(AP) — Police are investing a fatal shooting that happened outside a northeast Omaha bar.
Shots were fired near 30th Street and Bedford Avenue around 1:45 a.m. Sunday.
When officers arrived, they found 29-year-old David Taplett with a gunshot wound outside the Stage II Lounge. Taplett died at the scene of the shooting.
Police did not immediately release other details of the shooting.
(AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating a rollover crash on Interstate 80 that killed a 44-year-old Lincoln man.
The accident happened around 5:45 p.m. Saturday near Lexington.
The State Patrol says one of the front tires of Jose Louis Vasquez Suchite’s vehicle blew out and caused the crash.
After the tire blew, the vehicle veered off the road and into the median before rolling across the eastbound lanes.
The vehicle landed in a roadside ditch, and Suchite died at the scene. He was wearing his seatbelt.
(AP) — Police say a woman admitted that she stabbed her 7-month-old son to death in a popular Northern California park.
Chief Timothy Anderson of the East Bay Regional Parks District Police Department said Sunday in a statement that the 23-year-old mother from San Jose had a history of depression and appeared to have self-inflicted knife wounds on her wrist.
Police were called Saturday on reports of a damaged Honda sedan in the Del Valle Regional Park east of San Francisco. They found the car abandoned with the engine running and an empty child’s seat.
Anderson says they were about to tow the car when the woman approached them holding her lifeless baby.
Investigators said they found a knife in the area.
The woman remains in jail on suspicion of murder.
(AP) — Small towns in Iowa and Nebraska are getting used to reduced hours at their local post offices.
Many residents are happy they still have a post office even if they have less access to it.
The U.S. Postal Service has reduced hours at more than 7,000 post offices nationwide and consolidated 143 mail processing centers to reduce costs.
In Lawton, Iowa, the post office now closes at 2 p.m. on weekdays and is only open for an hour on Sunday. Heath Mallory with Western Iowa Telephone says it’s harder to get mailings out before closing.
Bronson, Iowa, Mayor Dave Amick says he’s glad the town kept its post office even if it’s harder for people who work full time to get there.
DONIPHAN, Neb. (AP) — The 45th annual Cornhusker Trapshoot is scheduled to begin its three-day run on Thursday in Doniphan at the home grounds of the Nebraska Trapshooting Association.
More than 2,000 trapshooters are expected to compete.
There will be individual and team competitions. Junior high students will shoot at 100 targets on Thursday. High school competitors will shoot at 75 targets on Friday and 75 more targets on Saturday.
The event is open to shooters nationwide in grades 6 through 12. Last year’s event drew 888 junior and 1,365 senior high shooters.
The association home grounds sit three miles south of Interstate 80 Exit 312 on U.S. Highway 281.
Go online at www.Cornhusker-trap.com for more information.
DENVER (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon scored 3:27 into overtime after P.A. Parenteau (payr-ehn-TOH’) tied the game late in regulation, helping the Colorado Avalanche rally for a 4-3 win over the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night and a 3-2 lead in the first-round series.
MacKinnon poked the puck past Darcy Kuemper’s glove with two defenders all over him. The rookie also had two assists.
Parenteau scored with 1:14 left after Avalanche coach Patrick Roy pulled goaltender Semyon Varlamov (var-LAH’-mawf) with 2:22 remaining. The strategy worked out yet again.
The series switches back to Minnesota for Game 6 on Monday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adrian Gonzalez homered for the third straight game and Matt Kemp also went deep, leading Paul Maholm and the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night.
Maholm threw 84 pitches over seven innings, allowing two runs and six hits in his fourth start with the defending NL West champions. Chris Withrow struck out Carlos Gonzalez and Troy Tulowitzki (too-loh-WIT’-skee) with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to help preserve the win.
Maholm had lost his previous seven decisions against the Rockies and was 1-8 with a 6.63 ERA in 10 career starts against them.
(AP) — Another Nebraska Wildland Fire Academy at Fort Robinson State Park in the Nebraska Panhandle is being held to train firefighters on how to respond to wildfires — and this year, the public is invited.
A Fire Weather Class on May 1 will be open to the public. The class will include a discussion of weather conditions that affect fire ignition, behavior and suppression.
Also, an incident management workshop and tabletop exercise on Tuesday scheduled for local emergency personnel will be open to anyone.
This year’s Nebraska Wildland Fire Academy continues through May 4.
(AP) — The credit-card bank operated by Nebraska outdoor retailer Cabela’s has been fined $1 million by banking regulators and ordered to pay cardholders restitution for deceptive and unfair acts.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. posted a March 10 enforcement order to its website Friday showing that Lincoln-based World’s Foremost Bank agreed to the sanctions. The bank did not admit or deny violations.
The order comes more than three years after Cabela’s agreed to pay nearly $10.4 million and reform its credit card practices as part of a settlement with the FDIC over assessing improper fees and other issues.
In the order released Friday, the FDIC said World’s Foremost Bank must refund certain interest charges to cardholders and to repay others for add-on credit card services, such as identity-theft protection.
(AP) — It looks like Nebraska and Iowa are in for some stormy weather this weekend.
The National Weather Service says some Saturday afternoon thunderstorms could be seen in western and central Nebraska, with a chance of severe thunderstorms developing late Saturday night in eastern Nebraska.
On Sunday, there is high chance for thunderstorms statewide, with high winds in parts of eastern Nebraska.
In Iowa, sunny skies will turn cloudy by Saturday night, with thunderstorms expected to move into western Iowa by around 9 p.m. Storms will move across the state overnight into Sunday, and could bring heavy rain, hail and high winds. The Des Moines area could see about 2 inches of rain, while parts farther east could up to 2 1/2 inches of rainfall.
