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PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — Scottie dog has a new nemesis in Monopoly after fans voted in an online contest to add a cat token to the property trading game, replacing the iron, toy maker Hasbro Inc. announced Wednesday. The results were announced after the shoe, wheelbarrow and iron were neck and neck for elimination in the final hours of voting that sparked passionate efforts by fans to save their favorite tokens, and by businesses eager to capitalize on publicity surrounding pieces that r...
WASHINGTON (AP) – The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to disburse packages six days a week, an apparent end-run around an unaccommodating Congress. The service expects the Saturday mail cutback to begin the week of Aug. 5 and to save about $2 billion annually, said Postmaster General and CEO Patrick R. Donahoe. “Our financial condition is urgent,” Donahoe told a press conference. The move accentuates one of the agency’s strong points – package delivery has incre...
POTTER — It’s been an up and down season so far for the Peetz Bulldogs, but the naked eyes wouldn’t have known it after Tuesday’s 74-52 victory at Potter-Dix. Clicking on just about all cylinders, Bill Fiscus’s team improved to 6-9 with the win. “We haven’t put together back-to-back wins this season,” the Bulldogs coach said. “We had a meeting Monday and talked about getting hot at the right time, because in the Colorado High School tournament — from Class 1A to 5A — you will find two or thre... Full story
POTTER — Clinging to a narrow halftime lead Tuesday night, Peetz High School girls basketball coach Tera Segelke gave her starting guards the thumbs-up to step up their respective games, and Morgan Burns and Melissa Schumacher didn’t disappoint. Forcing turnovers and bad shots on defense, and finishing in double figures, Schumacher and Burns paved the way to the Lady Bulldogs’ 41-29 win at Potter-Dix. “we typically don’t come out and play well in the first and third quarters,” Segelke sai...
NEW YORK (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun said the person who ran the Florida clinic being investigated by Major League Baseball was used only as a consultant on his drug suspension appeal last year. “I have nothing to hide,” Braun said in a statement released by his representatives on Tuesday night. Earlier in the day, Yahoo Sports reported the 2011 NL MVP’s name showed up three times in records of the Biogenesis of America LLC clinic. Yahoo said no specific performance-enhancing drugs were listed next to his name. The Miami N...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ mayor defended his city days after a power outage plunged the Super Bowl into 34 minutes of darkness, while authorities still baffled by the cause announced they were bringing in a consultant to help investigate. The outage that embarrassed New Orleans as it sought to showcase its rebound from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina happened despite hundreds of thousands of dollars of improvements to decaying utility lines, documents show. Mayor Mitch Landrieu sou...
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Jalen Pendleton hit a short jumper with 2 seconds left, helping Southern Illinois snap a six-game losing streak with a 64-62 victory Tuesday night over reeling Wichita State. Pendleton scored the final six points for the Salukis (9-13, 2-10 Missouri Valley). His free throws with 1:45 left tied the game at 60, and after Wichita State’s Carl Hall tipped in a Cleanthony Early miss with 1:07 left, Pendleton tied it again on a layup with 48 seconds to play before hitting the game-winner. T.J. Lindsay led SIU with 14 poi...
BAYARD — Maybe it’s just for some late-season amusement, but these recent early-game struggles have Leyton High School boys basketball coach Gary Oltmann a tad concerned. “We had 17 points in the first quarter, which is a good deal for us,” Oltmann said of his team’s 57-34 win Tuesday at Bayard.. “But we didn’t play well defensively early.” Leyton (17-1) trailed 19-17 after a quarter, then turned up the heat the rest of the way, outscoring the Tigers to the tune of 40-15 the rest of the way. Brennen Cruise paced LHS with 16 points, 12 rebo...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says he will propose increasing funding for mental health services across Wisconsin by $30 million. Walker told the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Counties Association on Wednesday that he’s been looking into the state’s mental health needs, but the effort took on added urgency following mass shootings in the state and across the country. Walker will propose the funding in his two-year state budget to be introduced on Feb. 20. He says the money will go into expanding services statewide that curre...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Student athletes need access to health care professionals, better-trained coaches and up-to-date equipment, a coalition of groups recommended Wednesday in a call to action aimed at protecting the nearly 8 million students participating in high school sports each year. The Youth Sports Safety Alliance of more than 100 groups released the proposed rules, which call for health providers such as athletic trainers or doctors available for every school, warnings about performance-enhancing substances for athletes and the creation of...
Getting your child involved in sports is an excellent way to encourage exercise and prevent childhood obesity. To determine what your child will enjoy participating in, help him / her decide by accompanying the child to different games and a variety of sports. The more sports and environments the child is made aware of, the higher the probability that the child will be able to pick a sport and enjoy it. It is important to make sure that the child’s sporting activity is age appropriate. In general, toddlers (aged 2-5) are too young to c...
I stand out among my conservative friends in disliking guns. I favor reasonable restrictions on the Second Amendment, such as bans on fully automatic weapons, background checks for purchases and forbidding the sale of guns to those with histories of mental illness or criminality. Yet I cannot agree with liberals that more gun control will lead to fewer gun crimes. President Obama’s choice for defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, actually illuminated one of the weaknesses of the gun control case. Hagel had been closely associated with Global Zero (...
Fear. When I was younger I had an intense fear of heights. My father too said he had the same fear so at the time I felt a little better in knowing that the person I saw as the bravest man on Earth could have fears as well. However when I was a kid I felt that fears would stay permanent and that there was no way you could get past something you once found terrifying. But over the years I learned of the kind of freedom that comes from getting over your fears and what significant impact that can have on your life. When I was a sophomore in colleg... Full story
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — As FBI and police negotiators sought for days to coax an Alabama man into freeing a kindergartner held hostage in an underground bunker, the captor was planning for violence, authorities say. He rigged the bunker with explosives, tried to reinforce it against any raid, and when SWAT agents stormed the shelter Monday to rescue the boy, Jimmy Lee Dykes engaged in a firefight that left the captor dead, the FBI and officials said. After the nearly weeklong hostage ordeal, relati...
Second in a series . . . Cheyenne County was carved out of a larger previously established county by the name of Shorter County in 1870 with Fort Sidney as the county seat and took up about half the Nebraskan panhandle. Established originally by soldiers and railroad workers Sidney saw its first real boom in the late 1870s and early 1880s. During this time, Sidney’s first recorded “hay day,” it truly was a Wild West town with lynching, outlaws, brothels, saloons, gambling and a murder rate that would amaze people these days. Fort Sidney’s rapid...
Everyone these days has a beauty regimen; young and old, men and women have found taking care of their skin is a must. The booming market of cosmetics, skin care products and treatments used to rejuvenate the skin or make people look younger is proof of the awareness of how important skin truly is. With so many products out there to choose from it can get quite confusing and often frustrating to find just the right match between the needs of each person’s skin and what the market offers. H...
Feb. 15 will be a night at Sidney High School devoted to basketball and supporting The Night of Hope Foundation, a foundation dedicated to helping local cancer patients. Pink Out Sidney Lady Raider t-shirts are being sold at the school for $15 per short sleeve shirt. All shirt proceeds will be donated to The Night of Hope Foundation. T-shirt payments and order forms must be returned to the high school office by 3 p.m. Feb. 8 to receive them before the game. For any questions concerning t-shirts... Full story
