Stories from Wednesday, August 23, 2023

LINCOLN, Neb. — McCook High's girls have earned a Class C No. 3 team ranking from the Nebraska Cross Country Coaches Association. The defending C-5 district champs are listed only behind Auburn and Lincoln Christian. McCook finished sixth among all Class C teams at Kearney Country Club last fall...

McCOOK, Neb. — Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department (SWNPHD) encourages residents to understand the signs and risks of xylazine use. Xylazine is a drug that is commonly used as an animal tranquilizer, therefore receiving the nickname “tranq”. ...

LINCOLN, Neb. – Nebraska’s first death attributed to the West Nile Virus death has been reported in the panhandle. Last year, the state’s first West Nile Virus death occurred in September. The last five years in Nebraska have seen an average of six West Nile Virus deaths a year. ...

CENTRAL CITY, Neb. — Investigators with the Nebraska State Patrol Tech Crimes Unit, with assistance from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Central City Police Department, have arrested a Central City man after a child exploitation investigation...

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol arrested a Wyoming man following a pursuit in Dawes County Monday evening. At approximately 8:40 p.m. MT, NSP was informed that Fall River County (South Dakota) Sheriff’s Deputies were pursuing a motorcycle that was traveling toward Nebraska on Highway...

BARTLEY, Neb. — Southwest has moved kickoff for Thursday's varsity football at South Platte to 8 p.m. central time, actives director Les Roggenkamp announced back this week. South Platte High is located in Big Springs, so local mountain time kickoff will be 7 p.m...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Travel and Leisure website has named McCook as runner up in the Small Food and Culture Town category of America’s Best Small Towns 2023. “McCook, Nebraska, has a population of just 7,500, but this small prairie town boasts a culinary and cultural scene that far outpunches its weight class,” writes Katy Spratt Joyce...

NORFOLK, Neb. — Nebraska State Patrol investigators, with the assistance of the Norfolk Police Department, have arrested two people following a narcotics investigation Monday. Monday morning, NSP investigators were conducting an investigation in the 1000 block of Jonathan Circle when they observed two subjects exit a house, appear to place something under the hood of a vehicle, then drive away in the vehicle, a PT Cruiser. ...