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- Engagement: Wilson
- Engagement: Minor
- Engagement: Dahlberg
- Engagement: Millen
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- Possible stabbing in downtown Lawrence
- May 6, 2006
- Lawrence Police officers were investigating a possible stabbing Saturday night in downtown Lawrence after a man with a blood-soaked shirt was loaded into an ambulance.
- Rollover accident injures two on K-10
- May 6, 2006
- A roll-over accident on east-bound Kansas-10 has left two injured and slowed traffic between Lawrence and Olathe.
- Lone Star marina may be revived
- May 6, 2006
- Brad Harrell and Shane Barnard stood along the northern bank toward the east end of the fishing area at Lone Star Lake Wednesday casting their lines and wishing they had a place to go get a quick bite to eat.
- Senior sendoff on tap
- Settlemier among six Jayhawks to bow out against Cyclones
- May 6, 2006
- Serena Settlemier’s mother and father will come all the way from Kelso, Wash. Settlemier’s older sister and her husband will be here, too.
- Mosley ‘really good’ in spring
- May 6, 2006
- The real Shaquina Mosley - not last year’s bust - appears to have shown up in the Kansas University women’s basketball program.
- Phillies win sixth in row
- May 6, 2006
- With balls flying out of Philadelphia’s hitter-friendly park, Barry Bonds barely reached the outfield.
- Lawmakers reach agreement on servitude case legislation
- May 6, 2006
- Lynn Kohr wiped away tears of joy Friday after House and Senate negotiators agreed on legislation to provide better protections from abuse for disabled and mentally ill Kansans.
- Other states shed light on gaming’s worth
- May 6, 2006
- Wisconsin, Connecticut and Oregon expanded casino and slot gambling - Oregon specifically did so to help pay for public education. Those states’ experiences might shed light on the reality of expanded gambling in Kansas.
- Two coral species join ‘threatened’ list
- May 6, 2006
- Two coral species in Florida and the Caribbean now have a spot on the federal threatened list because of dangers posed by human activity, hurricanes and higher water temperatures.
- Bert Nash presents honors
- May 6, 2006
- The Home Depot in Lawrence’s acceptance, encouragement and continued employment of people with disabilities earned the store an Employer of the Year award from Supported Employment Services, a program of Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center.
- Return of the Comet
- Ex-KU great a hit at fundraiser
- May 6, 2006
- OK, so golf never will be the sport for which Gale Sayers is remembered. That doesn’t mean hitting the links can’t help the former football great make a difference.
- Retiring Methodist organist lived his pipe dream
- May 6, 2006
- The sanctuary at First United Methodist Church is so quiet you could hear a dollar bill drop from the offering plate.
- Student group inspires Idaho atheists
- May 6, 2006
- An offshoot of Kansas University’s Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics has sprung up in the red state of Idaho.
- How important is an actual church building for worship?
- May 6, 2006
- ¢ Building, though important, shouldn’t be focus of faith ¢ Church is less about bricks, mortar than people of God
- Royals rally past Sox
- Four-run ninth lifts K.C. to another road victory - 5-4 over Chicago
- May 6, 2006
- With only five runs in their previous four games and their frustrated owner promising to shake things up, the Kansas City Royals staged a memorable ninth-inning rally.
- Will favorites feel need for speed?
- No matter the plan of attack, Brother Derek the horse to beat
- May 6, 2006
- Dan Hendricks easily maneuvered his wheelchair outside Barn 42 at Churchill Downs for a final chat on the day before the Kentucky Derby.
- CIA director steps down
- May 6, 2006
- CIA Director Porter Goss resigned under pressure on Friday, ending a tumultuous, 19-month tenure marked by clashes with the nation’s new intelligence chief about the CIA’s reduced role in the restructured spy community.
- Mothers of twins to meet today
- May 6, 2006
- The 43rd state convention for mothers of twin children will continue today in Lawrence.
- Simons: Distinguished professors are university’s true all-star team
- May 6, 2006
- Earlier this week, a group of Kansas University faculty members and their spouses gathered to visit and reminisce with each other, former KU chancellors Archie Dykes and Gene Budig and former Kansas Board of Regents Chairman Clay Blair. The evening meeting also was an opportunity to talk about current projects as well as reflect on the university.
- Glass: There’ll be some changes made
- Royals owner says he’s tired of losing, and he’s not going to take it anymore
- May 6, 2006
- An angry David Glass vowed Friday that “significant changes” were coming soon to the Kansas City Royals.
- Black turnout down in post-Katrina election
- May 6, 2006
- Black voter turnout in the city’s first election after Hurricane Katrina was down while white voter turnout was roughly the same, according to statistics released Friday.
- Society calendar
- May 6, 2006
- Faith briefs
- May 6, 2006
- Logan, Penny win track titles for LHS
- May 6, 2006
- Kevin Logan won the high jump and Scott Penny the shot put to highlight the Lawrence High boys track and field team’s showing Friday at the Shawnee Mission North Relays.
- ‘United 93’ makes us face 9-11 reality
- May 6, 2006
- I just got back from seeing “United 93” and want to address the question of whether it is “too soon” for a movie about Sept. 11, 2001, the worst day in recent American history. But first, a joke.
- Horoscopes
- May 6, 2006
- For Saturday, May 6
- Around and about
- May 6, 2006
- Review: KU cast stages feisty ‘Figaro’
- May 6, 2006
- There are many reasons Mozart’s come-uppance romantic comedy “The Marriage of Figaro” has stood the test of time, not the least of which is its social commentary.
- Residents offer prayers for city, state, nation
- May 6, 2006
- Lisa McFarland tapped into the emotion of about 200 people standing Friday inside the Coffin Sports Complex at Haskell Indian Nations University.
- KU’s top scholars honored
- May 6, 2006
- They are at the top of their profession. Winners of large grants. Members of international organizations. They’ve all been given the capital “D.”
- Body burned in car ID’d
- Remains belong to 40-year-old Johnson Countian
- May 6, 2006
- The body found burned Sunday at Clinton Lake was identified Friday as that of a 40-year-old Johnson County woman who had been through a contentious divorce.
- Layoffs to come after Medicare enrollment slows
- May 6, 2006
- Pearson Government Solutions is cutting as many as 200 jobs at its call center in the East Hills Business Park now that the enrollment period for Medicare Part D program is set to expire May 15.
- 4-H and FCE News
- May 6, 2006
- Club news
- May 6, 2006
- On the record
- May 6, 2006
- Lawrence datebook
- May 6, 2006
- Top prep Arthur to announce Monday
- May 6, 2006
- Darrell Arthur, Kansas University’s top basketball recruiting target, will end the suspense Monday with a noon press conference, according to dallaspreps.com.
- Mayer: Trouble brewing for KU?
- May 6, 2006
- On a dark and stormy night, I can conjure up Macbeth’s creepy crones clustered around a gurgling, crackling cauldron marked “Kansas University Athletics.”
- Texas rallies past Kansas
- May 6, 2006
- A three-run seventh inning lifted the seventh-ranked Texas baseball team to a 7-4 Big 12 Conference victory Friday over Kasnas University.
- Schilling claims fifth victory
- May 6, 2006
- Curt Schilling moved into a tie for the AL lead with his fifth win, and David Ortiz put Boston ahead with a three-run double, leading the Red Sox over the Baltimore Orioles, 6-3, Friday night.
- Cutting back on mower injuries
- May 6, 2006
- With the arrival of spring rains, chances are your lawn is growing like gangbusters. Unfortunately, emergency room visits due to lawn mower mishaps also start to grow this time of year.
- House rejects compromise bill on funeral picketing
- May 6, 2006
- Compromise legislation prompted by the Rev. Fred Phelps and his followers protesting at funerals of troops killed in combat was rejected Friday by the House at the urging of Speaker Doug Mays, who said it wasn’t tough enough.
- Eminent domain clears both chambers, goes to Sebelius
- May 6, 2006
- Property rights legislation went Friday to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, clearing both chambers by large margins even though some members thought the measure wasn’t strong enough.
- Session has many loose ends to be tied before end
- School finance, punishment for sex offenders among issues that must be resolved
- May 6, 2006
- The Kansas Legislature failed to resolve major issues - school finance, business tax cuts and increased punishments for sex offenders - before the week ended Friday.
- Kansans hesitant to bank on gambling
- May 6, 2006
- Kansas is looking at the potential of expanding an industry that promises $200 million in new revenue to the state and hundreds of jobs that pay between $30,000 to $50,000 annually.
- City squads struggle
- Firebirds ‘average,’ Lions ‘nervous’ in preliminary round
- May 6, 2006
- Lawrence and Free State high schools will have a few athletes returning for the final day of the Sunflower League swimming and diving meet today at Knox Natatorium, but not nearly as many as their coaches had anticipated.
- FSHS tennis cruises, 8-1
- May 6, 2006
- The Free State High boys tennis team won five of six singles matches Thursday on the way to an 8-1 victory over Leavenworth.
- BHS boys, Eudora girls win Redbud crowns
- May 6, 2006
- Baldwin High’s boys and Eudora’s girls won team titles Friday at the Redbud Relays.
- FSHS baseball clinches share of league title
- May 6, 2006
- Make it four straight Sunflower League titles for the Free State High baseball team.
- Jones delivers OT ‘dagger’
- Cleveland, San Antonio secure trips to conference semis
- May 6, 2006
- LeBron James played 53 minutes. Damon Jones played 14 seconds.
- Convicted sniper questions witnesses
- May 6, 2006
- Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, representing himself in his second trial stemming from the October 2002 Washington-area shootings, questioned witnesses Friday on the point that no one actually saw the gunman.
- New jobs slow, unemployment steady
- May 6, 2006
- New hiring slackened last month to the slowest pace since the fall, as retailers cut thousands of jobs. Manufacturers and other businesses boosted employment, though, and the national jobless rate held steady at 4.7 percent.
- In election’s wake, Blair shakes up Cabinet
- May 6, 2006
- Stung by an election defeat, Tony Blair shuffled his Cabinet on Friday and replaced Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in an attempt to save his own political future and shore up support to tackle crises in Iran and Iraq.
- Study: Several nations harsher on immigrants
- May 6, 2006
- Defending his House-passed immigration bill that sparked street protest by millions of immigrants, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee issued a report Friday showing that several countries are harsher than the United Stated in their treatment of illegal immigrants and their employers.
- New autopsy blames guards for boy’s death
- May 6, 2006
- A 14-year-old boy kicked and punched by guards at a juvenile boot camp died because the sheriff’s officials suffocated him, a medical examiner said Friday, contradicting a colleague who blamed the death on a usually benign blood disorder.
- Peace accord signed
- May 6, 2006
- Thanks in part to last-minute U.S. diplomacy, two years of Darfur peace talks beset by setbacks and frustration ended with a signing ceremony between the government and the largest rebel faction Friday.
- Crash spurs Kennedy to enter drug rehab again
- May 6, 2006
- Rep. Patrick Kennedy said Friday he was entering treatment for addiction to prescription pain drugs after a middle-of-the-night car crash near the Capitol that he said he had no memory of.
- People in the news
- May 6, 2006
- ¢ ‘Dog Whisperer’ faces suit ¢ Jackson not thrilled by GQ spoof photographs
- Hallmark movie a dud for Whaley
- May 6, 2006
- Frank Whaley made quite an impression in the 1994 comedy “Swimming with Sharks.” He was the beleaguered assistant driven to madness by an arrogant Hollywood producer, played to perfection by Kevin Spacey. Whaley has found steady work since, appearing on several episodes of “NCIS” on and “The Dead Zone.”
- Longoria lifts Latino award show
- Kansas-produced event combines glitz with a message
- May 6, 2006
- A basketball bounces outside the home of producer David Chavez when he gets the call. Eva Longoria grabs a minute between takes as two-timing Gabrielle on “Desperate Housewives” to phone in the news from her trailer: Jessica Simpson has confirmed!
- Black Jack search ends without any findings
- May 6, 2006
- The search for artifacts at Black Jack Battlefield near Baldwin came to an end Friday without any significant findings.
- 200 raise money for March of Dimes
- May 6, 2006
- About 200 people began the march Friday at Clinton State Park.
- Literacy fundraiser slated for today
- May 6, 2006
- The Altrusa Club of Lawrence will host the first Run, Walk, Ride for Reading fundraiser from 9 a.m. to noon today.
- Patrols boosted to stop underage drinking
- May 6, 2006
- Some officers with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks will work overtime tonight at Clinton Wildlife Area in an effort to prevent underage drinking.
- Patrol seeks fuel deals
- May 6, 2006
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.65 at several locations. If you find a lower price, call Pump Patrol at 832-7154.
- Possible sewage sites narrowed to two
- May 6, 2006
- The city has narrowed its choices to two locations for a $75 million sewage treatment plant: one near U.S. Highway 59 and several homes, and another in a more rural location near the intersection of O’Connell Road and the Wakarusa River.
- OSU’s Sutton pleads no contest
- Oklahoma State coach receives deferred sentence
- May 6, 2006
- Oklahoma State basketball coach Eddie Sutton pleaded no contest Friday to drunken-driving charges for a traffic accident in which his SUV swerved, collided with another vehicle and then hit a tree.
- Fire chief: Leak fix will take awhile
- May 6, 2006
- City and state investigators continue to monitor an area in Old West Lawrence where gasoline has pooled underground, Lawrence Fire Chief Mark Bradford said Friday.
- Student host families face security checks
- May 6, 2006
- The families who host the nearly 30,000 foreign exchange students who stay in this country each year now will have to undergo criminal background checks, under new federal rules that went into effect this week.
- Jury acquits two in U.S. journalist’s murder
- May 6, 2006
- A jury on Friday acquitted two Chechen men accused of murdering U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov almost two years ago on a Moscow street. The victim’s relatives urged Russia to investigate his slaying “with renewed vigor.”
- Israeli air strike kills five at militant camp
- May 6, 2006
- An Israeli aircraft struck a training camp used by Palestinian militants Friday, killing five members of a group that has close ties to the ruling Hamas movement.
- Cheney stands by comments on Putin
- May 6, 2006
- Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday shrugged off negative Russian reaction to his criticism of President Vladimir Putin, saying he had merely described “the extent to which they seem to resist the development of strong democracies” in Eastern Europe.
- Roadside bombing kills 3 U.S. soldiers
- May 6, 2006
- A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers Friday south of Baghdad as U.S. and Iraqi forces swept through a city to the north where three insurgents had been killed the day before after firing on U.S. troops.
- Council negotiates Iran nuclear resolution
- May 6, 2006
- Russia and China insisted Friday that a Security Council resolution on Iran stress diplomacy and oversight of Tehran’s nuclear program instead of raising the threat of possible future action.
- Poll shows conservatives abandoning GOP
- May 6, 2006
- Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress to dismal new lows, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that underscores why Republicans fear an Election Day massacre.
- Old home town - 100 years ago today
- May 6, 2006
- From the Lawrence Daily World for May 6, 1906: “The food problem seems to be acute in earthquake-stricken San Francisco. Three hundred thousand people could be in danger if help does not arrive soon.”
- Old home town - 25 years ago today
- May 6, 2006
- A Lawrence man on trial for murder testified he killed a Texas biker the past October but said the shooting was in self-defense. Taking the witness stand in the third day of his trial, Don Michael Dever, 32, said he fired that shots that killed Charles S. Myers of Clute, Texas, after the two had argued about drugs.
- Moussaoui verdict reveals ‘moral squishiness’
- May 6, 2006
- “America you lost - I won!” shouted Zacarias Moussaoui after an Alexandria, Va., jury rejected the death penalty for his admitted role in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 people.
- Safety first
- Organizers of a huge music festival at Clinton Lake shouldn’t worry too much about the people who will be upset by increased law enforcement patrols.
- May 6, 2006
- The only people who would be put off by plans for increased law enforcement presence at the Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival are those who organizers - and local residents - don’t want around anyway.
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