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Polls
Should the state loosen teacher requirements to help schools cope with teacher shortages?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No | 59% | |
| Yes | 36% | |
| Undecided | 3% | |
| Total | 226 | |
Videos
- A man convicted 30 years ago of committing one of …
- In news fresh out of city hall, Lawrence city commissioners …
- It’s a resurrection of sorts for a piece of downtown …
- A man arrested Friday in Lawrence during a traffic stop …
- Area food pantries dish up better ways to “serve” the …
- It’s been on our minds - the shock of 18-year-old …
- 6News meteorologist Matt Elwell gives the upcoming forecast.
- It’s a program that’s been around for one year and …
- Twenty-five KU engineering students are currently in Fontana, Calif., to …
- Kansas junior cornerback Aqib Talib has been named to the …
- Three weeks ago, Brandon Rush was ready to strut his …
- Videocast for June 12
- Mayor Sue Hack discusses whether city leaders need a vision …
Lead stories
6:00 a.m.
Teen’s abduction renews focus on personal safety- June 11, 2007 in print edition on 1B
- The tragedy of Overland Park teenager Kelsey Smith being abducted June 2 from a shopping center parking lot and found dead days later is focusing attention on self-defense, martial arts instructors say.
- Video: Three questions with Chip McClellan, chief instructor at ATA Black Belt and Leadership Academy
10:26 a.m.
Young riders concern drivers- June 12, 2007 in print edition on 1A
- Ten-year-old Charlie Backus is the king of the road. Charlie is regularly chauffeured to music camp, summer theater at the Lawrence Arts Center and many other hot spots in Lawrence courtesy of a 30-foot limousine. All right, it is not exactly a limousine; it’s a Lawrence Transit System bus. But it works just fine for Charlie.
2:00 p.m.
Online chat
- New Parks and Recreation leader to discuss city's programs
- June 12, 2007
- Ernie Shaw, a longtime supervisor in the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department, was named its interim director last March. He will chat about his future plans for the department, among other topics.
4:00 p.m.
Hill, Manning give Free State tool that can’t be taught- June 12, 2007 in print edition on 1C
- Oh, to be a teenager again. Driving down the road, windows rolled down, not a care in the world. That’s what it was like for Ashli Hill one morning last week on her way to girls basketball camp at Free State High. And then her day took an unexpected turn.
6:30 p.m.
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LIVE BLOG: Lawrence City Commission discusses the T’s future, budget cuts
- 6:00 p.m., June 12, 2007 Updated 10:00 p.m.
- City Hall reporter Chad Lawhorn provides live coverage of the discussion.
10:00 p.m.
Temperatures not sizzling - yet- June 13, 2007 in print edition on 1A
- Summer is just around the corner, but it hasn’t felt that way lately in Lawrence.
All stories
- 6News video: KU engineers take shot at auto race
- June 12, 2007
- Twenty-five KU engineering students are currently in Fontana, Calif., to take part in the Society of Automotive Engineer’s Formula Car Challenge West competition.
- 6Sports video: Talib named to defensive player-of-the-year watch list
- June 12, 2007
- Kansas junior cornerback Aqib Talib has been named to the Bronko Nagurski preseason watch list.
- 6News video: Traffic stop arrest links suspect to bank robbery
- June 12, 2007
- A man arrested Friday in Lawrence during a traffic stop now faces federal charges in connection with a bank robbery last week in Edgerton.
- 6News video: Area food pantries searching for better ways to serve
- June 12, 2007
- Area food pantries dish up better ways to “serve” the community as officials from nearly all of Lawrence’s food pantries met today to share ideas about helping then hungry.
- 6News video: Recent KC teens death puts light on personal safety
- June 12, 2007
- It’s been on our minds - the shock of 18-year-old Kelsey Smith’s broad daylight abduction and murder June 2 in Kansas City.
- 6Sports video: Following surgery, Rush now focuses on rehab
- June 12, 2007
- Three weeks ago, Brandon Rush was ready to strut his stuff at the NBA pre-draft camp in Orlando. But after suffering a torn ACL in a pick-up game in Kansas City, Rush decided to return to Mount Oread for his junior season. Now, the easy part, surgery, is over and the long road of rehab begins.
- 6News video: Downtown art returns after vandalism
- June 12, 2007
- It’s a resurrection of sorts for a piece of downtown artwork.
- 6News video: School district program emphasizes students’ physical health
- June 12, 2007
- It’s a program that’s been around for one year and Lawrence school leaders say now, the district’s education is as nourishing for the body as it is for the mind.
- 6News video: 6News weather report for June 13
- June 12, 2007
- 6News meteorologist Matt Elwell gives the upcoming forecast.
- 6News video: City leaders vote to increase “T” fares
- June 12, 2007
- In news fresh out of city hall, Lawrence city commissioners decide to cut funding to two dozen social service agencies by four percent this year.
- 6News video: Daughter of murder victim fights to keep convicted in jail
- June 12, 2007
- A man convicted 30 years ago of committing one of the most heinous crimes in Lawrence history could soon be out of prison.
- LIVE BLOG: Lawrence City Commission discusses the T’s future, budget cuts
- City Hall reporter Chad Lawhorn provides live coverage of the discussion
- 06:00 p.m., June 12, 2007 Updated 10:00 p.m.
- City Hall reporter Chad Lawhorn provides live coverage of the discussion.
- Massachusetts Street to close Wednesday morning
- Waterline project running ahead of schedule
- June 12, 2007
- The 900 and 1000 blocks of Massachusetts Street will be closed to all traffic from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Wednesday as part of the city’s waterline replacement project.
- 6News Now: Fares for the ‘T’ may increase
- June 12, 2007
- In tonight’s 6News and tomorrow’s Lawrence Journal-World, getting on the bus could soon cost Lawrence riders twice as much, and detainees currently locked in Guantanomo may end up in western Kansas.
- Slow down, kids: New technology allows parents to track teens’ driving habits
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on D2
- The days may be over when a 16-year-old could get a little privacy, even a few miles of adventure, behind the wheel of the family car.
- Shuttle crew adds on to space station
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis successfully attached a 35,000-pound truss to the International Space Station on Monday, preparing the way for Japanese and European science labs that will be added next year.
- Filmmaker revisits scene of a crime
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A2
- Filmmaker Melanie Perkins was 9 years old in the summer of 1976, when her friend and would-be sweetheart Andy Puglisi disappeared while on his way home from a public pool in Lawrence, Mass.
- Simpler life may await us all
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B7
- I bought a jar of elderberry jelly and an armload of rhubarb at a small-town festival last week, simply because the seller was a slender fair-haired luminous beauty who happened to be Amish, sitting, demure in a black bonnet, at a table beside her horse and buggy.
- Study: Retirement age trend reversing
- Baby boomers expect to work longer, can’t afford to quit
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A8
- As the baby boomers begin to ease into their 60s, most expect to delay retirement longer than their parents or grandparents. That’s good, because many can’t afford to stop working anytime soon.
- School disconnect may signal behavior disorder
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on D1
- Dear Dr. Wes and John: My 15-year-old son has been struggling with homework since about eighth grade. We have tried everything from strict to lenient schedules, tutors to counseling, and nothing seems to get him interested in making the grade.
- Lack of hope feeds chaos in West Bank
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B6
- At the entrance to this working-class town hang banners chastising the Israeli government for failing to stop the firing of Qassam rockets from the nearby Gaza Strip.
- KU librarian publishes online book of artists
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B3
- The shapers of some of America’s most recognizable icons - Mount Rushmore, Smokey Bear and the Wild West - have ties to Kansas.
- New Miss Kansas seeks winning streak
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Alyssa George’s father was tickled that his daughter finally won a competition. “She’s always been real competitive and athletic, and she’s done a lot of things. But rarely does she take the top honors,” Rodney George, Minneapolis, Kan., said jokingly. “In her words, she owns second place.”
- Ryan Wood’s KU football notebook
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C3
- It doesn’t appear any of KU’s nonconference football games will be aired as part of the Big 12 television package this September.
- ‘Sopranos’ fans divided over ending
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A2
- And so on the first day of Year One A.T. - After Tony, that is - the “Sopranos”-viewing world was split in two camps.
- Horoscopes
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B5
- For Tuesday, June 12
- Young riders concern drivers
- T may ban unsupervised children on bus
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A1
- Ten-year-old Charlie Backus is the king of the road. Charlie is regularly chauffeured to music camp, summer theater at the Lawrence Arts Center and many other hot spots in Lawrence courtesy of a 30-foot limousine. All right, it is not exactly a limousine; it’s a Lawrence Transit System bus. But it works just fine for Charlie.
- Advanced spy satellite to keep tabs on enemies
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- Israel successfully launched an advanced spy satellite into orbit Monday, giving it a sophisticated new tool in its efforts to collect intelligence on archenemy Iran and other regional adversaries.
- Avoid Carbon Monoxide poison while camping
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on D1
- During the warm weather months, many vacationers head for the hills on camping trips. Typically on these trips, campers bring along portable stoves, heaters and lanterns to help make the experience a bit more comfortable.
- So all may ride
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: After reading the June 4 article about cutbacks on the bus routes, I’d like to propose a “Friends of the T” organization. Lawrence needs a bus service - and, as the Journal-World article pointed out, now is not the time to be making cuts in public transportation.
- Commodities
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C8
- Opposition movement stages anti-Putin rally
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- A protest in Moscow led by chess champion Garry Kasparov and other critics of President Vladimir Putin ended peacefully Monday in marked contrast to their last demonstration in the capital that culminated in beatings and arrests.
- Father found guilty in ‘honor killing’
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- A father who ordered his daughter brutally slain for falling in love with the wrong man in a so-called “honor killing” was found guilty of murder on Monday. Banaz Mahmod, 20, was strangled with a boot lace, stuffed into a suitcase and buried in a back garden.
- Judge denies bail for JFK suspects
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- A judge denied bail Monday for three suspects accused of plotting to bomb New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, ordering them to remain in jail until a hearing on a U.S. request for their extradition.
- U.N. report shows orangutans threatened
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- Indonesia’s tropical rain forests are disappearing 30 percent faster than previously estimated as illegal loggers raid national parks, threatening the long-term survival of orangutans, according to a U.N. report released Monday in The Hague.
- From columns to Colosseum, ancient Rome reborn
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- Computer experts on Monday unveiled a digital reproduction of ancient Rome as it appeared at the peak of its power in A.D. 320 - what they called the largest and most complete simulation of a historic city ever created.
- Report: Nuclear arms risk rising
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- The world’s top military powers are gradually dismantling their stockpiles of nuclear arms, but all are developing new missiles and warheads with smaller yields that could increase the risk of atomic warfare, a Swedish research institute said Monday.
- ‘Feeding’ brain cells shows promise for Alzheimer’s
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A8
- Drinking a milkshake-style medicine at breakfast seems to feed brain cells starved from Alzheimer’s damage, researchers reported Monday. It’s one of four promising experimental drugs poised for large-scale testing against the brain-destroying disease.
- Envelopes keep finances on track
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C8
- My grandmother, Big Mama, often wrote her budget on the back of old envelopes. I marveled at how she, a nursing assistant, managed to stay within her budget making just above minimum wage while raising five grandchildren - without the help of state aid, which she was entitled to but nonetheless refused.
- Pet Minder trained in pet first aid, CPR
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C8
- Leslie Soden, of Pet Minders, Lawrence, has received a certificate in pet first aid and CPR, through a class offered by the Douglas County chapter of the American Red Cross.
- Minuteman Press is ethics award finalist
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C8
- Minuteman Press Inc., Lawrence, is a finalist for a Northeast Kansas Business Ethics Award, sponsored by the Northeast Kansas Society of Financial Service Professionals in recognition of companies that embody and demonstrate high standards of ethical behavior in their everyday business conduct.
- Two sets of sextuplets born 10 hours apart
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Two sets of sextuplets were born in different states less than a day apart.
- Bus driver shares unsavory end-of-school experience
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B7
- I wanted to share what was for me the worst end-of-year experience in my seven years of driving a school bus for Laidlaw.
- Old Home Town - 25 years ago
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B6
- Authorities said they believed a body found hidden in southwestern Douglas County was that of a 50-year-old Lawrence man missing under suspicious circumstances.
- Lawrence Datebook
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B2
- School district sees progress in first year of wellness goals
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B8
- It’s not easy cutting calories. Just ask Lawrence school district administrators, who spent the year stripping high-calorie and fatty offerings from menus and urging students and employees to exercise.
- Teen labeled sex offender ordered freed by judge
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A4
- A former high school football star who became a national symbol for the extremes of getting tough on sex offenders was ordered released from prison Monday by a judge who called his mandatory 10-year sentence for consensual teen sex “a grave miscarriage of justice.”
- Bush pleads with GOP for immigration bill
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A8
- President Bush is putting his influence within his own party to the test today as he pleads personally with skeptical Senate Republicans to resurrect his immigration bill. Despite his confident tone Monday about the measure’s fate, Bush is facing a hostile audience that has shown little appetite for following his lead on the contentious issue.
- Bank robber gets seven-year sentence
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B1
- James L. Morrison, 47, Kansas City, Kan., was sentenced Monday to seven years in federal prison for his part in robbing a Leavenworth bank. He appeared before U.S. District Judge Kathryn V. Vratil for sentencing in Kansas City, Kan.
- Hospitals caught in crossfire as Palestinian infighting escalates
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- Rival gunmen exchanged fire Monday at two Gaza hospitals and Cabinet ministers fled their weekly meeting after the government headquarters was caught in the crossfire of a brutal day of infighting that killed 17 Palestinians.
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B6
- From the Lawrence Daily World for June 12, 1907: “When the World recently published a piece about the prosperity in Wakarusa Township, it believed it would be hard to find another township as well off.
- Flooding destroys waterfowl nest sites
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B8
- Even ducks need dry homes sometimes - and the weather isn’t helping. Wildlife biologists say rising water levels at wetlands - and along streams and rivers in south-central Kansas - have destroyed most of this year’s waterfowl nest sites.
- Teaching ranks
- Although some positive proposals are on the table, it’s disappointing that Kansas is having to adjust its standards to attract enough qualified teachers.
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B6
- Proposed adjustments to the Kansas licensing requirements for teachers seem to be a reasonable way to try to solve the shortage of teachers in key academic areas.
- Old Home Town - 40 years ago
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B6
- A fair housing ordinance and an appeal from the Girl Scouts to let them keep their outdoor rest rooms at their local camp site in Hidden Valley drew a good share of City Commission attention. No final decisions were made.
- Attorney attends bankruptcy seminar
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C8
- Attorney Shon D. Qualseth, Lawrence, attended a recent Bankruptcy Law seminar in Wichita.
- Gonzales criticized but GOP blocks no-confidence vote
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Republicans blocked a Senate no-confidence vote Monday on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, rejecting a symbolic Democratic effort to force him from office amid blistering criticism from lawmakers in both parties.
- Aggies’ forward Jones to return to school
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C5
- Texas A&M forward Joseph Jones said he has withdrawn his name from the NBA draft and will return to the Aggies to play for new coach Mark Turgeon his senior season.
- People in the news
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A2
- ¢ Seeking a ‘Heroes’ role¢ Mellencamp to join Pops¢ Live Earth to be Red Hot
- Mother, son in fair condition after wreck
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B1
- A woman and her young son were listed in fair condition Monday at separate hospitals following a wreck Sunday morning on the South Lawrence Trafficway, which also is Kansas Highway 10.
- Soldier missing on training range
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- More than 500 soldiers and other searchers walked side by side in scorching heat Monday, looking for any sign of a soldier lost for nearly three days in the juniper-covered hills of the fort’s training range. They came up empty.
- County fireworks sales extended to four days
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A1
- One more day. Douglas County commissioners on Monday approved a measure that allows fireworks sales for one additional day this year.
- Brown, Manning join All-American list
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C3
- The United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced Monday that Kansas University juniors Ashley Brown and Crystal Manning have been named Outdoor All-Americans.
- Killingsworth dies at age 83
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C2
- Jim Killingsworth, who took over a struggling TCU basketball team in the 1980s and coached the Horned Frogs to the NCAA tournament, died Sunday of complications from a stroke. He was 83.
- Suspect arrested in home robbery
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Lawrence police have arrested one man they believe was involved in a robbery late Sunday in the 100 block of Arkansas Street, and they’re looking for two more suspects. A 16-year-old Lawrence girl told police that three men were in her home about 11 p.m. when one of them pulled a gun and ordered her to the floor.
- Toxic tapwater at military base suspected in deaths, illness
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A4
- Thousands of Marines and their families went to serve their country at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune. Instead, many wound up fighting it, blaming the government for failing to protect them from an enemy that invaded their lives in a most intimate way: through the water that quenched their thirst, cooked their food and filled their bathtubs every day.
- Six-time All-Star Holdsclaw retires
- Decision by 29-year-old forward stuns Los Angeles Sparks owners
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C2
- Chamique Holdsclaw, a six-time WNBA All-Star who re-signed with the Los Angeles Sparks in February, stunned the team by retiring Monday. The 29-year-old forward had played in the Sparks’ first five games this season, averaging 15.8 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists.
- Money changes everything for Parker
- LHS shortstop changes college plans once Illinois offers scholarship
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C1
- One month after he seemed destined to attend Creighton University, former Lawrence High shortstop Daniel Parker has accepted a scholarship offer from the University of Illinois. “It was something I couldn’t turn down,” he said.
- Jersey man dies after wreck
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C2
- A New Jersey man who was thrown from Denver Nuggets guard J.R. Smith’s sport utility vehicle when it overturned last weekend died Monday night in the hospital, state police said.
- Appeals court orders release of terror detainee
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- A divided panel from a conservative federal appeals court delivered a harsh rebuke to the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism strategy Monday, ruling that U.S. residents cannot be locked up indefinitely as “enemy combatants” without being charged.
- Cavaliers hope to bounce back tonight at home in Game Three
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C5
- Time to bust out the hiking boots, grab some sturdy ropes and maybe even hire a Sherpa. The Cleveland Cavaliers have some serious climbing to do. Right now, the San Antonio Spurs tower over them.
- Suspected al-Qaida bombers continue attacks on roadways
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A6
- Suspected al-Qaida bombers stepped up attacks on key transportation arteries, striking a bridge north of the capital Monday a day after shutting the superhighway south of Baghdad with a huge explosion that collapsed an overpass and killed three U.S. soldiers.
- Magic GM, Van Gundy contemplate changes
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C5
- New Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy huddled Monday at his South Florida home with general manager Otis Smith, formulating plans to hire a staff and move forward with revamping his roster through the upcoming draft, potential trades and next month’s free-agency period.
- Sashas share camp spotlight
- Kaun’s namesake a big hit with coaches, KU players
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C1
- Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self just had to put Sasha on the spot Monday at Self’s basketball camp in Horejsi Center. It wasn’t the 6-foot-11, 245-pound Sasha Kaun from Tomsk, Russia, that all the campers were gawking at. Instead, it was a 5-4, 100-pound camper with the same name, albeit a slightly different spelling - Sasha Kahn.
- On the record
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B2
- New data identify recipients of farm subsidies
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A5
- From Texas billionaires to Washington lobbyists, it’s no secret that wealthy people can get federal farm subsidies. But now, for the first time, new Agriculture Department data makes it easier to see exactly who benefits from the nation’s generous farm subsidy program.
- New digs, or nostalgia?
- Future of Rosenblatt Stadium a hot topic in Omaha
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C6
- To fans who make the trek each June and to those watching at home, Rosenblatt Stadium is synonymous with the College World Series.
- Working like a dog
- Companies that allow pups say staff more productive
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on D1
- You feel so guilty on Monday morning as those big brown eyes watch you head out the door to work. Sure, every day can’t be the weekend, your dog seems to say. But couldn’t I come along and just curl up under your desk?
- Al-Sadr reasserts authority over Shiite militia movement
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A6
- The anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is reasserting authority over his movement after disappearing from public view for three months.
- Camacho sentenced to seven years
- Boxer may not have to serve time in cell on burglary charge
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C2
- Hector “Macho” Camacho was sentenced to the maximum seven years in prison Monday for burglary, but the eight-time world champion could avoid spending time in a cell.
- Woodling: Perkins’ mandate tough task
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C1
- Four years ago this week, many a jaw dropped when Lew Perkins was named Kansas University athletic director. Supposedly entrenched at Connecticut, Perkins opted to change jobs essentially because KU chancellor Robert Hemenway dangled the proverbial offer Perkins couldn’t refuse - a salary and compensation package worth around $1 million a year.
- Intruder with bat hits man in apartment
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Two men, one of them carrying a baseball bat, entered a Lawrence apartment early Saturday and attacked four people, according to a police report.
- Court halts execution of infant’s baby sitter
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A3
- A baby sitter who was to have been executed this week for killing an infant won a reprieve Monday from a divided appeals court that ordered a review of whether the boy’s injuries were accidental.
- Ibanez delivers for Seattle
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C4
- When Raul Ibanez stepped to the plate in the ninth inning, he wasn’t thinking about any individual accomplishments. Despite the fact he had already hit two two-run homers and a triple, the Seattle Mariners left fielder had only one thing on his mind.
- Hill, Manning give Free State tool that can’t be taught
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C1
- Oh, to be a teenager again. Driving down the road, windows rolled down, not a care in the world. That’s what it was like for Ashli Hill one morning last week on her way to girls basketball camp at Free State High. And then her day took an unexpected turn.
- Guidelines may mean more frontage roads
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Expect more frontage roads to begin appearing in rural Douglas County during the next few years.
- N.Y. steps up truck inspections to reduce possible terror threats
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A4
- Days after authorities announced a suspected terrorist plot targeting Kennedy Airport, police at a security checkpoint in lower Manhattan were confronted with another threat: a grimy, radioactive truck.
- Phillies rebound, shut out White Sox
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C4
- Adam Eaton gave the Phillies the boost they wanted and the bullpen the rest it needed a day after their latest blowout loss.
- Downtown’s future looking up
- Leaders may consider guidelines for vertical redevelopment
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Taller downtown buildings could mean steep decisions for Lawrence city commissioners. That was a major point that came out of Day 1 of a two-day goal-setting session by Lawrence city commissioners on Monday.
- Salvation Army plans early fan giveaway
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Beginning Thursday, The Salvation Army will offer fans to low-income people in the Lawrence area.
- Youths build homes, self-esteem
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B6
- They say the house was a mess. There were holes in the floor. The walls were pulling apart. There were no windows, doors or fixtures. It was filled with trash. The stairs were unsafe. There were dead cats in the basement.
- LHS senior among delegates to attend Girls Nation in D.C.
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B8
- A Lawrence High School senior will get the opportunity to experience what it’s like to be a U.S. senator. Erin Thimmesch was one of two girls chosen from 250 participants at Sunflower Girls State to attend American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation, set for July 21-28 in Washington, D.C.
- Event’s environmental impact being assessed by KU auditors
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A1
- Each year, it gets a little greener. But can a massive event such as the Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival, which attracts people from across the country, ever have zero impact on the environment and meet organizers’ goal of 100 percent sustainability?
- Parents should limit child’s UV exposure even with sunscreen
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A1
- Shade your kids. Strong new evidence suggests overall sun exposure in childhood, not just burns, is a big key to who later develops deadly skin cancer. The news comes as the government is finishing long-awaited rules to improve sunscreens.
- Teacher licensing changes proposed
- State hopes to avoid instructor shortages
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Hoping to help school districts cope with teacher shortages, the Kansas State Board of Education today will consider licensing changes that will allow greater flexibility in who can teach what.
- Merc set for $1.5M renovation
- Four-month project to include dining room, expanded space for prepared foods
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C8
- The Community Mercantile Co-op is preparing to embark on a $1.5 million remodeling project designed to give the natural foods grocery a more convenient, energy-efficient and welcoming operation.But most of all, the four-month job will be intended to give the natural foods grocery a restored sense of identity, six years after the operation relocated less than a mile to 901 Iowa from 901 Miss.
- Newman’s winless streak maddening
- Rain denies driver chance at victory at Pocono
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C5
- Winning poles is the easy part for Ryan Newman. Getting to Victory Lane is another matter. Newman’s winless streak reached 59 races Sunday when rain denied him a chance at victory at Pocono Raceway.
- Another gem, but is he back?
- Up-and-down Zambrano has solid outing as Cubs top Astros
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on C4
- Carlos Zambrano delivered with his pitches and his bat. Then he delivered this message: “Big Z is back on track,” he said. Looking more like the NL All-Star he was last season than the erratic pitcher who got into a fight with his catcher, Michael Barrett, 10 days before, Zambrano had one of his strongest outings against a favorite opponent Monday night.
- Explosion in Kenyan capital kills 2, creates rush hour chaos
- June 12, 2007 in print edition on A7
- An explosion Monday in the Kenyan capital’s packed business district killed two people and injured more than 30, leaving behind a corpse with half his body blown away and sending hundreds of rush hour commuters ducking for cover from flying shrapnel.
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