State Fair computer hard drives wiped clean

The state fair board held a difficult meeting Friday. The meeting began with the election of officers in which Dawn Caldwell was elected as an officer.

The executive director of the Nebraska State Fair said work to authenticate payments to hundreds of vendors is being hampered because the computer hard drives of two former financial officers were wiped clean without permission.

Lori Cox, executive director, told the state fair board at a meeting in Lincoln she and her staff have been attempting to verify payments but it has been difficult because the hard drives of both the former chief financ...