A Wednesday evening traffic stop on Interstate 80 just west of the Grand Island interchange led to the seizure of nearly 53 pounds of marijuana and the arrest of a California man. Just before 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 22, a trooper with the Nebraska State Patrol stopped an eastbound 2012 Mitsubishi Galant for driving on the shoulder, [...]
A Sergeant with the Lincoln Police Department has been found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigator’s with the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office believe that 53-year-old Tom Hamm killed himself Tuesday night. Lincoln Police say a Lancaster County Deputy found Hamm in a wooded area east of Stagecoach Lake near Hickman at around 10:20 [...]
A former elementary school teacher who was on the FBI’s list of most wanted fugitives is due in federal court on a child pornography charge. Eric Justin Toth is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Thursday afternoon in Washington. He was arrested in Nicaragua last month after five years on the run. The FBI last year [...]
A Norfolk city councilman has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Josh Moenning was arrested early Wednesday morning in Norfolk. Police say officers were called to the area for a report of a car parking in the middle of a street. When they arrived, the car, driven by Moenning, pulled over and parked illegally. [...]
A judge has given probation to a Lincoln woman who slapped a police officer while being escorted from the business from which she had been fired. 42-year-old Anita Cobb was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months’ probation. Court records say Cobb was fired from her job as a personnel director on Aug. 27, but sat at [...]
A Minnesota teenager whose farewell song became a YouTube sensation has died after a fight with bone cancer. Zach Sobiech died Monday at his Lakeland home. His mother, Laura, said on the CaringBridge website that he was surrounded by his family and girlfriend. The 18-year-old was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in November 2009. When he learned last year he [...]
(AP) — Northern Indiana authorities say about 50 middle and high school students were injured and a bus driver was seriously hurt in a chain-reaction crash involving four school buses. Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Chad Hill says the crash about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday injured 55 people, including three of the four bus drivers. Most [...]
(AP) — Veterinarians have been able to save the leg of a 9-month-old puppy shot by intruders during a home invasion in north Omaha last week. Police were called to the home on May 16 for a report of a robbery in progress. The couple at the home said two men forced their way into [...]
(AP)-A Lincoln inmate’s wife has been fined for trying to smuggle pot to him in prison. Lakeisha Davis, of Omaha, pleaded no contest Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge of attempt to convey an article to an inmate. A Lancaster county judge fined her $500. Davis was originally charged with delivering or attempting to deliver contraband. [...]
The Oklahoma medical examiner’s office says it has positively identified all 24 people killed in the tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, including 10 children: — Terri Long, 49 — Megan Futrell, 29 — Case Futrell, 4 months — Shannon Quick, 40 — Sydnee Vargyas, 7 months — Karrina Vargyas, 4 [...]