Hall County News

The family of a former Hall County Jail inmate who fell at the jail has filed a wrongful death claim against Hall County seeking a half-million dollars.

State court officials will soon open a Grand Island center designed to help individuals navigate the legal system.

The families of two murder victims will have to wait even longer for justice. A three judge panel met in Grand Island Friday to determine the fate of Marco Torres Junior.

Esperanza J. Kraft of Pasadena, Texas, is mother of Marco E. Torres Jr., who will be sentenced in January for the March 2007 deaths of Timothy Donohue and Edward Hall, both of Grand Island.

When it comes to Nebraska State Fair preparations in Grand Island, progress is being made.

A new electronic system is was used for the first time in Nebraska during a special election in Grand Island Tuesday.

Voters in Grand Island's Northwest Public Schools district have rejected a bond proposal but voters in Superior have approved their district's proposal.

Hall County authorities have released the name of a 21-year-old driver who was killed in a rollover accident.

A Holdrege, Neb., man died today in a one-car crash in southern Hall County. The man's identity and details of the crash were not available.The man was driving the car, which left a paved rural road and rolled about 5:10 a.m., said Hall County sheriff's investigator David Waskowiak.

By MICHELLE ZLOMKE Chief Managing Editor The U.S. Census Bureau's regional office is looking for a few good men and women.

A 21-year-old Grand Island woman has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of pandering.

Central Nebraska authorities have identified a 74-year-old Grand Island man fatally injured when two pickups collided at a rural Hall County intersection.

Secretary of State John Gale, Nebraska's highest ranking election official, said Northwest High School officials may not have good voter turnout for their Nov.

Early voting has grown so popular that Hall County Election Commissioner Dale Baker is looking to add another site for it.

Two Arizona nitwits decided to take their own version of the Arizona Meth Project on the road this week and found themselves arrested and facing drug charges.

Denise K. Withee, who was convicted of dumping dead and dying dogs in a cornfield, has been prohibited, as part of her probation, from owning or living with any animal for five years.

A Grand Island man pleaded not guilty this week to felony motor vehicle homicide for the death of an elderly woman who was picking berries in her backyard.

Sentencing proceedings began Thursday morning in Hall County District Court for Denise Withee, an Iowa woman accused of dumping 23 dead or dying dogs in a cornfield near Grand Island in 2008.

A traffic stop on eastbound Interstate 80 in Hall County, Nebraska led to the seizure of 10 lbs.

A budget crunch in Hall County turns into a loss for the Grand Island Public Library.