Stories from Thursday, January 29, 2009

NORTH PLATTE -- On Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009, the Mid-Plains Community College Board of Governors met in Room 200 on the North Campus of North Platte Community College for their regularly scheduled meeting. As this meeting was the first of the new year, several additional procedures were required...

NORTH PLATTE -- At Wednesday night's Mid-Plains Community College Board of Governors meeting, the Board unanimously approved naming the main building located on the North Platte Community College North Campus (formerly known as the Voc-Tech Campus) to the W.W. ...

The McCook Community College chapter of Phi Beta Lambda is sponsoring a hired hand auction Saturday between men's and women's basketball games. The MCC women's game starts at 2 p.m.; the PBL auction will begin at about 3:30 p.m. PBL members will auction off themselves for an eight-hour work day. Bidding starts at $40...

Thursday, Jan. 29 Girls Basketball Maywood, Wallace, Dundy County-Stratton, Hitchcock County, Hayes Center, Wauneta-Palisade @ RPAC semifinals - Trenton Cambridge, Southern Valley, Southwest, Medicine Valley, Arapahoe @ RPAC semifinals, Bertrand Wrestling...

Hastings men cruise past Midland Lutheran FREMONT -- The Hastings College men's basketball team defeated Midland Lutheran College 91-66 Wednesday night in Fremont. The Broncos were led by Brent McNurlin with 22 points and 5 rebounds. Derrik Spooner added 16 points to go along with 7 rebounds while Jeremiah Slough had 15 points and a team-high 8 assists...

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Even a bad performance by Kansas was good enough to beat struggling Nebraska. The Jayhawks committed a season-high number of turnovers and saw their big man neutralized most of the game, yet they still managed to leave the Devaney Sports Center with a 68-62 victory Wednesday night...

Aug. 9, 1949 - Jan. 27, 2009 Linda K. (McConnell) Lafferty died Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009 ,at her home in McCook. She was 59. She was born Aug. 9, 1949, to Elvin "Bud" McConnell and Frances (Ridpath) McConnell in Oberlin. She graduated from Beaver Valley High School in 1967. She also graduated from McCook Junior College and Kearney State College...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Everybody figured Wake Forest would ask star scorer Jeff Teague to take the shot that would knock off No. 1 Duke. That's why coach Dino Gaudio instead drew up a play for the player whose defensive lapse let the Blue Devils tie it...

IMPERIAL --Goldie Smith, 89, died Friday (Jan. 23, 2009) at Imperial Manor Nursing. Survivors incude her husband, Stan of Imperial; sons, Jim and wife, Marla of Ogallala, Bill and wife, Cindy of Max and Larry and wife, Debbie of Blue Springs, Mo.; brother, Bill McCurry and wife, Aggie of Blue Springs, Mo.; sister, Connie Borell and husband, Jim of Burns, Wyo.; 20 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren...

COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCORES TUESDAY MEN McCook CC 86, Southeast 74 TUESDAY WOMEN Southeast CC 60, McCook 48 NEBRASKA/KANSAS AREA HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL SCORES TUESDAY BOYS Axtell 61, Eustis-Farnam 58, OT Hoxie 59, Hill City 51 Rawlins County-Atwood 74, Cheylin 43...

LINCOLN -- Dist. 44 Sen. Mark Christensen anticipates a packed house today for the Judiciary hearing of two bills concerning the death penalty. LB 36 will change the method of the death penalty to lethal injection, a proposal Christensen said he favors. LB 306 would repeal the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole...

Community representatives, above right photo, from left, Jerda Garey, Bill Burton and Sandy Krysl interview Rick Haney of rural McCook, who started the interview process for the position of superintendent of McCook Public Schools Tuesday evening and continued Wednesday morning. ...

A lot of parents of young children can relate to our new president. After a little snow, followed by melting temperatures, sleet and freezing, the Washington area schools were shut down Wednesday. "My children's school was canceled today because of what, some ice?" Obama asked a group of reporters and business leaders...

The McCook Community College men's basketball team evened its record at 12-10 with a 76-64 victory over Southeast-Beatrice Tuesday night at True Hall Gymnasium. The Indians avenged a 64-63 loss to the Storm Jan. 17 at Beatrice. Four Indians scored in double figures, led by Javoun Martin with 23 points...

The McCook Community College men's basketball team has a 12-10 record. The Indians are 2-1 in the Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference and tied for first place.