Stories from Thursday, July 22, 2010

McCook firefighters work the scene of an aircraft collision at McCook's Ben Nelson Regional Airport this morning after a sprayplane taxied into a parked, unoccupied Piper Super Cub. The collision resulted in an explosion and fire that destroyed both aircraft, and the spray plane pilot was taken to Community Hospital with burns to his face, hands and chest. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- A 15-year-old girl visiting a 16-year-old McCook boy for a week turned out to be a Kuwaiti national who ran away from her family while on a Florida vacation. Eman Mohammed Alsayegh, 15, was taken by the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office to a secure juvenile holding facility where she was waiting to be reunited with her mother and siblings...

July 15,1985-July 12, 2010 NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- Melissa Sue (Leibhart) Vargas, 24, died July 12, 2010, east of Kearney as a result of a car accident. She was born July 15, 1985, to Gerald and Pam (Shultz) Leibhart in North Platte. She served as a missionary in Fiji at the age of 15 and in 2003, she graduated from North Platte High School...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- On Saturday, at the Fox Theater, the Missoula Children's Theater will perform at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., but when the performance is over and the props have been packed up there will be one who will get the chance to perform again with the MIssoula Children's Theater this summer. Rachel Gordine...

Keeping teenagers apart has been a lost cause since the days of Romeo and Juliet, but the discovery of a Kuwaiti runaway staying in a McCook home shows just how much the Internet has changed the equation. Thankfully, the girl is on her way back to her parents, and the person she hopped a bus from Florida to see really was a fellow teenager and not a pedophile...

Keeping teenagers apart has been a lost cause since the days of Romeo and Juliet, but the discovery of a Kuwaiti runaway staying in a McCook home shows just how much the Internet has changed the equation. Thankfully, the girl is on her way back to her parents, and the person she hopped a bus from Florida to see really was a fellow teenager and not a pedophile...

It's McCook's version of summer league football, giving area kids a chance to learn the gridiron game and get in several games dressed out in full football gear. The annual McCook Football League (MFL) kicks off the 2010 schedule Friday night at Weiland Field, with four games on tap in the league's two age divisions...