Stories from Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Roger Emigh April 26, 1964 - April 6, 2015 SELDEN, Kan. -- Roger Emigh, 50, died Monday April 6, 2015, at Jetmore, Kansas, He was born April 26, 1964, in Hoxie, Kansas, to Gary and Shirley (Rogers) Emigh. He was raised in Selden and attended Golden Plains Junior-Senior high and auctioneer school in Mason City, Iowa...

Carlotta Rozina "Charlie" Thielbar McCOOK, Neb. -- Carlotta Rozina "Charlie" Thielbar, 81, died Tuesday (April 7, 2015), at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook Memorial services are Friday, April 10, 2015, at 2 p.m. at Carpenter Breland Funeral Home with the Rev. Bruce Lester officiating...

Icela Elizabeth "Liz" (Hall) Sidell Jan. 2, 1932 - April 1, 2015 SCOTTSBLUff, Neb. -- Liz Sidell passed away on April 1, 2015 at 83 years old in Scottsbluff. She resided in Kimball, Nebraska, before her death. Liz was born on Jan. 2, 1932, in Trenton, Nebraska, to Charles Delbert Hall and Clara Ruth Brown Hall. ...

Scott Friehe of McCook and Preston Bolte of North Platte turn to another sport now that the college basketball season is over, playing catch with a football while they wait to be called out for an emergency medical flight. They are pilots with the LifeTeam air ambulance team stationed at McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A blown tire may have caused the Easter Sunday accident that sent two adults and a baby to Community Hospital of McCook. Indianola emergency personnel responded first to the accident that happened about 2 p.m. on Highway 6&34 at the highway and county roads intersection at the old Republican Valley High School between Indianola and McCook. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A new "Aces for the Animals" disc golf tournament will help raise funds for the McCook, Nebraska, Humane Society and its animal shelter. "We're super excited about a new upcoming event to help raise money for our temporarily-homeless furry friends," said shelter director Lorie Prestes...

'Twas a great night for a lunar eclipse -- or rather I should say, a great early morning. At about 0415 hours the umbral shadow cone of Earth started to darken the left side of the lunar face and proceeded to totally cover it just in time for the moon to set behind the western horizon...

It's all about who pays. Some of the facts in the debate over Medicaid expansion under Obamacare are easy to quantify. Others take a little research. Ricketts opposes LB472, being debated today, which would expand Medicaid to about 79,000 more Nebraskans, most of whom work, but in jobs that do not provide health insurance...