Also from October 11
Births
Obituaries
- Edith Alma French, Warsaw, Mo.
- Celestia Mae Howard, Colorado Springs, Colo.
- Emma Lee Dover, Wichita
- James G. Skinner, Eudora
- Dalford D. Beisel, Salina
- James Lee “Jim” Hoertsch, Lawrence
- Beth E. Myers, Topeka
- E. Geneva German, Baldwin
- Glen R. Stockstill Sr., Baldwin
- Jacob H. Weber, Eudora
- Sharon Kay Raybern, Eudora
On the street
Photos
All stories
- Corkins formally hired; paid consultant off the table
- October 11, 2005
- It’s official.
- 20-year-old arrested in deadly Boardwalk fire
- 09:36 a.m., October 11, 2005 Updated 03:54 p.m.
- Lawrence Police said this morning they had made an arrest in Friday morning’s deadly fire at Boardwalk Apartments in the 500 block of Fireside Drive.
- Slight chance for showers today
- October 11, 2005
- A band of showers was slowly creeping across central Kansas this morning, bringing a slight chance for some showers later today in the Lawrence area.
- Attorney Pedro Irigonegaray visits ‘Jayni’s Kitchen’ for Cuban cooking
- October 11, 2005
- Join “Jayni’s Kitchen” this week for “A Case for Cuban Cooking,” with Topeka attorney Pedro Irigonegaray.
- Horoscopes
- October 11, 2005
- Sign code pops car lot promotions
- October 11, 2005
- Balloons - a mainstay of birthday parties and cookie-and-punch celebrations the world over - aren’t so innocent after all. At least not in Lawrence.
- Unused Cards bide their time
- Suppan, Marquis haven’t pitched in postseason
- October 11, 2005
- Jeff Suppan spends no time fretting about when he’ll pitch next. The same goes for Jason Marquis.
- Power outage derails Yankees
- Rodriguez, Sheffield, Matsui punchless in playoffs
- October 11, 2005
- When the Yankees needed pop from Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield and Hideki Matsui, they mostly got popups and grounders. For the second year in a row, New York’s power went out in the playoffs.
- White Sox rested, ready for weary Angels
- October 11, 2005
- The well-rested White Sox sure appear to have an edge over Los Angeles when the travel-weary Angels arrive in Chicago to play for the American League pennant.
- Heavy rains claim at least 10 lives
- October 11, 2005
- Residents assessed the damage wrought by the weekend’s deadly floods across the Northeast, but the swollen rivers barely had a chance to recede Monday as more rain was forecast.
- It’s been done, but … coaches not sold on moving home games
- October 11, 2005
- Moving a Big 12 Conference home football game to a neutral site, as Kansas University is doing Saturday against Oklahoma, won’t be a conference-wide craze anytime soon.
- Democrats needs to reshape message, Iowa governor says
- October 11, 2005
- There is no house quite like this one in Des Moines, or maybe anywhere else. It’s known as the “palace of the prairie,” a mansion sitting regally on a pleasant little hill, full of the dark wood, red carpeting and stained glass of Victorian excess.
- Recoveries account for all missing
- Family, friends identify three victims
- October 11, 2005
- The search for bodies is over, with grim results. Now the investigation into the cause of Friday’s deadly apartment fire in west Lawrence begins in earnest.
- Mistake leads to 29-cent premium gas
- October 11, 2005
- For 30 to 45 minutes, three of the four pumps at a Kabredlo’s Convenience Store sold premium unleaded gas for 29 cents a gallon - a price that hasn’t been seen since 1955, according to AAA Nebraska.
- Martha Stewart producer fills in during pumpkin race
- October 11, 2005
- Bad weather derailed Martha Stewart’s plans to ride in a giant pumpkin on a Canadian lake.
- ‘Wallace and Gromit’ props destroyed in fire
- October 11, 2005
- A day of celebration has turned to ashes for Aardman Animations, the English studio that created animated clay movie stars Wallace and Gromit.
- Former Moon Bar building, land for sale
- Site of stabbing marketed for possible offices, apartments
- October 11, 2005
- The scene of an altercation that left several people stabbed and helped send a one-time Kansas University basketball star off campus is up for sale. List price: $1.249 million.
- Tortured monk urges compassion
- October 11, 2005
- Palden Gyatso has experienced horrors most people can’t even imagine. As a political prisoner held by the Chinese government for 33 years, he was beaten, shocked with electric cattle prods, suspended from a ceiling above a burning fire, starved and forced into labor.
- Darn good books
- Some children’s titles make entertaining reads no matter the time of year
- October 11, 2005
- Children’s books often are published with a purpose in mind. Maybe they’re for an upcoming holiday or to help ease kids into a new school or neighborhood. Other books have an obvious moral message.
- LHS gets 2 berths to state
- October 11, 2005
- After finishing her round of 97 Monday, Lawrence High’s Jamie Shmalberg sat at a picnic table outside the clubhouse at Cypress Ridge Golf Course with troubles on her mind.
- Free State qualifies 2 pairs
- Koch-Luina, Guard-Loewen headed to state tennis
- October 11, 2005
- After 2 hours and 51 minutes, it still didn’t seem like it was over. Free State’s Meghan Bock walked slowly to coach Jon Renberger, pulling up her shirt to cover the tears.
- Musical mirth
- Bringing out child in everyone goal for ex-rocker
- October 11, 2005
- What do you get when you mix a dollop of folk music, a dash of rap, several cups of rock ‘n’ roll and a room full of kids? A dance party with Dan Zanes and Friends, and that’s precisely the recipe that was served up to an enthusiastic Lied Center crowd Saturday morning.
- Lied Center announces exhibit, performances
- October 11, 2005
- “Conflict and Creativity: A Look at Israel and China,” will be on display in the Lied Center lobby until Oct. 24, with other events complementing the series.
- Schools to compete in Baker band festival
- October 11, 2005
- Five area high schools will compete in the seventh annual Baker University Marching Band Festival at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Liston Stadium on the Baker campus.
- Disney seeking Teacher of the Year nominations
- October 11, 2005
- Teachers in public and private schools can be nominated until Saturday for a Disney Teacher Award.
- Kansas Girl Scouts win national contest
- October 11, 2005
- Two Topekans and a Lawrence student have placed in the Real Girls, Real Women contest sponsored by Girl Scouts of America.
- In the halls
- October 11, 2005
- What do you like most about fall?
- Double Take: Minimizing child’s grief an insensitive mistake
- October 11, 2005
- This week, I’d like to discuss a topic that gets too little attention: how parents can approach and console a child when they are feeling real grief and pain. The teenage years are stereotypically dramatic and difficult. Any parent who has a teen, or has had one, knows that sometimes it seems the action and tragedy never stop.
- Equations and grooves on PBS ‘doc’ night
- October 11, 2005
- With the possible exception of the “secret” formula for Coca-Cola, no scientific breakthrough or mathematical equation has had the impact of Einstein’s formulation Emc2.
- Best Bets
- October 11, 2005
- Author translates bankruptcy process
- October 11, 2005
- If you’re overwhelmingly in debt, you are not alone. If you’re screening every telephone call to avoid dealing with your creditors, you are not alone.
- Sprint Nextel faces strike in local unit
- October 11, 2005
- Nearly 1,000 Communications Workers of America members working at Sprint Nextel Corp. went on strike Monday, protesting the company’s calls for benefits cuts in its local telephone operations.
- Lincoln National to buy Jefferson-Pilot
- October 11, 2005
- Lincoln National Corp. said Monday it would acquire rival Jefferson-Pilot Corp. for about $7.5 billion in cash and stock, as the two century-old companies create what executives said would be one of the largest publicly traded life insurance companies in the U.S.
- Toyota, Honda, GM satisfy in survey
- October 11, 2005
- Toyota Motor Corp.’s youthful Scion brand led the Japanese automaker to more segment victories than any other car company in a survey of buyer satisfaction.
- Commodities
- October 11, 2005
- Safety lesson
- October 11, 2005
- To the editor: Having spent over a decade driving 50 to 125 miles a day in and around Lawrence, I think I’ve seen it all.
- Crime, corruption
- October 11, 2005
- To the editor: Tom DeLay is like the Mafia hit man of our so very corrupt government.
- Fear for schools
- October 11, 2005
- To the editor: If the goal of the State Board of Education is to dismantle the public school system, one could see why the appointment of Bob Corkins as commissioner of education might be appropriate.
- No religion?
- October 11, 2005
- To the editor: OK, so let’s keep religion out of public life. We can then deny all African-Americans their civil rights since there will be no Martin Luther King Jr. and all the other Christians and Jews (both black and white) who marched with him.
- Hire the tutor
- October 11, 2005
- To the editor: If he knows so little about education he needs a tutor, here’s a common-sense, money-saving idea: Fire the guy and appoint the tutor at half the salary!
- Natural disasters are unsettling omen
- October 11, 2005
- Earth, that living, seething, often inhospitable and not altogether intelligently designed thing, has again shrugged, and tens of thousands of Pakistanis are dead.
- Election respect
- Presenting a photo identification card at the polls doesn’t seem like too much to ask of American voters.
- October 11, 2005
- The right of Americans to go to the polls and vote for the candidate of their choice deserves more respect. For instance, it seems like little enough to ask that voters present some form of photo identification at the polls.
- Prize puts focus on nuclear threat
- October 11, 2005
- The era of good feeling surrounding the International Atomic Energy Agency and its leader, Mohamed ElBaradei, for their deserved win Friday of the Nobel Peace Prize unfortunately is unlikely to last long. For the United Nations, success never seems to resonate as much as failure.
- State unveils response plan for flu pandemic
- October 11, 2005
- Kansas officials on Monday released plans to deal with a possible worldwide flu outbreak, but said much of the responsibility would be up to individuals.
- Quake survivors now battling cold, hunger
- Toll ranges as high as 30,000, expected to rise
- October 11, 2005
- Desperate Pakistanis huddled against the cold and some looted food stores Monday because aid still had not reached remote areas of Kashmir, where a devastating earthquake flattened villages, cut off power and water, and killed tens of thousands.
- Debate over fire sprinklers likely to re-emerge
- October 11, 2005
- The apartment fire that left three people dead could create a new debate over fire safety regulations in Lawrence.
- Former county judge recalled as kind, respectful
- October 11, 2005
- Charles C. Rankin, who served as a Douglas County judge for nearly two decades, died Sunday at age 91.
- Kansas proponent of intelligent design, skeptical professor debate in St. Louis
- October 11, 2005
- A prominent Kansas proponent of intelligent design says scientists feel threatened by the theory and want to demonize school boards that have considered allowing it to be taught in their districts.
- Commissioner’s hiring plan hits snag
- As Corkins settles into new role, State Board of Education may shelve request for consultant
- October 11, 2005
- Newly hired State Education Commissioner Bob Corkins may not get to hire a $15,000 conservative consultant today to help him transition to his new job.
- ‘Awkward’ wait isn’t treasured
- New county official to be sworn in almost year after election
- October 11, 2005
- Almost a year after being elected, Paula Gilchrist will be sworn in as Douglas County treasurer this morning.
- Arrest made for sexual battery, restraint
- October 11, 2005
- Police arrested a 28-year-old Lawrence man during the weekend for aggravated sexual battery and criminal restraint.
- Online guide gives Lawrence good grade
- October 11, 2005
- The Independent Traveler includes Lawrence among its six favorite college towns in a listing released Monday.
- Report on students’ progress due today
- October 11, 2005
- The Kansas State Board of Education today will receive a report on the progress of state students in science and math testing.
- Bids accepted to refurnish clerk’s office
- October 11, 2005
- Douglas County commissioners on Monday accepted two bids for new furniture for the county clerk’s office.
- Electrical problem seen as cause of Sunday fire
- October 11, 2005
- An electrical problem with a florescent light ballast caused a fire Sunday in a downtown Lawrence building, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical.
- Pump patrol
- October 11, 2005
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.65 at several stations. If you find a lower price, call Pump Patrol at 832-7154.
- Angels rookie steps up to stifle mighty Yankees
- October 11, 2005
- Moments after Bartolo Colon doubled over in pain, Ervin Santana calmly jogged to the mound with the same poise he’s shown so many times during his rookie season.
- Jayhawk leaders emerging at Boot Camp
- October 11, 2005
- Kansas University’s basketball coaches weren’t the only ones talking - make that yelling - during preseason Boot Camp conditioning workouts.
- Woodling: Ice Field needs help
- October 11, 2005
- Ice Field isn’t looking too spiffy these days. Weeds and brown spots dot the grassy landscape of the city-owned baseball diamond in the southeast quadrant of Holcom Sports Complex.
- Mason solid as Wildcats linebacker
- October 11, 2005
- Micah Mason didn’t do it all in Baker University’s stunning 45-24 football victory Saturday over Missouri Valley. Mason came close, though.
- Keegan kreamed again
- October 11, 2005
- Journal-World sports editor Tom Keegan was kreamed for the third straight week in his weekly pick-em contest.
- Notebook: Arrowhead game likely lucrative
- Kansas official: Game will be financial success
- October 11, 2005
- If profit is the bottom line - and isn’t it always? - then Kansas University may come away from Saturday’s football game in decent shape.
- Heart infection will sideline Martz
- October 11, 2005
- Mike Martz is out indefinitely as coach of the St. Louis Rams because of a bacterial infection of the heart.
- Steelers win, lose Big Ben
- Roethlisberger hurt in Pittsburgh victory
- October 11, 2005
- It’s a good thing the Bus is back, because now the Pittsburgh Steelers could be without Ben Roethlisberger.
- Old QBs can get job done
- Experience matters if squad is gunning for playoffs
- October 11, 2005
- Call it the answer to the old-young quarterback riddle. To win, go with experience, even if the player’s record is spotty (Kelly Holcomb) or he seems way over the hill (Vinny Testaverde).
- NLCS at a glance
- October 11, 2005
- A look at the best-of-seven National League championship series between the Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals:
- Astros eager for rematch with St. Louis
- October 11, 2005
- Sure, the Houston Astros had a plan in case Roger Clemens needed relief: Now pitching for the first time in his big-league career, outfielder Jason Lane.
- Kansas high school sports scores for Oct. 10
- October 11, 2005
- Veritas volleyball team goes 1-2 at home quadrangular
- October 11, 2005
- Veritas Christian’s volleyball squad was saddled with two losses Monday at a quad at the East Lawrence Rec Center.
- K.C. Sumner starts fast, stops Seahawks
- October 11, 2005
- Seabury Academy’s boys soccer squad spotted Kansas City Sumner a four-goal lead Monday, and that was insurmountable as the Seahawks lost, 5-2.
- Lawrence blanked by BV West
- October 11, 2005
- Lawrence High’s boys soccer team suffered a 2-0 loss Monday to Blue Valley West, the defending Class 5A state champion, at the Youth Sports Inc. fields.
- Commentary: North teams starting to fight back
- Efforts by Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri show divisions aren’t so lopsided anymore
- October 11, 2005
- It could have been a glorious Saturday for the Big 12 North. The division that has taken its knocks dished out a few as well.
- Price settles with Sports Illustrated
- Former Alabama coach resolves defamation lawsuit
- October 11, 2005
- Texas-El Paso football coach Mike Price felt vindicated after a settlement was reached with Time Inc. over a Sports Illustrated article recounting a night of drinking at a topless bar in Florida.
- Pacifiers, use of cribs could lessen risk of SIDS
- October 11, 2005
- Babies should be offered pacifiers at bedtime, and they should sleep in their parents’ room - but not in their beds - in order to lessen the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the nation’s largest group of pediatricians says.
- 64-year-old doubts race played role in his beating by New Orleans police
- October 11, 2005
- A retired elementary teacher who was repeatedly punched in the head by police in an incident caught on videotape said Monday he was not drunk, put up no resistance and was baffled by what happened.
- Subway security scaled back as threat ‘passes’
- October 11, 2005
- New York’s subways went back to normal Monday afternoon after a high-alert weekend when an army of police officers prepared for a bombing that never happened.
- Study: Fish eaters stay sharper with age
- October 11, 2005
- Eating fish at least once a week is good for the brain, slowing age-related mental decline by the equivalent of three to four years, a study suggests.
- Winter storm drops 20 inches of snow
- October 11, 2005
- A powerful storm that dropped up to 20 inches of snow in parts of Colorado knocked out power Monday to thousands of people, closed an 80-mile stretch of a major highway and trigged rock slides in the foothills
- Motorcycle toy run slated for Oct. 22
- October 11, 2005
- A motorcycle run to benefit foster children of The Farm Inc. will be held Oct. 22, starting in Lawrence. Riders participating are asked to bring a toy for a child of up to 18 years old.
- Antique show, sale set for Oct. 28-30
- October 11, 2005
- The Pilot Club of Lawrence will sponsor a three-day antique show and sale Oct. 28-30 at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds.
- Spanish-speaking preps target of KU programs
- October 11, 2005
- Kansas University’s Office of Admissions and Scholarships will host several on-campus programs for Spanish-speaking high school students.
- West Junior High teacher honored
- October 11, 2005
- West Junior High teacher Sandy Collins has received the Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for the state of Kansas from the National Association of Biology Teachers. She will be recognized at the Nov. 14 Board of Education meeting.
- Member wants school board to oppose TABOR
- October 11, 2005
- Lawrence school board member Rich Minder wants the board to join the coalition opposing the so-called Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, called TABOR.
- On the record
- October 11, 2005
- Lawrence Datebook
- October 11, 2005
- Little Richard returns part of concert fees to hometown
- October 11, 2005
- Little Richard built some goodwill in his hometown when he donated almost half of his concert fees to settle concerns over who was paying the tab for his show.
- PETA targets Vogue editor
- October 11, 2005
- Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue magazine, was hit with a tofu pie by anti-fur demonstrators as she attended Paris fashion week.
- TV actress has twin boys
- October 11, 2005
- Mo’Nique is seeing double - and their names are Jonathan and David.
- Yoko Ono may have started another fight with McCartney
- October 11, 2005
- Yoko Ono picked up an award on behalf of John Lennon - and appeared to take a dig at his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney.
- Spears yanks jeweled bra from online charity auction
- October 11, 2005
- Britney Spears has dashed some deep-pocketed fans’ hopes of snagging one of her bras.
- Singer hasn’t given up hope of finding missing boyfriend
- October 11, 2005
- Olivia Newton-John is still hoping her missing boyfriend returns - more than three months after he disappeared.
- Celebrity birthdays
- October 11, 2005
- Actress Joan Cusack is 43. Actress-director Catlin Adams is 55. Comedy writer and TV host Michael J. Nelson is 41. Actor Sean Patrick Flanery is 40. Actor Luke Perry is 39. Actress Michelle Trachtenberg is 20.
- Merkel emerges as first female chancellor
- October 11, 2005
- Conservative Angela Merkel struck a power-sharing deal Monday that will make her the first woman and politician from the ex-communist east to serve as Germany’s chancellor, forging a coalition with ousted leader Gerhard Schroeder’s party to reform the faltering economy.
- Guatemala’s Indians refuse soldiers’ help, deal with dead
- October 11, 2005
- A Guatemalan Indian community, haunted by a government-sponsored massacre during the country’s brutal civil war, refused soldiers’ help Monday in recovering those killed in a week of flooding and mudslides and conducted its own searches instead.
- Iraqi officials accused in disappearance of $1 billion
- Insurgents continue to strike ahead of constitutional referendum
- October 11, 2005
- Iraq has issued arrest warrants against the defense minister and 27 other officials from the U.S.-backed government of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi over the alleged disappearance or misappropriation of $1 billion in military procurement funds, officials said Monday.
- Death toll rises for U.S. military reservists
- October 11, 2005
- The National Guard and Reserves are suffering a strikingly higher share of U.S. casualties in Iraq, their portion of total American military deaths nearly doubling since last year.
- Abbas-Sharon meeting delayed for second time
- October 11, 2005
- An Israeli-Palestinian summit was called off Monday at the last minute, a sign that Israel’s Gaza pullout last month has failed for now to create the peace momentum the international community had hoped for.
- U.S. millionaire, crew return from space
- October 11, 2005
- The seven-day space sojourn of an American millionaire scientist came to a close as he and a Russian-American crew undocked from the international space station and sped back to Earth, landing early today on the windswept steppes of Kazakhstan.
- Avila professor discovers new lizard
- October 11, 2005
- What’s black, white, red and green all over? It’s something Avila University professor Robert Powell will announce sometime in December.
- Governor: Kansas floods show state’s emergency readiness
- October 11, 2005
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Monday she was pleased at the response of local and state emergency agencies to the recent floods in northeast Kansas, pointing to it as an example of the working relationship between local and state officials.
- Lawrence mentioned in marijuana magazine
- October 11, 2005
- A proposal to handle marijuana-possession cases differently in Lawrence has been mentioned in the pro-marijuana magazine “High Times.”
- Area band finds new audience, inspiration
- October 11, 2005
- In its first year, Kansas City-area band Jump Rope for Heart went from casually recording music in members’ homes to touring Japan, recording two full-length albums along the way. The musicians just wish someone knew it.
- Retooling 401(k)s takes work
- Employers unlikely to offer Roth option
- October 11, 2005
- Imagine a retirement where, after stashing cash into investments for years, your earnings come to you tax free. Nary a tax form. No 35 percent tax bite.
- Big Brother needed for 11-year-old
- October 11, 2005
- Hunter, 11, is seeking a Big Brother through the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Douglas County program.
- Sebelius to head national education group
- October 11, 2005
- Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has been chosen to head the Education Commission of the States, the nonprofit group that advises governors, legislators and state education officials about education policy.
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