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#1 The news is so depressing. Its mostly negative, horrible news. Wonder what this world would be like if we stopped giving so much attention to bad behavior ad started rewarding good behavior with recognition. negativity begets negativity. Positivity begets positivity.
#2 I hope you guys put the np bulletin out of business.
#3 Its a darn shame that Sutherland has a nice lake but the dirt roads are so bad you cant take a boat out there !
#4 Nothing ruins your Friday like realizing it’s only Tuesday!
#5 Leaving dogs in the vehicle when its 103 out!!! Are you freakin kidding me?? #### should be given the same treatment as those poor defenseless animals. Makes me sick!
KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — A 24-year-old man has been given three to six years in prison for causing a collision that fatally injured a 65-year-old man.
Casey Drew, of Riverdale, was convicted of manslaughter and drunken driving.
Prosecutors say Drew was driving his pickup north on Nebraska Highway 10 a few miles north of Kearney on Nov. 26. Prosecutors say the truck crossed the center line and ran into a sport utility vehicle driven by Samuel Sullivan III, of Rockville.
Court documents say Drew’s blood-alcohol content at the time was nearly four times Nebraska’s legal limit.
This story is by far the most distasteful, diabolical, chilling, and unexpected, be prepared to read some absolutely terrible things in this story.
In the town of Largo Florida a 57 year old puppeteer has been planning to kidnap children and to be specific…toddlers but not only that. The puppeteer Ronald Brown also has very specific plans to torture them, rape them, murder them, then cook their body parts on a stove.
Brown is currently on a U.S. Marshal Hold after being caught and arrested by federal agents. Brown is a resident of a trailer home populated with many young children that pass his home on a daily basis, as a puppeteer and a mentor Brown works with children on a daily basis, making it hard to tell the disgusting bone-chilling plans he has working in his head.
On Browns Facebook page he writes that he performs in schools and malls, there is even a picture he uploaded into one of his various albums of a young child he mentors, the caption of the photo says
” ##### is a young boy that I mentor each week. We visit parks and go many places. Here is his picture from a recent boat ride.”
Brown spends a lot of time with this young child who may have become a victim of this terrible act this man was planning on.
Federal Agents interest in what Brown was doing when some sketchy things going unnoticed, got noticed. Brown and another individual began to chat with each other over the internet, chatting about kidnapping young children, eating them and describing in descriptive detail about what he wanted to do with their body parts. Here is a snippet of the conversation found off a reporting news site https://www.wtsp.com
“ “Summer is heating up, should be good pickins.”
“It’s so hot, the kids are almost naked out there.”
“My mouth watered looking at her for sure.””
Apparently those comments were the cleanest and the conversation only became more vile.
Federal agents captured screen shots of Browns computer that are simply too graphic to describe. Brown had images of children in bondage situations, and these images included pictures of dead children. Federal documents say Brown was targeting a young boy at a local church. Brown’s images also showed young boys in severe pain
Brown admitted to strangling young kids, and he was on a Yahoo group where he would write about the various fantasies he had.
Brown will be in court today (Tuesday) at 3:30.
The Federal Agents did a great job at stopping this man before anything serious happened, although he had already gone far enough. Brown said everything he wrote and was “planning” was pure fantasy. Hard to believe when such graphic pictures and conversation were seen.
CHADRON, Neb. (AP) — A wildfire that’s consuming trees and blackening grassland in the northwest corner of Nebraska has grown to about 300 acres.
Steve Lenzo is deputy forest supervisor for the Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands. He said Tuesday that what’s being called the East Ash Creek fire is on federal recreation area land south of U.S. Highway 20 between Chadron and Crawford.
Lenzo says the fire has grown over the past 24 hours but estimates it’s about 25 percent contained.
He’s optimistic that the 120 or so people on the fire lines Tuesday will make progress in their battle against the flames. They will be aided by four helicopters dropping water from giant buckets.
Lenzo says there have been no injuries and no reports of any structures being damaged.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A detective for the Department of Veterans Affairs has been arrested, accused of forcible rape in south-central Nebraska.
The 40-year-old Justin Maltagliati, of Grand Island, was arrested and jailed on Friday evening.
Grand Island police say a woman had reported that she’d been raped earlier on Friday.
Maltagliati remained in Hall County custody on Tuesday. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.
Spokeswoman Anna Morelock of the VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System says Maltagliati works for the VA Police Service as a detective. She would not comment Tuesday on his current job status.
Court records say Maltagliati has pleaded not guilty in an unrelated Hall County drunken-driving case filed in June.
FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — The regional publisher for daily newspapers in Fremont and Columbus has resigned to take a job with the Fremont Area Medical Center.
Bill Vobejda announced on Monday that he will leave next month.
Vobejda will become vice president of administration for the hospital. He will be responsible for human resources, marketing and public relations, community health, the hospital foundation and external affairs.
Vobejda became the Tribune’s publisher in January 2005. In 2009 he was named regional publisher to also oversee the Columbus Telegram and two weekly newspapers, The Banner-Press in David City and Schuyler Sun. Oversight of the Plattsmouth Journal was added recently.
The newspapers are owned by Lee Enterprises, which is based in Davenport, Iowa.
SEATTLE (AP)- The New York Yankees added some veteran presence and speed to their lineup by acquiring 38-year-old Ichiro Suzuki for two pitchers and cash yesterday. Batting eighth in the Yankee order last night after getting a standing ovation and bowing to the Seattle crowd, Ichiro singled in his first at-bat while wearing pinstripes and went 1-for-4 with a stolen base in the Yankees’ 4-1 win over the Mariners.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – All the big prizes Penn State usually plays for – the conference championships, the marquee bowl games – are off the table for the next four seasons. The Nittany Lions got walloped by NCAA sanctions yesterday that included a $60 million fine, five years of probation and a four-year bowl ban as a result of the school looking the other way while former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky brought boys onto campus and molested them.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)- The NCAA also erased 14 years of victories, wiping out 111 of Joe Paterno’s wins and stripping him of his standing as the most successful coach in the history of big-time college football. That moved former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden atop the all-time college football victory list, although Bowden says there are no winners in this case.
MILTON, Ontario (AP) – The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association are set for another round of negotiations starting with three days of talks today in Toronto. Both sides are working on establishing a new collective bargaining agreement before the current one expires on Sept. 15.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP)- Minnesota basketball coach Tubby Smith has signed a new deal which will keep him with the Gophers through the 2016-17 season. Smith, whose record is 103-68 in five seasons with the Gophers, has yet to win an NCAA tournament game with Minnesota but he did guide the team to the NIT final last season.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 3, Baltimore 1
Texas 9, Boston 1
Chicago White Sox 7, Minnesota 4
L.A. Angels 6, Kansas City 3
N.Y. Yankees 4, Seattle 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago Cubs 2, Pittsburgh 0
Philadelphia 7, Milwaukee 6
Miami 2, Atlanta 1
Washington 8, N.Y. Mets 2, 10 innings
Cincinnati 8, Houston 3
L.A. Dodgers 5, St. Louis 3
Arizona 6, Colorado 3
San Francisco 7, San Diego 1
Support Relay for Life at these Paint the Town Purple businesses!!
Saturday, July 28th 10am-4pm
Purple Ribbon Day at the Mall
Teams will be fundraising and you can pick up your official Paint the Town Purple yard signs!
(Teams interested in a booth, let me know by Wednesday!!!)
Sunday, July 29th
Lincoln Highway Diner
Donating 10% of sales for the entire day!
Monday, July 30th
Heidi’s Restaurant
Donating 10% of evening sales from 5-8pm
Tuesday, July 31st
Come & Get It BBQ
Donating 10% of sales from 4-8pm
Applebees
10% of sales from anyone who bring in a special certificate between 5-9pm
Special Certificates will be availabe at First National Bank (community board) or at Bank night.
Wednesday, August 1st
Gracie Mae’s
Donating 10% of sales, of anything PURPLE!
Thursday, August 2nd
The Lakehouse
Donating 10% of sales from 6-9pm
Friday, August 3rd
Pink Poodle
Donating 10% of Purple Ice Cream and Drinks from 12noon-8pm.
Thelma A. Tyler, 91, of Mitchell, passed away July 21, 2012, at her home with family in attendance.
Thelma Annabelle Tyler was born on Feb. 11, 1921, to William and Celeste (Harvey) Adams at Gandy. She graduated from Sutherland High School May 20, 1940.
Thelma was a certified welder at the Kaiser Shipyards during World War II. Thelma was a licensed cosmetologist in Sutherland and was a member of the Rebekah Lodge. Thelma retired from Dale Electronics of Columbus in 1983.
Thelma married Robert O. Tyler on April 1, 1944, at Vancouver, Wash. Out of this union was a daughter, Donna Jean (LeRoy) Borchers, of Carrollton, Ga.; sons, Robert Curtis (Jennifer) Tyler, of Mitchell, and Joseph Stacy (Sherry) Tyler, of San Diego, Calif.; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Thelma was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Robert; brothers, Sam, Bruce and Kyle Adams.
She is survived by her sister, Doris (Mickie) Hopping, of Albuquerque, N.M.; and sister-in-law, Elsie Adams, of Pomeroy, Wash.
Cremation has taken place and she will be interred with her husband Robert, at Fort McPherson National Cemetery in Maxwell.
Services and a celebration of life will be later in North Platte for family and friends. Cards and thoughts will be accepted. Tributes of sympathy may be left at dugankramer.com.
Joseph Kenneth “Kenny” Klein, 81, of Elwood, died July 23, 2012, at the Elwood Care Center in Elwood. Services will be at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 26, at Reynolds-Love Funeral Home in Lexington with Pastor Larry Viter officiating. Inurnment will be at 2 p.m. at Fort McPherson National Cemetery near Maxwell. Memorials are suggested to the family for later designation. Online condolences to the family at reynoldslovefuneralhome.com. Reynolds-Love Funeral Home in Lexington is in charge of arrangements.