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Man sought in northeast Nebraska shooting

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) – Police want to talk to a 34-year-old man about the shooting of a woman in a Norfolk home.
Police Chief Bill Mizner said that Carlos Alfredo Arevalo-Martinez is wanted for questioning about Tuesday’s shooting. A police dispatcher said Wednesday that no one by that name was in custody.
The shooting occurred around 12:15 p.m. Tuesday. Mizner says officers found 33-year-old Edna Gutierrez lying in the kitchen with a gunshot wound to the head.
She was taken to a local hospital, then to The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. A hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday she didn’t have any information on Gutierrez, who also is known as Edna Little Elk.
At least four nearby schools were locked down for about an hour after the shooting was reported.

 

Some gas stations just offer a car wash….

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – One Omaha family will have more than hearts and flowers to celebrate on Valentine’s Day.
Domingo Cruz and his wife, Elia Velasco, will now celebrate the birth of their son, who was delivered outside a south Omaha gas station.
Cruz said that he was in route to the hospital with his laboring wife Tuesday when she yelled that she wasn’t going to make it. Her baby wasn’t due for another two weeks, so her early labor caught them by surprise.
Cruz says he pulled into the gas station and called 911.
Omaha firefighters arrived in minutes and helped deliver the healthy 6-pound, 5- ounce baby in his parents’ car outside the station.

 

Red Willow County board OKs plan for new jail

McCOOK, Neb. (AP) – Red Willow County commissioners have approved plans to build a 24-bed jail and law enforcement center next to the courthouse in McCook.
Voters will be asked in the May primary about financing for the $5.1 million project.
At the commissioners’ meeting on Monday, commission chairman Earl McNutt said “It’s time to go forward or say ‘no’ to it.”
The county closed its jail in 1982 because it did not meet state standards.
Voters rejected plans for a joint public safety facility with the city of McCook in 2006.

 

Crash at Nebraska train crossing called accidental

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say a fatal crash at a south-central Nebraska train crossing was an accident.
The accident occurred about 8:40 p.m. Jan. 25 in Odessa, a few miles west of Kearney.
Authorities say 19-year-old Jimmy Ray “JR” Burnett was driving his pickup north on Evergreen Road when he entered the crossing and collided with a Kansas-bound coal train.
A Union Pacific spokesman says the crossing had white X markings and stop signs but no gates or flashing lights.
Burnett was a student at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
He graduated from Garden County High School in 2011.

 

Alliance man charged with fatal stabbings

ALLIANCE, Neb. (AP) – A 25-year-old man has been charged with stabbing to death two people in western Nebraska.
Court records say Dominick Dubray, of Alliance, faces two counts of first-degree murder and two weapons counts.
The bodies of 22-year-old Catalina Chavez and 42-year-old Mike Loutzenhiser, of Scottsbluff, were found Saturday morning in a home on the east side of Alliance.
Police said another person who lived in the house was injured and flown to a Denver hospital. Court records list Chavez and Dubray as living at the same address.
Dubray initially was not named and was identified only as a person of interest. But the charges were filed on Tuesday in Box Butte County Court.
His attorney in a 2011 criminal case didn’t immediately return a call Wednesday from The Associated Press.

 

North Platte hit-and-run suspect pleads not guilty

Michael Malmkar

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A trial has been scheduled in May for a 20-year-old North Platte man accused of killing a bicyclist in a hit-and-run accident.
Michael Malmkar pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of vehicular homicide and of leaving the scene of an accident.
Authorities say Malmkar’s vehicle struck Levern Walter and his wife while the two were riding their bikes last June. The 56-year-old Walter died of his injuries.
Malmkar’s trial is scheduled to begin May 15.
Malmkar also has been charged with a January burglary in Lincoln, while he was out on bond. The bond has been revoked, and Malmkar remains in custody.

 

North Platte man gets probation for growing pot

Marco Vieyra

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A 57-year-old North Platte man who admitted growing six dozen marijuana plants has been given probation.
Marco Vieyra was sentenced to two years of probation by  Lincoln County District Judge Richard Birch.
Authorities say Vieyra’s neighbor called the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department in September he found the plants growing in a windbreak near his home.
Deputies discovered a sprinkler system and buried hose that led to Vieyra’s home.

 

North Platte man gets prison for selling steroids

Scott Sundstrom

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A 39-year-old North Platte man has been given one to three years in prison for selling steroids.
Scott Sundstrom had pleaded guilty. He was sentenced on Monday by Lincoln County District Judge Richard Birch.
Authorities say Sundstrom was arrested in January last year after selling testosterone to informants on Oct. 8, 2010, and Jan. 19, 2011.

 

Bedbugs found in dorm on Kearney campus

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) – Officials at the University of Nebraska at Kearney have confirmed a case of bedbugs in a residence hall.
The university says a pest control company has been at the dorm to conduct an in-depth inspection.
UNK director of Residence Life Tony Earls says that officials believe the bedbugs are isolated to one room. Earls says workers have checked rooms on both sides of, as well as the room below the affected room, and no other bedbugs were found.
Regardless, Earls says, the other rooms are being treated along with the affected room.
The news comes in the wake of bedbug problems at two other Nebraska colleges. Chadron State College and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have both reported bedbugs in dorms in recent weeks.

 

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