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DEVELOPING: SECURITIES PROBE
NUMBERS FAME
HASTINGS—Customers and employees at Jackson’s Car Corner will tell you something about sales manager Steve Cropley’s memory is extraordinary. Fords are his specialty—Ford tractors, Ford cars. Having worked with them for years, Cropley knows the number of every individual part in every machine. By Charis Ubben of the Hastings Tribune. Eds: A Nebraskaland Feature.
BUSINESS:
SECURITIES PROBE
LINCOLN—Investors in a Grand Island insurance business suspected in a Ponzi scheme have been told they’ll have to wait to get their money back. That’s if their losses can be recouped at all. Eds: Also moving on general news lines.
SPORTS:
BKC–GEORGE MASON-CREIGHTON
OMAHA—George Mason of the Colonial Athletic Association visits Creighton of the Missouri Valley Conference in the made-for-ESPN BracketBuster. This will be the third time in four years that the teams have met. Creighton won the previous two games. Eds: Game starts 8:30 p.m. CST.
Also:
BKC–NEBRASKA-KANSAS—The Cornhuskers travel south to take on No. 15 Kansas. Eds: Game starts 3 p.m. CST.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— FRATERNITY FIRE—Fire officials say a scented candle caused a small fire at a University of Nebraska-Lincoln fraternity house.
— JUDGE RETIRING—A district judge serving the 4th Judicial District has announced her retirement.
The AP, Omaha.
