The Nebraska football recruiting class of 2013 has its first offensive player, as tight end Greg Hart announced his commitment to the Big Red yesterday. Hart is the seventh player to pledge to the Huskers for 2013. He rates as a three-star prospect by both Scout and Rivals, who also rates him the nineteenth best player at his position. The standout at Archbishop Alter High in Kettering, Ohio is the third Ohioan to join the 2013 class.
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April 9
HEIDI KLUM FILES FOR DIVORCE: Heidi Klum has officially filed for divorce. TMZ.com reported that Klum blamed “irreconcilable differences” for the breakdown of her marriage to Seal and wants joint legal custody of the couple’s four kids and primary physical custody. Starpulse.com reported that Heidi is rumored to be dating Thomas Hayo, the creative director of Germany’s Next Top Model.
‘ALWAYS SUNNY’ COSTARS WELCOME BABY: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia costars Kaitlin Olson and Rob McElhenney are parents again. Olson gave birth to their second son, Leo Grey McElhenney, last week (April 5th) at their home in Los Angeles.
ANNE HATHAWAY SHOWS OFF SHORT ‘DO: Anne Hathaway has lopped off her locks. The actress, who generally sports long brown hair, stepped out with a pixie cut over the weekend — reportedly for her upcoming role as Fantine in Les Miserables. In the film, Hathaway will play a factory worker who is forced into prostitution to support her child. Check her out: http://eonli.ne/IiBjb5
LINDSAY IN TROUBLE ALREADY? Lindsay Lohan is facing trouble yet again. Less than two weeks after being released from formal probation, the starlet is accused of getting into an altercation with a woman in a nightclub. TMZ.com reported that a woman filed an incident report with the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Department, claiming Lindsay “got into it with her” on Thursday night because Lindsay did not like the fact she was talking to a male friend. Lindsay’s rep said, “Lindsay was absolutely not involved in any sort of altercation whatsoever. This is clearly another case of someone looking for money and 15 minutes of fame.”
JEREMY LIN DOCUMENTARY IN THE WORKS: A Jeremy Lin documentary is being pitched to distributors in Hollywood. The L.A. Times reported that the film is being directed by filmmaker Evan Jackson Leong, who is also Lin’s friend. The documentary looks both at Lin’s unlikely run in the NBA and his humble background.
MICHAEL J. FOX THOUGHT HE SUCKED IN ‘BACK TO THE FUTURE’: Back to the Future might have propelled Michael J. Fox to stardom, but he was less than impressed with his own performance in the film. The actor told Parade.com that he was exhausted making the movie because he was constantly traveling to and from the set of Family Ties. He recalled, “[While we were making it], I thought I sucked in it. I really, truly thought I was terrible. So many times I was practically unconscious because I was so tired. [My agent] called me in London, where I was doing Family Ties Vacation. He said, ‘I just saw the movie.’ I said, ‘I’m sorry, I’ll do better next time.’ And he said, ‘No, you don’t understand. This is going to be the biggest movie of the summer.'”
AT THE MOVIES
No new arrivals have been able to tackle The Hunger Games at the box office and for the third straight week, it was the highest-performing film, taking in another $33.5 million.
The studio behind the film, Lionsgate, estimates that the film has now grossed $302.8 million domestically and $157.1 million internationally — bringing its grand total to about $460 million.
American Reunion had a solid opening in second place with $21.5 million. Although it was the lowest opening weekend in the franchise since the 1999 original, it is a respectable for a comedy whose last installment was nine years ago.
- Titanic, rereleased in 3-D took in $17.4 million over the weekend, raising its domestic take to $25.7 million since opening Wednesday. That lifts the lifetime domestic gross of the hit to $626.5 million.
The top 10 films of the weekend:
1. “The Hunger Games,” $33.5 million
2. “American Reunion,” $21.5 million
3. “Titanic” in 3-D, $17.4 million
4. “Wrath of the Titans,” $15 million
5. “Mirror Mirror,” $11 million
6. “21 Jump Street,” $10.2 million
7. “Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax,” $5 million
8. “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” $975,000.
9. “John Carter,” $820,000
10. “Safe House,” $581,000
JOSH HUTCHERSON NAMED ‘NEXT MEGA STAR’: Josh Hutcherson is the next big thing in Hollywood — at least according to Logo, which presented the Hunger Games actor with the “Next Mega Star” trophy at their NewNowNext Awards in Hollywood over the weekend. Glee’s Naya Rivera picked up the Cause You’re Hot award, but a drag queen dressed as Rivera’s character accepted the award on her behalf. Kelly Osbourne tied with androgynous supermodel Andrej Pejic for the Beyond Style Award.
March 23 This Day in History
| 2004 | Usher releases Confessions. The album sells one-point-one million copies in its first week of release — the year’s biggest debut to date. |
| 2004 | Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appear before a federal commission investigating the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks. |
| 2001 | It’s announced that Mariah Carey is parting ways with Sony Music after more than a decade. (She later signs a 100-million-dollar deal with Virgin Records, which releases only one of her albums before buying her out of her contract.) |
| 1999 | BLACKstreet releases a reunion album, Finally. Usher Live is also new in stores. |
| 1998 | Titanic wins 11 Oscars at the Academy Awards. |
| 1994 | Wayne Gretzky breaks Gordie Howe‘s National Hockey League career record by scoring his 802nd goal. |
| 1994 | Howard Stern enters the race for New York governor. |
| 1991 | During the second concert in a two-night stand at London’s Wenbley Stadium, George Michael is joined on stage by Elton John. Their performance of Elton’s “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” is recorded and will become a huge worldwide hit about half a year later. |
| 1989 | Close call — a thousand-foot asteroid misses the Earth by 500-thousand miles. |
| 1987 | Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross, Cameo, Gregory Abbott and Run D-M-C are big winners at the first annual Soul Train Music Awards. Stevie Wonder receives the 1987Heritage Award. |
| 1972 | An Evel Knievel motorcycle stunt goes wrong. A bad landing after a jump over 35 cars leaves the daredevil with 93 broken bones. |
| 1969 | Jackie Gleason, Kate Smith, The Lettermen, Anita Bryant and 30-thousand other people appear at a Miami Rally for Decency. Pre-show publicity warns that “longhairs and weird dressers” won’t be allowed inside. |
| 1967 | Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. calls the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement. |
| 1965 | America’s first two-person space flight takes off from Cape Kennedy. The Gemini 3 carries astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young. |
| 1806 | Explorers Lewis and Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, begin their journey back east. |
This Day in History March 22
| 2008 | Corinne Bailey Rae‘s husband, saxophonist Jason Rae, is found dead in Leeds, England of a suspected drug overdose. |
| 2001 | Billy Corgan performs for the first time since the breakup of The Smashing Pumpkins at The Third Waltz, a benefit for homeless children, at Chicago’s Metro. |
| 2000 | Romeo Must Die, with Aaliyah in a starring role, opens in theaters nationwide. |
| 1999 | David Strickland, who played music critic “Todd” on Suddenly Susan, is found hanging in a Las Vegas hotel room. |
| 1997 | Tara Lipinski, two months shy of her 15th birthday, become the youngest women’s world figure skating champion. |
| 1993 | Cleveland Indians pitchers Steve Olin and Tim Crews are killed in a boating accident in Florida. Bob Ojeda is seriously injured in the accident. |
| 1991 | Pamela Smart, a high school teacher, is found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband. |
| 1989 | Oliver North begins two days of testimony at his Iran-Contra trial in Washington, D-C. |
| 1988 | Congress overrides President Ronald Reagan‘s veto of a sweeping civil rights bill. |
| 1977 | Indira Ghandi resigns as the prime minister of India. |
| 1972 | The Equal Rights Amendment is passed by Congress. |
| 1971 | Congress approves the 26th amendment to the Constitution, which lowers the voting age to 18. |
| 1935 | Persia is renamed Iran. |
| 1917 | The United States recognizes Russia’s new Communist government. |
Today In History March 21, 2012
| 2007 | The Tennessee state legislature refuses to pass a resolution honoring native son Justin Timberlake. |
| 2002 | Alicia Keys is named Entertainer of the Year at the Soul Train Music Awards. The crowd boos when Ronald Isley thanks R. Kelly. |
| 2002 | Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears officially deny rumors that they have split up after Us Weekly runs a cover story on the two under the headline “It’s Over.” (The magazine, of course, was right.) |
| 2002 | In San Francisco, attorney Marjorie Knoller is found guilty of second degree murder in the death of Diane Whipple, who was mauled to death by Knoller’s two 120-pound Presa Canario dogs. |
| 2000 | ‘N Sync release No Stings Attached. The C-D goes on to sell a record-breaking two-point-four-million copies in its first week of release. |
| 2000 | Phillip Morris and R-J Reynolds are found guilty of misrepresenting the danger of cigarettes. A California jury orders the firms to pay $1.7 million in damages to an ex-smoker dying of cancer and to her husband. |
| 1994 | Dudley Moore is arrested for hitting his girlfriend. |
| 1994 | Steven Spielberg wins his first Oscars — Best Picture and Best Director for Schindler’s List. |
| 1992 | “Save the Best for Last” by Vanessa Williams hits number-one on the Billboard pop chart. It spends five weeks in the top spot. |
| 1991 | Whitney Houston gets a gold single for “All the Man That I Need.” |
| 1989 | Dick Clark informs the media that his current and 33rd year as host of American Bandstand will be his last. |
| 1988 | Michael Jackson‘s Bad album is certified five-times-platinum. |
| 1982 | The movie Annie opens. |
| 1980 | “J-R Ewing” is shot on T-V’s Dallas. |
| 1980 | President Jimmy Carter announces that the U-S Olympic Team will not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. |
| 1965 | More than three-thousand civil rights demonstrators led by the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. |
| 1963 | Barbra Streisand weds Elliott Gould. |
| 1963 | Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentary in San Francisco Bay, CA closes |
3/13/12 Birthdays!
Natalie Albino 1986 Nina Sky singer. Twin of Nicole. (Age: 26)
Nicole Albino 1986 Nina Sky singer. Twin of Natalie. (Age: 26)
Emile Hirsch 1985 Actor (Taking Woodstock, Milk, Into the Wild, Alpha Dog, Lords of Dogtown, Imaginary Heroes, The Girl Next Door) (Age: 27)
Johan Santana 1979 As a Minnesota Twin, the Venezuelan-born pitching ace — now a New York Met –was the 2004 and 2006 American League Cy Young Award winner. In 2006, he became the first pitcher since Dwight Gooden in 1985 to lead the majors in wins (actually, he tied the Yankees Chien-Ming Wang for the lead with 19), earned run average and strikeouts. (Age: 33)
Danny Masterson 1976 Actor (T-V’s That ’70s Show) (Age: 36)
Adam Clayton 1960 U2 bassist (Age: 52)
Dana Delany 1956 The actress’s work in China Beach was twice recognized with Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Her other series include Body of Proof and Desperate Housewives. (Age: 56)
William H. Macy 1950 He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1997 for Fargo. His other notable movies include Mr. Holland’s Opus, Boogie Nights, Pleasantville, Psycho, Magnolia, Jurassic Park 3 and The Cooler. He’s currently stars in the TV drama Shameless. He’s married to Desperate Housewives’ Felicity Huffman. (Age: 62)
3/12/2012 Birthdays
Elly Jackson 1988 La Roux singer (Age: 24)
Aaron Eckhart 1968 Actor (Battle: Los Angeles, Love Happens, The Dark Knight, Thank You for Smoking, Possession, Erin Brockovich, Any Given Sunday, Your Friends and Neighbors, In the Company of Men) (Age: 44)
Darryl Strawberry 1962 Former baseball great (Age: 50)
Courtney B. Vance 1960 Actor (T-V’s FlashForward and Law and Order: Criminal Intent); husband of Angela Bassett (Age: 52)
Ron Jeremy 1953 Porn star/infomercial pitchman (Age: 59)
Mitt Romney 1947 The former governor of Massachusetts made an unsuccessful bid to become the 2008 Republican presidential nominee. (Age: 65)
Liza Minnelli 1946 Judy Garland’s daughter won a Best Actress Oscar for Cabaret in 1973, after being nominated three years earlier for The Sterile Cuckoo. As a singer, she’s had 10 albums in the Billboard charts. Her most popular, 1972’s Liza With a Z, reached the Top 20. More recently, the rise and fall of her marriage to impressario David Gest was prime tabloid fodder. (Age: 66)
North Platte Drug Dealers Sentenced in Fed Court
Story Courtesy John P. Tretbar
Two high profile drug busts in our area resulted in federal prison terms for two defendants from North Platte.
On March 1, Brian Craig Devino, 36, was sentenced to 20-years in prison for distributing methamphetamine which resulted in the overdose death of Stacey Gonzalez in February of 2011.
United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg says Gonzalez was found dead in her North Platte home by a family member on February 23, 2011. A small amount of methamphetamine was found in Gonzalez’s bedroom by investigators from the North Platte Police Department. Devino and Gonzalez had gone out for drinks and then returned to Gonzalez’s residence with take-out food on the evening of February 22, 2011. Devino admitted to officers that he had provided Gonzalez with a small amount of methamphetamine before leaving her residence.
Devino’s charge carried a mandatory minimum prison term of 20 years due to the fact that the use of the methamphetamine resulted in a death. Following the prison term, Devino will serve four years on supervised release.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the North Platte Police Department.
Another convicted drug dealer from North Platte was sentenced March 6 to nearly five years in federal prison. Gilg says Lisa Ann Rosenberg, 27, was arrested and charged last year, after selling more than 51 grams of cocaine base to a confidential informant on June 14, 2011. A co-defendant from Colorado, Megan Miller, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and will be sentenced April 4th.
That case was investigated by the CODE Task Force which is made up of law enforcement agencies throughout a 22-county area in west-central/southwest Nebraska and includes the North Platte Police Department, Dawson County Sheriff’s Office, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, Red Willow County Sheriff’s Office, Frontier County Sheriff’s Office, Nebraska State Patrol, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
On the Tube Tonight….
- NCIS (repeat)
- NCIS: LOS ANGELES (repeat)
- UNFORGETTABLE (repeat)
- THE BIGGEST LOSER – The contestants swap trainers for a week; the contestants search for weight plates in a giant mud pit.
- DECISION 2012 – Primary results.
- RAISING HOPE – When Sabrina is arrest after attending an Occupy Natesville protest, one of the jail attendants (Katy Perry) commits to making her imprisonment as awful as possible.
- I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER – A night school teacher (Mark Consuelos) takes an interest in Annie when she and Nikkie attend his class.
- NEW GIRL – When Jess learns that injured Nick doesn’t have insurance, she brings him to her friend.
- BREAKING IN – (season premiere) When Oz sells the company to a corporate congolmerate, the brash head of the business and her bad tempered assistant turn the office upside down.
- LAST MAN STANDING (repeat)
- COUGAR TOWN – Bobby takes an interest in Travis’s photography professor; Jules and Andy prepare to face off with a group of kids.
- THE RIVER – The Magus crew finds Emmet’s camera bag containing tapes; Lena reveals a secret.
- BODY OF PROOF (repeat)
- 90210 – Naomi’s sister pays a visit; Silver’s gets accepted to NYU.
- RINGER – Agent Machado’s past is revealed; Siobhan deceives Malcolm.
BRAVO
- THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ORANGE COUNTY – Tamra and Vicki are unsulted by Slade’s jokes.
FX
- JUSTIFIED – A murder forces Raylan to confront his past mistakes; Boyd grapples with Harlan’s corrupt sheriff.
TNT
- SOUTHLAND – Lydia and Ruben must investigate the death of a nanny as well as locate the children she tended.