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On the street
Photos
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Polls
How tough would you rank the Jayhawks' NCAA bracket?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Difficult | 50% | |
| Extremely difficult | 37% | |
| Not difficult, not easy | 10% | |
| Extremely easy | 1% | |
| Easy | 0% | |
| Total | 281 | |
What chances do you give the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team of making the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| 50 percent | 37% | |
| 75 percent | 24% | |
| 100 percent | 14% | |
| 25 percent | 14% | |
| No chance | 8% | |
| Total | 1940 | |
Videos
- The forecast for Monday, March 16 calls for a high …
- The last time the Basehor-Linwood boys advanced to the state …
- Starting on Friday, the Jayhawks will begin their run to …
- Many in Kansas have had to wait months or years …
- A 22-year-old was in a verbal fight with a 33-year-old …
- Fire broke out at a mobile home in Lawrence on …
- Kansas was selected as the No. 3 seed in the …
- The road to the national championship is officially underway. This …
- Kansas head coach Bill Self discusses preparing his team for …
- This week, “Mark’s on the Move” gets a jump start …
Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
Stuck on the bubble- March 14, 2009 in print edition on 1B
- Oklahoma senior center Courtney Paris brought recent national attention to women’s college basketball with a scholarship-money-back guarantee if the Sooners don’t win the national title. On Thursday morning/afternoon, Paris showed the stuff that makes her so confident in leading her team to a 76-59 victory against Kansas University to advance to the women’s basketball Big 12 Tournament semifinals at Cox Center.
- Video: KU women fall to No. 3 Oklahoma
- Photo gallery: KU women vs. Oklahoma
- Poll: Will the KU women make the NCAA Tournament?
6:00 a.m.
Journal-World’s 2009 Academic All-Star team- March 15, 2009 in print edition on 4A
- Area high school students who were selected for the Lawrence Journal-World’s 2009 Academic All-Star team.
- Photo gallery: Academic all-stars
10:00 a.m.
DNA results fail to exonerate rapist convicted in 1978 assaults- March 15, 2009 in print edition on 1B
- Hunter, 46, has written dozens of letters to the Journal-World over the years maintaining his innocence. In the letters, Hunter claims that another inmate, “Marvin,” committed the crimes. In his recent call with the Journal-World, Hunter neither admitted nor denied his guilt in the crimes, but said that evidence of his mental illness was not properly presented at his trial. Hunter said that he should have been found “not guilty due to temporary insanity.”
- Special coverage: Sexual Assaults in Lawrence: Not an uncommon crime
2:00 p.m.
Progress comes slowly in processing disability claims- March 15, 2009 in print edition on 1A
- On the last day of 2008, Debra Shirar opened the mailbox and found a letter she had been waiting more than two years to receive. It was the notice setting the date for her disability hearing. Almost 900 days after she filed a claim for Social Security Disability Insurance, she would finally get her day in court. She cried the whole way back from the mailbox.
7:46 p.m.
Jayhawks fly high as No. 3 seed in Midwest- March 15, 2009 in print edition on 1A
- For the Kansas Jayhawks, the Road to the Final Four leads 480 miles to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn. And plenty of fans will be joining Bill Self’s defending national champions for the ride. “Alumni always flock to wherever the team will be playing, and this year will be no different,” said Jennifer Sanner, senior vice president for the Kansas University Alumni Association.
- Videos: KU gets No. 3 seed
- Audio clips: 2009 KU Selection Sunday
- On the street: What do you think of the Jayhawks getting the No. 3 seed in the Midwest Region of the NCAA Tournament?
All stories
- KU will play North Dakota State at 11:30 a.m. Friday
- March 15, 2009
- Kansas will play North Dakota State at 11:30 a.m. Friday, the NCAA announced Sunday night.
- Get ready for KUSports.com Bracket Contest (and an opportunity to win a 50” flat screen TV)
- 05:28 p.m., March 15, 2009 Updated 07:08 p.m.
- So KU’s bracket is out and surely you’ve got your eye on a few upsets already, right?
- Jayhawks fly high as No. 3 seed in Midwest
- First NCAA opponent: N.D. State
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A1
- For the Kansas Jayhawks, the Road to the Final Four leads 480 miles to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn. And plenty of fans will be joining Bill Self’s defending national champions for the ride. “Alumni always flock to wherever the team will be playing, and this year will be no different,” said Jennifer Sanner, senior vice president for the Kansas University Alumni Association.
- Choose the right container for gardening
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D4
- Here are some tips for picking the right container for container gardening, courtesy Laura Justice, herbaceous plant manager with the landscape division of the Chalet in Wilmette, Ill.
- Basehor-Linwood boys win Class 4A state title
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C3
- Chandler Schaake and Anthony Pierce had 13 points each, helping Basehor-Linwood hold off Girard.
- World economic leaders pledge action to fix financial crisis
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to do “whatever is necessary” to fix the global economy, including supervision of freewheeling hedge funds and restoring bank lending by dealing with the shaky securities burdening their finances.
- LHS’s Green named league player of year
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C3
- Lawrence High senior Dorian Green was named the Sunflower League’s player of the year this week.
- KU divers advance
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C3
- The Kansas University diving team competed in the one-meter event Saturday at the NCAA Zone Diving meet in Columbia, Mo.
- Tourney tickets plentiful this year
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C5
- Bob Donohoe had not even considered trying to get tickets to this year’s Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. Those are usually handed down like family heirlooms.
- ‘The diversity of the things they do … just amazes’
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A4
- As if getting straight A’s is not hard enough. These 10 high school seniors have gone the extra mile and also participated in extracurricular activities and community service. “When you go through their stuff, my jaw just drops,” said Rand Ziegler, a Baker vice president and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
- It’s a little teapot — short, stout and valuable
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D4
- Belleek china is one of the best-known products of Ireland. Irish Belleek is easy to identify. The porcelain is thin and covered with a creamy yellow glaze that looks wet. Many say it resembles mother-of-pearl.
- Mark’s on the Move: Building a St. Patrick’s Day float
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B3
- Downtown Lawrence will be covered in green Tuesday. Everyone becomes Irish for a day, and even more show up to watch one of the city’s most anticipated parades.
- Mickelson, Watney tied at top
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C2
- Phil Mickelson wanted another chance to go head-to-head with Tiger Woods at Doral. Nick Watney gave Lefty all he could handle Saturday in the CA Championship.
- On the record
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B2
- • A 43-year-old Ottawa man was arrested on suspicion of window peeping at 12:32 p.m. Saturday in the 700 block of Comet Lane. • A 37-year-old Eudora man was arrested on suspicion of burglary involving a theft greater than a $1,000. The arrest occurred in Eudora at 7:01 p.m. Saturday. Bond was set at $2,500.
- La. couple to sell horse to help Greensburg
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B2
- A couple in Louisiana plans to sell a 2-year-old thoroughbred horse named Greensburg and donate half of the revenue to help the tornado-striken Kansas town. Tammy and Chad Hassenpflug of Vinton, La., raise and train thoroughbred and quarter horses. They plan to sell Greensburg the horse at auction March 22.
- Police: Arrest made after pit bull threat
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B2
- Police sent a Lawrence man to jail early Saturday morning after he threatened to sic his pit bull on three officers, broke out the rear window of a police car and attempted to flee custody, police said. Lawrence police Sgt. Michael McLaren said officers were dispatched to the 600 block of Folks Road at 2:28 a.m. Saturday regarding a domestic dispute.
- K.C. archbishop defends his criticism of Sebelius
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B8
- The Roman Catholic archbishop of Kansas City, Kan., isn’t backing off his criticism of the nomination of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for health and human services secretary. “I don’t think I have any influence on who’s going to be the next secretary of HHS,” Archbishop Joseph Naumann said, but “I felt I had to exercise my teaching authority for the good of the Catholic community.”
- Cuba ‘possibly’ could host Russian bombers
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A3
- A Russian air force chief said Saturday that the country could base some strategic bombers in Cuba or on an island offered by Venezuela, the Interfax news agency reported, but a Kremlin official quickly said the military had been speaking only hypothetically.
- Bill would help schools, nonprofits teach financial literacy
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A3
- The numbers are startling. More than half of high school seniors have debit cards and nearly one-third have credit cards. One-third of college students have four credits cards apiece when they graduate, and more than half of graduates have piled up $5,000 each in high-interest debt. The number of 18- to 24-year-olds who have declared bankruptcy has increased 96 percent in 10 years.
- Obama says U.S. economy sound, reassures investors
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A3
- President Barack Obama on Saturday downplayed divisions between the U.S. and Europe over how to tackle the world’s financial crisis and said China should have “absolute confidence” that its sizable investments in the United States are safe.
- Hunter busted for bolting antlers on doe
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A3
- A man who bolted antlers to the head of a dead doe and posed for a photograph with the deer was fined $400 and jailed for game violations. Marcel Fournier, 19, shot the deer the evening of Nov. 22 and used lag bolts and epoxy to attach a 10-point rack, officials said. He then checked in the kill as lawful game at Barnie’s Market.
- Chopper wreckage may have been found
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Canadian investigators found what they think is the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed in the freezing Atlantic with 18 aboard, saying Saturday their main goal is to recover any of the 16 missing bodies that may still be inside.
- Bozo the Clown creator Livingston dies at 91
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Alan W. Livingston, the music executive who created Bozo the Clown and signed the Beatles during his tenure as president of Capitol Records, has died. He was 91. Livingston died Friday of age-related causes in his Beverly Hills home, said his stepdaughter, Jennifer Lerner.
- Police find 9 bodies in Mexican border city
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A3
- Police acting on a tip found nine bodies partially buried in the desert on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, which is across the border from El Paso, Texas, an official said Saturday. Investigators are searching the desert site south of the city to see if there are any more bodies.
- Pastor’s widow says she prays for suspect
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A7
- The widow of a slain southwestern Illinois pastor said Saturday that she and her daughters are praying for the man accused of gunning down her husband during a sermon last weekend. During a news conference outside First Baptist Church in this St. Louis suburb, Cindy Winters said she and her two daughters are also praying for Terry Sedlacek’s family, according to a report in the Belleville News-Democrat.
- Late-term abortion provider faces trial
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B5
- For abortion opponents, the trial of one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers has been a long time coming, a chance for a little bit of justice after years of seeing their efforts thwarted. To abortion-rights supporters, Dr. George Tiller’s trial is the culmination of repeated harassment, a witch hunt in which foes have been willing to do anything and everything to gain a conviction.
- Wheel Genius: Road work this week
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B3
- Various construction projects expected to affect travel in Lawrence and the region.
- Businessman to reopen ‘Servateria’ in Pratt
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B4
- A co-owner of a farm machinery business has taken over a landmark restaurant in this south-central Kansas town and hopes to have it reopened soon. Marvin Pfeifer, co-owner of Kincheloe’s Inc., a farm machinery sales and service business north of Pratt, acknowledges he has no experience running a restaurant. But the longtime customer of Donald’s Servateria has bought the buffet-style restaurant, calling it “a business adventure.”
- Contestant to advocate for disability rights at pageant
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B4
- It’s been 14 years since Cherie Armstrong first sat down in her wheelchair, and while her movement may be more restricted, nothing has been able to slow her down. “This chair hasn’t stopped me from doing everything that I want to do. I go out more than some of my friends,” said the Edwardsville resident, who ended up in her wheelchair after being in a car accident in which she wasn’t wearing her seat belt.
- Boom-year borrowing catches up to struggling churches
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A8
- Metropolitan Baptist Church was bursting out of its home. From a group of freed slaves in Civil War-era Washington, Metropolitan Baptist had grown into a modern-day megachurch and community service powerhouse. In 2006, construction began on the congregation’s dream complex in Largo, Md. — a $30 million campus with a 3,000-seat church, an education center and an 1,100-car parking lot.
- Robin Hood not so good? Ancient Brits questioned outlaw
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- An academic says he’s found evidence that Britain’s legendary outlaw Robin Hood wasn’t as popular as folklore suggests. Julian Luxford says a note discovered in the margins of an ancient history book contains rare criticism of the supposedly benevolent bandit. According to legend, Robin Hood roamed 13th-century Britain from a base in central England’s Sherwood Forest, plundering from the rich to give to the poor.
- Rare Superman comic sells for $317,200
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $317,200 in an Internet auction. The previous owner had bought it in the 1950s for less than a buck. It’s one of the highest prices ever paid for a comic book, a likely testament to the volume’s rarity and its excellent condition, said Stephen Fishler, co-owner of the auction site ComicConnect.com and its sister dealership, Metropolis Collectibles.
- Bedlam breaks out at ‘Top Model’ auditions
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- Three people were arrested and six others hurt Saturday after bedlam broke out while they waited to audition for “America’s Next Top Model,” police said. Police didn’t know what prompted the chaos involving hundreds of people outside the Park Central New York hotel in Manhattan. The panic left the street outside the hotel littered with shoes and clothing, according to news reports.
- NASA hopeful repairs will permit launch today
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- NASA is unsure what caused the hydrogen gas leak that prevented space shuttle Discovery from flying, but nonetheless will attempt another launch today. Shuttle managers are hopeful that repairs at the launch pad have solved the problem.
- Insurance giant paying out $165M in bonuses
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A2
- American International Group is giving its executives tens of millions of dollars in new bonuses even though it received a taxpayer bailout of more than $170 billion dollars. AIG is contractually obligated to pay a total of about $165 million of previously awarded “retention pay” by today, but the troubled insurance giant has agreed to administration requests to restrain future payments.
- DNA results fail to exonerate rapist convicted in 1978 assaults
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Hunter, 46, has written dozens of letters to the Journal-World over the years maintaining his innocence. In the letters, Hunter claims that another inmate, “Marvin,” committed the crimes. In his recent call with the Journal-World, Hunter neither admitted nor denied his guilt in the crimes, but said that evidence of his mental illness was not properly presented at his trial. Hunter said that he should have been found “not guilty due to temporary insanity.”
- Youths stretch performance muscles at Regional 4-H Day
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Draped in a velvet red cape and footed with Roman sandals, a 9-year-old, red-headed Marc Antony stood in front of Room 106 at Lawrence High School preparing for his speech. It began with that classic “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears” line pulled from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” The speech took less than five minutes to recite, but Peter Downey, from Miami County, had been practicing it for weeks.
- Pump patrol
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B1
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $1.79 at several locations.
- Handful of banks accept U.S. relief
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B1
- Troubled Asset Relief Program funds approved by Congress for the nation’s banks have so far attracted only a few takers in Kansas. The U.S. Treasury Department’s latest listing of banks accepting TARP funds showed there were eight in Kansas. None was based in Lawrence. That’s a low number of banks, but not surprisingly low for Kansas, said Robert DeYoung, professor of financial markets and institutions at Kansas University.
- State lawmakers renew death penalty debate
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B1
- The surprise of the 2009 legislative session has been the traction of a bill to repeal the Kansas death penalty. Senate Bill 208, which recently cleared a committee hurdle, will be considered by the full Senate on Monday. It will be the first major debate on capital punishment in the Legislature since the death penalty was reinstated in 1994. And legislative veterans say they don’t know how the vote will turn out.
- KU upsets ASU, 3-2
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C3
- Kansas University senior Buck Afenir’s RBI single with two outs in the top of the seventh broke a tie and lifted the Jayhawks baseball team to a 3-2 triumph over No. 4 Arizona State in a non-conference game Saturday evening at Surprise Stadium.
- Big East poised to make some noise
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C8
- The Big East men’s basketball season began with lots of big talk that bordered on hyperbole. Louisville coach Rick Pitino called it “the strongest league in the history of college basketball,” and pundits predicted double-digit teams in the NCAA Tournament.
- KU tennis wins
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C3
- For the 31st straight time, the Kansas women’s tennis team defeated Iowa State. KU won, 5-2, at the Ames Racquet and Fitness Center Saturday afternoon. KU is now 34-1 all-time vs. ISU.
- Picking field not easy
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C8
- Picking the 65-team field for the NCAA Tournament is never easy, and this year is no exception.
- Obama puts food safety under the microscope
- President calls inspection system a health ‘hazard’
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A1
- The nation’s food safety system is a “hazard to public health” and overdue for an overhaul, President Barack Obama said Saturday as he filled the top job at the Food and Drug Administration. Obama used his weekly radio and video address to announce the nomination of former New York City Health Commissioner Margaret Hamburg as agency commissioner and the selection of Baltimore’s health commissioner, Joshua Sharfstein, as her deputy.
- Jayhawks endure tough practices
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C3
- Kansas University’s basketball players paid the price at practice Friday afternoon and Saturday morning for losing Thursday’s Big 12 quarterfinal contest against Baylor.
- Progress comes slowly in processing disability claims
- Applicants afforded little security as cases can still languish for years
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A1
- On the last day of 2008, Debra Shirar opened the mailbox and found a letter she had been waiting more than two years to receive. It was the notice setting the date for her disability hearing. Almost 900 days after she filed a claim for Social Security Disability Insurance, she would finally get her day in court. She cried the whole way back from the mailbox.
- Kansas’ NCAA fate: Hurry up, wait
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C1
- Cole Aldrich isn’t dreaming of a triumphant return to his home state of Minnesota for the first round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament. “I’d rather be in Kansas City,” Aldrich, Kansas University’s 6-foot-11 center, said Saturday. Most pundits believe the Jayhawks (25-7) either will open the NCAAs on Thursday at Kansas City’s Sprint Center or Friday at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, which is located about 10 miles from Aldrich’s hometown of Bloomington.
- Big 12 logjam madness
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C1
- Surely, the term March Madness originated when NCAA Tournament selection committee members tried to sort out seeds for three college basketball schools with such equal resumes as the Big 12’s best teams. They twisted the numbers this way and that until they reached the brink of madness, and then they settled it with rocks, paper, scissors, and the term March Madness was born.
- Captured aid workers released
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on E10
- Three foreign aid workers abducted in Sudan’s lawless Darfur region were released unharmed on Saturday, three days after their capture at gunpoint led international aid groups to question how they can continue to work in the area.
- Will the stock market rally, stick or vanish?
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on E10
- Investors have seen this before. Since the bear market began in late 2007, the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen into a pattern of huge declines, big gains and then even larger declines. Four times, the market has rallied only to dissipate. This past week, the market made a fifth stab at recovery, logging its best performance in months after remarks from bank CEOs and economic data led investors to believe they’d gotten too pessimistic.
- Pakistan to citizens: Go fly a kite
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on E10
- Amid all the turmoil of opposition politicians being arrested, activists roughed up and police blocking a “long march” protest, the government recently announced it would lift, for one day only, its ban on kite flying. In recent years, sending bits of paper and wood skyward has been outlawed for what the government deems safety reasons.
- Austrian incest suspect faces justice
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on E10
- For almost a quarter of a century, Josef Fritzl allegedly held his daughter as a sex slave in a cramped, rat-infested cellar where he fathered seven children with her. This week, the notorious Austrian with icy blue eyes faces justice in what is being billed locally as the “trial of the century.”
- Bobcats’ Brown winning again
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C7
- An upset Larry Brown shouted to stop Charlotte’s practice and hustled to the middle of the floor. He had problems with what three Bobcats did on offense and the positioning of two more on defense — all on the same play.
- Kentucky in unfamiliar territory
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on C2
- Thirty-three games down, and there’s just one thing we know with any sort of certainty. Without the sudden appearance of divine intervention, Kentucky’s streak of 17 consecutive NCAA men’s basketball Tournament appearances is kaput. All other questions remain unanswered.
- Journal-World’s 2009 Academic All-Star team
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A4
- Area high school students who were selected for the Lawrence Journal-World’s 2009 Academic All-Star team.
- Journal-World’s 2009 Academic All-Star nominees
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A5
- Area high school students who were nominated for the Lawrence Journal-World’s 2009 Academic All-Star team.
- 10 years later: A look at the All-Stars from 1999
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A6
- They came together in spring 1999 as some of the brightest students in northeast Kansas. Ten years later, the Journal-World’s 1999 Academic All-Star team members have experienced success across the country. Some, but not all, have ended up in the same field they expected to pursue out of high school. Still, their list of accomplishments doesn’t disappoint.
- After death, online lives can be left in limbo
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A10
- When Jerald Spangenberg collapsed and died in the middle of a quest in an online game, his daughter embarked on a quest of her own: to let her father’s gaming friends know that he hadn’t just decided to desert them. It wasn’t easy, because she didn’t have her father’s “World of Warcraft” password and the game’s publisher couldn’t help her. Eventually, Melissa Allen Spangenberg reached her father’s friends by asking around online for the “guild” he belonged to.
- Sign of the economy: Not as much garbage
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A10
- Along with the stock market and the foreclosure rate, a less-heralded barometer has signaled the arrival of hard times: the landfill. In an extravagantly wasteful society that typically puts 254 million tons of unwanted stuff at the curb to be thrown away each year, landfill managers say they knew something was amiss in the economy when they saw trash levels start steadily dropping last year.
- Arrest warrant issued for Lindsay Lohan
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D5
- An arrest warrant has been issued for actress Lindsay Lohan, possibly in connection with a 2007 drunken driving arrest after she crashed her Mercedes-Benz into a tree, police said Saturday. A judge at Los Angeles Superior Court in Beverly Hills issued the warrant on Friday and it carries a bail amount of $50,000, Sgt. Mike Foxen said.
- Horoscopes
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D5
- This is the final year of an 11-year cycle in which you will open up spaces for new and better experiences. Be honest about what doesn’t work, and if you cannot make it work, let it go. If you are single, be skeptical if you fall head over heels in love. There could be an element of deception here. If you are attached, don’t judge your sweetie so harshly. He or she might be having a tougher time than you realize.
- Northern Ireland riots after police arrest 3 over killings
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A9
- Irish nationalist gangs hurled gasoline bombs at police Saturday after three alleged IRA dissidents were arrested on suspicion of killing two British soldiers in an attack designed to trigger wider violence in Northern Ireland.
- Pakistan government offers concessions to help ease crisis
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on A9
- Pakistan’s government announced its first major concession Saturday in a monthlong political crisis, pledging to appeal a disputed court ruling against a key opposition leader, just hours after a concerned U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called both sides apparently to press for a resolution.
- Cash for trash: Reuse stores make use of refuse
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on E1
- Artist Cathy Mansell wants your old thread spools, your empty yogurt containers, your unwanted vinyl LPs. She knows that even if she has no use for the yarn remnants, wallpaper samples, button collections or irrigation pipe unearthed during closet cleanings, someone will need them for an art project. So she’s turned her office full of odds and ends into one of hundreds of reuse centers around the country.
- Mortgages
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on E1
- The Douglas County register of deeds recorded 92 mortgages in the weekly period ended Monday.
- Bankruptcies
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on E1
- Douglas County residents or businesses filing for bankruptcy protection during the week ended Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Kansas, according to court records.
- Bankruptcy for strapped Six Flags?
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on E1
- Shares of Six Flags Inc. touched a new low Friday after the theme park operator said it could not meet a looming financing obligation and may have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. As the shares dropped, Moody’s Investors Service cut the company’s corporate family rating and probability-of-default rating by two notches to “Ca” — the second lowest — saying an out-of-court restructuring or a bankruptcy filing “is likely in the near term.”
- Can tech industry save the economy?
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on E1
- Technology helped fuel the economic boom of the 1990s. Then the dot-com bust caught some of the blame for the recession of the early 2000s. If technology is so tied to the national economy, and the current recession started on Wall Street, not in Silicon Valley, can technology lift the tide this time?
- Ticket to ride: McLouth teen makes name in bull-riding circuit
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D1
- Bone-chilled and without a jacket, Skeeter Kingsolver was up a creek and without a paddle.
- U2 hooks up with BlackBerry
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D7
- With or without Apple? Without. The Irish rock group U2 is moving on with a new corporate partner, at least for its upcoming dance across the globe. The tour begins June 30 in Barcelona, Spain, with the kickoff to the band’s Live Nation tour to support its new “No Line on the Horizon” album. The tour will be sponsored by Research In Motion, whose decidedly staid BlackBerry is being challenged by Apple’s gadget eye candy iPhone.
- ‘Chuck’ is a show on the bubble, and the cast wants to recruit viewers
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D3
- It is early on Sunday morning on March 1, the last day of the comic/TV/movie convention called WonderCon. Four of the cast members from NBC’s “Chuck” — Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez and Adam Baldwin — are spending their day at the convention. This is just the latest in a long list of special appearances.
- Poet’s Showcase: Reunification with the beloved
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D3
- Hope never dies
- ‘Pow-Wow’ presents gathering of tribal voices
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D4
- Ishmael Reed has made a career of taking the canon and blowing it into smithereens. Poet, essayist, novelist (“Mumbo Jumbo,” “The Free-Lance Pallbearers”), the Oakland, Calif., resident co-founded the Before Columbus Foundation in 1976, with the intention of shifting society’s focus to work from outside its white center; “American literature in the last decade of this century is more than a mainstream,” he wrote in 1992.
- Survival instinct: Neil Strauss readies readers for emergencies
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D8
- Neil Strauss hardly seems like a guy who’d kill a goat and gut it with his own hands.
- Stimulus spending
- Kansas legislators must have a clear strategy for making use of federal stimulus funding.
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B6
- Members of the Kansas Legislature are right to be cautious in how they allocate the state’s share of federal stimulus funds. Kansas is expected to receive about $1.7 billion of the $787 billion included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, approved by Congress and signed by the president last month. That money could be a boon for the state or an albatross, depending on how it is used.
- Ag ecologists
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B6
- To the editor: George F. Will’s column attacking corn was surprising for two reasons. In the first place, Will ignores the role personal lifestyle choices and personal responsibility play in obesity — a role much more significant than one particular food ingredient.
- Safe route
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B6
- To the editor: Many thanks to those in City Hall who decided to put a sidewalk on the east side of Iowa between Harvard and University.
- Religion driving people away
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B6
- We are losing our religion. That, with apologies to R.E.M., is the startling conclusion of a new study, the American Religious Identification Survey, conducted by researchers at Trinity College of Hartford, Conn. The poll of more than 54,000 American adults found a sharp erosion in the number of people claiming religious affiliation.
- Obama’s honeymoon definitely over
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B6
- Two months into his presidency, it is far too soon to make any judgments about Barack Obama’s prospects. All we really know is that he has assembled the rudiments of an administration and launched a batch of ambitious but unproven initiatives.
- Ruling may limit gerrymandering
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B7
- During Reconstruction, Mississippi created a “shoestring” congressional district, sweeping so many blacks into a narrow district along the river that other districts had comfortably large white majorities. This was racial gerrymandering deplored by liberals.
- Taliban talks hold no magic for Afghanistan
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on B7
- There’s been a buzz in the media about whether talks with the Taliban are the key to peace in Afghanistan. The speculation increased when President Obama told the New York Times last weekend that the U.S. military might reach out to elements of the Afghan Taliban, just as it reached out to Sunni tribes and militias in Iraq.
- Renowned bassist to perform at KU
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D8
- Dennis Whittaker, bassist and educator, will perform a recital at Kansas University on April 2.
- Spencer welcomes exhibit’s photographer
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D8
- Photojournalist Stephen Williams will be at the Spencer Museum of Art next week to talk about his photographs and observations of Inuit life that appear in the exhibition “Climate Change at the Poles.”
- Painter to speak at art guild meeting
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D8
- International award-winning painter Donna Aldridge will be the featured speaker at the Lawrence Art Guild’s monthly meeting, which begins at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt.
- Protect yourself from medical mistakes
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D2
- Medical mistakes are some of the most devastating problems in health care, mostly because they are often preventable. As a patient, you can play an important role in helping to prevent mistakes. The Joint Commission, an independent nonprofit organization that accredits and certifies health care organizations across the country, shares some tips to stay safe.
- Spring break safety tips
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D2
- With the school holiday coming up for many kids, it is a perfect time to remind them how to stay safe. Here are just a few tips from the American College of Emergency Physicians.
- Spring-clean your pantry
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D1
- As you’re sprucing up your house, pay attention to what’s in your food closets and cabinets too, nutritionists say.
- Ticket to ride: McLouth teen makes name in bull-riding circuit
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D1
- Bone-chilled and without a jacket, Skeeter Kingsolver was up a creek and without a paddle. Or maybe just without a birthday or two. He could still hear the thump of the music, the happy voices. Feel the warmth of central heating deeper inside. Yet he was stuck on a chair, baby-sat by the club’s bouncer on a frigid night in St. Louis.
- Ten picks for getting fit without breaking your budget
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D8
- Looking for ways to maximize your workout? You don’t have to spend a fortune on a new treadmill or endure long, boring exercise routines. The Associated Press asked 10 magazines that focus on fitness and health to choose a gadget that will help you get fit without breaking the bank. Here are their choices, listed in order of price, starting with the cheapest.
- Vacation plans can include losing some weight
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D2
- Whether you’re heading to a seaside condo or staying put for spring break, you could finish the week a little lighter. Sounds like a NEAT plan to physician James Levine, author of the new book “Move a Little, Lose a Lot” and director of the NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) Center at the Mayo Clinic.
- Darwin cookbook reflection of how recipes evolve
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D4
- Over the centuries, recipes have evolved as surely as our species. It wasn’t happenstance that brought us fish croquettes and macaroni-and-cheese. Nor was it chance that “Mrs. Charles Darwin’s Recipe Book,” by Dusha Bateson and Weslie Janeway (Glitterati, 192 pages, $35), was published during the year of Charles Darwin’s 150th anniversary of “On the Origins of Species.”
- Invitation to ‘Dance’ irresistible
- March 15, 2009 in print edition on D1
- I didn’t need another TV show addiction. I was already hopelessly hooked on “American Idol,” “24” (when I can figure out what the heck is going on) and HBO’s paean to polygamy, “Big Love.” And, OK, “Real Housewives of New York City.” There, I said it. Give me a break; it’s a recession. I need all the cheap, guilty pleasures I can get.
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