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Today, mostly sunny. Patchy frost early in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to the east 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Tonight, not as cool. Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Friday, breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. ... SYRACUSE (AP) �” The Otoe County sheriff said a 27-year-old Syracuse man was in stable condition at a hospital after his capture ended a 4 1/2-hour standoff inside a downtown pharmacy. In a news release Wednesday, Sheriff James Gress said any charges that result from the incident will be determined by the county attorney and that the investigation was continuing. A special prosecutor was appointed Wednesday to handle the case because an attorney in the Otoe County prosecutor’s office is married to the pharmacist who was working when the gunman entered. Tecumseh attorney Steve Mercure, who used to be the Johnson County Attorney, will prosecute the case. Charges are expected to be filed by Thursday.

Authorities gave this account of what happened Tuesday afternoon: The man walked into the Town & Country Pharmacy around 3:30 p.m., brandishing what looked like a semiautomatic pistol and demanding drugs. The five people in the store left safely. Gress’ deputies soon responded, set up a perimeter and called for aid from the Nebraska State Patrol. The man called the county 911 center, and dispatchers said he spoke slowly, in a slur. He didn’t hang up but did quit talking. The dispatchers could hear him moving about the store. The last conversation with him took place about 5:30 p.m. Around 7:40 p.m., a State Patrol bomb robot rolled inside the pharmacy. Its surveillance camera showed the man was face-down on the floor, unresponsive, behind the pharmacy counter.

SWAT team members soon moved in and took him into custody. He was then taken to a hospital. ... NEW YORK (AP) �” In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure. As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure �” the “1” in $10 trillion. It’s marking the federal government’s current debt at about $10.2 trillion. The Durst Organization says it plans to update the sign next year by adding two digits. That will make it capable of tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars. The late Manhattan real estate developer Seymour Durst put the sign up in 1989 to call attention to what was then a $2.7 trillion debt.