WINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) — The Winnebago Tribe has taken over the management of a troubled hospital on its Native American reservation in northeastern Nebraska.

The Sioux City Journal reports that the Tribal Council officially took over management of the embattled hospital from Indian Health Services on Sunday. It will be renamed Twelve Clans Unity Hospital.

Tribal Councilwoman Victoria Kitcheyan says this will be a new beginning for the hospital.

The hospital will now be run by the same group that oversees all the tribes health clinics and other services.

The change comes more than two years after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services terminated the hospital’s Medicare contract after the Indian Health Service and hospital officials failed to correct serious quality-of-care deficiencies the agency had found.

WASHINGTON – A violent member of the Omaha, Nebraska area Crips Gang was sentenced today to seven years in prison at the federal courthouse in Omaha, following his Feb. 22 jury trial conviction for participating in a racketeering conspiracy involving acts of violence, including attempted murder and assaults, witness tampering, and drug distribution.

Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Kelly for the District of Nebraska made the announcement.

Jerell Haynie aka “Bootie,” 35, of Omaha, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon, who also ordered him to serve a three year term of supervised release following his prison sentence.

According to evidence presented at trial, from 2008 to 2016, Haynie conspired to conduct and participate in the affairs of the Omaha-area chapter of the Crips, known as the “40th Avenue and 44th Avenue Crips,” through a pattern of racketeering activity.  As a long-standing gang member, Haynie engaged in cocaine trafficking and personally committed acts of violence for the gang in furtherance of the racketeering conspiracy.  The evidence presented at trial revealed that Haynie attempted to kill a fellow Crips member suspected of cooperating with the police by shooting a gun at him multiple times.  According to trial evidence, in another incident of violence, Haynie and other gang members participated in a shooting in which they attempted to kill a police informant who made controlled drug purchases from Crips members.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Omaha Police Department are investigating the case.  Trial Attorney John S. Han of the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Molsen of the District of Nebraska are prosecuting the case.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A 12-year-old girl is hospitalized after being struck by a baseball at the College Home Run Derby over the weekend.

The girl was in critical condition Monday at the Nebraska Medical Center after being injured during Sunday’s event.

Ashlyn Lutz of Lincoln was injured around 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Initially, she was treated by workers at TD Ameritrade Park before paramedics arrived.

Six of college baseball’s top hitters competed in the event.

JULY 1, 2018 (LINCOLN, NEB.)  — A motorcycle rider was killed in a crash following a short pursuit on Interstate 80 and Highway 6 late Saturday evening.

The pursuit began just after 11:00 p.m. when a trooper observed an eastbound Honda sport bike motorcycle traveling at 110 miles per hour and splitting traffic on Interstate 80 near mile marker 404 in Lincoln, where the speed limit is 65 miles per hour. The trooper attempted to stop the motorcycle, but the rider refused to stop and fled.

The motorcycle exited I-80 at the Waverly exit, at mile marker 409, and continued eastbound on Highway 6. After traveling through Waverly in excess of 80 miles per hour, the motorcycle continued to flee eastbound into Cass County, reaching speeds of more than 120 miles per hour.

When the motorcycle was nearing Greenwood, the rider lost control and crashed. The trooper arrived on scene and began performing CPR and administering other medical aid to the rider, Jeremiah Cummings 40, of Lincoln. Cummings was later pronounced deceased.

The pursuit lasted approximately seven minutes. NSP requested an outside agency, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, to investigate the crash.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A former Pine Ridge Indian Health Service administrator has been sentenced for failing to disclose a $5,000 gift from a pediatrician.

The South Dakota U.S. attorney’s office says 60-year-old Wehnona Stabler, of Nebraska, has been sentenced to 12 months of unsupervised probation. She was charged in June 2017.

Authorities say Stabler, while a Pine Ridge IHS employee, made a false statement in 2014 on a financial disclosure report about the payment from Dr. Stanley Patrick Weber.

Weber has been indicted for sex abuse of minors while he was a pediatrician at the Pine Ridge hospital.