Star-Herald

Star-Herald

The Star-Herald is a highly regarded daily newspaper in Nebraska, with a readership exceeding 16,000. It is published daily, except on Mondays. Situated in Scotts Bluff County, which has a population of 37,000, Scottsbluff serves as an expanding hub for agriculture and retail in western Nebraska.

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  • 17 hours ago | starherald.com | Seung Min Kim

    WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. administration officials will meet with a Chinese delegation on Monday in London for the next round of trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing, President Donald Trump said Friday. The meeting comes after a phone call between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, which the U.S. president described as a “very positive” conversation as the two countries attempt to break an impasse over tariffs and global supplies of rare earth minerals.

  • 2 days ago | starherald.com | Eileen Ogintz

    Let’s hear it for ambitious kids!A 12-year-old boy named Hussein was desperate to get a job on Englishman Howard Carter’s archaeological dig in Luxor, Egypt. It was 1922 and Carter was struggling. For years, he’d been searching unsuccessfully for the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, the “boy king,” who died as a teenager. His patron, George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, and an avid collector of Egyptian antiquities, told Carter he was cutting off his funding after the season.

  • 3 days ago | starherald.com | Nicole Caldwell

  • 4 days ago | starherald.com | Tim Johnson

    Mary Sanchez is the new coach for the Scottsbluff High School boys and girls cross country programs. The school announced the move Tuesday afternoon. Sanchez takes over for Aaron Carrizales, who stepped down last month after two decades with the program and the last nine years as head coach. Sanchez, who was an assistant with the cross country program the past two seasons, graduated from Scottsbluff in 1994 and participated in both cross country and track during her high school years.

  • 5 days ago | starherald.com | Christopher Burbach

    The people waiting their turn to rappel down the 17-story Highline Apartments building had strict instructions: Don’t come up to the roof until we come get you. Most of the group, assembled there for a fundraiser, seemed content to hang back in the designated waiting area half a flight of stairs below the roof, where they’d eventually step over the edge into the blue sky high above downtown Omaha. All but one person, actually. Sister Stephanie Matcha, age 81.