How do wildfires get their names?

MCT Campus

October 31, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Their names are seared into the collective consciousness of California: The Griffith Park fire of 1933. The Bel-Air fire of 1961. The Tunnel fire of 1991. The Camp fire of 2018. Spurred by high winds, low humidity and an abundance of fuel, California’s most destructive fires remake its cities ...

What’s Trending? On Twitter!- October 23rd

Kaylea Kuhlman, Editor in Chief

October 23, 2019

#RewriteATvOrMovieEnding- Twitter users use their imagination to redo the endings of various Television shows or movies. Many users use pictures, GIFS and videos to express their ideas. There’s enough room for two people! #RewriteATvOrMovieEnding pic.twitter.com/FZwYbj6GUF — Mister Race Bannon (@MrRaceBannon) October 23, 2019 CELEBRITIES- Mark Zuckerberg (#Zuckerberg) was trending during t...

Why America is making an appointment with ‘The Good Doctor’

November 30, 2017

By Neal Justin Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (TNS) LOS ANGELES — Freddie Highmore has seen the light. After four years of playing a murderer-in-training on A&E’s “Bates Motel,” the actor has slipped into the scrubs of Shaun Murphy, the most beloved TV character to carry a stethoscope sin...

Northeast reaches out to international students following executive order

Josh Crim, Writer

January 31, 2017

President Donald Trump's new executive order on immigration and refugee resettlement was signed last Friday, and the order has caused concern among colleges across the country because of their  international students studying in America. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska-Omaha...

Might drug baron Chapo Guzman be sent to the United States?

January 14, 2016

By Tim Johnson McClatchy Foreign Staff (TNS) MEXICO CITY — Security agents Friday recaptured notorious drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, six months after his second prison escape, thrusting Mexico again into a debate over whether it can ensure he remains behind bars. Mexican marines ...

Romney 3.0? 10 reasons that’s a huge challenge

January 13, 2015

By David Lightman McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) WASHINGTON _ Mitt Romney has a lot more to worry about than Jeb Bush. Romney is moving toward a third presidential bid, and Bush's money and legion of family friends are only the most obvious obstacles. Romney faces a daunting series of other...

Russia’s History And Politics, Not U.S. Policies, Drive Putin In Ukraine, Book Argues

April 10, 2014

By Roy Gutman McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT) “Putin’s Wars: The Rise of Russia’s New Imperialism” by Marcel H. Van Herpen; Rowman Littlefield ($29.95) ——— WASHINGTON — In the U.S. debate over the Ukraine crisis, with its inward focus on which U.S. administration has b...

Northeast Community College Agriculture Students Attend Minnesota Conference

March 8, 2014

NORFOLK – Five Northeast Community College agriculture students attended the National Farmers Union (NFU) College Conference on Cooperatives recently. They were among more than 135 students from the United States and Puerto Rico to attend the conference in Minneapolis. The students learned how cooperative...

Health Insurance Enrollment Efforts Enter Their Final Month

March 1, 2014

By Tony Pugh McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT) WASHINGTON — After a horrendous start and months of playing catch-up against a barrage of political attacks, supporters of the Affordable Care Act have hit the homestretch in their six-month effort to educate and enroll millions of Americans in health i...