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Are you wearing green today for St. Patrick's Day?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes. | 61% | |
| No. | 38% | |
| Total | 351 | |
Videos
- Not even the luck of the Irish could keep the …
- Two people accused in Lawrence’s first homicide in more than …
- Lawrence police seize a gun from a car near a …
- The Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical Department passes an intensive …
- Eight hours and 300 miles after leaving Lawrence, students in …
- Leprechauns and a pot of gold at the end of …
- Parker Matthews presents today’s local weather history.
- Let’s relive Sunday afternoon at the Sprint Center in Kansas …
- The real season begins for Kansas: Thursday morning the Jayhawks …
- The Oklahoma State women’s basketball team will add a Lawrence …
- Videocast for March 17
- Lawrencians braved the rain to see the parade downtown.
- Overnight rain developed faster than expected, but the rain has …
Lead stories
6:00 a.m.
Jayhawks hit the road to Omaha- March 16, 2008 in print edition on 1A
- Twenty years ago, Kansas University’s men’s basketball team won the 1988 national title, starting its run with two games in Nebraska and two in Detroit before the Final Four. If the two-decade championship funk will be broken this year, it will take the same path.
- Video: Fans paint the town crimson and blue
- Special coverage: 2008 NCAA Tournament
9:00 a.m.
KU fans say team’s No. 1 seed expected, earned- March 17, 2008 in print edition on 1A
- After defeating Texas in the Big 12 Tournament championship game, the Kansas University men’s basketball team waited on the floor of the Sprint Center in Kansas City to learn its fate in the NCAA Tournament.
- Video: Fans paint the town crimson and blue
- Special coverage: 2008 NCAA Tournament
11:07 a.m.
St. Patrick’s Day Parade will go on as scheduled- 10:13 a.m., March 17, 2008 Updated 10:56 a.m.
- You can’t rain on this parade. Despite the wet weather, the 20th annual Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day parade will take place as scheduled, beginning at 1 p.m.
2:16 p.m.
Clover hunter’s business all about plucking for luck- March 17, 2008 in print edition on 3A
- You don’t need the luck of the Irish when you’re Tom E. Frenchman II. The local clover hunter has a trained eye to find four-leaf clovers any time of the year.
- On the street: What do you like most about St. Patrick’s Day?
3:00 p.m.
Rain doesn’t stop parade- March 17, 2008
- There were no rainbows, but that did not stop Lawrence residents from looking for a pot of gold today.
- Video: St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2008
- Photo gallery: St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2008
10:00 p.m.
Prefabricated units arrive in Greensburg- 10:00 p.m., March 17, 2008 Updated 12:02 p.m. in print edition on 3A
- Eight hours and 320 miles separate the students in Kansas University’s Studio 804 from the warehouse where they built a new arts center for this tornado-ravaged community.
All stories
- KU women to play in WNIT
- March 17, 2008
- The Kansas University women’s basketball team, which finished the 2007-08 regular season and league tournament with an overall record of 16-15 overall (4-12 Big 12), will host a second-round WNIT game next Monday in Allen Fieldhouse.
- 6News video: KidCast
- March 17, 2008
- Parker Matthews presents today’s local weather history.
- 6Sports video: Lady Firebird orally commits to OSU
- March 17, 2008
- The Oklahoma State women’s basketball team will add a Lawrence produce in 2010: Free State High sophomore Ashli Hill is verbally committed to the Cowgirls.
- 6News video: Despite rain, revelers join in parade
- March 17, 2008
- Not even the luck of the Irish could keep the wet weather from dampening the spirits at today’s Saint Patrick’s Day parade. As 6News reporter Cory Smith shows us, the crowd still turned out for a good time here in downtown Lawrence.
- 6Sports video: Hawks to face Big Sky champs
- March 17, 2008
- The real season begins for Kansas: Thursday morning the Jayhawks begin their quest to the big dance against Big Sky champions Portland State.
- 6Sports video: KU rallies after rocky first half
- March 17, 2008
- Let’s relive Sunday afternoon at the Sprint Center in Kansas City: 19,000 fans looked on as Kansas and Texas swapped leads 14 times and tied six others. Kevin Romary has more.
- 6News video: Clover hunter finds luck in Lawrence
- March 17, 2008
- Leprechauns and a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: both are part of Irish lore and mythical symbols of Saint Patrick’s Day. But one such lucky symbol really exists. 6News reporter Lindsey Slater was able to find an elusive four-leaf clover, right here in Lawrence.
- 6News video: Students, project arrive in Greensburg
- March 17, 2008
- Eight hours and 300 miles after leaving Lawrence, students in KU’s Studio 804 class are one step closer to completing a project for tornado-ravaged Greensburg.
- 6News video: Hearings begin in Deshazer murder trial
- March 17, 2008
- Two people accused in Lawrence’s first homicide in more than a year appear in court today for a preliminary hearing.
- 6News video: Fire & Medical Dept. receives international accreditation
- March 17, 2008
- The Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical Department passes an intensive international review of its operations, and they pass with flying colors.
- 6News video: Gun found in car near Axis
- March 17, 2008
- Lawrence police seize a gun from a car near a central Lawrence nightclub.
- Prefabricated units arrive in Greensburg
- KU graduate students to put art center together by May 4, anniversary of tornado
- 10:00 p.m., March 17, 2008 Updated 12:02 p.m. in print edition on A3
- Eight hours and 320 miles separate the students in Kansas University’s Studio 804 from the warehouse where they built a new arts center for this tornado-ravaged community.
- 6News Now: Afternoon update
- March 17, 2008
- In tonight’s 6News and tomorrow’s Lawrence Journal-World, a police detective describes the bloody scene inside a east Lawrence trailer home during a preliminary hearing for two suspects accused of beating a man to death, plus highlights from a soggy St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
- Rain doesn’t stop parade
- March 17, 2008
- There were no rainbows, but that did not stop Lawrence residents from looking for a pot of gold today.
- Detective describes scene in second-degree murder hearing
- March 17, 2008
- A Lawrence police detective described finding a bloody scene Feb. 2 inside a southeastern Lawrence trailer during a second-degree murder preliminary hearing this morning for Jerod Buffalohead, 36, and Shanna Friday, 37.
- St. Patrick’s Day Parade will go on as scheduled
- 10:13 a.m., March 17, 2008 Updated 10:56 a.m.
- You can’t rain on this parade. Despite the wet weather, the 20th annual Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day parade will take place as scheduled, beginning at 1 p.m.
- Pickup truck hits apartment building
- 07:38 a.m., March 17, 2008 Updated 11:54 a.m.
- A 29-year-old Lawrence man driving a pickup truck eastbound along the 4600 block of West Sixth Street around 6:43 a.m. today lost control of the vehicle around and veered over a curb and into a large drainage ditch and into apartment building F of Westgate Apartments.
- Clover hunter’s business all about plucking for luck
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A3
- You don’t need the luck of the Irish when you’re Tom E. Frenchman II. The local clover hunter has a trained eye to find four-leaf clovers any time of the year.
- Event to give seniors place to party - and 1 free ride
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A3
- A lucky Lawrence high school graduate will win a set of wheels in May.
- District makes case for raising taxes
- Statistics show Lawrence teacher salaries losing ground in state
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A1
- Supporters have uttered a familiar line in trying to drum up support before the April 1 Lawrence school district local-option budget election.
- KU fans say team’s No. 1 seed expected, earned
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A1
- After defeating Texas in the Big 12 Tournament championship game, the Kansas University men’s basketball team waited on the floor of the Sprint Center in Kansas City to learn its fate in the NCAA Tournament.
- Next opponent ‘just excited to be in’
- Big Sky champs practice after selection
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B5
- Portland State’s men’s basketball team gathered in a local restaurant on Sunday to watch the NCAA Tournament selection show. About halfway through, the Vikings learned they were a No. 16 seed and would play Kansas University on Thursday in Omaha, Neb. So how did they celebrate? They finished up, headed back to campus and conducted a practice.
- Woods wins in dramatic fashion
- Tiger drains 25-foot birdie on final hole, stays perfect
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B2
- Tiger Woods studied his 25-foot birdie putt from every angle, convincing himself he could make it to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational because he had a similar putt in the same situation seven years ago at Bay Hill. He wasn’t alone in his thinking.
- LHS baseball falls in opener
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B3
- Lawrence High’s baseball team opened its season with a 10-6 loss Saturday night against Stillwater, Okla.
- ‘Horns ‘left it out on the court’
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B4
- It’s hard to keep up with a team raining three-pointers like Kansas University’s men’s basketball team was Sunday. But Texas coach Rick Barnes doesn’t think the Jayhawks’ 15 threes were the reason Texas lost, 84-74, in the Big 12 tournament final at the Sprint Center.
- Former KU A.D. has split interest
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B5
- Twelve and 13 years ago, a nation of college basketball fans watched former Kansas University athletic director Bob Frederick get grilled about the NCAA Tournament selection committee’s decisions. Frederick served as chairman of the committee then and called the experience, “probably the most rewarding and best time I had professionally.”
- Fed ‘pulling out all the stops’ to stave off financial crisis
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A2
- The Federal Reserve, in an extraordinarily rare weekend move, took bold action Sunday evening to provide cash to financially squeezed Wall Street investment houses, a fresh effort to prevent a spreading credit crisis from sinking the U.S. economy.
- As US toll nears 4,000, war less in public eye
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A10
- Sometime soon, the U.S. military will suffer the 4,000th death of the war in Iraq.
- Doctor to speak about rheumatoid arthritis
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B12
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital will present a free educational program Monday about rheumatoid arthritis.
- Commentary: Same ol’ political quagmire with NCAA
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B8
- The NCAA ramped up a public relations campaign over the past few weeks in order to convince people that politics and television money play no part in the selection process for the men’s basketball tournament.
- Three-peat
- Kansas wins ‘a heck of a basketball game’
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Bill Self stood off to the side and watched with pride as his Big 12 champions played with, and posed with, the league tournament title trophy high atop a podium Sunday afternoon at Sprint Center.
- National Parks in Northwest assess winter damage
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A8
- Hundreds of trees blown down by wind exceeding 100 mph. Roads and campgrounds washed away by swollen rivers. Damages still unknown to be repaired on backcountry trails.
- KU tennis falls to MU
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B3
- Kansas University lost the doubles point, rebounded to take the first three matches in singles, but ultimately fell to Missouri, 4-3, in a Big 12 Conferent tennis dual on Sunday.
- ‘Dancing with Stars’ trots out new cast
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B10
- The reality/variety stalwart “Dancing with the Stars” (7 p.m., ABC) returns for a sixth season.
- Horoscopes
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B10
- This year you often will feel that all the effort in the world won’t make a difference. It will, but you might not see results on your timetable.
- Not many selection surprises
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B1
- The inexact science of putting together the NCAA Tournament bracket turned out to be pretty exact this time around.
- Conservatives lose control of key cities
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Partial results in France’s municipal elections on Sunday showed President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative party headed toward defeat and losing control of key cities, a new setback for a leader beset by sinking support.
- Both sides claim victories in election
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A2
- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared victory Sunday in Iran’s parliamentary elections, saying the people had voted to reject the West after nearly complete results showed conservatives holding their majority.
- Jayhawks notch 11-3 victory over La. Tech
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B3
- Eight Jayhawks combined for 12 hits as the Kansas softball team defeated Louisiana Tech, 11-3, in five innings Sunday during the final contest of the Kansas Invitational.
- Carolina claims ACC title
- Wisconsin cruises past Illinois
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on C3
- One by one, North Carolina’s players climbed onto the platform to snip a piece of the net to celebrate their Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship. There were plenty of smiles and laughter, yet the victory party seemed somehow subdued.
- Airstrike hits militant safehouse
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Missiles that witnesses say came from an unmanned drone flattened a suspected militant safehouse Sunday in Pakistan’s tribal area along the Afghan border. State television said the strike killed about 20 people.
- Dalai Lama urges peace but does not call halt to anti-Chinese protests
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A2
- The Dalai Lama called Sunday for his followers to protest peacefully against Chinese rule but said he would not order them to end demonstrations that have erupted into violence in Tibet and neighboring provinces.
- Keegan: Jayhawks, Longhorns show few weaknesses
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Texas could make it all the way to the Alamodome, play as well as it did Sunday afternoon in the Sprint Center and win the national title with a performance of that caliber.
- Astronauts test brakes on new robot
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A2
- The international space station’s giant new handyman robot got its first checkup on Sunday, with astronauts and flight controllers testing its electronics, joints and brakes.
- Education slap
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A11
- To the editor: State Sen. Roger Pine has done a great disservice to Lawrence elementary and secondary school teachers.
- Coal plant questions
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A11
- To the editor: It appears that the proposed coal-fired plant at Holcomb is for the benefit of residents of the Denver suburbs who want increased electrical power but object to a local plant.
- Public subsidies draw scrutiny in Phoenix
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A11
- When the upscale stores - Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom and other magnets for affluent shoppers - open their doors at the CityNorth “urban village” now being built, Phoenix taxpayers will be there, sort of.
- KU baseball stuns Longhorns
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B3
- Sam Freeman pitched six strong innings to pick up his third victory of the season, while senior Ryne Price had a two-run single in the seventh inning as Kansas stunned the 10th-ranked Longhorns, 7-2, Sunday afternoon at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.
- ‘Land of a Million Elephants’ fears it may soon have none
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on C8
- Connie Speight has swayed on elephant-back through unforgiving jungle and has adopted nine of the high-maintenance beasts. At 83, the retired American teacher is back in this Southeast Asian country to help save what remains of the once mighty herds.
- Swarm of bees closes Calif. highway
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Millions of swarming honey bees are on the loose after a truck carrying crates of the insects flipped over on a California highway.
- Veterans mental health center expanding
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B12
- The veterans medical center in Wichita is expanding its mental health department and will be treating more cases of post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Quick look: analyzing brackets
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B8
- Looking at the four regions of the NCAA Tournament
- Power play?
- New requirements for a federal defense laboratory raise a number of questions.
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A11
- A Friday afternoon news release from Topeka told of a new wrinkle in the ongoing competition for the highly prized National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF).
- Royals roll
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B3
- Zack Greinke knew he was pitching well, he just didn’t know most of the guys he was facing.
- ‘Horton’ has who-mongous opening
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B10
- Horton hears a hit. Family audiences boosted 20th Century Fox’s animated tale “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!” to a $45.1 million debut, the best opening so far this year, according to studio estimates Sunday.
- Martinez impressive in 7-4 Mets win
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B2
- Pedro Martinez worked out of trouble in his spring training debut Sunday, while Carlos Delgado was lucky to avoid a serious injury. Jeff Francoeur also was feeling fortunate.
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A11
- From the Lawrence Daily World for March 17, 1908: “Prof. W.C. Abbott of the University of Kansas has been elected to a full professorship in history at Yale.”
- No. 1 no big deal
- KU coach, players not satisfied with top seed
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University’s basketball players put down their forks, knives and paper plates momentarily, clapping their hands in approval Sunday afternoon after learning via CBS-TV they’d been granted a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
- ‘Tornado alley’ defines Kansas experience
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on C1
- When the tornado sirens were tested last week, I was reminded that a year ago, a month after moving to Lawrence, I recorded an event in my journal so I would not forget it: The last day of February was so warm, so perfect, that I was transfixed by its promise of spring. After two weeks of snowstorms, the 70-degree weather was exhilarating.
- Enjoy your ‘stay-cation’
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on C1
- Not planning a big trip for spring break, which starts this week? Here are some tips from the Associated Press for vacationing at home instead.
- McCain visits Baghdad on low-key fact-finding tour
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A10
- Republican presidential candidate John McCain made his eighth trip to Iraq on Sunday, this time holding private talks with U.S. and Iraqi officials about security developments at the end of a week marked by a spike in U.S. troop deaths and a new wave of suicide bombings.
- Old Home Town - 25 years ago
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A11
- Seventeen Lawrence area residents were arrested on drug charges, capping a nine-month investigation by local law enforcement personnel.
- Soaking potatoes may help stave off cancer
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on C1
- Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day: a new, healthier way to eat potatoes, the famed staple of Ireland.
- 3 still missing after crane accident
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Rescuers dug through debris Sunday for three people still missing in the rubble and wreckage left when a construction crane toppled like a tree across a city block and killed at least four construction workers.
- Office pool tidbits
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B8
- It happens every year. You pore over your brackets, determined that this will be the year you win the company pool. And every year you end up watching Bill in accounting gloat as he claims another improbable win.
- On the record
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A4
- Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical reported these fire calls
- Bill puts Kansas leaders in a bind
- Higher Education Act provision would remove some funding for universities
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A3
- The nearly four-year effort to re-authorize the federal Higher Education Act is inching toward completion, but a key component of the bill has a lot of Kansas leaders nervous.
- Kansas basketball notebook
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B5
- Brandon Rush (most outstanding player) and Mario Chalmers were KU’s representatives on the all-tournament team.
- Storms possible for downtown parade
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A5
- Today’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade could be hampered by predicted thunderstorms, but organizers said poor weather should not have adverse effects on the event.
- Hospital ball to honor Tensie Oldfather
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A4
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital will honor the late Tensie Oldfather at the fifth biennial Hearts of Gold Ball, which is planned for 5:30 p.m. April 26 at O’Malley Beverage building, 2050 Packer Court.
- More Americans say government too secretive
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A8
- Nearly nine in 10 Americans say it’s important to know presidential and congressional candidates’ positions on open government, but three out of four view the federal government as secretive, according to a survey released Sunday.
- ‘Boot camp’ teaches chronic pain sufferers how to fight back
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on A12
- Ballet teacher Gayle Parseghian thought she might never dance again after a back injury while moving heavy furniture left her with unrelenting pain. But an intensive, four-week “boot camp” got the 55-year-old dancer from Toledo, Ohio, back to the barre.
- People in the news
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B10
- ¢ Spears pal agrees to stay away¢ Bluegrass star to get honorary doctorate¢ Chinese crack down on Connick song list
- Free program to tackle advance care planning
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on B12
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital will offer a free advance care planning program March 25.
- Green in the limelight
- St. Patrick’s Day color tints American culture
- March 17, 2008 in print edition on C1
- Before you buy that green T-shirt as an impulse purchase for St. Patrick’s Day: Beware.
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