Also from March 25
Births
Couples
- Engagement: Simoneau and Havel
- Engagement: Harris and Grosshans
- Engagement: Meyer and Devine
- Engagement: Jacobs and Soupene
- Wedding: Huerter
- Anniversary: Harrell
- Engagement: Scott and Wagle
- Engagement: Morton and Copp
- Engagement: Beets and Knipp
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Podcasts
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- Oh, brother! Competitive spirit drives Tongie’s talented playmaker
- March 25, 2006
- Ali Pistora may have won this year’s All-Area Girls Basketball Player of the Year award, but it’s not the award the Tonganoxie High junior cherishes most.
- Keating backing Bruins
- KU official’s son, Kerry, is aide on UCLA staff
- March 25, 2006
- Work prevented Larry Keating from joining his wife and two daughters today in the Oakland (Calif.) Arena stands.
- On the record
- March 25, 2006
- Simons: State needs comprehensive strategy on education funding
- March 25, 2006
- A headline in Friday’s Journal-World stated, “State support for higher education at low point.”
- 6-year-old on the mend after struggle with cancer
- March 25, 2006
- Last week, Christian Faulkner, 6, spent four days at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
- School ties keep soldier in step with young Iraqis
- March 25, 2006
- Sgt. Joey Kean was in Iraq. His Humvee was surrounded and cut off.
- Classrooms are on the front line in Iraq
- March 25, 2006
- The day began like any other at Dijla Primary School in Baghdad’s posh Mansour district.
- No pardon necessary for Rosa Parks
- March 25, 2006
- Sometimes, I wonder about the white man.
- Shared responsibility
- The state and university officials have a shared responsibility to provide the maintenance necessary to protect state-owned buildings.
- March 25, 2006
- “You can pay me now, or pay me later,” the saying goes.
- Horoscopes
- March 25, 2006
- For Saturday, March 25
- Video brings reality of war home for father
- March 25, 2006
- No matter how many times he watches it, Lary Trowbridge can’t help but shake his head in amazement.
- Are people who have died watching over us all?
- March 25, 2006
- Staff aces strut their stuff
- Big Unit, Schmidt turn in strong outings as opening day nears
- March 25, 2006
- Randy Johnson and Jason Schmidt were among the half dozen opening-day pitchers who put together strong starts Friday with the regular season a little more than a week away.
- Eudora’s Heitzman sets U.S. record
- March 25, 2006
- Eudora’s Paul Heitzman set a U.S. record in the men’s over-75 3,000-meter race Friday at the USA Masters Track and Field Championships in Boston.
- Patrol seeks fuel deals
- March 25, 2006
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.36 at Citgo, Ninth and Iowa streets. If you find a lower price, call Pump Patrol at 832-7154.
- James nets 36, propels Cavs
- March 25, 2006
- LeBron James scored 36, leading Cleveland to a 94-82 victory over the Boston Celtics on Friday night, moving the Cavaliers closer to their first playoff berth in eight years. James added eight assists and seven rebounds and put the finishing touches on the win with three sparkling plays in the final minute.
- Commentary: Huggins hiring might haunt K-State
- March 25, 2006
- The ink barely had dried on Bob Huggins’ new contract when Kansas State officials were offered a rare glimpse of what they were getting themselves into.
- House approves eminent domain bill after debating blight and crime
- March 25, 2006
- Frustration with gangs, crack dealers and slum lords wasn’t enough to make House members back away Friday from key provisions in a bill designed to protect Kansans from being forced by government to sell their homes and businesses.
- Despite plea deal, state wants priest to remain confined
- March 25, 2006
- When he admitted five years ago that he had molested altar boys in the 1980s, a former Catholic priest did so under an agreement that the state would not seek to keep him confined after he did his time in prison.
- Thousands rally across nation for immigrant rights
- March 25, 2006
- Thousands of people across the country protested Friday against legislation cracking down on illegal immigrants, with demonstrators in cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Atlanta staging school walkouts, marches and work stoppages.
- Judge denies Bonds’ bid to freeze book profits
- March 25, 2006
- A judge denied Barry Bonds’ bid to block the authors and publishers from making money on a book claiming the San Francisco Giants slugger used steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, and said Bonds’ suit against them had little chance of success.
- Wood gunning for K.C. rotation
- March 25, 2006
- Mike Wood is eager to learn whether his stellar spring has earned him a place in the Kansas City Royals’ rotation or whether he will begin the season in the bullpen.
- Another road test ahead at NU
- Huskers last foe before Jayhawks return to Hoglund
- March 25, 2006
- Wintry weather forced Kansas University’s baseball squad to play a doubleheader today against No. 2-ranked Nebraska.
- Royals still unsure when Greinke will return
- March 25, 2006
- The Kansas City Royals will start the season without Zack Greinke, and it remains uncertain when he will return.
- House rejects ban on human-animal hybrids
- March 25, 2006
- A proposed ban on creating human-animal hybrids died Friday when the House cut the heart out of a bill and ended debate early on the issue.
- Waterline work to disrupt downtown
- March 25, 2006
- If it’s spring, it’s time to tear up downtown streets and replace the underground waterlines.
- President optimistic about Cabinet; 51 die in violence
- March 25, 2006
- Iraq’s president issued a highly optimistic report Friday on progress among politicians trying to hammer out the shape of a new unity government. At least 51 more people, including two U.S. soldiers, were reported dead in rampant violence.
- Christian convert may be freed soon
- March 25, 2006
- An Afghan judge held firm Friday in the face of international demands to reconsider the charges against an Afghan man who faces a possible death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity - and reports emerged that the man might be freed soon.
- Former seaman gets four years for killing Navy shipmate in 1968
- March 25, 2006
- A former Navy seaman who killed his shipmate nearly 40 years ago was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.
- Plane crashes into tire factory, killing five
- March 25, 2006
- A plane crashed into the side of a tire factory Friday in southern Ecuador, killing five of the 14 people aboard, police said.
- Society calendar
- March 25, 2006
- Around and about
- March 25, 2006
- J-W society section to feature ‘Couples’
- March 25, 2006
- The Journal-World’s Saturday Society Section will soon introduce a new feature. We’re calling it “Couples.”
- Scouting news
- March 25, 2006
- 4-H News
- March 25, 2006
- Club news
- March 25, 2006
- Chieftains boss works magic with young squad
- March 25, 2006
- After losing four starters from a team that reached the Class 4A state tournament last year, Tonganoxie High girls basketball coach Randy Kraft wasn’t worried one bit about how his team would fare this season.
- Walking the line
- Ministry calls KU grad who held tight to faith throughout careers in law and the military
- March 25, 2006
- Oliver Lee spent years touring the world as a U.S. Marine, a Green Beret and as an intelligence officer for the U.S. State Department.
- Ichiro has new outlook after Japan’s WBC win
- March 25, 2006
- Ichiro Suzuki returned to the Seattle Mariners a changed man.
- Firebird pitchers stingy
- Blankenship, Heitshusen shut out BVNW
- March 25, 2006
- Travis Blankenship and Scott Heitshusen combined on a three-hit shutout, and Free State High opened its baseball season Friday with a 2-0 victory over Blue Valley Northwest.
- A&M nemesis next for KU
- Aggies solid foe as Big 12 season begins
- March 25, 2006
- Memories of last year’s meltdown may help Kansas University’s softball team this weekend.
- Gators great late
- Florida topples Georgetown, 57-53
- March 25, 2006
- These Florida Gators thrive on balance. Naturally, it didn’t matter which one of their super sophomores got the chance at the game-winning basket.
- UConn the better Huskies
- Late three forces OT; foul-happy Washington fades
- March 25, 2006
- Connecticut was as careless as a top seed can be - and got away with it.
- ‘Nova escapes in OT
- Foye, Wildcats deliver as Eagles collapse
- March 25, 2006
- All eyes have been on Villanova’s sensational guards the entire season.
- Boo Shock
- Geo. Mason shuts down cold-shooting Wichita State
- March 25, 2006
- Lamar Butler dribbled out the final seconds of George Mason’s latest improbable victory, then dropped the ball and wagged eight fingers toward a TV camera.
- Police dispatched to wrong house
- March 25, 2006
- A one-block mistake led to a rude awakening Friday morning.
- KU merchandise stolen
- March 25, 2006
- Kansas University police are investigating the theft of more than $6,600 worth of athletic clothing from a storage trailer.
- Computer slowdown causes testing concern
- March 25, 2006
- Kansas school officials are concerned about the reliability of the scores of some of the 4,900 students who were taking tests online earlier this month when the computer system slowed to a crawl.
- Correction
- March 25, 2006
- Jack Kemp, former vice presidential candidate for Bob Dole, will give the 2006 Vickers Lecture at 7 p.m. Monday at the Lied Center. The location was incorrect in Friday’s datebook.
- Lawrence datebook
- March 25, 2006
- Man accused of trying to take patrol car
- March 25, 2006
- A man approached a police car early Friday at the scene of a traffic accident, climbed in and tried to drive it away, police said.
- Free compost runs out
- March 25, 2006
- After picking up compost on Thursday and Friday morning, Lawrence residents have exhausted the city’s supply for its giveaway.
- Forum to focus on teen drinking
- March 25, 2006
- For many students, drinking alcohol starts in junior high, not high school or college.
- School spending plan gets House OK
- Legislators uncertain how $610M, 3-year effort will be financed
- March 25, 2006
- The bosses did not get their way. Enough Republicans in the Kansas House ignored their own leaders and joined with Democrats to narrowly push through a school spending plan that supporters say will spread all-day kindergarten across the state, satisfy the Supreme Court and improve learning.
- Kansas death penalty case back in court
- March 25, 2006
- The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to rehear arguments before ruling on the constitutionality of a Kansas death penalty law pleased some officials who think that might increase its chances of being upheld after it was struck down by the state’s highest court.
- Report: Russians tipped Saddam
- But Pentagon says information may have been misleading
- March 25, 2006
- In his struggle to figure out and foil the American invasion plan as it was unfolding in late March and early April 2003, Saddam Hussein may have fielded a few tips from an old ally: the Russian government.
- Nation confirms first bird cases of avian flu
- March 25, 2006
- Jordan confirmed its first cases of bird flu on Friday in domesticated turkeys north of the capital, finding that up to four of the birds had died of the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.
- Minister’s wife charged with murdering husband
- March 25, 2006
- A minister’s wife was charged Friday with shooting her husband to death in the parsonage in a crime that shocked the congregation and shattered the couple’s happy and loving image.
- Surveillance program could have caught doctors’, lawyers’ calls
- March 25, 2006
- The National Security Agency could have legally monitored ordinarily confidential communications between doctors and patients or attorneys and their clients, the Justice Department said Friday of its controversial warrantless surveillance program.
- Wal-Mart’s move to organics could shake up retail world
- March 25, 2006
- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is throwing its weight behind organic products, a move that experts say could have the same lasting effect on environmental practices that Wal-Mart has had on prices by forcing suppliers and competitors to keep up.
- Votes change before they’re recorded
- March 25, 2006
- The House record will show that Rep. Judy Morrison, R-Shawnee, voted for a $610 million, three-year school finance plan.
- Love endures historic crash at TPC
- First-round co-leader misses cut; Furyk remains on top
- March 25, 2006
- Davis Love III thought he had a chance to make history at The Players Championship. This wasn’t what anyone imagined - a two-time champion losing a share of the lead Friday until there was nowhere to go but home.
- Student shocked by Taser in school
- March 25, 2006
- The mother of a 15-year-old high school student is considering legal options after her son was shocked by a stun gun while refusing to follow a police officer’s commands and resisting arrest.
- Abortion law opponents launch petition drive
- March 25, 2006
- Opponents of South Dakota’s new ban on nearly all abortions began a petition drive Friday to let voters decide its fate.
- Family buries remains of WWII airman
- March 25, 2006
- A World War II airman whose frozen body was chipped out of a California glacier last fall was laid to rest Friday in his hometown of Brainerd, more than six decades after the young man disappeared during a training flight.
- Arizona issues warrant for snowbound couple
- March 25, 2006
- Arizona authorities have brought drug charges against a couple who were rescued with four family members from their snowbound motor home this week in Oregon.
- Dixie Chicks return to country radio
- March 25, 2006
- Country radio may be ready to make nice with the Dixie Chicks.
- People in the news
- March 25, 2006
- ¢ West to be main attraction at Stockholm Jazz Festival ¢ Drew Lachey’s wife gives birth to their daughter ¢ Randy Quaid sues for more ‘Brokeback Mountain’ bucks
- Missing from news shows: Real news
- March 25, 2006
- The news magazine “48 Hours Mystery” (9 p.m., today CBS) promises us yet more details about the police investigation into the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
- Faith briefs
- March 25, 2006
- Stock markets edge higher despite mixed economic data
- Home sales drop; factory orders up
- March 25, 2006
- Wall Street closed out the week with modest gains Friday, though trading was erratic as signs of a cooling housing market conflicted with signals of economic strength and left no real clue as to the Federal Reserve’s next move on interest rates.
- Great illustration
- March 25, 2006
- To the editor: I want to thank Dave Penny and his band of anonymous businessmen for providing me as a biologist with one of those “teachable moments” I so love.
- Anger, guns
- March 25, 2006
- To the editor: Some years ago, on a slippery winter day, I saw one car skid forward into another.
- No joke
- March 25, 2006
- To the editor: Gary Watson’s letter to the editor March 22, what a joke!
- Old home town - 100 years ago today
- March 25, 2006
- From the Lawrence Daily World for March 25, 1906: “Mrs. A.W. Lamb received a telegram this morning stating that her brother, Sam Elliott, died this morning in Leavenworth. He had been ill for some time and had a number of relatives here.”
- Old home town - 40 years ago today
- March 25, 2006
- The federal government announced it had narrowed to six the probable sites for a $375 million atom-smasher project. The Lawrence-Eudora area, especially the region near Hesper south of Eudora, had been a semifinalist but was not included on the list of finalists. The odds were that a site near Chicago would be chosen (which it finally was).
- Old home town - 25 years ago today
- March 25, 2006
- Sexually transmitted diseases headed a list of communicable diseases on the rise in Douglas County, a health official reported. A recently released Douglas County Health Department annual report for 1980 showed that the number of patients seen in its clinic for sexually transmitted diseases more than doubled in 1980 from 598 in 1979 to 1,580 for ‘80. “I was surprised at the number of patients seen for STDs,” said Kay Kent, health department director. “In 1980, there was probably more time spent on communicable diseases than I think at any time since I’ve been here.”
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