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The jury learned of fingerprint and DNA evidence that the prosecution said pointed to the defendant during the last day of evidence in the murder trial of the State of Nebraska vs. Craig Johnson. Johnson, 48, is charged with first-degree murder, a class IA felony, use of a weapon to commit a felony, a class II felony, possession of a deadly weapon by a felon, a class III felony and habitual criminality for the Dec. 11, 2011 death of 42-year-old April Smith. Johnson and Smith were in a...
Out flying the competition, Logan Lewis scores a two pointer between the Longhorns' Kelton Fisher (30) and Ryan Moline (11).... Full story
Security First Bank donated $5,000 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Foundation last week, with funds designated to break ground and build the High Planes Ag Lab. Pictured, left to right: Clem Schumacher, Charles Hibberd, Terry Akeson, Jim Higgins and Bob Olsen.... Full story
The Creek Valley FFA Chapter traveled to Chadron State College at the end of November to compete in Leadership Skills Events. Jaden Criswell and Kali Priest both received reds in Creed Speaking. Ashley Burr returned with a blue in Cooperative Speaking. The Senior Parlimentary Law Team of Shania Brown, Summer Mueller, Hannah Schievelbein, Aftan Bartels, Dane McConnell, and Logan Criswell received third and are alternates to state. Nash Leef placed second in Extemp Speaking and qualified for... Full story
Jesse Smith of Frenchman Valley Coop presented a check to the Creek Valley High School FFA chapter, represented by senior Shania Brown. FVC donated $850 to the chapter to help offset the cost of club activities.... Full story
Jim Robinson 1934 to 2013 Jim Robinson, 79 of Sidney, beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother died early Sunday morning December 15th at the Sidney Regional Medical Center, Extended Care with his wife and family by his side. The family will greet friends beginning at 1 p.m. Thurs., Dec. 19th at the Holechek Funeral Home in Sidney with a Celebration of Life service to start at 2 p.m. with Pastor Leon "Bud" Gillespie officiating. Services will conclude at the funeral home. Cremation has... Full story
The good news is that the temperature only dropped to 16 below zero last night and the weathermen are predicting a slow warm up for this week. It’s been quite some time since we have endured a prolonged cold spell like this one. By the time you read this I hope the temperatures are at least back to what will feel like a balmy normal winter temperature for our area. We did receive about a foot of snow here in the Alliance area. Fortunately the wind hasn’t moved the snow around too much and hopefully the snow will settle down and crust before the...
The top shooters on both sides were slowed by lingering mid-week illness. And in the back of their minds, players on each team realized that tough opponents waited on Saturday, as well. None of it mattered on Friday night, though, when rivals Creek Valley and Potter-Dix sparred over a grueling, draining 32 minute span. “It’s always fun when these two teams get together,” Coyotes’ guard Bryant Knigge pointed out. “Any game can go either way.” Potter-Dix emerged from the fray with a 60-53 home win. But “frantic” may have been a more appropriat...
On the face of it, Creek Valley cruised to a 61-40 win at Potter-Dix on Friday night. But Storm head coach Bill Wilber saw things differently. "Against Hyannis and Maxwell we ran," he said. "Tonight-I don't know if they were thinking about Caliche." Perhaps the tentative nature he perceived resulted from a flurry of fouls that slowed play. Both teams earned the bonus just a few ticks into the second quarter. Creek Valley went to the line 41 times during the game, while the Coyotes picked up 11...
Despite holding two 16-point leads in the second quarter, Sidney Red was forced to survive a furious comeback by the Chase County Longhorns to win a 56-49 non league contest Friday night. In front of the home faithful at Cabela's Athletic Facility, the Red Raiders (2-2) sent the Class C1 Longhorns (3-1) to their first defeat of the young season. During the second quarter when buckets by Tyler Wintholz and Lucas Rosenbaum were answered by Chase County, Sidney twice held their biggest leads of...
Firing on all cylinders from the get go, the Red Raiders advanced their record to 3-1 with a 49-27 victory over the Chase County Longhorns in a non-district matchup Friday night. The Raiders broke a 7-7 tie in the final minutes of the first quarter at the Cabela's Athletic Facility with 10 unanswered points to take a lead they would never relinquish. Katelin Cole ended the first period scoring with three pointer she was also the last to flex the net in the next eight minutes. Cole's two pointer...
While Brody McKnight kicked off the Gordon-Rushville Invitational for the Sidney wrestling team with a pin in his first ever varsity match, Michael Muggli and Zach Borges ended it with the Raiders strongest performances of the day. Despite being short handed with only seven varsity wrestlers, the Red Raiders finished the meet in seventh place in the 13 team event with 54.5 points. Chadron won the meet by narrowly shading Valentine 128 points to 126.5. Host Gordon-Rushville finished third. "Yes,...
As the only member of his team to travel to the Banner County Invitational on Saturday, Creek Valley wrestler Mason Low did his team proud with a second-place finish. Since the Storm were represented only by Low, Creek Valley was not a factor in the team competition. While Low’s effort earned the Storm 14 points to finish 11th of 13 teams, Sedgwick-County Fleming was the runaway winner with 165 points. Kimball finished second with 89 points and Lingle-Ft. Laramie was third at 79.5. Low captured his second-place showing in the 195 lbs. pound c...
