“I didn’t know he had it in him.” How many times have you heard this statement after someone earned an achievement? When a young Bruce Springsteen attended school as a boy in Freehold, New Jersey, he felt he didn’t fit inside the box. He said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning a couple years ago, “I was probably one of the smartest kids in my class at the time.
The Ottawa Police Department in the overnight of hours of Sunday and Monday arrested an 18-year-old Ottawa male in connection with several burglaries, police officials… Login to continue reading Login…
Submitted photo The Barraclough family, Kimberly, Natalie, Lydia, Trenton and Travis, has been of the top volunteers for the Wreaths Across Franklin County. They started picking up the wreaths before the rest of the crew arrived. All the wreaths were picked up before the weekend’s snow storm hit the county.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas suspended two fraternities for hazing earlier this month, but officials don’t plan to share their investigation with police. Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Theta were both suspended from campus for five years because of the incidents university officials found, which included assaults, sleep deprivation, forced workouts, destruction of pledges’ property and retaliation for reporting the behavior to university officials. “Students always remain free to pursue criminal charges, and if they would seek to do so, we would provide appropriate assistance,” KU spokeswoman Er- inn Barcomb-Peterson told the Lawrence Journal-World. “However, we will not take control away from a victim by triggering a criminal investigation the victim does not want.”
University of Kansas sophomore Jalen Wilson is coming into his own offensively. He sizzled the nets for a career-tying 23 points in lead the Jayhawks to a 85-59 win Saturday over West Virginia in Allen Fieldhouse.
Central Heights USD 288 canceled classes for Friday and Tuesday due to “an increase of covid-19 cases, high absenteeism, and staff shortages”, the district announced Friday. The district already had Monday off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Classes will resume Wednesday, January 19.
When the holidays are over and spring seems eons away, it’s not uncommon for people to feel a little down. But for an estimate five percent of Americans, this melancholy can cause major disruptions in their life and can even lead to dangerous thoughts.
The Ottawa Police Department is now accepting applications for its newest role, the Crisis Co-Responder. The position’s creation was made possible by a $150,798 grant OPD received in October 2021 to create a Community Policing Officer and a Crisis Co-Responder role.
Kansas and Missouri logged their warmest average December temperatures on record last month, according to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Average temperatures over the last half of 2021 were higher than they’ve ever been in either state — and across the country.
DALLAS (AP) — The tight-knit congregation at a Texas synagogue where four people were held hostage by an armed captor during a 10-hour standoff over the weekend traces its roots back to a gathering organized over 20 years ago by a handful of families who were new to the area.