A trial has been scheduled for a midwife who tried unsuccessfully to deliver a child at an Omaha home.

Authorities have found the body of a missing woman in a western Nebraska ravine, next to her vehicle.

Authorities say a man burned in a fire at a northwest Iowa hog confinement has died.

Authorities say a man died after his vehicle ran off a Kearney County road and flipped.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is leading a trade mission to Germany to promote Nebraska agricultural products and reinforce the state's connections with German companies.

The Keystone pipeline has been restarted nearly two weeks after it leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons (1.4 million liters) of oil in North Dakota.

The Nebraska State Board of Education has approved new social studies standards aimed at encouraging students to look at history from multiple perspectives, including those of religious, racial and ethnic groups, women,...

Authorities say a South Dakota man died after collision on Interstate 80 in south-central Nebraska.

Former President Jimmy Carter can still draw a crowd, and he does each time he teaches Sunday school in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.

Snow and bitter cold is expected across much of Nebraska and Iowa at the start of the work week.

Nebraska's rural areas are struggling with a shortage of high-speed internet, and consumers who live there are likely paying more for service than their urban counterparts.

Two free forums have been scheduled to hear from people with disabilities, their families and their caregivers about their experiences with emergencies or disaster situations.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission plans to sample deer carcasses for chronic wasting disease during the coming firearm season, Nov. 16-24.

Two U.S. Air Force airmen helped a family as their house burned in western Nebraska.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the convictions and the up to 200-year prison sentence for an Omaha serial rapist.

Nebraska wildlife officials are urging owners of small pets - even those in cities - to be vigilant in protecting them from coyotes.

Police say about 75 headstones have been toppled and more than $50,000 in damage caused at a Jewish cemetery in Omaha.

Nebraska conservation officers are searching for a man who fell out of a boat on a central Nebraska lake.

Authorities say a 30-year-old Minnesota man was arrested after Nebraska state troopers found hundreds of packages of THC products in his car.

A Lincoln woman who'd settled allegations that she'd cheated customers of her clothing businesses has been given jail time and probation on tax charges.

Lancaster County commissioners won't approve construction of a 380,000-chicken farm that would have supplied birds to the Fremont processing plant for Costco.

A woman accused of being an accessory to the 2017 slaying of a Hastings man has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.

Native American football is enjoying a rebirth in South Dakota thanks to a new league formed by smaller schools this fall.

A northeast Kansas man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 4-year-old granddaughter.

Authorities say two students on a Lincoln school bus and five people in a car were sent to a hospital after a collision.

Officials have announced plans to build a flexible music venue in downtown Omaha.

Bass Pro Shops says nearly 120 jobs at its Cabela's operation in Sidney will be relocated to Bass Pro Shops' headquarters in Springfield, Missouri.

Nebraska officials plan to cut staff at one state-run home for juvenile offenders while adding to its workforce at two other facilities.

Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium has announced the names of its newest additions, two snow leopard cubs.

Authorities say an 86-year-old driver died at a South Dakota hospital after a collision in northeast Nebraska.

Police say officers arrested an Illinois man after finding marijuana hidden in his minivan along Interstate 80 in Nebraska.

Federal regulators have ordered the Keystone pipeline to remain shut down until its Canadian owner takes corrective action aimed at determining the cause of a breach that leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons (1.4 million...

Speakers at a public hearing have criticized a proposal that could lead to the firing of elected officials in an Omaha suburb for leaking information from closed meetings.

A Scottsbluff man accused of having sex with a 12-year-old and then blackmailing her into performing for pornographic videos has taken a plea deal.

An Iowa woman charged in the hit-and-run fatal crash that killed a pedestrian in northeastern Nebraska is set to stand trial in the case.

U.S Sen. Lindsey Graham is set to speak at a Nebraska Republican Party weekend fundraiser.

The Nebraska Army National Guard has established a new infantry battalion - an outfit that a general says could help recruitment.

An Omaha man has been imprisoned for the crash deaths of a woman and her 15-year-old stepdaughter in southeast Nebraska's Otoe County.

Authorities say a driver died after his pickup truck crashed on the west side of North Platte.

Police say a woman died after being struck by a car in Norfolk.

Authorities say a woman died at a hospital after her minivan rammed the rear of a trailer in Dawson County.

A jury is scheduled to resume working Monday on a verdict following the trial of a man accused of murder in Hastings.

A Minnesota college student says Krispy Kreme has told him to stop making doughnut runs to Iowa.

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A ballot campaign seeking to tighten the cap on how much interest payday lenders can charge in Nebraska has gotten a major boost from a national donor, increasing the odds that it will succeed in placing the issue on the...

Police say a man has died in a two-vehicle crash on an east Lincoln street.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the removal of four Superfund sites in Nebraska and Iowa from their national priorities list.

The Salvation Army's annual Tree of Lights campaign is set to get underway in the Omaha area next week with the annual lighting of metal Christmas trees in front of American National Bank branches in central Omaha and...

Residents in Nebraska and Iowa are being reminded to set their clocks back an hour before going to bed Saturday.

Those looking to tube or paddle on the Elkhorn River in eastern Nebraska are out of luck until next years.

A Papillion city councilman charged with a misdemeanor count of negligent child abuse has pleaded not guilty and asked for a trial.

A Nebraska man has been sentenced for his involvement in a conspiracy targeting a potential drug trafficking witness in Iowa.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of an Omaha man who argued that the DNA analysis used to convict him was unreliable and should not have been allowed at this trial.

A January trial has been scheduled for a man accused of killing another man who officers found in a downtown Lexington parking lot.

A former superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol wants to carry a concealed firearm and is suing the patrol to get it.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum wants the owner of the Keystone pipeline to review its inspection and monitoring of the line after it leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons (1.4 million liters) in the northeastern part of the...

A new report says an October survey of business supply managers suggests a bump occurred in economic growth for nine Midwest and Plains states.

A Lincoln attorney has been accused of stealing money from a developmentally disabled woman for whom she'd been appointed guardian.

Police say a woman and toddler were found in pools of blood in an Omaha apartment after both were cut, and a man who jumped from the apartment's third-story window was later arrested.

Federal safety regulators have cited a Maine company for the workplace death of an employee in northern Nebraska.

A February trial has been scheduled for a Grand Island man accused of rape in Kearney.

A judge says a man who authorities say killed six members of a Nebraska family more than 40 years ago will remain in state care.

The Nebraska State Patrol says troopers have seized 91 pounds of marijuana found in a sport utility vehicle during a traffic stop on Interstate 80 near the western Nebraska town of Maxwell.

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State prosecutors have filed child sexual assault charges against a former day care worker in Lincoln already facing federal child pornography charges.

A 67-year-old California man has been imprisoned in Nebraska for possessing hundreds of pounds of marijuana.