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DEVELOPING: SUPCO–DUNSTER APPEAL,
ADDS: MIDWEST ECONOMY, FBC–NEBRASKA-PELINI CONTRACT, BBA–YANKEES-CHAMBERLAIN DUI,
SUPCO–DUNSTER APPEAL
LINCOLN—Condemned Nebraska inmate David Dunster is making his third appeal to the state Supreme Court, asking that his conviction and death sentence be overturned. Dunster has been in prison since he was 17 years old, when he killed a mother of eight in Oregon. He was transferred to a Montana prison in 1978, where he later killed an inmate. By Anna Jo Bratton.
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BUSINESS:
MIDWEST ECONOMY
OMAHA—A Nebraska economist says his regional business conditions survey suggests the recession is the worst in the past 25 years. Creighton University professor Ernie Goss says the overall index for the Mid-America Business Conditions Survey of supply managers and executives has been wallowing in negative territory, although it has been rising of late.
With:
— WITH: MIDWEST ECONOMY-GLANCE
ALSO:
— SECURITIES PROBE—A creditor of a Grand Island insurance agency is questioning what it calls an unreasonable billing by the agency’s bankruptcy attorney. Eds: Moved on state news and financial lines.
— VERASUN SALE—VeraSun Energy Corp. said Wednesday it has closed on the sale of five ethanol plants and one development site to traditional refiner Valero Energy Corp. Eds: Note Nebraska mention.
— SLAUGHTERHOUSE-CHILD LABOR—Attorneys for the owner and former managers of an embattled northeast Iowa kosher slaughterhouse are scheduled to appear Wednesday in court in Waterloo to seek a delay in a trial on child labor charges. Eds: Note Nebraska mention. May be led.
SPORTS:
FBC–NEBRASKA-PELINI CONTRACT
OMAHA—University of Nebraska-Lincoln football coach Bo Pelini is sacrificing potential bonus income for guaranteed money in his new contract. Pelini’s annual base salary goes to $1.85 million, from $1.1 million, under the five-year contract he signed last month. By Sports Writer Eric Olson. Eds: Also moving on national sports lines.
BBA–YANKEES-CHAMBERLAIN DUI
LINCOLN—New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain pleaded guilty Wednesday to a Nebraska charge of drunken driving and was given probation. After a plea deal, prosecutors dropped the second charge of driving with an open alcohol container. By Anna Jo Bratton. Eds: Also moving on national sports lines.
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ALSO:
— JUST DUCKY—A 17-year-old girl from Banner County has won her second Nebraska Junior Duck Stamp Contest in a row. Eds: Moved on state news and sports lines.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— FATAL HIT-AND-RUN—A Rushville, Neb., man will serve just over four years in prison for driving drunk and killing two Pine Ridge Indian Reservation residents who were walking along the highway to Whiteclay, Neb.
— VIOLENT PURSE SNATCHING—A Lancaster County judge has sentenced a man to 10-20 years in prison for grabbing an 88-year-old woman’s purse and dragging her across the ground.
— YOUTH CENTER ASSAULT—A teenager accused of beating two employees at a youth treatment center in Kearney with a sock filled with pool balls is going to prison.
— LINCOLN STABBING—A judge has set bail at $1 million for a man accused a stabbing another man to death in Lincoln.
— POLICE CALLER JAILED—A Grand Island man called police to report a possible burglary in progress and ended up in jail himself.
— ENTICEMENT WARNING—Police in Lincoln are warning of a man trying to lure young girls into his car.
— JUDICIAL VACANCY—Scotts Bluff County Attorney Derek Weimer will be sworn in April 7 and take over a western Nebraska seat from a judge voted off the bench.
— OPERATION AIRLIFT—U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson has introduced legislation allowing new travel reimbursements for National Guard and reserve members.
The AP, Omaha.
