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Leap Year babies at CHI Health Good Samaritan Hospital

Heather Riggleman, Kearney Hub

It was a busy day Monday in the OB wing at CHI Health Good Samaritan Hospital. Four babies were born on Leap Year beginning with Raiden Heitman at 1:14 a.m. Nurse Amber Burr, left, holds Raiden Heitman, son of Miranda Heitman, and Adalyn Mitchell, daughter of Megan Mitchell. Nurse Dani Peisiger holds Baby Rubart, who didn’t yet have a first name, son of Kayli Rubarts and baby Aaden Alvardo on the left is the son of Itzayana Alvardo. Not only are they Leap Year babies, they also were born during ...
Power of 'Messiah' explains the pull to return to sing it

By RICK BROWN
Hub Staff Writer

AXTELL — After more than five decades, the Axtell Oratorio Society thrives on a sense of family, tradition and spectacular music.
Amherst rallies for fourth straight dual championship
By BUCK MAHONEY
Hub Sports Editor

KEARNEY — Amherst made it four in a row, but not without a little drama.
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Northwest hits shot at buzzer, ending Bearcats’ season
By RYAN EDWARDS
Hub Sports Writer

KEARNEY — Kanon Koster did everything he was supposed to on the final shot in Saturday’s 53-51 loss to Omaha Northwest.
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Kearney native Charlie Tuna dies at 71

LOS ANGELES -- Radio personality and Kearney native Charlie Tuna has died.

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NY judge: US cannot make Apple provide iPhone data

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department cannot force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data in a routine Brooklyn drug case, a federal judge ruled Monday.

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Amherst rallies for fourth straight dual championship

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KEARNEY — Amherst made it four in a row, but not without a little drama.

Feb 29 Northwest hits shot at buzzer, ending Bearcats’ season Spotlight
Feb 29 Overtime victory gives Lopers No. 2 seed in MIAA
Feb 29 Loper women win, earn home game in MIAA Tourney
Feb 29 Shootout loss enough to put Storm on top of standings
Feb 29 Bearcats fall against Millard South for state dual crown
Feb 29 UNK qualifies eight for national wrestling meet
Feb 29 UNK men fourth, women sixth at MIAA indoor track meet
Feb 29 Lopers complete baseball sweep

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Gallery: 2-27-16 State Duals by Rick Tucker
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Gallery: 2-27-16 KHS at State Duals by Rick Tucker
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Gallery: 2-27-16 KHS vs Omaha NW Boys Basketball by Eldon Holmes
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Gallery: 2-26-16 Axtell vs Cambridge GBB by Rick Tucker

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- Stopping Trump now not an easy achievement
- Can Donald Trump be stopped short of the Republican nomination? Probably not. But the rational wing of the party has to try — quickly and forcefully — to make that happen. The stakes are far too high for the rationalists to stay on the sidelines, and their first motive should be political self-interest.
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  By Cokie and Steven Roberts
  National View
  
  Updated: February 29, 2016 - 12:44 pm

- Rein in route for officeholders
- Last week the Nebraska Legislature crossed the halfway point of the 2016 session. In addition to my Appropriations Committee work, this past week I had public hearings for three bills I introduced. On Tuesday I had the public hearing for LR378CA, the Right to Farm Constitutional Amendment. Later in the week, I presented two bills that address issues I am also passionate about, transparency in government and protection of citizen privacy.
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  By JOHN KUEHN
  Nebraska View
  
  Updated: February 29, 2016 - 12:39 pm

- Mary Jane Skala: Suddenly, I’m plugged into the race, then unplugged
- Living 45 minutes from a supermarket or a Walgreens on a dirt road in rural Abiquiu, N.M., I’ve stayed only thinly connected to the presidential primaries. I have no television and only sporadic radio. Maybe it’s a blessing.
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  By MARY JANE SKALA | Another View
  
  Updated: February 29, 2016 - 12:37 pm

- Borrowers need help if payday loans entrap them
- Sen. Kathy Campbell of Lincoln has proposed reasonable restrictions on the most extreme of the predatory practices used by payday lenders, while allowing them to stay in business. The Legislature could help Nebraskans work their way out of poverty by putting the restrictions into law.
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  Lincoln Journal Star
  Guest Opinion
  
  Updated: February 29, 2016 - 12:40 pm

- Putting foot down on all things Leap Day
- Talk about government overreach. As we prepare to honor the greatest conspiracy known to humankind — excluding anything about Elvis — keep in mind that someone hides behind a curtain while monkeying with our calendar. Yep, I’m talking about Leap Day, that mystical gap in time conveniently filled once every four years by an extra day. Perhaps this is where the hours go that the government takes away at the start of Daylight Saving Time. I’m just sayin’.
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  RICK BROWN | Kearney View
  
  Posted: February 27, 2016

- For the men in this world: They have lessons to teach their sons
- I call them “the boys”— my husband and my son. Their love for soccer, tools and busting Sheetrock keeps the girls and me on our toes.
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  HEATHER RIGGLEMAN | Chasing Perfect
  
  Updated: February 27, 2016 - 10:25 am

- American Life in Poetry: This Morning
- As I drove into town
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  Ted Kooser
  American Life Poetry
  
  Updated: February 27, 2016 - 12:31 am

- Lions roar; They help people in many ways
- Lions Clubs have been around since 1917. Like many service organizations that have existed for nearly a century, local Lions Club chapters are populated mostly by folks who are long of tooth and gray of hair. Age may be catching up with Lions, but with so much experience, they’re making great contributions in their communities, state, nation and beyond.
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  Hub Opinion
  
  Updated: February 27, 2016 - 12:25 am

- Parenting group launching
- If you are a parent, whether you have already birthed or not, this group could be for you.
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  Jenna Shaw, Kearney
  Letter to the Editor
  
  Updated: February 27, 2016 - 12:26 am

- CEOs’ pay not high
- The fat cats just keep getting fatter at our expense, according to a report from As You Sow, an Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit.
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  Orange County Register
  Guest Opinion
  
  Updated: February 27, 2016 - 12:28 am

- Ruling gives state breathing room
- State officials are lauding a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision to delay President Obama’s Clean Power Plan until legal challenges are resolved.
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  McCook Daily Gazette
  Guest Opinion
  
  Updated: February 27, 2016 - 12:27 am

- Annual bird migration welcome sign of spring
- Intersecting lines of geese resembling stitching on a crazy quilt flew across a bright blue sky decorated with clouds in solid white shapes and whiffs Saturday morning as I drove west on Interstate 80 toward North Platte.
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  By LORI POTTER | Potter's Wheel
  
  Updated: February 26, 2016 - 11:19 am

- General aviation in America’s breadbasket
- Here in Nebraska, our land is our livelihood — farms and ranches cover 92 percent of the state’s total land area. Agricultural production in Nebraska accounts for $22.6 billion of the gross state product and supports nearly a quarter of the state’s workforce.
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  ALAN CORR
  Nebraska View
  
  Posted: February 26, 2016

- I enjoy columnists
- I look forward to very little in news publications these days, and I’m often tempted to eliminate the daily and dire information sources regarding political agendas, horrific events and worrisome prognostications.
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  Glenda Blauch
  Letter to the Editor
  
  Updated: February 26, 2016 - 11:11 am

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