Pottawatomie Council weighs rent for Raritans group
Residents urge the Pottawatomie Township to let the Raritans meet rent free in the community building. The council will discuss renewing the free-use arrangement amid a rent request after 15 years of meetings and festival help.
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Andy Gassaway
Herald
Pottawatomie Township
Lane
Bill Chester
Pottawatomie
S. Kansas St
Les Reinier
Jim Kimball
The
Raritans
Diplomats say US seeks to oust IAEA head ElBaradei
The United States aims to gain allies to remove IAEA head Mohammed ElBaradei at an upcoming board of governors meeting in Vienna. Washington plans to press Iran over alleged efforts to develop nuclear weapons and push for accountability despite European pauses.
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George Jahn
Associated P “Titer
Vienna
Austria
United States
U.N
International Atomic Energy Agency
Washington
Iran
Associated Press
IAEA
Mohammed ElBaradei
U.S
Iaea Board of Governors
ElBaradei
John Bolton
State Department
Condoleezza Rice
Snow Deluge Strands Ottawa County Roads in Snow
Snow began Tuesday morning and kept falling through the afternoon, totaling four inches in Ottawa and Franklin County. Traffic accidents disrupted roads as crews worked to clear them, while a house fire in southwestern Franklin County faced delays due to slick, snowpacked streets. The sheriff's office opened with multiple I 35 incidents, including a noninjury rollover near mile 171 and an injury crash near mile 182 involving the driver.
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Franklin Windler
Lincoln Elementary School
Hickory Street
Ottawa
Windler
Franklin County
Sheriff's Department
Sprint investors press suit over stock merger ruling
In OLATHE AP Sprint Corp faces a class-action suit over last year’s plan to recombine its wireline and wireless stocks. Judge Moriarty denied Sprint’s motions to dismiss the case against the company, its board, and former executives. Plaintiffs allege breach of fiduciary duty and stock manipulation tied to false financial reports. The ruling comes as Sprint wrote off $3.2 billion in long‑distance assets last fall.
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Olathe
Sprint Corp
Johnson County
Kevin Moriarty
Overland Park
Sprint
PCS Wireless
PCS
Cities push back against Bush plan to cut development grants
Mayors and county officials urged Congress to reject deep cuts to the Community Development Block Grant program, warning such reductions would devastate affordable housing efforts and urban renewal. Ottawa ECKAN leaders fear losing about a half million dollars in funding that supports community centers and weatherization programs nationwide.
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Washington
Bush
Congress
Don Plasquellie
Akron
Ohio
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Baltimore
Martin O’malley
O'Malley
Ottawa
Kansas Economic Opportunity Corp
Richard Jackson
ECKAN
Jackson
Subsidy cuts threaten family farms and big operations
President Bush’s plan to cap farm subsidies aims to curb large corporate farming but smallholders warn losses. Daryl Burney, a 1,000 acre cotton farmer from Coffeeville Mississippi, says subsidy limits will bite his income though he sometimes nears the cap. Burney fears the new budget would raise the impact by enforcing lower ceilings and closing loopholes.
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Libby Quaid
Associated Press
Washington
Bush
Daryl Burney
Coffeeville
Miss
Burney
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