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Births
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- Wedding: Herbert
- Engagement: Merkel and Johnson
- Anniversary: McElhenie
- Wedding: Bonebrake
- Engagement: Criss and Lockwood
- Anniversary: Schmitendorf
- Wedding: Wray
- Anniversary: Otto
- Wedding: Sharp
- Anniversary: Nelson
- Wedding: Van Horn
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- White supremacists hope Obama win prompts backlash
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A7
- They’re not exactly rooting for Barack Obama, but prominent white supremacists anticipate a boost to their cause if he becomes the first black president. His election, they say, would trigger a backlash - whites rising up, a revolution of sorts - that they think is long overdue.
- Marking our spot is a passing gesture
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B6
- These are the summer days when the island is overrun with gifts. The raspberries are still ripe, and the first of the blackberries have arrived bearing their sweet intimations of fall.
- Couple create oasis in arid SW Kansas
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B5
- Off a barren stretch of a Haskell County road, just past the dusty feedlot filled with thousands of head of cattle, a sightseer drives smack into something that might grace the cover of Architectural Digest.
- Olympics no road to gold for airlines
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B4
- Olympics fans, it’s not too late to jump on a jet to Beijing, provided you have a visa.
- KU 2008 Spring Honor Roll
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D5
- Kansas University announces area students who made the spring 2008 honor roll:
- In corn country, McCain says no to ethanol support
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A7
- Republican presidential candidate John McCain didn’t mince words Friday at the Iowa State Fair, telling corn producers he didn’t want to subsidize their ethanol but was eager to help market farm products around the world.
- Spectacle kicks off Beijing Olympics
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C5
- China didn’t just walk onto the world stage. It soared over it.
- Creature feature a ‘primeval’ blast
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D7
- What do you get when you combine “Stargate” and “Jurassic Park”? Something resembling “Primeval” (8 p.m., today, BBC America), a thrilling dinosaur drama guaranteed to entertain the inner 13-year-old in every viewer.
- National League Roundup: Sabathia tosses five-hit shutout
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C4
- CC Sabathia pitched a five-hitter to remain unbeaten with Milwaukee. It was the ninth straight win for Sabathia, who has not lost in 12 starts since June 5. In seven starts with the Brewers since being acquired from the Cleveland Indians on July 7, he is 6-0 with a 1.57 earned-run average.
- Voter events planned at Farmers’ Market
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B3
- County residents will have an opportunity to register to vote and meet candidates for state and local offices today at the Lawrence Farmers’ Market.
- American League Roundup: Buehrle boosts White Sox
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C4
- Mark Buehrle took a shutout into the eighth, and Chicago handed Jon Lester his first loss in 21â2 months, hanging on to beat Boston.
- Sunflower Broadband loaded with Olympics
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C5
- Full-scale television coverage of the Summer Olympics from Beijing will begin today, and you can watch it all on Sunflower Broadband.
- Fans get an eyeful at new field
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A1
- It may be the best deal on Mount Oread these days: A free, almost daily glimpse of the Orange Bowl Champion KU football team. Leaders of the Kansas University Athletic Department may not have planned it this way when they built a new $31 million practice field and football complex south of Memorial Stadium, but it now appears that members of the public will get a free look at the team even during “closed” practices.
- New TE Steward radiates ‘meanness’
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C1
- A.J. Steward is trying to become a meaner person. Not in general, necessarily - he was, after all, recently voted the Kansas football team’s funniest player in a poll of players - but on the football field, where he’s currently attempting to transform from a backup quarterback to the Jayhawks’ No. 1 tight end by the start of the 2008 season.
- Rodgers back where he began
- Packers’ starting quarterback still feeling pressure of following Favre’s legacy
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C6
- Aaron Rodgers needed an extra squirt of antiseptic spray for his sore throat before speaking, but the lump from having to compete for his job is gone, jettisoned with Brett Favre to New York.
- Zoo welcomes pair of donated tigers despite protests
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A5
- The Baghdad Zoo on Friday welcomed a pair of rare Bengal tiger cubs that were donated by a North Carolina animal sanctuary despite protests by animal rights activists.
- Pilots complain that fuel restricted to save costs
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A4
- Pilots are complaining that their airline bosses, desperate to cut costs, are forcing them to fly uncomfortably low on fuel.
- Around and about
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D3
- Jodie and David Saultz, Bonner Springs, announce the birth of their son, Klayton Paul Saultz, born June 24, 2008, at Olathe Medical Center.
- ‘Wow,’ Beijing really is smoggy
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C5
- Heat, humidity and haze cloaked the start of China’s long-awaited Olympic Games in a sultry blanket Friday.
- Scouting news
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D3
- Eudora Boy Scout Troop 64 hosted an Eagle Scout reunion-luncheon on July 26 at the Eudora United Methodist Church.
- Bacon and chocolate: Match made in heaven?
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Here are three little words that might give the staunchest snacker pause: Chocolate-covered bacon.
- Yellow House owners arrested Friday
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B3
- The owners of Yellow House, 1904 Mass., were arrested Friday on federal warrants and booked into the Douglas County Jail.
- Stepdads top biological ones, researchers say
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Stepfathers make slightly better parents than married biological fathers, researchers found in a new study of at-risk urban families.
- Plastics plague
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B6
- To the editor: Here is a question we can pose to our young readers: What sort of new practice(s) today is being developed or introduced into society that claims to make our lives easier that you think will cause detriment to our environment in the future?
- Museum offers historical, cultural perspective
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C3
- Perhaps one of the most bizarre and even culturally significant baseball games ever played occurred in late June 1925. The Wichita Monrovians, a black exhibition team from Kansas, scheduled a game against Lodge No. 6 of the Ku Klux Klan. The game was announced in a June 21, seemingly apprehensive article in the Wichita Beacon newspaper.
- Residents told to stay home
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C5
- Giant screens were set up in parks so Beijing residents could share in the glory of their city hosting the lavish Olympics opening ceremony Friday. But in at least one park, security guards shut the gates and shooed people away.
- Holmes passes PGA test
- Garcia trails by three, Mickelson by four
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C2
- J.B. Holmes and his monster length turned out to be a good fit for Oakland Hills.
- Horoscopes
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D7
- Investigate options, even if you want to say “no.” When you see the whole situation, question or issue reveal itself, you might change your mind. In the first half of the year, you might be more concerned about your domestic/personal life.
- Gas-saving tip
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B6
- To the editor: Hats off to Gina Bailey-Carbaugh for her insightful advice to us to slow down (“Why are we in such a hurry,” Journal-World, Aug. 6). I have been commuting on K-10 since 1978, usually speeding along at 75 mph. Two years ago, I began my own experiment and slowed down to 60.
- Fighting between Russia, Georgia risks wider war
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Russia sent an armored column into the breakaway enclave of South Ossetia after Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, launched an offensive to crush separatists. Georgia reported early today that warplanes attacked three of its bases and some key oil facilities.
- KU assistant basketball coaches rewarded
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C8
- KU’s men’s basketball assistant coaches have received pay raises following the NCAA title season.
- Brandon Woods to receive award for resident care
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B5
- A 4-year effort to change Brandon Woods at Alvamar into a more homey atmosphere attracted state attention this year. On Wednesday, Kansas Department on Aging Secretary Kathy Greenlee will visit Brandon Woods, 1501 Inverness Drive, to recognize it as one of this year’s PEAK Award winners. PEAK stands for “promoting excellent alternatives in Kansas” nursing homes.
- Election patterns often repeat
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B6
- American presidential politics provide a prime example of the old adage that history often repeats itself.
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B6
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Aug. 9, 1908: “The corn crop is made. A rain worth thousands and thousands of dollars to Douglas County farmers began falling last night and continued through the night and into this morning.
- Hand-me-downs: Kids’ clothes get ‘recycled’
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D8
- Some kids’ clothes have a long shelf life. After one child breaks in this year’s back-to-school outfits, it’s likely that someone else - a younger sibling, a cousin, a kid whose mom is an avid second-hand shopper - will wear them again at a later date.
- Arkansas guard out
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C2
- Arkansas guard Patrick Beverley won’t play for the Razorbacks this season, the school said Friday.
- Japan halts beef from Cargill over missing papers
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B8
- Japan has halted beef imports from a U.S. meatpacking plant after finding a shipment without a proper food safety certificate, officials said Friday.
- Mangino to speak at Kickoff Rally
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C8
- Kansas Athletics Inc. and the Kansas University Alumni Association will play host to a Kickoff Rally, which will feature KU coach Mark Mangino, from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 22, at the Corinth Square (83rd and Mission Road) parking lot in Prairie Village.
- FDA: Some cholesterol, heart drugs don’t mix
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A4
- Patients taking some common medications for high cholesterol and irregular heartbeats can suffer severe muscle damage because of a problem in the way the drugs interact, the government warned on Friday.
- Exhibition Roundup: Hasselbeck shreds Vikings
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C6
- Matt Hasselbeck and the Seahawks had no problem with Minnesota’s upgraded defense.
- Senate candidate highlights proposal for earmark changes
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B5
- Democratic Senate candidate Jim Slattery is proposing a one-year moratorium on funding earmarks in federal budget legislation.
- Police clear name of mayor after drug raid
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A2
- A small-town mayor whose dogs were killed in a drug raid was cleared of any wrongdoing after police had been reluctant to rule out his involvement in drug smuggling or apologize for the violent incident.
- ‘Cowboy church’ coming to Jefferson county
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D1
- The Rev. Terry Newell wants to make sure cowboys hear the Word of God.
- Keep house cool and costs down
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D1
- Some home-cooling tips from the U.S. Department of Energy Security:
- Affair, lies wreck Edwards’ political future
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A1
- John Edwards, who parlayed a populist message and his image as a devoted family man into two serious runs for president, derailed his political career Friday when he admitted to an extramarital affair and repeatedly lying about it.
- Merc suggests 2-week diet of area foods
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B1
- In a season that brings an abundance of squash, potatoes and apples, The Community Mercantile is challenging Lawrencians to get to know their local foods better. The co-op is proposing a two-week diet where people consume 80 percent of their meals from food that is grown or produced locally. The Merc defines local as within a 200-mile radius of Lawrence.
- What to know about passing on clothes
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D8
- Not all hand-me-downs are created equal. Clothes of a higher quality and timeless style will likely fare better than trendy fast-fashion items.
- Army creates team to review biolab’s security measures
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A3
- The Army has created a team of medical and other military experts to review security measures at the research laboratory where the scientist linked to the anthrax mailings worked.
- Rabies from bats suspected in deaths
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A3
- At least 38 Warao Indians have died in remote villages in Venezuela, and medical experts suspect an outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats.
- People in the news
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D7
- ¢ Matthew McConaughey birth to bear more fruit¢ Clay Aiken now a father¢ Pregnant soprano leaves Met’s ‘Boheme’¢ Hoffman to direct play¢ Sugarland founder files $1.5M suit against band
- Scrap artist cobbles trash into treasure
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B3
- When Terry Miles looks at a rusty disk or shovel for sale at an auction, he doesn’t see useless farm tools or equipment. He sees tail feathers for a turkey, the curved body of a frog or petals for a flower.
- Constable elected by 1 vote - her own
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A3
- All it takes is one vote to win. Just ask a Tennessee woman who was elected constable by voting for herself.
- 16,400 couples tie the knot in Beijing on ‘lucky’ 8/8/08
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Zhao Gang and Liu Rui shone with happiness Friday upon receiving their marriage certificate on China’s auspicious triple-eight date, just hours before the opening of the Olympic Games.
- Art on a dime: Exhibit features objects bought from Social Service League
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D1
- When Jean Ann Pike looks around the shelves of the Social Service League Thrift Store, she often sees art waiting to happen. “I have a sculpture degree,” says Pike, who directs the store. “This is all art junk to me.” Finally, others are seeing it that way, too.
- County weighs new interchange study
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B1
- A traffic study may be undertaken that would look at how a new Kansas Turnpike interchange would affect Eudora and Douglas County. A county staff memo says the new interchange - under construction 3 miles south of Tonganoxie and about 6 miles north of Eudora - will increase traffic on Eudora’s Main Street, as well as in Douglas County.
- Clinton asks supporters to vote for former rival
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A7
- Hillary Clinton told an exuberant crowd Friday she wants Barack Obama to win the White House, even though he dashed her own presidential dreams - and she wants her supporters to vote that way, too.
- AIDS prevention strategy uses gift cards as incentive
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A6
- Could the AIDS virus be stopped with gift cards? Desperate for a way to stop the escalating spread of HIV among young gay men, public health officials are looking to novel strategies, such as enlisting local gay opinion leaders to urge their peers to practice safe sex.
- Slowey slows down K.C., 4-1
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C1
- Minnesota’s Kevin Slowey didn’t walk a batter, as usual. The Twins, meanwhile, made the base on balls a major part of their attack.
- Study: Dogs empathize through yawning
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A2
- If you’re yawning, chances are your dog is about to do the same thing.
- Trail of Cheetos leads to snack thieves
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A6
- An orange trail of Cheetos led St. Paul police to three teenagers suspected of burglarizing a vending machine.
- Club news
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D5
- University Club Bridge announces results of its Aug. 2 meeting. Hosts were Dale and Wanda Kring.
- Are white lies considered sinful?
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on D1
- White is the color of a lie that is minor in flavor, inoffensive in effect and somewhat acceptable in the moral flow of interactions. Presumably, a white lie will cause no harm (wrong!), protect the teller from consequences (wrong!) or enable the relationship between the teller and the receiver to function better (wrong!).
- 88-year-old celebrates 08/08/08 birthday
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B1
- 8/8/08. It’s a date viewed to be lucky in Chinese culture, and thousands of people in the United States have also attached some significance to the unique calendar entry. Lawrence resident Lucy Seaver has her own reason for calling the day lucky - she turned 88 on 8/8. “I think it’s very neat,” she says.
- On the record
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B2
- ¢ Lawrence police are investigating a burglary and theft that occurred between 1 a.m. and 11 a.m. Thursday in an apartment in the 500 block of Eldridge Street.
- Dog Days attendees cluster for T-shirts
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B1
- It’s a prize that cost hours of summertime sweat. And the T-shirts that reward the most dedicated participants of Red Dog’s Dog Days, Lawrence’s public summer workout, have become a hot commodity.
- Fat cat Prince Chunk gets new home
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A2
- New Jersey’s fat cat has a home.
- Commentary: Why make this Olympic journey?
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C2
- Because it’s China. Because I’ve never been here. Because you can’t have a conversation in America without someone saying, “In a few years, the Chinese will take over everything.”
- On-time performance
- Summer street work is always inconvenient, but it’s more bearable when it gets done in a timely manner.
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B6
- Congratulations to the city’s public works department and its contractor for completing work at the 19th and Louisiana intersection well ahead of the opening of school.
- Shiite head tells militia to lay down some arms
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A5
- Anti-U.S. Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr ordered most of his militiamen Friday to lay down their arms, and his spokesman said the young cleric might call off all resistance if the Americans accept a timetable to leave Iraq.
- Developments give Kansas Citians new hopes for downtown
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B4
- First came H&R Block Inc. Then the downtown Kansas City, Mo.’s resurrection followed.
- Charges continue piling up against mayor
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A2
- For anyone keeping score, the leader of the nation’s 11th-largest city now faces 10 felony charges in two separate cases.
- EU tightens Iran nuclear sanctions
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A3
- The European Union tightened trade sanctions against Iran on Friday for defying a long-standing international demand to freeze uranium enrichment.
- Crash of illegal charter bus kills 15
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on A3
- An unlicensed charter bus carrying a Vietnamese-American Catholic group on a pilgrimage to a religious festival blew an illegally treaded tire and skidded off a highway early Friday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, authorities said.
- Agent testifies about evidence seized from tribe
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B2
- A federal judge on Friday refused to dismiss charges against the self-proclaimed grand chief of the Kaweah Indian Nation, denying a motion that claimed evidence in the case did not overcome a “good faith” defense that he did not intend to commit any crimes.
- Give Jocques the rock
- KU practice paints picture of explosive offensive unit
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C1
- More than the sky was sunny at the Friday morning Kansas University football practice. So was the outlook for an offense that lost five key starters from a 12-1 season. With 20 of the top 22 players returning on defense, the development of the offense will get more attention in coming weeks. Those who sunned themselves at Memorial Stadium had to be pleased with what they saw from the skill positions. And let’s be honest, isn’t that what most people watch? The first thing to grab the eyes was the low-to-the-ground, slithery running style of Jocques Crawford, who makes quick cuts and has the look of a guy who instinctively knows how to make tacklers miss.
- Teen girl injured in wreck identified
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B3
- A teenage Lawrence girl was in serious condition Friday at Kansas University Hospital where she was taken following a traffic accident Tuesday night in Lawrence.
- Favre steps on big stage
- New York welcomes new QB with hoopla
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on C6
- Cameras flashing by the dozens, a wide-eyed Brett Favre took his first steps into the New York spotlight. “Just like home,” the Jets’ newest quarterback said Friday with a deep breath and a sheepish grin.
- New UN group is a joke
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B7
- What a joke! The United Nations’ brand new Human Rights Council Advisory Committee held its first session this week in Geneva and - as unbelievable as it looks - elected a Cuban official to chair the 18-country group.
- Pump patrol
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B1
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $3.65 at several stations.
- Stocks jump as oil prices fall
- August 9, 2008 in print edition on B4
- Wall Street rebounded smartly Friday, shooting higher as a surge in the dollar and another plunge in oil prices eased some of investors’ worries about losses at mortgage finance company Fannie Mae.
- Homecoming, struggles and new beginnings
- August 9, 2008
- The chartered plane loaded with soldiers descended slowly in the summer sky as Sgt. John Kriesel watched eagerly on the tarmac, clutching a walking cane. He had been waiting for this reunion for more than seven months.
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