Stories from Wednesday, October 12, 2005

GRAND ISLAND (AP) -- McCook High School's Justine Hager and Lesley Nelson placed in the top 15 at the Nebraska Class B girls state golf championship Tuesday and earned medals. The Class B tournament was played at Jackrabbit Run Golf Course in Grand Island...

CAMBRIDGE -- Southwest's girls volleyball team took home the RVL Championship Tuesday. Southwest beat out Alma to win the tournament. Dundy County took the third placing and Southern Valley followed. "We came out a bit shaky against Southern Valley, but we got better as we went along, " said Southwest coach Dennis Troester. "We played very well in the championship game against Alma, a state ranked team."...

BEATRICE -- The McCook Community College volleyball team lost to Southeast Community College 31-29, 30-16, 30-24 Tuesday night at Beatrice. Kayla Laird led the Indians with 30 set assists and 18 digs. Lindsey Hartman and Mary Gohl each had 13 digs. Gohl and Crystal Zwickl each had 8 kills...

By CONNIE JO DISCOE McCook Daily Gazette McCook police and Red Willow County sheriff's officers Tuesday morning apprehended an inmate who slipped away from the McCook hospital reportedly wearing nothing more than her bra and underpants. Hitchcock County Sheriff D. Bryan Leggott said this morning that the 34-year-old female inmate had been transferred by the Trenton ambulance to Community Hospital of McCook for medical treatment when she asked to use the restroom and walked out of the hospital...

After 20 years of staging musicals and theatre productions, members of the local theatre group know that a steady supply of new talent has been one of the keys to energizing local productions. Never has that new talent been more apparent than this week's presentation of Neil Simon's romantic comedy "Barefoot In The Park."...

**Dear Editor, This morning I received an encouraging e-mail from someone I hadn't heard from in over six months. He is an Iraqi citizen who is working now as an engineer on a big water project in Iraq. Over the last 15 years the infrastructure has been allowed to deteriorate to the point of utter disrepair. The people we interacted with there lacked basic sanitation, running water, electricity, even gasoline. So I was excited to hear that things are getting rebuilt...

A member of the McCook Board of Education, Diane Lyons, and a concerned citizen, Gary Power, are providing a service to the McCook Board of Education and to the citizens of the district with their call for easier and quicker access to school budget details...

The images are disturbing, but the viewing audience is almost compelled to watch. It is human suffering at its most personal, its most intense. This week it is the children. So many times it is the children. One particular image remains uppermost in my mind. A young man, healthy and whole, releases a single tear that courses down the crevasse between his nose and his cheek. The tear falls on the face of his son, broken, bloodied and still...

Larry Harvey of McCook announced that he is a candidate for the District 44 seat in the Nebraska Legislature. He has spent the last two months traveling across Southwest Nebraska talking to voters and said he has been both humbled and excited by the expressions of support he has been getting...