What you missed last week in notable Omaha crimes and court cases
Last week's local crime and court updates from The World-Herald.
(7) updates to this series since Updated
The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a lower court鈥檚 ruling to dismiss defamation and other claims for a Catholic priest accused of sexual misconduct against the Archdiocese of Omaha on Friday.
A new lawsuit filed in Missouri accuses Omaha Archbishop George Lucas of sexually abusing a teen-aged seminarian in St. Louis in the late 1980s, an allegation that Lucas denies.
Omaha's new $27 million juvenile detention center sits empty nearly a year after the controversial project's completition. From the Flatwater Free Press
An Omaha man was sentenced on Wednesday to 16 months in federal prison for speeding past security at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue and driving around the base with a gun in his vehicle in 2022.聽
Multiple residents of a midtown Omaha apartment building were forced to evacuate after a fire broke out early Tuesday morning.
An Omaha man pleaded no contest and was found guilty of felony motor vehicle homicide last week in connection with a crash that ejected and killed a passenger in his truck as he attempted to flee from a traffic stop.聽
An Omaha man fatally shot another man near Carter Lake in May before setting fire to the stolen car used in the shooting, according to testimony Monday from an Omaha police detective.聽聽