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- Bad news piles up on Wichita State
- New Mexico knocks Shockers from ranks of unbeaten at Vegas tourney
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C6
- Things weren’t going right for Wichita State before Friday night’s game against New Mexico and it was as bad as it’s been all season after it.
- Hansbrough helps Heels
- Soph’s double-double leads No. 2 UNC past St. Louis
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C6
- Tyler Hansbrough had 15 points and matched his career best with 13 rebounds to lead No. 2 North Carolina to a 69-48 victory over Saint Louis on Friday night.
- Report: Train tunnels vulnerable to attack
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A4
- The forecast is ominous: A small explosive sneaked onto a commuter train punches a 50-square-foot hole in a tunnel under the Hudson River.
- Competition for Bush library narrows
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A4
- Southern Methodist University has all but won the competition to host the George W. Bush presidential library, with officials announcing this week that the school will be the “sole focus” of talks next month.
- Officials: Shooting victim was intoxicated
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A4
- An unarmed man killed in his car on his wedding day by police officers who unleashed a 50-shot barrage was drunk behind the wheel, law enforcement officials said Friday.
- Court cuts judgment in Exxon oil spill
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A4
- A federal appeals court on Friday cut in half a $5 billion jury award for punitive damages against Exxon Mobil Corp. in the 1989 Valdez oil spill that smeared black goo across roughly 1,500 miles of Alaskan coastline.
- Valley finally hitting its peak
- Shockers leading early surge
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C7
- A year ago, they cracked the code. Now, they’re just cracking heads. Missouri Valley Conference teams have a list of early-season victims that reads like a Selection Sunday roll call: LSU, Wisconsin, Syracuse, Iowa, Xavier. And, not to be forgotten, George Mason.
- Iverson nets 22 in Nuggets debut
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C4
- Allen Iverson likes playing alongside his new teammates, can’t believe how much snow there is in Denver after a recent blizzard and thinks he looks pretty good in a Nuggets uniform.
- Lawyer to replace judge at center of school case
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Topeka lawyer Larry Hendricks has been picked to replaced Shawnee County district judge Terry Bullock, whose controversial ruling forced Kansas legislators to dramatically boost spending on public schools.
- Volunteers restore old home, rebuild interest in town’s history
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B2
- A couple of intriguing myths are tied to the oldest house in Troy.
- On the record
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Lawrence Datebook
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Judge: Iran owes $254M to terrorist attack victims
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A9
- The Iranian government financed a 1996 terrorist attack that killed 19 Americans in Saudi Arabia and must pay $254 million to the victims’ families, a federal judge ruled Friday.
- An example of what the registry could look like
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A9
- Details for how a domestic partnership registry would function in Lawrence haven’t been determined, but here is how it has worked elsewhere.
- Helium shortage deflating party stores
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B5
- Party balloon retailers are feeling the pinch on the global helium supply across the country and in Kansas, the nation’s leading helium producer.
- Interstate 70 reopens after storm
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B5
- Highways reopened early Friday in Kansas after a wintery storm dumped up to a half foot of snow on the western part of the state.
- A new ball game for NFL Network’s Bryant Gumbel
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C8
- Bryant Gumbel was a household name on NBC’s “Today Show” long before Matt Lauer or Katie Couric. He covered the outbreak of the Persian Gulf War from Saudi Arabia, the reopening of the arms negotiations from Geneva and hosted the 1988 Olympics.
- Law holds court in A&M rout
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Acie Law scored 21 points and No. 13 Texas A&M had five players score in double figures in an 87-58 victory over Auburn on Friday night.
- Learning at the foot of a winner
- Pat Knight’s education grows each day he works alongside famous father
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Bob Knight talks to his son every day about coaching. It isn’t always about offense, defense or even recruiting. Sometimes it’s about dealing with a particular player or the media.
- CBS announcer brings renowned humor to game
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C1
- It was just another dinner on the road, except that college basketball analyst Bill Raftery was in the same restaurant, and when Raftery’s around, nothing fits into the “just another” category.
- BC forward no dud
- Eagle draws praise for early season dominance
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Jared Dudley, who grew up on the West Coast, always dreamed of playing ball in the East.
- Cablevision to carry Texas Bowl in Rutgers area
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C10
- Cablevision Systems Corp., a New York-area cable TV provider, reached an agreement with the NFL Network on Friday that will allow its customers to see a much-anticipated college football game between Rutgers and Kansas State University next Thursday.
- Troy QB tosses Trojans to triumph
- December 23, 2006
- Omar Haugabook was Troy’s postseason star, too. The Sun Belt player of the year threw four touchdown passes and ran for another score to lead Troy to its first bowl victory, 41-17 over Rice on Friday night in the New Orleans Bowl.
- KU football notebook
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C10
- Kansas University running back Jon Cornish has been selected to participate in the annual East-West Shrine Game next month.
- Coach at a crossroads
- Barnett awaits second chance in wake of CU debacle
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C10
- Five months after his unceremonious exit from Colorado, Gary Barnett was standing in a hotel lobby when he was approached by a hyper young man claiming to be a college student in town on a job interview.
- Crennel rejects reports on quarterback’s wrist
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C9
- An agitated Browns coach Romeo Crennel refuted reports that quarterback Charlie Frye has a broken right wrist and denied he has been hiding injuries this season.
- MVP candidates share trainer
- Former Chargers teammates Brees, Tomlinson are Todd Durkin’s prized pupils
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C9
- Inside his gym, which is tucked into a small shopping strip not far from the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, Todd Durkin has quietly gone about building the season’s two best NFL players.
- Chiefs try to right the ship tonight in Oakland
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C9
- The scenarios exist for the Kansas City Chiefs to make the playoffs. A loss by Denver, another by Jacksonville, two for Cincinnati, and it goes on.
- State’s CFO resigns, will plead guilty to felony
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A3
- The state’s chief financial officer, Comptroller Alan Hevesi, resigned Friday and pleaded guilty to a felony for using a state employee as his wife’s chauffeur.
- 3 dead after Army helicopter crashes
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A3
- An Army Blackhawk helicopter crashed on a mountain southeast of Seattle during a training mission, killing all three people aboard, military officials said Friday.
- Parents convicted in caged children case
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A3
- A couple accused of forcing some of their 11 adopted special-needs children to sleep in wood and wire cages were convicted Friday of endangerment and abuse.
- Controversial Minneapolis fire chief steps down, takes pay cut
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Hailed as a pioneer when she became Minneapolis fire chief two years ago, Bonnie Bleskachek left the job Friday with apologies to the city and a demotion that strips her authority but keeps her in the department.
- Minimum wage may get boost
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Imagine what it would be like to work without a pay raise for nearly 10 years. That’s been the plight of some workers who for almost the past decade have been earning the federal minimum wage. Their last pay increase - to $5.15 an hour - came in 1997.
- Space shuttle lands safely
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Friday after some last-minute suspense over which landing site to use, closing out a year in which NASA finally got construction of the international space station back on track.
- Conservative Christians wage ‘War on Christmas’
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A5
- The “War on Christmas” has never been so profitable. For the fourth year running, conservative Christian groups have spent much of December mobilizing against what they see as a liberal plot to censor Christmas.
- Holiday travel mess continues despite airport’s reopening
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A5
- Denver’s snowed-in airport reopened Friday for the first time in two days, but the backlog of flights around the country could take all weekend to clear, and many of the nearly 5,000 holiday travelers stranded here might not make it home for Christmas.
- Duke rape charges dropped
- Kidnapping charges remain for lacrosse players
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C2
- The district attorney dropped rape charges Friday against three Duke University lacrosse players after the stripper who accused them changed her story again. But the men still face kidnapping and sex charges that could bring more than 30 years in prison.
- Pump patrol
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Patrol seeks fuel deals
- First cases of flu confirmed in state
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B1
- The first flu cases of the season in Kansas were confirmed Friday by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
- Discovered body case ruled a homicide
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B1
- A body found near the Franklin-Osage County line has been ruled a homicide, the Osage County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.
- Simons: Success of ‘going negative’ changes campaign strategies
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B1
- The 2006 off-year election votes were tallied just a few weeks ago and already campaigns for the 2008 election are under way. In fact, it appears election campaigns are becoming a never-ending event that subjects the public to partisan campaign efforts 12 months a year, year after year.
- Colorful yard decorations strewn throughout Lawrence
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Around Thanksgiving each year, Jason and Jodi Pendleton add a little bit more to their front yard of holiday decorations.
- Pa. high school has Jayhawk of its own
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University’s “happy” Jayhawk has an identical twin in the small western Pennsylvania town of Jeannette.
- Police make arrest in Ottawa shooting
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B1
- A Lawrence woman was arrested and booked into Franklin County Jail on Friday under suspicion of shooting a witness earlier this week in Ottawa.
- Relief in site for travelers stranded in London airport
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A7
- Relief was in sight for thousands of stranded travelers at Heathrow Airport on Friday after forecasters said the thick, freezing fog that forced flight cancellations and delays for four days should begin to lift.
- Friends of the Kaw awarded $20,000 grant
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B3
- A $20,000 grant for further development of a river awareness and environmental Web page has been awarded to Friends of the Kaw.
- Parade to be broadcast on Audio-Reader Network
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A10
- Kansas University’s Audio-Reader Network will offer a broadcast of the Rose Bowl Parade from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Jan. 1.
- Turkmenistan promises ‘democratic’ elections
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A10
- The man who unexpectedly became leader of Turkmenistan following the death of Saparmurat Niyazov pledged Friday that new elections will be democratic - but only in the late dictator’s interpretation of the word.
- Woman with two wombs gives birth to three girls
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A10
- A woman with two wombs has given birth to triplets, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind, a hospital official said Friday.
- Nation: U.S. beef had too much dioxin
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A10
- South Korea has asked the United States to explain why a shipment of American beef rejected for having banned bone fragments also contained unacceptable levels of the toxic chemical dioxin, an official said Friday.
- Religious funeral denied for man who asked to die
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A10
- The Roman Catholic Church on Friday denied a religious funeral for the paralyzed Italian author who died after a doctor disconnected his respirator, saying it would treat his public wish to “end his life” as a willful suicide.
- Intense gunbattles break out between Hamas, Fatah, damaging fragile truce
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A10
- Fierce fighting between Hamas and Fatah militants in Gaza and the West Bank marred a shaky truce Friday, and moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blocked dozens of Hamas government appointments in an intensifying power struggle.
- Castro misses 1st parliament since illness
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A10
- Fidel Castro’s chair was empty Friday, but Cuban lawmakers quickly approved a spending plan for 2007 in their first session since he fell ill, a sign the communist government will sail ahead without the bearded leader at its helm.
- N. Korea nuclear talks end in impasse
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A10
- The first disarmament talks since North Korea tested a nuclear device in early October ended Friday with the North refusing to discuss abandoning its nuclear weapons until the United States lifts financial sanctions.
- Ex-officials: Parts of Iran article misclassified
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A6
- The White House demanded the excision of material for an article on Iranian-American relations for political - not security - reasons, two former government officials allege.
- Federal agency admits violating Privacy Act
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A6
- The Homeland Security Department admitted Friday it violated the Privacy Act two years ago by obtaining more commercial data about U.S. airline passengers than it had announced it would.
- City bucks growth to keep horse-friendly lifestyle
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Tucked in a region of galloping suburban growth is a Southern California town where the sidewalks are horse trails and there’s a ride-through McDonald’s.
- Commodities
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B4
- Hiring outlook called ‘respectable’
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B4
- Employers in Lawrence are thinking along the same lines as their counterparts nationwide when it comes to hiring in the new year.
- Goodyear, striking workers reach tentative deal
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B4
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and a union representing about 12,600 union workers in the U.S. - including about 1,400 in Topeka - said they tentatively had agreed Friday to a new contract that would end an 11-week strike over health care benefits and Goodyear’s plan to close a tire factory in Texas.
- Poll: Belief in Santa endures in U.S.
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A1
- Santa has lots going against him - school-yard rumors, older brothers who think they know the deal and tattle to the young ones, errant price tags, the tell-all Internet and so many Made in China labels it seems the North Pole has outsourced to Asia.
- Holiday bonuses run the gamut
- December 23, 2006
- When it comes to holiday bonuses in Lawrence workplaces, gifts range from money to gift certificates to parties. Then, some may just get the holiday off, or even nothing.
- Kansas basketball notebook
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Annexed greyhound park leads to lawsuit
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B8
- Sedgwick County filed a lawsuit Thursday to prevent Park City’s annexation of county-owned land that includes Wichita Greyhound Park.
- Water fitness classes to help with arthritis
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B8
- Two water fitness classes designed for people suffering from arthritis have been opened by the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department.
- Kids question Santa at earlier age
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on D8
- When 10-year-old Ryan Martin stopped believing in Santa Claus last year, his mom cried.
- Faith briefs
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on D8
- People in the news
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A2
- ¢ Robin Williams out of rehab and back on big screen ¢ Filmmaker Van Sant arrested on drunken driving charge ¢ Judge orders paternity test for Anna Nicole Smith’s baby ¢ Miss Nevada USA fired for racy Internet pictures
- Classic movies hard to find
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A2
- With only one weekend before Christmas, aficionados of holiday classics are running out of time to catch their favorites. Some chestnuts from our video past won’t be airing at all.
- Sales of ‘Seinfeld’ Festivus poles grow
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A2
- Remember the wacky “Seinfeld” holiday season episode when the character Frank Costanza protests the commercialization of Christmas by putting up an unadorned aluminum pole instead of a tree?
- Scouting news
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on D3
- Around and about
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on D3
- Club news
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on D3
- Try these solutions for seasonal stress
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on D1
- It’s the holiday season, which means you’ll probably shop, wrap, bake, cook, clean and decorate yourself into a frenzy. Here are some tips to help suppress the stress that can threaten good cheer:
- Faith forum: What is your favorite Christmas carol and why?
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on D1
- ¢ Best tunes reveal traits of Jesus Christ ¢ Music, atmosphere recall fond memories
- It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas
- Familiar carols spring from sources diverse and surprising
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on D1
- Chances are, sometime in the past month, you’ve probably sung a Christmas carol. Or at least caught yourself humming one.
- Housing praise
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: We note that the Lawrence Housing Authority has purchased the Clinton Place Apartments. This can only be a good thing for the city and the tenants who will benefit from the new management, if our experience is duplicated for the new facility.
- Tricky treats
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: At first I thought it was satire when I read that students in our public schools might have to trade in their candy canes and Christmas cookies for broccoli and carrots.
- Deadlock broken
- After months of discussion, it was time for county commissioners to prod city commissioners into finalizing new rural development regulations.
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B6
- Congratulations to city and county officials for successfully concluding their drawn-out negotiation over new subdivision regulations to guide development in rural Douglas County.
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B6
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Dec. 23, 1906: “We learn that many libraries are having problems of space, such as is ours. One observer said ‘there are too many books being printed and we are having troubles finding where to put them for the best possible use by the most people.’
- Old Home Town - 25 years ago
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B6
- Mark Curry, a Kansas University exchange student studying at Warsaw University, recounted the harrowing experiences he had during the current uprising in Poland, where strikes were hindering operations.
- Bush stands by his convictions on Iraq
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B6
- You’ve got to say this for President Bush: He’s willing to risk further decline in his popularity to pursue the course he thinks is right in Iraq. He may even be willing to do so in the face of opposition by some of his military commanders.
- Sperm donors are still biological dads
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on B6
- By now, Mary Cheney must have inspired an entirely new chapter in “What to Expect When You’re Expecting.” Expect your pregnancy to provoke a national controversy.
- Bush smog strategy tossed out as too weak
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on A4
- A federal appeals court on Friday struck down the Bush administration’s strategy for reducing smog, which impacts the health of more than half the nation’s population, mostly those prone to asthma and other respiratory illnesses.
- NBA drawing intense scrutiny
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C4
- A voice of reason has emerged in the wake of the Denver Nuggets-New York Knicks punch party, and darned if it doesn’t belong to Steve Francis.
- Keegan: Dudley’s skills deadly
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Sometimes it seems as if the top 100 lists of high school basketball players are determined by having the players jump as high as they can, marking the wall at the spot of the apex, pulling out a tape measure and assigning a number based solely on that.
- Knight milestone bad for basketball
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C2
- Today marks the dawn of a dark day for college basketball. So dark that the shine off Dick Vitale’s head can’t brighten the sport’s most unsavory development.
- BC rebounds from bad start
- Six straight victories put Eagles on doorstep of poll
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Ranked No. 14 in the country to start the season, Boston College’s basketball team lost favor with the voters early.
- Society calendar
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on D5
- Horoscopes
- December 23, 2006 in print edition on D7
- For Saturday, Dec. 23
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- Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down May 28, 2012
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