SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Delegates to National Farmers Union’s 122nd Anniversary Convention today cast a unanimous ballot to reelect Rob Larew and Jeff Kippley as the organization’s President and Vice President, respectively. Each will serve another two-year term. “It's an honor to have the trust and confidence of Farmers Union members across the country and a privilege…
Red Willow County Sheriff Kevin Darling says a man was transferred to a Kearney hospital following an explosion this afternoon. Read more here.
LINCOLN - Nebraska’s preliminary unemployment rate for January 2024 is 2.5 percent, seasonally adjusted. The rate was unchanged from the revised December 2023 rate of 2.5 percent and is up 0.4 percentage points from the January 2023 rate of 2.1 percent. Nebraska was ranked fifth in the nation. National unemployment rate…
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In a little more than two years as CEO of a small hospital in Wyoming, Dave Ryerse has witnessed firsthand the worsening financial problems eroding rural hospitals nationwide. In 2022, Ryerse’s South Lincoln Medical Center was forced to shutter its operating room because it didn’t have the staff to run…
For the second time this season, Sydney Gray has been named the Big Ten Softball Player of the Week. Gray is the first repeat winner of the award this year and is the first Husker to win two Big Ten Player of the Week awards in the same season since…
Junior Rhett Stokes has been named the Big Ten’s Player of the Week, the league office announced Monday afternoon. Stokes hit .750 (9-for-12) with four doubles, five RBI and two runs in three games vs. South Alabama, while recording a 1.083 slugging percentage and .750 on-base percentage. The Roswell, N.M.,…
OMAHA, Neb. -- A last-second road win over perennial power Villanova on Saturday helped the Creighton men's basketball team improve to No. 8 in the Associated Press and sixth in the USA Today Coaches polls released on Monday. It's a big jump at the right time for Creighton, which was 10th in both polls last…
LINCOLN - The Nebraska Auto Racing Hall of Fame Board of Directors has unveiled the seven members of the 2024 Hall of Fame Induction Class. This year’s class is made up of seven individuals that have made great impacts in Auto Racing, those individuals that will be enshrined include Jim…
If you frequently drive Highway 2 between Hyannis and Alliance, chances are you have seen Jacki Musgrave out pounding the pavement running, preparing for her next race. Musgrave, of Bingham, Nebraska, is a long-time research technologist at the Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory, and recently accomplished her long worked-for goal of running…
