07/04/11 Flip the switch. Seismic shifts are in store for the Big Ten Conference this year and Illinois is in the thick of the channel changing. The Illini are in the midst of finding a new director of athletics. Ron Guenther, who has done it the past 19 years and performed admirably, is stepping aside.
06/25/11 CAIRO -- Just in time for the annual Cornstalk Festival and Cairo's 125th anniversary, those who pass by the town's busiest intersection will get a history lesson in the form of a mural.
06/17/11 Water that has been pouring through a breached Missouri River levee finally reached a makeshift barrier that is a small Iowa town's only hope of avoiding major flooding, authorities said Thursday.
06/16/11 Construction crews on Wednesday put the final touches on a makeshift levee standing between a small Iowa town and the creeping advance of Missouri River floodwater, as communities downstream took advantage of a temporary dip in water levels to bolster their own strained defenses.
06/16/11 The levee near Iowa town of Hamburg appeared to be holding back the floodwaters from the Missouri River, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. The waters breached the primary levee there earlier this week on Monday. Most of the town has already been evacuated.
06/16/11 A restaurant is surrounded by a temporary berm in Hamburg, Iowa. The town is under a mandatory evacuation order as the Missouri River continues to rise.
06/16/11 Floodwaters that breached a Missouri River levee near the Missouri-Iowa border are approaching a makeshift floodwall hurriedly built to protect the small Iowa town of Hamburg from the river's creeping advance.
06/02/11 The annual Bearcat Good Citizen Award was presented at the 2011 Northeast R-IV commencement in Cairo to Randy and Anne Barratt. Barratt, a school board member, and his wife, Anne, music teacher at R-4, were presented the award by Greg Taylor, high school principal, who was master of ceremonies. The Citizenship Award was begun in 1984 and recognizes excellence of performance, service ...
05/28/11 There will be cannon firings, cemetery tours and potluck dinners as Central Nebraska celebrates and honors the men and women who have served to keep their country free.
05/11/11 Obama may deliver Mideast policy speech next week WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama could deliver a major policy speech as early as next week laying out his new Middle East strategy following the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden and amid ongoing upheaval in the Arab world, U.S. officials said.
04/16/11 Statewide gas prices are soaring to an average $4 per gallon -- but city residents are already feeling the heartburn, with some prices rocketing in the direction of $5. One station in Manhattan's Meatpacking District is just 35 cents below the wallet-shocking $5-per-gallon threshold -- meaning restaurants aren't...
04/01/11 The Hall County Board of Supervisors concurred on Tuesday with a recommendation from Hall County Public Transportation staff to raise bus fares by 50 percent, starting this summer.
03/31/11 MLB exhibition AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. W L Pct. Kan. City 20 10 .667 San Fran. 23 12 .657 TWINS 20 12 .
03/30/11 What if independent journalists were funded directly by their readers and viewers? Rachel Anderson, a 26-year-old journalist from North Dakota, is using Kickstarter to find out. Anderson is asking the site to help fund her stay in Libya, where she is releasing weekly videos on the lives and struggles of Libyan rebels, revolutionaries and artists.
03/19/11 The former Centura Public Schools superintendent has been sentenced to probation and house arrest after pleading guilty to second-offense driving under the influence.Former Centura superintendent sentenced to probation for DUI
03/19/11 Hall County may soon hire a private security firm to handle its Juvenile Attention Center.
03/11/11 "Battle: Los Angeles" makes you wonder, "Is there life beyond Earth?" Not that you haven't ask yourself that before. It also leaves you scratching your head in disbelief that yet another alien vs. man movie has been churned out, and with a considerable big budget.
03/11/11 "Battle: Los Angeles" makes you wonder, "Is there life beyond Earth?" It also leaves you scratching your head in disbelief that yet another alien vs. man movie has been churned out.
03/09/11 The government on Wednesday opposed a bill proposing to raise Israel's legal marriage age to 18, instead of 17. The bill was proposed by Members of Knesset Hanin Zoabi and Dov Khenin, who claimed that 17-year-olds in today's liberal society have not yet finished their studies and are still living under their parents' protection.
02/26/11 (Ne sera pas affich? sur le site.) Egypt , the unborn revolution. A democracy without a free economy has no future. The Cairo revolution, following the Tunis revolution, have been sustained by two popular hopes, one for dignity and the other for a better life. | 
