Authorities have released the name of a 25-year-old Omaha homicide victim.
Omaha police identified him as Nicolas Garrido-Antunez.
Police say officers responded shortly before 6 a.m. Sunday to a report of an injured man.
Officers say the man wasn’t responsive and had a gunshot wound. He was taken to Nebraska Medical Center in extremely critical condition. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
No arrests have been reported.
(AP) — The Congressional Medal of Honor Society is in Newtown, Conn., to honor six educators killed in the December elementary school massacre with its highest civilian award.
The society says Rachel D’Avino, Dawn Hochsprung, Anne Marie Murphy, Lauren Rousseau, Mary Sherlach and Victoria Soto exemplified courage, sacrifice and selflessness in trying to protect students from the gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The women’s families will be presented with the Citizen Honors Medal during a ceremony Monday afternoon at Newtown High School.
The organization, which is made up of Medal of Honor recipients, also will present its Certificate of Commendation to all of the other teachers and staff of the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
A high-speed car chase ended at Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha.
The chase began around 2:15 a.m. Monday when a Bellevue officer spotted a speeding car.
Police say the chase reached speeds of nearly 80 mph before the car crashed through a fence and stopped on the base.
The car driver was taken to a hospital. His name hasn’t been released.
A police cruiser crashed, too, but the officer wasn’t injured.
In the beginning, New York resident Phillip Patterson decided to write out every word in the Bible.
Now, four years after starting with Genesis, the 63-year-old Hudson Valley man has copied out more than 2,400 pages and is close to completing the job. Patterson will finish up the final lines of the Book of Revelation during a ceremony at his church, St. Peter’s Presbyterian in Spencertown, on May 11.
Patterson might seem like an unlikely scribe for the King James version of the Bible. The retired interior designer is neither monkish nor zealous. He goes to church but has never been particularly religious. Health issues — including AIDS and anemia — have sent him to the hospital and slowed the work.
But he says he has always been curious.
(AP) – A 26-year-old Kansas City, Kan., woman has died after falling out of a party bus on Interstate 35 and being struck by three other vehicles.
The Associated Press reports the victim has been identified as Jamie N. Frecks. The Kansas Highway Patrol says she fell out of the emergency door of the party bus around 9:50 p.m. Saturday as it was northbound near the Southwest Boulevard exit in Kansas City, Kan.
Frecks was 1 of 16 passengers on the bus. The Highway Patrol says 2 of the vehicles that struck her after she fell out did not stop.
Nobody else on the bus was injured.
The crash report doesn’t identify the company that operates the bus, which was driven by a 49-year-old Basehor, Kan., woman.
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(AP) — Authorities say a 24-year-old Colorado man accidentally shot himself while cleaning his handgun.
Police say the man, whose name has not been released, was sitting in his vehicle in Colorado Springs when he spilled soda on the gun Saturday afternoon. The man wiped the gun clean, and the weapon accidentally discharged as he was replacing the magazine.
He was taken to a hospital in fair condition after suffering injuries to his left hand, left thigh and left calf.
(AP) — Toys R Us will go before Massachusetts’ highest court Monday to appeal a $20 million jury award to the family of a Colorado woman who died after an inflatable in-ground pool slide partially collapsed.
Robin Aleo was attending a pool party in Andover in 2006 when she slid head first down a “Banzai” slide sold by Wayne, N.J.-based Toys R Us. The slide partially collapsed and she slammed her head on the concrete pool deck. Aleo died the next day.
In 2011, Toys R Us was ordered to pay Aleo’s family $20.6 million.
During trial, lawyers for Aleo’s family said the slide didn’t comply with federal safety standards.
Toys R Us’ attorneys say the Consumer Product Safety Commission regulation cited by Aleo’s family only applies to rigid slides, not inflatable ones
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has canceled its outdoor commencement ceremonies due to bad weather.
School officials announced the decision early Saturday, just hours before the event at Memorial Stadium was set to begin. But they say graduates can receive diplomas from their college dean or associate dean at the Hawks Center on campus.
Students will be professionally photographed with their cap and gown. Family members also can take photos.
The diplomas will be distributed throughout the morning based on the student’s college and a scheduled time.
Officials at the University of Nebraska at Omaha say their graduation ceremonies are still being held, but they’ll be inside.
A Lincoln man has been given prison time for selling crack cocaine to an undercover police officer.
A judge on Thursday sentenced 20-year-old Edward Wilkins to six to 10 years in prison. He pleaded guilty to two counts of delivery.
Courts records show Wilkins sold $100 amounts of crack cocaine to an undercover police officer near the east campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The deals happened within 1,000 feet of the campus.
The incidents happened in June and July of last year, while the officer was working with a narcotics task force. Wilkins was arrested in August.
(AP) — A jury has convicted a man of raping and murdering a mentally disabled woman in Colorado Springs nearly 20 years ago.
58-year-old Jose Burciaga-Ruiz was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and sexual assault in the death of 38-year-old Sharon Lee Sklavos. His sentencing is set for May 31.
Sklavos’ partially nude body was found in a field July 31, 1994.
Investigators always suspected Burciaga-Ruiz was involved, but the case against him was circumstantial — until police resubmitted evidence for DNA testing by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation with the help of a cold-case grant. The results came back in 2012 with a match to Burciaga-Ruiz, who was working as a roofer in Nebraska.
Burciaga-Ruiz dated Sklavos’ sister at the time of the slaying.
