Florence Joan Dike, age 92 of Plano, TX, passed away August 15, 2017. Graveside services with Military Honors will be held 1:00 p.m. September 16, 2017 at Floral Lawns Memorial Gardens. Adams and Swanson Funeral Home is assisting the family with local arrangements.
Month: September 2017
Derald D. Taylor Death Notice
Derald D. Taylor, age 81, passed away Friday September 8, 2017 at Sutherland Care Center. Services are pending at Adams and Swanson Funeral Home.
NPCC Knights volleyball to compete in McCook Invitational
North Platte – The North Platte Community College Lady Knights volleyball team will travel to McCook to participate in the McCook Community College Invitational September 8 and 9.
On Friday, September 8 they will face the Highland Community College Scotties at noon, and then face the Butler County Community College Lady Grizzlies at 4 PM.
The Scotties defeated the Lady Knights at the Southeast Community College tournament on August 25 in three sets. They are 8-2 on the season. Leslie Polanco leads the Scotties in kills with 122, followed by Zealia Kleitz with 119 kills. Katie Pearson has 320 set assists and Polanco has 162 defensive digs.
The Lady Grizzlies are 4-2 on the season. One of their losses was to Colby Community College in three sets, who also defeated the Lady Knights in three sets. Brooke Fender has 45 kills and 42 defensive digs. Abby Goodrum leads the Lady Grizzlies in defensive digs with 66. Andie Nibarger has 89 set assists.
On Saturday, the Lady Knights will face the 16th rated Cowley County Community College Lady Tigers at 9 AM and then face the Neosho County Community College Lady Panthers at 1 PM.
The Lady Tigers are 6-3 on the season. Their three losses came at the hands of Lincoln Land Community College, Central Community College, and Coffeyville Community College. All three teams were ranked in the preseason Top 10 in Division II. They have not lost a set in their last four matches. Milica Kusmuk leads the Lady Tigers with 104 kills. JoLee Richhart has 168 defensive digs. Sydney Meget has 342 set assists.
The Lady Panthers are 8-3 on the season. Maryssa Recio has 105 kills, Madison Miller has 251 defensive digs and Breann Becker has 209 set assists to lead the Lady Panthers.
The Lady Knights are 4-7 on the season. Luisa Hernandez has 90 kills for the Lady Knights, Antonya Schaffert has 123 defensive digs, Shaylee Johnson has 42 total blocks and Carlie Wytulka has 330 set assists to lead the Lady Knights.
“I am excited to see how we do this weekend. I think we have some good chances and we need to make some steps forward mentally.” Lady Knight Head Coach Alexa McCall said, “We have worked hard on serving and passing and cleaning up play. We will continue to do that and hopefully be successful.”
All the matches will be livestreamed courtesy of McCook Community College at www.mccindians.com.
Nebraska’s 2017 ACT composite score unchanged at 21.4
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials say Nebraska’s composite ACT score for 2017 remained unchanged from the 2016 figure.
The scores released Wednesday by the Iowa City, Iowa-based ACT show Nebraska’s 2017 high school graduates scored a composite 21.4 — higher than the national average of 21 out of the 36 possible.
The college entrance exam has English, math, reading and science reasoning sections. ACT measures college readiness by whether students hit benchmark scores in the four sections. ACT says just 28 percent of Nebraska students met the benchmarks in all four areas, compared with 27 percent nationally.
Woman in running boards case to rely on insanity defense
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Court records say a Grand Island woman accused of letting children stand on the running boards of moving vehicle intends to rely on an insanity defense.
The attorney for 42-year-old Stephanie Wedige filed notice of the defense Wednesday in Hall County District Court. Her trial is scheduled to begin the week of Dec. 4.
Police say all six children fell off when Wedige stopped her sport utility vehicle Nov. 11 in a church parking lot. Police say two of the children were hospitalized and the four others were not injured.
Wedige’s already pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of negligent child abuse causing injury, four misdemeanor counts of negligent child abuse causing no injury and one count of willful reckless driving.
University of Nebraska enrollment unlikely to affect budget
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska system president says the system’s failure to reach a “conservative estimate” on enrollment growth shouldn’t further affect the university’s budget-cutting process.
University administrators had planned to cut $30 million in costs over the next two years, while also raising tuition to generate additional revenue. The cuts come as the system tries to close a $49 million budget shortfall created by a loss of state appropriations.
The plan had depended on an estimate of 1 percent enrollment growth across the university system.
The system’s total enrollment grew by 0.3 percent this year, putting enrollment at about 52,500 students.
President Hank Bounds says the system won’t be forced to make additional cuts or enact emergency tuition increases.
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Authorities say man shot wife at police station parking lot
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have arrested the husband of a woman who was fatally shot at a police station parking lot in northeast Nebraska.
South Sioux City police say 41-year-old Beisheng Chen, of South Sioux City, has been charged with murder and two related crimes in the slaying of 33-year-old Mei Huang. Police say she died in a Sioux City, Iowa, hospital less than three hours after she was shot Wednesday morning in the east lot at the South Sioux City Law Enforcement Center.
Beisheng Chen was found in the area and taken into custody. Online court records don’t yet list the name of an attorney who could comment for him.
1 person hospitalized after house fire in southwest Lincoln
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — One person has been hospitalized after a fire that damaged a house in southwest Lincoln.
The blaze was reported around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, and fire officials say it was ignited by a discarded cigarette. The flames were mainly contained to the living room.
The name of the injured person hasn’t been released.
African elephant brought to Omaha zoo in 2016 dies
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An African elephant brought to Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo last year as part of a controversial relocation has died.
The zoo says in a news release that the male elephant named Warren died Thursday morning after being anesthetized to treat a cracked tusk.
The release says that during the procedure, Warren’s breathing slowed, then stopped. Emergency efforts failed to revive the elephant — estimated to be 8 or 9 years old.
The zoo says a necropsy will be performed.
Warren was one of 17 elephants flown from Swaziland to the U.S. in early 2016 and placed in the Omaha zoo and those in Wichita, Kansas, and Dallas.
Animal rights group Friends of Animals, which opposes elephants being kept in zoos, unsuccessfully sued to stop the importation of the elephants.
San Diego port police official to lead Nebraska State Patrol
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Gov. Pete Ricketts has chosen a Port of San Diego police official to lead the Nebraska State Patrol, an agency plagued by allegations that it mishandled internal investigations.
Ricketts on Thursday announced that he has picked Harbor Police Department Chief John Bolduc as the patrol’s new superintendent.
Bolduc will replace former Col. Brad Rice, whom Ricketts fired on June 30 after learning about alleged impropriety within the agency.
The 52-year-old Bolduc currently oversees a department with 170 team members and a $38 million annual budget. The department is an independent public agency that serves San Diego Bay.
He previously served as a police chief in Brainerd and Mora, Minnesota.
Bolduc will formally begin his new duties on Oct. 16. He will earn $150,000 a year.