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ADDS: GOLDMAN SACHS-BERKSHIRE
DEVELOPING: SHOOTING DEATH
MUSLIM PRAYER COMPLAINT
OMAHA—Not all the workers fired last week after a prayer dispute at a Grand Island meatpacking plant were Somali, a union spokeswoman said Tuesday. At least 86 people of diverse backgrounds lost their jobs at the JBS Swift & Co. plant last week, said Jill Cashen of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. By Jean Ortiz.
WIND FARM
BLOOMFIELD—The Elkhorn Ridge wind farm in northeast Nebraska is now more than halfway complete. Construction site superintendent Greg Swenson says his crews have already put 15 wind turbines.
BUSINESS:
GOLDMAN SACHS-BERKSHIRE
OMAHA—Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is investing at least $5 billion in Goldman Sachs, a huge vote of confidence for one of the survivors of the credit crisis that felled two of its investment banking peers. In addition to buying $5 billion in preferred stock, Berkshire also got warrants to buy another $5 billion in Goldman’s common stock. Goldman also said late Tuesday it would raise another $2.5 billion in its own public stock offering. By Anna Jo Bratton.
AP Photos AP Photos AH105-106.NYBZ139, NYBZ140.
FARM POLLUTION, HFR. EDS: HOLD FOR RELEASE AT 12:01 A.M. EDT WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24. THIS STORY MAY NOT BE POSTED ONLINE, BROADCAST OR PUBLISHED BEFORE 12:01 A.M. EDT WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24.
WASHINGTON—Some huge livestock farms produce more raw waste than cities as large as Philadelphia or Houston. But federal regulators are failing to control pollution from the gigantic operations or assess health risks from the enormous quantities of manure they produce, according to congressional investigators. The Government Accountability Office report was being released Wednesday to a House committee hearing on federal oversight of factory farms. By Erica Werner.
SPORTS:
NEBRASKA-OSBORNE HELPS
LINCOLN—Tom Osborne apparently doesn’t have coaching all the way out of his system. The Nebraska athletic director, whose triple-option offense was the signature of some of college football’s most dominant teams in the 1980s and ’90s, has been lending his expertise to first-year coach Bo Pelini and his staff. By Sports Writer Eric Olson.
AP Photo AH101.
With:
— NEBRASKA-PURIFY—Former standout Nebraska receiver Maurice Purify will likely spend a week on house arrest as part of a plea deal stemming from an alleged probation violation.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— SHOOTING DEATH—Police think there’s a connection between two midtown Omaha shootings, one of which was deadly.AP Photos AH105-106.
— SAFE HAVEN TICKET—An Omaha mother has been ticketed for trying to drop off her teenage son at a police station under the state’s new “safe haven” law.
— SEXUAL ASSAULT—A 49-year-old Norfolk man has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl.
The AP, Omaha.
