A 29-year-old Lincoln man was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison Monday for assaulting his pregnant ex-girlfriend and another woman, sending both women to the hospital.Â
Houses west of Imperial were almost completely covered in snow. Occupants of this house tore the screen off the window in order to get in and out of their home.
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A. small town in western Nebraska looks likes a ghost town after the entire population made a mass exodus before roads were blocked.
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Unable to get around by automobile, Lorene Hickok, Mrs. Hickok and brother Verne Hickok used a horse-drawn wagon to make their milk deliveries.
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Bulldozers participating in Operation Snowbound cleared patterns on the Nebraska landscape in an attempt to reach and save stranded people and cattle.
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Almost 2 million head of cattle survived thanks to Operation Snowbound, which airlifted an estimated 35-40 tons of feed a day. Â
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Farmers in western Nebraska had to uncover their chicken houses from a blanket of snow that hit the state in 1948.
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Pilot Don Higgins perches atop the chimney at the Lester Goodrich farm home, where he answered a distress call.
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Two locomotives that attempted to open the railroad line were temporarily lost as snow drifts began to cover the locomotives. Â
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As part of rescue and relief efforts carried out by the Red Cross, a tunnel was dug to the pump houses of this windmill as snow drifts of about 30 feet enveloped the area.