(SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb.) -- The big news, of course, is the upcoming weather. Please heed all cautions as well as making sure that your emergency kits are stocked and ready to go. It is brutally cold out there this morning at just a few degrees above zero but it feels like -11. As you're waking up it should be warming up a tiny bit, but not by much. So stay warm today and thank you for listening to Panhandle Scanner News and this station.

(SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb.) -- Early this morning a runaway juvenile bulletin was issued by the Scottsbluff Police Department. "10-59, runaway juvenile Scottsbluff Marissa Marilyn Flores, white female, 5 foot 3, 115 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes, wearing red hoodies, blue jeans, white tennis shoes, piercing on the eyebrow, face tattoo on hand. Signed Scottsbluff PD 2:33 am."

(SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb.) -- Also early this morning just after midnight there was a call for an overdose 29 year old male code blue on 4th Avenue in Scottsbluff. Medics arrived on scene and determined it was a fentanyl overdose and that CPR had been administered before they'd gotten there. Nasal Narcan was administered and the patient was then alert and oriented on the way to the hospital. Great work by our first responders!

(CHADRON, Neb.) -- Trooper #171 had a traffic stop around mile marker 150 on Highway 385 with a Texas plated vehicle. Scanner traffic indicated there was 10-6 testing and soon there was a 10-46, or tow truck, on its way and one male 10-15, or under arrest, headed to Dawes County Jail.

Photo : The gummies photo used was in reference to the follow up story on the jail employee that was arrested in Falls City, Nebraska.

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