Stories from Saturday, January 13, 2007

This weekend's cold and snow isn't turning out to be as severe as the two previous storms, and that's a good thing. Nebraska Public Power District officials are warning Kearney-area residents to cut back on power usage, saying the fragile electrical system was almost overtaxed by demand on Friday...

I would just like to give our president some advice after his speech he gave on Wednesday the 10th of January. First of all it is important to us to have enough troops here in the U.S. for our own protection. I believe that our prisons are overpopulated and we as taxpayers pay for their clothing, food and shelter...

Thanks to Gloria Masoner ("Glory Daze," Jan. 11) for telling it like it is about Bush's plans to escalate our war in Iraq. She's right. It's unacceptable for Bush to put more young Americans in harm's way "to make up for the mistakes he admits are his own."...

Jon Bruning, our politically ambitious Attorney General, has recommended, as a part of his Crime Control package, that the legislature make sending sexually explicit pictures, words, videos, etc, thorough email to ANYONE a crime. The proposal, currently identified as Legislative Bill 142 and introduced by Senator Mike Friend of Omaha, would define the above mentioned behavior as a misdemeanor if all parties involved are adults. ...

By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor JENNINGS -- When Jennings closed its school doors for the last time after classes ended in spring 2006, the community could have withered away like so many plains towns when they lose their centers of attention and their identities...

The McCook High School boys basketball team were a few missed chances away from knocking off North Platte Friday night at the MHS gymnasium. The North Platte Bulldogs, despite not making a field goal in the fourth quarter, escaped from McCook with a 54-48 win...