Stories from Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Nebraska may be purchasing more water to give to Kansas.

I really struggled this weekend to finish a book. You have to understand, reading comes very easily to me. I learned to read at an early age and cannot remember a time in my life when I didn't like to read. In fact, I spent so much time with my nose buried in a book that I frequently earned my dad's ire for neglecting time with family for time with fantasy...

Don Fagerstone's stalk chopper stirs up dust in a cornfield west of McCook Tuesday. Fagerstone said that although the topsoil seems dry and dusty, there is moisture in sub layers. Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette

McCook Community College Women's basketball Coach Michelle Orton has been named the 2007 Nebraska Community College Athletic Association's Coach of the Year. Orton received the conference's top honor as voted by coaches from conference members: North Platte Community College, Southeast Community College of Beatrice and Northeast Community College of Norfolk...

TRENTON --  Hitchcock County District Judge David Urbom accepted a plea of guilty Wednesday morning from the Arkansas truck driver charged in the death in October of a man from Champion. James Watt II, 50, of Everton, Ark., pleaded "guilty" to a charge of motor vehicle homicide, a Class I misdemeanor, amended from the original charge of Class IIIA felony motor vehicle homicide. Class I misdemeanor motor vehicle homicide is punishable by up to one year in prison and/or a $1,000 fine...

By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor The nose knows. In this case, the "nose" is a $62,500 piece of equipment that will analyze and identify unknown substances for the hazardous materials response team of the Red Willow Western Rural Fire Department...

A recent newspaper story caught the eye of Marilyn Jean Miller of McCook because of the Nebraska "cooky" cutter pictured with the story. The article concerned the Nebraska Mrs. America state contest at the McCook Auditorium in April 1955 and revealed a world far different from the one we know today...