(AP) — Authorities are trying to find a girl suspected of stabbing another girl at Lincoln Pius X High School.
Lincoln police say the 16-year-old left the building after Monday morning’s incident.
Police say the stabbing occurred inside a bathroom at the parochial school. The victim is a 17-year-old who was taken with cuts on her face to a Lincoln hospital.
Diocesan officials say the girl is in stable condition and has been joined at the hospital by family members.
(AP) — Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has issued an emergency declaration for parts of the state affected by tornadoes and other severe weather.
Heineman announced the declaration Monday, and called the damage “extensive.” He toured tornado damage in Wayne over the weekend.
Multiple tornadoes hit northeast Nebraska over the weekend. Several inches of snow also hit the Nebraska Panhandle. Lt. Gov. Lavon Heidemann and emergency officials will tour some of the damage in the northwest part of the state on Tuesday.
Officials also say local ranchers have reported heavy cattle loss due to freezing conditions, but additional information was not available.
The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating the Saturday, Oct. 5, death of a Guide Rock woman.
Around 8:00 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 5, the Webster County Sheriff’s Office responded to a request to check the welfare of Virginia Barone, 68, 335 Center Street in Guide Rock. Upon their arrival they found Barone deceased in her home. Barone’s death is being investigated as a homicide.
Two individuals wanted in connection with the Webster County homicide investigation are currently being held in the Jasper County Jail, in Newton, Iowa. Shelley Casterline, 41, and Andrew Casterline, 23, both of Guide Rock, are currently jailed on unrelated Iowa charges of suspected robbery.
The investigation into Barone’s death continues. No further information is being released at this time.
Guide Rock is about 40 miles south of Hastings.
(AP) — Residents in the Black Hills of South Dakota are navigating through a sloppy mess today after warmer temperatures began melting record snowfall, leaving standing water on plowed roads.
Law enforcement officials say they’ve caught up on emergency calls from the storm, and now authorities are focusing on removing snow and debris and restoring power.
But some people venturing out in the warmer weather have wound up getting stuck on unplowed roads, impeding recovery efforts.
The storm dumped 4 feet of snow near Deadwood and 3.5 feet near Lead, and reports of 20 or more inches were common throughout the Black Hills.
Rapid City’s 21½ inches of snow was a record for both a 24-hour period in October and the entire month.
(AP) — Victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and other amputees are learning how to run again.
In a clinic at Harvard University on Sunday, several victims of the April 15 explosions were trying to run on new prosthetic legs.
Two-time Boston Marathon winner Joan Benoit Samuelson told them “There is no finish line.” She encouraged them to meet their challenges and look for new ones.
Heather Abbott lost part of her left leg in the explosion. She was fitted with a running prosthetic on Saturday and was trying it out in the rain a day later. She stopped part of the way through to check for blisters, but she had none.
The clinic was run by the Challenged Athletes Foundation, which provides equipment and training for amputees to participate in sports.
(AP) — Because of the partial shutdown, government’s work is piling up everywhere. It’s not just paperwork.
Litter lingers on sandbars along a stretch of the Missouri River in Nebraska because a volunteer clean-up was canceled when the government docked its boats. The Centers for Disease control has a backlog of food poisoning microbes that can’t be checked because so many scientists are furloughed.
And one woman is keeping a bald eagle in her freezer. Wendi Pencille (pen-SEAL) tends to injured birds in her upstate New York home. When a bald eagle dies, she sends the remains to a special eagle repository near Denver that ships feathers to Indian tribes for sacred ceremonies.
But the federal bird shippers are furloughed while much of the government, like her fallen eagle, is on ice.
(AP) — The Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation will be conducting class — on how to run for office.
The federation’s Campaign School seminar will be held Oct. 24 and 25 in Lincoln. It’s designed for candidates for public office, their families, campaign teams and others who may one day be interested in seeking elected public office.
The Farm Bureau Federation’s website says the program was developed by the American Farm Bureau Federation with input from political consultants and staff from the Republican and Democratic parties.
The cost is $200 for candidates and $25 for each additional member of the candidate’s family or campaign team.
More information can be found by contacting Jessica Kolterman, director of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation’s political action committee, at 402.641.8471 or jessicak@nefb.org.
(AP) — The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has dropped 14 cents over the past two weeks.
The Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday says the price of a gallon of regular is $3.38. Midgrade costs an average of $3.58 a gallon, and premium is $3.71.
Diesel was down 4 cents at $3.92 gallon.
Of the cities surveyed in the Lower 48 states, St. Louis has the nation’s lowest average price for gas at $3.01. San Francisco has the highest at $3.88.
In California, the lowest average price was $3.74 in Sacramento. The average statewide for a gallon of regular was $3.83, a drop of 14 cents.
(AP) — A rural Columbus man has been charged with third-degree assault after shooting his neighbor.
The shooting happened late Thursday night.
The Platte County Sheriff’s Office says 30-year-old Trent Kowalski shot a .22-caliber rifle inside his trailer home. The bullet exited the home, entered another and struck 57-year-old Mark Foxvog in the leg.
Foxvog was taken to Columbus Community Hospital, where he was treated and released.
Kowalski was arrested and taken to the Platte County Detention Facility, where he is still being held. No bond had been set.
The sheriff’s office and Nebraska State Patrol are investigating.
(AP) — Lancaster County prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges are getting used to a new system that’s allowing initial court appearances and arraignments in criminal cases to be held via video.
The switch is allowing the hearings to be held in the Lancaster County Courthouse, rather than four miles away in a tiny courtroom connected to the county’s old jail.
The move means officials no longer have to drive inmates from the new jail to the old one. Instead, defendants remain in the new jail and appear in court on a 32-inch TV screen.
Deputy County Public Defender Elizabeth Elliott, who has charged with getting defense attorneys up to speed on the changes, says the switch has gone well for the first week.
