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- KU will hold classes Tuesday
- March 13, 2006
- Kansas University will reopen tomorrow following Sunday’s storm, which did about $6 million damage to campus buildings, according to early estimates.
- Stormy game day anecdotes
- What hoops did you jump through to watch the Big 12 Championship game?
- March 13, 2006
- Readers share their game day/storm day stories.
- Central, New York schools bear brunt of storm damage
- March 13, 2006
- Three, 500-pound ventilator units that, until Sunday morning, had been atop Central Junior High for almost 85 years are gone.
- Power restored to New York Elementary
- Central Junior High to remain closed
- 01:42 p.m., March 13, 2006 Updated 06:48 p.m.
- Power has been restored at New York Elementary school.
- Concealed carry bill advanced
- March 13, 2006
- House members today advanced a bill that would allow Kansans to carry concealed guns.
- Power slowly being restored to Lawrence
- March 13, 2006
- Thirty-two Westar Energy crews continue to work in Lawrence today to restore power to more than a thousand homes.
- Sex predator’s case will be heard by Supreme Court
- March 13, 2006
- The Kansas Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments on whether sex predator Leroy Hendricks can live in Leavenworth County.
- KU suffers $6 million in damage from storm
- 10:28 a.m., March 13, 2006 Updated 12:08 p.m.
- Kansas University campus sustained at least $6 million dollars of damage from Sunday's storms, officials said Monday morning.
- No storms in forecast
- March 13, 2006
- Sunday's powerful storms are gone, but their effects linger. Winds in excess of 70 miles per hour rattled the city, causing widespread damage. Power is still being restored to many residents, and KU has cancelled classes, as have the Lawrence public schools New York School and Central Junior High School.
- Serious business
- Some “kidding” is far out of line and deserves significant penalties.
- March 13, 2006
- How can anyone of sound mind be dumb enough these days to try to play a “joke” by faking a bank robbery or claiming to possess a bomb or weapon when getting on an airplane.
- Commentary: New-to-Kansas family survives first severe storm
- March 13, 2006
- The hail was banging against our bedroom windows and thunder clapped just before 7 a.m. Sunday morning. The storm was loud.
- Boater classes upcoming
- Courses cover navigation, trailer usage, safety tips, self-rescue
- March 13, 2006
- Wildlife and Parks will conduct boater-education classes Saturday and again May 20 in Lawrence.
- Senator calls for censuring Bush
- March 13, 2006
- A liberal Democrat and potential White House contender is proposing censuring President Bush for authorizing domestic eavesdropping, saying the White House misled Americans about its legality.
- Arizona, Webb smother Royals
- March 13, 2006
- Diamondbacks opening-day starter Brandon Webb threw four shutout innings in Arizona’s 5-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday.
- Storm-watchers are surprised by severity
- March 13, 2006
- Tornado sirens intended to warn residents of coming storms sounded several minutes after severe weather hit the area Sunday morning.
- Storm topples 135-year-old church spires
- March 13, 2006
- Two of the four spire-topped brick towers on the east side of historic Plymouth Congregational Church downtown were toppled by high winds Sunday.
- Deadly bird flu found in Myanmar, Cameroon
- March 13, 2006
- The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was detected for the first time in poultry in Myanmar and Cameroon, officials in the two nations said, in the latest sign of the disease’s expanding range in Africa and Southeast Asia.
- Take responsibility
- March 13, 2006
- To the editor: What kind of man refuses to support his child (Journal-World, March 9)?
- Woman killed while seeking shelter in her mobile home
- March 13, 2006
- Severe storms across the Midwest spawned tornadoes that killed three people.
- Railway plans new hub near Gardner
- March 13, 2006
- BNSF Railway is considering building a $200 million intermodal shipment center on a site southwest of Gardner, close to the Gardner Municipal Airport, city and economic development officials said.
- Old home town - 100 years ago today
- March 13, 2006
- From the Lawrence Daily World for March 13, 1906: “Arrangements have been made for Lawrence to play baseball this summer in the Kaw Valley Amateur League along with Tonganoxie, Eudora and Bonner Springs. There will be two to three games a week and there should be great entertainment. … Interstate Commerce Commission inquiries into oil rates resumed in Kansas City today with E.L. Willhoyt, an independent oil dealer in Springfield, Mo., testifying that John D. Rockefeller gained his riches by sandbagging his rivals with shady dealings.”
- Cover for Bush
- March 13, 2006
- To the editor: Sen. Pat Roberts has once again provided cover for the Bush administration’s questionable acts.
- Field ready to go in revamped tournament
- March 13, 2006
- Cincinnati, Maryland, Michigan and Louisville were seeded No. 1 Sunday in the revamped National Invitation Tournament.
- Iranian leaders rule out deal with Russia
- March 13, 2006
- Iran ruled out a Russian proposal aimed at easing tensions over its nuclear program Sunday, drawing criticism from a senior lawmaker in Moscow who said the decision destroyed the last chance for compromise before the U.N. Security Council takes on the issue this week.
- Missouri changes catfish limits
- March 13, 2006
- Channel catfish and blue catfish are among the most sought-after fish species in Missouri. Now, creel limits for the two species have changed.
- Commercial projects, rules for subdivisions on table
- March 13, 2006
- The Lawrence Douglas-County Planning Commission will meet twice this week to consider approval of several commercial projects and the new Lawrence and Douglas County Subdivision Regulations.
- Wild pitches deadly
- No. 2 Clemson capitalizes on Czyz’s wildness to hold off Jayhawks
- March 13, 2006
- Kansas University’s baseball squad couldn’t hold on thanks to two Don Czyz wild pitches, allowing No. 2-ranked Clemson to score two eighth-inning runs and prevail, 4-3, in the rubber match of a three-game series Sunday.
- Jayhawks drop another dual, this time to Oklahoma State
- March 13, 2006
- The Kansas University women’s tennis team just can’t put together a complete dual.
- On the record
- March 13, 2006
- Gillispie emotes happily
- A&M coach thrilled Aggies made field
- March 13, 2006
- Texas A&M waited 19 years for a trip back to the NCAA Tournament, so what was another few minutes?
- Pendleton’s landmark towering silos destroyed
- March 13, 2006
- The two 60-foot-tall silos that helped Lawrence area gardeners and asparagus lovers find Pendleton’s Country Market, 1446 E. 1850 Road, are gone.
- Out of character
- A proposed addition to the former Carnegie library building makes no attempt to fit with the structure’s historical character.
- March 13, 2006
- It is difficult to understand how the proposed addition to the city’s Carnegie library building at Ninth and Vermont streets can pass the various local hurdles associated with preserving historical properties.
- Old home town - 25 years ago today
- March 13, 2006
- While some colleges and universities in America had been shifting away from the more traditional curricula over the years, Kansas University appeared to have done a much better job of sticking with “the basics,” and as a result provided a much better education than the majority of schools, a study indicated. Jerry Hutchison, acting vice chancellor for academic affairs, said KU had always required certain courses to give students a broad educational background upon graduation and that such a policy would continue.
- Tips for filing an insurance claim for storm damage
- March 13, 2006
- Here are some tips from the American Red Cross about how to properly report an insurance claim after a natural disaster.
- NYPD: Indictment to be sought against bouncer
- March 13, 2006
- Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Sunday authorities would seek an indictment against a bouncer with a long rap sheet, the prime suspect in last month’s gruesome slaying of a graduate student.
- Leader: Ports deal still could move forward
- March 13, 2006
- Congress will closely watch a Dubai-owned company to be sure it transfers its U.S. port operations to an American company, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday.
- Pretax health plans see rapid growth
- March 13, 2006
- Nearly 3.2 million people were covered by high-deductible health plans in January, according to America’s Health Insurance Plans, a national trade association of health benefits companies.
- Hollywood waddles through weak 2006
- March 13, 2006
- Moviegoing fell to its lowest level in nearly a decade while the costs to market films continued to increase, especially for smaller, specialized ones, the Motion Picture Association of America said last week.
- Fire survivor picks through ashes of house
- March 13, 2006
- The lone survivor of a rural house fire that killed nine of his relatives stood in the ashes Sunday recalling his frantic attempt to rescue them the day before.
- Rice: U.S. hopes to give more aid to Palestinians
- March 13, 2006
- The United States hopes to find a way to increase humanitarian donations to the Palestinians following Hamas’ election victory, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.
- Old home town - 40 years ago today
- March 13, 2006
- Eudora Swimming Pool Inc. needed about 15 more full memberships to qualify for a loan to build a public pool in the city. Also to be included were a bath house, baseball park, picnic area, horseshoe pits and adjacent parking.
- Five militants convicted of plotting terror attacks
- March 13, 2006
- Five Islamic militants were convicted Sunday of plotting terrorist attacks on Jordanian intelligence agents, foreign tourists and upscale hotels and sentenced to prison terms ranging from 10 years to life.
- Eudora City Council to review pool plans
- March 13, 2006
- Tonight might be the last time to dive right in with input for a new swimming pool and recreation facility in Eudora.
- Early polls carry little clout
- March 13, 2006
- Polls say the darndest things. Take the idea that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is the front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. He does get the best numbers in some recent surveys, but some believe skepticism about those numbers might be in order.
- Pulse calendar
- March 13, 2006
- Ex-‘Seinfeld’ co-star plays up neuroses
- March 13, 2006
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars in “The New Adventures of Old Christine” (7:30 p.m., CBS) as Christine, the divorced mother of 8-year-old Ritchie (Trevor Gagnon). Mother and son live with her seemingly unemployed and unattached brother, Matthew (Hamish Linklater), who serves as a pinch-hit babysitter and recipient of Christine’s many confessions, no matter how inappropriate or wince-inducing.
- Hurricanes don’t spur policy rush
- March 13, 2006
- Hurricanes and flooding raged for many Americans last year, but that hasn’t prompted a run on flood insurance.
- Gas prices up 11 cents
- March 13, 2006
- Retail gas prices across the country climbed an average of 11 cents in the past two weeks, according to a new survey.
- An airplane encounter affirms homebody status
- March 13, 2006
- I flew up to Grand Forks, N.D., last week on one of those little regional jets that put you in an intimate relationship with your seatmate. Mine was a slim young man in black horn-rims who was studying a legal pad with math formulas on it. Halfway to the Forks, he asked the flight attendant for aspirin. He had an accent. “What is he saying?” she asked me. “Aspirin,” I said. I guess she thought we were friends since we were in each other’s laps. So she found some aspirin.
- Colts’ James signs with Cardinals
- $30 million contract lures pro bowler away from Indy
- March 13, 2006
- The Arizona Cardinals have hollered to anyone who would listen that they are serious about building a winner.
- Registrations taken for Day of Caring
- March 13, 2006
- Roger Hill Volunteer Center announces the 2006 Day of Caring, from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 29. Registration forms are being accepted for individuals and groups interested in volunteering for this annual event that brings together hundreds of organizations, businesses, families and individuals to spend the morning volunteering on behalf of dozens of community organizations. Projects may include painting, cleaning, archiving, organizing and yard care on behalf of local nonprofit organizations and community members in need.
- Seven workers fall from roller coaster
- March 13, 2006
- Seven carnival workers fell from a roller coaster Sunday while testing the ride for the upcoming Miami-Dade County Fair, authorities said.
- Loitering limits at shelter sought
- Lawrence City Commission agenda highlights • 6:35 p.m. Tuesday • City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets • Sunflower Broadband Channel 25 • Meeting documents online at www.lawrenceks.org
- March 13, 2006
- Commissioners will consider approving a condition that would limit the ability of residents of the Lawrence Community Shelter from loitering in the shelter’s yard or front porch area.
- Arrived late, left early
- March 13, 2006
- Man, was I looking forward to playing in a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, any WPT event. I had not played in a history-making event with a huge prize pool since November, and the Commerce Casino’s $10,000 buy-in L.A. Poker Classic proved to have an especially huge prize pool, including $2.4 million for first place. After skipping five major events in January, and watching my contemporaries like Daniel Negreanu, Scotty Nguyen and Michael Mizrachi win, I was raring to go!
- People in the news
- March 13, 2006
- • Sean Connery recovering after surgery for kidney tumor • ’50s pinup star getting hit on more now than in her prime • Star says she’s never lacked confidence, ‘trust in universe’ • Film director leads rally before presidential election • ‘Incredible Hulk’ star sues brother over image rights • Auction featuring Beat works raises funds for Katrina victim
- Mourning heats up
- Backup center leads Miami; Shaq sits
- March 13, 2006
- Alonzo Mourning sparked a fourth-quarter surge while Shaquille O’Neal watched from the bench, and the Miami Heat earned their latest come-from-behind victory Sunday by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers, 98-92.
- KWPC to hold public hearing
- March 13, 2006
- The Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commission will conduct a public meeting and hearing Thursday at the Kansas History Center in Topeka.
- Special turkey hunt for youths slated at Clinton Reservoir
- March 13, 2006
- Clinton Reservoir will be the site of a special youth turkey hunt April 8.
- Tribunal: Preliminary tests show Milosevic suffered heart attack
- Spokeswoman: Too early to tell if former leader was poisoned
- March 13, 2006
- A heart attack killed Slobodan Milosevic in his jail cell, the U.N. war crimes tribunal said, citing preliminary findings from Dutch pathologists who conducted a nearly eight-hour autopsy Sunday on the former Yugoslav leader.
- Diver Topol 13th at zone diving meet
- March 13, 2006
- Kansas University senior Casey Topol was the lone Jayhawk to compete on the final day of the NCAA Zone D Diving Regional on Sunday.
- Put experience to work when job hunting
- March 13, 2006
- I’m a 58-year-old executive assistant who lost her job due to layoffs and can’t find a new job. I know that it’s all about age discrimination. I feel that nobody wants an older executive assistant. Your realistic thoughts, please.
- Storm sweeps through Mo., Kansas City
- March 13, 2006
- The storm system that battered Lawrence on Sunday morning swept into northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri on winds that knocked over airplanes at the downtown Kansas City, Mo., airport and ripped roofs off homes, businesses and the Great Wolf Lodge Indoor Water Park in Kansas City, Kan.
- Bradley breathes easily
- KU’s first foe happy to be tapped
- March 13, 2006
- A bubble team from a mid-major seeking an at-large bid? Cue the sweat glands.
- Weather delays start of spring drills
- March 13, 2006
- Kansas University’s scheduled football practice Sunday — which was to be open to the public — was postponed after inclement weather left many of KU’s athletic facilities unusable.
- Simple filtering treatment offers better way to treat heart failure
- March 13, 2006
- An amazingly simple method of filtering excess fluid from the bloodstream appears safer and far more effective than the “water pills” that have been used for decades to treat hospitalized heart failure patients, doctors reported Sunday.
- Women’s golf 10th at ‘Mo’morial
- March 13, 2006
- Kansas University’s women’s golf squad placed 10th out of 18 teams Sunday after the final round of the “Mo”morial at Traditions Golf Club.
- McCain is all but announced
- March 13, 2006
- Officially, he is not yet running and won’t make up his mind until after the fall elections, but in a recent interview in his Senate office, McCain sounded as if an announcement of his candidacy is merely a formality.
- Saddam could testify at trial today
- March 13, 2006
- Saddam Hussein’s trial entered a new phase Sunday as three of his co-defendants testified for the first time, denying they had any role in the killings and arrests of Shiite Muslims in the 1980s.
- Keegan: Robinson helps KU up ladder
- March 13, 2006
- Finally, Russell Robinson encountered something on a basketball court that fills him with fear.
- Study: News outlets covering fewer stories
- March 13, 2006
- Consumers can find news in many more places these days, but paradoxically are seeing fewer stories covered with less depth, a study issued on Sunday has concluded.
- Some locks, some shocks
- No. 1 seeds ho-hum, but questionable picks plentiful
- March 13, 2006
- The madness was on before the first tipoff. This year’s NCAA Tournament draw was a mix of power and unpredictability, with the top seeds surprising no one — and the rest of the field stirring all the debate.
- Fans, peers remember Puckett
- 15,000 attend two-hour ceremony in Metrodome
- March 13, 2006
- Kirby Puckett was known for his eagerness, enthusiasm and exceptional ability to play baseball, as well as a perpetual smile and a passion for other people.
- Dozens killed in attack on Shiite slum in Baghdad
- March 13, 2006
- The feared resumption of mass sectarian violence erupted Sunday in a Baghdad Shiite slum when bombers blew apart two markets shortly before sundown, killing at least 44 people and wounding about 200.
- Service to certify e-mails legitimate
- AOL, Yahoo trying to cut spam
- March 13, 2006
- Daina Avizonis has learned to approach her inbox with a wariness normally characteristic of members of a bomb squad. The 41-year-old Redwood City, Calif., scientist scans the name of each sender, and if it is not someone she recognizes she zaps the message.
- No surprises for Big 12 in NCAAs
- March 13, 2006
- Dallas The NCAA Tournament bracket had no surprises for Big 12 Conference, only the revelation of when, where and against whom Kansas University, Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M will be playing.
- Bonds homers in rare exhibition at-bat
- March 13, 2006
- San Francisco manager Felipe Alou didn’t have Barry Bonds in his original lineup Sunday. He was certainly glad he went to a new version that included the slugger.
- City’s Special Olympians headed to national contest
- March 13, 2006
- Two athletes will represent Lawrence this summer at a lesser-known Olympic competition.
- KU-Texas notebook
- March 13, 2006
- Jeff Hawkins wore an American Airlines Center net around his neck during his postgame interview session with reporters in a giddy winner’s locker room Sunday afternoon.
- Jayhawk faithful wary of Kansas’ first-round foe
- March 13, 2006
- When the names Kansas University and Bradley University flashed on the television screen Sunday announcing the pairing for the NCAA Tournament first-round game Friday in Auburn Hills, Mich., a few muted cheers filled Henry T’s Bar & Grill, 3520 W. Sixth St.
- Nebraska will keep Collier
- March 13, 2006
- Barry Collier will be retained as Nebraska’s head basketball coach for at least another year, ending weeks of speculation about his status.
- Longhorns didn’t ‘tough it out’
- March 13, 2006
- Big 12 Conference Player of the Year P.J. Tucker won the award as much for his toughness as anything, so he knows toughness when he sees it.
- Wright starts, finishes
- Freshman’s passing, dunking dandy
- March 13, 2006
- Not all zone-busters roam outside the three-point semicircle waiting for the ball to be swung back around to them for open shots.
- Redick, Duke win ACC again
- Devils hold off BC; Iowa, Florida take titles
- March 13, 2006
- Mike Krzyzewski sat at the podium with four of his seniors, basking in the glow of another Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship.
- Ex-Afghan president escapes attack; bombing kills four U.S. soldiers
- March 13, 2006
- A roadside bomb killed four U.S. troops passing by in an armored vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the deadliest attack on coalition forces in a month.
- Spring break-ins: Student homes easy pickings for thieves
- March 13, 2006
- Kansas University students are targets of property crime year-round, whether they’re away on vacation or they’ve just left a bike unattended for a few minutes.
- Missouri Valley lands four in NCAAs
- March 13, 2006
- Even with a conference record-breaking number of NCAA Tournament bids, Sunday still was bittersweet for the Missouri Valley Conference.
- Quoting Shakespeare
- You use The Bard’s words more often than you might think
- March 13, 2006
- Wednesday is the ides of March. Most people — and certainly those who read William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in school — know that means the ominous March 15, or the day Caesar was killed.
- Ninth-inning RBI lifts A-Rod, U.S.
- Japan’s go-ahead run in eighth overturned
- March 13, 2006
- Even the Americans figured they caught a break.
- Mothers of autistic children join forces
- Parents exchange strategies, ideas for helping youngsters
- March 13, 2006
- Two-and-a-half years ago, Rebecca Dority and her son Isaac walked into a room full of children.
- Capitol Briefing
- News from the Kansas Statehouse
- March 13, 2006
- • At-risk may be at risk • Not germane • Quote of the week • Things to watch
- KU sports facilities suffer storm damage
- March 13, 2006
- Three Kansas University sports venues suffered damage during Sunday morning’s storm.
- No stranger in a strange land
- Novel reflects Indian student-turned-KU prof’s integration into America
- March 13, 2006
- Swapan Chakrabarti traded Sunday dinners for lessons in driving his American roommate’s Cadillac.
- Bradley fills KU’s dance card
- Jayhawks get No. 4 seed, trip to Auburn Hills, Mich.
- March 13, 2006
- In a great mood after watching his Kansas University Jayhawks beat Texas for the Big 12 Conference tournament title, coach Bill Self remained cautiously upbeat after watching the NCAA Tournament show with his players, coaches and family members Sunday in American Airlines Center.
- Horoscopes
- March 13, 2006
- For Monday, March 13
- Lawrence datebook
- March 13, 2006
- Obama not the Democratic messiah
- March 13, 2006
- Barack Obama is not Jesus.
- High winds pummel city
- Morning storm hits without warning
- March 13, 2006
- A brutal storm rattled much of the Lawrence area Sunday morning, damaging homes, businesses and schools all over the city. Straight-line winds with speeds of 70 miles per hour or more shook houses and knocked down trees and utility poles throughout the city. Transformers exploded and caught on fire as falling tree limbs ripped power lines from their posts, some hitting homes or crushing cars.
- Commentary: Coach has Bruins on the right track
- Howland’s tactics boosted UCLA to Pac-10 Conference title; Oakland regional is up next
- March 13, 2006
- They hugged here, they howled here, the UCLA basketball team filled Staples Center with a thunderclap of an eight-clap that shook the seats here.
- Fight in the making over legislation that could limit claims on workers’ comp
- March 13, 2006
- A workers’ compensation battle brewing in the Legislature pits employer groups against injured workers, defense attorneys against plaintiff’s attorneys and Republicans against Democrats. And it promises to get ugly.
- Go ahead, get down
- Kansas avenges earlier loss, claims Big 12 tournament crown
- March 13, 2006
- Bill Self stood on the American Airlines Center court amid a sea of confetti, watching his Kansas University basketball players climb the ladder and clip cords of the net after the Jayhawks’ resounding 80-68 Big 12 Conference tournament championship victory over Texas on Sunday.
- Michigan, Cincy among non-dancers
- March 13, 2006
- Michigan shut the TV cameras and reporters out of the room while it watched the NCAA Tournament selection show.
- Wichita State finally headed back to tourney
- March 13, 2006
- After three straight NIT bids, Wichita State has its first NCAA Tournament berth in 18 years.
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