LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Missouri man has pleaded no contest after Nebraska prosecutors lowered the charge against him involving sex with an underage girl.
Local media reports that 24-year-old Kristofer Allen, of Kansas City, Mo., made the plea Tuesday in Lancaster County District Court.
The charge was lowered to attempted first-degree sexual assault, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. The original charge carried a maximum of 50 years in prison.
A 15-year-old Waverly girl told investigators that Allen had traveled to Nebraska to see her and that she had sex with him about 10 times from June to August last year.
NORTH PLATTE-(NORTH PLATTE POST)- Thursday morning Centris Credit Union held it’s Groundbreaking Ceremony so the construction of the new building can get underway at 902 South Jeffers Street.
“This is going to be a wonderful addition to this corner. It’s a fantastic building that is going to be built here” says Mayor Marc Kaschke
CEO & President, Kevin Parks says “We are very happy to see this project get started and come to life”. Parks continues “The new office here will be 7,000 square feet on two stories and will be state-of-the-art with current technology; however it will have the same friendly faces that all of our members are used to seeing when they come in. We are going to be putting out more member conveniences in the office than we have today, we hope to be in the office very early into 2013 and start the new year here. In addition our drive thru will have three lanes and they will be wider to accommodate the vehicles that people drive out here.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say an officer has been injured in a collision with a car driven by drunken driver.
A department news release say Officer Mike Bossman was taken to a hospital after the accident that occurred around 9:40 p.m. Wednesday. Bossman was treated for a shoulder injury and then released.
The department says a car ran a stop sign and hit Bossman’s cruiser in northeast Omaha.
The driver was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
SIDNEY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say the death of a 33-year-old woman in the Nebraska Panhandle town of Sidney was accidental.
Hilary Crawford had been found unresponsive and was pronounced dead at her home on April 10.
Local media reports that multiple drug toxicity is listed as the cause of her death. Cheyenne County Attorney Paul Schaub (shawb), acting as county coroner, says autopsy tests showed Crawford had a potentially lethal amount of methadone in her blood. He says Crawford had been given a prescription of methadone for pain relief.
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A BIG Congratulations goes out to Wynonna Judd who was married in a sunset wedding Sunday, June 10 on her farm in Tennessee. via Us Weekly:
For her third walk down the aisle, the country crooner, 48, donned a Houri Barahimi dress — and no shoes! A drummer in Judd’s band, The Big Noise, 55-year old (Cactus) Moser was cowboy chic in his tuxedo, which he accessorized with a vest, pocket watch and holster.
“I felt a joy that hasn’t been there before,” Judd gushes to Us of the intimate bash — where attendees included her kids from previous marriages Grace, 16, and Elijah, 17. (Her sister Ashley Judd and mom Naomi Judd were not on hand for the bash.)
Dating since 2009, Judd and Moser announced their engagement last December. Judd divorced her second husband, D.R. Roach after four years in 2007, and split from businessman Arch Kelly III — with whom she has two children — in 1998.
COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — Platte County supervisors have decided to beef up security at the Platte County Courthouse.
The board decided at Tuesday’s meeting to move a metal detector from the second floor down to the first floor and restrict courthouse access to one entrance. The detector had been placed on the second floor to help protect courtrooms.
Local media says other entrances will be converted to exit-only doors.
The decision follows a recommendation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and addresses concerns raised by county employees.
Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Bob Shepherd said Tuesday, “We’re the target. We’re the government.”
(NORTH PLATTE POST)- Have you ever witnessed a meteor impact or a meteor shower? Meteor showers are a beautiful sight and sometimes dangerous. I like to think of Meteorites as little gifts from beyond, not like they are anything special that grant you powers like in various fiction stories but very cool and rare none the less.
Meteorites have been known to be mischievous as well. How would you like to be napping peacefully in your living room when suddenly you wake up to soil yourself because of the loud bang, followed by a striking pain on your hip, and a rather odd hole in the ceiling.
That is the story of the poor womanknown to be the first human to be struck by an extraterrestrial object. (Ironically enough she lived across the street from a drive in called “Comet Drive-in” Classic!) She at first probably thought kids were playing base ball in the street, hitting a home-run slugger straight into her house. She would have enjoyed that I’m sure.
"She's going to KILL us!"
Meteorites vary in size, and often are sent pummeling down to earth from breaking off of an asteroid after colliding with something in space causing distress in other galaxies far…far away.
Wednesday June 20th sightings occurred by multiple sources in Colorado of meteor sightings by residents and some firefighters working to control the blaze 2 miles west of Colorado Springs.
Peter Palmer the Chaffee County Sheriff said his office receive many calls regarding sightings, one call claims a meteorite landed in a wooded area north of Buena Vista though the report could not be confirmed. A heavy air tanker working to put out flames claims they saw something in the skies. Causing worry to the firefighters, they landed to take a time-out because that’s the last thing we want during multiple wild-fires, is planes being struck down by flaming rocks. No doubt at first glance an event such as that would be claimed to be some sort of terrorist attack. You never know.
It may be a possibility that since heat rises, and the wildfires create a lot of heat some tree branch particles or flammable things began to burn, then as weight reduces from the solids they are lifted into the air in a flaming heap. Much like when you throw a bunch of leaves or paper onto a fire and you sit back and proudly watch the flame grow while ash is spewed into the air, before your parents yell at you telling you never to do that again because all it does is create smoke…
This reminds me…PLEASE if you are a cigarette smoker be SURE to put your cigarette completely out before you dispose of it in any way. Conditions have been so dry that simply one cherry of a cigarette could ignite a small flame to a nearby field…then wind will build up the small flame making it spread and grow followed by a huge fire that forces many to evacuate due to large amounts of smoke. Not to mention the fire that may burn down houses. Wild fires are no joke.
If Meteorites interest you, check out this video:
Also look over this website that has a map of meteorite sightings all over the world, there are a few in Colorodo. Next time you step outside keep an eye on the skies for bright moving flame balls!
CHICAGO (AP) – The BCS commissioners are backing a four-team college football playoff plan with the sites for the national semifinals rotating among the major bowl games and a selection committee picking the teams. The plan will be presented to university presidents next week for approval, which is expected to OK the plan to start in 2014.
MIAMI (AP) – For the first time in his nine-year NBA career, Miami superstar LeBron James is one victory away from being an NBA champion. James shrugged off the effects of leg cramps and practiced with the Heat, who take a 3-1 series lead into Game 5 of the NBA Finals Thursday night against Oklahoma City.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The NCAA banned a record 10 men’s basketball teams including three-time national champion Connecticut from this year’s NCAA tournament because of poor Academic Progress Rate scores. Joining the Huskies on the sideline next March will be Arkansas-Pine Bluff, California-Riverside, Cal State Bakersfield, Jacksonville State, Mississippi Valley State, North Carolina-Wilmington, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Toledo and Towson.
NEW YORK (AP) – Dillon Gee extended the Mets’ shutout streak to 29 innings before Baltimore broke through late, and New York held off the Orioles 4-3 for a three-game sweep. The Mets nearly shut out the Orioles for the third straight day following R.A. Dickey’s one-hitter Monday night and a combined five-hitter Tuesday night by the Mets staff.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Stephen Strasburg struck out 10 to win a fast-ballers’ duel and the Washington Nationals snapped a four-game losing streak with a 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. Strasburg improved to 9-1 by winning his sixth consecutive start by allowing five hits and two runs over seven innings.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha employer has been charged in a federal indictment with two counts of failing to pay taxes withheld from his employees’ paychecks.
Daniel Malone is charged in the indictment, handed down Wednesday, with failure to pay nearly $40,000 in federal income and Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes in 2006.
If convicted, the 66-year-old Malone faces up to five years in prison on each count.
Calls to a home phone number for Malone went unanswered on Wednesday. Court documents on Malone’s case do not yet list an attorney for him.
