2008 Primary Election Results - Nebraska

Kray will spend 6-10 years in prison on bad check conviction
     A Sidney woman convicted of issuing bad checks will spend up to ten years in prison.  That judgment from Cheyenne County District Court Judge Kristine Cecava Wednesday to 26-year-old Charity Hope Kray, who was convicted on one count of Issuing a Bad Check, a felony.  Kray was ordered to the York, Nebraska women’s prison for six to ten years, which may be reduced to three to five years with good time.
    The case involved Kray writing five bad checks totaling over $1,500 between June 13 and July 9 of last year.
    Kray was scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday but didn’t show up; her lawyer asked for sentencing to be continued.  Judge Cecava rejected the request and issued a bench warrant for Kray’s arrest.  The Cheyenne County Sheriff’s Office took Kray into custody Tuesday evening and she was sentenced Wednesday.  (Dave Collins 5/15)

Charges not being filed yet against woman in Gering hotel incident
     GERING, Neb. (AP) - Charges against a woman who was in a Gering motel room at the time of a fatal shooting will not be filed until a grand jury has time to investigate.
     The woman was arrested May 2 on suspicion of obstruction of justice and harboring a fugitive. Authorities have said she was in the room when 46-year-old William "Curt" Gibb reportedly shot himself.
     Scotts Bluff County Attorney Derek Weimer has said Gibb shot himself after wounding a sheriff's deputy who was tried to serve an arrest warrant on him.
     Weimer said Thursday that he will not charge the woman until the grand jury finishes its investigation, but his office retains to do so at a later time.

    Nebraska News
                                                                       
     OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Omaha police say a 35-year-old man suspected of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old daughter at knifepoint is in jail after turning himself in. Authorities had been searching for Robert Baker since the April 27th incident.

     WAHOO, Neb. (AP) - Saunders County Sheriff's officials believe they've broken up the largest identity theft operation in the county's history. This week, deputies arrested 27-year-old Sarah Maxwell and 29-year-old Eric Jordan on suspicion of tampering with mail, possession of meth and stolen property

     OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Police have cited an Omaha landlord for 17 criminal counts related to renting out what inspectors say are unsafe houses.
     Police say Kevin Meyer faces up to six months in jail for the string of charges.
     Investigators say he rented a southeast Omaha house to a woman and her children last month, even though the house had been declared a danger and unfit for occupancy last August.
     Problems with the house include a hole in the living room ceiling that has water running from it, disconnected water pipes in the kitchen sink and a furnace that leaked carbon monoxide. The house also lacks a refrigerator and stove, even though the woman's lease agreement promised those appliances.
     Meyer, who lives in a $500,000 Omaha home, says he's not a bad landlord and rented the property after a visual inspection he conducted himself.
     
     OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission is meeting this morning in Omaha. The state commission and Attorney General Jon Bruning have been fighting bitterly for months over what the commission says is Bruning's refusal to prosecute housing discrimination cases.

 National / World News 

      UNDATED (AP) - There's another record for oil prices, which have soared by more than $3 a barrel today. They've passed the $127 mark For the first time, adding new pressure for already-high gasoline and diesel prices ahead of the summer driving season.

     NEW YORK (AP) - A landlord has been indicted after prosecutors say he planted a homemade bomb to try to kill a tenant he wanted to evict from a commercial building in Brooklyn. The tenant lost a leg in the blast.
     Prosecutors say 38-year-old Yung Tang placed the bomb in a bag next to Israel Halberstam's minivan while it was parked by Halberstam's Brooklyn home in March 2002. The bag exploded when Halberstam tried to move it.
     Prosecutors say Tang wanted Halberstam dead because he owed about $100,000 in rent on a showroom for his electronics business.
     It's not clear whether Tang has a lawyer. No telephone number could be found for his Greenwood Lake home.
     Charges against Tang include attempted murder, assault and arson. If convicted, he faces up to 50 years in prison.

     WASHINGTON (AP) - The construction of new homes has jumped by its biggest margin in more than two years. The figures from April show a more than eight percent rise in new home construction. It's a rare spot of good news amid the worst housing downturn in more than two decades. On Wall Street, stocks are little changed.
 
     BEICHUAN, China (AP) - The official death toll from this week's earthquake in China has risen above 22,000. Another 14,000 people are still buried in the rubble in one province. A strong aftershock has sparked landslides near the quake's epicenter.
 
     SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gay couples could begin to tie the knot in California in just 30 days. But conservative groups want the implementation of a state Supreme Court decision overturning California's gay marriage ban to be pushed back. They're looking to amend the state constitution to outlaw gay marriage.
 
     LOS ANGELES (AP) - The attorney for a Missouri woman says a decision by federal prosecutors to indict the woman in an Internet hoax is "disappointing" and "puzzling." Lori Drew is charged with conspiracy and fraudulently gaining access to someone else's Computer. It's in connection with a hoax on a 13-year-old girl who ended up committing suicide.

   Colorado News

     DENVER (AP) - Lawyers for a 16-year-old boy have filed a lawsuit against Denver and its police department alleging that he was beaten by five police officers last month. The suit claims that one officer threatened to shoot Juan Vasquez in the back when he ran away, then threw a flashlight so hard it shattered when it hit him.
    
     GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - Two Illinois men arrested last September for allegedly killing a bull elk illegally have entered guilty pleas through their attorney. Fifty-four-year-old Kimberly Anthony Shrout and his son, 20-year-old Anthony Lee Eugene Shrout, also pleaded guilty to a count of aggravated illegal possession of wildlife.
    
     FRUITA, Colo. (AP) - A man wanted on an extradition warrant from New Mexico has been arrested in Fruita. Police and Mesa County sheriff's deputies waited outside a restaurant yesterday for 39-year-old Jerry Eugene Yates after receiving a tip on his whereabouts. He faces charges of cruelty toward a child, plus other counts.
    
     GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - The woman who police say caused a deadly head-on crash in Grand Junction is being identified as a California resident. Police say 48-year-old Kathryn Ann Disparti of Napa (California) was driving her van the wrong way on Interstate 70 when she slammed into a car, killing its driver and injuring a boy.

  Wyoming News 

      LANDER, Wyo. (AP) - Sen. John Barrasso says protecting polar bears under the Endangered Species Act could cripple Wyoming's economy and threaten the well-being of the country. But conservationists dismissed the Wyoming Republican's claim as a scare tactic and called it part of an ongoing campaign to undermine the power of the Endangered Species Act.
 
     STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) - A few hours before sunrise on Saturday an elder with the Eastern Shoshone tribe in Wyoming will begin a wheel ceremony to bring rain and break the drought in the southeast United States. Bennie "Blue Thunder" LeBeau will lead the ceremony at Stone Mountain, Georgia. He lives on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming.
 
     CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is offering a $3,000 reward for information about a wolf illegally shot in northwest Wyoming. Wyoming Chief Game Warden Jay Lawson says the state agency takes its wolf management responsibility seriously.
 
     SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Bar owners in Utah want to kill a law that requires customers to fill out an application and pay a fee before they can order a drink. Utah is the only state that prohibits bars that serve liquor from admitting anyone but members and their guests. An airport is the only place where someone can drink a cocktail without having to order a meal or be a member of a private club.

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