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DEVELOPING: XGR–RESEARCH BOOST
ADDS: SUPCO–PUBLIC RECORDS, PLANTING REPORT, PLANTING REPORT-NEBRASKA, FBC–NEBRASKA-LEE,
XGR–RESEARCH BOOST
LINCOLN—A bill boosting tax credits for businesses that spend money to conduct research on property owned by a Nebraska college or university has passed the first round of legislative debate. By Anna Jo Bratton.
SUPCO–PUBLIC RECORDS
OMAHA—Kimball officials say the findings of private investigators hired to probe allegations that a police officer was engaging in racial profiling were never meant for public release. They want the Nebraska Supreme Court to overturn the ruling that made those documents public—including documents they argue were never in the city’s possession. By Jean Ortiz.
BUSINESS:
PLANTING REPORT
BISMARCK, N.D.—The nation’s corn crop is expected to drop for the second straight year, largely due to lower anticipated production outside the traditional corn belt, the government said Tuesday. Lower prices and the unstable cost of fertilizer are discouraging some farmers from growing corn this year, the Agriculture Department said. By Blake Nicholson.
With:
PLANTING REPORT-NEBRASKA
LINCOLN—Farmers will cover about 8.8 million acres of Nebraska with corn this year, about the same as last year, a federal survey report says. But nationally, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday, farmers are expected to plant about 85 million acres—about 1 percent less than they planted in 2008. Eds: Contains some material also found in national version, BC–Planting Report.
SPORTS:
FBC–NEBRASKA-LEE
LINCOLN—It seems everyone who follows Nebraska football, and even some of the players, believe the starting quarterback’s job is Zac Lee’s to lose. Not so fast, Lee says. By Sports Writer Eric Olson.
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ALSO:
— BBA–YANKEES-CHAMBERLAIN DUI—New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain’s arraignment in Lincoln on a drunken-driving charge has been rescheduled a fourth time.
— WRE–BIG 12 COACH—The Big 12 Conference has named Nebraska’s Mark Manning its wrestling coach of the year for the second season in a row.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— WINTRY WEATHER—Classes and other services have been canceled all across northern Nebraska as a spring blizzard sweeps the region.
— LOAN FRAUD—A 52-year-old woman is scheduled to be sentenced in June for federal bank and wire fraud in Lincoln.
— FOURTH DWI—An Omaha man is facing his fourth drunken-driving offense after the Nebraska State Patrol caught up with him.
— EDUCATION COMMISSIONER—It’s official. Roger Breed is Nebraska’s education commissioner.
— TUITION BREAK—Students from Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota will pay the same tuition as Nebraskans next school year at the Mid-Plains Community College campuses.
— CHILD IN POND—A little Lincoln girl who nearly drowned in a backyard pond is beginning treatment at a local rehabilitation hospital.
— SEX ASSAULT—A 32-year-old North Platte man has been sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
— WIFE SLAIN—Accused of stabbing his wife to death more than five years ago in front of their children, an Omaha man is going to trial.
— CATTLE THEFT—Beatrice police have arrested a 51-year-old man Nebraska man suspected of possessing cattle stolen in Kansas.
— FATAL COLLISION—The Nebraska State Patrol has identified two drivers killed in a head-on collision north of Omaha.
— BLEACH ASSAULT—A judge has sentenced a Lincoln man to jail for pouring bleach on a woman during an argument last year.
— OMAHA FIRE—A father and son have rescued a 94-year-old woman from a burning apartment complex in Omaha.
The AP, Omaha.
