SEWARD, Neb. (AP) — Roadway work is expected to slow traffic next week on U.S. Highway 34 in southeast Nebraska.
The Nebraska Roads Department says the work near Seward is expected to take six days.
The speed limit will be reduced, and a pilot car and flaggers will be used to control one-lane traffic.
HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — The Hastings City Council has passed an ordinance to ban parking in front and side yards.
The ordinance passed unanimously at the council’s meeting on Monday night. The ordinance would still allow for yard parking if it was part of a home’s approved development plan. Parking areas intended for multi-family dwellings would also be excluded from the ban.
Hastings City Attorney Dave Ptak says the city made some changes to its initial proposed ordinance after receiving calls from residents who had questions about it.
LEMOYNE, Neb. (AP) — A woman has been arrested after a train rammed her car north of Lake McConaughy.
The driver wasn’t in her car but was arrested later on suspicion of driving under the influence.
Keith County Sheriff Jeff Stevens says the train hit the car about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Stevens says the woman told officers she was traveling northbound when she swerved to miss an animal. Her car left the road and became high-centered on the train tracks.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The resume of Gov. Dave Heineman may not reflect the desires of the university regents looking for the next president of the University of Nebraska system.
On Monday the university released a presidential profile that outlines the qualities and experience the Board of Regents wants in the person who will replace J.B. Milliken, who has left to become chancellor of the City University of New York.
Regents chairman Howard Hawks says the ideal candidate “will have a deep understanding of and experience in higher education and proven success in leading a major organization.” Hawks says the profile was in the works before the governor announced last month that he would seek the job.
The governor has a bachelor’s from West Point.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A new report says Nebraska’s net tax receipts in May came in lower than projected.
The Department of Revenue said Tuesday that net tax receipts for the month totaled $333 million, which is nearly 5 percent below the state’s certified forecast. The forecast said the state would net an estimated $349 million.
According to the report, individual income and sales-and-use tax revenue came in lower than expected. Corporate income and miscellaneous tax revenues were higher than projected.
Net receipts for Nebraska’s current fiscal year are still nearly 2 percent higher than the forecast.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) The array of teams set for the College World Series beginning this week could leave the impression that college baseball has become an equal-opportunity sport.
UC Irvine coach Mike Gillespie said that’s not a bad thing. He said when he was an outfielder for USC in the early 1960s, there were only a handful of teams playing at an elite level. He said now there probably are more than 100.
But Skip Bertman, who coached LSU to five national titles, said scholarship and roster limits and bat standards that reduced offense have “watered down” the game.
The CWS starts Saturday with Gillespie’s Anteaters playing Texas, which is making its record 35th appearance in Omaha.
MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a Tennessee man is accused of killing a woman, dismembering her body and eating part of her corpse.
Coffee County District Attorney Mickey Layne tells The Associated Press on Tuesday that 37-year-old Gregory S. Hale was arrested at his home late Sunday and is charged with premeditated first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse.
Layne says a neighbor told police he’d had a conversation with Hale and had reason to believe a homicide had been committed.
When officers arrived at the home, Layne says they found remains on the grounds. They then questioned Hale and took him into custody.
Layne says Hale has an attorney and is being held in jail on $1.5 million bond.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 54-year-old Lincoln man who had videoed a naked female inmate while working as a jailer has made plea deal and been convicted of a misdemeanor.
Online court records say Michael Going is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 1. On Friday he pleaded no contest to attempted official misconduct after prosecutors lowered the charge.
Police say Going used his smartphone to record the 46-year-old woman on May 29 last year after she disrobed and sat naked in a holding cell.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 48-year-old man has been found not guilty in the stabbing death of a friend in a Lincoln apartment.
A Lancaster County District Court jury on Monday acquitted Ivan Fourhorns of second-degree murder and a weapons charge. He was accused of fatally stabbing 58-year-old Joe Solomon on July 23 last year.
Police had said Solomon and Fourhorns got into an argument after drinking alcohol with others at the apartment. Fourhorns testified that he wasn’t in the room when someone stabbed Solomon in the chest.
LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) — A 34-year-old woman who posed as a teenager to enroll as a sophomore at an East Texas high school has pleaded guilty to failure to identify.
A judge in Longview on Tuesday sentenced Charity Johnson to 85 days in jail in a plea agreement.
Johnson was arrested May 13 after a woman who allowed Johnson to stay at her apartment called the police when she discovered Johnson was not a teenager. New Life Christian School officials said Johnson enrolled last October with a guardian and indicated she was 15 years old.
Johnson told police she was born in 1997 and officers issued her a trespass warning. Authorities later determined she was much older.
Johnson has served nearly a month in jail.
Longview is about 130 miles east of Dallas.
