Stories from Thursday, August 12, 2004

Nov. 19, 1929-Aug. 9, 2004 GREELEY, Colo. -- Aletha "Sue" Sughroue, 74, died Monday (Aug. 9, 2004) at the Hospice and Palliative Care Inpatient Unit in Greeley, following a lengthy battle with acute leukemia. She was born Nov. 19, 1929, at La Junta, Colo., to Arnold and Nora (Menter) Muller. She graduated from East High School in 1947 and was an eligibility supervisor for the Weld County Department of Social Services for 31 years...

The charming tale of "Pinocchio," the wooden puppet who longed to become a real, live boy, comes to life Saturday when Missoula Children's Theatre and 60 students from 10 area towns perform an original, musical adaptation of this classic tale. Two performances are set for Saturday at the McCook Senior High Auditorium, at 3 p.m. ...

OMAHA -- While you occasionally hear about quads or quints on a national basis, it is rare in this region to have triplets. That's why the Dowling trio from Lexington are causing such a stir. The three babies, Caleb Michael, Logan Michael and Molly Elizabeth, arrived within minutes of each other on July 27 at Methodist Hospital in Omaha. They are the sons and daughter of Mike and Chrystal Dowling of Lexington. The triplets have an older sister, Hope Madeline, who is 5...

CAMBRIDGE -- The genes of Southwest Nebraska families are helping a retired heart surgeon from Lincoln disprove the old doom-and-gloom adage, "There's nothing you can do about your family history." Dr. Michael Breiner believes that people with family histories of early heart disease do not have to resign themselves to the possibility of premature death...

Red Willow County Attorney Paul Wood said today that the investigation into the death of David Moreau is continuing. Wood denies recent rumors that an arrest was made earlier this week in North Platte. In a phone interview this morning, Wood said officers from the McCook Police Department and the Red Willow County Sheriff's Department are continuing to investigate numerous leads and conduct interviews...

**Dear Editor, The world needs more people like George Anderson. One-track, simple-minded. He did not mention that the irnnews.com is nothing more than a Republican Propaganda Web site. The Democrats also have there own Web sites. If he would open up his mind and look at the world situation, maybe he could understand what is going on in the world without someone lying to him and being so simple that he believes anything...

**Dear Editor, Knowing George Anderson to be the open-minded, Christian man he claims to be, I'm sure he would want to log onto www.outfoxed.org to get the other side of the story. **Duane Prohaska via e-mail

Let's go back in time. Let's go back to the year 1943. The world was at war, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president and -- in the Nebraska counties of Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps and Red Willow -- farmers and businessmen were joining together to form a rural electric cooperative...

My mom used to tell me "you'd lose your head if it wasn't screwed on." The older I get, the more I realize she was right. In fact I'm beginning to think I've got a few stripped threads. Not to lay blame, but (sorry Mom) I'm also beginning to think it's a family trait...