Новости за 12.05.2016

NEW YORK (AP) — Lucy Dahl, one of the late Roald Dahl's five children, has special memories of birthdays.

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors are investigating $2 million in payments associated with Tokyo's winning bid for the 2020 Olympics.

CHICAGO (AP) — A parks advocacy group that's trying to stop construction of "Star Wars" filmmaker George Lucas' museum on Chicago's lakefront says it deserves its day in court.

Lena Dunham is mourning the death of actor Nick Lashaway, who appeared in an episode of Dunham's, "Girls."

When his monthly pension check showed up in his account on March 1, Chuck Zellers was in Arizona.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — State psychiatric experts say an Omaha man is competent to face a death-penalty hearing for killing four people just weeks after he left prison.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kelly Ripa says Michael Strahan is leaving their morning talk show earlier than originally planned so a search for his replacement can begin.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — One afternoon upon returning from school, Diane Guerrero found her home empty. The TV actress was only 14 when she was left completely alone after her parents were detained and deported to their native Colombia.

Carol Lee Scheidt, 83, of Lincoln, passed away May 11, 2016. She was born April 18, 1933, to Bill and Clara Schweitzer. Carol completed her most ambitious undertaking in her mid 50's when she decided to go to school to…

Ardith (Junge) Wolvin, passed away May 10, 2016, in Lincoln. She was born August 21, 1938, on a farm near Thayer to Clarence and Emma Junge.

Mildred Carmichael, Beatrice, May 16, 1922 - May 1, 2016.

Dale L. Rotschafer, 65 of Lincoln passed away on May 5, 2016 at Holmes Lake Manor in Lincoln. He was born on December 13, 1950, in Fort Bragg, N.C. Dale was a 1970 graduate from Northeast High School in Lincoln.…

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Shirley Turner, Geneva, January 23, 1950 - May 10, 2016.

Carol V. Moore, Lincoln, March 7, 1941 - May 8, 2016.

Byron L. Boslau, Lincoln, December 10, 1943 - May 10, 2016.

Patrick Edward Labenz, Omaha, Nov 21, 1951 – May 11, 2016. CPA and graduate of U.N.L.

Linda Kay Wagner-Beck, 66, of Lincoln, passed away May 10, 2016. Funeral: 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Colonial Chapel Funeral Home, 5200 R St. Visitation: 6-8 p.m., Friday at the funeral home. Condolences: www.lincolnccfh.com.

Betty Sue Marshall Sink of Lincoln passed away at age 73 on May 10, 2016. She was born to Robert and Iris Marshall on July 30, 1942, in Radford, Va. She married Robert H. Sink on June 8, 1963. They…

Bonnie Havel, 62, Lincoln died May 10, 2016. She was born October 12, 1953, to Willard and Arlene (Slepicka) Havel in York.

Executive director Bill Stephan credits sponsors and patrons for the Lied Center for Performing Arts’ recent run of success. The Lied finished the 2015-16 season with a record seventh-straight balanced budget.

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In a planting season in which some farmers are trying to decide which crop would lose the least money, a new agricultural opportunity is gaining luster in Nebraska, particularly for small and beginning farmers.

I've read that our senator Ben Sasse will not vote for Donald Trump and he wants to have a third person run for President against Trump and Hillary Clinton ("Sasse: Draft a third presidential choice," May 6). Assuming that Ben…

In Februrary, now-presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump threatened Nebraska Gov. Pete Rickett's family after attack ads funded by them came out against him ("Ricketts unafraid of Trump," Feb. 24).