A suspect in a fatal Omaha shooting last weekend turned himself into police in Kansas.
Omaha police say 22-year-old LaMichael Fewell was arrested Tuesday in Junction City, Kan., after a warrant was issued. He faces charges of using a gun to commit second-degree murder.
Police say Fewell is a suspect in the shooting death of 23-year-old Jer’ray Moore.
Officers found Moore outside an apartment complex in central Omaha Saturday with a gunshot wound. Moore died later at a hospital.
Fewell will be extradited from Kansas to face the charges.
Nebraska lawmakers are moving ahead with a proposed study of 911 services.
Lawmakers granted first-round approval to a bill Tuesday that would initiate a state review of the new emergency technology.
Nebraska is looking at ways to harness its 911 services so dispatchers can gather more information, whether it’s video footage of a crime in progress or a cellphone photo of a car crash.
State officials also want to make sure they’re ready for 911 texting services that will arrive by next year at the latest. AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon have agreed to make emergency texting available to more than 90 percent of U.S. cellphone users by May 2014.
The bill was introduced by Sen. Scott Price, of Bellevue.
An eight-member Nebraska team has designed its structure for an assault on the Guinness World Record for a Lincoln Log structure.
Three professionals from DLR Group and five University of Nebraska-Lincoln students are scheduled to begin their build at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Children’s Museum in Lincoln.
The team seeks two marks: the tallest Lincoln Log structure ever built, using a record number of Lincoln Logs. Not exactly child’s play with a children’s toy.
The team plan calls for a 12-foot-tall structure that requires 10,000 Lincoln Logs. The structure is supposed to resemble Nebraska’s state Capitol.
The current record was set in March 2010 by The Community House of Arts in Ottawa, Ill. The nearly 11-foot-tall structure required nearly 3,000 Lincoln Logs.
Two members of a Michigan-based militia acquitted last year of plotting to overthrow the U.S. government have filed a federal lawsuit against three FBI agents and a state police trooper.
Michael Meeks of Manchester and Thomas Piatek of Whiting, Ind., say their constitutional rights were violated during raids on their homes in 2010.
The two Hutaree members as well as three members of Meeks’ family filed the lawsuit late last month in U.S. District Court in Detroit.
The plaintiffs are seeking at least $25,000 in damages for each of the suit’s 16 counts.
Both FBI spokesman Simon Shaykhet and Michigan State Police spokeswoman Tiffany Brown said Tuesday they had no comment.
Authorities are deciding whether to charge anyone after police say a 6-year-old was shot in the head by a 4-year-old in New Jersey.
The older boy is in serious condition.
Authorities are still investigating how the younger child obtained the .22-caliber rifle from his family’s Toms River home Monday night.
Police Chief Michael Mastronardy says the children were outside the 4-year-old’s home when the boy went inside, got the rifle and shot the 6-year-old about 15 yards away. It’s not clear if the 4-year-old pulled the trigger or if the rifle accidentally discharged.
The parents of the 4-year-old were home at the time.
No names have been released.
The shooting comes amid debate over gun control laws in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting.
No injuries have been reported in a train derailment in eastern Nebraska’s Dodge County.
Union Pacific Railroad spokesman Mark Davis says 21 cars went off the tracks around 4:45 a.m. Tuesday just west of North Bend. They were part of a train headed from Wisconsin to Wyoming. The train consisted of three locomotives and 138 empty coal cars.
The derailment is blocking both tracks in the area. Davis says he had no estimate for when the tracks would be cleared.
He says the derailment cause is being investigated, but heavy winds are suspected.
(AP) — The sheriff’s department in Denver says a deputy has been arrested on suspicion that he helped a fugitive who left the county jail wearing a deputy’s uniform.
Matthew Andrews is a two-year veteran of the department. He’s accused of assisting the escape, a class-three felony. The 36-year-old was arrested Monday at Denver police headquarters.
Sheriff’s officials say 24-year-old Felix Trujillo was being held in connection with an aggravated robbery when he escaped Sunday night.
Denver police are trying to determine what motive Andrews might have had for helping Trujillo escape.
Sheriff’s officials say Andrews underwent a background check before he was hired.
An Iowa infant’s heart transplant at a Nebraska hospital is the first of its kind in the state.
Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha says the pediatric heart transplant performed early Monday on 2-week-old Lainey Wilkinson is the first in Nebraska.
Officials say the operation went well for Lainey, who was born with a congenital heart defect. She is recovering as expected in the intensive care unit.
Officials say the United Network for Organ Sharing gave the hospital interim approval last month to begin performing heart transplants. Officials say it’s a significant development for families in the immediate area and around the Midwest.
Lainey has been hospitalized at Children’s since her birth. Her parents are from Council Bluffs, Iowa
The Walt Disney Co. says Annette Funicello, who went from Mouseketeer to beach party movie icon, has died at age 70.
Funicello stunned fans and friends in 1992 with the announcement she was suffering from multiple sclerosis. Yet she was cheerful and upbeat, grappling with the disease with a courage that contrasted with her lightweight teen image of old.
The pretty, dark-haired Funicello was just 13 when she gained fame on Walt Disney’s television kiddie “club,” an amalgam of stories, songs and dance routines that ran from 1955 to 1959.
Cast after Disney saw her at a dance recital, she soon began receiving 8,000 fan letters a month, 10 times more than any of the 23 other young performers.
Queen Elizabeth has authorized a ceremonial funeral, that’s one step short of a state funeral, for Margaret Thatcher.
The former British prime minister, the only woman ever to hold that job, died today at the age of 87. Flags are at half staff at Buckingham Palace, Parliament and Downing Street.
Admirers saw Thatcher as a savior who rescued Britain from ruin and laid the groundwork for an economic resurgence. Critics say she ushered in an era of greed that kicked the weak into the streets and allowed the rich to become filthy rich. Like her close friend and political ally Ronald Reagan, she seemed motivated by an unshakable belief that free markets would build a stronger country than reliance on a strong, central government.
She’s also remembered for standing beside the United States as the West won the Cold War over the Soviet Union.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is remembering Thatcher as someone who “didn’t just lead” her country, but “saved” it. He says she’ll be remembered as “the greatest British peacetime prime minister.”
President Barack Obama says she was both a great champion of freedom and an example to women everywhere.
