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City presented with design proposals for new bridge

While design work is ongoing, Leavenworth city commissioners were presented pictures this week of what a new Missouri River bridge may look like. The design work is for a bridge that would replace the existing Centennial Bridge, which stretches from north Leavenworth to Platte County, Missouri.

Kansas researcher faces sentencing in China-related case

A former researcher who was accused of hiding work he did in China while employed by the University of Kansas, which prosecutors say cost the school and federal agencies hundreds of thousands of dollars, was to be sentenced Wednesday on one felony count of making a false statement.

Port Authority discusses veterans home project

When they met this week, members of the Leavenworth County Port Authority discussed possible reasons why Leavenworth was not selected as the site of a planned state veterans home. Local officials had hoped the state-operated veterans home would be located in Leavenworth.

How ominous is the debt limit problem?

On the brink of hitting the nation’s legal borrowing limit on Thursday, the government is resorting to “extraordinary measures” to avoid a default. Sounds ominous, right? But - take a breath - the phrase technically refers to a bunch of accounting workarounds.