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- More showers possible this afternoon
- July 16, 2004
- (Updated Friday at 8:42 a.m.) An overnight system of thunderstorms that crackled and boomed through the region brought more than 1.6 inches of rain to the Lawrence area by mid morning. “The thunderstorms have ended for the morning. But there is a chance for another isolated thunderstorm this afternoon,” said Jennifer Schack, 6News meteorologist.
- People
- July 16, 2004
- • Smith makes robot predictions • Opera to explore Gadhafi's life • Affleck turns down hoops film • Soccer team promos Spier-Man
- Health care system needs an overhaul
- July 16, 2004
- When Bill Frist talks about health care, it pays to listen. Not only is he the majority leader of the Senate, but as a physician who specialized in heart transplants, he knows the medical system as well as he knows human anatomy.
- Are we better?
- July 16, 2004
- Buying civilization
- July 16, 2004
- NAACP treats Bush unfairly
- July 16, 2004
- For decades, many conspiracy theories originated on the political right — from fluoridation is a Communist plot to the Council on Foreign Relations is a front for the creation of one world government to the Clintons being drug dealers and witness killers.
- Sensitive story
- July 16, 2004
- Turn on the Gaslight
- North Lawrence music venue finds new way to connect with the past
- July 16, 2004
- During the tumultuous late 1960s and early '70s in Lawrence, the old Gaslight Tavern had a well-earned reputation both as a place where diversity was the norm and as an extreme hotbed of political activity.
- The Belles’ ‘Idle Acres’ open for development
- July 16, 2004
- It's been a few years now since former Creature Comforts frontman Chris Tolle traded power pop for dreamy folk rock and re-emerged as The Belles.
- Daily ticker
- July 16, 2004
- Harrah’s betting on merger with Caesars
- July 16, 2004
- Harrah's Entertainment Inc. is buying Caesars Entertainment Inc. for about $5.2 billion in cash and stock in a deal that would create the largest gambling company in the world.
- Briefcase
- July 16, 2004
- • Former Tyco lawyer acquitted on all counts • Price report suggests inflation under control • Southwest CEO resigns
- Enron reorganization plan OK’d
- Company plans to pay creditors with asset sales
- July 16, 2004
- More than two years after its spectacular collapse, Enron won approval Thursday to emerge from bankruptcy under a plan in which creditors will receive less than 20 cents on the dollar and the Enron name will forever disappear.
- Armstrong blasts French press tactics
- July 16, 2004
- Lance Armstrong finished ninth in Thursday's stage of the Tour de France and accused French reporters of trying to rummage through his hotel room in hopes of finding evidence of doping.
- U.S. swimmers look strong again in Olympic pool
- July 16, 2004
- With fireworks exploding above their heads, America's Olympic swimmers took one last stroll around the pool.
- Seattle storms past Monarchs
- July 16, 2004
- The Sacramento Monarchs like an ugly game, and Seattle's Lauren Jackson was happy to play it.
- Bryant stays with Lakers
- Troubled free agent guard shuns Clippers
- July 16, 2004
- Kobe Bryant's journey through free agency ended Thursday where it began — with the Los Angeles Lakers.
- Pierce not about to abandon Celts
- Former Kansas University player committed to Boston’s youth movement under new coach Rivers
- July 16, 2004
- Paul Pierce has kept his eyes wide open in this summer of stars on the move. He has noticed some of his peers asking to be traded, and, yes, he admitted this week, he has considered joining the conga line.
- Former student receives jail time for role in death
- July 16, 2004
- A San Diego man was sentenced Thursday to seven years and five months in prison for his part in the beating death of a Fort Hays State University freshman.
- Judge rejects tribe’s claim to land in K.C.K.
- July 16, 2004
- A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma's claim to 1,920 acres of prime industrial real estate in downtown Kansas City, Kan.
- Missouri county outlaws nudity after float trip gets out of hand
- July 16, 2004
- Planning to canoe the Elk River? You better keep your clothes on.
- Owner convicted, fined for dog attack
- July 16, 2004
- The owner of two pit bulls that attacked and severely injured a young girl will have his two 60-day jail sentences suspended if he pays $835 in fines and fees within two months.
- Farmers overrun forests as latest threat to gorillas
- July 16, 2004
- Farmers have overrun thousands of acres in Congo's oldest national park, the latest threat to more than half the world's 700 remaining mountain gorillas, conservationists and park workers say.
- Mayo Clinic helping to determine cause of death
- July 16, 2004
- The death of 13-year-old Krystal Bateson continues to perplex doctors and forensic pathologists.
- Courthouse to stay open late for voter registration
- July 16, 2004
- Douglas County elections officials are working late to make sure people have a chance to vote in the upcoming primary elections.
- Wanted: spies for hot spots
- Program to provide scholarships in exchange for CIA assignment
- July 16, 2004
- A program inspired by a Kansas University professor, endorsed by the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and aimed at correcting the U.S. intelligence community's weaknesses is accepting applications.
- Outsiders, defector helped make case for war
- July 16, 2004
- A former CIA director who advocated war against Saddam Hussein helped arrange the debriefing of an Iraqi defector who falsely claimed that Iraq had biological-warfare laboratories disguised as yogurt and milk trucks.
- Family mourns death of airman
- July 16, 2004
- Shirley Lehman was looking forward to her grandson's return in about three weeks from military duty in Iraq.
- 911 tapes describe ConAgra shooting
- July 16, 2004
- The first call came from a security guard, telling emergency dispatchers that a gunman was loose in the ConAgra Foods Inc. plant here.
- Anschutz Entertainment signs pact for K.C. arena
- July 16, 2004
- A Los Angeles-based sports and entertainment firm signed an agreement Thursday to contribute $50 million toward construction of a proposed downtown arena, city and corporate officials announced.
- KSU’s Webb won’t be tried in battery case
- July 16, 2004
- Kansas State quarterback Allen Webb will not appear before a jury on battery charges for allegedly punching another student in Aggieville last summer.
- Raiders earn split with Topeka 400
- July 16, 2004
- Two home runs by Taylor Martin only were good enough to deliver one victory for Lawrence as the Raiders split a doubleheader with Topeka Post 400, 6-5 and 6-5, Thursday night at Seaman High School.
- Zona Belinda Smith
- July 16, 2004
- Patricia An Zahniser
- July 16, 2004
- James W. Schrader Sr.
- July 16, 2004
- Eugene W. Frowe
- July 16, 2004
- Senate passes tobacco buyout bill
- July 16, 2004
- The Senate approved a measure Thursday that would combine a $12 billion buyout for tobacco growers with authority for the government for the first time to regulate the ingredients of all tobacco products, including nicotine levels.
- Kerry tells NAACP he’s leader of ‘all people’
- President Bush to address Urban League next week
- July 16, 2004
- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry accused President Bush on Thursday of dividing America by race and riches, taking advantage of a White House feud with the NAACP to declare himself a leader of “all of the people.”
- On the record
- July 16, 2004
- Garciaparra trade to Cubs not dead yet
- July 16, 2004
- Nomar Watch was the talk of Wrigley Field on Thursday as the idea of Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra wearing a Cubs uniform gathered steam.
- MLB briefs
- July 16, 2004
- • BoSox activate Mendoza • Mets' Erickson to start • Mariners cut Olerud
- Squinting through the splash
- July 16, 2004
- View from above
- July 16, 2004
- Gruber fourth in 1,500
- July 16, 2004
- Former Kansas University distance runner Charlie Gruber placed fourth in his heat of the 1,500-meter run Thursday at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials.
- Iraqi premier predicts wave of violence
- Car bombing kills 10 near Baghdad
- July 16, 2004
- Iraq's interim prime minister said Thursday he expected insurgents to strike harder in the coming weeks and announced the creation of an intelligence service designed to combat terrorism.
- Chicago clips Milwaukee, 5-1
- Cubs’ Pryor leaves game in second inning because of discomfort in elbow
- July 16, 2004
- Mark Prior's dejected look said it all.
- Moore flush for 3rd District campaign
- Congressman reports $1.05 million in cash on hand for re-election run
- July 16, 2004
- Democratic Rep. Dennis Moore smashed records by socking away $1.05 million for his re-election campaign, according to fund-raising reports due Thursday.
- Sales, sun, socializing draw sidewalk shoppers
- July 16, 2004
- Organizers estimated about 20,000 people were drawn Thursday to the retail binge known as the 33rd annual Downtown Lawrence Sidewalk Sale.
- Childhood TV watching linked to smoking, obesity
- July 16, 2004
- Children who watch more than two hours of television a night seem to be at higher risk of becoming smokers or being fat, out of shape or having high cholesterol as adults, according to a new study.
- Construction begins on salt museum
- July 16, 2004
- Crews working on the planned Kansas Underground Salt Museum have made their way through a section of frozen aquifer about 125 feet down, and are continuing progress on what will be a 650-foot elevator shaft.
- ‘I Robot’ assembles slick machine
- July 16, 2004
- Hollywood only puts out one or two films a year that can genuinely be considered science fiction.
- Gays not key threat to marriage
- July 16, 2004
- U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., says that amending the Constitution to ban gay marriages is really a form of homeland security.
- It’s wrong
- July 16, 2004
- Briefly
- July 16, 2004
- • Wind-whipped wildfire remains out of control • Suspect charged with raping workers at malls • Charges dismissed for two Bush protesters • Girl missing nine years found with mother
- Briefly
- July 16, 2004
- • Bank's failure to act on Pinochet spurs outrage • Anti-war group reaches settlement for billboard • Man who shot priest let off without prison
- Briefly
- July 16, 2004
- • Kansas driver shot after police chase in Arizona • Teen pleads no contest in street fighting death
- Cool customer
- July 16, 2004
- Newspaper thief finally outfoxed
- July 16, 2004
- Neighbors in a subdivision of this Franklin County community have spent weeks trying to catch whoever was stealing their morning newspapers.
- Woodling: Championship series formula new, but not improved
- July 16, 2004
- Do you know what the Bowl Championship Series reminds me of? Communism.
- Officials hope changes lead to true national champion
- July 16, 2004
- There will be fewer numbers to crunch in the revamped version of the Bowl Championship Series formula.
- Scoring boom at Royal Troon
- Double-eagle, ace, birdies highlight first round
- July 16, 2004
- The fierce wind took the day off at Royal Troon. So did the mighty Americans, who have owned this course the last five times the British Open has been played here.
- KU’s Reynolds focused on task at trials
- July 16, 2004
- Normally a talkative guy, Doug Reynolds loses the gift of gab 48 hours before any major track discus competition.
- Five Royals relievers help Greinke earn win, 3-1
- July 16, 2004
- Maybe Zack Greinke finally has found the formula for success: Hold the opponent to one run for seven innings and then let five relievers finish the job.
- A KU all-star
- July 16, 2004
- Del Shankel is someone Kansas University always can count on to step into a tough job.
- Ashley Judd finds her voice in ‘De-Lovely’
- July 16, 2004
- Ashley Judd has so firmly entrenched herself in Hollywood that it's hard to remember less than a decade ago she was best known for being the one in the family who DIDN'T sing.
- Low-carb craze revives Atchison company
- MGP Ingredients’ sales climb after new focus
- July 16, 2004
- A few short years after wondering if his 63-year-old company would survive, Ladd Seaberg is presiding over a business that has customers clamoring for its products and Wall Street noticing the little wheat-processing firm in northeast Kansas.
- Experts expect Stewart to get jail time
- July 16, 2004
- Martha Stewart will be sentenced today and learn whether she will have to trade the tastefully tinted walls of her home for the spare cinderblocks of a prison cell.
- Bush twins getting a feel for public roles
- July 16, 2004
- A photo spread and interview in the August Vogue dutifully applies polish to the Bush daughters' personas — no tabloid shots of boozy, dirty dancing here — but readers do get a hint of mother Laura's shockingly countercultural music tastes. She sent twins Jenna and Barbara the Bob Dylan album “At Budokan” when they requested music at summer camp after sixth grade.
- Yankees bomb Tigers, 5-1
- Home runs account for all five New York hits
- July 16, 2004
- Jose Contreras went to the mound with his head up, chest out and shoulders back.
- Briefly
- July 16, 2004
- • Project to close part of Jayhawk Boulevard • Suspect in city rape was armed, police say • Tribes to turn attention to casino after purchase • After-school programs receive grant funding
- Horoscopes
- July 16, 2004
- Westar target of clean air probe
- Environmental agency considering filing lawsuits against power plants
- July 16, 2004
- The owners of nearly two dozen coal-burning power plants, including Topeka-based Westar Energy, could face lawsuits from the Environmental Protection Agency for clean air violations stemming from plant expansions or improvements, according to agency officials and documents.
- Privacy concerns limit Web feature
- County removes name searches from online valuation listings
- July 16, 2004
- County officials are making it harder to search for property values using the county's Web site, citing concerns about public safety.
- Inquisition opened into 2003 homicide
- ‘We haven’t given up,’ sheriff says about probe into unsolved slaying
- July 16, 2004
- As an acclaimed homicide expert visits Lawrence this week to teach police from around the Midwest how to catch killers, authorities here still are investigating an unsolved slaying of their own.
- 4-H’ers to honor former member with pins, awards during Free Fair
- July 16, 2004
- Vinland Valley 4-H Club members will be wearing special pins during this year's Douglas County Free Fair.
- HBO tops Emmy nominees
- July 16, 2004
- “Angels in America,” “The Sopranos,” “Deadwood,” “Sex and the City” and even a program or two not appearing on HBO led the nominees for the 56th Primetime Emmy Awards, announced Thursday morning.
- Space, sea shows on slate today
- July 16, 2004
- Two very different programs explore outer space and underwater themes.
- Marine who vanished in Iraq arrives in U.S.
- July 16, 2004
- Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, the Marine who disappeared in Iraq and turned up in Lebanon three weeks later, will remain at Quantico Marine base until he is deemed fit to return to duty, a spokesman said Thursday.
- Briefly
- July 16, 2004
- • Morocco has up to 1,000 al-Qaida followers, judge says • Medicare eliminates policy that obesity is not an illness • Labor board: GTAs at private schools cannot form unions • Lawyers sue U.S. for Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo
- DeLay investigators benefited from his PAC
- July 16, 2004
- Four of the five House ethics committee Republicans investigating Majority Leader Tom DeLay have accepted money in the past from the fund-raising operation involved in the complaint against him.
- Lawrence briefs
- July 16, 2004
- • CASA playhouse raffle drawing this weekend • Fund drive continues with Big Pig Saturday • Bachelor auction raises $3,000 for agency
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