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Polls
How much are you spending on gifts this year?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Less than last year | 62% | |
| The same as last year | 27% | |
| More than last year | 9% | |
| Total | 304 | |
Videos
- The Kansas women’s basketball team tried to remain perfect on …
- If you want to avoid gaining weight between now and …
- The Chiefs won their second game of the year Sunday.
- A 19-year-old Lawrence resident is killed in a car crash …
- The Firebirds’ season comes to an end, as they lose …
- KU beat Mizzou on a wet day at Arrowhead Stadium.
- The Christmas spirit is on display at Liberty Hall.
- When was the last time KU beat Mizzou in football?
- Many of the state’s unemployed have been put on hold …
- The forecast for Monday, December 1 calls for a high …
- A memorial was set up this weekend for Casey Alan …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Final: Reesing’s fourth-quarter drive leads KU to 40-37 win over MU- 10:36 a.m., November 29, 2008 Updated 8:15 p.m.
- Kansas blocked Missouri’s 54-yard field-goal attempt in the snow as time expired for a dramatic 40-37 victory over their its rival.
- Video: Web extras: Border Showdown
- Video: Border Showdown Recap
- Photo gallery: KU vs. Missouri
- Poll: Who was KU’s first-half MVP against Missouri?
- Poll: What will be the result of today’s KU-MU game?
- Audio clips: 2008 KU-MU football
6:00 a.m.
Free State comes up one drive short- November 30, 2008 in print edition on 1C
- Free State’s run through the Class 6A football playoffs ended with a 19-14 loss to Junction City in the championship game.
- Video: Washburn Washout: Firebirds lose in state title game
- Photo gallery: Free State vs. Junction City
2:30 p.m.
Reesing, Meier draw winning play in sand- 12:00 a.m., November 30, 2008 Updated 11:37 a.m. in print edition on 1C
- A platoon of coaches on both sides watching two solid weeks of football game film from sunup to way past sundown. Memorizing formations. Devising schemes. Constantly studying. Boiling it down and drilling it into the heads of the players.
- Video: Web extras: Border Showdown
- Video: Border Showdown Recap
- Photo gallery: KU vs. Missouri
- Audio clips: 2008 KU-MU football
6:00 p.m.
Bizarre Bazaar dabbles in artsy oddities- November 30, 2008 in print edition on 1B
- Pieces of Lori Dalrymple’s life were laid out before her in hundreds of little boxes Saturday afternoon.
All stories
- Shaky economy means more than ever, Lawrence needs helping hands
- November 30, 2008
- Is volunteering one of your New Year’s resolutions when this busy holiday season is over — or perhaps even before it has passed? Here’s a list of volunteer opportunities from the Roger Hill Volunteer Center. Make a call today and feel some of that holiday warmth on the inside.
- Local artists offer tips for homemade decor
- November 30, 2008
- To decorate for the holidays without overspending, local artists suggest making special Christmas tree ornaments at home.
- Gifts of all price ranges perfect for pets
- November 30, 2008
- As the December holidays approach, I am reminded that I have to be sneaky about buying holiday gifts for my pets. My dog Bailey has a sixth sense that tells her when I’ve bought her something, and she won’t take her eyes off the shopping bag or stop stomping her feet at me until I give it to her. Also, all my animals are (admittedly) spoiled, so I have to be creative to find something they haven’t had before.
- Holiday cheer continues spreading the spirit at the movies
- November 30, 2008
- It’s only fitting that the crop of winter movie releases heats up just as the temperature descends in Kansas. All the more reason to sit inside a cozy theater while the season dishes out a frigid dystopia. The cinematic stretch from Thanksgiving through Christmas offers a healthy combination of holiday blockbusters and Oscar bait. Here are some highlights.
- Lawrence Community Theatre revives favorite: ‘A Christmas Story’
- November 30, 2008
- Mary Doveton is looking forward to the giant leg lamp. The leg is 5 1/2 feet tall, and Doveton, the managing director of the Lawrence Community Theatre, is hoping it will attract some attention, lure some audience members in and sell some tickets to the theater’s Christmas production.
- Lawrence Chamber Orchestra warms up for holiday tunes
- November 30, 2008
- Steven McDonald wants to offer you a reprieve from the business of the holiday season.
- New director plans exciting changes for Holiday Vespers
- November 30, 2008
- Some big changes are coming to one of the best-attended holiday musical events in Lawrence.
- Take a sneak peek at Christmas: Holiday Homes Tour
- November 30, 2008
- Mary Burg puts at least 500 ornaments on a 10-foot Christmas tree each year for the holidays. And there’s a story behind each one of them.
- Wounded warriors key KU’s Border War victory
- 12:00 a.m., November 30, 2008 Updated 11:40 a.m. in print edition on C1
- Taking a glance at his football team early last week, there was not a lot for Kansas University coach Mark Mangino to smile about.
- Free State comes up one drive short
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C1
- Free State’s run through the Class 6A football playoffs ended with a 19-14 loss to Junction City in the championship game.
- Pharmacy project continues at KU
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B5
- Thirty-one of Kansas’ 105 counties have only one pharmacy, while six others have none.
- Lawrence residents can show off creativity in 22nd annual Festival of Trees
- November 30, 2008
- The 22nd annual Festival of Trees is scheduled to kick off Monday at Liberty Hall to raise money for The Shelter, a local child services organization.
- No. 7 Texas Tech barely survives Baylor
- November 30, 2008
- Mike Leach had a novel idea about how to break a possible three-way tie in the Big 12 South following No. 7 Texas Tech’s 35-28 victory against Baylor.
- Horoscopes
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on D5
- This year, take whatever steps you need to in order to grow and gain financial savvy. If you are single, count on meeting people, though it might not be until 2009 that you meet someone who could be really special. If you are attached, the two of you need to work as a team to realize stronger financial strength.
- Graveyard explorer digs up all the dirt on cemeteries
- Digital research to go to libraries
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B2
- Some people knit. Some people bowl. Linda K. Lewis hangs out with the dead.
- Preserving greenery maintains fresh decorations
- November 30, 2008
- The use of fresh greenery adds a special touch to the holidays, but only as long as the mistletoe and pine branches remain green. Here are a few tips to keeping your décor fresh.
- Basement basics may include valuable find
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on D8
- Look in the basement. Sometimes the old boxes of soap near the laundry tubs can be valuable.
- Astronauts ready, but weather ‘iffy’ for landing
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- Their work in orbit accomplished, space shuttle Endeavour’s astronauts got the green light Saturday to return to Earth, but were warned “pretty iffy” weather at the main landing site could send them across the country or keep them up an extra day.
- Displays reminder of reason for the season at the Festival of Nativities
- November 30, 2008
- Cider and songs set the holiday mood along with more than 300 nativities from around the world at Centenary United Methodist Church each year.
- Kaws fall in 4A, 42-21
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C3
- Perry-Lecompton High appeared in position to pull even with Topeka Hayden midway through the second quarter of Saturday’s Class 4A state football championship game. Hayden’s Blake Rothschild, however, had other ideas.
- KU football notebook
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C7
- • A big day for KU’s Darrell Stuckey• Some key Mizzou players suffer injuries• Todd Reesing breaks his own passing record
- Downtown Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade to usher in holiday cheer
- November 30, 2008
- Scott Zaremba grew up on horseback. As a child, he was raised to love cattle and livestock. As an adult, he’s tried to relay that message onto his family.
- Raul Castro attends first beatification
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A7
- Thousands of Roman Catholic faithful and even President Raul Castro gathered Saturday for the beatification of a monk known as the “father of the poor” — the first ceremony of its kind on Cuban soil.
- Old Home Town - 100 years ago
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Nov. 30, 1908: “H.T. Martin of the paleontology department at the university is just completing the mounting of a rare skeleton of a three-toed horse that lived two million years ago. It will be one of the most valuable specimens in the local collection.
- Baker soccer to face Westmont
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C3
- No. 21-ranked Baker University will play No. 24 Westmont College at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Fresno, Calif., in the second round of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Men’s Soccer National Championship.
- Desperate parents crying out for help
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- At one level, it sounds like a very bad joke. In September, a safe haven law took effect in the state of Nebraska allowing parents to leave their children at hospitals without fear of prosecution. This, as a means of saving the lives of unwanted newborns who would otherwise be left in garbage heaps and motel rooms or simply murdered outright.
- Poet’s Showcase: Sincerely
- November 30, 2008
- Thanksgiving, a day set aside for thoughtful prayer,
- Art center’s ‘A Kansas Nutcracker’ packs ‘A flavor of the plains’
- November 30, 2008
- Juliet Remmers never imagined she’d learn Kansas history from a ballet written by a Russian man in the 19th century.
- Prosecutor seeks time in tobacco tax case
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B2
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Furst requested a delay in a case against a Galena tobacco wholesale business accused of defrauding the state of Oklahoma and American Indian tribes in the area.
- Nurse alleges abuse
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B2
- Attorneys for a Kansas nurse accused with her husband of running a “pill mill” linked to 58 accidental overdose deaths says she’s facing abuse in jail.
- Web stores are hurting
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on E1
- For more than a decade, online retailers could count on big growth no matter the economic climate. But this holiday season, the e-commerce sector is at risk of its first slowdown since the Web was invented.
- Pastor who helped get ‘God’ in Pledge dies
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- The Rev. George M. Docherty, credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase “under God” into the Pledge of Allegiance, has died at 97.
- ‘Christmas Story’ fans celebrate film’s 25th anniversary
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- Fans of the holiday classic “A Christmas Story” are celebrating the film’s 25th anniversary with a convention and trips to the house where the movie was made.
- Wheel Genius: Road work this week
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B3
- Projects and detours that could delay your travel during the first week of December across town in Lawrence, or your ride to and from work in the Kansas City metro area, according to government and agency officials:
- State’s hospitals bracing for effects of economic downturn
- Report cites decrease in elective procedures, increase in patients without insurance to come
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Statewide, hospitals are bracing for the ill effects of the troubled economy.
- Death toll over 300 in sectarian violence
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Mobs burned homes, churches and mosques Saturday in a second day of riots, as the death toll rose to more than 300 in the worst sectarian violence in Africa’s most populous nation in years.
- Online shopping deals set for Cyber Monday
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A9
- With Scrooge paying a visit to online retailers for the first time since Internet shopping entered the retail landscape, the pressure is on merchants to make the most of Cyber Monday.
- Old Home Town - 25 years ago
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- Local police officials said they would set firm guidelines on policies for videotaping public demonstrations so where would be fewer complaints about invasion of privacy. There had been protests and Chief Ron Olin said that a formal policy would be in the best interests of everyone.
- Army bases anticipate surge in stress-related disorders
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A6
- Some 15,000 soldiers are heading home to this sprawling base after spending more than a year at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military health officials are bracing for a surge in brain injuries and psychological problems among those troops.
- 19-year-old killed, 4 injured in car accident
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- A 19-year-old man was killed in an early morning car accident in the 2500 block of Ousdahl Road. Police withheld the name of the victim, but the family confirmed it was Casey Alan Anzek of Lawrence.
- Sociologists: Fear drives competitive shopping
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A9
- While greed may seem an obvious motive for crowds that stampede retailers in search of bargains at this time of year, experts say fear also plays a significant role.
- Transit leaders invite public input
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B5
- Now that they have the public’s commitment to spend money, transportation leaders are seeking Lawrence residents’ ideas for combining the community’s two largest transit systems.
- Klutz’s capillaries always at greater risk
- November 30, 2008
- Every year, it’s the same thing. Leading the six o’clock news, wild-eyed, sales-crazed, early bird Black Friday shoppers charge through department store doors like a thundering herd of Visa card-carrying buffalo.
- Vital LINK
- The Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen is one of the community’s most commendable services.
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- We are indeed fortunate that there are so many agencies in our midst that, day after day and week after week, provide important services, often for people whose lives would be far different if there were no such help. One such service is LINK, the Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen.
- Meltdown fallout: Parents rethink toy-buying
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A9
- In a season that inspires earnest letters about toys, one notable batch is being sent not by kids to Santa’s workshop but by parents to the executive suites of real-world toy makers.
- Shoppers sought who trampled worker
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- Police are reviewing surveillance videos of a post-Thanksgiving shopper stampede that trampled a suburban Wal-Mart worker to death, but they acknowledge it may be difficult to bring criminal charges.
- Official: MSNBC pundit may seek Senate seat
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews may be considering a run for U.S. Senate in 2010, a Pennsylvania Democratic party leader says.
- Neighborhood fun
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B7
- To the editor: I am miffed by what the Centennial Neighborhood is so upset by! My family’s favorite memories stem from the fact that we lived across the street from Wyandotte High School, a very large 6A school at the time. The cars that rolled in on Friday nights meant excitement in the neighborhood, not despair.
- 80 whales stranded, many feared dead
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Officials rushed today to reach about 80 whales stranded on a remote coast in southern Australia.
- Wisconsin upsets No. 6 Baylor
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C8
- A recap of Big 12 women’s basketball action.
- Thief steals turkey dinner off porch
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- A Wisconsin family found it hard to be thankful after a thief made off with their turkey dinner.
- Bush: U.S. will stand behind India in wake of deadly attacks
- Surviving gunman from Pakistan; country denies involvement
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- President George W. Bush on Saturday pledged full U.S. support to India as it investigates the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, saying the killers “will not have the final word.”
- Lawrence boxer earns world silver
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C3
- Lawrence’s Mioshia Wagoner lost, 11-1, to Jie Li Tang from China in the championship bout of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships at 80 kg (light heavyweight division) on Saturday.
- KSU dropped at buzzer
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C8
- A recap of Big 12 men’s basketball action
- Prosecutors offer deal to 8-year-old suspect
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to an 8-year-old boy charged with murder in the shooting deaths of his father and another man in their St. Johns home, court records show.
- Economic history could repeat itself
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B6
- Early in what became the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes was asked if anything similar had ever happened. “Yes,” he replied, “it was called the Dark Ages and it lasted 400 years.” It did take 25 years, until November 1954, for the Dow to return to the peak it reached in September 1929. So caution is sensible concerning calls for a new New Deal.
- Short-line rail credits extended
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B8
- Federal lawmakers have extended a tax credit to encourage rural railroads to invest in track improvements. Congressman Jerry Moran, who sponsored the legislation, said short-line railroads are important for rural America, giving farmers and grain elevators in small towns needed access to larger markets.
- Extra practice, rest helpful for ailing KU women’s team
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C3
- Baylor and Texas Tech were in the Virgin Islands. Iowa State was in Honolulu. Texas A&M ventured to Malibu, Calif. While many Big 12 Conference women’s basketball teams were playing last week in vacation spots, Kansas University’s players stayed home and practiced.
- End of the yellow brick road for Oz Festival
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- An annual Wizard of Oz festival that once attracted 75,000 fans of the classic film to see the actors who played Munchkins has been cancelled, its organizers announced Friday.
- Swiss likely to approve prescription heroin
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on E10
- Dr. Daniele Zullino keeps glass bottles full of white powder in a safe in a locked room of his office. Patients show up each day to receive their treatment in small doses handed through a small window. Then they gather around a table to shoot up, part of a pioneering Swiss program to curb drug abuse by providing addicts a clean, safe place to take heroin produced by a government-approved laboratory. The program has been criticized by the United States and the U.N. narcotics board, which said it would fuel drug abuse.
- Obama buzz felt at global climate talks
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A7
- The president-elect won’t be there, but an Obama buzz will crackle through the conference hall when negotiators gather Monday for a final push toward a sweeping new global warming treaty.
- KU Cancer Center counting down to Sept. 25, 2011
- Deadline set for special designation application
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A1
- These days, Roy Jensen feels like there’s a countdown clock on his office wall ticking off the seconds until Sept. 25, 2011. The director of the Kansas University Cancer Center is helping ensure his organization is ready to submit its application to the National Cancer Institute for cancer center designation by that deadline. And he’s optimistic KU is on its way.
- Haskell women top St. Ambrose
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C3
- Maria Parker had 27 points and 14 rebounds, and Haskell Indian Nations University defeated St. Ambrose, 71-68, on Saturday in women’s college basketball.
- LMH forecasts lower profits
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B4
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital leaders recently approved a 2009 budget that reacts to a weakening economy. It anticipates a profit of $8.7 million, down 25 percent compared with the $11 million projected for this year, and down 38 percent from 2007’s profit of $14 million. Rates are also going up 5 percent.
- Blue Jays just won this one
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C10
- Sometimes it’s hard for even a grizzled sports writer to remain dispassionate. There I was on the field at Washburn University’s Yager Stadium, a misty rain falling as it had all during this gloomy Saturday, waiting for the end of the obligatory trophy presentations.
- Briscoe shines in return role
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C6
- With Missouri University standout and national all-purpose-yardage leader Jeremy Maclin on the field during Saturday’s Border War matchup at Arrowhead Stadium, there was a good chance fans would be treated to a standout performance by an electric, do-it-all performer.
- Boyfriend found after 21-year-old’s killing
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B4
- A 23-year-old Shawnee man who is a suspect in the slaying of his girlfriend, who was found dead Thanksgiving night in her Shawnee apartment, is in custody after being captured in Texas.
- Free State Notes
- November 30, 2008
- Free State High and Junction City were the only Class 6A football teams that earned the right to play for the state title on Saturday evening, but they weren’t the only schools represented at Washburn University’s Yager Stadium.
- Internet politics tips tradition in New Hampshire
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B7
- Yes, Vanessa, there was a political revolution this month, and it didn’t affect only the presidency. It also reached into the treasurer’s office in Grafton County, a mostly rural rectangle covering 1,747 square miles of mountains, lakes and forests in the north country near the Vermont border.
- Lawrence Civic Choir to perform songs of the season
- November 30, 2008
- Those who are excited to get into the holiday spirit will be sure to enjoy the variety and musical talent of the Lawrence Civic Choir’s Holiday Concert.
- Fourteenth annual Gingerbread Festival & Auction promises sweet tidings
- November 30, 2008
- Lawrence residents of all ages will display their inspired creations of love, holiday spirit and — of course — gingerbread at the 14th Annual Gingerbread Festival and Auction.
- Oklahoma makes BCS statement in 61-41 win
- November 30, 2008
- Now it’s up to voters and computers. Sam Bradford threw for 370 yards and four touchdowns, and No. 3 Oklahoma based its case for a BCS bump on its high-powered offense, outscoring No. 11 Oklahoma State 61-41 Saturday night in the highest-scoring Bedlam rivalry game in the century-old series.
- Economic crisis clobbers state budgets
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B7
- When Barack Obama meets Tuesday in Philadelphia with governors of both parties, an added dimension of the credit crisis and financial meltdown will come into focus. We have heard a lot about the collapse of housing prices, the threatened or actual bankruptcy of many banks and the rise in unemployment. Individuals, families, and firms of all sizes have been clobbered by these events.
- Holiday Farmers’ Market puts fresh spin on creative crafts
- November 30, 2008
- Creativity is the name of the game at the Holiday Farmers’ Market, when vendors get to ratchet up their normal fare and add some extra flair, just in time for the holidays.
- No. 1 Alabama remains unbeaten with 36-0 romp
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C4
- A recap of Top 25 football action.
- 50 years after school fire, scars remain
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on E10
- Seven-year-old Dan Taglia heard the fire alarm bell from his classroom on Dec. 1, 1958, but hoped it was a signal that students were getting ice cream. It was too late in the day for a fire drill, and anyway the nuns wouldn’t send the children out coatless on such a cold day. “But what does a third-grader know?” recalled Taglia, now of Katy, Texas.
- Bizarre Bazaar dabbles in artsy oddities
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- Pieces of Lori Dalrymple’s life were laid out before her in hundreds of little boxes Saturday afternoon.
- Reesing, Meier draw winning play in sand
- 12:00 a.m., November 30, 2008 Updated 11:37 a.m. in print edition on C1
- A platoon of coaches on both sides watching two solid weeks of football game film from sunup to way past sundown. Memorizing formations. Devising schemes. Constantly studying. Boiling it down and drilling it into the heads of the players.
- Kansas’ Little staying upbeat
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C3
- Mario Little stood near midcourt in a dress shirt and slacks, chatting with his Kansas University basketball teammates as they stretched before Friday’s home game against Coppin State.
- Friends of rabbi killed in India
- KU Jewish Center director mourns for attack victims
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B1
- For Lawrence Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, have brought both a loss of a close friend and a blow to the Jewish Chabad movement.
- Daniel shrugs off setback
- Mizzou QB unfazed
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C7
- Saturday’s 40-37 loss to Kansas University might have had an effect on many of the Missouri players, but MU quarterback Chase Daniel didn’t want to be included in that bunch.
- UConn’s Calhoun wins No. 780
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on C8
- A recap of Top 25 men’s basketball action.
- Electric car conversions see jumpstart in demand
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B3
- Times are tough for big automakers trying to stay afloat in a cantankerous economy, but Wayne Alexander has his hands full keeping up with demand for his cars.
- Data shows strong Black Friday
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A1
- The holiday shopping season got off to a surprisingly solid start, according to data released Saturday by a research firm. But the sales boost during the post-Thanksgiving shopathon came at the expense of profits as the nation’s retailers had to slash prices to attract the crowds in a season that is expected to be the weakest in decades.
- Obama to nominate Clinton for secretary of state Monday
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A4
- President-elect Barack Obama planned to nominate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state on Monday, transforming a once-bitter political rivalry into a high-level strategic and diplomatic partnership.
- KU volleyball finishes with loss
- November 30, 2008
- Despite hitting for a higher attack percentage, the Kansas University volleyball team fell in three sets (25-21, 25-22, 25-22) to Iowa State on Saturday evening in both teams’ final regular-season matches.
- Priest: Obama voters should go to confession
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A3
- Father Joseph Illo, pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Modesto, Calif., has told parishioners in a homily and in a follow-up letter that if they voted for Barack Obama, they should consider going to confession because of the president-elect’s pro-abortion position.
- Couple wait for first kiss at the altar
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A2
- Won’t kiss on the first date? How about waiting until marriage?
- Michelle Obama faces challenge of defining her job as first lady
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on E10
- Among the many challenges Michelle Obama will face as first lady, the biggest may be defining the job.
- Coach revives Chiefs-Raiders rivalry
- November 30, 2008
- Tom Cable has been well-schooled in the history of the Raiders-Chiefs rivalry from his days growing up an Oakland fan.
- 100,000 stranded after airports shut
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A8
- The vacation is over for tens of thousands of tourists in Thailand. But they can’t go home.
- Spread the wealth
- Smart money gifts keep on giving
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on E1
- It won’t have the “wow” factor of an iPhone, but a Roth IRA or other money-minded gift may have more sizzle than you think this holiday season.
- Thai protesters attack police checkpoint
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A8
- Anti-government protesters who have closed down Bangkok’s airports broke through a police cordon meant to shut them off from supplies, raising fears Saturday of widening confrontations in the standoff that has strangled the country’s economy.
- Dave Barry’s holiday gift guide
- Friends, family will appreciate the best — or worst — of the pack
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on D1
- Why do we give gifts during the holiday season? We do it for a reason that is as timeless as humanity itself: women.
- Lawrence Block shares early pulp fiction in ‘Lost Weekends’
- November 30, 2008
- Beware the book whose author admits in the introduction he’s afraid to read the stories that follow:
- Best of ‘The Best’: American anthology series offers good writing a second chance to get noticed
- November 30, 2008
- The best. Not just very good; not merely outstanding. The best.
- Unemployment claims overtax system
- Keeping up with benefits a struggle for state agency
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on A1
- Last summer when Beth Meyers needed to straighten out a mix-up with her unemployment benefit claims, she dialed up the state’s unemployment call center looking for help.She got put on hold instead.
- On the record
- November 30, 2008 in print edition on B2
- Emergency callsLawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical reported these fire calls:• Motor vehicle accident with one fatality and four injuries, 2:17 a.m. Saturday, 2556 Ousdahl Road.• Assist disabled boat, 10:48 p.m. Friday, Kansas River.• Vehicle fire, 7:42 p.m. Friday, 2801 W 31st St.• Vehicle fire, 4:46 p.m. Friday, Crestline Drive and Orchard Lane.• Alarm system sounded because of malfunction, 7:43 a.m. Friday, 1220 Timberedge St.
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