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- House panel reduces governor’s funding for state employees, higher ed
- March 11, 2005
- (Updated Friday at 1:37 p.m.) State employees and higher education took a hit today in the House budget-writing committee. The Appropriations panel recommended delaying Gov. Kathleen Sebelius proposed 2.5 percent payraise for state workers from July 1 until March 12, 2006.
- Murray’s attorneys finish defense
- March 11, 2005
- (Updated Friday at 12:15 p.m.) The defense rests. Attorneys for Thomas E. Murray, a Kansas State University professor charged with killing his ex-wife, wrapped up the defense part of the murder trial this morning in Douglas County District Court.
- Mandy Patinkin to speak at KU
- March 11, 2005
- (Updated Friday at 11:07 a.m.) Actor and Kansas University alumnus Mandy Patinkin will return to his alma mater next month for a benefit for the theater and film department, the university announced today.
- Another breezy afternoon ahead
- March 11, 2005
- (Updated Friday at 8:02 a.m.) If you’re into kite flying, you’ll find it easy to catch a breeze today — Lawrence is expected to have steady northwest winds 20 to 30 mph by noon, with some gusts up to 40 mph this afternoon
- Horoscopes
- March 11, 2005
- DNA links suicide victim to killings of judge’s family
- March 11, 2005
- A day after Bart Ross shot himself during a traffic stop outside Milwaukee, police said DNA tests had definitively tied him to the murders of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow’s husband and mother.
- A.G. says he regrets private meetings
- March 11, 2005
- Atty. Gen. Phill Kline acknowledged regret Thursday about private meetings with Board of Education members, but he continued to defend them as legal and said such gatherings were common in state government.
- Eagles bow out in first round
- Samsel’s torrid shooting not enough for Wellsville
- March 11, 2005
- Wellsville High’s boys basketball fans stood in awe Thursday at the Hutchinson Sports Arena. Heck, even top-ranked Minneapolis’ faithful had to be weary of what was transpiring during the first game of the Class 3A state tournament.
- W. Virginia shocks BC
- Eagles fall in Big East tournament
- March 11, 2005
- West Virginia made sure Boston College’s last appearance in the Big East tournament was brief. Mike Gansey scored 21 points, and West Virginia hung on to beat No. 7 Boston College, 78-72, in the quarterfinals Thursday, ruining the Eagles’ bid for a final conference championship.
- Area briefs
- March 11, 2005
- ¢ Soldiers’ families invited to meet with Rep. Moore ¢ MidAmerica Nazarene names new president ¢ Comic strip pays tribute to Hunter S. Thompson ¢ Senate passes bill limiting lawsuits
- Defense expected to finish today
- Neighbors testify about activity near Ross’ home
- March 11, 2005
- A Kansas State University professor charged with killing his ex-wife wasn’t in immediate danger of losing a child-custody battle, an attorney testified Thursday.
- For retiring Central Junior High principal ‘It ain’t over till it’s over’
- March 11, 2005
- When most people think of Danny Manning, they think of a Kansas University basketball legend. To Ted Juneau, he’s just a kid he used to coach.
- Take a joke
- Could the Missouri police chief be accused of overreacting just a bit to a Jayhawk jibe?
- March 11, 2005
- Former Kansas University football coach Don Fambrough was noted for pep talks to his Jayhawks, particularly when they were approaching another contest against archrival Missouri.
- Wrong civil rights pulpit
- March 11, 2005
- In contemporary American politics, as in earlier forms of vaudeville, it helps to have had an easy act to follow. Gerald Reynolds certainly did. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ new chairman follows Mary Frances Berry, whose seedy career — 24 years on the commission, 11 of them as chairman — mixed tawdry peculation, boorish behavior and absurd rhetoric.
- Is Mideast optimism justified?
- March 11, 2005
- President Bush’s speech to the National Defense University in Virginia Tuesday was a first-rate definition of what freedom means to the West. The larger question is: Does it mean the same thing to the Islamic fascists in the Middle East and other parts of the world?
- Star-spangled campaign aims to increase lyric awareness
- March 11, 2005
- “Oh say can you” remember the rest of the words? A lot of Americans can’t, so there’s a national effort under way to get people to learn the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
- House passes $284 billion highway, mass transit bill
- March 11, 2005
- The House approved a mammoth highway and transit bill Thursday that aims to reduce traffic congestion nationwide and bring jobs to every lawmaker’s home district.
- Correction
- March 11, 2005
- This Weekend’s Highlights
- March 11, 2005
- Calendar
- March 11, 2005
- Kansas high school basketball scores from March 10
- March 11, 2005
- Wasted money
- March 11, 2005
- Sauer-Danfoss gains mower work
- Lawrence plant to add 30 jobs
- March 11, 2005
- A growing market for large lawn mowers is powering plans for new production lines — and 30 new jobs — at a plant in the East Hills Business Park. Sauer-Danfoss Co. is adding four production lines at its plant in southeast Lawrence, expanding the company’s ability to make motors typically used to power professional-grade mowers — the kind used by golf course crews, professional landscapers and owners of homes with large yards.
- ‘Robots’ built with second-hand parts
- March 11, 2005
- Robin Williams’ appearance at the Academy Awards really punctuated just how tired the comedian’s routine has become. He delivered the same pop-culture references, the same gaggle of impressions, the same manic asides that he’s been milking for decades. It was dated and unfunny, especially when compared to host Chris Rock’s superior material.
- Jail to expand to accommodate more inmates
- 5-year-old, $25M facility to be reconfigured for more flexibility
- March 11, 2005
- Five years after it opened, the Douglas County Jail will be expanded slightly to handle a growing inmate population. Douglas County commissioners this week unanimously approved hiring Lawrence-based BA Green Construction Co. Inc. to build an addition to the jail.
- Jackson accuser testifies about alleged molestation
- March 11, 2005
- Michael Jackson went AWOL from his trial Thursday and was nearly jailed before he finally showed up more than an hour late, in his pajama bottoms and slippers, to listen as his accuser described his alleged molestation in graphic detail.
- Briefly - World
- March 11, 2005
- ¢ Annan seeks global terrorism treaty ¢ Government pushes for anti-terrorism law ¢ Islamic judge next to lead Chechen rebels ¢ Pope aims for release by Palm Sunday ¢ Rice vows cooperation on border issues ¢ Ex-prime minister faces war crime charges ¢ Judge orders probe of Concorde crash
- Wood sent home for shoulder tests
- March 11, 2005
- While Cubs ace Kerry Wood headed back to Chicago for tests on his right shoulder, teammate Mark Prior made his first start of spring training.
- City hoops coaches reflect on state run
- March 11, 2005
- Wednesday may have been a bummer for the city high school boys basketball teams, but the sun came up Thursday morning. “And however many people live in China don’t care that we lost,” Free State High coach Jack Schreiner good-naturedly said.
- Local briefs
- March 11, 2005
- ¢ Ex-Ecuador president to speak at KU today ¢ Clerk foils robbery ¢ KDOT to finance access to subdivision ¢ Arrest made in string of auto burglaries ¢ State Democrats honor former county leader ¢ Vinland goes whole-hog with pancake supper ¢ Police to increase traffic enforcement in city ¢ Nominations sought for teacher of year
- Best Bets
- March 11, 2005
- Best Bets
- March 11, 2005
- Commodities
- March 11, 2005
- ‘Slum’ exists
- March 11, 2005
- Respect families
- March 11, 2005
- Model democracy
- March 11, 2005
- Kline defense
- March 11, 2005
- Microsoft founder remains the richest
- Number of billionaires hits record 691
- March 11, 2005
- Thanks to a surge in demand for steel, the Internet and Scandinavian sofas, there are some new names among the very richest of the world’s billionaires.
- Japan resisting U.S. pressure to lift beef import ban
- Decision awaits ruling from Food Safety Commission
- March 11, 2005
- Japan will resist growing U.S. pressure to immediately lift a ban on American beef imports and will take time to make a careful decision on the matter, the top government spokesman said Thursday.
- Drop in oil prices eases inflation concerns
- March 11, 2005
- Conflicting signals on inflation kept stocks mixed Thursday as investors abandoned riskier stocks and moved to safer blue-chip companies. A sharp drop in oil prices helped limit Wall Street’s losses.
- Briefcase
- March 11, 2005
- ¢ Auto Exchange adding lots, shop in Lawrence ¢ Sprint calls upon Vitale’s hoops hysteria ¢ 30-year rates reach seven-month high
- Lebanon’s ousted prime minister returns to post
- Opposition leader criticizes ‘laughable’ reappointment of pro-Syrian premier
- March 11, 2005
- The Lebanese prime minister who was forced to resign by a wave of popular opposition was returned to his post Thursday, riding a counterwave of this week’s huge pro-Syrian demonstration.
- Hong Kong’s leader resigns
- Chief executive denies China forced him out
- March 11, 2005
- Hong Kong’s leader said he tendered his resignation Thursday because of failing health and repeatedly denied speculation China pushed him out in a bid to tighten its grip on the former British colony and halt a movement toward greater democracy.
- Philippine villagers mourn 27 young victims of poisoning
- March 11, 2005
- Weeping relatives watched as the coffins of some of the 27 schoolchildren who died after eating improperly prepared cassava root were lined up for burial at a Roman Catholic chapel in the central Philippines.
- Government acknowledges scientist provided nuclear centrifuges to Iran
- March 11, 2005
- After years of denials, Pakistan admitted Thursday that its top nuclear scientist sold crucial equipment to Iran, but said it knew nothing of his activities when they occurred and insisted he will not be turned over to another country for prosecution.
- Rhyme and reason
- Wordsmith Saul Williams puts a musical beat to his political activism
- March 11, 2005
- As an 18-year-old college student, budding poet Saul Williams took an internship on Capitol Hill. His days were confined to menial tasks such as making copies for Sen. David Pryor of Arkansas.
- Ex-punk Billy Idol back with curled lip intact
- March 11, 2005
- He may be staring down the barrel of his 50th birthday, but that hasn’t put a crimp in Billy Idol’s ability to leer. Ask the famously randy star about his gig at next week’s high-profile South by Southwest festival, and he says, with a snicker, “I’ll be playing onstage with those lovely girls The Donnas, so they’re fair game.”
- Take-no-prisoners excess wrecks ‘Hostage’ flick
- March 11, 2005
- Redemption has a heaping-huge body count in Bruce Willis’ “Hostage,” whose passable opening and middle chapters promise a decent action thriller before all credibility is destroyed by the take-no-prisoners excess of the final act.
- Lawrence Children’s Choir concert to preview spring tour of Germany
- March 11, 2005
- In late May, 67 children will relinquish a few days of summer vacation to perform abroad. The young vocalists of the Lawrence Children’s Choir have been invited to perform in Eutin, Germany, as part of the Lawrence Sister Cities program.
- Clinton follow-up surgery successful
- March 11, 2005
- Surgeons successfully removed fluid and scar tissue from former President Clinton’s chest cavity Thursday, cleaning up complications from his heart bypass operation of six months ago.
- Briefly - Nation
- March 11, 2005
- ¢ Apartment fire kills 11 family members ¢ EPA orders tougher smog, soot reductions ¢ Ruling blocks agency from Schiavo case ¢ Suit dismissed against Agent Orange makers ¢ Neanderthal skeleton reveals bigger waistline ¢ Hughes set to rejoin White House staff ¢ Study: Exercise helps reduce Alzheimer’s ¢ Ex-detectives arrested on Mafia charges ¢ Gene mutation linked to blinding illness
- Man convicted of threatening police officer with swords
- March 11, 2005
- A Lawrence man was found guilty Thursday of threatening a police officer by waving a 4-foot sword during a 2004 incident, and the judge said police used “great restraint” in not shooting the man.
- Senior Meals needs helpers
- March 11, 2005
- More volunteers are needed to meet the growing demand for meal deliveries to Douglas County senior citizens.
- Market renews push to relocate on Saturdays
- March 11, 2005
- Lovers of fresh fruit and vegetables may need to change their Saturday morning plans in 2006. Organizers of the Lawrence Farmers Market have renewed a push to move to New Hampshire Street to provide more customer parking and more vendor space for the growing market.
- U.S. Justice visits Lawrence
- Second woman on court recalls fight for equality
- March 11, 2005
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg remembers taking classes in a Harvard University law school building that didn’t have a women’s restroom. With only nine women in her class of more than 500, there didn’t appear to be much need.
- Court lifts abortion gag order; Kline irate
- Atty. Gen.: Granting clinics’ request could harm rape victims
- March 11, 2005
- The Kansas Supreme Court has lifted a gag order covering Atty. Gen. Phill Kline’s pursuit of records from two abortion clinics, and Kline said Thursday the decision could harm child rape victims.
- Campaign aims to defeat gay marriage amendment
- Statewide network gathering forces for April 5 election
- March 11, 2005
- Calling it a “David versus Goliath” effort, a new group on Thursday announced its statewide campaign to defeat the proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. “We’re obviously a new organization that doesn’t have a lot of time to get its feet under it,” said Bradley Kemp, of Lawrence, a spokesman for Kansans for Fairness.
- Capitol Briefing
- March 11, 2005
- K.C. board rejects plan to shut down 12 schools
- District facing $20 million shortfall
- March 11, 2005
- On a unanimous vote, the Kansas City school board rejected Supt. Bernard Taylor’s plan to consolidate, relocate or close a dozen schools to make up for a budget shortfall caused by the flight of thousands of students to charter schools.
- Palestinian gunmen disrupt meeting
- March 11, 2005
- Masked Palestinian gunmen burst into a meeting of the ruling Fatah Party on Thursday, shooting into the air and forcing participants to disperse in a brazen challenge to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
- O’Neal nets 33, propels Heat
- Timberwolves’ fouling strategy fails in 107-90 loss
- March 11, 2005
- When Minnesota went to the Hack-a-Shaq technique in the fourth quarter, Shaquille O’Neal turned toward Timberwolves coach Kevin McHale and shouted, “It don’t work.”
- Royals trip Milwaukee; Brewers’ Sheets sharp
- March 11, 2005
- Ben Sheets took a big step forward in his slow recovery from offseason back surgery.
- Senate approves bankruptcy changes
- March 11, 2005
- In a victory for President Bush and credit-card companies, the Senate approved a controversial bill Thursday that would force more Americans filing for bankruptcy to pay back a portion of their debt.
- Pentagon report clears top officials in prison abuse
- March 11, 2005
- A Pentagon report Thursday cleared top civilian and military officials in the abuse of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay, but its conclusion drew a critical response from some senators who questioned the report’s scope and objectivity.
- Iran may get economic incentives to drop nuclear program
- March 11, 2005
- President Bush has decided to offer modest economic incentives to Iran in exchange for Tehran’s abandoning its nuclear enrichment program, two senior administration officials said Thursday.
- Poet to use Cola-Cola grant against company
- Funds given to bring Espada to KU will go to union in Colombia
- March 11, 2005
- The Coca-Cola Co. provided $1,200 to bring poet Martin Espada to Kansas University on Thursday. Chances are, they’ll be seeing the effects of that money in the near future.
- Lawrence Datebook
- March 11, 2005
- On the record
- March 11, 2005
- BTK suspect’s hearing postponed
- March 11, 2005
- As expected, a judge Thursday postponed the scheduled preliminary hearing for Dennis Rader, the Park City man authorities say is the BTK serial killer.
- R. Marceil Ferguson, Topeka
- March 11, 2005
- Erma M. Paden, Fairview, Mo.
- March 11, 2005
- Defense helps Tongie roll past Royal Valley
- March 11, 2005
- Tonganoxie High’s girls basketball squad played its first state-tournament game since 1998 on Thursday night, but the Chieftains acted like it was old hat.
- Good grief! No Keith
- Self: Langford won’t play today in Big 12 tournament
- March 11, 2005
- Today, for the first time in four full seasons, Kansas University will try to win a basketball game without Keith Langford. Langford, who has started every game KU has played the past three years and averaged 20 minutes in 37 games as a freshman reserve, has not practiced this week because of a badly bruised left ankle.
- Wood: In search of spring answers
- March 11, 2005
- Kansas University’s football team will have an intriguing spring. A program on the up-and-up, KU returns many of its impact players. But question marks still are leaking out of Memorial Stadium.
- Massey steps up late as ‘Cats upend Aggies
- March 11, 2005
- Jeremiah Massey did not just want the ball. He insisted upon it. Fueling a key surge in the second half, Kansas State’s senior leader wound up with 18 points Thursday and led the Wildcats to a 68-62 victory over Texas A&M in the first round of the Big 12 Conference tournament.
- Favre to play at least one more year
- Green Bay quarterback cites wife’s improving health
- March 11, 2005
- Brett Favre is returning to Green Bay for the 2005 season, Packers coach Mike Sherman told the Associated Press.
- Kansas softball glad to be home
- KU to tangle with Louisville, SMS starting today at Arrocha
- March 11, 2005
- Kansas University’s softball players finally can leave their suitcases in the closet. After playing their first 18 games on the road, the Jayhawks will make their home debut this weekend in a three-team tournament at Arrocha Ballpark.
- Jayhawks to start series with NDSU
- March 11, 2005
- Kansas University’s baseball team, still a couple of weeks away from Big 12 Conference competition, will entertain winless North Dakota State in a three-game weekend series.
- Henrickson recipient of WBCA Eckman Award
- March 11, 2005
- Kansas University women’s basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson has been named the 2005 recipient of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s Carol Eckman Award.
- Moody inspires fans, teammates
- Walk-on’s attitude as positive as his play this season
- March 11, 2005
- Quick, name the greatest walk-on player in the history of college basketball. If you ask CBS analyst Billy Packer, it’s Kansas University junior Christian Moody — college basketball’s “Rudy.” And Packer made sure the rest of the nation heard it Jan. 9 during the Jayhawks’ game at Kentucky.
- Simien tapped All-America by USBWA
- March 11, 2005
- Kansas University senior Wayne Simien has been named first-team All-America by the United States Basketball Writers Assn.
- Baylor, KSU each prevail
- March 11, 2005
- Chelsea Whitaker’s layup with 2.1 seconds to go lifted top-seeded Baylor over Texas Tech, 58-57, Thursday night in the semifinals of the Big 12 Conference tournament.
- Kleiza, Tigers hold off Huskers
- March 11, 2005
- Once he finally started scoring, Linas Kleiza didn’t want to stop. Held scoreless for almost 17 minutes of the first half, Missouri’s 6-foot-8 junior broke out for 26 points Thursday, leading the Tigers past Nebraska, 70-67, in the first round of the Big 12 Conference tournament.
- Highlights from the Kansas Legislature
- March 11, 2005
- Committee puts ‘Lew Perkins’ bill on fast track
- March 11, 2005
- Full disclosure of any public employee’s total compensation would be assured under legislation put on the fast track to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius by a House committee.
- People
- March 11, 2005
- ¢ Final ‘Star Wars’ film likely to get PG-13 rating ¢ Florida State uncovers early film of student Morrison ¢ Grisham moves from fiction to fact with new thriller ¢ Birthdays
- Suicide bomber’s attack kills 47 at Shiite funeral
- March 11, 2005
- A suicide attacker set off a bomb Thursday that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners, splattering blood and body parts over rows of overturned white plastic chairs.
- ‘American Idol’ viewers select 12 semifinalists
- Record contract at stake
- March 11, 2005
- The 12 “American Idol” semifinalists picked by television viewers include a Ukrainian-born college student, a martial arts black belt holder and a bartender-waitress.
- What a wonderful world, in color, on Disney
- March 11, 2005
- While not without some earnest sermonizing, the Disney Channel kids’ movie “Buffalo Dreams” (7 p.m., Disney) combines a nice little story with gorgeous scenery of the American West.
- Bipartisan effort aims to close 527 loophole
- March 11, 2005
- When compiling a list of genuine reformers in the U.S. Senate, a name that does not spring automatically to mind is that of Trent Lott of Mississippi. But the Republican former majority leader has seized the role and is driving hard to end the worst abuses of the last presidential campaign.
- 6Sports video: Eudora basketball coach to resign
- March 11, 2005
- Eudora High is looking for a new basketball coach after coach Scott Stein handed in his resignation earlier this week. Stein has been coaching at Eudora High for four years.
- 6Sports video: Second half domination led to LHS loss
- March 11, 2005
- Although Lawrence High trailed by 13 points heading into the third quarter, the Lions just couldn’t keep up with Wichita East, which unleashed a 12-0 run just two minutes into the second half of Wednesday’s game.
- 6Sports video: Tonganoxie advances to 4A
- March 11, 2005
- Tonganoxie defeated Hoyt Royal Valley, 55-29, in the first round of the Class 4A state tourney at the Bicentennial Center.
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