DENVER (AP) — Authorities say four people are dead and one is injured following a crash in Weld County in northeastern Colorado.
State Patrol Cpl. Heather Cobler says a pickup truck and an SUV collided on County Road 48 and U.S. Highway 85 at about 9:40 p.m. Sunday.
The person who was hurt was rushed to a hospital with serious injuries.
No other details were immediately available.
The patrol says that an investigation into what happened was continuing at the crash scene.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Police say they have arrested a Florida woman suspected of drowning a two-week-old puppy in a Nebraska airport bathroom so she could board a plane.
Grand Island Police Sgt. Stan Steele says the 56-year-old woman of Edgewater, Florida, was denied access to a flight Friday at the Central Nebraska Regional Airport because of the Doberman puppy’s young age and lack of being properly contained.
The woman was seen entering a bathroom before another woman reported finding a dead Doberman puppy in the toilet.
Steele says the Central Nebraska Humane Society retrieved the puppy’s body and conducted an autopsy. It determined the animal’s cause of death was drowning.
The woman was arrested on animal abuse charges and booked into Hall County Jail.
FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Fremont police say a 19-year-old man died Sunday after a gun discharged.
Police and firefighters responded to a medical emergency around 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
An injured man was taken to a Fremont hospital where he later died.
Police are investigating the incident. Officials did not explain Sunday how the gun went off.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police are continuing to investigate this weekend’s shooting that left three dead and five wounded.
Officer James Shade said Sunday morning that he couldn’t release any additional information about Saturday’s shooting. No arrests have been reported.
The shooting happened at a small northeast Omaha home where as many as 50 people were gathered for a party. Police say multiple shooters fired at the home around 2 a.m. Saturday.
Most people at the party refused to help police. Investigators are urging anyone with information about the shooting to come forward or submit a tip anonymously to Crime Stoppers. A $25,000 reward is offered for solid information.
The five people wounded in the shooting were in stable condition Saturday. A hospital spokesman didn’t immediately respond to questions Sunday morning.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “American Sniper” hit the mark with moviegoers again.
The Navy SEAL drama starring Bradley Cooper topped the box office for a second weekend in a row with $64.4 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The total haul for the Warner Bros. film now stands at $200.1 million.
The Universal thriller “The Boy Next Door” featuring Jennifer Lopez as a teacher who engages in an affair with a younger man debuted in second place with $15 million.
The weekend’s other major new releases weren’t even in the neighborhood of “The Boy Next Door.”
The animated fantasy “Strange Magic” opened in a distant seventh place with $5.5 million, while the Johnny Depp dud “Mortdecai” flopped in ninth place with $4.1 million.
BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — An employment workshop will be held before next month’s hiring fair in Bellevue for veterans, service members and military spouses.
The workshop will focus on resume preparation, how to navigate hiring fairs, how to translate military skills and how to handle interviews.
The Hiring Our Heroes event will take place Feb. 18 at the Lied Activity Center, 2700 Arboretum Drive, Bellevue. The workshop is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m., followed by the hiring fair, which is set to run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police say a man accused of killing his wife dismembered her body and hid her remains in a storage shed.
Police say Kevin Miller hit his 28-year-old wife, Kelsey Miller, in the head with a baseball bat and shot her three times in the early-morning hours of Nov. 27. He has pleaded not guilty.
Kelsey Miller’s remains were found in a storage shed in northeast Lincoln on Dec. 7, 11 days after she disappeared. Police disclosed the details in newly unsealed court records.
Police say they found four hand saws, a knife, air fresheners, a machete, buckets and several plastic containers inside the storage shed.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha’s police chief is pleading for anyone with information about an early-morning shooting Saturday that left three dead and five injured to contact investigators.
Chief Todd Schmaderer (SHMAH-der) says as many as 50 people were in and around the small northeast Omaha home when shots were fired “by multiple shooters” around 2 a.m. No arrests have been made, and police say they are confident the shootings were gang-related.
Schmaderer says vast majority of people at the scene refused to help police. He says he understands witnesses’ fear but pleaded for them to come forward.
Schmaderer says police can protect the identity of witnesses who come forward and the information they provide.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting a discussion about the growing national problem of cyberbullying.
The event sponsored by the College of Journalism and Mass Communications is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Nebraska Union auditorium.
The free, public discussion will be led by Sue Burzynski Bullard, a UNL associate journalism professor; Zach Myers, a doctoral candidate; Abi Beatty, a middle school counselor; and Jason Lucht, a former staff member at the university’s LGBTQ Resource Center. Journalist Bobby Caina Calvan will moderate.
The college is partnering with the Asian American Journalists Association and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association as sponsors.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A monument honoring the architect of the Nebraska Capitol has been approved to go up in a Lincoln neighborhood.
The Capitol Environs Commission approved the monument to recognize Bertram Goodhue on Thursday.
The Near South Neighborhood Association in Lincoln plans to install it before May 10.
The concrete monument will be placed at Goodhue Boulevard and A Street in honor of the New York architect. The association plans to use a $2,500 grant it received from NeighborWorks Lincoln to pay for it.
Ed Zimmer, the city’s historic preservation planner, says the language for an engraved plaque still needs to be approved.
Goodhue Boulevard is one of the four axial streets that radiate out from the Capitol.
