A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for northern Mills and southwestern Fremont counties in Iowa and Cass, eastern Sarpy and eastern Otoe counties in Nebraska until 3:45 p.m. Sunday. A tornado watch is in effect until 10 p.m. Sunday for southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa, including Omaha, Council Bluffs and Lincoln.
A former police officer in southeast Nebraska faces sentencing March 5 after making a plea deal in a crash death case.
Thirty-six-year-old Steven Darveau Jr., of Falls City, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vehicular homicide after prosecutors lowered the felony manslaughter charge.
Prosecutors say that on Aug. 5, 2011, Darveau made a left turn in front of a motorcycle at the intersection of U.S. Highway 73 and South 703 Loop, three miles south of Falls City.
The motorcyclist died at the scene. He was identified as 64-year-old Edward Packard, of Cleves, Ohio.
Darveau had worked as a police officer for the Sac and Fox Nation in northern Kansas and as a Falls City police officer before that.
