Topeka revved up for races
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Sports Car Club of America/Special to the Journal-World
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius holds a racing helmet commemorating the selection of Topeka as host for the Sports Car Club of America National Championship Runoffs in 2006. Sebelius -- flanked by Ray Irwin, left, owner of Heartland Park Topeka, and Steve Johnson, president and CEO of the Topeka-based club -- received the helmet during an announcement event Thursday in Topeka.
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Kids' stuff
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Special to the Journal-World
The Get Up Kids will record a pair of shows this week in Lawrence for a live CD/DVD release.
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Airlines lower fares to rival Delta
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Doug Mills/AP File Photo
A Continental Airlines plane passes the Capitol en route to Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va. Continental Airlines Inc. said Thursday that it was lowering some fares, and that it must achieve its goal of cutting about $500 million in wages and benefits by Feb. 28 or face a liquidity crisis that could result in layoffs and fleet reductions.
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The Lazer switches to older, community-based audience
Fri Jan 7, 2005
"People want to stereotype this town as a college town. It is, but it also has a lot of families and business people here year-round." - Ron Covert, general manager of KLZR
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Fans shunning once-popular Bryant jersey
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Kevork Djansezian/AP File Photo
The Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant watches his missed shot at the end of overtime against Miami in this Dec. 25, 2004 file photo. For the last month, Bryant's Lakers jersey has fallen out of the top 50 in sales.
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Homeless task force hears ideas, frustrations
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo
Members of the Task Force on Homeless Services, from left, Steve Ozark, Candi Davis, Randy Beeman, Jim Schneider and Rich Forney have a discussion with members of the homeless community on issues affecting them in the city.
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Texas powers past Memphis
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Matt Rourke/AP Photo
Texas' P.j. Tucker, left, fights for the ball with Memphis' Simplice Njoya. Tucker scored four of his team-high 18 points in the final 42 seconds of the 15th-ranked Longhorns' 74-67 victory Thursday in Austin, Texas.
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'White Noise' lacks spirit
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Special to the Journal-World
Michael Keaton, foreground, and Deborah Kara Unger star in the paranormal thriller, "White Noise."
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Volunteers help beat snow
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Thad Allender/Journal-World Photo
Wendy Leedy, Lawrence, shovels snow and ice off an elderly neighbor's driveway Thursday in east Lawrence. The Roger Hill Volunteer Center and the city of Lawrence have teamed to provide community volunteer service to the elderly and disabled. Leedy is a volunteer in the program.
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Eight killed in gas leak from freight train crash
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Nina Nidiffer/AP Photo
Chemicals leak from the tanks of a derailed train in Graniteville, S.C. A Norfolk Southern freight train carrying chlorine gas struck a parked train early Thursday, killing eight people and injuring more than 240 others, authorities said. Most of the injured were treated for respiratory ailments and released, authorities said.
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New '24' season offers fresh characters, usual surprises
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Fox Broadcasting Photo
Actors Kiefer Sutherland, as Jack Brauer, and Kim Raver, as Brauer's love interest, appear in a scene from Fox's "24." Surprise is the key element of the show, and there should be plenty of it on the ticking-clock drama's fourth season, which premieres 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday.
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Handshy, Weinmaster selected for East squad
Fri Jan 7, 2005
Handshy
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Photo: New pal
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Ron Edmonds/AP Photo
Laura Bush shows off the White House's latest puppy, Miss Beazley, a Scottish terrier, on the South Lawn of the White House. The puppy was given Thursday as a birthday gift to the first lady from President Bush.
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Photo: Jayhawk sighting in Iraq
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Mark Dye/Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times Photo
U.S. Army Sgt. Carl A. McCauley, of Hansen, Idaho, has some admirers as he takes a break early Tuesday after patrolling all night in Baghdad. One of the Iraqi children, for reasons unknown, is wearing a Kansas University Jayhawk sweatshirt. McCauley is with the 10th Mountain Division.
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Photo: Clearing the way
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Thad Allender/Journal-World Photo
Jimmie Thomas, a maintenance worker for the Lawrence school district, removes snow at East Heights Early Childhood Family Center, 1430 Haskell Ave. This week's icy weather brought activity, including school, to a standstill. Thomas cleared sidewalks Thursday. Warmer weather is expected this weekend.
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This Weekend's Highlights
Fri Jan 7, 2005
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Kids' stuff
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Special to the Journal-World
The Get Up Kids, from left, James DeWees, Matt Pryor, Jim Suptic, Rob Pope and Ryan Pope, will play two shows at The Granada this weekend to celebrate the 10th anniversary of forming the band. They plan to turn the shows into a CD/DVD to be released in June.
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Grizzlies post fifth straight win
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Paul Sancya/AP Photo
Memphis' Lorenzen Wright, left, and Detroit's Rasheed Wallace battle for the ball. The Grizzles defeated the Pistons, 101-79, Thursday night in Auburn Hills, Mich.
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Airlines lower fares to rival Delta
Fri Jan 7, 2005, AP Graphic
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A&M snuck up on KU
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Scott McClurg/Journal-World Photo
Kansas University senior Keith Langford, right, drives against Texas A&M's Dominique Kirk. Langford scored nine points in the Jayhawks' 65-60 victory over the Aggies on Wednesday in Allen Fieldhouse.
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Clearer skies give time to clean up
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Thad Allender/Journal-World Photo
Iced-over trees loom large in the background as neighborhood friends, from left, Armand Eich, 7, Dalton Stender, 10, and Ben Richards, 8, take turns pulling each other on a sled in central Lawrence. The trio navigated the icy streets Thursday, the second consecutive day that schools were closed.
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For some exercisers, going downhill may be uplifting
Fri Jan 7, 2005, AP Graphic
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'White Noise' lacks spirit
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Universal Pictures Photo
Michael Keaton plays Jonathan Rivers, whose wife, Anna, mysteriously disappears in "White Noise." Rivers gets involved with practitioners of electronic voice phenomenon, the theory that the dead can communicate with the living through modern technology.
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Volunteers help beat snow
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Scott McClurg/Journal-World Photo
Ice drapes from road signs at Highways 56 and 59 on Thursday.
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Bynum helps Georgia Tech forget
Fri Jan 7, 2005, John Bazemore/AP Photo
Georgia Tech's Isma'il Muhammad, right, knocks the ball away from Miami's Robert Hite in the second half. The ninth-ranked Yellow Jackets won, 80-69, Thursday in Atlanta.
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‘The Sea Inside' actor offers stellar performance
Fri Jan 7, 2005
Bardem
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Tsunami death toll nears 160,000
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Jasper Juinen/AP Photo
An Indian police officer tries to control hungry survivors of the tsunami as rice is handed out at a relief camp in Devanah Pattinam, India. The truck had to leave midway as chaos prevailed Thursday because there was not enough rice to be distributed to all the evacuees.
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Handshy, Weinmaster selected for East squad
Fri Jan 7, 2005
Weinmaster
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Photo: Bad Boys (and girl)
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Elizabeth Conley/AP Photo
Detroit shock coach Bill Laimbeer, left, WNBA player Swin Cash, center, and former Detroit Piston Rick Mahorn pose for a photo. Mahorn was named an assistant coach for the Shock during a news conference Thursday in Southfield, Mich. Mahorn and Laimbeer were part of Detroit's "Bad Boys" championship team in 1989.
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Photo: Hard-core cold
Fri Jan 7, 2005, Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo
This week's icy weather left a clear coating on this apple hanging from a tree east of Lawrence. Clearer skies Thursday gave the area a break, although cleanup of fallen branches continued and temperatures remained chilly.
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This Weekend's Highlights
Fri Jan 7, 2005
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This Weekend's Highlights
Fri Jan 7, 2005
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