ALHS Legal Studies

Investigators shed more light Wednesday into the case against the former city administrator for Gretna, Colleen Lawry. She goes before a judge Thursday morning in Sarpy County court for bond review. Lawry has been charged with theft between $500 - $1,500. Investigators allege she used funds that were set aside for the Gretna Senior Center.

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.

That's insane. Two accidents all in the same day.

Thats something that you hear about but you never think it will happen around here.

Authorities are investigating a report of shots fired at a home near 39th and Fowler streets. Omaha police said ShotSpotter pinpointed the location of the shooting. A resident of the home, Savera Cottrell, told officers her 22-year-old son, Dontanion Cottrell, was mowing the lawn when six teens got out of an SUV and approached him.

A Bonney Lake mother who prosecutors say repeatedly bleached her child's eyes, causing permanent vision damage, was charged Monday with first-degree child assault. Jennifer Mothershead, 29, pleaded not guilty and her bail was set at $150,000. In May 2011, Mothershead's 15-month-old daughter was airlifted from Tacoma to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center after suffering a blow to the head.

First off why would any person do something like that to her own child. What was her reasoning behind bleaching its eyes. Hopefully the kid is all right after that event.

Who would do so much harm to a 15 month old baby, and not feel any pain?

A man from Huntley, Illinois has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl. The man, Jimmy J. Dill, 40, was arrested Tuesday. The charges stem from two alleged incidents: his alleged touching of a breast of the 16-year-old girl in October 2011, which happened at his home; and a second incident a month later, in which he exposed his genitals to the teen, which also happened at his home.

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lesson learned. only hold up dem gas station if you got dem guns.

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.

that's sad!

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Omaha's Archdiocese said it is investigating allegations of sexual abuse against a pastor. Officials said the accusations date back 40 years. The Rev. Franklin Dvorak is the pastor at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church at 114th and Fort streets. Dvorak was placed on administrative leave while an investigation is completed.

Omaha's Archdiocese said it is investigating allegations of sexual abuse against a pastor. Officials said the accusations date back 40 years. The Rev. Franklin Dvorak is the pastor at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church at 114th and Fort streets. Dvorak was placed on administrative leave while an investigation is completed.

By Sarah Hoye, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) -- Attorneys in the child sexual abuse and conspiracy trial of two Philadelphia priests debated Monday over which potential witnesses jurors would be allowed to hear regarding a third defendant who pleaded guilty to molesting boys just days before opening rem...

updated 1:13 AM EDT, Tue April 17, 2012 (CNN) -- Two Oklahoma daycare workers are facing felony child abuse charges after allegedly feeding habanero hot sauce to a 13-month-old boy and laughing as the infant writhed in agony. The incident occurred in March at a daycare in Muscogee Creek Nation, a federally recognized tribe of Muscogee people based in Oklahoma.

It is a good thing they got caught. Who knows what else they have/would have done to the children.

That is just mean to do that to a baby. What if someone did that to your child and they laughed will your child was in distress? You should not work in a daycare in you are gonna do that.

updated 1:23 AM EDT, Thu April 19, 2012 (CNN) -- A Canadian man has been arrested, accused of coercing a 12-year-old girl to perform sex acts online by pretending to be pop star Justin Bieber. Toronto resident Lee Moir, 34, was arrested after police posed as a young girl and arranged to meet him.

yet another reason why justin bieber should be incarcerated

It is a good thing she didn't end up getting hurt. That is ridiculous, parents should monitor there children a little more.

Police say 33-year-old David Petr was arrested last week for encouraging teenage boys to trade sexual acts for drugs. Petr has a history of sexual abuse. In 2005, he was convicted of sexually assaulting a minor, but even more startling, he lives directly across the street from Hill Elementary.

if he doesn't stop, get him out of there!

They should think about the kids before him. They could ge seriously abused or hurt, menally and physically.

Criminality worldwide generates proceeds in the trillions of dollars each year, making crime one of the world's "top 20 economies," a senior U.N. official said Monday With the scope of global crime - and particularly organized crime - threatening emerging economies and fomenting international instability, Yury Fedotov called for concerted world action to combat the trend.

Eric James, 22, the last of four inmates who escaped from a north-central Kansas county jail this week, is in the custody of Omaha police.

EAST TOLEDO -- Police say an East Toledo landlord found a dead infant inside the freezer in one of his properties on Friday. The female corpse was discovered inside the home at 116 Paine St., where renters had just moved out. The landlord was said to be cleaning out the property when he found the body inside a freezer.

that's so not cool like come on if you don't want a kid put it up for adoption or not have at all don't make it a Popsicle

freezing and preserving it seems counter productive, wouldnt you want to get rid of it? and the landlord has their information so i assume they didnt think to hard about escaping

New York (CNN) -- Police and federal agents were expected Friday to continue searching in a Lower Manhattan basement for clues in the more than 30-year disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz, the boy who became the face of missing children in America. Etan Patz disappeared May 25, 1979, a block from his home in the city's SoHo neighborhood.