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Investor Warren Buffett promises to support President Trump
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett was disappointed when Democrat Hillary Clinton lost the election last week, but he will support Republican Donald Trump as president.
Buffett talked about the election results and his optimistic outlook for the country with CNN.
Buffett says he supports every president, and he hopes the country will coalesce behind Trump even if not everyone agrees with his policies.
Buffett told CNN that he remains confident that America will be more prosperous in the future and will continue to grow.
The investor who leads Berkshire Hathaway says the country’s market system will continue to work regardless of who is president.
13-year-old girl hit by truck and killed in Lincoln Saturday
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln Police say a 13-year-old girl was hit by a truck and died while trying to cross the street on Saturday night.
The incident happened along West O Street around 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
The girl was walking with two friends when she was hit by a pickup truck headed east.
Lincoln school officials said the girl was Taylor Miller, who was an eighth-grader at Irving Middle School.
Irving Principal Jason Shanahan says crisis counselors will be at the school on Monday.
Police have not released the truck driver’s name.
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Fox being kept as pet removed from north Omaha home
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Arctic fox named Jax has been taken from north Omaha home by animal control officials.
A 24-year-old woman had been keeping the fox as a pet. A city ordinance forbids possessing non-domestic animals within city limits. A fox is classified as a wild animal.
The woman bought the fox in June for $650 from a seller in Indiana. Mark Langan with the Nebraska Human Society says the woman was not cited because she was cooperative and “didn’t realize that she wasn’t allowed to have a fox.”
The humane society is working to place the fox in an out-of-state sanctuary.
Omaha mayor to announce re-election bid on Monday
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert will seek a second four-year term.
That’s according to a campaign news release saying the mayor will announce her re-election bid on Monday.
The announcement will be made at the Scott Conference Center in Omaha, with former Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman introducing Stothert.
Stothert, a Republican, was the first woman to become mayor in Omaha when she defeated incumbent Mayor Jim Suttle in 2013.
Prior to that, she served on Omaha’s City Council.
Stothert had planned to announce her re-election bid earlier this fall, but postponed the event to recover from a back injury.
Ex-Bellevue city administrator’s sentencing postponed
PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Sentencing for a former Bellevue city administrator has been postponed to give him time to continue anger management counseling for another month.
Judge Robert Wester on Thursday postponed Dan Berlowitz’s sentencing until Dec. 9. He said he’d likely give Berlowitz a fine at that time.
Berlowitz pleaded no contest earlier this year to disturbing the peace, a misdemeanor, after an altercation at a dentist’s office in June. He was placed on administrative leave by the city of Bellevue and then fired.
A police report says Berlowitz poked the Bellevue dentist in the chest and pushed the dentist. Berlowitz’s attorney, James Schaefer, has said Berlowitz felt threatened and that Berlowitz denied assaulting the dentist.
Nebraska power utility leaders discuss industry changes
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The heads of Nebraska’s three largest electric utilities say changes are coming to the state’s public power industry as solar and wind-generated energy becomes more prevalent.
The leaders of Nebraska Public Power District, Omaha Public Power District and the Lincoln Electric System discussed the changes at a conference earlier this week highlighting efforts to harvest sun and wind resources.
Among the factors leading utilities to make changes, the leaders said, are cheap natural gas, more efficient homes, electricity surpluses, stagnant demand and changing government regulations.
OPPD has already seen quite a bit of change this year, with the shuttering of its nuclear power plant in Fort Calhoun last month.
Feds investigating Norfolk zoning dispute with church
NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk officials have acknowledged that the U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into a zoning dispute with a Norfolk church.
An Oct. 24 letter sent to Norfolk Mayor Sue Fuchtman by the federal agency says it has initiated an investigation into how the city’s zoning laws treats religious land uses. The agency says it also will review the city’s rejection of a building permit for renovations to a former beer distributing building now owned by Our Savior Lutheran Church in Norfolk.
City attorney Clint Schukei says a request to rezone the property was rejected because it came from a leasing company. He says city law requires rezoning application to come from a property’s owner.
Sentencing set for woman accused of helping escaped inmate
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A January sentencing has been scheduled for an Omaha woman accused of helping an escaped inmate who fled to Omaha.
Court records say 51-year-old Wanda Minor pleaded no contest last week in Douglas County District Court to a charge of being an accessory to the escape. Her sentencing is set for Jan. 23.
The judge has sealed an arrest affidavit that contains information about what she is alleged to have done.
Inmates Timothy Clausen and Armon Dixon escaped the Lincoln Correctional Center on June 10 by hiding in a laundry truck. Authorities have said the two ripped a hole in the truck’s roof, climbed out and jumped off for a brief span of freedom. Dixon was caught the next day. Clausen was captured at an Omaha apartment on June 15.
Gage County hires bankruptcy attorneys
BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Gage County supervisors have signed a contract with a Lincoln law firm that offers bankruptcy services.
Supervisors took the action Wednesday as they continue to struggle with a $28.1 million lawsuit judgment awarded six people who were wrongfully convicted for the 1985 murder of a Beatrice woman. County officials have said the county doesn’t have the financial resources to pay the judgment.
Gage County asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday to delay execution of the judgment, saying it far exceeds the $18.4 million the county spent on governmental operations last year.
The county’s private attorney said in her motion that bankruptcy “would cause serious harm to the taxpayers of Gage County, as well as the county’s other creditors.”