DENVER (AP) — Peyton Manning replaced Brock Osweiler in the third quarter Sunday and led the Broncos a 27-20 win over the San Diego Chargers that clinched the top seed in the AFC playoffs for Denver.
Combined with New England’s loss at Miami, the Broncos (12-4) secured the No. 1 seed even as they head into the playoffs with a quarterback quandary on their hands. Continue reading “Manning leads Broncos past Chargers 27-20”
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Alex Smith threw two touchdown passes, Kansas City sacked Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr six times, and the Chiefs held on for a 23-17 victory Sunday to give them a franchise-best 10 straight wins entering the postseason.
The Chiefs were awaiting the result of the Denver-San Diego game to learn their playoff fate. If the Broncos win, they’ll head to Houston as the fifth seed. If the Chargers win, the Chiefs win the AFC West for the first time since 2010 and will host Pittsburgh in the first round. Continue reading “Chiefs beat Raiders 23-17 to enter playoffs on streak”
Evanston, Ill. – The Nebraska women’s basketball team could not overcome a poor first-half shooting performance, suffering an 85-62 loss at No. 14 Northwestern on Sunday afternoon.
The Huskers slipped to 9-4 on the season with all four losses to top-25 opponents, including three on the road. Nebraska slipped to 0-2 in the Big Ten. Northwestern improved to 12-2 overall and 1-1 in the Big Ten. Continue reading “Huskers Fall at No. 14 Northwestern”
Lincoln – Despite a team-high 16 points from both Jack McVeigh and Andrew White III, Nebraska fell to Indiana, 79-69, at Pinnacle Bank Arena Saturday afternoon.
The Huskers (8-7, 0-2 Big Ten) led 39-36 at the break, but Indiana shot 60 percent in the second half, including 5-of-9 from 3-point range to earn the victory. Continue reading “Huskers Come Up Short Against Hoosiers”
Lincoln – The Nebraska women’s basketball team fell behind visiting Iowa by 16 points early in the second half before rallying to trim the lead to three points with six minutes left, but the Huskers were unable to complete the comeback in a 74-68 loss to the Hawkeyes in the Big Ten opener for both teams at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Thursday afternoon. Continue reading “Huskers Fall to Hawkeyes”
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say farmers and ranchers in south-central and southeastern Nebraska have until Jan. 15 to apply for funding to improve grassland bird habitats.
A multiagency partnership has formed the Grassland Bird Initiative, which provides funding in 15 counties. The U.S. Agriculture Department’s Natural Resources Conservation Service will provide financial and technical assistance to farmers and ranchers to improve habitat for grassland birds such as bobwhite quail and greater prairie-chicken.
Cost sharing of up to 75 percent is available to begin such practices as resting rangeland and conducting special burns, to buy fencing materials and to set up watering facilities for livestock.
Go online at https://1.usa.gov/1RT9oCb for more information or to find a conservation service office.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Gov. Pete Ricketts will push for a new property tax relief package when lawmakers reconvene this week as well as a $26 million proposal to add more beds to Nebraska’s overcrowded prison system.
Ricketts tells The Associated Press he’s confident he and lawmakers will make progress in lowering property taxes despite a short legislative session, a projected $110 million revenue shortfall and millions of dollars in funding requests from state agencies.
Speaker of the Legislature Galen Hadley says he believes lawmakers will be able to enact some property tax reductions and prison reforms, although the steps taken may be small.
The budget-writing Appropriations Committee will look at several options to balance the budget, such as tapping the state’s record-high cash reserve.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The next Powerball winner will have a chance to claim one of the game’s 10 biggest prizes this week when the jackpot grows to roughly $400 million.
Lottery officials say no one claimed Saturday’s $334 million prize, although someone from Pennsylvania won $2 million and three players from California, Connecticut and South Carolina won $1 million in the game.
When the jackpot reaches $400 million, it might exceed the size of the sixth-largest prize in Powerball history. That was a $399.4 million prize won in 2013 by someone from South Carolina.
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
The next drawing will be held Wednesday.
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — A chunk of ice falling off a semitrailer truck on Interstate 80 caused a crash that injured three people and disrupted one girl’s trip to college.
The crash happened Saturday afternoon on I-80 near North Platte.
The chunk of ice penetrated the windshield of a 2003 Honda Odyssey and struck the driver and front passenger. Then the van veered into the median and rolled several times.
The driver, 18-year-old Kimberly Mangum, of Grovetown, Georgia, was flown to a Denver hospital with serious facial injuries.
Mangum’s 42-year-old father and 16-year-old brother were treated for minor injuries at a local hospital and released.
Nebraska State Trooper Ryan Hayes says the accident would have been worse if all three people in the van hadn’t been wearing seatbelts.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Rulings from the Nebraska Supreme Court and Appeals Court issued over the past 145 years are now available online, and new decisions will only be issued electronically.
The move will make the court decisions more readily available to anyone who wants to look up a famous case or wants to research genealogy.
Before this shift, people had to visit law libraries or pay fees to legal research companies like Westlaw to find the court decisions.
Supreme Court Justice William Cassel, who worked on the project, says this is a landmark change for the court.
The new site is online at www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/supreme.
