Pawnee City NewsLocal news for Pawnee City, NE continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Nebraska will plant more soybeans and less corn this year- March 31, 2008 Nebraska farmers will plant less corn this year and sow nearly a third more acres in soybeans, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Nebraska farmers also will plant less hay, oats and sunflowers and already planted fewer acres last fall for winter wheat to be harvested this year. The report, which is based on a survey conducted earlier this month, said sorghum acres aren't expected to change from last year's 350,000. The Nebraska corn acres are forecast...http://www.topix.net/city/pawnee-city-ne/2008/03/nebraska-will-plant-more-soybeans-and-les... Man sentenced in Tecumseh thefts- March 31, 2008 TECUMSEH - Derek S. Breazeale will spend at least the next 12 years in prison. Breazeale, 29, of Lincoln, was convicted and sentenced in Johnson County District Court on Monday for two thefts from a Subway and the Harvest Bowl in Tecumseh. Judge Daniel Bryan sentenced Breazeale to serve 20 months to five years in prison on each of two counts of felony theft. Both of the Tecumseh businesses were broken into on Nov. 11, 2007. Breazeale was charged with destroying the businesses' front doors and...http://www.topix.net/city/pawnee-city-ne/2008/03/man-sentenced-in-tecumseh-thefts?fromrss=... WRONGFUL DEATH SUIT IN PAWNEE COUNTY SETTLED- March 31, 2008 Following 90 minute of deliberation Friday a jury found for the defendant's in a wrongful death lawsuit. Linda Hoover, Special Administrator of the Estate of Lee O. Hoover, deceased filed the civil case against Pawnee City Family Practice, the Pawnee County Memorial Hospital, Pawnee County Rural Health Clinic, Pawnee County Rural Health and Dr. Richard Jackson. The lawsuit alleged that Lee Hoover, formerly of Humboldt died as a result of an interaction between two medications prescribed for Lee.http://www.topix.net/city/pawnee-city-ne/2008/03/wrongful-death-suit-in-pawnee-county-sett... |