03.17.08 Kiss Me Blarney Stone Edition

Happy Drunken beer fest for no real reason because most are not Irish day.

Investigators are on the scene of an officer involved shooting at 31st and Larimore. Last night around ten an Omaha Police Officer was making a routine traffic stop and became involved in a fatal shooting.

Police say 17 year old Javon Reid stepped from the car and drew a weapon and pointed it at officers who shot him. It was clear if Reid got a shot off yet. There were two other known gang members in the rental car with Reid and a bag of crack cocaine was found in the vehicle.

Both officers have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.

Alcohol and speed seem to be factors in the accident that sent an 18 year old woman to the hospital over the weekend. She was ticketed for reckless driving and DUI after she was driving Northbound in the Southbound lanes of 132nd Street near California and hit a wooden power pole. She was not wearing a seat-belt and firefighters had to use the jaws of life to extract her from the car.

Authorities have released the name of the man found shot to death on the Parker Street overpass. He is 24 year old Nathan J. “Speedy” Blanks. Speedy had a criminal history though not a violent one and it seems 30th Street in this area is a bad location for any of his family members. He had an Uncle shot and killed just blocks away back in “04″ and 20 years ago he had another Uncle killed just blocks away as well.

Police are still looking for a suspect and motive.

Hot ticket this weekend is NCAA Regional action at the Qwest.

8 team headed to Omaha are:

Kansas, Portland State, UNLV, Kent State,USC,Kansas State,Wisconsin and Cal State Fullerton. Now lets see how many stupid College World Series questions and lead in’s our local media can come up with when covering this event.

Congratulations to the Jr. Lancers U-16 team. They earned a spot to Nationals over the weekend with an outstanding performance in the Central States Tournament at the Moylan Ice Plex.

A quick note to the other Youth Travel Teams as your seasons wind down. Please get any updates you want posted to your team pages to us A.S.A.P.  We are planning to start deleting any inactive pages  in the next few weeks. Thanks to all the people who kept us updated during the season.

Now not to sound like your mom but everyone take it easy out there today and don’t over indulge on the corned beef and cabbage at lunch. If your planning on going out and have one too many green beers, please call for a cab. We want you back here tomorrow reading not being written about.

More later…………………………

Bugs Manderson