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From France’s Joan of Arc to female resistance fighters in World War II and the black-clad women warriors of the Viet Cong, history is filled with stories of women fighting alongside men. In many modern armies, however, ground infantry combat is still largely a male preserve — either by regulation, practical issues such as physical requirements of living space or personal preference in volunteer forces. But change is afoot. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where supply troops, clerks and military police have ended up in battle regardless of gen...
LONDON (AP) — The British government published a bill to legalize same-sex marriage Friday, and said lawmakers will get their first vote on it in Parliament next month. The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill extends marriage to gay couples but excludes clergy in the Church of England — the country’s official faith — from having to carry out the ceremonies. That is intended to placate religious opponents of same-sex unions — though it has not stopped criticism of the bill from religious leaders. “We feel that marriage is a good thing and we shou...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Standing outside the Cathedral Basilica as thousands filed inside to pay their respects, Stan Musial’s grandson was thankful. “Just seeing all this,” Brian Schwarze said, “and I got to play catch with him.” “I mean, he was my grandfather. But I really do believe I’m starting to understand somewhat what he meant to the whole community,” he said. Many visitors seemed to treat Thursday’s six-hour public visitation as if it was Stan the Man’s final game day, decked out in team at...
NEW YORK (AP) — The person Manti Te’o says was pretending to be his online girlfriend told the Notre Dame linebacker “I love you” in voicemails that were played during his interview with Katie Couric. Taped earlier this week and broadcast Thursday, the hour-long talk show featured three voicemails that Te’o claims were left for him last year. Te’o said they were from the person he believed to be Lennay Kekua, a woman he had fallen for online but never met face-to-face. After the first message was played, Te’o said: “It sounds like a girl, do...
CHAPPELL — Despite owning but one win heading into Thursday evening, Sutherland High School’s boys’ basketball team doubled its win count at the expense of host Creek Valley, 55-49. “Defensive breakdowns and a lack of rebounding really hurt us ,” Storm coach Roger Behrends said. Sutherland (2-13) had just four players contribute in the scoring column, but the one-two punch of Tyler Fear and Brett Good was too much to overcome for the Storm (5-9). Fear scored 28 points, but struggled to hit just half of his eight free-throw attempts. With the... Full story
Chadron State College students are often drawn to northwest Nebraska for its hunting opportunities. For a certain group of students on campus, however, a big buck or a tom turkey is not the object of their pursuits. Rather, they are hunting area soils for the elusive bacteriophage, or phage for short. CSC is one of a limited number of institutions throughout the nation that is discovering the organisms hidden in the dirt through a special project of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science Education Alliance. The program is commonly r...
Potter-Dix Public Schools 2012-2013 Second quarter Honor Roll Second quarter A honor roll, 12th grade, Christina Garlach; 11th grade, Tiffany Lewis, Katelyn Woten; eighth grade, Emmalea Bush, Brooke Glass; seventh grade, JT Herboldsheimer, Kaden Vowers. Second quarter B honor roll 12th grade, Cody Aure, Devan Baker, Luke Johnson, Bailey Long, Amanda Maas, Conner Wolff; 11th grade, Taylor Juelfs; 10th grade, Cooper Hicks, Ryley Hicks, Rebekah Hutchinson, Jake Johnson; ninth grade, Sam Bogert, Coby Hicks, Regyn Hicks, Austin Lewis, Cortney...
Leyton Public Schools Honor Roll for second nine weeks A honor roll, sixth grade, Janessa Carley, Destinee Henke, Danielle Higgins, Joshua Kruse, Shelby Miller; seventh grade, Taylor Borges, Paige Ernest; eighth grade, Taylor Berner, Hope Dykman, Brianna Weyerts; ninth grade, Tanner Bellmyer, Caitlyn Deal, Zachery Deal, Katelyn Higgins, Jessica Houk; 10th grade, Kaitlyn Berner, Dani McKay, Jared Westman; 11th grade, Alex W. Frerichs, Zachary Jones, Josh Reimers, Carly Rushman, Seth Schuessler; 12th grade, Rachael Ernest, Grace Harvey. A-B...
MAC action at Creek The parent-teacher conference change is necessary because the MAC Jr. High Basketball Tournament is Feb. 7 and Feb. 9, and Creek Valley is hosting the tournament. Both facilities are going to be used for the tournaments. We will run a Friday schedule on Thursday, Jan. 31, with a 2:37 p.m. dismissal for the students. Thursday, Feb. 7, will revert to a regularly scheduled day, with a normal dismissal (3:25 at the high school). Creek not in session Creek Valley Schools will not be in session on Friday, Feb. 15, due to Winter...
The Republican Party is picking up the pieces. Speaking of the ticket’s loss for the first time since the election, Rep. Paul Ryan noted that many voters “don’t think or know that we have good ideas” on fighting poverty and “helping people move up the ladder of life.” It’s not surprising that Ryan, who got his start working for Jack Kemp and William Bennett at Empower America, sees the world this way. Though it’s a total secret to members of the press and the Democratic Party, conservative intellectuals have been grappling with the problems of...
With little discussion or fanfare, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women in combat that has been in effect for as long as there has been a U.S. military. Feminists and some women serving in the military are applauding the move as a victory for equal rights. They claim that justice requires nothing short of opening all positions to females, regardless of the consequences to combat effectiveness, unit cohesion, or military readiness, factors whose importance they minimize in any event. What is perhaps most striking about...
NORFOLK (AP) — Some northeast Nebraska farmers are facing new irrigation rules. The rules were adopted Thursday night by the Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District Board at its meeting in Norfolk. The district includes parts of Madison, Pierce and Wayne counties. The rules bar expansion of irrigation to new areas as well as bar offseason irrigation. There are irrigation educational requirements, and irrigators must install groundwater water monitors. Some of the irrigators will have annual limits on how much water they can pump. The board h...
ALLIANCE (AP) — A 40-year-old man accused of setting his western Nebraska home on fire has pleaded not guilty to an arson charge. Authorities say Isaac Gonzalez ignited a fire Dec. 13 in the basement of a house he rented in Alliance. Alliance officers pulled Gonzalez to safety through a window. He was hospitalized in Scottsbluff. After his release he surrendered to police on Jan. 8. He’s free on bond. The Class 3 charge carries a maximum prison term of 20 years. Gonzalez is due back in court on April 1. Damage of $100,000 to the house and its...
The Chadron State College Child Development Center has once again met the standards of accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Dr. Kim Madsen, the center’s director, said achieving national accreditation is an important milestone for any center or early childhood program, but especially for CSC. Madsen said the center serves as a role model for families who need high quality care and education, and college students who are pursuing a degree in early childho...
WASHINGTON — They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like “I, Robot” and the television show “Knight Rider.” Now, three years after Google invented one, automated cars could be on their way to a freeway near you. In the U.S., California and other states are rewriting the rules of the road to make way for driverless cars. Just one problem: What happens to the millions of people who make a living driving cars and trucks — jobs that always have seemed sheltered from the onslaug...
HASTINGS – Nebraska astronaut Clayton Anderson said plans for his future were up in the air after his retirement from a 30-year career with NASA. Over his time with the agency, Anderson spent almost 170 days in space, including nearly 40 hours on spacewalks. Anderson confirmed to the Hastings Tribune what he posted on his Twitter account: he’s leaving the national space agency. “Anything is a possibility,” the 53-year-old Anderson said. “No doors are closed.” He and his family will remain in Houston for now, he said, but they could move back t...
Thursday evening at approximately 6 p.m. a driver mistook his car accelerator for his break petal causing an accident when he collided with a pillar outside of the front of the Sidney Safeway, according to Safeway store manager, Steve Lowry. The driver sustained no injuries from the accident....
The Sidney Public Library has undergone many changes since the first library was introduced to Sidney in 1914 and the library continues to keep getting better and better, said Doris Jensen the librarys director. According to Jensen the first library was built in the summer of 1914 and was in the building that now houses the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce. The library was funded by a gracias grant from the Carnegie Foundation. In 1965 the current 7,900 square foot library building was... Full story
At about 2 a.m., Thurs., Jan. 24, Jeff Teague, an independent owner operator leased to Adams & Sons Trucking located in Sidney Nebraska, was passing through Bowman when he observed what he thought was a subject laying up in the yard. Bowman Police and Ambulance Services were called to the scene of the 300 block of 1st Ave SW, US Highway #85, on a report of an OTR Truck Driver finding a 62 year-old-man, barely conscious and laying in a residential yard about 15 feet off the roadway. With outside...
