Stories from Monday, November 29, 2010

Jan. 8, 1918--Nov. 27, 2010 BURLINGTON, Colorado -- Macdonald Edward "Mac" Newberry, 92, died Saturday (Nov. 27, 2010), at the Grace Manor Nursing Home in Burlington. He was born Jan. 8, 1918, near Danbury in Red Willow County, Nebraska, the son of the late Calvin Orlando and Nellie Agnes (Yeater) Newberry. ...

Sept. 11, 1965--Nov. 26, 2010 INDIANOLA, Nebraska -- Gail L. Hubbert, 45, died Friday (Nov. 26, 2010), at Bryan LGH in Lincoln, Nebraska. She was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska on Sept. 11, 1965. Her family moved to McCook area when she was six. At the age of seven, she joined the Jerry and Murietta Proud family. Gail went to school in Bartley and graduated Bartley High School in 1984...

IMPERIAL, Nebraska -- Freda Johnson, 94, died Saturday (Nov. 27, 2010), at the Imperial Manor Nursing Home. She is survived by her two daughters, Patsy Meick of Gurley, Nebraska, and Marie Troutman and husband, Gary of Littleton, Colorado; two sons, Elton Johnson and wife, Laura of Phoenix, Arizona, and Floyd Johnson and wife, Ashley of Bancock, Idaho; sisters, Arabell Terwilliger of Chapel, Nebraska, Edith Studler of Sutherland, Nebraska, Velma Powell of Boise, Idaho, and Loraine Stenson of Imperial; and special friend, Kermit Karnes of Imperial; seven grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren;.. ...

It must have been the fall of 1948 or '49. I was at the University of Nebraska and had met a friend of mine, George Metcalf, at the door of the Student Union. George was a grizzled old archaeologist, who worked for the Smithsonian Institute on the U of N campus. ...

We tried logging on to WikiLeaks' website this morning, but weren't able to, probably because a massive denial-of-service attack -- conducted by the U.S. government? -- if not simply because the site was being overwhelmed because of the breaking story...

One of Nebraska's most popular vocal groups, Mulberry Lane, has chosen the Fox Theatre in McCook as one of the stops on their 2010 Holiday Tour. The singing sisters, who have sold more than a half million CDs, will appear at the Fox Sunday afternoon, Dec. 19. The show will start at 3 p.m. with a reception following at the neighboring Keystone Business Center...

ABILENE, Kansas -- Duckwall-ALCO Stores Inc. officials announced that the company will close 44 Duckwall stores and redeploy the capital into higher-return Alco stores. The move was described as taking "strategic actions it believes will better allocate shareholders' capital and improve profitability."...

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, better known as ICE, expects to deport about 400,000 people this fiscal year, nearly 10 percent above the Bush administration's 2008 total and 25 percent more than were deported in 2007. Nearly 50 percent of the people who have been deported this budget year have a criminal conviction, from driving without a license and DUI to major felonies. ...