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DEVELOPING: JUDICIAL VACANCY, SMOKING BAN, MARRIED PRIEST,
ADDS: VETERAN REMEMBERS
JUDICIAL VACANCY
OMAHA—A judicial commission has decided it will replace a retiring western Nebraska county court judge. The decision about the 12th Judicial District spot came Monday after a hearing in Lincoln. The commission used video conferencing to link up with sites in Scottsbluff, Omaha, Hastings and Chadron to consider whether the state might be better served to move the position out of the Panhandle.
SMOKING BAN
LINCOLN—State health officials say there have been seven complaints about Nebraska’s new smoking law being broken. That’s an average of just one per day since the law went into effect a week ago.
MARRIED PRIEST
GRAND ISLAND—Among the three men new to the Roman Catholic priesthood in Nebraska is one with a wife, four children and several grandchildren. Bishop William Dendinger says the Rev. Sidney Bruggeman is believed the first married Nebraska man to join the priesthood.
VETERAN REMEMBERS
LYONS—A bicycle accident may have saved Leonard Beard’s life during World War II. But the Lyons barber had more than one close shave as a paratrooper with 82nd Airborne. A Nebraskaland Feature by Tammy Real-McKeighan of the Fremont Tribune.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— RUSH-HOUR BABY—The baby was in a rush to arrive, apparently. A woman give birth to her sixth child Monday while Omaha’s morning traffic whizzed by on Interstate 80.
— STUDENT DIES—Omaha police can’t say yet whether the death of a 21-year-old Creighton University student was accidental, caused by some disease or was a suicide.
— NEBRASKA CITY SHOOTING—An autopsy has been ordered on the body of a 27-year-old Nebraska City woman who police say was shot and killed by her boyfriend.
— CRAZY HORSE RIDE—Horses and riders have left Fort Robinson State Park on their way to Pine Ridge as part of the 12th annual Crazy Horse Ride.
— NORFOLK BODIES—The Madison County attorney says one of the four men convicted in the 2002 Norfolk bank slayings also helped kill another man.
— GATOR RAID—Beatrice police say the stolen alligator still hasn’t surfaced.
— DOUBLE FATAL—The Washington State Patrol says two people from Vancouver, British Columbia, were killed in a head-on collision that also injured a Nebraska man.
— NAVAJO-COLD CASE—Nebraska authorities are asking for help to identify the remains of a man they believe is Navajo and who died more than three decades ago.
— COP RUN OVER—Sioux City police charged a 43-year-old Tea, S.D., man with attempted murder, saying he ran into a police officer who was responding to a report of a burglary. Eds: Note Nebraska mention.
— MISS NEBRASKA—An Ogallala native will represent Nebraska at the Miss American pageant in January.
— TRIPLE FATAL—Three people died when the cars they were in collided in northern Kansas. Two of them were from Nebraska.
The AP, Omaha.
