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- Engagement: Turvey and Kepka
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What do you think of the Flint Hills as a tourist destination?
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| It’s an undiscovered gem hidden in Kansas. | 62% | |
| It’s just miles and miles of grass. | 32% | |
| No opinion. | 5% | |
| Total | 684 | |
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- Heat advisory issued for next two days
- July 15, 2006
- The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory warning for Douglas County as temperatures look to soar past 100 degrees during the next two days.
- Iowa Street wreck kills two Tonganoxie men
- Speed, wet road could be factors
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A1
- Two 21-year-old Tonganoxie men died early Friday when their car collided with a semitrailer near 21st and Iowa streets.
- Yahoo! touts beauty of Kansas prairie preserve
- Flint Hills among Web site’s top five travel destinations
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A1
- The Flint Hills of Kansas are in the same company as Washington’s Olympia State Park, California’s Big Sur, Pikes Peak National Forest in Colorado and the French Quarter of New Orleans as a travel destination.
- Journal-World staffers win contest awards
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B1
- The Journal-World this week collected 10 awards in the National Federation of Press Women’s 2006 Communications Contest.
- Photos at issue in child’s death
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Final trial preparations were made Friday in the case of a Lawrence man charged with murdering his infant daughter through repeated child abuse.
- KU museum touts rare painting
- Spencer unveils piece by Harlem Renaissance artist
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B1
- About 140 Spencer Museum of Art supporters oohed and aahed Friday when they saw the newly purchased painting “The Founding of Chicago” by Topeka native Aaron Douglas.
- Masonic Lodge celebrates sesquicentennial
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Well, this is an odd way to run a secret society. Members of Lawrence Masonic Lodge No. 6 will have an open house at noon today at their center, 1601 W. 23rd St., to celebrate the organization’s 150th year of service in the community.
- Burglar faces murder charge
- Suspect in jeweler’s 2005 death has history of rural thefts
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A1
- A burglar nicknamed “Battle Axe” has been charged in the murder of a retired jeweler found dead more than a year ago in his Lecompton home, Douglas County’s sheriff and prosecutor announced Friday.
- Armstrong’s former team discovers victory
- Landis keeps slim lead in overall standings
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C10
- If Lance Armstrong drops in on the Tour de France as expected next week, he’ll have something to celebrate.
- Arena out as Team USA coach
- National federation decides against renewing contract
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C10
- Bruce Arena experienced unprecedented success as coach of the United States men’s soccer team, including 71 victories during his eight-year tenure and a quarterfinal appearance at the 2002 World Cup.
- Red, white and bruised: U.S. taking beating
- From Wimbledon to wieners, Americans losing across the board
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C8
- On the Fourth of July, a 160-pound Japanese man overcame an American nearly 75 pounds heavier in a hot-dog-eating contest. Silly? Sure. Symbolic, too.
- Barbaro has good day after welcomed night of rest
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C7
- The patient was doing better — and that alone accounted for Dean Richardson’s upbeat demeanor Friday.
- Minor leagues, major revival
- New urban ballparks helping renew interest
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C6
- Sitting at a picnic table above the ballpark’s left-field wall, Susan Schaffer munched on sweet corn and a chocolate chip cookie. Her five boys stood along the fence hoping to catch a home run ball and cheering on the Toledo Mud Hens.
- Maker botches bobblehead
- Brian Roberts doll has wrong skin color; Orioles scramble to alter giveaway
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C6
- Orioles players have joked in the past that they didn’t look like their bobblehead dolls. But when a recent shipment of Brian Roberts bobbleheads arrived, team officials knew something was wrong.
- Sports briefs
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C5
- • Pierzynski’s fine reduced • D’backs reward Melvin with two-year extension • Rios out 10 more days • Orioles demote Cabrera
- Prior back on 15-day DL for strained oblique
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Cubs right-hander Mark Prior went back on the 15-day disabled list Friday, this time with a strained left oblique muscle.
- Myers rejoins Phillies, set to pitch Sunday
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Brett Myers rejoined the team Friday and is expected to pitch Sunday after taking a leave of absence following his arrest on charges that he hit his wife in the face.
- Legal team prepares for possible Bonds indictment
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Barry Bonds’ legal team is preparing for the San Francisco slugger to be indicted as soon as next week and has begun plotting his defense.
- Amid rumors, Bonds gets back to baseball
- San Francisco slugger was unusually silent during All-Star break
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C5
- When baseball’s top talents and famous faces gathered in Pittsburgh this week for the All-Star game, Barry Bonds was nowhere to be seen.
- Carpenter tosses two-hitter
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C4
- Chris Carpenter threw a two-hitter, and David Eckstein had four hits to help the St. Louis Cardinals to their fifth straight victory, 5-0 over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.
- Yanks halt Contreras’ streak
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C4
- Melky Cabrera’s RBI single put the Yankees in front during a three-run eighth inning and New York hung on to beat the Chicago White Sox 6-5 Friday, snapping Jose Contreras’ 17-game unbeaten streak.
- Kinsey signs deal with ABA Wrangelers
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Mario Kinsey, a two-sport standout who started his college career at Kansas University, became the first player to sign with the Waco Wranglers — his hometown team in the American Basketball Assn.
- Langford suits up for Sonics summer team
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Former Kansas University guard Keith Langford is on the roster of the Seattle SuperSonics team that opened play Friday in the Rocky Mountain Review and will run through July 23 in Salt Lake City.
- Gooden antsy about contract
- Cavaliers have yet to make offer to restricted free-agent forward
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C3
- The Cleveland Cavaliers settled their major offseason issue by signing LeBron James to an extension earlier this week. Now their focus is directed on signing restricted free agent Drew Gooden, but the negotiations are dragging.
- Mayer: NBA talk should be silenced
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Let’s hope a 2006-07 Kansas University basketball team with all the ingredients to dominate its league and even win a national title does not face constant distractions because of speculation about who will and won’t turn pro.
- Iverson says he’ll move on if that’s what 76ers want
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Speculation during the offseason on whether the 76ers are going to trade Allen Iverson is as much a part of summer as water ice, the Jersey Shore and the Phillies fading in the National League East standings.
- Bet on Bonds to make early exit
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C2
- An Internet Web site is taking bets on whether Giants slugger Barry Bonds will be indicted by a federal grand jury before July 31.
- Heat exhaustion sidelines Wie
- Sixteen-year-old golfer withdraws from John Deere Classic
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C2
- Missing yet another PGA Tour cut was the least of Michelle Wie’s worries.
- Hinrich hopes to cash in
- Former Jayhawk will stay busy with Team USA this summer
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C1
- In an ideal world, Kirk Hinrich would have his contract extension out of the way by the time he begins practicing Wednesday with USA Basketball’s Senior National Team.
- No relief in sight
- Guillen’s blast caps Detroit’s rally
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Carlos Guillen just wanted to make contact against Jeremy Affeldt and then did much better.
- On the record
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Failing grade on No Child Left Behind could redirect money
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B2
- The U.S. Department of Education says Kansas gets a failing grade when it comes to meeting No Child Left Behind mandates. And that could cause the Kansas State Department of Education to lose out on a big chunk of federal funding.
- Lawrence Datebook
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Bush refuses to press Israel for cease-fire
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A8
- President Bush refused to press Israel for a cease-fire in Mideast violence Friday, risking a wider breach with world leaders at a weekend summit already confronting crises with Iran and North Korea.
- Israel strikes Hezbollah leader’s headquarters
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A8
- Israel bombed the home and office of the leader of Hezbollah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, in southern Beirut on Friday and tightened a land, air and sea blockade of Lebanon in an intensifying assault launched after the militant group abducted two Israeli soldiers.
- ‘Cyberbeggers’ seek funds for fertilization
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B6
- The idea still holds a bit of novelty, though Shelton and Brandi Koskie aren’t banking on that alone. Rather, the Wichita couple are hoping the generosity of strangers is what ultimately pays off.
- Hearing scheduled on services for aging
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B3
- A public hearing on proposed services under the Older Americans Act for 2007 will be Friday.
- Special city meeting to discuss land purchase
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B3
- City commissioners plan a special meeting at 6:15 p.m. Monday so they can have a closed-door executive session with Douglas County commissioners to discuss a possible real estate acquisition.
- Man who raped, killed boy put to death
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A5
- Making no final statement and keeping his eyes trained on the ceiling, William “Junior” Downs was put to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 kidnapping, rape and murder of a 6-year-old South Carolina boy.
- Head of Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund steps down
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A5
- The head of a Katrina charity established by former Presidents Bush and Clinton resigned Friday under duress following the exodus of seven members of one of its committees.
- Plame: Those who leaked her identity are ‘shameful’
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A5
- Valerie Plame on Friday called Vice President Dick Cheney and alleged leakers who blew her cover as a CIA spy “reckless” and “shameful.”
- Ex-teacher who had sex with student gets 7 years
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A5
- A former teacher who already has served jail time for having sex with a 13-year-old student was sent to prison for more than six years Friday for violating her probation by sending the boy nude photos of herself.
- Court reinstates Neb. gay marriage ban
- Tennessee voters given say on issue
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A5
- Courts handed victories to gay-marriage opponents in two states Friday, reinstating Nebraska’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage and throwing out an attempt to keep a proposed ban off the ballot in Tennessee.
- Engineers watching shuttle leak for problem
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A4
- While astronauts set a record for using robotics in space, NASA engineers on Friday focused on a slow leak aboard space shuttle Discovery that if it worsens could cause a first-of-its-kind shutdown of one of three hydraulic systems during Monday’s landing attempt.
- Forensic psychiatrist: Andrea Yates not insane
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Believing that Satan wanted her to drown her five children, Andrea Yates knew killing them was wrong and therefore wasn’t insane as defined by law, a forensic psychiatrist testified Friday during her second murder trial.
- Neighbors sue doctor in house explosion
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A3
- The next-door neighbors of a New York doctor sued him Friday, claiming the violent explosion that turned his Manhattan town house into rubble this week damaged their cooperative apartment and forced them to leave it.
- Wrongly released inmate pleads guilty to murders
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A3
- A man who killed three people after being mistakenly released from prison pleaded guilty Friday to murdering two of them, a pregnant woman and her husband.
- Newspaper cutting 120 jobs by end of year
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A3
- The Chicago Tribune will eliminate about 120 jobs, or about 4 percent of its work force, by year’s end as part of parent Tribune Co.’s plan to cut $200 million in costs, the newspaper said Friday.
- Firefighters make progress in battle against huge wildfires
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Thousands of firefighters aided by aircraft worked Friday in fierce heat to keep two big wildfires from gaining a foothold in the heavily populated San Bernardino Mountains, where millions of trees killed by drought and bark beetles could provide explosive fuel.
- Officer charged with raping 4 women
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A3
- A police officer arrested after he was spotted lurking outside a home was charged Friday with raping four women since 2002.
- Serial killer reports have city on edge
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A3
- People aren’t going out alone at night anymore. Co-workers are walking to their cars in pairs in the evenings. Parents aren’t letting their children out of their sight.
- Gas company faces suit for deadly explosion
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B4
- Triumph Foods is suing Missouri Gas Energy, claiming four counts of negligence in a deadly explosion during the construction of a pork processing plant in October.
- Prepayment will be the rule at K.C. gas stations
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B4
- City officials hope a new ordinance requiring prepayment at gas stations will reduce drive-offs — and drive down police costs.
- Teen pleads guilty in pregnant girl’s death
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B4
- A Wichita teenager pleaded guilty Friday to capital murder for plotting with two others to kill a pregnant 14-year-old girl.
- Olathe land donation is major event for KSU and Kansas
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Thursday’s announcement that the city of Olathe would donate approximately 100 acres of prime land to Kansas State University and the Kansas Bioscience Authority is a truly major development.
- People in the news
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A2
- • Gene Simmons shows his parenting skills in new series • Mr. T takes off gold chains after Katrina destruction • Screenwriter files suit over ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’
- Showtime’s ‘Brotherhood’ on network
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A2
- Summer doldrums always have inspired programming experiments. Some figure that, because nobody’s watching anyway, let’s try something really different.
- Split: Jackson, adviser awarded money
- Jury pleased pop star wasn’t in court
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A2
- In a split decision Friday, a civil court jury awarded a former Michael Jackson adviser $900,000 — far less than he claimed in the money dispute — and awarded the pop star $200,000 in his cross-complaint.
- Four arrested in lobbyist’s death
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B8
- David Owen told a Kansas City newspaper earlier this year that his frequent run-ins with homeless men he said he was trying to help prompted his father to buy a funeral plot in case one of them killed him.
- Interim government boycotts peace talks
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A9
- Somalia’s nearly powerless government said Friday it would boycott peace talks with an Islamic militia that has seized control of most of the country’s south, noting the group wanted to topple the leadership and had massacred civilians.
- Suicide bombing kills prominent Shiite cleric
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A9
- A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the home of a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Friday, killing the cleric and a bodyguard and triggering a riot in this southern Pakistani city.
- Rebels clash with troops, 16 killed
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A9
- Sri Lankan government troops clashed with Tamil Tiger rebels Friday in the worst fighting since a cease-fire halted the civil war in 2002, leaving as many as 16 dead, officials said. The military said 13 soldiers were missing.
- Outrage follows photo of princess’ final moments
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A9
- Princess Diana’s sons spoke out Friday to protect the memory of their mother, condemning the decision of an Italian magazine to print a photograph taken moments after the car crash that claimed her life.
- Laura Bush visits HIV-infected orphans
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A9
- Laura Bush danced and played with HIV-infected orphans on Friday and said it is her wish to see a generation of children free of AIDS.
- Iraqi army struggles to lure, keep Sunni Arabs
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A9
- Their televised graduation was supposed to be a moment of national celebration: A class of 1,000 Sunni Arab soldiers emerging from basic training would show Iraqis that the country’s worsening religious divide was not afflicting the national army.
- France, president celebrate Bastille Day
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A9
- France celebrated Bastille Day on Friday with President Jacques Chirac overseeing the traditional military parade for what could be the last time.
- U.S., Japan push for vote on N. Korea tests
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A9
- The United States and Japan on Friday insisted that the Security Council vote within one day on a proposed resolution condemning North Korea’s missile tests, despite an apparent deadlock with China and Russia over the document.
- India: Bombers had help from Pakistan
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A9
- The bombers who targeted Bombay’s rail system had support from inside Pakistan, India’s prime minister said Friday, warning that the nuclear-armed rivals’ peace process could be derailed unless Islamabad reins in terrorists.
- FDA panel votes against ‘bionic eye’
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A6
- In the 1970s TV show “The Six Million Dollar Man,” the strapping young astronaut got a bionic eye. A U.S. company had hoped that next year that might be your grandmother.
- Carbon monoxide in dorm kills one, leaves more than 100 sick
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Carbon monoxide leaked into a Roanoke College dormitory early Friday, sickening more than 100 teens and adults attending summer programs. One man was found dead.
- Bouncer charged in three murders at club
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A6
- A bouncer accused of gunning down a man outside a trendy lounge was charged Friday with murdering one of the club’s other security workers and two other men in separate incidents.
- 911 call for ‘cute’ deputy gets woman arrested
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on A6
- A woman who called 911 to get “the cutest cop I’ve seen” sent back to her home got a date all right — a court date.
- Commodities
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B5
- Attorneys share expertise, experience
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B5
- Three attorneys from Stevens & Brand LLP, Lawrence, recently presented continuing legal education topics during the Kansas Bar Assn.’s annual meeting in Overland Park.
- Thousands of beef plants opt out of Japanese trade
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B5
- When Japan banned U.S. beef in 2003 because of mad cow fears, the industry braced for a big financial hit, with job losses spilling into Midwest feedlots, supply companies and retailers.
- Horoscopes
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on D7
- For Saturday, July 15
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B7
- From the Lawrence Daily World for July 15, 1906: “The State Society of Labor and Industry has collected statistics showing Kansas is making big strides as a factory state, with packing houses and mills becoming the major factors.
- Old Home Town - 40 years ago
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B7
- Plastic pipe in new building installations got a qualified OK from local officials after several hearings on the matter.
- Old Home Town - 25 years ago
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B7
- Their tempers wearing thin after nearly three hours of debate, city commissioners narrowly rescinded a building permit and halted indefinitely the construction of a 20-unit apartment complex in the Bluffs area near Sixth and Iowa streets.
- Cutting city costs
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: In the July 8 Journal-World, City Manager David Corliss said, “This is an eat your vegetables before you eat your dessert type of budget.” I suggest the following before the city raises any fees or taxes.
- Muddy trail
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: I regularly exercise along the Naismith Valley Park trail. After every significant rainfall, a low area of the trail just east of 27th Street fills with mud (possibly due to the poorly contained runoff from the new construction at 27th and Ousdahl Road).
- A matter of perspective
- Despite his bloody past, Genghis Khan now is celebrated as the father of the Mongol Nation.
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B7
- World leaders of all kinds sometimes wind up with admirers no matter how criminal their behavior.
- U.S. must get handle on Iraqi civilian deaths
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on B7
- Several episodes of alleged murder by U.S. soldiers in Iraq are making headlines.
- Society calendar
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on D5
- Bridge club news
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on D5
- Around and about
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on D3
- Club news
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on D3
- FCE news
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on D3
- Military news
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on D3
- Scouting news
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on D3
- Kansan masterpieces on display in El Dorado
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on D1
- In Lawrence, Gene “Yogi” Williams is best known for the “Fighting Jayhawk,” the fierce-eyed mascot that represented Kansas University during World War II.
- Youth movement
- Churches hope to draw younger adults to clergy
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on D1
- At age 30 and wrapping up his final year of seminary, Erik Fish is a bit of an anomaly.
- Lawrence congregation prepares to celebrate 100 years of fellowship
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on D1
- Townsfolk pretty much thought West Side Presbyterian Church members were crazy when, in 1906, they built a church way out on the west edge of town: at Sixth and Maine streets.
- Faith briefs
- July 15, 2006 in print edition on D8
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