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1 week ago | kearneyhub.com | Lori Pilger

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the conviction and sentence for Felipe Gonzalez Vazquez, who as a 17-year-old fatally shot a Lincoln police officer during an escape attempt in 2020. "We conclude that all of Vazquez’s assignments of error lack merit and that his claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel either lack merit, were not raised with sufficient specificity, or cannot be resolved on direct appeal," Justice Stephanie Stacy wrote in an 81-page decision.

1 week ago | kearneyhub.com | Tom Shatel

There are certain moments I will never forget in 33 years of covering the College World Series. There was the surreal scene of Miami and Cal State Fullerton playing in driving rain in 1992 because the winner had the championship game the next day at noon. President George W. Bush throwing out the first pitch in 2001. The melancholy last night at Rosenblatt Stadium. Seeing a couple get married at the Stadium View Card Shop.

1 week ago | kearneyhub.com | Tom Shatel

For 35 years, Scott Johnson has called the shots at the College World Series. Well, except that one time. It was the 2001 CWS. President George W. Bush was scheduled to throw out the first pitch. ESPN’s director of its CWS coverage had a plan to document the moment. What Johnson hadn’t planned on was the meeting with the U.S. Secret Service the night before the game. “They wanted to know where the cameras were and they saw a camera up on the roof by the press box,” Johnson said.

1 week ago | kearneyhub.com | Lori Pilger

A 28-year-old Lincoln woman told jurors this week how one summer day in 2020 she and a friend went to party at Joesef Barraza's before things all went dark. She said the guy she'd known from high school and a fast-food job who she sometimes smoked weed and meth with brought her and a girlfriend rum-mixed drinks from the kitchen that afternoon, Aug. 30, 2020. She woke up naked two days later.

1 week ago | kearneyhub.com | Mike Konz

Norris Marshall, the founder and CEO of BluePrint Engines, has been elected to the chair-elect position on the Specialty Equipment Market Association Board of Directors after previously serving one three-year term on the board. “It’s truly an honor to be elected for the position of chair-elect on the SEMA Board,” Marshall said. “After serving three years on the SEMA Board, I have a clear vision for the future of our industry and the SEMA organization as a whole.