Stories from Thursday, September 3, 2009

The Alliance Bulldogs are coming off a 34-9 loss to class C1 Chadron to host the McCook Bison Friday. Chadron 34, Alliance 9 The Bulldogs recovered two Chadron fumbles in the fourth quarter for both of their scores. The Bulldogs made the first recovery on the Chadron four-yard line...

Feb. 22, 1976 - Aug. 30, 2009 DEARBORN, Ill -- Nathaniel R. "Nate" Trask, 33, of Dearborn, Ill., died Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, after a courageous fight with melanoma cancer. He was born to Robert and Margaret Trask on Feb. 22, 1976, in Newburyport, Mass. On Dec. 18, 1999,...

Jan. 9, 1910 - Sept. 1, 2009 Nellie N. Ervin, died Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009, at Wedgewood Care Center in Grand Island at the age of 99. She was born Jan. 9, 1910, in Grant County, the daughter of the late Selbi "Dude" and Cora (Shoemaker) Roth. Nellie grew up in Hayes County and graduated from the University of Nebraska School of Agriculture in Curtis in 1930. For three years she taught rural school...

CULBERTSON -- When you're a buffalo, and you're lost, be really careful whose yard you wander into ... Clint Collicott's known as the family jokester, so when he discovered a buffalo in his parents' front yard at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night, he really had to do some talking to convince them he wasn't joking...

The puppies never had a chance, and the family did only what they could do. "In all our years on the farm, we've never seen so many skunks," said the warp-speed, always-on-the-go rural woman whose family of five was forced this summer to undergo vaccinations for rabies after a rabid skunk attacked newborn puppies...

A Hughes 300C helicopter lays on its side after being involved in a crash shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday, about three-fourths of a mile east of the Arapahoe (Neb.) Municipal Airport, about two miles north of Arapahoe. According to the Furnas County Sheriff's Office, Anthony Cavalea, 55, of Lockport, Ill., and Adam Bulme, 25, of Westminster, Colo., were flying from York, Neb., to Pueblo, Colo., when an unknown mechanical malfunction caused the helicopter to lose power and altitude. ...

CAMBRIDGE -- Tri Valley Health System, headquarted in Cambridge will host a community groundbreaking ceremony for their new hospital facility on Sunday Sept. 13. The event will take place on the south side of Cambridge Memorial Hospital, located on U.S. Highway 6-34. A picnic-style lunch will start the event, with the serving line opening at noon, followed by a short program at 1 p.m., an opportunity to view an architectural drawing of a new patient room, and a walking tour of the building site...

NORFOLK -- The Glen Waddle Benefit Committee is planning an event to help defray medical expenses and rehabilitation cost for recovering Trooper Glen Waddle. In March 2009, Trooper Waddle, a 25-year veteran of the Patrol suffered a stroke following surgery to remove a tumor from his pituitary gland. ...

City of McCook firefighter/paramedic Steve Renner, right, pokes at a charred fuse, and he and fellow firefighters inspect the door of an electrical panel that burned Wednesday about 9:40 p.m., and smoked up the home of Paul and Fauna Kinne at 912 West L. Renner said the fire was confined to the electrical box, and there was some smoke damage throughout the house...

Nebraska has a strong history as one of our nation's leading agricultural producing states. Nebraska agriculture plays an important role in the research that fosters ag innovation and is making our state a premiere place for new developments in bioscience and conservation...