OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police are investigating the stabbing death of a 31-year-old man.
Police Officer Michael Pecha says police were called to the southeast Omaha neighborhood around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
Officers found David Silva-Avalos lying near the home’s garage door. He died at the scene.
Anyone with information about Silva-Avalos’ death is encouraged to contact police.
The fatal stabbing is the fourth homicide in Omaha in the past six days.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln-based bottled water equipment maker says its entry into the craft beer business two years ago has paid off and the company is planning a $2 million expansion.
Norland International says a craft beer boom in the United States and internationally is the reason the company is launching construction of an expansion in a few weeks that will add manufacturing capacity to its plant.
Norland manufactures water treatment and bottling and canning systems.
Company President Mike McFarland said sales are up 60 percent and he’s increased workers from 48 to 80 in the past year.
Some growth has come from water business but most has been in the beer equipment division.
He says the company expects to ship 150 full brew-house systems this year.
BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — The mayor of Blair, Nebraska, has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and traffic violations.
Police say 72-year-old Jim Realph failed a field sobriety test after he was stopped by officers at 11:30 p.m. Thursday. Police allege he was speeding and driving left of the center of the road. A blood test was submitted to determine his blood-alcohol level.
Realph says in a statement he is saddened that his actions brought grief to his family, the citizens of Blair, the city council, city administration and the police.
He says officers handled the situation professionally and he acknowledged he made a mistake and says he will accept the consequences.
Realph told the television station he considered resigning but he’s chosen to remain in office.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha authorities say they’ve made a second arrest in the death of a woman whose 11-month-old was discovered alive in a trash container and whose 5-year-old son is missing.
Omaha police say 24-year-old Gabriela Guevara is charged with accessory to homicide.
Police say Guevara is the girlfriend of Roberto Martinez-Marinero, who was charged with first-degree murder. Police say Martinez-Marinero told the Douglas County Department of Corrections staff on Thursday he played a role in the death of his mother, 45-year-old Jesus Ismenia Marinero.
The woman’s body was found Wednesday night hours after her youngest child, an 11-month-old boy, was found in a trash container near a suburban Omaha apartment complex.
Investigators believe Marinero’s 5-year-old son, Josue Ramirez-Marinero, was thrown into the Elkhorn River.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln mother has been sentenced to jail on a child neglect charge after police say they found her 8-month-old daughter with roach eggs on her feet.
30-year-old Elizabeth Roberts was sentenced Friday to 120 days in jail and fined her $1,000. She pleaded no contest to child neglect and a drug charge, meaning she admitted not guilt for the crimes but opted not to take the case to trial.
Police say they went to Roberts’ home in March 2014 on a tip that meth was sold there. When officers arrived, they found her daughter lying face down on a blanket covered in vomit with the bottoms of her feet coated in roach eggs.
Roberts has since relinquished parental rights to the girl.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man convicted of manslaughter in the fatal attack of a 76-year-old woman has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.
A judge on Friday sentenced 54-year-old John Gomez to seven to 10 years in prison in the death of Mary McAndrews. He pleaded no contest in February.
Police say Gomez pushed and struck McAndrews on Sept. 18 after she confronted him about rent he owed her and items taken from her house. She died at an Omaha hospital on Oct. 15.
Under state law, manslaughter denotes the death of another during a sudden argument.
Gomez’s attorney read a written statement from her client during the sentencing hearing Friday, in which he apologized for McAndrews’ death and said he was “ashamed.”
Lincoln Police are currently searching for a missing 30-year-old female.
Anwesha Dey was last seen on Sunday, May 3, 2015, at 7 p.m. Police say she left a friend’s house, near N. 23rd & S Streets, on foot, and headed toward downtown.
Friends and family have not been able to reach her at home or by phone, which is extremely out of character. Anwesha is a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. University Police have been notified.
Anwesha, a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is an Indian female, 5’9”, 110 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen dressed in an orange hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans, carrying an orange and grey backpack. She does not have a vehicle.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Lincoln Police Department at 402.441.6000.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials hope a community program serving at-risk Latino boys in Lincoln provides them with a positive outlet that prevents them from joining gangs.
Joven Noble is grant-funded and one of several citywide programs working to identify children most susceptible to gang influence.
City officials say programs like Joven Noble can help shake the foothold gangs have in the area. Police have so far identified more than 30 gangs in Lincoln, with a total of 900 known members or associates.
The program is aimed at helping provide support for children between 10 and 18 and getting them to discuss problems they may have. Outside of weekly workshops, program officials say they’ll organize soccer games, help the boys with schoolwork and connect them with mentors.
FAIRBURY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say the body of an 86-year-old woman has been recovered from her flooded basement in southeast Nebraska.
Officials in Fairbury had ordered evacuations of much of the city on Thursday, following the overnight deluge locally and upstream. A Fairbury Fire Department crew couldn’t find Betty McMullen at her rural home when sent to evacuate her. Floodwater had surrounded the rural farm home, and her basement was full.
Jefferson County Sheriff Nels Sorensen says in a news release that rescue workers returned Friday to pump water from the basement. They soon found the body.
Authorities say the nearby Little Blue River is likely to drop below flood stage by Friday evening.
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The seniors at Arkansas (Ar-KAN’-suhs) City High School think the building will be unnecessary after the class of 2015 graduates.
As a senior prank, the seniors listed the Arkansas City High School building for sale on Craigslist. The ad says the class members don’t need the building anymore, but do need money for college.
It notes the school offers a lot of parking space — or even room for a buyer’s cattle, and whoever buys it might even learn something.
The ad lists a price of $2,015 but says all offers will be considered.
District spokeswoman Alisha Call gave the seniors credit for being clever, but says the building isn’t for sale. She says the district has asked Craigslist to remove the ad.
