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- Iran threatens end to nuclear inspections, cooperation
- January 14, 2006
- Iran threatened Friday to end surprise inspections and other cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog if it is referred to the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program, and the president vowed his country won’t be intimidated by sanctions.
- KU aide Doeren hired at Wisconsin
- January 14, 2006
- Dave Doeren, Kansas University’s linebacker coach and co-defensive coordinator the past four seasons, is leaving KU to take a similar job at Wisconsin, it was announced Friday. Doeren leaves after helping develop KU’s defense into one of the nation’s best while building the Jayhawks’ foundation through his knack for attracting solid recruits.
- Sharon’s doctors increasingly worried about failure to regain consciousness
- January 14, 2006
- Doctors have increasingly expressed concern that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon shows no signs of waking up from his induced coma, Israeli media reported Friday, as the hospital said the Israeli leader’s condition remained “critical but stable.”
- Militant group claims responsibility for attacks
- January 14, 2006
- A previously unknown Nigerian militant group claimed responsibility Friday for kidnapping four foreign oil workers and blowing up a pipeline - dual attacks that cut Nigeria’s oil output by 10 percent.
- S. Korea, U.S. reach deal on beef imports
- January 14, 2006
- South Korea and the United States agreed Friday on partially ending a two-year import ban on American beef triggered by mad cow disease, the South Korean government said.
- Arizona lawmaker joins race for House majority leader
- January 14, 2006
- Arizona conservative Rep. John Shadegg jumped into the contest to become the No. 2 Republican in the House on Friday, shaking up a touchy contest about the party’s direction in what could be a difficult election year. Shadegg joins Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt and Ohio Rep. John Boehner in the race to replace former Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas …
- Realtors recognize top professionals
- January 14, 2006
- When it rained for Ken Ollila on Friday, it poured. At the Lawrence Board of Realtors annual Installation Mixer at Maceli’s, the Lawrence Realty Associates employee accepted a prize for being a producer of $6 million in sales for the year. Seconds after he sat down again at his table, Ollila received a roaring standing ovation from the room as he was announced as the Salesperson of the Year.
- Army helicopter goes down, killing 2
- January 14, 2006
- Insurgents apparently shot down a U.S. Army reconnaissance helicopter in this northern city Friday, killing its two pilots, in the second fatal helicopter crash in Iraq in less than a week.
- People in the news
- January 14, 2006
- ¢ Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt visit poverty-stricken Haiti ¢ Paltrow confirms pregnancy ¢ Rapper Mystikal sentenced to year in prison in tax case
- Old Home Town
- January 14, 2006
- ¢ 25 years ago ¢ 40 years ago ¢ 100 years
- Horoscopes
- January 14, 2006
- For Saturday, Jan. 14
- Society calendar
- January 14, 2006
- Simons: Education analysis poses difficult choices for Legislature
- January 14, 2006
- The question of how to properly fund Kansas elementary and secondary education will be a major, if not the most difficult, issue facing members of the current Kansas legislative session.
- Tale of the tape
- January 14, 2006
- Valley Falls 61, McLouth 19
- January 14, 2006
- Brown logs 1,000th career victory
- January 14, 2006
- New York Knicks coach Larry Brown thanked all the people who had helped him reach an exclusive club. Brown became the fourth coach in league history to win 1,000 games as the Knicks beat the Atlanta Hawks, 105-94, Friday night for their sixth straight victory.
- Faith forum
- When should my child be baptized?
- January 14, 2006
- ¢ Valid baptism is an act of faith ¢ Baptized receive God’s promise
- Club news
- January 14, 2006
- Funny business
- Humor us while we try to pin down what makes you laugh
- January 14, 2006
- The formula for funny. Comics strive for it. Authors tweak their copy, searching for it. TV networks bank on it. And yet, no matter how many times the chicken crosses the road, a rabbi walks into a bar or a buffoon slips on a banana peel, the formula may never be found.
- Moran says 2006 could be turning point in Iraq
- January 14, 2006
- Rep. Jerry Moran said Friday he is optimistic that 2006 will be a turning point in efforts to form a stable government in Iraq, which could lead to the withdrawal of more U.S. troops.
- On the record
- January 14, 2006
- Lawrence datebook
- January 14, 2006
- 31 and counting …
- Jayhawks hoping to extend dominant streak against KSU
- January 14, 2006
- Kansas University senior Stephen Vinson was 10 years old the last time Kansas State defeated KU in men’s basketball. It was Jan. 17, 1994, when the Wildcats tripped the Jayhawks, 68-64, in Allen Fieldhouse. KU since has rattled off 31 straight victories in the series between the in-state rivals - 11 in Allen Fieldhouse, 12 in Manhattan and eight in Kansas City, Mo.
- Bush rejects German leader’s suggestion to close Guantanamo
- January 14, 2006
- President Bush rejected a suggestion by Germany’s new leader that the U.S. close its prison at Guantanamo Bay, saying after a first meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday that the facility is “a necessary part of protecting the American people.”
- Up to 20,000 acres destroyed in fires
- Oklahoma blazes char more than two dozen homes, businesses
- January 14, 2006
- Firefighters on Friday cleaned up the remnants of grass fires in southern Oklahoma that scorched up to 20,000 acres and destroyed more than two dozen homes and businesses overnight. The worst fire had raged in southern Oklahoma near the towns of Ratliff City and Fox. At one time, the blaze in Carter County was four miles wide and burned at least 20 homes.
- $4M plan would sustain aquifer
- Kansas Water Office also seeks study of riverbed near Lawrence
- January 14, 2006
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and state water officials want to spend $4 million from a court award to reduce pumping of the High Plains aquifer in western Kansas. The proposal is part of a package the Kansas Water Office has before the Legislature this session. It also includes funds to study changes to the bed of the Kansas River between Topeka and Lawrence.
- Largest-ever Habitat project awaiting approval by city
- Plan honoring volunteer would include 16 homes in North Lawrence
- January 14, 2006
- For 15 years, Clay Comfort helped build homes for low-income Lawrence families. Now, some homes may be built in his honor. “It couldn’t be a better way to remember Clay,” said his widow, Ardis Comfort. “I don’t think he would believe it. He would be so pleased.”
- Seabury drops pair
- January 14, 2006
- The Seabury Academy boys basketball team put on a clinic during the second half of Friday night’s battle with Kansas City (Mo.) Barstow. Unfortunately for the Seahawks, it was titled “How to lose your poise come crunch time.”
- Briefly
- January 14, 2006
- Around and About
- January 14, 2006
- Lawful cycling
- January 14, 2006
- To the editor: I have to get this off my chest. Today as I was driving to work, I was sitting at the corner of 13th and Connecticut, at the stop sign, waiting to turn left onto Connecticut. No cars were coming so I started to turn left. A guy on a bike, also on 13th but coming toward me, speeds right through the stop sign on the other side of Connecticut right in front of me.
- Driver killed in one-vehicle accident on county road
- January 14, 2006
- A Douglas County woman died Friday evening after a rollover accident five miles south of Lawrence at a curve on Douglas County Road 460. Medical units and deputies were called at 4:51 p.m. to the scene about two miles west of the Zarco 66 station on U.S. Highway 59, said Lt. Kari Wempe, spokeswoman for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
- Firebirds battle in loss to SM East
- January 14, 2006
- Few coaches would be happy about a loss, but Free State High boys basketball coach Chuck Law was all smiles following the Firebirds’ 63-42 defeat Friday night against Shawnee Mission East.
- Attorneys file pretrial motions in sniper case
- January 14, 2006
- Attorneys for convicted Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad asked a judge Friday for separate trials for the six murders he is charged with in Maryland. Muhammad’s public defenders argued in court documents that a single trial would prejudice a jury with “irrelevant and inadmissible evidence” from the separate crimes.
- Gases poured from mine for hours after explosion
- January 14, 2006
- Hours after an underground explosion, deadly carbon monoxide gas poured from the entrance to the Sago Mine at more than five times the level considered safe for humans, according to government documents released Friday.
- Government dissolved after 2 days of protests
- January 14, 2006
- Mongolia’s parliament dissolved its government after the biggest political party pulled out of the 15-month-old ruling coalition, prompting two days of protests amid complaints about poverty and corruption.
- City revises building report
- Lawrence construction value increases 12 percent in 2005
- January 14, 2006
- Turns out 2005 wasn’t as rough on the Lawrence construction industry as previously thought. Builders, contractors and others involved in the industry took out permits for $131.3 million worth of work last year, up from $117.7 million a year earlier.
- Military news
- January 14, 2006
- Second suspect charged in murder of N.Y. Times reporter
- January 14, 2006
- A second suspect in the beating death of veteran New York Times reporter David E. Rosenbaum was arrested Friday night and charged with felony murder.
- WHO wants to study bird flu crisis areas
- January 14, 2006
- The World Health Organization, eager to get a better understanding of the deadly bird flu strain spreading across Turkey, said Friday it has asked the government for permission to send teams into villages to take blood samples, swab throats and interview families.
- City nears 1953 record for rainy-day streak
- January 14, 2006
- People in water-logged Washington now have official confirmation of something they’ve been suspecting: It’s been raining a lot. This city had its 26th straight day of rain Friday and was just a week short of the 1953 record of 33 consecutive rainy days. Daily rainfall records already have fallen in Seattle and Olympia.
- Democrats to delay first vote on Alito
- January 14, 2006
- Democrats confirmed Friday that they will make a last-ditch attempt to slow Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito’s momentum by delaying the first vote on his candidacy.
- Bills’ coach says it’s time to resign
- January 14, 2006
- Mike Mularkey resigned as coach of the Buffalo Bills following a 5-11 season in which the team missed the playoffs for the sixth straight year.
- Scouting news
- January 14, 2006
- Holiday sales rise
- January 14, 2006
- Retail industry sales climbed 6.4 percent this past holiday season, as a late-December shopping spree helped push past the 6 percent growth expected by the industry, the National Retail Federation reported Friday.
- Veritas splits doubleheader
- January 14, 2006
- Adi Willems had 21 points and 16 rebounds, and Kristie Tiegreen also had a double-double with 14 and 10 for Veritas in a 53-49 overtime victory against Olathe Christian in high school girls basketball Friday. Veritas improved to 6-5.
- List of losers
- January 14, 2006
- To the editor: As I looked over the front page of the Journal-World (Dec. 30) with the list of top 10 most influential Kansans, I don’t know that I find it as much disturbing as just disappointing. I am a married father of three with a graduate degree in technology, work in a large corporate office and care about religion.
- Iraqi infant released from hospital to recover
- January 14, 2006
- The Iraqi infant who underwent surgery for spinal birth defects was released from a hospital Friday to recover at an Atlanta-area home where her father and grandmother have been staying, hospital officials said.
- Pair get probation for stealing from grandma
- January 14, 2006
- A Jefferson County man and his wife have been sentenced to probation for stealing his grandmother’s life savings.
- After years, Big Dig winding to a close
- January 14, 2006
- After more than a decade of ever-shifting traffic detours, the last major piece of roadway in Boston’s Big Dig opened Friday, officials said.
- Bus and train collide, killing at least 21 people
- January 14, 2006
- A bus transporting workers after their shift at a local factory collided with a train Friday in southern Russia, killing at least 21 people, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
- Wholesale inflation spikes for 2005
- January 14, 2006
- Soaring energy prices pushed wholesale inflation up in 2005 by the highest amount since 1990. The Labor Department reported that wholesale prices rose by a bigger-than-expected 0.9 percent in December, closing out a year when wholesale prices rose by 5.4 percent, the biggest advance since a 5.7 percent jump in 1990.
- AT&T chairman coming to Topeka
- January 14, 2006
- Ed Whitacre Jr., chairman and CEO of AT&T, will be in Topeka next week to address business leaders and congratulate a colleague. All less than a mile away from the Kansas Statehouse, where lawmakers soon will discuss his company’s proposal to deregulate phone service in much of the state.
- Volcano eruptions close schools, divert planes
- January 14, 2006
- A volcano on an uninhabited island 180 miles from Anchorage erupted four times Friday, sending plumes of ash more than six miles into the sky. Airplanes were warned to keep at least five miles away from 4,134-foot Augustine Volcano.
- Laura Bush: U.S. will have a female president
- January 14, 2006
- Laura Bush predicted on Friday that the United States soon will have a female president - a Republican, and maybe even Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
- West students march for MLK
- January 14, 2006
- Students from West Junior High School marched from the school at 2700 Harvard Road to the Lied Center for a program to honor Martin Luther King Jr.
- Archbishops support Anglican movement
- January 14, 2006
- Nine Anglican archbishops from overseas are in the U.S. supporting a burgeoning movement that began with Episcopalians disenchanted over liberal theology, including the acceptance of homosexuality.
- Hotel where Hemingway stayed burns to ground
- January 14, 2006
- A hotel that claimed to be a one-time writing headquarters for Ernest Hemingway was destroyed in a fire Friday morning, authorities said.
- Leavenworth Immaculata 56, Perry-Lecompton 54
- January 14, 2006
- Cory McPherson led the Kaws (1-6) with 14 points, and David Foltz scored 10.
- Tyco announces three-way split
- January 14, 2006
- Tyco International Ltd., still recovering from scandals that saw its longtime former chief executive sentenced to prison, said Friday it planned to split into three public companies.
- Reports: Magic’s Francis refused to enter game
- January 14, 2006
- The Orlando Magic indefinitely suspended Steve Francis because he refused to play late in the fourth quarter of a blowout, two newspapers reported Friday.
- Two suspects arrested in Taco John’s robbery
- January 14, 2006
- Lawrence Police have arrested two suspects in connection with a robbery earlier this month at a fast-food restaurant.
- King’s dream was dignity for everyone
- January 14, 2006
- The barber leaned close so the white folks couldn’t hear. How are you adjusting to the culture shock, he asked. Takes some getting used to, I replied. We were two black men in a place - the Appalachian foothills where Ohio abuts West Virginia - that is home to very few people like us. But the culture shock he spoke of wasn’t about race so much as economics.
- Don’t let medical history flare up during job interviews
- January 14, 2006
- Q: I had to resign my management position at a luxury resort due to alcoholism. Since then, I have sought treatment and am an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous. I have more than 20 years experience and always have been successful in my positions, including receiving awards and being promoted…
- People and Places
- January 14, 2006
- Sebelius: State will cover drug costs, as feds fix problems
- January 14, 2006
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Friday said the state would cover drug costs for Kansans having problems getting their medicines because of glitches in the new federal prescription drug program. “It’s appalling to hear that any Kansas senior or disabled person is being forced to go without the prescription drugs they depend on,” Sebelius said.
- Padilla’s purported al-Qaida application released
- January 14, 2006
- Federal prosecutors on Friday released an application to join an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan purportedly filled out by accused terror operative Jose Padilla. The “Mujahideen Data Form” bears the signature of Abu Abdallah al Muhajir, which the FBI says is the Muslim name that Padilla adopted after he converted to Islam.
- Immaculata 42, Perry-Lecompton 42
- January 14, 2006
- Perry-Lecompton’s Megan Blosser led all scorers with 15 points.
- Baldwin sweeps K.C. Turner
- January 14, 2006
- Ellie Meinen and Katelyn Miles led Baldwin High’s girls basketball team (4-3) with nine points apiece in a 51-31 victory Friday over K.C. Turner.
- Ottawa 87, Anderson Co. 54
- January 14, 2006
- Addison Miller scored 16, and Philip Sylvester added 12 for Ottawa (8-1).
- De Soto 38, Osawatomie 36
- January 14, 2006
- Sam Johnson paced De Soto (4-3) with 13 points.
- Tonganoxie 52, Basehor-Linwood 22
- January 14, 2006
- Rachel Bogard led THS (9-0) with 17 points.
- Oskaloosa 53, Troy 46
- January 14, 2006
- Cody Heston scored 15 points, Josh Weis added 13 and Joe Crawford 11 for Oskie.
- Wellsville 64, Prairie View 34
- January 14, 2006
- Thatcher Starling and Colin Wright scored 19 and 17 points.
- Furyk, Campbell lead Sony
- Wie fires second-round 68, but misses cut
- January 14, 2006
- Chad Campbell and Jim Furyk each shot 3-under 67 on Friday and were tied for the lead at the Sony Open going into a weekend that again will not include Michelle Wie. With a 5-foot putt on the 18th hole for her seventh birdie of the round, the 16-year-old Wie finished with a 2-under 68 to match her record from two years ago as the lowest score by a woman competing on a male tour.
- Baldwin 67, K.C. Turner 66
- January 14, 2006
- Baldwin (7-1) edged K.C. Turner on the strength of three scorers in double figures, including Aaron Hannon with 16 points.
- De Soto 51, Osawatomie 50
- January 14, 2006
- De Soto’s Taylor Burnett led all scorers with 21 points.
- HINU women fall
- January 14, 2006
- Sam Pete had 13 points, and Maria Stevens scored 11, but Haskell Indian Nations University fell to College of Saint Mary, 60-48, Friday night in women’s college basketball.
- K.C. Piper 70, Santa Fe Trail 47
- January 14, 2006
- Jake Carter scored 12 and Shawn Conklin 10 for Santa Fe Trail (3-5).
- Spring Hill 69, Eudora 64
- January 14, 2006
- Rodney Spillman led Eudora (7-2) with 17 points.
- Seattle to face physical ‘D’
- Redskin unit was one of few to slow Seahawks RB Alexander
- January 14, 2006
- Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck’s eyes widened. His eyebrows raised. His head shook slightly. He seemed impressed. Not because Seattle is two victories from the Super Bowl. Or because the Seahawks are playing host to a divisional playoff game today at Qwest Field for the first time.
- KU legend
- With her long service and love for KU and Lawrence, Mildred Clodfelter was one of a kind.
- January 14, 2006
- Kansas University and Lawrence lost one of their warmest and most admired ambassadors with the death of Mildred Clodfelter this week. A local high school and KU graduate, she devoted 47 years to KU, 42 of them with the alumni association in many of its most formative and productive years.
- SWAT team officer shoots gun-wielding eighth-grader
- January 14, 2006
- An eighth-grader was shot and wounded by a SWAT team officer in a school bathroom Friday after he pulled out a pellet gun that resembled a real weapon and later raised it at a deputy, authorities said. Sheriff Don Eslinger said the 15-year-old boy brought the gun to Milwee Middle School in his backpack. Eslinger said two students saw it and one persuaded the other to report it, causing a scuffle.
- Infection may be related to overuse of antibiotics
- Bacteria behind intestinal problem appears to be mutating to become more resistant to medicine
- January 14, 2006
- Chances are you’re not a doctor nor play one on TV. That’s why health care professionals are becoming increasingly concerned about patients who go to doctors’ offices certain they need the latest antibiotic to cure everything from pimples to earaches.
- Death row inmate says he’s too old, sickly to die
- January 14, 2006
- California’s oldest death row inmate - a 75-year-old who is legally blind and nearly deaf - is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to do something it has never done before: block an execution because of the condemned man’s advanced age and infirmity.
- VA may relocate psychiatric beds
- Leavenworth services would shift to Topeka
- January 14, 2006
- A proposal to move inpatient psychiatric services for veterans from Leavenworth to Topeka may come to a head during a meeting next week in Lawrence. The move concerns some veterans advocacy groups as well as Veterans Administration union employees.
- Miss America eyes comeback in Vegas
- January 14, 2006
- They’ll tap dance, sing and glide around the stage. They’ll don glitzy costumes, bathing suits and bright smiles in a quest for big money and a chance to see their names in lights. Just don’t call them showgirls.
- Report: U.S. attack targets al-Qaida
- January 14, 2006
- An airstrike in a remote Pakistani tribal area killed at least 17 people, and a senior Pakistani official said today the target was a suspected al-Qaida hideout that may have been frequented by high-level operatives, possibly the No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri.
- Dooling, Allen suspended
- January 14, 2006
- Orlando guard Keyon Dooling was suspended for five games without pay and Seattle guard Ray Allen three for fighting during Wednesday’s game, the NBA announced Friday.
- Education audit sounds familiar to some
- January 14, 2006
- An audit on education funding has legislators discussing how to get more money to public schools, but that audit reached many of the same conclusions as a 2002 study that many legislators have reviled or ignored.
- Serial meetings not on agenda
- January 14, 2006
- Last year, Atty. Gen. Phill Kline came under political fire for holding private meetings with State Board of Education members. Kline denied any wrongdoing, and a prosecutor who was asked to investigate the matter said the attorney general didn’t violate the Kansas Open Meetings Act.
- Is Miller more trouble than he’s worth
- January 14, 2006
- I watched the “60 Minutes” interview with U.S. ski racer Bode Miller on Sunday and, just like you, I had some questions. The first question that came to mind, of course, was this: “60 Minutes” is still on the air? Apparently it is true, although this was somewhat of a shocker.
- Self: K-State will be fired up
- Coach won’t judge Wildcats just on blowout loss
- January 14, 2006
- Bill Self bristled Friday when a reporter suggested that Kansas State didn’t “look like a good basketball team” against Nebraska on Wednesday night. “Everybody has bad games,” Self, Kansas University’s basketball coach, said, commenting on K-State’s 57-42 home loss …
- Has AMC lost its purpose?
- January 14, 2006
- Sometime after host Bob Dorian retired his leather chair, American Movie Channel began to deviate from its “classic” formula. First came the commercials. Then the movies changed from film standards to popcorn fare from the “Porky’s” era.
- Mayer: ‘Road’ paved at KU
- January 14, 2006
- The new film “Glory Road” revives college basketball’s Myth of ‘66. You know, Texas Western (now UTEP) won the 1966 NCAA title by starting five black players and playing only seven, all minorities, to upset all-white Kentucky.
- Lion boys stumble
- Mighty O-South prevails, 77-60
- January 14, 2006
- Lawrence High’s boys played like kings in Tuesday night’s impressive basketball victory over Shawnee Mission East. But the Lions performed like kongs in Friday night’s 77-60 loss to Olathe South in the LHS gym.
- FCE and 4-H news
- January 14, 2006
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