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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Injured Louisville guard Kevin Ware will travel to the Final Four on his crutches and expects to be a big presence for the Cardinals. Cleared by doctors Wednesday to accompany Louisville to Atlanta, the sophomore tells The Associated Press he plans to be a full participant in the team’s preparation for Saturday’s game against Wichita State. Ware says the overwhelming support he has received has helped him maintain his spirits and strengthened his confidence of a full recovery. He hopes by next season to be helping the C...
Hello everyone, it’s that time of the year where the boys of summer take over and another baseball season is about to begin. It’s time to dust off the bleachers, grab a bag of seeds, a cold Gatorade and head to the yard. Even after 30 years of being behind the plate, the game still excites me and the rule book always teaches me something new. As we kick off the 2013 season, it has occurred to me that we never really explained what goes on in that meeting at home plate just as the game beg...
HOUSTON (AP) — Yu Darvish literally came within inches of perfection. Darvish was one out from a perfect game when Marwin Gonzalez grounded a clean single through the pitcher’s legs, and Texas beat the Houston Astros 7-0 on Tuesday night. A screen shot of the play showed the ball sail what looked to be less than a foot below the pitcher’s glove and into the outfield. “That was impossible to catch,” Darvish said through a translator. The celebrated right-hander from Japan struck out a career-high...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate gun control debate on the near horizon, a National Rifle Association-sponsored report on Tuesday proposed a program for schools to train selected staffers as armed security officers. The former Republican congressman who headed the study suggested at least one protector with firearms for every school, saying it would speed responses to attacks. The report’s release served as the gun-rights group’s answer to improving school safety after the gruesome December slayings of 20 first-graders and six adults at a Newto...
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Lawyers for Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes are objecting to a request by news organizations to make public some investigative documents in the case. Prosecutors say they don’t object to the release as long as the names of victims and witnesses are redacted. Both sides disclosed their positions in court documents filed Tuesday. The Associated Press and 18 other news organizations want the judge to release documents including affidavits that law-enforcement officers submitted to explain why they wan...
DENVER (AP) — Evan Spencer Ebel ran up a long list of felony convictions before turning 21, joined a white supremacist gang behind bars, assaulted one prison guard and wrote that he fantasized about killing others. Along the way, he benefited from a series of errors in the criminal justice system before he became a suspect in the slaying of Colorado’s prisons chief and a pizza deliveryman. He got out of prison four years early because of a clerical error in a rural courthouse. He slipped his...
SCOTTSBLUFF – Expectant parents and their families and friends are advised that access to Regional West’s Birth & Infant Care Center will be re-routed during a construction project that will begin early next week and continue for an estimated 7 to 10 days. The north entrance to the hospital will remain open, but the lobby at the north entrance will be closed. During the construction project, please follow the directional signs from the north entrance, down the main north-south hallway, past the chapel and the Medical Staff office to reach the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new global plan aims to end most cases of polio by late next year, and essentially eradicate the paralyzing disease by 2018 — if authorities can raise the $5.5 billion needed to do the work, health officials said Tuesday. Part of the challenge will be increasing security for vaccine workers who have come under attack in two of the hardest-hit countries. And the plan calls for changing how much of the world protects against polio, phasing out the long-used oral vaccine in favor of a pricier but safer shot version. Intense vac...
The Nebraska National Guard had earned several significant national awards in recent months and I would like to talk more about these awards as well as several other significant events involving the men and women of our Nebraska National Guard. Members of the Nebraska National Guard’s Joint Force Headquarters air staff learned they had been awarded their second-consecutive U.S. Air Force Organizational Excellence Award while the Nebraska Air National Guard’s 155th Air Refueling Wing had been awarded its 11th Outstanding Unit Award since its...
We are all born with our own special and unique strengths and weaknesses that we will uncover later on in life. Whether we are born male, female, destined to be tall or short, born with hair or without it – we are all different. Some see our more struggling “differences” as flaws, while others may see them as gifts. But to me, what some consider flaws can be eccentric, and in there own ways, beautiful. Some of us our born with what are considered “physical and mental disorders.” Whether someone is born without a limb or with a confused...
On behalf of State Farm and the Western Nebraska State Farm agents, Ron Ahlschwede presented a check for $2,500 to Leyton Public School Foundation (LPSF) board member Cary Linton to be used toward promoting teen driver safety recently. Before the presentation, a video was shown that encouraged seat belt use; the board members felt was important to show to the teens that were present. In the presentation speech Ahlschwede stated that, in addition to promoting teen driver safety, the Leyton Public School Foundation also helps provide updates to...
Most of the year, firefighting is a serious matter. For one night, however, the department gives way to plain old fun. The 134th annual Fireman’s Ball for fire district one is on April 5 at the Cheyenne County fairground’s 4H building. The band starts at 8 p.m. and the festivities will continue until 1 a.m. Entertainment will be provided by Loaded Dice, a cover band from Scottsbluff. Admission is a $5 donation at the door. Due to on-site alcohol sales, this is for 21 and over only. The fire department gets a special license to sell alcohol at t...
LINCOLN — A Nebraska irrigation district official worries that his area’s next corn crop has been jeopardized by a state order to tap reservoirs so Nebraska can send enough water downriver to Kansas. Nebraska is trying to comply with the 1943 Republican River Compact, which dictates that Nebraska gets 49 percent of the Republican River’s water, Kansas gets 40 percent and Colorado gets 11 percent. Frenchman-Cambridge Irrigation District general manager Brad Edgerton wasn’t happy with the state ordering extra releases from four federal reservo...
LINCOLN – Gov. Dave Heineman congratulated state employees who successfully completed the Walk This Way program, which is one of several wellness options available to state workers as part of the State of Nebraska’s wellness program. Employees and spouses completing the challenge were invited to join the Governor for group photos in the State Capitol Rotunda. During the past year, Walk This Way participants were challenged to increase their physical activity by logging at least 700,000 ste...
The case of Chicago trucker Josef Slezak is headed for a September trial. Cheyenne County District Judge Derek Weimer this morning set two weeks aside to hear testimony in the case against Slezak, 36, River Grove, Ill., who is charged in the Sept. 9 multi-vehicle accident which claimed four lives and an unborn baby Both Cheyenne County Attorney Paul Schaub and defense counsel Kelly Breen agreed that they were comfortable with the case moving forward, and both agreed that the jury trial should...
LINCOLN — A former executive at a western Nebraska bank has pleaded guilty to stealing almost $1.4 million from the branch he ran. Matthew Monheiser pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to stealing $1,364,953.66 from the former First National Bank in Sidney. The 38-year-old says he has already repaid $500,000 to the bank and made arrangements to pay another $1 million in restitution. Prosecutors say Monheiser took the money between 2003 and 2012. Most of the money was obtained by creating loans or issuing cashier’s checks in customers’ names...
One Sidney couple has devoted numerous years to serving their community and they don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. Gene and Margaret Lienemann have been involved in many community activities and still serve as Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors. Gene serves at the chairman for the ambassadors and Margaret serves as the coordinator for the Dress Down Day presentations for the Ladies Chamber. The two hit it off during an event unlikely to inspire romance. “I came from Alliance and...
