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party politics or special interest
money.
One thing Combs said he would
do if elected is invest in the future
of young people. This year Con
gress passed a bill cutting student
loan money, he said.
Combs said he had a friend in
Washington, D.C., who went to
George Washington University be
cause she got a federal loan. Now,
she’s an attorney making six figures,
and in just a few years has paid back
in taxes more than three times what
she received from the government
for college, he said. Politicians
should look at loans as an invest
ment, he said.
“I’d rather see money put into
student-loan programs than new
Star Wars programs we don’t even
have the technology to make hap
pen,” Combs said.
“I’m ready to make votes for
young people.”
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YORK (AP) — The Nebraska
chapter of the American Civil Liber
ties Union is criticizing state and local
police for a surprise drug raid Wednes
day at York High School.
The Nebraska State Patrol and York
Police used drug-sniffing dogs to
search lockers and vehicles for 45 min
utes Wednesday morning as school
officials kept students inside class
rooms.
The search turned up a few mari
juana seeds, ashes and empty drug-re
lated containers, as well as one small
concealed weapon that school officials
said was neither a gun nor a knife.
School officials defended the
search, especially since a student at the
school died last year after using drugs.
“We are not in the business of has
sling kids,” principal Scott Koch said.
“The message we want to send is first
of all drugs are illegal, they are not
acceptable and they won’t be tolerated
in school.”
But Executive Director of the Ne
braska chapter of the American Civil
Liberties Union, Matt LeMieux, said
the message being sent to students is
that they have no personal rights.
“This is a classic case of where stu
dents lose their rights as soon as they
enter the doors at school,” LeMieux
said.
The courts say that before police
and school officials can search a locker
or vehicle they need reasonable suspi
cion that there is evidence of a crime
or violation of school policy, LeMieux
said.
“I highly doubt they had reasonable
suspicion that all of those students were
in violation of school policy or the
law,” he said.
Koch insisted the search was legal.
Last year, 17-y ear-old Kory Sierp
collapsed at the prom and later died
from heart failure caused by meth am
phetamine use. Community meetings
that followed the death called for a
crackdown on drug use.
Liw&Order
Barnett pleads not guilty
to 1992 Bush slaying
Sheets is still awaiting
preliminary hearing
in November.
OMAHA (AP)—One of two men
charged in the death of a 17-year-old
Omaha woman said Thursday that he
was innocent of the crime.
Adam S. Barnett pleaded not guilty
in Douglas County District Court to a
first-degree murder charge in the 1992
slaying of Kenyatta Bush.
Barnett, 21, dressed in orange jail
coveralls and sandals, had to sign a
document with his hands cuffed.
Jeremy C. Sheets, 22, also is
charged with first-degree murder and
use of a weapon. He was arrested in
Maine, where he was stationed with the
Navy. His preliminary hearing is sched
uled for Nov. 13 in Douglas County
Court.
The preliminary hearing will be the
first look at the evidence, said Douglas
County Attorney Jim Jansen.
Bush, a North High School honor
student, was reported missing Sept. 23,
1992. Her body was found 10 days
later in rural Washington County.
Jansen said prosecutors would like
to try the cases against Barnett and
Sheets at the same time. The decision
will depend on what happens in pre
trial court proceedings, he said.
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Armed Robbery
A manager at a Valentino’s To
Go, 2711 S. 48th St., was robbed
Wednesday night by a man carry
ing a revolver.
The 25-year-old manager was in
the store’s office at 10:18 when a
masked man entered, Lincoln po
lice Sgt. Ann Heermann said.
The man pulled a revolver,
forced her to the floor and de
manded money, Heermann said.
He took money bags and fled
through a back door, Heermann
said.
The manager described the man
as about 6 feet tall, weighing 180
pounds, wearing a blue jogging suit,
a ski mask and gloves.
Arrests
A 21 -year-old convenience store
clerk was arrested Wednesday as an
accomplice in a robbery that hap
pened at the store Sunday night.
Devida Jones was working the •
night Jonas Cruz allegedly robbed
T’s Fast Stop at 3291 Holdrege St.,
Lincoln police Sgt. Ann Heermann
said.
Cruz entered the store and held
a knife to Jones while ordering an
other employee to lie down,
Heermann said.
Jones then took $100 cash from
the register and gave it to Cruz, who
fled, Heermann said.
Cruz was arrested for armed
robbery and use of a knife to com
mit a felony. Jones was arrested for
accessory to a felony.
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