Lincoln Journal Star | Where all the years went: Two Nebraskans turn 109

By: By PETER SALTER / Lincoln Journal Star

He would never stray far from Otoe County, but she danced her way out of Omaha.

May 19, 2014 | 7:00 am

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Obituary: Betsy Cohen

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MISSOULA – Betsy Cohen, a hard-driving journalist, gifted equestrian and friend-maker extraordinaire, embodied the candle that burns twice as brightly but burns half as long. Just 49, she died of metastatic breast cancer Monday, March 3, 2014, at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula.

Mar 05, 2014 | 9:07 pm

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Missoulian: Alcoholic, former addict, arsonist: Never too late to ask for help

By: Kim Briggeman/Missoulian

Priscilla Keim is an alcoholic, a former meth addict and an arsonist.

Feb 15, 2014 | 8:27 am

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Creek clean-up: Volunteers fish trash from the waters

By: Kevin Woster/Rapid City Journal

Ken Edel had his hands full of a Rapid City's cast-off crud Tuesday as he slogged knee-deep through Rapid Creek.

May 22, 2013 | 12:06 pm

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Sioux City Journal: Tiny Early, Iowa, grapples with high-profile crimes

By: MOLLY MONTAG/Sioux City Journal

EARLY, Iowa | The hot beef sandwiches at the Crossroads Restaurant and Lounge in Early tend to draw a crowd over the noon hour, when many other businesses in this tiny city of 552 shut down. For …

Feb 11, 2013 | 9:44 am

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Bismarck Tribune: Cleaner gets down and dirty with political talk, blog

By: LAUREN DONOVAN | Bismarck Tribune

WATFORD CITY, N.D. — Put pink frosted lipstick, a bottled tan and wild red hair on Rush Limbaugh and you’d end up with Isabella Dangelo.

Jan 25, 2013 | 5:19 pm

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Casper Star-Tribune: Casper Army specialist fights to put his body back together

By: By KRISTY GRAY

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Before sunrise on Nov. 7 — what the Army calls O-dark-thirty — soldiers from Brooke Army Medical Center’s Warrior Transition Battalion line up in a parking lot. Some stand in formation on two legs, some stand on one leg with the help of crutches or canes. Some stand o…

Jan 17, 2013 | 10:50 am

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Sioux City Journal: Young athletes battle harsh online comments

By: TIM GALLAGHER/Sioux City Journal

ROCK VALLEY, Iowa | Preston Hoebelheinrich sits at home, resting and rehabbing after his second surgery for a torn labrum. A redshirt freshman at Northwestern College, Hoebelheinrich, for a year, is sidelined, detached from a sport that defines his competitive streak.

Jan 15, 2013 | 11:00 am

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Lincoln Journal Star: Nebraska's Burroughs looking to become face of U.S. wrestling

By: By KARL VOGEL / Lincoln Journal Star

Jordan Burroughs plopped onto the couch at NU's Hendricks Training Complex, bounced into a sitting position and exhaled.

Jul 23, 2012 | 2:35 pm

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Lincoln Journal Star: A lifelong love story

By: By CINDY LANGE-KUBICK / Lincoln Journal Star

She was 16 and he was 18 the day they drove down to Missouri and said "I do."

Feb 14, 2012 | 11:43 am

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Sioux City Journal: Briar Cliff dedicates floor in Nacke's honor

By: BY MICHAEL BRAUER/Sioux City Journal

SIOUX CITY -- The first time Briar Cliff College approached Ray Nacke about coaching basketball, he turned it down.

Feb 09, 2012 | 7:00 am

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Billings Gazette: From Billings to the Bakken

By: MARY PICKETT/Billings Gazette

Mid-afternoon on a weekday, Mark Gaughan practices putting in his Billings basement with his three children.

Feb 08, 2012 | 7:00 am

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Bismarck Tribune: Williston Walmart becomes a mecca for oil job seekers

By: LAUREN DONOVAN/Bismarck Tribune

WILLISTON, N.D. - Four Minnesota guys not long out of high school packed clothes, beans and blankets into a borrowed camper and pulled into the Walmart parking lot in Williston.

Feb 07, 2012 | 7:00 am

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Family mat-ters: Little brother gets best of Bosco-Union dual

By: By JIM NELSON/The Courier

LA PORTE CITY, Iowa --- Gert Hogan agonized over which side of the Union High School gym she was going to sit on Tuesday.

Dec 23, 2011 | 3:00 pm

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HOCKEY: Century edges Mandan

By: Steve Thomas/Bismarck Tribune

Final scores have a nasty way of being half-truths.

Dec 22, 2011 | 3:00 pm

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The butterfly people of Joplin

By: BY TODD C. FRANKEL/St. Louis Post-Dispatch

JOPLIN, MO. • In the chaotic first days after the tornado, when nothing seemed real, word of the butterfly people began to spread. The stories were shared in hospital waiting rooms and…

Dec 21, 2011 | 12:10 pm

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Since 1979, 'Mad Dog' supplies Wyoming Cowboys with gear, -isms

By: William Browning/Casper Star-Tribune

LARAMIE -- Sometimes, if you walk the belly of the Rochelle Athletics Center long enough, you can catch him quiet. He'll be alone and leaning against something. But those are rare moments. Action is his natural state. Especially on g…

Nov 29, 2011 | 3:46 pm

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North County Times: A deadly night that has lasted 33 years

By: Brandon Lowrey/@NCTLowrey/North County Times

Jim Alt, 17, was a tall, fit young man with long, sun-bleached hair and a surfer's tan.

Nov 01, 2011 | 10:56 am

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Casper Star-Tribune: Widow's fight for military honors succeeds after 14 years

By: By JOSHUA WOLFSON/Casper Star-Tribune

She visits him there, beside a lilac bush, framed by Casper Mountain and the city where he died.

Oct 28, 2011 | 9:00 am

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Napa Valley Register: Bacon dream comes true for local man

By: HOWARD YUNE/ Napa Valley Register

The DVD has been played to within an inch of its life, its plastic box clouded and scratched with six years of openings and closings.  Hundreds of times a year, Aaron Beeghley has run through the disc containing the movie “Tremors.” …

Oct 27, 2011 | 9:00 am

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Rapid City Journal: Judge steps down after wide-ranging career

By: Andrea J. Cook/Rapid City Journal

A signature pink can of Tab was one of the few items remaining in Judge John "Jack" Delaney's office as the 7th Circuit judge handled a few final cases on Wednesday, his last day working in the Pennington County Courthouse.

Oct 12, 2011 | 9:00 am

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Quad-City Times: Cancer treatment gives Sands cause for reflection

By: David Burke/Quad-City Times

Paula Sands is a bundle of increasingly nervous energy.

Oct 11, 2011 | 9:00 am

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Lincoln Journal Star: A part of history, a piece of their father

By: Cindy Lange-Kubick/Lincoln Journal Star

"Does that bugle bring back memories, Dad?"

Oct 10, 2011 | 9:00 am

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Billings Gazette: Dinosaur skull called new specimen

By: By BRETT FRENCH/Billings Gazette

WINIFRED — For six years, Bill Shipp has been keeping a secret from his neighbors, which isn’t easy in this town of about 150 folks on the southern edge of the Missouri River Breaks.

Oct 07, 2011 | 9:00 am

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Lincoln Journal Star: Nebraska beef sector feeling effects of trouble in Texas

By: By ART HOVEY/Lincoln Journal Star

At the northern and greener end of the hay and cattle lifeline connecting Nebraska and drought-stricken Texas, Van Neidig counted three trailer loads of hay headed through the Grand Island area on U.S. 281 in the span of a few minutes on Tuesday.

Oct 06, 2011 | 11:00 am

North County Times: Scientists sink their teeth into shark study

By: By DEBORAH SULLIVAN BRENNAN/North County Times

Before dawn last week, the crew of the fishing boat Outer Banks set four miles of long-lines off San Diego Harbor, angling for a good catch of young thresher sharks in hopes of preserving the fishery.

Oct 04, 2011 | 9:39 am

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Arizona football: Foles climbing charts

By: Ryan Finley/Arizona Daily Star

Nick Foles walks to the line of scrimmage with a calm, Texas saunter, but his mind is racing.

Sep 14, 2011 | 7:30 am

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Missoulian: Wildfire races up West Riverside mountain, burns 1,000 to 2,000 acres

By: By JOE NICKELL/Missoulian

WEST RIVERSIDE - The 2011 wildfire season arrived virtually on the doorsteps of residents in West Riverside Monday night, careening across more than 1,000 acres and casting a plume of dark smoke high into the evening sky east of Missoula.

Aug 24, 2011 | 8:00 am

College football: Norse are at odds with breaking even

By: Jim Nelson/The Courier

DECORAH, Iowa --- Kyle McGivney has lived through a lot of 5-5 in his three seasons with the Luther College football team.

Aug 18, 2011 | 3:00 pm