The Salina Journal
A fire in western Saline County caused the deaths of two calves Tuesday.
The Saline County Sheriff s Office said the fire was reported at 5:10 p.m. Tuesday in the 2500 block of South Reese Road.
The office said Saline County Rural Fire District No. 3 responded to the fire and found a 50-foot by 40-foot metal building engulfed in flames. The building was destroyed by the fire and in addition to the death of the two, 3-month-old calves, various tools and farm equipment were also destroyed in the flames, for a total loss of around $24,000.
The sheriff s office said the owner, John Fouard, thought the cause of the fire might be a faulty refrigerator.
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The Salina Journal
A collision involving two cars sent five people to the Salina hospital Wednesday afternoon.
The Saline County Sheriff s Office said the wreck happened at 3:50 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Old U.S. Highway 40 and Cunningham Road, just east of New Cambria.
A white, 2003 Ford Taurus, driven by a 73-year-old Abilene man, was traveling westbound on Old 40 when a blue, 2012 Chevrolet Cruze, driven by a 17-year-old Salina girl, pulled out from northbound Cunningham after stopping at the stop sign and struck the Taurus.
The Taurus had a 75-year-old woman, also from Abilene as a passenger and the Cruze had three other Salina girls, ages 12, 10 and 10 as passengers.
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Saline County, Neb. – After PETA obtained U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) documents revealing that over a two-day period, 91 pigs slowly froze to death on trucks while exposed to temperatures as low as minus 27 degrees at the Smithfield Foods slaughterhouse in Crete, the animal rights group sent a letter today to Saline County Sheriff Alan Moore requesting a criminal probe and charges under Nebraska’s Livestock Animal Welfare Act.
The USDA investigated the facility after receiving a letter from PETA, and agency officials found that
every pen inside the barn in which animals are left before slaughter contained pigs who sustained frostbite lesions as large as a foot in diameter. The documents obtained by PETA through a Freedom of Information Act request also reveal that Smithfield workers did not unload pigs for more than an hour roughly
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