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Deputy: $100,000 Seized in Nebraska Traffic Stop

lancaster-county-sheriffLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lancaster County Sheriff’s deputies say they have seized more than $100,000 of suspected drug money that was vacuum-sealed and hidden in a vehicle’s spare tire.

The money was seized last month from 22-year-old Ariana Moran of Portland, Oregon. Prosecutors later charged her with possession of money during a drug violation and aiding the consummation of a felony.

Deputy Sheriff James Baird Jr. says Moran gave him permission to search her vehicle after he gave her a warning for following another vehicle too closely on Interstate 80.

Baird says he found the cash in seven packages taped inside the tire. He says Moran denied knowing anything about the money. No drugs were found.

Moran was released on $75,000 bond. It wasn’t immediately available if she has an attorney.

Omaha Police Investigate Death of Man in Custody

omaha-policeOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police are investigating the death of a 32-year-old man who died while in their custody.

Officer Kevin Wiese says Michael Harris died Monday at Immanuel Hospital but the cause is unclear.

Employees at an Omaha liquor store say they fought with Harris on Sept. 19 because he looked like he was going to fight another customer. They called police and said he bit one of the employees.

Wiese described Harris as uncooperative and erratic. He says Harris injured himself and damaged the interior of the police car on the way to the hospital but didn’t say how he was hurt.

Autopsy results are pending.

Officials: Bat Captured in Omaha Home Had Rabies

common-vampire-bat_505_600x450OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Humane Society says a bat captured in an Omaha home has tested positive for rabies.

A spokesman for the group said Wednesday that it’s Omaha’s first reported rabies case this year involving a bat.

The bat was caught in a towel Friday. Humane society officers then sent the animal to a diagnostic lab in Kansas.

The family in the home has been instructed to contact a physician immediately in case of exposure.

Woman with Cancer Plans to Take Her Life in Oregon (Video)

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Courtesy of thebrittanyfund.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 29-year-old woman with brain cancer is using her last days to push for expanded right-to-die laws.

Brittany Maynard has moved from California to Portland, Oregon, to take advantage of the state’s Death with Dignity Act. Oregon is one of a handful of states in which terminally ill patients can end their lives with prescriptions of lethal medication.

Maynard says she’s not suicidal, but wants to die on her own terms. She plans to take the lethal dose Nov. 1.

More than 750 people in Oregon have died using the law since 1998. The state does not track how many of them are like Maynard and moved from another state.

Maynard said she learned she had cancer on New Year’s Day and was later given six months to live.

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1st Ebola Patient Diagnosed in the US Dead

Thomas-Eric-DuncanDALLAS (AP) — A Dallas hospital spokesman says the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States has died.

Wendell Watson of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital says Thomas Eric Duncan died Wednesday morning.

Duncan arrived in Dallas Sept. 20 from Liberia and fell ill a few days later. He was sent home after an initial visit to the emergency room, but taken back to the hospital Sept. 28 and has been kept in isolation ever since.

Others in Dallas could be in danger as officials try to contain the virus that has ravaged West Africa, killing thousands of people. Officials say 10 people had direct contact with Duncan while he was contagious.

York Man Convicted of Stealing from Jaycees

gavel-and-scaleYORK, Neb. (AP) — A 35-year-old man has been convicted of stealing more than $1,400 from the York Jaycees.

Travis Stuhr pleaded no contest on Tuesday to four misdemeanor accounts of theft and was found guilty. His sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 24.

Prosecutors say Stuhr, of York, had access to the Jaycees checking account because he was supposed to pay bills from a demolition derby the group sponsored. York County Attorney Candace Dick says Stuhr wrote four checks to himself totaling $1,430. She also says restitution has been paid.

Vermont Mom, Boyfriend Held in Boy’s Alcohol Death

police-lights-redHARDWICK, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police say a woman and her boyfriend put alcohol in her disabled 13-year-old son’s IV tube, killing him.

Melissa Robitille and Walter Richter III were charged Tuesday with murder in the death of Isaac Robitille. Melissa Robitille called police on Aug. 22 to report he was dead.

Police say Isaac was born with significant medical conditions and multiple disabilities that required the assistance of caretakers, feeding tubes and IV tubes.

They say Robitille and Richter used the IV tube to administer alcohol to the boy and that led to his death. His blood alcohol content was 0.146 percent, almost twice the legal limit for driving.

Robitille and Richter are charged with second-degree murder. They’re in police custody. It couldn’t immediately be learned if they had lawyers.

Family: Ebola Patient’s Condition ‘Disturbing’

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CDC Photo

DALLAS (AP) — The family of a man diagnosed with the first U.S. case of Ebola has again visited him at the hospital but is declining to view him again via video because his condition is too “disturbing.”

Thomas Eric Duncan’s relatives had previously watched him using a video system inside the Dallas hospital where he is being treated. Duncan is sedated.

But when they returned Tuesday with Rev. Jessie Jackson, they decided that enduring such images again would be too painful. Duncan’s nephew Josephus Weeks says, “It didn’t look good.”

Weeks says he and Duncan’s mother were unable to sleep after seeing Duncan’s face over video.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital says Duncan remains in critical condition though he is stable. He is on a breathing machine and receiving kidney dialysis.

Lincoln Man Gets Prison for Shooting at Man in May

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Rocky Truong

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for shooting at a man over a girl.

21-year-old Rocky Truong was sentenced Tuesday on charges that included attempted use of a firearm to commit a felony. He will be given credit for more than 140 days served in jail.

Authorities say Truong met a man in May to fist fight over a woman they both liked. Truong was accused of firing several shots at his rival and chasing him. The man was not hurt but later reported the incident to police.

Truong said during his sentencing that he takes full responsibility for his actions and was not “in the right state of mind.”

Video Journalist Getting Experimental Ebola Drug

Ashoka Mukpo (Facebook)
Ashoka Mukpo (Facebook)

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The American video journalist being treated for Ebola in Nebraska is receiving the same experimental drug being used to treat a patient in Dallas.

Nebraska Medical Center Dr. Phil Smith said Tuesday that 33-year-old Ashoka Mukpo (ah-SHOH’-kuh MUK’-poh) is receiving brincidofovir, an oral medication developed to fight several other viruses.

Doctors sought federal permission to use the drug for Mukpo. It’s also being used in Dallas to treat Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S.

The 33-year-old Mukpo was diagnosed in Africa and flown to the Omaha hospital, which houses a specialized isolation unit to treat infectious diseases. His father says Mukpo is, as expected, experiencing some vomiting and diarrhea.

American aid worker Dr. Rick Sacra also was treated for Ebola at the Nebraska hospital.

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