Firth News

It took approximately 339 cans for Leonard Chapek and his grandson, Nathan, of Weston, Neb., to make this replica of a JD tractor model A, B or G - year 1935, 1936 and 1937.

If youa re a local supermarket chain, stocking your shelves with food and beverage products from the area should be a priority.

A trucker hauling dead cows says he didn't see the train coming until too late. But Wayne Bockman wasn't hurt when the train smacked into his truck at a rural southeast Nebraska intersection Tuesday afternoon.

The Nebraska State Fair ends its century-plus run in Lincoln on Monday. While buildings are going up in Grand Island where the fair moves to next summer, city officials are laying a foundation with fairgoers.

Norris School District Superintendent Roy Baker and Assistant Superintendent John Skretta headed straight for the scene Monday morning when they learned a district bus with dozens of students aboard had collided with a pickup a few miles from the school.

FIRTH, Neb. - Nearly two dozen students were injured when a school bus collided with a pickup truck at a rural Nebraska intersection.

Showing animals at the Lancaster County Fair, earning prized ribbons for goodies from the garden, capturing favorite moments on film, sewing, baking, speaking, presenting, painting and cooking.

The Lancaster County Sheriffa s Office has launched a new community information service designed to deliver important and timely information to residents in our area using the latest technology.

They're the Navy SEALS of corn detasselers. At least Dawn Buell says so. She's the owner of Not Afraid to Sweat Inc., a corn detasseling company, and she employs a group of detasselers that calls itself The Force.

Land-line phone service provided by Windstream is out in southern Lancaster and northern Gage counties.

It's more precise than old-fashioned dousing. University of Nebraska-Lincoln geologists are analyzing data collected by helicopter-mounted equipment to locate underground water.

Foster mother Olympia Poydras had one question for Joleet "Joey" Poole on the day she was to turn over 1-year-old Davion Winrow for eventual adoption.