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DEVELOPING: MAYOR RESIGNS-SETTLEMENT,
ADDS: BANKERS SURVEY, T25-TEXAS TECH-NEBRASKA, RIVALS TURN FRIENDS,
MAYOR RESIGNS-SETTLEMENT
OMAHA—Attorney General Jon Bruning sets a Friday afternoon news conference to discuss $200,000 settlement between the city of Papillion and a former employee. The woman once worked for now-resigned Mayor James Blinn. By Margery A. Beck
BUSINESS:
BANKERS SURVEY
OMAHA—For a second straight month, a survey of rural bankers in 11 Midwest and Plains states suggests economic conditions are improving but remain weak. According to a report issued Thursday by economist Ernie Goss of Creighton University in Omaha, the overall index for the Rural Mainstreet economy rose to 37.5 in October, compared with 36.5 in September and 32.0 in August. Eds: Moved on state news and financial lines.
SPORTS:
T25-TEXAS TECH-NEBRASKA
LINCOLN—How No. 15 Nebraska fares in crossover games against the Big 12 South won’t necessarily decide where the Cornhuskers end up. But games like the one Saturday against Texas Tech can give them an idea of where they stack up in the league’s power structure. By Sports Writer Eric Olson.
AP Photos TXLUB502, MOJR107.
With:
— TEXAS TECH-NEBRASKA PREVIEW
RIVALS TURN FRIENDS
DUNNING—In this remote expanse of ranch country where cattle far outnumber people, folks keep a neighborly attitude toward everyone they meet—except when it comes to high school sports. All over this region, kinship ends and rivalry begins on the football field, which makes what’s happening at Sandhills High in Dunning and Thedford High, 27 miles to the west, so strange. By Sports Writer Eric Olson. Eds: Moved in advance for weekend use.
AP Photos NENH207, NENH206, NENH202, NENH204, NENH201, NENH203, NENH205, NENH208.
ALSO:
— EX-NFL GREAT ACCUSED—An owner of Omaha’s indoor football team has accused former team president and NFL great Russ Francis of theft. Eds: Moved on state news and sports lines. Version also moved on national lines.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— FATAL CRASH-CHARGES—A Nebraska woman has been charged with two misdemeanors in a September crash in South Dakota that killed a University of South Dakota student.
— TEEN-MURDER SENTENCE—A 15-year-old boy has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for fatally shooting a man outside his Indianapolis apartment. Eds: Note Nebraska mention.
— WRONGFUL-DEATH SETTLEMENT—The city of Lincoln has settled a lawsuit filed by the estate of a woman whose family says she didn’t get proper emergency care from firefighters.
— BEEF TONGUE RECALL—The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a Nebraska meatpacker has recalled 33,000 pounds of beef tongue. Eds: Moved on state news and financial lines.
— ALEGENT-RESIGNATION—Alegent Health has announced the resignation of its president and CEO, effective immediately. Eds: Moved on state news and financial lines.
— GALE RE-ELECTION BID—Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale says he’ll seek a third term in office.
— NU FUNDRAISING—The University of Nebraska Foundation wants to raise $1.2 billion to boost scholarships and research on the school’s four campuses.
— WACKY NEBRASKA—Western Nebraska’s automotive replica of England’s famed Stonehenge has been named the No. 2 wackiest attraction in America.
— CARSON LECTURE—Several former insiders with “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” will share behind-the-scenes memories during a lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
— RED CARPET SERVICE—A University of Nebraska effort aimed at helping businesses and others roll out the red carpet to tourists is using technology to extend its reach.
— NIOBRARA HABITAT—The Army Corps of Engineers plans to build about 40 acres of sandbar habitat for two species of birds under the protection of the Endangered Species Act.
— PRAIRIE FIGHT—A Gering-area family may have lost its battle to keep a flood-control project off of land that borders the Scotts Bluff National Monument.
The AP, Omaha.
