Joshua Salazar received more than 30 years in prison Wednesday for assaulting a woman and kidnapping her and her 2-year-old child during a methamphetamine-induced psychotic episode.
Sgt. Tom Gill and Sgt. Jess Aesoph demonstrate how a police body camera works at the Sioux City Police Department.
🎧 Reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs discusses the racial makeup of police departments in relation to the communities they serve.
A 12-year-old girl who was reported missing Thursday morning has been located, the police department said.
The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office will run a seat belt checkpoint between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. along U.S. 6 just west of 98th Street.
Motorists cruising this weekend will notice substantive changes to traffic flow on O Street, which will be policed by the same number of officers as last year.
"Mr. Chavez is a predator. His M.O. is to prey on young females, lie about his age, bring them to his home and have sexual intercourse with them," the prosecutor said.
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According to a crash report, Todd Bruns, 66, left the road, ran through a ditch and hit an embankment. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Motorists cruising this weekend will notice substantive changes to traffic flow on O Street, which will be policed by the same number of officers as last year.
In an email Monday, a company spokesperson said that "the health and safety of the workers and communities in which we operate are our top priority."
No one was injured in the fire, which started at around 2:30 a.m. Monday and engulfed the house at 2910 N.W. Eighth St., according to fire officials.
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Gering High School was joined by Columbus and Omaha in receiving false "swatting" calls. Media reports indicated Columbus, Kearney, Grand Island and Omaha South also received calls.
Lincoln Police arrested a 29-year-old resident on suspicion of second-degree murder for the shooting near 18th Street and Euclid Avenue Saturday morning.
The trail of a child kidnapping in 2007 led to an apartment in Kirkwood where Shawn Hornbeck, missing for more than four years, was found too.
Joseph was arrested Wednesday afternoon following a domestic service call from the coach's home, the Lincoln Police Department said in a news release.
During the traffic stop, officers gathered reasonable suspicion that Heriberto Hernandez-Perez, 32, of Perry, Iowa, was involved in criminal activity and asked to search his vehicle.
A Lincoln police officer was pulled from service this week amid a domestic-related investigation.
"Anything discovered after the illegal detention and arrest ... must be excluded as fruit of the poisonous tree," the judge wrote.
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Talon Dennis is currently serving a three-year prison sentence, and Marcelino Falcon a one-year jail sentence.
Randall Stollar also will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and be subject to a possible civil commitment when he's released.
David "DJ" Hickman Jr., 38, will face a mandatory minimum of eight years in prison on the charges and could get up to 50 years on each count.
"The state believes he has crossed the Rubicon, that he has passed the point of no return, where there are irreversible consequences for his actions," Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Chris Reid said.
The City Council unanimously approved a three-year contract that will cost the city $3.2 million this year and $5 million in the second year of the biennial budget.
A 59-year-old Lincoln man was sentenced Friday to 21½ years in federal prison for making child pornography at the in-home child care where he lived.
Police arrested Pau Lantos on Wednesday at a gas station at 27th and Dudley streets. At a court hearing Thursday, a judge set his bond at $150,000.
Deputies arrived to see spray-painted graffiti on the bridge and caught one of the suspected taggers.