GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Three teens have been arrested on suspicion of burglary in Grand Island.
Police arrested two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old, and referred another 15-year-old to juvenile court.
Police say a burglary was reported at a residence, from which several items were taken. Capt. Dean Elliot says police have recovered some of the items, which included weapons.
According to police, a neighbor who was mowing his lawn saw the suspects fleeing the house and provided a partial license plate number.
Authorities also say they recovered two items that had been taken from Grand Island Senior High School after speaking with one of the suspects.
The suspects were transported to a juvenile detention center in Madison.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A government survey finds that public schools have beefed up school security measures with safety drills and parent notification systems in the years surrounding the massacre at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The uptick comes during a four-year span that saw an overall decrease in violent crime reported by schools, but one that included high-profile incidents such as the Newtown, Connecticut, shootings in December 2012.
The survey found that 88 percent of public schools had a written plan of how to respond to an active shooter, and that 7 out of 10 had drills to practice the plan. About three-quarters of schools reported using security cameras.
The findings come from the National Center for Education Statistics based on a survey of principals in the 2013-2014 school year.
NEW YORK (AP) — Running a jail can be even more expensive than previously thought.
A study released Thursday by the New York-based nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice examined all costs associated with operating local lockups beyond budget line items.
The authors found services such as providing inmate health care, programming and funding employee benefits are sometimes covered by other county agencies.
Researcher Christian Henrichson says officials can’t make smart reforms without appreciating the true, total cost of jailing.
The report surveyed 35 jail systems from 18 different states. It concludes reducing the inmate population is the only way to achieve real savings.
The report says that amid falling crime rates in Springfield, Massachusetts, the inmate population has likewise shrunk allowing the sheriff’s department to save millions by closing housing units.
Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 63. Light and variable wind becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. Southeast wind 7 to 10 mph. Friday: Rain, mainly after 7am. High near 54. East southeast wind 8 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Friday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 48. East southeast wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Saturday: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a high near 65. South southeast wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Saturday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 53. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Sunday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 71. Sunday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. Memorial Day: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 72.
DENVER (AP) — Rookie Severino Gonzalez pitched five solid innings, Ryan Howard homered and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Colorado Rockies 4-2 Wednesday night for their seventh win in eight games.
Gonzalez (2-1), recalled prior to the game from Triple-A Lehigh Valley, allowed a run on five hits in his third big league start. Jonathan Papelbon pitched a perfect ninth for his 11th save in 11 chances.
The Phillies took a 2-0 lead at the outset against Eddie Butler (2-5), who labored to get through a 43-pitch first inning. He had a chance to escape unscathed but with two on and two outs, he short-hopped a throw to first on Maikel Franco’s comebacker for an error, allowing Howard to score from third. Jeff Francouer followed with an RBI single.
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Struggling outfielder Drew Stubbs has been optioned to Triple-A Albuquerque by the Colorado Rockies, who recalled outfielder Brandon Barnes from the Isotopes.
Stubbs was hitting .118 with two home runs and 5 RBIs in 24 games and had struck out 31 times in 51 at bats.
Rockies manager Walt Weiss said he believes Stubbs, who is making $5,825,000, needs to work on his rhythm and timing at the plate. Because Stubbs has five years of major league service, his consent was needed for the minor league assignment.
“It’s a situation where we felt like Drew just needed to get away from the heat of the major leagues so he could go down and work on some things. He was in full agreement,” Weiss said. “He was very professional about it. He understands. He wants to go down there and get right.”
Barnes made the Rockies’ opening-day roster last season and appeared in 132 games, batting .257 with eight homers and 27 RBIs. He was hitting .205 with five homers and 12 RBIs in 33 games for Albuquerque since being optioned April 1.
“Obviously, we know Brandon well,” Weiss said. “He was with us all last year. He brings a ton of energy and the ability to play all three outfield spots.”
Scott Schreiber was 3-for-4 with a RBI in the loss (Photo Courtesy Nate Olsen/NU Media Relations)
Minneapolis – The No. 8 seed Nebraska baseball team (34-22) had a 2-0 lead after the top of the sixth, but the No. 1 seed Illinois Fighting Illini (46-6-1) scored the game’s final three runs for a 3-2 victory in the opening round of the Big Ten Tournament on Wednesday night at Target Field. With the win, the No. 5 nationally ranked Illini extended their winning streak to 27 games, the longest streak in the country this season.
After the Illini took a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the eighth inning, they turned the ball over to Big Ten Pitcher-of-the-Year Tyler Jay, who retired the Huskers in order in the ninth for his 13th save of the season.
The Huskers entered the game with a 25-4 record on the year when outhitting their opponent and out-hit the Illini 9-7, but couldn’t get the extra hits they needed late. Nebraska also fell to 0-6 on the year in games decided by one-run against Big Ten teams.
Freshman Scott Schreiber was 3-for-4 at the plate and drove in a run, while Tanner Lubach was 2-for-4 with a double. Freshman Luis Alvarado also added a RBI on the day, his fourth extra-base hit off Illini pitching in the last week after he produced two doubles and home run in Champaign, Ill., during last week’s conference series.
Two-time All-Big Ten pitcher Chance Sinclair made his 31st career start on Wednesday night and gave the Huskers 5.2 strong innings, as he allowed two runs on four hits and two walks, while striking out four. Sinclair allowed one hit over the first five innings, with three of Illinois’ four hits off of Sinclair coming in the sixth.
Junior Kevin Duchene, an unanimous first-team All-Big Ten selection on Tuesday, started for the Illini and went 6.2 innings. Duchene allowed two runs on eight hits and two walks, while striking out five Huskers. It was the first time Duchene has allowed more than five hits in a start since April 17, when he gave up 10 hits to Indiana.
Nebraska had the game’s first runner in scoring position with two out in the second after Schreiber roped a single and then moved to second when Ben Miller drew the 11th walk of the season off Duchene in 84.2 innings. Jake Placzek stepped in an worked a 3-1 count and got a pitch to hit, but it resulted in a fly ball to left field to end the frame.
Illinois had its leadoff batter on base for the first time in the fourth when Ryan Nagle reached on a walk, but he didn’t advance any more. Sinclair responded with back-to-back strikeouts before Wes Edrington made a bare-handed play on a slow roller off the bat of Casey Fletcher to end the inning.
The Huskers offense was in position to score again in the fifth, but Duchene dug in. Schreiber led off with a single and then Placzek blasted a one-out double to put two runners on scoring position. Duchene got a shallow fly out off the bat of Edrington that wasn’t deep enough to score Schreiber and struck out Ryan Boldt swinging to end the Husker threat.
Sinclair retired the Illini in order in the fifth and the Husker offense finally broke through in the top of the sixth. Lubach got NU going with a one-out double to right-center field and scored the first run of the game when Alvarado doubled down the left-field line. The hits kept coming, as Blake Headley delivered a groundball single that put runners on the corners. Schreiber stepped in an worked an 11-pitch at-bat, delivering a RBI single on the 11th pitch to put the Husker onto 2-0.
The lead didn’t last long, as Illinois answered with two runs of its own in the bottom of the sixth. Ryne Roper started the inning with a single to set the table for the top of the NU lineup. Sinclair came back with a strikeout of Adam Walton before Nagle and Reid Roper each singled, with Ryne Roper scoring on the single by his older brother. Jason Goldstein then tied the game with a sacrifice fly and Sinclair was in position to get out of the inning, but Headley committed an error to put runners on first and second. The Huskers went to Jeff Chesnut out of the pen for his 30thappearance of the season and the junior right hander struck out Pat McInerney swinging to keep the game tied, 2-2, through six innings.
Placzek led off the seventh with a walk and was soon in scoring position for the top of NU’s lineup following a sacrifice bunt by Edrington. Duchene struck out Boldt for this third time and with two down the Illini went to right-handed reliever Nick Blackburn to face Jake Meyers. Nebraska countered with pinch-hitter Austin Darby and Blackburn won the battle with an inning-ending strikeout.
The Huskers had their leadoff man on in the seventh when Lubach started the frame with a single, his second hit of the game. Blackburn quickly cleared the bases with a double play off the bat of Alvarado, and then Headley lined out to Walton at shortstop to end the inning.
Illinois got their leadoff man on in the bottom of the eighth with an infield single by Reid Roper and he later scored to put Illinois ahead 3-2 on a single by McInerney. After Goldstein laid down a sacrifice to put two runners in scoring position, the Huskers loaded the bases with an intentional walk to Fletcher. McInerney delivered a single that found its way through the right side of the infield to give Illini the lead. David Kerian and Will Krug then grounded out to end the inning.
Facing the bottom of NU’s lineup, Jay needed just seven pitches to polish off the comeback win for Illinois.
Nebraska returns to Target Field tomorrow for an elimination game against 1 p.m. The Huskers will play the loser of tonight’s 9 p.m. game between Michigan State and Maryland. Tomorrow’s game will be streamed liver on BTN Plus.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jeremy Guthrie pitched six shutout innings and the Kansas City Royals beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-1 on Wednesday night.
The Royals tied a club record with 24 consecutive scoreless innings, which was set June 9-12, 1976. That streak ended in the seventh when Brandon Phillips’ two-out double off reliever Ryan Madson scored Zack Cozart.
The Royals, who won for the fifth time in six games, improved to 26-14, the franchise’s best record after 40 games.
Guthrie (4-2) pitched out of a bases-loaded, one-out predicament in the first inning and won his third straight start. He gave up five hits, walked two and struck out three. Guthrie retired 13 on fly balls and two on grounders.
Reds right-hander Jason Marquis (3-4) was pulled after 3 2-3 innings, yielding four runs, four hits, two sacrifice flies, two walks and a wild pitch. In losing his past three starts, Marquis has surrendered 21 hits and 15 runs in 12 1-3 innings for a 15.33 ERA.
Pictured from left to right are: MPCC President Ryan Purdy, Higgins and Area Vice-President of Academic Affairs and NPCC Jody Tomanek.
Janelle Higgins, NPCC softball coach, was presented with the Region IX Division II Coach of the Year Award during the MPCC Board of Governors meeting Wednesday night.
Former NPCC Head Volleyball Coach Sally Thalken was presented with a Women of Achievement Award in the category of Education during the Wednesday night MPCC Board of Governors meeting. The award was co-sponsored by the North Platte Telegraph and NebraskaLand National Bank.
Thalken was also presented with the Junior College Athletic Association’s Service Award. The award is given to individuals who have made significant contributions to the NJCAA on a national level for an extended period of time.
After another full day of searching for Lexi Wiezorek and Noah Ramos, family members will wait another day before the search for their loved ones resumes.
Wiezorek and Ramos were driving on South River Road on Monday night when their vehicle left the washed-out roadway and plunged into the South Platte River. They have not been seen since.
On Wednesday, volunteers, law enforcement, family members and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission scoured the river and its banks but again found no reported signs of the teens.
The Game and Parks Commission launched their sonar boat and reportedly located a “suspicious object” in the water. However, due to decreasing daylight, rescuers were forced to delay their mission until Thursday. Authorities say they were not able to identify what the object was, and the Post was not able to confirm the location of the object.
Members of the Lincoln County Dive Rescue Team plan to resume search activities on Thursday morning.
The North Platte Jaycees have been collecting supplies to support all involved in the search for Lexi and Noah and say food, water and paper supplies are their greatest needs at this point.
The Jaycees Hall is located at 10th and Willow Streets.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha’s police chief says an officer shot while helping serve an arrest warrant has died, as has the suspect.
Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said Wednesday that 29-year-old Officer Kerrie Orozco died at Creighton University Medical Center shortly after the 1 p.m. shooting. Schmaderer said the suspect, 26-year-old Marcus Wheeler, also died at the hospital.
The gunfire erupted while officers were trying to serve a felony arrest warrant on Wheeler. He was wanted on warrant accusing him of previous shooting in Omaha.
Paramedics performed CPR on both the officer and the suspect as they were taken to the hospital.
Schmaderer says Orozco was a seven-year veteran of the department and worked in the gang unit.
Schmaderer spoke at a news conference at the hospital.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Three teens have been arrested on suspicion of burglary in Grand Island.
