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Polls
Who taught you how to swim?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Took swimming lessons | 57% | |
| Taught myself | 17% | |
| Family member | 12% | |
| Never learned | 10% | |
| Friend | 1% | |
| Total | 295 | |
Videos
- The governor today issued an executive order to fly flags …
- One war widow is concerned with the new development stopping …
- Some of Lawrence’s youngest music makers take the stage at …
- Before the Lawrence Raiders can go after their fifth straight …
- Daniel Brumley made his debut for the Lawrence High varsity …
- Chiefs head coach Herm Edwards was full of excitement this …
- Lawrence resident Lynda Canaday has never seen that reaction to …
- Because of construction at Broken Arrow Elementary and South Junior …
- Growing pains, unreliable employees and a weak tax base trouble …
- The leader of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, the non-profit organization that …
- Videocast for July 26
- Trinity Lutheran Church is celebrating its 140th anniversary in September, …
- Patrick Knorr, general manager of Sunflower Broadband, discusses the upcoming …
Lead stories
10:00 a.m.
Classes aim to help kids become swimmers, overcome fear of water- July 26, 2007 in print edition on 3A
- Some children’s faces lit up with excitement while others’ scrunched with concern as water splashed around them Wednesday morning at the Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center.
- Video: Commissioners advance proposal to raise pool fees
- Photo gallery: Swimming Lessons
- Poll: Who taught you how to swim?
1:00 p.m.
Colts pass through Lawrence during strenuous summer tour- July 26, 2007 in print edition on 3A
- They’re a marching band, only better. “Drum Corps International is a big deal,” said Patrick McCarty, Lawrence High School assistant band director and former Colts member.
10:00 p.m.
She’s in for a smashing good time- July 27, 2007
- Kristy Wempe is a big fan of the annual Douglas County Fair, which officially begins today. As a longtime 4-H member, she has fond memories of showing sheep, modeling clothes, making friends and attending the demolition derby. The 25-year-old remembers cheering on car No. 9 during her first derby as a junior high school student even though she didn’t know the driver. “That was my lucky number and that was the car I liked,” the Lawrence resident said. Since then, she has rarely missed an area demolition derby.
All stories
- 6News video: Lawrence resident sings at Kaufman
- July 26, 2007
- It’s a song that brings people to their feet and has also brought tears to some people’s eyes. Lawrence resident Lynda Canaday has never seen that reaction to the national anthem. Tonight, however, she experienced it: singing the Star Spangled Banner before thousands of people at Kaufman Stadium.
- 6News Now: Lawrence woman sings at Royals game
- July 26, 2007
- In tonight’s 6News and tomorrow’s Lawrence Journal-World, a Lawrence woman will seen the national anthem at the Kaufman Stadium tonight, and a look at a unique competitor in this year’s demolition derby.
- House panel OKs contempt citations
- Top White House aides targeted in attorney firings
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A9
- The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to issue contempt citations for two of President Bush’s closest aides, moving nearer to a constitutional confrontation with the White House over access to information about the Justice Department’s dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys.
- Racing the clock
- Few chances remain for drivers on the cusp
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B6
- Time is running out. Yes, only 19 of 36 Nextel Cup Series races have been completed thus far, but the race to make the field for the Chase is on a much tighter schedule.
- Hidden treasure
- Secluded garden offers tranquility for Trinity Lutheran Church visitors
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on C1
- There is nothing better than discovering secret gardens, little places that are hidden treasures.
- Southeast Area Plan pleases commission
- Proposed layout keeps residential, commercial districts separate
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday got their first look at a new development plan for 1,200 acres at the southeast edge of Lawrence. Their reaction was favorable.
- Horoscopes
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B10
- For Thursday, July 26
- High court may reject picketing law
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A3
- The state’s attempt to prevent the Rev. Fred Phelps and his followers from picketing funerals hit a snag Wednesday.
- Raiders confident as Zone begins
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B1
- A summer full of rain cancellations, run-rule wins and run-rule defeats has reached the most important week for the American Legion Lawrence Raiders baseball squad.
- Gingrich inspires analogies
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A11
- Newt Churchill? Newt de Gaulle? Is there a 21st-century parallel between those 20th-century leaders and the former speaker of the House?
- Classes aim to help kids become swimmers, overcome fear of water
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Some children’s faces lit up with excitement while others’ scrunched with concern as water splashed around them Wednesday morning at the Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center.
- Wideouts break out
- Bowman, Sweed lead Big 12’s crack corps
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B1
- It’s pretty apparent when you listen to Adarius Bowman talk: He’s made for the spotlight.
- Ex-Westar executive pushes for utility to be held in contempt
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A4
- A former Westar Energy Inc. executive is asking a federal judge to hold the Topeka, Kan.-based utility in contempt of court for not paying his legal fees.
- Carmona keeps throwing zeros
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B4
- Fausto Carmona pitched eight innings against Boston, the team that blasted him when he flopped as a closer last season, leading Cleveland to victory Wednesday night.
- Stern needs advice to fix ref problem
- Scribe offers steps to make sure NBA officials don’t get caught gambling on games again
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Call it cynicism. Call it pessimism. Call it sensationalism. But anyone who thinks ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy - who allegedly bet on basketball games - is the league’s first official to gamble is crazy. Anyone who thinks he is the first to bet on sports - or on NBA games, for that matter - is naive.
- Panel calls for better care given to injured veterans
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A1
- A presidential commission on Wednesday urged broad changes to veterans’ care that would boost benefits for family members helping the wounded, establish an easy-to-use Web site for medical records and overhaul the way disability pay is awarded.
- Our town sports
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B8
- Baghdad’s soccer celebrations turn into scenes of tragedy
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A9
- The dream run of Iraq’s national soccer team captivated an otherwise despairing nation. But even in its moment of joy - the Iraqis are in the Asian Cup finals for the first time ever - violence struck Wednesday.
- Money game
- There seems to be no end to the commercialization of big-money professional sports.
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A10
- Maybe National Football League fans should be required to wear assigned clothing designed to form a giant commercial logo in the stands.
- Governors hang back on endorsements
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A10
- Eight months ago, Mitt Romney and Bill Richardson squared off as heads of the Republican and Democratic governors associations, the rival campaign arms of the two parties in the midterm election fight over 36 governorships.
- Old Home Town - 40 years ago
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A10
- The city of Lawrence was denied a $203,800 grant for a public swimming pool by the state’s Joint Council on Recreation despite the fact the city had met all criteria for the money.
- City’s transit system to get $150K grant
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A3
- The Lawrence Public Transit System will receive a $150,000 grant from the federal government to replace city buses, a move announced Wednesday by Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore.
- Goodness, smugness too often go together
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A10
- For a world that’s messed up, we sure have a lot of goodness being shoved in our faces.
- Leadership program seeks applicants
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B11
- The Kansas Environmental Leadership Program is accepting applications for inclusion of the program’s class of 2008.
- Sunni political bloc makes power play
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A9
- Iraq’s largest bloc of Sunni politicians suspended membership in the government Wednesday, a bid that appeared timed to deepen disenchantment in Washington with the Shiite prime minister’s faltering leadership.
- J-W staff members win contest awards
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Journal-World staff members picked up awards in the National Federation of Press Women’s 2007 Communications Contest.
- Blossom end rot spells deadly end to tomato plants
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on C1
- Plants were late to bloom and even later to set fruit this season. Now as the red and green globes emerge, I cannot wait for my first BLT sandwich. There seems to be a problem, though. Some of the leaves near the base are turning brown, and some of the green leaves have black spots on them.
- S. Korean hostage found shot dead
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A9
- Afghan police discovered the bullet-riddled body of a male hostage on Wednesday, one of 23 South Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban last week.
- Lawrence woman to sing at Royals game
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Lynda Canaday will be singing the national anthem before tonight’s Kansas City Royals game against the New York Yankees at Kauffman Stadium in conjunction with Disability Awareness Night.
- Families outraged at medics’ pardons
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A9
- The families of the children infected with the AIDS virus in a Libyan hospital voiced outrage Wednesday at the pardon and release of six medics who returned to Bulgaria a day earlier.
- Commodities
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B11
- Man arrested, charged in alleged attack
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A3
- A man spotted in Tonganoxie in May after allegedly attacking a Topeka woman in her home now is in custody.
- Tips lighten household drudgery
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on C1
- Life changes fast. Cleaning methods do, too.
- A-Rod’s 499th homer sinks K.C.
- De La Rosa could serve up another milestone
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B5
- Alex Rodriguez and Jorge De La Rosa have been here before, facing each other at a milestone moment.
- Study: Rural students beat city kids in science
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A8
- Rural students perform better in science than their urban counterparts, and rural teachers are generally happy with their schools, a federal study says.
- Tour de France leader sent home
- Dutch team disciplines Rasmussen at scandal-plagued event
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Tour de France leader Michael Rasmussen was removed from the race by his team after winning Wednesday’s stage, the biggest blow yet in cycling’s doping-tainted premier event.
- Sunflower offers free digital boxes
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B11
- A wrinkle in regulations governing the switch of TV signals to all-digital transmissions is leading to a free offer for customers of Sunflower Broadband.
- UMKC official named chancellor in Minnesota
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A4
- A University of Missouri-Kansas City official has been named the University of Minnesota-Rochester’s first-ever chancellor.
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A10
- From the Lawrence Daily World for July 26, 1907: “The long discussed ‘rock road’ plan for the route from here to Kansas City has not been changed to an oiled road concept.
- Brownback says evangelical pastors heading his way
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A9
- Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback met Wednesday with influential evangelical leaders and said religious conservatives are moving in his direction as they learn more about his anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage views.
- Lee’s homer lifts Astros; Bonds sits
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B4
- Carlos Lee hit a solo home run in the seventh inning to lift Houston to victory over Los Angeles on Wednesday night. Brad Lidge pitched a perfect ninth for his fifth save in eight chances.
- Santas keep magic of Christmas alive
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A9
- Christmas might be months away, but that didn’t stop 150 international Santas and their little helpers from prancing about Wednesday in the Danish summer.
- Senate panel votes for harsher cigarette warnings
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A6
- Cigarette packs would bear graphic warnings that illustrate the health risks of smoking under a provision added Wednesday to landmark tobacco legislation pending in a Senate committee.
- Papers contradict AG’s testimony
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A7
- Documents indicate eight congressional leaders were briefed about the Bush administration’s terrorist surveillance program on the eve of its expiration in 2004, contradicting sworn Senate testimony this week by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
- Student loan lessons
- Degrees in hand, grads must deal with debt
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B11
- Karen Wons of Maryland finds herself in a quandary that is confronting many parents right now.
- Lawrence Datebook
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A4
- Events around Lawrence.
- Explosions near Dallas close highways
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A6
- Flaming debris rained onto a busy highway during a series of explosions at a gas facility near the city’s dense downtown area, injuring three people and rattling windows and buildings blocks away.
- Farm Service Agency deadline approaches
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B11
- Farmers face deadlines next week for making reports required for participation in several programs provided through the Farm Service Agency.
- Refinery announces program to purchase homes damaged by flood, oil spill
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A4
- A refinery that spilled crude oil into floodwaters offered Wednesday to pay homeowners 110 percent of their damaged homes’ pre-flood market value to purchase the properties.
- City commissioners OK expansion into parking lot
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A5
- City commissioners agreed to move ahead on a proposal that would allow a Lawrence developer to use public parking spaces to accommodate expansion of a downtown office building.
- On the record
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A4
- Lawrence crime blotter.
- Study finds obesity can be contagious in social circles
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A1
- If your friends and family get fat, chances are you will too, researchers report in a startling new study that suggests obesity is “socially contagious” and can spread easily from person to person.
- Sen. Pine posts perfect voting attendance record
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A5
- State Sen. Roger Pine, R-Lawrence, posted a 100 percent voting attendance record during the 2007 Legislature.
- Holmes to report to camp
- Out since 2005 injury, running back ‘excited,’ GM Peterson says
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Three-time Pro Bowl running back Priest Holmes, knocked out of football by a devastating hit 21 months ago, will report to camp Saturday in a surprise development that could have intriguing consequences for the Kansas City Chiefs.
- Union, Corrections Department head to meet, discuss prison safety issues
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A5
- The state employees union and the head of the Department of Corrections will conduct a series of meetings with prison employees to discuss safety concerns and improving working conditions, the union announced Wednesday.
- LHS grad Hooper likely out for season
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B5
- Kevin Hooper’s baseball season is probably over.
- Aviation chief fired amid air travel chaos
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A9
- Brazil’s president fired his defense minister Wednesday in response to a fatal jetliner crash that turned months of anger over breakdowns in the military-run national air system into a full-blown political crisis.
- 271 vehicles stopped by sheriff’s deputies
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A5
- The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office released its statistics Wednesday from a saturation patrol and sobriety checkpoint it conducted with Lawrence police last weekend. Both departments operated a
- Colts pass through Lawrence during strenuous summer tour
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A3
- They’re a marching band, only better. “Drum Corps International is a big deal,” said Patrick McCarty, Lawrence High School assistant band director and former Colts member.
- First female president to seek gender equality
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A9
- India’s first female president was sworn in Wednesday, vowing to eliminate the practice of aborting female fetuses and to empower women, who are often treated as second-class citizens.
- Ingenuity enlivens KU gallery
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A11
- It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. We have-nots who watched the changing landscape along Mississippi Street this summer could only think of Charles Dickens’ description of Revolutionary Paris. Yet, in contrast to the millions we saw lavished around Memorial Stadium, a few thousand dollars has enabled the winning team of Director Saralyn Reece Hardy, Kansas University students, and museum staff to transform spaces within the walls of the Spencer Museum of Art. Working quietly and almost around the clock, the Little Engine that Could has demonstrated, yet again, that human ingenuity and determination can triumph!
- Brewers send 3 players for Padres’ Linebrink
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B5
- In turnabout in trade philosophy, the Milwaukee Brewers acquired reliever Scott Linebrink from the San Diego Padres for three minor-league pitchers Wednesday, hoping to bolster their unexpected run at the playoffs.
- Wood: Meier’s mugshot is pure magic
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Clearing out the jam-packed notebook as Big 12 media days wrap up. Amazingly, all 12 of the league’s coaches are optimistic about the 2007 season. :
- Gorzelanny ailing
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B5
- Pittsburgh Pirates left-hander Tom Gorzelanny left Wednesday night’s game against the New York Mets in the third inning because of shoulder stiffness.
- Schilling: Lack of denials amounts to admissions
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B5
- Curt Schilling says that Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire’s refusals to address accusations of steroids use are tantamount to admissions.
- Cat senses when death near, stays with patients until end
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A7
- Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours.
- Speed limit to go up near school
- 5 mph speed limit increase on U.S. Highway 56 jars principal
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A1
- While most motorists will be pleased the speed limit is being raised on U.S. Highway 56, Tom Mundinger clearly isn’t one of them.
- Harrington era begins
- Falcons turn to maligned former Lion
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B8
- The Atlanta Falcons hired Bobby Petrino because they thought he could turn Michael Vick into a complete quarterback. They signed Joey Harrington merely to serve as No. 7’s backup.My, how things have changed.
- People in the news
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A2
- ¢ Winfrey richest TV star¢ Guitarist completing Ph.D.¢ Cinema-arts group to honor Julia Roberts¢ Damon honored with star
- Hotel show misses ‘Boat’
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A2
- “Welcome to the Parker” (10 p.m., Bravo) offers a behind-the-scenes peek at a posh five-star hotel resort in Palm Springs, Calif. We meet the controlling manager whose business mantra is “obsession,” as well as his harried staff.
- Muppet collection donated to museum
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on A2
- Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy are coming to town. The Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta is set to be the definitive Jim Henson museum with everything from original puppets to sketches from his personal collection, center officials and the Henson family announced Wednesday.
- Wildcats scope out title site
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B7
- Kansas State coach Ron Prince and his players who attended Big 12 media days Wednesday planned to make a pit stop before heading back to Manhattan.
- Prep juniors flourish
- July 26, 2007 in print edition on B7
- With college basketball recruits getting younger and younger - Aurora, Ill., eighth grader Ryan Boatright recently orally committed to the University of Southern California - it should come as no surprise some high school juniors-to-be have flourished this summer on the AAU circuit.
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