The Ottawa Police Department is warning the community about a recent string of auto burglaries in the western part of town. According to OPD, the burglaries occurred from Canterbury Ct. to 19th and Ash on Wednesday evening. Residents of these areas are being asked to check their security cameras in an effort to identify any suspects in the case.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has released an official statement on the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which was discovered in South Africa earlier this month. Since this variant is still relatively new, it's not yet known just how transmissible or contagious it is, or if it's vaccineresistant.
As the secretary of the Kansas Department of Agriculture, I regularly talk with farmers, ranchers, agribusiness owners, and other stakeholders across the state. Sadly, the issues of ag stress, mental health and even suicide have been at the forefront of many discussions over the past three years.
As the Biden administration calls for an investigation into rising gas prices and begins tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help slow rising gas prices, it is important to pull back the curtain on the ideologically driven processes the administration is using to justify these bad policy decisions.
A running gag on “The Simpsons” has the character Helen Lovejoy asking, “Won’t somebody please think of the children?!” She asks it often and with varying levels of concern and sometimes sass.
Fossils found in Chile are from a strange-looking dog-sized dinosaur species that had a unique slashing tail weapon, scientists reported Wednesday. Some dinosaurs had spiked tails they could use as stabbing weapons and others had tails with clubs.
PORTLAND, Maine – The warming of the planet is taking a deadly toll on seabirds that are suffering population declines from starvation, inability to reproduce, heat waves and extreme weather. Climate-related losses have hit albatrosses off the Hawaiian islands, northern gannets near the British Isles and puffins off the Maine coast.
America needs to rethink and reduce the way it generates plastics because so much of the material is littering the oceans and other waters, the National Academy of Sciences says in a new report. The United States, the world’s top plastics waste producer, generates more than 46 million tons yearly, and about 2.2 billion pounds ends up in the world’s oceans, according to the academy’s report.
BEIRUT – A Lebanese DJ was days away from moving to Riyadh to play for a month in one of the newest entertainment centers in Saudi Arabia’s capital when a brief, polite Whatsapp message informed her the contract wouldn’t go through.
BANGKOK – The killing of at least 65 protesters in Myanmar’s biggest city on March 14 this year was planned and premeditated, and the perpetrators must be brought to justice, a rights watchdog said in a report released Thursday.