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- Ole Miss defeats KU in WNIT
- Jayhawks fall 78-76 in opening round game at Allen Fieldhouse.
- March 19, 2006
- Kansas University’s women’s basketball season came to an end Sunday night at Allen Fieldhouse when Ole Miss defeated the Jayhawks, 78-76, in a WNIT first round game. Ole Miss, which trailed by as many as 16 midway through the second half, went on a 20-6 run to tie the contest. The lead switched three times in the final minute, but Ole Miss guard Ashley Awkward hit what would be the game-winning jumper with 13.6 seconds to go.
- What are you reading?
- March 19, 2006
- Careers in the Arts event planned April 1
- March 19, 2006
- Students interested in earning a fine arts degree can talk with Kansas University fine arts alumni at the second annual Careers in the Arts day April 1.
- Visual effects artist visiting campus
- March 19, 2006
- Feature film visual effects artist Donny Rausch will visit Kansas University on March 27 as part of the Department of Design Hallmark Design Symposium Series. Originally from Hoyt, the KU alumnus will return to his roots to speak about his work in movie visual effects.
- Students chosen to direct plays at KU
- March 19, 2006
- Two Kansas University students have been selected to direct productions in the 2006 Student Play Festival.
- Prairie Sculptor League offering workshop
- March 19, 2006
- Two workshops will be offered in May for beginning and advanced sculptors to hone their skills.
- Dog training eases new pet owners past puppy-love stage
- March 19, 2006
- My phone rang at 6:45 the other morning while I was getting ready for work. I answered it, and without so much as a “hello,” my friend Rita started right in.
- FSHS girls second, boys fourth at track
- March 19, 2006
- Free State High’s girls track and field squad placed second Friday at the Nebraska Wesleyan Invitational.
- In obesity blame game, there’s plenty to go around
- March 19, 2006
- It’s tempting to blame big food companies for America’s big obesity problem.
- Horoscopes
- March 19, 2006
- For Sunday, March 19
- Faces and places
- March 19, 2006
- A year to yearn
- After heartbreaking defeat, Self, KU must look forward
- March 19, 2006
- There was nary a cloud in the sky in this Detroit suburb early Saturday morning as Kansas University’s basketball players filed onto the team bus for the 15-minute drive to the Oakland, Mich., airport.
- Analysis: Predictions of a better Middle East have evaporated
- March 19, 2006
- Three years after the United States invaded Iraq in pursuit of a freer, more stable Middle East, the country’s deepening ethnic conflict is spreading tension across Iraq’s borders, fueling terrorism and nurturing gloom about the future.
- People in the news
- March 19, 2006
- ¢ Oleg Cassini, chief designer for Jacqueline Kennedy, dies ¢ Richie simply irritating ¢ Real stars are in Iraq theater ¢ Trying to channel Lennon, with pay-per-view seance
- Protesters around world rally against U.S.-led war in Iraq
- March 19, 2006
- In Times Square, anti-war protesters rallied outside a military recruiting station, demanding that troops be withdrawn from Iraq. In London, 15,000 people poured into Trafalgar Square. In Stockholm, a protester dressed as the hooded figure from a photo taken at Abu Ghraib prison.
- Organ love brings comedian from Hollywood to theater
- March 19, 2006
- The one thing a Wurlitzer pipe organ and an 1896 non-electric vacuum cleaner have in common is Stan Kann.
- ‘Special’ heave sinks A&M
- March 19, 2006
- LSU calls the play “special,” and Darrel Mitchell ran it to perfection.
- BC finds form, rips Grizzlies; Gators hammer UWM
- March 19, 2006
- Jared Dudley was waiting for Boston College to play this way the entire season.
- A warm welcome: Despite loss, fans show support as team returns
- Town wonders, ‘What happened?’
- March 19, 2006
- So whoever this Bradley guy is, he wasn’t so popular around Lawrence on Saturday.
- BU has enough in tank
- Bears solid for a while, and it’s enough to beat N. Arizona
- March 19, 2006
- For the first 15 minutes or so, the Bears of Baylor looked like the defending NCAA champions they are. That was good enough to get them past feisty Northern Arizona, 74-56, in their first-round game Saturday night.
- Cowboys take chance on Owens
- Controversial receiver signs three-year, $25 million deal
- March 19, 2006
- Terrell Owens has gone from stomping on the Dallas Cowboys’ star logo to wearing it on his helmet.
- Hamas fails to attract partners
- Moderates’ rejection increases chances of global isolation
- March 19, 2006
- Hamas said Saturday it had completed the formation of its government without succeeding to bring in moderate parties, a step that looked likely to only increase the chances of international isolation.
- Tens of thousands attend funeral for Milosevic
- March 19, 2006
- Slobodan Milosevic was laid to rest Saturday beneath a tree at the family estate in his hometown, a quiet end for a man blamed for ethnic wars that killed 250,000 people in one of the turbulent Balkans’ bloodiest chapters.
- Corrections
- March 19, 2006
- Musicians honored at Liberty Hall event
- Eight bands, artists inducted into sophomore class
- March 19, 2006
- Johnny Neal belted out bluesy lyrics and filled Liberty Hall with sounds from his keyboard Saturday night.
- Lawrence poet’s work selected for anthology
- March 19, 2006
- Poet Mickey Cesar, of Lawrence, has work included in the anthology “The Other Side of Sorrow,” to be published by the Poetry Society of New Hampshire.
- KU women’s golf 13th
- March 19, 2006
- Kansas University’s women’s golf squad is tied for 13th place after Saturday’s second round at the Betsy Rawls Invitational. The Jayhawks shot a second-round total of 328.
- Suspect accused of bigamy is arrested
- Interview causes investigation into her identity
- March 19, 2006
- A 33-year-old woman has been arrested in Elm Creek, accused of being a bigamist from Pennsylvania.
- Investment costs biting into gains
- March 19, 2006
- What a relief! The stock market is coming to life, with the Dow and S&P 500 hitting 4-year highs last week. For many investors, the wounds from the 2000-01 crash are healing nicely.
- A week after storm, residents are still picking up the pieces
- March 19, 2006
- A man named Crane sat behind the counter at Jensen’s Liquor on Saturday, running his hands over a piece of painted plastic. “It was a pretty sweet sign,” Crane says.
- Paris huge, as usual
- Freshman standout lifts Sooners
- March 19, 2006
- Courtney Paris raised her hand to come out, then trotted past Oklahoma’s bench and down a tunnel.
- Amid growing drug violence, Acapulco still draws tourists
- March 19, 2006
- Ana Galeana was arranging geraniums at her Acapulco flower stall when heavily armed men in a convoy of jeeps opened fire on a police checkpoint across the street.
- Mad cow case highlights need to track livestock
- March 19, 2006
- Investigators may never figure out where the Alabama cow with mad cow disease was born and raised, in part because the U.S. lacks a livestock tracking system the Bush administration promised two years ago.
- Traveling exhibit open through Friday
- March 19, 2006
- A traveling exhibit featuring winners of the 2005 Association of American University Presses Book, Jacket and Journal Show will be on display from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays through Friday at the University Press of Kansas, 2502 Westbrooke Circle.
- Mark their words
- Lawrence companies opt to protect products
- March 19, 2006
- When Amy Gottschamer founded Googols of Fun - with eyes on starting sites elsewhere - she knew she needed to protect her company’s name.
- Equipment gap
- Without the equipment they left behind in the Middle East, National Guardsmen in Kansas and across the nation are ill-prepared to deal with disasters at home.
- March 19, 2006
- The recent wind storm in Lawrence was a reminder of how quickly Mother Nature can wreak havoc on an area.
- The Motley Fool
- March 19, 2006
- ¢ Investing Homework ¢ The Roth IRA ¢ Limited Investments ¢ Foolish trivia ¢ New Targets for Target
- Keegan: Still a lot to smile about
- March 19, 2006
- No basketball fans suffered more in the month of March the past two seasons than backers of Kansas University.
- Camp’s history lost with capsule
- Girl Scouts hope to find missing box for 50th anniversary
- March 19, 2006
- A 50-year-old time capsule holds artifacts of a bygone era and details the founding of Lawrence’s Hidden Valley Camp. If only it could be found.
- Gambling put heat on area senators
- March 19, 2006
- As legislative leaders counted noses all week on whether they had enough votes to approve a gambling bill, two lawmakers were question marks: Marci Francisco, D-Lawrence, and Roger Pine, R-Lawrence.
- Wade’s blues don’t hurt Heat
- Walker provides spark as Miami nips Chicago
- March 19, 2006
- Dwyane Wade would rather play anywhere else. He can’t seem to get his game going in his hometown.
- Commentary: Expect Owens’ best - for one year
- March 19, 2006
- Expect Terrell Owens to have a monster debut season with the Cowboys. Expect him to return to his Pro Bowl form. Expect him to be driven to prove all of his doubters wrong.
- Poet’s Showcase
- March 19, 2006
- “March Madness (12 March 2006” by Priscilla McKinney
- Bonner Springs murder at store remains unsolved
- March 19, 2006
- More than four months after Tonganoxie resident Robin Bell’s murder, the case remains unsolved.
- Bradley basking in glow
- Coach Les tickled with win over KU, but wary of Pitt
- March 19, 2006
- Jim Les was Bradley’s starting point guard in 1986, the last time the Braves played in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
- Bucknell not awed this time around
- March 19, 2006
- The day after their shocking first-round NCAA Tournament victory last year, the Bucknell Bison still were caught up in the excitement of what they had done.
- Smallpox drill conducted near White House
- March 19, 2006
- Cabinet secretaries participated in a drill Saturday that simulated a smallpox attack as the government tested plans to counter the potential use of bioweapons by terrorists.
- Late warning
- March 19, 2006
- To the editor: The storm that hit Lawrence Sunday morning is still fresh in everyone’s minds, but as the estimates of damage keep increasing, we should feel very lucky that no serious injuries occurred.
- Traffic waste
- March 19, 2006
- To the editor: Our former city manager, Mike Wildgen, should NOT be held solely accountable for the deplorable conditions of Lawrence’s infrastructure.
- Lawrence datebook
- March 19, 2006
- Riot police break up French job protests
- March 19, 2006
- Students clashed with police and activists rampaged through a McDonald’s restaurant and torched the entrance to a Gap store in the capital Saturday as demonstrations against a government plan to loosen job protections spread across France.
- By global standards, Iraq not yet in civil war
- March 19, 2006
- International law is ambiguous about what constitutes civil war vs. a domestic uprising, guerrilla conflict, coup or other forms of rebellion against state authority.
- U.S.-Iraqi sweep angers Sunni Arabs
- March 19, 2006
- American and Iraqi troops pushing through a desolate area of Iraq’s Sunni Arab heartland rounded up dozens more suspected insurgents, including alleged killers of a television journalist, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Saturday.
- Gunman wounds five at fraternity party
- March 19, 2006
- A gunman opened fire at a fraternity party in a banquet hall across the street from the South Carolina Capitol early Saturday, wounding five people.
- Many Naval Academy sex charges dismissed
- March 19, 2006
- Sexual assault charges against students at the Naval Academy at Annapolis are routinely dismissed without trial, an analysis of Navy documents found.
- KU swimmer Leidigh 39th
- March 19, 2006
- Kansas University freshman swimmer Ashley Leidigh, the lone Jayhawk to compete, placed 39th in the 200 butterfly Saturday at the NCAA Championships.
- Ringwood arrested again
- March 19, 2006
- A Kansas University football player was arrested Friday night on a charge of aggravated battery after an alleged fight with a roommate.
- Jayhawks take two
- March 19, 2006
- Kansas University’s softball squad improved to 15-13 after two victories Saturday at the Bank of Hawaii Invitational.
- Allman RBI lifts KU
- March 19, 2006
- Sophomore John Allman’s RBI single in the ninth inning propelled Kansas University’s baseball squad to a 6-5 victory over No. 18 Baylor on Saturday.
- Bruins, Zags reach Sweet 16
- March 19, 2006
- UCLA clanked free throws down the stretch, got outrebounded, missed more than half its shots from three-point range and still won.
- Plane crashes, hundreds of miles off course
- March 19, 2006
- A private plane crashed near a rural home in West Virginia after straying hundreds of miles off course as National Guard fighter plane crews tried unsuccessfully to contact the pilot.
- Wheel stops working on Mars rover Spirit
- March 19, 2006
- One of the six wheels on the Mars rover Spirit has stopped working and the solar-powered robot must propel itself up a slope to catch enough sunshine to keep operating, NASA said Friday.
- ‘Scooter’ Libby’s defense to blame leak on State Department
- March 19, 2006
- Attorneys for Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the indicted former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, want access to many Bush administration documents they say will demonstrate that an undercover CIA officer played a “peripheral role” in the government’s debate over prewar intelligence and that Libby had no motive to lie about her, according to new court filings.
- Sinn Fein leader detained at airport after leaving meeting at White House
- March 19, 2006
- Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams headed Saturday for Boston, having missed a scheduled St. Patrick’s Day appearance in Buffalo the night before, saying he was held up by security officials at a Washington airport.
- Patriot Act board game is no laughing matter
- March 19, 2006
- In this send-up of “Monopoly,” players don’t pass “Go” and they don’t go directly to jail - they go to Guantanamo Bay.
- Ex-husband of Andrea Yates, who drowned their five children, remarries
- March 19, 2006
- Rusty Yates remarried Saturday in the church where the funeral for his five children was held and less than two days before his ex-wife’s murder retrial was to begin.
- Hearts of Gold Ball returns after hiatus
- March 19, 2006
- After a three-year lapse, the Hearts of Gold Ball is back this year. The Lawrence Memorial Hospital Endowment Assn. is hosting the ball May 6 at the Wakarusa Corporate Center, 4910 Corporate Centre Drive.
- Chicago resident yearns to marry Nebraska killer
- March 19, 2006
- A Chicago woman has fallen for one of the “Boys Don’t Cry” killers and has been granted a marriage license for their future prison wedding.
- Violence, fights surface again at St. Patrick’s Day Parade
- March 19, 2006
- Shots were fired and a family was attacked in a parking lot during Kansas City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, two years after similar violence prompted police to beef up parade security.
- Leadership gap in America presents political opportunities
- March 19, 2006
- President Bush has spent much of the month battling - battling to win Americans’ approval for the war in Iraq, battling to improve his poll numbers, battling to shape his place in history. These are very different battles.
- Worsening Iraq situation demands new strategy
- March 19, 2006
- At this moment, one of the most dangerous since the Second World War, America’s perils are exacerbated by the travails of a president indiscriminately despised by Democrats and increasingly disregarded by Republicans. What should he do?
- Old home town - 100 years ago today
- March 19, 2006
- From the Lawrence Daily World for March 19, 1906: “The high hopes of the Kansas track team were dashed by a 55-30 victory by Missouri at a heavily attended indoor meet in Kansas City. The Kansas men did all they could but Missouri was superior.”
- Old home town - 40 years ago today
- March 19, 2006
- The public hearing on a proposed community unit plan for Indian Hills development drew more than 100 people. The session ran almost four hours.
- Old home town - 25 years ago today
- March 19, 2006
- The Journal-World reported that Gene A. Budig, the president of West Virginia University, would be named the 14th chancellor at Kansas University.
- Consequences
- March 19, 2006
- To the editor: It would be laughable if it weren’t so pathetic.
- Sex ed ‘lab’
- March 19, 2006
- To the editor: It is nice to see the State Board of Education returning “sex education” to the system of old where my cohorts and I (Glendale, Calif. High, class of 1942) learned this stuff: “The street.”
- Bill Gates lobbies for high-skill immigrants
- March 19, 2006
- When the Senate comes back to work next week, it is scheduled to take up the issue of immigration. And that is what brought Bill Gates to Washington for a rare visit last week.
- For these ceramic artists, it’s a small world after all
- March 19, 2006
- Don’t let the tiny vacuum fool you. The sweeper may be small - it fits in a box measuring 3-by-3-by-6 inches - but that doesn’t mean it’s simple to make.
- MVC! MVC! Shockers win
- March 19, 2006
- P.J. Couisnard stepped back from the defender and launched a straightaway three-pointer with the shot clock winding down. As soon as the ball swished through the net, Couisnard pointed triumphantly to Wichita State’s rowdy fans.
- A way with wood
- Weekend hobbyists kick up saw dust for the fun of it
- March 19, 2006
- Bill Beningfield has made more of the wooden furniture around his house than he’s bought. There’s the stereo cabinet, which even holds an old-school turntable. There’s the silver chest, the curio cabinet, end tables and the sideboard to his dining-room table.
- Henrickson, Jayhawks still alive and hoping to thrive
- March 19, 2006
- Kansas University’s men’s basketball season may be over, but the KU women still are alive. In fact, for the first time in eight years, the KU women have outlasted the men in the postseason. Coach Bonnie Henrickson’s team will meet Mississippi today in the WNIT.
- Professor gets award for arthritis research
- March 19, 2006
- Michael Detamore, assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at Kansas University, received an Arthritis Investigator Award from the Arthritis Foundation, the Kansas Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation announced.
- First Dole Institute director on C-SPAN
- March 19, 2006
- Richard Norton Smith, the first permanent director of the Dole Institute of Politics, was featured in a conversation with Brian Lamb that aired Friday on C-SPAN.
- Ex-campaign manager to give public lectures
- March 19, 2006
- Joe Trippi, former national campaign manager for Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign and the executive director of the Nixon Center, will give separate public lectures this month at Kansas University’s Dole Institute of Politics.
- Jack Kemp to give Vickers lecture at KU
- March 19, 2006
- Jack Kemp, a former vice presidential candidate, will present Kansas University’s School of Business 2006 J.A. Vickers Sr. and Robert F. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. March 27 at the Lied Center. The event is free and open to the public.
- Patrol seeks fuel deals
- March 19, 2006
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.46 at several locations. If you find a lower price, call Pump Patrol at 832-7154.
- More efficient use of natural gas urged
- Lobbyist wants state to single out properties that are wasteful
- March 19, 2006
- Next month, about 14,000 households in Kansas - 350 in Lawrence - will be without heat. They’ve fallen behind on their natural gas bills, and utility companies are allowed to cut them off after April 1. It’s been this way for years.
- Mientkiewicz works for better numbers
- K.C. first baseman known for his defense
- March 19, 2006
- Doug Mientkiewicz is known first and foremost for his superb glove work at first base.
- Clapinski, Bako boost Royals past Athletics
- March 19, 2006
- Chris Clapinski hit a three-run homer, and Paul Bako added a bases-loaded triple to lead the Kansas City Royals to a 17-7 victory Saturday over the Oakland Athletics.
- Blue Jays receive good news on Burnett
- March 19, 2006
- A.J. Burnett’s long day had a positive ending. The right-hander left Toronto’s 8-4 loss to the Boston Red Sox on Saturday after throwing only one pitch in the second inning, and the Blue Jays were concerned they might have lost one of their expensive new pitchers before the start of the season.
- Cuba defeats Dominicans to reach title game
- Minus major-leaguers, squad claims 3-1 victory in tournament semifinals
- March 19, 2006
- Frederich Cepeda and his Cuban countrymen consider themselves amateur baseball players back home, though in reality they’re much closer to the level of the big-name American multimillionaires known around the world.
- 7 participants killed filming TV reality show
- March 19, 2006
- Seven residents of a Uruguayan town were killed on Friday when they were run over by a train they were moving manually as part of a reality television show aimed at raising funds for a local hospital, police said.
- U.S. Navy warships battle suspected pirates
- March 19, 2006
- Two U.S. Navy warships exchanged gunfire with suspected pirates Saturday off the coast of Somalia, and one suspect was killed and five others were wounded, the navy said.
- Initial tests show woman died of bird flu
- March 19, 2006
- Initial tests at a U.S. Navy lab show that a 35-year-old woman who died last week in Egypt had bird flu, officials said Saturday. If the results are confirmed, she would be the country’s first known human death from the disease.
- Four police officers cleared of looting
- March 19, 2006
- Four New Orleans police officers have been cleared of allegations they used a five-finger discount at a Wal-Mart after Hurricane Katrina. But each was suspended 10 days for not stopping civilians from looting the store, the department said.
- Convicted rapist denied bond in girls’ assaults
- March 19, 2006
- A local magistrate denied bond Saturday for a convicted rapist charged with abducting two teenage girls and assaulting them in an underground room behind his home.
- News shows announce lineups for today
- March 19, 2006
- Guest lineup for today’s Sunday TV news shows.
- Louisiana faces exodus from coast
- March 19, 2006
- Once the salt water is in your veins, Louisiana’s coastal folk say, it’s hard to give up the lifestyle of moonlit shrimping trips, the town “fais do-do” dances and afternoons spent on the bayous angling for catfish.
- Jolie-Pitt wedding remains strictly rumor
- March 19, 2006
- The main thing missing from the much-rumored wedding between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie was the bride and groom.
- Lawrence commuter report
- March 19, 2006
- The following construction projects may affect commuter traffic in the region this week.
- Media, law seminar to discuss BTK case
- March 19, 2006
- Lee Salem, editor and executive vice president of Universal Press Syndicate, will speak about “Cartoons and Comments: Observations from the Battleground of Opinion” at the 19th Annual Media and the Law Seminar April 7.
- Professor emeritus wins government award
- March 19, 2006
- The Lawrence-Douglas County League of Women Voters will award Forrest Swall, Kansas University professor emeritus of social welfare, with the seventh annual Helen Fluker Open and Accessible Government Award.
- Golf event to aid Special Olympics
- March 19, 2006
- Douglas County’s Special Olympics program is seeking sponsors for its second annual benefit golf tournament.
- Drought prompts state response
- March 19, 2006
- Drought conditions that have contributed to a recent spate of large fires are worsening, according to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ drought-response team.
- On the record
- March 19, 2006
- Major winter storm barrels through state
- March 19, 2006
- The first day of spring in Nebraska might very well look like the middle of winter.
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