Columbus (NE) Police Sergeant Brad Wangler, a 19-year veteran of the force, was shot while trying to serve an arrest warrant on a man identified as Jorje Robledo.
Read More →Troopers searched the vehicle and discovered a false compartment located in the empty trailer. The compartment contained 42 foil-wrapped packages containing 73 pounds of cocaine and 44 pounds of an unknown powder suspected to be fentanyl.
Read More →The Nebraska State Patrol said they've already confiscated more than 4,500 pounds of marijuana this year and it's only May.
Read More →Brenda Urbanek, a 28-year employee of the Grand Island training center, will take over as director next week. Urbanek replaces Bill Muldoon, who led the center for 12 years before being named emergency communications director in Sarpy County earlier this year.
Read More →Timothy "Tim" Flick could get up to two years in jail if convicted of motor vehicle homicide and making a false statement under oath. He also is charged with careless driving, an infraction.
Read More →The sheriff of Adams County, NE, will no longer be required to live in an apartment inside the county courthouse.
Read More →Douglas County, NE, authorities say a 17-year-old male opened fire on a sheriff’s deputy with a shotgun early Sunday morning. One deputy and the suspect were wounded in the ensuing gunfight, which involved two deputies and an Omaha police officer.
Read More →An 11-year veteran of the Denver Police Department drowned while boating in a lake in western Nebraska.
Read More →Douglas County, NE, Attorney Don Kleine announced Wednesday that he is charging two of the officers involved in attempts to subdue a mentally ill Oklahoma man who died after being shocked repeatedly with a conducted electrical weapon on June 5.
Read More →The officer, whose name was not immediately released, suffered a facial fracture from the thrown bottle.
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