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CARBON CREDITS
OMAHA—Ranchers who act before the end of the month will be able to make more money for their efforts to manage their grazing land than ranchers who wait until after Jan. 30. After that deadline, ranchers won’t be able to market their past efforts to store carbon dioxide in the soil dating back to 2003. Going forward, the Chicago Climate Exchange will accept only efforts to limit greenhouse gases related to the current year and future years. By Josh Funk. Eds: Also moving on financial lines.
NPPD WIND
COLUMBUS—Developers have until April 15 to tell Nebraska Public Power District what they’d charge and how they would provide electricity from a wind farm or farms in central and northeast Nebraska. In November, NPPD asked for proposals on developments near Broken Bow, in central Nebraska’s Custer County, or near Petersburg, about 90 miles east-northeast in Boone County. Eds: Also moving on financial services.
LONGTIME FRIENDS
FREMONT—They meet twice a year. They laugh over old times. They catch up on all the news of each others’ lives. Their friendship has spanned more than 60 years. A Nebraskaland Feature by Tammy Real-McKeighan of the Fremont Tribune.
BUSINESS:
COAL PLANT
CHEYENNE, Wyo.—White Energy Coal North America announced plans Monday to build a processing plant that will boost the heat value of coal mined by the Buckskin Mining Co. in northeastern Wyoming. The agreement calls for Rockville, Md.-based White Energy to lease property and purchase coal from the Buckskin Mine near Gillette. The mine is in the southern portion of the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, the nation’s largest coal-producing state. By Matt Joyce. Eds: NOTE Nebraska mention; Buckskin Mining is a subsidiary of Omaha, Neb.-based Kiewit Corp.
SPORTS:
BKC–FLORIDA A&M-NEBRASKA
LINCOLN—Nebraska faced Florida A&M Monday night at the Devaney Center in Lincoln.
ALSO:
— OMAHA STADIUM—Documents show plans for Omaha’s new baseball stadium north of downtown to be finished in April 2011—just two months before the College World Series that will be played there.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— BLEACHERS FALL—Officials at a Bellevue high school are investigating how a wrestling fan fell from the bleachers during a weekend tournament.
— TEACHER-STUDENT FLIGHT—A former Lexington teacher has pleaded guilty to two state charges for having sex and fleeing to Mexico with a 13-year-old student.
— MALL SHOOTING—The mother of Robert Hawkins, the 19-year-old gunman who shot and killed eight people and himself at an Omaha shopping mall, will appear this week on the syndicated talk show “Dr. Phil.”
— DRUNKEN DRIVING—The Nebraska State Patrol arrested 193 motorists on suspicion of drunken driving over the holiday season.
— DOCTOR ATTACKED—Jury selection has begun in the trial for a man accused of killing a Lincoln doctor at a state psychiatric hospital.
— SUSPENSION ARRESTS—A 24-year-old Lexington man with 11 convictions for driving with a suspended driver’s license faces new charges for the same offense.
— SYRACUSE DEATH—A judge has ordered a man recently extradicted to Nebraska held without bail on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend.
— STALKING CASE—A 71-year-old man who terrorized a North Platte bookstore owner has been given probation and delayed jail sentences.
— ABORTION PROTEST—Douglas County Commissioner Mike Boyle has been found innocent of a traffic violation he was cited for after blocking some anti-abortion protesters at a campaign rally for Barack Obama.
— LOTTERY DISBURSEMENT—The Nebraska Lottery says it gave out nearly $7 million to various beneficiaries over the past three months.
The AP, Omaha.
