(AP) — Palace officials say Prince William’s wife Kate has given birth to a baby boy.
Officials said Monday the baby was born at 4:24 p.m. and weighs 8 pounds 6 ounces.
The infant will become third in line for the British throne after Prince Charles and William.
Kate checked into a private wing at St. Mary’s Hospital in central London early Monday morning.
William spent the long hours of labor at her bedside. This is the couple’s first child.
Two Norfolk men were jailed after leading troopers on a short pursuit over the weekend during a night of high visibility patrols in the Norfolk area.
Just after 9:00 p.m., Saturday, July 20, a trooper attempted a traffic stop on a 2003 Volkswagen Jetta near Tahazouka Park on Highway 81. The vehicle failed to stop and a short pursuit ensued. The trooper pursued the vehicle for two minutes, before discontinuing the pursuit. An NSP helicopter maintained visual contact of the vehicle. At the Intersection of 49th and Highway 275, troopers used stop sticks to flatten the vehicles front two tires. The vehicle stopped coming to rest in a field southeast of the intersection. The driver of the vehicle Luis J. Morales, 22, Norfolk and passenger in the Alejandro Morales, 20, Norfolk were taken custody without incident and lodged in the Madison County Jail on charges of felony driving under suspension, flight to avoid arrest, willful reckless driving, resisting arrest, misdemeanor possession of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia.
The pursuit occurred during an evening of high visibility patrols involving the Nebraska State Patrol, the Norfolk Police Department and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office. The special enforcement which included the use of the Nebraska State Patrol helicopter was designed to help reduce the number of serious injury and fatality crashes through voluntary compliance of all traffic safety laws.
“We’ve had numerous reports of speeding and aggressive driving in the Norfolk area,” said Captain Paul Hattan, Commander Troop B- Norfolk. “Motorists in the Madison County area can expect additional enforcement efforts as we work with our local law enforcement partners to keep our streets safe and accident free.”
In addition to the pursuit and arrests, troopers issued citations and warnings for speeding (3), driving left of center (1), no proof of insurance (4), no license plate (4), failure to signal (2) and no seat belt (4).
(AP) — A federal judge says two Omaha, Neb., men who are suing the city of Council Bluffs and two former police detectives for wrongful conviction, will get a joint trial instead of two separate ones.
Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee have asked for separate trials in their civil lawsuit after the first trial ended in mistrial because jurors couldn’t agree on a verdict.
The men seek millions of dollars in compensation for 25 years in prison. They were released in 2003 after the Iowa Supreme Court found prosecutors committed misconduct.
The men allege retired officers Daniel Larsen and Lyle Brown coerced witnesses and hid evidence from their attorneys during their 1978 trials.
Federal judge Robert Pratt denied separate trials and ordered a new trial to begin Oct. 15 in Des Moines.
(AP) — Authorities are investigating a one-car rollover crash that killed a Nebraska man over the weekend.
The Nebraska State Patrol says the accident happened around 10:15 Sunday morning on a county road four miles west of Genoa in Nance County.
Authorities say the car’s driver lost control while driving south and overcorrected before the car veered into a ditch and rolled.
Forty-nine-year-old Robert Fischer of Shelby died in the accident.
Authorities say he wasn’t wearing his seat belt.
(AP) — Police in Washington state are looking for a man wanted in the shooting death of a 4-year-old boy in Sedro-Woolley, and they found the gun they believed was used.
A Washington State Patrol explosives-sniffing dog found the weapon Sunday under the stairs of a church about a half-block from the house where the child was shot earlier Sunday.
Lt. Lin Tucker said no shell casing was found at the scene, but there is one in the gun, indicating a misfire.
The child’s mother’s boyfriend, 25-year-old Trevor Braymiller, fled the home and police were searching for him in the Big Lake area, about five miles south.
Sedro-Woolley is a town of about 10,000 people about 70 miles north of Seattle in the Cascades foothills.
(AP) — A weekend crash on Interstate 80 sent a semi rolling into a Nebraska high school soccer field.
The semi rear-ended a camper that was being pulled by a 2004 Ford Expedition, about two miles east of Waverly around 2 a.m. Sunday. The crash caused the semi to veer off the road, sending it into a ditch and a fence before it came to a stop on Waverly High School’s soccer field.
Nebraska State Patrol spokeswoman Deb Collins says the impact of the semi destroyed the camper and caused the Expedition to roll. FIve people in the SUV were treated for minor injuries and released.
The semi driver was not injured.
(AP) — A replica of the Statue of Liberty in Grand Island has been freshened up thanks to local Boy Scouts and others.
The statue at Pier Park originally dedicated in 1950 was looking its age.
The worst damage came from storms in 1980, which broke off the statue’s crown spikes, bent an arm and peppered the artwork with holes.
The local Boy Scouts council and Hall County Historical Society raised $5,000 for repairs.
The statue was artificially aged, except for the torch, to give it an appearance like the actual Statue of Liberty in New York.
The statue was returned to its base July 10 after two weeks of work.
The statue was originally among 200 installed in 39 states, commemorating the scouts’ 40th anniversary.
(AP) — An Ohio police chief says charges are expected Monday against the suspect being held in an investigation into the discovery of three women’s bodies in trash bags.
East Cleveland Police Chief Ralph Spotts says there are no plans to resume searching in and around abandoned houses in the neighborhood where the bodies were found separately on Friday and Saturday.
Spotts on Sunday identified the suspect as 35-year-old registered sex offender Michael Madison. He said Madison is expected to be formally charged Monday, but did not elaborate.
A medical examiner says the bodies were in advanced stages of decomposition, and it will take days to identify the women and determine how they died.
Sunday’s search of about 40 abandoned houses and other areas turned up no more bodies.
(AP) — A northeast Nebraska family is mourning the death of a 6-year-old boy killed in an accidental shooting.
Madison County Attorney Joe Smith says the boy died around noon on Saturday. The shooting happened at the family’s home in a rural area near Battle Creek.
Smith says he won’t release the circumstances of the shooting, but he called it a sad tragedy.
Smith says the boy’s name won’t be released, and he considers his investigation closed.
(AP) — Authorities say a 17-year-old Nebraska boy was killed and his sister injured when a Cadillac smashed into their horse-drawn buggy near Pawnee City.
Pawnee County Sheriff Jayme Reed says the crash happened around 9 a.m. on Nebraska Highway 8/50.
Reed says a 1992 Cadillac Deville driven by 56-year-old Vivian Cockrell of Pawnee City hit the back of the horse-drawn buggy.
Rueben Yoder died at the scene of the crash. His 20-year-old sister, Fannie Yoder, sustained head injuries and was taken to a Lincoln hospital. But her condition wasn’t immediately available.
