Minden News

' A powerful winter storm that covered parts of Colorado with up to 6 feet of snow crept east across the Plains Saturday, knocking out electricity to thousands in Nebraska as the blanket of heavy, wet precipitation downed power lines and made travel treacherous.

The man Jack Hultquist saw sitting at a computer in the Jensen Memorial Library here was scruffy and shoeless, but nothing tipped off Hultquist late Saturday morning that Petr Strizheus was sought by law enforcement.

Suspects on the run from an attempted homicide in Colorado fired shots at a state trooper during a high speed chase late Friday night near Kearney and now the public is urged to be on the lookout for a wanted man on the run.

Nebraska troopers captured one man and looked for another Saturday after a high-speed chase in which a patrol car was fired upon.

That was the estimate of Minden Fire Chief Craig Space, who said it took firefighters from Minden, Axtell, Wilcox, Hildreth and Kearney about five hours to completely put out the fire at a CSS Farms warehouse at 2016 32 Road.