North Platte – The North Platte Community College Lady Knights volleyball team will host the Southeast Community College Lady Storm at the McDonald-Belton Gymnasium on Tuesday, Oct 18, at 6 p.m.
The match will be the last home match for sophomores Megan Chintala, MaKenna Ketter, Shelby Wolever, Ashley Starr, Josie Palmer, and Jessica Lovitt. Continue reading “Six NPCC Lady Knights to play final home match against Southeast”
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Death penalty opponents who have worked in Nebraska law enforcement are urging voters to retain the Legislature’s repeal of capital punishment.
The group that spoke against the punishment on Monday includes a former Lincoln police chief, deputy county attorneys ,and retired judges. It also featured a former detective who was involved with a death penalty case.
An Omaha police officer and former Nebraska correctional officer says he’d rather see the money spent on the death penalty go to prison employees.
Several of the death penalty critics point to the case of the so-called Beatrice Six, who were convicted in the 1985 rape and murder of a Beatrice woman but later exonerated.
Nebraskans for the Death Penalty has won support from the Nebraska Sheriff’s Association and the Nebraska County Attorneys Association.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Farmers have made further progress harvesting corn and soybeans in Iowa and Nebraska but rain in Iowa and heavy dew in Nebraska has slowed the process.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Iowa farmers reported waiting for crops to dry in the field before harvesting. Nebraska also saw last week freezing temperatures across a wide area.
About a third of the Iowa corn crop is harvested, about a week behind the five-year average and 62 percent of soybeans are out of the field. The five-year average at this point in the year is 74 percent.
In Nebraska 34 percent of corn is harvested, behind the average of 40 percent and 62 percent of soybeans are completed behind the average of 74 percent.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Three elected officials in the Lincoln area are receiving substantial property tax breaks on their homes through Nebraska’s homestead exemption program.
Lancaster County Commissioner Larry Hudkins received a homestead exemption for a portion of his home and saved more than $2,700 this year under the state’s program that’s primarily intended to help low-income seniors.
Lincoln City Councilman Jon Camp and Southeast Community College board member Bob Feit each have homestead exemptions covering their entire home value under a new exemption for veterans with 100 percent service-connected disability. Camp saved nearly $5,500 and Feit saved more than $5,100 in property taxes using that program.
As elected officials, the three men make decisions affecting the local property tax rate in Lancaster County. Hudkins’ and Camp’s salaries are also funded by local property tax revenue.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is set to consider a master plan for Lakes McConaughy and Ogallala at its meeting in Ponca State Park.
Staff members have recommended the commission approve the plan at its meeting on Oct. 21. If approved, the plan would serve as a road map for future development at the lakes over the next 20 years.
More information is available online at OutdoorNebraska.gov/LakeMcConaughyPlan.
The commission meeting begins at 8 a.m. at the Missouri National Recreational River Resource and Education Center.
The commission will also consider amending park regulations to reflect legal changes to resident minimum park entry permit fees, as well as amending park regulations to allow higher entry fees for nonresidents.
REASNOR, Iowa (AP) — Authorities suspect arson in the latest burning of heavy equipment being used in the construction of the four-state Dakota Access pipeline in central Iowa.
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office says the blaze late Saturday near Reasnor, Iowa, caused about $2 million damage to an excavator and three bulldozers. The equipment is operated by a contractor for Dakota Access, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners.
Opponents have for months been protesting the $3.8 billion, nearly 1,200-mile project pipeline, warning its construction could jeopardize water supply and damage cultural artifacts.
Another suspected arson of construction equipment happened on Aug. 1 at the same site, about 30 miles east of Des Moines.
No arrests have been made in either fire. The Iowa Fire Marshal Division and the FBI are investigating.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say one person has been killed after a crash along Interstate 80 in Omaha.
Police say a westbound vehicle went out of control near the I Street exit around 2:30 a.m. Monday. The vehicle rolled, ejecting the driver onto the southbound lanes of the I-L-Q streets exit ramp, where the driver was struck by a southbound sport utility vehicle.
The victim was identified as 29-year-old Lucio Lazo-Romero, who lived in Papillion (puh-PIHL’-yuhn). An autopsy has been scheduled.
Police identified the SUV driver as 23-year-old Christian Yochum.
Donald E. “Don” Musser, 91, of Hooker County passed away October 16, 2016 at his home. Don was born June 23, 1925 to Sam and Minnie (Bassett) Musser in Grant County.
When he was three years old the family moved to a ranch between the forks of the Dismal River. They eventually bought a ranch south of the river where he continued to live and work until his passing.
Don loved ranching, fishing, hunting arrowheads, his dogs, but most of all his family. He married Daisy Lee on February 15, 1952, and to this union eleven children were born.
Don is survived by his wife Daisy of Tryon; children, Debbie, Cathy (Jerry) Moritz, Nick (Brenda), Randy (Kim), Shane (Barb), Kim (Gene) Simonton, Shari all of Tryon, Becki Medich, and Mitch Musser both of North Platte; 20 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; sisters, Doris Griffith of Tryon, and Georgia Trout of North Platte; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Sam and Minnie Musser; sons, Stacey and infant, Justin; sisters, Helen Morrow, and Elsie Fiorea; and a brother, Sam.
Memorials are suggested to the American Heart Association and online condolences may be shared at www.adamsswanson.
Services will be 2:00 p.m. CDT, Thursday, October 20, 2016 at the Eclipse Church, 15 miles west and 16 miles north of Tryon with Pastor Marvin Godfrey officiating. Burial will follow at the Eclipse Cemetery. Visitation will be 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at Adams & Swanson Funeral Home which is in charge of arrangements.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a firefighter has been injured battling flames at an unoccupied house in Lincoln.
The fire was reported a little before 6 a.m. Monday, about six blocks south of the Capitol.
Fire Chief Micheal Despain says the firefighter was taken to a hospital for observation and treatment of minor injuries.
A fire investigator is trying to determine what caused the blaze.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Hershey woman has been sent to prison for nine years for conspiring to distribute child pornography.
Federal prosecutors said Monday that 35-year-old Rayanne Paulman was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Lincoln. She must serve 10 years of supervised release after she leaves custody.
Prosecutors say Paulman sent several sexually explicit images of prepubescent children over social media to her boyfriend and others. Court records say Paulman and her boyfriend, William Jones, of North Platte, both pleaded guilty after prosecutors agreed to drop two other charges against each. Jones is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 3.
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