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- Anti-abortion provision placed on bill sought by KU
- Bill approved by House, sent to Senate
- February 7, 2006
- An anti-abortion provision today was attached to legislation today sought by Kansas University.
- Cold today, chance for flurries overnight
- Cold snap heading in for weekend
- February 7, 2006
- Lawrence was bright and chilly this morning, but clouds will move in from the north today, bringing temperatures in the teens and the chance for some light snow tonight, says Jennifer Schack, 6News meteorologist.
- Jury rules against school in discrimination lawsuit
- February 7, 2006
- A Jackson County jury ruled Monday that the Raytown school district discriminated against former Missouri basketball star Jevon Crudup when firing him from a coaching job.
- Joni Appleman named new Deerfield principal
- February 7, 2006
- School cost study may lead to consolidation of small districtsLawrence school officials have selected Joni Appleman to replace Deerfield elementary principal Suzie Soyster, who has announced plans to retire in June.
- Turin scrambles as opening draws near
- ‘There is so much to do,’ but organizers say they’ll be ready by Friday
- February 7, 2006
- Marco Martinsetti looked harried on a gray Sunday as workers shuttled past him at the 16th-century Piazza Castello, the centerpiece of not only this northwestern Italian city but also of the 2006 Winter Olympics.
- Super Bowl boasts huge viewership
- February 7, 2006
- The Pittsburgh Steelers’ victory over the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl was watched in an average of 45.85 million homes, the second-highest total in television history behind the final episode of ‘M-A-S-H’ in 1983.
- Police won’t raid village
- Olympic dopers will be sent to face Italian criminal charges
- February 7, 2006
- Italian police have no plans to raid the Olympic village in search of banned substances, but athletes who test positive will be sent to court under Italy’s criminal anti-doping laws.
- Third vice chancellor candidate visits campus
- February 7, 2006
- At the University of Texas at Austin, Richard Lariviere called on students to give him their impressions of each department in the College of Liberal Arts.
- Humorous book can be worthwhile investment
- February 7, 2006
- I’ve been told I’m too serious - financially serious, that is.
- Advertising drive hits parking lots
- February 7, 2006
- The parking lot: it isn’t just for parking anymore.
- Hip-hop music weathers bad rap
- February 7, 2006
- Gangsters and hip-hop. Guns and hip-hop. Killings and hip-hop.
- Witnesses to shooting are silent
- Officials unsure if death is isolated incident
- February 7, 2006
- Witnesses to a deadly weekend shooting are clamming up about the crime, Lawrence Police said Monday, but the violence appears to have been imported from out-of-town.
- Marcus Holman
- February 7, 2006
- Marcus Holman, Veritas Christian, Soph. - Boys basketball
- Flags at half-staff today to honor King
- February 7, 2006
- All Kansas and U.S. flags will be at half-staff today in honor of Coretta Scott King.
- Witness: Mandatory reporting forces change in behavior
- Expert says reporting underage sex forces juveniles to modify actions
- February 7, 2006
- Mandatory reporting of underage sex between consenting minors would be the kind of “painful, difficult experience” for juveniles and their families that would change their sexual behavior, a child behavior expert testified Monday.
- Midterm shift is key to court
- February 7, 2006
- It would be easy, with Samuel Alito now on the Supreme Court, to predict that if another seat comes open before President Bush leaves office the ensuing confirmation battle would be one for the record books.
- Shooting spurs review of bar rules
- February 7, 2006
- Sometimes, Mike Elwell figures, it’s just not worth collecting cover charges and selling drinks to visitors from Topeka.
- Keegan’s top 25
- February 7, 2006
- Still paying the price for being young in the preseason, stale against Kansas State, and not clutch at Missouri, KU didn’t make the rankings, placing 27th, one spot ahead of Bucknell.
- New Fed chair vows to work with Congress
- February 7, 2006
- New Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke vowed Monday to do his best to carry out the central bank’s mission of fighting inflation, fostering economic growth and nurturing a healthy jobs climate.
- Defense questions former Enron official’s credibility
- February 7, 2006
- Enron Corp.’s former investor relations chief said Monday he spoke, to no avail, with company founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling about investors’ concerns over murky financial disclosures months before Enron imploded in December 2001.
- Kansas State coach to undergo surgery for bulging disc in neck
- February 7, 2006
- Kansas State basketball coach Jim Wooldridge will undergo surgery Wednesday to remove a bulging disc in his neck, the school announced Monday.
- New prime minister takes oath of office
- February 7, 2006
- Stephen Harper, who promises to mend Canada’s frayed relations with the United States, was sworn in as the nation’s 22nd prime minister Monday, marking the first time in more than 12 years that the Conservative Party will rule this traditionally liberal nation.
- Aviator: Record attempt ‘will be close’
- February 7, 2006
- Aviation adventurer Steve Fossett says he isn’t sure he’ll succeed in his quest to break the 20-year-old record for the longest flight.
- City of Pittsburgh gets needed boost from victory
- February 7, 2006
- For a moment anyway, Pittsburgh can forget the tough times.
- Piazza gets new digits with Pads
- All-Star catcher to wear new number in San Diego: 33
- February 7, 2006
- Mike Piazza has a new home on the West Coast, where he began his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1992.
- In the Halls: What’s a good Valentine’s Day gift?
- February 7, 2006
- Caitlin Bowlin: “The thought that goes into it. It doesn’t have to be big or expensive, just something meaningful.”
- Mavericks prepare for Kobe
- February 7, 2006
- Before the Dallas Mavericks held their last 11 opponents under 100 points, a team-record run that coincides with their NBA-best winning streak, they couldn’t stop Kobe Bryant.
- History project
- February 7, 2006
- To the editor: Recently, the Second Century Fund at St. Luke AME Church sponsored an oral history workshop, in partnership with the Lawrence-Douglas County African-American Families Oral History Project and the Lawrence Public Library.
- Bill would give vets day off on Nov. 11
- February 7, 2006
- It didn’t seem fair to 12-year-old Tanner Burenheide that his father served in two wars but often had to work on Veterans Day.
- SRS call center in rural Kansas proposed
- February 7, 2006
- At the state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, the average child support worker is expected to stay on top of 700 cases.
- Vital trees
- February 7, 2006
- To the editor: I am writing to bring an issue, already the subject of a New York Times article, to the attention of the Lawrence community.
- NASA funds increased
- February 7, 2006
- NASA would get a funding increase to $16.8 billion next year despite a presidential budget that squeezes many domestic programs, under a proposal released Monday.
- Eureka fire kills about 40 horses
- Cause of blaze still under investigation
- February 7, 2006
- A barn fire at Eureka Downs racetrack early Sunday killed about 40 quarter horses, most of them 2-year-olds training to race.
- Big Ben gets shave from Letterman
- February 7, 2006
- Ben Roethlisberger was happy to get rid of his good-luck beard.
- Essays, poems accepted for contest
- February 7, 2006
- “Celebration of Young Writers” will honor Midwest writers with a spring 2006 essay and poetry contest. More than $3,000 in prizes and awards will be awarded to poets, writers and schools from North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.
- Negotiations to revive power-sharing open
- February 7, 2006
- Negotiations to revive a Catholic-Protestant administration for Northern Ireland resumed Monday after a 14-month hiatus caused by the IRA’s alleged record-breaking robbery of a Belfast bank.
- Rockies reward Hurdle
- February 7, 2006
- Colorado Rockies manager Clint Hurdle and general manager Dan O’Dowd agreed Monday to one-year contract extensions through 2007. Hurdle took over as manager in April 2002, and O’Dowd became general manager in September 1999.
- ACC suspends crew
- February 7, 2006
- The referees who worked the Florida State-Duke game were suspended for one game Monday for what the league said was an unnecessary technical foul on a Seminoles player.
- O’s pitcher escapes charges
- February 7, 2006
- Prosecutors dropped drunken driving charges Monday against Baltimore relief pitcher Todd Williams, who was arrested after authorities said he caused a three-car crash in November.
- On the record
- February 7, 2006
- Law Enforcement Report
- Internet Google connects messaging, e-mail
- February 7, 2006
- Online search engine leader Google Inc. is wedding its instant messaging and e-mail services in the same Web browser, hoping the convenience will lure users from the larger communications networks operated by its chief rivals.
- 11 killed in violence preceding Shiite holiday
- February 7, 2006
- Gunmen attacked a home northeast of Baghdad late Monday as the family was performing Shiite religious rituals, wounding six in violence ahead of this week’s major Shiite feast. At least 11 other people died in scattered shootings and bombings, police said.
- Museum packs up art stolen by Nazis
- February 7, 2006
- Vienna’s Belvedere Gallery took down five Gustav Klimt paintings Monday and packed them for return to a California woman whose family owned the works when they were stolen by the Nazis.
- Old Home Town
- February 7, 2006
- 40 years ago in 1966
- Old Home Town
- February 7, 2006
- 100 years ago in 1906
- Recycler ordered to pay $50,000 fine for spill
- February 7, 2006
- A company hired to scrap locomotives for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. has been fined $50,000 for a large spill of diesel fuel, U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren announced Monday.
- Retail Talbots buying J. Jill
- February 7, 2006
- Talbots Inc. said Monday it had agreed to acquire women’s apparel retailer J. Jill Group Inc. for about $517 million, trumping an earlier unsolicited offer from Liz Claiborne Inc., which said it was not inclined to sweeten its bid.
- IRS announces changes to refund fraud program
- February 7, 2006
- The Internal Revenue Service will revamp a fraud detection program and start notifying taxpayers this spring when freezing their refunds for further examination, the nation’s tax collectors announced Monday.
- Wildfire threatens Orange County suburbs
- February 7, 2006
- A Southern California wildfire driven by Santa Ana winds ate through 1,200 acres of wilderness Monday near Orange County suburbs, forcing evacuation of 1,500 homes.
- Lawrence men indicted on drug, firearm charges
- February 7, 2006
- Two Lawrence men were indicted by a federal grand jury Monday, charged with drug and firearm offenses.
- President Carter’s son to run for U.S. Senate
- February 7, 2006
- Democrat Jack Carter, the son of the former president, kicked off his U.S. Senate campaign Monday by calling for a return to “our American values.”
- Officer to discuss mental health teams
- February 7, 2006
- Kyle Shipps, a representative of the Prairie Village Police Department, will address a Wednesday meeting of the Douglas County chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in Room 202 at Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt.
- Crisis team helps LHS students grieve
- February 7, 2006
- An 18-year-old Lawrence High School student, Diana Lucinda Gabrielle Semmler, died suddenly this weekend.
- Atomic agency ordered to remove equipment
- February 7, 2006
- No pictures, please.
- Lost, found
- February 7, 2006
- To the editor: I wanted to write and thank you for your free lost and found column.
- Old Home Town
- February 7, 2006
- 25 years ago in 1981
- Cruise line orders $1.24 billion vessel
- February 7, 2006
- Royal Caribbean International on Monday ordered the world’s largest and most expensive cruise ship, above, a $1.24 billion vessel big enough for up to 6,400 passengers.
- Kansas man dies trying to rescue wife in Hawaii
- February 7, 2006
- Tourists from Kansas and California drowned over the weekend while trying to save the Kansas man’s wife.
- Parents must find balance when it comes to trusting their children
- February 7, 2006
- Dear Marissa and Dr. Wes: I respect that your experience with teens suggests that “trusting” kids often results in their running roughshod over their hapless and unsuspecting parents. However, I remain troubled by this implication of your approach:
- Sooners name Patton
- February 7, 2006
- Oklahoma has hired Northwestern offensive line coach James Patton, 34, to serve in the same position on the Sooners’ football staff. Also, the 2006 Bedlam football game between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State has been moved back to Thanksgiving weekend, officials from both schools said Monday.
- Crisp agrees to one-year deal
- February 7, 2006
- New Boston center fielder Coco Crip avoided arbitration by agreeing Monday to a $2.75 million, one-year contract with the Red Sox. The 26-year-old Crisp was traded to Boston last month after Johnny Damon signed with the Yankees.
- Idaho’s Holt joins Rams
- February 7, 2006
- Idaho football coach Nick Holt, 43, is one of nine new coaches announced by the St. Louis Rams on Monday. Holt, 43, will be defensive-line coach.
- Floyd, Quigley top Skins
- February 7, 2006
- Raymond Floyd and Dan Quigley won the Champions Skins Game on Monday, teaming to win 10 skins and a record $510,000 to beat defending champion Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson in the alternate-shot event. Nicklaus and Watson won eight skins and $260,000.
- Shirt incident spurs cynicism
- February 7, 2006
- I am not cynical enough. Surely those who do not suffer this deficiency have already read conspiracy into the controversy over two shirts last week on Capitol Hill. But my ability to do likewise is impaired by a need to believe my elected leaders are not total horse’s patoots.
- Drug testing set for WBC
- February 7, 2006
- Two players from each team will be tested for banned drugs after each game of the World Baseball Classic. The International Baseball Federation said Monday it would have 80 players tested at random before the tournament, to be played from March 3-20.
- Friedan put words to women’s discontent
- February 7, 2006
- This is what I remembered when the news of Betty Friedan’s death on her 85th birthday came over the Internet. I remembered Aug. 26, 1970, the Women’s Strike for Equality. I remembered Betty Friedan parading down New York’s Fifth Avenue, in the front row, with tens of thousands of exhilarated women behind her.
- Alvamar super in 4th
- February 7, 2006
- Alvamar golf superintendent Dick Stuntz is in fourth place after two rounds of the Golf Course Superintendents Assn. national championship at Redstone Golf Club.
- Senators challenge Gonzales’ defense of eavesdropping
- February 7, 2006
- Under sometimes strenuous attacks from Senate Democrats, and more gentle criticism from three Republicans, Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales Monday defended the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping effort as a vital and legal tool for fighting terrorism, but declined to answer numerous specific questions about the secret surveillance.
- Moussaoui repeatedly ejected from court
- February 7, 2006
- Signaling that he has no intention of putting on a compliant face for the men and women who will decide his fate, accused Sept. 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui began his death-penalty trial Monday by complaining about his appointed lawyers, declaring that he was part of al Qaida and calling the proceedings a “circus” in front of a panel of prospective jurors.
- Violent turn
- There’s no time to waste in turning around a trend of violence that seems to be brewing in downtown Lawrence.
- February 7, 2006
- Local officials often ponder the retail competition and other factors that could negatively impact Lawrence’s downtown, but there is nothing that could spur the area’s demise quicker than a perception - or the reality - that downtown Lawrence isn’t safe.
- Irish bogs keep secrets of the dead
- February 7, 2006
- Every “CSI” episode teaches us that death shall have no dominion over forensic science. And series like “Secrets of the Dead” demonstrate that even the moldiest cadaver can contain a smorgasbord of historical information. So what happens when researchers discover dead bodies that are both prehistoric and nearly pristine?
- States rush to ban funeral protests
- Bills could set up a clash between privacy, free speech rights
- February 7, 2006
- States are rushing to limit when and where people may protest at funerals - all because of a small fundamentalist Kansas church whose members picket soldiers’ burials, arguing that Americans are dying for a country that harbors homosexuals.
- Bush budget plan poses difficult choices during election year
- Document released Monday clamps down on domestic programs, including Medicare
- February 7, 2006
- President Bush sent his GOP allies in Congress an austere budget for next year that is filled with political land mines and flush with difficult choices.
- Transplant patient reveals her face for first time
- February 7, 2006
- The Frenchwoman who received the world’s first partial face transplant showed off her new features Monday, and her scar: a faint, circular line of buckled skin around her nose, lips and chin. But where she once had a gaping hole caused by a dog bite, she now has a face.
- Banaka Okwuone
- Free State’s youth-laden hoops squad counts on three-sport star for guidance
- February 7, 2006
- Ask Banaka Okwuone to offer up a favorite memory from her Free State High athletic career, and she immediately zeroes in on her sophomore basketball campaign and a group of seven seniors who helped ease a youngster’s transition into big-time varsity competition.
- Danes forced to reassess self-image
- Ideals of respect, tolerance tested by 2nd incident critical of Islam
- February 7, 2006
- In the days when Villy Soevndal was traveling the world, the Danish flag on his backpack attracted friendly attention. Today, in much of the world, it would mark him as a target for violence.
- Budget director: Vehicle changes save state millions
- February 7, 2006
- The state is saving $5 million to $6 million a year with improved management of its vehicle fleet, and it captured $28 million in one-time savings from various policy changes, Budget Director Duane Goossen said Monday.
- What was so ‘super’ about the Super Bowl?
- February 7, 2006
- Watching the Super Bowl this year was a bit anticlimactic. The KU-OU game had been played just a couple of hours before - with a thrilling one-point victory for the Jayhawks - so the Steelers-Seahawks game was going to need to be really competitive to compare.
- Unanticipated revenues good news as lawmakers ponder school aid
- February 7, 2006
- State coffers bulged with unanticipated revenues last month, building legislators’ expectations Monday that they’ll be able to meet court mandates on education funding without raising taxes.
- Patrol seeks fuel deals
- February 7, 2006
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.18 at Citgo, Ninth and Iowa streets. If you find a lower price, call Pump Patrol at 832-7154.
- Lawrence resident funds tsunami medical aid
- February 7, 2006
- More than a year after watching helplessly as a massive tsunami destroyed a village, Lawrence businessman Tom Van Holt thinks he has built a foundation for long-term medical care for survivors living in a remote jungle area in southern Thailand.
- Hedican named to squad
- Sabres’ Miller upset to be sliced from United States hockey team
- February 7, 2006
- Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Bret Hedican is going to Turin. Buffalo Sabres goalie Ryan Miller is staying home, and he’s not too pleased about the situation.
- Steelers followed difficult road to crown
- February 7, 2006
- The Pittsburgh Steelers owned the easy road to the Super Bowl all those years they squandered home-field advantage, all those years coach Bill Cowher’s teams couldn’t stand up to the pressure, the moment, the challenge.
- Bling on a budget
- With jewelry from $10 to $260, thrifty gift givers can impress on Valentine’s
- February 7, 2006
- If the Super Bowl seemed like a major sporting event, check your calendar: Valentine’s Day is a week away, and it’s time to get your shopping game plan together.
- KU students help rebuild New Orleans
- Architecture class to design, construct community center for Seventh Ward
- February 7, 2006
- As New Orleans continues picking up the pieces in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hammers are pounding in Lawrence.
- KU leads great divide
- Jayhawks Big 12’s biggest draw; Buffaloes last
- February 7, 2006
- Nobody in the Big 12 Conference draws fans like Kansas University’s Jayhawks, who have a perpetual sellout of 16,300 each and every men’s basketball game at Allen Fieldhouse.
- Detour ahead: 31% of streets need rebuilding
- Ninety miles of city roads are beyond repair; no cost estimate given for replacement
- February 7, 2006
- A new City Hall report shows 31 percent of Lawrence streets have deteriorated to the point they cannot be repaired. Instead, they must be rebuilt.
- Plan prompts concern in Kansas
- February 7, 2006
- Curbs on Medicare spending and agriculture programs in President Bush’s $2.77 trillion budget plan released Monday could mean bad news for a Kansas economy that depends heavily on both.
- North Carolina back in Top 25
- February 7, 2006
- North Carolina rejoined the Top 25 in the Associated Press college basketball poll Monday after a two-week absence while the top five teams remained the same.
- Hollywood private eye indicted
- February 7, 2006
- Celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano was charged Monday with wiretapping such stars as Sylvester Stallone and Keith Carradine and bribing a police officer for dirt on Hollywood figures.
- Business neighbors split on music’s role
- February 7, 2006
- Inside Supersonic Music, 1023 Mass., the debate Monday wasn’t about gun violence and hip-hop music. Here, a customer and a clerk haggled about whether a guitar with a bolt-on neck was any good.
- Tucker lifts UT past Tech
- Junior pulls down 17 boards in 65-44 victory
- February 7, 2006
- Even after P.J. Tucker pulled down a career-high 17 rebounds as part of No. 6 Texas’ record rebound margin, he wasn’t entirely satisfied.
- Chicago may make bid for Gooden
- Hinrich says former KU teammate would be solid addition to struggling Bulls’ team
- February 7, 2006
- There are 17 days remaining before the NBA’s trade deadline.
- LHS girls have shot at state
- February 7, 2006
- Last week I examined how the city high school boys basketball teams, in light of their performances in tournament play this season, might fare once postseason play tips off at the end of this month.
- Cavaliers squeak past Bucks
- James one rebound shy of another triple-double
- February 7, 2006
- LeBron James delivered what meant most him when it mattered most to his team - a go-ahead basket in the final seconds.
- Free State, Veritas win; LHS falls
- February 7, 2006
- The Free State High girls basketball team erased an early deficit and beat Shawnee Mission Northwest, 37-36, in an overtime thriller on the road Monday.
- Bill aims for crackdown on child support
- February 7, 2006
- Kansas parents who fall behind on - or never bothered making - their child support payments may soon find their driver’s licenses restricted.
- Study may lead to consolidation
- Smaller, rural districts may lose funds to urban schools
- February 7, 2006
- It’s referred to as the “C” word and it strikes fear and dread in most legislators.
- KU not ranked - yet
- February 7, 2006
- Victories over No. 19-ranked Oklahoma and unrated Texas Tech weren’t enough to propel Kansas University’s red-hot men’s basketball team into the Top 25 this week.
- Woodling: Wilt lone triplet at Kansas
- February 7, 2006
- Item: Iowa State’s Curtis Stinson became the eighth Big 12 Conference basketball player to record a triple-double Saturday.
- Lawrence Datebook
- February 7, 2006
- Today:Screenings for people 60 and older by the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m., Lecompton United Methodist Church, 402 Elmore St.
- People in the news
- February 7, 2006
- Pesci faces charges of battery on fan
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- February 7, 2006
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