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- Comedy troupe plans ‘April Foolishness’
- March 26, 2006
- The April Fools are for real when “Right Between the Ears,” the award winning, nationally broadcast sketch comedy series, lets loose a new show Saturday at Liberty Hall.
- World music concert to benefit Tibetans
- March 26, 2006
- A benefit concert of world music will be performed to raise funds for books and solar cookers for villages in rural Tibetan areas.
- Ottawa University plans Irish poetry reading
- March 26, 2006
- The Ottawa University English Department has invited Caitriona O’Reilly, Irish author and poet, to give a reading at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
- Author to give reading from new novel
- March 26, 2006
- Lawrence native Kathleen Gilles Seidel will give a talk and sign copies of her new book, “A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. The event is free and open to the public, and it is co-sponsored by the Raven Bookstore, 6 E. Seventh St., which will make copies of the book available for purchase.
- Artist painting again after fire
- His life’s work was destroyed in gallery
- March 26, 2006
- A painter who lost more than 400 original works in a gallery fire is painting again, and about to put his work on display.
- Speeding tickets gold mine, or curse, for some rural towns
- March 26, 2006
- In local diners and truck stops, drivers talk about this little highway town with a word of warning. Watch your lead foot when driving through, they say. This is a speed trap town.
- Boy gets dream ride in Abrams tank
- March 26, 2006
- After climbing out of a desert-colored M1A1 Abrams tank, 9-year-old Breckin Cubie described the ride as “loud” and “bumpy.” But even under those conditions, it was a ride he will never forget.
- Horoscopes
- March 26, 2006
- For Sunday, March 26, 2006.
- Heady and steady: Intellect keys consistent success for Cyclones senior
- March 26, 2006
- After offering up a number of opinions about how senior Addison Miller impacted the Ottawa High boys basketball team this winter, Cyclones coach David Grover summed up the youngster’s game with one simple phrase.
- Stanford stymies Paris, Sooners
- March 26, 2006
- Courtney Paris was double-covered all the time during Oklahoma’s 19-game winning streak. Triple- and quadruple-teamed, too.
- Submit a pet photo to win contest
- March 26, 2006
- The International Pet Owners Club will award more than $10,000 in cash and prizes for the Spring 2006 Cutest Pet Photo Contest.
- Keegan: Hirings to help Kansas
- March 26, 2006
- Thanks to the hiring of a pair of new coaches, it’s going to be a great deal tougher for Kansas University to make it through the Big 12 Conference with a 13-3 record.
- Sunflower plant cleanup will go at faster pace
- Federal and private money ensures environmental hazards at former Army location will be removed
- March 26, 2006
- The environmental cleanup of the defunct Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant will resume later this spring and proceed at a relatively quick pace, said the man who is heading the effort for the plant’s new owners.
- Faces and places
- March 26, 2006
- What are you reading?
- March 26, 2006
- Ribbon-cutting planned for Oread Books section
- March 26, 2006
- The dedication of a section for books on disability studies and the disability rights movement will be celebrated April 6 at Oread Books, Kansas Union.
- Bush’s powers to be tested by Supreme Court
- March 26, 2006
- His wartime powers undercut once before by the Supreme Court, President Bush could take a second hit in a case in which Osama bin Laden’s former driver is seeking to head off a trial before military officers.
- Thousands rally in California for immigrants’ rights
- March 26, 2006
- Immigration rights advocates more than 500,000 strong marched in downtown Los Angeles, demanding that Congress abandon attempts to make helping illegal immigrants a crime and to build more walls along the border.
- Lawmaker who served in Iraq fields questions about ongoing war
- March 26, 2006
- All statehouse squabbles aside, Topeka’s a nice place compared with Iraq.
- Indians fear loss of health clinics under Bush plan
- March 26, 2006
- When Jennifer Carter moved from her reservation to Pierre, S.D., a few years ago, she went from seeing Indians like her every day to barely seeing any. But the first time she visited the South Dakota Urban Indian Health clinic, she knew she had found her place.
- America’s global image in need of repair
- March 26, 2006
- Hoping to lower tensions between the Muslim world and the West, British Prime Minister Tony Blair maintained the other day that the world confronts “a clash about civilizations” not “a clash of civilizations.” But the overriding lesson of events since Sept. 11, 2001, may be that you can’t have one without the other.
- Delicate balance
- Placing just the right amount of restriction on the taking of private property for public use is a tricky proposition.
- March 26, 2006
- Weighing private property rights against the public interests is a difficult balance that members of the Kansas Legislature are struggling to find.
- UCLA stifles Tigers
- March 26, 2006
- Before rushing to cut down the nets, UCLA’s players and coaches stayed on the podium and led their fans in a popular school cheer: “UC-LA! UC-LA!”
- Mother Goose re-envisioned
- Authors, illustrators put new spin on classic nursery rhymes
- March 26, 2006
- Mother Goose never gets old or goes stale. Modern illustrators and writers make sure of that.
- Adoptions [without] borders
- Parents say international route presents fewer roadblocks in journey toward happy families
- March 26, 2006
- Alena Johnson remembers snapshots from her time in Russia - a caretaker, a playground slide often covered with ice, the Russian word for “hello.” And she remembers the most important detail.
- Award-winning historian well-versed on Bob Dylan, too
- March 26, 2006
- Professor Sean Wilentz is a distinguished man, one of this year’s winners of the Bancroft Prize for history and chairman of the American studies department at Princeton University.
- Bagwell says he might be finished
- Bonds held out of Giants’ game because of strained elbow
- March 26, 2006
- Two National League sluggers sat out of spring training games Saturday because of injuries, and one of them may never be back.
- Jam session a Saturday tradition
- Musicians of all abilities join informal sessions at Americana Music Academy
- March 26, 2006
- Twelve musicians sat in a circle and fiddled with their guitars, harmonicas and other instruments as one person spun the wheel that would direct the theme of the next song they would play.
- Poet’s Showcase
- March 26, 2006
- “Still life with snake,” by Jesse Nathan
- Jaguars make good on gut feeling
- March 26, 2006
- Many coaches embark on a new season clinging to a tried-and-true cliche: They hope for the best, yet they expect the worst.
- Free State routs Washington
- March 26, 2006
- Free State High baseball coach Mike Hill has made no secret of the fact he’s looking for a few good arms to help the Firebirds this season.
- KU tennis blanks UMKC, SLU
- March 26, 2006
- One way to work on the mental game in tennis is to practice constantly.
- After 50 years, fundraiser for Vinland Fair going strong
- Hundreds of people attend sausage and pancake supper
- March 26, 2006
- Forty-five minutes after the doors opened, scores of people sat at tables and enjoyed their meals in the exhibition building at the Vinland Fairgrounds.
- Lawrence datebook
- March 26, 2006
- Fire extensively damages interior of W. Lawrence home
- March 26, 2006
- Firefighters extinguished a two-alarm fire Saturday night that extensively damaged the inside of a west Lawrence home.
- N.J. mourners recall Chilean bus crash victims
- March 26, 2006
- Hundreds of mourners paid emotional tribute Saturday to 10 senior citizens who lost their lives in a Chilean bus crash, recalling their love for life and for each other.
- Clippers coast to win No. 40
- L.A. still has shot at franchise record for victories
- March 26, 2006
- Coach Mike Dunleavy knows the Los Angeles Clippers have an outside shot of breaking the franchise record for victories. He has loftier goals on his agenda, however.
- On the record
- March 26, 2006
- Three crude bombs explode outside homes
- March 26, 2006
- At least three crude bombs exploded and two others were disarmed Friday at the homes of people who work for an FAA contractor in Grand Junction, prompting evacuation of the air traffic control tower at the city airport, officials said.
- Cruise ship goes aground on river
- March 26, 2006
- A cruise ship with more than 250 people on board ran aground Friday on the Columbia River east of Portland. Officials said no injuries were reported, the vessel wasn’t sinking and was not leaking fuel.
- Russell Stover factory to cut jobs
- March 26, 2006
- Russell Stover Candies has announced another string of layoffs at its 30-year-old Cookeville chocolate factory, which is being turned into a warehouse.
- CSI expert was key to arrest in death
- March 26, 2006
- From the moment the NYPD crime lab received the physical evidence recovered from the body of slain graduate student Imette St. Guillen, top forensic expert Nicholas Petraco was on the case.
- Church honors slain pastor
- Wife returns to face murder charges
- March 26, 2006
- Members of the congregation planted flowers Saturday outside the Fourth Street Church of Christ as they waited for their minister’s wife to be brought home to face first-degree murder charges in the death of her husband.
- Seven people, including gunman, killed at party
- March 26, 2006
- A gunman opened fire early Saturday in a home, killing six partygoers and critically injuring at least one other before committing suicide when confronted by police outdoors.
- People in the news
- March 26, 2006
- ¢ Hasselhoff ordered to stay away from estranged wife ¢ Guitarist seeks joint custody of daughter with Locklear ¢ Leno wins round in court over use of woman’s photo ¢ Actor Chris O’Donnell a dad - to a baby boy - again ¢ Knee replacement allows Lansbury to dance again
- Country music star Buck Owens dies at 76
- March 26, 2006
- Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like “Act Naturally” and brought the genre to TV on the long-running “Hee Haw,” died Saturday. He was 76.
- President seeks way to free Christian convert
- March 26, 2006
- Under mounting foreign pressure, President Hamid Karzai searched on Saturday for a way to free an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity without angering Muslim clerics who have called for him to be killed.
- Thousands call for king to replace prime minister
- March 26, 2006
- Holding candles over head and kneeling to pay their respects, tens of thousands of protesters Saturday called on Thailand’s revered king to end a political crisis by replacing Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
- Explosion rocks school, kills professor
- March 26, 2006
- A large explosion rocked a university’s chemistry department in eastern France on Friday, killing a professor who was blown through the ceiling, authorities said.
- Abbas hints he may bring down Hamas
- March 26, 2006
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a thinly veiled threat Saturday to bring down Hamas’ new government if it does not change its violent ways.
- Pope gives rings to new cardinals in Mass
- March 26, 2006
- Pope Benedict XVI gave each of his 15 new cardinals a golden ring to symbolize their renewed vows of fidelity to the church during a Mass on Saturday on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica.
- Belarusian police clash with demonstrators
- March 26, 2006
- Black-clad riot police clubbed demonstrators as government opponents marched Saturday in defiance of a show of force by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko that has drawn U.S. and European Union sanctions.
- Nigeria agrees to hand over Liberian to stand trial
- March 26, 2006
- Nigeria said Saturday it is ready to hand over Liberian warlord Charles Taylor to be the first former African head of state tried for crimes against humanity, making a reluctant move that will be a strong warning for other warmongers on the continent.ady t
- Canada begins annual seal hunt
- March 26, 2006
- Sealers took to the thawing ice floes off the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, the first day of Canada’s contentious seal hunt, confronting animal rights activists who claim the annual cull is cruel.
- U.S. Embassy shifts to hiring Jordanians
- March 26, 2006
- The U.S. Embassy, a diplomatic fortress in central Baghdad’s isolated “Green Zone,” has begun hiring its local staff from neighboring Jordan, rather than recruiting Iraqis.
- Flood map delays spur angst - for no reason
- March 26, 2006
- Delays in releasing new federal maps of New Orleans’ most flood-prone neighborhoods have slowed rebuilding, frustrated homeowners and created uncertainty about the future of the region ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
- Texas feels forgotten after hurricane
- March 26, 2006
- Sitting on a sheet of fresh plywood atop a newly rebuilt roof, Joaquin Rojas thanked the heavens for all the help he had received to repair his El Buen Pastor church after Hurricane Rita. The pastor was not praising the generosity of President Bush or other Washington politicians.
- Court upholds firefighter verdicts
- March 26, 2006
- A federal appeals court panel upheld a jury’s sexual discrimination verdicts in lawsuits filed by a female Kansas City fire battalion chief and a former firefighter.
- K.C. stadium vote reaches into Lawrence
- Benefits by association will be lost if teams leave
- March 26, 2006
- Doug Holiday doesn’t live in Kansas City, doesn’t work in Kansas City and certainly doesn’t vote in Kansas City. But when residents of Kansas City and elsewhere in Jackson County go to the polls April 4 in Missouri, they will be holding a portion of Holiday’s livelihood in their hands.
- House fire blamed on burning candles
- March 26, 2006
- Smoke still trickled from upstairs windows Saturday after firefighters extinguished a fire in the 2700 block of Fenwick Road.
- Fatal accident may involve illegal immigrants
- March 26, 2006
- One man was killed and another seriously injured when a pickup lost control on snow-packed roads in Harvey County and struck a minivan carrying 12 people, apparently from Mexico, officials said.
- Kansans find diamond in Arkansas
- March 26, 2006
- A Kansas woman and her 12-year-old son have a 2.12-carat diamond to take home with them after a vacation in Arkansas.
- Entropy example
- March 26, 2006
- To the editor: In his March 23 article about the billboard on Interstate 35 and 151st Street, Dave Ranney reported about entropy arguments against evolution as given on a Web site and by David Penny.
- Bypass option
- March 26, 2006
- To the editor: Lawrence obviously needs a bypass to ease congestion on 23rd Street, and the state also needs a bypass to connect South Kansas City’s Interstate 35, Interstate 435 and other highways to Interstate 70.
- University leader’s lesson: Good enough isn’t good enough
- March 26, 2006
- I called up Jim Freedman the other morning - I’m not quite sure why. Maybe just to say hi, maybe to talk politics a little, maybe to hear his big bellow of a laugh. “I have about a day left,” he said.
- Bush censure would benefit no one
- March 26, 2006
- It’s a close call whether Sen. Russell Feingold’s proposal to censure President Bush has attracted more enthusiasm from the president’s liberal Democratic critics or his Republican defenders.
- Ohio illustrates electorate’s restlessness
- March 26, 2006
- In the central Ohio town of London, an independent pharmacy was absorbed by a national chain because, says Rep. Sherrod Brown, the pharmacy could not afford the staff needed to decipher for customers the new prescription drug entitlement that Brown voted against because the Bush administration “let the drug companies write it.”
- Old home town - 100 years ago today
- March 26, 2006
- From the Lawrence Daily World for March 26, 1906: “Charles F. Scott was nominated for congressman from the Kansas Second District Saturday, defeating Henry Allen by some 1,400 votes. Scott carried five of the nine counties and his nomination is tantamount to election. Allen won in Wyandotte, his home county of Franklin, Miami and Bourbon. Scott won the heated contest in Douglas, Johnson, Anderson, Linn and Allen.”
- ‘Brave New Girls’ program continues
- March 26, 2006
- Lawrence Community Theatre’s popular program for girls in sixth through eighth grades will begin a second session April 5.
- KU’s Battle, Roberts 1-2 at Tulsa track meet
- March 26, 2006
- Kansas University’s Sheldon Battle and Cody Roberts finished 1-2 in the discus to highlight the Jayhawk track and field teams’ outdoor-season opener Saturday at the Tulsa Duels.
- KU rowing thumped by Longhorns, 6-0
- March 26, 2006
- Kansas University’s rowing team went 0-6 in races against Texas on Saturday. The Jayhawks did defeat Cincinnati in four of four races.
- Walk-off HR sinks Kansas
- March 26, 2006
- Texas A&M’s Jami Lobpries hit a two-run, two-out walk-off home run to beat Kansas University, 2-1, in Big 12 Conference softball Saturday at the Aggie Sports Complex.
- Huskers sweep Kansas
- March 26, 2006
- The University of Nebraska’s No. 2-ranked baseball team scored two runs in the seventh inning to break a 1-all tie and secure a 4-1 victory over Kansas University in the second game of a baseball doubleheader on Saturday.
- Baylor’s chance to repeat ends
- March 26, 2006
- Of the 14 baskets Crystal Langhorne made in another All-America performance, none was bigger than the one that ended the first half.
- ‘Faux Pas’ passport to foreign phrases
- March 26, 2006
- Learning a foreign language has never been so much fun.
- ‘High School’ leads the cool crowd
- March 26, 2006
- Remember when gangsta rap and heavy-metal bands dominated the top of the charts? The No. 1 album in the United States this week is the soundtrack to “High School Musical,” the Disney
- Missouri taps UAB’s Anderson
- March 26, 2006
- The University of Missouri is completing an agreement with Alabama-Birmingham coach Mike Anderson to be its next basketball coach, according to media reports.
- McDonald’s game to have KU flavor
- March 26, 2006
- One Kansas University basketball signee and one Jayhawk recruit arrived Saturday in San Diego for five days worth of McDonald’s All-America Basketball Game festivities.
- Commentary: Villanova’s Wright good, and for real
- March 26, 2006
- You go in thinking Jay Wright is just too good to be true. You come away convinced he’s too true to be anything but good at what he does.
- Texas toast; Bruins back
- Rare ‘Big Baby’ trey lifts LSU in overtime
- March 26, 2006
- With a trip to the Final Four at stake, LSU’s baby Tigers turned to the biggest Baby of all.
- Before you get your grill on …
- March 26, 2006
- It’s finally starting to warm up again - and that means barbecue grills soon will be shedding their covers for the spring and summer.
- Police: Information on missing boys being withheld
- March 26, 2006
- Police now believe people who know something about two missing Milwaukee boys are withholding information that could lead to a major break in the investigation.
- Senators urge Iraq to act quickly
- March 26, 2006
- For the second time in less than a week, a group of U.S. senators met Saturday with Iraqi leaders to warn that American interest in stabilizing the country could dwindle unless they speed up work to form a unity government.
- Ad campaign rolls out welcome mat to Topeka
- March 26, 2006
- Topekans are still welcome in Lawrence. That’s the message of an advertising campaign spearheaded by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, in the aftermath of a February downtown shooting that prompted one local business owner to publicly blame Topekans for similar problems.
- Wanderlust brings distinction: Pair may be most traveled on planet
- Former Lawrence residents have left footprints in every country on earth - and then some
- March 26, 2006
- Bob Pine began life in a little house that sat on five acres of good dirt in North Lawrence. As a boy he helped his dad, Albert, plant and pick watermelons, corn and potatoes. The family sold their harvest out of a whitewashed wooden stand north of the Kansas River, just south of Teepee Junction.
- Voters about to decide future of pro sports in Kansas City
- March 26, 2006
- Is Kansas City in danger of losing the Chiefs and Royals?
- Lawrence commuter report
- March 26, 2006
- The following construction projects may affect commuter traffic in the region this week.
- Prison plan draws critics
- Private institutions, higher penalties called ‘vicious twist’
- March 26, 2006
- Kansas lawmakers wanting to increase punishments for sex offenders will have to vote for a bill that also authorizes the state to allow private prisons.
- Best sellers
- March 26, 2006
- Bankruptcies
- March 26, 2006
- Douglas County residents or businesses filing for bankruptcy protection during the two weeks ended Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Kansas, according to court records.
- Investment advice for retirement
- Options abound; watch for scams
- March 26, 2006
- Finding the discipline and wherewithal to save for retirement is tough, but it’s especially hard for people with modest means and little investing experience.
- Need financial direction?
- Begin with basic checkup of monetary health
- March 26, 2006
- There’s broccoli, flossing and sit-ups. Now, add one more thing to your list of things unpleasant but good for you: financial checkups.
- Commentary: Bonds lawsuit simply a smoke screen
- March 26, 2006
- Barry Bonds has been called a lot of things over the years. Feared slugger, future Hall of Famer, steroid abuser and pompous jerk are among those that most immediately come to mind.
- Ames fires 70, takes TPC lead
- Singh, Garcia one stroke back; Woods trails by seven
- March 26, 2006
- Stephen Ames took on Sawgrass at full strength and finished a grueling afternoon with a rare smile, surviving with a 2-under 70 to take a one-shot lead Saturday in The Players Championship.
- Affeldt, Bautista named to K.C.’s starting staff
- March 26, 2006
- Jeremy Affeldt and Denny Bautista will be the Kansas City Royals’ fourth and fifth starters, manager Buddy Bell said Saturday.
- Cubs clobber Royals
- March 26, 2006
- Michael Barrett hit a three-run home run and drove in six runs Saturday as a Chicago Cubs split squad beat the Kansas City Royals, 9-4.
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