Stories from Thursday, October 9, 2014

Marcelline E. (Zwickl) Cole March 25, 1929, - Oct. 7, 2014 CURTIS, Neb. -- Marcelline E. (Zwickl) Cole, 85, of Curtis, died Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, at Great Plains Health Care Center in North Platte, Nebraska. She was born March 25, 1929, in Herndon, Kansas, to Bernard and Elizabeth (Kiaser) Green. ...

Duane E. Wagner Dec. 8, 1934 - Oct. 7, 2014 CULBERTSON, Neb. -- Memorial Services for Duane E. Wagner will be on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014, at 1:30 p.m. at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in McCook, Nebraska, with Elder Eldean Griffith officiating. Private family inurnment will be held at a later date...

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...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The newest structure on the Red Willow County, Nebraska, fairgrounds in McCook will be the "Alice Kiplinger Building," a warm-up arena and multi-purpose building that will complete a triangle of horse arenas given to the county by McCook-area rancher Tom Kiplinger...

Students and other well-wishers look on as the new name of the Peter & Dolores Graff Events Center is unveiled at a ceremony Wednesday evening. Looking on, right, were namesake Dolores Graff, and Peter's son, Mark, top right, who said he hopes "everyone who reads the name on the building realizes how much we value McCook Community College and all it's done" for the community. ...

STRATTON, Neb. -- A Stratton, Nebraska, man and woman were arrested and jailed Wednesday morning after the Nebraska State Patrol, Hitchcock County Sheriff's Department and the CODE Drug Task Force served a search warrant on a house at 605 Nebraska Ave. in Stratton...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A plea agreement was reached Monday in Red Willow County District Court with a Grand Island woman who orchestrated an assault of her former boyfriend by luring the man to a diversion dam with false promises of a visit with his daughter. The man was later treated at Community Hospital for injuries suffered when two men, one armed with a metal pipe, assaulted him...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A Stratton man who helped his girlfriend steal cash from the Indianola Ag Valley Coop will join her on probation following a sentencing hearing Monday in Red Willow County District Court. The offender, 35-year-old Tony B. Holmes, was sentenced to 24 months probation and ordered to pay $760 in joint restitution to the coop after admitting guilt to a Class IV felony offense for theft by unlawful taking...

McCOOK, Neb. -- An 18-year-old man was sentenced to probation Monday in Red Willow County District Court stemming from drug charges related to a report of three individuals smoking marijuana at Norris Park in June. The offender, Branden M. Lucas, admitted guilt to a Class IV felony offense for possession of methamphetamine and was subsequently sentenced to 30 months probation...

McCOOK, Neb. -- An Indianola man pleaded not guilty to felony charges in two unrelated criminal cases and faced arraignment in a third case Monday in Red Willow County District Court. The man, 31-year-old Brandon S. Holdcroft, pleaded not guilty to a Class 3 felony burglary offense in one case and a pair of Class IV felony offenses alleging possession of methamphetamine and possession of burglary tools in another...

The MCC Events Center is a clean, no-nonsense modern facility that quietly goes about the business of supporting McCook Community College and the students it prepares for the future. It's only fitting that it now bears the name of Peter and Dolores Graff, who have quietly gone about the business of improving the community they and their family call home...

As a busy mom, Hubby and I don't get the chance to spend a lot of alone time together so when we do, I look forward to it. Last Friday, he and I had to go to some mandatory all-day meetings out of town for our jobs, and it worked out just so, that we would be traveling just the two of us the day. ...

Help me get my head around something here friends. There are nearly 21,000 miles of hazardous liquid and natural gas pipelines in Nebraska already. So what makes the battle over the latest one proposed -- the Keystone XL -- so special? Just asking. Nearly 8,000 people gathered on an Antelope County farm on a beautiful fall Saturday afternoon to listen to music legends Willie Nelson and Neil Young perform. ...