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ADDS: MALL SHOOTING, EMOTICON ENTRAPMENT,
MALL SHOOTING
OMAHA—Call Ron Jorgensen’s Omaha home and you’ll hear his wife’s voice on the answering machine at the house they shared before her murder last December. Visit him and you’ll see the American flag, still flying half-staff in the front yard, because he can’t bear to change these things that remind him of her. She was among the eight people fatally wounded by a 19-year-old gunman at Westroads Mall. By Anna Jo Bratton and Josh Funk. Eds: Audio of an interview with Fred Wilson is available in the documents folder of the Nebraska state-level multimedia site: ftp://ftp.ap.org/statelevel/ne.
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— MALL SHOOTING-HOT LINE—Boys Town is reminding people of a hot line to help those dealing with emotions brought on by the anniversary of the Omaha mall shooting and other holiday stressors.
EMOTICON ENTRAPMENT
LINCOLN—A former prison guard convicted of child enticement says police entrapped him by using so-called computer emoticons—symbols used to indicate mood or appearance in e-mails and text messages. James Pischel was arrested in June 2007 and later convicted of enticing a child by computer.
BUSINESS:
— PACKAGING JOBS LOST—Nineteen jobs in Beatrice have been lost with the closing of a packaging operation.
SPORTS:
— CWS TICKETS—Reserved seats for the College World Series in Omaha are going up $1.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— WRESTLERS INJURED—Chadron State College says three wrestlers remain in serious condition from injuries they suffered in a Colorado crash.
— HICKS FUNERAL—The funeral for a former Creighton Prep and Iowa State University football player has been set for Saturday in Omaha.
— DRUG SEIZURES—Nebraska authorities say psychedelic mushrooms and more than 120 pounds of pot were seized in traffic stops.
— KIMBALL CRASH—A 21-year-old Kimball man has been sentenced to 170 days in jail and five years’ probation for causing a crash that killed a passenger in his car.
— LINCOLN MURDER—A 19-year-old Lincoln man accused of killing his mother has pleaded not guilty and will go on trial in January.
— NORTH PLATTE STANDOFF—North Platte police say a fight and a stolen cell phone led to a standoff with police and a house fire.
— HAGEL GOODBYE—U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel is thanking Nebraskans for giving him the chance to represent the state in Congress for the past 12 years.
— STABBING DEATH—A Dawson County jury is now deliberating the fate of a Cozad man charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death last December of another man.
— COURT MILESTONE—The seven-member Nebraska Supreme Court has reached the century mark.
— EDIBLE CARS—Some University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering students will soon be learning the importance of taste in their technology.
The AP, Omaha.
