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Polls
Does the city need new regulations to reduce incidents at Lawrence bars?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No | 50% | |
| Yes | 46% | |
| Undecided | 3% | |
| Total | 338 | |
Videos
- They climb thousands of feet in the air to make …
- Relief could be on the way for motorists frustrated with …
- A new version of the Kansas Personal and Family Protection …
- Firefighters cannot come up with the cause of a July …
- We now know Manhattan is one of the five cities …
- It may be years before the Coffeyville economy rebuilds from …
- A few recurring problems prompt the US Army Corps of …
- Another weekend … another chance to bring home a tournament …
- In 2003, Ray Bechard led the Kansas volleyball team into …
- Videocast for July 12
- Jeff Boudreau, co-leader for the Bike and Build organization, discusses …
- Executive Director Danielle Dempsey-Swopes talks about the commission’s meeting at …
Lead stories
10:00 a.m.
Manhattan makes cut for national biodefense facility- July 12, 2007 in print edition on 1A
- Manhattan, where Kansas State University is already a leader in biosecurity research, is a finalist to host the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s $451 million biodefense laboratory.
1:30 p.m.
Online chat
- Chat about the World Series of Pop Culture with Eric Melin and J.D. Warnock
- July 12, 2007
- Melin and Warnock are two members of the three-man Lawrence team competing in VH1's "The 2007 World Series of Pop Culture." They'll take your questions about the game show experience - and your pop culture trivia challenges.
5:00 p.m.
Return to glory?- July 12, 2007 in print edition on 1B
- Lawrence High dominated Kansas high school volleyball during the latter quarter of the 20th century.
10:00 p.m.
Littering leads Corps to block access- July 12, 2007 in print edition on 1A
- Too much of a good thing is causing problems at the Clinton Lake dam outlet. Rapid release of lake water means more fish in the outlet on the dam’s east side. And more fish attract more fishermen who leave more trash, said Jon Carlisle, ranger and natural resources specialist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
- Video: Clinton Lake Dam
- Video: Clinton Lake Dam outlet temporarily shut down
- Video: Fishing at the Clinton Lake Dam Outlet
- Photo gallery: Clinton Lake Dam Outlet
All stories
- 6News video: Authorities still unsure of the cause of recent a Eudora fire
- July 12, 2007
- Firefighters cannot come up with the cause of a July Fourth blaze that swept through a Eudora home.
- 6News video: School leaders scramble to take steps to keep concealed weapons out of schools
- July 12, 2007
- A new version of the Kansas Personal and Family Protection Act went into effect May 3rd. It says that licensed gun owners can now carry concealed weapons into schools - unless a sign is posted that says otherwise.
- 6News video: Coffeyville more than likely years away from full recovery
- July 12, 2007
- It may be years before the Coffeyville economy rebuilds from the oily floodwater that submerged a quarter of the town.
- 6News video: City leaders to consider new traffic signal technology
- July 12, 2007
- Relief could be on the way for motorists frustrated with the constant stop and go traffic on one of Lawrence’s busiest streets.
- 6News video: At least five tower climbers have died nationwide
- July 12, 2007
- They climb thousands of feet in the air to make cell phone networks and television broadcasts possible. And in the last three weeks, at least five tower climbers have died nationwide. Two of those deaths happened just Southeast of Lawrence on Tuesday.
- 6Sports video: Raiders ready for weekend tourney
- July 12, 2007
- Another weekend … another chance to bring home a tournament title for the Lawrence Raiders. The city’s top American Legion squad travels to Olathe Friday to open play in the MANU Tournament.
- 6Sports video: KU volleyball squad hoping for return to NCAA Tourney
- July 12, 2007
- In 2003, Ray Bechard led the Kansas volleyball team into the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. She did it again in 2004. Then, in 2005, the impossible happened … KU made its third straight NCAA Tournament appearance. However, that run has since ended and the team is ready to return.
- 6News video: Clinton Lake Dam outlet temporarily shut down
- July 12, 2007
- A few recurring problems prompt the US Army Corps of Engineers to shut down the outlet below Clinton Lake Dam, and as 6News reporter Laura McHugh explains, officials aren’t sure how long with temporary ban will last.
- 6News video: Manhattan one of five cities considered for Bio-Defense Facility
- July 12, 2007
- We now know Manhattan is one of the five cities still in the running for a National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. But many questions still remain about such a facility.
- Littering leads Corps to block access
- Reopening date undetermined
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A1
- Too much of a good thing is causing problems at the Clinton Lake dam outlet. Rapid release of lake water means more fish in the outlet on the dam’s east side. And more fish attract more fishermen who leave more trash, said Jon Carlisle, ranger and natural resources specialist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
- 6News Now: “No Weapons” signs posted on Lawrence schools
- July 12, 2007
- In tonight’s 6News and tomorrow’s Lawrence Journal-World, the school district is scrambling to keep weapons out of the classrooms, and the Clinton Dam Outlet is closed.
- Island community declares independence
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A8
- The day-trippers wheel their bikes off the ferry and ask for directions. I answer the way we do on an island without street signs. Go up past the boatyard, beyond the store, and take your next left.
- Old Home Town - 40 years ago
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A8
- Property tax relief for Lawrence residents with more input from Kansas University was a key to enabling Lawrence to become a higher-quality community, city manager Ray Wells explained.
- Baseball’s second half: ‘Now the fun starts’
- From Bonds to Brewers to Yankees, after-the-break story lines plentiful
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Barry Bonds likely will take down the Hammer’s home run record soon. The fates of the surprising Milwaukee Brewers, the World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Yankees are far murkier.
- Horoscopes
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B8
- For Thursday, July 12
- Religion as campaign tactic
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A9
- Some unknown author once said, “Everybody should believe in something; I believe I’ll have another drink.”
- ‘Piggybacking’ credit cards a bad idea
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B9
- A pending change to a popular credit scoring system is about to make it much harder for people to polish their credit by riding the coattails of someone else’s good payment record.
- Oil aid shipped to North Korea
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- South Korea sent a shipload of oil to North Korea today, a move expected to trigger the communist nation to shut down its only working nuclear reactor in a landmark first step toward dismantling its atomic bomb program.
- Pump patrol
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Patrol seeks fuel deals
- Increasing violations to close dam outlet
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- The outlet below Clinton Lake dam will be temporarily closed Friday.
- Our town sports
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B3
- Workers killed in fall ID’d
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Douglas County officials Wednesday released the identities of the two men who fell to their death from a communications tower in rural Douglas County the day before.
- Veteran leader takes new role
- Sebelius appoints Lawrence resident to regulatory board
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B9
- Joe Harkins, a 40-year veteran of state government, has been appointed to the Kansas Corporation Commission by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
- Hot rod series goes nowhere
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A2
- “Hard Shine” (9 p.m., TLC) arrives with a dull thud. It’s as if the sole purpose of this 10-part reality series is to prove that the garage-documentary genre has run out of gas.
- Execution is state’s first in 60 years
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- A 25-year-old man was executed by lethal injection Wednesday for the torture and slaying of a teenager who was forced to drink hydrochloric acid during a robbery of his home. It was the state’s first execution in 60 years.
- Safety Break to give motorists driving tips
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- The Kansas Motor Carriers Association will give motorists near Ottawa a break from driving this weekend - but not a break from learning.
- Manhattan makes cut for national biodefense facility
- Leavenworth not included on list of five possible sites
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A1
- Manhattan, where Kansas State University is already a leader in biosecurity research, is a finalist to host the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s $451 million biodefense laboratory.
- Meetings to discuss plans for Black Jack
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- The Black Jack Battlefield Trust has scheduled two public meetings next week to outline plans for Battlefield Park east of Baldwin City.
- Automated postal machines delayed
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A6
- The Postal Service is delaying the second stage of installing automated postal centers in lobbies.
- Lugar on right track with farm subsidies
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A8
- Time was, Riley Webster Lugar, a Hoosier farmer, vociferously disapproved of the New Deal policy of killing baby pigs to control supply in the hope of raising prices.
- On the record
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A4
- Lawrence crime blotter.
- Therapist attends course on easing pain
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B9
- Evonne Cooper, a physical therapist with Lawrence Therapy Services, attended an advanced continuing education course recently in Kansas City, Mo., on the use of ultrasound and electrical stimulation to ease pain and inflammation problems.
- Kansas Parole Board denies release for killer
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A4
- Francis Donald Nemechek, serving five life sentences for a string of killings in the mid-1970s, has been denied parole and must wait 10 years before applying again.
- KU’s Wilson fifth at Women’s Amateur
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B5
- Kansas University’s Sydney Wilson, a red-shirt freshman from Lawrence, shot a third-round 74 to place fifth at the 85th Kansas Women’s Amateur Golf Championship on Wednesday at Reflection Ridge Golf Club Wichita, Wednesday.
- Lawrence police officers attend homicide seminar
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A4
- Law enforcement representatives from eight states and several Lawrence police officers wrapped up a three-day seminar on homicide investigations Wednesday.
- New material shows Nixon craved ‘nice’ image
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A10
- President Nixon and his 1972 re-election campaign tried to tie Democrats to the mob, gay liberation and even slavery, according to newly released papers and tapes betraying bare-knuckle tactics from the dawn of the Watergate scandal.
- Oklahoma vacates wins
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B5
- Calling the case “significant and serious,” the NCAA’s Division I infractions committee said Wednesday that Oklahoma must vacate its eight football victories during the 2005 season, including a bowl win, because of major violations involving players working at a Norman auto dealership.
- Effort advances
- Kansas should now mount a united effort to promote Manhattan as the site of a new Homeland Security research facility.
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A8
- It’s great news that Manhattan is among the five finalists for the new $451 million National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility.
- Iraq role
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A9
- To the editor: As one of the few Iraq veterans that several people I encounter have met, I am frequently asked about my opinion of the war.
- Commission plans policy development to help minorities
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A5
- Members of the Kansas African American Affairs Commission are looking to advocate for economic development, health care and education policies that will benefit minorities.
- Schiavo’s brother stumps for Brownback
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- The Brownback for President campaign on Wednesday announced the Pro-Life, Whole-Life Tour, a series of campaign events featuring pro-life activists Bobby Schindler, the brother of the late Terri Schiavo, and Francis Bok, an escaped slave from the Sudan.
- Lawrence Datebook
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A4
- Events around Lawrence.
- A bright side
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A9
- To the editor: I’ve been following the comments on the new format for the newspaper, but, so far, no one has addressed the problem I have with it. I’m sorry to have to say this, but I do have a problem with it.
- Gary Bedore’s KU basketball notebook
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B3
- Kansas University’s Cole Aldrich and Tyrel Reed were disappointed Jayhawk teammate Darrell Arthur was unable to play for the U.S. Under 19 Select team in the Global Games finals in Dallas.
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A8
- From the Lawrence Daily World for July 12, 1907: “The state board of education has granted certificates to most of those who want to be teachers and the recent Kansas University graduates seeking certificates did not see one of their group turned down.
- Two injured in rollover wreck
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A5
- Two men were life-flighted to a Kansas City area hospital Wednesday afternoon after a Chevrolet truck rolled over on the 400 block of North Street.
- Senate Republicans get nowhere in seeking change of course in Iraq
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- Nervous Senate Republicans beseeched the White House without apparent success Wednesday for a quick change in course on Iraq as congressional Democrats insisted on high-profile votes calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops by spring.
- All-Star game will never be the same
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Raise your hand if you made room on your busy schedule for the All-Star game Tuesday night. Tell us if you cared who won. Better yet, tell us if you watched all nine innings. Thought so.
- Owner change likely for quarry
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Despite opposition from some adjacent landowners, Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday said they intend to grant a permit allowing a change of ownership at a rock quarry.
- County’s United Way leader to retire
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B10
- After more than a decade on the job, the leader of the United Way of Douglas County will retire in March, the social service organization announced Wednesday.
- Responsible watering helps lawn, garden survive summer
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on C1
- It looks as though the Kansas summer is finally upon us. Hot days, warm nights and little rain mean we need to better manage our yards and gardens to survive the summer. There are some methods to make this happen without wasting money or water.
- Bike and Build tour makes local stop to help with Habitat home
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Jerrod Dolenz says he doesn’t believe he is experienced at building houses.
- Fun and Games moving to 23rd Street location
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B9
- Fun and Games, a fixture in downtown Lawrence for nearly three decades, is moving its costumes, novelties and other products to a new home along 23rd Street.
- Cancellara keeps his yellow jersey
- Norway’s Hushovd takes fourth stage of Tour de France
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Fabian Cancellara says he knows his days in the Tour de France’s yellow jersey are numbered as the race heads toward the Alps.
- Outreach to offer free blood pressure tests
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- A blood pressure screening is set for Monday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt.
- Energy-friendly ‘green’ roofs taking off in U.S. urban areas
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on C2
- The sod house pioneers who fashioned farms from the tallgrass prairies of the American Midwest probably would have scoffed had you called them visionaries.
- Discrimination
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A9
- To the editor: I taught swimming for the Lawrence Recreation Commission for six years during the 1950s when, because of racial discrimination, children such as those pictured on the front page of the July 7 Journal-World were denied access to the only swimming pool in town open to the “public,” the privately owned Jayhawk Plunge.
- Commodities
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B9
- How to remove a tick from your child
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on C1
- Boy, your child’s freckles really stand out in the sun - but wait, that one looks like it’s moving! It isn’t a freckle at all. It’s a tick. What should you do?
- Wells inducted into high school hall
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Former Lawrence High coach Joan Wells celebrated Independence Day in a special way.
- Woman claims marriage to bin Laden’s son
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- A British woman said Wednesday she has married Omar bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader’s fourth son, after they met in Egypt last fall.
- Bigger might be better for Pan Am hopefuls
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B1
- The 12-man U.S. Pan American Games basketball roster will be filled with college players.
- Bush orders former counsel to defy subpoena
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A1
- President Bush ordered former White House Counsel Harriet Miers to stay away today from a House panel investigating last year’s firings of nine U.S. attorneys, prompting the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee to threaten Miers with a contempt citation.
- Kansas unfazed by OU penalty
- Jayhawks likely to put asterisk next to loss
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Historical revisionism at Oklahoma University probably won’t have much of an impact on Kansas University’s football history.
- Antifreeze chemical banned in toothpaste
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- China banned diethylene glycol - a thickening agent in antifreeze - from use in toothpaste Wednesday, one of its most significant concessions yet as it struggles to regain international confidence in the country’s beleaguered exports.
- Return to glory?
- LHS coach hopes to tap tradition
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Lawrence High dominated Kansas high school volleyball during the latter quarter of the 20th century.
- Keegan: Portrayal offends Reggie
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Good: ESPN’s reality television show in which Bobby Knight selected a walk-on for Texas Tech, whittling the field one cut at a time. Bad: ESPN hiring Brian Dennehy to portray Knight in a made-for-TV movie.
- People in the news
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A2
- ¢ DUI trial postponed¢ Royal retort
- What to plant
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on C2
- Here are some tips from Edmund Snodgrass, co-author of “Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting Guide,” on planning a green roof:
- Independence woman wins $12.9M jackpot
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A4
- When Lori Boyle stopped Wednesday to get gas and check on a lottery ticket, she had no idea she would walk out of the store a multimillionaire.
- Explosives belts seized on Syrian border
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- Iraqi security forces seized 200 explosive belts along the Syrian border Wednesday, a police spokesman said, reinforcing Baghdad’s claims that its western neighbor isn’t doing enough to stop the flow of fighters and weapons to al-Qaida in Iraq.
- Report: Al-Qaida on rebound
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- The al-Qaida terrorist network has rebounded and is at its greatest strength since it was expelled from Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a new top-level U.S. intelligence assessment concludes, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
- Sunny disposition
- State flower boasts big blooms and inspirational beauty
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on C1
- If you’ve never seen a field of sunflowers in person, you must put it on your list of “things to do before you die.”
- Royals add infielder
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B5
- The Kansas City Royals claimed infielder Jason Smith off waivers from the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday.
- KU baseball to play Croatian exhibition
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B5
- Kansas University’s baseball team announced it will open the 2007 fall season with an exhibition game against the Croatian National Team at 5 p.m. Sept. 2 at Hoglund Ballpark. Admission will be free.
- No regrets
- A year after announcing he’d join NASCAR, Juan Pablo Montoya is enjoying stock-car racing
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B6
- In a world of changing racing fortunes, it could be argued that Juan Pablo Montoya has come out on the wrong end of the career shift he announced a year ago this weekend at Chicagoland Speedway.
- Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson dies
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A2
- Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.
- Questions, answers about Kansas’ quest for lab
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on A1
- Here are key questions and answers about the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility and Kansas’ quest to secure it.
- Lawrence resident wins free energy for a year
- July 12, 2007 in print edition on B9
- Madhan Durai, Lawrence, joined four other customers of Aquila Corp. who received one year of free energy from Owens Corning during the Pink Ticket Giveaway.
- National group seeks repeal of 'Stand Your Ground' law in Kansas May 27, 2012 · 116 comments
- Blog: Writing Your Erotica: An Afternoon Lead By Dixie Lubin In The Company Of Other Women May 28, 2012 · 32 comments
- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012 · 248 comments
- Sound Off: How can I check someone’s criminal record? May 28, 2012 · 1 comment
- On the street: How did you spend your Memorial Day? May 28, 2012 · 8 comments
- Critics may bolster Roberts’ resolve May 29, 2012 · 11 comments
- U.S. military sees new appreciation May 28, 2012 · 13 comments
- Experts: Remedial college classes need fixing May 28, 2012 · 15 comments
- God, marriage May 25, 2012 · 191 comments
- Sound Off: How much does the city’s transit system collect in fares compared with how much it costs May 27, 2012 · 126 comments
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012
- Experts: Remedial college classes need fixing May 28, 2012
- Friends mourn Lynn Bretz, former voice of KU May 28, 2012
- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp May 29, 2012
- Lives forever changed by skywalk collapse July 15, 2001
- Famed author takes on Kansas October 7, 2005
- Book helps family heal after tragedy May 28, 2012
- City, county mull upgrade to emergency radio system May 28, 2012
- Remnant Rehab: Cheaply frame fabric art May 28, 2012
