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By Sam Pimper  This week's SBLive Nebraska Top 25 high school girls basketball rankings:  1. Lincoln High (13-1, 10-0 district) Lincoln High is the No. 1 team

By Sam Pimper  In the thick of holiday tournament season, several Nebraska high school girls took control of the court, showing out with season-best

There is a Bible verse in the the book of Esther that Greg Rathke refers to when he thinks back to his five-year tenure at Trinity Lutheran School.  "I really think about Esther and how I think it was her uncle who said 'for such a time as this,'" Rathke said. Rathke arrived at Trinity Lutheran School five years ago as the school's next principal. Prior to his time at the local Fremont school, Rathke had never had an administrative position.  One of his earliest memories at Trinity is attempting to put together an elementary schedule after spending years working at the high school level...

Sam Pimper The most shocking crime development of this year was an arrest being made in relation to a multiple-decade Council Bluffs cold-case homicide. In mid-October, the Council Bluffs Police Department announced that 52-year-old Matt Kennedy was arrested in connection with the death of his step-sister, Kimberly Ratliff, who in January 1999 was found inside of her vehicle brutally murdered in the 1400 block of West Broadway. Kennedy at the time of his arrest was a resident of Fairfield, Montana, but was living in Council Bluffs at the time of the murder. He was taken into custo...