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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police are investigating after a severed goat’s head in a box addressed to Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts was left outside Wrigley Field. Ricketts is currently in negotiations with city officials and neighborhood business people about a $300 million renovation of Wrigley Field. Cubs spokesman Julian Green says staff at Wrigley Field discovered the package Wednesday and immediately called police. Police Department spokesman Mike Sullivan says officers responded to a call around 2:30 p.m. indicating an “intimidating packa...
There’s no place like Nebraska. It’s a phrase you’ve probably heard thousands of times in Husker country. Usually, it’s the consecutive sellout streak, the way the fans applaud the opponent after the game – win or lose, the nation-leading Academic All-American list, the walk-ons, the blackshirts or the national championships that are cited as proof. On Saturday, it was Jack Hoffman. In front of 60,174 fans in their seats and countless others in front of their TVs, Jack stole the show at the Red-White Spring Game with his 69-yard touchdown...
Police: Ga. gunman lured firefighters into home SUWANEE, Ga. (AP) — A gaping hole Thursday exposed wooden beams and insulation on one side of a suburban Atlanta house where a financially strapped gunman held four firefighters hostage for hours, demanding that his utilities be restored, before being shot dead by a SWAT officer. Lauren Brown, 55, was heavily armed with a half-dozen guns, police said. He told the firefighters that he had planned the hostage-taking for weeks and targeted them during Wednesday’s ordeal in suburban Atlanta so tha...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week to a seasonally adjusted 346,000, signaling that the job market might be stronger than March’s weak month of hiring suggested. Applications for unemployment aid dropped 42,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. The decline nearly reversed an increase over the previous three weeks. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, rose 3,000 to 358,000. The number of unemployment applications has been volatile in the past two weeks lar...
FOOD: Anong’s Thai Cuisine 620 Central Avenue Cheyenne, Wyo. 307-638-8597 Open: Daily 11 a.m.-3 p.m., 5 p.m.-9 p.m. Anong’s Thai Cuisine opened on March 16, and you can tell. Two or three bites into our appetizers, a waitress arrived with the entrees, forcing an untidy moment as several hands shoved plates around the overcrowded table. The intrusion exposed a flaw unfortunately common to new restaurants: service slip ups. Staff members still learning the fine art of expediting often fail to comm...
Life is full of ups and downs — and the financial markets are no different. As an investor, you’re no doubt happy to see the “ups” — but the “downs” can seem like a real downer. Isn’t there any way to help smooth out the volatility in your investment portfolio? First of all, to cope with volatility, it’s helpful to know what causes it — and there can be many causes. Computers that make trades in milliseconds, based on mathematical models, are sometimes blamed for intraday volatility, but large price swings can also occur following the release o...
It was a hard snow, the kind that stings your face on its way to burying everything in sight. I stood in front of the kitchen window, warm and dry but for my red, swollen eyes. I wrapped my arms around me and held on tightly as I watched him pitch the shovel into the ground, pound it with his foot and dig up another small scoop of frozen soil. His face was knotted in concentration, and his hair grew whiter with each passing minute. My husband did not know I was watching him. He had no idea I was standing on the other side of that snowstorm...
Spring has sprung, temperatures have warmed, and plants and animals have revived again after another winter. This all happens without human direction. No one tells the grass that now is the time to green up, or that trees should sprout leaves, or that pheasants should produce chicks. We call it Mother Nature’s invisible hand. The ancient Greeks had their own myth, that Hades forced Persephone, Zeus’s daughter, to live in the Underworld for six months every year, and then he released her in the...
No serious injuries were reported after a one-vehicle accident resulted in a roll-over on Highway 30 in Lodgepole near mile marker 66 on April 8. The driver of the vehicle, Cody Rowley of a Lodgepole address, was traveling westbound on Highway 30 when he ran off the roadway into the north ditch. Then he re-entered the roadway and crossed the center line and went back into the north ditch. The vehicle, a 1999 Isuzu Rodeo, then rolled one complete time and came to a rest on its wheels. The airbag did not deploy and the driver was wearing his...
If your child is 5 years of age on or before July 13 of this year, he or she is eligible for kindergarten registration. The registration for kindergarten students who will be attending Sidney Public Schools during the 2012-2013 school year will be held on each day from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. from April 8 through April 12. This year’s location is at South Elementary, at the corner of 12th and Toledo Streets. The students must be registered by the parent or a legal guardian. When registering the child, the following items must be presented: T...
WASHINGTON — With teary-eyed relatives of the Newtown school massacre watching, gun control supporters in the Senate won the first showdown over how to respond to the December shootings in Connecticut, defeating an effort by conservatives to derail firearms restrictions before debate could even start. The 68-31 roll call gave an early burst of momentum to efforts by President Barack Obama and lawmakers to push fresh gun curbs through Congress. The National Rifle Association, along with many Republicans and some moderate Democrats, say the p...
A status hearing was held this morning at the Cheyenne County Courthouse for the State of Nebraska’s case against Gurley resident Justin J. Warren. Warren faces a Class IC felony count for possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver or distribute within 1,000 feet of a playground. According to court documents the methamphetamine was found during a search by chief deputy Fred Wiedeburg and investigator Zach Goodrich of Warren’s bedroom on Friday, March 22. The authorities entered the home of Shirley Brewer to execute a search war...
The two snow days that occurred at Sidney Public Schools this week will not affect anything in the future, according to Jay Ehler, superintendent of Sidney Public Schools. Ehler said that snow days were already built into the schedule this year and since no snow days have been used, the 2012-2013 school calendar will stay on track. Some events have been rescheduled due to the weather. The choir concert will take place this evening, April 11, at 7 p.m. in the high school’s Performing Arts C...
Ron Meyers, Vice President of Wagon Tails Animal Rescue, was the first to speak at the City of Sidney City Council meeting this Tuesday about the proposed new cat licensing ordinance. He addressed the council on behalf of the rescue organization because those who wanted to voice their opinions could not attend the meeting. “One of the concerns at the meeting was that it is impossible to keep cats in owner’s yards,” he said. “They are concerned about the cost of spaying and neutering and vaccination, plus a license fee. The city does not hav...
