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Hereford Crossroads #9 will take place Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in the Chicoine Atrium at the historic Sandoz Center on the Chadron State College campus in Chadron. This annual event will focus on the Hereford cattle...

Herman's Boy began at a different location & under a different name back in 1979, but an early incorporation of a Grand Rapids coffee shop turned it into the oldest specialty roaster in the Midwest

In the debut episode of her new podcast, "Click Here," Former NPR correspondent Dina Temple-Raston explores the ongoing impact of one of the largest-ever U.S. cyberattacks.

AP In this Aug. 22, 2019, file photo, signs on a bank of computers tell visitors that the machines are not working at the public library in Wilmer, Texas. The Associated Press has learned new details about a ransomware attack that affected roughly two dozen Texas communities two years ago. Thousands of pages obtained by AP and interviews with people involved show Texas communities struggled for days with disruptions to core government services as workers in small cities and towns endured a cas...

In 2019, ransomware had yet to emerge as one of the top national security concerns confronting the United States, an issue that would become the focus of a presidential summit between Washington and Moscow this year. But the attacks in Texas were a harbinger of the now-exploding threat and offer a vivid case study in what happens behind the scenes when small-town America comes under attack. Texas communities struggled for days with disruptions to core government services as workers in small c...

By JAKE BLEIBERG and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — It was the start of a steamy Friday two Augusts ago when Jason Whisler settled in for a working breakfast at the Coffee Ranch restaurant in the Texas Panhandle city of Borger. The most pressing agenda item for city officials that morning: planning for a country music concert and anniversary event. Then Whislers phone rang. Borgers computer system had been hacked. Workers were frozen out of files. Printers spewed ou...

DALLAS (AP) — It was the start of a steamy Friday two Augusts ago when Jason Whisler settled in for a working breakfast at the Coffee Ranch restaurant in the Texas Panhandle city of Borger. The most pressing agenda item for city officials that morning: planning for a country music concert and anniversary event. Then Whislers phone rang. Borgers computer system had been hacked. Workers were frozen out of files. Printers spewed out demands for money. Over the next several days, residents cou...

In 2019, ransomware had yet to emerge as one of the top national security concerns confronting the United States, an issue that would become the focus of a presidential summit between Washington and Moscow this year. But the attacks in Texas were a harbinger of the now-exploding threat and offer a vivid case study in what happens behind the scenes when small-town America comes under attack. ADVERTISEMENT Texas communities struggled for days with disruptions to core government services as worker...

By JAKE BLEIBERG and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — It was the start of a steamy Friday two Augusts ago when Jason Whisler settled in for a working breakfast at the Coffee Ranch restaurant in the Texas Panhandle city of Borger. The most pressing agenda item for city officials that morning: planning for a country music concert and anniversary event. Then Whislers phone rang. Borgers computer system had been hacked. Workers were frozen out of files. Printers spewed ou...

By JAKE BLEIBERG and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — It was the start of a steamy Friday two Augusts ago when Jason Whisler settled in for a working breakfast at the Coffee Ranch restaurant in the Texas Panhandle city of Borger. The most pressing agenda item for city officials that morning: planning for a country music concert and anniversary event. Then Whislers phone rang. Borgers computer system had been hacked. Workers were frozen out of files. Printers spewed ou...