Dawes County News

Sample hand counts of results from the November 2008 general election show that Nebraska's voting tabulation equipment is extremely accurate, according to Secretary of State John Gale.

Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale says a hand count of thousands of ballots cast in the 2008 general election show the state's voting machines are extremely accurate.

Twenty months after shooting and killing a teenage burglary suspect and almost 19 months after being indicted on a 2nd-degree assault charge for the incident, Crawford Police Chief Rick Thompson finally goes to trial today in Dawes County District Court.

Two of the 4 young Dawes County men who admitted breaking into the maintenance shop and stables at Fort Robinson State Park last November were sentenced Tuesday in Dawes County District Court...but with much different results.

A Dawes County Court jury has convicted Sioux County Sheriff James Costello of misdemeanors counts of false reporting and abuse of public records for filing a false stolen vehicle report on a pickup owned by his ex-son-in-law. The 2-man, 4-woman jury deliberated 2 hours after a day long trial.

A second mental evaluation has been ordered for25-year old Joe Hotz of Rushville, facing trial in Dawes County District Court for the December 5th murder of his roommate.

Dawes County officials have agreed to pay $50,000 to a 73-year-old former roads worker who alleged that he was forced to retire in 2006 because of his age.

The probable price tag of next month's murder trial of Joseph Hotz for the brutal stabbing death of his roommate last December keeps going up for Dawes County.

A "Strengthening Community Agro-Security" Planning Conference to be held in Alliance on April 27-28 is one of only seven opportunities in the United States for agriculture producers to bring their voice to the process of community readiness planning.

I could save your life A- I know CPR. I have extraordinarily long toes. I can pick things up with them.

A Chadron businessman has been bound over for trial for allegedly cheating the customers of his construction company.

Eight lawyers, including current U.S. District Attorney Joe Stecher, have applied in a second try at finding a replacement for a Sidney, Neb., judge voted off the bench last November.

JUDGE JOHN MURPHY WILL BE THE THIRD JUDGE TO HEAR THE CRAWFORD CASE. FORMER CRAWFORD POLICE CHIEF RICK THOMPSON WAS INDICTED BY A DAWES COUNTY GRAND JURY FOR SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT IN THE OCTOBER 2007 SHOOTING ...

A new judge has been tapped to preside over the assault case against a former police chief accused in the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy.

A successful collaboration between the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture and the Crawford and Gordon/Rushville high schools have given the institutions a $75,000 Career Education Partnership Act grant ...

EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ON HIGHWAY 385, JUST NORTH OF HEMINGFORD, TWO PICKUP TRUCKS WERE INVOLVED IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION.

One person was killed and three others were hurt in a two-vehicle crash in Dawes County.

The Dawes County Coroner has been called Tuesday afternoon to what appears to be a fatal accident ten miles north of Hemingford on Highway 385.

The process to fill a judicial vacancy in the Panhandle hit a snag yesterday when the 12th District Judicial Nominating Commission...meeting in Gering...failed to make a recommendation to Governor Dave ...

A nearly year-long investigation into a Chadron, Nebraska Construction Company has led to the arrest of its owner for Felony Theft by Deception.