Stories from Monday, April 13, 2015

Donald F. Uerling Sept. 22, 1939 - April 11, 2015 LINCOLN, Neb. -- Donald F. Uerling, 75, of Lincoln, died Saturday (April 11, 2015). He was a retired professor at the College of Education and Human Services at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was a member of St. ...

Gordon Eugene Hein May 27, 1927 - April 11, 2015 LINCOLN, Neb. -- Gordon Eugene Hein gained his angel wings on April 11, 2015, at the Arbors Memory Care in Lincoln. He was born May 27, 1927, in Ansley, Nebraska, to Arthur Hein and Flora Zimmerman Hein. He married Loretta Hoeman on Nov. 2, 1963, at Theophilus Church in Wayne County...

Lois M. Schmitt June 9, 1930 - April 9, 2015 GRAND ISLAND, Neb. -- Lois M. Schmitt, 84, of Grand Island, died Thursday, April 9, 2015 at CHI Health St. Francis in Grand Island. Services will be 10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at Apfel Funeral Home, 1123 West 2nd Street in Grand Island, with Derek Apfel officiating. Burial will be in Trenton Cemetery, Trenton, Nebraska, at 3 p.m...

Police activity Activity log These items are taken from reports filed by the McCook Police Department. The locations refer to block numbers, not specific addresses. If you have information about any of these reports, call the police department at (308) 345-3450...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The McCook School Board will be asked to approve five teacher resignations, including those from some long-time educators, and seven new teacher contracts, some from McCook High School grads, at the regular meeting Monday, 6:30 p.m. at the Junior High conference room...

McCOOK, Neb. -- If you are a cat or dog lover in McCook, Nebraska, (or within Southwest Nebraska, Northwest Kansas and Northeast Colorado), we'd like you to help us identify the most adorable and funny furry friends in Red Willow County. The cats and dogs receiving the most votes will receive the honor of being placed on their very own cards in our latest fund-raiser for the McCook Humane Society -- a custom deck of playing cards called "The Cats and Dogs of McCook."...

City of McCook, Nebraska, law enforcement officers and emergency personnel respond to a car-pickup smash-up at the corner of West Third and J streets Sunday at 9 p.m. One adult male in the car was transported to Community Hospital of McCook. More information will be released when McCook police officers complete their investigation of the accident...

Second graders at McCook, Nebraska, Elementary School celebrate their reading accomplishments -- and the 30th anniversary of the Pizza Hut "BOOK IT!" reading program -- Friday with pizza provided by Pizza Hut of McCook. Lined up on the stairs, students and Pizza Hut representatives Caroline Lee and (not shown) manager Kevin Cox stretch a paper chain made of their "BOOK IT!" coupons. ...

McCOOK, Neb -- Red Willow County and the State of Nebraska's Tax Equalization and Review Commission will determine at a hearing in June the tax valuation of "East Ward Village" properties in McCook. East Ward Village LLC is a former elementary school building converted to 15 senior housing apartments in the 500 block of East 5th Street and 12 new-construction senior housing duplex apartments and garages in the 500 block of East Sixth...

CULBERTSON, Neb. -- The Annual Culbertson City-wide Garage Sale will be held on Saturday, April 25. Anyone wishing to have their garage sale listed on the map should leave their name, phone number, sale address and two to three items to be listed on the map at one of these phone numbers: (308) 340-9561 or (308) 278-2669...

She was a Brownie and Girl Scout, on the student council, wrote for the school newspaper and was named to the National Honor Society. At 13, she helped canvass Chicago's South Side, where she found evidence of electoral fraud against Richard Nixon in the 1960 election -- an election so close that might have put "Tricky Dick" in the white house eight years sooner than he was actually sworn in...

By the end of April, 1945, World War II (in Europe) was coming to an end. Over 1.5 million Nazi German soldiers had been taken prisoner by the Allies on the Western Front and 800,000 Nazi German soldiers had been taken prisoner by the Russians, on the Eastern front. ...