NEW YORK (AP) — An NFL playoff game will air on cable for the first time this season.
The league said Tuesday that a wild-card matchup will be broadcast on ESPN in January. As with “Monday Night Football,” the game will be simulcast on local channels in the teams’ home markets.
In the NFL’s new TV deals that start with the 2014 season, NBC exchanged one of its wild-card matchups for one in the divisional round. It hasn’t been determined yet whether NBC will show an AFC or NFC game in January.
(AP) — Authorities say the driver of a sport utility vehicle has died in a central Omaha crash.
Omaha police say officers and medics were dispatched to the crash scene a little after 1 a.m. Tuesday. Officers say the SUV apparently was speeding south on 72nd Street when it went out of control and left the roadway. It ran through two parking lots and struck a tree and light pole.
The driver, 19-year-old David J. Korff, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say he had been alone in the vehicle.
(AP)–A former waitress has been sentenced to two years of probation and possibly a month in jail for serving alcohol to a teenager who later died in a car wreck.
Twenty-one-year-old Amanda Heiman, of Fremont, was sentenced Tuesday for a felony charge of procuring alcohol for a minor resulting in death.
Prosecutors say Heiman served alcohol to 18-year-old Jacob Dickmeyer, of Valley, and another underage friend in December 2012. Prosecutors say Heiman knew the men weren’t legally old enough to drink.
Dickmeyer died later that night when the car he was driving rolled. His passenger was injured.
Heiman was ordered to serve two years of probation and complete 80 hours of community service. She was also ordered to spend 30 days in jail but may be eligible for house arrest.
UPDATE (April 23, 2014 6:30 a.m.)
Kelsey’s mother, Megan Essex, issued the following statement to the Post Wednesday morning:
“Kelsey is home safe. We appreciate all of the prayers and support that we have received during this difficult time and would like to ask everyone to continue praying so we can all heal and move forward!! We respectfully ask for privacy while dealing with this matter and thank you all from the bottom of our hearts. I am certain that it was everyone’s prayers that kept Kelsey safe and that led her to reach out and come home! God is good! Feeling blessed.”
The Cozad Police Department has not commented on the case.
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UPDATE (April 22, 2014 6:30 p.m.)
According to a Facebook post by Kelsey’s mother, “Kelsey is safe, we will update more later, thank you everyone for your prayers and support. I will let everyone know when I see her with my own two eyes. God bless.”
We will update this story with additional details as they become available.
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Family members are asking for help in finding a Cozad teen who has been missing for a week.
According to family members, Kelsey Newburn, who also goes by Kelsey Kerkow and Kelsey Essex, was last seen when she left Cozad High School on Monday, April 14, with her boyfriend and an unknown male.
Kelsey’s boyfriend, who is from Aurora, claims that Kelsey left with someone he doesn’t know, and has stated that he has no idea where she went.
Kelsey’s mother said the boyfriend has not been very forthcoming with information with them or the Cozad Police Department.
Kelsey is 17-years-old with brown hair and brown eyes. She is 5’6”, weighs approximately 150 pounds, and was last seen wearing dark blue sweatpants, flip flops, a camo coat and glasses.
Cozad Police have classified Kelsey as an endangered runaway and say she may be in the Central City, Grand Island or Aurora area.
If you have any information on Kelsey’s whereabouts, please contact the Cozad Police Department at 308-784-2366, or her mother through Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/meganessex.
Lela Marcia Morash age 75, of North Platte passed away April 21, 2014 at her home. She was born in North Platte on August 29, 1938 to Herbert A. and Elizabeth E. (Fairchild) Leach. She attended school at district #122 and graduated from U.N.S.A. in Curtis, NE in 1958. On November 9, 1958 she was united in marriage to Myron Morash at Hershey, NE. For over 20 years she was an independent contractor selling cleaning supplies and doing sewing for others. She was a life member and past president of the V.F.W. Auxiliary 1504, member and past president of the Military Order of Cooties Auxiliary, life member and past president of the American Veterans Auxiliary #5, and a member of the Eagles and Moose Auxiliary’s. She is survived by her sons, Rodger Allen (Kellie) Morash, Norman Lee (Kathy) Morash all of North Platte; grandchildren, Dan (Joni) Morash of Stapleton, Troy, McKenzie, Megan and Madison Morash all of North Platte; great grandchildren, Keith, Summer and Paige Morash of Stapleton; sisters, Treva Lynes and Jenevie (Delbert) Tobey; brother, Ebert C. Leach of North Platte; sister-in-law, Darlene Gordon of Nevada; as well as many nieces, nephews and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband; her mother and father; an infant brother, Gayln; sister, Twila Kruger; sisters-in-law, Shadra and Charlene Leach; brothers-in-law, Clive Lynes, Don and David Brennan, Marvin Morash and Bill Kruger. Online condolences may be share at www.carpentermemorial.com. A memorial has been established in her memory. Visitation will be 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Thursday, April 24, 2014 at Carpenter Memorial Chapel. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, April 25, 2014 at Carpenter Memorial Chapel. Burial will be at Ft. McPherson National Cemetery near Maxwell. Carpenter Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
(AP) — Lincoln police have accused a man of causing extensive burns on his baby daughter.
Police say 20-year-old Reid Alden turned himself in Tuesday as part of an agreement. He has been booked into the Lancaster County Jail on suspicion of felony child abuse.
Alden called police on April 16 and reported that his 6-week-old daughter had burns to her skin following a bath.
The infant was taken to the hospital. Officer Katie Flood says she has burns over 60 percent of her body, and X-rays show healing rib fractures.
Court records do not list an attorney for Alden.
(AP) — The FBI is asking for help to identify at least 90 victims of a suspected serial child predator who worked in American schools worldwide for four decades.
The suspect, 64-year-old William James Vahey, killed himself in Luverne, Minn., on March 21.
FBI agents in Houston filed for a warrant March 19 to search a computer thumb drive that belonged to Vahey, a U.S. citizen. An employee of an American school in Nicaragua where Vahey had recently taught ninth-grade world history and geography gave the drive to the agency.
Special Agent Shauna Dunlap says the thumb drive contains pornographic images of at least 90 boys, aged 12-14, who agents suspect were Vahey’s students starting in 2008.
The FBI says Vahey told a Nicaragua school administrator that he drugged his victims.
(AP) — A prosecutor is seeking the death penalty against a 28-year-old man accused in the fatal shooting of four people at a rural eastern Kansas farm.
Kyle Flack stood silent during his arraignment Tuesday as District Judge Eric Godderz entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
Flack is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 30-year-old Andrew Stout and 31-year-old Steven White at the property in Ottawa. He is charged with capital murder in the deaths of 21-year-old Kaylie Bailey and her 18-month-old daughter, Lana-Leigh Bailey.
Franklin County prosecutor Stephen Hunting filed a motion seeking the death penalty in connection with the deaths of Bailey and her daughter.
All four were fatally shot in late April or early May last year.
(AP) — A Scottsbluff legislative candidate says he’s been working with the IRS to eliminate a $30,500 tax lien.
Scottsbluff lawyer Mike Meister (MYE’-stur) said on Monday that he’d gotten into a “cash flow crunch” so he couldn’t pay the accumulated federal withholding for his employees. He says his staffers are “not in any risk.”
Meister says he’s working with the IRS on paying the arrearage. He told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he expected to be caught up by the end of the month.
Meister is running against Valley Bank President John Stinner Sr. for the legislative seat in Nebraska’s 48th District.
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln County commissioners have refused to exempt from taxes thousands of acres of land bought by a group of natural resources districts so groundwater that had been used for irrigation would instead flow into the Platte and Republican rivers.
The Board of Commissioners on Monday followed the recommendation by county assessor Julie Stenger to tax the property on its grassland value.
Farmers and ranchers from throughout the county gathered to hear the board’s comments about tax exemption requests for the Nebraska Cooperative Republican Platte Enhancement land.
The co-op is an agency composed of several natural resources districts. It bought 19,500 acres to stop irrigation and direct the groundwater into the Platte and Republican rivers to help the state meet river water obligations.
