Stories from Tuesday, April 15, 2014

CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Elizabeth Cope and Lauren Sprinkle have been selected to represent Cambridge at the 2014 Cornhusker Girls State, which will be on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus on June 1 - 7. Sloan Johnson and Sheldon Cross have been selected as alternates. The girls are sponsored by the Cambridge Legion Auxiliary Unit 199 and Alpha Omicron Chapter of ESA...

McCOOK FFA LINCOLN, Nebraska -- McCook FFA had a very successful state convention in Lincoln the 9th -11th. Luke Lichty, Dane Larington, Sydney Pfeifer, Kasey Taylor and Chance Koetter received their State FFA degrees. This is the highest degree the state can bestow on members. To earn the state FFA degree and chain, members must earn or invest $3,500, participate in a minimum of 25 community service hours and go through an interview process...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- By 4 to 1, with one board member absent, the McCook School Board voted down a proposal to go into negotiations with the city concerning property for a skate park. School board members Teresa Thomas, Loretta Hauxwell, Sandy Krysl and Tom Bredvick voted against Superintendent Grant Norgaard going into discussion with the City of McCook about leasing school property for a skate park. ...

TRENTON, Nebraska -- Hitchcock County officials would not return repeated calls this morning regarding the reported recovery of a body near Trenton Saturday. According to reports, the body was transported for an autopsy.

TRENTON, Nebraska -- A Trenton man is in jail after drugs and paraphernalia were allegedly discovered when a search warrant was executed on a residence at 511 West D in Trenton on Tuesday, April 9. John R. Leahy III, 22, is in Hitchcock County Jail in lieu of 10 percent of a $25,000 bond...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- A plea agreement was reached in Red Willow County District Court last week with a convicted felon arrested in January, after a probation search of his home turned up more than a dozen deadly weapons and what officers described as a meth pipe manufacturing operation...

Red Willow Western firefighter Doug Wasia drops over the lip of an AmPride elevator -- 120 feet in the air -- learning rappelling and rope rescue techniques Saturday morning. Leading the training was personnel from the Nebraska State Fire Marshal's office...

McCook, Nebraska, Senior High's drum line and Central Elementary students observe April as "The Month of the Military Child" and specifically Tuesday, April 15, as "Purple Up! For Military Kids" day during the elementary school's daily flag-raising Tuesday. ...

There's been an effort to build a skate park for McCook since at least 2005, and that effort will take a little while longer, thanks to a 4-1 school board vote Monday night against leasing school property to the city for that purpose. Unconfirmed reports are that the City of McCook has an alternative site in mind for the skate park...

Great News!!!! Grannie Annie's Adopt-A-Chaplain organization was pleased to report that there were Zero casualties in March 2014 -- No ramp ceremonies held for warriors who died in combat for first time in a decade!!!! Yes casualty free for the first time since June 2007...

SOUTHWEST Nebraska-- The American Legion Posts of Indianola, Danbury, Lebanon and Bartley will sponsor local four boys at the American Legion Cornhusker Boys' State in Lincoln, Nebraska. The students and sponsoring chapters of the American Legion are Brian Riley, the son of Ronda and Brent Riley, sponsored by Indianola American Legion Post 344; Austin Minard, the son of Rusty and Penny Minard, sponsored by Lebanon American Legion Post 313; Andrew Lepper, the son of Donald Lepper and Tammy Washa, sponsored by Danbury American Legion Post 276 and Jackson Porter, the son of June and Todd Porter, sponsored by the Bartley American Legion Post 245. ...

LINCOLN, Nebraska -- University of Nebraska-Lincoln undergraduate students were honored in conjunction with UNL's All-University Honors Convocation April 13, including 32 seniors who were recognized as Chancellor's Scholars, the university's highest undergraduate academic honor...

Glenn John Jurgens Nov. 4, 1921 - April 11, 2014 CURTIS, Nebraska -- Glenn John Jurgens, 92, died Friday (April 11, 2014), at his home in Curtis. He was born Nov. 4, 1921, on a farm west of Moorefield, Nebraska, to George and Emma (Waltemath) Jurgens. ...