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RAPID CITY— Rapid City Central opened strong against both Sioux Falls Lincoln and Sioux Falls Washington, but couldn’t carry the momentum from a pair of Friday wins into Saturday’s final day of the Greater Dakota Conference girls volleyball tournament.

LINCOLN, Neb. - Soybean rust was positively identified for the first time last week in Nebraska. It was detected in a southeastern Nebraska soybean field.

LINCOLN, Neb. - While many U.S. farmers use continuous no-till when growing crops year to year, some may want to conduct a one-time tillage for problems such as controlling difficult weeds, breaking a compacted soil layer or reducing the risk of phosphorus loss.

LINCOLN, Neb. - Farmers and ranchers who want to improve their operations through on-farm research, demonstrations or other educational projects can apply for the 2007 North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Farmer/Rancher grants.

A 23-year-old Lincoln man was arrested Sunday night, accused of being the man behind a cache of stolen property found in a storage unit.

Lincoln Police arrest a man in connection with a series of burglaries

Soprano superstar Deborah Voigt will open the tenth season of Lincoln Center's acclaimed American Songbook series, which celebrates the diversity and richness of the American popular song repertoire. The 2008 season, which runs Jan. 23 through March 1 in the Allen Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall, will also feature solo concerts by John Lloyd Young, Christine Ebersole and Kelli O'Hara ...

After several missed deadlines, the day has finally come. Actually, it's already passed - because Thursday was the grand opening of the long-awaited Shell gas station on Lincoln's west side.

MOUNT ZION - People. Prosperity. Progress. Possession. The first three of these words appear on a welcome sign here. The fourth merely beset the Lincoln soccer team during its trip Saturday.

Sonora, CA -- 35 year old Lincoln Anthony Kosa is this week's "Most Wanted" client by the Sonora Police Department. Kosa stands six feet four inches tall and weighs 185 pounds. He has brown eyes and brown hair.

A Canterbury mother and nine-month-old baby have died in a tragic incident at a Lincoln home.

VINCENNES — The Washington Hatchet volleyball team fell in the sectional semifinal game at Vincennes Lincoln on Saturday morning, after advancing with a win over host Vincennes Lincoln on Thursday.

A Lincoln man originally from Beatrice was killed Saturday night as a result of a motorcycle accident in Lincoln.Brandon Villafane, 24, the son of Bert and Kathy Villafane of Beatrice, died Saturday after injuring his head in a motorcycle crash on South 15th Street, north of Vavrina Boulevard, about a block away from his Lincoln home and just south of Pine Lake Road. Witnesses say Villafane was ...

LINCOLN - This was no way to impress the new boss.Days after Tom Osborne took charge of Nebraska football, coach Bill Callahan's Cornhuskers were blown out for the third consecutive week, this time by Texas A&M.Using a triple-option offense reminiscent of the one Osborne employed during his Hall-of-Fame coaching career, the Aggies ran over Nebraska 36-14 on Saturday.Stephen McGee set career ...

Lori Griepenstroh of Lincoln created an Easter Egg that will be on display at the White House during Lent.

Who says you can’t take it with you? This gorgeous black-on-black cruiser is like a luxury getaway, complete with fully reclining back seats that massage you from head to toe.

LINCOLN - Relentlessness. It's what John Cook hoped to see when he scheduled Hawaii on the back end of a two-match weekend, and it's what Dave Shoji and the record crowd of 13,396 saw plenty of in a markedly easy Nebraska volleyball win on Sunday afternoon.

LINCOLN (AP) - This was no way to impress the new boss.

LINCOLN - Tony Linder did a good job blending into the background until the last minute.

Lancaster's Doug Esh lost the super sprint track championship this season as Fred Rahmer regained the crown. But Esh gained a measure of consolation on Saturday night at Lincoln Speedway by winning the season-ending program at the Berwick Township oval.

LINCOLN caretaker-boss Grant Brown claimed the 1-1 draw with Posh felt like a defeat. (22/10/2007)

PHILADELPHIA — The Chicago Bears were down four points and hadn’t found the Lincoln Financial Field end zone all day. They had the ball, 97 yards to go, 1:53 on the clock, no timeouts but oodles of something else that mattered more than anything.

AS he's built for rugby rather than football, if Rene Howe is claiming Posh's last-gasp equaliser he can have it. (22/10/2007)

NEW YORK—Jazz at Lincoln Center kicked off its season with a centennial salute to Benny "The King" Carter, whose prowess as an alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader earned him the title of "the Renaissance man of jazz."

Franke Park Elementary fifth-grader Steve Gonzalez pounded a gavel, marking the start of the re-enactment of a historic Supreme Court appeal Thursday at The Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne.

Jennifer Lincoln had been renting on the Upper East Side and commuting to midtown for her job at Coach, the designer leather goods company, where she has worked for almost seven years.

RAPID CITY— Rapid City Central opened strong against both Sioux Falls Lincoln and Sioux Falls Washington, but couldn’t carry the momentum from a pair of Friday wins into Saturday’s final day of the Greater Dakota Conference girls volleyball tournament.

Danielle Delong of 110 Peach St. NE, North Canton, and Michael Delong of 1806 17th St. NE. Melissa Gorby of 200 High Ave. SW, Apt. 309, and William Gorby of 3012 Lincoln Way W.

Lincoln University has created a new sporting scholarship for next year where high school students from around the country will have to prove themselves through a barrage of tests.

With less than two minutes remaining in yesterday's game at Lincoln Financial Field, it appeared as if the Chicago Bears were in an enormous hole that could truly destroy their season after a run to the Super Bowl.

Here are the solutions to the 2007 Herald Hunt: 1. On Lincoln Road between Euclid and Meridian, Hunters encountered Hunt volunteers wearing sandwich boards bearing the following images: a cone, a link of a chain, a picture of Mark Twain and a key. Hunters had to find all four symbols, then figure out how to make sense of them. Astute Hunters put them in this order -- Link, Cone, Mark, Key -- and ...

Tuesday is B-day. That would be boundary day, when the Lincoln Board of Education is expected to vote on revised attendance areas that could close two schools, shift well over 20 boundaries districtwide and will add three new attendance areas to accommodate new schools.

Brandon Villafane was a quiet guy, hard worker and leader by example, according to those who knew him. “He was a kid that was so low maintenance, he would never cause you any grief,” said Villafane’s high school basketball coach Jim Weeks. “He was a blue collar kid, extremely unselfish.”

Lincoln Police were searching Sunday night for two motorcycles worth more than $56,000 reported stolen from Carpenter Motors at 57th and O streets.

Oct. 21-25 Sunday Community -- Turkey and pie at Lincoln Community High School to benefit Knapp Library/Museum in Middletown; 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at school cafeteria, Lincoln. Cost: adults, $8; children age 4 to 9, $4; and children age 3 and under, free. Carryout meals available.

HIGHLAND | The Park Board has gotten the ball rolling on a makeover for the Lincoln Center.

Sentinel Correspondent Sportsdoor@cumberlink.com

Get featured! Submit your video Description From a concert in Marciac, Abbey Lincoln sings two of her compositions, "Down Here Below" and "Bird Alone". She is accompanied by pianist Rodney Kendrick, bassist Michael Bowie and drummer Alvester Garnett.

Two men were stabbed, one fatally, during a robbery in the Bronx early yesterday, the police said. The men were attacked about 3:40 a.m. on East 170th Street, the police said. One man was stabbed in the abdomen and taken to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, where he was in stable condition yesterday. The second man was taken to Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, where he died, the police ...

HIGHLAND | The Park Board has gotten the ball rolling on a makeover for the Lincoln Center.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — A Grand Island man was hospitalized in Lincoln on Sunday after suffering life-threatening injuries in a stabbing, and a 17-year-old was in custody.

Napa composer Louise Canepa helped gather the forces for 90 minutes of varied musical programming this past Sunday at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater.

Oct. 21-25 Sunday Community -- Turkey and pie at Lincoln Community High School to benefit Knapp Library/Museum in Middletown; 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at school cafeteria, Lincoln. Cost: adults, $8; children age 4 to 9, $4; and children age 3 and under, free. Carryout meals available.

MANNUM pilot Chris Pftizner was back in the air yesterday despite making an emergency landing in Port Lincoln on Wednesday evening after the charter plane he was flying malfunctioned.

If there was a star, it was a whole bloc within a band: the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra?s saxophone section, playing tightly harmonized passages.

It won't do to describe Benny Carter as a multi-instrumentalist. Even though he may have been the only major jazzman who was equally fluent on saxophone and trumpet, everything he did outside the realm of the saxophone was, if not exactly superfluous, then certainly secondary. You could take away everything else he ever did (and it was plenty), and the equation of his greatness, both as a player ...

GODFREY – Moments after LCCC had finished off Lincoln College 6-0 in the first round of the NJCAA Region 24 Tournament Sunday, women’s soccer coach Tim Rooney started thinking ahead – SWIC.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Lincoln-Lemington man on a charge of failure to disclose information.

The tenth season of Lincoln Center's acclaimed American Songbook series, which celebrates the diversity of the American popular song, will feature solo concerts by John Lloyd Young, Christine Ebersole and Kelli O'Hara as well as evenings that celebrate the songs of Leonard Bernstein, Charles Strouse and David Yazbek.

Lincoln Police were searching Sunday night for two motorcycles worth more than $56,000 reported stolen from Carpenter Motors at 57th and O streets.

With less than two minutes remaining in today's game at Lincoln Financial Field, it appeared as if the Chicago Bears were in an enormous hole that could truly destroy their season after a run to the Super Bowl.

LINCOLN, Neb. – Bill Byrne was devastated when his previous employer, Nebraska, came to College Station last season and beat his current one, Texas A&M.

PRISON BREAK -- A new Sona inmate unsettles Whistler (Chris Vance). Susan (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) throws Lincoln's (Dominic Purcell) vacation plans out of whack by moving up the escape date. (8 p.m., Fox)

CommunicationBoelter + Lincoln Marketing Communications, Milwaukee, hired Morgan Shelton as public relations account executive. Shelton previously worked as a producer at NBC affiliate WILX-TV in Lansing, Mich.

A Beatrice man living in Lincoln died Saturday after he crashed his motorcycle near South 14th Street and Pine Lake Road. Witnesses say 24-year-old Brandon W. Villafane was traveling fast and doing a wheelie just after 7:30 p.m. when he lost control of the bike.

With the upcoming deployment of an additional 3,500 troops to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Senator Blanche L. Lincoln spoke to a large crowd in Hamburg Friday, September 14, concerning her recent visit to Iraq.

Brian Griese engineered an 11-play, 97- yard drive in the final two minutes to lead the Chicago Bears to a stunning, come-from-behind win, 19-16, over the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field.

Brian Griese engineered an 11-play, 97- yard drive in the final two minutes, capped by a 15-yard touchdown pass to Muhsin Muhammad with nine seconds left to lead the Chicago Bears to a stunning, come-from-behind win, 19-16, over the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field.

You couldn't have asked for a prettier Sunday -- but four days after an EF-1 tornado touched down outside Star City, local residents still have plenty of reminders of nature's nastier side.

Sentinel Correspondent Sportsdoor@cumberlink.com

Top-ranked Nebraska swept No. 11 Hawai'i, 30-22, 30-16, 30-24, ending the Rainbow Wahine's 13-game winning streak in a non-conference volleyball match today at Bob Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln, Neb.

HERITAGE TOURISM highlights what is distinctive about a place; examples include historical sites such as the Wilbur Kelly House in Lincoln, above. As a tourism industry leader, Robert Billington should be concerned about attracting visitors and their dollars to his region in northern Rhode Island.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) -- A Grand Island man was hospitalized in Lincoln on Sunday after suffering life-threatening injuries in a stabbing, and a 17-year-old was in custody.

NEW YORK -- Eight months after its theatrical release, David Fincher will present the director's cut of his thriller "Zodiac" at an event hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

A Beatrice man living in Lincoln died Saturday after he crashed his motorcycle near South 14th Street and Pine Lake Road. Witnesses say 24-year-old Brandon W. Villafane was traveling fast and doing a wheelie just after 7:30 p.m. when he lost control of the bike.

HERITAGE TOURISM highlights what is distinctive about a place; examples include historical sites such as the Wilbur Kelly House in Lincoln, above. As a tourism industry leader, Robert Billington should be concerned about attracting visitors and their dollars to his region in northern Rhode Island.

LINCOLN, Neb. - Soybean rust was positively identified for the first time last week in Nebraska. It was detected in a southeastern Nebraska soybean field.

LINCOLN, Neb. - While many U.S. farmers use continuous no-till when growing crops year to year, some may want to conduct a one-time tillage for problems such as controlling difficult weeds, breaking a compacted soil layer or reducing the risk of phosphorus loss.

LINCOLN, Neb. - Farmers and ranchers who want to improve their operations through on-farm research, demonstrations or other educational projects can apply for the 2007 North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Farmer/Rancher grants.

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska will soon have a presence in the White House via an egg. Lori Griepenstroh of Lincoln has won top honors in a statewide Easter egg artistry contest.

A reader wrote to me last week seeking my thoughts on the local body elections.

A reader wrote to me last week seeking my thoughts on the local body elections.

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Days after Tom Osborne took charge of Nebraska football as the new AD, Texas A&M showed him just how hard it will be to fix Bill Callahan's Cornhuskers.

In their last home game of the season, the Lincoln Blue Tigers held the lead for a brief moment over Tiffin University - ranked 24th in Division II - before watching it quickly evaporate.

IONIA -- Purks Party Store at 891 E. Lincoln Ave. in Ionia Township was robbed Saturday night around 11:44 p.m.

The journey from the Jersey swamps to the bright lights of Broadway is only about 10 kilometres in duration via the Lincoln Tunnel. But for New Jersey Devil-turned-New York Ranger Scott Gomez, life across the Hudson River is a completely new world indeed.

BENTON COUNTY — People could volunteer to help the environment and benefit from tax changes in a proposal of hers, U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., said The Senate Finance Committee approved Oct. 4 a bipartisan amendment by Lincoln and U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, that offers two new tax credits to taxpayers who choose to help the recovery of threatened or endangered species. The proposal ...

BENTON COUNTY — Senate talks have reached a compromise on a version of the 2007 Farm Bill, the details of which U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln hopes to be able to begin to study over the weekend, Lincoln, D-Ark., said Thursday. (Benton County Daily Record)

By JOHN MILLER LINCOLN, Neb. -- Stephen McGee had to be helped off the field after the game by assistant equipment manager Bryan Gossett and needed an IV of fluids before he got on the bus. The Texas A&M quarterback found out it's pretty tough playing the "Thunder" role of the Aggies "Thunder and Lightning" running game. In a change from their traditional roles, it was McGee pounding the ...

The name of the game during the postseason is winning, even if it's winning ugly.

Jennifer Lincoln had been renting on the Upper East Side and commuting to midtown for her job at Coach, the designer leather goods company, where she has worked for almost seven years.

Lincoln Land Community College soccer coach Tom Noonan predicted an upset in Saturday's NJCAA Region 24 playoffs when he said he thought sixth-seeded Southwestern Illinois would upend No. 3 Lincoln College.

NEW LENOX -- The name of the game during the postseason is winning, even if it's winning ugly.

Lincoln, Neb. - If Bill Callahan hasn’t been fired by the time you read this, the man is well on his way. Unlike the previous weekend, almost every...

The name of the game during the postseason is winning, even if it's winning ugly. Lincoln-Way Central's soccer team needed to pull a page out of that book when it took on an inspired Joliet Catholic Academy squad in Saturday's Class AA Lincoln-Way Central Regional final in New Lenox.

First there was Aqui on Willow Glen's Lincoln Avenue. The lively place with funky, colorful Southwest decor blew diners away with its fresh, flavorful food at moderate prices almost as soon as owner David O'Mara and executive chef Rob Francis opened the doors in 1994.

On a sunny afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field, the Temple football team made it clear these Owls are to be reckoned with in the East Division of the Mid-American Conference.

Napa composer Louise Canepa helped gather the forces for 90 minutes of varied musical programming this past Sunday at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater.

The Stampede ran into a hard-charging, physical bunch of Lincoln Stars on Saturday night at the Arena and came out on the losing end of a 2-1 battle.

Oct 21, 2007 — ABBOTTSTOWN - Lancaster's Doug Esh found Lincoln Speedway's experimental "passing points" system to his liking in claiming his second win of the year on Saturday night.

The great thing about getting green industrially is that it pays at least three times: once to the earth, in the form of reducing carbon emissions, another in the kind of green that folds and keeps investors happy and finally, when it gets public attention.

Fifty-four new informational signs were uncovered Saturday along the original route of the Lincoln Highway through the city of Goshen. The project was spearheaded by the Lincoln Highway Association and the city Street Department, which made and installed the three-color signs.

The great thing about getting green industrially is that it pays at least three times: once to the earth, in the form of reducing carbon emissions, another in the kind of green that folds and keeps investors happy and finally, when it gets public attention.

A proposal to use $3.3 million from the town's Community Preservation Fund to purchase 75 acres from the Haynes family is among the items that will come before a Special Town Meeting Tuesday. Other items include a down-to-the-wire amount to renovate historic Lincoln Hall, and $86,000 to help fund the Boxford Historical Society's restoration of its Holyoke French barn. Also ...

A 25-year-old-man is dead from a hit-and-run Saturday morning.

LINCOLN, Neb. | Of course, game day is still game day for Nebraska football. That's something.

First quarter ALA: FG Tiffin 39, 13:05. ALA: Grant 3 pass from Wilson (Tiffin kick), 6:59. TEN: A.Foster 2 run (Lincoln kick), 4:43.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - This was no way to impress the new boss. Days after Tom Osborne took charge of Nebraska football, coach Bill Callahan's Cornhuskers were blown out for the third consecutive week, this time by Texas A&M.

Lincoln, Neb. — If Bill Callahan hasn’t been fired by the time you read this, the man is well on his way. Unlike the previous weekend, almost...

A disturbance at the Lincoln Correctional Center Saturday morning sends four staff members to the hospital.

Neither Dennis Franchione nor Bill Callahan may return next season, but Coach Fran came away with the 'Buyout Bowl' bragging rights, leading the Aggies to a 36-14 win over Nebraska.

Jazz at Lincoln Center kicked off its season with a centennial salute to Benny "The King" Carter, whose prowess as an alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader earned him the title of "the Renaissance man of jazz." At Friday night's opening concert at Frederick P. Rose Hall, NBC News anchor Brian Williams narrated what he called a celebration of a "remarkable American life" ...

A car accident in West Milwaukee left two people dead and two others injured Friday night at 46th and Lincoln.

Jazz at Lincoln Center kicked off its season with a centennial salute to Benny "The King" Carter, whose prowess as an alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader earned him the title of "the Renaissance man of jazz." At Friday night's opening concert at Frederick P. Rose Hall, NBC News anchor Brian Williams narrated what he called a celebration of a "remarkable American life" ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center kicked off its season with a centennial salute to Benny "The King" Carter, whose prowess as an alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader earned him the title of "the Renaissance man of jazz."

Stephen McGee set career highs with 35 carries for 167 yards and Jorvorskie Lane rushed for 130 yards and four touchdowns, leading Texas A&M to a 36-14 victory over Nebraska on Saturday.

LINCOLN, Neb. - Days after Tom Osborne took charge of Nebraska football, Texas A&M showed him just how hard it will be to fix Bill Callahan’s Cornhuskers.

Tom Osborne brought positive energy back to Nebraska this week. Unfortunately for Husker fans, the new interim athletic director couldn’t bring along one of his former defenses.

Led by Jorvorskie Lane's four touchdowns, the Texas A&M Aggies cruise to a 36-14 win over the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

Lowly Lincoln City produced an inspired performance for caretaker boss Grant Brown and almost snatched a shock win against big-spending Peterborough United.

With the upcoming deployment of an additional 3,500 troops to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Senator Blanche L. Lincoln spoke to a large crowd in Hamburg Friday, September 14, concerning her recent visit to Iraq.

Oliver Ryan's late own goal earns Peterborough a point at Lincoln.

In its final home game of the season, the Lincoln football team will face its biggest test of the year. When the Blue Tigers close out their home slate on Saturday against Tiffin (2 p.m. kickoff), they'll be taking on the lone ranked team on their schedule this year.

Most top football programs don't make radical shifts heading into the regular-season finale.

A late goal from Rene Howe gave Posh a fortunate point against lowly Lincoln at Sincil Bank. (20/10/2007 11:00:00)

Drivers in a part of Lincoln who try to beat the traffic by ignoring contraflow signs face fines as part of a traffic crackdown.

Adam Robinson scored three touchdowns and Lincoln defeated Ottumwa 20-14 to clinch second place in the Metro Conference Friday at Hutchens Stadium. The Railsplitters, with only one loss, remained in contention for a Class 4-A playoff berth.

Robinson scores three touchdowns, Railsplitters still in playoff contention.

Most top football programs don't make radical shifts heading into the regular-season finale.

Lincoln stayed alive – wet, but alive – under the lights on Friday night.

LITTLE ROCK -- U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey appears forthright in his answers before the Senate Judiciary Committee and seems unlikely to treat the office as a political one.

Napa composer Louise Canepa helped gather the forces for 90 minutes of varied musical programming this past Sunday at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater.

Lincoln Southeast used a pair of defensive touchdowns and the running of Cory Vandeventer to capture its first win of the ...

Yonkers 3, Lincoln 2: At Yonkers, Edgar Barragan had a hat trick. Oscar Zuniga made 19 saves. Amilcar Monterrosa and Ebenezer Nfodwo each scored a goal for the Lancers. Joseph Barragan made 15 saves.

PEEKSKILL - For more than a year, contractors have been renovating the historic train depot on Lower South Street, where President-elect Abraham Lincoln gave a brief but celebrated speech in 1861, into what will become the Lincoln Depot Museum.

DES MOINES — With seconds evaporating off the clock, the future of the Ottumwa football program attempted to keep its present season alive. Adam Robinson and L.J. Gamblin of Des Moines Lincoln had other ideas.

BJ Daniels led the Trojan offense to another victory.

LINCOLNTON — North Lincoln coach Matt Beam was relieved to get a 23-9 win over Cherryville Friday night, but he said the Knights must play better to have a shot at the Southern Piedmont 1A/2A Conference title.

The Halle Orchestra, one of Great Britain's oldest symphony orchestras, has not toured the United States in more than a decade, so spirits were high when the group secured dates at Lincoln Center and in Upstate New York for performances last winter.

Swastikas and the N-word were spray-painted on a historic train depot where Abraham Lincoln once spoke — graffiti discovered days before the dedication of a statue of the president, police said Friday.

OTTUMWA — Adam Robinson is no Jordan Bernstine. Then again, there aren’t very many running backs like Robinson on the level of the Railsplitter’s talent in prep football across the state.

Tony Award-winning songwriters Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, the respective lyricist-librettist and composer of Lincoln Center Theater's new production of The Glorious Ones, will appear in LCT's Platform Series discussion 6 PM Oct. 23.

LITTLE ROCK -- U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey appears forthright in his answers before the Senate Judiciary Committee and seems unlikely to treat the office as a political one.

Lincoln's challenge right now is money. Administrators aren't getting enough of it. The state is supposed to pay 40 percent of the schools operating costs but so far the school says...it hasn't followed through.

The bleachers at a Portland high school won't be used any more.  While doing routine maintenance, inspectors found the grandstand at Lincoln High needed replacing, because of deteriorated welding.

Officials have closed the bleachers at Lincoln High School after concerns were raised that the metal substructure under the stands was becoming unsafe due to its age and condition. Lincoln will play Grant at PGE Park instead.

Two more suspected armed robbers off the streets and in police custody for shooting a Lincoln County Rescue Chief 19-year-old Brandy Nicole Blye and Raymond Vernon Jones Junior both from Charlotte, face several charges, among them armed robbery.

OTTUMWA — Adam Robinson is no Jordan Bernstine. Then again, there aren’t very many running backs like Robinson on the level of the Railsplitter’s talent in prep football across the state.

LINCOLN GOLD CORP. is pleased to announce the results of a gold resource estimate on the Company's 100%-controlled Pine Grove gold property located in the Pine Grove Hills, 20 miles south of Yerington, Nevada.

With the upcoming deployment of an additional 3,500 troops to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Senator Blanche L. Lincoln spoke to a large crowd in Hamburg Friday, September 14, concerning her recent visit to Iraq.

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey appears forthright in his answers before the Senate Judiciary Committee and seems unlikely to treat the office as a political one.

Wood'N'Flutes, the Danish recorder trio, will play at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21 at St. Peter the Fisherman Lutheran Church in Lincoln City. This concert is sponsored by the Oregon Coast Recorder Society and the Newport Symphony Orchestra association.

Wayne Belmont, Lincoln County Counsel, gave a presentation on Wave Energy at the Yachats City Council meeting on Oct. 11, 2007. Belmont mentioned a statistic he found interesting: "To harness less than one-percent of the entire energy of the ocean would meet all the energy needs of the world."

Lincoln Police are looking for an attempted robbery suspect

LICENSED - Jean Douglass of Main Road in the village has been licensed as a reader at Lincoln Cathedral by the Bishop of Lincoln Dr John Saxbee. Jean was licensed along with 18 colleagues from the Lincoln Diocese after four years training.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A recent inspection at Lincoln High School found problems with the football stadium grandstand, raising safety concerns with school officials.

LITTLE ROCK - U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey appears forthright in his answers before the Senate Judiciary Committee and seems unlikely to treat the office as a political one.

PEEKSKILL - The hunt is intensifying today for what police believe was five vandals who defaced an old train depot where President-elect Abraham Lincoln gave a brief but celebrated speech.

Fire investigators will be in Lincoln Friday, trying to figure out what sparked a blaze that destroyed a hardware store on Main Street... The call came in at around 5:30 pm Thursday, the caller said she thought that an apartment building on West Broadway was on fire.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 19 (Bernama) -- Lincoln's Inn Alumni, Malaysia will be holding its second Tun Hussein Onn Lecture and Gala dinner on October 26 at a leading hotel in Kuala Lumpur.

LITTLE ROCK - U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey appears forthright in his answers before the Senate Judiciary Committee and seems unlikely to treat the office as a political one.

DE PERE Manitowoc Lincoln secured two first-place showings in Thursdays dual meet against De Pere, but it wasnt enough to overcome the Redbirds, as the Ships fell, 95-75.

Molly Goodrich had 11 service points including two aces and handed out 18 assists to lead Lincoln to a 25-17, 25-10 win over host Peoria Central.

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts gave conditional approval yesterday to the design concept for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Center, an underground museum and educational complex on the Mall near the Lincoln Memorial.

Napa composer Louise Canepa helped gather the forces for 90 minutes of varied musical programming this past Sunday at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater.

Lincoln is ranked No. 1 in the state in girls soccer. But around the team, it sure doesn’t seem that way. “I don’t look at those things,” first-year coach Brandon McNeil says of the poll on Oregon prepsports.net, which determines its rankings by the vote of one coach in ...

The Chicago Afrobeat Project sits at eight members, and it's been a hit-and-miss project in figuring out how to make such a combination work in the world of traveling bands.

A state board ruled Thursday that the Florida manufacturer that built seven Lincoln firetrucks is justified in terminating its franchise agreement with its Lincoln dealer, EDM Equipment Co.

Molly Goodrich had 11 service points including two aces and handed out 18 assists to lead Lincoln to a 25-17, 25-10 win over host Peoria Central.

Fighting is bad enough. Using low-life tactics will bring severe consequences. That was the message sent out by District 12 in the aftermath of a fight 2 weeks ago that cut short a Public Blue football game featuring visiting Southern and Abraham Lincoln, a 26-0 winner.

SMITHVILLE -- Touting concerns about town image and rank odours, West Lincoln aldermen held their noses and halted a proposed fertilizer plant in its tracks Oct. 9.

The Lincoln Golden Bears felt pretty good after their fifth-straight win over rival Munford last week. That feeling lasted until Monday when they had to start preparing to face unbeaten Clay County on Friday.

Jimmy McGroarty will tell you he feels good about most of the players he has in the fold. Problem is, the Lincoln Stars coach hasn’t seen them on the ice enough, as Lincoln has spent much of the season working its top players overtime while killing off penalties.

Lincoln City and Notts County both sacked their respective bosses this week in a bid to turn around a so far disappointing campaign. All this and the rest of the weekend action with NCM.

A main street in the city of Fennimore is set to reopen after getting a major facelift.

Preston and Child are masters of the thriller genre, and The Wheel of Darkness is a worthy addition the the Pendergast saga. The Wheel of Darkness is the latest of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's books featuring Aloysius Pendergast. After dispatching Pendergast's brother Diogenes, Pendergast and his ward, Constance Greene, visit a Tibetan monastery from which a dangerous relic has been ...

While the threat of severe weather has moved out, Lincoln County was one area Mother Nature showed no mercy.

Star City - State officials have declared Lincoln County a disaster area after a tornado passed through Wednesday, destroying several homes and scattering debris.

With the upcoming deployment of an additional 3,500 troops to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Senator Blanche L. Lincoln spoke to a large crowd in Hamburg Friday, September 14, concerning her recent visit to Iraq.

A tornado watch has been issued for Lincoln and Marathon counties until 10 p.m. The National Weather Service in Green Bay issued the watch which covers nearly the entire state. There is a slight risk of severe weather this afternoon and evening as a low pressure system moves in. The system, and an approaching warm front, could produce fast moving thunderstorms. Wind gusts of more than 50 mph and ...

I've always fancied myself as a budding travel writer but haven't had the nerve to try doing it. Until now, that is.

PLAINFIELD, Ind., Oct. 18, 2007 -- Lincoln Bancorp , the holding company of Lincoln Bank , announced today that net income for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007 was $521,000, or $.10 for both basic and diluted earnings per share.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Steve Pederson's firing as Nebraska's athletic director leaves lawyers on the sidelines with an interesting question: whether Pederson's $2.2 million contract buyout is legal.

LITTLE ROCK - U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey appears forthright in his answers before the Senate Judiciary Committee and seems unlikely to treat the office as a political one.

SCOTTSBLUFF (AP) — The owner of Valley Airways says no one has taken a flight from Scottsbluff to Lincoln for more than two months.

An 18-year-old will spend at least seven years in prison for two separate crimes.

Officials with the Lincoln Highway Association will meet with local elected officials and history enthusiasts Saturday to unveil signs along U.S. 33 marking the route of the old highway, in a rededication of the original 1913 highway route through Goshen.

Police arrested a Lincoln County man Tuesday suspected of being the driver in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Hawk Point.

The VA healthcare system in Lincoln will provide walk-in flu vaccine clinics Oct. 22-Nov. 16 in the Pioneer Room at the VA Medical Center in Lincoln.These clinics are for veterans enrolled in the VA medical care system.There will be no clinic on Nov. 12 due to the observance of Veterans Day.

A Lincoln man remains missing after two days of searching by emergency personnel from throughout the area. The search began soon after the 34-year-old, who was last seen Saturday, was reported missing by his parents early Monday morning.

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OMAHA - Former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers is hoping for a full pardon 37 years after robbing a Lincoln gas station.

The Lincoln School District has received two grants, including one for the district’s Teacher Advancement Program. (Northwest Arkansas Times)

Lincoln County police arrest two suspects involved in a robbery and shooting at a CVS in Wesport.

Two people are in custody following a robbery and shooting in Lincoln County late Wednesday night. The shooting occurred after 10 p.m. at the CVS Pharmacy at 2128 N. Highway 16 in Denver.

The Ravinia Festival has commissioned Bill T. Jones -- the provocative African-American choreographer and recipient of the 2007 Tony Award for choreography for his work on the Broadway hit "Spring Awakening" -- to create an evening-length work about the life and times of Abraham Lincoln.

Counterfeit $10 bills have been surfacing in local businesses, according to police. They are smaller than regular bills and may have blurrier writing, said Lincoln Police Capt. Joseph Wright.

Napa composer Louise Canepa helped gather the forces for 90 minutes of varied musical programming this past Sunday at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater.

SHERIDAN — The Sheridan Panthers didn’t leave much for drama Wednesday night. The Panthers scored 30 points in the first quarter to easily down Lincoln 44-6 to clinch a spot in the Class C eight-man football playoffs.

SCOTTSBLUFF — The owner of Valley Airways says no one has taken a flight from Scottsbluff to Lincoln for more than two months. The $600 round trip ticket combined with uncertainty about whether the flights will be canceled have hurt the venture.

It started as a typical Saturday afternoon for Lincoln-Way Central superfoot Jake Wieclaw, at the home of one of his buddies. There was a rehash of the loss against rival Lincoln-Way East the night before. College football on television, of course.

Mary Todd Lincoln's time in a Batavia insane asylum is the focus of a new book. Historian Jason Emerson, the author of "The Madness of Mary Lincoln," will be in Batavia on Sunday to speak on the topic and sign copies of his book

Sherborn is looking to the town of Lincoln for guidance on bringing affordable housing to its community.

When the only shopping center in town is renovated next year, residents of Lincoln stand to gain more than a larger grocery store and a new post office.

Children up to age 18 are invited to show quilts during a quilt show for kids to be held Nov. 2 through Dec. 15 at the Action Rentals and Sales store, 101 S. Kickapoo St., Lincoln.