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LINCOLN (AP) — Illinois shed tears during its previous visit to Nebraska. The Illini were all smiles after their 71-51 victory over the Cornhuskers on Tuesday night. D.J. Richardson scored 30 points, Brandon Paul added 14 and Illinois ended a three-game losing streak. Richardson’s career-best performance came after he called a players-only meeting over the weekend, on the heels of an embarrassing 14-point loss to Northwestern. He wouldn’t divulge what was said, but it’s safe to assume he and his fellow seniors drove home the point that Illinoi...
NEW YORK (AP) — Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o has told Katie Couric that he briefly lied about his online girlfriend after discovering she didn’t exist, while maintaining that he had no part in creating the hoax. Pressed by Couric to admit that he was in on the deception, Te’o said he believed that his girlfriend Lennay Kekua had died of cancer and didn’t lie about it until December. “Katie, put yourself in my situation. I, my whole world told me that she died on Sept. 12. Everybody knew that. This girl, who I committed myself to, died on...
NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL is looking into Tom Brady’s leg-up slide that hit Ravens safety Ed Reed in the AFC championship game. League spokesman Greg Aiello said Tuesday “any play of that nature is routinely reviewed.” Brady could be subject to a fine if the league believes he violated any player safety rules. During the final minute of the first half, Brady slid at the end of an impromptu run. The quarterback’s upraised leg hit the onrushing Reed, who temporarily limped away. Reed was not injured. Reed says Brady attempted to apologize this week...
DALTON — A big second quarter by Leyton High School’s girls basketball team enabled the Warriors to grab a halftime lead en route to a 41-32 victory against Cheyenne County rival Potter-Dix Tuesday evening. Tuesday’s game was a makeup of the Jan. 11 postponement. Tessa Lukesh scored 13 points and senior classmate Rachael Ernest added 12 for the Warriors (8-5). “Our senior leaders stepped up for us tonight,” LHS coach Rol Rushman said. “Katy Ernest also had a big night for us. She had nine bl...
DALTON — After winning the Minuteman Activities Conference championship Saturday evening, Leyton High School’s boys’ basketball team could have been excused if it suffered a letdown. However, there was no such thing Tuesday night, as Gary Oltmann’s Warriors improved to 11-1 with a 60-36 victory against in-county rival Potter-Dix. Brennen Cruise led a triumvirate of Warriors in double figures, racking up 17 points to lead all scorers. Cruise and Chris Melzer both had seven points in the first q...
NEW YORK (AP) — Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. And the situation is even worse than it appears. Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What’s more, these jobs aren’t just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren’t just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — International scientists who last year halted controversial research with the deadly bird flu say they are resuming their work as countries adopt new rules to ensure safety. The outcry erupted when two labs — in the Netherlands and the U.S. — reported they had created easier-to-spread versions of bird flu. Amid fierce debate about the oversight of such research and whether it might aid terrorists, those scientists voluntarily halted further work last January — and more than three dozen of the world’s leading flu researche...
He swore his oath of office on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible. He has asked to give the State of the Union address on Lincoln’s birthday. He rode to Washington in 2009 on a train route similar to Lincoln’s in 1861. He has compared his critics to Lincoln’s critics. He confides to admirers that he likes to read the handwritten Gettysburg Address that hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom. Barack Obama is inviting the world to compare him not just to good presidents but to the greatest in American history. There can be majesty in invoking past presidents and the...
Distance. According to my iPhone — which is sitting on my office desk this morning — from my present location I am currently a car travel of 21 hours and 35 minutes from my previous home in Rochester, Wash. This calculates to an approximate distance of 1,360 miles. With technology these days, distance seems to be less of an obstacle when trying to communicate with the ones you care about. A letter delivered on horseback is now not the only way to receive messages from your loved ones. Heck, I’d love to see that one of these days. Instead we ha...
Editor, The President’s new gun control proposals and his executive orders will have little or no effect on gun violence in this country and the statement that they are worth it even if they save a single life is almost ridiculous. Guns don’t kill people or children, criminals do. If all of the President’s proposals were in place it would have not changed what happened in the Connecticut elementary school, or in the recent theater shootings in Colorado for that matter. Killings in Chicago and Washington D.C. are wholesale and yet they have...
Betty Jane Fine 1923 to 2013 Betty Jane Fine, 89, of Aurora, Colo., and former Sidney resident died on Jan. 6, 2013, in Parker, Colo. Graveside services have taken place in Denver. Betty Jane was born in Long Island, N.Y., on July 28, 1923, to Ruth and Sydney Bender. She attended the University of Alabama and on vacation to Denver met Leonard Fine. They were married in New York after a brief courtship and moved to Sidney where they were in business with Leonard’s parents. In 1972 they moved to Denver. They were married 37 years until L...
Robert R. ‘Bob’ Graham 1946 to 2013 Robert R. ‘Bob’ Graham, 66, of Sidney, passed away Wednesday evening, Jan. 16, 2013, at his home northwest of Sidney. Memorial services will be at 10 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 24, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints with Bishop David Siler officiating. Cremation has taken place. Private family inurnment will take place at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made in care of the family. You may view Bob’s Book of Memories, leave condolenc...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, at times emotional and fierce, insisted on Wednesday that the department is moving swiftly and aggressively to strengthen security at U.S. missions worldwide after the deadly Sept. 11 raid on the consulate in Libya. In her last formal testimony on Capitol Hill as America’s top diplomat — but perhaps not her last time on the political stage — Clinton once again took full responsibility for the department’s missteps leading up to an assault at the U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, that kill...
A Sidney man has pleaded guilty to two felony charges Tuesday before Cheyenne County District Judge Derek Weimer. Donald M. Schlieker, 50,will be sentenced March 6 at 10 a.m. on separate counts of Class III delivery of marijuana and Class IV attempted possession of a defaced firearm. Schlieker’s first of two recent run-ins with the law occurred on the evening of July 18. Acting on information surrounding the shooting death of Mandy Kershman earlier that evening, authorities served a search w...
WASHINGTON — The House overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday to permit the government to borrow enough money to avoid a first-time default for at least four months, defusing a looming crisis setting up a springtime debate over taxes, spending and the deficit. The House passed the measure on a bipartisan 285-144 vote as majority Republicans back away from their previous demand that any increase in the government’s borrowing cap be paired with an equivalent level of spending cuts. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the chamber wou...
Two major items were discussed in depth at the Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners and Cheyenne County Board of Equalization meeting Tuesday at the Cheyenne County Courthouse. The issues dealt with an agreement regarding a mutual aid service between counties and the removal of a Medicaid discount for county prisoners. The proposed County Sheriffs Inter-local Agreement with Cheyenne County, Deuel County and Garden County was passed during the meeting, while the proposed SWAT Agreement with...
At the City of Sidney Council meeting last night City of Sidney Attorney J. Leef presented the council with revisions of two different proposed city residential laws. After taking feedback from both the previous council meeting and the city’s planning commission meeting Monday night, Leef gave recommendations based on the teams’ inputs regarding the definition of accessory buildings in residential zones. Also discussed was the continued consideration of an ordinance related to the parking of recreational vehicles and trailers in town. “Th...
