HOLDREGE, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say a 57-year-old Holdrege man
was fatally injured in an accident while driving his all-terrain
vehicle.
The Kearney Hub is reporting that Kenneth Olson was driving on O
Road about a mile north of Holdrege a little before 6:30 p.m.
Sunday.
The Nebraska State Patrol says Olson lost control of the ATV and
it rolled as he was trying to turn onto another road.
Other crash details aren’t available yet.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Police say a man who was lying in the
middle of a street in downtown Lincoln when he was hit and dragged
by a van has died.
Authorities say David Coulter, of Lincoln, died Sunday, more
than three weeks after he was hit. Officer Katie Flood told the
Lincoln Journal Star that police were never able to interview him.
Flood says Coulter was lying in the street about 10:30 p.m. on
May 19 when he was hit. The driver told police he realized he was
dragging something and stopped. He found Coulter pinned under the
van and called for help.
Flood says Coulter’s blood-alcohol content was more than three
times the limit for drunken driving.
No tickets have been issued. The Lancaster County attorney’s
office is investigating

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Lincoln fire officials say smoldering
newspapers sparked a fire that caused $60,000 in damage to a house
build by volunteers for the Lincoln-Lancaster County Habitat for
Humanity.
The fire broke out early on June 1. No one was injured.
The Lincoln Journal Star says Monday that investigators
determined that two teenagers who lived at the house set some
newspapers on fire in the driveway. They poured water on the papers
and swept them off the driveway, close to the house, where the fire
apparently rekindled.
The house was damaged, and a car parked in the driveway was
destroyed.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A regional jet has made an emergency
landing in Lincoln after crew members detected smoke in the
cockpit.
Lincoln Airport Director of Operations Bob McNally confirms a
United Airlines jet carrying 53 passengers and three crew members
reported the smoke just after takeoff from Lincoln at around 7 a.m.
Monday. The plane was headed for Denver.
McNally says the plane immediately turned around and landed.
Crew and passengers were safely taken off the plane, and rescue
crews checked the plane’s cargo section, finding nothing.
McNally says maintenance crews were checking the plane to see if
it could be flown to Denver later Monday, or if travelers would
need to make other arrangements.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say a 26-year-old woman died
after her sport utility vehicle rammed into a bridge abutment along
Interstate 680 in north Omaha.
A police news release says Susan Vann was driving alone in her
southwest-bound vehicle about 4:15 a.m. Monday when she failed to
make a highway turn approaching the Blair High Road overpass. The
SUV ran off the interstate into the abutment, ejecting Vann.
Police say the Omaha woman was taken to Nebraska Medical Center,
where she died.
The crash cause is being investigated.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) – Two fires in two days left a Grand
Island family without their home of nine years.
Authorities responded to the home of Matt and Kamra Treffer and
their six children on Saturday night just before 7 p.m..
According to The Grand Island Independent, the fire was blamed
on a candle left burning on a nightstand in the master bedroom of
the single-story house.
No one was hurt. The Treffers went to a nearby motel to spend
the night away from their smoke-damaged home.
They were awakened about 6 a.m. by someone calling to make sure
they weren’t at their home. It was on fire again.
Firefighters blamed a hot spot from Saturday’s fire.
Again, no injuries were reported.

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska officials say there were at least
13 mountain lions in Dawes, Sioux and Sheridan counties last
summer.
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says dogs were used to
find the mountain lion excrement, which was tested to determine how
many different animals were in the area.
Commission expert Sam Wilson told Chadron radio station KQSK
that the study’s finding of 13 was a snapshot taken during a period
of time rather than proof that a certain number of the big cats
were living in those Panhandle counties.
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FORT CALHOUN, Neb. (AP) – Residents are being forced from an
estimated 60 homes in Washington County as the Missouri River
swells.
Andrea Noon of the Heartland chapter of the American Red Cross
says the mandatory evacuations were ordered in parts of Fort
Calhoun and Blair. The Red Cross opened a shelter Thursday in Fort
Calhoun to offer food and a safe place for the affected residents.
The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency confirmed the
evacuations.
A spokeswoman in the Washington County sheriff’s office says
deputies were helping residents in low-lying areas pack up their
houses on Thursday afternoon.