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Suspect in KU student’s death commits suicide while in New Jersey police custody
July 5, 2008
The suspect in the death of a 25-year-old Kansas University student has committed suicide while in police custody in New Jersey, according to Lawrence police.
Body found on train tracks
July 5, 2008
Officers investigating scene on tracks near Seventh and Maple streets.
Judge: Man wrongly held in Sedgwick Co. can’t sue
July 5, 2008
A man mistakenly jailed in Colorado and Kansas for a month can’t sue Sedgwick County or its sheriff, a federal judge has ruled.
Keyed in: Local pianist hopes institute takes talents to new levels
July 5, 2008
Twice a week, Luke Rhodes hits the gym with high school football and basketball players, lifting weights to hone his skills. But he’s doesn’t play a sport. He plays the piano. That’s in addition to the two hours a day he spends practicing. And the 1 1/2 hours he spends weekly taking private lessons.
Old Home Town - 100 years ago
July 5, 2008
From the Lawrence Daily World for July 5, 1908: There was a plan to have the Topeka Motor Boat Club come down the Kaw River to Lawrence for a demonstration but the recent flooding and the state of the water may alter that.
Old Home Town - 25 years ago
July 5, 2008
City Manager Buford Watson released a proposed $30 million city budget that called for a 1.808-mill tax increase for calendar 1984 and an increase in city spending of more than 2.9 percent over calendar 1983.
Time may alter perception of Bush presidency
July 5, 2008
It is a privilege to spend 90 minutes with the president of the United States. It is frustrating, though, when 90 percent of those minutes are declared off the record.
Homegrown food is real independence
July 5, 2008
It’s been decades since that famous forager Euell Gibbons reached through the White House fence and picked four edible weeds out of the president’s garden. This is not something that the Secret Service would recommend you try today.
Caution
Wal-Mart’s response to the status of the economy indicates that rough times could lie ahead.
July 5, 2008
When the world’s largest retailer begins to pull in its horns, it’s time for everyone to take note. Wal-Mart, long dedicated to growth and expansion, is reducing its capital spending forecast for fiscal 2009. Officials say the firm is slowing construction of supercenters in the face of a weakening United States economic environment.
Paving to close major intersection
July 5, 2008
The city’s advising motorists to avoid the intersection of 23rd and Iowa streets Monday morning.
Two fires raging along Central Coast
July 5, 2008
A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California’s central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening a total of more than 4,500 homes.
Betancourt may take on new political career
July 5, 2008
Could Ingrid Betancourt become Colombia’s next president?
Attacker once had Jewish girlfriend
July 5, 2008
The Palestinian who went on a deadly rampage on a Jerusalem street this week had spent years in a romantic relationship with a Jewish Israeli woman, relatives said, a rarity in a city where such ties between Arabs and Jews are nearly nonexistent.
Former GOP Sen. Helms dies at 86
July 5, 2008
When telling stories about Jesse Helms after his death on the Fourth of July, the politician who took his place in Congress recalled how the iconic North Carolina senator liked to invite pages to sit down and chat over ice cream.
4 dead in Wis. shootings
July 5, 2008
At least one person fired a gun into a crowd in a street early Friday, killing four people and sending panicked revelers running for cover, police said.

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