Stories from Monday, April 24, 2023

LEXINGTON, Neb. — All McCook High top eight placers along with other area schools from Friday's Don Bader Track and Field Invitational. No team scores were recorded. BOYS Champions 200 meters: 1. Lucas Gomez-Wilson, MC, 22.44 (PR); 2. W. Kulhanek, Overton, 22.51; 3. Weston Walgren, 22.79 (PR)...

STERLING, Colo. – The McCook Community College baseball team split a Sunday doubleheader with Northeastern Junior College. MCC won the first game 10-3 and lost the second game 17-7 by the 10-run rule in the seventh inning. Sophomore Owen Lester (St. Charles, Ill.) picked up a complete-game win on the mound for MCC in Game 1...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Australian jockey Dean Holland died as a result of injuries suffered in a fall during a race in regional Victoria state Monday, Racing Victoria said. Holland was 34. The state's horse racing authority said Holland was one of two jockeys thrown from their horses in the opening race of a meeting at Donald Racecourse. He was treated by paramedics but died at the scene...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Anthony Edwards wasn't ready for his season to be over. And he certainly wasn't ready for the Denver Nuggets to send the Minnesota Timberwolves packing without winning a game in their first-round series. "I don't ever want to say I got swept in my career," Edwards said Sunday night. "So I definitely took it personally tonight."...

Mary Patricia “Pat” Innocence Young Des. 28, 1927 - April 28, 2023 CAMBRIDGE, Neb. - Mary Patricia “Pat” Innocence Young, age 95, of Cambridge, passed away at the Ridgeway Senior Living in Lexington, Neb.on April 18, 2023. She was born in Lawrence, Neb. ...

CULBERTSON, Neb. — Sen. Deb Fischer's campaign representative, Derik Oden, and Nebraska High-school Republicans' representative Cole Lumsden, will be available for Q&A on Thursday April 27, at the Culbertson Ambulance Barn, sponsored by the Hitchcock County Republican Party. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. CDT. A light lunch will be served at 6:30 p.m.. The Culbertson Ambulance Barn is located on Highway 17, adjacent to the Post Office...

HERSHEY, Neb. — Team scores and all Chase County top five placers as the Longhorns again swept both team titles at Saturday's Mike Troxel Track-Field Invitational. GIRLS Teams: 1. Chase County 248, 2. Perkins County 91, 3. Hershey 81, 4. North Platte St. Patrick's 78, 5. Sutherland 34, 6. Arthur County 2...

McCOOK, Neb. — Last weekend, the McCook Pinnacle Bank Legion baseball team played Hastings in a doubleheader at the Jaycee Complex. Pinnacle Bank won game 1 9-3. Hastings won game 2 9-5.

Melody Lynn Crawford Feb. 5, 1956 - Jan. 1, 2023 HASTINGS, Neb. - Melody Lynn Crawford, 66, was called home to be with Jesus on Jan. 1, 2023, at Mary Lanning Hospital in Hastings. Melody was born to Paul and Gertrude (Hutson) Smith on Feb. 5, 1956, in Oxford, Neb...

McCOOK, Neb. — A change of philosophy was considered Monday as Red Willow County Commissioners set bid dates for one of their major tasks: maintaining county roads. In the end, they set June 5 as the date to open bids for armor-coating and crack-sealing on county blacktop roads...