Seven people — four of them children under the age of 10 — were shot Friday afternoon by a Nebraska neighbor who later apparently killed himself. The shooter, 74-year-old Billy Booth, apparently had a history of complaining about the Hispanic family in the Crete home, including a report that he demanded the family go “back …
A Nebraska substitute teacher was caught in the backseat of her car with a 17-year-old student early Saturday morning and arrested. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said they were called at about 3 a.m. about a suspicious vehicle on a dead end road in Elkhorn and arrived to find two people in the backseat of …
A Nebraska woman charged with helping a 27-year-old man pose as a high school student — where he allegedly sexually assaulted multiple children — has pleaded not guilty and bonded out of jail. Angela Navarro, 23, was arrested on September 29, 2023, and accused of posing as Zachary Scheich’s mother to help him enroll in …
A Nebraska mother and her boyfriend were charged last month with obstruction after the boyfriend’s dog attacked a 4-year-old girl, ripping her scalp off and breaking a cheekbone. Little Lilliana also had torn ligaments in her neck and multiple stitches all over her body, the girl’s great aunt wrote in a GoFundMe. The gilr’s mother, …
A Nebraska man was convicted this week of killing his 5- and 3-year-old children in 2021, smothering them an then staging their bodies to look like they were sleeping. A Sarpy County jury deliberated for just over two hours before returning the guilty verdicts on two counts of first degree murder for 38-year-old Adam Lee …
A Roman Catholic priest in Nebraska was stabbed to death early Sunday morning by an Iowa man who broke into the rectory of his church. Father Stephen Gutgsell called 911 to report the break-in at about 5 a.m., The Associated Press said. Gutgsell was taken from St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Fort Calhoun …
A woman found dead in rural Nebraska east of Lincoln last week died was beaten to death. Cecilia Perez, 34, was from Omaha, 60 miles from where her body was found last Tuesday, KLKN reported. On Thursday, Omaha police arrested Perez’s boyfriend, 33-year-old Raymond Evans, said Lancaster County Chief Deputy Ben Houchin, who said that …
A Nebraska dad has been charged with criminal homicide and other charges related to the shooting death of his 10-year-old son Thursday night. Omaha polic arrived at the home about 11:30 p.m. for a report of a shooting and found the boy, Kendrick McDonald, suffering from a gunshot wound. He was rushed to the Nebraska …
A 16-year-old Nebraska girl has been charged with stabbing an infant to death shortly after the baby was born. Court records say the girl is charged with first degree murder and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony, the Scottsbluff Star Herald reports. Police were called to a home in Gordon, in northwestern …
A 27-year-old Nebraska woman was arrested this week and charged with murder after she allegedly ran over two employees of her apartment complex and killed them. The Lincoln Police Department said that Taylor Bradley drove some 20 to 30 yards off the roadway to hit the two men, and that video and witness accounts support …
Hours later, Brittany Cook takes the ‘lifeless’ boy to a hospital. He dies five days later.
A Nebraska man has been charged with child abuse resulting in death after a 22-month-old boy, hospitalized with obvious signs of abuse on Sunday, died Friday morning. The boy’s mother told police on Sunday that she had noticed bruises and other injuries on her son almost daily since she had begun dating 32-year-old Josh Tackett …
