KLA holds 109th annual meeting
WICHITA – More than 800 Kansas Livestock Association members attended the 109th annual convention from Dec. 2 to Dec.
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‘The big one’
The excitement in the rehearsal hall was palpable. Students rushed about stuffing last-minute items in suitcases, doublechecking their music folders.
American statesman
On July 22, 1923, Doran Dole went to work at Fairmont Creamery Co. in Russell like any other morning.
Poll: Pandemic stress has weighed on Gen Z
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Trump media deal gets SEC look
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NYC to impose new vaccine mandate
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US group says Haitians free 3 hostages
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NATION & WORLD WATCH
Russia reports its first cases of omicron COVID-19 variant MOSCOW – Russia has confirmed its first two cases of the omicron coronavirus variant in travelers who returned from South Africa, health authorities said Monday. Russian public health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said 10 people who returned from South Africa recently tested positive for COVID-19, but the new variant has only been confirmed in two cases, with other samples still being studied for omicron.
Attack ‘led to a changed world’
Eighty years ago, 6-year-old Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson sat down to a Sunday morning breakfast at home on Hawaii’s Pan American air base when the walls began to shake. It was Dec.