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Oregon suspect spotted in Nebraska
(State News ~ 08/10/11)
NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- Nebraska authorities are looking for a stolen vehicle out of Cozad that is believed to be driven by a suspect and his female companion. The male suspect is wanted for Absconding Post Prison Supervision, Union County, Oregon...
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Audiences invited to area theatrical productions
(Column ~ 08/10/11)
My mom likes to tell a story about a 2 or 3 year-old version of me, playing out some elaborate imagining I'd developed in the living room of my grandparents' house, while a crowd of older relatives watched and laughed and even participated here and there, thanks to my occasional cajoling...
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Lindsay M. Morris
(Obituary ~ 08/10/11)
Nov. 17, 1996-Aug. 8, 2011 MAXWELL, Nebraska -- Lindsay M. Morris, 14, died Monday (Aug. 8, 2011) at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was born Nov. 17, 1996, in McCook, Nebraska to Leon and Belinda Bade Morris...
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Hailstorm batters west McCook
(Local News ~ 08/10/11)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Hail stones, some reported up to baseball size, beat up McCook Tuesday evening and, at Melissa Tucker's rural home, made it feel personal when they broke through her windows and spit broken glass on her face and into her eyes. Melissa's house, her husband Kevin's work trucks, her son's restored cars and hundreds of other homes and vehicles across western McCook and through a strip of Red Willow County were damaged or destroyed in the storm that swept in from the northwest about 4:30 p.m.. ...
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MRNRD board sets budget; levy lowest rate since 2005
(Local News ~ 08/10/11)
CURTIS, Nebraska -- The Middle Republican Natural Resource District approved its 2011-12 budget for publication for a hearing during a regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday night at the Curtis Memorial Community Building in Curtis. The budget will be heard during the MRNRDs next regularly scheduled meeting on Sept. 13. The budget will be heard prior to the meeting...
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Neighbors helping neighbors after storm no surprise
(Editorial ~ 08/10/11)
It was heartening, but not surprising, to see the number of friends and neighbors who turned out to help board up, mop up and otherwise help those whose homes were damaged in Tuesday evening's hailstorm. It will take a long time to tally up the damage, but it will easily be in the millions of dollars just in McCook, even without counting crop damage in a wide area of Southwest Nebraska...
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Do all you can, wherever you can, whenever you can
(Editorial ~ 08/10/11)
The images were haunting, the locale foreign and mysterious. The people were different from any I had ever seen before, and not just because of their dark skin and unusual clothing. It was something in their eyes, a haunted look in some, a frightened look in others while some contained that thousand yard stare that reveals more than it hides as they focus on nothing, having seen far too much darkness in their days...
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Slim chance of a special session
(Column ~ 08/10/11)
LINCOLN -- In a move virtually certain to generate some headlines but very little action, State Sen. Ken Haar of Malcolm is urging that lawmakers call themselves into special session and adopt laws allowing them to decide the route of a proposed sand tar oil pipeline that would pass through the porous Sand Hills and over the Ogallala Aquifer...
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Joe Raymond Leroy Titman
(Obituary ~ 08/10/11)
Sept. 2, 1942-Aug. 9, 2011 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Joe Raymond Leroy Titman was born on Sept. 2, 1942 to Glen and Rita (Kohmetscher) Titman. On Aug. 9, 2011, he departed this life at home surrounded by family at the age of 68. Joe attended school at Indianola High School and graduated in 1960. He married Judy Berger on Sept. 7, 1971, in North Platte Nebraska, to this union a daughter was born, Chantelle...
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