Prosecutors said a photo lineup and DNA matched an Omaha man to a fourth sexual assault. Christopher Ennis was arrested and booked on sexual assault charges last week. He is being held on $3 million bond.
Authorities say a Council Bluffs man set his house on fire while his mother and 12-year-old brother were inside. The Council Bluffs Police Department says 21-year-old Jacob A. Rolfe is in custody following the early Thursday fire.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that the bodies of a woman and a child have been found by the Missouri River near Lake Manawa Sunday evening. A Pottawattamie County dispatcher told KETV Newswatch 7 that the call came in around 6:45 p.m., that the bodies had been found by a passerby.
Police seized more than 300 marijuana plants out of homes in Omaha after a months-long investigation, according to police. The plants were taken from homes on Lafayette Avenue and North 75th Street, police said. Bryan and Corey Murta and Timothy White were all arrested on drug charges and criminal conspiracy.
A crash just after noon Saturday killed a woman riding in the same vehicle with the mother of a boy who had been hit by a vehicle in separate accident. Omaha police say the child's babysitter, Delaine Harris, was partially-ejected from the Ford Explorer when when it rolled from the impact of the crash at 50th and Decatur.
Omaha police officers called to a hospital arrested two people on suspicion of felony child abuse. According to an Omaha detective, the father of a 2-year-old brought the boy to the emergency room at the Nebraska Medical Center on Wednesday night.
OMAHA, Neb. -- Police are investigating a shooting near 40th and Hamilton streets. Authorities said the man was shot twice in the chest at the Walnut Hill Apartments. A passerby noticed the shooting victim and got him in her car to take to the hospital.
Posted April 3, 2012A Council Bluffs man is in police custody following a 9 hour standoff at 13th St. and 23rd Ave. Police had been trying to serve arrest warrants for Donald Shamblen, 56, when he ran out of his home and barricaded himself in the detached garage.
OMAHA, Neb. -- Fire investigators believe a boy and a girl are responsible for a fire that injured a man Friday morning. Crews were called to the house at 135th Street and Atwood Avenue about 4:30 a.m. Dispatchers reported that Jermaine Westbrook, 37, was trapped in the burning house.
LINCOLN, Neb. -- A 25-year-old Lincoln man has been arrested, accused of child abuse because of several injuries to his 13-week-old son. Police say Victor Patterson Sr. was arrested after the boy's mother took her son to a Lincoln emergency room. She told doctors the boy, Victor Patterson Jr., kept vomiting.
OMAHA, Neb. -- Police said a 15-year-old girl is missing after meeting a man on the Internet. Kaity Chrisman, a sophomore at Westside High School, packed her clothes and a blanket Tuesday night, and climbed through a house window, her family said. "My heart is broken," Chrisman's mother, Dori Kingery, said.