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DEVELOPING: HAGEL-SENATE, MISSOURI-LINCOLN MISERY,
ADDS: TEACHER-STUDENT FLIGHT, FINANCIAL MELTDOWN-NEBRASKA, COLLEGE FB PICKS,
TEACHER-STUDENT FLIGHT
OMAHA—Former Nebraska math teacher Kelsey Peterson says the age of the 13-year-old schoolboy she fled to Mexico with didn’t matter. “We didn’t see age anymore. … In my mind he quit being a teenage boy. … to me, he was a man,” Peterson said in a taped interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Wednesday. Eds: May be led.
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HAGEL-SENATE
OMAHA, Neb.—After nearly eight years in the Senate, Chuck Hagel will deliver his final remarks on the floor as his term draws to a close. The outspoken Republican isn’t seeking re-election. By Anna Jo Bratton.
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FINANCIAL MELTDOWN-NEBRASKA
OMAHA—Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson says he’s not happy about it, but he intends to vote for the $700 billion financial bailout package. The Senate measure faces a crucial vote Wednesday night. By Nelson Lampe. Eds: May be led.
BUSINESS:
MIDWEST ECONOMY
OMAHA—Inflation and job losses are weighing on the economy in nine Midwest and Plains states, according to a new survey of business executives released Wednesday. The report also suggested the region’s economy won’t be growing in the coming months. The overall economic index for the region fell to 49.6 in September from August’s 51.4.
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— MIDWEST ECONOMY-GLANCE
ALSO:
— BUFFETT BOOK—A series of eight online videos will offer a glimpse into billionaire Warren Buffett’s life in Omaha. Eds: Also moving on national lines.
— GE-BUFFETT INVESTMENT—Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is buying $3 billion worth of General Electric preferred shares, even as the diversified conglomerate is preparing to sell at least $12 billion worth of common stock to the public. Eds: Also moving on national lines.
SPORTS:
MISSOURI-LINCOLN MISERY
LINCOLN, Neb.—Whenever Jim Pillen talks to Bruce Dunning, he invariably asks him, “Do you still have James Wilder’s cleat marks on your forehead?” Pillen and Dunning were members of the last Nebraska football team to lose to Missouri in Lincoln. That was in 1978, on a November afternoon when Wilder ran for 181 yards and four touchdowns, bowling over Dunning for the last score in a 35-31 victory. Thirty years later, Missouri has its best chance to end its misery in Lincoln. The fourth-ranked Tigers have maybe their best team in decades. The Cornhuskers are in a building mode. By Sports Writer Eric Olson.
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COLLEGE FB PICKS
UNDATED—Who’s next to be upset? The last week of the first month of the season dramatically changed the direction of the national championship chase. By College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo.
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ALSO:
— TURKEY SEASON—Nebraska’s fall archery hunting season for turkeys is under way.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— SAFE HAVEN—Seven of nine children abandoned by their father at an Omaha hospital last week under the state’s safe haven law are headed back to foster care.
— LOOSE LLAMAS—Eastern Nebraska officials had their hands full this morning trying to corral a trio on the lam—a trio of llamas, that is.
— PIPELINE REPAIRS—Crews have been working to repair natural gas pipeline compressor station in Gage County.
— APARTMENT FIRE—An apartment fire in Papillion has forced about 50 people from their homes.
— BOGUS BILLS SENTENCING—A Lincoln woman accused of spending fake $10 bills last year is going to prison for up to 14 years.
— GROCERY LAWSUIT—About three dozen Nebraskans have received checks totaling more than $100,000 as payback for what the courts have deemed a scam.
— TODDLER FOUND—Police say a Bellevue boy missing since July has been found in California with his father.
— NANOTECHNOLOGY GRANT—Thanks to an $8.1 million grant, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln can continue its nanotechnology research through 2014.
The AP, Omaha.
