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NYC ‘zombie’ finds Long Island cat in Times Square NEW YORK (AP) — It took a zombie to find Disaster at the Crossroads of the World. Two years after he disappeared from his Long Island home, Disaster the cat was found this week in the heart of Manhattan — by a Times Square haunted house promoter dressed up as a zombie. Jeremy Zelkowitz, who sells tickets for the Times Scare haunted house, spotted Disaster early Saturday morning crossing 42nd Street. He snatched up Disaster, a black and white cat who appeared to be well-kept and neat, and bro...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Outsiders might hear the opening notes of a war in the deluge of threats and provocations from North Korea, but to South Koreans it is a familiar drumbeat. Separated from the North by a heavily fortified border for decades, they have for the most part lived with tough talk from Pyongyang all their lives. In annual defense drills, war alarms ring in their ears. Foreigners unused to North Korean rumblings have canceled trips to the Korean Peninsula. But to get South Koreans’ attention, Pyongyang must compete with the...
BEIJING (AP) — China announced a sixth death from a new bird flu strain Friday, while authorities in Shanghai halted the sale of live fowl and slaughtered all poultry at a market where the virus was detected in pigeons being sold for meat. The mass bird killing is the first so far as the Chinese government responds to the H7N9 strain of bird flu, which has sickened 16 people, many critically, along the eastern seaboard in its first known infections of people. The first cases were announced Sunday, while two more were reported Friday, both r...
BEIRUT (AP) — A barrage of rockets slammed into a contested district on the northeastern edge of Damascus, killing at least five people and trapping others under the rubble, while violence raged around suburbs of the capital, activists said Friday. The attack on Barzeh, where rebels aiming to topple President Bashar Assad are known to operate, follows days of heavy fighting between the rebels and the military in the area. Rebels have established footholds in districts on the edge of Damascus and in suburbs in the northeast and south, from w...
ATLANTA (AP) — Christian Laettner will occasionally see a replay of his famous buzzer beater against Kentucky — and he tries not to look too excited about it. “If I’m in a bar or restaurant and there’s people around kind of seeing how I react to it, I’ll purposely not look at it, so they don’t run around saying, ‘Laettner loved to watch himself on TV,’” Laettner said. “But if I’m in the privacy of my home with my family, I know it’s coming on, I’ll definitely take a peek at it.” Laettner’s sho...
ALL-STAR HOOPS TRYOUTS SIDNEY — Tryouts for the Sidney area Bison All Star basketball team will be held 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10 at Sidney High School. Male players from all area schools who will be in freshmen or sophomores in the fall of 2013 are eligible and urged to try out. The selected team will play in a tournament against other Nebraska All-Star teams in Lincoln during the Memorial Day weekend. The team will be coached by Erik Kohl, Ryan Plummer and Carlos Flores. CCCC SOFTBALL, BASEBALL REGISTRATIONS CONTINUE SIDNEY — Cheyenne Cou...
CHAPPELL — Leyton High School’s girls track team finished fifth in the team standing at Thursday’s Tri-State Invitational at Creek Valley. The Warriors finished with 49 points, getting one first-place performance from discus thrower Kassandra Harris. Kaitlyn Berner was second in the triple jump and third in the long jump, with Shaela Jenkins running second in the 100-meter high hurdles. Creek Valley had one place on the girls’ side, that being Clarice Ford finishing third in the pole vault. The top local boys’ performance came from Creek sen...
PEETZ, Colo. — After a weeklong spring break, the Peetz (Colo.) High School baseball team returned to the diamond Thursday and gained a home doubleheader split with Pawnee. Both games were deadlocked late; Pawnee pushed across a pair of sixth-inning runs en route to a 5-3 win in the opener, before the Bulldogs — being the scoreboard visitor in the nightcap — broke loose for five runs in the seventh to post a 10-5 win. Peetz pitchers Austin Crane and Josh Cavender went the distance in their respective games. The duo combined to strike out 29 Pa...
Creek Valley Prom April 20 The 2013 Creek Valley Junior/Senior Prom will be Saturday, April 20, in the High School Gym. The theme will be “Couldn’t Ask For More” with K.C.Huff Music for our evening’s entertainment. This event is something most students look forward to throughout their high school years. The decorations, decisions, and plans are carried out by the Creek Valley High School Junior Class with help from their sponsors, Ron Nordyke and Dave Howard. The students appreciate all the help and support given by staff, janitors, adminis...
In memory of Pat Bittner’s years of service to education and the visual arts, the Chappell and the Lodgepole School districts and surrounding area, this scholarship was established in 2006 through the generosity of June and Gaynor Collison and Shain Bittner. This award is granted in the hope of encouraging young people of Creek Valley High School to pursue a program of study or related program of study in the fine arts – music, art, and drama. Graduating seniors may acquire a scholarship application from Kathy Ford, counselor at Creek Val...
SCOTTSBLUFF – Next Friday, April 12, several WNCC student organizations are sponsoring two workshops by the African Culture Connection, a group dedicated to providing African culture and art experiences to educators, children, and the general public in Nebraska and Iowa. An afternoon session is scheduled primarily for College students and staff but a 7:00 p.m. workshop is free and open to the public in the WNCC Theatre. Attendees will watch and learn about African traditional dances. WNCC Residence Life, the Student Government, United L...
Christopher J. Lambrecht of Sidney has accepted membership in The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS). He is the son of Richard and Sally Lambrecht of Sidney. He graduated from Sidney High School in 2012. He is a Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Wyoming. He was on the Dean’s Honor Roll for the fall semester of 2012. “NSCS is more that just a symbol of academic achievement. Membership gives students access to a number of amazing benefits including career and networki...
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is widely considered the second most powerful court in the land because, among other things, it is the court that reviews decisions of key government agencies, from the Federal Trade Commission to the Federal Communications Commission. It is the court where key challenges to federal law are often brought and where knotty issues of executive privilege and constitutional law are decided. And among judges, it has long been the “feeder” court to the United States Supreme Court....
Everyone wants to be loved for who they are, right? If that’s so, then why do so many people portray different sides of themselves depending upon who they are with? It would be more accurate to say people want to be loved for who they show the world – which ever part of society they are trying to emulate. Everyone at some time in their life wears a mask, whether it is to protect them from hurt; while feeling out people and new situations; to shield themselves from detection so they are more accepted into society; or so they are more acc...
CHICAGO (AP) – Roger Ebert had the most-watched thumb in Hollywood. With a twist of his wrist, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic rendered decisions that influenced a nation of moviegoers and could sometimes make or break a film. The heavy-set writer in the horn-rimmed glasses teamed up on television with Gene Siskel to create a format for criticism that proved enormously appealing in its simplicity: uncomplicated reviews that were both intelligent and accessible and didn’t talk down to ord...
Luverne “Lighty” Gade of Pine Bluffs will celebrate his 90th birthday with an open house. The event will also be a celebration of his wife’s 85th birthday and the couple’s 65th anniversary. Gade was born April 6, 1923, in South Dakota. He graduated from Pine Bluffs High School in 1941 and served in the United States Army with the Counter Intelligence Corp as a staff sargent with special endorsement in undercover investigations. Back in Pine Bluffs the Gades owned and operated the Wild Horse C...
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs while still insisting on more taxes from the wealthy in a renewed attempt to strike a broad deficit-cutting deal with Republicans. The proposal aims for a compromise on the fiscal 2014 budget by combining the president’s demand for higher taxes with GOP insistence on reductions in entitlement programs. But the plan was already encountering negative reviews from top Republicans for its insistence on reven...
Cassie Melton was told by family and friends growing up that her calling in life would fall somewhere in the cosmetology field. At first she didn’t agree with them, but today she is the owner and operator of her own beautification business, Reflexions. “When I was young I didn’t listen to them,” said Melton. “I went to electronic school and then it was when I got done with that that I decided that beauty school was for me, not electronics,” she laughed. Melton attended beauty school when she wa...
The Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce created a new award in 2012, called “Heroes Among Us.” The chamber had little trouble deciding on this year’s winner. The recipient – recipients, rather – are all of the area fire departments. They earned the award because of the hard work while fighting the wildfires in 2012 that burned nearly 6000 acres in Cheyenne, Kimball and Banner Counties. Awards are being given to the Sidney, Dalton, Potter, Gurley and Lodgepole volunteer fire departmen...
Betsy Bown wears multiple instructing hats at the Cheyenne County Community Center every week. One of the classes she teaches is a class devoted to helping participants become more flexible, toned and aware of their strengths: Pilates. “Pilates is extremely effective,” said the instructor. “Within weeks of starting you will have better posture, toned muscles, a flatter stomach, and looser and more flexible joints. “The exercises lengthen and strengthen the muscles down to the deepest core while making sure that the body is correctly balance...
