren’t working properly
- December 11, 2005
- The reverse thrusters that should have slowed a Southwest Airlines jetliner before it slid off a runway at Midway Airport and into the street didn’t immediately kick in when the pilots tried to deploy them, federal investigators said Saturday after interviewing the crew.
- Off the pavement and into the gym
- Frigid weather ushers workouts indoors
- December 11, 2005
- Some of her running buddies consider Celeste Leonardi an embarrassment. But she’s not afraid to admit it: When the weather gets cold, she doesn’t hit the pavement. She hops on a treadmill.
- Hot whodunits make for satisfying stocking stuffers
- December 11, 2005
- There’s no mystery as to what makes a good crime novel: Tell a good story well and fill it with characters who readers can care about.
- Faces and places
- December 11, 2005
- School enrollment estimates will sway planning for future
- December 11, 2005
- In recent years, predicting Lawrence school enrollments has been, at best, tricky. The city’s population has grown, but not its school enrollment.
- Utilities weighed in benefits of expansion
- December 11, 2005
- When a builder in Lawrence wants to put up a house - or a factory, or an office building - they can’t just pick a piece of land and start construction.
- Job vacancy not sole problem with planning, commissioner says
- December 11, 2005
- Douglas County Commissioner Bob Johnson has some advice as city and county officials begin the search to hire a planning director. Don’t expect to find a savior.
- No. 2 Texas no match for No. 1 Duke, 97-66
- December 11, 2005
- There was no doubt about the latest No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup.
- UCLA explodes to win at Wooden
- December 11, 2005
- Playing at home, UCLA struggled to beat Albany and trailed winless Coppin State by five points at halftime, making it appear the 16th-ranked Bruins might be overrated.
- Local wrestlers shine in Eudora
- December 11, 2005
- A number of local wrestlers came away with individual championships this weekend at the two-day Eudora Tournament of Champions.
- Notebook
- December 11, 2005
- Kansas University coach Bill Self was elated the Jayhawks were able to improve to 4-4 four days after Tuesday’s loss against Saint Joseph’s in New York.
- Wisconsin will measure KU
- December 11, 2005
- Finally, a major opponent.
- Bankruptcies
- December 11, 2005
- No Douglas County residents or businesses filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Kansas, during the week ending Thursday.
- Kansas friend says Cash did ‘walk the line’
- December 11, 2005
- When Johnny Western picked up his telephone in 1965, the voice on the other line spoke with sheepish guilt.
- Proper clothing keeps outdoor athletes cozy
- December 11, 2005
- On Tuesday of last week, when the high temperature reached a balmy 22 degrees, Craig Weinaug rode his bicycle to work.
- When did tolerance become anti-Christian?
- December 11, 2005
- Some years ago my husband was a last-minute draft pick to play the role of godfather at a young friend’s naming ceremony. Admittedly, his relationship to organized religion was a bit dicey, but you know how it is in the understudy business.
- 9-11 report card reveals troubling failures
- December 11, 2005
- While President Bush paints Iraq as the central front in the war on terror, the former members of the 9/11 Commission say the government isn’t doing enough to protect us from another attack at home.
- Horoscopes
- December 11, 2005
- For Sunday, Dec. 11
- Lawrence artist elevates paper creations well ‘Beyond Origami’
- December 11, 2005
- As a real estate agent, Nancy Bjorge makes a living selling houses. But she takes her greatest pleasure building worlds out of much smaller structures.
- Biosciences could be best opportunity for growth
- December 11, 2005
- The state’s efforts to cultivate a biosciences industry could provide Lawrence with its prime economic opportunity to grow in coming years and decades, experts said.
- Maintaining character
- With Kansas City suburbs encroaching, how can Lawrence remain unique?
- December 11, 2005
- Every year, it seems, the borders of Kansas City and its suburbs move a little closer to Lawrence. Since 1950, the population of Johnson County - home to much of K.C.’s swelling suburban population - has soared from 62,783 to 451,086 in 2000, pushing the borders of towns like Olathe ever-outward.
- Looking growth in the eye
- Lawrence at crossroads over expansion
- December 11, 2005
- Lawrence can’t afford to live in fear anymore. Les Hannon, a retired strategic planner and Lawrence resident since 1973, is convinced that fear that Lawrence will lose its character is the primary problem the community faces as it struggles with how it should grow.
- Peterson Road planning critical to easing traffic congestion
- December 11, 2005
- From a planning perspective, it’s as clear as day - Peterson Road needs to be extended to alleviate Sixth Street congestion.
- Holiday tradition will continue to glow brightly
- Family gathers to ensure Maxine Lee’s lighting display will go on without her
- December 11, 2005
- Tom Lee squinted up at his mother’s house, his face silhouetted by the sun’s light. There were decorations all over it - strings of dangling lights and plastic angels - but they all needed power to glow.
- Consumers trading unwanted gift cards
- Companies launch Web sites dedicated to ‘aftermarket’ of certificates
- December 11, 2005
- They rose to popularity as the gift that couldn’t go wrong, but a raft of Web sites are here to tell you that many of those gift cards turned out to be a bad fit after all.
- Cyclists gaining clout on Capitol Hill
- Columbia, Mo., receives $25 million to improve bicycle, pedestrian pathways
- December 11, 2005
- Darwin Hindman, the 72-year-old mayor of Columbia, Mo., is as hard-core as cycling advocates come. Every day he rides a bike to work that is 20 years old - older than many of the University of Missouri students who live in the city he governs.
- Schools create booming business for electronics
- December 11, 2005
- Aesop’s fables came beaming across the classroom and landed in Eva Hernandez’s Palm hand-held.
- From Solitude to Deer Valley
- Ski Utah tour stitches together six resorts in one day
- December 11, 2005
- Midway on a tour of six Utah resorts in one day, a backcountry guide bounds across the Highway to Heaven, a 500-yard ski traverse, followed by the group of skiers he is leading.
- Hypnosis offers a new approach to managing pain during labor
- December 11, 2005
- Across the nation, parents expecting children are doing things - decorating the nursery, ordering furniture, bracing themselves for the sleepless nights ahead - that have been done for generations.
- Flaxseed part of power diet
- December 11, 2005
- Walk the aisles of almost any grocery store, and you’ll read the healthful ingredient claims printed in bold letters on packages ranging from breakfast cereals to pasta to energy bars to sandwich bread and even frozen waffles.
- Supermodel’s career survives drug scandal
- Kate Moss bouncing back with bad-girl image, earning power intact
- December 11, 2005
- Three months ago, a cocaine scandal threatened to end Kate Moss’ career. Now, her scandalous image is helping to fuel a remarkable comeback.
- Unexpected backlash
- ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ filmmakers defend casting amid Japan-China tension
- December 11, 2005
- The makers of “Memoirs of a Geisha” expected to be lauded for creating the first big-budget Hollywood movie with Asian actors in every leading role. Instead, they find themselves defending casting decisions that have inflamed historical tensions between Japan and China.
- Eudora author launches ‘Jack the Spacemouse’
- December 11, 2005
- Bedtime for the children in the Thevarajoo household, like many households across the world, is a synonym for story time.
- LHS boys cruise to Shootout crown
- December 11, 2005
- There weren’t any bears at the Lawrence High boys basketball game against Blue Valley, but there were plenty of reasons for LHS fans to say, “Oh, my.”
- Keegan: Giles produces for KU
- December 11, 2005
- Kansas University needed more than Stephen Vinson playing with the heart of a Chesty Lion to walk away with its first victory against a quality opponent Saturday afternoon at Kemper Arena.
- Wilkes gets warm welcome
- Cal’s ex-Jayhawk scores 13 against former team
- December 11, 2005
- Even in defeat, Omar Wilkes had a joke ready for former Kansas University teammate Jeff Hawkins.
- Small forwards produce for KU
- December 11, 2005
- Small forward has been the most productive and consistent position for Kansas University’s basketball team. But like any successful coach, good isn’t good enough in Bill Self’s world.
- KU ‘Survivor’ goes for $1 million
- December 11, 2005
- Tonganoxie resident and former Kansas University Jayhawk Danni Boatwright will compete in the “Survivor: Guatemala” finale tonight.
- After year in Iraq, troops elated to be back home
- 891st Battalion returns
- December 11, 2005
- Wyatt Shaffer was just 9 weeks old when his dad and the 891st Engineering Battalion left last year for Iraq.
- Oiling the squeaky wheel
- Outspoken players influence planning
- December 11, 2005
- Price Banks, director of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department from 1982 to 1994, knows what a city planner has nightmares about: a City Commission meeting full of angry people.
- U.S. diplomat gets tough on Cuba
- December 11, 2005
- The new chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana honored several of the island’s leading dissidents and opposition groups Saturday in a polite but tough speech that said Cuba is out of step with the world’s shift toward democracy.
- China blames deadly siege on ‘instigators’
- December 11, 2005
- China on Saturday blamed a deadly confrontation between authorities and demonstrators in a village near Hong Kong on “a few instigators” who organized an attack on a wind power plant, prompting police to open fire.
- Poland investigating alleged CIA prisons
- December 11, 2005
- Poland’s prime minister said Saturday he has ordered an investigation into whether the CIA ran secret prisons for terrorist suspects in the country - an allegation the government repeatedly has denied.
- Nobel laureate: Nuclear risk still looms
- December 11, 2005
- Fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, the risk of nuclear disaster is as great as ever with terrorists zealously pursuing atomic weapons, chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei said Saturday in accepting the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.
- Democrats approve Iowa caucuses, N.H. primary
- December 11, 2005
- A Democratic Party task force Saturday approved changes aimed at bringing more diversity to the early stages of the 2008 presidential nominating calendar but only after defeating a far more significant proposal to eliminate the special first-in-the-nation status of Iowa and New Hampshire.
- Union authorizes strike if deal isn’t reached
- December 11, 2005
- New York City transit workers voted Saturday to authorize a strike that could shut down bus and subway service at the height of the holiday shopping season.
- Challenger may abandon bid for Clinton’s seat
- December 11, 2005
- Jeanine Pirro is expected to quit her bid to unseat Sen. Hillary Clinton as early as Monday, prematurely ending what had been billed as one of the nation’s marquee races.
- School officials propose banning whole milk
- December 11, 2005
- Cartons of whole milk would be considered junk food, but baked Cheetos would not, under new rules proposed Friday by Illinois education officials.
- Neo-Nazi group holds rally two months after riots
- December 11, 2005
- Members of a neo-Nazi group staged a rally at City Hall on Saturday, two months after plans for an earlier march set off a four-hour riot in which a mob attacked businesses and police.
- Hungry, sick Florida fugitive caught in Georgia
- December 11, 2005
- Stale Krispy Kreme doughnuts and a Georgia woman’s sharp eye led to the capture of an escaped Florida prisoner who eluded authorities for more than four days.
- White House tests pandemic readiness
- December 11, 2005
- After role-playing an outbreak of pandemic flu, federal officials said Saturday that saving lives and containing the economic damage will require more planning in local communities and increased production of vaccines and medications.
- Police officer killed in Bronx shootout
- December 11, 2005
- A young police officer dying from a bullet to his chest shot two burglars early Saturday, one of them identified as an actor who played a misfit mobster on “The Sopranos.”
- Tough Indiana ‘D’ silences Kentucky
- December 11, 2005
- Indiana coach Mike Davis hopped around, stomped his feet, argued with officials and then, finally, rewarded his players with hugs. Davis overcame his most difficult obstacle as a head coach, beating Kentucky, with a perfect script.
- Eudora boys win tournament title on home floor
- December 11, 2005
- Mike Ortega scored 11 points, and Tim DeArmond added nine, helping Eudora High hold on for a 49-48 victory over K.C. Piper in the championship game of the Eudora Tournament.
- LHS girls dominant in first win
- December 11, 2005
- Lawrence High’s girls basketball squad picked up its first victory of the season Saturday in convincing fashion.
- Relay teams strong at Olathe Invitational
- December 11, 2005
- The Free State High boys swimming team chalked up an 11th-place finish Saturday at the Olathe Invitational.
- Firebirds advance to tourney title game
- December 11, 2005
- Free State High’s girls basketball squad reached the championship game of the Bonner Springs Metro Prep Classic, but the Firebirds will have to wait a few days to play for the title.
- Penn State’s Posluszny wins Butkus
- December 11, 2005
- Penn State’s Paul Posluszny, who helped the No. 3 Nittany Lions earn a share of the Big Ten championship, won the Butkus Award as the nation’s best linebacker Saturday night.
- Heisman history shows mistakes
- Two of seven Notre Dame winners ‘gifts’
- December 11, 2005
- Heisman history - viewed with hindsight’s perfect perception - shows that mistakes have been made.
- Commentary: Losing Barnett as coach no loss for Colorado
- December 11, 2005
- The only thing missing from Gary Barnett’s down-homey-ness is the occasional “golly,” as in, “Golly, another lurid allegation against my program?”
- Bush gets mandate
- USC running back claims Heisman in landslide
- December 11, 2005
- Reggie Bush took slow, deliberate steps to the podium and began his Heisman Trophy acceptance speech with a huge sigh of relief and a hand over his heart.
- Paris’ double-double lifts Oklahoma
- December 11, 2005
- Freshman Courtney Paris scored 15 second-half points and grabbed 18 rebounds, leading No. 16 Oklahoma to a 68-57 victory Saturday over Missouri State.
- Dental clinic for uninsured is moving
- Four-year-old operation has dramatically outgrown current location
- December 11, 2005
- It began four years ago as a small downtown dental care operation, but there is nothing small about today’s Douglas County Dental Clinic.
- Homeless-shelter permit should have to be renewed every year, residents say
- Facility allows loitering, other problems, neighbor contends
- December 11, 2005
- Residents near the Lawrence Community Shelter want City Hall to keep a close eye on the facility.
- Crack penalty called racist
- Ex-Lawrence High star and his brother will be sentenced
- December 11, 2005
- The discrepancy between penalties for crack cocaine and powder cocaine will be at issue next week in the sentencing of a former Lawrence basketball star and his brother.
- New guidelines mean less chemo for breast cancer
- Treatment to be based on type of tumor, not size
- December 11, 2005
- For years, doctors have known exactly what to do with breast cancer patients like Eva Ossorio: Poison them.
- Climate conference ends with historic deal
- But agreement on emissions cutbacks does not include the United States
- December 11, 2005
- A U.N. conference on global warming ended Saturday with a watershed agreement by more than 150 nations - an unwilling United States not among them - to open talks on mandatory post-2012 reductions in greenhouse gases.
- Aging Conference picks KU professor delegate
- December 11, 2005
- Kansas University professor Rosemary Chapin is a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. Chapin is a professor in the School of Social Welfare.
- Woman killed in crash with Sawyer Brown bus
- December 11, 2005
- A 24-year-old woman was killed Saturday on a snowy roadway after her car collided with a tour bus carrying country music group Sawyer Brown.
- Midwest meth summit will start Tuesday
- December 11, 2005
- Governors from 13 Midwestern states will gather for three days this week to work on plans for combating the spread of methamphetamine.
- Sextuplets’ caretaker lauds dog for rescuing her
- Aid comes after van door traps her thumb
- December 11, 2005
- Carol Gunn is disappointed she has yet to find one item on her Christmas shopping list: a dog collar bearing a “Hero” medallion. It’s for Queenie.
- Lawrence commuter report
- December 11, 2005
- The following construction projects may affect commuter traffic in the region this week.
- Heat hoping Shaq will return tonight
- December 11, 2005
- Shaquille O’Neal may return to the Miami Heat lineup as early as tonight, following more than five weeks away because of a badly sprained right ankle.
- Bulls halt drought in Washington
- Chicago rallies from 14 down in fourth quarter
- December 11, 2005
- Over three years, the Chicago Bulls had become all too familiar with celebrations at the MCI Center. This time, the Washington Wizards started reveling a bit too soon and were dealt a stunning defeat, one made even more painful by the sight of Gilbert Arenas limping off the court.
- Hunt’s Chiefs return to roots
- Squad entered league as Dallas Texans
- December 11, 2005
- When the Dallas Cowboys and the Dallas Texans both began in 1960, they shared the Cotton Bowl and divided the fan base. Everyone knew one team eventually would have to go.
- Vermeil, Parcells share respect
- Longtime coaches motivate with opposite styles
- December 11, 2005
- After spending last season and this summer with the Kansas City Chiefs, safety Willie Pile and linebacker Scott Fujita joined the Dallas Cowboys a week before this season began.
- Commentary: U.S. soccer improves, but who cares?
- If Americans fare well in World Cup, soccer fans will take notice (but not in United States)
- December 11, 2005
- The sports world - particularly that portion outside the United States - paused for about an hour Friday as the groupings for next summer’s soccer World Cup were plucked from a series of bowls on a chilly stage in Leipzig, Germany.
- Clarke turns serious, takes lead
- Northern Ireland golfer cards 64, tops Target Challenge
- December 11, 2005
- Darren Clarke decided to concentrate more on golf than having a good time at the Target World Challenge, and an 8-under 64 on Saturday put him in position for a real party.
- People in the news
- December 11, 2005
- ¢ Brooks, Yearwood file for marriage license in Oklahoma ¢ ‘Sopranos’ creator receives award from governor ¢ Estefan hopes screenplay she wrote will star DeVito ¢ Part-time police officer crowned Miss World ¢ Watts to be among honorees at Santa Barbara Film Festival
- Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65
- December 11, 2005
- Richard Pryor, the groundbreaking comedian whose profanely personal insights into race relations and modern life made him one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, died of a heart attack Saturday. He was 65.
- 4 U.S. soldiers killed ahead of elections
- No word on four hostages
- December 11, 2005
- Insurgents killed four American soldiers in separate attacks Saturday as violence mounted five days ahead of national elections. U.S. officials announced the release of 238 detainees but said the move was unrelated to demands by kidnappers of four Christian peace activists to free all prisoners.
- Judge tells Vioxx jurors to continue deliberating
- December 11, 2005
- Jurors considering whether Merck & Co.’s Vioxx contributed to a man’s death told the judge Saturday they could not reach a unanimous verdict, but the judge told them to keep deliberating.
- 3,000 National Guardsmen return after year in Iraq
- December 11, 2005
- About 3,000 troops from a Texas National Guard unit returned home Saturday after nearly a year in Iraq, rushing into the arms of family members after the largest deployment of state guardsmen since World War II.
- Judge refuses to toss out racketeering charge
- December 11, 2005
- A judge on Friday rejected John A. “Junior” Gotti’s request to be acquitted of a racketeering charge, clearing the way for a new trial.
- Police evict thousands from housing complex
- December 11, 2005
- Police arrived before dawn Friday, smashing through a gate and breaking down apartment doors as they forced thousands of civil servants and their families from a recently privatized government complex.
- Jet carrying schoolchildren crashes in Nigeria, killing 103
- December 11, 2005
- A Nigerian jetliner filled with schoolchildren going home for Christmas crashed Saturday while landing during a lightning storm in this delta oil port. At least 103 people were killed, officials said.
- Baker to have winter commencement
- December 11, 2005
- Baker University in Baldwin will honor more than 700 undergraduate, graduate and nursing students with three ceremonies during winter commencement Saturday and Dec. 18 at the Collins Center.
- Scholarship hall floods
- December 11, 2005
- Davi Serrao heard the fire alarm Saturday afternoon while he was relaxing in his room in the K.K. Amini Scholarship Hall on Kansas University’s campus.
- Superintendents group names three directors
- December 11, 2005
- Three new directors are helping lead Lawrence-based Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, the association announced last week.
- Firm offers flights over Plaza lights
- December 11, 2005
- Looking for a unique holiday gift?
- Earnings forecasts useful, harmful
- December 11, 2005
- Open these pages on any given day and you’ll find news of companies whose earnings fell short of, met or exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. Fall short, and your stock can be hammered. Meet the estimate and it will sit still. Beat it and the price will jump. How do analysts come up with the profit targets?
- Piecing together a year-end tax plan
- Adjust deductions, income for this year, next
- December 11, 2005
- The end of the year in America means football, apple pie and tax planning. Of the three, tax planning is the most complicated but also potentially the most profitable.
- Calendar
- December 11, 2005
- Douglas County Senior Services, 745 Vt., offers activities during the week for residents 55 and older.
- ‘Aunt Jemima’ continues after 100 years
- December 11, 2005
- She was the first living trademark, and her product ushered in the era of convenience for American households.
- Best sellers
- December 11, 2005
- Poet’s Showcase
- December 11, 2005
- “Grocery shopping with my dad,” by Katie Lashbrook
- What are you reading?
- December 11, 2005
- Who gets a tip during the holidays
- December 11, 2005
- As the end of the year approaches, some services are traditionally rewarded with money or a gift. Many people don’t consider these tips, but rather tokens of appreciation.
- Deer program targets needy
- December 11, 2005
- Kansas firearms deer season ends today, and hunters out strictly for sport can contribute their meat to a regional Feeding the Hungry program.
- Don’t like venison? Try corning, then add some cabbage
- Keys: moisture, slow cooking
- December 11, 2005
- People who say they don’t like the flavor of venison might reconsider if they tried Rodney Carr’s corned venison and cabbage.
- Thanks to pastors
- December 11, 2005
- To the editor: A big thank you to each of the pastors who, with their statement of tolerance and civility and urging of respectful dialogue, surely represent the best of our community’s thinking.
- Sad development
- December 11, 2005
- To the editor: Now it comes to this.
- Fuel to the fire
- December 11, 2005
- To the editor: The arguments put forth by Republicans, chiding Democrats for charging Bush with lying when their own President Clinton believed there were WMDs is just another smokescreen thrown up to cover the fact that every statement put forth by them - except that Saddam was a horrible dictator - proved to be false.
- Design upgrade
- December 11, 2005
- To the editor: In her letter of Dec. 8, Fran Johnson writes that it is “obvious” that life on Earth was intelligently designed, pointing to the beauty of a seashell as an example.
- Seating fallout
- December 11, 2005
- To the editor: I have been a strong proponent for priority seating at Allen Fieldhouse.
- Snow removal
- December 11, 2005
- To the editor: Last year, the city responded quickly and efficiently to the Thanksgiving Day snow that blanked steeply sloped streets in West Lawrence.
- Old home town - 100 years ago today
- December 11, 2005
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Dec. 11, 1905: “Charles Stoke of Lamont, Okla., and Libbie Painter of Lawrence were married yesterday afternoon at the new Lutheran parsonage by the Rev. E. Stauffer. It was the first marriage performed in the new parsonage.”
- Old home town - 25 years ago today
- December 11, 2005
- Gerald Gipp, the newly named Haskell Indian Junior College president, visited with students and members of the Haskell Board of Regents here. He was to take over his new job on Jan. 19 and was succeeding the popular Wally Galluzzi, who had resigned from the post.
- Political climate marginalizes professoriate
- December 11, 2005
- The entitlement mentality produces petulant insistence on an ever-higher ratio of rights to responsibilities. Unsurprisingly, this mentality flourishes on campuses, where tenured faculty and privileged students live entitled lives supported by the taxes and generosity of others. The mentality was on vivid display in the Supreme Court last Tuesday when an association of 36 law schools and faculties asserted an audacious entitlement.
- Real Republicans
- Moderates are ready to do battle with conservatives to see who really represents Kansas Republicans.
- December 11, 2005
- A group of Kansas Republicans apparently has decided that desperate times call for desperate measures.
- Jayhawks bear down
- Vinson sparks Kansas’ victory
- December 11, 2005
- Stephen Vinson fiddled with one of the many microphones placed in front of him Saturday afternoon in a crowded Kemper Arena interview room.
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