A North Platte man was sentenced to 2½ years in prison for a weapons conviction stemming from a November 2023 incident. Stanley R. Russell, 58, was sentenced Monday to 30 months by Lincoln County ...

North Platte quickly emptied the next year ... In the fall of 1867, journalist Henry Morgan Stanley observed, "Julesburg is now an overdone town, a played out place... It is now about to be ...