(AP) — Fog is delaying flights by about an hour in Denver, and some smaller planes are being diverted to other airports because of the low visibility.
The fog is expected to lift by 9 a.m. Monday.
About 15 commuter flights headed to Denver International Airport have had to instead land in Colorado Springs, Durango and Eagle, as well as to Albuquerque, N.M., and Rapid City, S.D.
Fog is unusual in Denver, which boasts of having more than 300 sunny days a year.
(AP) — A Nebraska group is working to build a permanent home in Lincoln for homeless veterans.
The group Operation Veterans Encouraging Recovery held a fundraiser at the Havelock United Methodist Church on Sunday.
The group is working on a house in south Lincoln that was donated in the spring. It will serve as a permanent home for up to four veterans.
The fundraiser drew about 150 people. Another event is set for Oct. 6 at the Crooked Creek Golf Club in Lincoln. Organizers say registration is open through Sept. 22.
(AP) — An Amish woman injured in a buggy crash east of Pawnee City remains in critical condition, but a friend says she is improving.
20-year-old Fannie Yoder was still at a Lincoln hospital as of Sunday afternoon. A nursing supervisor says Yoder remained in critical condition after the July 21 crash, which killed her 17-year-old brother, Reuben Yoder.
But Kathy Monarrez, a friend of Yoder’s who has driven family members to the hospital for visits, says Fannie Yoder has shown substantial improvement since she was admitted to the hospital.
The two were traveling to church in a horse-drawn buggy on Nebraska Highway 8/50 when they were struck from behind by a Cadillac. The Cadillac driver was treated for minor injuries.
(AP) — Repairing the faulty pedestrian bridge near Lincoln’s new arena is becoming costly.
Investigating the failure of two of the bridge’s girders will now cost at least $84,000. The group overseeing construction of the Pinnacle Bank Arena approved a new contract with an engineering firm on Friday.
Whoever is responsible for the bridge problems will be expected to pay the repair bills.
The faulty girders in the $7.9 million bridge are expected to be replaced soon. Officials expect that roughly 5,000 people will use the bridge to cross from the arena to parking.
Lincoln Police say an intoxicated 22-year-old man fell off the bridge Sunday morning. His injuries were not life threatening, and he was ticketed for trespassing.
(AP) — An eastern Nebraska town’s police chief died two days after a motorcycle crash on Interstate 80.
Aurora Police Chief Godfrey Brokenrope died Saturday evening at a Lincoln hospital.
Brokenrope had been hospitalized ever since he crashed his motorcycle Thursday on I-80 near Seward.
The Nebraska State Patrol says Brokenrope was unable to stop his motorcycle quick enough when traffic slowed, and he crashed in the median.
Aurora Mayor Marlin Seeman says Brokenrope had been chief since 2006. Previously, he had been a police officer in Grand Island, Aurora and the military.
Seeman says Brokenrope was committed to the community and the department.
(AP) — An Indianapolis church leader says the youth pastor and his pregnant wife are among the three people who died in Saturday’s bus crash.
Deacon Jeff Leffew said at a news conference outside of Colonial Hills Baptist Church on Sunday morning that youth pastor Chad Phelps and his wife, Courtney Phelps, died in the accident.
He said Chad Phelps is the son of the church’s main pastor, Charles Phelps. Courtney Phelps was pregnant and due next month.
The third person who died was Tonya Weindorf, a mother of five who was a chaperone on the trip to the northern Michigan youth camp.
Dozens were injured in the accident, in which a bus struck a retaining wall and flipped on its side. The Phelps’ 2-year-old son has been released from the hospital.
(AP) — A Schuyler woman hurt in a crash Monday in Columbus has died from her injuries.
25-year-old Naimo Buluf died Friday at a Lincoln hospital.
Columbus police say Buluf was driving a sedan southbound Monday afternoon when she crossed in front of an eastbound semitrailer. The semi struck the passenger side of Buluf’s car, and both vehicles left the roadway, coming to rest at the bottom of the south embankment.
Buluf and a passenger in her vehicle, 32-year-old Berika Tahiro of Schuyler, were injured and flown to a Lincoln hospital.
Tahiro remains hospitalized in critical condition.
The 64-year-old driver of the semi was treated and released from Columbus Community Hospital.
(AP) — A Gretna woman accused of embezzling more than $4 million from the tobacco and candy business she worked for is facing tax evasion charges.
The Nebraska Department of Revenue and the Sarpy County attorney opted to pursue the tax evasion charges against 54-year-old Caroline Richardson after her former employer, Colombo Candy and Tobacco Wholesale Co, declined to press charges against her.
Instead, the company has gone after an Iowa casino. In a federal lawsuit, Colombo says Ameristar Casino should have known that Richardson was gambling with ill-gotten money.
But Sarpy County Attorney Lee Polikov says Richardson owes $430,000 in unpaid taxes for the $4.1 million she stole from 2010 to 2011. She is charged with three counts of tax evasion and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
(AP) — Police and recovery workers from Iowa and Nebraska have pulled a decomposing body from the Missouri River near casinos in Council Bluffs.
Authorities say a boater called 911 Saturday afternoon to report a body floating in the river between Council Bluffs and Omaha, Neb.
No other details of the body or who it may be were released.
(AP) — A breeding program in Omaha is trying to keep a toad native to Wyoming from extinction.
The Wyoming toad is considered critically endangered and one of the four most endangered amphibian species in the United States. The toad is listed as extinct in the wild on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Animals because it can only be found in only one protected place, a pond in the Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge near Laramie, Wyo.
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium is one of eight U.S. zoos that are breeding the toads for release in Wyoming.
The zoo has sent nearly 2,800 tadpoles and young toads to Wyoming since the program started in 1995.
