GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Organizers have canceled Grand Island’s Veterans Day Parade due to expected freezing temperatures.

Officials from the Grand Island Veterans Home and Grand Island Senior High said Monday that the Tuesday afternoon event has been called off. A school spokesman says it will be too cold for students, staff and veterans to be outside.

Temperatures are forecast to be in the mid-20s.

More than 2,000 students typically participate in the annual event. A group of student leaders will instead hold a presentation indoors.

 

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A tuition increase that only University of Nebraska-Lincoln business and engineering students pay hasn’t swayed students from choosing those majors.

The $50-per-credit hour increase, known as differential tuition, has generated millions in revenue that’s helped employ additional faculty, renovate facilities and expand student services at the school.

The schools’ College of Business Administration and College of Engineering are continuing to expand.

Students enrolled in either program pay an extra $3,000 over their time at the university. However, those students also usually graduate and are employed at jobs with higher earning potential than students in other programs.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An appeals court has upheld the firing of a woman who failed to immediately report suspected abuse at the Beatrice State Developmental Center.

Raynette Essman, of Beatice, lost her job in 2012 even though the abuse she heard about from another employee turned out to be false.

Officials say Essman’s failure to report what she heard until two days later violated the zero-tolerance policy adopted after past problems with abuse at the center for developmentally disabled adults.

Essman says she delayed reporting what she heard because she wasn’t sure it was true and wanted to report it to her supervisor.

The Nebraska Court of Appeals ruled Monday Essman did violate the policy requiring immediate reporting. The court said firing was an appropriate response even though Essman had a clean record.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Officials say October boardings rose 7 percent over last year to hit a record for the Grand Island airport.

More than 5,300 passengers flew out of Central Nebraska Regional Airport last month, compared with just under 5,000 in October 2013.

Allegiant added three extra flights to Phoenix/Mesa, Arizona, in October, which boosted the boardings.

Boardings are up 7 percent so far this year and on a pace to exceed 60,000 for 2014.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A 58-year-old Fremont man has been arrested for calling 911 to falsely report he’d been shot at.

The incident occurred around 2 a.m. Saturday.

Officers say the man appeared to be intoxicated and was yelling profanities at a business across the street. He later acknowledged the false report and said he’d lied so he could get a quick police response.

He was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct and false reporting. Online court records don’t show that he’s been charged yet.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 19-year-old University of Nebraska-Lincoln student was hospitalized over the weekend after drinking alcohol on a party bus.

Lincoln police say rescue workers took the heavily intoxicated woman to a hospital Friday night. She survived.

Officer Katie Flood says a member of UNL’s Delta Upsilon fraternity chapter has been cited on suspicion of procuring alcohol for a minor. He is accused of renting the bus.

UNL spokesman Steve Smith said Delta Upsilon and the fraternity member could face disciplinary action from the school.

The incident occurred less than a month after several members of the FarmHouse Fraternity chapter were arrested in connection to the alcohol-related death of a freshman found in his room in September. The school suspended the fraternity chapter indefinitely.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Seward County Sheriff’s Office says a woman has been taken off life support after being critically injured in a two-vehicle crash that killed another woman.

Deputies say 30-year-old Antoinette Hruby, of Milford, died Saturday after she wasn’t able to recover from the Nov. 2 crash on U.S. Highway 6. They say 45-year-old Kimberly Hawthorne, of Lincoln, crossed the center line and hit Hruby’s van head-on.

Hawthorne died at the scene.

Hruby is survived by her four children.

Deputies are investigating the collision.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska State Museum is offering free admission to a Family Fun Night event.

The event will take place at Morrill Hall on Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Activities will include a scavenger safari throughout Morrill Hall, a project exploring the Earths’ strangest creatures and interactive stations to learn about fossils, dinosaurs and birds.

A children’s entertainment group, the String Beans, will perform at 6 p.m. Mueller Planetarium will present a special free show and families can register to win prizes.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Members of the British national team will face representatives of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s speech and debate team to debate social media.

The debate, “Are Social Media a Threat to Human Creativity?” is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. on Nov. 17 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln. It will be the third event in the 2014-15 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues series.

This year’s Thompson Forum theme is “The Creative World.” It explores creativity’s impact on people and societies.

MADISON, Neb. (AP) — The former zoning administrator for Madison and Pierce counties has been charged with felony theft.

53-year-old John Johnson was charged Friday morning in Madison County Court.

Madison County Attorney Joe Smith said officials believe Johnson charged more than $500 in gasoline to Madison County for use in his personal vehicle.

A phone number for Johnson could not be found Saturday. Johnson’s attorney, Joel Carlson of Norfolk, did not immediately return a message left at this law firm on Sunday.

Johnson had served 12 years in that position for both counties before resigning this summer.