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Exec from Nebraska Tribe Honored for Leadership

Winnebago-TribeWINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) — The leader of the Winnebago Tribe’s economic development company is receiving a national award for leading a successful minority-owned business.

Ho-Chunk President and CEO Lance Morgan will be honored in Washington, D.C., during events promoting minority business development.

Morgan will receive an Advocate of the Year award for what he has accomplished leading Ho-Chunk.

The company the tribe started in 1995 has grown to include 35 subsidiaries that generate roughly $260 million revenue and have more than 1,000 employees.

Aid Group: 2 Americans Have Ebola in Africa

ebolaBOONE, N.C. (AP) — A relief group official says two American aid workers have tested positive for the Ebola virus while working to combat an outbreak of the deadly disease at a hospital in Liberia.

Ken Isaacs, a vice president of Samaritan’s Purse, says told The Associated Press on Sunday that Dr. Kent Brantly was stable and in very serious condition. Thirty-three-year-old Brantly is the medical director for the group’s Ebola care center on the outskirts of the Liberian capital of Monrovia.

Isaacs identified the second American, Nancy Writebol, as a worker with an allied aid group SIM, or Serving in Mission, which runs the hospital. He said she was in stable and serious condition.

He said both Americans have since been isolated and are under intensive treatment.

Nebraska Man Rescued After Falling Down Embankment

Lincoln Fire DptLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln first responders have completed an hour-long rescue of a man who fell 30 feet down an embankment.

The man and a friend were walking along the embankment Sunday afternoon prior to the fall.

Lincoln Fire and Rescue got the man over some broken concrete and into a rescue basket. He was then hoisted up the sloped embankment with a pulley.

Authorities say the man suffered no visible injuries.

Fire Capt. Jim Bopp says the department performs about three or four similar rescues per year.

Lincoln Police Say Man May Have Injured Himself

lincoln-policeLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police say a man who was found covered in blood was likely attempting to take his own life.

Rescue crews were called to a neighborhood on 24th Street just a few blocks north of O Street around 5 a.m. Sunday.

Rescuers took the man to a hospital for treatment, and his injuries are considered life threatening.

American Doctor in Africa Gets Treatment for Ebola

samaritans-purseBOONE, N.C. (AP) — A spokeswoman for an aid organization says an American doctor is receiving intensive medical treatment in West Africa after he was infected with the deadly Ebola virus.

Melissa Strickland is a spokeswoman for North Carolina-based Samaritan’s Purse. She said Sunday that Dr. Kent Brantly was in stable condition, talking with his doctors and working on his computer while receiving care.

She cautions that Brantly is not out of the woods. She says patients have a better chance of survival if they receive treatment immediately after being infected, which Brantly did.

The highly contagious virus is one of the most deadly diseases in the world.

Brantly has been working with Samaritan’s Purse in Liberia since October 2013 as part of the group’s post-residency program for doctors. He is 33 years old.

Nebraska Man Killed During 3rd Tour in Afghanistan

Staff Sgt. Benjamin G. Prange
Staff Sgt. Benjamin G. Prange

HICKMAN, Neb. (AP) — A 30-year-old Army staff sergeant from Nebraska man is being remembered as a devoted family man after his death in Afghanistan.

Benjamin G. Prange died Thursday after the vehicle he was riding in hit an explosive device.

Prange would have celebrated his eleventh anniversary with his wife, Liz Prange, on Saturday. The couple have two sons and lived in Hickman.

Former neighbor Josh Hicks says Prange was a nice gut who worked hard to take care of his family.

Prange was on his third tour in Afghanistan when he died. Another soldier — Pfc. Keith M. Williams, 19, of Visalia, California — was also killed in the same explosion.

Nebraska Abortion Clinic Nurse License Suspended

Medical-ChartLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A nurse at a suburban Omaha abortion clinic has had her nursing license suspended for 60 days and has been issued a two-year probationary license in an agreement with the state’s top prosecutor.

The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office had originally sought to revoke Lindsey Creekmore’s registered nursing license.

In May 2013, the office filed a petition accusing Creekmore of failing to follow patient medication orders accurately and improperly delegating some patient care to unlicensed staff. The case was based partly on information from another nurse who had worked at Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s clinic.

Creekmore reached the settlement earlier this month, ahead of a disciplinary hearing that had been set for next week.

Prosecutors say Lincoln Man Strangled His Wife Before Decapitating Her

Kent Burklund
Kent Burklund

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Lincoln woman found slain in her home in April was strangled before she was decapitated.

The death certificated of 41-year-old Bettina Burklund spells out her death and mutilation.

County Attorney Joe Kelly says she was dead before her head was cut off.

The woman’s husband has been charged with second-degree murder in her death.

Forty-one-year-old Kent Burklund is being held on $1 million bond. A judge has ordered a psychological evaluation of him.

Burklund’s next court appearance is scheduled for mid-August.

Nebraska Man Dies in Motorcycle Crash

fatal-motorcycle-crashMURDOCK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say they have found the body of a motorcyclist in a bean field in southeast Nebraska.

Cass County Sheriff’s deputies found the body of 36-year-old John Thompson, of Elmwood, Friday afternoon southwest of Murdock.

Investigators say Thompson had been driving his motorcycle west on Nebraska Highway 1 around 2 a.m. Friday when he failed to negotiate a curve in the road.

Family members called authorities when he didn’t reach his destination.

Thompson was pronounced dead at the scene.

Elderly Man Dies in Northeast Nebraska Crash

fatal-accidentBELDEN, Neb. (AP) — A 74-year-old Randolph man has died in a two-vehicle crash in the northeast corner of Nebraska.

Delbert Stevens died at the scene of the accident that occurred just before 11:30 a.m. Friday one mile west of Belden.

The Cedar County Sheriff’s Office says Stevens was driving a pickup eastbound on Highway 20 when the truck crossed the center line and collided head on with a westbound semi-trailer truck driven by a 23-year-old man from Canada.

Investigators say Stevens was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.

The semi driver was taken to a Norfolk hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.

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