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Nebraska auditor questions police chief’s use of city funds
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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – A small-town police chief is underneath fireplace for his use of metropolis funds.
A report from the state auditor says it seems hundreds of {dollars} have been used for private use.
The town’s mayor is reserving judgment till a prison investigation is full.
The investigation began final 12 months when hundreds of {dollars} in reward playing cards have been purchased by the Oakland, Nebraska, police chief. He mentioned it was to purchase ammunition however state auditors say he bought all kinds of non-public gadgets and none of it was ammunition.
The Nebraska state auditor issued a 34-page report detailing the receipts from Oakland Police Chief Terry Poland.
In accordance with the report, he mentioned he purchased reward playing cards from Scheels sporting items, greater than $15,000 value, to make it simpler for different officers to purchase ammunition.
Each time officers have been in Omaha, about an hour drive south of Oakland, they may decide up bullets for the job. However auditors mentioned they discovered no file of ammunition being bought.
As a substitute, they raised query after query, saying what was purchased doesn’t appear to have any obvious objective for the town.
Auditors allege one of many metropolis reward card purchases was for a glass basketball backboard that price $950.
A $400 wakeboard additionally turned up on the Scheels receipts. Auditors identified {that a} wakeboard is a leisure merchandise, not one thing a police division would want.
Then there are all this stuff: the ice fishing shelter, $700, the auger $550.
Is there a sound motive these could be metropolis purchases?
Oakland’s Mayor Ted Beckner tells 6 Information that after the findings, he’s “not uncomfortable with the chief.”
He mentioned he’s ready for the outcomes of the FBI investigation earlier than deciding the following steps.
Including that it’s solely truthful to get the facet of Police Chief Terry Poland. The police chief who’s been on the pressure for numerous years stays on administrative go away till the outcomes of the investigation.
The mayor says one factor is obvious, the bookkeeping finish of the town with regards to getting detailed receipts must be higher. The investigation additionally examined questions on doable double-billing by officers who patrol Oakland and the neighborhood neighborhood Lyons.
Auditors suggest the mayors discuss with the county lawyer in regards to the payroll claims.
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The Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament field is set, and 12 teams are embarking to Omaha.
As they do, they are also dissecting their paths to a championship. This year, that path looks a little different.
Instead of a traditional double- or single-elimination bracket, the Big Ten Tournament begins with four pools of three teams. Those three teams play the rest of their pool, with the pool winner advancing to the semifinals. From there, the tournament plays out in a classic single-elimination fashion.
As for ties, as in if all teams go 1-1 in pool play, that goes to the highest seed. This makes it imperative for the seeds 5-12 to not drop a game and leave it up to the tiebreakers.
Different seeds have different days they are playing. Below is the schedule for each seed/team in this year’s tournament.
Based on the time that they play Thursday, the top seed (Oregon) plays its first game after five other teams have finished their pool play. The Ducks get extra rest going into the tournament but then play on four consecutive days.
Every game this week will be broadcast on Big Ten Network. The full schedule of games is below.
May 20 (Pool Play)
May 21 (Pool Play)
May 22 (Pool Play)
May 23 (Pool Play)
May 24 (Semifinals)
May 26 (Championship)
Follow along for results from the entire tournament with our upcoming Big Ten Tournament Central page.
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One more win.
Nebraska softball dominated Southeastern Louisiana from start to finish Saturday in the winners bracket of the Baton Rouge Regional, getting the run-rule victory in five innings,14-1. The Huskers improve to 41-13 while the Lions fall to 49-15.
NU jumped out early with a three-run homer from Hannah Camenzind in the opening frame. SLU got an RBI single from Nebraska native Cydnee Schneider in the bottom half of the frame.
After neither side could work a run in the second, Nebraska broke the game open. Bella Bacon knocked an RBI double and Camenzind scored on a wild pitch. Then, with bases loaded and two outs, Ava Kuszak launched a grand slam to cap off an seven run inning.
The Huskers kept piling on in the fourth. Jordy Bahl and Samantha Bland hit back-to-back solo home runs. Bahl’s homer was her third of the regional and tied the school record for home runs in a season..
In the circle, Bahl was again pulled after just 3.0 innings to preserve her energy for the next day. The Big Ten Player and Pitcher of the Year allowed one run on one hit, while walking two and striking out three. Camenzind pitched the final 2.0 innings, sitting down the Lions 1-2-3 in both frames.
Southeastern Louisiana will next face the winner of the elimination game between host and No. 10 national seed LSU and UConn. Nebraska will take on whichever team remains after today in the regional final Sunday at 2 p.m. CDT.
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Jordy Bahl's two-homer day powers Nebraska softball to run rule win over UConn in NCAA Regional
BATON ROUGE, La. (WOWT) – Jordy Bahl homered twice and was spotless in three innings of work in Nebraska’s 10-2 NCAA Tournament win over UConn Friday.
The victory puts Nebraska in the winner’s bracket of the Baton Rogue Regional, where they will face the winner of LSU and Southeastern Louisiana on Saturday at 12:00pm.
Bahl began the Huskers scoring, drawing a bases loaded walk that forced Bacon home from third. After an Ava Kuszak groundout scored Ava Bredwell, Olivia DiNardo cracked a two-run single to make it 4-0 Nebraska.
In the bottom of the third, Bahl crushed a 1-0 pitch over the centerfield wall for a three-run homer to break the game open at 7-0. The home run marked the Papillion native’s 20th of the season, making her the fourth ever NCAA player to have 20+ wins in the circle and 20+ home runs at the plate in the same season.
It didn’t take long for her to get her 21st. In the bottom of the fifth, Bahl cracked a solo homer that made it 8-2 Nebraska.
In the circle, Bahl struck out three over three hitless innings. Kylee Magee picked up the win for the Huskers, tossing three frames while surrendering the lone blemish to UConn in the form of a Cat Petteys two-run homer.
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