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LINCOLN (AP) — It’s the end of an era for the house that cigarettes built. The Devaney Sports Center will host its last college basketball game Wednesday night when Nebraska plays Minnesota, ending a 37-year run as the home of the Cornhuskers. After a $20 million facelift, it will reopen in the fall as the women’s volleyball venue. The basketball teams, which moved into a new practice facility in 2011, will play games in the Pinnacle Bank Arena just west of campus. “We’re going to have stat...
DALTON — A year older, and perhaps a year wiser. That’s the hope Leyton High School boys basketball coach Gary Oltmann is carrying with him as his Warriors make a return trip to the state finals in Lincoln this weekend. LHS (21-1) enters the D2 Elite Eight as the top seed, whereas last year, the Warriors were the eighth and bottom seed, and were knocked off by top-seeded Howells, 60-46. Oltmann recalls all too well last year’s quarterfinals loss to Howells. “They were bigger than us, like 6-... Full story
CHICAGO (AP) — Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Here are some bad signs: getting winded walking several blocks, smoking, and having trouble pushing a chair across the room. That’s according to a “mortality index” developed by San Francisco researchers for people older than 50. The test scores may satisfy people’s morbid curiosity, but the researchers say their 12-item index is mostly for use by doctors. It can help them decide whether costly health screenings or medical procedures are worth the risk for patients...
A spring cleanse is a breath of fresh air for your body after a long winter. It is important for vitality and rejuvenation after winter. Even with regular exercise through out winter, many people will feel energy low during the cold, dark months of winter. Our bodies still reflect the ancient seasonal need to harbor more fat during winter for survival. Many may experience mild depressions, with the shorter days, and having to stay inside, thus not being in the sun much. Our metabolism slows, as...
There are two major parties in the United States: the party that wishes to govern and the party that wants only to campaign. It’s to their credit that Republicans are obsessed with getting the government to address its unconscionable and unmanageable debt, freeing up the productive private sector to create economic growth and maintaining the nation’s military preeminence. But there’s something almost pathetic about the way leading Republicans complain that the president doesn’t negotiate in good faith. Of course he doesn’t. He’s not interes...
I know some might think a phrase like “Think of the little things because they far out way the big things in life,” is overused in our day and age. I tend to disagree with them. Although I am not here to emphasis that I understand this saying better than anyone else, I like to think that this way of life is something that I practice everyday. Leo F. Buscaglia once said, “I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.” In high school and college I was the only girl at s... Full story
OMAHA (AP) — An Omaha man who was kicked out of the University of Nebraska’s law school just months before he was set to graduate is suing the school and others, saying he was discriminated against because of his Arabic heritage and Muslim beliefs. Mohammad Al-Turk filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in Nebraska’s federal court, naming the University of Nebraska College of Law, several law school officials, the University of Nebraska and the university’s Board of Regents as defendants. The lawsuit says Al-Turk’s troubles began in his third year of law...
Richard & Evelyn (Klentz) were united in marriage on March 9, 1958 at Peetz, Colorado. In 1965 they moved to Palmale, California where Richard was a high school Math teacher for 29 years. Evelyn was employed by the high school district as an Attendance Clerk. They retired from California returning to the “Good Life” of Nebraska in 1994 to the family farm in the West Sidney Draw. Their son, Dixon, lives in Westminster, Colorado and their daughter, Tamara, lives in Northridge, California. For...
Pauline J. Atkins 1919 to 2013 Pauline J. Atkins, 94, of Sidney, passed away peacefully at the Sidney Regional Medical Center, Extended Care on Saturday morning, March 2, 2013. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 9, 2013, in the First United Methodist Church in Sidney with Rev. Thomas Hyde officiating. Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorials have been established to the First United Methodist Church or the Sidney Regional Medical Center...
Panelists at a gun violence discussion at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln agreed that a lack of access to mental health care and family dysfunction are the roots of American gun crime. Point Blank: A Conversation About Gun Violence in America featured seven experts in law enforcement, psychology, constitutional law and policy to address issues involved in gun violence Tuesday, March 5. Discussion moderator and UNL Law School Dean Susan Poser began the evening by citing United States gun violence statistics. According to the Centers for...
NEW YORK — What record? There were no signs of a celebration on Wall Street after the Dow Jones industrial average closed at an all-time high Tuesday. Like on any other day, traders rushed out the doors of the New York Stock Exchange after the closing bell and down the stairs of subway stations. Nearby office workers did the same. Maybe the memories of the financial meltdown are too fresh, or outlook for the economy is too uncertain. But the only indication that something historic had transpired was the six television news cameras that faced th...
Darrell Dykman, a Lodgepole farmer and owner and operator of his beekeeping business Queens Choice Honey, will be giving a presentation this Saturday, March 9 at the Sidney Public Library. He will be presenting on one of his biggest pastimes, beekeeping. The program is part of the library’s ongoing yearly educational series. The informational session will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and will include information on the bees, as well as the tools used in keeping the bees, said Dykman. “I have a PowerPoint geared toward basic beekeeping and I...
A car accident occurred on 10th Ave. and Illinois St. in Sidney yesterday at around 5 p.m. According to a Sidney Police Department report, one driver was traveling southbound on 10th Ave. and entered the intersection at Illinois with a green light. The other driver was driving westbound on Illinois and said that the sun’s glare prevented them from seeing that the stoplight had turned red, and ran his vehicle into the other. Both vehicles were severely damaged and towed from the scene, a... Full story
Cindy Rohm celebrated her and her husband’s new ownership of the Coffee Cure in Sidney Regional Medical Center Tuesday morning by a ribbon cutting ceremony with the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors, as well as hospital staff. “Sidney Regional Medical Center appreciates the efforts of the Coffee Corner Team for providing the ‘Coffee Corner Cure.’ We believe this is a very important addition for our guests, staff and those in our community,” said Jason Petik, CEO of Sidney Re... Full story
The cases against two accused Cheyenne County murderers are headed in different directions as a result of hearings this morning before Judge Derek Weimer. A July 15 trial date has been set for Larry G. Martinez, 53, Sidney, who is charged with Class IA felony first-degree murder, and felony use of a weapon to commit a felony, while Craig A. Johnson, 47, Sidney, also facing first-degree murder charges, will have a second competency evaluation before he can be arraigned on his charges, which is... Full story
LACEY, Wash. (AP) — Kim Ridgway and her wife, Kimberly Bliss, can well envision the shop they plan to open — where they’ll put the accessories, the baked goods and the shelves stacked with their valuable product: jars of high-quality marijuana. Like many so-called “potrepreneurs” throughout Washington and Colorado, they’re scrambling to get ready for the new world of regulated, taxed marijuana sales to adults over 21 — even though the states haven’t even figured out how they are going to grant licenses. Farmers and orchardists are studying ho...
