North Platte – The North Platte Community College Knights Basketball team will open their 2016-17 season on the road at the McCook Classic on Friday, Nov 4, and Saturday, Nov 5.
The Knights will play Doane College Junior Varsity on Friday at 6 p.m., and Presentation College Junior Varsity at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Continue reading “NPCC Knights Basketball to Open Season at McCook Classic”
North Platte – The North Platte Community College Lady Knights Basketball team will open their 2016-17 season at home at the Hampton Inn Classic on Friday, November 4, and Saturday, November 5. Continue reading “NPCC Lady Knights Basketball to Open Season at Hampton Inn Classic”
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected in the March killing of an Omaha man has been captured.
Twenty-one-year-old Bernard Turner was taken into custody Wednesday without incident on a warrant listing charges that included first-degree murder. Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him.
Turner is suspected of killing Jarrell Haynes, who was shot and killed outside his grandmother’s home March 2.
A woman was arrested with Turner on suspicion of harboring a fugitive. Court records don’t show that she’s been charged.
TEKAMAH, Neb. (AP) — About 75 people have helped harvest the corn planted by a man who died in October after driving into a cloud of anhydrous ammonia that leaked from a pipeline near his home north in northeast Nebraska.
Authorities say the anhydrous ammonia, a farm fertilizer with suffocating fumes, leaked from the pipeline near Tekamah on Oct. 17.
Hazmat workers and Tekamah firefighters responded to reports of a motorist who needed help and moved 59-year-old Phillip Hennig to a safe area, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Friends and neighbors came out Wednesday to harvest Hennig’s 650 acres of corn. Neighbors have already harvested Hennig’s bean crop.
Magellan Midstream Partners, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been repairing the 8-inch-diameter pipeline that carries the fertilizer.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) â The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating a southwestern Nebraska produce company after learning one of the company’s workers was killed on the job last week.
56-year-old Michael Nelson was hospitalized Oct. 24 after being hit in the head by a metal beam while helping move potatoes at his job at Frenchman Valley Produce in Wallace. OSHA says it learned that Nelson died from head injuries on Oct. 27. The agency said Frenchman Valley did not report his death to OSHA as required.
A woman who answered the phone at Frenchman Valley Produce in Imperial said no one was available early Thursday afternoon to comment. She refused to take a message.
EMERSON, Neb. (AP) — Northeastern Nebraska authorities have identified human remains found in rural Dakota County as those of a 41-year-old man.
The Dakota County Attorney’s office on Thursday identified the man as Kraig Kubik, of Emerson.
Authorities found parts of Kubik’s body at a trailer home near Emerson on Wednesday afternoon, and officials have determined that Kubik is dead. Officials have not said how they believed he died, but have begun a homicide investigation. Investigators continued Thursday to search for Kubik’s other remains.
Authorities say people are being questioned, but no one had been charged by Thursday afternoon.
Authorities say Kubik was last seen Tuesday night at his home. Investigators believe an altercation took place there, and he was forcibly taken from the residence.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers and their staffs can no longer use the state’s secure network for personal business under a new policy approved by a legislative committee.
The Legislature’s Executive Board voted 7-0 on Thursday to adopt the new rules.
The policy makes clear that only lawmakers and legislative staffers can use the state’s secure network. It forbids them from using that network to access adult content or participate in illegal activities. It also prohibits them from posting information on personal, commercial or campaign-related websites.
The policy also requires senators and employees to change their login passwords at least once a year. If a password is shared, the person who owns the account is responsible for all activity.
Senators and staff can still use the Capitol’s public network for non-legislative purposes.
BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A 37-year-old Diller man has pleaded no contest to an amended charge in the abuse case of a Beatrice State Developmental Center resident.
Shawn Ebeling entered the plea Thursday to a misdemeanor charge of attempted abuse of a vulnerable adult. In exchange, prosecutors dropped a more serious felony charge.
Ebeling faces up to a year in jail when he’s sentenced Jan. 5.
Another employee of the center reported that Ebeling punched a patient on Aug. 24, and then manhandled the patient until the patient’s face struck the handle of a fuse box. Ebeling told investigators he got upset when the resident tried to bite him and he pushed “a little too hard.”
The facility houses and treats disabled residents.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A state official who is coordinating Nebraska’s response to human trafficking is retiring later this month.
The Nebraska attorney general’s office announced Thursday that Stephen Patrick O’Meara will step down from his job on Nov. 30. O’Meara, a former federal prosecutor, was hired by the state in July 2015.
O’Meara planned and executed the state’s strategic plan to fight trafficking. He will be replaced by Glen Parks, who was hired by the state in August to assist with the effort. Parks graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 2001, clerked for former Nebraska Supreme Court Justice John Gerrard and spent nine years fighting sex trafficking in India.
Attorney General Doug Peterson says O’Meara was extremely valuable in the push to clamp down on sex and labor trafficking.
BROKEN BOW, Neb. (AP) — A sentencing hearing has been delayed for a woman convicted in the 2013 death of her nephew in Broken Bow.
The attorney for 26-year-old Brittney Pryce sought the delay because Pryce is undergoing a 90-day evaluation. The attorney also is seeking a new trial, based on what he says is new evidence about Pryce’s mental condition.
The judge set a new sentencing date of Dec. 15 and ordered a Nov. 10 hearing on trial motion.
Authorities say 20-month-old Noah Pryce suffered a fatal head injury in November 2013 while in a car with Pryce and Pryce’s mother, Diane Hill. Both women were initially charged with second-degree murder. The case against Hill was dismissed. Pryce later was convicted of child abuse resulting in death.
