Drought and disease last year caused significant reductions in whitetail deer populations in Nebraska which cut hunting permit sales and harvest numbers. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says deer permit sales in 2012 declined 13 percent to 122,214 and the total deer harvest fell 30 percent to 60,548. Kit Hams, the Nebraska Game and [...]
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha is promising a full filibuster to protest a bill that would let Nebraska work-camp inmates work for nonprofit groups. Chambers slowed the Legislature to a near-standstill on Tuesday with a series of amendments that prevented lawmakers from voting on the bill. Chambers told his colleagues they might as well take [...]
A sheriff’s department spokesman in Northern California says a Dublin police officer stopped and then arrested MC Hammer because the ’90s rap star was driving a car with expired registration and refused to get out of the vehicle. Lt. Herb Walters of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement issued Monday that Hammer [...]
A week after losing the box office title to Bruce Willis, Melissa McCarthy took it back again. McCarthy’s road trip comedy “Identity Thief” topped the box office in its third week of release on Oscar weekend with $14 million for Universal. 20th Century Fox’s “A Good Day to Die Hard,” starring Willis, slid to fifth [...]
A veteran Lincoln police officer is dead after collapsing at a gym and being rushed to a hospital. Officer John Clarke died Monday after collapsing at a fitness facility. The cause of the 43-year-old’s death wasn’t immediately clear. Clarke had been part of the Lincoln Police Department for 21 years. He served as the lead [...]
Most fathers are excited to watch the birth of their child, however, a Lincoln man was able to do more than watch. Sara Fritsch’s contractions were coming five minutes apart Thursday when she and her husband, Tom, bundled up their three children and drove them to a friend’s house to drop them off. The hospital [...]
Police have identified a 53-year-old man found in unresponsive in a snow-covered parking lot as Kevin Harvey of Lincoln. Harvey was pronounced dead at a hospital after a worker clearing snow from the business lot found him around 3:40 a.m. Friday. Efforts to revive Harvey at the lot and a Lincoln hospital failed. The Associated [...]
Jermaine Jackson has a new, brighter surname — Jacksun. A Los Angeles judge approved the change to singer’s name Friday. The 58-year-old, who shared lead singing duties with his younger brother Michael in the Jackson 5, did not appear in court. He sought the name change for “artistic reasons” and says it has nothing to [...]
One person has been burned in a fire that destroyed a residence in the eastern Nebraska town of Benedict. Benedict Fire Chief John Hild told the Associated Press that firetrucks were dispatched a little before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. The local firefighters soon called for help from the York department. Hild says no one was inside the [...]
The Los Angeles County coroner’s officials say determining the cause of death of a Canadian tourist found in a Los Angeles hotel water tank will require more tests. Coroner’s spokesman Ed Winter says an autopsy was performed Thursday on 21-year-old Elisa Lam. How she died won’t be known until the results from toxicology tests are [...]