Today: A 10 percent chance of showers after 5pm. Cloudy, with a high near 44. Breezy, with an east northeast wind 16 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.
Tonight: A slight chance of showers before 7pm, then a chance of rain between 7pm and 1am, then a chance of showers after 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 33. Northeast wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Tuesday: A chance of rain before 1pm, then a chance of drizzle. Cloudy, with a high near 40. North northeast wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Tuesday Night: A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly before 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 34. North northeast wind around 9 mph.
(AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the felony conviction of a Lincoln man who argued he should have been charged with a misdemeanor after being caught driving without a court-ordered ignition interlock device.
Joshua Leibel was convicted last year for driving with a revoked license from a May 2011 third-offence drunken driving conviction. The DUI conviction allowed him to drive as long as his car was equipped with an ignition interlock device that keeps the engine from starting if the driver has been drinking.
But when Leibel was stopped in October 2011, he had no such device on his car.
Leibel argued that he should have been charged with a misdemeanor count of driving without an ignition interlock device, but the state’s high court disagreed Friday.
(AP) — An online contest is again offering a few young entrepreneurs the chance to present their business ideas to billionaire Warren Buffett.
Students between the ages of 7 and 16 can submit their ideas until Feb. 15. Four individuals and two teams will be flown to Omaha to present their ideas to Buffett in person next May.
The contest is affiliated with the “Secret Millionaire’s Club” cartoon that teaches kids financial principles. Buffett voices the animated version of himself that offers advice in the cartoon.
Buffett says he’s proud of the cartoon and the contest because of the valuable lessons they teach.
The grand prize winners will receive $5,000 apiece. Details of the contest are available online atwww.smckids.com . The contest is sponsored by the Fairholme Foundation.
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. Breezy, with a southwest wind 7 to 12 mph becoming north northwest 18 to 23 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 32 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 30. North wind 10 to 15 mph becoming light after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 22 mph.
Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 51. Light and variable wind.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 31. Light southeast wind becoming east southeast 5 to 10 mph in the evening.
Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 50. North northwest wind 9 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. North northwest wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.
Friday: A 20 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 51. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest 13 to 18 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 31. West northwest wind 5 to 11 mph.
The Nebraska Athletic Department announced on Tuesday that a limited number of tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, Oct. 16 for the 2013 NCAA Volleyball Regional at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Tickets are good for all sessions and are $30. The regional dates are Friday, Dec. 13 and Saturday, Dec. 14.
Nebraska is one of four schools selected to host a regional in 2013, joining Illinois, USC and Kentucky. Nebraska last hosted an NCAA Regional in 2012 at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Neb.
The 2013 NCAA Final Four will be held at KeyArena in Seattle, Wash. The National Semifinals will be on Thursday, Dec. 19, with the National Championship on Saturday, Dec. 21.
Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 48. Windy, with a north northwest wind 26 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 43 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 28. Northwest wind 13 to 18 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 57. West wind 5 to 9 mph.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 30. West wind 5 to 7 mph.
Columbus Day: Showers and thunderstorms before 2pm, then thunderstorms likely, mainly between 2pm and 4pm. High near 60. Breezy, with a southeast wind 18 to 20 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Tonight: Isolated thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Breezy, with a northwest wind 23 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 10%.
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 50. Breezy, with a northwest wind 24 to 28 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 29. West northwest wind 7 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
(AP) — The governors of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota have urged federal lawmakers to end the partial government shutdown.
South Dakota’s Dennis Daugaard (DOO’-gahrd), Nebraska’s Dave Heineman (HYE’-neh-mehn) and Iowa’s Terry Branstad (BRAN-‘stad) gathered in Dakota Dunes, S.D., on Wednesday for their Tri-State Governors’ Conference and discussed what the shutdown had done to their states. All three are Republicans.
The Sioux City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/GQuLlh) that Daugaard and Heineman said the shutdown’s chief impact has been the loss of National Guard jobs.
Daugaard also said the uncertainty caused by the shutdown “is not helpful to any of our economies.”
Heineman says both parties are at fault for the situation in Washington, and Branstad says President Barack Obama should stop attacking the Republican leadership in Congress, because that lessens chances of compromise.
