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Doctor who stopped to help teenagers in car accident dies

ambulance-lightsDETROIT (AP) — A Detroit doctor who stopped to help passengers in an overturned car died after being struck by a car herself.

Forty-seven-year-old Cynthia Ray succumbed to her injuries Wednesday after she was hit on Sunday.

Ray had stopped on her way to work at Henry Ford Hospital, where she was an interventional pulmonologist, when she saw an overturned Jeep on I-96 and tried to help six teenagers trapped inside.

A car pulled around a curve and hit her, authorities said.

Another person who stopped to help, teenager Sean English, also was hit and had to have part of a foot amputated after the crash.

The driver of the vehicle that hit the people trying to help also was injured.

South Dakota man charged with murder in wife’s death

crimeSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man has been jailed on $1 million cash bond after prosecutors charged him in the death of his wife.

Forty-three-year-old Irving Jumping Eagle appeared in court Wednesday following his arrest in the death of 33-year-old Alicia Jumping Eagle. She was found dead in the couple’s Sioux Falls apartment Monday.

Irving Jumping Eagle is charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and four counts of manslaughter. His public defender did not return a phone call for comment.

Police allege Irving Jumping Eagle had blood on himself Monday afternoon while at a gas station about 300 miles away near Streeter, North Dakota. The Argus Leader (https://argusne.ws/2oE5HYP ) reports the car he was driving hit a bridge pillar Tuesday morning in Deuel County, in eastern South Dakota. He was taken to a hospital and then jailed in Sioux Falls.

Nebraska man died 6 days after being shot by brother, authorities say

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LYONS, Neb. (AP) — Northeast Nebraska authorities say a man has died six days after he was shot by his brother, who then killed himself.

The Burt County attorney’s office says 53-year-old Charles Hayes died in an Omaha hospital Saturday. He lived in Naha on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

Lyons Police Chief Jim Buck says Hayes was shot four times March 26 by 49-year-old Kevin Hayes at Kevin’s home in Lyons. Buck says officers found Kevin Hayes’ body when they responded to a report about the shooting. Buck says the brothers’ mother was at the home at the time but was not injured.

Buck says the case has been closed as a murder-suicide.

Lyons is a city of about 850 people.

Prosecutor: Gun play led to Omaha shooting death of Iowa man

crime-scene-police-shootOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Douglas County prosecutor says gun play seems to have led to the death of a 20-year-old western Iowa man in Omaha, and two men have been arrested.

Police say 20-year-old Scott Evans, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was found dead early Sunday inside a home in north Omaha home. Officers were called the house for a report of a shooting.

Officials say an 18-year-old Omaha man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and a weapons count, and a 19-year-old Council Bluffs man has been arrested on suspicion of being an accessory.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine says Garbez and Gaytan appeared to have been using a gun in a game similar to Russian roulette, and Evans was shot in the head.

I-80 crash in Omaha damages 2 police cars, injures officer

omaha-policeOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 80 in Omaha damaged two police vehicles and seriously injured an officer.

Police say it happened shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday on the westbound lanes of I-80 near Q Street. A preliminary investigation shows two police cruisers were on the shoulder as part of a traffic stop when a car hit a cargo van, sending the van into both police cruisers.

Police say Officer Brian Vanderheiden was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, but is expected to survive. The driver of the van was also taken to a hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.

The westbound lanes of the interstate were closed for more than an hour.

Facebook intends to build data center in Omaha suburb

facebook-logoPAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Facebook has announced plans to build a data center near the Omaha suburb of Papillion (puh-PIHL’-yuhn).

The company said Tuesday at a news conference the center will be located on 144 acres at a Nebraska Highway 50 intersection just north of Springfield. It will include two 450,000 square foot (41,806-sq. meter) buildings and another 70,000 square foot (6503 sq. meter) building connecting them that will serve as administrative office space. The company says it could add up to two more buildings on the land if needed.

Officials say between 100 and 150 employees will work in the data center.

The county already has data centers for Yahoo, Fidelity Investments, Travelers Insurance and Cabela’s. Facebook also built a $300 million data center in Altoona, Iowa, in 2015.

Nebraska medical students to receive high-tech learning

UNMCOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska Medical Center is creating a facility that will give those in the medical field high-tech visualization and virtual reality tools to teach and learn.

University officials announced the nearly $119 million project Monday.

The four-story building will feature replicas of hospital settings where people can practice on lifelike, computer-driven mannequins. They will also be able to virtually map a brain tumor or see how a protein folds.

The facility’s name, which awaits approval by the university Board of Regents, will be the Davis Global Center.

The Davis Global Center will house two programs. One will allow all medical professionals to practice their skills. The other program will be a training, simulation and quarantine center focused on infectious diseases.

The facility is expected to open in fall 2018.

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Replica of Statue of Liberty to be installed in Lincoln

statue-of-liberty-replicaLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A replica of the Statue of Liberty currently in storage is awaiting installation at a new Lincoln location after already being moved twice.

The refurbished, 290-pound copper statue will be installed at Antelope Park’s Veterans Memorial Garden.

The Boy Scouts of America Cornhusker Council purchased Lady Liberty and donated it to Lincoln in the summer of 1951. It was located on the corner of a busy intersection before being moved to Liberty Plaza in 1986.

Now, that location is being torn down as part of the Folsom Children’s Zoo’s expansion plans.

The Boy Scouts plan to be a part of the next dedication as they were in previous moves.

The city hopes to complete the move later this spring or early summer.

Governors from 4 marijuana states ask to be left alone

High_Quality_Marijuana_1DENVER (AP) — Governors from the first four states to legalize recreational marijuana are asking the Trump administration to let the pot experiments continue.

The governors of Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington say that marijuana legalization has expanded their economies.

The governors also say in Monday’s letter that legal weed can be regulated to protect public safety and that legalization reduces “inequitable incarceration,” or people of color being disproportionately jailed for pot crimes.

The letter was addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. The governors say they opposed legalization at first, but warn that a federal pot crackdown now “would divert existing marijuana product into the black market.”

The governors also ask for the Treasury Department not to change instructions to banks for handling marijuana money.

Opposition grows to Iowa bill making many 911 calls secret

911-ServicesDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Civil rights groups, media advocates and some lawmakers are opposing an Iowa bill that would end public access to many 911 calls.

The bill would declare that 911 calls involving emergencies in which people are injured are confidential “medical records” and exempt from Iowa’s open records law.

The measure says the secrecy would not be limited to 911 call recordings themselves — a clause that critics fear could apply to videos documenting the aftermath of officer-involved shootings. All calls made by minors or about minors would also become secret.

The bill passed the Iowa House with little debate, with backers saying it would protect medical privacy and the privacy of children. But a chorus of opposition has emerged as the Republican-controlled Senate considers whether to schedule it for a vote.

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