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DAYS TO THE PRIMARY
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Nebraska’s primary election is May 13.
LAST DAY TO REQUEST EARLY BALLOT
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Tuesday at 4 p.m. is the deadline to ask your county commissioner’s office to mail you an early voting ballot. In Douglas County, call 402-444-8683 or visit votedouglascounty.com. In Sarpy County, call 402-593-2167 or visit sarpy.com/election.
The Berkshire Hathaway faithful flock to Omaha, once again, and embrace Warren Buffett’s way of doing things. Full coverage of the shareholders meeting in Money
GOVERNOR ENDORSEMENT
The World-Herald makes its recommendation in the GOP race for governor. Midlands, Page 6B
OTHER COVERAGE IN MIDLANDS A recap of the governor debate and previews of legislative races.
U.S. SENATE The candidates’ stands on various issues are spelled out. Page 2A
Calling for change, differing on how to do it But the Senate hopefuls agree on exempting older Americans from revisions to entitlement programs BY JOSEPH MORTON WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
The four Republican candidates vying to be Nebraska’s next U.S. senator agree on one thing: Medicare and Social Security are going bust on their current path. The question is what to do about it. In a sign of the issue’s political sensitivity, each candidate is quick to stress that he would make no changes to the programs for those already receiving benefits or approaching retirement age. And they all reject the idea of bringing in more revenue by raising the cap on payroll taxes. But they differ on some specific proposals being discussed in Washington. For example, one way of saving money is “means testing,” or limiting the benefits given to the more affluent. Midland University President Ben Sasse said he could support some form of means testing as part of a broader package. “When the Congress has overpromised, we should make sure that the poorest and sickest among us are taken care of first,” Sasse said.
MAY 4, 2014 • SUNRISE EDITION
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NIKKO JENKINS
Master manipulator and his long night’s journey to the truth BY TODD COOPER WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Nikko Jenkins couldn’t wait. From the moment he entered a fifthfloor interrogation room at Central Police Headquarters, Jenkins’ mouth was racing. Coming up for air after one breathless rant, he told a detective: “This is
going to be a long night. When we’re here talking, it just comes out like a computer.” Over the next eight hours, Jenkins would ramble on about things relevant and irrelevant — spinning tales that were both tender and horrific, absurd and disturbed. He would brag and boast, plop on the floor and puff out his chest and, eventually, whimper and
whisper a confession to the killings of four Omahans in 10 days. For the first five hours, Jenkins didn’t blame the killings on his go-to demon, a serpent god he has been mentioning since his stay in the Tecumseh State Prison. Instead, he blamed the killings on his cousins. It was one of many examples of why
one of the state’s veteran prosecutors calls Jenkins the “biggest manipulator I’ve ever seen.” But on this night back in early September, the manipulator would become the manipulated. In time, Jenkins succumbed to a routine as old as a badge and a night stick: good cop, bad cop. The good cop: John Pankonin, a 19Story continues on Page 6
SPECIAL SECTION INSIDE TODAY
The fall and rise of a Rembrandt
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PROJECT FOR NASA
Nebraskans work on robot to do surgery in outer space BY KATE HOWARD PERRY WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Imagine a day when an explorer on Mars suffers a medical emergency, and the nearest surgeon is 35 million miles away. Returning to Earth for treatment would take months, so preparations are being made to fix medical problems in space — and University of Nebraska researchers are working on the first step to a possible solution. Three University of Nebraska-Lincoln students and a University of Nebraska Medical Center fellow went up on a roller coaster-like test flight with NASA last month. The flight gave the team up to 30 seconds at a time in low and zero gravity to see how miniature robots, designed to perform minimally invasive surgery, responded to the conditions. The experiment is part of a NASA grant to develop medical technology in line with the space See Robots: Page 2
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Rembrandt’s “Portrait of Dirck van Os” — newly reaffirmed as the work of the Dutch master — is restored and ready to go on display at the Joslyn Art Museum. Our special section inside today’s paper details the saga of the portrait’s triumphant return to public view after it had been recategorized as merely from the “School of Rembrandt” and sent to storage. Kjell Peterson, left, preparator, and Kevin Salzman, installation and design manager, hang the painting in its new home in a gallery off the fountain court. It will be available for viewing starting Tuesday.
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