Saline County News

Visitation services for Saline County Commissioner Douglas Drake are scheduled for Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Kuncl Funeral Home in Western.

Two separate traffic stops over the weekend led to the arrest of two men and the discovery of guns and drugs.

The home place was a safe haven for the James and Elmina Jones family in Saline County, Nebraska.

Fans are available to low-income, aged or disabled people and families. The Low Income Energy Assistance Program in the Department of Health and Human Services purchased the fans.

Eleven cases of H1N1 flu have been confirmed by testing since the state last updated its numbers on June 5, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services reported Friday.

Farmers, once desperate for rain, are now praying for recovery from hail damage.

Farmers in Saline County are counting the cost of recent hail storms, and the numbers are big.

Thunderstorms pounded parts of southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa with hail, strong winds and heavy rain to close out the weekend.

Omaha Police have recovered a stolen gun, and say they took it from a convicted felon, now he could go back to prison.

According to officials at Saline County Sheriffa s Office, some towns in the Central and North Central part of the county are without electricity.