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		<title>Nebraska City mayor proclaims missing children's day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:06:48</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<hardreturn>Nebraska City Mayor Jack Hobbie declared May 25 at National Missing Children's Day and urged the state's continued efforts to prevent the abduction and sexual exploitation of children.<br class="hardreturn" /><hardreturn>Whereas, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, an estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year; and<br class="hardreturn" /><hardreturn>Whereas, on average, approximately 2,000 children are reported missing to law enforcement agencies daily; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Hobbie appoints Partsch as city attorney</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:07:59</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Swanson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City commissioners accepted Mayor Jack Hobbie's Monday appointment of David Partsch as the new city attorney effective July 8.<br>Partsch, who will also serve in the elected office of Otoe County attorney, is the city's second attorney of record since 1970. He will replace Bill Davis, who has been appointed by eight mayors and served 43 years.<br>He plans to relinquish his private practice to focus on the county and municipal clients.]]></description>
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		<title>Fareway hosts EMS week open house</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130529986?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:11:47</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Swanson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nebraska City will mark National Emergency Medical Services week with an open house Thursday at Fareway Foods.<br>The open house is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 to 7 p.m.<br>EMTs will demonstrate equipment and perform free blood pressure and heart scans.]]></description>
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		<title>Per Student Public Education Spending Decreases in 2011 for First Time in Nearly Four Decades, Census Bureau Reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:06:50</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiscal year 2011 marked the first decrease in per student public education spending since the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting data on an annual basis in 1977, according to new statistics released today (dollars not adjusted for inflation). The 50 states and the District of Columbia spent $10,560 per student in 2011, down 0.4 percent from 2010. The top spenders were New York ($19,076), the District of Columbia ($18,475), Alaska ($16,674), New Jersey ($15,968) and Vermont ($15,925).]]></description>
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		<title>Search for Missing Iowa Teen Continues, Law Enforcement Solicit Information on Suspect</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130529988?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 10:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The search for 15 year old Kathlynn Shepard continues this morning as many officers and volunteers scour rural lands in Webster, Boone and Hardin County. As officers continue the search on the ground, citizens are asked to submit any information they have surrounding Kathlynn's whereabouts or the whereabouts of her suspected abductor.]]></description>
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		<title>Police say kids responsible for art vandalism, rewards offered for Lewis &amp; Clark tree sculpture</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529997?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 9:40:43</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Swanson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cpt. Lonnie Neeman reported Monday afternoon that police have interviewed several youths, ages 9-11, and believe they are responsible for damage to the public art tree sculpture at Steinhart Park.<br>Rewards are still offered for information leading to an arrest in the vandalism to a sculpture at the MRB Lewis & Clark Center Wednesday night or Thursday morning, May 16.<br>The Enchanted Arboretum Committee and Nebraska City Crime Stoppers are offering rewards.]]></description>
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		<title>Over 9 million acres planted in Iowa as weather improves</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:32:33</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service.  The report is released weekly from April through October.]]></description>
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		<title>Prestigious Tree 2013 awarded to &quot;treaty tree&quot; with Pawnee Indians</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529991?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:27:18</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Swanson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Jack Hobbie and representatives of Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce and Nebraska City News-Press awarded the 2013 prestigious tree award to Skip Hammond for the &#8220;treaty tree&#8221; during the community tree planting activities at the Lewis and Clark Center.<br>Rose Ralstin of NCTC said the bur oak dates back 156 years to the 1857 Pawnee Treaty, which is featured in a stone monument along Centennial Avenue and a Haskell Coffin painting on the staircase of Arbor Lodge State Park. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrigation Spells Difference in 2012 Ag Income</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529992?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:21:22</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irrigation proved to be the difference between the "haves" and "have-nots" in farm income in drought-stricken 2012 in Nebraska.]]></description>
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		<title>Nebraska monthly traffic fatality report</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529996?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:20:02</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the month of April 2013, eleven persons were killed in traffic crashes on Nebraska roadways, according to data collected by the Nebraska Department of Roads.]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly gas prices: Top $4</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529998?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 8:56:38</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Average retail gasoline prices in Nebraska have risen 38.0 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $4.06/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 1,150 gas outlets in Nebraska. This compares with the national average that has increased 8.9 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.67/g, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.]]></description>
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		<title>Vandals target Enchanted Arboretum artworks</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130519/NEWS/130519962?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 14:40:42</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vandals have targeted some of the professional artwork that has been installed around the community as part of the Enchanted Arboretum public art project.<br>The question now is how to protect the art pieces.]]></description>
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		<title>Questions for Parents  May is Children's Mental Health Awareness Month</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519966?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:38:01</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your child often seem sad, tired, restless or out of sorts?  Does he or she spend a lot of time alone?  Have low self-esteem?  Have trouble getting along with family and friends?]]></description>
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		<title>Nebraska Monthly Unemployment Rate Dips to 3.7 percent</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519967?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 9:29:15</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nebraska Department of Labor announced today that Nebraska&#8217;s preliminary unemployment rate for April is 3.7 percent, seasonally adjusted. The jobless rate is 0.1 percent lower than the March rate and down 0.3 percent from the April 2012 rate.]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Unemployment Rate Drops to 4.7 Percent</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519968?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 9:26:58</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iowa&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent in April from 4.9 percent in March, and was well below the year ago rate of 5.2 percent.  The U.S. unemployment rate for April eased down to 7.5 percent from 7.6 percent in March.]]></description>
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		<title>Louisiana Men Guilty of poaching Iowa Deer </title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519972?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 9:35:37</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four Louisiana men were found guilty of poaching Iowa deer from a case that started when someone made a call to the Turn in Poachers hotline.]]></description>
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		<title>Mom, coach thrilled at Hermann's role in leading Rutgers athletics</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130515/NEWS/130519973?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:56:54</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Swanson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beverly Hermann fell asleep Tuesday night watching the televised Louisville baseball game, but was searching for new Rutgers University gear by noon.<br>She had become a devoted Louisville fan when her daughter, Julie Hermann, became assistant athletic director there and is now preparing to follow as her daughter leads Rutgers' athletic programs into the Big Ten conference.<br>The 1981 graduate of Nebraska City High School is now one of three women to hold athletic director positions at BCS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Otoe County inmate captured after bolt from courthouse</title>
		<link>http://www.ncnewspress.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519980?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:01:22</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Swanson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Officers apprehended an inmate from the Otoe County Detention Center about a block away from where he dashed out of the courthouse Monday afternoon.<br>Trace M. Schmitz, 17, of Nebraska City is suspected of breaking the courthouse door as he bolted from the building.<br>Witnesses saw him run across Central Avenue and run around the block in the direction of First Avenue.<br>Jail Administrator Nick Shimmel, responding from radio dispatch, caught up with the teen among the yards south of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schneiders buy county-owned nursing home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:41:37</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Swanson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Otoe County commissioners agreed Tuesday to sell the county-owned nursing home to facility managers Roy and Holly Schneider.<br>Roy 2 Holly LLC presented the sole bid for the nursing home buildings and the Duff Mansion of $400,010.<br>Schneider said purchasing the building will provide stability for Duff's Friendship Villa, which has operated the facility since 1974 and was currently paying rent of $5,000 a month.]]></description>
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		<title>Nebraska City Utilities and Omaha Public Power District Warn Customers of Latest Phony Billing Scam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 7:51:25</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scam artists are trying to bilk Nebraska City Utilities and Omaha Public Power District customers out of money by falsely claiming to represent the Utilities&#8217; billing department. A number of customers have reported receiving fraudulent calls over the past week.]]></description>
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