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Ex-gymnastics coach in Omaha to face child porn case count

Bryce Fogg

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a gymnastics coach accused of producing child pornography in Nebraska and arrested this summer in Kansas is back in Omaha after fighting extradition.

Prosecutors say 27-year-old Bryce Fogg photographed and videotaped females without their knowledge while he worked at a gym in Omaha. Police reports say he’d recorded images of a 14-year-old girl and 22-year-old woman in “private compromising positions” without their consent.

He was arrested in July in Emporia, Kansas, where he’d moved for another coaching job.

Fogg is charged with one count of visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct of a child. His next court hearing is set for Aug. 23.

Police say 8-year-old killed crossing street in east Omaha

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an 8-year-old child has been fatally injured while walking across a street in east Omaha.

The accident was reported around 4:20 p.m. Monday. Police say the child didn’t enter the street at a crosswalk and was struck by a passing car.

Police say the child was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a hospital. The child has been identified as Jalen Duncan, who lived in Omaha. The car driver has been identified as 23-year-old Noel Rangel.

The accident is being investigated. No arrest or citation has been reported.

Lightning blamed for fire at Lincoln fraternity building

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have blamed lightning for a fire that damaged a University of Nebraska-Lincoln fraternity building.

The fire was reported around 8 a.m. Sunday and took about 20 minutes to control. Fire Capt. Dave Engl says the building is rented to Kappa Sigma for office space.

No injuries have been reported. Damage was estimated at $50,000.

Lincoln City Council struggles with property tax windfall

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — As local governmental units prepare to vote on budgets and set property tax rates for next year, Lincoln officials are struggling with what to do about a property tax windfall.

Lincoln City Council passed a resolution in March defining windfall as the increased property tax revenue resulting from the higher residential property valuations.

Lincoln has seen a nearly 9 percent valuation increase from last year due to rising home prices and the county assessor’s decision to reassess residences across the area one year ahead of schedule.

Some City Council candidates promised this spring to shield property tax payers from the windfall.

The Lincoln Independent Business Association PAC says local elected officials should reduce tax rates and not tap into the windfall.

Authorities say teen killed, another injured in crash

MEMPHIS, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 16-year-old has been fatally injured and another hospitalized after a car crash in eastern Nebraska.

The accident was reported around 5:30 p.m. Sunday, about 2 miles (3 kilometers) south of Memphis in southeast Saunders County. The Sheriff’s Office says the northbound vehicle went out of control and rolled several times.

The Sheriff’s Office says passenger Nolan Thomas Beckenhauer, of Ceresco, was pronounced dead after being flown to a hospital. The driver, Conner David Buettner, of Manley, has been reported in stable condition at an Omaha hospital.

Authorities investigate man’s death on York County road

YORK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a man who apparently was struck by a vehicle on a rural road in York County.

Deputies found the man’s body in a roadside ditch Saturday night, about 3 miles (5 kilometers) west of York. They’d been sent to check a report about an abandoned vehicle, which was found on the roadway.

Sheriff Dale Radcliff identified the victim as 41-year-old Chad K. Chapman, of York.

The driver of the vehicle believed to have hit Chapman contacted the sheriff’s department and that the matter was now considered a “hit accident.” He says it initially had been handled as a hit and run.

Radcliff says an autopsy was performed Sunday.

Three-vehicle crash kills Nebraska school teacher

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials say a middle school teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, was killed in a three-vehicle crash.

Millard Public Schools says Rhodes died in the accident about 6 p.m. Saturday in western Douglas County.

The district says Rhodes worked for the school system for 24 years and was currently a sixth-grade science and social studies teacher at Peter Kiewit Middle School.

Sheriff’s deputies say the crash happened when a truck sideswiped a car and crashed into a sport utility vehicle.

Several other people were injured, though their medical statuses were not immediately clear Sunday.

Man breaks Nebraska record with 55-pound flathead catfish

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 24-year-old Palmyra, Nebraska, man has landed a state record flathead catfish that tips the scales at 55 pounds.

Bow fisherman Connor Marcoe’s roughly 46-inch-long catch from a location he identified only as a small river in southeastern Nebraska broke the former state mark of 52 pounds and 8 ounces.

Marcoe says that “right away, I knew it was something special.”

Marcoe says he fishes three or four times a week and competes in several Bowfishers of Nebraska tournaments.

Omaha contractors sue insurance for not paying storm damage

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two Omaha contractors are expanding a legal strategy they say forces insurance companies to pay for storm damage. But industry officials say the practice leads to exaggerated claims and may drive away insurers.

Home repair contractors Steve Shannon and James Eggers have sued insurance companies more than 100 times since 2013, seeking $13 million they say property insurance companies failed to pay for storm repairs.

The legal strategy has brought a warning from state insurance regulators just as thousands of Omaha homeowners seek repairs for recent storms. Government and insurance officials say such lawsuits can drive up costs for everyone who buys home insurance.

Eggers says the contracts protect consumers when insurance companies deny claims, refuse to pay charges or skimp on repairs.

Omaha man found guilty of manslaughter for killing woman

Reginald Briggs

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A jury has found an Omaha man guilty of manslaughter and other counts in the 2015 death of a woman whose body was found in a vacant house.

33-year-old Reginald Briggs was found guilty Friday of manslaughter, two gun counts and pandering in the September 2015 death of 31-year-old Teresa Longo.

Police say Briggs killed Longo with a single shot to the back of her head inside an Omaha flophouse. Investigators say Longo had a young daughter and was homeless when Briggs offered her a place to stay in exchange for working for him as a prostitute.

Longo’s body was found weeks after she was killed inside the north Omaha house.

Briggs faces up to 170 years in prison when he’s sentenced in October.

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