Around 2:30 a.m. on April 19, Kearney police performed a welfare check on a male reportedly passed out in the driver’s seat of a Dodge Charger at Casey’s Gas Station, 115 E. 25th St.
At the time of Russell Harms' trial, psychiatrists said he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and at times from visual and auditory hallucinations.
Police said 45-year-old Rodney Badberg punched the man three times and kicked him once before fleeing the area on foot, leaving the man bleeding on the sidewalk.
KEARNEY — A Ravenna man has been charged with sexual abuse of a protected person in Buffalo County Court.
Dozens of states, many led by Republicans, have embraced criminal justice reform. But an effort in Nebraska, home of the nation’s fastest-growing prison system, collapsed last month. Why did it fail?
Henry Lee Jones, a resident of 2801 F Street, was pronounced dead at a local hospital after a fight broke out around 6:30 a.m. Thursday near the intersection in front of his house, Assistant Police Chief Jason Stille said.
"She is in a position of trust, where she is tasked with ensuring the safety of inmates, ensuring the safety of her co-workers, as part of her job ... and she violated that," Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Chris Reid said.
"We got justice for Ali, and we are really happy," Ali Al-Burkat's aunt, Dunia Al-Musa, said outside the courtroom after Majdal Elias was sentenced Wednesday.
The 51-year-old was arrested and charged with terroristic threats after an ongoing dispute with his wife and a 50-year-old man who lives nearby ended with a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday afternoon, police said.
He was convicted in January in Buffalo County District Court of one count of felony attempted terroristic threats.
Lendell Harris, visibly emotional, interjected a "thank you" after the verdict was read Wednesday morning.
Body cam footage of a struggle between Michael Lang and a Grundy Center police officer following a chase on April 9, 2021. Lang drove off following the struggle, and a standoff at his home resulted in the death of Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Jim Smith.
The man walked to the side of her and grabbed the backpack that was attached to her walker with a carabiner, pulling the bag, the walker and the woman across the porch, police said.
According to court records Starkey was arrested in August 2021, after recording two juvenile males in the men’s room at Menard’s in Grand Island.
The man entered the raceway and ran to the west grandstands, where a trooper deployed a taser and took the man into custody, the sheriff's office said.
The Nebraska Crime Commission, a panel of police and public officials who review revocations and oversee statewide law enforcement standards and compliance, made Mathew Bornemeier's revocation official on Friday.
The man's girlfriend called authorities and reported he began strangling her amid an argument at their house, according to court records.
As a group of people intervened in the alleged assault, the 22-year-old retreated to his residence and loaded a rifle, pointing it at at least six bystanders, according to police.
The Lincoln property owner awoke to a knock on her door in the hours after the March 19 fire, which investigators initially ruled an accidental electrical fire. Immediately, she suspected that assessment was wrong.
Two days before Kayla Matulka would be found stabbed and strangled, engagement photos of a seemingly happy couple were posted to their shared Facebook page. But texts and Internet phone searches showed a stormier reality.
Two different computer-related scams have left Lincoln women with six-figure losses.
“I’ve closed one door and I’m opening another,” said Elise Poole, who was injured during the 2020 protests in Lincoln.
Police arrested the 31-year-old on suspicion of robbery near Ninth and G streets at around 8:30 a.m. Sunday — but they didn't learn her true identity for several hours.
When he approached the car in the parking lot near 27th and Cornhusker, the 35-year-old began striking it with his hands and asking about his missing dog, according to police.
The ordeal began at around 11 p.m. Thursday when deputies attempted to stop a Chevrolet Cruz on suspicion of multiple traffic violations in the westbound lanes of I-80, near mile marker 388.