LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln authorities say a man may have had a medical episode before fatally crashing his vehicle into a light pole.
The crash occurred around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in south Lincoln. Police Sgt. Brian Agnew says the vehicle left the roadway and rammed into the pole. The man was pronounced dead later at a hospital.
The man’s name isn’t being released until relatives are notified about his death.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — One person has been fatally wounded and another has been injured in a northeast Omaha shooting.
Police say officers who were dispatched a little before 9 p.m. Tuesday found the two injured people, who soon were taken by ambulance to an Omaha hospital.
Police say 23-year-old Johnnesha Brown was pronounced dead at the hospital and that 27-year-old Stephen Arps was in critical condition.
No arrests have been reported.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Around 13,600 ballots remain to be processed and counted in two counties to determine who will represent Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District for the next two years in Washington.
By Wednesday morning, Democrat Brad Ashford had nearly 49 percent of the vote to incumbent GOP Rep. Lee Terry’s 46 percent. Libertarian Steve Laird had about 5 percent.
Terry’s campaign says he’ll be making an announcement at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon. A spokeswoman declined to say whether Terry intended to concede the election.
Douglas County election commissioner Dave Phipps says about 13,000 ballots from early voters remain to be processed and that the counting will begin Friday morning. Sarpy County election commissioner Wayne Bena (BEH’-nuh) says nearly 570 provisional ballots remain to be processed and then counted this week.
ATKINSON, Neb. (AP) — A 26-year-old northern Nebraska man has been charged with intentional child abuse following the death of his son at an Omaha hospital.
Michael Schroeder, of Atkinson, was arrested on Saturday. He’s accused of abusing his 8-month-old son, Kalium Ebsens. Online records say Schroeder remained in Holt County Jail on Wednesday. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.
A court affidavit filed by an Atkinson officer says the boy was taken to West Holt Memorial Hospital the night of Oct. 26 after he’d become unresponsive. The infant then was flown to an Omaha hospital, where he died the morning of Oct. 29. The officer said Schroeder acknowledged bumping the boy’s head a couple of times.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The Hall County clerk has been given the greenlight to promote her daughter-in-law to deputy county clerk.
On Tuesday, county clerk Marla Conley asked the Hall County Board of Supervisors for permission to appoint her daughter-in-law, Shanda Conley, to the position. The county’s nepotism policy requires such notification.
Shanda Conley has worked in the clerk’s office since 1999.
The position became available because longtime deputy clerk Pam Dubbs is taking a job at Hall County Jail. It left Shanda Conley as the only employee in the county clerk’s office to appoint.
The board voted 4-3 to allow Conley to be selected as deputy. But Marla Conley says that even though she has the board’s consent to appoint her daughter-in-law, she still needs time to think through her decision.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The quest for a drug to treat Ebola is speeding up. Federal officials have settled on a plan to test multiple experimental drugs at once, in an umbrella study using a single comparison group. They say this will give more Ebola patients a chance to try a treatment and provide quicker answers on which ones work.
Federal Food and Drug Administration officials described the plan Wednesday at a conference of several thousand tropical disease experts in New Orleans.
There is no treatment for Ebola, but several experimental ones have been tried on a few patients, and scientists are eyeing some others that were developed for different conditions and also might fight Ebola.
LYONS, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a piece of human skull found two years ago in northeast Nebraska is not from the body of a woman missing since 1995.
Burt County Attorney Dan Smith said DNA analysis showed the fragment didn’t belong to the body of 48-year-old Wanda Krumwiede. Krumwiede, of Lyons, disappeared shortly after filing for divorce to end her 25-year marriage to Wilhelm Krumwiede.
Wilhelm Krumwiede was charged with her murder but was twice acquitted. He died in 2003 at the age of 66.
Authorities say the fragment was uncovered in early November 2012 by a contractor digging on land near Lyons.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s top bioethics official calls “reprehensible” the suicide of an American woman suffering terminal brain cancer who stated she wanted to die with dignity.
Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, the head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, told the ANSA news agency on Tuesday that “dignity is something other than putting an end to one’s own life.”
Brittany Maynard’s suicide in Oregon on Saturday, following a public declaration of her motives aimed at sparking political action on the issue, has stirred debate over assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
Carrasco de Paula said “Brittany Maynard’s act is in itself reprehensible, but what happened in the consciousness we do not know.”
He cautioned that he was not judging individuals “but the gesture in and of itself should be condemned.”
BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A Kansas man was arrested by officers responding to a 911 call from a 7-year-old southeast Nebraska boy who said his mom was being punched.
The incident occurred shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday in Beatrice. The boy told officers he’d seen his mom’s boyfriend punch her several times. The boy and four others his age or younger were in the home at the time.
Officers arrested 31-year-old Steven Kling, of Marysville, Kansas. He told them he did not strike the woman.
Kling’s bail was set at $10,000 on Monday in Gage County Court. His next hearing is scheduled for Nov. 17. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.
SCHUYLER, Neb. (AP) — A Schuyler man whose suicide attempt was interrupted has been charged with trying to kill a woman.
41-year-old Amauri Herrera-Alvarez is charged with attempted murder and use of a weapon. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.
The Colfax County Attorney’s office says the incident was discovered around 2:15 a.m. Sunday outside a Schuyler apartment building. Officers say they cut a rope Herrera-Alvarez was using to hang himself from a tree outside the building. Inside the building they found a 34-year-old woman who’d been stabbed. Both were taken to an Omaha hospital for treatment.
Authorities say Herrera-Alvarez and the woman were in a relationship.
