The Moore, Okla., suburb where Charlie Harnett said he used to play softball with his cousins has disappeared. It’s buried under the rubble left ...
Have a plan. After the recent outbreak of severe weather in Tornado Alley and the destruction left after the tornado Monday in Moore, Okla., Alan Radc ...
A relatively new Ottawa Recreation Commission rule aims to distinguish its programs from day care facilities. The rule, which was unanimously approve ...
The number of Hepatitis C cases in Franklin County is on the rise. In the first four months of the year, Franklin County already reported 63 percent o ...
Students involved in athletics and extracurricular activities at Central Heights will have a new academic eligibility policy for the 2013-2014 school ...
Three community members have been tapped to help city officials and advisers shape the Ottawa Municipal Airport’s future flight path. Ottawa ci ...
• A rain ranging from 3 1/2 inches down to 1 1/2 visited Franklin County yesterday afternoon and early last night. The rain yesterday was the hea ...
Local motorists can expect an increased police presence as the Ottawa Police Department participates in the 2013 Kansas Click It or Ticket traffic enf ...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., announced this week he is accepting applications for congressional internships in his Washington, D. ...
Memorial Day weekend will be scene of a special observance for one recently killed Sunflower State soldier. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has ordered flag ...
Ottawa residents who need a way to dispose of downed limbs from Sunday’s gusty winds are in luck. Ottawa Public Works Department crews plan to c ...
A summer lunch program for Ottawa students begins Tuesday, Richard Jackson said. “It’s open to all students of USD 290,” Jackson, CE ...
RICHMOND — The summer season for learning and nostalgia begins this weekend. The Richmond Community Museum, 119 E. Central St., is expected to o ...
A coming benefit run not only is expected to offer area athletes a multi-mile jaunt, but also technology for more accurate timing on their performance ...
The number of Hepatitis C cases in Franklin County is on the rise. In the first four months of the year, Franklin County already reported 63 percent o ...
Local motorists can expect an increased police presence as the Ottawa Police Department participates in the 2013 Kansas Click It or Ticket traffic enf ...
Ottawa residents who need a way to dispose of downed limbs from Sunday’s gusty winds are in luck. Ottawa Public Works Department crews plan to c ...
The Ottawa Bark Park no longer is tethered to the word “concept.” Ottawa city commissioners voted 5-0 last week to approve a 2.8-acre sit ...
WELLSVILLE — Gusty winds and an incessant locomotive horn did little to tamp down the festive mood Sunday in the Wellsville High School football ...
Ottawa Mayor Sara Caylor challenged Future Visions program graduates to stay in the arena. Caylor was the commencement speaker at Sunday evening&rsquo ...
POMONA — Seniors at West Franklin High School shared some of their final memories together at Saturday’s graduation as Seth Bollinger reco ...
When it comes to trimming excess, the City of Ottawa has the Kansas governor’s office beat. The Blake Jorgensen-led Shrinking Ottawa Government ...
“Give the kids hugs for me, and tell them I love and miss them,” Steve White told his wife April 18. It was the last time Randi White talk ...
Kansas Deputy Attorney General Vic Braden is taking the lead on the prosecution of Kyle T. Flack, the man charged in a quadruple homicide in Franklin ...
Recognizing top students who also are good citizens — That’s the goal of The Herald’s Elite Citizen Scholar program, which honors ar ...
The Ottawa Herald caught up with students who were selected as Elite Citizen Scholars in 2008. Five years later, where are they? What have they accomp ...
Two graduating seniors from each high school in Franklin County have earned the title of 2013 Ottawa Herald Citizen Scholars. The students not only ar ...
A woman looking to pass a fraudulent check Wednesday at Country Mart was unsuccessful, and Ottawa police are spreading the word to prevent other Ottaw ...
The last time Kansas killed a convicted murderer — June 1965 — gas cost about 31 cents a gallon, Jim Crow laws segregated America and hang ...
If Jeanne Stroh could walk on air, the new superintendent of Ottawa schools would have put that talent on display Monday night. Near the end of an hou ...