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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Bismarck police are warning residents that marijuana laced with a methamphetamine and fentanyl mixture may have been sold in the area.
Police say a man was treated at a hospital after smoking what he thought was marijuana. He sought emergency medical assistance after taking two hits.
Medical officials say the man tested positive for marijuana, meth and fentanyl.
Police say fentanyl is especially dangerous and can be lethal at low levels.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge ruled that a man paralyzed in a county jail cell can receive a $1 million settlement from Lancaster County, rejecting the state's claim to be compensated for the man's medical treatment.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services had sought more than half the settlement to recoup Medicaid payments for Arok Atem's medical bills, the Lincoln Journal Star reported (http://bit.ly/29O9VEd ).
Atem was arrested in April 2011 after police suspected he was drunk at a hospital, and was later found in his cell with spinal cord fractures. He is now a quadriplegic.
In his lawsuit, his attorney, Maren Chaloupka of Scottsbluff, said Atem was suicidal, acutely mentally ill and had been given no treatment or anything to eat or drink for at least 36 hours. He was denied a shower, phone call and mattress, she said.
Despite being on suicide observation, Atem lay on the floor of his cell, unable to move, for roughly 18 hours before jailers realized he needed medical attention, the lawsuit said.
Last year, Atem agreed to the $1 million settlement, which is the amount damages would have been capped under state law.
Two weeks after the settlement was reached, an attorney for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services sought to block the settlement, saying state taxpayers should be reimbursed for the medical assistance spent treating Atem's paralysis.
In rejecting the state health agency's attempt to recoup more than $500,000, Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf said Monday that the settlement expressly excluded medical expenses.
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Information from: Lincoln Journal Star, http://www.journalstar.com
- By CAELE PEMBERTON Kokomo Tribune
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KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, refused to use his unnatural athletic ability to secure a sports scholarship. Shawn Hilton, owner of Comics Cube in downtown Kokomo, has only a few requirements for his Comics Cubed Excelsior Scholarship. First, students receiving the scholarship must attend college the year after they graduate high school. Second, they cannot be awarded a sports scholarship.
The scholarship is awarded to a member of the Taylor High School graphic novel club, where students come together to discuss graphic novels, comic books, superhero movies and TV shows.
Steve Dishon, athletic director at Taylor, started the club several years ago. He wanted to help students realize that reading doesn't have to be boring. Comic books and graphic novels can be a great way to get students away from video games, and the club is a way for the students to share their interests, Dishon said.
This year, the club is teaming up with the Taylor art club, run by Dishon's wife. He said it just makes sense to bring the two clubs together because comic books are art-driven, and there were already several students in both clubs. He's hoping they'll be able to provide scholarships for a student from each club.
Hilton started the scholarship four years ago. He named it the Comics Cubed Excelsior Scholarship because Stan Lee uses the word Excelsior often. Lee is the chairman of Marvel Comics, and he helped create several comic book heroes, including Spider-Man.
Hilton only offers the scholarship to Taylor students because Taylor is the only school with a graphic novel club, he said. However, he's trying to grow interest at Central Middle School by donating comics to one of the classes. He has a fundraiser where people can pay 50 cents to pick out a kid-friendly comic book, which he will donate to Central. The money goes directly to the Taylor scholarship fund.
Students in the club meet several times a year to play games, discuss graphic novels and comic books, and enjoy each other's company, Hilton said. He regularly attends the meetings and brings board games. If they've chosen a comic or graphic novel to discuss, he'll order multiple copies and offer it to the students at a discount.
He also offers comics to home school groups and the library, he said.
Hilton is always doing some sort of charity work, Dishon said, and he rarely gets credit for it. The scholarship is just one way he's helping the community.
The winners in the previous years have been very active members of the club, Dishon said. The last two years, the students were four-year members who attended most of the fundraising events, such as First Fridays. At last week's First Friday, students painted faces to raise money. Hilton also provides them with a table at Kokomo Con, a comic convention held in the fall, where they continue to raise money for the scholarship.
Jordan Doran, who received the scholarship last year, said he's going to miss being a part of the club. He joined freshman year after Dishon brought some graphic novels to class.
The club often debated, with slideshow presentations and passionate speeches, about which comics or universes were better. Doran hasn't firmly picked a side between D.C. and Marvel, but he enjoyed how passionate people could get about it. His favorite comic series is Deadpool.
He's going to attend Purdue University. He's not sure if they have a similar club, but if they do he'll look into it, he said. But it won't be the same.
"I'm definitely going to miss that club and skipping out on lunch to go to that," he said.
Hilton accepts donations for the fund at his store. He has a bucket sitting out for donations, which he collects throughout the school year.
The scholarship is not tied to academic performance at all, Hilton said. Any graduating senior in the club can be eligible for the scholarship, as they long as they follow Peter Parker's example of straying away from sports scholarships.
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Source: Kokomo Tribune, http://bit.ly/29yZJxs
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Information from: Kokomo Tribune, http://www.ktonline.com
This is an AP-Indiana Exchange story offered by the Kokomo Tribune.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Advocates for people with disabilities have urged the federal government to require Kansas to quickly clear its backlog of Medicaid applications and to resolve problems with its application process as a condition for approving any renewal of its privatized program.
The Disability Rights Center asked the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in a letter to force Kansas to document a "realistic plan" to eliminate the backlog and to notify all applicants of their appeal rights.
Kansas Department for Health and Environment disclosed last month that the backlog had been undercounted by thousands of applications. The number of unprocessed applications stood at about 3,500 people until the state acknowledged the actual figure was more than 15,000.
KDHE has battling the backlog since switching to a new computerized system to process applications.
"Ongoing delays risk depriving applicants of necessary medical care through no fault of their own," according to the letter written by Rocky Nichols, executive director of the Disability Rights Center.
Angela de Rocha, spokeswoman for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services told The Topeka Capital Journal (http://bit.ly/29O6M7lP ) the state is not required to inform people of their right to a hearing, but does so anyway if an application takes longer than 45 days to process.
"Our current Medicaid application includes the information about the right to a fair hearing and our notice of action model has the fair hearing right advisory as a required component," she said. "So the state believes it complies with the above regulatory standards."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge has rejected an effort by Ohio's largest online charter school to block the state's audit of its attendance that the school says could affect millions of dollars it gets in state funding.
A Franklin County Common Pleas judge in Columbus on Monday denied the request by the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, or ECOT, to block the audit that began Monday.
A preliminary state review raised questions about ECOT's attendance figures, which help determine a school's funding. ECOT students work on computers instead of in actual classrooms.
The school has sued to prevent the state Department of Education from forcing it to provide records of when students logged in.
An ECOT spokesman says Monday's ruling doesn't impact the overall case, which continues challenging alleged rule changes by the department.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus police who dealt with 10 heroin overdoses within nine hours say a suspect was arrested in connection with at least one case.
The department says 10 people overdosed Sunday at eight locations, and two of them died. Responders tried to help the victims by administering the overdose antidote naloxone.
Police allege the suspect arrested Monday sold heroin laced with the potent painkiller fentanyl. Thirty-six-year-old Columbus resident Rayshon LaCarlos Alexander is charged with corrupting another with drugs.
A judge ordered him held without bail Tuesday. Court records list no attorney for him.
The overdose spike in Columbus came days after emergency personnel in Akron reported at least 25 suspected overdoses over three days, including four deaths. Increased opiate overdoses have been a problem elsewhere in Ohio, too.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two Omaha men who were formerly rival gang members have joined together to show their commitment against violence at a local Black Lives Matter protest.
At the protest Friday, Travis Bennett, a former Bloods gang member, gripped a red bandanna, the Omaha World-Herald (http://bit.ly/29NrVyk ) reported. Markail Channel, a former Crips gang member, held the blue bandanna. The men tied the garments together as a sign of harmony.
"The main message we're trying to send out is peace," Channel said. "Imagine what we can accomplish as one."
Bennett and Channel were on the brink of fighting five years ago when their Millard South High School principal made them resolve their conflict through dialogue. The men now call themselves brothers.
Multiple photos of the men emerged on social media, two of which have been liked or shared tens of thousands of times.
"We did not think we were going to get so much love like that," Bennett, said of the photos. "We're tired of all the violence. There's two things that come with that (gang) lifestyle: prison or the grave."
Omaha Police Lt. Ken Kanger of the department's gang unit also took a photo with the men.
"The biggest thing out of that protest was solidarity, and to address all levels of violence," Kanger said.
Kanger said he's willing to talk to any gang member who wants advice, help or support. The department also employs two gang specialists if people feel more comfortable talking to them instead of an officer. He said Bennett and Channel can help the cause, too.
"On the streets they can convince other individuals to communicate with me and the Police Department to eradicate some of the violence," Kanger said. "This is more than just a picture, this is something that really needs to be considered in the community to make a commitment against violence."
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Information from: Omaha World-Herald, http://www.omaha.com
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Rapid City man arrested in February for driving drunk twice in a span of about three hours will avoid serving time behind bars.
The Rapid City Journal (http://bit.ly/29JZKlv) reports that Judge Jeff Davis on Monday gave 37-year-old James Buchholz suspended sentences of 60 days in jail and four years in prison.
Officers first arrested Buchholz after a hit-and-run incident involving his pickup truck. He was jailed but bonded out, and authorities say officers later found him sleeping in the driver's seat of another pickup truck pulled to the side of a road.
Buchholz says he's an alcoholic and has undergone treatment. His defense attorney says Buchholz has found out that he has a liver condition.
The judge is requiring him to participate in South Dakota's 24-7 sobriety program, among other consequences.
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Information from: Rapid City Journal, http://www.rapidcityjournal.com
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police are investigating an officer who said in a Facebook post that the Black Lives Matter movement is racist and is against white officers.
Officer Bryan Kulhanek also said the movement that arose after police shootings of blacks was not a pro-black group.
Screenshots of his post have been circulating on social media sites, prompting a Twitter campaign calling for his firing. By Sunday evening his site was blocked from public view.
The Omaha department said Monday that Kulhanek "had posted potentially inappropriate content" and had been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation. The city's policy on social media says employees should assume that postings will reflect on the city "and thus should conduct themselves accordingly."
Associated Press efforts to reach Kulhanek were unsuccessful on Tuesday.
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DETROIT (AP) — A black Detroit police supervisor has been reassigned and placed on restricted duty after posting controversial Facebook comments.
Police Chief James Craig didn't disclose details, but he described the remarks as "misguided" and the result of "bad judgment."
The supervisor's name wasn't released. Craig announced the action Monday night, hours after talking to reporters about Facebook comments posted by a white detective, who called the Black Lives Matter movement "racists" and "terrorists."
Nate Weekley has been demoted while Detroit police conduct an internal investigation.
Craig says he'll take "prompt action" if social media posts contradict the mission of the department, no matter the person's race.
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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A former University of North Dakota medical department chairman was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison on child pornography charges.
Robert Beattie, 36, is accused of having about 3,200 images and 100 videos of child pornography on multiple media devices, some of which depicted what investigators called "sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence." Authorities say the IP address used to trade child porn was assigned to Beattie's office.
U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson also ordered Beattie to pay $10,000 to victims in the case and serve 10 years of probation when he is released from prison.
"This lengthy sentence should serve as a warning about the consequences facing those involved in downloading child pornography," said Alex Khu, special agent in charge of Homeland Security investigations. "Every time these images and videos are viewed, the innocent victims depicted in them are violated again."
Beattie pleaded guilty earlier to one count of receipt and distribution of materials containing child pornography, and one count of possession of materials.
Beattie was the chairman of UND's Family and Community Medicine Department. He resigned from the job last fall, after the school had placed him on administrative leave.
Defense attorney Peter Welte did not immediately respond to an email message seeking comment. Welte said in an earlier sentencing memorandum that the crime was out of character for Beattie and he has already suffered.
"In the past year, Mr. Beattie has lost all that is dear to him, so punishment has already been meted out beyond that contemplated by the justice system," Welte wrote.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Bismarck police are warning residents that marijuana laced with a methamphetamine and fentanyl mixture may have been sold in the area.
Police say a man was treated at a hospital after smoking what he thought was marijuana. He sought emergency medical assistance after taking two hits.
Medical officials say the man tested positive for marijuana, meth and fentanyl.
Police say fentanyl is especially dangerous and can be lethal at low levels.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge ruled that a man paralyzed in a county jail cell can receive a $1 million settlement from Lancaster County, rejecting the state's claim to be compensated for the man's medical treatment.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services had sought more than half the settlement to recoup Medicaid payments for Arok Atem's medical bills, the Lincoln Journal Star reported (http://bit.ly/29O9VEd ).
Atem was arrested in April 2011 after police suspected he was drunk at a hospital, and was later found in his cell with spinal cord fractures. He is now a quadriplegic.
In his lawsuit, his attorney, Maren Chaloupka of Scottsbluff, said Atem was suicidal, acutely mentally ill and had been given no treatment or anything to eat or drink for at least 36 hours. He was denied a shower, phone call and mattress, she said.
Despite being on suicide observation, Atem lay on the floor of his cell, unable to move, for roughly 18 hours before jailers realized he needed medical attention, the lawsuit said.
Last year, Atem agreed to the $1 million settlement, which is the amount damages would have been capped under state law.
Two weeks after the settlement was reached, an attorney for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services sought to block the settlement, saying state taxpayers should be reimbursed for the medical assistance spent treating Atem's paralysis.
In rejecting the state health agency's attempt to recoup more than $500,000, Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf said Monday that the settlement expressly excluded medical expenses.
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Information from: Lincoln Journal Star, http://www.journalstar.com
- By CAELE PEMBERTON Kokomo Tribune
KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, refused to use his unnatural athletic ability to secure a sports scholarship. Shawn Hilton, owner of Comics Cube in downtown Kokomo, has only a few requirements for his Comics Cubed Excelsior Scholarship. First, students receiving the scholarship must attend college the year after they graduate high school. Second, they cannot be awarded a sports scholarship.
The scholarship is awarded to a member of the Taylor High School graphic novel club, where students come together to discuss graphic novels, comic books, superhero movies and TV shows.
Steve Dishon, athletic director at Taylor, started the club several years ago. He wanted to help students realize that reading doesn't have to be boring. Comic books and graphic novels can be a great way to get students away from video games, and the club is a way for the students to share their interests, Dishon said.
This year, the club is teaming up with the Taylor art club, run by Dishon's wife. He said it just makes sense to bring the two clubs together because comic books are art-driven, and there were already several students in both clubs. He's hoping they'll be able to provide scholarships for a student from each club.
Hilton started the scholarship four years ago. He named it the Comics Cubed Excelsior Scholarship because Stan Lee uses the word Excelsior often. Lee is the chairman of Marvel Comics, and he helped create several comic book heroes, including Spider-Man.
Hilton only offers the scholarship to Taylor students because Taylor is the only school with a graphic novel club, he said. However, he's trying to grow interest at Central Middle School by donating comics to one of the classes. He has a fundraiser where people can pay 50 cents to pick out a kid-friendly comic book, which he will donate to Central. The money goes directly to the Taylor scholarship fund.
Students in the club meet several times a year to play games, discuss graphic novels and comic books, and enjoy each other's company, Hilton said. He regularly attends the meetings and brings board games. If they've chosen a comic or graphic novel to discuss, he'll order multiple copies and offer it to the students at a discount.
He also offers comics to home school groups and the library, he said.
Hilton is always doing some sort of charity work, Dishon said, and he rarely gets credit for it. The scholarship is just one way he's helping the community.
The winners in the previous years have been very active members of the club, Dishon said. The last two years, the students were four-year members who attended most of the fundraising events, such as First Fridays. At last week's First Friday, students painted faces to raise money. Hilton also provides them with a table at Kokomo Con, a comic convention held in the fall, where they continue to raise money for the scholarship.
Jordan Doran, who received the scholarship last year, said he's going to miss being a part of the club. He joined freshman year after Dishon brought some graphic novels to class.
The club often debated, with slideshow presentations and passionate speeches, about which comics or universes were better. Doran hasn't firmly picked a side between D.C. and Marvel, but he enjoyed how passionate people could get about it. His favorite comic series is Deadpool.
He's going to attend Purdue University. He's not sure if they have a similar club, but if they do he'll look into it, he said. But it won't be the same.
"I'm definitely going to miss that club and skipping out on lunch to go to that," he said.
Hilton accepts donations for the fund at his store. He has a bucket sitting out for donations, which he collects throughout the school year.
The scholarship is not tied to academic performance at all, Hilton said. Any graduating senior in the club can be eligible for the scholarship, as they long as they follow Peter Parker's example of straying away from sports scholarships.
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Source: Kokomo Tribune, http://bit.ly/29yZJxs
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Information from: Kokomo Tribune, http://www.ktonline.com
This is an AP-Indiana Exchange story offered by the Kokomo Tribune.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Advocates for people with disabilities have urged the federal government to require Kansas to quickly clear its backlog of Medicaid applications and to resolve problems with its application process as a condition for approving any renewal of its privatized program.
The Disability Rights Center asked the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in a letter to force Kansas to document a "realistic plan" to eliminate the backlog and to notify all applicants of their appeal rights.
Kansas Department for Health and Environment disclosed last month that the backlog had been undercounted by thousands of applications. The number of unprocessed applications stood at about 3,500 people until the state acknowledged the actual figure was more than 15,000.
KDHE has battling the backlog since switching to a new computerized system to process applications.
"Ongoing delays risk depriving applicants of necessary medical care through no fault of their own," according to the letter written by Rocky Nichols, executive director of the Disability Rights Center.
Angela de Rocha, spokeswoman for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services told The Topeka Capital Journal (http://bit.ly/29O6M7lP ) the state is not required to inform people of their right to a hearing, but does so anyway if an application takes longer than 45 days to process.
"Our current Medicaid application includes the information about the right to a fair hearing and our notice of action model has the fair hearing right advisory as a required component," she said. "So the state believes it complies with the above regulatory standards."
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge has rejected an effort by Ohio's largest online charter school to block the state's audit of its attendance that the school says could affect millions of dollars it gets in state funding.
A Franklin County Common Pleas judge in Columbus on Monday denied the request by the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, or ECOT, to block the audit that began Monday.
A preliminary state review raised questions about ECOT's attendance figures, which help determine a school's funding. ECOT students work on computers instead of in actual classrooms.
The school has sued to prevent the state Department of Education from forcing it to provide records of when students logged in.
An ECOT spokesman says Monday's ruling doesn't impact the overall case, which continues challenging alleged rule changes by the department.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus police who dealt with 10 heroin overdoses within nine hours say a suspect was arrested in connection with at least one case.
The department says 10 people overdosed Sunday at eight locations, and two of them died. Responders tried to help the victims by administering the overdose antidote naloxone.
Police allege the suspect arrested Monday sold heroin laced with the potent painkiller fentanyl. Thirty-six-year-old Columbus resident Rayshon LaCarlos Alexander is charged with corrupting another with drugs.
A judge ordered him held without bail Tuesday. Court records list no attorney for him.
The overdose spike in Columbus came days after emergency personnel in Akron reported at least 25 suspected overdoses over three days, including four deaths. Increased opiate overdoses have been a problem elsewhere in Ohio, too.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two Omaha men who were formerly rival gang members have joined together to show their commitment against violence at a local Black Lives Matter protest.
At the protest Friday, Travis Bennett, a former Bloods gang member, gripped a red bandanna, the Omaha World-Herald (http://bit.ly/29NrVyk ) reported. Markail Channel, a former Crips gang member, held the blue bandanna. The men tied the garments together as a sign of harmony.
"The main message we're trying to send out is peace," Channel said. "Imagine what we can accomplish as one."
Bennett and Channel were on the brink of fighting five years ago when their Millard South High School principal made them resolve their conflict through dialogue. The men now call themselves brothers.
Multiple photos of the men emerged on social media, two of which have been liked or shared tens of thousands of times.
"We did not think we were going to get so much love like that," Bennett, said of the photos. "We're tired of all the violence. There's two things that come with that (gang) lifestyle: prison or the grave."
Omaha Police Lt. Ken Kanger of the department's gang unit also took a photo with the men.
"The biggest thing out of that protest was solidarity, and to address all levels of violence," Kanger said.
Kanger said he's willing to talk to any gang member who wants advice, help or support. The department also employs two gang specialists if people feel more comfortable talking to them instead of an officer. He said Bennett and Channel can help the cause, too.
"On the streets they can convince other individuals to communicate with me and the Police Department to eradicate some of the violence," Kanger said. "This is more than just a picture, this is something that really needs to be considered in the community to make a commitment against violence."
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Information from: Omaha World-Herald, http://www.omaha.com
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Rapid City man arrested in February for driving drunk twice in a span of about three hours will avoid serving time behind bars.
The Rapid City Journal (http://bit.ly/29JZKlv) reports that Judge Jeff Davis on Monday gave 37-year-old James Buchholz suspended sentences of 60 days in jail and four years in prison.
Officers first arrested Buchholz after a hit-and-run incident involving his pickup truck. He was jailed but bonded out, and authorities say officers later found him sleeping in the driver's seat of another pickup truck pulled to the side of a road.
Buchholz says he's an alcoholic and has undergone treatment. His defense attorney says Buchholz has found out that he has a liver condition.
The judge is requiring him to participate in South Dakota's 24-7 sobriety program, among other consequences.
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Information from: Rapid City Journal, http://www.rapidcityjournal.com
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police are investigating an officer who said in a Facebook post that the Black Lives Matter movement is racist and is against white officers.
Officer Bryan Kulhanek also said the movement that arose after police shootings of blacks was not a pro-black group.
Screenshots of his post have been circulating on social media sites, prompting a Twitter campaign calling for his firing. By Sunday evening his site was blocked from public view.
The Omaha department said Monday that Kulhanek "had posted potentially inappropriate content" and had been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation. The city's policy on social media says employees should assume that postings will reflect on the city "and thus should conduct themselves accordingly."
Associated Press efforts to reach Kulhanek were unsuccessful on Tuesday.
DETROIT (AP) — A black Detroit police supervisor has been reassigned and placed on restricted duty after posting controversial Facebook comments.
Police Chief James Craig didn't disclose details, but he described the remarks as "misguided" and the result of "bad judgment."
The supervisor's name wasn't released. Craig announced the action Monday night, hours after talking to reporters about Facebook comments posted by a white detective, who called the Black Lives Matter movement "racists" and "terrorists."
Nate Weekley has been demoted while Detroit police conduct an internal investigation.
Craig says he'll take "prompt action" if social media posts contradict the mission of the department, no matter the person's race.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A former University of North Dakota medical department chairman was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison on child pornography charges.
Robert Beattie, 36, is accused of having about 3,200 images and 100 videos of child pornography on multiple media devices, some of which depicted what investigators called "sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence." Authorities say the IP address used to trade child porn was assigned to Beattie's office.
U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson also ordered Beattie to pay $10,000 to victims in the case and serve 10 years of probation when he is released from prison.
"This lengthy sentence should serve as a warning about the consequences facing those involved in downloading child pornography," said Alex Khu, special agent in charge of Homeland Security investigations. "Every time these images and videos are viewed, the innocent victims depicted in them are violated again."
Beattie pleaded guilty earlier to one count of receipt and distribution of materials containing child pornography, and one count of possession of materials.
Beattie was the chairman of UND's Family and Community Medicine Department. He resigned from the job last fall, after the school had placed him on administrative leave.
Defense attorney Peter Welte did not immediately respond to an email message seeking comment. Welte said in an earlier sentencing memorandum that the crime was out of character for Beattie and he has already suffered.
"In the past year, Mr. Beattie has lost all that is dear to him, so punishment has already been meted out beyond that contemplated by the justice system," Welte wrote.
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