Also from July 22
All stories
- KU releases 2006-07 basketball schedule
- Jayhawks will play on 16 national telecasts
- July 22, 2006
- Kansas University released its 2006-07 basketball schedule this morning, which will feature sixteen national telecasts, a match-up with defending NCAA champion Florida and a home game against 2006 NCAA Sweet 16 participant Boston College.
- On the record
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Krzyzewski takes USA back to basics
- To get back on top, Duke coach sees purpose in taking group of stars all the way to the beginning
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C2
- Every morning, the members of the new Team USA wake up, shower, have breakfast, take the bus and go into a classroom.
- Many in St. Louis still in the dark
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A3
- National Guard troops stepped up their search for people in hot homes without power to run air conditioning Friday as heavy rains and tree-toppling winds added to the misery of the worst power outage in the city’s history.
- People in the news
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A2
- ¢ Farrell’s ‘first stalker’ interrupts TV interview ¢ ‘American Idol’ finalists headed to the White House ¢ Mellencamp’s message too rocky for Quayle
- Flash back to the ‘80s with ‘Vice’
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A2
- Now that we seem to be living in George Orwell’s novel “1984,” isn’t it funny how nostalgic we’ve become for the actual year 1984?
- Food stamp data may have been falsified
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A1
- The federal government is investigating the state welfare agency over allegations of falsified food stamp data, it was confirmed Friday.
- Kansas University spring honor roll
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on D5
- Kansas University recently announced its spring 2006 honor roll. Area students who made the list:
- KU police department gets roomier office
- Officers move from Carruth-O’Leary Hall to former printing-services building, gaining about 3,000 square feet
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B1
- At the old Kansas University Public Safety Office, the evidence-processing room was a converted shower stall.
- Young artists unveil benches
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Jessica Miller, 15, painted a picture on a park bench of a hurricane blowing fiercely on the left side; the right side features a peaceful picture of a house.
- Report touts Lawrence’s 33% recycling rate
- Wal-Mart center was even closed half the year
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A1
- Despite the city’s largest recycling drop-off center being closed for six months, Lawrence still found a way to recycle at above average rates in 2005.
- Wanted: City manager who’s a strong leader
- Commission starts advertising nationally to fill top position
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A1
- City commissioners are now advertising nationwide for a city manager, and they agree that the next person needs to do far more than just manage.
- A life she never dared dream of
- Special-needs students still have rough road
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A1
- Stacy Snider learned the hard way how painful being different can be.
- Royally dedicated to the boys in blue
- For more than two decades, Lawrence woman has been a fixture at Kauffman Stadium
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Finally, the Kansas City Royals won one from the mighty New York Yankees - even if it was just the allegiance of a single, loyal fan.
- Landis knows it’s time to shine
- Today’s sprint likely to decide who will wear yellow Sunday in Paris
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C6
- After a leisurely ride Friday, one of the most dramatic Tour de France editions in years reaches a crucial stage today - the individual time trial.
- Talib lands on preseason Big 12 squad
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Kansas University sophomore Aqib Talib was named to the preseason All-Big 12 Conference football team, the league office announced Friday.
- Kayak demonstrations scheduled at Clinton
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Are you interested in becoming a whitewater kayaker? Then head for Clinton Lake Outlet Park today.
- Bandits remain unbeaten
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C3
- The Lawrence Bandits scored all their runs in the first two frames and left-hander Caleb Gress threw four solid innings to earn a 6-4 victory over host El Dorado in a winners’ bracket showdown at the Class A American Legion state baseball tournament.
- Outlaws eliminated from zone tourney
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Lawrence Outlaws baseball players began to put away their gear Friday.
- Clothes don’t make the man
- It’s Hinrich’s solid game, not fancy threads, that landed him on U.S. national team
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C3
- LeBron will be there. Team LeBron, actually. Heck, one of the media outlets covering the NBA playoffs was LeBronJames.com.
- Rollins blasts Braves
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C4
- Jimmy Rollins had four hits, including a homer, and pinch-hitter David Dellucci delivered a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning to help the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves, 6-5, Friday night.
- Blue Jays gaining on Yanks
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C4
- Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player to reach 450 home runs, but committed his team-leading 18th error in the New York Yankees’ 7-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night.
- Israeli tanks, troops mass on south Lebanon border
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A7
- Israel massed tanks and troops on the border Friday hours after calling up reserves, as the army announced plans for a ground operation to destroy Hezbollah’s tunnels, hideouts and weapons stashes.
- Road now a landscape of death
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A7
- A road of death and desolation coils through southern Lebanon.
- Court of Appeals: Bank isn’t liable for man’s death
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B3
- The Kansas Court of Appeals on Friday agreed with a local judge who ruled that a local bank wasn’t liable for injuries an 81-year-old man suffered in a mysterious fall on the bank’s property a month before his death.
- 4th death blamed on heat
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B5
- An Iola man is the latest victim of the heat wave that gripped Kansas this week, bringing to four the number of confirmed heat-related deaths in the state.
- Never a doubt
- Raiders claim zone tourney with latest double-digit romp
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C1
- It’s nice for a baseball team to know it can still put up 28 runs with one of its best athletes out of the lineup.
- For Amish, there’s little escape from Kansas summer
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B5
- It’s 115 degrees outside, but farmer Kenneth Keim doesn’t begin breaking a sweat until he steps into his slightly cooler dining room.
- Mayer: ‘50 sophs easy group to enjoy
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Some first loves you treasure more with each passing year. That’s how I regard the 1950 Kansas football team, the first one I covered full-time with the Journal-World. These guys were emblematic of the best things you can imagine about Jayhawk football.
- Big names go low on Day 2
- Woods fires early 65; Els answers it to set up weekend duel
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Tiger Woods couldn’t even see the flag, but he knew his 4-iron was close to perfect. Thousands of fans who were crammed elbow-to-elbow on a grassy hillock above the 14th green saw the ball bang into the cup, but they had no idea who hit it.
- Lawrence Datebook
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Jury convicts hunter in attack on farmer
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B2
- A Council Grove man was found guilty Friday of trying to kill a Clay County farmer who had discovered the poacher’s illegal hunting party on his land last November.
- Judge bars enforcing rules limiting speech
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Rules barring Kansas’ judicial candidates from personally soliciting contributions and limiting what they can say during campaigns can’t be enforced because of questions about the rules’ constitutionality, a federal judge has ruled.
- Two plead guilty in rest area death
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Two people pleaded guilty Friday to unlawfully transporting 14 illegal immigrants, including an ill woman who died after being dropped off at a Kansas rest area.
- Girard coach dies of electrocution
- Teenager severely burned in accident with goal post
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C2
- A high school football coach was electrocuted and a teenager severally burned Friday while trying to move a goal post near power lines at the Girard High School practice football field, authorities said.
- Bush administration rejects China labor probe
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A3
- The Bush administration on Friday rejected a petition by American unions seeking an investigation into Chinese labor practices, arguing that there was evidence Chinese practices were improving.
- Three plead guilty to ecoterrorism spree
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Three more people pleaded guilty Friday to being part of an ecoterrorist cell that planted fire bombs across the West.
- Scientists skeptical of new air pollution rules
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A3
- The Bush administration might add to air pollution by making it easier for thousands of aging factories and plants to modernize, scientists say.
- Microsoft developing digital-music products
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it was developing a new family of digital-music and entertainment products that include both hardware and software under a project called Zune.
- Grocery employee stabs 8 co-workers at store
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A3
- A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers Friday, seriously injuring five before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said.
- Phelps group files suit against Missouri law
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A3
- A Kansas church group that routinely protests at military funerals across the country filed a suit Friday in federal court, claiming the Missouri law banning such pickets infringed on the members’ religious freedoms and right to free speech.
- Thousands without power in New York City
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A3
- A mysterious blackout during the hottest week of the year left tens of thousands of New Yorkers without power for a fifth day Friday as residents sweltered, businesses idled and city officials seethed after the power company revealed the outages were 10 times larger than previously reported.
- Commodities
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B4
- New Alvamar board elects corporate officers
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B4
- Members of Alvamar Inc.’s new board of directors elected new corporate officers Friday, but declined to identify them publicly.
- Emmy-winning actor Warden dies
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A2
- Jack Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, has died. He was 85.
- State jobless rate up
- Students create increase in unemployment
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B4
- Students looking for summer work were a root cause for the increase in Kansas’ unemployment rate in June, state officials said Friday.
- British bankers granted bond, must stay in U.S.
- Defendant calls restrictive conditions psychological torture
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B4
- Three British bankers facing Enron-related fraud charges learned Friday that they must stay in the United States pending trial under restrictive conditions that one of them said could be regarded as “psychological torture.”
- $35 million now will buy a walk in space
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A4
- You don’t have to be an astronaut anymore to experience walking in space. All you need is $35 million and the willingness to risk your life.
- Governor orders loan for stem cell research
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A4
- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered a loan of as much as $150 million to the state’s voter-approved stem cell research institute, catapulting California into the lead as the nation’s top public funder of the divisive research.
- FDA warns lunch box manufacturers on lead
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A4
- Soft lunch boxes may be lined with a vinyl containing lead, the government says, but safety officials say the containers pose no immediate danger.
- Three officers arrested on federal drug charges
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A4
- Three Boston police officers accused of taking $35,000 in exchange for protecting a cocaine shipment were arrested in Miami on federal drug charges in an FBI sting operation, authorities said Friday.
- Report: Pentagon allowed sale of sensitive equipment
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A4
- Undercover government investigators purchased sensitive surplus military equipment such as launcher mounts for shoulder-fired missiles and guided missile radar test sets from a Defense Department contractor.
- Sports briefs
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C5
- ¢ Royals’ Sanders on DL ¢ L.A.’s Duncan penalized ¢ Wickman joins Braves
- Gubicza joins Royals hall
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Mark Gubicza looked out of place in his suit and tie, but the 1985 World Series ring on his right hand helped him feel at home.
- Hernandez guides K.C.
- Pitcher solid in return from minors
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Runelyvs Hernandez’s time in the minors seems to have paid off.
- Indonesia confirms another bird flu death
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A6
- The Indonesian Ministry of Health confirmed Thursday the country’s 42nd human death from avian influenza, putting the nation on par with Vietnam for having the highest number of deaths from the virus.
- Death toll from storm jumps to nearly 500
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A6
- China’s death toll from tropical storm Bilis more than doubled to 482 after a hard-hit inland province reported a sharp rise in fatalities, state media said Friday.
- Islamic leader orders war against Ethiopia
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Somalia’s top Islamic leader called Friday for a holy war against Ethiopia to drive out troops the largely Christian nation sent to protect the internationally backed Somali government.
- Coalition soldier killed; NATO mission expands
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A6
- NATO’s top commander said Friday the alliance likely will expand its Afghan mission by year’s end to include the entire country, including the lawless east where militants killed a coalition soldier in the latest fighting.
- Castro visit energizes regional trade summit
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A6
- A rare guest appearance by Cuban leader Fidel Castro has turned a routine trade summit into a politically charged gathering of Washington’s greatest Latin American foes.
- Historic town under protesters’ control
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Protesters have taken over the center of folkloric Oaxaca, making tourists show identification at makeshift checkpoints, smashing the windows of quaint hotels and spray-painting revolutionary slogans.
- Ex-Liberian president gets pretrial hearing
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor complained Friday about “Eurocentric” prison food and limited access to telephones at his first appearance before a war crimes tribunal since being flown to the Netherlands for trial.
- Iraqi army battles gunmen in Shiite neighborhoods
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Iraqi forces backed by a U.S. helicopter battled Sunni gunmen Friday south of Baghdad, and at least 11 combatants died. U.S. troops killed five Iraqis - including two women and a child - in a separate exchange of fire.
- Deputy’s killer gets life term
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B6
- A man convicted of killing a Harvey County sheriff’s deputy will spend the rest of his life in prison, under a sentence imposed Friday.
- Wichita State gets $7.5 million in gifts
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Two Wichita State University graduates have donated a total of about $7.5 million in gifts to the school.
- Power outage blamed on theft of copper wire
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B1
- With temperatures reaching 103, more than 2,600 homes and businesses in North Topeka were without power Thursday afternoon after someone stole copper wire out of utility equipment, police said.
- Course to help families deal with mental illness
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Starting Aug. 1, National Alliance on Mental Illness-Kansas will host “Family to Family,” a 12-week course designed to help families cope with mental illness.
- Legislative report card may not aid higher education effort
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Several years ago, some well-intentioned individuals, concerned about the level of state support for state universities in Kansas, organized Citizens for Higher Education Inc.
- Good books, good times
- Vacation Bible School offers kids a chance for some summer fun blended with a little scriptural growth
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on D1
- Amidst all the fun - the singing, the crafts, the storytelling, the candy, the water-balloon relays - Melissa Eisele was hoping to instill a message in the children who attended Vacation Bible School at First Christian Church.
- Disputed storm claim to be paid
- Insurance company shifts course, says damage from remodeling, not microburst
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B1
- The insurance company that originally denied the claim of a Lawrence family after a beam in their home broke at the time of the city’s March microburst storm has changed its mind.
- Jailer to market anti-suicide invention
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B8
- A Shawnee County Jail employee has invented a device that prevents inmates from hanging themselves from the air vents in their cells.
- Faith briefs
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on D8
- Cartoon Network reanimates Pee-wee Herman
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on D8
- OK, boys and girls. Today’s secret word is “comeback,” and you know what to do every time you read it: That’s right - scream real loud! Let’s try it.
- Faith forum: What is the most misunderstood passage in the Bible?
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on D1
- ¢ Providing for, cherishing and honoring your wife ¢ Greed, not money, is the root of all evil
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B7
- From the Lawrence Daily World for July 22, 1906: “A delivery horse belonging to Searles Bros. meat market became frightened on New Hampshire Street this morning and ran west on Warren to Massachusetts street, where it collided with a horse driven by Mrs. R.T. Raybourn.
- Old Home Town - 25 years ago
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B7
- Calling it “a nightmare for law enforcement,” Douglas County Dist. Atty. Mike Malone said his office was not actively enforcing a new state law prohibiting the sale of drug paraphernalia.
- Bridge stress
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: Two members of the Douglas County Commission voted to close the Lecompton bridge for repairs.
- Theocratic U.S.?
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: I see the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to strip courts of jurisdiction in “Pledge of Allegiance” cases.
- Nursing resources
- Community colleges provide an important training opportunity for Kansas nurses.
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B7
- Grants announced this week as part of a 10-year initiative to address the state’s nursing shortage are attacking the problem on many fronts and likely will be of great benefit to Kansas residents.
- Wedge issues dividing right from far right
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on B7
- So once more we reach into the right-wing toolbox, a political chest so spare that it holds almost nothing but a wide assortment of wedges.
- Horoscopes
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on D7
- For Saturday, July 22
- Society Calendar
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on D5
- Club news
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on D5
- Around and about
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on D5
- Scouting news
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on D5
- Military news
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on D3
- 4-H news
- July 22, 2006 in print edition on D3
- Town Talk: UPDATE: Frank Male files for county commission; keep an ear open for local sales tax talk; city hires new city engineer; wholesale water district buys land near Kaw; weekly land transfers May 29, 2012 · 2 comments
- Tax gamble May 26, 2012 · 83 comments
- Blog: Writing Your Erotica: An Afternoon Lead By Dixie Lubin In The Company Of Other Women May 28, 2012 · 37 comments
- National group seeks repeal of 'Stand Your Ground' law in Kansas May 27, 2012 · 149 comments
- 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
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
- 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
- Fraternal reorder: Clubs, lodges face dwindling membership in modern world January 10, 2010
- Lives forever changed by skywalk collapse July 15, 2001
- Famed author takes on Kansas October 7, 2005
- Book helps family heal after tragedy May 28, 2012
