Peter Salter

6 days ago | flatwaterfreepress.org | Peter Salter

James Wood wasn’t feeling safe at his own north Lincoln car lot. A cop had called him in mid-November, wondering what had happened to the $45,000 a Pennsylvania family had wired for a 2017 Lexus. No Lexus here, Wood told him. A few days later, a rental car pulled up to his lot. The driver had flown from Florida to pick up an $85,000 Land Rover his friend had bought, sight-unseen, over the internet. “I said, ‘What Land Rover?’ He said, ‘The one you sold us.’”The man showed Wood his phone.

2 months ago | journalstar.com | Peter Salter

Editor's note: Former Journal Star reporter Peter Salter wrote the following letter five years ago, nominating editor Dave Bundy for a Lee Enterprises award honoring exceptional spirit, which he won. ***The first time Dave Bundy was diagnosed with cancer, in 2004, he told a reporter: I certainly don’t want to overestimate my importance to the paper. That wasn’t possible, Dave.

2 months ago | siouxcityjournal.com | Peter Salter

A state conservation officer killed a young mountain lion last week after it was accidentally caught by a trap near the Missouri River in northeast Nebraska. The 8- to 9-month-old male was too injured to be saved, said Sam Wilson, furbearer and carnivore program manager for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. It’s the second mountain lion kitten found in the area in the past few months. Last fall, an abandoned 4- to 6-month-old male was rescued, rehabilitated and sent to the zoo in Scottsbluff.

2 months ago | siouxcityjournal.com | Peter Salter

The Nebraska-born mountain lion rolled into its new Indiana home Friday afternoon like a rock star — with an entourage. Three Illinois conservation officers. An Illinois state biologist. Two federal hunters. “He was brought here by quite a caravan,” said Joe Taft, founder of the Exotic Feline Rescue Center in Center Point, Indiana. Earlier that day, they had sedated the young male lion after it overstayed its welcome in Springfield, Illinois.

Jul 5, 2023 | wildlondon.org.uk | Peter Salter