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OMAHA (AP) — An Omaha man who hit and killed a 26-year-old mother after a night of drinking last June has been sentenced to 15 to 20 years in prison. A judge sentenced 35-year-old Joseph Brosnihan Tuesday after he tearfully apologized to the family of Ashley Rodriguez, who had two sons. Brosnihan told Rodriguez’ family that he wishes he could take their pain away. Brosnihan pleaded no contest in December to vehicular homicide while driving drunk and failing to stop and render aid. Prosecutors say Brosnihan struck Rodriguez around 2 a.m. on Jun...
Ready. Set. Spend! The NFL’s free agent frenzy began Tuesday, with Mike Wallace, Paul Kruger and Dannell Ellerbe among the big names to switch teams for big paychecks. Several other stars, including Nnamdi Asomugha, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Antoine Winfield, are looking for jobs after they were cut in cost-saving moves on a busy opening day of free agency. The Baltimore Ravens are paying the price for winning a Super Bowl. The NFL champions lost two key components of their defense in Kruger and Ellerbe. On Monday, they traded star receiver A...
MIAMI (AP) — Gio Gonzalez gave Team USA its best start yet, and David Wright provided a big finish. Gonzalez pitched five scoreless innings and the Americans beat Puerto Rico 7-1 in the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday night. Wright drove in five runs, the last three with a bases-loaded double in the eighth. That prompted chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” from the crowd of 32,872. “Obviously the adrenalin gets pumping for this tournament,” Wright said. “You wear that uniform, you want to go out there and represent your country. Hitting in this lineup...
LINCOLN (AP) — John Garrison walks into Nebraska’s indoor practice facility every day and draws his motivation from what he sees in the rafters. Hanging up there is a red banner listing the years the Cornhuskers won conference championships. The last one was in 1999. Garrison was the freshman long snapper on that team. He’s 32 now and recently named head offensive line coach in a program that for more than a decade has been trying to recapture its past glory. “This is a personal deal,” Garrison said. Garrison, the player, showed up at Nebras...
ST.. LOUIS (AP) — Mark Mihal was having a good opening day on the links when he noticed an unusual depression on the 14th fairway at Annbriar Golf Club in southern Illinois. Remarking to his friends how awkward it would be to have to hit out of it, he went over for a closer look. One step onto the pocked section and the 43-year-old mortgage broker plunged into a sinkhole. He landed 18 feet down with a painful thud, and his friends managed to hoist him to safety with a rope after about 20 minutes. But Friday’s experience gave Mihal quite a fri...
NEW YORK (AP) — Despite Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s bullishness, political realities and legal questions make for an uncertain future for one of the premier pieces of his legacy: a now-blocked ban on supersized sugary drinks. The city lost no time Tuesday getting started on the next round of the fight after a judge nixed the first-of-its-kind regulation. Bloomberg called the strongly worded court ruling a “temporary setback” and emphasizing that the city is confident about winning an appeal. He predicted that in the meantime, the novel regulat...
SCOTTSBLUFF – Regional West Physicians Clinic-Orthopaedics’ new surgeon, Eric Gardner, MD, may have a remedy for patients suffering from focal cartilage defects of the knee. During fellowship training at Cincinnati Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center, Dr. Gardner learned to perform cartilage restoration from his mentor, internationally-renowned knee surgeon and orthopaedic sports medicine specialist, Frank Noyes, MD. Dr. Gardner is now performing the procedure on select patients who have non-arthritic cartilage injuries in the knee. The tre...
As the 21st millennium begins, over 60 million Americans suffer from allergies. That’s roughly 20 percent of the population! That means 35 to 50 million Americans suffer from respiratory allergies, and the rest of the statistics have a great many categories. Changing seasons may promote allergic reactions, as our environments change due to Mother Nature. Defined as an inappropriate response to substances, that normally aren’t harmful, Allergies can most certainly wreak havoc on one’s schedule. Truly harmful substances like environmental polluta...
Editor, As to my own personal reply to the “New swimming pool” I feel Abraham Lincoln said it best! You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’s fool all of the people, all of the time! It seems some of the people “here” are trying to fool all of the people “here,” all of the time. Let’s focus on what this community really needs! Mike Hebert, Sidney...
Each morning, while the rest of the world is still fast asleep, ag producers across Nebraska are up, checking on their herds or preparing their equipment for a long day in the fields. Careers in farming or ranching offer few days off. Cattle still need to be fed on Christmas morning. Crops, ripe for harvest, don’t care about your vacation plans. A break from the fields on a rainy day is an opportunity to get caught up on equipment maintenance. And animals don’t need veterinarians only between 9 and 5. For 365 days a year, farmers toil with the...
If there’s one sure way to capture the attention of the usual suspects in the press, it’s to highlight the problems of women with high-powered careers, as billionaire Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has done. In her Ted talk three years ago and now in a book that has received lavish attention, Sandberg laments that women “are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world. The numbers tell the story ... 190 heads of state — nine are women. Of all the people in parliaments in the world, 13 percent are women. In the corpora...
The parents of Kayce Froman and Daniel Ladd announce their engagement and upcoming marriage. Kayce is the daughter of Britt and Ruth Froman of Crowley, Colo., and Allan and Lynette Yetter of Sterling, Colo. Daniel is the son of Tom and Cristy Ladd of Merino, Colo., and Starla Noletubby of Carlsbad, Texas. The couple is planning an April 6, 2013, wedding in Sterling....
At the monthly Deuel County Board of Education (BOE) meeting, there was a lengthy discussion concerning the process and costs to either replace or repair the track at the Creek Valley High School. There is $450,000 in the budget to work with for the track project. There are grants available that may cover 25 percent as long as the surface used is composed of 25 percent of Nebraska rubber granules from recycled tires, per Ruth Johnston with the Department of Environmental Quality. Johnston stated that most of the schools will get a $20,000 to $2...
Chicken pox is a childhood disease that most children suffer few major problems from. But for babies, adolescents, adults, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems, this childhood disease can be severe. The severe problems can include: • Dehydration • Pneumonia • Bleeding problems • Brain infection or inflammation • Bacterial infections of the skin and soft tissues in children including Group A streptococcal infections • Blood system infections (sepsis) • Toxic shock syndrome • Bone infections • Joint infections • Death Classic c...
New City of Sidney Council Member Roger Gallaway joined the council Tuesday night after he was unanimously elected to take the seat of Aaron Barnes. Gallaway ran unopposed and swore in as a council member before taking his seat among the members present – Mayor Wendall Gaston, Mark Nienhueser and Joe Arterburn. “Roger served in an appointed capacity on the council during the year 2012 and is definitely up to speed on city issues,” said Gary Person, City of Sidney City Manager.“Roger has stayed...
Finally the City of Sidney City Council made a decision Tuesday night on the proposed ordinance of defining accessory buildings in residential zones, and discussion on other proposed ordinances was continued. Council member Joe Arterburn started discussion on the accessory building ordinance last night and inquired as to whether the stipulations of the attached garage and detached garage having to be 1,200 square feet or smaller was necessary. “I had the same thought Joe, because over time lot sizes are bound to change and if we are putting a...
