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November 21st, 2008 - 08:54 AM |
| Nebraska lawmakers voted Friday to change a controversial safe-haven law by restricting the age under which a child can be dropped off at a hospital without the parents being prosecuted. |
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November 21st, 2008 - 11:08 AM |
| Nebraska state lawmakers on Friday overhauled a law that allowed people to abandon their children of any age legally at hospitals, a senator's office confirmed. |
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November 21st, 2008 - 02:01 PM |
| Nebraska adds a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that has led to the abandonment of nearly three dozen children. |
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November 21st, 2008 - 02:45 PM |
| Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law Friday a bill adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35 children — including teenagers as old as 17 — to be abandoned at state hospitals. |
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November 21st, 2008 - 12:06 PM |
| OMAHA, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Nebraska's unique safehaven law devised to care for unwanted infants became, as written, an unwanted open invitation for all problem children, officials say. |
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November 21st, 2008 - 03:23 PM |
| Nebraska has revised its safe-haven law for unwanted children to cover infants no older than 30 days. Gov. Dave Heineman signed the measure, which the Legislature approved earlier today. It takes effect at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow. The previous version of the law, which was intended to save newborns that might otherwise have been abandoned outdoors, set no age limit. As of this week, 35 children had ... |
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November 21st, 2008 - 07:43 AM |
| The new law will allow only infants up to 30 days old to be abandoned at hospitals, closing the loophole that applied to all minors up to 18 years. Nebraska today closed a loophole in a controversial law that had allowed parents to abandon their children at hospitals. |
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November 21st, 2008 - 08:16 AM |
| Nebraska lawmakers are expected to add a 30-day age limited to safe-haven law. Six Nebraska senators will also form a task force on child drop-offs. |
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November 21st, 2008 - 07:48 AM |
| LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska lawmakers have approved adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that resulted in 35 children — including teenagers as old as 17 — being abandoned at state hospitals. |
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November 21st, 2008 - 09:13 AM |
| The Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation will be getting a new chief administrator. Bureau President Keith Olsen said Friday that Rob Robertson of Roca will be taking over in April. |
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