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- Tale of the Tape
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Military News
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on D5
- Club News
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on D3
- Lawrence Datebook
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Rape reports released
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Lawrence Police have released information on two recent rape reports in the area.
- Police seek help to find suspect in burglary
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Police on Friday asked for the public’s help identifying the suspect in a home burglary Oct. 31 in the 500 block of Frontier Road.
- I-70 rollover wreck sends 2 to hospital
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Two Lawrence residents, Alan and Janet Brummell, both 57, were taken to the hospital by air ambulance Friday afternoon after a rollover wreck on the Kansas Turnpike.
- State officials may sell Sudan pension holdings
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B1
- State officials are starting to ask whether Kansas’ public pension system should sell its holdings in Sudan to put pressure to end the genocide there. Sonny Scroggins, a Topeka activist who has called for divestment from Sudan for years, says it’s about time.
- Lawrence district gets passing grades
- Yearly progress goal falls short for students with disabilities in three junior highs
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B1
- The Lawrence school district announced Friday that it passed the federal Annual Yearly Progress goal for reading and math.
- Bank honors teacher at Sunflower School
- November 11, 2006
- A Sunflower School teacher has been honored by a Lawrence business.
- Grandma pleads to witness intimidation
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B3
- The mother-in-law of former Trego County Sheriff Ryan Bloom has pleaded guilty to helping keep her granddaughter out of state so the girl couldn’t testify about being molested by her adoptive father.
- Veteran heeds White House summon
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B3
- Arland Richards answered his nation’s call in World War II, fighting in the same unit as the father of a future first lady. Now, the 83-year-old Hutchinson man has been called again, to spend part of Veterans Day with President Bush and his wife, Laura.
- Woman burned by plane crash goes home
- November 11, 2006
- Ilana Benhuri remembers her first thought as the small plane crashed through her apartment window, “I was dead.”
- Enron’s Fastow to serve 6-years in La. prison
- November 11, 2006
- Former Enron Corp. financial whiz Andrew Fastow will serve six years in a federal prison in Louisiana for plundering the company while concealing its feeble financial condition from investors.
- Mizzou victorious in Anderson’s debut
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C4
- Matt Lawrence scored a career-high 27 points, 21 more than his previous best, helping Missouri to an easy 101-80 season-opening victory over North Carolina A&T in new coach Mike Anderson’s debut Friday night.
- Top-ranked Florida rips Samford
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C4
- Top-ranked Florida opened this season much like it finished the last one: running the floor, creating easy baskets and dominating another opponent. Once again, Joakim Noah was at the center of it all.
- Woman who drowned 2 daughters out of hospital
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A3
- A woman who drowned her two children in 2003 was released Friday from a state psychiatric hospital after a judge agreed with doctors that she is now mentally stable.
- Untimely miscues finish off Lions
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C1
- With less than 10 minutes left in the Class 6A quarterfinals, and the ball at the Shawnee Mission West five-yard-line, Lawrence’s High’s football season still had a pulse. “It could’ve been a seven-point game,” LHS running back Tony Williams said.
- Semi sweet
- Firebirds top O-East, setting up showdown
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Free State High’s football players wanted it. Now they have it. The Firebirds and Shawnee Mission West, both 11-0, will meet in a Class 6A state high school football semifinal Friday night. “It’s the game we’ve all been waiting for,” Free State quarterback Ryan Murphy said following Friday night’s 32-19 victory over Olathe East. “It doesn’t get any bigger. It’ll be a showdown.”
- Keegan: Robinson gives KU glue guy
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Here’s why it pays not to freak out every time Kansas University’s men’s basketball team loses: The last KU team to win a national title, Larry Brown’s Danny and the Miracles, lost 11 games. Imagine all the energy wasted by the masses on those 11 different occasions.
- Lumberjacks sawing serious wood
- No. 3 Kansas University, No. 10 Arizona offer two early tests for mid-major program
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C1
- NCAA mid-major Northern Arizona University is tackling a high-major schedule to open the 2006-07 men’s basketball season. The Lumberjacks, ranked 18th in the country in Collegeinsider.com’s mid-major Top 25 preseason poll, meet Kansas University, the No. 3-rated team in the Associated Press poll, at 7 tonight in Allen Fieldhouse.
- Guarantee falls flat
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C6
- Jeff Meyers wasn’t eating any crow Friday night. The Olathe East High football coach had guaranteed the Hawks would defeat Free State in Friday night’s Class 6A quarterfinal, but they didn’t. Free State 32, Olathe East 19.
- Cardinals come up short on offense
- Girard slows down Eudora’s high-octane attack, ends Cardinals’ quest for perfection
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C6
- Mike Ortega was open. Eudora High needed five yards to keep its final drive going. With Girard’s defense focused on running back Travis Clarke, Cardinals coach Gregg Webb called Ortega’s number with two minutes left and Eudora trailing by seven. Ortega sprinted off the line and found a seam in the defense.
- Study: HIV patients can expect to live 24 years
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A3
- An American diagnosed with the AIDS virus can expect to live for about 24 years on average, and the cost of health care over those two-plus decades is more than $600,000, new research indicates.
- President, Democratic senators pledge to work together
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A3
- President Bush opened the Oval Office on Friday for a second day in a row to Democrats who will rule Capitol Hill next year, and both sides promised cooperation. But Democrats’ heads were shaking over Bush demands for the current lame-duck GOP Congress to enact measures they oppose.
- Report: Military service may be linked to ALS
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A4
- Military service, particularly in the Gulf War, may be linked to development of Lou Gehrig’s disease, the Institute of Medicine said Friday. The evidence, however, is limited and inconsistent, the Institute said.
- Marine Corps celebrates 231 years of proud service
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A1
- Marine Gunnery Sgt. Eric Sheppard’s opinion of Lawrence changed Friday. Sheppard, a 13-year Marine veteran, was impressed to see more than 200 people - nearly all Marines - show up at Kansas University’s Dole Institute of Politics to celebrate the Marine Corps’ 231st birthday.
- A year after brutal slaying, family still waits for justice
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A1
- In the year since Robin Bell’s body was discovered at the Dollar General store in north Bonner Springs, her family members have tried to move on with their lives. It’s been difficult, they say.
- Public should weigh in on new library, mayor says
- Amyx says question ripe for ballot; developers not pursuing project
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A1
- The pace needs to quicken on the decision of whether Lawrence will build a new library, Mayor Mike Amyx said Friday.
- Autopsy: Overdose caused death during police struggle
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B8
- An overdose of methamphetamine and cocaine killed a man who collapsed in a struggle with Kansas City police in July, an autopsy report revealed.
- Fort Jackson chosen for new cemetery
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A5
- A new national cemetery will be located at Fort Jackson, a sprawling Army base just east of downtown, officials said Friday.
- Bush dedicates Marine museum
- Medal of Honor to be given
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A5
- An emotional President Bush said Friday he would present the Medal of Honor - America’s highest military decoration - to a Marine who died when he jumped on a grenade in Iraq and saved the lives of two comrades.
- 99-year leases on seized land launched
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Zimbabwe’s government launched a program to issue 99-year leases to black farmers allocated land seized mostly from white farmers, state radio reported Friday.
- 5 killed in grenade attack at mosque
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Suspected militants hurled a grenade into a crowd outside a mosque Friday in a village in Indian Kashmir, killing at least five people and wounding nearly 30, police officials and a doctor said.
- China shares bird flu virus with researchers
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A6
- After more than a year of international pressure, China acquiesced Friday to demands that it share samples of avian influenza virus with global health authorities but rejected a report that a new vaccine-resistant strain of the disease is spreading.
- Forensic experts find seventh mass grave
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Forensic experts said Friday they found a new mass grave in northeastern Bosnia believed to contain the remains of more than 100 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre where Serb forces buried some of the almost 8,000 victims.
- Tunnel used for weapons smuggling is found
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Egypt discovered a weapons-smuggling tunnel under its border with Gaza on Friday, a move likely to please Israel, which has long accused the Egyptians of failing to stop the flow of arms to Palestinian militants.
- New KU to take court
- Freshmen provide fresh look for debut
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Roles were clearly defined on last season’s Kansas University women’s basketball team. “We stood around a lot and waited for Erica (Hallman) to make a play, or we just gave it to Crystal (Kemp) in the paint,” KU coach Bonnie Henrickson said. “That won’t happen this year. They don’t care who gets the credit.”
- Firebird to become Badger
- Free State senior Abney signs softball letter of intent
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Three years ago, Livi Abney came to the Free State High library for a special event. Her sister, Lauren, was signing a letter of intent to throw javelin for the University of Kentucky. Friday, it was Livi’s turn.
- Planned gay march becomes rally over violence fears
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Israel’s gay community braved vehement opposition from religious fundamentalists and held a large rally Friday in Jerusalem, complete with live rock music, dancing and declarations of pride.
- Al-Qaida in Iraq leader challenges Bush, pleased with U.S. election
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A6
- The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq claimed in a new tape released Friday that his group had mobilized 12,000 fighters and was winning the war in Iraq faster than expected.
- Lumberjacks wary of Wright
- Highlight-reel dunks products of rebounds, pressure
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Julian Wright’s reputation as a high-flying human highlight reel grew to new heights during the 2006-07 preseason. “Oh my goodness,” gushed Northern Arizona basketball coach Mike Adras, “I saw (Julian) Wright on the top 10 plays from Tuesday night. I didn’t see him from last week, but one of our assistant coaches from the women’s basketball team came in and said half his body was above the rim on the dunk.”
- Sunni-Shiite mortar war a sign of escalating sectarian conflict
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Mortar battles have erupted between Shiite and Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad, and the once-mixed city is reeling as the two sides adopt the weapons and tactics of urban civil war.
- British spies tracking almost 30 terror plots
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A6
- British authorities are tracking almost 30 terrorist plots involving 1,600 people, the country’s domestic spy chief said in remarks released Friday, warning that young British Muslims are at risk of being radicalized by extremists.
- Boxing needs heavyweight headliner
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C2
- You don’t have to be a geezer, like me, to gaze wistfully upon an era in which being the heavyweight champion of the world was an accomplishment to be proud of, not an embarrassment to hide from your in-laws.
- Tigers trade for Sheffield
- Yankees slugger dealt for pitching prospects
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C2
- Gary Sheffield was traded from the New York Yankees to the Detroit Tigers on Friday for three pitching prospects. The Yankees exercised Sheffield’s $13 million option last weekend to prevent him from becoming a free agent, and Sheffield said Wednesday the Yankees had asked him to provide a list of teams he wouldn’t mind being traded to.
- Democratic victory may slow Brownback’s presidential endeavor
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B4
- As Sam Brownback surveyed the presidential landscape over the past two years, he always insisted he had one major advantage: The country was becoming more conservative. Maybe not.
- Arson destroys inside of Topeka church
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B4
- Arson was the cause of a Friday morning fire that gutted the interior of a Topeka church, including its sanctuary, a local official said.
- An inside look at ‘24’ star
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A2
- Fans of “24” who can’t wait for the series to return in January can console themselves with a glance at star Kiefer Sutherland’s extracurricular activities, chronicled in the documentary “I Trust You to Kill Me” (8 p.m. today, VH1).
- People in the news
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A2
- ¢ R&B singer Gerald Levert dies at Ohio home at age 40 ¢ Rumors abound over location of Cruise, Holmes wedding ¢ Pamela Anderson confirms she had a miscarriage
- Faith briefs
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on D8
- Oscar winner Jack Palance dies at 87
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A2
- Jack Palance, the craggy-faced menace in “Shane,” “Sudden Fear” and other films who turned successfully to comedy in his 70s with his Oscar-winning self-parody in “City Slickers,” died Friday.
- Museum announces Thanksgiving program
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on D8
- Families and children of all ages can find out what the first Thanksgiving was really like in a Watkins Community Museum of History program, “T Is for Thanksgiving.” The free event will feature storytime, arts and crafts from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Nov. 18.
- Faith Forum: How much should evangelism be part of international mission work?
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on D1
- ¢ Evangelism doesn’t mean imposing a belief system ¢ Other cultures may see us as in need of ‘good news’
- Students of war
- Former soldiers struggle with transition to campus life
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on D1
- It usually happens at a house party, or at a bar. The swirl of people, the commotion, the hollering - they take Marla Keown back to a time, just a couple of years ago, when she was a skinny 23-year-old driving trucks through the deserts of Iraq.
- Horoscopes
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on D7
- For Saturday, Nov. 11
- Real concern?
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B7
- Sports space
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B7
- Reaching out
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B7
- Opposition needn’t include personal attacks
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B6
- Remember Nieder Acres? It was a small residential neighborhood that once existed where Target and other retail stores presently are located. For decades we fought the commercialization that occurred around our once rural area - K-mart, 84 Lumber, a trailer court, even Wal-Mart when it tried to locate where Penney’s currently is - and we did it all alone.
- Republicans fail test for ‘values’ voters
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B6
- At precisely 4:09 p.m. on Election Day, a breaking news alert came into my e-mail courtesy of CNN. What could it be? The ultimate November surprise? A voter gone postal over the robo-calls? A candidate gone berserk at the election booth?
- Russia nearer to goal of entering world group
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B5
- Russia moved a step closer to its longtime goal of entering the World Trade Organization Friday as U.S. and Russian trade negotiators reached an agreement.
- Stocks rise slightly to end the week
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B5
- Wall Street closed out an erratic session with a modest advance Friday as investors awaited further signs about the health of the economy.
- Sony’s PlayStation 3 made its highly anticipated debut to long lines in Japan on Saturday, marking the first launch of what’s expected to quickly become a global sellout.
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B5
- Sony’s PlayStation 3 made its highly anticipated debut to long lines in Japan on Saturday, marking the first launch of what’s expected to quickly become a global sellout.
- Kansas AFL-CIO leader retires
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B5
- Jim DeHoff recently retired after nearly 20 years of leading the Kansas AFL-CIO.
- Steer toward performance
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B5
- No car tire does it all. Each type is a compromise, trading good performance in one category for weaker performance in another.
- Driven to success
- Jim Clark Motors marks 50 years in business
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B5
- More than 50 years since he started working at Jim Clark Motors emptying wastebaskets and sweeping floors in the shop, Loris “Junior” Brubeck stood before friends, family and more than 50 employees at his dealership Friday to accept congratulations and offer thanks.
- Around and About
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on D5
- Society Calendar
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on D3
- Scouting News
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on D3
- 4H and FCE News
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on D3
- On the record
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B2
- On the record
- Simons: Roberts will be missed at Intelligence Committee helm
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Many changes - some for the better and some for the worse - are about to take place in the U.S. Senate as a result of Tuesday’s off-year elections.
- FBI investigates L.A. police beating; incident posted online on YouTube
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A3
- An FBI investigation prompted by video footage of a man being punched repeatedly in the face by police has demonstrated anew the power of the Internet sensation of the year, YouTube.com.
- A day for remembering
- Honor guard pays tributes to comrades
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on A1
- It doesn’t have to be Veterans Day for a few Fort Leavenworth soldiers to pay formal, special recognition to veterans; it’s almost a daily occurrence.
- Baker tries to salvage season, win finale
- Wildcats’ opponent also wrapping up disappointing 2006 campaign
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Today is Senior Day for Baker University’s football team. BU coach Mike Grossner also hopes it will be Salvage Day. The Wildcats (3-6) can put a satisfying lid on a disappointing season if they can knock off Lindenwood (5-6), another Heart of America Athletic Conference team that fell short of expectations.
- Notebook
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Activist: Military full of evangelizing fundamentalists
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B4
- Mikey Weinstein’s favorite nickname among the ones bestowed on him by his opponents is “field general of the godless armies of Satan.” There’s also “Satan’s lawyer” and “Satan’s pet.”
- Miracle time
- November 11, 2006 in print edition on B6
- It will take the best everyone can muster to right many of the wrongs of recent times and boost the national interest.
- Journal-World hosts photography lectures
- November 11, 2006
- Two nationally know photographers, David Hume Kennerly and Bruce Dale will lecture about their images next week at the Lawrence Arts Center.
- Cantus charms audience with diverse repertoire, harmonious sound
- November 11, 2006
- Songs of sailors and Sufis echoed through the Lied Center on Thursday night as Cantus ended its week-long residency with a well-received evening of song. A male vocal ensemble of nine voices, Cantus is based in Minneapolis, Minn. During its 10-year existence, it has become one of the most exciting professional ensembles in the world of classical music. Its variety of repertoire and successful execution of multiple styles are part of the reason for its success.
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