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HIGHLIGHTS: Knights win 5th straight, defeat Northwest Tech 79-72

Posted on February 8, 2017

Goodland, Kan – The North Platte Community College Knights basketball team defeated the Northwest Kansas Technical College Mavericks on Tuesday night 79-72.

At the start of the game there were four lead changes and two ties. The Mavericks were holding a 13-4 lead. This was the last lead for the Mavericks through the rest of the game. The Knights went on a 22-8 run to take their biggest lead in the first half at 26-21. The Knights held on to their lead at halftime at 35-33.

After the Mavericks tied the score at 39-39, the Knights went on a 7-0 run to take a 46-39 lead. The Knights never trailed again. The Mavericks were able to cut the Knights lead to two at 60-58. The Knights went on a 9-0 run to lead by 11, their biggest lead of the game at 69-58. The Mavericks continued to rally, but it was not enough as the Knights were able to hold on for the victory.

Eddie Reese scored 28 points to lead the now 11-14 Mavericks. Two other Mavericks reached the double digit mark in scoring. Tim Graham had 17 points and Tim Van Ryle finished with 16 points. Graham added 10 rebounds to have a double-double.

Diontae Champion led the 16-5 Knights with 22 points. Samuel Kearns was close behind with 20 points and Nate Duda finished with 18 points. Duda also had six rebounds to lead the Knights.

The Knights are next in action when they travel to Torrington, Wyo., to play Eastern Wyoming College on Friday Feb 10. Tip-off is at 8:30 pm CST.

Lady Knights fall to fast paced Northwest Tech 118-64

Posted on February 8, 2017

Goodland, Kan – The North Platte Community College Lady Knights were defeated by the Northwest Kansas Technical College Lady Mavericks 118-64 at the Max L. Jones Fieldhouse on Tuesday night.

The Lady Mavericks started the game using pressure defense and hot shooting jumped out to a 9-0 lead in the first minute and a half of the game. In the first quarter, the Lady Mavericks shot 63.6 percent from the field including going six for seven from behind the three-point line. The Lady Mavericks forced 10 first quarter turnovers and held the Lady Knights to shooting 40 percent in the first quarter. At the end of the first quarter the Lady Mavericks led 39-20.

In the second quarter, the Lady Mavericks added to their lead in the second quarter outscoring the Lady Knights 20-14, giving them a 59-34 lead at halftime.

In the third quarter, with the Lady Mavericks holding a 73-45 lead, the Lady Mavericks went on a 16-0 run to take a 89-45 lead. The Lady Knights scored the last two points of the third quarter, trailing 89-47 at end of third quarter.

In the game, the Lady Mavericks shot 54.4 percent from the field and 54.2 percent from behind the three-point line. The Lady Knights shot 36.1 percent from the field and went two for four from three-point range.

The Lady Mavericks, now 26-1 on the season were led in scoring by Tran Brown with 32 points. Brown made seven of 14 from behind the three-point line and seven of eight from the free throw line. Five other Lady Mavericks finished the night in double figures: KeKe Barber with 19 points, Emerald Hart had 14 points, Destiny Lindsey had 13 points, Zoi Thompson had 11 points and Juliet James had 10 points. James had a double-double by grabbing 10 rebounds.

The Lady Knights are now 7-15 on the season. Thomesha Wilson led the Lady Knights with 16 points. Jessica Lovitt added 13 points and Mai’Zhrae Zeno finished with 12 points. Wilson had eight rebounds

The Lady Knights are next in action when they travel to Torrington, Wyo., to play Eastern Wyoming College on Friday Feb 10. Tip-off is at 6:30 pm CST.

North Platte Forecast-February 8

Posted on February 8, 2017

Today

A 20 percent chance of snow before 8am. Partly sunny, with a high near 27. Northeast wind 6 to 10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.

Tonight

Mostly cloudy, with a low around 13. East wind 3 to 6 mph.

Thursday

Mostly sunny, with a high near 46. South wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, with a low around 32. South wind 6 to 8 mph becoming west after midnight.

Friday

Mostly sunny, with a high near 69.

Friday Night

Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34.

Saturday

Mostly cloudy, with a high near 51.

Saturday Night

A chance of rain before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28.

Sunday

Mostly sunny, with a high near 43.

Sunday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 20.

Monday

Sunny, with a high near 49.

Monday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 24.

Tuesday

Sunny, with a high near 47.

Lincoln woman sentenced to prison in child drowning case

Posted on February 7, 2017

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 29-year-old Lincoln woman whose 2-year-old stepson drowned after she left him alone in the bathtub has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Jacqueline Cooley was sentenced in Lancaster County District Court on Tuesday. She pleaded no contest in December to a felony child abuse charge.

Prosecutors say Cooley told police she left Jase Queen in the bathtub on Jan. 7, 2016, and left to get a towel. Mathers says when she came back two to three minutes later, he was face down and turning blue in about 10 inches of water.

Mathers says the boy’s grandmother told police he had survived a similar incident in November 2015, and Cooley told family members she had learned her lesson.

Teachers, activists slam Nebraska student restraint bill

Posted on February 7, 2017

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Educators, attorneys and disability rights advocates are speaking out against a bill that would allow Nebraska teachers to physically restrain disruptive students.

Opponents spoke during a Tuesday evening committee hearing on the bill. They say it will harm students and may violate federal law protecting students with disabilities.

The bill would make teachers who use such force immune from legal action and administrative discipline.

Sen. Mike Groene sponsored the measure in response to a 2014 incident in his hometown of North Platte in which a long-time elementary school teacher grabbed an 8-year-old boy’s foot and dragged him about 90 feet.

The bill’s sole supporter, the Nebraska State Education Association, says thousands of teachers have voiced concerns about classroom safety because of disruptive students.

Man rescued from river after leap from Omaha bridge

Posted on February 7, 2017

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have rescued a man who jumped into the Missouri River from a pedestrian bridge that connects Omaha with Council Bluffs, Iowa.

He leaped from the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge at 6:15 p.m. Monday and spent 15 minutes in the frigid water before his rescue on the Nebraska side.

Omaha Police Officer Phillip Anson says an officer entered the water to try to reach the man but couldn’t get a good hold. Anson says two other officers reached out with a stick, and the man grabbed it so he could be pulled to shore.

He was taken to Creighton University Medical Center. His name hasn’t been released.

Fremont man makes plea deal in assault on woman

Posted on February 7, 2017

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A Fremont man accused of beating up and choking his girlfriend is scheduled to be sentenced March 27.

27-year-old Jacob Booze pleaded no contest Monday to felony strangulation and false imprisonment. His plea deal calls for two sentences of three years, to be served consecutively. The judge is not bound by the agreement.

Authorities say he choked and suffocated her early in the morning of Nov. 1, after she returned home from a night out with a friend. Authorities say he stomped on her face, menaced her with a shower curtain bar and threatened to kill her.

She was treated later at a hospital for facial fractures.

Teens who escaped Kearney facility caught, officials say

Posted on February 7, 2017

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have captured four young people who escaped from the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center in Kearney.

Nebraska Health and Human Services Department spokesman Russ Reno says the four left a classroom at 10:55 a.m. Monday and walked out of the building. Reno says they were captured without incident about 15 minutes later by police and facility staffers, a little more than a mile away.

The four were described only as a 14-year-old, two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old.

Reno says six youths have escaped from the center and been captured since July, not including the four who fled Monday.

Electrician injured at downtown Omaha building dies

Posted on February 7, 2017

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was electrocuted and burned in a downtown Omaha building has died.

On Tuesday Nebraska Medical Center spokesman Taylor Wilson confirmed the death of 59-year-old Steven Nitz, but Wilson said privacy rules prevented him from saying when Nitz died.

Authorities say Nitz was working as a contract electrician for Sprint Communications when he was injured Dec. 13. Firefighters soon put out the small fire, and investigators say the blaze was an accident.

Protecting Nebraska cemeteries proves tough

Posted on February 7, 2017

GRETNA, Neb. (AP) — Even though state laws protect existing burial sites, protection of tiny pioneer cemeteries in Nebraska is proving hard to enforce because of growing housing developments.

Many of the at least 40 pioneer cemeteries in Sarpy County are tucked away on private property, leaving it up to the property owners to ensure the subtlest of them will survive.

But leaders of the Nebraska State Historical Society have heard of cases of property owners throwing away gravestones for renovations on the land. Rob Bozell, the society’s archaeologist, says the county relies on citizen reporting to be able to enforce the preservation of those abandoned cemeteries.

State law defines pioneer cemeteries as burial sites established before 1900, and have the graves of some of Nebraska’s first white settlers and Native Americans.