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A round-up of news in brief from across Lancashire. Firefighters were called to a community centre in Preston after a cooker caught fire. It happened at St Luke's Family Resource Centre, Ribbleton Lane, at 12.15am on Friday.  

Four masked bandits who nonchalantly robbed the First State Bank of Roscoe of between $600 and $700 late yesterday have apparently made good their escape. • Four Yankton hunters, George Hansford, Gus Anderson, Wiley Marrs and Glenn Kneeland, drove to Armour yesterday afternoon for a crow shoot and reported today they killed more than 500 of the crows, a real pest to the farmers. • A conversational German language class is underway at Beadle School.  

The Skyview Storm have advanced to the Class 4A state football semifinals for the first time in the program's history. And that word — history — kept coming up Friday night after the Storm ruled the fourth quarter with two touchdowns, beating Auburn 34-21 at Kiggins Bowl in the quarterfinals. "Our motive tonight was to make history. We all want to be remembered," said wide receiver Karl Graves, who caught eight passes for 108 yards, including the go-ahead touchdown from tailback Matt Spears with 11 mi

I didn’t know what to do. I freaked out. It was pretty amazing.   -Karl Graves

 

TWO brothers dropped into Liverpool as part of a cross-country trek to raise money for Children In Need. The city was one of 10 being visited by Chris and Karl King on public transport over five days. Their round trip from Leeds will cover about 1,090 miles, using 47 buses and two tubes and also going to Sheffield, Nottingham, Leicester, Coventry, London, Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester. Last year, the Sunderland brothers raised £1,276 for the charity on a similar trip, which covered 937 miles by  

I t has been almost two months since Amelia Shaw's friend took his own life, but she still sees his face every day. She can't escape the image of Karl, the energetic soul with a rollicking sense of humour who taught her to play polo on bicycles instead of horses. But the 25-year-old doesn't see her friend's face only in her mind's eye or in a photo on a shelf: She sees it, almost daily, on her Facebook home page.

Obviously with 300 million users, we don't know who has passed away   -Brandee Barker

 

There are times when Nuggets coach George Karl will warn the smirking media that every team is an NBA team, which in his head means any team can beat his team if the circumstances are right. Friday, the circumstances were more than right. The Nuggets made them so.

As I tried to tell people before the game, outside of the first four games they have not been playing that bad   -George Karl

 

Political factors, as much as military ones, appear to be shaping President Barack Obama's long-pending decision on the next phase of the U.S. effort in Afghanistan. And while that is understandable, it risks extending the U.S. commitment longer than Obama and many Americans want. Repeated White House requests for additional information and the stress on ensuring a clear exit strategy suggest Obama's lengthy review has deepened his doubts about expanding the U.S. military effort.  

Things were wildly careening downhill, going from bad to worse, with not much relief in sight. You knew there was an inevitable explosion the way the coach was percolating on the sideline. Had to happen.

It was always like when it gets to that point, guys are always talking about, 'Well, we've been here before. Now are we finally going to respond?'   -Marcus Camby

 

A pedestrian escaped serious injury Friday when she was struck by a car that spun out of control on Route 1 and jumped a curb near McDonald's restaurant in South Attleboro. The victim, reported to be a 33-year-old woman, complained of neck and back pain and was taken to Sturdy Memorial Hospital. Her name was not immediately available.  

Cascade's turnaround season came to an end Friday night with a 62-0 loss to No. 1 Marist in the second round of the Class 4A state playoffs. After a 2-8 season last year, the Cougars concluded this season 7-4 overall, including 4-2 and a second-place finish in the Capital Conference. "Even though we lost 62-0, I still have a smile on my face," Cascade senior running back Robbie Federico said.

We just couldn't get anything going.   -Karl Elliott