Well-trained American Red Cross caseworkers continue to meet with homeowners in Beaver Crossing, Sutton and Cordova, to meet their immediate needs and begin to create individual family recovery plans.

American Red Cross volunteers are participating in the multi-agency resource center (MARC) at the Methodist Church in Beaver Crossing, working alongside partnering agencies including the United Methodist, Nebraska VOAD and Veteran’s Services to provide a convenient one-stop center for affected families.

“Today our Red Cross disaster workers will continue to hand out coolers of ice, snacks, waters, work gloves, trash bags, and comfort kits to Beaver Crossing residents,” said Jill Orton, Regional Disaster Officer. “Since the storm passed, the Red Cross has delivered more than 3,000 meals, snacks and drinks and handed out 114 comfort kits.”

The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency and Gary Petersen, director of emergency management in Seward County, are asking volunteers who want to help, to call the Seward County Emergency Management office at (402) 643-4722 and leave their name and number. The office will coordinate matching volunteers with the work that needs to be done in the communities.

The Red Cross says it depends on the generosity of the American people to fulfill their mission. To help disaster victims please contact the American Red Cross redcross.org, or call 1-800-RED-CROSS.

The Olathe, Kan. Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing child/endangered runaway.

Emmaleigh A. Fleming was last seen on May 12 when she walked away from her school.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Olathe Police Department at (913) 971-6950 or the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-8477. Click on the poster for more information.

(AP) — Two teenagers facing assault charges in connection to the fatal beating of another teen have appeared in court.

A judge on Wednesday set bail at $100,000 for the two teens. Each faces a first-degree assault charge.

The teens are accused of assaulting 16-year-old Aquilee Muse during a fight Friday. Aquilee suffered a severe head injury and died Tuesday after he was taken off of life support.

The Associated Press generally does not name minors accused of crimes.

(AP) — Coroner’s officials say the death of Julia Roberts’ half-sister in February was a suicide.

An autopsy and toxicology tests led to the determination that Nancy Motes drowned in a bathtub after taking several drugs that have not yet been publicly identified.

Los Angeles coroner’s spokesman Craig Harvey says the drugs will be listed in a full autopsy report that could be released as early as next week.

Harvey says 37-year-old Motes left behind a suicide note and that it will be turned over to her family.

Motes was the younger sister of actress Julia Roberts and actor Eric Roberts.

A receptionist for Julia Roberts’ publicist, Marcy Engelman, said Engelman was out of the country and unavailable to comment and that no one else was available.

(AP) — Two major electric transmission lines damaged in last weekend’s storms have been repaired, but more work remains to restore power to everyone in eastern Nebraska.

The Nebraska Public Power District said Wednesday that it had restored power to transmission lines between Sutton and Hastings and between Davey and Wahoo.

NPPD says it still has two other transmission lines to repair. The repairs to all four lines will cost roughly $17 million.

Those major transmission lines generally deliver power to smaller utilities that serve individual homes and businesses across the state.

In heavily damages areas, those smaller utilities are still working to repair all the damage from Sunday’s tornadoes.

(AP) — A murder trial has been delayed for a 24-year-old Guide Rock man accused of helping his mother kill the mother of her boyfriend.

The attorney for Andrew Casterline had asked the judge for the delay. Last week, the judge complied with the request, setting a new trial start date of Sept. 8. The original date was May 27.

Casterline is accused of stabbing 68-year-old Virginia Barone on Oct. 4 at her home in Guide Rock. His mother, 41-year-old Shelley Casterline, in March pleaded guilty to a reduced murder charge. She’s scheduled to be sentenced on June 10.

Investigators have said Shelley Casterline acknowledged she’d killed Barone after the older woman made comments that enraged her.

(AP) — Nebraska officials estimate that last weekend’s tornadoes caused at least $20 million damage across the state.

The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency said Tuesday that part of the reason why the damage estimate is so high is that Sunday’s storms caused extensive damage to power lines.

The storm cleanup effort continued Tuesday as resident and volunteers worked to pick up fallen tree limbs and building debris.

The eastern Nebraska towns of Beaver Crossing, Cordova and Sutton sustained some of the most extensive damage.

But Sunday’s storms damaged homes, businesses and farms across a large area between Hastings and Omaha.

NEMA officials say it appears that the storms spawned at least a dozen tornadoes Sunday. But National Weather Service officials are still examining the damage to classify the storms.