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Getting recruiting exposure not easy in Western Nebraska
(High School Sports ~ 03/12/09)
When you are located hundreds of miles from a major city finding ways to get recruiting exposure can be difficult. However, if there's one coach in Nebraska that's figured out a formula to get Division I coaches to travel west, it's McCook head coach Jeff Gross...
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Meche's back feels fine in start against Seattle
(High School Sports ~ 03/12/09)
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Gil Meche's back feels better, which is great news for the Kansas City Royals. Meche threw 55 pitches Wednesday and Kansas City beat the Seattle Mariners 9-2 behind homers by Billy Butler and Mitch Maier. Meche was making only his second Cactus League start after being slowed by back spasms. He tossed 2 1-3 innings, allowing two runs, five hits and two walks. The right-hander last worked in a "B'' game Friday against Texas...
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Sports shorts 3-12-2009
(College Sports ~ 03/12/09)
Hastings College women win NAIA opening game SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- The Hastings College women's basketball team took care of the College of Idaho 76-64 in the first round of the NAIA National Tournament in Sioux City, Iowa at the Tyson Events Center. After a two point lead at the half, Hastings offense exploded as they would out-score the Coyotes by ten points in the second half...
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Big 12 Tournament: Jerrells, Rogers lift Baylor past Nebraska
(College Sports ~ 03/12/09)
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Curtis Jerrells scored 19 points and Kevin Rogers had 10 points and a career-high 20 rebounds as Baylor dominated on the boards and beat Nebraska 65-49 Wednesday in the opening game of the Big 12 tournament. LaceDarius Dunn added 18 points on 4-for-9 3-point shooting and eight rebounds for Baylor (18-13), which won a first-round Big 12 tournament game for only the fifth time ever, but for the second time in the last three seasons...
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Schools, WEC partner in new facility
(Local News ~ 03/12/09)
During the past year, an idea ... a concept ... a dream ... grew steadily to become a reality because of the spirit of cooperation and the positive attitude shared by six entities determined to fuse education and employment for the benefit of students, community and industry in Southwest Nebraska...
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Committee tweaks bill for LB 701 refunds
(State News ~ 03/12/09)
A bill that would refund property taxes that have been declared unconstitutional still needs some work before it comes out of committee. The Revenue Committee is still tweaking the language in LB 681, introduced on behalf of Gov. Dave Heineman, which would enact a mechanism providing for the automatic refund of real or personal property taxes, occupation taxes or assessments that have been declared unconstitutional by final court judgment or order...
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Mikado: Contemporary satire in 1880s Japan
(Local News ~ 03/12/09)
**Special to the Gazette Wonderful music. Beautiful costumes. An awesome set and staging! The Southwest Community Theater Association has done it again. An opera staged in McCook, Nebraska? "Come on," no one would attend! Ah, but attend we did and found it enthralling...
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Tourism department launches 'geopicting' contest
(Local News ~ 03/12/09)
LINCOLN -- If you've traversed the back roads of Nebraska and snapped some photos along the way, or if you're planning a trip this summer and want to put your camera to good use, Nebraska Tourism has the contest for you. The Department of Economic Development's Tour-ism Division launched a new Byways geopicting contest that invites travelers to snap a picture along one of Nebraska's nine scenic byways, record the GPS coordinates from the spot where they captured the image and submit the photo at www.visit nebraska.gov. ...
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Thermostat suspect in smoky house fire
(Local News ~ 03/12/09)
McCook firefighters suspect that a short in a furnace thermostat started the fire that forced a McCook man from his home late Wednesday afternoon and into Community Hospital. Hospital personnel listed Harold Talley in stable condition this morning, having admitted him for observation after the fire burned a portion of his living room and filled his home, at 408 N. Cherokee, with smoke...
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Delayed execution is main injustice
(Editorial ~ 03/12/09)
If anyone deserves to be executed for a crime, it's Cal Coburn Brown. Brown was convicted of the brutal kidnapping, torture, rape and killing of Ogallala native, Holly Washa, 22, in Seattle in May 1991. Brown, 50, at 12:01 a.m. Friday, is likely to be the first execution in the state of Washington since 2001...
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2009 DD45's near miss
(Column ~ 03/12/09)
The conjunction of the moon and Venus on Friday, Feb. 27, was a grand sight to behold, almost a repeat of the Jan. 29 conjunction, except this time the pair were much closer. Witness this photo taken by my daughter, Kimberly Bartholomew from her front porch in Imperial...
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Crane cam captures Sandhill migration live
(Local News ~ 03/12/09)
GIBBON -- Each spring over a half-million Sandhill Cranes congregate on Nebraska's Platte River in one of the world's greatest migration spectacles. Audubon's Rowe Sanctuary invites nature enthusiasts, bird lovers, and photography buffs to witness migration via a live CraneCam. Images can be seen on Audubon's Rowe Sanctuary website at ...
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