The Scottsbluff city manager says he expects to release a statement Thursday about the continued employment of Police Chief Alex Moreno.

The chief has acknowledged having an affair with a woman who has since sued him and the city.

City Manager Rick Kuckkahn said that the complexities of the issue delayed what was expected to be an announcement on Wednesday.

Tamara Villanueva sued Moreno and the city in federal court. Villanueva was a coordinator with a Neighborhood Watch program, and she says her monthlong sexual relationship with Moreno ended in November 2010. She says he harassed her and violated her rights after their affair ended.

In court filings Moreno denied the allegations. He has declined to comment otherwise.

He’s been chief since January 2005.

OGALLALA, Neb. (AP) — The former Keith County attorney has been given three years of probation for stealing Keith County money.

Blake Edwards was sentenced on Wednesday. He’d been convicted of one theft charge and acquitted of two more in Keith County.

Edwards and his wife, Shirley, were charged in January 2011 with theft. Prosecutors said more than $18,000 in Keith County diversion program funds was taken or mishandled. His wife had worked in the county attorney’s office.

Blake Edwards said the money was used to purchase office equipment for the diversion program and to pay his office staff and wife for diversion program-related work not covered by their wages.

The charges against his wife were dropped.

Blake Edwards later found work as Dundy County attorney.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former central Nebraska shop owner has been sentenced to probation and fined for trafficking in counterfeit handbags, watches and other goods.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that a 58-year-old Deborah Pittman was sentenced Monday to in Nebraska’s U.S. District Court to five years’ probation, 100 hours of community service and fined $25,000.

Nebraska U.S. Attorney Deborah R. Gilg says that federal agents bought a counterfeit Kate Spade purse and a counterfeit Coach watch in February 2010 from Classic Coyote in Arnold, a business Pittman owned from 2007 to 2011.

Two months later, raided the shop and seized more than 1,000 counterfeit items, including purses, watches, wallets, belts, hats, scarves and sunglasses, and 600 counterfeit labels.

Arnold is about 40 miles northeast of North Platte

Today: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 76. North wind 8 to 13 mph.

Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 45. North northeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 77. South southeast wind 6 to 10 mph.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb.- Police responded to a call of a vicious dog attacking it’s caretaker, luckily the police responded before an already dangerous situation easily could have turned fatal.

August  14^th at the Key Estate community in North Platte,  Animal Control Officers and North Platte Police arrived at the home where the call for help was made.

The female caretaker called local authorities scared that animal would continue attacking her. It’s unknown how long she struggled with the dog.

A male pit-bull was in the front yard when officers arrived. The pit-bull immediately turned aggressive towards the officers. Immediately officers heard a scream from inside the home where a female pit boxer also showing signs of aggression.

Wasting no time, in effort to reach the victim the authority’s tasered the male dog, and sedated the female dog. Emergency workers brought the caretaker to Great Plains Regional Medical Center to treat her multiple puncture wounds.

The dogs remain quarantined at the animal shelter, the male is deemed as dangerous.

The owners of the dogs and family members of the victim have been notified.

MCCOOK, Neb. (AP) — A South Dakota woman has been given probation after making a plea deal in a child sex assault case.

The 23-year-old Heather Geary, of Rapid City, S.D., was sentenced to 12 months of probation.

Geary originally was charged with third-degree sexual assault of a child. In exchange for her plea of no contest, prosecutors dropped the felony charge to a misdemeanor of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

An arrest affidavit says Geary groped a 13-year-old boy in October 2010.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska at Kearney has received a $5,800 state grant to increase its alcohol law enforcement during the first weeks of classes.

The university’s police and parking services will use the money to pay for officer overtime between Aug. 23 and Sept. 23. The university is expected to increase the number of officers working between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, the most common time for alcohol incidents on campus.

The grant comes from the Highway Safety Division of the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles.

This is the fourth straight year the university has received the grant.

SIDNEY, Neb.— Impersonating an officer is a serious matter, and we’re not talking about dressing up for Halloween.  

O’Reiley pleaded guilty on Monday, and was sentenced to 90 days in jail where he was credited for the 71 days he served already.

The Western Nebraska man Bobby O’Reiley, 25 year old from Mitchell tried to pass off for a cop on I-80 June 3rd. O’Reiley attempted to pull over another driver when he  began to tailgate them while flashing his headlights and showing a badge of some kind.

The Nebraska State Patrol stopped O’Reiley, he had two cans of tear gas, a hand gun and a security badge.

Today: A slight chance of thunderstorms after 4pm. Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 102. South wind 6 to 10 mph becoming west northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tonight: A slight chance of thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. Windy, with a north wind 27 to 32 mph decreasing to 13 to 18 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 43 mph. Chance of precipitation is 10%.

Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 77. North wind 8 to 11 mph.