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- Decker’s murder trial delayed
- May 12, 2006
- Trial is delayed for a Lawrence man accused of killing his five-month-old daughter. Jay Decker, who faces first-degree murder charges, now stands trial July 31st for the death of Risha Lafferty.
- KU releases site plans for football facility
- May 12, 2006
- Kansas University’s new football facility will be sited southwest of Memorial Stadium and two new practice fields will be southeast of the stadium, according to a site map released today by KU officials.
- Deer leads to four-car accident on K-10
- Two persons injured, including Lawrence man
- May 12, 2006
- A deer on the highway led to a four-vehicle wreck this morning on Kansas Highway 10 that sent a Lawrence man and one other person to the hospital.
- Formal complaint filed against Nuss
- 09:41 a.m., May 12, 2006 Updated 10:46 a.m.
- A Kansas Supreme Court justice violated judicial rules during a lunch when he and two senators discussed the way Kansas lawmakers fund public schools, which is at the heart of a lawsuit still before the high court, according to a complaint filed today.
- Sun-filled Friday ahead
- Cooler and partly cloudy conditions expected for Mother’s Day
- May 12, 2006
- Plenty of “sweet sunshine” will fill Lawrence’s skies today, says Matt Sayers, 6News chief meteorologist. “It’s a good day to get out and enjoy,” Sayers said.
- Disaster strikes
- Actors dive headfirst into danger
- May 12, 2006
- “I never compare what we do to real-life work, but at times this was like going to work on an oil rig,” says “Poseidon” lead Josh Lucas. “It was very dangerous, very uncomfortable and scary. It was as challenging as work gets.”
- Personalities are lost at sea in ‘Poseidon’
- May 12, 2006
- Nobody called “Titanic” a remake of “A Night to Remember.” So it’s rather unfair to call “Poseidon” a remake of 1972’s “The Poseidon Adventure.” Yes, it’s the same ship, same tidal wave and same topsy-turvy result.
- ‘Hobbit’ crew hatches dragon
- May 12, 2006
- By Tuesday afternoon, the dragon had pretty much taken over the commons area at Bishop Seabury Academy.
- Depeche Mode cancels Chicago show after cutting short concert in K.C.
- May 12, 2006
- Depeche Mode canceled its concert Thursday in Chicago because lead singer Dave Gahan is suffering from laryngitis, the band’s publicist said.
- KU team diverse, dandy
- Jayhawk squad melting pot of gung-ho cyclists
- May 12, 2006
- What do a gung-ho German, an against-all-odds ironwoman and a 34-year-old former forester have in common?
- KU student named sexiest vegetarian
- May 12, 2006
- Kansas University student Ricky House has been crowned the male “Sexiest Vegetarian Alive” by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
- Lawrence datebook
- May 12, 2006
- Inmate asked to be executed another way
- May 12, 2006
- A condemned inmate asked prison officials to find another way to execute him as they struggled to administer a lethal injection after an intravenous line failed, prison records show.
- U.S. Senate approves $70B tax-cut bill
- May 12, 2006
- The Senate gave final approval Thursday to a $70 billion election-year package of tax cuts that will extend lower rates for investors and save billions for families with above-average incomes.
- Teen author recalled as great student
- Those who knew her shocked by plagiarism accusations
- May 12, 2006
- Well before she became famous as the Harvard student caught lifting material from other authors, Kaavya Viswanathan was the kind of person others noticed.
- Bonds stuck on No. 713
- May 12, 2006
- Barry Bonds has displayed impeccable timing at the plate throughout his decorated career.
- Matsui’s streak ends at 518
- Yankees outfielder breaks wrist; Red Sox win, 5-3
- May 12, 2006
- Hideki Matsui’s broken wrist left the Yankees without another power-hitting outfielder, and the Boston Red Sox rallied past New York, 5-3, Thursday night on Mark Loretta’s two-run infield single.
- Bad back can’t keep Pujols from thriving
- May 12, 2006
- Albert Pujols has an aching back. Somehow, it’s opposing pitchers who are hurting.
- Record access
- Kansas shouldn’t close its concealed carry records without getting more information and fully debating the pros and cons.
- May 12, 2006
- Barring public access to government documents should not be the default position in Kansas.
- Horoscopes
- May 12, 2006
- For Friday, May 12
- Walk-off winners
- Lions claw, but Firebirds soar in end
- May 12, 2006
- John Novotny took one last look at the scoreboard, slowly shaking his head once again in disbelief.
- Man in HIV exposure case faces new charges
- May 12, 2006
- More charges have been filed against a Lawrence man accused of knowingly exposing women to HIV.
- Commission likes auditor concept
- May 12, 2006
- When Mark Funkhouser learned only 18 percent of Kansas City, Mo., residents were satisfied with the city’s sidewalks, he did what City Council members pay him to do: He investigated.
- Teen injured in N. 2nd Street accident recuperating at home
- Bills for month in hospital exceed $150,000
- May 12, 2006
- Billy Baker is home. Billy, the 15-year-old blind and autistic boy injured last month in an accident caused partly by a notorious road bump in North Lawrence, was released from Children’s Mercy Hospital in late April. He’s now recuperating in a wheelchair at his grandparents’ home on Perry Street, with four rods in his injured right leg and a bandage still covering the area where he had a skin graft.
- Tribal leaders urge Haskell funding shift
- University hopes to cut federal dependency
- May 12, 2006
- For as long as anyone can remember, Haskell Indian Nations University has solved fiscal ills by begging federal bureaucrats for more money. That used to work. It doesn’t anymore.
- U.S., Iraqi forces rescue Sunnis kidnapped by suspected militiamen
- May 12, 2006
- U.S. and Iraqi forces Thursday rescued seven Sunni Arab men seized by suspected Shiite militiamen near Baghdad, part of a campaign to suppress sectarian death squads responsible for hundreds of deaths this year.
- Tennessee may require stores to card all beer buyers
- May 12, 2006
- If the state’s convenience stores have their way, anyone wanting a six-pack of beer in Tennessee soon will have to prove they are old enough to buy it, even if they look well over 21.
- Harley to ride into town
- Topeka dealer expanding into Lawrence
- May 12, 2006
- Topeka Harley-Davidson is expanding into North Lawrence, an area that is becoming increasingly comfortable for motorcycle enthusiasts and businesses.
- Olathe East blows by Lawrence High softball
- May 12, 2006
- Lawrence High dropped a softball doubleheader Thursday to Olathe East, 10-0 and 11-6.
- KU track headed to Big 12 Championships
- May 12, 2006
- Kansas University’s men’s and women’s track teams will compete at the Big 12 Championships today through Sunday at Baylor University’s track.
- Seabury soccer wins, awaits playoff destiny
- May 12, 2006
- Seabury Academy’s soccer team defeated Hyman Brand, 3-1, on Thursday at Sprint Center campus.
- One more sendoff: Falkenstien, senior athletes honored
- May 12, 2006
- Just when Max Falkenstien thought he had enough sendoffs to last a lifetime, one more came his way Thursday.
- ‘Cougar’ to coach Seabury
- May 12, 2006
- When Seabury Academy athletic director Brian Clyne began his search for a new boys basketball coach, he quickly met Cougarmania.
- KU adds weekend game
- Jayhawks tweak lineup, rotation in preparation for Big 12 tourney
- May 12, 2006
- Needing every victory it can muster, The Kansas University baseball team could find this weekend’s nonconference Jayhawk Classic holds the same importance as a Big 12 Conference series.
- Woodling: Run for yards, not office
- May 12, 2006
- Hopscotching the sports world for headlines … Item: Former Nebraska University football coach Tom Osborne, an icon in the Cornhusker State, fails in his bid to become governor, losing decisively to incumbent Gov. Dave Heineman in the state’s Republican primary. Comment: Hardly a surprise. I mean, what has Osborne, who last coached the Huskers nearly a decade ago, done for them lately?
- ‘Big-time talent’ to take court at invitational
- Six KU recruiting targets to participate in games in Allen Fieldhouse, Robinson Gymnasium
- May 12, 2006
- It’s a dead period in recruiting, meaning college coaches will be prohibited from scouting this weekend’s Jayhawk Invitational youth basketball tournament in Allen Fieldhouse and Robinson Gymnasium.
- KU softball wins pair at Big 12 tournament
- May 12, 2006
- Like it has all season, Kansas University’s softball squad rode stellar pitching Thursday to a pair of victories at the Big 12 Conference tournament at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium.
- Commentary: In Bay Area, Bonds can do no wrong
- May 12, 2006
- One night and three time zones removed from hitting his 713th home run, Barry Bonds was given time to rest his aching knees and elbow. He was out of Felipe Alou’s lineup when the San Francisco Giants played host to the Houston Astros on Monday night, a game that was rescheduled after April rainouts.
- Two-time champ Patterson dies
- Fighter was first to reclaim heavyweight crown
- May 12, 2006
- Floyd Patterson, an undersized champion who avenged an embarrassing loss to Ingemar Johansson by beating him a year later to become the first boxer to regain the heavyweight title, died Thursday. He was 71.
- Clippers’ size can stop speedy Suns
- May 12, 2006
- Though formal practice was over, Elton Brand and Chris Kaman weren’t finished, receiving passes from Los Angeles Clippers assistant coach Kim Hughes, taking dozens of shots from close range and making most of them.
- Nets, Heat will forget blowouts
- May 12, 2006
- Conventional wisdom would hold that the New Jersey Nets returned home Thursday with an advantage in their Eastern Conference semifinal series after splitting the first two games at Miami.
- Sutcliffe stumbles on air
- May 12, 2006
- Rick Sutcliffe, a Cy Young award winner and ESPN baseball analyst, gave a rambling, slurred interview during the local television broadcast of the Brewers-Padres game Wednesday night.
- Hot prospect, hotter card
- Topps error puts Royals’ Gordon on valuable card
- May 12, 2006
- OK, so Alex Gordon’s baseball card isn’t as valuable as the 1909 Honus Wagner gem that sold for more than $1.2 million a few years ago.
- Mumps cases increase
- May 12, 2006
- The health department reported five more Douglas County mumps cases Thursday, bringing the county’s total to 226 confirmed or probable cases this year.
- Special patrol for drunken drivers today
- May 12, 2006
- The Lawrence Police Department’s traffic unit will conduct a citywide “saturation patrol” tonight, with the goal of stopping drunken drivers and other traffic violators.
- KU loses information from incoming freshmen
- May 12, 2006
- Kansas University has sent e-mails to nearly 300 incoming freshmen asking them to resubmit orientation registration information after previously compiled information was lost, likely due to human error.
- Children can get free bike helmets at fair
- May 12, 2006
- Children will have a chance to receive a free bike helmet and show off their bike-riding skills this weekend in Lawrence.
- Crews search river for person clinging to wood
- May 12, 2006
- Emergency crews searched the Kansas River by boat and helicopter Thursday morning after a driver reported seeing someone clinging to a piece of driftwood in the water under the Lecompton bridge.
- Correction
- May 12, 2006
- The Food and Drug Administration recommends thawing frozen meats by defrosting them in the microwave, placing them in the refrigerator overnight or submerging them in water-tight plastic bags in cold water. The instructions were unclear in a graphic in Wednesday’s Journal-World.
- On the record
- May 12, 2006
- Trafficway closing for cycling race
- May 12, 2006
- The South Lawrence Trafficway will be closed this morning for the USA Cycling National Collegiate Road Championships bicycle race in the Lawrence area.
- Pets, home lost in fire started by candle
- May 12, 2006
- A Lawrence resident lost her home and pets in a fire Thursday morning.
- KU hopes to get more than $3M from FEMA
- May 12, 2006
- Kansas University hopes to receive about $3.3 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cover the bulk of the damage caused by the March 12 microburst.
- KU law professor to serve as legislative counsel
- May 12, 2006
- Kansas University law professor Stephen McAllister is the front-runner for a position that would provide legal advice to the state Legislature.
- Registered sex offender faces new charges
- May 12, 2006
- A man who already is listed as a sex offender on the state’s offender registry has been charged with molesting a young female acquaintance.
- Monarch Watch open house to be Saturday
- May 12, 2006
- Kansas University’s Monarch Watch program’s spring open house and plant sale will be from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Foley Hall on KU’s west campus.
- Police say victim of fall was trying to climb
- May 12, 2006
- Lawrence Police on Thursday released limited information about a fall early Wednesday that sent a 21-year-old woman to the hospital by helicopter.
- Champion trees lost to storms
- Cottonwood, KU pin oak destroyed
- May 12, 2006
- State forestry experts are trying to bring back to life small parts of a mighty cottonwood that once stood in Ozawkie near Perry Lake before a series of storms virtually destroyed it over the past few years.
- Suspect arrested in downtown stabbing
- May 12, 2006
- Police have arrested a 34-year-old Lawrence man for a stabbing Saturday night in downtown Lawrence.
- Patrol seeks fuel deals
- May 12, 2006
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.59 at Citgo at Ninth and Iowa streets. If you find a lower price, call Pump Patrol at 832-7154.
- Rural minister lived life of quiet wisdom, gratitude
- May 12, 2006
- When John Beeghley would bring Sunday church services to a close, he’d thank the congregation “for their attendance and good attention” and announce the time for the next Sunday’s service. But there was always a contingency. He’d add that it would happen only “if the Lord tarries” or “if the Lord wills it.”
- Families go to Everglades to honor crash victims
- May 12, 2006
- For the past decade, they’ve told intimate and detailed stories about their loss to all who asked.
- Leak fuels neighbors’ fears
- Residents worry about effects of seeping gasoline
- May 12, 2006
- Two doors down from a very big hole in the ground, Darwin and Susan Eakins were unhappy Thursday.
- Report: Lone juror kept Moussaoui alive
- May 12, 2006
- A single holdout kept the jury from handing a death sentence to Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in this country in the 9-11 attacks.
- Some wonder if NSA will track e-mails, cell phone calls next
- May 12, 2006
- If the National Security Agency is indeed amassing a colossal database of Americans’ phone records, one way to use all that information is in “social network analysis,” a data-mining method that aims to expose previously invisible connections among people.
- A furor over phone records
- Report says NSA creating database of domestic calls
- May 12, 2006
- Lawmakers demanded answers from the Bush administration Thursday about a spy agency secretly collecting records of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls to build a database of all calls within the country.
- Youngster with birth defect sings for pope
- May 12, 2006
- A 9-year-old Canadian boy who suffers from a birth defect that affected his hearing sang for Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday during an audience with Canadian bishops.
- Coroner: Teen died from asthma attack, not kiss
- May 12, 2006
- A Canadian coroner confirmed Thursday that a teenager - once believed to have died from a peanut allergy after kissing her boyfriend - died from an asthma attack.
- Nation confronts allies for genocide accusations
- May 12, 2006
- Turkey has pulled out of a military exercise in Canada and hinted at economic repercussions against France, stepping up protests of accusations that Turks committed genocide against Armenians during World War I.
- First documented hybrid bear found in wild
- May 12, 2006
- A DNA test has confirmed what zoologists, hunters and aboriginal trackers in the far northern reaches of Canada have dreamed of for years: the first documented case of a grizzly-polar bear in the wild.
- Riot police move against demonstrators
- May 12, 2006
- Thousands of Egyptian riot police beat pro-democracy activists Thursday, chasing and dragging them through the streets to break up a demonstration in support of judges who blew the whistle on election fraud.
- Four U.S. Marines killed near Baghdad
- May 12, 2006
- Four U.S. Marines died in Iraq when their tank rolled off a bridge into a canal and they drowned, the military said today.
- Scientist indicted on fraud charges
- May 12, 2006
- Prosecutors indicted disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk today on fraud and bioethics law violations linked to faked stem cell research, officials said.
- Britain missed chances to thwart attacks
- May 12, 2006
- Britain’s intelligence agencies missed chances to thwart last year’s transit attacks by failing to follow up leads on two of the men who became the country’s first suicide bombers, major reports said Thursday.
- More veterans with stress from combat need help
- May 12, 2006
- Less than one-quarter of the U.S. military’s Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who show signs of post-traumatic stress are referred for additional mental health treatment or evaluation, a government study finds.
- Head of WTC rebuilding agency stepping down
- May 12, 2006
- The head of the agency overseeing development of the World Trade Center site announced Thursday he is stepping down at the end of the month.
- FBI Web site collects tips on public corruption
- May 12, 2006
- The FBI has established a Web site to make it easier for the public to pass along tips on corrupt government officials, FBI Director Robert Mueller said Thursday.
- State reimburses woman for wrong calls
- May 12, 2006
- Missouri’s social service agency reimbursed a Montana businesswoman $223 for having to field more than 1,000 calls after it mistakenly listed her toll-free number on letters to Medicaid recipients.
- State plans largest U.S. offshore wind farm
- May 12, 2006
- Texas officials announced plans Thursday for the nation’s largest offshore wind farm, consisting of as many as 170 windmills out in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Grand jury indicts Kentucky governor
- May 12, 2006
- A grand jury indicted Gov. Ernie Fletcher on misdemeanor charges Thursday, accusing him of illegally rewarding political supporters with state jobs since taking office two years ago.
- Priest convicted in nun’s slaying
- May 12, 2006
- A priest was convicted Thursday of murder in the slaying of a nun who was found stabbed 26 years ago in a hospital chapel, her forehead “anointed” with a smudge of blood, her wounds forming an upside-down cross on her chest.
- Library specialist joins national board
- May 12, 2006
- Kim Patton, young adult specialist for the Lawrence Public Library, has been elected to the board of directors of the Young Adult Library Services Assn., a division of the American Library Assn. that works to advocate, strengthen and promote library services for young adults nationwide.
- Arthritis treatment focus on seminar
- May 12, 2006
- TherapyWorks P.A is having a free seminar “Living With Arthritis” from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the center, 1112 W. Sixth St., Suite 120.
- Morgan Stanley rep joins Admiral’s Club
- May 12, 2006
- John Oberzan, a registered representative with Morgan Stanley’s Lawrence office, has earned Planco’s highest honor of membership in the 2005 Admiral’s Club. He produced more than $3 million in sales in a calendar year.
- Open house set for retiring manager
- May 12, 2006
- Mary Beem, office manager for State Farm Insurance agent Bob Carlson, will be honored at a retirement open house from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 19 at the State Farm office, 2400 Iowa St.
- Simply Bee Massage having open house
- May 12, 2006
- Karen Parish, owner of Simply Bee Massage, will have an open house from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at her new downtown location at 219 E. Ninth St. She will be offering a free chair massage, gift certificate discounts, and a drawing for a free one hour massage.
- Daily ticker
- May 12, 2006
- Commodities
- May 12, 2006
- Slowing housing market prompts price cuts
- May 12, 2006
- We have signed a contract to purchase a home, and the sale is supposed to close next month. The problem is that we have not been able to sell our current home because sales in our area are slowing and buyers are making only low-ball offers. Would it make sense to rent our current house out to tenants for a few months until a serious buyer shows up, or should we just reduce our asking price now in order to make a quick sale?
- People in the news
- May 12, 2006
- ¢ Dixie Chicks recall death threat after Bush remark ¢ Country music singer’s hearing on DUI is delayed ¢ Chappelle says wife still mad at him for walking out on deal ¢ Snoop Dogg takes responsibility for brawl
- TV revisits its roots
- May 12, 2006
- Television’s sweeps month often reminds us that the medium’s roots go back to the days of Variety Theater. Groucho Marx, a star of stage, screen and small-screen game shows, once defined TV as “Terrible Vaudeville.”
- Fuel charges
- May 12, 2006
- To the editor: Many are questioning big oil about price gouging.
- Nurses honored
- May 12, 2006
- To the editor: Annually, National Nurses Week began on May 6 and ends May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of nursing as a modern profession.
- Responsibility
- May 12, 2006
- To the editor: Over the course of three years, the Bush administration has used hundreds of thousands of troops and hundreds of billions of dollars for the invasion of Iraq.
- Puppy questions
- May 12, 2006
- To the editor: Spring : when some minds turn to thoughts of getting a puppy.
- Divisions may doom U.S.
- May 12, 2006
- The parallels are striking - and scary. Coming up on five years since 9-11, neither Washington nor New York has its act together.
- G-8 must make demands on Russia
- May 12, 2006
- Irina Yasina used to be the vice chairman of the Open Russia Foundation, the largest private Russian organization supporting human rights. Now the government has frozen the foundation’s accounts and shut down its operations; even an orphanage it funds is under threat of closure.
- McCain raises constitutional question
- May 12, 2006
- Presidents swear to “protect and defend the Constitution.” The Constitution says: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” On April 28, on Don Imus’ radio program, discussing the charge that the McCain-Feingold law abridges freedom of speech by regulating the quantity, content and timing of political speech, John McCain did not really reject the charge.
- Old home town - 100 years ago today
- May 12, 2006
- From the Lawrence Daily World for May 12, 1906: “Many local women who have had gas-powered stoves installed tell about how much cooler it is cooking that way. ‘I used to think there was nothing to compare with a good coal range, but the gas stoves have changed me completely,’ one housewife told us.”
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