Stories from Thursday, September 23, 2010

SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- The Sioux City Musketeers scored six unanswered goals in route to a 6-2 win over the Tri-City Storm at the Fall Classic. The Storm will play the Dubuque Fighting Saints on Thursday at the Tyson Events Center. Tri-Cities Cody Murphy scored the opening goal in the first period, as Tucker Brockett assisted on the goal that gave the Storm the lead less than seven-minutes into the game...

July 25, 1935--Sept. 22, 2010 BARTLEY, Nebraska -- Shirley Ann Webb, 75, died Wednesday (Sept. 22, 2010), at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska. She was born July 25, 1935, in Bartelsville, Oklahoma to Jessie and Pearl Atkinson. On May 26, 1952, she married Jimmy La Webb in Raton, New Mexico. They were married 57 years before he passed away Dec. 1, 2009. To this union were born three sons, Roger, Mark, and Danny Webb...

Have you taken that celestial swim yet? Have you been out to observe Capricornus, Aquarius, and Piscis Austrinus? The swim, of course, refers to an area of the sky made up of constellations that have some sort of relation to the ocean. Last week we looked at Capricornus, the Sea Goat, Aquarius, the Water Bearer, and Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish with its bright star Fomalhaut, the loneliest star in the sky...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- An audit of Community Hospital's 2009-10 financial report by an outside auditing firm came back in good shape. "It's a clean opinion," said hospital president Jim Ulrich, following a board of directors' meeting Sept. 15. The accounting firm of Seim Johnson of Omaha, which performed the audit, specializes in healthcare systems and providers...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The Nebraska State Bar Association released results of its 2010 Judicial Performance Evaluation recently and both McCook judges scored very well. County Court Judge Anne Paine and District Court Judge David Urbom were both among the 78 Nebraska judges that were given a 90 percent or higher retention approval. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Newly crowned Heritage Days Grand Marshal Jon Burkey probably summed up the spirit of Heritage Days best when he said, "It means a lot when we think about looking back at the heritage that we have, our families, our friends. It's pretty important how they blazed a trail and made a lot better life for the rest of us. ...

INDIANOLA, Nebraska -- Indianola and Southwest Nebraska lost an "eloquent citizen" and community leader when Indianola businessman Cliff Lord died Tuesday at Community Hospital in McCook. Clifton C. Lord was 89 years old at the time of his death, having spent all but 10 of those years in Indianola and at the well-known downtown-Indianola hardware store that his grandfather, Andrew Lord, started in 1882...

Richard Chadek III was 11 years old when he was abducted, March 23, 1986, from a bank parking lot in Omaha while riding home from a friend's home. His body was later found in a rural area. Jay Durnil also was 11 on April 29, 1976, when he left home to shoot his BB gun near the Elkhorn River South of Waterloo. His body was found floating in the Missouri River 20 days later...