The Latest: California has given over 18M vaccine doses
The Associated Press
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1of20Dr. Mark Ghaly, Secretary, California Health and Human Services, left, inoculates California Gov. Gavin Newsom, right, at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in Los Angeles Thursday, April 1, 2021. Newsom was vaccinated with the new one-dose Janssen COVID-19 vaccine by Johnson & Johnson.Damian Dovarganes/APShow MoreShow Less
2of20FILE - This Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 file photo shows a BinaxNOW rapid COVID-19 test made by Abbott Laboratories, in Tacoma, Wash. On Wednesday, March 31, 2021, the FDA said Abbott’s BinaxNow and Quidel’s QuickVue tests can now be sold without a prescription for consumers to test themselves repeatedly at home.Ted S. Warren/APShow MoreShow Less
Man in second murder trial acquitted of killing Omaha teen
March 17, 2021
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) A man undergoing his second trial for murder in the 2016 shooting death of an Omaha teenager has been found not guilty.
A Douglas County jury on Tuesday found Otis Walker, 25, not guilty of first-degree murder and gun charges in the Nov. 26, 2016, drive-by shooting death of 16-year-old Markeise Dunn, the Omaha World-Herald reported.
Prosecutors had argued that it was Walker who pulled the trigger when a car pulled up beside Dunn, who was walking his girlfriend to a bus stop, and opened fire. Prosecutors relied on several pieces of circumstantial evidence, including the testimony of the girlfriend who identified Walker as the shooter. Investigators also found Walker had repeatedly searched online news reports about Dunn’s killing and the girlfriend s Facebook page. He also had entered a search term for “good Omaha defense attorneys, prosecutors said.
Omaha officer injured in mall shooting leaves hospital
March 17, 2021
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) An Omaha police officer who was shot in the face and head last week after responding to a shoplifting call has been released from the hospital, the Omaha Police Department said.
Police said Wednesday that 39-year-old Officer Jeffrey Wittstruck is at home recuperating, the Omaha World-Herald reported.
Wittstruck was shot last Friday during a struggle with a man suspected of shoplifting a package of T-shirts from a store in Westroads Mall. Police later arrested 21-year-old Kenya Lamont Jenkins Jr. following a high-speed chase on Interstate 80.
Jenkins is charged with first-degree assault of a police officer and other counts. He’s being held on $10 million bail.
Man suspected in shooting of officer held on $10M bail
March 16, 2021
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) A man arrested in the shooting of an Omaha police officer last week during a shoplifting call has been ordered held on $10 million bail.
Kenya Lamont Jenkins Jr. would have to post 10% of the bail, or $1 million, to be released from jail pending the outcome of the charges against him.
Jenkins is charged with first-degree assault of a police officer, use of a firearm to commit a felony and driving a vehicle to avoid arrest. Officer Jeffrey Wittstruck was called Friday afternoon to Westroads Mall after Jenkins was detained by mall security on suspicion of shoplifting a package of T-shirts. Prosecutors said in court Monday that a struggle between the officer and Jenkins ensued before Jenkins pulled a gun and shot Wittstruck four times, hitting the officer in the face and head.
Family of boy killed at Disney World urges organ donation
JOSH FUNK, Associated Press
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1of3This Oct. 2, 2015 photo provided by the Lane Thomas Foundation shows Lane Thomas Graves, in Omaha, Neb. Graves died in 2016 after an alligator attacked him at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. The Lane Thomas Foundation his parents created after his death is moving beyond the small-scale donations it has been making so far to individual families with children undergoing transplants to raise awareness nationally about the need for pediatric organ donation. (Lane Thomas Foundation via AP)APShow MoreShow Less
2of3This Feb. 24, 2021 photo provided by the Lane Thomas Foundation shows Lauressa Gillock, left, of North Platte, Nebraska, meeting with a Mississippi boy, KeVon Long, in Louisiana, who received her daughter s heart after her organs were donated. Gillock is part of a campaign the Lane Thomas Foundation organized to promote pediatric organ donation. Th