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- Rainy start to day
- Chance for rain/snow mix in the afternoon
- December 24, 2005
- Today’s morning rain may change over to a mixture of rain and snow later in the afternoon, 6News Weather reports.
- Faith briefs
- December 24, 2005
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- Mother needs to get used to rowdy little boys in the house
- December 24, 2005
- Help! I’m the mother of two sons, and I feel as though I’ve been thrust into a strange new world. Are boys always so rough? Sometimes the noise level in our house is more than I can take. Is this normal?
- Israel to enforce off-limits zone
- December 24, 2005
- Israel will enforce a new off-limits zone in the Gaza Strip with artillery, helicopter and gunboat fire, its latest response to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns, defense officials said Friday.
- Official at Emporia State killed in hit-and-run accident while jogging
- December 24, 2005
- An Emporia State University official who was a regular morning jogger died Thursday in a hit-and-run accident, police said.
- Ex-coach gets 7 years for sex with young swimmer
- Assistant district attorney says relationship began when girl on team was 12
- December 24, 2005
- A man already serving a federal prison term for a sex offense has been sentenced to an additional seven years for a case involving a girl who belonged to the swimming team he coached.
- Colorado setting up funds to increase diversity
- December 24, 2005
- Buoyed by a $1 million donation from a philanthropic group, the University of Colorado on Thursday said it plans to establish a $7.5 million scholarship endowment to boost diversity.
- Voucher proposal appears unlikely to win endorsement
- December 24, 2005
- A proposal for a limited school voucher program appears unlikely to win the State Board of Education’s endorsement when the board meets again in January.
- KU beneficiary of Senate appropriation
- December 24, 2005
- The U.S. Senate has signed off on a measure containing $1.75 million for Kansas University for SensorNet, a chemical and biological agent sensor network, U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts’ office has announced.
- Hemenway invited to leadership summit
- December 24, 2005
- Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway is among a group of higher education leaders invited to attend the U.S. State Department’s University Presidents Summit next month.
- Commission takes break from meetings
- December 24, 2005
- Douglas County commissioners are taking a holiday break from their regular meetings.
- Lawmakers soon will learn cost of providing education
- School funding study anticipated just before Legislature convenes
- December 24, 2005
- State lawmakers are getting nervous about what could be a huge bill. In less than two weeks, the Legislative Division of Post-Audit is scheduled to hand over the much-anticipated school funding study.
- Fish salvage set at county lake
- December 24, 2005
- A public fish salvage will be conducted next month at Douglas County State Fishing Lake.
- Pivotal ruling
- December 24, 2005
- To the editor: I was delighted to read that a federal judge ruled today (Dec. 20) that the Dover, Pa., school board’s injection of intelligent design into science classrooms is unconstitutional because it advances a particular brand of conservative Christianity. Thus, it violates the constitutional ban on establishment of religion.
- New York back on the move after transit strike
- December 24, 2005
- Relieved New Yorkers happily hopped on subways and buses Friday and drove into the city without carpooling requirements a day after a strike of the nation’s largest mass transit system ended.
- On the record
- December 24, 2005
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- U.N. members reach budget deal
- December 24, 2005
- U.N. members agreed Friday night on a two-year budget that seriously restricts spending and applies pressure for management reform — a top priority for the United States and the European Union.
- Practical approach
- A recommendation to forgo a roundabout at 19th and Louisiana streets should draw applause from Lawrence residents.
- December 24, 2005
- Congratulations to the city’s traffic planners for rejecting the premise that roundabouts are the best solution for every problem intersection in Lawrence.
- Rapper handcuffed after sticking out tongue at judge
- December 24, 2005
- Rapper Foxy Brown was handcuffed, threatened with jail and made to apologize Friday after she opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue in the direction of a judge who asked her to stop chewing gum.
- Troop cuts suggest more reductions on the way
- December 24, 2005
- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s rationale for starting to shrink the U.S. military force in Iraq — even the setting of his announcement, in this former insurgent stronghold — suggests U.S. officials foresee more cuts in coming months.
- Police department losing pair of veteran officers
- December 24, 2005
- Two Lawrence police officers with about 60 years’ combined experience on the department will work their last shifts today.
- Most offices closed for Christmas holiday
- December 24, 2005
- Government offices and public services in Lawrence and Douglas County will be closed Monday in observance of Christmas Day.
- Commodities
- December 24, 2005
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- 13 sailors killed in attack, navy says
- December 24, 2005
- Thirteen Sri Lankan sailors were killed Friday when their convoy came under attack in the rebel-held northeastern part of the country — an incident European peace monitors fear could jeopardize Sri Lanka’s fragile cease-fire.
- Ask for drinks in highball glass to decrease alcohol
- December 24, 2005
- Here’s a new tip to help curb drinking over the holidays: Ask for your scotch-and-soda in a highball glass.
- Bin Laden’s niece says she wants acceptance in U.S.
- December 24, 2005
- Osama bin Laden’s niece, in an interview with GQ magazine in which she appears scantily clad, says she has nothing in common with the al-Qaida leader and simply wants acceptance by Americans.
- Lower house approves bill restricting groups
- December 24, 2005
- Russia’s lower house of parliament approved a controversial crackdown on the activities of nongovernmental organizations Friday, brushing aside widespread concern that the measure would stifle civil society in Russia and mark another regressive milestone in the country’s post-Soviet evolution.
- Man jailed for more than a year with no lawyer
- December 24, 2005
- A man was jailed for more than a year without ever seeing a lawyer as he waited for a repeatedly postponed court hearing, gaining release only after a cellmate told an attorney about the case.
- Best Bets
- December 24, 2005
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- 11 lawmakers expelled from India’s parliament
- December 24, 2005
- Taking a stand against corruption, India’s parliament ended its winter session Friday with a vote to expel 11 lawmakers caught taking bribes in a television station’s sting operation.
- Homeless rescued to play Santa
- December 24, 2005
- Dale Keyser: bipolar, alcoholic, homeless, jobless, estranged from his wife and children. But that’s history.
- Defining rights
- December 24, 2005
- To the editor: Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts has secured his position as George Bush’s Capitol Hill lapdog.
- Old home town - 100 years ago today
- December 24, 2005
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Dec. 24, 1905: “Once again we are on the eve of a great holiday and many, many of us have so much to be grateful about, including living in a wonderful community with such stellar people. Santa Claus should treat Lawrence generously and warmly this year.
- Piece of history
- It isn’t time to bury Boot Hill yet.
- December 24, 2005
- It’s good to hear that a piece of Kansas lore won’t go by the wayside. After being told that the struggling Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City might be forced to close its doors, Dodge City and Ford County commissioners have stepped in with $275,000 to keep the landmark afloat.
- Howie Day arrested at airport for rowdy behavior
- December 24, 2005
- Howie Day was arrested at Logan International Airport for rowdy behavior on a Boston-bound flight after he became intoxicated from a mix of alcohol and a sleeping pill.
- Judge denies bail to Canadian wanted in U.S.
- December 24, 2005
- A judge on Friday denied bail for a Canadian wanted by the United States for supplying al-Qaida with weapons, saying his alleged terrorist links make him a flight risk.
- Student accused of stabbing professor
- December 24, 2005
- A college student upset about a failing grade has been accused of following his professor home and stabbing her in the neck.
- Around and about
- December 24, 2005
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- Warrants issued for 22 purported CIA operatives
- December 24, 2005
- An Italian judge has issued European arrest warrants for 22 purported CIA operatives wanted for the alleged kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric, a prosecutor said Friday.
- Old home town - 25 years ago today
- December 24, 2005
- Surprise! About two inches of snow that dropped here Christmas Eve guaranteed the Lawrence area its first white Christmas since 1974.
- Four men arrested in explosives theft case
- December 24, 2005
- Four men, including two brothers, were taken into custody Friday by federal authorities in connection with the theft of 400 pounds of explosives from a storage depot southwest of Albuquerque.
- American Express, customers reach deal
- December 24, 2005
- A $75 million settlement has been approved between American Express Co. and thousands of cardholders who contended in a class-action lawsuit that they paid hidden transaction fees for charges made in foreign currencies.
- Plane crashes, all 23 aboard believed killed
- December 24, 2005
- An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane with 23 people aboard crashed on the Caspian Sea coast and all aboard were believed killed, a police official said early today.
- Security flashback
- December 24, 2005
- To the editor: It was a surprise today to see retired professor Grant Goodman’s picture on the front page of your newspaper.
- Lawrence Datebook
- December 24, 2005
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- ‘Idol’ finalists battle on the album charts
- December 24, 2005
- “American Idol” runner-up Bo Bice soared onto the Billboard albums chart with a robust No. 4 debut, but once again the rocker was unable to top Carrie Underwood.
- Housing market cools
- December 24, 2005
- Sales of new homes plunged in November by the largest amount in nearly 12 years, providing the most dramatic evidence yet that the red hot housing market during the past five years is starting to cool down.
- Bonus point assists ISU
- December 24, 2005
- Iowa State, mistakenly awarded an extra point midway through the second half, beat Northwestern State, 81-77, in double overtime Thursday night in the semifinals of the Rainbow Classic.
- Old home town - 40 years ago today
- December 24, 2005
- Emil Heck Jr., Jim Owens and Dr. W.F. Bradley had been voted to the interim board of education for new Lawrence School District 497 in a special election.
- Club News
- December 24, 2005
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- 4-H News
- December 24, 2005
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- People and places
- December 24, 2005
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- Cyndi Lauper to join theater company on Broadway
- December 24, 2005
- Girls just want to have fun — on Broadway.
- Italy has new fashion celebrity — Pope Benedict XVI
- December 24, 2005
- Whether it’s Prada and Gucci, or just fancy ecclesiastical tailoring, Pope Benedict XVI is his own man when it comes to dressing. Just days before Christmas, Benedict showed up at his weekly public audience in St. Peter’s Square wearing a fur-trimmed stocking cap that could have passed for a Santa Claus hat.
- A crank brings meaning on Christmas Eve
- December 24, 2005
- On a night when much programming is background noise for family gatherings or gift-wrapping, one quiet offering stands out. The British film “Mr. Harvey Lights A Candle” (7 p.m. today, BBC America) stars Timothy Spall, best known for his role as Peter Pettigrew in “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.”
- New moms need to connect
- December 24, 2005
- At a certain point after you have your first baby, after the relatives have come and gone, after dad is back at work, after your mom stops calling every day to “see how you’re doing,” the truth strikes home with all the inevitability of a soggy diaper: You have to get out of the house.
- Actor arrested in sting after allegedly trying to buy heroin
- December 24, 2005
- Brad Renfro was arrested in a sting operation after he allegedly tried to buy heroin near downtown’s Skid Row, police said.
- Ottawa University planning class on intelligent design
- December 24, 2005
- A class next semester at Ottawa University will examine intelligent design in the wake of the State Board of Education’s adoption of public school science standards that critics say promote the concept.
- Celebrity birthdays
- December 24, 2005
- “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest is 31. Songwriter-bandleader Dave Bartholomew is 85. Rock singer-musician Lemmy (Motorhead) is 60. Designer Kate Spade is 43. Singer Ricky Martin is 34.
- China dumps chemicals into river in effort to clear spill
- December 24, 2005
- China is dumping chemicals into a southern river in hopes of clearing a toxic spill that threatens water supplies to the major city of Guangzhou, the government said today.
- Pump patrol
- December 24, 2005
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.02 at Citgo, Ninth and Iowa streets. If you find a lower price, call Pump Patrol at 832-7154.
- U.S. banks try to sell themselves to immigrants sending money home
- Businesses working to cash in on $45 billion industry
- December 24, 2005
- U.S. banks have raced to join the remittance industry in recent years, seeking a share of the billions of dollars immigrants send to their native countries, especially around the holiday season.
- Retailers depending on last-minute shoppers
- Lack of must-have items, calendar deter consumers
- December 24, 2005
- Retailers can blame the calendar. They can blame the weather. They can even try to blame New York City’s transit strike. But, in the end, the 2005 shopping season may just be another case of merchants not giving shoppers what they really want — must-have items at reasonable prices.
- Mormons honor anniversary of church founder’s birth
- December 24, 2005
- Faithful Mormons on Friday celebrated the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of the fastest-growing religions in the world.
- Carter debates like Southern gentleman
- December 24, 2005
- Jimmy Carter is the kind of Democrat most people think no longer exists: an evangelical Christian, a white male from a “red” state (Georgia) and a military man whose Annapolis days are among his proudest.
- Charity drive far behind
- Red Kettle campaign lags last year by $40K
- December 24, 2005
- The red kettles are running short of green. W-a-a-a-y short. “Last year at this time, we’d collected about $89,000,” said Wes Dalberg, co-administrator at The Salvation Army, 946 N.H. “This year, we’re at $49,000.”
- Chiefs face elimination game with Chargers
- K.C. must win final two contests, then hope for help to reach playoffs
- December 24, 2005
- If anybody knows how to win in Arrowhead Stadium in December, it’s Donnie Edwards. Before he was a standout linebacker for Marty Schottenheimer’s San Diego Chargers, he was a standout linebacker for Marty Schottenheimer’s Kansas City Chiefs.
- This time, Carter makes sure
- Nets standout scores 51 in victory over Heat
- December 24, 2005
- The last time he played in Miami, Vince Carter insisted he was fouled when his potential game-winning layup was swatted away at the buzzer. So Friday, he ensured the game was decided long before the final second.
- New-look Damon gets shave, haircut
- Yankees finalize $52 million contract with center fielder
- December 24, 2005
- Having gone for his Yankee clipping, Johnny Damon appeared with his hair trimmed and beard shorn to inherit the job made famous by the Yankee Clipper.
- Free speech
- December 24, 2005
- To the editor: Does anyone ask why so much “freedom of speech” is given to Fred Phelps while “freedom of speech” is denied to Paul Mirecki?
- Accepted government key to Iraq future
- December 24, 2005
- The key to an American exit from Iraq is not the number of Iraqi troops and police that we have trained. It is the formation of an Iraqi government that Iraqis of all communities accept as a legitimate expression of their will.
- Presents may ease memories of past
- Vietnamese priest hopes Christmas new beginning for Katrina refugees
- December 24, 2005
- Four-year-old Elaina Le and her grandmother clung to a rooftop for 19 hours after Hurricane Katrina hit Biloxi, Miss. The memory of those rising waters still haunts the little girl’s dreams.
- KU announces new Liberal Arts dean
- Joseph Steinmetz has spent nearly 20 years at Indiana University
- December 24, 2005
- After nearly two decades at Indiana University-Bloomington, Joseph Steinmetz is coming to Kansas University, where on July 1 he will take over as the new dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, KU’s largest school.
- Court disqualifies Sunni candidates
- December 24, 2005
- An Iraqi court has ruled that some of the most prominent Sunni Muslims who were elected to parliament last week won’t be allowed to serve because officials suspect that they were high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party.
- Shiites willing to discuss coalition with Sunni Arabs
- December 24, 2005
- Iraq’s leading Shiite religious bloc said Friday it is ready to discuss Sunni Arab participation in a coalition government, while thousands of Sunnis and some secular Shiites demonstrated in the streets claiming election fraud.
- Sacred centerpiece
- Heirloom Nativity sets carry extra meaning for families
- December 24, 2005
- The floor at Brooke Waters’ house looked like part Bethlehem, part craft project. She and her 10-year-old daughter, Nicole Symons, were making a Nativity set out of pipe cleaners and yarn — with an occasional cotton ball or sequin.
- Some evacuees still desperate
- December 24, 2005
- It is Christmas, three months after the storms. And it is so easy to forget those who fled. But it is not easy for those who escaped Hurricane Katrina’s wrath to sit and watch life going on like a show around them.
- Deal would be record for city
- For proposed $58M overhaul, Berry Plastics wants historic tax break
- December 24, 2005
- Berry Plastics Corp. is prepared to make the largest industrial investment in Lawrence history — provided it also receives the largest tax break ever sought from the city.
- Cougars impressed by Kansas
- December 24, 2005
- The thing that truly shocked Houston coach Art Briles about Friday night's Forth Worth Bowl was the final score.
- Health department keeps ahead of flu-shot demand
- December 24, 2005
- The state provided extra seasonal flu vaccine doses to 19 county health departments this month, but Douglas County didn’t need a booster; health officials here say they still have plenty.
- Holiday brings light trading
- Factory-order increase does little to entice investors to markets
- December 24, 2005
- Stocks barely moved Friday, even though durable goods orders jumped by the largest amount in six months.
- Hawaii Bowl reward for CFU’s turnaround
- Golden Knights went from 0-11 to 8-4
- December 24, 2005
- Central Florida made one long trip to get to the Hawaii Bowl, and it had nothing to do with the 11-hour flight.
- Senator: Bush’s spying raises concerns
- Brownback disagrees with legal rationale
- December 24, 2005
- U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., on Friday said the Bush administration needed to answer questions about spying on Americans without court authorization.
- Campbell’s five-TD performance powers Navy in Poinsettia
- December 24, 2005
- Only four players have scored five touchdowns in a bowl game, and two of them did it in San Diego.
- Farming funds divide siblings
- December 24, 2005
- I am the youngest of three children. We range in age from 60 to 44. I have lived next door to my parents in a house we built on their property since I graduated from high school.
- Mayor says it’s time for nonsense
- Highberger’s proclamation will celebrate Dadaism
- December 24, 2005
- Lawrence residents, pay heed to what your mayor has to say — “zimzim urallala zimzim urallala zimzim zanzibar zimzalla zam.” No, really.
- UConn sets arena scoring record
- December 24, 2005
- Rashad Anderson hit all seven of his three-pointers and scored a career-high 33 points to lead No. 2 Connecticut to a 129-61 victory over Morehead State on Friday.
- Punt return key
- Murph muffed TD
- December 24, 2005
- What's so fun about a traditional punt return, anyway? Brian Murph apparently wanted his rare crack at returning a punt to be interesting. So he muffed it.
- Colts attempt to focus on football
- December 24, 2005
- The Indianapolis Colts got back to concentrating on football Friday.
- Society Calendar
- December 24, 2005
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- Scouting News
- December 24, 2005
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- Simons: Small, focused group is key to city’s long-range planning
- December 24, 2005
- Fortunately, a number of Lawrence residents seem to be waking up to the realization the city needs to do a far better job of planning for the future.
- Faith forum
- December 24, 2005
- What is your favorite part of the Christmas story?
- Horoscopes
- December 24, 2005
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- Merry Quiz-Mas
- Sure, you know all the traditional lyrics … but how are you at holiday history?
- December 24, 2005
- How about this for irony: Composer Leroy Anderson wrote the Christmas classic “Sleigh Ride” during the middle of a heat wave. The song “Russian Christmas Music,” meanwhile, was actually written by an American after the Allied invasion of France, for a concert promoting Russian-American unity.
- Keillor: There’s too little to talk about on Christmas Day
- December 24, 2005
- The best part of Christmas is just before it starts, when all the preparations are done or it’s too late to worry about them, and after you run a vacuum around the living room you can sit down and close your eyes and let old Christmases come winging back from the Olden Days of Yore, before credit cards, when parents were cautious about lavishing money on children for fear of spoiling them rotten.
- Senator discusses presidential aspirations, bioethics issues
- December 24, 2005
- U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., said he will continue to test the presidential waters and seek bans on human cloning and so-called chimeras.
- Holiday overlap challenges many interfaith families
- December 24, 2005
- This Christmas, Gerry and Rachael Coakley plan to spend the day with his parents. They’ll attend Roman Catholic Mass, open presents around his folks’ tree and join them for Christmas dinner.
- Student reaches $440,000 settlement in sex harassment case
- December 24, 2005
- The Tonganoxie school district’s insurance company ended a 19-month legal battle, agreeing to pay $440,000 to a former student who sued after persistent bullying and harassment from classmates prompted him to drop out of school.
- A magical visitor for Jewish children
- December 24, 2005
- The story starts in 1981 when Danny Bloom, thirtysomething and working in public relations at a community college in Alaska, decided he wanted to pen a holiday story he thought Jewish children could relate to.
- Alito defended government’s right to order domestic wiretaps
- December 24, 2005
- Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito defended the right of government officials to order domestic wiretaps for national security when he worked at the Reagan Justice Department, an echo of President Bush’s rationale for spying on U.S. residents in the war on terror.
- Commentary: Cougars have long way to go
- December 24, 2005
- The University of Houston is again at a football crossroads. Yes, another one. Seems like only yesterday we were having this same discussion regarding Dana Dimel. Or was it Kim Helton? Or John Jenkins?
- Booster excited by Jackson’s return
- KU grad Davis tries to set record straight about relationship with player
- December 24, 2005
- A man who normally falls into a deep sleep the moment his head hits the pillow found himself tossing and turning all Thursday night into the wee hours Friday morning.
- Keegan: Kansas’ Keith proves toughness
- December 24, 2005
- Of all the rotten luck. Kansas University had a chance to nail down its first winning record in 10 football seasons, and one of its two most valuable players was slammed by illness in the days leading up to the game.
- Jayhawks worthy
- KU dismantles UH, gets winning record
- December 24, 2005
- Former Kansas University football coach Glen Mason huddled his players together after the 1991 season finale and declared his Jayhawks “winners” in front of a tearful locker room that had been through so much.
- Kansas football notebook
- December 24, 2005
- Kansas University finished the season 7-5, the first time the Jayhawks had a winning record since 1995. Glen Mason led that team to a 10-2 mark and Aloha Bowl victory. Friday's win also was the first bowl victory since '95.
- How they scored
- December 24, 2005
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