Stanton/Essex football earned its third win of the season at home Friday against Sidney
- Bryan Clark
The Stanton/Essex football team earned its third win of the season Friday in a 68-40 home win over Sidney.
- Aaron Sanderford World-Herald Managing Editor
The shock of the Sept. 11 attacks came home for many in Nebraska when President George W. Bush flew into Offutt Air Force Base for 90 consequential minutes at StratCom.
- Isaac Nielsen Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, students in Council Bluffs-area schools are learning about an event that none of them experienced themselves.
- MARIA KUIPER Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
The attack on the World Trade Center did not just affect the families of the 3,000 people killed 25 years ago, but the thousands of troops deployed overseas.
- Bryan Clark
The Clarinda football, Shenandoah boys and girls cross country and Sidney volleyball teams are in this week's state rankings
- Bryan Clark
Shenandoah school district voters passed a public measure Tuesday while Clarinda school district voters did not
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Stanton/Essex football earned its third win of the season at home Friday against Sidney
UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — Despite a short week and over 100-degree feels-like temperatures at kickoff, SMU cruised to its second win of the season and first at Ford Stadium. No. 17 SMU (2-0, 1-0) defeated UC Davis 56-10 Saturday in their home opener, jumping out to a 42-0 halftime lead and never looking back. The win sets up a critical road game against No. 24 Louisville next week that could ...
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Vahe Gregorian: ‘We left Kansas bleeding again’: How Eli Drinkwitz undercut own Kansas video protest
LAWRENCE, Kan. — In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks 25 years ago, Missouri and Kansas athletics officials convened over what had become an increasingly sensitive matter: calling their athletic rivalry the Border War, signifying a history that goes back to the Civil War. Back to Bleeding Kansas, among other atrocities. It took a few years, but then-KU athletic director Lew Perkins ...
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