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LONDON (AP) — A Pakistani girl whose defiance of the Taliban turned her into an international icon is headed toward a full recovery once she undergoes a final surgery to reconstruct her skull, doctors said Wednesday. Dr. Dave Rosser of Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital said that 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai needs the operation to replace the bone shattered when a Taliban gunman, angered at her objection to the group’s restrictions on girls’ education, sent a bullet through her skull. Rosser said that Malala had made a “remarkable recovery....
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — French-led forces have wrested control of three key cities in northern Mali from al-Qaida-linked militants, but the fighters have escaped with their weapons into a desert region the size of Texas and are poised to mount counterattacks. New military strategies will be needed to rout the jihadists from their desert hideouts. When the French leave their former colony, armed extremists are still likely to remain. No one has yet publicly announced a campaign to hunt them down in the Sahara and in Mali’s villages, where they are...
SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The owner of a nightclub in southern Brazil where more than 230 people died in a fire last weekend deflected blame to “the whole country,” as well as to architects and inspectors charged with making sure the building was safe, his lawyer said Wednesday. Attorney Jader Marques said his client, Elissandro Spohr, “regretted having ever been born” because of his grief over the fire, but still blamed Sunday’s tragedy on “a succession of errors made by the whole country.” Police investigating the blaze have said it likely...
In the last decade lung and respiratory diseases of all kinds have increased dramatically. Environmental, air, and water, pollutants seem to have reached the overload point on our general population, so congestion is more common than breathing free. During high risk seasons, studies show that over a third of all Americans have congestive colds every two or three weeks. Cold symptoms have been shown to frequently be your body’s attempt to cleanse itself of waste and toxins that have built up to the point where natural immunities can’t beat the...
Editor, Fellow traveler Jim Hightower in usual fashion described the Presidents speech as what we really needed to hear and praised his political honesty. I found the only thing that was great about this political speech was its brevity, some 18 minutes. The President must have had a White House basketball game about to begin or he was late for his golf excursion, perhaps in Hawaii. Otherwise the speech was a rendition of all the socialist aims that he had not yet been able to accomplish and planned to spend more money that the nation...
It isn’t often that you get reading suggestions from a United States senator, but that’s what happened this past weekend for those who attended the National Review Institute’s summit meeting in Washington, D.C. The three-day conclave, part election post-mortem and part revival meeting (that is, reviving conservatism and America), featured a bracing dose of conservative intellectuals along with activists, campaign professionals and office holders. Newly minted Senator Ted Cruz of Texas spoke in his characteristic fashion — fluidly without...
Most people have some sort of brain capacity to recall most events or things that they have to do in a given day. I am not one of those people. If you are like me you can walk from one room of your house to another and in those few short steps and have already forgotten why in the world you even got off the couch. Granted I also have just “brain farts” sometimes where I can be searching the house for a good five minutes before realizing that the cell phone that I am frantically looking for is in my hand. Sometimes I question my sanity at tim... Full story
WASHINGTON — In a dramatic appeal, wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords urged Congress on Wednesday to enact tougher curbs on guns, saying, “too many children are dying” without them. “The time is now. You must act. Be bold, be courageous, Americans are counting on you,” she told the Senate Judiciary Committee at Congress’ first gun control hearing since 20 elementary school children were shot to death in Newtown, Conn., late last year. She spoke haltingly, a result of the wounds suffered when she was shot in the head in an attempted a...
The Church of the Nazarene is one of the younger Christian religions founded in the past 100 years, in 1908 to be exact. Though the following is still relatively small in comparison to other long time established Christian based denominations, there is a Church of the Nazarene here in Sidney. Reverend Leonard Suhr leads worship services. Reverend Suhr’s path to becoming a minister within the Church of the Nazarene like many other ministers is rooted in his childhood. “When I was 12-years-old, my...
Owners of the Ace Hardware store in downtown Sidney, Jon and Pat Finney, moved to Sidney in March of 1990 with a dream of owning a retail outfit and settling down in a nice location to raise their family. “We wanted to own a retail business and so we looked around and we chose Sidney because it had a lot of good qualities,” said Pat Finney. The two owners moved here with their children from Oklahoma City, forgoing big cities or other opportunities of managing a business elsewhere. “We chose... Full story
One former Dalton native has brought a new twist to the theme of classic children’s books. “Jimmy John the Tractor” is a one of a kind tale of one man’s search for his beloved childhood tractor. Though author Ken Hinman is a current resident of Henderson Nev., he is originally from nearby and part of his book takes place in Western Nebraska. Though the publishing process was long, Hinman said he is glad that family and friends pushed him to make his story into a book. “It just came to me,” said...
Sidney High School’s boys’ and girls’ bowling teams will be moving on to the Nebraska High School Bowling Federation finals after strong finishes in last weekend’s Class C4 District, held at Doyle’s Cedar Lanes in Sidney. Ogallala, Chase County and SHS participated in the tournaments. The top two team scores in both girls and boys divisions earned the right to advance to the state finals Feb. 9 in Lincoln. The tournament is conducted by the NHSBF, as bowling has not yet been sanctione...
Several local pool players were awarded cash and trophies recently for winning the Fall Session of the American Poolplayers Association (APA) 8-Ball, 9-Ball and Masters Pool Leagues. In the finals of the Monday Masters League, Silver Dollar in Sidney defeated Ozzy’s Ride The 8-9 Crew from Silver Dollar to take the Fall Session Championship trophies. Team members of Silver Dollar were Alan Gorrie, Jared Truman, Shawn Jallen and Corey Wintholz. The Sportsmanship Award was presented to Masters B...
JULESBURG, Colo. — Poor free-throw shooting down the stretch almost proved costly Tuesday night for Leyton High School’s boys’ basketball team, but an offensive rebound by Brennen Cruise was enough for the Warriors to survive a 56-55 decision at Sedgwick County, Colo. “It came down a tough finish,” LHS coach Gary Oltmann said. “We didn’t play well nor did we shoot well.” Leyton (14-1) held a 56-49 lead late before the Cougars — around missed foul shots by the Warriors — knocked down two consecutive 3-pointers to cut the lead to one point.... Full story
