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- Making homes for the holidays
- Habitat for Humanity building ‘comfortable’ neighborhood
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Cathy Brittain ran to the door to greet her son, Jalen, who returned home Saturday after spending several days with his grandfather. “Hi, son!” she said. They embraced, and she kissed him three times on the head.
- Art program’s campaign seeks donations for renovations
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B1
- If you’re trying to paint your income picture in the best light for tax purposes, Van Go Mobile Arts has a suggestion. “Think of Van Go for your year-end charitable donation,” said Susan Tate, co-chairwoman of a capital campaign for the arts-based social service agency in eastern Lawrence.
- The top 10 local sports stories of 2006
- Year had plenty of highs, lows
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C1
- The 2006 calendar year was a mixed bag for area sports. Kansas University’s men’s hoops team opened the year with some of its best basketball of the season as the calendar flipped to January, but by March all that promise flamed out in another stunning first-round NCAA Tournament ouster.
- Woodling: Kansas needs a scare
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C1
- If the whole is equal to the sum of its parts, then why is so little attention paid to the first half of basketball games? The reason seems obvious. No team ever has won a game without playing the second half, so why bother?
- Barber boosts Giants past Redskins
- New York claims 34-28 victory and likely an NFC playoff spot with an 8-8 record
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C10
- Tiki Barber put the ultimate exclamation point on the New York Giants’ season of turmoil with a franchise-rushing record, a dominating performance that virtually assures his career will last at least one more week.
- Chiefs, Jaguars hold out slim hopes
- K.C. needs victory, plus plenty of help, for playoff berth
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C10
- Holding out a tin cup and begging for help is something Herman Edwards hates. Jack Del Rio doesn’t seem all that thrilled about it, either. Because their teams faded at a time when contenders stand tall and take charge, they’ll have to accept whatever good fortune fate drops into their laps in the finale today of a regular season turned frustratingly sour.
- Broncos have fate in their own hands
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C10
- With another blizzard blanketing the region, the Denver Broncos’ pivotal regular-season finale against San Francisco today in all likelihood will come down to the run game.
- Extended deer season to begin Monday
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C10
- Firearms extended whitetail antlerless deer season in Kansas will begin Monday and end a week from today.
- KU vs. R.I. basketball notebook
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C7
- Baron’s FT woe typifies night
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C7
- If there were proof the University of Rhode Island’s basket may have had cellophane covering it, sharpshooting sophomore Jimmy Baron provided it Saturday.
- KU’s Collins wises up
- Freshman has 13 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C6
- Sherron Collins knows something very valuable. He knows some of the shots he has hoisted in the immediate vicinity of the hoop early in his freshman season were not wise. In Kansas University’s 80-69 victory over Rhode Island on Saturday, he showed the fruits of that lesson learned.
- Tall order awaits KU women
- Xavier’s Harris figures to cause problems on both ends of floor
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C5
- As far as anyone knows, no woman has ever dunked in a scheduled basketball game in Allen Fieldhouse. History could be made today.
- Paris at home in OKC
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale scheduled a game at the Cox Convention Center to help the Sooners become familiar with the facility hosting this season’s Big 12 Conference women’s basketball tournament.
- Home haze doesn’t hurt OSU
- Cowboys finally come to life, rout Texas-San Antonio
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Oklahoma State hadn’t played at home in so long, the Cowboys appeared almost lost during the opening minutes of Saturday night’s game against Texas-San Antonio.
- Shockers can’t shake slide as MVC play opens
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C4
- Here’s a shocker: Northern Iowa, not Wichita State, might be the class of the Missouri Valley Conference. The inside duo of Grant Stout and Eric Coleman took over late in the game, and the Panthers handed No. 16 Wichita State its third straight loss, 63-59 on Saturday night.
- Rough day on the road
- UConn falls from unbeaten ranks with a thud
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C4
- West Virginia found No. 12 Connecticut’s weak spot - the road. The Mountaineers made a shocking statement in the teams’ Big East opener Saturday by opening a double-digit lead early and cruising to an 81-71 victory over the previously unbeaten Huskies.
- LSU happy to play in Big Easy
- After Rose Bowl rebuff, Tigers’ coach ‘can’t imagine it any other way’
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C3
- It’s not that the Sugar Bowl isn’t special to LSU. It’s just a visit to the Crescent City isn’t exactly a novelty for many of the Tigers. Nearly seven in 10 players on LSU’s roster are from Louisiana, many from the New Orleans area. And an 80-mile bus trip on Interstate 10 is hardly a glamorous reward for a 10-2 season.
- Bulldogs show plenty of fight in win
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C3
- At 6-4, Georgia’s season appeared lost. The Bulldogs’ streak of 10-win seasons and top-10 rankings would end at four and they were facing the real possibility of a losing record.
- Walk-on kicker unlikely hero for BC
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C3
- It’s fitting that Boston College’s bizarre month would end with an improbable finish that made a hero out of a walk-on kicker. Steve Aponavicius kicked a career-best 37-yard field goal on the final play and the 23rd-ranked Eagles beat Navy, 25-24, in the Meineke Bowl to extend the nation’s current longest bowl-winning streak to seven.
- Freeman looks to earn job
- Hurricanes’ backup QB has filled in admirably
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Kirby Freeman doesn’t know much about Boise, except that it’s colder than a truckload of ice, potatoes are plentiful and he was able to make snow angels this week at Bogus Basin Mountain Resort.
- QB guides Texas comeback
- McCoy recovers from neck injury, 14-point deficit
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Colt McCoy was supposed be a placeholder for Texas at quarterback this season. Now, he’s a record holder. The redshirt freshman who replaced Vince Young turned in another gritty performance with two touchdown passes to rally the No. 18 Longhorns to a 26-24 victory Saturday over Iowa in the Alamo Bowl.
- Commentary: Appreciate Knight for who he is
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C2
- He is the guy throwing the chair across the floor and almost hitting a fan in the front row. And he is the coach of that suffocating man-to-man defense that takes nothing for granted and surrenders nothing easily.
- Tiger to become a father
- Woods’ wife expecting couple’s first child
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C2
- Tiger Woods celebrated his 31st birthday Saturday by sharing some of his biggest news of the year - his wife is expecting their first child this summer.
- People in the news
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A2
- ¢ Jay Mohr, Nikki Cox exchange wedding vows ¢ Police: George Michael unfit to drive ¢ Bodyguard accused in drunken Hindu temple desecration
- ‘Star Wars’ creator embraces role as Rose Parade marshal
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A2
- George Lucas, the mastermind behind the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” sagas, can add another credit to his illustrious resume: Rose Parade grand marshal.
- All pregnant women should be screened for Down syndrome
- New guideline not restricted to those over 35
- December 31, 2006
- There’s a big change coming for pregnant women: Down syndrome testing no longer hinges on whether they’re older or younger than 35. This week, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists begins recommending that every pregnant woman, regardless of age, be offered a choice of tests for this common birth defect.
- Timing of execution further angers Sunnis
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A9
- The timing and drama surrounding Saddam Hussein’s execution make it likely that he will become a martyr for Sunni nationalists fighting U.S. forces and the new Iraqi government.
- Saddam remained calm, scornful moments before execution
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A9
- Iraqis awoke Saturday to television images of a noose being slipped over Saddam Hussein’s neck and his white-shrouded body, the pre-dawn work of black-hooded hangmen. They went to bed as new video emerged showing Saddam exchanging taunts with onlookers before the gallows floor dropped away and the former dictator swung from the rope.
- On the record
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Lawrence Datebook
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Agencies, businesses to close for holiday
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Government offices and public services in Lawrence will be closed Monday in observance of New Year’s Day. They also will be closed in most area towns.
- Anglers appreciate winter trout fishing
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B2
- There’s a period of time, somewhere between fall white bass fishing and the spring walleye spawn, when many anglers thumb through the Cabela’s catalog, waiting for the first sign of warm weather.
- Holiday baking changing flavor of Puget Sound
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Researchers at the University of Washington say all that holiday baking and eating has an environmental effect: Puget Sound is being flavored by cinnamon and vanilla.
- Americans optimistic for 2007, poll shows
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A1
- The news from Iraq and other national headlines may be grim, but in Greenville, N.C., John Given has a new baby and his first home, and life is good. So, too, for Sandra Trowbridge in tiny Magnet Cove, Ark. The situation in Iraq makes her feel pessimistic about the state of the nation, but at home, at least, all is well. Even if nothing special has happened to her family, she says, “we still love each other,” and that’s enough.
- 6 riders claim to break record on subway
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Six former high school classmates say they’ve broken the record for stopping at every station on New York City’s massive subway system - all 468 of them.
- Rejoicing follows Saddam’s hanging
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A1
- From a dusty Iraqi town to a bustling Detroit suburb, survivors of Saddam Hussein’s regime spoke out Saturday about life, death and decades of suffering under one of the world’s most ruthless strongmen.
- Pig-headed man protests mosque with pork
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Craig Baker thought a neighboring mosque wanted his land, so in a tit-for-tat move, he started racing pigs.
- Grease guzzlers find a way to save on gasoline - vegetable oil
- December 31, 2006
- Ty Martin estimates he gets about 100 miles per gallon of diesel out of his old Dodge truck. And he’s not joking. “I’ve done some extensive road testing and had great luck,” the Lawrence resident said.
- Watergate aftermath defines remembrance of Ford
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Gerald R. Ford’s funeral procession swept by the White House without a pause, mark of a man who preferred to be remembered for his quarter century in the House and his World War II service in the Navy. Yet it was the office he didn’t seek, the presidency, that defined the nation’s remembrance of him Saturday night.
- Traditional knowledge of herbs helps identify potential drugs
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A3
- A few years ago, Eric Buenz came across a 17th-century book on herbal medicine. And he wondered if its ancient folk wisdom could withstand a little scientific scrutiny.
- Winter storm moves into Plains
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A3
- A winter storm stretching nearly from Canada to Mexico rolled out of the Rockies on Saturday, sparing Denver another round of heavy snow but trapping drivers farther east in 10-foot drifts.
- West had relatively terrorism-free 2006
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A5
- Bombs left on commuter trains in a busy station in Germany. A plot to blow up tunnels and flood New York City’s financial district. Another to bring down packed commuter airliners flying out of London.
- Bankruptcies
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on E1
- UPS driver honored for safety
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on E1
- Gerald Hisey, a package car driver for UPS in Lawrence, recently was recognized by the company for passing a milestone that took years to reach: driving for 20 years without having an accident.
- Cap Fed promotes compliance manager
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on E1
- Kevin Morgison, Perry, has been promoted to serve as vice president and consumer loan manager for Topeka-based Capitol Federal Savings, which has several banking locations in Lawrence.
- Sales, strikes and immigration define 2006
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on E1
- Two of the Kansas’ biggest corporate brands - Sprint Nextel Corp. and Applebee’s restaurants - stumbled in 2006, hurt by slow sales and management questions.
- Fresh start in 2007
- Planned bioscience project, other transactions cap eventful year
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on E1
- As business executives, government officials and others crowded into a conference room last week to welcome news of a ground-breaking effort to boost bioscience development in Lawrence, talk of high-paying jobs, industry-leading research and community partnerships filled the room.
- Set the resolution bar limbo-limbo low
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on D1
- I am breaking the “No New Year’s resolutions” resolution I made several years ago. It seems lazy, and downright un-American, to start the year off without at least ONE goal for motivation. After all, what else is there to think about on New Year’s Day except how to cook black-eyed peas and which pajamas to wear while lolling on the couch?
- 2006: It was a shocker
- Dave Barry wraps up the news you’re ready to forget
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on D1
- It was a momentous year, a year of events that will echo in the annals of history the way a dropped plate of calamari echoes in an Italian restaurant with a tile floor. Decades from now, our grandchildren will come to us and say, “Tell us, Grandpa or Grandma, as the case may be, what it was like to be alive in the year that Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Britney Spears and Katie whatshername all had babies, although not necessarily in those combinations.”
- Storm closes roads, leaves thousands powerless
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B3
- A stubborn, slow-moving winter storm dumped a mixture of snow and ice across parts of western Kansas, stranding travelers, leaving thousands without power and prompting a disaster declaration.
- Smoking ban in Garden City set to begin
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B3
- Count Garden City among the Kansas communities where smokers will soon have fewer places to light up. A new ordinance banning smoking in most public places will take effect Jan. 8, after the City Commission on Thursday denied a request by opponents to put the law on hold while they pursued a change in the law.
- Best-sellers
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on D3
- In your face
- New crop of pop-up books all grown up
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on D3
- If you had popped into Bruce Foster’s workshop three years ago, you might have found him working on a Charlie Brown “pop-up book” - cutting, folding, taping and gluing pieces of paper to depict, in three dimensions, Chuck’s attempt to kick the football Lucy holds in place, and the inevitable outcome: “Aaugh!”
- Poet’s Showcase
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on D3
- U.S. general expects more heavy fighting
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A8
- Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, the outgoing U.S. commander in Afghanistan, predicted more fighting this spring and summer and said Taliban militants would try to overrun towns to “unhinge the Afghan people’s morale.”
- Government heads for showdown with militia
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A8
- The port city of Kismayo is the setting for a major showdown Saturday between Somalia’s government forces and some 3,000 Muslim militiamen.
- Car bomb at airport breaks cease-fire
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A8
- A powerful car bomb exploded at Madrid’s international airport Saturday and Spain’s government, blaming the Basque group ETA, suspended plans for peace talks with the separatists. The blast left two people missing and 26 injured, most with damage to their ears from the shock wave.
- Annan leaves U.N. with reputation to mend
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A8
- Kofi Annan steps down as secretary-general at midnight today, leaving behind a global organization far more aggressively engaged in peacekeeping and fighting poverty - but struggling to restore its tarnished reputation.
- Castro says he has not lost battle for recovery
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A8
- A statement attributed to Fidel Castro on the eve of the revolution’s 48th anniversary assured Cubans Saturday that the ailing leader could still recover from his prolonged illness.
- 500 missing after ferry sinks
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A8
- Navy ships scoured the rough Java Sea today in search of survivors from a ferry that sank in a storm off central Indonesia, leaving more than 500 people missing, officials said. More than a day after the accident, 109 survivors had been rescued, Transport Minister Hatta Radjasa told reporters in Semarang late Saturday. The ferry is thought to have had 638 passengers, Radjasa said. No bodies have been recovered, but some survivors reported seeing fellow passengers slip beneath the waves.
- Traffic accidents decrease after new law
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B5
- Traffic accidents involving 16- and 17-year-old drivers decreased after a law went into effect restricting their driving privileges for six months after licensing.
- Quality pieces of ‘Paris porcelain’ created in the 1700-1800s
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on D4
- “Paris porcelain” is the name used in “Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price List” for the very white porcelain made in France from about 1770 to 1870. The name “Vieux Paris” or “Old Paris” for these wares was first used by collectors in the late 19th century. In the late 1700s, the Sevres factory near Paris was established as France’s national factory with “royal privilege.” Its porcelains were top-quality, with original shapes and lavish decorations.
- Antibiotic drops better for child’s ear infections
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on D8
- It is not easy to apply ear drops to a fussy tot with a raging ear infection. But for kids with ear tubes, antibiotic drops appear to be a vastly superior way to treat infections.
- Former police chief gets out of prison
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B8
- A former St. Joseph police chief convicted of fatally shooting his neighbor is out of prison after four years. James Robert Hayes, 81, was released on parole Dec. 25 from the Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron, said state Department of Corrections spokeswoman Angie Day.
- Ford lived to see presidency vindicated by history
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B7
- One reason Gerald R. Ford was a good president was because he never wanted to be president.
- Dole recalls Ford as ‘principled partisan’
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B7
- We were fortunate in 1974, a time of crisis, to have the right person in the right place at the right time. When the country needed healing, reconciliation and restoration of confidence, Gerald Ford provided it.
- Ford was a breath of fresh air to tense nation
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B6
- A few days after he became president, Gerald Ford invited photographers into his modest suburban Washington home as he toasted his English muffins for breakfast. The “photo op” was designed to contrast the difference between Ford and the imperial presidency of his predecessor, Richard Nixon. But it illustrated an essential point about the man who had just become the nation’s first un-elected president.
- Recreation needs
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B6
- Special gesture
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B6
- Old Hometown - 100 years ago
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B6
- Seeking civility in the new year
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B6
- New Year’s Eve is a high point of the old year and the low point of the new. You go off to a party with expectations of hilarity and camaraderie and wind up in a cacophonous room packed with people shouting at people two feet away. You eat shrimp and drink various grain- or grape-based beverages and drive home legally drunk and wake up at noon with chainsaws in your head and one eyeball half out of its socket.
- Departures sometimes define dictators
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B6
- Dictators die harder than most of us. Having wielded unlimited power in life, they seem to be sustained by a stubborn belief in their ability to stare down death too. But secret police, arbitrary executions and torture finally provide no lasting defense against their own date with the grim reaper.
- Bioscience boost
- The Kansas Bioscience Authority has given Lawrence a wonderful boost in its efforts to expand bioscience business activity in the area.
- December 31, 2006
- With a huge assist from the Kansas Bioscience Authority, Lawrence has the opportunity to advance its chances of establishing a hub for bioscience business activity in the East Hills Business Park.
- Wright makes right
- Penalized soph sits, responds
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Late for practice Friday, Julian Wright knew there’d be a penalty to pay Saturday night in Allen Fieldhouse. “Coach tells us you’ve got to be on time,” said Wright, Kansas University’s sophomore forward, banished to the bench at the start of a game for the first time this season as punishment for being late for a Friday workout.
- Transportation manager travels the world
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Lawrence resident Melissa Stultz spent the last few months in Doha, Qatar, helping manage the bus system for the 15th Asian Games. Stultz works for Transportation Management Services, a company that provides transportation at major sporting events and conferences around the world. In Qatar, Stultz helped game officials, athletes and their bodyguards get from the airport to their lodging places. Language often served as a major communication barrier, she said.
- HINU, Baker fall at tourney
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Haskell Indian Nations University fell to William Penn, 87-77, and Baker University lost to Briar Cliff, 84-62, on Saturday in the Briar Cliff men’s college basketball tournament.
- Gators solid at line, rally to beat UAB
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on C4
- Joakim Noah had 13 points, 13 rebounds and four blocked shots, and No. 3 Florida rallied for a 75-70 victory over Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday night in the Orange Bowl Classic.
- A fond farewell for James Brown
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on A2
- More than 8,500 James Brown fans filled an arena bearing his name Saturday in a final, joyful farewell to the singer that seemed as fitting for a civil rights leader as for the godfather of soul.
- Lawrence trainer names top celebrity couch potatoes
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on D1
- For four years, Lawrence trainer, bodybuilder and author Marty Tuley has kept an eye out for celebrities who aren’t exactly a picture of health. He compiles top-10 list of stars who seem the most in need of a salad and a treadmill.
- ‘Big Fat Little Lit’ offers huge payoff
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on D3
- Who says comics aren’t for kids anymore?
- Kansas pastor returns from Iraq
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B5
- It was a sweet homecoming this month for the Rev. Dave Fulton. Fulton, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Wichita, returned in early December after serving six months as a chaplain in Iraq.
- Horoscopes
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on D6
- Have a seat: Iconic theater replacing balcony chairs
- December 31, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Progress of sorts is about to fill up classic Liberty Hall. Workers Friday were removing 400 decades-old balcony seats to make way for newer ones.
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