Also from January 27
Audio clips
- On Gordon Parks' relationship to his home state.
- On his reaction to media coverage following his father's death.
- On how Gordon Parks acted on movie sets.
- On the use of the term 'Renaissance man' to describe his father.
- Stewart talks about how she became involved and what she does at Women's Transitional Care Services.
- Stewart talks about what she's learned from volunteering.
Births
Couples
- Engagement: Krause and Area
- Engagement: Templet and Sharpe
- Wedding: Salb
- Wedding: Medlen
- Engagement: Marx and Gilliland
- Engagement: Nicholson and Stimac
- Wedding: Huslig
- Anniversary: Bond
- Engagement: Newton and Rice
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
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- Simons: Political ‘interference’ in educational matters sometimes called for
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B1
- In an ideal education-political scenario, it is far better for politicians to stay out of the educational scene. Educational matters are better left to educational professionals rather than to have politics inserted into the scene.
- State GOP to pick new leader
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Fractured by internal strife and battered by a few big losses in last year’s elections, Kansas Republicans prepared to pick a new state chairman who’s supposed to bring the GOP back from a low ebb.
- Army orders court-martial for Abu Ghraib officer
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- The only U.S. military officer charged with a crime in the Abu Ghraib scandal will be court-martialed on eight charges, including cruelty and maltreatment of prisoners, the Army said Friday.
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B6
- U.N.: Iran moving on uranium enrichment
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Iran plans to begin work next month on an underground uranium enrichment facility, as part of a plan to create a network of tens of thousands of machines turning out material that could be used to make nuclear arms, U.N. officials said Friday.
- Struggling KU women seek first Big 12 win today at NU
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C8
- Victories have been scarcer than Jayhawk teeth for Kansas University’s women’s basketball team.
- Police, youth group search for missing girl
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Lawrence police and the Move Up community youth program in Kansas City, Mo., are searching for a Lawrence girl who has been missing since Monday.
- 9 youths convicted in racially charged beatings
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A4
- Nine black youths were convicted Friday in juvenile court of beating three white women in a racially charged attack on Halloween night.
- Former city clerk pleads guilty in funds case
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Former Milford City Clerk Sheryl K. Gaines-Meyer pleaded guilty Friday to 10 felony counts for making personal purchases with city funds.
- Inside advantage not enough
- Haskell women, men fall to College of the Ozarks
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C6
- Before the Haskell Indian Nations University women’s basketball team took the court Friday night at Coffin Complex, coach Phil Homeratha instructed his team to continue using its new offensive strategy: Get the ball inside.
- K.C. Ward snaps Kaws’ win streak
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C6
- Kansas City Ward ended Perry Lecompton High’s seven-game boys basketball winning streak with a 60-58 victory Friday night. P-L had defeated Ward twice during that stretch.
- Texas prep WR commits to Jayhawks
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C8
- College football recruiting is reaching its final few weeks, and Kansas University’s football team quickly is putting the wraps on a solid class.
- U.S. soldiers were abducted, shot to death
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A1
- In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years of warfare, gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms and carrying American weapons abducted four U.S. soldiers last week at the provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and then shot them to death.
- Palestinian fighting kills at least 13, including boy
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Hamas gunmen stormed the home of a militant from the rival Fatah movement Friday, witnesses said, sparking a deadly gunbattle and capping a day of factional violence across the Gaza Strip that killed at least 13 people, including a 2-year-old boy.
- Some international student soldiers support war
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B3
- Soldiers from around the world, some from countries on the front lines of war, said Friday they supported U.S. efforts in the war on terror.
- Closing time
- Mischief level linked to weather
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A1
- At 2:15 a.m., officer Michael McLaren and I were walking near 14th and Ohio streets when a snowball whizzed past us. McLaren stopped, turned around slowly and walked toward an apartment he’d just passed.
- Kansas swimming off to good start against ISU
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C8
- Seven Kansas University swimmers and divers were recognized Friday prior to day one of the two-day Big 12 Conference match-up between the Jayhawks and Iowa State.
- Club news
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on D5
- The Monday Evening Bridge Club played a stratified Mitchell movement at 10 tables directed by Virginia Seaver on Jan. 22. Harry Shaffer and Jambo Zhang won at North-South placing first in A. Klee Zaricky and Virginia Seaver won second in A and Lynn Hui and Terry Tolar won third in A and first in B and C. Harry Talley and Don Daugherty won second in B and C.
- Seahawk girls roll; boys lose at buzzer
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C7
- Bria Phipps scored 19 points to lead three scorers in double figures, and the Seabury Academy girls basketball team came to life after halftime to secure a 50-31 home victory Friday night against Kansas City (Mo.) University Academy.
- Club used turkeys as archery targets
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A8
- Dozens of domestic turkeys were staked to bales of straw and used as live targets in an archery contest, and a sportsman’s club was charged in what one investigator called “the most gutless act of cruelty,” authorities said.
- Sebelius names Harkins director of energy
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B3
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has named Joe Harkins director of the Kansas Energy Office.
- 4-H and FCE news
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on D5
- The Vinland Valley 4-H Club met Jan. 8 at Vinland Methodist Church. The meeting was called to order by Amy Stone, president.
- Commodities
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B4
- Old Home Town - 25 years ago
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B6
- Democrats and Republicans were grilling each other in Topeka about the ways to handle congressional redistricting and which counties should be where. It seemed likely Douglas County would wind up in the 2nd Congressional District.
- Seattle works to curb suicides from bridge
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A8
- A bridge over Seattle is becoming hazardous to the mental health of the dot-com employees and other office workers below, who keep seeing people jump to their deaths from the span.
- Poitier book restarts Winfrey’s club
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A2
- If her goal was to erase the memory of the disgraced James Frey, then Oprah Winfrey couldn’t have made a better pick for her book club than a memoir by Sidney Poitier.
- Brownback joins GOP opposition to Bush plan
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A5
- Another Republican senator said Friday he would back the symbolic push to oppose President Bush’s plans to increase troop levels in Iraq.
- House speaker leads congressional mission
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A5
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. John Murtha, both vocal war critics, were in the Iraqi capital Friday at the head of a delegation of House members on a fact-finding mission as the White House and Congress dueled over the expansion of U.S. forces in Iraq.
- Free State bowlers sweep Oskaloosa
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C6
- Free State High’s boys and girls bowling teams defeated Oskaloosa High on Friday.
- Army restores order as mourners bury victims
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- The army restored order in the Lebanese capital Friday as mourners buried victims of a bloody student clash that took a dangerous sectarian tone, prompting leaders to appeal for calm in an effort to keep the country from sliding deeper into violence.
- Not amused
- A panel of professional bullies humiliating untalented people is not our idea of entertainment.
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B6
- Here’s hoping that “reality” television doesn’t start to be reflected in the reality of our daily lives.
- Serena super in Australia
- Williams routs Sharapova in title match
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C2
- Serena Williams won her eighth and most improbable Grand Slam title, overwhelming top-seeded Maria Sharapova, 6-1, 6-2, today in the Australian Open.
- Bill would make it easier to expand nuclear energy
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B5
- A House committee Friday approved a bill that its supporters said would make it easier to expand nuclear energy in Kansas.
- Ryun leaving door open to seeking public office
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B5
- Former GOP Rep. Jim Ryun is leaving the door open to a future run for public office and says the media is partly to blame for his re-election loss.
- Kansas basketball notebook
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C4
- President appoints two to leadership positions
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B3
- Two longtime Baker University employees have been named to leadership roles.
- FOP safety
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: With interest, I read the article about the retreat being proposed for Lawrence. The comment about alcohol and guns not mixing reminded me of the safety concerns that have been voiced and ignored about the Fraternal Order of Police range in Lone Star.
- Sheriff: Soldier, coach had sex with students
- Adults won’t be charged because teens were old enough to consent
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A4
- A National Guardsman who recruited at a high school and a former cheerleading coach are both accused of having sex with students, and the principal is charged with hindering the investigation, authorities said.
- Sex offender accused of posing as child indicted
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A8
- A youthful-looking sex offender accused of conning his way into middle schools around Arizona was indicted Friday on charges including assault and child pornography.
- Ex-governor takes first step in presidential bid
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A4
- Republican Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and a favorite of conservatives, will take the first step in a 2008 presidential bid, an official told The Associated Press on Friday.
- Navy helicopter crashes, leaving at least 1 dead
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- A Navy helicopter doing training operations from a ship crashed 50 miles off the California coast Friday, killing one crew member and leaving three others missing long after darkness fell over the Pacific.
- Moral evolution
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: In a recent letter it was claimed that evolution “has not and cannot” provide a moral compass. This assertion is completely and utterly false.
- Candidate launches election campaign
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Retired school social worker and active environmentalist Carey Maynard-Moody officially kicked off her campaign for the Lawrence City Commission on Friday afternoon.
- Step up Valentine’s gift-giving with save-the-world ideas
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on D8
- I love you so much, I saved the world. What more could your beloved ask for than that? To showcase undying devotion alongside your altruism, here are some Valentine’s Day gifts with good deeds attached: organic flowers, fair-trade chocolate, diamonds that help remove land mines and a perfume whose maker frets about global warming.
- Eagles sweep Flint Hills
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C7
- Josh Masrud scored 13 points, while Michael Kay and Micah Barclay had 11 each in Veritas Christian School’s 63-38 victory over Flint Hills in boys basketball Friday night at the Eudora Community Building.
- SLT answers
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: As all of these candidates line up to run for Lawrence City Commission, I listen intently. I listen to their comments concerning the South Lawrence Trafficway and development.
- On the record
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Commentary: Preferential treatment nothing new
- Bears’ defensive tackle Johnson allowed to go to Super Bowl despite legal troubles
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C2
- The outcry is passionate and predictable. Double standard! Preferential treatment! Celebrity worship!
- From Russia, with love
- Kaun’s mom enjoys KU visit
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C1
- It will be easy for fans to spot Olga Kaun, the mother of Kansas University junior center Sasha Kaun, this afternoon in Allen Fieldhouse. She’ll be the well dressed woman with the blond hair in the parents’ section applying a Kleenex to her eyes during KU’s 12:45 p.m. battle against Colorado.
- Reports: Ex-spy was poisoned by a cup of tea
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- British police have concluded that a former Russian spy was poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive Polonium-210 added to his tea at a London hotel, British and American television stations reported Friday.
- Feds plan to take wolves off endangered list
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Wolves in the northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list within the next year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday, a move that would open the population up to trophy hunting.
- Feds limit railroads on fuel surcharges
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B4
- Federal regulators on Friday banned excessive fuel surcharges by railroads and imposed strict rules on the fees that many companies this week credited with bolstering their quarterly earnings, though the savings were unlikely to trickle down to consumers.
- Barn destroyed in blaze
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B3
- A barn burned Friday in rural Douglas County to a total loss as firefighters from seven departments helped save surrounding buildings.
- Faith briefs
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on D8
- Event to explore teen relationships
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on D1
- In its fourth year, the Straight Up Beautiful conference at Morning Star Church is entering uncharted territory.
- Sales of new homes rise in December
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B4
- New home sales fell in 2006 by the largest amount in 16 years, but they were up for a second straight month in December, raising hopes that the worst of the housing downturn is coming to an end.
- Blue Jays suck life out of Firebirds
- Free State girls fall in tournament semis
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C1
- The Junction City High girls basketball team’s defense didn’t require tearing every page out of the playbook in an attempt to figure out its effectiveness. It wasn’t that complex.
- No ‘O’ no bother for LHS
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C1
- The Lawrence High girls basketball squad put up only five points Friday in the fourth quarter of its game against Blue Valley in the Topeka Capital City Classic. And three of those came via free throws.
- Morrison thrilled to relocate
- Error-plagued third baseman shifts to shortstop for 2007 campaign
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C1
- So much for the assumed natural progression.
- LHS a little too late
- Hogan rides crucial third-quarter spurt
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C3
- The basketball duo performed just like they had so many nights under the Haskell Stadium lights.
- Lawrence Datebook
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Scouting news
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on D5
- Webelos from Cub Scout Pack 3370, chartered to the Deerfield School PTA, attended the Monster Truck Jam on Jan. 21 at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
- People in the news
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A2
- ¢ Prince Charles, Camilla arrive for Philadelphia visit ¢ B.B. King hospitalized, should be discharged today ¢ Michael Jackson is back in the U.S.; next stop, Japan ¢ Rocker Ted Nugent denies immigrant reference
- Gates rips surge resolution
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A5
- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday an effort in Congress to pass a resolution opposing President Bush’s troop buildup undercuts U.S. commanders in Iraq and “emboldens the enemy.”
- Professor faces 2nd trial in lover’s death
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B5
- A college music professor, whose first murder trial ended in a hung jury, will return to court next month for allegedly strangling his former lover.
- Saudi ambassador says U.S., Iraq should agree before troop withdrawal
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B5
- U.S. troops shouldn’t be withdrawn from Iraq until the American and Iraqi governments agree on the best time for that, the outgoing Saudi ambassador to the United States said Friday.
- Financial markets down for week
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B4
- Wall Street closed out a volatile week with a mixed performance Friday after a pair of economic reports dashed hopes for an interest rate cut anytime soon.
- Laird Noller employee ranks 23rd for Mazda
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B4
- Report: Benefits overpaid
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B4
- The state of Kansas tops the nation in “overpayments” of jobless benefits, with nearly half of the $256.1 million paid out in 2005 in question, according to a report released Friday.
- CDC: Most tuberculosis cases are in immigrants
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B8
- When the Somalian refugee walked into the health department of an Emporia meatpacking plant earlier this month suffering from active tuberculosis, he became the latest entry on government health statistics - 62 percent of active TB cases reported in Kansas last year involved immigrants.
- Horoscopes
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on D7
- Nation needs anyone but a Bush or Clinton
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B6
- Having refused a third term as president, George Washington offered the nation a farewell address in 1796, urging Americans to cherish the Union and to avoid the “baneful effects” of political partisanship. Successors such as Thomas Jefferson warned against the formation of an “unnatural” aristocracy of men who inherited great fortunes and political office.
- Obama’s age is a matter of perspective
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B6
- Somehow I do not think that Barack Obama gets up in the morning, brushes his teeth, looks in the mirror and says, “Wow! A fresh face!” It doesn’t happen at 45. At 45, you count the crow’s feet and measure the circles under your eyes.
- Around and about
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on D5
- Cordley School won the second-place trophy in the K-5 division, and Southwest Junior High claimed the third-place trophy in K-12 at the Rockhurst High School chess tournament Jan. 20 in Kansas City, Mo.
- ‘Rugrats’ meets ‘Spinal Tap’
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A2
- Art Linkletter had it half right. Kids do say “the darndest things” - unless, of course, they are reading from bad scripts written by adults. The TV movie “The Naked Brothers Band” (7 p.m. today, Nickelodeon) is the pilot for a weekly series of the same name that will air its first episode next Saturday night.
- Sebelius’ ‘all-stars’ hope to lure lab
- Federal facility could inject $3.5 billion into economy over 20 years
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A1
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius unveiled her team Friday.
- Society calendar
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on D5
- Solid faith
- KU scientist balances her career as a chemist with her career serving God
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on D1
- When Dinah Dutta was 14, her father - a Christian pastor - gave her a choice. She needed to decide if she would be Christian or Hindu.
- Biden to kick off campaign Wednesday
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A4
- Democratic Sen. Joe Biden, who has made no secret of his plans to run for president, says he’ll make it official Wednesday.
- Keegan: The 3 Rs - Rush, Roby and rout
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C1
- The Colorado University basketball team arrived in town Friday night with lame-duck coach Ricardo Patton and slumping star Richard Roby, and the former hasn’t been talking so nicely about the latter.
- Faith Forum: How can I make sure my children become people of faith without forcing it on them?
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on D1
- In truth, we cannot make sure of anything in our lives but death and taxes.
- Odds not in Buffs’ favor
- Jayhawks expect to get CU’s ‘best punch’
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on C4
- The numbers certainly do not favor Colorado entering today’s Big 12 Conference clash at Kansas.
- Visiting Iraqi leader predicts ‘very powerful’ Army in future
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B1
- The commander of the Iraqi Army visited Kansas on Friday to visit soldiers getting ready to deploy to his country and train his troops.
- River art garden proposal on verge of taking shape
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B1
- A proposal to turn a portion of the Kansas River bank area near downtown Lawrence into a unique environmental sculpture garden is gaining momentum.
- Lawmakers disagree with troop increase
- Resolution filed Friday met with some skepticism in Senate
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Lawmakers disagree with troop increase —
- Ford workers hope for Kansan’s magic touch
- CEO visits area to promote vehicles, boost morale
- January 27, 2007 in print edition on A1
- Now in the driver’s seat of an iconic American automaker, Alan Mulally traveled from the company’s Michigan headquarters to its sprawling Kansas City Assembly Plant to spread a message Friday of optimism, hope and realistic expectations.
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- U.S. military sees new appreciation May 28, 2012 · 12 comments
- Experts: Remedial college classes need fixing May 28, 2012 · 15 comments
- God, marriage May 25, 2012 · 191 comments
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- Friends mourn Lynn Bretz, former voice of KU May 28, 2012
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- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp May 29, 2012
- Remnant Rehab: Cheaply frame fabric art May 28, 2012
- City, county mull upgrade to emergency radio system May 28, 2012
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