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IDITAROD, Alaska (AP) — Four-time champion Lance Mackey is the first musher to reach the halfway mark in the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Mackey last won in 2010. He pulled into the ghost town of Iditarod at 8:36 p.m. Wednesday and was awarded $3,000 in gold. Sonny Lindner was second into the checkpoint, and another four-time champion, Jeff King, was third. None of the race leaders has satisfied a mandatory 24-hour break except for four-time champion Martin Buser who was in the l...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, a move that sparked a furious Pyongyang to threaten a nuclear strike against the United States. The vote by the U.N.’s most powerful body on a resolution drafted by North Korea’s closest ally, China, and the United States sends a powerful message that the international community condemns the ballistic missile and nuclear tests — and repeated violation of Security Council resolutions. Immedia...
ROME (AP) — These are crazy days in Rome, where limbo reigns in parliament and papacy. Italy is usually a pretty anarchic place, with people bucking rules on everything from crossing the street to paying taxes. But the anarchy’s going a bit far: Who’s running the country? Who’s running the church? For now, at least, nobody really knows. We Romans are living truly surreal times when a bearded comedian is now one of the nation’s most powerful leaders, and aging cardinals from around the world are mobbed by paparazzi as if they were Hollywood...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez died of a massive heart attack after great suffering and inaudibly mouthed his desire to live, the head of Venezuela’s presidential guard said late Wednesday. “He couldn’t speak but he said it with his lips ... ‘I don’t want to die. Please don’t let me die,’ because he loved his country, he sacrificed himself for his country,” Gen. Jose Ornella told The Associated Press. The general said he spent the last two years with Chavez, including his final...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The former lead detective in South Africa’s investigation of the murder case against Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has resigned from the police force, police said Thursday. The decision by detective Hilton Botha to quit followed criticism for his bungling of the investigation into Pistorius’ shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Feb. 14, as well as the revelation that he faced attempted murder charges for a 2011 case in which he fired at a vehicle. The police force as a whole came under scrutiny for the initi...
(AP) – Indiana was the NCAA’s last undefeated men’s team in 1976. North Carolina had Michael Jordan and James Worthy while winning the national championship in 1982, a decade before Duke won the tournament on the back of Christian Laettner’s buzzer-beating basket. So which is the best team in NCAA tournament history? Or is it one of Kentucky’s squads — the 34-win team in 1996, or the freshman-filled one that won a record 38 games last season? All are among are some of the top vote-getters so far as part of the NCAA’s celebration of the 75th a...
DENVER (AP) — Von Miller is pulling a Joe Namath and it’s only March. Denver’s star pass-rusher is already guaranteeing a Super Bowl title for the Broncos next season. Miller said he’s dedicating the season to his 6-year-old cousin who recently emerged from a coma after a car accident in West Texas that also injured his mother and 8-year-old brother. On Monday, Miller tweeted: “You can post this where ever.. Denver broncos will win the Super Bowl” in the 2013 season. He added hash tags “4UJEREMIAH” and “IGUARANTEEIT58.” The linebacker later to...
LINCOLN – It was hardly a finish of beauty, but the Leyton High School boys basketball team will take Thursday morning’s 42-37 victory against Wauneta-Palisade into Friday’s Class D2 semifinals, and has assured itself of earning hardware. Despite making just 3 of 12 free throws in the fourth period, Gary Oltmann’s Warriors played well enough defensively down the stretch to earn their 22nd win against just one defeat. “I don’t know if it was the early-morning game or what,” Oltmann said of the g... Full story
RUEIL-MALMAISON, France (AP) — Burning the very fruit of their labor, workers from Goodyear clashed with police outside the tire-maker’s French headquarters Thursday in a last-ditch attempt to save their jobs. Goodyear has been trying to restructure or close its plant in northern France for five years in the face of a shrinking European car market. The workers say Goodyear wants to shift the work to China, where tires can be made more cheaply and which is closer to booming markets. Goodyear says the type of tires made at the French plant is...
LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has opted against injecting more money into the ailing British economy, which has one foot in recession but stubbornly-high inflation. The central bank said Thursday its main policymaking body, the Monetary Policy Committee, decided to maintain its asset purchase program at 375 billion pounds ($563 billion). A number of economists thought another 25 billion pounds infusion was possible. Last month, Governor Mervyn King and two others of the 9-member panel had pushed for such an increase. Minutes of the t...
You’ve no doubt heard about the risks associated with investing. This investment carries this type of risk, while that investment carries another one. And it is certainly true that all investments do involve some form of risk. But what about not investing? Isn’t there some risk associated with that, too? In fact, by staying on the investment sidelines, or at least by avoiding long-term, growth-oriented investments, you may incur several risks. Here are some to consider: • You might not keep up with inflation. If you put all your money under...
Editor, Right now, the Colorado legislature is working on a GUN CONTROL LAW they say we the people want. They are demonizing all guns, both long guns and handguns and the way the guns are designed to look and function. They are giving guns attributes that have nothing to do with how the guns operate or their use. I have yet to see any gun go to a liquor store and rob it or rob a bank or shot anyone without a person first picking that gun up and purposely do those things. Our legislature should be thinking about the person using the gun to... Full story
Ariana Abayomi was sound asleep in her dorm room at Oberlin College in Ohio, when a fellow resident adviser awakened her in the middle of the night. Groggy with sleep, Abayomi struggled at first to comprehend what she was hearing. Someone in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood ... spotted on campus ... right outside ... emergency meeting in the lounge. “I was standing there thinking, ‘KKK?’” she said. “’At Oberlin ?’” Twelve hours later, it was still her question. Repeatedly, she apologized for stumbling over her words during our interview. “I’m...
Last week, automatic, across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration took effect, which will trim $85 billion from federal accounts over the next seven months, and about $1.2 trillion over the next decade. These cuts, originally proposed by the White House, total the same amount the federal government borrows every 28 days to help feed its $3.5 trillion annual spending appetite. That’s less than three percent from a budget that has grown nearly 20 percent since 2008. The White House continues to concoct scare tactics, warning t...
KEARNEY (AP) — The Great Platte River Road Archway has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection so its finances can be reorganized. Wednesday’s filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Omaha said the tourist attraction owes more than $20 million to bondholders and other debtors. The filing will let the archway remain open and pay 10 staff members while the financial problems are addressed. “We had a conversation with the bond managers about two months ago and told them we were at the end of the line,” said Joel Johnson, who leads the archway founda...
The Gurley Dalton Garden Club met on March 5th, 2013, with President Ann Rushman presiding. She reported that the NE State Garden Clubs annual meeting will be held in North Platte on Aril 19th through the 21st. and reminded members that the April 2nd meeting will be a field trip and workshop held at the TLC Garden Center in Scottsbluff. Election of officers was held and Ardis Smith presented a slate of nominated members as follows – Janet Waite, Treasurer; Sue Tvrs, Secretary; Rilla Draper, Vice President; and Susan Young, President. These n...
OMAHA (AP) — Nebraska’s unemployment rate remained unchanged in January, matching the 3.8 percent unemployment seen in December, the state Labor Department reported Thursday. The rate was less than half a percentage point lower than the 4.1 percent in January 2012 and was less than half the national rate of 7.9 percent in January, the department said. In December, Nebraska’s unemployment rate was the second-lowest in the country, trailing only North Dakota. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics had not released its compilation of states’ January...
A.J. Cloud knows it isn’t cheap to keep the Sidney Coyotes’ UNIFYed Special Olympics basketball players up and going. So last week, the Coyotes hit the streets to raise money. The only difference was bit more persistence on Cloud’s part. When the fundraising smoke had cleared, the local Coyotes, clients of the Sidney Office of Human Development, had enough to make do for the remainder of the winter — with Cloud leading the way. The team raised about $2,400, with about $2,000 being collect...
The City of Sidney will join the nation this year in competing in the Cans for Cash City Recycling Challenge this April, according to a press release this Tuesday from Cheryl Jones, Director of Keep Sidney Beautiful. Jones said that the challenge entails recycling the most aluminum beverage cans and the top cities in the nation are rewarded for their efforts. The event will take place April 1 through April 30 and the winners will be announced in June of this year. To participate in the citywide campaign, drop off any aluminum cans at the U.S....
City of Sidney Mayor Wendall Gaston asked the city swimming pool committee to come together to discuss the results and options presented by the swimming pool consultant team of Doug Whiteaker from Water Technology, Inc., Jeff King with Ballard*King and Associates and Chuck Musgrave, an architect with Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture (a partner with Water Technology, Inc.) this past February. “We’ve been at this for probably a year and a half trying to come up with a general idea of what we migh...
There’s nothing like coming to the realitization that you have had someone con you. It’s even worse when you realize that it could have been potentially much worse. When a person representing Verizon Phones called Fritz Guenther’s cell he never for a moment considered he would be duped and cheated. The call came from 800-569-8440 and a representative claiming to work for Verizon asked if he would be willing to answer a three question customer relations survey. Guenther admits he was deep into... Full story
