Subdistricts start for the fourth-ranked Lady Eagle basketball team.
Month: February 2012
Bedbugs found in dorm on Kearney campus
KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) – Officials at the University of Nebraska at Kearney have confirmed a case of bedbugs in a residence hall.
The university says a pest control company has been at the dorm to conduct an in-depth inspection.
UNK director of Residence Life Tony Earls says that officials believe the bedbugs are isolated to one room. Earls says workers have checked rooms on both sides of, as well as the room below the affected room, and no other bedbugs were found.
Regardless, Earls says, the other rooms are being treated along with the affected room.
The news comes in the wake of bedbug problems at two other Nebraska colleges. Chadron State College and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have both reported bedbugs in dorms in recent weeks.
World Ventures “Rat” Pack targets CSC students
CHADRON, Neb. (AP) – Police say a group of scam artists may have been targeting Chadron State College students recently.
Chadron Police Chief Tim Lordino says his department is investigating whether a group that called itself “World Ventures RAT Pack” was running a pyramid scheme.
The group was offering $200 memberships that would give students discounted vacation trips. Then students could recruit additional members and receive some money back.
When police told the group’s recruiters they needed a Chadron solicitor’s license to recruit members, they shut down their meetings.
Surprise! It’s snowing….
Today: Snow likely, mainly before noon. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 34. North northwest wind between 6 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 14. West northwest wind between 7 and 9 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 37. West wind between 5 and 9 mph.
Tuesday Night: A slight chance of snow, freezing rain, and sleet after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 19. Calm wind becoming east southeast around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Wednesday: A chance of rain and snow before noon, then a chance of snow. Cloudy, with a high near 36. Northeast wind between 5 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Trucker fined $100 for Nov. KHS bus crash
GREENWOOD, Neb. (AP) – A truck driver from New York City has been fined $100 for colliding with a school bus near Greenwood in eastern Nebraska.
56-year-old Jun Meng, who lives in the borough of Queens, also was ordered to pay $48 in court costs. He’d pleaded guilty last month to careless driving.
Authorities say 28 Kearney High School students and four staffers were on a field trip to Omaha on Nov. 8. The Nebraska State Patrol says Meng’s truck and the school bus were headed east on Interstate 80 near the Greenwood exit when the truck changed lanes. It struck the bus, knocking it atop a concrete construction barrier.
Six students and a teacher were taken to a hospital. The bus driver and Meng weren’t injured.
Bulldogs Host North Star in Makeup Games (Listen LIVE on ESPN Radio 1410)
Tonight on ESPN Radio 1410, its North Platte Bulldog basketball. Fresh off of playing three games in three days in the East-West Shootout, the Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs return to the floor to begin the final week of the regular season with makeup games against Lincoln North Star. These games were originally scheduled for February 3, but postponed due to weather concerns. Both Bulldog basketball teams went 1-2 in the East-West Shootout. The Lady Bulldogs beat Scottsbluff at home on Thursday but then lost to Gering on Friday and were beaten by Alliance Saturday. The Bulldog boys, who went on the road, lost to Scottsbluff and Gering before closing their trip with a win in Alliance. The girls game gets underway at 5 PM tonight with the boys game to follow. ESPN Radio 1410’s coverage starts at 4:45.
Thirty – Count ‘Em – THIRTY County Wrestlers Heading To State
Thirty prep grapplers from Lincoln County will head to Omaha this weekend for the state championships after the district tournaments concluded on Saturday. North Platte finished in second place in the A-1 district in Grand Island and qualified eleven wrestlers for state, including four individual champions. In the D-4 district event in Sutherland, St. Patrick’s finished second as a team and qualified seven wrestlers for state. Maxwell finished six overall, with six wrestlers earning state berths, while Sutherland came up with a seventh-place finish and five state qualifiers. Each team has one individual district champion. In the C-4 district tournament, Hershey’s Aksel Wiseman won the individual crown at 132 pounds to be the lone Panther to earn a state tournament berth.
STATE TOURNAMENT QUALIFIERS (* = district champion)
Colton Thompson, 106
Jonah Navarrette, 113*
Paul Kraye, 132
Zack Denney, 145*
Shawn Roblee, 152
Grant Holscher, 160
Bobby Cahill, 170
Jason Lienemann, 182
Jesse Henne, 195*
Steven Torres, 220
Bradan Erdmann, 285*
Aksel Wiseman, 132*
Trey Dodson, 113
Adam Pasquinelly, 120
Josiah Allison, 132*
Barrett Pieper, 160
Joel Melton, 170
Henry Aufdenkamp, 182
Bryan Shurigar, 285
Colin Fleecs, 113
Chandler Tyan, 120*
Colt Corbin, 126
Greg McKain, 138
Logan Baxter, 152
Ethan Lunkwitz, 120
Drew Riggs, 126
Jacob Whisenhunt, 132
Jaylon Sturdivant, 138
Dylan Gage, 160
Connor Norton, 170*
Husker Women Look To Bounce Back at Minnesota
The 13th-ranked Nebraska women’s basketball team hopes to shake off their worst performance of the season as they visit Minnesota tonight. The Huskers shot a season low 26 percent from the field in last Thursday’s 62-53 home loss to Michigan, a defeat that dropped them out of the lead in the Big Ten. They’re now tied for third with Ohio State, one game back of Purdue and half a game behind Penn State. Tonight, the 19-4 Huskers once again take aim at the thirteenth 20-win season in program history against a Minnesota team they’ve already beaten once. They knocked off the Golden Gophers 64-49 in Lincoln back on January 22. Minnesota is 12-14 overall and has lost their last three games, including a loss at Iowa on Thursday. Tip-off in Minneapolis tonight is set for 6:30.
(Update) Police ID 2 Alliance stabbing victims
ALLIANCE, Neb. (AP) – Western Nebraska police have identified the two people stabbed to death in Alliance but haven’t yet named the suspect.
Alliance Police Chief John Kiss said Sunday the victims were 22-year-old Catalina Chavez, of Alliance, and 42-year-old Mike Loutzenhiser, of Scottsbluff.
Kiss says officers found Chavez and Loutzenhiser dead inside a home on the east side of town on Saturday morning.
A third injured person who lived in the house was found still alive but critically wounded. That 25-year-old man was taken to local hospital before being flown to Denver. Kiss says that man is considered a person of interest in the stabbings, and was in stable condition Sunday.
Kiss says a juvenile was also in the home at the time of the stabbings.
Officials plan to conduct autopsies Monday.
NP man dies 1 day after collision on I-80
KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) – A North Platte man died one day after a semitrailer truck collided with the SUV he was riding in.
The Nebraska State Patrol says 84-year-old Robert Shantz died on Saturday at a Kearney hospital. The accident that injured him happened on Interstate 80 near Cozad on Friday evening.
Shantz was one of three people in the SUV when the driver stopped in the lane because of an unknown medical issue.
Investigators say the semi was behind the SUV in the same lane could not avoid the collision.
The other two people in the SUV were also injured and hospitalized with severe injuries.