NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A 39-year-old Hershey woman whose child-abuse case was dropped in November has been charged with sexual assault of a child. The three new counts against Deanna Fischer, of Hershey, are based on two incidents that prosecutors say occurred in February 2006 and one that prosecutors say occurred in February 2005. In November a child-abuse charge against Fischer was dropped. She’d been accused of not stopping her husband from sexually assaulting children. Authorities say Daniel Fischer committed suicide after he was charged. Deanna Fischer remained in Lincoln County Jail on Friday, pending $50,000 bail. Her attorney in the earlier case says he isn’t representing her in the new one.

 

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The trial of a man charged with killing a fellow inmate at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln is set for June.

The Lincoln Journal Star (http://bit.ly/HSarxZ ) says a judge on Tuesday granted a defense motion to delay the trial of Mohamed Abdulkadir until the June 11 jury term.

Abdulkadir is charged with first-degree murder and a weapons charge. He’s accused of fatally stabbing Michael Grandon in June 2011.

Grandon was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder and aiding and abetting first-degree murder in the 2007 deaths of a North Platte woman and her 5-year-old daughter.

Abdulkadir is in prison for aiding and abetting second-degree murder and drug and robbery charges in the 2009 killing of a man in Grand Island.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A 19-year-old woman has been given 57 months in federal prison for helping to sell cocaine in North Platte.

A news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg says Megan Miller, formerly of Denver, was sentenced on Wednesday. Miller must serve five years on supervised release after she leaves prison.

Gilg’s office says Miller hauled cocaine from Denver to North Platte for her accomplice to sell. The drug sales occurred between April 26 and June 14 last year.

The accomplice, 27-year-old Lisa Rosenberg, of North Platte, also has been sentenced to 57 months in prison.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — The North Platte City Council may reconsider the city’s new above-ground fuel storage tank regulations to allow natural gas.

A company that works with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has asked the council for permission to work with the city and the fire department to amend the rules.

Patrick Fiedler of Fiedler Group, an architecture and engineering company, told the council on Tuesday that Clean Energy Fuels is working on installing 300 fueling stations across the country as trucking companies transition into using natural gas instead of diesel. He says the Flying J truck stop in North Platte is a site that will work with the company.

The council tabled the new regulations on the fuel tanks to give officials time to discuss the idea.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A 43-year-old woman has been arrested, accused of starting a fire at her North Platte home so another resident would leave.

Royalene Hernandez was arrested Monday night on suspicion of felony arson.

North Platte police responded to a call from the home earlier Monday evening. Hernandez told officers she wanted another resident to leave. But officers told her she’d have to go through an eviction process, and they left.

Firefighters were sent to the home a little before 9 p.m. to battle a carpet blaze inside. Officers say Hernandez started the fire because the other resident still refused to leave. No injuries were reported.

Online records say Hernandez remained in Lincoln County Jail on Wednesday. Online court records don’t list the case yet.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — Four people charged in a dog-kennel child abuse case in North Platte want to suppress evidence from interviews with police, claiming their Miranda Rights were violated.

Ashly Clark, Lacy Beyer and Bryson and Samantha Eyten are charged with child abuse and false imprisonment. Police found Clark’s two boys sleeping in a wired-shut kennel last October.

During a hearing on Monday in Lincoln County District Court, attorneys argued that officers intended to arrest the defendants after arriving at the scene, and they were essentially under arrest at that time. However, attorneys say, no Miranda Rights were read and any information obtained from interviews should be suppressed.

Prosecutors say the information should be admissible because the defendants were interviewed during an ongoing investigation.