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The first execution in Nebraska reportedly was of Cyrus Tator, a former Kansas Legislature member and judge in Lykins County, Kansas who was tried and convicted of murdering his business partner in 1863. [5] Before 1903, counties carried out executions until the state took over. Since Nebraska statehood in 1867, a total of 14 people have been ...
The office of sheriff in Nebraska is an elected one. The first sheriff elected in Lincoln County was O. O. Austin, elected at Cottonwood Springs by 21 voters in October 1867. Much of the first sheriff's two-year term was spent with the newly incorporated Lincoln County's first court case, State of Nebraska vs. John Burley. [1]
On November 16, Loofe, a store clerk at one of the Menards stores in Lincoln, failed to show up for work. Her mother, Susie texted her, unaware Sydney was on a date, but Sydney did not respond. [17] Susie then reported her daughter missing, [18] and the next day, the police paid a welfare check visit at her rental home. [19]
The Nebraska State Patrol said in a news release that Ceresco Police Officer Ross Bartlett, 54, stopped a car about a mile south of Ceresco on Highway 77 about 7:30 p.m. Friday.
The Mt. Carmel Cemetery is located near North 14th and Elba Streets in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1886, Samuel and Rachel Polowsky bought property in Lincoln's Belmont section. They later sold it to the Chevra B'nai Jehuda Cemetery Association. The cemetery serves Lincoln's Orthodox and Conservative Jews. [1]
Javarius Hurd, 16, was charged as an adult Wednesday with second-degree reckless homicide, felony murder and two counts of battery by prisoners in the death of Corey Proulx, a 49-year-old guard at ...
Wyuka Cemetery was established in Lincoln, Nebraska, by an act of the Nebraska Legislature in 1869, which sought to provide a cemetery for the state capital city founded two years prior. [3] The trustees rejected the first cemetery site along Salt Creek to the west of Lincoln due to flooding concerns and instead purchased 80 acres of land east ...
Proulx, 49, died from injuries sustained during an assault by a 16-year-old boy housed at Lincoln Hills School for Boys. Javarius M. Hurd, 16, was charged as an adult with second-degree reckless ...