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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Champ Bailey is cranky. He’s also as confident as ever. And no, he’s not going to admit his body is creaking as he approaches his 35th birthday and prepares to face rookie receivers who were just learning their ABCs when he entered the NFL in 1999. He’s still irked by that loss to Baltimore in the playoffs and the way he got burned by Ravens receiver Torrey Smith. He’s heard the whispers that he should move to safety and how quarterbacks now won’t shy away from him anymore. With nearly three dozen candles about to ad...
COLUMBUS -- The 32 teens gathered in Youth for Christ Tuesday laughed dismissively when Ricky Simmons caricatured the marijuana smoker: squint-eyed, giggling, puffing an imaginary joint and grinning widely. “I used to tell my mom, ‘Man, this don’t do nothing else to you but make you happy and hungry,’” Simmons said. “And sleepy,” someone from the audience offers. Everyone laughs. There is less bonhomie as Simmons moved further down his drug history, a frightening toxicology report that included...
LINCOLN – Jack Hoffman provided the nation with a heartfelt touchdown run. Now he has his own trading card. Upper Deck, best known for its production of baseball cards, announced Tuesday it will release a special “Star Rookie” trading card to honor Hoffman. Hoffman, a 7-year-old from Atkinson who is battling brain cancer, brought 60,000 fans to their feet when he took a handoff from Husker quarterback Taylor Martinez and ran 69 yards for a touchdown during Nebraska’s spring football game on...
Paxton Ehler scored 23 points in his first appearance for the Rocky Mountain Fever, helping the summer basketball squad to a 96-81 win over the Colorado Elite. The tournament, held in Denver, featured a grueling Saturday schedule before bracket play on Sunday. Fever teammate Mike Daum, a 6-9 center from Kimball, added 22 points and 12 rebounds in the opener. They returned to action a few hours later, falling to the Colorado Miners, ranked as that state’s number one AAU squad. In a tight, back an... Full story
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The federal government has launched a new livestock identification program to help agriculture officials to quickly track livestock in cases of disease. It is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s second attempt at implementing such a system, which officials say is critical to maintaining the security of the nation’s food supply. An earlier, voluntary program failed because of widespread opposition among farmers and ranchers who described it as a costly hassle that didn’t help control disease. There has been talk for years a...
There will be a Health and Wellness Fair on Saturday, April 30 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Cheyenne County Community Center. Admission is free. The Health Center Foundation (HCF) will host this year’s annual event a part of an ongoing focus with Sidney Regional Medical Center (SRMC) to encourage the members of the community to pursue a healthy lifestyle and to provide preventive care tips. This year’s event includes more than 35 booths which will be offering services such as discounted blood screenings, car seat safety checks, health risk ass...
We go along doing our normal routine when suddenly for no apparent reason, we fall off the cliff. Maybe not a literal cliff but figuratively speaking our health seems to suddenly run downhill. Many of us will play the shoulda, woulda, coulda game thinking we should have seen this coming. I would have done something different. I could have changed things. Well obviously, that’s not going to change anything about where we are today. Maybe you have been doing what you thought was right all along just to find yourself in a similar situation. You h...
It is mid-April which means the Huskers’ spring game has been played, warmer weather should be upon us soon, baseball has resumed, and of course – tax season. Every year, American families and businesses work to compile all the necessary documents, receipts, and records to file their taxes before the April 15th deadline. Anyone who has filed their taxes knows this is no easy task. The complexity of the current tax code makes it very difficult for the average citizen to file their taxes without assistance. Everyone from the individual taxpayer t...
By the year 2018, it is estimated that nearly 70 percent of jobs in Nebraska will require some type of postsecondary education? To meet that need, Nebraska must increase the number of its citizens who have a college education. I am devoting this week’s column to the segment of Nebraska’s population that could help our state meet future job needs–adults aged 25-64 who went to college but left without finishing a degree. This group of individuals represents over 236,000 Nebraskans. According to 2010 census data, the percentage of working-age Nebr...
The strength of love. I’ve heard many say that they don’t like reading or listening to the news on account of how depressing it is, and many have said that they don’t like to learn about all the bad that goes on in this world. Even though I work in the newsprint business, I am also one of those people. Seeing the tragedy that befell in Boston earlier this week, it may be hard for the sour, sickly feeling in your stomach to disappear. We think of the families of those who perished and those who are injured. We think of how the day had start... Full story
The story sounds almost ludicrous when first told: a suspicious bag left outside of Sen. Deb Fischer’s office in Lincoln was investigated by the bomb squad. They sealed off nearby streets for 15 minutes, only to discover the threatening bag was merely full of garbage. Under normal circumstances it would be easy to poke fun at Fischer’s nervous staff. In the light of the Boston Marathon bombing and other recent tragedies, however, their caution is both understandable and laudable. Any unattended package could prove deadly. During times when the... Full story
After recently receiving their 501(c)3 tax-exempt approval from the IRS, US Warriors Outdoors (USWO) announces its first hunt for wounded veterans. USWO has organized a fully guided and supported turkey hunt for two wounded veterans in Lewellen, Nebraska the weekend of April 19, 2013. “We are honored to offer our wounded veteran heroes the opportunity to reconnect with the outdoors and pursue their hunting passions” said Gene Palumbo, Founder of USWO. “USWO is firmly committed to planning veteran hunts on quality properties and ident...
The Kuno tablet purchase for all of the Potter-Dix school teachers and students in grades seven through twelve was a topic of discussion once again at the Board of Education’s April meeting. In March board members approved the purchase of 30 Kuno Four Pilot Packs to start with at a cost of around $30,000. This order of Kuno tablets won’t be shipped until sometime in July. The tech committee expressed concern that if the order for the remainder of what the school needs is not placed soon, that the tablets won’t arrive until September or Octob...
LINCOLN – Nebraska lawmakers debated Tuesday about expanding Medicaid to a particular group of low-income adults and adopted an amendment allowing lawmakers to review the policy if federal funds decrease. The bill (LB577), introduced by Sen. Kathy Campbell of Lincoln, would allow adults between the ages of 19 and 64 who fall between 0 and 138 percent of the federal poverty level to qualify for Medicaid, which provides health care for certain low income people. Expanding access to Medicaid was authorized under the federal Affordable Care Act, c...
At their April meeting, the Sidney Public Schools Board of Education selected Randy Miller to fill the seat left vacant by Jeff Wernsman. Miller was nominated by board member Tom Vanseggern and a motion was made and approved unanimously by the board members to make Miller the next board member. Vanseggern explained that the board is in charge of filling the seat with the person who they feel will best serve the public interest. This appointment will be in effect until the November 2014 elections...
An initial hearing was held yesterday morning in the State of Nebraska case against Theodore Medina, charged with issuing terroristic threats, a class IV felony. At the hearing, Medina’s defense attorney Joel Jay requested the court to lower Medina’s bond (which was currently set at $10,000 at 10 percent) so that Medina could help take care of his child while his ex-wife is at work. Jay also asked for a continuance on the preliminary hearing. On April 4 around 10 p.m. Sidney Police Officer Sco... Full story
Sidney Public Library officials are midway through their National Library Week celebration, and they said they welcome anybody in the community to come by the library to indulge in cookies, coffee and a cold beverage. National Library Week is a national observance that was first sponsored in 1958 by the American Library Association. Libraries across the country celebrate it each April. National Library Week is celebrated in Sidney during the week of April 14-20 this year, and Sidney Public...
LINCOLN — Experts have checked out and cleared a suspicious bag that was found outside U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer’s office in Lincoln. A passer-by in the Haymarket district on the west edge of downtown reported the package Wednesday morning. Bomb experts say the bag contained only trash. Chief fire inspector Bill Moody told the Lincoln Journal Star that such reports multiply “after a major incident in the country,” referring to the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday. Moody has no problem responding to calls about suspicious packages. He says he’d ra... Full story