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Upper 30’s/40’s will feel nice…

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Today: A chance of rain and snow before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39. Northwest wind between 5 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 15. Northwest wind between 10 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. 

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 37. Northwest wind between 6 and 9 mph becoming calm. 

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 11. South wind between 5 and 8 mph. 

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 39. South wind around 7 mph becoming north northwest. 

 

Child molester gets 5 years; will serve after arson sentence

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Dean Hackbart

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A North Platte man has been sentenced to five years in prison for molesting a 12-year-old girl.
Forty-one-year-old Dean Hackbart was arrested in June. He pleaded no contest to sexual assault of a child, and was sentenced on Monday in Lincoln County District Court.
Prosecutors say given Hackbart’s criminal record, prison was the only choice the judge could make. Hackbart’s record includes eight probations and a prison sentence for arson.
The judge ordered that Hackbart’s latest sentence begin after his arson sentence.

 

They may get five on it…troopers seized that Indo weed….

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska authorities have arrested four people and seized more than 78 pounds of marijuana after traffic stops along Interstate 80.
The Nebraska State Patrol says in a news release that a trooper pulled over a minivan for speeding around 11:20 a.m. Monday near the Paxton interchange in western Nebraska.
A patrol dog taken to the scene indicated the presence of drugs in the vehicle, and more than 19 pounds of pot and an ounce of hashish were found in luggage. The driver and his passenger were arrested.
On Monday evening, a trooper stopped a sport utility vehicle near Waverly in eastern Nebraska. After a patrol dog indicated the presence of drugs, a search of the SUV turned up nearly 59 pounds of pot. The driver and his passenger were arrested.

 

Sometimes helping is a bad thing…

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Austen James Barraclough

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A 19-year-old North Platte man has been given two-to-six years in prison for injecting methamphetamine into a teenage girl.
Austen Barraclough was sentenced Monday by Lincoln County District Judge Donald Rowlands.
North Platte Police say Barraclough injected the 16-year-old girl at a party in July. Lincoln County Attorney Rebecca Harling says the girl was afraid to inject herself, so Barraclough did it.
Barraclough told the court he had many bad decisions and that he was sorry.

 

Herring caught red-handed; sentencing to come

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Christopher Herring

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A North Platte man faces sentencing Jan. 23 for escaping from a hospital while in custody.
Nineteen-year-old Christopher Herring pleaded no contest to charges of escaping from custody and criminal mischief. In exchange for the plea, prosecutors dropped several other charges.
Herring was serving jail time for theft when he was taken to Great Plains Regional Medical Center for treatment on Oct. 5. He broke out a window, jumped onto the roof and escaped. He was captured a few hours later.

 

All I can say is there’s lots of freezing rain…

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Today: Freezing rain likely. Areas of freezing fog before noon. Cloudy, with a high near 32. Southeast wind between 5 and 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Total daytime ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible.

Tonight: Freezing rain likely, mainly before midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 26. Calm wind becoming east northeast around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible.

Wednesday: Rain or freezing rain likely before noon, then a chance of rain. Cloudy, with a high near 37. North northwest wind between 7 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 20. Northwest wind around 11 mph.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 35. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southeast.

 

Freezing drizzle, for rizzle?

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Today: Areas of fog before noon. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 34. Northeast wind between 3 and 7 mph. 

Tonight: A chance of freezing drizzle after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. East wind between 3 and 6 mph. 

Tuesday: A chance of freezing rain, mainly after noon. Cloudy, with a high near 34. East southeast wind between 3 and 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Tuesday Night: A chance of freezing rain. Cloudy, with a low around 30. South southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Wednesday: A slight chance of rain and snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 38. Calm wind becoming northwest between 6 and 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

 

Neb. man dies after being dragged under truck

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LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say a central Nebraska man was dragged underneath a vehicle for more than a mile before the driver left the man behind to die.
The Dawson County Sheriff’s office said Friday that investigators determined Domingo Lujan Jr. was dragged for about 1 1/4 miles in the hit-and-run crash.
Lujan’s body was discovered near an intersection southwest of Lexington early Tuesday morning.
The sheriff’s office says the death of the 36-year-old Oxford man is being investigated as a crime. An autopsy revealed that the cause of Lujan’s death was blunt force trauma.

 

 

(A little bit) Warmer weekend

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Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 29. Wind chill values as low as -2. Northwest wind at 6 mph becoming south southwest. 

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 10. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 6 mph. 

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 41. West wind between 5 and 8 mph. 

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 12. South southwest wind around 7 mph. 

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 40. South wind between 6 and 8 mph. 

 

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