States office under former secretary jason gant came up more than 43 thousand dollars short in its accounting. The auditor said in a report that he found no evidence a reconciliation that could explain the difference. Gant told a local paper that he could not immediately discuss the report. Current secretary of state Shantel Krebs requested the audit after a staff member noticed an original state flag was missing. The Audit Committee is scheduled to discuss the audit report on friday. Governor Pete Ricketts says he will disclose all of his personal, outofstate trips and is working with the Nebraska State Patrol to improve tracking of his security details overtime expenses. Ricketts announced the changes in response to news that the patrols overtime expenses have risen in recent months. That coincided with the governors trade missions to europe and asia, promotional trips to different parts of country, and personal travel to attend chicago cubs games. Ricketts says he believes many of t
Throughout the morning until late evening. The rain will move out by saturday with some lingering clouds and highs in the low 60s to start the weekend. Is it a search for answers into a 2012 terrorist attack. Or an attempt to derail Hillary Clintons 2016 president ial campaign . Today the former secretary of state testified before a House Committee on the benghazi attack. There was some new information released during the hearing. As well as plenty of partisan and tense exchanges. Steve handelsman has the story. The showdown hearing got emotional. 4 americans died in benghazi. Sot Hillary Clinton, fmr. Secretary of state president ial candidate better . Republicans said tell the truth. Sot trey gowdy, south carolina, benghazi our leader in washington do or not do and when . Clinton said, as secretary of state, Chris Stevens requests for more security sot Hillary Clinton, fmr. Secretary of state president ial candidate 21 27he did not raise security with me. He raised them with Security
Lawyer yielded some interesting findings today. The report shows ryan lamb was underqualified for his job. You may remember lamb for his role in the secret settlement scandal Legal Counsel for services. In that role lamb helped broker some of the deals that paid state employees extra money to not file grievances against the state. An audit released today shows lamb was given 22thousand dollars in excess pay and benefits while working for the state. The report shows lamb was paid 13 thousand dollars in excessive salary while he was on military leave. And more than 9thousand dollars in excessive vacation pay. In addition, the Auditors Office couldnt find a copy of lambs resume on file anywhere. That has lead to questions about whether he had the proper education or experience to hold his position with d as. Lamb resigned from state employment last year. Current das director janet phipps says the errors occurred before her tenure. She als says the state could try to recoup that money from
One person dead and three others hurt. We hear arguing, and then we hear a car alarm go off for a good 20 minutes. And then, all the sudden, it sounded like fireworks pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. The apparent gun fight happened early yesterday morning at evolution nightclub. Police say when they got there, they found 20 year old Dashwan Smith with gunshot wounds and he later died at the hospital. A little later. Three more gunshot wound victims arrived at hospitals. Police have not released their names or conditions. This morning investigators told us they are conducting interviews and are considering a new piece of evidence, but did not elaborate. No arrests have been made at this time. A judge set the preliminary hearing date for a teenager accused of a deadly shooting in des moines. Josue socop is charged with first degree murder. He is scheduled to appear in court on november 18th at 8 am. Police say the 17 year old shot and killed 28 year old jose lopez late friday night. It happ
Elias an update after dashcam video of a Police Officer who shot an unarmed South Carolina teen in july. Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa elias good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im Elias Johnson. Elias the stage is set for tonights big republican showdown in colorado the first debate where ben carson is the frontrunner pulling ahead of donald trump pulling ahead of elias lam fighting back and pleading for help abcs tom bluffs, iowa script sot trump let me win iowa . His drop in the polls is sottrump i mean i am second 19;48;40 but i dont like is terrible to me. But the setback sottrump i said im gonna work harder in iowa but if i lose in iowa im never going to speak to you people again i asked trump about the carson surge. Sotllamas q how do you explain carson . Whats going on in the polls . Whats going on in the polls . A i have no explanation. I think were doing great. Carson spending the eve of the debate getting in the ring. Picking up