In addition to AYP results, the State Report Card also released information on student achievement in reading, writing, math and science for students in individual school district and school buildings. Nebraska already has a single state test for writing. Beginning this school year, it will have also have a single test for reading and next year. Nebraska will add a single test for all Nebraska students for math. Benchmark grades for reading, math and writing are 4, 8 and 11, while they are 5, 8 and 11 for science. State and local assessment results show:

More than 20 dogs, four parakeets, a cockatoo and a chicken gathered Sunday afternoon in the fenced yard outside St. Mary’s Cathedral Square parish center in downtown Grand Island.

Everyone must deal with grief, because everyone must deal with loss.

The Grand Island Public Schools met all 459 federal benchmarks that mark adequate yearly progress or AYP under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, according to the Nebraska State Report Card released Monday.

The first doses of swine flu vaccine have arrived in Grand Island.

Grand Island City Hall will be the mock target of a biological terrorist attack on Saturday, Oct. 24.

ALBION — Less than a year after ethanol producer VeraSun Energy Corp. filed for bankruptcy, seven of the company’s plants have become the few profitable areas for oil refining giant Valero Energy Corp.

The focus of the Harvest of Harmony parade has always been the marching bands, but amid Saturday’s high-stepping high schoolers and queen candidates in convertibles were a variety of floats.

Work on the Northwest Flood Control project is progressing nicely, but a county road and an old bomb debris site are factoring in.

A light-headed feeling punctuated with a “whah-whah-whah” sound.