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DEVELOPING: CSI-BLOOD EVIDENCE, T25-NEBRASKA-PELINI,
ADDS: FARM SCENE-CLIMATE-FARMERS, MIDWEST ECONOMY, KOSHER SLAUGHTERHOUSE-TRIAL
CSI-BLOOD EVIDENCE
OMAHA—An FBI agent says a Nebraska crime-scene investigator told her during a 2008 interview that he believed blood evidence he collected in a double-murder case two years earlier had been cross-contaminated. Gina Palokangas took the stand Tuesday in Douglas County CSI commander David Kofoed’s federal trial. She testified he told her the cross-contamination could have happened because the tool he used had possibly been at the Murdock home where Wayne and Sharmon Stock were found shot to death in 2006. By Jean Ortiz.
FARM SCENE-CLIMATE-FARMERS
OMAHA—Climate change legislation before Congress could be an economic godsend to farmers and ranchers. Or it could be an enormous financial burden. It depends on whom you ask, and not even farmers and ranchers agree on the matter. By Margery A. Gibbs. Eds: Moved on state and national news and financial lines.
AP Photos NENH101, NENH102.
BUSINESS:
MIDWEST ECONOMY
OMAHA—The herky-jerky results of a nine-state economic survey released Tuesday suggest that recovery is at an uncertain stage in the Midwest and Plains. The Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region slipped below growth neutral in August, to 48.4, compared with 51.7 in July and 49.3 in June. An index of 50.0 is considered growth neutral.
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— MIDWEST ECONOMY-GLANCE
KOSHER SLAUGHTERHOUSE-TRIAL
IOWA CITY, Iowa—A federal judge on Tuesday moved the trial of four former managers of a kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Sioux Falls, S.D. U.S. District Judge Linda Reade wrote in the order that negative pretrial publicity about Agriprocessors, Inc., and former top manager Sholom Rubashkin caused potential jurors to develop a bias against them. By Nigel Duara. Eds: Note Nebraska mention. Moving on state news and financial lines.
ALSO:
— STUDENT LOANS—A former U.S. Department of Education researcher has filed a lawsuit against 10 student loan companies to recover roughly $1 billion the companies received improperly. Eds: Moved on state news and financial lines.
— BOVINE TB—After nearly 12,000 tests, Nebraska agriculture officials still haven’t found any additional cases of bovine tuberculosis. Eds: Moved on state news and financial lines.
SPORTS:
T25-NEBRASKA-PELINI
LINCOLN—Nebraska coach Bo Pelini always is on edge, but his anxiety level is peaking this week as his team nears its opener against Florida Atlantic. The 24th-ranked Cornhuskers are breaking in a new quarterback and young players at several other positions, and they’re playing an opponent that might be underrated. By Sports Writer Eric Olson.
AP Photos planned.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— GIRL KILLED—A December trial has been set for an Iowa man accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a 3-year-old girl in her Nebraska home.
— CAN’T PROSECUTE—A Nebraska man who maintains he led investigators to his daughter’s body only after they promised not to file felony charges against him has been released from jail.
— DEADLY BAR FIGHT—A December sentencing has been scheduled for a North Platte man who pleaded no contest to an assault charge stemming from a fatal bar fight.
— CLAY COUNTY ROLLOVER—A rollover accident on a rural road in southern Nebraska has killed an 8-year-old girl and her dad.
— OMAHA FATAL—Police say a 28-year-old man who ran a red light has died after a collision at a north-central Omaha intersection.
— DOVE SEASON—The unofficial start of the fall hunting season in Nebraska is Tuesday, which is the opening day for dove shooting.
— WATERCRAFT SCAM—Police say a bargain-hunting Lincoln man made a costly mistake.
— CHILD PORN SENTENCE—A federal judge has sentenced a Columbus man to five years in prison for possessing and sharing child pornography.
— VENISON DONATIONS—Nebraska hunters can donate deer meat this fall to anyone who wants it, through the Deer Exchange program. Eds: Moved on state news and sports lines.
— WATER CONFERENCE—A water productivity conference for irrigators is being held at the site of a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln facility in Brule.
The AP, Omaha.
