Stories from Thursday, July 9, 2015

Michael Ivan Anthony July 25th, 1943 -- June 25, 2015 OMAHA, Neb. -- Michael Ivan Anthony passed away June 25, 2015, in Omaha, Nebraska, after a short battle with cancer. He was 71 years old. Mike was born July 25 1943, in La Plata, Maryland, to parents, Francis Michael Anthony and Margaret Anne (Du Val) Anthony...

Ruby May Kentfield March 4, 1914 - June 13, 2015 TORRINGTON, Wyo. -- Ruby May Kentfield, 101, of Torrington, Wyoming, died June 13, 2015, at the Goshen Care Center. She was born March 4, 1914, on a farm southwest of Oxford, Nebraska, the daughter of Charles and Agnes (Davis) Shepard. ...

The McCook Junior High School boys track and field team had several individual school record efforts during the 2015 season. DJ Gross may be the next great Bison thrower. Gross, an eighth-grader set two new junior high records in the throwing events. The old records had stood nearly 30 years...

The 2015 McCook Junior High school boys track and field broke a host of school records and finished second in the final team standings at the state junior high meet in Gothenburg at season's end. Team members include (left to right), front row: DJ Gross, Alex Bunger; middle row: Morgan Fawver, Ian Reynolds, Colin Giron, Cameryn Berry, Corban Jernigan, coach Jeff Holthus. ...

The McCook National Bank Seniors Legion baseball squad got in a make-up game Wednesday night against Alma at the Jaycees Sports Complex. The game turned into a breeze for the MNB Seniors as McCook claimed an 8-0 win in the contest shortened to five innings by the mercy run rule...

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...

Well, we just wrapped up a dual softball season with my two younger girls both playing travel ball. Whew! What a roller coaster that was! Hubby was head coaching one team while assisting the other and I was in charge of everything else that goes along with two kids playing ball at the same time. ...

From Scottsbluff to Omaha, and all across America, our economy is growing and rapidly changing. 21st Century connections are allowing businesses to compete and communicate in unique and exciting new ways. We are fortunate to live in an age where the small-town architect can send his designs anywhere, the forward-looking farmer can watch the commodity markets and plan out his season, and the rural business owner can execute an idea to create jobs without leaving home. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The first long-distance marathoner to run the entire 3,654 miles of U.S. Highway 6 will be in McCook tonight and take off again Friday morning. San Francisco Bay area singer/songwriter Aprylle D. Gilbert crossed the Colorado border into Nebraska earlier this week and is nearing the halfway mark across the United States. She began her run May 11 at Long Beach, California, and will finish in Massachusetts, the first person to run Route 6 coast-to-coast...

Sunflowers are blooming throughout the region in a variety of sizes and species as 5 foot 8 inch tall Brandon Fichner of McCook unsuccessfully reaches for the top of a strikingly tall sunflower in his neighbors' east McCook backyard. Several other species in the same yard enjoy a bumblebee visitor and bask in the afternoon sunlight earlier this week...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Economists predict that Nebraska's farm income will drop nearly 45 percent this year due to lower crop prices and reduced government payments. But the state's farm income is expected to stabilize in 2016 and 2017, according to the latest three-year forecast of the state's economy by the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Nebraska Business Forecast Council...

Say it isn't so, Bill. The time for disbelief is long past, however, and it appears increasingly likely that, yes, America's favorite dad was a sexual predator, drugging and raping young women as a matter of habit, silencing his accusers for years through legal maneuvering made possible by his successful entertainment career...

Kathleen 'Kathie' Ann McBride March 4, 1951 - July 9, 2015 MILFORD, Neb. -- Kathleen "Kathie" Ann McBride, formerly of McCook, passed away Thursday, July 9, 2015, at Sunrise Country Manor in Milford, Nebraska. She was 64 years old. Kathie was born on March 4, 1951, in Los Angeles, California, to parents, John Jesse and Roberta Lee (Merklin) Thomas. ...