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DEVELOPING: PRISON DEATH LAWSUIT
PRISON DEATH LAWSUIT
OMAHA—A lawsuit is expected to be filed in U.S. District Court in Omaha on Thursday alleging the state and some of its employees are to blame for the 2008 Omaha prison death of a 23-year-old man. Carl Sundberg Jr. alleges the state ignored the warning signs of his son’s mental and physical illness. According to the lawsuit, Carl Sundberg III fatally overdosed on prescription medication and/or suffered a reaction from combining drugs. By Jean Ortiz.
BUSINESS:
— SOURCEGAS RATE HIKE—A Colorado-based utility wants to increase the rates it charges for providing natural gas in Nebraska. Eds: Moving on state news and financial lines.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— COMFORT CHICKENS—A western Nebraska woman who took comfort from her six chickens ran afoul of a city ordinance and has been fined $100.
— NEB SPENDING COMPLAINT—A government watchdog group chairman says the Legislature should require public colleges and schools to make their spending of private foundation money more accessible.
— POT SENTENCE—A Colorado man arrested after a state trooper found six bales of marijuana in the man’s car trunk has been given one-to-two years in prison.
— DEAD MAYOR—The city of Bellevue says Mayor Ed Babbitt has died.
— PROFANE OUTBURST—A Columbus man picked the wrong time to unleash a profanity-laced tirade.
— STIMULUS-TRIBES—The Winnebago and Iowa tribes in Nebraska will be among those getting a cut of $90 million in federal stimulus money aimed at improving access to drinking water and wastewater services.
— STIMULUS-MAIN STREET—A loan using money from the federal-stimulus package will help the southeastern Nebraska village of Talmage refurbish Main Street and get a new water line.
— SHARED CAMPUS—A $12 million college center in South Sioux City will let students attend Northeast Community College and Wayne State College classes in the same building.
— PINE RIDGE DRUGS—Federal jurors in Rapid City found a 48-year-old Whiteclay, Neb., man guilty of selling drugs on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation—the eighth person convicted in the case.
— ESCAPE TRY—A central Nebraska prosecutor says he won’t file charges against an 18-year-old accused of assaulting a sheriff’s deputy in an attempted escape.
— HASTINGS CLOSURE—The 370 workers at the Armour-Eckrich meat plant in Hastings will lose their jobs at the end of next week.
— COURTROOM CAMERAS—The Nebraska Supreme Court has signed off on allowing media cameras and audio equipment in another state court.
— WIRE FRAUD—An Ohio man convicted of wire fraud has been sentenced to four years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $387,000 in restitution.
— NEB STUDENT MOURNED—The Burt County sheriff says the search for the body of a 19-year-old college student will resume after the Missouri River water level drops.
The AP, Omaha.
