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SUPCO–VOLUNTEER PAY
OMAHA—Lucille Kilgore spent nearly 30 years typing up reports, arranging foster home placements and handling other duties as a volunteer at the state’s juvenile parole office. The Omaha woman, now 87, was never paid nor asked to be paid for her work, which sometimes stretched to 70 hours a week or more. By Jean Ortiz.
MERIDIAN BRIDGE
YANKTON, S.D.—Plans are being developed for the conversion of the old Meridian Bridge into a pedestrian structure, but the big question is where the money will come from. Nebraska was the lead state for construction of the new Discovery Bridge. Conversion of the old bridge is in the hands of South Dakota, but Nebraska may have to come up with some funding.
BUSINESS:
— ETHANOL PLANTS—A Kearney-based company plans to operate two ethanol plants in central Nebraska.
— ELECTRICAL LAYOFFS—Lester Electrical has announced another round of layoffs.
SPORTS:
BKH–NO MERCY?
OMAHA—Eyebrows were raised across the nation by that 100-0 girls high school basketball score in Texas in January—not just because it was a shutout, but because the winning coach was fired in its wake. But the same night Covenant School hung a hundred and gave up none against Dallas Academy to make national news, a couple girls teams in Nebraska made no more than the small print of local papers for decimating their opponents to the tune of 93-11 (Hay Springs over Hyannis) and 85-11 (Omaha Concordia over College View Academy). By Sports Writer Eric Olson.
ALSO:
— FBC–NEBRASKA-COTTON—Nebraska football player Ben Cotton was cited for alcohol possession and other violations after campus police were alerted to an argument at a residence hall.
— TROUT FISHING—Nebraska anglers can get a jump on fishing season when Two Rivers State Recreation Area opens for trout fishing on March 14. Eds: Also moving on general news lines.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— ABUSE CASE-PETS—A Scotts Bluff County judge has ordered a woman to give up her cat because she can’t protect it from abuse.
— INTERSTATE CRASH—Part of Interstate 80 in Omaha was closed for a few hours Sunday after a crash scattered a tomato substance across most lanes of travel.
— CHILD PORN-SENTENCE—A Bellevue man has been sentenced to five years in prison for receiving child pornography.
— BEATRICE PROBLEMS—Six patients of the Beatrice State Developmental Center have died so far this year, outpacing past years’ death rates despite a smaller population.
— UNMC RESEARCH—Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center will get more than $15 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Defense in fiscal year 2009.
The AP, Omaha.
