liLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police are investigating separate robberies of delivery drivers at gunpoint.
Capt. Charles Butler said the suspect descriptions are similar for the crimes that happened two hours and four blocks apart on Sunday.
A pizza delivery driver tells police a man took a small amount of cash and a cellphone. A sandwich delivery driver says a man stole only a cellphone.
Police say in both reports the suspect had similar features and was wearing a grey sweatshirt.
OZARK, Ala. (AP) — Animal control officer Wanda Snell knows what she saw: A veterinarian injected the black-and-brown mixed-breed dog with a deadly chemical, seeking to euthanize the 4-year-old dog no one had adopted. The animal moved some and then faded.
What Snell can’t explain is how the dog rebounded overnight, since going on to full recovery.
Weeks after the Sept. 10 injection, the dog now lives with a family in a suburb of the Alabama city of Birmingham, where he romps and plays with another rescue dog. His survival seemed all the more surprising since the same dog previously had been struck and injured by a car and infested with dangerous heartworms.
A rescue worker has named the dog “Lazarus” after the biblical character resuscitated by Jesus.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A few retired parking meters may soon get a new job collecting donations to help Lincoln’s homeless population.
Police have suggested installing several of the old meters in areas frequented by panhandlers to give people another way to help.
Lincoln Police Officer Angela Morehouse says using the meters would assure the money would be used properly.
City officials are researching the donation meter idea now to see if any new rules and regulations are needed. Other cities, including Denver, Colorado, and Lawrence, Kansas, have reported success with similar programs.
LINDSAY, Neb. (AP) — A 9-year-old Nebraska girl managed to raise $911 to help the tornado-ravaged town of Pilger rebuild by selling homemade bracelets this summer.
Halle Beller said she came up with the idea of selling bracelets because she wanted to help after a June 16 tornado caused heavy damage in Pilger.
Halle is a fourth grader who attends Lindsay Holy Family School about 50 miles southwest of Pilger. She recently got a chance to present a check to the Pilger Economic Development Fund Board.
Halle made about 350 bracelets and sold them after church services in July.
LeeAnn Westerhaus says the money will be donated to a Pilger family that is rebuilding. Roughly three-quarters of the town of 350 was damaged or destroyed by the storm.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a man broke into a home in northeast Omaha in the middle of the night looking for someone who didn’t live there.
Shortly after midnight Sunday, police were called to the home after the break-in.
The 46-year-old man who lives in the home told police that a man with a pony tail threatened him and demanded to know where someone was, but that person doesn’t live at the home.
The suspect fled the home after he didn’t find the person he was looking for.
WINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) — A subsidiary of the Winnebago Tribe’s economic development company has won a $6.5 million contract to provide furniture to a federal agency.
Ho-Chunk Inc. says its All Native Solutions subsidiary recently won the contract with a U.S. Defense Department agency.
As part of the contract, All Native Solutions will provide office furniture for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s headquarters in Fort Belvoir, Virginia and at other U.S. and international offices.
Ho-Chunk was started by the tribe in 1995. Since then it has grown to include 30 subsidiaries that employ more than 1,000 employees.
All Native Solutions is based in Winnebago, but it has offices in Bellevue, Nebraska, and Alexandria, Virginia.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received a $2.3 million grant to transform the way life sciences are taught.
The grant will help the university bring together life science teachers and computational biologists to develop a new approach to the subject.
The proposal was developed in response to a report by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The report stressed the importance of incorporating computer simulations and other teaching techniques into biology education for undergraduate college students.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Police say a man suspected of shooting a Sioux City officer is in an Omaha, Nebraska hospital after turning a gun on himself.
The incident began late Friday afternoon when police officers were called to a Sioux City house for a disturbance. Officer Jill Ohm was the first to arrive. Police say she struggled with the 27-year-old suspect before the man shot her in the chin.
Ohm was taken to a Sioux City hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening. At the same time, police launched a massive search for the shooter.
Police say the suspect was found Friday night in the basement of an abandoned home with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. His condition is not known.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police are looking for two men who broke into the home of an elderly Lincoln woman, who later fell and was stranded for more than 16 hours.
The 83-year-old woman woke up around 2:30 a.m. Friday to two intruders with flashlights in her home. She told police the men demanded cash, ransacked the place and left after about a half an hour.
The woman waited in bed until she was sure they’d left, but when she got out of bed, she tripped in the dark and fell.
She was on the ground until 7:30 p.m. Friday when neighbors finally found her.
She was taken to an area hospital, where police said she was stable Saturday morning.
The investigation into the break-in continues.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — When an American photojournalist with the deadly Ebola virus arrives at a Nebraska hospital for treatment, doctors there will be applying the lessons they learned from their treatment last month of another Ebola patient.
Officials with the Nebraska Medical Center have declined to confirm that it is 33-year-old Ashoka Mukpo they will be treating, citing federal medical privacy laws. But Mukpo’s family confirmed Friday that he was expected to leave Liberia in West Africa on Sunday and arrive in Omaha on Monday.
Dr. Rosanna Morris says the Omaha hospital’s 40-member isolation unit medical team will have to evaluate its new Ebola patient before determining how it will treat him. But she says the team learned a lot from treating American aid worker Rick Sacra for three weeks in September.
