What you missed last week in notable Omaha crimes and court cases
Last week's local crime and court updates from The World-Herald.
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The Central High School Foundation is looking for answers after several plaques, some over 100 years old and totaling thousands of dollars, have been stolen.
Deaths of Curt Strom and William Reffett shocked a small northeast Nebraska town. “He touched so many lives. We just know the community loved dad.”
Two people have officially been charged in connection with a double homicide in Bloomfield, Nebraska, that left two beloved community members dead.
A mid-morning shooting in a small-town bowling alley on Tuesday left two men dead and the northeast Nebraska community of Bloomfield shaken.
A deputy with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office remains on administrative leave after arrested on suspicion of third-degree sexual assault of a high school student.
Officials of the FBI Omaha field office are seeking the public’s help in identifying victims of abuse that occurred within a religious group that does not have a name but is often referred to as "The Truth."
Prosecutors said Adam Price of Bellevue deliberately and with premeditated malice smothered his children before staging their bodies as if they were sleeping in their beds.
Joshua E. Kuhl, 35, made his first court appearance on Tuesday. His appearance came after he was charged in connection with the car crash that killed Gary Smith, 69, near Bennington early Sunday.
The Nebraska State Patrol has arrested two people in connection with a double homicide that occurred Tuesday morning in northeast Nebraska.
A former Nebraska corrections employee was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to sexually abusing an inmate and having his baby.
A 35-year-old Carter Lake man is being held in Douglas County jail after he was accused of being impaired in a two-vehicle crash that killed one person and injured three others near Bennington.
Two men scheduled to appear in court attempted to bring loaded handguns into the Douglas County Courthouse on Tuesday, according to authorities.
An Omaha man and woman were found guilty Tuesday in Douglas County District Court of being accessories to the 2022 shooting death of an 18-year-old man during a drug deal.
A Nebraska prison inmate died Monday in Lincoln while serving a sentence of 160 to 220 years for multiple counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child.
Closing arguments in the jury trial of a Bellevue man accused of murdering his own children in 2021 are set to begin Thursday.
A Sarpy County jury's verdict in a double-murder case was announced at 1:42 p.m. Thursday, slightly more than two hours after the jury began deliberations.
A Bellevue man initially charged with second-degree murder in the death of a fellow inmate at the Sarpy County Jail last August pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of manslaughter on Wednesday.
Two people attempted to bring knives into the Douglas County Courthouse Thursday, two days after two guns were seized by courthouse security staff.
