A Nebraska City man who pelleted his wife with a shotgun blast as she mowed the lawn last summer received a five-year probation sentence Thursday.
District Judge Daniel Bryan sentenced James T. Booth, 47, to probation and ordered his guns returned to the family.
Police were alerted to the incident on June 3 on a report of a man shooting a gun at 1314 13th Corso.
Officers found Booth outside holding a shotgun and tasered him after he refused to put the weapon down.
Police arrested a Nebraska City man after he attempted to elude them in a car, on a 4-wheeler and eventually on foot.
Officers were responding to separate auto accident and disturbance calls on Fourth Avenue when a car would not pull over to the side as police approached.
“The car blew a stop sign and the chase was on,” said Sgt. Dana Schebaum.
Police followed the car over a mile observing it stop near a residence. Officers say 18-year-old Matthew Jorgenson emerged on a 4-wheeler near 201 10th Corso.
Otoe County Sheriff's patrol cars are being equipped with life saving cardiac equipment, said Otoe County Emergency Management Director Gregg Goebel.
The county has recently received a grant for 20 new automatic electronic defibrillators that will equip the patrol vehicles, as well as the courthouse, jail and EMA vehicle.
He said the equipment will result in more life-saving opportunities.
“We know that law enforcement, 95 percent of the time, is the first on a scene. When we have the capability and deputies who are capable, we can intervene and do what it takes to save a life,” he said.
Otoe County commissioners took a step Tuesday toward making deeds and other public records available on the Internet.
The county approved a $12,500 contract with GIS Workshop, a Lincoln-based technology company, to provide online access to computerized records at the register of deeds office within the next 24 weeks.
The records, which include documents filed whenever land is sold or mortgages refinanced, will be searchable by seller, buyer, legal description or date of filing.
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) confirmed Tuesday the presence of chronic wasting disease in two hunter harvested free-ranging deer in Macon County, Mo., about 70 miles south of Centerville, Iowa.
For the first part of the game, it appeared the NAIA DI 22nd-ranked MidAmerica Nazarene University (MNU) Pioneers thought they were going to come to Peru and walk away with an easy win.
