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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

West Rodeo Rd- N.P.

HEAD ON COLLISION THAT JUST HAPPENED OUTSIDE OF WHERE I WORK, THERE IS AN SUV ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AMBULANCE ON ITS SIDE. PLEASE DRIVE CAREFUL EVERYONE

 

Thanks to Melissa for the picture and comments…

 

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Costs concerns have been raised about a proposal that all Nebraska schools give students statewide tests online beginning next year.
State school board member John Sieler, of Omaha, says the requirement proposed by the Nebraska Education Department could be a burden for some districts.
Schools have been able to choose whether to administer the tests online or the old-fashioned way: pencil or pencil applied to paper.
Pat Roschewski is assessment director for the department. She says about 80 percent of the state’s students took the reading test online last year, but less than 60 percent went online for the math test.
Roschewski says that cost the state $56,000 to buy more math test booklets.

 

MCCOOK, Neb. (AP) – Questions about whether two McCook City Council members convicted of misdemeanors can remain in office may be answered by an outside attorney.
Aaron Kircher and Shane Hilker have been advised to refrain from voting until the issue is settled. Kircher has been convicted of disturbing the peace. Hilker has been found guilty of harboring a potentially vicious dog.
According to Nebraska law, council members who’ve been convicted of crimes while in office must step down.
The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office says that because Hilker had violated only a city ordinance, the state law likely doesn’t apply.
But City Attorney Nate Schneider remains reluctant to make that determination, so he’s advising the council to seek counsel from an outside law firm. The council is expected to vote on that suggestion Thursday.

 

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (North Platte Post)- Local law enforcement now has another tool in the fight against crime. The key to the new crime scene trailer/command post changed hands on Wednesday at Larry’s RV in North Platte.The unit is co-owned by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and North Platte Police Department and will be a valuable asset by providing more efficient crime scene processing, saving time and resources. The unit was made available through combined money from the Nebraska Cattlewomen and The U.S. Bureau of Justice, Edward Burn Memorial.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) – The issue may be dust in the wind, but Republicans are still moving to block it.
Environmental Protection Agency officials have said repeatedly that they won’t propose new regulations to limit dust kicked up by farm equipment. But anti-regulation sentiment is strong this year on the campaign trail – which is why House Republicans are planning to vote this week to prevent the imaginary regulation.
Republicans and even some Democrats have told farm-state audiences that the EPA is considering a crackdown on farms, despite an agency statement last month calling that a “myth.”
Republicans say they want more certainty for the agriculture industry. The House GOP has pushed a host of measures aimed at weakening, delaying or scrapping environmental regulations in recent months, saying they view them as job killers.