(AP) — A northeast Nebraska man was injured when a train hit his car in Dakota County.
The crash happened a little after noon Sunday at a crossing just north of Homer.
The driver of the car was Tony C. Josta, of rural Homer.
Kleinberg says he was flown by helicopter to a Sioux City hospital.
Investigators don’t know why Josta’s car was on the tracks.
(AP) — A Nebraska couple accused of burning down a restaurant they owned in South Dakota to collect insurance money has been convicted of felony arson and reckless burning after a weeklong trial.
Attorney General Marty Jackley says a jury in Bon Homme County returned the verdict on Friday against 62-year-old Charles Johnson and 56-year-old Kimberly Johnson, of Niobrara Neb. They each face up to 20 years in prison and $40,000 in fines when they’re sentenced Aug. 7.
The charges stemmed from an October 2010 fire that destroyed Libby’s Steak House in Springfield and another business and damaged a third.
(AP) — One person is dead following a fiery rollover crash on U.S. Highway 34 in southeast Nebraska.
Firefighters from Bradshaw were sent to what was reported as a cornfield fire after 12 a.m. Saturday.
Bradshaw Fire Chief Todd Hellerich says another motorist who stopped to investigate the blaze soon realized it was a vehicle on fire.
Hellerich says firefighters found the vehicle fully engulfed in flames by the time they arrived and that the driver was still inside.
Officials are working to identify the driver. Hellerich says the crash and fire so badly damaged the vehicle that authorities don’t yet know what type it is.
(AP) — A Grand Island man has been convicted of visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct after pleading no contest to one of four felony charges in the case.
According to Court records, 26-year-old Ryan Brumbaugh entered the plea Friday in Hall County District Court. Investigators say the charge involves the distribution in October of a video by way of the Internet of a 7-year-old old girl engaged in sexual acts with an adult male.
Three other charges were dismissed in exchange for his plea.
Brumbaugh is set to be sentenced on Sept. 5.
(AP) — A Madison man has drowned at Lake North near Columbus in eastern Nebraska.
Family members identified the man as 24-year-old Jorge Manuel.
Law enforcement officials responded to a 911 call around 8 p.m. Saturday.
The Platte County Sheriff’s Office had the lake blocked off while the vehicles were on the scene.
Officials have not released any information about the drowning by midday Sunday.
(AP) — Police say a 5-year-old girl fatally shot herself when her mother locked her inside their home and went to the store.
The New Orleans Police Department said in a news release the girl was home alone Sunday, somehow found her mother’s revolver, and accidentally shot herself in the head. The mother, 28-year-old Laderika Smith, will be booked on a charge of second-degree murder. Police say her negligence resulted in the death of her daughter.
Upon returning home from the store, police say Smith found her daughter lying on a bedroom floor with a gunshot wound. She died at a hospital.
The jail’s website listed Smith’s birthday as Sunday. It wasn’t immediately clear whether she had an attorney. A call to the jail was not immediately returned.
(AP) — An Iowa couple mourning the death of a twin in the womb has sued a doctor and an Omaha hospital for not heeding their wishes to preserve the fetus for baptism, cremation and memorial service.
Jill and Victor McCall have sued the doctor and Methodist Women’s Hospital in west Omaha.
The lawsuit says the hospital and its staff violated a 2003 state law that requires every hospital maintain a written policy for the disposition of remains of a stillborn. The law also says a parent has the right to direct the disposition of a stillborn’s remains within 14 days of delivery.
The McCalls say that did not happen with their stillborn, whom they named Robert Thomas. His twin, Michael, survived and is now 2.
(AP) — Omaha police have identified a man killed and another man critically injured in a late-night shooting in north Omaha.
Police say officers found the men with gunshot wounds after 10 p.m. Saturday in a car that had crashed into others at a gas station. Police believe the driver crashed after being shot.
On Sunday, police said the man killed was 38-year-old Wardell Johnson and the man injured is Dantonio Crossley. Police are unsure of Crossley’s age.
One person has been arrested, and two others are being sought. Police are asking witnesses to the shooting to come forward.
(AP) — A Grand Island man has pleaded no contest to attempting to entice a Canadian teenager.
Authorities say 26-year-old Shaun Broxterman will be sentenced next Friday.
Prosecutors say Broxterman exchanged messages and nude photos with the 15-year-old girl between Nov. 12, 2011, and Aug. 22, 2012.
Broxterman had been scheduled to be sentenced last, but it was put off because a doctor who conducted an evaluation ordered by the judge refused to release the report until he is paid for it.
(AP) — Florida aerialist Nik Wallenda has completed a tightrope walk that took him a quarter mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona.
Wallenda performed the stunt late Sunday on a 2-inch-thick steel cable, 1,500 feet above the river on the Navajo Nation near the Grand Canyon. He wasn’t wearing a harness.
The event was broadcast live on the Discovery Channel.
The 34-year-old Wallenda is a seventh-generation high-wire artist and is part of the famous “Flying Wallendas” circus family — a clan that is no stranger to death-defying feats.
Wallenda says he has wondered what it would be like to cross an area he considers the Grand Canyon since he was a teenager.
