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SMOKING BAN
LINCOLN—If the number of formal complaints is any indication, the huffing and puffing over Nebraska’s new indoor-smoking ban is mostly occurring where smokers may still gather legally. State health officials said on Monday there have been seven complaints about Nebraska’s new smoking law being broken—an average of just one per day since the law went into effect a week ago. By Nate Jenkins.
JUDICIAL VACANCY
OMAHA—A state judicial commission has decided it will replace a retiring western Nebraska county court judge, rather than move the position out of the Panhandle and into a more urban area. 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. By Jean Ortiz.
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. By Tammy Real-McKeighan of the Fremont Tribune. Eds: A Nebraskaland Feature.
BUSINESS:
— TD AMERITRADE-TRADES—Online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. said Monday its average client trades per day grew 38 percent in May from the same month a year earlier, to 408,000.
— TRAIN ACCIDENT-LAWSUIT—A new trial has been granted in a lawsuit filed by a young woman severely injured in a collision with a coal train operated by Omaha-based Union Pacific Railroad.
SPORTS:
— OMAHA STADIUM-NAME—A new Omaha baseball stadium is expected to carry the TD Ameritrade name. The Omaha-based online brokerage and the Metropolitan Entertainment and Convention Authority have scheduled a news conference for Wednesday morning to announce the naming-rights deal.
— HUSKER WARRANT—A Lancaster County judge has authorized a warrant for the arrest of Nebraska I-back Quentin Castille.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— DAD’S DRIVER—A rural Lancaster County man is facing child abuse and neglect charges among others after a sheriff’s deputy found his 12-year-old driving for him.
— NEBRASKA CITY SHOOTING—A Nebraska City man suspected of fatally shooting his girlfriend has been ordered held without bail.
— ESCAPE TRY—An 18-year-old who escaped from a Kearney hospital and is suspected of assaulting a Buffalo County sheriff’s deputy during an attempted escape has been apprehended in Gering.
— STUDENT DIES—Omaha police say a Wisconsin man was the student found dead on the Creighton University campus, although investigators can’t say how he died.
— TODDLER KILLED—Webster County authorities say a 1-year-old boy is dead after being run over by a utility vehicle.
— GATOR RAID—Beatrice police say the stolen alligator still hasn’t surfaced.
— RUSH-HOUR BABY—The baby was in a rush to arrive, apparently.
The AP, Omaha.
