College Park, Md. – Jasmine Cincore scored a career-high nine points and Maddie Simon added nine of her own in her return from injury, but the Nebraska women’s basketball team suffered an 89-50 loss to No. 8 Maryland at the Xfinity Center on Thursday night.
Nebraska slipped to 9-5 overall and 0-3 in the Big Ten with the loss, while the Terrapins improved to 13-2 and 2-1 in the conference. Continue reading “Huskers Fall at No. 8 Maryland”
Mildred Irene Maire, 97, of Litzenberrg Long Term Care of Central City, Nebraska, departed this life January 6, 2016. Mildred was born to Harry and Laura (Moran) Romell in Ames, Kansas, on January 21, 1918. She attended school in Whitman, NE, Hecla, NE and Mullen, NE.
She married Jack Maire November 3, 1933 and to this union were born four children, Johnnie, Robert, Peggy and Jim.
She worked at various places during her life: Pioneer Memorial Resthome for sixteen years and ran a mail route south of Mullen six days a week for twenty-three and one half years. She also drove a school bus route from 1947 to 1978.
Preceding her in death were her Husband, Jack, son, Johnnie and daughter-in-law Velma; her parents, Harry and Laura Romell, and four brothers, John, Fred, Howard and Dean.
Mildred leaves her children, Robert (Pat) Maire of Plymouth, NE, Peggy (Carl) Simonson of Hordvile, NE, Jim (Sue) Maire of Omaha, NE; one sister, Edyth (Edon) Schomp and several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral Services will be Monday, January 11, 2016, at 10:00 am MST at the Assembly of God Church in Mullen, NE, with Reverend Luke Storer. Visitation will be Sunday, 1:00 to 7:00 pm MST at the Mullen Funeral Home. Burial will be in Cedarview Cemetery, Mullen, NE. Memorials may go to Mildred Maire Memorial Fund, % Maire Family, Box 23, Hordville, NE 68846.
Mullen Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 308-546-2260
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska senator wants to build up Nebraska’s riverfronts as social and economic hubs.
Sen. Heath Mello of Omaha introduced a bill Thursday that would allow Nebraska towns and cities to establish special development districts along the state’s major rivers.
Mello says many Nebraska cities were established along riverfronts, but have since grown away from the banks, leaving blight and abandoned properties behind.
The bill would establish guidelines for cities to fund, manage, promote and develop these areas, based on recommendations from a 2014 Urban Development report. The report called for strategic development to link Omaha and Council Bluffs across the Missouri River.
Mello says the bill is a pathway for Nebraska to build the Omaha-Council Bluffs riverfront into a world-class destination.
VALENTINE, Neb. (AP) — A state audit performed after the arrest of the deputy county clerk shows almost $199,000 in Cherry County funds is unaccounted for.
The county commissioners say state auditors found more than 1,000 credit card transactions totaling $83,000 that appeared to be for the personal use of Monica Bristow when she worked for the county. Auditors also found discrepancies in claim procedures, payroll issues and county expenditures.
Bristow was arrested in July. She pleaded guilty in August to felony charges of theft and unauthorized use of a financial transaction device. Court records say she’s scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 15.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts says he will ask lawmakers to pass a new infrastructure package this year to accelerate long-delayed construction work on bridges and roads.
Ricketts announced his support Thursday for a comprehensive roads bill to be introduced by Sen. Jim Smith of Papillion, chairman of the Transportation and Telecommunications Committee.
The proposal would create an infrastructure bank, allowing the state to tap its cash reserve to pay for road and bridge projects faster than it currently can. Money in the reserve would gradually be replenished with state fuel tax revenue.
The infrastructure bank could be used for state highway projects, county bridge repairs and infrastructure to attract new businesses.
The legislation also would allow roads contractors to design and build projects in an effort to increase efficiency.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska senator wants to tweak a law that prohibits voters from taking selfies with their marked election ballots.
Sen. Adam Morfeld of Lincoln introduced a bill Thursday that would allow voters to snap photos of their ballots after voting. Current law prohibits voters from showing their marked ballot to others.
Secretary of State John Gale said last year that the law also applies to photographs. Violations are a misdemeanor punishable by a $100 fine.
Morfeld says the First Amendment protects ballot selfies and that they encourage excitement about voting.
Morfeld’s bill specifies that selfies are voluntary and no one should coerce a voter to show his or her marked ballot.
North Platte Community College Lady Knight’s Head Volleyball Coach Alexa Hopping signed the first two players of her 2016 recruiting class, they are Brooklyn Krehmeyer from Weldon, Colo and Antonya Schaffert from Otis, Colo.
Krehmeyer is a 5’ 10” outside hitter. She played her high school volleyball for the Weldon Valley High School Warriors. The Warriors qualified for the Colorado State Volleyball tournament during her senior season and went 23-6 on the season. Continue reading “NPCC Lady Knights Volleyball Signs Two from Colorado”
NORTH BEND, Neb. (AP) — An eastern Nebraska man has reported that someone sheared 15 inches of hair off the tails of his colt and one of his ponies.
Bruce Tompkins, of North Bend, filed a report Sunday with the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office. Tompkins says a horse’s tail is its only defense against flies.
Since making the report he’s learned that horse hair can be worth up to $400 a pound. Tompkins said that, among other things, the hair can be used for charms, hat bands, violin bows and hair extensions for show horses.
The Nebraska Humane Society has reported a similar theft in northeast Nebraska.
RED OAK, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been sentenced after pleading no contest in December to raping a 14-year-old girl multiple times.
The 38-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 20 to 25 years in prison on a first-degree sexual assault charge and 10 to 15 years on another charge. The sentences will run consecutively.
Police documents say that the man molested and had sex with the girl over a three-year period.
The girl told a social worker at her middle school about the incidents. The teacher contacted the police, who arrested the man.
The girl said during a forensic interview at the Child Advocacy Center that the assault began when the girl was 12 and escalated to rape in March 2014.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A lottery official says there is no jackpot winner in the drawing for a Powerball prize worth an estimated $500 million.
Kelly Cripe, a spokeswoman for the Texas Lottery, says no one matched the numbers drawn Wednesday night. She says that means the estimated prize for Saturday’s drawing is $675 million, the largest jackpot of any lottery game in U.S. history.
Wednesday’s jackpot was ranked as the sixth-largest offered in North America and the biggest since a $564.1 million Powerball prize shared by players from North Carolina, Texas and Puerto Rico last February.
Powerball is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
The odds of winning are one in 292.2 million.
