Stories from Wednesday, December 22, 2021

BEAVER CITY, Neb. — Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson announced that William “Billy” Quinn of Oxford, Nebraska was sentenced today for multiple crimes he committed against a 15-year-old victim in 2019. Furnas County District Court Judge James E. Doyle IV sentenced Quinn to a minimum of 176.5 years to a maximum of 304 years in prison...

A rundown of area basketball action Tuesday evening: PAXTON, Neb. — The Maywood Hayes-Center basketball teams made a clean sweep of Paxton's Pre-Holiday Tournament titles with two wins over those host Tigers on Tuesday. Tied 21-21 at half, the M-HC boys broke free for a 54-41 victory...

The McCook Community College volleyball team has signed Fernanda Guadalupe Merancio Paredes, an outside hitter from Lamar, Colo. MCC Assistant Coach Hannah Emerson is the one who first started noticing Paredes in the past month and followed her and her Lamar team as they went deep into the Colorado State Championship playoffs...