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The attorney for 37-year-old Jay Samudio had tried to persuade Judge Stefanie Martinez that his client would be a good candidate for probation, based partly on his lack of a criminal history.

For decades, Omaha figuratively turned its back to the riverfront, and why not? It was gritty and not very pretty, an industrial zone with railroad repair yards and a polluting lead-smelting plant.

For decades the official history of Omaha's Westside High School said it was named after "West Side Story," the popular musical. Turns out the origins of the school's name are far less interesting.

All operations have been relocated to the post office in Hamburg, Iowa, at 308 F St., officials said.

She was eventually arrested in Iowa, police said, and she was to be extradited back to Nebraska.

The three teens were booked on suspicion of robbery, obstructing an officer and theft by receiving, police said.

Authorities said the cause of death was still under investigation.

Keiandre Kellogg, 25, was ordered held without bail Wednesday after being charged with first-degree murder.

Garcia’s attorneys spent much of Wednesday — Day One of Garcia’s defense against the death penalty — trying to establish the mitigating factors that they say should spare him capital punishment for the March 2008 murders of 11-year-old Thomas Hunter…

The clerk was injured around 3:25 a.m. after a man dressed in all-black clothing opened fire, hitting the clerk in a forearm and a hip with one round.