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(AP) – Every time Northwestern’s football players slip on their workout shirts, they see just how close they came to an undefeated season in 2012. Stamped on the back of each one is “5:03.” It stands for the total of 5 minutes, 3 seconds the Wildcats trailed at the end of their three losses. “I knew we were close,” defensive end Tyler Scott said Wednesday on the Big Ten Legends Division spring teleconference. “It just really brought it to top of your mind when it said 5:03 and how little time that was we had to execute a couple more times to...
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado teen pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and kidnapping in the kidnap-slaying and dismemberment of a 10-year-old girl that panicked Denver-area residents last fall — despite police testimony that the suspect confessed to the crime. Austin Sigg, 18, stunned a courtroom by entering the not guilty pleas in the death of Jessica Ridgeway in the Denver suburb of Westminster. Sigg also pleaded not guilty to a May attack on a 22-year-old jogger at a lake in Jessica’s neighborhood. Sigg’s not guilty pleas came despite his...
DALLAS (AP) — The driver of the bus that swerved off a North Texas highway, leaving two passengers dead and dozens injured, was at the wheel in another fatal accident 15 years ago, records show. The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed Friday that Loyd Rieve, 65, was driving the tour bus Thursday that veered across the highway in Irving and into the center median with 46 passengers aboard. The bus was operated by a Mansfield company, Cardinal Coach Line Inc. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s plan to raise Medicare premiums for upper-income seniors would create five new income brackets to squeeze more revenue for the government from the top tiers of retirees, the administration revealed Friday. First details of the plan emerged after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified to Congress on the president’s budget. As released two days earlier, the budget included only a vague description of a controversial proposal that has grown more ambitious since Obama last floated...
I don’t look forward to getting my annual physical. They do a few tests, and they always check my blood pressure. The last time I went, they told me, “You know, your blood pressure is a little too high.” I shared with them it was high because my location. However, in order for me to keep my job as a bus driver for Sidney School District, it is a necessary evil. As I told my doctor, “You walk into the room, and my blood pressure automatically goes up. It is your fault.” We kind of joke back and forth a little. We both know it is an exam and ther...
Bankers gone wild! Let’s tally some of their crimes: JPMorgan Chase engaged in massive, systematic fraud to foreclose without cause or due process on innocent homeowners, tossing thousands of families into the streets. Goldman Sachs profited by marketing an investment package that was designed to fail, collecting fat fees on each sale to unsuspecting investors who lost millions, while the bank also collected millions more from a side bet it made that, sure enough, its package would be a loser. For years, HSBC has been butt deep in a swamp of d...
On my St. Patrick’s Day “Sunday exploration drive,” I visited Cheyenne. My first stop was the Wild West Museum. All of the carriages brought back memories of one of my grandfathers. He owned a prized horse named Rusty among other horses. He also owned a fancy buggy that he would have a couple of his horses pull into town. I remember these things, and I even rode to town in the buggy a few times. I remember Rusty also, but I was never able to ride on him; he was too big as I was only about three...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘Most Thrilling Drama’ April 12, 1913 One of the most thrilling plays and at the same time “the most interesting and amusing is Molnar’s comedy play, “The Devil,” which will introduce the eminent actor, Eduard Waldmann and his company in the above play at the Opera House Saturday, May 10 where Mr. Waldmann has been selected as the special attraction. Although he has appeared in...
Marvin G. Stoll 1932 to 2013 Marvin G. Stoll died on March 30, 2013. Marvin was born Feb. 17, 1932, to Arthur and Amelia Stoll at home on the family farm in rural Lodgepole. He spent most of his childhood in the Lodgepole and Chappell area. During World War II his parents moved the family to Long Beach, Calif., for two years and then returned to Nebraska where Marvin graduated from Chappell High School in 1949. He joined the USAF on April 3, 1951, and served in the Korean War. His permanent...
Robert L. ‘Bob’ Evans 1947 to 2013 Robert L. ‘Bob’ Evans, 66, of Sidney, passed away Saturday, April 6, 2013, at the Colorado Acute Hospital in Lakewood, Colo. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m., Monday, April 15, in the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel with Rev. Leonard Suhr officiating. Inurnment will follow in Greenwood Cemetery. Cremation has taken place, friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Monday until service time to sign Bob’s register book and drop off condolences for the family. Y...
LINCOLN – Juveniles convicted of Class 1A felonies would no longer face a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole under a bill introduced by Sen. Brad Ashford of Omaha. The bill (LB44), which the Legislature debated Monday, would establish a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and a minimum sentence of 30 years imprisonment for juvenile offenders convicted of the most serious crimes, like murder, rape and kidnapping. The bill is an attempt to bring Nebraska state law in line with a recent Supreme Court decision that m...
LINCOLN – Nebraska judges would get raises under a bill senators advanced Wednesday to increase the salary of Nebraska Supreme Court judges by 5 percent annually over the next two years. The bill (LB232), introduced by Sen. Steve Lathrop of Omaha, would increase the judges’ annual pay from its current base of $145,600 to $152,900 in 2013, and again to $160,500 in 2014. It passed with a vote of 26 to 2. Because the salaries of all Nebraska judges are based on a percentage of what the Supreme Court judges make, this would mean a 5 percent rai...
Editor’s Note: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in the Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Potter, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project. Roger S, Allen is a resident of the Nebraska Veteran’s Home in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He served in the US Navy during the Korean War 1951 to 1954. Allen enlisted in the US Navy when he was 20 years old. All his friends and associates had either joined up or were going to join the military. His uncles and cousins were...
Authorities at Cabela’s announced on April 5 that they are teaming up with officials at The Harry and Reba Huge Foundation to award scholarships to Nebraska students. There will be four Cabela’s Women in Leadership Scholarships worth $10,000 awarded to female Nebraska high school graduates, according to Cabela’s officials. “The Cabela’s Women in Leadership Scholarships are part of an initiative by Cabela’s leaders to promote young women to leadership positions within the organization,” they said. The officials said that those students that grad...
Fresh Wind Organic Farm, located in the “school section” of Sidney, is on 640 acres of land; plenty of room for their free-range chickens to roam. John and Teresa Smith and their children Annalyn, Erika and Theodore currently occupy the farm house, which was built in the early 1900s. A 1999 tornado destroyed about 50 percent of the farm buildings, and John and Teresa say that they are working to rebuild some of the buildings. When the family moved here, they wanted to acquire animals that were ...
Kristi Edgington teaches a fitness class Monday through Thursday from 12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Cheyenne County Community Center that keeps participants on their toes and wondering what is going to happen next. Her class is called Mix it Up and Edgington said her spontaneous fitness routine fits well with the name. “It’s everything,” she said. “I change it up all the time so that your body doesn’t get use to doing one thing. This is important in exercise because if your body gets use...
From the World Trade Center and Times Square in New York to the White House and sports venues across the country, police patrolled in packs and deployed counterterrorism teams Monday as security was stepped up after explosions at the Boston Marathon. Worries also reverberated across the Atlantic, where an already robust security operation was being beefed up for Wednesday's ceremonial funeral for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The event at St. Paul's Cathedral, to be attended by Queen Elizabeth II and other dignitaries, calls for a...
BOSTON (AP) — Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 140 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S. A White House official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still unfolding said the attack was being treated as an act of terrorism. President Barack Obama vowed that those responsible will "feel the full weight of justice." A...
