LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 48-year-old Lincoln woman has been given 151 months in federal prison for conspiring to sell methamphetamine.
The Local Media reports that Regina Lynn Leonard had been charged with conspiring to sell meth, powder cocaine and marijuana in the Lincoln area from June 2005 to May 2010. A jury found her guilty in March to conspiring to sell meth, but not cocaine or marijuana.
Leonard must serve five years of supervised released after she leaves prison.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Gov. Dave Heineman is urging Nebraska residents to visit local farmers’ markets this summer to buy locally grown produce.
Heineman is also touting a state program that gives coupons to low-income senior citizens so they can buy food at local farmers’ markets.
The state agriculture department says 5,400 participating seniors redeemed $223,000 worth of coupons last year. This year’s program kicked off on June 1.
State agriculture officials say there are more than 75 markets now in 62 cities throughout Nebraska. More than 600 produce growers have registered with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture, up from 78 in 2000.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An international quilt museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is offering free admission to active-duty service members and their families.
is participating in a nationwide program for military personnel from Memorial Day through Labor Day. It’s a collaboration of more than 1,500 museums from around the country.
The program is available to active-duty service members with a military identification, and up to five family members.
The museum houses more than 3,500 quilts. Its mission is to study, preserve and promote quilts and quilt-making tradition.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 80. North northwest wind between 11 and 18 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 52. North northwest wind between 3 and 9 mph.
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 82. Breezy, with a southeast wind 8 to 11 mph increasing to between 19 and 22 mph. Winds could gust as high as 31 mph.
Authorities in Western Nebraska have identified the Scottsbluff man who died Friday when he was struck by a freight train.
A Scottsbluff news outlet reports 20-year-old Christopher Wadding was hit by a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad train around 3 a.m. Friday.
Police Capt. Brian Wasson says Wadding had been lying on the tracks before the accident.
Fingerprints were used to identify Wadding after family members told police that he hadn’t been seen since about an hour before the crash.
Wasson says there is no evidence of foul play, and Wadding’s family members did not believe he was suicidal.
Toxicology tests were performed, and the results are pending.
YORK, Neb. (AP) — An inmate at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women in York died recently at a Lincoln hospital.
A York news outlet reports that 36-year-old Amy Katzberg died Wednesday. Assistant Warden Tim Siemek confirmed the death on Friday.
Siemek says Katzberg had been receiving medical treatment in Lincoln since May 16 for an unnamed medical condition.
Katzberg was serving a sentence of four to 10 years for felony theft in Lancaster County. She had been incarcerated since November 2010.
A grand jury will be called to investigate Katzberg’s death because she died in state custody.
The Rotary Chili Cook Off is happening this morning at Wild West Arena.. Admission is just $7.00 for adults..
Dr. Tom Pratt from Pratt Dental speaks about how the Chili Cook Off benefits North Platte.
North Platte Post News Director and Minnesota native Kris Allen sneaks in an exclusive interview with Lil Red… Lil red proved to be more of an exciting interview than the Vikings mascot..
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln toddler who suffered life-threatening injuries when she was hit by her mother’s car is expected to survive.
Jim Schmersal told the Lincoln Journal Star (http://bit.ly/LCBgXM ) that his 21-month-old granddaughter, Aubree Cummins, suffered a bruised lung, lacerated liver and skull fracture in Wednesday’s accident but she’s going to be OK. She’s in an Omaha hospital.
Schmersal says Aubree was hit by the car and dragged down the driveway as her mother, Jami Marcano, rushed to a baseball game. He says Marcano put Aubree in the car and went back inside for a moment, during which Aubree got out of the vehicle. When Marcano got behind the wheel, Schmersal says, she didn’t realize Aubree had gotten out of the car and struck her.
NEWCASTLE, Neb. (AP) — One person has died and another has been injured in an ATV crash in rural Newcastle.
The Dixon County sheriff’s office told a Lincoln media outlet
that 34-year-old Melissa Brown died at the scene of the crash, which was reported just before midnight Friday.
The sheriff’s office says 36-year-old Clinton Brown was taken to a Sioux City, Iowa, hospital for treatment of injuries.
Details of the crash have not been released.
Larimer County Sheriff’s spokesman John Schulz says the fire was reported just before 6 a.m. Saturday in the Paradise Park area. He says at least 46 structures and likely many more have been evacuated, and an evacuation center has been set up at a middle school in Laporte.
Ten structures have been damaged, although authorities were unsure if they were homes or some other kind of buildings.
A sheriff’s statement says two heavy air tankers, five single-engine air tankers and four helicopters are on the scene.
The fire appears to be burning on private and U.S. Forest Service land.
