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What's the best thing about the Fourth of July?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Picnics and barbecues with friends and family. | 41% | |
| A day off. | 33% | |
| The fireworks. | 19% | |
| Knowing there is still another five weeks until school starts. | 5% | |
| Total | 670 | |
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Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Independent’s Day: Lawrence’s Fourth of July establishes strong brotherhood within indie scene- July 3, 2008 in print edition on 1C
- In the shadow of Memorial Stadium sits a residence commonly referred to as the Bull House. This is because of a prominent bull statue that guards the entrance to the dwelling, the result of a former art student’s senior project some dozen years ago. But it isn’t art students who have recently taken over the place. Rather it is four of the five members of the self-described “most patriotic band in Lawrence.” This is the home to Fourth of July, where every day is independent’s day - as in indie music.
8:00 a.m.
City manager proposes hold-the-line budget- 5:35 p.m., July 3, 2008 Updated 6:06 p.m. in print edition on 1A
- City Manager David Corliss presented a recommended 2009 city budget on Thursday that bets heavily on a new sales tax to save the city’s public transit system, and largely bets against a quick turnaround in the local economy.
9:43 a.m.
Lawrence police seek 46-year-old man suspected in KU student’s murder- 4:46 a.m., July 4, 2008 Updated 7:43 p.m.
- Lawrence police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man suspected in the death of a Kansas University student.
- Videos: Murder of Jana Lynne Mackey
- Photo gallery: Death Investigation
10:07 p.m.
All stories
- Friday, July 4 weather at 10 p.m.
- July 4, 2008
- The forecast for Saturday, July 5 calls for a high of 88 with a low around 62.
- School board member takes on new role
- July 4, 2008
- After 20+ years as a Teachers Association Lobbyist, he’s a familiar face in Kansas education circles. But as 6News reporter George Diepenbrock shows us, school board member Craig Grant will take on a new role this year as one of the main faces of the Lawrence School District.
- Patriotism shines in Old West Lawrence Parade
- July 4, 2008
- Some sights and sounds from the annual Old West Lawrence Children’s Fourth of July Parade.
- Live video feed from Sesquicentennial Park
- July 4, 2008
- This is a live video feed from the city’s Fourth of July fireworks display at Sesquicentennial Park. The live feed is a new feature we’re trying out.
- Armed robbery reported at home on Delaware Street
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A5
- An armed robbery was reported in the 1200 block of Delaware Street early Friday morning.
- Lawrence police seek 46-year-old man suspected in KU student’s murder
- 04:46 a.m., July 4, 2008 Updated 07:43 p.m.
- Lawrence police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man suspected in the death of a Kansas University student.
- Horoscopes
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B7
- Your high energy and enthusiasm could easily be directed improperly this year. Sometimes spontaneity is a problem. If you are single, someone who you easily could become possessive of could saunter into your life. Careful: If you are attached, money could be an issue between the two of you.
- Baker set to receive $500,000 in 5 years
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Mike McCarthy’s success as a pro football coach has become a boon for Baker University football.
- Pollution is fireworks’ dirty little secret
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A8
- When the rockets and the bombs burst in the air tonight, spectators will experience more than a spectacular show celebrating America’s birthday.
- Rush to remind fans of Reggie?
- Former Kansas University guard also patterns himself after Boston standout Pierce
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B2
- Former Kansas University basketball guard Brandon Rush hopes to remind Indiana Pacers fans of one of the best players in team history, Reggie Miller.
- Cremated remains part of fireworks show
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A2
- One of the fireworks bursting above the city this year will contain a bit of cremated remains - a fitting tribute, organizers say, to the man who ran the annual event for 40 years.
- Clark, Wilson place in summer golf events
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B5
- Kansas University golfer Jennifer Clark recently finished second at the Kansas City Women’s Amateur Golf Tournament, while teammate Sydney Wilson placed fourth at the Collegiate Players Tour/Lagoon Park Collegiate Open.
- On the record
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A4
- Andrew Craig, 28, Overbrook, is in fair condition at Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kan. Craig was severely injured in a one-car accident Sunday at mile marker 202 of the Kansas Turnpike.
- Children act like thugs in cyberspace
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A2
- On the playground, children pilfer lunch money and push each other around. But in the cyber-clubhouses they’re filling by the millions, kids rig elections, sell fake products and scam each other out of every virtual-worldly possession.
- Liberty Memorial’s flame to stay ablaze
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B8
- The eternal flame atop the Liberty Memorial will continue burning thanks to a successful financial campaign.
- Life grew more dire in jungle
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on C10
- A meal was rice and beans. Bed was the ground under a patched plastic tarp. They bathed in rivers, and when they weren’t chained by the neck to trees, they were forced on long marches to new hideouts under the jungle canopy.
- Williams sisters in Wimbly final
- Venus downs Dementieva; Serena aces China’s Jie
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B2
- Five years since their last title matchup, the Williams sisters are back in the Wimbledon final with another Grand Slam championship at stake.
- Bhutto investigation making little progress
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A2
- More than six months after Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, the Pakistani authorities’ investigation of her killing appears to have ground to a near halt, with the trail growing colder.
- Moms protest child custody cases
- Wichita district attorney clarifies system’s position
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A5
- Three mothers who claim their children have been abused and neglected while in state custody met District Attorney Nola Foulston, amid increasingly public frustrations over the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services.
- State employees in Utah to begin 4-day workweek
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on C10
- Starting next month, it will be “TGIT” for Utah state employees. As in: “Thank God It’s Thursday.” In a yearlong experiment aimed at reducing the state’s energy costs and commuters’ gasoline expenses, Utah is about to become the first state to switch to a four-day workweek for thousands of government employees.
- Clinic gets AMA grant
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A3
- The Health Care Access Clinic, which serves the uninsured, is the beneficiary of an American Medical Association Foundation grant worth almost $21,000.
- Children’s singer Mr. Stinky Feet wows families at Lawrence library
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A3
- When Mr. Stinky Feet tells you to do something, you do it. Especially if you’re a kid or a kid at heart. “My first priority is to tell them to be kids,” said Mr. Stinky Feet, a.k.a. nationally known Prairie Village children’s singer Jim Cosgrove. “If they learn something along the way, that’s great.”
- American League Roundup: 7-run sixth propels Royals over Orioles
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B4
- Down by four runs and within 12 outs of another loss at Camden Yards, the Kansas City Royals put together the kind of inning that happens maybe once a year.
- Niccum: Internet continues to blur fact and fiction
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on C1
- News travels fast on the Internet. Especially news that is fake. That’s kind of the problem with the Web: no accountability.
- Arts center displays courthouse finials
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A3
- New and old finials from the Douglas County Courthouse clock tower are on display for the next few days in the lobby of the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H.
- ‘Idol’ stars light up the Fourth of July
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B7
- Happy Birthday, America. And I’m not talking only about America Ferrera, star of “Ugly Betty,” appearing tonight on a repeat of “Late Show with David Letterman.” Viewers can celebrate our 232nd anniversary of independence with plenty of fireworks, performances by pop, country and classical artists, and no shortage of “American Idol” finalists.
- Pump patrol
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $3.79 at Presto Convenience Store at 602 W. Ninth St.
- True patriotism
- America’s founders set an example of true patriotism worth remembering on the Fourth of July.
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A7
- There’s been a lot of talk recently about patriotism and what it means. Because July Fourth is the day America has set aside to honor the patriots who courageously founded this nation, it seems like a good time to look at what it takes to be a patriot.
- US loses 62,000 jobs; oil at new record
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Employers cut 62,000 jobs in June, marking the sixth consecutive month that the nation has shed jobs, according to a government report released Thursday, deepening concern that the struggling U.S. economy could turn worse before it gets better.
- Looking to lead
- Clements reunites with Mangino as Jayhawks’ defensive line coach
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B1
- The phone call that would change the course of Joe Bob Clements’ football career - and his life, really - was made from a parking lot pay phone outside of Emporia High School. This was in 1994. It was a weekday afternoon in January (“For all I know, I should have been in class,” says Clements). The previous evening, after a conversation with his father, Clements, at the time an 18-year-old lineman on the Emporia football team, had decided he wanted to play Division-I football.
- Boaters advised to steer clear of dolphins
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Authorities protecting a dolphin family in a New Jersey river are stepping up enforcement over the July Fourth holiday.
- Need to rewrite abortion law questioned
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B8
- Some abortion opponents doubt a state law restricting late-term procedures needs to be rewritten, despite a grand jury’s conclusion that it isn’t clear enough to allow an indictment of Dr. George Tiller.
- Pentagon extends Marines’ tour
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on C10
- The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time.
- Residents flee violent Mugabe supporters
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A2
- More than 300 frightened Zimbabweans sought shelter at the U.S. embassy Thursday in their capital, Harare, part of a wave of people fleeing what opposition activists describe as continued beatings, threats, house burnings and killings by militias loyal to President Robert Mugabe.
- Move to OKC begins
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B2
- The work to get the NBA’s Sonics from Seattle to Oklahoma City will be anything but simple. There are players and staff to move, along with equipment.
- ‘Go-arounds’ by airplanes are possible safety hazard
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A2
- A United Airlines jetliner was coming in for a landing at the Las Vegas airport in 2006 when the tower radioed that a smaller plane was still crossing the runway.
- Hansen stunned in 200
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B2
- Brendan Hansen won’t be swimming one of his signature events at the Beijing Olympics.
- Uninsured Lawrence family determined to rebuild childhood home after fire
- With eight children, road to recovery will be tough
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A1
- Three weeks after a devastating fire, 33-year-old Shannan McCawley is determined to rebuild the east Lawrence home where she and her seven children grew up. Shannan said her late mother, Shirley McCawley, is her motivation. “It is so important for us to keep it and get it rebuilt because it was our mom’s,” Shannan said. “She fought hard for the house. My kids, my sister’s kids, the whole neighborhood - everybody has been in this house, grew up in this house. My mom never turned anybody away.”
- Obama says trip to Iraq could refine his policy
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A6
- Democrat Barack Obama struggled Thursday to explain how his upcoming trip to Iraq might refine, but not basically alter, his promise to quickly remove U.S. combat troops from the war.
- This Fourth should be day of atonement
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A7
- Put the fireworks in storage. Cancel the parade. Tuck the soaring speeches in a drawer for another time. This year, America doesn’t deserve to celebrate its birthday. This Fourth of July should be a day of quiet and atonement. For we have sinned.
- McCain trip to Colombia, Mexico highlights differences with Obama
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A6
- Sen. John McCain’s trip to Colombia and Mexico this week made one thing clear: The shape of the United States’ relationship with Latin America will hinge on the outcome of the 2008 election.
- People in the news
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B7
- ¢ Just how close ‘friends’ are Madonna, A-Rod?¢ Kylie Minogue honored at Buckingham Palace¢ Brinkley: Husband’s affair ‘shattered’ my life¢ Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dies¢ Ex-Rachael Ray worker claims anorexia bias
- See the show tonight
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A1
- Lawrence’s annual July Fourth fireworks display will light up the sky about 10 tonight at Clinton Lake.
- Historical details don’t displace July 4th
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A7
- The impatient patriots here had splendidly short fuses in 1775. Those who tilled the startlingly red clay or who lived in the town named for George III’s wife Charlotte might have been bemused had they foreseen the annual hoopla that commemorates July 4, 1776.
- National League Roundup: D’backs trip Milwaukee
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B4
- Conor Jackson’s two-run single capped Arizona’s six-run ninth inning.
- Simien camp slated for July 29-31
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B5
- Former Kansas University basketball forward Wayne Simien will be holding his “Called to Greatness” camp for boys and girls fourth through 12th grade July 29-31 at Free State High. Cost is $100. Registration deadline is July 24.
- Cosmosphere gives Web site a makeover
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B8
- The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is giving its Web site a makeover. The Hutchinson attraction says the new design will be more user-friendly, visually appealing and include more interactive aspects, such as blogs. The new site is expected to be launched July 18.
- Soaring gas prices could have lasting impact, experts say
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on C10
- America’s days as an automobile nation are far from over. But the specter of high gas prices becoming permanent has forced the nation to reassess its “Yeah, right” attitude toward public transportation and to reconsider how Americans get from point A to point B.
- Seat belt snafu hinders police
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A5
- A mix-up has kept the Topeka Police Department from enforcing the state’s year-old seat belt law targeting young motorists.
- Mother cited after pet bat bites son
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B8
- Police say an Ottawa woman has been cited after one of her family’s pet bats bit her son.
- Freed hostage sees children for the first time in 6 years
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on C10
- Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt embraced her children for the first time in six years Thursday, saying the thought of them helped her stay alive until a daring rescue plucked her and 14 other hostages from the jungle.
- German woman’s assisted suicide fueling debate
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on A8
- Bettina Schardt knew that the combination of drugs she drank in the living room of her home in Wuerzburg last week would kill her, and she died alone.
- Will Smith rescues superhero satire
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on C1
- This summer reaches its superhero saturation point precisely 56 minutes into “Hancock,” a comic riff on guys who go around saving the world, one car-stalled-on-train-tracks at a time. Fifty-six minutes in, the “comic riff” is abandoned for something even less consequential than flipping and “flipping off” the conventions of these Iron/X/Super/Spider/Bat-men.
- Video room marvels minds at complex
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Members of the Kansas University athletic department crossed the country in search of inspiration for the soon-to-be completed Anderson Family Football Complex. And after touring the facilities of some of the nation’s most storied programs - Michigan, Notre Dame and Oklahoma, to name a few - they’re confident that the Jayhawks’ $31 million complex will rest among the country’s elite.
- Russell second in Trials prelims
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B5
- Former Kansas University track and field javelin standout Scott Russell is on track to compete at his first Olympic Games.
- Mayer: KU’s Self earns his paycheck
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Bill Self’s new contract as head of the Kansas basketball program will probably pay him around $3 million annually along with innumerable perks, bonuses and such. If Bill’s not already set for life, he will be soon.Some might assay that amalgamation of loot and think they’d love such a deal. Few could handle it. Even if you think Self is overcompensated, consider what he has to do to fill in the squares to create those enormous paychecks.
- Raiders fall, 8-5, despite Scheib’s HR’s
- July 4, 2008 in print edition on B5
- The Lawrence Raiders lost, 8-5, to Springfield (Mo.) Kickapoo on Thursday.
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