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- Bankruptcies
- March 5, 2006
- KU club lacrosse falls
- March 5, 2006
- Kansas University’s women’s lacrosse club rallied from a three-goal deficit but fell, 6-5, to Missouri on Saturday at Broken Arrow Park. Maddie Meyers scored twice for the Jayhawk club (3-1), and Lisa Allen, Crystal Thomas and Stacy Seglem each scored a goal.
- Some scientists say soda causes obesity
- March 5, 2006
- Low-fat, low-cal, low-carb. Atkins, South Beach, The Zone. Food fads may be distracting attention from something more insidiously piling on pounds: beverages.
- Notebook
- March 5, 2006
- Kansas University’s basketball players were talking more about clinching the Big 12 Conference crown than extending the school’s win streak over Kansas State in Manhattan to 23 games and counting.
- Schmidt, Sheets hurl
- March 5, 2006
- Jason Schmidt and Ben Sheets each took a promising first step as they work their way back from injuries that curtailed their 2005 seasons.
- South Dakota may restart abortion battle
- March 5, 2006
- It’s not as if getting an abortion in this state is easy now.
- Baldwin shooting leaves one dead
- Suspect in custody after fleeing to Okla.
- March 5, 2006
- Gunshots broke up a birthday party early Saturday in a quiet Baldwin neighborhood, killing an Olathe man and sending shock waves through the small community south of Lawrence.
- Funding risks
- It’s too bad that neither the farmer who needs a tractor nor the state that needs to increase school funding has enough money in the bank to just write a check to cover the cost.
- March 5, 2006
- Kansas Sen. Ralph Ostmeyer, R-Grinnell, wasn’t the only state legislator questioning how the state would pay for a three-year school funding plan, but the example he chose to illustrate his point didn’t seem particularly apt.
- Bowlers sixth at state
- March 5, 2006
- Free State High’s boys bowling squad scored a team total of 2,466 and finished sixth at the state tournament on Saturday. Lawrence High’s Jessica Wyatt was the top city girls finisher, placing 16th after a 565 series.
- Town to elect mayor using instant runoff
- March 5, 2006
- Runoff elections are typically cumbersome processes, taking weeks and sometimes months to determine a winner. Burlington is going to do it all instantly.
- Tar Heels spoil Devils’ Senior Night
- South Florida gets first league victory at Georgetown’s expense
- March 5, 2006
- North Carolina’s precocious freshmen earned another victory on the road, in perhaps the toughest setting.
- Bush policies have historical parallels
- March 5, 2006
- Taft + Wilson + Kennedy + Nixon = Bush 43. The political calculus is often unpredictable.
- Keegan: Big game by Rush helps KU
- March 5, 2006
- The Bramlage Coliseum crowd was stoked. Just as in the game in Allen Fieldhouse, the Kansas State deficit was shrinking in a hurry, this time all the way down to three points.
- The Motley Fool
- March 5, 2006
- ¢ Prepare for Disability ¢ The Churned Investor ¢ Drip, Drip, Drip ¢ Foolish Trivia ¢ Illinois Tool Works
- Virus can be dangerous for infants
- March 5, 2006
- It usually starts with a runny nose. Nothing out of the ordinary - just like a common cold.
- Horoscopes
- March 5, 2006
- For Sunday, March 5
- Faces and places
- March 5, 2006
- Champs!*
- *-KU clinches share of title with victory over ‘Cats
- March 5, 2006
- Kansas University’s basketball players didn’t clip the nets to celebrate winning the 2005-06 Big 12 Conference championship Saturday afternoon in Bramlage Coliseum.
- Spreading the wealth
- March 5, 2006
- In the Oscar-winning comedy “Annie Hall,” the jittery comedian played by Woody Allen takes a shot at Hollywood.
- Exhibit offers look at top book designs
- March 5, 2006
- Graphic design students, professional designers and book lovers in the Lawrence area will soon have a chance to view the latest award-winning book and jacket designs from some of the nation’s scholarly presses.
- KU student wins piano competitions
- March 5, 2006
- James Cockman III, a Kansas University graduate student in piano performance, has won two top competitions and will be performing in Kansas and Missouri during March and April.
- What are you reading?
- March 5, 2006
- KU speech features ex-Iraqi nuclear scientist
- March 5, 2006
- Mahdi Obeidi, Saddam Hussein’s former chief nuclear scientist, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Budig Hall on Kansas University’s campus.
- Baroque music concert planned today
- March 5, 2006
- The Spencer Consort will present a performance titled “The Italian Style in Baroque Music” today at the Spencer Museum of Art Central Court.
- U.N. agency lacks food to feed Kenyans
- March 5, 2006
- The U.N. food agency will soon run out of food needed to feed some 3.5 million Kenyans facing prolonged drought because it has received a fraction of the required funding, officials said Saturday.
- China’s leaders pledge rural aid for poor as health crisis increases
- March 5, 2006
- There are no official statistics tallying the toll in suffering, but by most accounts, after nearly two decades of neglect, China is confronting a rural health crisis on a monumental scale.
- Woods takes two-shot lead at Doral
- Beem, Chopra tied for second; Mickelson four back
- March 5, 2006
- The showdown turned into a circus act late Saturday afternoon at Doral until Tiger Woods came through with a risky shot into the 18th green and restored order to a jumbled leaderboard.
- SFT boys tumble; Baldwin girls stifled
- March 5, 2006
- The Class 4A boys basketball sub-state championship game came down a final shot by Santa Fe Trail’s top scorer, Jake Carter.
- Mass. St. high on police radar
- Where do Lawrence Police issue the most speeding tickets? An analysis finds the top 10 spots for catching speeders.
- March 5, 2006
- A two-block section of Lawrence’s main drag is the main place in the city for police to catch speeders.
- Central Command chief expects more symbolic bombings
- March 5, 2006
- Iraq can expect more bombings like the one at a Shiite Muslim shrine that set off fighting between Shiites and Sunnis, the chief of the U.S. Central Command said Saturday.
- Brown says his health will allow him to coach
- March 5, 2006
- Larry Brown revealed his ongoing medical problems were not debilitating enough to keep him from coaching the Knicks.
- People in the news
- March 5, 2006
- ¢ Gibson to speak Maya in upcoming ‘Apocalypto’ ¢ Voight: Ring from role as pope ‘makes me better’ ¢ Lovett to receive award for contribution to Texas film
- Buffett: Berkshire board OK’d mystery successor
- March 5, 2006
- Billionaire investor Warren Buffett assured stockholders in his annual letter Saturday he knew who would replace him as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. if “I should die tonight.”
- Chieftains get no time to rally
- March 5, 2006
- Down by one point and only :00.3 on the clock.
- U.S. pitchers will be on short leash
- March 5, 2006
- Phoenix No matter how good Jake Peavy or Roger Clemens pitch for the United States, their appearances in round one of the World Baseball Classic will be brief. The rules insist on it.
- Al-Qaida No. 2 criticizes West
- March 5, 2006
- Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri criticized the West for its insult to Islam’s prophet, complaining in a video broadcast today on Al-Jazeera that the Prophet Muhammad and Jesus “are not sacred anymore.”
- Lawrence commuter report
- March 5, 2006
- The following construction projects may affect commuter traffic in the region this week.
- Time to move SLT
- March 5, 2006
- To the editor: Two days ago I had occasion to drive from South Iowa Street to Wakarusa Drive via the western half of the South Lawrence Trafficway.
- Church members aim to blanket area with compassion
- Women at Stull United Methodist Church gather to sew quilts for people in need
- March 5, 2006
- Amid the low humming of three sewing machines Saturday, Rita Lesser helped put the finishing touches on a few fresh quilts.
- Aggies finish strong
- March 5, 2006
- Texas A&M’s hopes for a strong conference finish didn’t look so good after losing three of its first four Big 12 games.
- Unfair bashing
- March 5, 2006
- To the editor: The Feb. 26 editorial bashed Al Gore for bashing the United States in a meeting he attended in Saudi Arabia.
- KU graduate to sign new memoir on cancer
- March 5, 2006
- Thomas E. Brown Jr. will read from, discuss and sign his new book titled “Men Bleed Too: A Compelling Story About One Man’s Struggle to Help His Wife Fight Breast Cancer!,” from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday.
- Jayhawks split at Tulsa
- March 5, 2006
- Kansas University’s softball squad split a pair of games Saturday at the Best Western Airport Festival, beating No. 17-ranked Nebraska, 4-0, but losing to Notre Dame, 5-2, in the nightcap.
- Rangers stop K.C.
- March 5, 2006
- Adam Eaton allowed two runs and four hits over 21â3 innings in his Texas spring-training debut, and the Rangers beat the Kansas City Royals, 9-8, Saturday.
- Tamil rebels killed in checkpoint ambush
- March 5, 2006
- An armed group attacked a Tamil Tiger rebel checkpoint Saturday in eastern Sri Lanka, killing two guerrillas in what the rebels called a “serious” violation of the country’s cease-fire.
- Police arrest suspect in bank heist probe
- March 5, 2006
- Detectives investigating Britain’s largest cash robbery arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of robbery Saturday in south London, police said.
- Children’s book moves to nonfiction section
- March 5, 2006
- A children’s book about two male penguins that raise a baby penguin has been moved to the nonfiction section of two public library branches after parents complained it had homosexual undertones.
- Fire traps worker atop power plant smokestack
- March 5, 2006
- A fire broke out in a 1,000-foot-tall smokestack under construction at a coal-fired power plant Saturday in Moundsville, W.Va., trapping four contract workers, officials said.
- Bush plans trip to vote in Crawford
- March 5, 2006
- President Bush added a side trip to his Texas ranch to vote in Tuesday’s Republican primary after aides apparently forgot to order an absentee ballot.
- UNC graduate charged with attempted murder
- March 5, 2006
- A recent University of North Carolina graduate was charged with nine counts of attempted murder Saturday, a day after authorities say he drove through a popular campus spot in an attempt to avenge Muslim deaths.
- Jayhawk senior Bacchus qualifies for NCAAs
- March 5, 2006
- Kansas University senior Charisse Bacchus qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the long jump Saturday at the Alex Wilson Invitational in South Bend, Ind. Bacchus’ leap of 21 feet, 3â4 inches topped the field and beat her previous high of 20-9.
- New Web site focuses on Kansas amphibians
- March 5, 2006
- A new Internet site features informational maps about amphibians, reptiles and turtles in Kansas.
- Event offers overview of Japan’s economy
- March 5, 2006
- Kansas University’s Center for East Asian Studies will host “Viewpoint Japan III: Is Japan’s Economy Back? ‘Outsider’ Opportunities in the Japanese Services Market” at 8 a.m. Tuesday at the Dole Institute of Politics.
- Neighbors hope music will drive away vagrants
- March 5, 2006
- Residents of a Hartford neighborhood hope Beethoven and Mozart will help drive drug dealers and prostitutes out of a park.
- Associate vice provost candidates to visit
- March 5, 2006
- Kansas University has named its two final candidates for the position of associate vice provost for student success.
- Baby’s remains found on residential road
- March 5, 2006
- The body of a newborn baby that had been crushed by a car was discovered Saturday lying on a residential street, officials said.
- Soul Food Dinner slated for Saturday
- March 5, 2006
- The Lawrence branch of the NAACP will raise money for its scholarship fund with the annual Soul Food Dinner Saturday.
- Douglas County burn ban lifted after rainfall
- March 5, 2006
- Saturday morning’s rain had a hand in the Douglas County Commission’s decision to lift the county’s burn ban.
- Edwards focuses on character, not issues
- March 5, 2006
- “Sometimes,” says John Edwards, “people need a breather.” He is not talking about himself, although surely he needed one after his brief rocket ride through the upper atmosphere of national politics. That ride ended - or perhaps paused - when the Kerry-Edwards ticket lost. The people who Edwards thinks really need a breather from presidential candidates are the voters.
- KU engineering prof joins national academy
- March 5, 2006
- Kansas University distinguished professor Paul Willhite is the fourth KU professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
- On the record
- March 5, 2006
- Both sides of frontier battle show savagery, bravery
- March 5, 2006
- Few travelers driving home to Kansas from Colorado would be tempted to take the two-hour detour north from Burlington to visit Beecher Island, though the site of the extraordinary battle is prominently marked on the map. It’s a long trip through an almost featureless landscape to see a remote, negligible spot.
- Investigation: Thousands of defendants’ cases kept secret
- March 5, 2006
- Despite the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of public trials, nearly all records are being kept secret for more than 5,000 defendants who completed their journey through the federal courts over the past three years.
- U.S. general lauds Iraqi troops’ response
- Armed forces can continue handling violence, he says
- March 5, 2006
- Iraq’s president said Saturday he had been assured that American troops will stay in his country as long as needed, while at least 14 people were killed in explosions and gunfire nationwide as vehicle restrictions were lifted in Baghdad.
- Bush, Pakistani president pledge closer cooperation
- March 5, 2006
- Standing together in the war against terrorism in one of its hottest battlefields, President Bush and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday pledged closer cooperation in the war and in efforts to root out its cause.
- School pop warnings, Pepsi funding send mixed messages to students
- March 5, 2006
- I recently read a news item in an area paper that dealt with the controversy surrounding the type of snack foods and drinks available in schools. An administrator proudly pointed out the purchases that had been made with franchise fees and sales revenue; he then stated that the students “would just buy the candy somewhere else.” That rationalization is a variant of, “They’ll do it anyway,” which is tied for first place in the Lame Excuse Hall of Fame with, “Everybody else does it, too.”
- Analysis: U.S. cast wide net while fighting war on terror
- March 5, 2006
- New documents on the Guantanamo detainees suggest the Bush administration has cast a wide net in its war on terror. But the U.S. often has come up empty as American troops picked up suspects with descriptions as varied as a Kazakh apple seller and a Pakistani millionaire.
- Criminal probe ordered into Pat Tillman’s death
- March 5, 2006
- The Army is opening a criminal investigation into the friendly fire death of former NFL player Pat Tillman to probe whether negligent homicide charges should be brought against members of his Ranger unit who killed him in Afghanistan nearly two years ago, according to defense officials.
- Study will examine traffic, development along U.S. 24-40
- March 5, 2006
- An upcoming study of how to balance the needs of high-speed traffic with development pressures along the U.S. Highway 24-40 corridor in Leavenworth County could be completed by spring 2007.
- Retiring not Maddux’s focus
- Cubs pitcher worried about this year, not next
- March 5, 2006
- After spending much of last summer fending off rumors he was pondering retirement, Greg Maddux made a preemptive strike at the start of spring training, declaring this to be his “free-agent” year.
- Review: Unique Irish jigs inspire audience to dance
- March 5, 2006
- Those at the Lied Center on Friday night were treated to a little bit of Irish dancing, some bluesy guitar, a touch of flamenco and some smokin’ fiddlin’ by Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul.
- KU soccer ties Gophers
- March 5, 2006
- Kansas University’s soccer squad tied Minnesota, 1-1, Saturday at KU Soccer Complex. Sophomore-to-be Sara Rogers scored the Jayhawk goal in the first half. KU’s next spring match will be April 1 against Yale in Omaha, Neb.
- U.S. sees India as nuclear ‘good guy’
- March 5, 2006
- The World Economic Forum at Davos offers an annual barometer of which countries are considered most dynamic.
- Homeland Security funds under review
- Sebelius to ask whether state agency could be more cost-effective
- March 5, 2006
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will ask the state Homeland Security Council to examine how Kansas spends its federal homeland security grant money and whether it could be more cost-effective.
- Workers deserve 401(k) advice
- March 5, 2006
- It seems like common sense: The 42 million Americans who will need their 401(k)s to pay the bills in retirement ought to get some sound advice.
- More couples say ‘I do’ to prenups
- Lawyers, advisers see documents as investments in financial security
- March 5, 2006
- Put yourself in Anna Nicole Smith’s stilettos. At 26, you marry a Texas oil tycoon more than 60 years your senior. He dies a short time later. A decade goes by, and you’re still wrangling with your stepson over the multimillion-dollar estate, all the way to the Supreme Court. It could have been avoided if you and your octogenarian fiance had drawn up a prenuptial agreement.
- KU baseball washed
- March 5, 2006
- Saturday’s baseball game between Kansas and Western Illinois was rained out. The teams will play a doubleheader at 10 a.m. today at Hoglund Ballpark.
- Stories emerge from Guantanamo detainees
- March 5, 2006
- A hardened holy warrior, eager to kill U.S. troops. An Afghan peasant concerned only with feeding his family. A wealthy Londoner who says he spied for British intelligence.
- Patrol seeks fuel deals
- March 5, 2006
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.24 at Citgo, Ninth and Iowa streets. If you find a lower price, call Pump Patrol at 832-7154.
- Democrats hope to seize Election Day
- GOP not concerned by party’s national troubles
- March 5, 2006
- With Republicans getting hammered on the national level, Kansas Democrats should feel good about their chances this year of whittling into the GOP’s dominance of the state. Right?
- Kidd does it all in Nets’ victory
- Triple-double, defensive suggestion lift New Jersey
- March 5, 2006
- Jason Kidd had his fifth triple-double of the season, but his biggest contribution might have come during a fourth-quarter timeout.
- Female motorcyclists rev up in numbers
- March 5, 2006
- When Roe Hyer was diagnosed with breast cancer so advanced that doctors gave her only a month to live, the single mom decided to finally start living.
- KU jacked for ‘Jank’
- Self motivates with joking oratory
- March 5, 2006
- Bill Self didn’t give a stirring speech to inspire his Kansas University basketball players before Saturday’s KU-Kansas State game at Bramlage Coliseum.
- O-South ends LHS boys’ season
- March 5, 2006
- Lawrence High boys basketball coach Chris Davis can count on one hand the number of times he felt his team was flat-out beat during the 2005-06 season.
- Seminar addresses challenges faced by women in politics
- March 5, 2006
- It takes a lot to run a successful campaign, whether you’re running for dogcatcher or governor.
- KSU faithful wanted sweep
- March 5, 2006
- Less than 11 minutes showed on the clock, and a sellout crowd had to be thinking of a historical sweep Saturday in Bramlage Coliseum.
- Commentary: NFL labor dispute all about greed
- March 5, 2006
- They can’t be this greedy. Or this dumb.
- Lawrence datebook
- March 5, 2006
- McCarthy’s ‘Dirty Love’ earns worst-picture Razzie
- Schneider named worst actor for ‘Deuce Bigalow;’ Cruise wins award for most tiresome tabloid target
- March 5, 2006
- Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Paris Hilton won worst-of prizes Saturday at the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof mocking the worst of 2005.
- Poet’s Showcase
- March 5, 2006
- “In a Chinese Restaurant” by Michael L. Johnson
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