Stories from Friday, April 6, 2018

Dorothy "Jessie" Northeim-Bechtel March 30, 1930 - April 5, 2018 AMHERST, Ohio — On Thursday, April 5, 2018, Dorothy "Jessie" Northeim-Bechtel (Moebius) went peacefully to her heavenly home while surrounded by family. Dorothy was born in Amherst, on March 30, 1930, to Edward and Mildred Moebius. She resided in Amherst and graduated from Central High School where she proudly served as head majorette. She also attended and graduated from the Oberlin School of Commerce...

HASTINGS, Neb. –The McCook Community College baseball team split a pair of games on the road Thursday. The Indians beat the Hastings College JVs in the first game 5-3. The Broncos came back to win the nightcap 4-1.

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook Community College golf team – playing on the home course at Heritage Hills Thursday -- finished third in what turned out to be a one day McCook Community College Tournament...

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska high school basketball will have a new postseason format for Classes C1, C2, D1 and D2 beginning in the 2018-2019 season...

LEXINGTON, Neb. -- The McCook junior varsity girls tennis team swept all honors at Thursday’s Lexington JV Invite...

KEARNEY, Neb. -- Led by freshman Brady Esch and senior Gabe Vielma, McCook finished fourth at Thursday’s Kearney Invite...

60th anniversary The family of Roland and Marilyn Anderjaska of Hayes Center, Neb., is requesting a card shower in honor of the couple’s 60th wedding anniversary on Thursday, April 12, 2018. They were married in 1958 at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in McCook, Neb. ...

BROKEN BOW, Neb. -- The McCook boys continued to flex their muscles in the field events at Thursday’s Broken Bow Invite...

ATWOOD, Kan. -- The Rawlins County girls track team kickstarted their season with a strong showing at Thursday’s home invite in Atwood, Kan. Led by three gold medal performances, including two by Kristen Beckman, the Lady Buffs finished second in the 2018 Rawlins County Invitational...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — A Stratton man in court over keeping 21 dogs has now been arrested following the discovery of an improvised explosive device in his home. Investigators with the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP), with assistance from NSP Troop D Field Services, the NSP Police Service Dog Division, NSP Hazardous Device Technicians, and the Hitchcock County Sheriff’s Office, made the discovery while executing a search warrant on a residence at 105 Howard St. in Stratton...

McCOOK, Neb. — Something is better than nothing when it comes to property tax relief, Gov. Pete Ricketts said. Visiting with the McCook Gazette Thursday, Gov. Ricketts said it’s unacceptable for the state to go two years in a row without getting anything done on property tax relief...

Final in a series

McCOOK, Neb. — A truck driver from Omaha died of natural causes in the Walmart parking lot in McCook Thursday morning. Red Willow County coroner Paul Wood said this morning that the body of the man was discovered by a passerby in the parking lot and that Walmart’s cameras indicated he died as he approached the store shortly after 5 a.m...

We hate to break it to you, but you may have heard it before. There’s no free lunch. Or, as one commentator put it, if the service is free, you’re the product. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is busy doing damage control after it was revealed that a British firm improperly accessed data on up to 87 million Facebook users to help Donald Trump’s campaign...

Police work has long been rumored to be the most likely place for racial prejudice and the reasons for that are well known. First of all, police work is attractive to a certain kind of person more likely than not to be authoritarian, expressive, and has a need to be in control. ...