CryptoWall is a nasty threat known as Ransomware.  You can't make this stuff up. Cybercriminals have figured out how to lock us out of our own computers, considering that some of us might pay a pretty penny to be able to get back in.

You might ask how they can keep you from getting to your files. Good question. It's kind of like when you were a kid and a much bigger kid took your lunch box and you knew there was no way you could take it back. It’s the same thing here, but with no teacher to help.

Cybercriminals at Work

***SPRING BREAK MARCH 13-16***

Mon & Tues Mar 13 & 14

State HS Knowledge Bowl in Fort Collins

Wed Mar 23

12 pm JH Track @ McClave

Sat Mar 25

9 am HS Track @ Lamar

Tues Mar 28

2 pm HS Track @ Tribune

Fri Mar 31

9 am JH Track @ Holly

Fri Mar 31

1 pm HS Track @ La Junta

Tues Apr 4

2 pm HS Track @ Johnson KS

WED APR 5

CLASS & TRACK PICTURES

Thurs Apr 6

10 am JH Track @ Cheyenne Wells

Fri Apr 7

8:30 am JH Track 2 Tribune

HS Track @ Cheyenne Wells

By Debra Wells

Frank Phillips College Rodeo had a great weekend to kick off the first rodeo of the season. The men's team ended seventh out of the seventeen colleges, including five universities and twelve junior colleges in competition at the Odessa College Rodeo in late February.

Sophomore Trey Hall from Rolla, Kansas, representing in calf-roping, placed third in the long round, fourth in the short round, and finished fourth in the combined aggregate out of 91 contestant entries.

Fire danger remains high Sunday and Monday, with outdoor burning and other activities being strongly discouraged across eastern Colorado. The fire risk extends across western Kansas, the Oklahoma panhandle, most of Nebraska, as well as portions of Texas and New Mexico.

Woman Held After Threatening Police, Shots Fired

North Sterling State Park Opens to Boating Saturday

USDA Update

Arrest Made for Stolen Vehicles, Drugs

By Slim Randles

This Saturday is special to me, because for one day each year, I get to let the years fly behind me and become someone else. Back on this special Saturday in 1973, you see, I was Number 37. I had the Number 37 bib pinned on my parka that early morning at the baseball diamond in Anchorage, and I was just one of many dog mushers starting the very first Iditarod Dogsled Race to Nome.

By Pastor Rich Z

God or no God

“By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place...” Proverbs 3:19

I-70 Closed Overnight

By Chris Sorensen

A Denver woman is being held after threatening to kill police in an incident started late Friday night in Elbert County.

According to the 18^th Judicial District Attorney’s office, Jasmine Faith Delores Johnson, 26, was contacted on Interstate 70 near Agate shortly after 11:00 p.m. Friday.

Johnson threatened to kill police officers, and shots were fired. No one was injured by the gunfire.

Johnson is being held without bond at the Arapahoe County Detention Center on a previous warrant out of Broomfield.

By Eads USDA Service Center Staff

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

One of our most popular features over the past 16 years - a full-page color photo on the front of the Kiowa County Press showing various impressions of life in Kiowa County. While a limited number of copies continue to be printed and distributed each week at Kiowa Healthmart, COOP C-Store in Eads, Haswell Propane, and Thunderbird Petroleum, we wanted to bring this feature to our online readers as well.

Shown below - the front page of the March 3, 2017, Kiowa County Press - Horsing around. Photo by Jeanne Sorensen.