The first-degree murder case against a 39-year-old Omaha man will head toward trial after a homicide detective for the Omaha Police Department said Friday that eyewitness accounts and DNA evidence link the man to the killing of a 37-year-old woman in a central Omaha apartment last month.
The police detective testified a hotel employee paid $60 to have sex with an underage girl. The detective testified another employee provided the money from a hotel register.
The trial for an Omaha surgeon accused of racing down Dodge Street before causing a fatal crash is set to begin Tuesday. Defense attorneys intend to argue that he was unconscious prior to the crash.
A 20-year-old man will serve at least 40 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole in connection with the fatal shooting of a teenage girl who was asleep in her North Omaha home.
More than 45 years after a brutal double murder — and nearly 20 years since a clerical error forced prosecutors to drop charges against the prime suspect — an Omaha man is again facing charges for the 1979 slayings of a mother and her young son.
A Plattsmouth man who pleaded guilty to hitting and killing pedestrian with his pickup truck, then fleeing the scene in midtown Omaha last fall, was sentenced to four years in prison.
