The West Central District Health Department (WCDHD) is reminding people to be vigilant in preventing West Nile Virus.

WCDHD says it has received official notification that a mosquito pool in their jurisdiction has tested positive for the virus.

Officials say these positive results should serve as a reminder of the importance of taking precautions to protect yourself from mosquito exposure, saying the best defense against the virus through the use of repellent and eliminating environments that allow mosquitoes to lay eggs and develop.

WCDHD offers the following tips for preventing mosquito exposure:

• Use repellents that contain DEET (up to 30%)
• Wear long sleeves and pants
• Drain standing water
• Dispose of tin cans, plastic containers, ceramic pots or similar water-holding containers that have collected on your property
• Drill holes in the bottom of recycling containers left outside
• Have clogged roof gutters cleaned regularly
• Turn over plastic wading pools and wheel barrows when not in use
• Aerate ornamental pools or stock them with fish
• Use landscaping to eliminate standing water that collect on you property

WCDHD says there have been no confirmed human cases of West Nile Virus which typically peaks in August and September.

A transient was arrested at the Lincoln County Fair over the weekend after he refused to leave despite warnings from deputies.

At around 1:50 p.m., on July 26, deputies with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint of an intoxicated transient at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds causing problems.

Deputies met with 51-year-old Larry Williams and escorted him from the fairgrounds with a warning not to come back.

At around 2:50 p.m., deputies received another complaint that Williams had returned and was in a barn on the west side of the property.

Deputies confronted Williams and placed him under arrest for trespassing.

As they were walking him back to a patrol car, officials say Williams began cursing and physically resisting deputies.

Williams then allegedly kicked the door of the patrol car, causing damage.  He was then placed in leg restraints and transported to the Lincoln County Detention Center with no further problems.

Williams has been charged with trespassing, criminal mischief and resisting arrest.

A North Platte couple are facing multiple charges following a disturbance Saturday night.

At around 11:30 p.m., on July 26, North Platte Police responded to a disturbance in the 500 block of West 9th Street.

55-year-old Rhonda Frye, who resides at the residence, called police to report that her husband, 60-year-old James Frye, was being belligerent and vulgar toward a child in the home.

Officers arrived to find both Frye’s intoxicated.  According to Officer Rodney Brown, James was verbally abusive to both his wife and officers.

Brown said officers attempted to calm him down, but to no avail.

James was asked to spend the remainder of the evening separated from his wife and the two-year-old child they were babysitting.

Brown said James refused to comply, and continued to argue and yell with his wife, in the presence of the child.

At one point, officers say James picked up the child and carried him downstairs, against the direction of police.  He then became aggressive toward one of the officers.

James initially resisted officers’ attempt to handcuff him and place him under arrest, but eventually, they were able to take him into custody.

As officers escorted James from the residence, Brown said Rhonda began pushing her husband back into the residence, and refused to let officers leave with him.  As a result, Rhonda was placed under arrest as well.

In the end, both James and Rhonda were charged with child abuse, resisting arrest and obstruction of justice, all misdemeanors.

Both were jailed at the Lincoln County Detention Center.

 

 

BROKEN BOW, Neb. (AP) — A 60-year-old Broken Bow man has died after his motorcycle ran off a road in central Nebraska.

The Custer County Sheriff’s Office says Kenneth Neville was driving south on Sumner Road around 5:30 p.m. Sunday when he lost control of his motorcycle about three miles south of Broken Bow. The bike entered a ditch and then struck a barbed wire fence.

Neville was pronounced dead at the scene. He had been wearing a helmet.