News Headlines for Abie, Nebraska

Nebraska must wait for Gator Bowl announcement (Sports Illustrated)
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska will have to wait another day to find out for sure if it's heading to the Gator Bowl.

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Nebraska governor gives Obama economic advice (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, whose career has long been tied to the Republican Party, is looking at Democrat President-elect Barack Obama's economic recovery plan through a nonpartisan lens.

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Nebraska seventh in average broadband speed (Lincoln Journal Star)
Nebraska has the seventh fastest average broadband Web surfing speed, at 707 kilobits per second, according to a survey by PCMAG.com. Nebraska trailed only Nevada, rated Number 1 with 781 Kbsp., Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut and New York.

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Adoption agency challenges Nebraska Supreme Court's ruling (Lincoln Journal Star)
A Verdigre couple awarded custody of a boy who lived with them for three months continue to wait to be reunited with the child. The Nebraska Children’s Home Society has challenged a Nebraska Supreme Court ruling to reunite the child with his would-be adoptive parents, said the parents’ attorney, Kelly Tollefsen.

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Colorado sanctuary takes in animals from Nebraska (Denver Post)
OMAHA, Neb.—A Colorado animal sanctuary has rescued 18 animals from a defunct zoo in northeast Nebraska.

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Nebraska firms see strong 'Cyber Monday' (Lincoln Journal Star)
Nebraska retailers aren’t buying into the belief that this year’s “Cyber Monday” will be one of the weakest in memory. “The day is young and we’re already at last year’s (numbers),” Bob Batt, vice president of Nebraska Furniture Mart, said as of 1:30 Monday afternoon.

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The Nebraska Medical Center to Replace Existing PACS with McKesson (Centre Daily Times)
The Nebraska Medical Center, the premier academic hospital for the University of Nebraska’s medical school, has announced that it is replacing its existing picture archiving communications system (PACS) with McKesson’s Horizon Medical Imaging™. The Omaha-based medical center performs a quarter of a million imaging procedures each year – from simple chest x-rays to positron emission tomography ...

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Colorado sanctuary takes in animals from Nebraska (KWGN-TV Denver)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A Colorado animal sanctuary has rescued 18 animals from a defunct zoo in northeast Nebraska.       The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colo., is the new home for 13 wolves, two tigers, one black bear, one lion and one coyote.       Sanctuary director of development and public affairs Toni Scalera  said a team of four people in two rescue vehicles went to the closed Zoo ...

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Nebraska - Team Notes (USA Today)
Few people figured Nebraska, coming off a 5-7 season that featured the school's worst-ever defense, would make a dramatic enough turnaround in the first year under Bo Pelini to challenge for the Big 12 North title.

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Colorado sanctuary takes in animals from Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star)
OMAHA — An animal sanctuary has rescued 18 animals from a defunct zoo in northeast Nebraska. The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colo., is the new home for 13 wolves, two tigers, one black bear, one lion and one coyote.

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