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Hospital Owner Plans New $35M Facility in NE Omaha

alegent-creighton-healthOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Alegent Creighton Health is planning to replace Creighton University’s hospital with a new $35 million medical facility in northeast Omaha.

The company announced the 90,000-square-foot project on Sunday. Construction is scheduled to begin next spring, and the facility should be ready in late 2016.

The new facility at 24th and Cuming Streets will offer outpatient and emergency services, but Alegent Creighton is planning to move most of Creighton University’s in-patient services to its Bergan Mercy Medical Center near 75th Street and Mercy Road in 2017.

Omaha City Councilman Ben Gray says he’s glad the company will maintain an emergency department in the area.

Kansas homicide suspect wounded by police

police chaseKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities in Kansas City, Kansas, have a homicide suspect in custody following a chase that ended with a police officer shooting the man.

Officers were on patrol around 9:30 p.m. Saturday when they saw the man in a vehicle. The officers chased the suspect’s vehicle until it crashed into a fence behind a building.

Police said the man got out of the vehicle carrying a handgun. One of the officers then shot the suspect.

The suspect was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police say the man is also the subject of a federal warrant.

The man’s name and the details of the homicide in which he’s a suspect were not released Sunday.

 

Rollover Crash Kills Eastern Nebraska Woman

state-patrol-logoDAVID CITY, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating a rollover crash that killed a 33-year-old woman this weekend.

Authorities say the accident happened around 11 a.m. Saturday near the intersection of Nebraska Highway 92 and County Road O south of David City.

Jessica Fiala of David City lost control of her vehicle before it rolled, and she was killed in the crash.

Investigators couldn’t determine immediately what caused Fiala to lose control of the vehicle.

Lincoln Police Search for Missing 9-Year-Old

Jaquan Sidney
Jaquan Sidney

Police in Lincoln are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 9-year-old boy.

According to police, Jaquan Sidney was last seen at around 1:30 a.m, Sunday, at his home.

Jaquan was last seen wearing a white shirt with animal print, grey sneakers, and blue and white checkered shorts.

Authorities say Jaquan, a black male, is 4’5” tall, and weights about 75 pounds.

If you have any information on his whereabouts, contact the Lincoln Police Department at 402-441-6000, or local law enforcement.

1 Dead, 2 Injured in Omaha Shooting

crime-scene-police-shootOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — One person is dead and two others injured in an overnight shooting in northeast Omaha.

Four people were in the car around 2:20 a.m. Saturday when someone outside the car began shooting at it. The car then crashed into a concrete street barrier.

Police say 21-year-old LaDontae Daugherty died upon arrival at the hospital. Another victim, 22-year-old Nelson Daugherty, was in critical condition Saturday, but is expected to survive. A third victim, 20-year-old Kieresha Mudd, suffered minor injuries.

A fourth person in the car was not shot.

Police are investigating, but had made no arrests by Saturday afternoon.

Western Iowa Woman Killed in Crash

fatal-accidentLOGAN, Iowa (AP) — A western Iowa woman has died in a two vehicle crash that has left another man fighting for his life in an Omaha, Nebraska hospital.

The crash of a car and a sport utility vehicle happened around 8 p.m. Thursday on Highway 30 just east of Logan, Iowa. The Iowa State Patrol says the car driven by 45-year-old Jody Hustak was found in the west ditch. Hustak was pronounced dead at the scene.

Rescue workers had to use the Jaws of Life to remove the driver of the SUV, 19-year-old Conner Hemer of Odebolt. Hemer was flown to Alegent Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha.

Body Spray, Cologne Use Limited at Lincoln School

lux-middle-schoolLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials at a Lincoln middle school have placed restrictions on the use of cologne and body sprays, saying heavy use of the odorous sprays is causing problems for students with allergies and asthma.

Administrators at Lux Middle School have restricted application of the scents to the gym locker room.

Middle school students change clothes for physical education classes, but they don’t shower. So the sprays will still be allowed in locker rooms.

Last year, a school in Pennsylvania asked its students to lighten up on the perfumed sprays after a student there suffered an allergic reaction so severe that he had to be hospitalized.

Those Exposed to Norfolk Student with Tuberculosis Sought

health-alertNORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Health officials in northeastern Nebraska are tracking down those who might have been exposed to a Norfolk student diagnosed with tuberculosis.

The Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department has worked with the student’s family to compile a list of people who may have been in contact with the student.

Tuberculosis is a contagious lung disease that’s relatively rare in the United States. State health records say only 125 cases were recorded in Nebraska from 2009 through 2013. Federal records say that in 2013 only 9,600 new U.S. tuberculosis cases were reported.

Parents of students at Park Avenue Christian School were given information Wednesday night at a meeting arranged by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.

Woman Gets 14 Years in Topeka Homicide

Michael and Jamie Engstrom
Michael and Jamie Engstrom

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The 36-year-old wife of the gunman who killed one man and wounded a woman in a shooting in Topeka has been sentenced to 14 years and one month in prison.

Jamie Engstrom was sentenced Friday for conspiracy to commit second-degree murder and other charges in the February 2013 death of 34-year-old Ricky Mitchell of Topeka and the wounding of 28-year-old Bridget Gakle of Topeka.

Her Kansas sentences will run concurrently with sentences in Nebraska, where she and her husband, Michael Dean Engstrom, were captured after a shootout with law enforcement officers the same day as the Topeka shootings.

Michael Engstrom was sentenced to life in prison for the Topeka shootings, which will run concurrently with sentences he received in Nebraska.

Nebraska Lawyers Question Hospital Move

Nikko Jenkins
Nikko Jenkins

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Criminal defense attorneys are raising questions about whether Nebraska’s state psychiatric hospital in Lincoln has opened itself up to legal consequences after recently declining a judge’s order to house Nikko Jenkins, a convicted Omaha killer found too mentally ill to participate in his sentencing.

In a compromise, Jenkins is being housed in a Lincoln prison, where hospital staff will treat him.

Attorney Maren Chaloupka, of Scottsbluff, says the Lincoln Regional Center “is not above the law” and should be providing treatment for those in state custody with serious mental illnesses. She and other criminal defense attorneys say the hospital is opening itself up to lawsuits and that its plan to treat Jenkins while he’s in prison could jeopardize his conviction on appeal.

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