(AP) — A 26-year-old man has died after a rollover accident northeast of Blue Hill in south-central Nebraska.
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office says the accident was reported a little before 8:30 p.m. Sunday. It occurred at a rural intersection around eight miles northeast of Blue Hill.
The two other people in the car were taken to Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital in Hastings.
The names of those involved have not been released.
(AP) — A U.S. district judge has announced his intention to take senior status, creating an opening on the federal bench in Omaha.
Judge Joseph Bataillon (buh-TAL’-yuhn) says he’ll maintain a full caseload after he takes senior status on Oct. 3 next year.
Chief District Judge Laurie Smith Camp says she’s grateful that Bataillon “has chosen to remain with the court in senior status, continuing to build on his impressive legacy.”
Bataillon has been one of Nebraska’s three regular district judges since October 1997, after being selected by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Nebraska has three senior judges: Warren Urbom, Richard Kopf and Lyle Strom.
Bataillon’s replacement will be nominated by President Barack Obama, typically after conferring with Nebraska’s two U.S. senators, Mike Johanns and Deb Fischer.
(AP) — A Lincoln man has claimed his $1 million Powerball prize.
The Nebraska Lottery says Dustin Wood bought his ticket at a Russ’s Market on Washington Street in Lincoln. It matched five of the six numbers drawn for the Sept. 11 drawing — 11, 19, 33, 42 and 52. The ticket didn’t have the correct Powerball number of 33.
Wood claimed his prize Friday, saying he was shocked when he found out he’d won. He says he’ll save the money for the future.
Eight Nebraska Lottery players have won the $1 million prize in Powerball since the game was modified on January 2012.
(AP) — Authorities say the body of a 79-year-old woman has been found after the Colorado floods, bringing the death toll to eight.
The Larimer County Sheriff’s Department said Monday the woman was found on the bank of the Big Thompson River on Saturday.
It’s not clear why the death wasn’t announced until Monday.
The woman’s name was not released.
Authorities say the woman was one of three people considered missing and presumed dead. They initially said she was 80.
(AP) — A 4.9 magnitude earthquake jolted much of western Wyoming on Saturday, but no damage was reported.
John Bellini, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., says the temblor occurred at 7:16 a.m. about 45 miles underground. The nearest city is Fort Washakie, about 9 miles east of the epicenter.
Bellini says “it was felt widely in western Wyoming, but this is too deep of an earthquake to cause any damage. … A lot of people might have felt something but they wouldn’t know what they felt because it woke them up.”
The area west of Yellowstone National Park experiences a handful of earthquakes a year.
(AP) — Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are celebrating the completion of a barn built in the project’s expected path.
Organizers planned several events Sunday to thank volunteers and mark the completion of the solar- and wind-powered barn.
Billionaire investor and philanthropist Tom Steyer is scheduled to speak at the Sunday afternoon dedication ceremony. Steyer has spent more than $2 million fighting the pipeline that’s designed to carry Canadian crude oil to the Gulf Coast.
The barn has been constructed about 15 miles northwest of York.
The groups behind the barn project say pipeline firm TransCanada will have to either destroy the barn or tweak the pipeline route if it gets permission to build the project.
(AP) — Dozens of women and children learned ways to defend themselves in a class held to honor an Omaha woman who was shot to death in August.
Family, friends and strangers attended the self-defense benefit on Saturday. The two-hour class was held as a fundraiser for the family of Andrea Kruger, who was killed on her way home from work.
Authorities have charged 26-year-old Nikko Jenkins with her murder and his uncle, 51-year-old Warren Levering, as an accessory in her death.
Kruger’s sister-in-law, Lori Roberts, says the benefit was designed to empower women. The event raised a few thousand dollars for the Kruger Family.
Organizers from Life Time Fitness say demand was so great that they plan to start a weekly adult self-defense class.
(AP) — Police say a 27-year-old man has been connected to seven sexual assault cases in the Omaha area.
Christopher Ennis is accused of two assaults in August 2012, as well as one from November and one that happened last week. Police say Ennis is also a suspect in three other cases dating back to 2009.
According to police, the most recent attack happened in a field just east of Highway 75 and Binney Street in Omaha, not far from the other incidents in which Ennis is accused.
Ennis was being held in the Douglas County Correctional Center.
(AP) — The cost of getting a wayward dog out of jail in may soon be going up in Lincoln.
The local Board of Health is recommending that the city council increase the animal impound fee by $5, from $35 to $40, for animals rounded up by the city and taken to the Capital Humane Society.
The increase will be a moot point for many owners whose dogs have tags and current rabies vaccinations and show up at the pound for the first time. Animal Control officers have recently been giving those first-time runaway pets a free ride home, as part of a campaign to encourage responsible pet ownership.
(AP) — A Nebraska man died and five others were injured in a two-vehicle crash near Fullerton.
20-year-old Kyle Frenzen, of Silver Creek, was killed in the crash Friday night. Five others were taken to local hospitals.
Authorities say a 2000 Chevrolet Silverado pickup failed to yield to a 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix at the uncontrolled intersection, near the Nance and Merrick county line. Two people were in the car, and four people, including Frenzen, were in the truck.
Authorities say Frenzen and five others involved in the crash were not wearing seat belts. The Nebraska State Patrol was investigating and trying to determine who drove the truck.
It was not immediately known whether authorities suspected alcohol or speed were contributing factors to the crash.
