LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say two people were sent to a hospital after a fire at a Lincoln home.
The fire was reported around 8:30 p.m. Saturday in northeast Lincoln. Two residents were taken to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Their names haven’t been released.
Fire officials say the blaze started in the house kitchen. Damage was estimated at $40,000.
STANTON, Neb. (AP) – More human remains have been found along the Elkhorn River in northeast Nebraska’s Stanton County.
County Sheriff Mike Unger says the remains were found Saturday on private property about 3 miles east of Stanton. Last month skeletal remains were found about 3 miles southwest of Stanton.
The remains found Saturday will be analyzed for identity and the cause of death, as are those found last month.
The sheriff says he’s confident neither of the remains are those of Scott Goodman, a Norfolk man who was last seen March 14 being swept away by Elkhorn floodwaters on the east side of Norfolk upstream.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say a woman has died following a crash in north Lincoln.
The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the crash happened around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, when a car left 27th Street and hit a tree. Police say the 22-year-old female driver and a 20-year-old woman who was a passenger both suffered serious injuries and were taken to a local hospital, where the 20-year-old died.
Police have not released the names of either woman.
The crash closed 27th Street for several hours. Police continue to investigate.
GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska (AP) — Police say a single-car crash on Interstate 80 near Grand Island has killed an Illinois woman.
The Nebraska State Patrol says the crash happened just after 7 a.m. Friday when a car drove into a ditch near an exit. The driver apparently over-corrected and the vehicle rolled twice, throwing a passenger from the vehicle.
The passenger, 27-year-old Allyssa Wiebel, of Bartlett, Illinois, was taken to a Grand Island hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The 20-year-old driver, Tony Trujillo, of Cicero, Illinois, and an 18-year-old passenger, who wasn’t identified, were taken to a hospital for minor injuries.
Police are investigating the crash.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln school administrator says a 14-year-old girl has died in an early morning crash of a stolen car.
The Lincoln Journal Star reports the crash happened just after 4 a.m. Friday when a car rammed into a pole in northeast Lincoln, killing the driver.
Later Friday, Lincoln High School Principal Mark Larson sent a letter to parents identifying the driver as 14-year-old Kaydance Potter, a ninth grader at the school.
Officials made a crisis response team available to students Friday, and the team planned to return to the school Monday.
The car is believed to have been stolen April 15 from a driveway in southeast Lincoln.
LONGTON, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say one of two brothers hurt in an all-terrain vehicle crash in rural southeast Kansas has died from his injuries.
Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Rick Wingate identified the boy as 6-year-old Owen Cannon, of Longton. His 9-year-old brother was driving the ATV when it crashed into a pickup truck on April 18 while cresting a hill on an Elk County gravel road.
Both boys were flown away from the wreck. The truck driver wasn’t hurt. A GoFundMe says the older boy had a broken leg, while Owen had swelling on his brain and cracked vertebrae in his neck.
Wingate says the investigation is ongoing.
FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A former Fremont police officer accused of sexually assaulting a child has pleaded not guilty.Dodge County District Court records say 33-year-old Austin Williams entered the pleas Thursday to two counts of sexual assault of a child and to related charges. A trial date wasn’t set. His next hearing is scheduled for Aug. 26.
Officials say an investigation into Williams began last summer when the patrol was notified by an advocacy center of a potential sexual assault.
At the time of the investigation, Williams was an officer with the Fremont Police Department, but the patrol says his employment there has ended.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a woman died when the car she was driving rammed into a pole in northeast Lincoln.
Firefighters responding to a 911 report found the crash scene around 4:15 a.m. Friday. Lincoln Police Capt. Ben Kopsa says the eastbound car went out of control and ran off the roadway before striking the pole. Police suspect speeding is a factor in the crash.
The woman’s name hasn’t been released.
The car is believed to have been stolen April 15 from a driveway in southeast Lincoln.
HOOPER, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 77-year-old woman died when a pickup truck she was in collided with a sport utility vehicle.
The crash occurred Tuesday at the intersection of U.S. Highway 275 and County Road 19 on the south side of Hooper. The Nebraska State Patrol says the pickup was turning onto the highway when it collided with the SUV.
The patrol says the pickup passenger, Janice Bade, died. The driver, 85-year-old Harold Bade, was flown to a hospital.
The SUV driver was identified as 48-year-old Carrie Marion, of Omaha. Marion was hospitalized.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A Mexican national who helped run a cockfighting operation in northeastern Nebraska has been sentenced in the U.S. to federal prison.
Federal prosecutors in Nebraska say 48-year-old Fabian Castro was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months in prison. After his release, he will be placed on two years’ supervised release.
Castro pleaded guilty to one count of participation in an animal fighting venture. Prosecutors say Castro had 31 gamecocks when the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducted a search of an O’Neill ranch owned by Juan Pablo Sanchez-Delgado. Officials say Castro trained the birds to fight in matches where others would gamble on the outcome of the fights. Several of the birds had visible injuries and deformities from training and the fights.
Sanchez-Delgado was among several business owners targeted in immigration raids last August at Nebraska and Minnesota businesses and plants. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to harbor aliens and will be sentenced in the coming weeks.
