Stories from Monday, March 23, 2009

McCook's Connor Larson makes NBDA squad McCook High School's Connor Larson, a 6-foot sophomore guard, was selected as one of 10 players on the Nebraska Basketball Development Association Bison-Nebraska White All-Star squad, which will play a spring and summer schedule...

The McCook Daily Gazette announced its 2008-09 All-Area Basketball Boys and Girls Team, Boys and Girls Players of the Year and Boys and Girls Coaches of the Year today.

No one knows exactly why, but there has been an alarming jump in the number of suicides among members of the U.S. military. Some experts have suggested stress from multiple deployments to war zones may be a contributing factor, but the fact that not all suicides involve combat veterans makes the issue more complex. ...

Allowing that she wasn't the first to draw an analogy with God as the persistent widow in the parable of "The Persistent Widow and the Unjust Judge," the Rev. Dr. Mary Hendricks, rector at St. Alban's Episcopal Church challenged a community congregation of 125 to discern what message God may be sending to them as individual believers...

A storm chaser and disaster preparedness trainer plans informative and fun-filled presentations in McCook Tuesday, March 31. Eddy Weiss, of Chasing4Life, will blend comedy and tragedy as a storm chaser and disaster resilience expert in the presentations hosted by Great Plains Communications and the McCook Rotary Club...

It took nearly six hours to get actress Natasha Richardson to a major hospital, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported, a delay that probably killed her. It didn't help that the extent of her injuries wasn't recognized for two hours, until it was perhaps too late, when she began showing symptoms of traumatic brain injury and a second 911 call went out...

One of the most closely guarded secrets of World War II was the Norden bombsight. This was the invention of a Dutch-born American, Carl Norden, who had come to the United States in 1904, after completing his University studies in Switzerland. In the United States, Norden went to work for the Sperry Corp., which was developing gyroscopes for improving ship stabilization for the U.S. ...

There is no doubt our nation faces some very difficult challenges, and restoring our nation's fiscal health must be a top priority as we move forward. Over the next two weeks, you will hear a lot about the details of a federal government budget proposal from Congress. ...

The McCook Workforce Development office of the Nebraska Department of Labor, in conjunction with McCook Community College, is hosting a transition workshop for those in the labor market who have experienced a layoff or job loss due to recent economic conditions. Scheduled for April 14, 2009 from 1 to 5 p.m. CST, the round-table workshop will be held in the Weeth Theater in the Tipton Building at McCook Community College...

WASHINGTON -- Army National Guard Director Lt. Gen. Clyde Vaughn today presented the National Guard's highest award to Nebraska's Senator Ben Nelson for his leadership and support to service personnel. Vaughn presented the Sonny Montgomery Award to Nelson in a ceremony in Nelson's office...