FULLERTON, Neb. (AP) — A 16-year-old Fullerton boy has died after being ejected from a car during a rollover crash in central Nebraska.
The accident occurred around 10 p.m. Saturday on Nebraska Highway 14, about four miles east of Belgrade.
Jayden Friend was a passenger in the car driven by a 15-year-old friend when the car rolled, ejecting Friend.
The Nebraska State Patrol says Friend was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver was taken to a hospital.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha mayor and police chief say the city needs more law enforcement officers.
Mayor Jean Stothert plans to present a budget on Tuesday to the city council that includes money for new recruits. It’s unclear how much funding the mayor wants for new positions, but she says she wants to hire about 75 more officers by 2016.
The department currently has about 770 officers.
Stothert and Chief Todd Schmaderer say bolstering the ranks will reduce crime, improve response times and help staff special events. They say more police will help reduce gang violence.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police are investigating a fatal shooting of a man.
The department identified the man as 59-year-old Frank Sanders on Monday morning.
Police received a 911 call late Sunday night from a woman who said her boyfriend had been shot.
Authorities found Sanders dead in an area apartment with a gunshot wound to the chest. It’s unclear if he lived at the residence.
Police haven’t released information about the shooter.
SEWARD, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Missouri woman and her 11-year-old daughter have been fatally injured in a southeast Nebraska accident.
The Seward County Sheriff’s Office says the accident occurred around 6:45 a.m. Friday on Interstate 80. The office says a westbound car veered left across the median, across the eastbound lanes and down an embankment, where it struck the bottom.
The Sheriff’s Office says the driver was flown to a Lincoln hospital but soon died there. She identified as 29-year-old Nell (Renee) Jorgensen. Her daughter, 11-year-old Morgan Smith, was pronounced at the accident scene. They were from Hannibal, Missouri, and had been headed to a family reunion in Wyoming.
Jorgensen’s 4-year-old son also was in the car. He was treated for minor injuries.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police are investigating a crash that killed a 21-year-old woman when the motorcycle she was riding on struck an SUV.
The accident happened shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday in the intersection of O and Cotner streets in Lincoln.
Lincoln Police Capt. Michon Morrow says the driver of the motorcycle, 21-year-old Tyler Wilson, ran a red light before his motorcycle hit the Jeep Liberty as that vehicle turned left onto O Street.
Wilson was taken to a Lincoln hospital for treatment. His female passenger, Jessie McCain of Lincoln, died at the scene of the crash.
LA VISTA, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Strategic Command will host a conference on deterrence next month.
The fifth annual event will be held Aug. 13-14 at the La Vista Conference Center.
The event will open with a speech by StratCom’s commander, Adm. Cecil D Haney.
The conference is designed to allow experts from the military, industry and universities to study deterrence.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An accounting error that mistakenly sent nearly $300,000 to the city’s bus system budget could now benefit burgeoning southeast Lincoln.
Mayor Chris Beutler (BITE-ler) wants the extra $275,000 in general fund money used to help build a new combined fire and police station for southeast Lincoln. Beutler says that would provide better fire and ambulance service and help reduce driving time for police officers.
Currently, police officers who cover southeast Lincoln begin their shift downtown, then drive up to 25 minutes to their beat. Officials say having a station in southeast Lincoln would save the city in fuel costs and increase productivity.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A southeast Nebraska man has been sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.
Deborah Gilg, the U.S. Attorney for Nebraska, announced that 47-year-old Bobby Gene Clark Jr., of York, was sentenced Friday in Lincoln’s federal court.
Prosecutors say Clark video-recorded his May 2013 sexual assault of a 7-year-old girl. Police found the video on Clark’s laptop computer after the girl told authorities of the assault and was able to describe the house where the assault took place.
After his release from prison, Clark will be required to serve 20 years of supervised release and be registered as a sex offender. A hearing to address restitution to his victim is scheduled for a later date.
There is no parole in the federal system.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — An Omaha, Nebraska man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by an Iowa federal judge for sex trafficking.
The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of Iowa says 25-year-old Adrien Jamaal Cole was sentenced Friday.
There is no parole in the federal system.
Cole pleaded guilty in March to the sex trafficking charge. Prosecutors say Cole had recruited teenage girls to serve as prostitutes and transported them to various locations in Omaha and Council Bluffs, Iowa, to engage in sexual activities with paying customers.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — After more than 75 years of giving its retired employees discounts on their electricity bills, Omaha Public Power District last year rescinded the longstanding perk.
Now, several retirees are suing.
Four retirees filed the lawsuit Thursday in Douglas County District Court, saying the district is bound by its promise to provide the benefit to employees for life, and to their spouses for six months after they die. The monthly discount ranged from 25 percent to 30 percent.
The retirees are seeking class action status to cover about 500 OPPD retirees.
The utility says it discontinued the discounts as part of a larger concession package expected to save ratepayers $7 million a year. The discount to retirees accounts for less than $350,000 of that.
