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BOB EVNEN’S REELECTION FOR 2022 Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen, of Lincoln, announced Mon-day that he will seek reelection as Secretary of State in 2022. Evnen was elected Secretary of State in 2018. He previously served on the State Board of Education and was an attorney in Lincoln. Due to un-foreseen circumstances, the previously scheduled media conference for Monday’s announcement has been postponed. “Today, I am an-nouncing my reelection campaign to serve another term as Ne-

braska’s Secretary of State,” Evnen said. “It has been my honor to serve the citizens of Nebraska these past four years.” In 2018, Evnen succeeded former Secretary of State John Gale who retired after serving Nebraska for 18 years. “I take my role very seriously to serve all Nebraskans, providing safe and secure elections, and pro-moting Nebraska products, technology and research to the world,” Evnen said. The Secretary of State in Nebraska serves as the chief elections officer, oversees business services operations, and repre-sents Nebraska agriculture and business around the world promoting trade opportunities.

TWO ARRESTED DISTRIBUTING ILLICIT DRUGS Authorities have announced the arrests of two people after an inves-tigation into a spate of drug overdose deaths in the Lincoln area was traced back to fentanyl-laced cocaine stolen from a Nebraska State Patrol evidence locker. Lincoln police and the patrol held a news conference Friday to announce the arrest of 35-year-old Anna Idigima and 36-year-old George Weaver Jr., both of Lincoln, on suspicion of distributing illicit drugs. Officials say Idigima was a Ne-braska State Patrol employee who worked in the evidence unit when the drugs were stolen from an evidence storage facility.

NEW CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS The Nebraska Legislature gave first-round approval Friday to a map drawing new congressional districts for the state. Friday’s votes followed weeks of hearings and negotiations. On the congressional side, those had centered on the shape of the Omaha-area Second Congressional District. In a very brief floor debate, Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, the Republican chair of the Redistricting Committee in the officially nonpartisan Legislature, described the shape of the new district. “What the new congressional districts do, first and foremost, keeps Douglas County whole. Then it goes up and takes Saunders (County)… then it goes down and takes Sarpy County pretty much where it already is in the Second District. And we get to the zero deviation,” Linehan said. Zero deviation means the Second District will have the same number of vorters as the Lincoln-centered First District and the Third District, which includes most of the rest of the state. Keeping Douglas County intact had been a key demand of Democrats to maintain the competitiveness of the Second District, which has twice given an electoral vote to Democratic presidential candidates. Nevertheless, Sen. Justin Wayne, the Democratic vice chair of the Redistricting Committee, opposed the new plan.

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The McCook Lady Bison volleyball team picked up one win at

the Holdrege Invite on Saturday. The MHS girls knocked off

second-seeded Minden in their opener. McCook fell to Holdrege

in the semifinals and Hastings St. Cecilia in the third-place

match. The Chase County Longhorns won the Sutherland Volley-

ball Invite on Saturday. The CCHS girls swept Southwest for the

tournament title. The MHS softball team went 0-2 at the Lincoln

Southeast Classic on Saturday. The Lady Bison fell to Lincoln

Southeast 4-3 and Norfolk 7-0. The Bison boys tennis team won

the Elkhorn North Invite on Saturday. The Bison JV's will play in

the North Platte Tennis Invite today.

The McCook Community College volleyball team split a pair of

games Saturday falling to Otero Junior College in five sets and

then sweeping Northeast Community College. Otero Junior

College downed MCC 15-25, 25-21, 25-17, 20-25, 15-11. MCC

came back to sweep Northeast 25-14, 25-20, 25-22. Otero swept

Northeast in the other match. "We still have some work to do

and some things to perfect," MCC Coach Hayley Kobza said.

"This weekend showed us we are still a young team but we can

still battle through things." MCC goes to 13-8 on the season and

now hits the road for eight straight matches starting Tuesday in

Sterling, Colo. against Northeast Junior College followed by a

match Thursday in Lamar, Colo. The next home match for MCC

will be Oct. 20 against Northeast Junior College. "We saw some

great things from a lot of different people and now we just

need to put it all together at the same time," Kobza said.

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