Stories from Friday, November 21, 2008

LINCOLN (AP) -- Ewing quarterback Brett Kaczor ran and passed his Tiger teammates to a 49-24 victory over Humphrey St. Francis to win the state class D-2 eight-man football championship on Thursday at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. The football championship is Ewing's first...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The 9th-ranked Nebraska-Kearney volleyball team smashed home a season-high 72 kills, with junior middle Nikki Scott having a season-high 20 of them, to edge 22nd-ranked Augustana (25-27, 25-17, 17-25, 25-23, 25-11) in the first round of the NCAA Division II Tournament Thursday night in St. Paul, Minn...

The McCook Junior High School eighth grade girls basketball A and B teams both lost to North Platte Thursday at the MJH gymnasium. The Bison A team lost 41-18 and the B team lost 15-8. Rachel Goltl led the Bison A team with 5 points, followed by Kassidy Gillen 4, Riley Allen 4, Megan Ruppert 2, Brooklyn Trew 2 and Madison Chitwood 1...

Police are investigating a threatening letter sent to a McCook School Board member. Shane Messersmith of the McCook Board of Education said he got the unsigned letter Nov. 14, that was mailed from a location in McCook. It has been turned over to the McCook Police Department...

We've not been kind to lawmakers who approved Nebraska's disastrous safe haven law, saying it made the state a national laughingstock. Thursday night's "ER" included a line by a frustrated parent telling a teen to behave "or I'll drop you off in Omaha."...

Recently Walt Sehnert, author of "Days Gone By" in the Gazette had a story about his father dowsing different things. This story created an interest, to see and hear from other dowsers, water witchers and pendulum dowsers. So -- the invitation is out to all those that can dowse or those that want to visit with them to come to the High Plains Museum on Nov. 30, 2008, at 1: 30 p.m...

I read Dick Trail's article (My Gomer, Tuesday, Nov. 18) with great interest. I grew up on a farm in rural Osborne County, Kan. In our church community was a young man named Harold Mischler; his parents and mine were neighbors and friends for many years. Harold's mother was my third-grade teacher...

My heart sinks around 9:30 every Thursday morning. Sometimes it's at 9:45, sometimes it's at 9:15, but mostly it's closer to 9:30, give or take a minute or two. You see, that's when the Nielsen ratings for one of my favorite shows, ABC's "Pushing Daisies," usually scroll past my eyes -- and the prognosis they bring with them for one of television's most entertaining shows is not good. Not good at all...

Oct. 20, 1921 - Nov. 14, 2008 GOLDEN, Colo. -- Lois Estelle Allen, 87, died Friday (Nov. 14, 2008) in a retirement community apartment after a very short illness in Golden, Colo. She will be missed and will always be remembered and loved. Lois grew up in McCook, the daughter of Harold and Gladys Sutton and the oldest sister to Harvey and Suzanne...

March 15, 1926 - Nov. 20, 2008 WILSONVILLE -- Curtis R. Kasson, 82, Thursday (Nov. 20, 2008) at his home in rural Wilsonville. He was born near Wilsonville on March 15, 1926, to George B. and Ada E. (Cline) Kasson. He attended school and graduated from Wilsonville High School in 1943. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in February 1944 and was honorably discharged in March of 1945. He served as an automotive equipment mechanic...

Sept. 23, 1913 - Nov. 19, 2008 CAMBRIDGE -- Erwin ten Bensel, 95, died Wednesday (Nov. 19, 2008) at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. He was born Sept. 23, 1913, to Herman and Sophia (Broeker) ten Bensel. He grew up on a farm near Cambridge. He graduated from Cambridge High School in 1932. He began farming with his family...

March 28, 1963 - Nov. 19, 2008 LOOMIS -- Dorothy Jean (Hampton) Hanson, 45, died Wednesday (Nov. 19, 2008) at her home in Loomis. She was born March 28, 1963, in Cambridge to Odean Sylvester Hampton Sr. and Connie Jean (Rauch) Hampton. She received her education at Cambridge and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1982...

April 14, 1922 - Nov. 21, 2008 GRANT -- Lila Morris, of Grant, died Friday morning at the Perkins County Community Hospital in Grant. Funeral services will be Monday at the Madrid United Methodist Church at 10:30 a.m. Burial will be in the Madrid Cemetery...