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Births
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- Engagement: Runyan and Nelson
- Wedding: Lash
- Wedding: Naff and Hanna
- Wedding: LaPierre
- Wedding: Lanius and Paulsen
- Wedding: Troutman
- Anniversary: Meyen
- Anniversary: Erhart
- Wedding: Woods and Dilts
- Engagement: Hemenway and Brune
- Engagement: Trent and Combest
- Engagement: Norman and Anderson
- Engagement: Hashman and Ross
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- 6News Now for July 21
- July 21, 2006
- In tonight’s 6News and tomorrow’s Journal-World, recycling frenzy in Lawrence, the city manager search gets into full gear, and the Governor’s race heats up.
- Morning storm brings relief from heat
- Chance for another round of thunderstorms this afternoon
- July 21, 2006
- Heavy rainfall and thunderstorms blew into Lawrence this morning, finally bringing relief from 100-plus-degree heat that’s been baking the city this week. “We got the rain. And we got the cooler weather,” said Matt Sayers, 6News chief meteorologist. “We ended up with about a half inch here downtown… . It feels very nice out, very refreshing.”
- Alvamar Inc. elects five new board members
- July 21, 2006
- Owners of Alvamar Inc. elected a board of directors with five new faces and two familiar ones during a special meeting Thursday night.
- New faces dominate Alvamar board
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Owners of Alvamar Inc. elected a new majority for its board of directors Thursday night, ushering in a new era of leadership for a company whose two golf courses and country club set the tone for development of much of western Lawrence.
- Woodling: Settlemier adjusting to pros
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Serena Settlemier will go down in history as one of the most splendid players ever to put on a Kansas University softball uniform.
- Gasoline thefts not as common here as in K.C.
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B3
- Gas drive-offs are a big problem across the state line in Kansas City, Mo. - enough so that the city last week required all gas stations to start making customers prepay because of the drain on police resources.
- 21-year-olds find law requiring license renewals a hassle
- Different IDs meant to make it easier to spot underage drinkers
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A1
- Marguerite Schumm, of Lawrence, didn’t know turning 21 could be such a hassle.
- An overnight sensation or nightmare?
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A2
- Is fame a blessing or a curse? In the brazenly unrealistic world of the Disney ‘tween comedies, celebrity comes as easily as water from a tap. Just look at “Hannah Montana,” airing in a six-hour marathon on Disney beginning at 1 p.m.
- Farm store seeks home
- Owner wants Farmland site
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C8
- The owner of a recycling center in Lawrence and a tire shop and farm store in Ottawa is hoping to open up yet another retail shop.
- Stick to 90-day listing
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C8
- Q : Some months ago, you wrote that sellers should never sign a listing contract with a real estate agent that lasts for more than 90 days.
- Night Vision
- Director turns personal bedtime story into supernatural blockbuster
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on D1
- M. Night Shyamalan’s two young daughters insist on hearing a scary story at bedtime.
- ‘Lady in the Water’ steeped in maverick filmmaker’s ego
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on D1
- The movies of M. Night Shyamalan have always been steeped in the supernatural and otherworldly, whether they’ve explored life after death, alien invasions or superheroes.
- Horoscopes
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B5
- For Friday, July 21
- LHS student has a need for speed
- Father’s scare can’t keep Herrington from following in racing footsteps
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C1
- It’s not an easy question to ask of a teenage rookie driver: What do you know about the night your father was trapped in a burning race car and ultimately life-flighted to a trauma center?
- Media say Nebraska, Oklahoma lead league
- Jayhawks tapped fourth in North in preseason poll
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C1
- The media have spoken. Nebraska and Oklahoma are the Big 12 Conference’s top two football teams on paper.
- Sizzling sidewalk sale
- Die-hard bargain seekers take on 102-degree heat
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A1
- Lori Lang did not appreciate the news. Lang, a sales clerk who was staffing the sidewalk sale booth for Prairie Patches on Thursday, had just been told by a reporter that the surface temperature of the sidewalk - at 8:30 in the morning - was 98 degrees.
- Arbitration concludes for fired ex-president of KU Alumni Association
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B1
- The legal battle between the Kansas University Alumni Association and its former president apparently is over - though both sides are mum about the details.
- Firefighters hone water-rescue skills
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B1
- The water near the Bowersock Dam on the Kansas River seemed like a decent place for a reprieve from Thursday’s stifling heat.
- KU looks to open school of pharmacy at Wichita campus
- Shortage of professionals behind planned expansion
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University is working to open a pharmacy school in Wichita, partly in response to a shortage of pharmacists across the country.
- Royals’ speed kills Angels, 9-4
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C5
- The Kansas City Royals feel their speed can force opponents to make mistakes. Thursday night’s 9-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels was a great example.
- Brown willing to lend a hand
- Self excited about having former boss weigh in on current KU program
- July 21, 2006
- Out of coaching for now, maybe forever, Larry Brown will stay involved with the game of basketball during the 2006-07 season.
- Mavericks, Bandits win state openers
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C3
- One out away from a run-rule defeat, the Lawrence Mavericks caught fire and won their Class A American Legion state baseball tournament opener, 14-13 in nine innings, Thursday over Newton.
- Rout suits Raiders just fine
- Lawrence advances to title game with 17-0 win
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Apparently, the Lawrence Raiders prefer shortening the number of innings they are regularly scheduled to play against their opponents.
- Tiger finds a way to go low
- Woods one stroke back as dozens of players shoot in 60s
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C1
- A little rain took the fire and fear out of Royal Liverpool. Still intact was the strange nature of the British Open, such as the peculiar path Tiger Woods took toward the top of the leaderboard Thursday.
- Competitive vibe obvious in Vegas
- Duke University coach Krzyzewski says it’s not tryout situation, but players beg to differ
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C2
- Don’t call it a tryout, coach Mike Krzyzewski insists.
- Defending champ makes right call
- Bohn one shot back in New York after spurning Open
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C2
- Jason Bohn knew in his heart he made the right choice. On Thursday, his golf game confirmed it.
- Report: Drug mistakes injure more than 1.5M annually
- Many errors are preventable
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A1
- Medication mistakes injure well over 1.5 million Americans every year, a toll too often unrecognized and unfought, says a sobering call to action.
- Power outage, heat wave have St. Louis sweltering
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A3
- The governor sent in the National Guard to evacuate people from their sweltering homes Thursday after storms knocked out power to more than half a million St. Louis-area households and businesses in the middle of a deadly heat wave.
- ‘Angel’ Smith mines the home front
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A2
- Before Jennifer Lopez began hawking frocks and perfume, before Sean “Diddy” Combs introduced his Sean John threads, before Kathy Ireland led the charge into supermodel merchandising, there was Jaclyn Smith.
- Israel fights Hezbollah on ground
- U.N. chief Kofi Annan calls for immediate cease-fire
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A1
- Pitched battles raged between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters on the border Thursday, and Israel warned hundreds of thousands of people to flee southern Lebanon “immediately,” preparing for a likely ground offensive to set up a buffer zone.
- Humanitarian disaster looming in Lebanon
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A4
- Fears mounted Thursday that a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in southern Lebanon as Israel sustained its intense bombardment of the area and U.S. Marines landed on the beaches near Beirut to help speed the evacuation of Americans from the war zone.
- Khmer Rouge military chieftain dies at 80
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A7
- Ta Mok, known as “The Butcher” for his brutality as military chief of the communist Khmer Rouge, died today, his lawyer said. He was believed to be 80.
- Council vows response to nuclear package
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A7
- Iran said Thursday it would reply Aug. 22 to the Western incentive package to stop enriching uranium, but it also issued a veiled threat, indicating Tehran will not accept any deal that dilutes its nuclear program.
- U.S., Japan to deploy missile defense systems
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A7
- Amid heightened concerns about North Korean missiles in the region, the United States and Japan will begin deploying advanced, American-made surface-to-air missile defense systems on Japanese soil next month, officials from both countries announced Thursday.
- 3 suspects arrested in Bombay train bombings
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A7
- Police arrested three men in the July 11 train bombings in Bombay, the first formal arrests in the attacks that killed 207, Indian television reported today.
- FBI: Kidnappers release two U.S. missionaries
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A7
- Two North Carolina missionaries kidnapped on their way to church in Haiti’s capital were freed Thursday after their families paid an undisclosed ransom, the FBI said.
- Study shows benefits of playtime for children
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A7
- Doctors may soon have a prescription for health that even kids will like: more playtime.
- Ethiopian troops enter Somalia
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A7
- Hundreds of Ethiopian troops in armored vehicles rolled into Somalia on Thursday to protect their allies in this country’s virtually powerless government from Islamic militants who control the capital.
- Saddam hunger strike hits two-week mark
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A7
- Coffee and water. That’s been Saddam Hussein’s diet since his last real meal July 7, a U.S. military spokesman said.
- U.S. military confirms rise in Baghdad attacks
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A7
- Bombings and shootings soared by 40 percent in the Baghdad area in the past week, the U.S. military said Thursday. An American general said extremists were preparing “an all-out assault” on the capital in a decisive battle for the future of Iraq.
- First U.S. evacuees grateful
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A4
- The first Americans evacuated from battle-scarred Lebanon arrived home Thursday, tired but relieved to put behind them terrifying nights of heavy bombings and house-shaking explosions.
- Lawrence Datebook
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B2
- On the record
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B3
- Birds dying of thirst in Hutchinson because of scorching heat
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B3
- Temperatures that have soared into triple-digits across Kansas this week have forced a large group of egrets into a desperate search for water, killing many and causing problems for locals.
- Sports briefs
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C4
- ¢ Yanks’ Matsui healing ¢ Luis Gonzalez miffed ¢ Nationals shelve Guillen ¢ Wakefield has broken rib ¢ White Sox release Politte
- Blue Jays manager challenged Hillenbrand
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C4
- After Shea Hillenbrand wrote on the clubhouse bulletin board that the “ship was sinking,” Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons challenged him to a fight.
- Padres coach Muser slapped for outburst
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C4
- San Diego Padres bench coach Tony Muser was suspended for one game and fined by Major League Baseball on Thursday for his actions during Sunday’s game against the Braves.
- Bonds homers; S.F. rolls
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C4
- Barry Bonds hit his 722nd career home run hours after the federal grand jury considering possible perjury and tax-evasion charges against him expired without an indictment, and the Giants beat the Padres, 9-3, Thursday.
- Cobb-like slide sparks Tigers
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Ty Cobb would’ve been proud. Marcus Thames’ hard takeout slide broke up a potential, inning-ending double play in the seventh, and Chris Shelton followed with a go-ahead double to give the Detroit Tigers a 2-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Thursday.
- Minor-league game goes 26 innings
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C5
- The Oneonta Tigers beat the Brooklyn Cyclones 6-1 in 26 innings Thursday, the longest game in New York-Penn League history.
- Landis climbs back
- American goes solo for stage victory
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Written off as hopeless just a day earlier, Floyd Landis needed a once-in-a-lifetime ride Thursday to revive his sagging chances of victory in the Tour de France.
- Braves solidify bullpen with trade for Wickman
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Since the start of spring training, Atlanta Braves general manager John Schuerholz has called his bullpen “a work in progress.”
- Bonds probe extended
- Grand jury expires; ‘We are not finished,’ prosecutor says
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C5
- They aren’t through with Barry Bonds, not yet.
- Advocacy group gives grades to lawmakers
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Members of the Douglas County delegation to the Kansas House scored among the best and worst in a rating from a higher education advocacy group.
- 2 Kansas derailments attributed to heat
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Apparently, not even railroad tracks can stand up to the brutal heat wave that hit Kansas this week.
- Deaf dog’s at-large ticket, fine dropped
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B1
- City prosecutor Jerry Little was convinced that Booster, above - the Dalmatian mascot for the Sarcoxie Township’s fire department - probably didn’t run 10 miles from his owner’s home in Jefferson County to the 2000 block of Massachusetts Street around the Independence Day holiday.
- More women using weights to get fit
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Women are pumping more iron, with nearly 1 in 5 doing twice-a-week workouts, a new federal study shows.
- Google earnings beat analyst expectations
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Google’s second-quarter profit more than doubled, maintaining the Internet search leader’s penchant for topping analysts’ high expectations and further underscoring the advantage the company has built over its chief rivals.
- Ex-Navy quarterback acquitted of rape charge
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A3
- A military jury on Thursday acquitted a former Naval Academy quarterback of raping a female midshipman in her dormitory room.
- Senate OKs renewal of Voting Rights Act
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A3
- The 1965 Voting Rights Act, which opened voting booths to millions of black Americans, won a 25-year extension from Congress on Thursday as Republicans sought to improve their standing with minorities before the fall election.
- Governor shuts tunnel under Boston Harbor
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Boston’s Big Dig crisis deepened Thursday when Gov. Mitt Romney shut down the eastbound lanes of a major highway tunnel after two problem bolts were discovered in the ceiling.
- U.S. plans to reduce mad cow testing
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A3
- The Agriculture Department is cutting its tests for mad cow disease by about 90 percent, drawing protests from consumer groups.
- People in the news
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A2
- ¢ Timberlake in love with Spears ‘from the start’ ¢ Tabloid to pay Kate Hudson for libelous statements ¢ Osment hospitalized after flipping Saturn
- Smithsonian director impressed by visit to Kansas Cosmosphere
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A8
- Gen. John Dailey, the director of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, marveled at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center’s displays and restoration work during a tour of the Hutchinson museum.
- Testimony concludes in Yates murder trial
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A8
- Testimony in the Andrea Yates murder case ended Thursday after a nearly monthlong retrial that included some new witnesses but no appearance by Rusty Yates, her ex-husband and father of the five children she is accused of drowning.
- Anti-cohabitation law ruled unconstitutional
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A8
- Unmarried couples can live together in North Carolina.
- Fed chief: High energy prices slow economy
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A8
- Surging energy prices are acting like a double whammy on the country’s economy, crimping growth even as they push up inflation, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday.
- FDA approves using pearly pigments in pills
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A8
- If you think beauty can’t go more than skin deep, swallow this: Health officials on Thursday said drug companies could start gussying up their pills with pigments like those that give cosmetics a pearly sheen.
- Judge halts project because of woodpecker
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on A8
- A federal judge halted a $320 million irrigation project Thursday for fear it could disturb the habitat of a woodpecker that may or may not be extinct.
- Commodities
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C8
- Agency sponsoring child ID program
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C8
- Thomas J. Pollard Farmers Insurance Agency is taking part of a national effort to provide parents with personal digital safety IDs of their children in the event that their child becomes lost or missing.
- Meeting Express Network to discuss laser care
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C8
- The Express Network of the American Business Womens Assn. will meet at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Lawrence Country Club.
- Aul and Hatfield adds office, appraiser
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on C8
- Aul and Hatfield Appraisals LLC announces the opening of a new office in Gardner and the hiring of appraiser Brian Elliot to help handle the company’s rising workload.
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B7
- From the Lawrence Daily World for July 21, 1906: “Mr. George Nicholson of Iola will personally provide the salary of an assistant to Dr. Patton, professor of philosophy and biblical literature at Baker University, because of Dr. Patton’s important work.
- Old Home Town - 40 years ago
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B7
- With only 12 days left before Douglas County voters would go to the polls in the Aug. 2 primary and decide on the proposed $1.25 million Lecompton Bridge, voters still had not been told specifically how the project would be financed.
- Old Home Town - 25 years ago
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B7
- Officials continued to probe the Kansas City Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse which killed 114 and injured some 200.
- Hearing help
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: I have been an avid Kansas University theatergoer and Friends of the Theatre member for many years.
- Sign problem
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: A conversation I heard recently at a convenience store showed a problem with some street signs that I have heard several times.
- Ethical question
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: While watching a discussion on stem cell research, it occurred to me that if I had a baby who was on life support and brain dead I could ask to turn off the life support and donate the baby’s organs or body to research or to the university medical school and this would be an ethical use of this living being.
- Kansas at bottom
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: In Tuesday’s article regarding minimum state wages, no mention was made that $2.65 per hour is the official minimum wage in Kansas.
- Open-door policy
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: Recently, I was doing some shopping downtown and was shocked to see many of the clothing stores on Massachusetts Street with their front doors wide open despite the near 100-degree weather.
- Topeka competition
- The comments of a Topeka official are a reminder that Lawrence must work to remain competitive among real estate developers.
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B7
- A Topeka planning official quoted in Thursday’s Journal-World seemed to be gloating a little about the possibility that his city might be growing at Lawrence’s expense.
- Lebanon’s lack of resolve allows violence
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B6
- Once the region’s business and pleasure center, Lebanon has allowed itself to become the killing ground of the Middle East. Today’s Lebanon is a meeting place for the poisons and hatreds that six decades of conflict have spawned in its own citizens and its neighbors.
- 9-11 film a patriotic triumph
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B7
- I have a long list of favorite patriotic movies, including “Victory at Sea,” “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Sands of Iwo Jima,” but Oliver Stone’s “World Trade Center” is right up there with the best of them.
- Arab reaction offers hope
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on B7
- With bombs and rockets falling and civilians getting killed in three countries, it is hard to see any good news in the Mideast. But amid the carnage, there is hope. Like a ray of sunshine piercing the darkness, some Muslims are beginning to awaken to the danger of the Islamic extremists in their ranks.
- Taking Better care of stressed summer hair
- July 21, 2006 in print edition on D1
- While the health of your locks can suffer in winter because of indoor-outdoor temperature changes and cold, chafing winds, summer’s drying heat and chlorinated pools are much more unforgiving.
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- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012 · 256 comments
- On the street: How did you spend your Memorial Day? May 28, 2012 · 27 comments
- U.S. military sees new appreciation May 28, 2012 · 30 comments
- Remove politics, and redistricting map falls in line May 27, 2012 · 40 comments
- City, county mull upgrade to emergency radio system May 28, 2012 · 8 comments
- Sound Off: How much does the city’s transit system collect in fares compared with how much it costs May 27, 2012 · 130 comments
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- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012
- Friends mourn Lynn Bretz, former voice of KU May 28, 2012
- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp May 29, 2012
- Kansas football scouring country May 29, 2012
- Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down May 28, 2012
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