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SEOUL, South Korea — Across North Korea, soldiers are gearing up for battle and shrouding their jeeps and vans with camouflage netting. Newly painted signboards and posters call for “death to the U.S. imperialists” and urge the people to fight with “arms, not words.” But even as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is issuing midnight battle cries to his generals to ready their rockets, he and his million-man army know full well that a successful missile strike on U.S. targets would be suicide for the outnumbered, out-powered North Korean regime. D...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The crisp, stucco exterior of an Oklahoma dental clinic concealed what health inspectors say they found inside: rusty instruments used on patients with infectious diseases and a pattern of unsanitary practices that put thousands of people at risk for hepatitis and the virus that causes AIDS. State and local health officials planned to mail notices urging 7,000 patients of Dr. W. Scott Harrington to seek medical screenings for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. Inspectors allege workers at his two clinics used dirty e...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Transit police in Philadelphia are calling a local man a hero for jumping onto subway tracks to help a man who fell off a platform. Christopher Knafelc, 32, was waiting for a train in north Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon when he saw a man walk off the platform and fall on the tracks. He jumped down to help the man, knowing that a train would be arriving in a few minutes. “I had a plan if a train came I was going to roll him underneath,” Knafelc told WPVI-TV, “or if I couldn’t, I was going to ask someone to jump down...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When LaQuinton Ross found out Ohio State was using the Los Angeles Lakers’ dressing room this weekend, he immediately called dibs on Kobe Bryant’s locker for the first NCAA tournament game ever played at Staples Center. And with a dramatic flair that would make No. 24 proud, Ross sent the Buckeyes to the brink of another Final Four. Ross hit the tiebreaking 3-pointer on a pass from Aaron Craft with 2 seconds to play, and Ohio State advanced to the West Regional final with...
OGALLALA — Sidney High School’s girls track team picked up six first-place performances — including Kali Robb breaking her own school record in the discus — and four second places en route to winning the team title at Thursday afternoon’s Ed Moore Invitational, while the boys finished third as a team. Sidney finished first in the girls team standing with 116 points, while the boys were third behind Cozad at 68 points. Robb, who already owned the SHS mark of 129 feet, 10 inches, smashed t... Full story
These South Panhandle 4-Hers earned the right to compete at the Regional 4-H Pubic Speaking Contest by participating and earning high marks at the South Panhandle contest held on Thursday, March 21, at the Kimball-Banner Fairgrounds in Kimball. Novice speaker Kalem Jackson, Harrisburg, earned a blue ribbon for his poetry recitation of “Amazing Astro Cow.” The novice category does not advance to the regional contest. Junior public speaking participants are 8 to 10 years old and must present an or...
Each year the Cheyenne County Lawyers’ Association awards scholarships to deserving Cheyenne County area students in the amount of $500 per scholarship. Applicants interested in applying for this scholarship should present resumes and a one-page summary of their post-high school plans to the Association no later than April 15, 2013. All interested applicants must mail the information to Donald J.B. Miller, President, Cheyenne County Lawyers’ Association, P. O. Box 15, Sidney, Nebraska 69162. Students are selected from the three area high sch...
First, here’s the smart money (or at least my money): 6-3, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy joining Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan. Second, narrow or broad: Most likely, narrow (much easier to get six votes), with at least four justices saying they would go further, but I’m not counting out the broad decision. Third, why now? Most important factor: political change in America. _ We like to think (and many students are taught) that the federal courts, with life tenure for judges, operate outside the pol...
“To keep the body in good health is a duty; otherwise we shall not be able to keep our minds strong and clear” ~ Buddha. No words spoken about the connection between body and mind- and soul if you want to get down to it - could be truer. Our bodies are the temples where our heart and soul resides, and when our bodies are not feeling well neither will what makes up the health of heart and soul, our minds. When you get to know yourself the ability to find a way to take care of your body on a daily basis will follow inline as well. And quite oft...
Robert S. ‘Bob’ Myers 1931 to 2013 Robert S. “Bob” Myers, 81, of Sidney, and former Gurley resident, passed away at the Golden Living Center in Scottsbluff on Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 30, in the First United Methodist Church in Sidney with Rev. Tom Hyde officiating. Services will conclude at the church with cremation to follow. Private family inurnment will be held in the Greenwood Cemetery at a later date. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-...
Jeff Dore 1957 to 2013 Jeff Dore, 56, of Sherman, Texas, and a former Sidney resident, died Sunday evening, March 24, 2013, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Sherman. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, 2013, in the Holechek Funeral Home in Sidney with Pastor Doug Birky of the Evangelical Free Church officiating. Burial will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until service time on Tuesday. You can view the online obituary and share...
We have all started getting ready for the weekend, preparing our Sunday meals and Easter eggs hunts, and trying to decide what type of “egg” product to have. You can’t have Easter without eggs, either hardboiled, dyed, deviled, whichever way you prefer - they have to be there! At least in my family, you can’t have Easter without eggs! And today I am going to tell you that YOU should have eggs as well, because they can actually be very healthy for you. Eggs get a bad reputation because they do have quite a bit of cholesterol in them (221 mg...
Diane Nielsen was born and raised in Scottsbluff, Neb. before moving to Potter and then to Colorado for 18 years. She moved back to Nebraska, particularly Sidney, 41/2 years ago and has used her creative mind to write two books over the recent years, with her newest book, Dark Whispers, coming out just short of two weeks ago. Nielsen will be holding a book signing and meet and greet for Dark Whispers at the Sidney Public Library on April 6 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information and details...
Approximately $90,000 was raised at this year’s Cheyenne County Community Center Foundation, Inc. Annual Fundraiser held at Buffalo Point, March 23. According to Cheyenne County Community Center Director Michael Namuth 145 center members, staff and supporters came out to enjoy the evening and event. The night started at 5:30 p.m. with a cocktail/social hour and silent auction before moving on to the meal, presentations and a live auction. The meal consisted of braised beef, garlic mashed p... Full story
Sidney authorities responded to an emergency call about a hit and run on Thursday on 16th Street near North Elementary. According to Sidney Police Department Interim Chief Joseph Aikens, the call first came in as a pedestrian hit and run, but the injured male was actually on a skateboard. Aikens said that a teenaged-male was riding his skateboard down the hill southbound on Sixteenth Street when he ran the stop sign and crashed into the side of a black car driven by a teenaged female. The female driver panicked and fled the scene. But after a... Full story
Sidney High School (SHS) juniors took the ACT on testing day, March 19. Principal Chris Arent is excited about seeing the scores from this year’s test when the complete results are released by the end of summer. Arent said that the Sidney school district is consistently in the top 10 highest ACT scores, and the students have done well in the past so he anticipates the same with this year’s scores. The Sidney School District is the smallest of eight all-size districts that are part of the Nebraska Department of Education’s (NDE) “pilot program...
