PLEASANT DALE, Neb. (AP) — A 41-year-old driver has been killed in a rollover crash in rural Seward County.
The accident was reported a little after 8:45 a.m. Sunday, about 3½ miles south of Pleasant Dale. The Seward County Sheriff’s Office says the westbound car didn’t halt at a stop sign and then ran into a roadside ditch before rolling several times into a field.
The office says Soe Doh Moo, of Crete, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was traveling alone.
MADISON, Neb. (AP) — A 28-year-old Norfolk man has been sent to prison for beating up his grandfather.
Brandon Schoen was given six to nine years at his sentencing Monday in Madison. He’d pleaded guilty to the Sept. 27 assault.
Court records say the victim was 79 at the time. He told officers that his grandson began to “freak out” after an altercation with another family member. The grandfather says Schoen threw the grandfather’s walker into a television before knocking him down and punching him repeatedly in the face.
Prosecutors say the older man had to undergo reconstructive facial surgery afterward.
VALLEY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a woman killed after her sport utility vehicle collided with a semitrailer hauling cattle near Valley in Douglas County.
The crash was reported around 6:30 p.m. Sunday on U.S. Highway 275. Authorities say the SUV was headed toward Fremont when it crossed the median and collided with the truck.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The Sheriff’s Office identified her as 19-year-old Tyler Cherrington, who lived in Ralston. The truck driver wasn’t injured. He’s been identified as 59-year-old Kreg Mitteis, of Orchard.
Authorities say none of the cattle was killed. They were loaded into another truck to continue their journey.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Southeast Community College is finding out that location matters to students, their communities and their employers.
SCC currently operates campuses in Lincoln, Beatrice and Milford, with some educational offerings across the rest of its 15-county service area.
Amy Chesley, SCC’s dean of continuing education, says an initiative to place learning centers in six more communities is seeing progress.
Three of the new centers have opened, in York, Nebraska City and Plattsmouth. Sites in Hebron, Falls City and Wahoo are pending.
Chesley says the centers will offer classroom spaces with connectivity back to one of SCC’s main campuses and include a mobile computer lab. The centers will also offer classes, including general education for adult learners, English as a second language, and non-credit workforce development courses.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say deputies have seized around 55 pounds of cocaine found in a truck along Interstate 80 after it was pulled over on the west side of Lincoln.
The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says deputies stopped the truck around 5:30 p.m. Sunday for several traffic violations. The Sheriff’s Office says the driver consented to the deployment of a drug-detecting dog, and it soon alerted deputies to the presence of drugs.
Chief Deputy Todd Duncan says the cocaine has an estimated street value of $750,000.
The driver was arrested on suspicion of possession of cocaine for sale. Online court records don’t show that he’s been formally charged. The 56-year-old is from San Gabriel, California.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Each month, more than 2,100 elementary students in the Omaha area are given books to call their own.
The kids in kindergarten through third grade receive $7 worth of books at their reading level from a catalog. Teachers handle the paperwork, and United Way of the Midlands pays the bill.
The 10 schools from six districts involved in the Book Trust program were chosen based on their students’ families’ incomes and in part on the schools’ resources. The program began in September.
Data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a children’s welfare organization, show that students who can’t read proficiently by third grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school than their peers are.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a man shot in the face Saturday at a northeast Omaha intersection walked about eight blocks for help.
Omaha police say 54-year-old Terry Hudson was outdoors just after midnight when he was shot.
Police Sgt. Owen Gregg says Hudson walked to a house a block to the west, and a person there called 911, but Hudson continued on. A trail of blood marked his path.
Officials say Hudson was soon taken in critical condition to Creighton University Medical Center. Police say his injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
Gregg says it was not clear whether the assailant, fired while he was standing or from a vehicle. Police had not announced an arrest by midday Saturday.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln woman has been cited on suspicion of giving a group of teenagers alcohol after a 16-year-old accidentally shot himself in the leg.
The teen was at a friend’s house with three other teens Thursday and wanted to show them a handgun.
Lincoln Officer Katie Flood says the group had been drinking and smoking marijuana when the shooting happened. The 16-year-old was taken to a local hospital and treated for injuries not believed to be life-threatening.
A 51-year-old woman was cited on suspicion of procuring alcohol to minors and child neglect. She is accused of buying the teenagers vodka, beer and a malt alcohol drink. The woman told police she didn’t know the boy, who was a family friend, had a gun.
MADISON, Neb. (AP) — A Norfolk woman accused of killing her daughter has had a public defender appointed to represent her.
22-year-old Carla Montoya appeared for a pretrial conference hearing Thursday in Madison County District Court. There, her previous attorney, Christopher Roth, said Montoya’s family, who had been paying her legal fees, had run out of money.
The Madison County Public Defender’s office will now represent Montoya.
Prosecutors say Montoya told police she had tossed her 4-year-old daughter, Caylee, into a bed three times on March 12 and that the girl may have hit her head on the bed frame or a wall.
Montoya has pleaded not guilty to intentional child abuse resulting in death.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has vacated the conviction of a Wayne man for refusing to submit to a blood test following his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving. The ruling cites a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that places limits on such state laws.
But Friday’s opinion did not strike down the Nebraska law, which criminalizing a person’s refusal to submit to a blood test without a warrant. Defense attorney George Babcock says that goes against the U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Babcock said Friday he’s now considering appealing the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to have the state law declared unconstitutional.
The case stems from the 2013 arrest of 55-year-old Ricky McCumber after he refused to submit to a preliminary breath test and blood test.
