Stories from Wednesday, February 10, 2016

McCOOK, Neb. -- Some Community Hospital patients are being offered free identity protection monitoring for one year after receiving a letter from the hospital's auditing company, Seim Johnson, this week. The letter informed patients that a Seim Johnson laptop computer was stolen and that their personal information about services they received at Community Hospital may be affected. ...

James G. Denny July 13, 1925 - Jan. 28, 2016 McCOOK, Neb. -- James G. Denny, son of William and Florence Denny, was born in Fairport, New York, July 13, 1925. Jim and his family later moved into the Rochester, New York, area where he completed his high school education. Jim then became active in the National Guard. During the year 1943, Jim enlisted in the Army Air Corps which took him into many areas of active service within the U.S.A. as a gunnery instructor...

Doris Williams Nov. 9, 1925 - Feb. 7, 2016 BENKELMAN, Neb. -- Doris Olive Williams was born to George Lee and Hannah Jemima (Russell) Maxwell on Nov. 9, 1925, at a farm outside Stratton, Nebraska. She attended school in Stratton and graduated from high school in 1943...

WAYNE, Neb. -- More than 1,000 students at Wayne State College were named to the Dean's List for exemplary academic achievement during the past semester. Students listed on the dean's list are full-time undergraduate students who have achieved a GPA of 3.5 or above on a 4.0 scale for the semester. An denotes a 4.0 GPA for the term...

Two of the jewels of the night sky are in good location for viewing these February evenings. The first is the great Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the second in the same section of the sky is the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). The Triangulum is also sometimes called the Pinwheel Galaxy, a name it shares with M101...

McCOOK, Neb. -- There's a slight dip in student population from last year at McCook Public Schools and a small increase in poverty, but student assessments have continued to improve. Those statistics, as well as other information, were presented in a report given to the McCook School Board Monday night by Superintendent Grant Norgaard...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A former McCook resident received prison time last week in Red Willow County District Court on the same day his father accepted a plea agreement in a felony criminal mischief case and just a few months after his mother faced felony drug charges in the same courthouse...

State officials are lauding a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision to delay President Obama's Clean Power Plan until legal challenges are resolved. Nebraska joined 29 states and state agencies in challenging the rule, which would have a major impact on our electric bills because of the state's high dependence on coal for power generation...

MAYWOOD, Neb. -- Until three years ago, Jared Wilson was a heavy drinker and smoker, a self-proclaimed "wild one." He was angry, confused. "I questioned everything," he remembers. Then he met a girl, and he thought the world was going to end. He couldn't explain it...