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A note from the editor –You may have noticed the Ottawa Herald is much smaller this week.

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TOPEKA — Around $8.3 million will be divided across nineteen Kansas communities for road safety improvement projects, Gov.

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TOPEKA — A Kansas businessman faces up to 25 years in prison after conspiring to sell and export aviation-related equipment to Russia, a scheme that allegedly began in 2020 and continued through Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Sixty-year-old Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky, the owner and president of KanRus Trading Company Inc., pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal criminal charges.

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The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld a previous decision in Franklin County District Court for a man who pleaded no contest to charges filed in connection with an October 2012 incident.In a statement released Friday, court officials said the supreme court confirmed the district court’s summary denial of Ward’s 2021 motion to withdraw his 2013 plea of no contest to various crimes on other grounds.

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The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office reported the following calls for service from Dec.

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O-Town Reads

Concealed by a black cover, the next O-Town Read was hidden somewhere beneath, waiting to be revealed.Soon, the 2024 selection would be unveiled to a roomful of locals who gathered Friday in the Ottawa Library for the Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce coffee and learn the name of this year’s read.For several years, the O-Town Reads program has brought the community together through a common theme, officials said.

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