Stories from Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Feb. 1, 1936--Nov. 15, 2010 INDIANOLA, Nebraska -- Donald Dean Musgrave, 74, passed away Monday (Nov. 15, 2010), at the Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Nebraska. Dean was born Feb. 1, 1936, in Indianola to parents Hiram and Bernadine (Malleck) Musgrave. Dean spent his younger years in Indianola...

April 23, 1925--Nov. 10, 2010 LINCOLN, Nebraska -- Dorothy E. (McDonald) Cheney, 85, passed away Nov. 10, 2010, at Sunrise Country Manor in Milford, Nebraska. Dorothy was born April 23, 1925, in McCook, Nebraska to Floyd and Lillian (Brisban) McDonald...

May 2, 1996--Nov. 15, 2010 TRENTON, Nebraska -- James Glenn Randall, 14, passed away on Monday (Nov. 15, 2010), at Children's Hospital in Omaha, Nebrasak after a long illness of Muscular Dystrophy. James was born on May 2, 1996, at Fort Carson Army Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado to Calvin L. and Anna M. (Masur) Randall. He was a member of the eighth grade class at Trenton Schools...

PHOENIX, Arizona -- Dogs love to roam. Given the slightest opportunity to explore the landscape, they take off, stopping only long enough to sniff out the territory, maybe mark the way home, then continue their brave explorations. Target, a true American hero, set off on just such an exploration last week, abandoning the safety of her back yard home with Sgt. Terry Young, his wife, Melissa and their children, Tavius, Trenedy and Mahala...

We deal with stories of death and tragedy every day, but the word that Target, a dog that helped save the lives of American soldiers in Afghanistan, had mistakenly been euthanized, left us with shock and heavy hearts. We were perhaps the first media outlet to run a story on Target, thanks to a local connection. ...

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again." The children's verse teaches a hard lesson with great imagery. Even a child can see an egg -- dropped on the floor, shattered shell surrounded by clear fluid and an orb of yellow -- and know it cannot be mended...

TRENTON, Nebraska -- Junior and senior high students at Hitchcock County Public Schools in Trenton, Nebraska, are grieving the loss of two students this week. Eighth grader James Randall died Monday in Children's Hospital in Omaha of complications of muscular dystrophy, and senior Zach Cruze was killed Tuesday in a car accident...