LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police are searching for a suspect after two people were involved in robbing a restaurant with a BB gun.
The Noodles restaurant in east Lincoln was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday night. They say they’ve taken one person into custody and believe one other is involved. No injuries were reported.
Police enlisted the help of a Nebraska State Patrol helicopter during the search.
The identities of the suspects have not been released. Police didn’t say what was taken.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been sentenced to 40-60 years in prison after pleading no contest to raping and molesting a 4-year-old girl at a day care.
27-year-old Albert Decoteau was sentenced Wednesday. He entered the plea in July to a first-degree sexual assault of a child charge.
Authorities say he assaulted the girl in September 2013 at an unlicensed day care he ran with his fiancee in their apartment. He was arrested a few days later after the girl was taken to the emergency room.
Decoteau will get credit for 349 days spent in jail. He could be eligible for parole in 17 ½ years. He’ll have to register as a sex offender upon release.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police in Philadelphia say a man used a banana he swiped from a convenience store counter to simulate a gun while he robbed the place.
Police on Wednesday posted surveillance video (https://bit.ly/1thASUL ) of the holdup reported in the East Parkside neighborhood.
The footage shows a man entering the corner grocery store on Tuesday. He waits in line and then takes a banana from the counter by the cash register.
The suspect then sticks the banana in a front pocket of his sweatshirt and points it toward the cashier.
Police say the man demanded money and cigarettes, and made off with an undetermined amount of cash. The video shows him riding off on a bicycle.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Doctors in Nebraska treating a U.S. doctor battling the Ebola virus say they now expect him to make a full recovery.
Fifty-one-year-old Rick Sacra contracted Ebola while working at a hospital in Liberia. He’s been hospitalized in Omaha since Sept. 5.
Dr. Phil Smith is the medical director of the Nebraska Medical Center isolation unit where Sacra is being treated. Smith said Wednesday that an initial set of blood samples from Sacra sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed a decreased amount of the virus in his blood
Doctors are now awaiting results of a second set of blood samples.
Dr. Angela Hewlett, associate medical director of the unit, says there must be two negative blood tests done 24 hours apart for Sacra to be released.
MADISON, Neb. (AP) — A man has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a man in Norfolk, following a second trial in the case.
Judge James Kube announced his decision Wednesday in Madison County District Court at the end of a short trial for 24-year-old De’Aris Trice. Sentencing has been set for Nov. 21.
Trice was convicted of the same charge following the death of 27-year-old Timothy Warren in December 2010. He was sentenced to between 40 years and life in prison. But the Nebraska Supreme Court overturned the conviction in July 2013, saying it found fault in an instruction given to jurors.
Kube said the state met the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt to convict Trice a second time.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been given more than 11 years in prison for distributing child pornography.
United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced Wednesday that 24-year-old Ian B. Wait will be required to register as a sex offender when he’s released.
Authorities say records show Wait distributed and received child pornography. He also exchanged text messages with an undercover investigator pretending to be a 10-year-old girl.
Authorities later searched Wait’s computer, where they found more than 860 images of child pornography.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An Institute of Medicine report says Americans often suffer needless discomfort and undergo unwanted and costly care as they die.
The “Dying in America” study released Wednesday was done by a panel of 21 experts. It finds that people repeatedly stress a desire to die at home, free from pain, but often the opposite happens.
The authors blame a medical system ruled by “perverse incentives” for aggressive care, inadequate physician training and too few conversations about end-of-life wishes.
They say patients’ advance directives have not been particularly effective, and urge a series of conversations throughout life about what’s desired in death. They say those talks should begin early, perhaps when people are teenagers.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say an 8-year-old girl who fell nine stories from a west Philadelphia apartment building has died.
Police say the girl fell from an apartment window on the ninth floor of the building at 7:44 a.m. Wednesday.
A police spokeswoman said medics rushed the girl to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she was pronounced dead just before 8:30 a.m.
Police said the death is under investigation.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say the owner of a central Omaha jewelry store has died after being shot during a robbery of the shop, located in one of the busiest shopping districts in the city.
Police say in a written release that officers were sent to JR’s Jewelry & Gifts around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday for reports of a shooting. There, they found 71-year-old James Minshall with three gunshot wounds. Minshall was taken to Nebraska Medical Center, where he died.
No arrests have yet been made. Witnesses have said the shooter fled in a gray or silver car.
The jewelry store is located in a strip mall that includes several other stores, directly across the street from Omaha’s massive Nebraska Furniture Mart.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a man has been shot during a robbery at a jewelry store in central Omaha.
Officers were sent to JR’s Jewelry & Gifts around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday after the shooting was reported. The victim was hit three times and was taken to Nebraska Medical Center for treatment.
Witnesses say the shooter fled in a gray car. No arrests have been reported, and police haven’t released the victim’s name or any other details.
