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DEVELOPING: SENATE DEBATE, MUSLIM PRAYER COMPLAINT, EARLY VOTING
HEADLINES:
SENATE DEBATE
LINCOLN—Republican U.S. Sen. candidate Mike Johanns questioned his Democratic opponent’s campaign tactics Tuesday, citing a negative so-called push poll and a videographer who follows him around the state, “hoping I’ll slip up.” At a Senate debate in front of Lincoln business leaders, Johanns said it’s not the right way to run a campaign. By Anna Jo Bratton.
AP Photos NENH101-104.
MUSLIM PRAYER COMPLAINT
GRAND ISLAND—Workers who walked off the job at a Grand Island packing plant in a dispute over Muslim prayer time have not been fired, a company spokeswoman said. But the president of the local United Food and Commercial Workers Union said Thursday that changing the breaks might not be feasible for other workers in the JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant.
EARLY VOTING
OMAHA—Nebraska officials expect the number of people voting early to increase again this year as the presidential race attracts attention and more people become familiar with the option. Early voting, which begins Sept. 29 in Nebraska, has been gaining in popularity ever since a law change several years ago opened up the process to any registered voter who requests it. By Josh Funk.
SPORTS:
— NEBRASKA TRAINER—Nebraska coach Bo Pelini says he’s using this week to let players recover from the first three games of the season and prepare for Virginia Tech.
— NEBRASKA PREP RATINGS—AP Nebraska High School Ratings.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— ROBO CALLS-APOLOGY—A McCook city council candidate is apologizing in advance of an automated campaign phone call to be placed later this week.
— HURRICANES-NEBRASKA GUARD—All but 20 Nebraska National Guardsmen are heading home from hurricane duty on the Gulf Coast.
— EX-HUSKER FREED—A former Nebraska football player won’t be prosecuted on accusations that he stole a big-screen television.
— DEPUTY-SHOOTING—A man is dead following a shooting near Omaha, and a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy is on administrative leave.
— TEEN SEX ASSAULT—A Gothenburg man will be sentenced next month for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl he had been driving to a home for troubled youths.
— COACH-PORN—A former Omaha youth hockey coach and baseball umpire has been sentenced to five years in prison for receiving child pornography.
— YOUTUBE SPREE—Fines have been handed out to two buddies whose wild ride around Lincoln showed up on a YouTube video that led authorities to their vehicle.
— MOTHER’S DEATH—Prosecutors in Omaha want a second-degree murder charge against a man accused of killing his mother upgraded to first-degree murder.
— MISSOURI RELEASES—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says releases from large Missouri River reservoirs are being cut to ease downstream flooding. Eds: Note Nebraska interest.
— TELVENT GIT-DTN—Spanish information technology company Telvent Git SA says acquiring DTN Holding Co. will help it expand into the agriculture sector. Eds: Moving on state news and financial lines.
The AP, Omaha.
