Stories from Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Scientists seem determined to find a link between the use of cellular phones and cancer. The latest are among the working group of 31 scientists from 14 countries that reviewed all the available data and advised the World Health Organization that cell phone use should be classified as "possibly carcinogenic."...

Over the past few years, parents have become concerned about the safety of immunizations and the possible link between vaccines and autism. Complicating matters is the fact that good information is scarce within the barrage of commercials about autism and personal stories circulated in the public sphere. ...

Thanks all, who were there and a special thanks to Legion Commander Dan Stramel and all the other veterans who participated and were there. I drove about 400 miles to get to that service Monday, in the cemetery where my father and mother are buried. Two of the Greatest Generation, my father, O'Dell fighting in World War II aboard a B-24 bomber over Europe and my mother, Dorothy working hard in Oklahoma to support the war effort...

Not realizing the significance at the time, I failed to write down the official beginning day and date of what would become and continues to be the great and ongoing saga of Danny Lee Cribbs and Dawn Elizabeth Carlson. But the 40th anniversary will take place sometime in the next couple of weeks. I think...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook City Council was informed Thursday that City Manager Kurt Fritsch has accepted a position as city manager of Warrenton, Oregon, and that June 10 would be his last day. Fritsch told the Gazette that he was from Longview Washington, about an hour from Warrenton and that he had family in the area...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- It isn't possible to relive the past, but it is possible to get a glimpse of what it was like when Southwest Nebraska was young. After the Civil War the cowboys drove cattle from Texas to the Union Pacific railroad tracks in Ogallala during one of the most colorful sagas of the Wild West. Cattle towns like Culbertson and Imperial thrived...

PGA golf professionals from six states will converge in McCook June 3-5 for one of the top charity events in the Cornhusker state. The annual John Mullen Pro-Am Tournament is scheduled Friday through Sunday, June 3-5, at the challenging Heritage Hills Golf Course layout...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- It was Oct. 1, 1943, and the World War II naval battle for Vella Lavella, an island in the western province of the Solomon Islands, was in full swing. It had been nearly two hours since LST-448 (Landing Ship, Tank) had dropped its ramp doors and members of the New Zealand Army began unloading from the U.S. Navy ship...