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WASHINGTON (AP) — Across-the-board spending cuts all but certain, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are staging a politically charged showdown designed to avoid public blame for any resulting inconvenience or disruption in government services. The two parties drafted alternative measures to replace the cuts, but officials conceded in advance the rival measures were doomed. At the White House, President Barack Obama invited congressional leaders to discuss the issue with him on Friday — deadline day for averting the cuts, which would sla...
DENVER (AP) — Pot smokers in Colorado were the biggest winners in the vote that legalized the drug. Now state regulators are working out the details of exactly how to tax it, so the benefits are shared statewide in the form of increased revenue. A state panel meets Thursday to draft final recommendations based on the voter-approved marijuana legalization question that asked for excise taxes up to 15 percent to fund school construction. Colorado lawmakers could set a lower tax, or they could add sales taxes beyond the current statewide 2.9 p...
NEW YORK (AP) — A defense lawyer resumed his attack Thursday on the government’s claims that a city police officer conspired with Internet friends to kidnap, kill and eat women, asking an FBI agent why some communications were proof of a crime while others were deemed fantasies. The lawyer, Robert Baum, directed FBI Agent Corey Walsh to obvious falsehoods in communications that the government has used as evidence that Officer Gilberto Valle was serious about attacking women he knew, inc...
The last weekend of February saw 58 teams embark upon Sidney for the 15th annual Cheyenne County Community Center Youth Classic. Teams from Colorado, Wyoming and the panhandle of Nebraska provided 3 days of exciting basketball. The tournament format was a three game pool play on Friday and Saturday, which the teams were seeded from their record from the pool play on Friday and Saturday to a single elimination tournament on Sunday. More than 136 games were played during the three days with... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jacob Lew is scheduled to be sworn in Thursday as Treasury secretary and will have to hit the ground running. He is taking over the job just a day before huge automatic government spending cuts are set to take effect. He’s likely to be involved with any negotiations to reverse the cuts, and also in budget talks next month to continue funding the government. The Senate confirmed Lew late Wednesday, affirming President Barack Obama’s choice of a budget expert at a time when Congress and the White House are at odds over spend...
For the first time since 2008, contribution limits have risen for one of the most popular retirement savings vehicles available: the IRA. This means you’ve got a greater opportunity to put more money away for your “golden years.” Effective earlier this year, you can now put in up to $5,500 (up from $5,000 in 2012) to a traditional or Roth IRA when you make your 2013 contribution. And if you’re 50 or older, you can put in an additional $1,000 above the new contribution limit. Over time, the extra sums from the higher contribution limits can add...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is abolishing the company’s work-at-home policy and ordering everyone to show up at the office. Her decision has sparked intense and often nasty debate, with Mayer usually landing on the losing end. Many women, in particular, sound betrayed after daring to expect more from such a high-profile female boss. How could she? I understand the special brand of heartbreak brought on by women who end up acting like the male jerks they replaced. Dashed hopes sure pack a wallop. However, I don’t feel this way about Mayer. This is...
Bill Clinton, when campaigning for President in the autumn of 1992, visited workers at an electric utility plant outside Waco, Texas. He may or may not have know that he drove past a religious compound called Mount Carmel, originally built by the Branch Davidians but controlled at that time by another Seventh-Day Adventist splinter group led by Vernon Wayne Howell, aka David Koresh. So immersed in apocalyptic literature were Koresh’s followers that they were armed and ready for Clinton, but h...
The Alliance Arts Council will sponsor a concert by Gordy “Crazyfingers” Lindquist on Friday, March 8 at 7 p.m. at the Alliance High School Performing Arts Center. A North Dakota native and music instructor at Minot State University for 34 years, Gordy started playing the piano when he was 5 years old. Lindquist has a bachelor of arts degree in music from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN and a master of arts degree from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. He has also done graduate work at San Jose State and at the University of...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Dale Robertson, an Oklahoma native who became a star of television and movie Westerns during the genre’s heyday, died Tuesday. He was 89. Robertson’s niece, Nancy Robertson, said her uncle died at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, Calif., following a brief illness. Dale Robertson had bit parts in films including “The Boy with the Green Hair” and the Joan Crawford vehicle “Flamingo Road” before landing more high-profile roles such as Jesse James in “Fighting Man of the P...
Maynard L. Wieser 1937 to 2013 Maynard L. Wieser, 75, of Sidney, passed away at his home, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, March 2, in the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church with Father Art Faesser officiating. Services will conclude at the church. Private family inurnment will be at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Sidney American Legion Baseball Program. Cremation has taken place. Friends may stop at the G...
LINCOLN – Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial withdrew his bill (LB52) Wednesday that would allow certain organizations to hire prisoners for labor without pay. Christensen said he received phone calls and emails throughout Tuesday after an amendment eliminating organizations that discriminate based on sexual orientation was adopted. He said that, even with his phone ringing all day after the legislative session, he wants his constituents to be able to contact him about these issues. “I could have stood on the floor boldly and said, you kno...
WASHINGTON — Government agencies are already taking steps to comply with automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect Friday. Defense Department One of the Navy’s premiere warships, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, sits pier-side in Norfolk, Va., its tour of duty delayed. The carrier and its 5,000-person crew were to leave for the Persian Gulf on Feb. 8, along with the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg. Department of Homeland Security Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been freed from jail across the country. Immigration and...
Though realizing both sides need a bit more time to finish their respective depositions, Cheyenne County District Judge Derek Weimer this morning set June 17 as the start of what looks to be a week-long trial in the child-abuse case against Nancy Gipfert. “I have a myriad of trail dates in the summer,” Weimer told the court. “This needs to get to trial.” Gipfert, 55, Sidney, is charged with one count of Class II felony intentional child abuse. Her attorney, Donald Miller, requested a continu...
Tim Miller, owner and operator of Miller Office Supply in Sidney, has seen the business side of multiple professions. But in 1987 he finally found a business he plans to hang his hat on until retirement - his office supply business. He and his wife Dixie own and run the store with the help of a loyal crew and will be been in charge of the store 26 years this July 1. Miller and his wife were both born and raised in Sidney and came back to town after attending school in Denver in 1973. With great...
After suffering from knee and back injuries over the past 2 years, steer wrestler Casey McMillen, grandson of Cheyenne County Commissioner, Ken McMillen, won his first title in a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) rodeo in over 26 months. The steer wrestler’s comeback came at the La Fiesta de los Vaqueros rodeo in Tuscon, Ariz. Feb. 16 through 24 where he took $7,296 in winnings. During the first round in the steer wrestling competition, McMillen tied for fifth place with a time of 4... Full story
