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ADDS: COLD SNAP, JUST LIKE HAROLD, GEN RE-AIG TRIAL, PROMISES PROMISES-RAIL CHEMICALS
COLD SNAP
UNDATED—Freezing air blanketed much of the nation Tuesday, making roads hazardous in Texas and slowing recovery from ice storm blackouts in New England, in the second day of a bitter cold wave. Temperatures were 20 below zero and lower across the northern Plains, and a band of snow, freezing rain and sleet stretched from Kansas and Nebraska along the Ohio Valley to Maine.
AP Photos MEPW102, LA114, NVREN901, MNBRA102.
With:
— COLD SNAP-NEBRASKA
— COLD WEATHER-HELP
JUST LIKE HAROLD
LINCOLN—How will you leave this world? Pastor Greg Olson asked this of his people the other Sunday at Southwood Lutheran Church. How will people be touched by your love? A Nebraskaland Feature by Colleen Kenney of the Lincoln Journal Star.
AP Photo pursuing.
PROMISES PROMISES-RAIL CHEMICALS
WASHINGTON—Barbara Neuschwander can still recall the stench and taste created by the massive fire that burned for days after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals crashed two years ago near her home south of Louisville, Ky. A former chef disabled by asthma and diabetes, Neuschwander says she and two of her daughters continue to suffer health effects from breathing the chemical-laced smoke.
AP Photos KYLOC104, KYLOC106.
BUSINESS:
GEN RE-AIG TRIAL
HARTFORD, Conn.—The former chief executive of General Re Corp. was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison and ordered to pay a $200,000 fine for his role in a scheme that cost shareholders of American International Group Inc. more than $500 million. Ronald Ferguson, 66, was convicted in February of conspiracy, securities fraud, mail fraud and making false statements to the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also serve two years of supervised release. Eds: NOTE Nebraska mentions. Also moving on national lines.
AP Photo NYBZ124.
ALSO:
— LANDAMERICA-FIDELITY NATIONAL—Nebraska regulators have approved title insurer Fidelity National Financial Inc.’s plan to acquire three LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. subsidiaries.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— PARISH THEFT—The Omaha Archdiocese is mulling a new assignment for a priest sentenced to five years’ probation for stealing more than $83,000 from an Omaha parish.
— CREEPER SOUGHT—Lincoln police are looking for a man they believe in creeping into homes through unlock windows and terrorizing women and girls.
— FIRE DEATH—Authorities say an overloaded circuit caused a house fire that killed an elderly Scottsbluff resident.
— ARSON TRIAL—The fate of a 25-year-old Fremont woman accused of starting a fire at her adult foster care provider’s home in Lincoln last month will be decided by a judge.
— MARIJUANA BUST—The Nebraska State Patrol says a traffic stop on Interstate 80 in Lincoln has turned up 80 pounds of marijuana.
— ASSESSOR RECALL—A northeast Nebraska county tax assessor will soon learn if she gets to keep her job.
— CHILD ABUSE ARREST—An Omaha woman has been arrested, accused of driving her preschool children home while drunk, then leaving them in the car overnight.
— BARREL BODY—A Nebraska judge says he will not recuse himself from the murder appeal of a man whose divorce he oversaw.
— ANIMAL ABUSE—A southeast Nebraska dairy farmer has been placed on probation in an animal abuse case.
— CHILD ABUSE CHARGES—A house fire has led to child abuse charges against a Nebraska City couple.
— RECESSION-IMMIGRATION IMPACT—A new report from the Pew Research Center says the rate of Latino immigrants in the U.S. work force has decreased amid a sour economy.
The AP, Omaha.
