Investigators with the Nebraska State Patrol are seeking information regarding the whereabouts a person wanted for questioning in connection with a double homicide that occurred in Douglas, Nebraska Saturday morning.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Brindar H. Jangir (DOB 1-1-1983) is asked to call the Nebraska State Patrol at 402-479-4921.

Investigators were called to the scene at 100 Otoe Street in Douglas this morning after Otoe County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to reports of gun shots just before 6:00 a.m.

Two victims, Randal Grimes, 56, and Annette Grimes, 51, were found deceased from apparent gunshot wounds.

The investigation is ongoing. The Nebraska State Patrol, the Otoe County Sheriff’s Office, Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office, and Lincoln Police Department are cooperating in the investigation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The Omaha Police Department is teaming up with a local nonprofit to reduce the number of missing children in the city.

Police Lt. Tracy Scherer tells the Omaha World-Herald that the department realized there’s a systematic problem behind the more than 3,000 reports of missing children each year in Omaha.

The majority of the reports involve youths who run away from home. Scherer says many children could be running from abuse.

Scherer says the department is working to identify cases where officers believe a child is in danger or has been abused. Police will then take the child to Project Harmony, a child advocacy center.

The center can interview children about home life, provide a medical exam or therapy and contact Child Protective Services, if needed.

Project Harmony also plans to reach out to affected families.

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One person was killed in a two-vehicle crash Thursday evening on Highway 75 in Nemaha County.

The crash occurred at approximately 4:10 p.m. just south of Auburn when a southbound Ford Expedition crossed the center line and struck a northbound Ford Fusion. The driver of the Fusion, George Winchester, 56, of Cook, Nebraska was pronounced deceased at the scene.

The driver of the Expedition, Rachelle Ellston, 30, of Humboldt, Nebraska, was transported by ambulance to Nemaha County Hospital and then taken to Bryan Health Center West Campus in Lincoln. Two children in car seats in the rear of the Expedition were uninjured.

Highway 75 was closed for approximately five hours. The crash investigation is ongoing.

Highway 75 is experiencing increased traffic due to flooding on Interstate 29 in southwest Iowa and northwest Missouri. The Nebraska State Patrol urges caution with additional traffic in the area.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A 57-year-old Omaha man has been killed in a dramatic crash on an eastern Omaha interstate.

Omaha police say Frederick Cox was eastbound on Woolworth Avenue near the Field Club neighborhood Wednesday night when his vehicle drifted and left the road. Police say the car went through a fence and vaulted onto the Interstate 480 roadway below. The car hit two vehicles before crashing into a concrete median and flipping.

Cox was declared dead at the scene.

No one was injured in the other two vehicles.

HICKMAN, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say a man died at the scene of a fiery crash southwest of Lincoln.

Medics and deputies were sent late Wednesday night to the crash site about a mile (1.6 kilometers) south of Hickman. The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says the vehicle apparently went onto the shoulder and the driver overcorrected. The car spun, ran off the roadway, hit a tree and caught fire. Deputies suspect excessive speed was a factor in the crash.

The man was alone in his car. He’s been identified as 25-year-old Francisco Gonzalez, who lived in Lincoln.

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Passenger rail traffic along a popular Missouri route has been suspended and evacuations continue amid flooding along the Missouri River.

Amtrak said Tuesday that it was temporarily halting its Missouri River Runner Service between Kansas City and St. Louis. The company says that because of the flooding, freight traffic has been diverted to tracks Amtrak uses. Buses will transport passengers instead.

In northwest Missouri, two more levees were breached Tuesday and the 220 residents of the town of Craig were ordered to evacuate. Local officials say water also is lapping at the edge of the tiny town of Fortescue, where residents used excavators to create a makeshift levee.

The floodwaters have damaged hundreds of homes and been blamed for three deaths in the Midwest. The flooding has also taken a heavy toll on agriculture, inundating thousands of acres, threatening stockpiled grain and killing livestock.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Omaha’s mayor is making a temporary policy exception to pay for some vehicle damage caused by the city’s potholes, which have become an even larger issue during the winter’s severe weather conditions.

Mayor Jean Stothert announced Monday that the city will pay nearly 60 claims that were formally filed between Jan. 1 and March 18. She says 54 of the claims requested a combined total of nearly $29,000. The five remaining claims didn’t include a specific dollar amount.

Stothert says the City Law Department will consider subsequent claims on a case-by-case basis until crews are caught up on pothole repairs.

Stothert says the city’s longtime policy against paying for damage caused by potholes aligns with state statutes and is similar to other Midwestern cities. But she says the extraordinary winter conditions have warranted a brief exception.

WESTERN, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say two people were fatally injured when two pickup trucks collided on a state highway in southeast Nebraska.

The collision occurred a little after 4 p.m. Sunday on Nebraska Highway 15, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) north of Western. The Saline County Sheriff’s Office says a northbound pickup was pulling a trailer when it collided with the southbound pickup.

One person in each truck died – one at the scene and one later after a hospital. Two other people in the southbound pickup and one in the northbound pickup were injured.

The names of those involved haven’t been released. The collision is being investigated.