Palmyra and Lincoln rescue transported four people to the hospital with minor injuries after a Highway 2 accident involving an empty stock trailer.
Elliot Gee, 60, of Palmyra had pulled onto the highway with the trailer around 3:45 p.m. and was getting up to speed when the trailer was hit from behind by a 2006 Dodge Charger driven by 21-year-old Taylor Davis of Plattsburgh, Mo.
The Syracuse City Council voted Oct. 12 not to pursue legal action for the demolition of a antiquated grain elevator down the street from city hall after Councilman Chris Lutjemeyer said the building is being scheduled for a controlled burn.
The occupants of an Oldsmobile Alero were hospitalized Monday afternoon after the car slammed into a farm tractor on Highway 50 south of Syracuse.
Accident investigators at the scene said the two in the car were talking to rescuers before transported to Syracuse Community Memorial Hospital. The driver of the Oliver 1655 tractor refused transport.
An Otoe County deputy at the scene said the driver of the Alero may not have seen the tractor until moments before impact. There were no pre-collision skid marks and the center of the car appears to have struck the driver's side tire of the tractor.
The collision smashed the metal of the car right below the seat area of the tractor and jettisoned the tractor wheel forward. The tractor slid without the wheel about 30 yards into the roadside ditch.
Chief Deputy Mike Holland encouraged drivers to be aware of farm machinery during the harvest season.
The occupants of an Oldsmobile Alero were hospitalized Monday afternoon after the car slammed into a farm tractor on Highway 50 south of Syracuse.
Accident investigators at the scene said the two in the car were talking to rescuers before transported to Syracuse Community Memorial Hospital. The driver of the Oliver 1655 tractor refused transport.
An Otoe County deputy at the scene said the driver of the Alero may not have seen the tractor until moments before impact. There were no pre-collision skid marks and the center of the car appears to have struck the driver's side tire of the tractor.
The collision smashed the metal of the car right below the seat area of the tractor and jettisoned the tractor wheel forward. The tractor slid without the wheel about 30 yards into the roadside ditch.
Chief Deputy Mike Holland encouraged drivers to be aware of farm machinery during the harvest season.
Otoe County officials described a horrific scene of dead animals at a farm northwest of Unadilla and ordered hundreds of carcasses burned along with the buildings as part of the clean up.
Mark Pieloch, owner of Pharma Chemie, says it is the “Gestapo-like” treatment he has received from the Nebraska State Patrol that has sparked his decision to desire to move his business out of state.
Otoe County Sheriff Jim Gress says county commissioners’ proposal to cut his budget request will jeopardize his ability to hire another deputy and meet agreements for law enforcement in Syracuse.
The Otoe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating home burglaries in Syracuse that followed the thunderstorm on Saturday, Aug. 6.
Chief Deputy Mike Holland said the sheriff’s office began taking reports on Sunday morning from people who said they had heard someone in the house the night before and discovered their personal property had been searched.
In days past, many crowds gathered at the Elms Ballroom for an evening of music and dancing. Sunday’s crowd, however, came to watch the historic building burn.
The Syracuse Volunteer Fire Department did a controlled burn on the Elms Ballroom, located at First and Mohawk streets, using the opportunity as a training exercise.
The Nebraska State Patrol is reporting that an 11:30 a.m. crash on Highway 2 has claimed the life of the driver of a truck and semi-trailer believed to have struck a tanker near Dunbar.
Preliminary reports and witness accounts indicate a tanker truck was headed east on Highway 2, when it was struck from behind by a second truck and semi-trailer. The tanker had slowed to make a right turn onto Highway 67 prior to being hit.
The force of the collision caused the second semi to catch fire.
A mother collecting her children at a school bus stop near Unadilla on Friday was pinned between the bus and a run-away van.
Kera Bohaty, 28, had placed her daughter in the van and went back for her son.
The bus driver told the Otoe County Sheriff's Office that the van suddenly accelerated toward the van with the mom and boy in between.
The Otoe County Sheriff's Office was surprised Thursday to find a child's hand-drawn card and their first donation to help with medical expenses of patrol dog Pablo.
Pablo leapt from a 30-foot bridge near roads K and 12 southwest of Unadilla Sunday while pursuing suspects in the shooting of 84 geese that had taken refuge on a farm pond. The dog fell on concrete rip-rap below.
The card to dog handler Deputy Brian Briley and the sheriff's office says "I hope your dog is okay," and had $5 attached. "I'm giving you money to make him a happy dog," the girl said.
After nearly eight hours of deliberation, an Otoe County jury handed down a guilty verdict Friday to one of two counts of possession of child pornography against a Nebraska City man who said malicious software turned his laptop into a zombie computer.
The 4-woman and eight-man jury viewed videos that prosecutors said were taken from a computer owned by Shannon Slater, 40, of Nebraska City.
Viewing the videos resulted in audible cries from one juror and caused all jurors to turn their eyes away.
Otoe County Attorney David Partsch said the videos were easily accessible on a computer found by the Nebraska State Patrol in Slater's bedroom during the execution of a search warrant March 24.
Firefighters from Burr, Douglas, Palmyra, Syracuse and Unadilla fire departments where called to a house fire in rural Burr on Jan. 6.
911 dispatchers received a report of a car on fire in a garage at the Richard Anderson residence at 1207 S. 16th Rd. at 5:24 p.m.
The Syracuse Volunteer Fire Department’s public education committee is starting off the New Year with a new campaign entitled “Tag, You’re it.” Darin Lintner of the fire department said, “The idea just kind of came to us. We’re pretty excited about it.” The campaign started on Dec. 31 when a group of four eighth grade girls placed bags of information on the doors of Syracuse residents living in the Linden View area.
The Syracuse Volunteer Fire Department’s public education committee is starting off the New Year with a new campaign entitled “Tag, You’re it.”
Nemaha County authorities filed rape and false imprisonment charges against 29-year-old Joshua W. Keadle that are not related to the disappearance of Peru State College student Tyler Thomas.
Staff at the Nemaha County Attorney Louie Ligouri’s office said the attorney was too busy this morning to talk with media about the charges.
The allegations cite an Oct. 31 incident alleging that Keadle restrained, threatened and raped a victim.
The Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office has named Joshua Keadle, 29, as an alleged suspect in the disappearance of Tyler Thomas, a Peru State College student that has been missing since early Dec. 3. According to court records, authorities gained probable cause for Keadle’s arrest from interviews conducted on Dec. 3, 6 and 7.
