NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — The 2012 Nebraska Airfest and State Fly-In will be held at the Norfolk airport in northeast Nebraska.
Organizers say this weekend’s event will begin each day at 6 a.m. with hot-air balloon launches.
The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team will conduct four performances, and there will be re-enactments of historic aerial battles.
Airplanes, including a P-51 Mustang and a B-25 Mitchell bomber from World War II, will be on display.
KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — A 2-year-old girl has been found walking alone in Kearney’s Harmon Park.
The local media reports that a woman told police that she found the girl around 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
Police returned the little girl to her home about a block away and cited her mother for misdemeanor child abuse. Police say officers have had other contact with the woman about allowing her child to wander unsupervised.
A 57-year-old Lincoln man has been given five to 10 years in prison after pleading no contest to weapons and child pornography charges.
Local Media reports that Roger Hodge had been arrested for a domestic assault in November. Police were called about pornographic photos found in his home while he was in jail. The youngest girl in the photos was about 10.
Hodge also was sentenced last week to six months for the assault.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Three workers have been treated for minor injuries after a blast at Universal Cold Storage in southwest Lincoln.
The explosion occurred around 11:30 p.m. Monday in a high-pressure pasteurizing unit.
Authorities say the workers were knocked up to 15 feet and were hit by flying debris. They were taken to a hospital for treatment.
Lincoln Fire Battalion Chief Derald Murrell told the Local Media reports that “it sounds like they were pretty lucky.”
Murrell says the blast didn’t cause a fire or allow the release of any hazardous material.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy was hurt when a pickup truck hit his patrol car during a traffic stop on Interstate 80 in Omaha.
The crash happened Monday afternoon around 2:30 p.m. near the Q Street exit on westbound I-80 and slowed traffic for about two hours.
Deputy David Wintle and the driver of the pickup were both taken to the hospital after the crash. The driver Wintle had originally pulled over and Wintle’s police dog were not seriously hurt.
Chief Deputy Marty Bilek says Wintle was thrown 20 feet when the truck hit the back of his cruiser.
Wintle was in serious condition when he was taken to the hospital. The truck driver, who wasn’t immediately identified, was in critical condition.
KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — A Kearney woman injured in a traffic accident in Lincoln has died.
The local media says 23-year-old Raven Addy-Cruz was injured when her car was hit from behind by a dump truck on Interstate 80 last Thursday. Nebraska State Patrol spokeswoman Deb Collins says Addy-Cruz died on Saturday at a Lincoln hospital.
Her husband and 13-month-old daughter suffered injuries that didn’t appear to be life-threatening. The driver of the dump truck wasn’t injured.
The accident remains under investigation.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is offering fans and financial assistance to help low-income residents cope with the summer heat.
Children and Family Services Director Thomas Pristow says the department has joined forces with 43 local groups throughout the state to distribute fans. The local organizations decide who receives a fan.
Pristow says the state also administers a cooling program to help low-income residents and families pay their cooling bills. To qualify, residents must be at least 70 years old or be more susceptible to heat because of a medical condition that keeps them in their homes.
The fans were bought with money from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and Nebraska’s health and human services department.
PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska City man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and placed on two years of probation for a deadly crash near Union in southeast Nebraska.
The local media says 65-year-old Norbert Esser was sentenced on a charge of motor vehicle homicide on Monday in Cass County Court in Plattsmouth. He was also fined $1,000. Esser pleaded no contest.
Esser was charged in the death of 51-year-old Lonnie Houchin, of Lincoln. He died when Esser’s pickup hit his motorcycle in June 2011.
Authorities say Esser lost control of his truck and crossed into the oncoming lanes. He hit a car before he hit Houchin’s motorcycle.
SIDNEY, Neb. (AP) — Outdoor outfitter Cabela’s says the executive who oversees the company’s credit card and loyalty programs is preparing to retire.
But Cabela’s said Monday that Joseph Friebe will continue to work through 2014 to help with the transition.
Friebe had been serving as an executive vice president at the Sidney, Neb., based company. And Friebe was president and CEO of Cabela’s World’s Foremost Bank.
Cabela’s CEO Tommy Millner says the company’s Visa program has performed well under Friebe and helped the company grow.
(Grand Island, Neb.)-NSP Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) Troop C –Grand Island 
arrested four impaired drivers during a weekend special enforcement effort in Hall County.
The special enforcement designed to reduce the potential for serious injury and fatality crashes was held in the evening hours on Saturday, June 9 and continued into the early morning hours on Sunday, June 10. During the effort NSP in conjunction with the Hall County Sheriff’s Office conducted a DUI checkpoint along with high visibility patrols in and around Hall County.
In addition to the four drunken driving arrests, 15 citations and warnings were issued for speeding, four citations for driving under suspension and one for no proof of insurance. Troopers had a total of 45 contacts with motorists during the enforcement effort paid for thanks in part to a $2,000 grant from the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety.
