Sherman County News

In an effort to help communities recognize the problem of illegal alcohol sales to minors, the Nebraska State Patrol will be conducting compliance checks in counties covered by the Troop C Headquarters-Grand Island.

Attorney General Jon Bruning recently announced that Charles Fieldgrove of Litchfield was sentenced to as many as 40 years in prison for the abuse of his girlfriend's daughter.

The verdict is in on a series of sexual assault incidents in Sherman County. According to court records, 48-year old Charles Fieldgrove of Litchfield, Nebraska was found guilty Friday in Sherman County District Court on four counts of First Degree Sexual Assault.

A Litchfield man convicted of sexually abusing a child will be sentenced Dec. 4. A Sherman County jury convicted Charles Fieldgrove last week on four counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child.

A Grand Island man accused of kidnapping a woman and leaving her tied to a tree near Loup City is scheduled for sentencing next month.

The crash of a pickup in rural Sherman County has killed an Ashton man. The Sherman County sheriff's department says 27-year-old Jonathan Jerabek was eastbound in his truck a little after 9 Saturday night when he lost control of it at an intersection of county roads south of Ashton.

A county sheriff says an 80-year-old farmer whose body was found under an earth-moving scraper near Ashton died of natural causes.

Authorities are awaiting autopsy results to help them determine what killed an 80-year-old Scotia man whose body was found beneath an earth-moving scraper.

Seventy-five years ago, the eyes of the nation were on rural Nebraska after hundreds of rioters and 40 sheriff's deputies descended on Loup City.

A Grand Island man has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and weapons charges in connection with the kidnapping of a 19-year-old woman who was left tied to a tree.

" More Master Angler fish were caught at Lake McConaughy than any other body of water in 2008, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.