Two fired police officers are facing charges in the wake of a controversial arrest in north Omaha.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine announced Monday that former officer James Kinsella was charged with felony evidence tampering, and misdemeanor theft and obstruction charges. Former Sgt. Aaron Von Behren was charged with obstruction of governmental operations and accessory to a felony, both misdemeanors.

Four officers were fired after the March 21 incident, in which an officer was videotaped striking Octavius Johnson.

Kinsella was charged for taking a memory card used to record the arrest.

Bradley Canterbury, the officer who was seen striking Octavius Johnson, was not charged. Kleine says three national use-of-force experts reviewed the video and concluded that his actions did not merit criminal charges.

(AP) — Years of work has paid off for some happy dogs in Columbus.

Residents began looking for land nearly a decade ago where they could establish a dog park.

They finally found a 2-acre site last year and began work in October on fencing, lighting, benches and other features.

Organizers officially opened Columbus Bark Park with a ribbon-cutting event Saturday.

The park is funded by private donations, fundraisers and donated labor.

The first phase cost about $11,000, and organizers say they now will focus on erecting a metal sign listing park rules, landscaping, improved parking and water fountains for people and dogs.

(AP) — A man arrested in a western Minnesota raid that the FBI believes disrupted a terrorism attack will stay in custody after his first court appearance.

Twenty-four-year-old Buford Rogers of Montevideo (mawnt-uh-VIHD’-ee-oh) appeared in court Monday. He was arrested Friday and charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Rogers was appointed a federal defender. U.S. Magistrate Judge Tony Leung (LEE’-ung) ordered him held pending a detention hearing Wednesday because of the “serious concerns” raised in the criminal complaint.

Rogers wore a green construction company T-shirt, jeans and work boots. He answered “yes, sir” and “no, sir” to the judge’s questions.

Authorities say they seized Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and firearms in the raid on a mobile home.

A Nebraska woman who made a video in which she gleefully described robbing a bank has pleaded guilty to the crime.

19-year-old Hannah Sabata pleaded guilty Monday in district court to the Nov. 27 robbery of the Waco branch of Cornerstone Bank in Waco.

Sabata changed her plea from not guilty, and in return a charge of theft was dismissed.

Sabata, of Stromsburg, had been charged with stealing a car, which she used in the robbery.

After the robbery, Sabata recorded a video in which she displayed cash and bragged about stealing a car and robbing a bank. She spoke of “having the best day of her life.”

She posted the video to the Internet site YouTube.

Sentencing is set for June 17.

The Nebraska State Patrol, in conjunction with the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, is investigating the crash of a school bus and a semi-trailer truck, four miles west of Norfolk in Madison County.

The accident, involving a Mid-States school bus transporting students from Battle Creek Public Schools, and a semi- truck occurred around 7:15 a.m., Monday, May 6, at the intersection of Highway 275 and 549 Avenue.  The crash investigation indicates the school bus was northbound on 549 Avenue when it proceeded north across the highway colliding with a westbound semi-trailer truck. The impact forced the school bus into the ditch on the northwest corner of the intersection with the semi coming to rest on the shoulder of the highway.

There were 13 students and one driver on the bus, with eight students transported to Faith Regional Medical Center in Norfolk.  Of the eight students transported, two were seriously injured. The two seriously injured students were transferred by ambulance from the Norfolk hospital to medical facilities in Omaha. The names of the students are not being released at this time.  The other six students received minor injuries and are expected to be treated and released.

The driver of the school bus, Larry Prauner, 73, Battle Creek, and the driver of the semi, Stanley Jauer, 63, Hinton, Iowa, were not injured. Both drivers were wearing seat belts. Weather is believed to have been a factor in the crash with heavy fog in the area at the time.

The crash investigation closed a portion of Highway 275 for several hours.   The Nebraska State Patrol was assisted by the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, the Norfolk and Battle Creek Police Departments, and the Norfolk and Battle Creek Fire and Rescue Departments.

Authorities have released the name of a 25-year-old Omaha homicide victim.

Omaha police identified him as Nicolas Garrido-Antunez.

Police say officers responded shortly before 6 a.m. Sunday to a report of an injured man.

Officers say the man wasn’t responsive and had a gunshot wound. He was taken to Nebraska Medical Center in extremely critical condition. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

No arrests have been reported.

 

(AP) — The Congressional Medal of Honor Society is in Newtown, Conn., to honor six educators killed in the December elementary school massacre with its highest civilian award.

The society says Rachel D’Avino, Dawn Hochsprung, Anne Marie Murphy, Lauren Rousseau, Mary Sherlach and Victoria Soto exemplified courage, sacrifice and selflessness in trying to protect students from the gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The women’s families will be presented with the Citizen Honors Medal during a ceremony Monday afternoon at Newtown High School.

The organization, which is made up of Medal of Honor recipients, also will present its Certificate of Commendation to all of the other teachers and staff of the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

A high-speed car chase ended at Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha.

The chase began around 2:15 a.m. Monday when a Bellevue officer spotted a speeding car.

Police say the chase reached speeds of nearly 80 mph before the car crashed through a fence and stopped on the base.

The car driver was taken to a hospital. His name hasn’t been released.

A police cruiser crashed, too, but the officer wasn’t injured.

In the beginning, New York resident Phillip Patterson decided to write out every word in the Bible.

Now, four years after starting with Genesis, the 63-year-old Hudson Valley man has copied out more than 2,400 pages and is close to completing the job. Patterson will finish up the final lines of the Book of Revelation during a ceremony at his church, St. Peter’s Presbyterian in Spencertown, on May 11.

Patterson might seem like an unlikely scribe for the King James version of the Bible. The retired interior designer is neither monkish nor zealous. He goes to church but has never been particularly religious. Health issues — including AIDS and anemia — have sent him to the hospital and slowed the work.

But he says he has always been curious.

(AP) – A 26-year-old Kansas City, Kan., woman has died after falling out of a party bus on Interstate 35 and being struck by three other vehicles.

The Associated Press reports the victim has been identified as Jamie N. Frecks. The Kansas Highway Patrol says she fell out of the emergency door of the party bus around 9:50 p.m. Saturday as it was northbound near the Southwest Boulevard exit in Kansas City, Kan.

Frecks was 1 of 16 passengers on the bus. The Highway Patrol says 2 of the vehicles that struck her after she fell out did not stop.

Nobody else on the bus was injured.

The crash report doesn’t identify the company that operates the bus, which was driven by a 49-year-old Basehor, Kan., woman.

Check out Fox 4 Kansas City for more information:

https://fox4kc.com/2013/05/05/friends-watched-in-horror-as-woman-who-fell-off-bus-struck-by-vehicles/