Platte County News

This year has not been good to Nebraska corn and soybean farmers. An unseasonably cool summer coupled with an unseasonably wet fall has had a major impact on this fall's harvest.

A 21-year-old Platte Center man has been fined $500 and ordered to pay $450 in restitution for causing a crash that killed a Norfolk man.

While getting ready for school one morning at age 12, Emily Wemhoff of Creston, Neb.

Services are pending for a Genoa teenager who died after a one-car accident in east-central Nebraska.

A memorial fund has been established for an Officer Christopher Johnson of the Platte County, Nebraska sheriffa s department.

A son, a wife and a sheriff's department is in mourning after a weekend crash took the life of a deputy.

A rough weekend for the Platte County Sheriff's Office. Deputies are mourning one of their own who died in the line of duty.

A Platte County sheriff's deputy was killed this morning in a crash just north of Cornlea, Neb.

A 23-year-old Columbus man who sexually assaulted a runaway teenager has been given 5 to 8 years in prison.

An Omaha man arrested a fourth time for suspected drunken driving in less than two years has been given 2 to 4 years in prison.

Scott Adams knows exactly how the youths at the Platte County Fair feel. The poultry judge was in their shoes 40 years ago when he was in FFA and first showed cattle at the event.

In the last week, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed 14 new cases of H1N1.

A 21-year-old Lindsay man will be sentenced later this month for throwing a knife that hit his mom in the back.

"New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music," a traveling exhibition developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit Service and presented in the state by the Nebraska Humanities Council , opens May 1 in Cambridge.