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- There was plenty of pomp and circumstance this afternoon as …
- Close to just one hour after the Lawrence High ceremony …
- Well college is the next step for many of today’s …
- This weekend marks the third anniversary of the city taking …
- Despite the showers on Saturday, young scouts took time to …
- School is closed and that means the pool is open …
- He may not be his brother’s keeper, but he’s sure …
- Yesterday two of our area softball teams were playing for …
- Also playing in a state semifinal game Saturday morning was …
- On the prep baseball diamond, a champion has yet to …
- Just a few miles down the road in Wichita yesterday …
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Cool, rainy start to outdoor pool season doesn’t deter swimmers- May 27, 2007 in print edition on 1B
- When the White family showed up at the Lawrence Outdoor Aquatic Center Saturday, it started raining. “Oh no!” Stacey White said. But her boys had been waiting for the public pool to reopen for the summer ever since it closed last year. “We’d like it to be warmer,” White said. “But we’ll take it. It’s the first day, and we can’t miss it.”
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- 6News video: Pool openings brings health warnings
- May 27, 2007
- School is closed and that means the pool is open but swimmers may not be the only thing wadding in the waters at area pools.
- 6Sports video: LHS lady’s 4x400, 4x800 teams take second at state
- May 27, 2007
- Just a few miles down the road in Wichita yesterday were the finals of the state track and field meet, but unfortunately no city schools took home a gold medal in running events.
- 6Sports video: Older brother says Rush tore his ACL
- May 27, 2007
- He may not be his brother’s keeper, but he’s sure sounding like his brother’s speaker.
- 6News video: Free State grads reminisce in memories
- May 27, 2007
- Close to just one hour after the Lawrence High ceremony wrapped up, Free State High seniors took their turn at 4 p.m.
- 6Sports video: Heavy rains postpone state baseball tourney
- May 27, 2007
- On the prep baseball diamond, a champion has yet to be crowned in Class 6A as heavy rains in Wichita postponed games until Monday.
- 6News video: Local scouts honor fallen soldiers
- May 27, 2007
- Despite the showers on Saturday, young scouts took time to honor fallen soldiers.
- 6News video: Residents appreciate city’s clean-up efforts at cemetery
- May 27, 2007
- This weekend marks the third anniversary of the city taking over a local resting place with a history of neglect.
- 6Sports video: Free State softball takes 4th place at state
- May 27, 2007
- Also playing in a state semifinal game Saturday morning was the Free State softball team.
- 6News video: Scholarship helps Latino graduate
- May 27, 2007
- Well college is the next step for many of today’s graduates and the Latino Community Coalition of Douglas County is helping one now former Free State graduate get there with a little financial support.
- 6Sports video: Lady Cardinals fall in championship game
- May 27, 2007
- Yesterday two of our area softball teams were playing for a birth into the state title game and one team that did advance to the championship contest was the Eudora Lady Cardinals in Class 4A.
- 6News video: LHS grads reflect on high school years
- May 27, 2007
- There was plenty of pomp and circumstance this afternoon as hundreds of seniors became graduates as Lawrence High students graduated first this afternoon.
- Murphy’s Law rules in Miami
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D1
- I’ve never been a big believer in Murphy’s Law. That is, until my trip this week to Miami.
- Brother says Rush tore ACL
- Jayhawk guard to go under knife next week, JaRon Rush says
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C1
- JaRon Rush spoke to his younger brother Brandon on the phone at 10 a.m. Saturday, just after the injured Kansas University basketball player climbed out of a soothing pool of water.Brandon was in good spirits, big brother said, even after informing his sibling he’d need surgery to repair a torn ACL in his right knee.
- Young pioneer’s tombstone finds resting place at Clinton Cemetery
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B1
- Her name was Anna Jessie, and she died at the age of 5 on Sept. 6, 1878. No one knows where the little girl’s body is buried, but the white marble tombstone that bears her name has a final resting place in Clinton Cemetery. Thanks to members of a Lawrence organization called the Sons of Union Veterans, it was placed there last fall.
- Derby bounces FSHS
- Abney shines at plate, but Firebirds lose two
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C1
- Going a combined 5-for-6 with three RBIs should make the final two games memorable for Free State High senior softball player Livi Abney. But the memory that will stick out is losing those games on the final day of the Kansas Class 6A state tournament.
- Toussaint heeds advice
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C10
- In the end, Free State High senior Keron Toussaint sided with coach, recognizing the need the put his future health before the Firebirds’ immediate success.
- Two tied at top in BMW Championship
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C9
- England’s Paul Broadhurst birdied the final three holes for a 4-under 68 and a share of the third-round lead with countryman Ross Fisher in the BMW PGA Championship at historic Wentworth.
- Wheldon lives dream
- Driving at Brickyard ‘addicting’
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C6
- As a kid growing up in England, you’d think Dan Wheldon would have daydreamed about racing at Monte Carlo, Monza or, most likely, the British Grand Prix. You’d be wrong.
- Lawrence High School honors
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A10
- These Lawrence High School students have been given scholarships and awards:
- PLAY projections
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B8
- Lawrence residents have reason to doubt whether proposed new sports facilities will live up to the consultant’s financial projects.
- It’s never too early to teach children to be…Young financial gurus
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on E1
- Many children know how to send text messages and upload photos to MySpace.com, but when it comes to financial matters, they appear far less savvy.
- Verplank gains share of lead at rain-plagued Colonial
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C9
- Scott Verplank has set himself up for the chance at a rare Texas two-step on the PGA Tour.
- Feds seek freeze on Wittig’s assets until trial
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to keep a settlement agreement in force against David Wittig pending the third trial of the former Westar Energy Inc. executive on charges that he tried to loot the utility of millions of dollars.
- Lawrence High grad hopes passion for music takes him far
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A1
- Isaac Lewis-O’Connor, along with his three best friends, form an unofficial quartet they jokingly call The Fab Four. Whenever the four get together, they tend to break out in harmony. “It’s just kind of how we are,” Lewis-O’Connor said.
- Home, sweet home: Utah makes it a series
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C5
- Tenacious from the start, Utah’s Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer gave the home fans exactly what they expected in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals.
- Ireland’s PM begins search to help safeguard economy
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A8
- Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, the savvy survivor of Irish politics, looked ahead Saturday to another five years in charge of Europe’s most dynamic economy, but also the challenge of forming a governing coalition likely to include longtime opponents.
- Cool, rainy start to outdoor pool season doesn’t deter swimmers
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B1
- When the White family showed up at the Lawrence Outdoor Aquatic Center Saturday, it started raining. “Oh no!” Stacey White said. But her boys had been waiting for the public pool to reopen for the summer ever since it closed last year. “We’d like it to be warmer,” White said. “But we’ll take it. It’s the first day, and we can’t miss it.”
- Free State High School honors
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A11
- These Free State High School students have been given scholarships and awards:
- People in the news
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A2
- ¢ Lohan arrested on suspicion of DUI after accident¢ Judge to dismiss copyright lawsuit against ‘Family Guy’¢ Moore plans unofficial ‘Sicko’ premiere in home state
- ‘Crashing’ a fascinating account of risky surgery
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D3
- It would seem like a proposition that merits an unequivocal “yes”: Blind since age 3, a man in his early 40s has a chance to undergo a stem cell transplant that might restore his vision and allow him to see his wife and two sons for the first time.
- Immigrant challenges entitlement society
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B8
- The campaign to deny Luis Paucar his right to economic liberty illustrates the ingenuity people will invest in concocting perverse arguments for novel entitlements.
- Revisiting ‘Grandma’
- Show focuses on Elizabeth Layton’s art legacy
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D1
- Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton realized her dark history of depression, and the fact she started drawing at age 67, would draw people to her art. But she never wanted her story to be the focus of attention.
- Civil War veterans’ graves decorated for Memorial Day
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B1
- A group of Boy Scouts wandered through Oak Hill Cemetery on Saturday to help honor Civil War veterans. “Here’s one,” said assistant Cubmaster Brian Van Schmus, using a map to navigate among headstones. Each Scout grasped a handful of small American flags attached to sticks as they followed along.
- City may put brakes on traffic-calming devices
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B1
- It may be a speed bump for speed bumps. In the next 30 days, city commissioners should answer what seems like an age-old question about traffic-calming devices such as traffic circles, speed bumps and pedestrian islands: Yeah or nay?
- Keegan: Free State speedsters denied
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C1
- The Lawrence High baseball team was rested and ready to play two Saturday afternoon at Lawrence Dumont Stadium. The skies didn’t cooperate, and the Lions had to bus back home. No sweat. They’ll bus back down and give winning a state championship another try Monday, weather permitting.
- Sprint to the finish
- Silver not satisfactory for LHS relay teams
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C1
- Busting two state records - thereby also crushing two school marks in the process - would be enough for many a high school track athlete. But don’t let the sweet smiles of Lawrence High’s quartet of baby-faced relay stars fool you. They desperately wanted something more Saturday night.
- Resident re-elected as group’s president
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on E1
- John Surritte, Lawrence, was re-elected as state president of the Kansas Federation for the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association during the federation’s annual convention earlier this month in Junction City.
- Convicted rapist avoids 13 years of jail
- Judge sentences man to 3 years of probation with psychiatric treatment
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B4
- A man convicted of repeatedly raping and sodomizing a 14-year-old girl last year was sentenced to three years probation rather than nearly 13 years in jail.
- Molestation charges added to man’s abuse accusation
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B4
- A Hutchinson man accused of putting two young children in a clothes dryer is now charged with molesting them.
- Plant opposed
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B8
- To the editor: There are so many reasons why the proposed coal plant expansion in western Kansas should NOT be approved that it is difficult to know where to begin.
- State response
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B8
- To the editor: Recently the governor of Kansas and the adjutant general of Indiana have been making comments regarding the deployment of the National Guard and its affect on state readiness.
- Facing death, musician Michael Brecker provides moving coda
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D6
- As the new year began, Michael Brecker’s life was coming to an end. But the tenor saxophonist, suffering from acute leukemia, was still thinking about his music. He went downstairs to his home studio to perform the last notes on an electronic wind instrument for what would be his final album.
- Greensburg mayor resigns
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B10
- The mayor of this south-central Kansas town that was all but destroyed by a tornado has resigned, saying he needs to focus on his personal life and isn’t the leader Greensburg needs right now.
- Business students earn ethics honors
- Positive Code of Conduct Awards recognize commitment to virtues
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on E1
- Stefany Samp plans to take more than a new master’s degree in accounting to Wichita, where she’ll be crunching numbers for the largest private company in the United States.
- Tips to go green
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D10
- Energy-saving ideas from Home & Garden Television:
- ‘Redneck Riviera’ home to gay Memorial Day gathering
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Souvenir shops lining this sugary white Panhandle beach display Confederate flag beach towels, window decals and T-shirts. Hooters and other bars fly POW-MIA, Marine and Navy flags and cater to the sailors and Marines from the nearby base.
- At least 5 killed in Texas storms, flooding
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Forecasters predicted more heavy thunderstorms in the Plains over the holiday weekend after two days of storms and flooding that left five people dead and one missing in central Texas.
- Speaker of House refuses to give up post
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- With his political career in jeopardy, powerful state House Speaker Tom Craddick charged through a rebellion that lasted into early Saturday, refusing to give up his leadership post.
- Speaker embarks for climate talks in Europe
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on an overseas trip to embrace an audience and a topic for which President Bush has shown scant affection: “Old Europe” and global warming.
- Bankruptcies
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on E1
- Douglas County residents or businesses filing for bankruptcy protection during the week ended Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Kansas, according to court records:
- Old Home Town - 25 years ago
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B9
- Arguments about the congressional reapportionment case ended in court in Topeka and Chief Judge James Logan of Olathe, a member of the 10th U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver, said the panel hoped to announce a decision in about a week.
- Presidential assessments can hit or miss the mark
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B9
- The whole mess began when Jimmy Carter, who entered the national consciousness by saying he’d never lie to the American people, said that the Bush administration’s foreign policy was “the worst in history,” adding that President Bush’s invasion of Iraq was “a radical departure from all previous administration policies” and suggesting that Mr. Bush was the lone American president who didn’t honor the separation of powers.
- Matthews’ triple dooms Yankees
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C4
- Gary Matthews Jr. lined a two-run triple that gave the Los Angeles Angels yet another fast start, and Kelvim Escobar made the early lead stand up, beating the New York Yankees, 3-1, Saturday.
- Scientists eye ancient plant for biofuel
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- A plant that flourished in Europe roughly 3,500 years ago could become a major source of biofuel.
- Fishing report
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C8
- CLINTON LAKE (updated 5-24) - Water 69 degrees and 7.43 feet above normal pool. Channel catfish fair using nightcrawlers and minnows in flooded cover.
- Get your puppy under control
- Too much coddling affects temperament, health
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D10
- Dogs gone wild. Everywhere I go these days, it seems I encounter canines in need of boot camp. It’s not their fault, of course: Getting a sound foundation in puppyhood is paramount if your dog is to be a well-adjusted canine citizen. So, in the spirit of self-improvement, here is my list of 10 puppy musts:
- Commentary: Nice-guy Johnson flies under radar
- Coca-Cola 600 contender admits he’s not colorful, just consistent
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C2
- It’s been almost five years since Jimmie Johnson finished lower than third at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, a streak spanning eight races - five of them victories at the track he calls “my house.”
- A workout for your brain
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D1
- You’re lifting those barbells for strong muscles. You’re walking around the block or running marathons or doing 1,000 jumping jacks every day for a stronger heart.
- Satire rotation
- Christopher Buckley discovers hardest part about spoofing is competing with front page
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D3
- Christopher Buckley was in a cab in Manhattan on his way to Grand Central Station when he saw a man walking along with a distinctively yellow- and aqua-striped book in his hand.
- In Memoriam - By Curtis D. Bennett
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D3
- Streams to be surveyed
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C8
- Crews from Wildlife and Parks will survey streams and rivers throughout Kansas this summer, adding information to a database that helps assess and monitor overall conditions.
- Eclectic interests lead Free State grad to people-oriented career
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A1
- It takes Ashleigh Armstrong a little time to rattle off her lengthy list of Free State High School activities and achievements. There’s the varsity bowling team, color guard, the school’s Link Crew, International Club, French Club and Math Club. And then she ran sound and light boards for concerts.
- On the record
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B2
- Arts provide alternate outlets for youths in court system
- Program encourages exploration of arts, not crime
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B5
- Three teenage girls with microphones, dressed alike in green polo-style shirts and cream-colored pants, take turns rapping about their experiences getting into trouble.
- Free fishing upcoming
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C8
- One weekend out of every year is designated as Free Fishing Days in Kansas. That time is next Saturday and Sunday. On those two days, anyone can fish without a license.
- Lawrence Datebook
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B2
- MySpace providing offender details
- Information will be used to determine possible violations of probation and parole
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A1
- Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison said a recent agreement with MySpace Web site to provide information on thousands of sex offenders is just one step in continuing efforts to monitor social networking on the Internet. “We’re working on a couple of things with these providers,” Morrison said recently.
- KU tracksters earn automatic bids
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C3
- Kansas University’s Hugh Murphy, Julius Jiles, Janiece Gatson, Abby Emsick, Crystal Manning and Ashley Brown all earned automatic bids to the NCAA Championships on Saturday at the Midwest Regionals.
- Duke lacrosse team in NCAA finals
- Blue Devils down previously unbeaten Cornell, 12-11
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C2
- The Duke lacrosse team has taken its season of redemption to the brink of a championship.
- Trend: Hotels doubling as gallery showcases
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D2
- The lighting accentuates the bold mixed-media works of art hanging on walls of exposed brick. Except for the plasma television and four-poster bed with Egyptian cotton sheets, the room at the Lancaster Arts Hotel could easily pass for a downtown New York gallery.
- Creamer tied for lead at Corning Classic
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C9
- Paula Creamer birdied her two final holes for a 6-under 66 to tie Beth Bader and Young Kim for the lead Saturday in the LPGA Corning Classic.
- Best-Sellers
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D3
- Woman gets 5 years for drunken driving
- Case prompted blood-drawing order
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B2
- A woman whose case prompted Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline to tell hospital workers they must draw blood from unwilling patients in some drunken-driving accidents has been sentenced to five years in prison.
- Rain postpones 6A semifinals until Monday
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C10
- One of Lawrence High baseball team’s best performances, Friday’s 10-6 drubbing of No. 2-seeded Olathe East, featured an anti-climactic follow-up. Buckets of rain drenched Lawrence-Dumont Field and the Wichita area with 31â2 inches of water, postponing all of Saturday’s 6A state baseball tournament action.
- Eudora softball falls in final
- Sixth-seeded Cardinals upend No. 2 Andale in semis
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C10
- It took two hard-fought upset victories for the Eudora High softball team to advance to the state championship game but only one inning to derail the Cardinals’ title hopes.
- Packers’ CEO Harlan staying
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C2
- Bob Harlan will delay his retirement as the Green Bay Packers’ chief executive officer because hand-picked successor John Jones is taking a leave for personal reasons.
- Participants sought for Lawrence ArtWalk
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D5
- Artists are invited to participate in this year’s Lawrence ArtWalk, which is the annual self-guided tour of Lawrence artists’ studios and other art spaces.
- Topeka assault suspect still eludes police
- Officials in Tonganoxie, where he was last spotted, say he may have moved on to Kansas City
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B1
- The whereabouts of Errol Sutton, a man who police suspect assaulted a woman in Topeka more than a week ago and who was later seen in Tonganoxie, continues to flummox authorities.
- Students invited to music workshop
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B3
- Fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students are invited to participate in a one-day workshop for beginning instruction in violin, viola, cello or string bass on June 23 at Owens Musical Arts Building on the Baker University campus, Baldwin City.
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B9
- From the Lawrence Daily World for May 27, 1907: “The Lawrence Society of Friends has purchased the building heretofore occupied by the Christian Church and will brick-veneer it, making a handsome downtown church home for the society.
- Whole arsenal effective against Kansas City
- Baek mixes it up, stifles stagnant Royals
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C3
- Ask Seattle’s Cha Seung Baek what was working well against Kansas City, and he reels off his entire repertoire. But the Royals, who struck out seven times and managed only five hits off him, said the same thing.
- Documentary explores children’s resiliency
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B3
- A documentary on the traumatic childhood story of Dr. Henry Remple will be shown June 3.
- Cavs confident down 2-0
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C5
- LeBron James is back home, where he almost always makes the impossible look routine.
- Thousands of bees clog passenger jet engine
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A8
- A thick cloud of bees was sucked into the engine of a passenger plane en route to Portugal, forcing the airline to abandon the trip and grounding passengers for 11 hours, a company executive said Saturday.
- Government defends U.S. military aid
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A8
- Lebanon’s pro-Western prime minister on Saturday rejected opposition criticism over planeloads of U.S. military aid pouring in to shore up the country’s army in its battle with Islamic militants in a Palestinian refugee camp.
- Antelope applications being collected
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C8
- Applications for permits to hunt antelope are being mailed to last year’s applicants. Applications also are available at www.kdwp.state.ks.us, and may be filed online.
- Exercise caution before signing remodeling contract
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D4
- Remodeling a house can be an intimidating process. Here are some ways to protect your interests:
- U.S. reportedly to reject G-8 climate change deal
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A8
- The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to a document released by environmentalists.
- Old Home Town - 40 years ago
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B9
- There appeared a strong chance the Lawrence airport would have a commuter airline service by early 1968. TransCommuter Airlines of Wichita was the likely operator for the service. the Journal-World learned.
- Kidney with tumor OK’d, used in transplant
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A8
- A kidney containing a tumor was transplanted from a mother to her son in September, with the son agreeing to the operation after being warned about the risks by Akita University Hospital, it was learned Saturday.
- Romero leads by two at Senior PGA tourney
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C9
- Eduardo Romero missed a chance to take a big lead into the final day of the Senior PGA Championship, bogeying the final two holes to finish the third round with a two-stroke advantage.
- Israeli missiles hit Hamas targets, killing 5
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A8
- Israel fired missiles at five Hamas targets minutes apart Saturday, killing five people just hours after Gaza militants floated the idea of halting rocket fire on Israeli border towns if the 10-day-old air campaign ends.
- Iran says it uncovered U.S. spy networks
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A7
- Iran said Saturday it has uncovered spy rings organized by the United States and its Western allies, claiming on state-run television that the espionage networks were made up of “infiltrating elements from the Iraqi occupiers.”
- Troops sent to Kiev as power struggle continues
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A8
- The president ordered thousands of troops to Ukraine’s capital Saturday, officials said, as he and his longtime foe, the nation’s prime minister, jockeyed for control of security forces amid an escalating power struggle.
- Kevorkian to be free, after 8 years
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A1
- For nearly a decade, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves.
- Cubs flash power
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on C4
- Aramis Ramirez and Mark DeRosa hit back-to-back home runs, and reliever Will Ohman struck out pinch-hitter Jeff Kent with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to help preserve a 4-2 victory by the Chicago Cubs over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday.
- Higgins glass sought after for unusual design
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D5
- In the 1940s and ‘50s, creative glassmakers who worked in their own styles were experimenting with new ways to shape and decorate glass. Michael Higgins and his wife, Frances, both artists, began making fused glass using an old method.
- Shooting marks first U.N. death in Darfur
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A8
- A United Nations peacekeeper who was among a small group of reinforcements sent to Darfur was shot to death at his residence - the U.N.’s first casualty since its long-negotiated arrival in the troubled region, officials said Saturday.
- Health department begins summer pool inspections
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B7
- Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department began its summer routine this week of testing public pools.
- Cheney delivers call to arms in West Point graduation
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A3
- Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday urged the 978 new graduates of the U.S. Military Academy to provide leadership to troops fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Effort continues to herd wayward whales
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A5
- Everyone seems to have a suggestion to get two wayward whales lingering in the Sacramento River to swim 70 miles back to the Pacific Ocean. One person suggested towing life-sized replicas of orcas behind the whales to scare the recalcitrant mother humpback and her calf.
- Yarr! ‘Pirates’ plunder $43M on first day
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A2
- Johnny Depp and his pirate friends pulled in a lot of plunder, but fell far short of a record opening day.
- New museum uses friendly dinosaurs to explain Bible’s version of history
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A2
- Adam and Eve fall from grace and Noah survives an epic flood at a new museum that tells the Bible’s version of history on a theme-park scale.
- U.S. migrant worker program fed by recruiters who extort
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A6
- Standing in the baking sun outside the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, hundreds of Mexicans wait anxiously for temporary work visas. But even before they were fingerprinted and interviewed for the permit, many had already paid recruiters thousands of dollars in hopes of easing the way.
- Military announces U.S. deaths as officials highlight gains
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on A7
- Iraq’s prime minister and two top American officials flew to the blistering western desert Saturday in a rare joint outing to highlight gains there in the fight against insurgents, hours before the military reported the deaths of eight U.S. troops.
- Horoscopes
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D8
- For Sunday, May 27, 2007:
- Former Greensburg resident recalls town’s strengths
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on D7
- My husband, John, and I became the new owners of the Greensburg weekly newspaper, “The Kiowa County Signal,” on March 1, 1956. We were excited.
- Military pay raise is the least U.S. should do
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B9
- On this Memorial Day weekend when Americans pause to think about their debt to the men and women who fight our wars, a battle of a different kind is going on - a struggle between the White House and Congress over pay for the armed forces.
- Spin doctors stymie straight talk
- May 27, 2007 in print edition on B8
- One hopes there’s a little something extra in the pay envelopes this week for whatever flacks represent Jimmy Carter and Clinton Portis. Surely, the spin doctors have earned it.
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