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Bank employees get bonuses

Nebraska-based Pinnacle Bancorp is paying a special $1,000 bonus to each full-time employee to share the benefit of the tax cut passed Wednesday by Congress.

“We feel strongly that the message should be loud and clear that this is a tax cut that will benefit all Americans," said Sid Dinsdale, chairman of Pinnacle Bancorp.

Pinnacle Bank has 1,007 employees in Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.

To benefit customers, Pinnacle Bank raised interest rates on its money market accounts.

Couple: Pot for presents

YORK (AP) — An elderly couple who was arrested in Nebraska with 60 pounds of marijuana in their truck told officers the drugs were meant to be Christmas presents.

The York News-Times reports the couple were arrested Tuesday by the York County Sheriff's Department after they were stopped for a traffic violation.

Officers found the bags of marijuana in the Toyota Tacoma driven by the 80-year-old man and 83-year-old woman. They said they were driving from California to Vermont.

The couple was being held in York County jail on suspicion of felony drug charges.