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Ozzy suspected in the death of Jerry Garcia (Update)

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) – A 20-year-old man accused of stabbing to death another Columbus man in a motel parking lot has been charged with first-degree murder.

Ozzy Tilden was ordered held without bail following his court appearance on Tuesday. Authorities say Tilden fatally stabbed 36-year-old Jerry Garcia on Oct. 8.

Investigators say in court documents that Tilden had gotten into a fistfight at the Sundown Motel lot after he returned from having some drinks at a bar in Duncan early in the morning on Oct. 8. Garcia got involved only briefly in the scuffle.

According to the documents, a witness told police that Tilden left but soon returned and confronted Garcia, stabbing him several times.

Online records don’t list an attorney for Tilden.

Neb. man busted for child porn

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A 22-year-old northeast Nebraska man has pleaded no contest to child pornography charges in federal court. The Nebraska Attorney General’s office says Trevor Nichols of Holt County pleaded no contest to four counts of possession of child pornography. Sentencing has been set for Jan. 23. State Attorney General Jon Bruning says Nichols’ plea stems from an investigation of peer-to-peer file sharing conducted by his office’s Rural Cybercrimes Unit. Bruning says the investigation turned-up a variety of sexually explicit images and videos of minors on Nichols’ computer.

Highway accident claims Neb. man’s life

YORK, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say an eastern Nebraska man died after he apparently lost control of his pickup truck near York. 22-year-old John McAndrew, of Beaver Crossing, died in the accident early Sunday. The York County sheriff’s office says McAndrew was traveling east on U.S. Highway 34 when his truck crossed the highway into the north ditch, then crossed both lanes into the south ditch. The truck rolled several times and ended up in a soybean field. The accident remains under investigation.

Another cougar sighting reported

YORK, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say two men have reported seeing a mountain lion near York in eastern Nebraska. The York County sheriff’s office says the sighting was called in Sunday afternoon. The men said they say the mountain lion just east of York, near the Quail Cove Estates property. They also said they found what looked like a den, with tracks to a nearby pond. It’s the seventh reported sighting of a mountain lion in the area since just June. None has been confirmed by authorities.

Neb. jobless rate at 4.2 pct for 3rd month in row

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska’s 4.2 percent unemployment rate for September marks the third straight month without a change in the state’s jobless estimate. The preliminary figure released Friday shows Nebraska’s seasonally adjusted rate is about half the national rate, which was 9.1 percent in September. The Nebraska Labor Department says the September 2010 figure for the state was 4.5 percent. The labor report shows two industry sectors experienced job growth during September. Professional and business services added 2,138 jobs, while education and health services added 920 jobs. The unemployment rate in Omaha dropped to 4.4 percent in September from August’s 4.6 percent. In Lincoln, the rate dropped to 3.5 percent from 3.6 percent. The unemployment rates for Omaha and Lincoln are not seasonally adjusted and cannot be compared to the state rate.

3 accused murderers plead not guilty

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Three people charged in the shooting death of a 25-year-old Omaha man have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges in the case. 21-year-old Marqus Patton, 20-year-old Nicholas Ely and 22-year-old Drake Northrop entered pleas Monday in a Douglas County court. The three are among five people accused in the July 6 shooting death of Christopher Winters in Winters’ apartment. Nineteen-year-old Ryan Elseman also faces a murder charge, as does a 15-year-old girl, who is seeking to have her case transferred to juvenile court. In court documents, police say they believe the five were looking to rob Winters of marijuana and money when he was shot to death.

Suspicious death in Hastings (update)

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) – Hastings police are investigating the death of a 58-year-old Hastings man whose body was found in a Hastings house. The body was found Thursday afternoon by an acquaintance of the man. Police say evidence found at the scene led officers to believe the man did not die of natural causes. Adams County Attorney Donna Fegler Daiss, who also serves as coroner for the county, says an autopsy has been ordered. The man’s name has not been released pending notification of his family.

Funeral protesters protected by 1st Amendment

Shirley Phelps Roper

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A federal appeals court has struck down a state law that keeps picketers several hundred feet away from a funeral or memorial service. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reversed a U.S. District Court ruling against members of Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The appeals court relied on its 2008 ruling in a Missouri case that said peaceful protests near funerals are protected by the First Amendment’s right to free speech. The opinion came on the appeal of a lawsuit filed by Shirley Phelps-Roper, a member of the Westboro Baptist Church that regularly protests at the funerals of fallen soldiers. Phelps-Roper had asked for a preliminary injunction to stop enforcement of the law, saying it’s constitutional.

University of Neb to help put center in China

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – The University of Nebraska has announced it has signed an agreement with China to create the American Culture Center in Xi’an, China. The center will initiate and host programs to expose students and faculty at Xi’an Jiaotong University to all things American. That includes history, government, art, law, medicine and culture. The center will be one of 10 in China to receive seed funding from the U.S. government.

 

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ALLIANCE, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska’s Carhenge, an automobile replica of England’s Stonehenge, the prehistoric circle of stones, is up for sale. The asking price is $300,000. Eagle Radio station KCOW says Wednesday that the Friends of Carhenge board of directors voted to place the 24-year-old tourist attraction, which consists of a circle of 38 cars, on the market. The organization’s president, Marcia Buck, says the quirky tourist attraction lacked volunteers and limited capital. Carhenge was built in 1987 by the Jim Reinders family on land that Reinders’ family once farmed just north of Alliance in western Nebraska. Reinders donated Carhenge and 10 acres of land around it to the Friends organization a few years later.

 

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