Box Butte County News

Alyssa Dye and Sage Henderson have been selected to attend National 4-H Congress in Atlanta Georgia at the end of November.

An Alliance woman has died following pickup train collision in Box Butte County.

Some anxious moments for local fire and rescue personnel early this afternoon. Alliance Rescue Squad members were asked to assist the Hyannis Fire Dept.

The Alliance School Board has postponed the sale of old, vancant school buildings and is struggling to decide what the next step should be.

A Box Butte County resident has won a brand new 2009 F-150 flex-fuel 4x4 supercab Ford pickup truck drawn at Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island Thursday.

Members of the legislature's Transportation Committee Friday heard six Box Butte County residents discuss the importance of increased funding for roads during an interim study hearing in Alliance.

Box Butte County District Court Judge Brian Silverman has dismissed charges filed against a rural Gering woman accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the Nebraska Potato Certification Association based in Alliance.

The Panhandle Area Development District is accepting applications for housing rehabilitation funds.

The first infant left at a Nebraska hospital since the state revised its safe-haven law has been permanently returned to his parents, a state official said Tuesday.

An infant left at an Alliance hospital last month under the state's safe-haven law has been permanently returned to his parents' custody.

The August 4 Lincoln Journal Star reported more details in the "safe haven" abandonment of Baby Box Butte, now known as Baby Boy Ana.

The August 4 Lincoln Journal Star reported more details in the "safe haven" abandonment of Baby Box Butte, now known as Baby Boy Ana.

The August 4 Lincoln Journal Star reported more details in the "safe haven" abandonment of Baby Box Butte, now known as Baby Boy Ana.

A Chadron attorney has been appointed to serve on the county court in a western Nebraska district.

A court hearing is set for Aug. 18 to determine what's next for an infant left at an Alliance hospital under the state's safe-haven law.

Here's updates on the July 20 Butte Box baby dump case. . Thursday and Friday news reports circulated that the biological parents of the newborn had contacted authorities as early as July 22, to see about the return of the infant.

A day earlier the young woman hadn't even realized she was pregnant. Now here she was, on a Monday in mid-July, sitting in a bath tub of water and pushing a baby boy into the world.

Authorities say 17-year-old Brittany Shaver of Hemingford died early Sunday morning.

The mother of the newborn baby dropped off under the revised Safe Haven law may not have known she was pregnant.

The mother of a newborn dropped off at an Alliance hospital on Monday under the state's safe-haven law may not have known she was pregnant.