NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A 32-year-old Hershey man has pleaded not guilty to a charge of felony child abuse.
Domingo Carrizales was arrested after his 2-year-old child was taken to Great Plains Medical Center in North Platte.
Authorities say the child has possible brain damage from being struck in the head.
Carrizales’ next hearing is scheduled for Jan. 23.
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 42. Calm wind becoming west southwest between 6 and 9 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 15. South southwest wind 6 to 8 mph becoming northwest.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 40. North northwest wind between 6 and 10 mph.
Wednesday Night: A 50 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 19. North northeast wind between 10 and 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.
Thursday: A 30 percent chance of snow before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 28. Blustery, with a north wind between 14 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – Master Gardener training is scheduled to begin next month in North Platte.
The series of classes begins Jan. 24 and is offered by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension. The classes will be held at the UNL Lincoln-McPherson County Extension Office.
Different topics will be taught each Tuesday evening during the series, which ends March 27.
Among the topics are plant diseases and identification, tree problems, weed identification and soil management.
The $150 fee pays for the training, a Master Gardener name badge, a T-shirt, the Master Gardener Notebook and the UNL Extension Turfgrass Handbook.
To register, send an e-mail to [email protected] or call 308-696-6781. Completed registration packets are due by Jan. 17.
GOTHENBURG, Neb. (AP) – Money is being raised to erect a Pony Express monument in Gothenburg.
The Nebraska division of the National Pony Express Association is leading the project. President Lyle Gronewold says the completed statue will go in Gothenburg’s Ehmen Park, which is home to a preserved Pony Express station.
The life-size statue of a horse and rider will be created by Cambridge artist Gary Ginther.
The cost of the project is expected to be $145,000. About a third of that is needed before Ginther can start work. Gronewold says he expects to raise that much in about six months.
OGALLALA, Neb. (AP) – Two hunters were rescued out of the nearly freezing waters of Lake McConaughy after their boat capsized.
Three hunters were in a boat that capsized Saturday east of Makochmni, on the south shore of Lake Mac. The call came in around 6:30 a.m.
Keystone-Lemoyne Fire Chief Ralph Moul says two hunters swam to shore and borrowed a jet ski to rescue the third hunter, but one ended up back in the water when the jet ski sunk. The water at the time was about 40 degrees.
One of the two rescued hunters was transported to the Ogallala Community Hospital for treatment of severe hypothermia. The other hunter was treated in an ambulance.
Today: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 33. Breezy, with a north northeast wind between 15 and 22 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 14. North northeast wind between 8 and 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 36. North northwest wind between 3 and 8 mph.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 13. South southwest wind at 8 mph becoming west northwest.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 43. North northwest wind around 8 mph.
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 43. West northwest wind between 6 and 11 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 12. West wind between 5 and 8 mph.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 50. West northwest wind between 7 and 9 mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 14. West wind between 3 and 6 mph.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 54. Southwest wind between 3 and 8 mph.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 37. North northwest wind at 7 mph becoming south.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 12. South wind between 3 and 7 mph.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 43. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 13. West northwest wind between 5 and 7 mph.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 47. West wind between 7 and 9 mph.
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – Four people charged after police found two boys locked in a dog kennel in their home have pleaded not guilty.
The boys’ mother, Ashly Clark, and three others – Lacy Beyer, Bryson Eyten and Samantha Eyten – are each charged with two counts of felony child abuse and two counts of false imprisonment. The trial date for all four is Jan. 31.
The four were arrested on Oct. 24 after police found two boys, ages 3 and 5, inside a wire dog kennel inside a filthy trailer. Clark told officers she put the boys in the kennel at night to keep them from climbing out a window.
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A North Platte man has been sentenced to a year in jail for being drunk when he drove his lawn mower on a city street on his way to a liquor store.
Donald Wymer was sentenced Tuesday in a Lincoln County court to 365 days in the county jail for a third-offense drunken driving conviction. The 51-year-old Wymer’s driver’s license also was suspended for 15 years, and he was ordered to pay a $600 fine.
Police say an officer saw Wymer drive to liquor store on his riding lawn mower.
After he left the liquor store, a Nebraska State Patrol trooper stopped him in a residential neighborhood, where he failed a field sobriety test.
