Stories from Monday, September 22, 2014

Donald LeRoy Randolph May 7, 1931 - Sept. 19, 2014 McCOOK, Neb. -- Donald LeRoy Randolph passed away Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, at Hillcrest Nursing Home. He was 83 years old. Donald was born on May 7, 1931, at Allison, Kansas, to Chester and Dorothy (Rhodes) Randolph. He graduated from Jennings High School, Jennings, Kansas, in 1949. He was drafted into the Army and stationed in France during the Korean War. He was honorably discharged...

Kenneth Allen Gardner Sept. 5, 1932 - Sept. 18, 2014 BENKELMAN, Neb. -- Kenneth Allen Gardner was born to Richard and Mary (Weigel) Gardner on Sept. 5, 1932, in rural Max, Nebraska. He passed away on Thursday (Sept. 18, 2014), at Eastmont Care Center in Lincoln, Nebraska...

This information is gathered at the McCook Public Safety Center, the McCook office of the Nebraska State Patrol, the Red Willow County Courthouse, the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office and the McCook Humane Society. Police activity Activity log...

Dorothy Marie (Hudnall) Wilson Jan. 5, 1930 - Sept. 17, 2014, LINCOLN, Neb. -- Dorothy Marie (Hudnall) Wilson died at her home in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, following a short illness. She was 84 years old. Dorothy was born on Jan. ...

From the "you can lead a horse to water" department, there's more frustration on the lunch line as schools see millions of dollars a day of food dumped into the trash because kids refuse to eat it. Of the $12 billion a year the U.S. Department of Agriculture spends on the National School Lunch program, researchers at Cornell and Brigham Young universities estimate some $4 million in food a day is being wasted...

(Note: In recent weeks we have looked at a number of people and events connected with World War I, which began 100 years ago this summer. One more story seems appropriate -- the still controversial story of Mata Hari, who figured in the highest echelons of diplomatic circles during World War I.)...

Fellow pilots and friends of the late Lynn Weskamp performed a "missing man" flyover for a gathering of Lynn's family and friends at his private airstrip south of McCook Saturday afternoon. Taking part were Dick Trail of McCook, Nebraska, Eric Allen of Hutchinson, Kansas, and Mike May of Axtell, Nebraska, who left a trail of smoke in honor of the missing pilot...

WAUNETA, Neb. -- A 24-year-old Hayes Center, Nebraska, man was killed in a one-vehicle truck accident north of Wauneta, Nebraska, Friday morning. Joshua C. Annen died at Chase County Hospital in Imperial after being freed from the wreckage of his truck that rolled 3.8 miles north of Wauneta on Chase County Road Avenue 347...

The rising sun this morning silhouettes the excavator and truck of Leising Inc. of Arapahoe, Nebraska, as Phillip and Frank Leising demolish and haul away the debris (recycling what they can) of the Lewis Motor Sports building on North Highway 83 in McCook, Nebraska. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The Frenchman Valley Mutual Aid Fire School drew approximately 50 emergency responders to McCook this weekend, eager for the opportunity to participate in several coordinated training exercises. Participants hailed from Bartley, Benkelman, Cambridge, Culbertson, Grant, Indianola, Maywood, Trenton, Wauneta, McCook and Red Willow Western Rural Fire. ...

McCook, Neb. -- It's time for our government to make room for faith and end the assault on expressions of free speech, at least according to one candidate. "We have to open up space for God to work and end these attacks on expressions of free speech, in essence attacks on religion," said Independent candidate for U.S. Senate Todd Watson during a visit to McCook, Friday afternoon...