Antonio Torres Sr., age 79 of North Platte, passed away Friday November 17, 2017 at Madonna Rehab Hospital in Lincoln, NE. Services are pending at Adams and Swanson Funeral Home.
Month: November 2017
2 staffers injured in separate Tecumseh prison incidents
TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two staffers have been injured in separate incidents involving inmates at the state prison in the southeast Nebraska city of Tecumseh.
A Nebraska Correctional Services Department news release said Monday that one staffer was removing an item from a port in a cell door when an inmate used a homemade weapon to cut one of the staffer’s hands. The wound required stitches.
The department says another staffer received a minor nose cut when responding to an incident Friday in which five inmates started small fires in their cells.
The names of the staffers and prisoners have not been released.
Alternative Keystone XL route OKed in Nebraska
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Latest on Nebraska regulators deciding whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline through the state (all times local):
10:15 a.m.
A Nebraska commission has approved an alternative Keystone XL route through the state, removing the last regulatory hurdle to the $8 billion oil pipeline project.
The Nebraska Public Service Commission voted on the long-delayed project Monday, though the decision could still be challenged in court. The commission was forbidden by law from considering a recent oil spill on the existing Keystone pipeline in its decision.
The alternative route would run farther north than the originally proposed route.
TransCanada Corp.’s plan to build a nearly 1,200-mile (1,931-kilometer) pipeline faces intense opposition from environmental groups, Native American tribes and some landowners.
Business groups and some unions support the project as a way to create jobs. President Donald Trump issued a federal permit allowing for the project in March, reversing President Barack Obama administration’s rejection of it.
Hunter accidentally shoots 11-year-old son in face in Kansas
PRETTY PRAIRIE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a man accidentally shot his 11-year-old son in the face while they were hunting in south-central Kansas.
The Reno County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that the accident happened shortly before 10 a.m. Sunday as the father hunted with his son and a 9-year-old nephew at a walk-in hunting field near Pretty Prairie. The father told the sheriff’s officers that his son had walked a little ahead. He said that when he swung his 12 gauge shotgun to the left to shoot at a flying bird, some of the birdshot struck the boy in the face.
The boy suffered superficial wounds and was taken to Via Christi St. Joseph Hospital in Wichita.
Oregon man killed in eastern Nebraska crash
AURORA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an Oregon man has died after an accident on Interstate 80 in east-central Nebraska.
The accident occurred around 6:55 a.m. Friday near Aurora. Hamilton County Attorney Michael Powell says 24-year-old Mohamed Madey was headed east when he lost control of his vehicle. It ran into the median and rolled, ending up on the north side of the westbound lanes. Investigators suspect Madey had fallen asleep at the wheel.
Powell says Madey was pronounced dead at the scene. Madey lived in Beaverton, Oregon.
1 person killed, 4 hurt in I-80 collision in east Nebraska
GREENWOOD, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say one person has died and four people have been injured in a collision on Interstate 80 in eastern Nebraska.
The crash occurred around 2:15 a.m. Monday near the Greenwood exit. The Nebraska State Patrol says an eastbound vehicle crossed into westbound traffic and struck a vehicle, and the two were then struck by another westbound vehicle.
The names of those involved have not been released.
Former golf coach imprisoned for sexual assaults on girls
GERING, Neb. (AP) — A former Scottsbluff High School golf coach has been imprisoned on charges that he sexually assaulted two girls he coached.
Court records say 62-year-old Michael Klein, of Mitchell, on Friday was sentenced to 24 to 32 years in prison. He’d pleaded no contest last month to four counts of sexual assault.
Prosecutors say assaults on the first girl occurred between November 2007 and November 2010. The second girl was assaulted between October 2015 and July 2016.
Woman dies after car she was in struck front end loader
CLEARWATER, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an 83-year-old woman died after the car she was in collided with a front end loader in northeast Nebraska.
The accident occurred Thursday on U.S. Highway 275 in Clearwater. The Antelope County Sheriff’s Office says a westbound car driven by 85-year-old Clayton Johnson struck the westbound loader as the loader slowed to turn north onto another street.
The Sheriff’s Office says Johnson and his wife, Lois, were taken to Antelope Memorial Hospital in Neligh (NEE’-lee), where Lois subsequently died. She’d lived in O’Neill with her husband. It’s unclear whether the loader driver was injured.
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Bellevue woman found dead in home; boyfriend arrested
BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 51-year-old Bellevue woman may have lain dead in her home for a week before family members found her.
Family members found Beverly Diane Bauermeister dead on her living room floor Thursday evening. Police say her body showed signs of significant trauma.
Later that night, police found Bauermeister’s 56-year-old live-in boyfriend, Alan Stack, in her car and arrested him. He has been charged with second-degree murder.
No attorney for Stack is listed in online court records. He remained jailed Saturday and could not be reached for comment.
Court records show that in 2010, Bauermeister applied for a protection order against Stack, saying he had beaten her.
Stack’s initial court appearance in the case is set for Monday.
Lecturer out as teacher at UNL after student confrontation
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials say a graduate student and lecturer accused of harassing a conservative student will not return to teaching at the school.
A university official confirmed Friday that Courtney Lawton will no longer be employed when her contract ends at the end of the school year.
Lawton was among several people protesting recruiting efforts by the student for Turning Point USA, which advocates for conservative causes and maintains a “professor watch list” of faculty deemed radically liberal. Video of the Aug. 25 protest showed Lawton flipping off the student and referring to her as a “neo-fascist.”
Officials also on Friday confirmed that UNL’s chief communications officer and news director were no longer employed following the release of emails in which they discussed wanting to downplay the incident by having “surrogates” submit op-ed pieces to local media.