LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 22-year-old Lincoln woman accused of causing her aunt’s death by swerving to throw her off a vehicle has pleaded not guilty to motor-vehicle homicide.
Kacie Alatoree filed a written plea before her set arraignment on Wednesday.
Alatoree faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.
Police say 36-year-old Autumn Rodriguez Hernandez died Nov. 12, days after she climbed onto the SUV Alatoree was driving. Police say Alatoree accelerated and swerved left and right to shake Rodriguez Hernandez off the vehicle, causing the older woman to fall and hit her head on a curb. Police say Alatoree then fled the scene.
Police say Rodriguez Hernandez had loaned the SUV to her niece three months earlier and was trying to get it back when she climbed onto it.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Bellevue woman has been charged with child abuse after police say she twisted the genitals of her boyfriend’s 5-year-old son after the boy wet the bed.
Bail was set Wednesday at $30,000 for 48-year-old Hollie Budka, who is charged with felony child abuse in Douglas County. Police say they were called after the boy’s mother noticed marks and bruising on his neck and genitals following the boy’s visit to his father’s house on Jan. 28.
The boy told investigators that Budka twisted his genitals and beat him with a belt after he had wet the bed.
No attorney is listed for Budka in online court documents, and Budka could not be reached for comment Wednesday..
There is nothing worse than dealing with a computer that refuses to move at
Drew Purviance, Eagle Technology Solutions
the pace you want it to. This gets even more frustrating when the computer was working at your desired speed for a while but has suddenly stopped doing so. Below are some quick how-to’s to speed up your Windows 10 PC.
By far, the No. 1 thing that will bog down your machine is temporary files being stored in the machine. The easiest way to combat this is to download and install the free program CCleaner, https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/download
This program will automatically go through and delete all those files that are taking up space on your computer.
Download CCleaner (it’s a small program and won’t take up space on your computer)
Find the CCleaner install file in your computer downloads folder (or wherever you have set files to download)
Double click the application install file and allow it to run on your computer.
Once CCleaner is open you just have to press “Run Cleaner” and then press “OK” on the windows that pop up afterwards.
When the program has finished running, It will then tell you how many temporary files were deleted. Then you are free to close the program. (I run this program about every other week on my machines.)
If you still haven’t noticed any improvements, then you can dig a little deeper and shut off some unnecessary Windows services.
On your Windows machine, press the windows key (next to your ctrl and alt button) and the r key at the same time. After that combination has been pressed, a run command box will open in your bottom left hand corner. From there you can type in, services.msc and press enter or click “OK.”
This will open up your Windows services. The first service to look for is one called Superfetch.
Once you find it you can right-click on it and select “Properties.”
This will open another window.
Find start up type and change it to “Disabled.”
At the Service Status, go ahead and stop the service and the press “Apply” and then “OK.” You can also apply the same steps to the services, “Background Intelligent Transfer Service” and “Windows Font Cache Service.”
As always, if you have any issues with these or would just like us to go through and help you out with them, we are always here! Any one of our technicians can help you do this, and you don’t even need to leave home.We can work with you remotely or help you if you encounter an issue with the process described above.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Public Schools board has voted to put a nearly $410 million bond issue that would build five new schools on the May ballot.
The board voted unanimously Monday night to approve the project list and price tag for a bond referendum.
The $409.9 million bond proposal would be used to construct 1,500-student high schools at south-central and far northwest Omaha. It would also build two 600-student elementary schools, at eastern Omaha and in Bellevue, and a 1,000-student middle school in south-central Omaha.
The board will still have to draft and approve official ballot language to place the bond measure on the May 15 ballot. The deadline to submit that ballot language is March 1.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials have rescued two dogs that were inside a vehicle that crashed and killed the driver.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says its deputies responded Sunday morning to a crash believed to have happened the night before near the Irvington community just north of Omaha. Investigators say 29-year-old Adam Bortle, of Omaha, died when his Jeep went out of control, went airborne and came to rest on its roof in a ditch. Officials say Bortle was either thrown or crawled from the vehicle, and died at the scene.
Rescue workers removed a Rottweiler that was trapped in the car, but uninjured. A mixed-breed dog that had also been in the Jeep was found nearby with an injured leg by a neighbor. The Nebraska Humane Society has taken in both dogs.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man charged in an overnight New Year’s Day crash that killed an Omaha woman has been ordered to stand trial.
A judge on Monday bound 19-year-old Vismar Carmona-Martinez’s case over to district court.
Prosecutors say Carmona-Martinez’s car rear-ended another car around 12:30 a.m. Jan 1. The driver of the car he hit, 67-year-old Ann Smock, died at an Omaha hospital.
Police say Carmona-Martinez’s blood alcohol content was .240 — three times the legal limit to drive. Prosecutors also say Carmona-Martinez is in the country illegally.
He faces up to 20 years in prison if he’s convicted.
PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A 19-year-old former Nebraska high school football standout has been sentenced to up to 40 years in prison for his role in a sex trafficking case.
DeArch Stubblefield was sentenced Monday to 20 to 40 years after pleading guilty in October to attempted human trafficking, aiding and abetting child sexual assault and child pornography possession.
Prosecutors say he arranged for a man to have sex with a 15-year-old girl and recorded the encounter for money, which he and the girl shared.
Stubblefield, who had been a defensive back on the 2016 state champion Bellevue West team, had sought probation, as he had no criminal record.
The man who had sex with the girl, 41-year-old Jason Gibson, was sentenced last year to six months in jail, followed by five years’ probation.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two men face murder charges in the death of a Lincoln man whose family reported him missing last summer.
Prosecutors on Friday charged 36-year-old Dominic G. Aguirre and 35-year-old Paul A. Clark with second-degree murder. They also were charged with kidnapping, assault and using a firearm to commit a felony.
They were arrested last week in connection with the death of 35-year-old Phillip Madlock, whose brother reported him missing in July.
Lancaster County prosecutors allege Aguirre and Clark killed Madlock on June 28. They have been jailed since Jan. 12 on marijuana charges.
Police have provided few details about how Madlock died, including whether his body has been found.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 32-year-old man who was driving a speeding van that crashed last year in Omaha, killing a passenger in the cargo area, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Nemias Garcia-Velasco was sentenced Friday in Douglas County District Court. Garcia-Velasco is in the country illegally and faces deportation to Mexico when he’s released from prison.
Garcia-Velasco pleaded no contest in November to vehicular homicide while driving under the influence of alcohol.
Police say the van he was driving July 5 was speeding when it entered a curve at the Interstate 80/680 interchange. The van left the roadway and hit a guardrail and a bridge support, then burst into flames. The crash killed 58-year-old Silvano Torres, who was riding without restraints in the van’s cargo area.
WEST POINT, Neb. (AP) — A fourth person has pleaded not guilty in the case of a northeastern Nebraska man whose body was found in his burned home.
31-year-old Jenna Merrill, of Oakland, Nebraska, pleaded not guilty Thursday to being an accessory to a felony. Her trial is set for May 8.
Investigators say Merrill told police that another man charged in the case, Jody Olson, had been stabbed in a bar fight. Investigators say he was actually wounded in a fight with 64-year-old Ernest Warnock, whose body was found March 11 in rubble of his Rosalie home. He’d been fatally stabbed before the fire.
Olson and his son, Derek Olson, both of Oakland, have pleaded not guilty to murder, arson and related charges in Warnock’s death. Becky Weitzenkamp has pleaded not guilty to first-degree arson and being an accessory.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 22-year-old Lincoln woman accused of causing her aunt’s death by swerving to throw her off a vehicle has pleaded not guilty to motor-vehicle homicide.
