A Nebraska theater troupe got scrooged by a bus crash that led to the cancellation of its national tour of “A Christmas Carol.” Now performers are singing a different tune - they just want to be home for Christmas. The...

Authorities say a man armed with an ax and crowbar was arrested after making threats at a city office in southeast Nebraska. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday that a city of Fairbury employee...

Officials say at least six inmates who became ill last month probably ate something they shouldn't have at a Lincoln prison and became infected by salmonella. The Lincoln Correctional Center prisoners are recovering...

Two former University of Nebraska football players accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old fellow student are set to be released from jail after a judge allowed them to post bond, and attorneys for both men say they...

Fire has destroyed a historic church near the central Nebraska city of Shelton. The fire at the Zion Lutheran Church was reported just after 7 a.m. Wednesday. Firefighters who arrived minutes later found the structure was...

Authorities say a Nebraska man has been arrested in a cold-case killing of a Salt Lake City woman in her apartment. The South Sioux City Police Department said 55-year-old Bryan Reed awaits extradition to face Utah charges...

This year’s record rainfall and devastating flooding are forcing tough decisions about the future of farming in in the face of climate change. Farmers who lost billions of dollars in grain, livestock and equipment must...

Authorities say a military K-9 detected a suspicious package Wednesday morning at an Air Force base near Omaha. The U.S. Air Force said in a news release that the dog alerted security personnel to the package inside a...

The school board has scheduled a special election Feb. 11 so voters can decide whether to issue $290 million in bonds to build two more high schools, an elementary and other facilities.The board voted unanimously Tuesday...

Maine State Police say a charter bus with 35 people on board overturned on Interstate 95 after the driver fell asleep, and four passengers suffered minor injuries. Police say the bus drifted off the road late Tuesday,...

A trial has been delayed again for a woman who survived a central Nebraska collision that killed three passengers in the car she was driving. Dawson County District Court records say Angelique Kampmann has pleaded not...

Two Virginia men will serve one year of probation and pay $20,000 each in fines and restitution for illegally shooting wildlife in Nebraska. Prosecutors announced that 39-year-old Gregg Davis, of Ruckersville, Virginia,...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - University of Illinois athletic officials say football fans have been thirstier than expected. The News-Gazette reports Memorial Stadium beer sales totaled roughly $488,000 at home games. When school...

Nebraska's attorney general is appealing a county judge's decision to dismiss misdemeanor charges against a local prosecutor. The attorney general's office recently asked a district court to review the case...

A southeast Nebraska man accused of shooting two brothers - one fatally - has taken a plea deal in another case.

An 18-year-old has been imprisoned for his role in robbing a pharmacy in an Omaha suburb. Prosecutors said Monday that Otis Brown III has been given eight years and a day in prison and must serve five years of supervised...

Dozens of bronze headstone flower vases have been stolen from a cemetery in Lincoln. Police say each vase was valued at $50, so the loss is estimated at $2,000. The thefts were reported Saturday at Lincoln Memorial Park....

SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Authorities have arrested a Nebraska man who allegedly drove the wrong-way on Interstate 29 in Iowa and crashed into a sports utility vehicle. Authorities say 32-year-old Nickolas Kevin Diediker, of...

HASTINGS, Neb. - A Nebraska school district is asking drivers to obey state traffic laws after getting reports that some drivers aren't stopping for school buses with their stop sign arms extended. The Hastings Tribune...

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. - The president of Nebraska's public-school teachers' union says she's hearing concerns from rural schools about a lack of mental health services and state equalization aid. The Star-Herald in...

A 44-year-old Omaha woman is critically injured after she was struck by a vehicle while crossing a street in midtown Omaha. Omaha Police said Mandy Embury was injured Saturday night in a hit-and-run crash. The incident...

Officials say one person has been injured in a helicopter crash at the Millard Airport in Omaha. Television station KETV reports that the crash happened just before 2 p.m. Saturday as the helicopter was trying to land....

Authorities say a Scottsbluff woman who was injured last month along with her 6-year-old son in a crash in western Nebraska has died. The Scottsbluff Star-Herald reports that 28-year-old Holly Heath died at Regional West...

An Omaha man charged in the death of another man has been ordered held without bail. The Omaha World-Herald reports that order came Friday against 36-year-old Louis French Jr., who is charged with first-degree murder and a...

An eastern Nebraska fireworks company has been sentenced to three years’ probation and ordered to pay a $35,000 fine for falsifying work safety records. U.S. Attorney for Nebraska Joe Kelly announced that Wild Willy’s...

Omaha police have charged a man with concealing the death of his mother, whose body was found in a bedroom months after her death. Police on Thursday arrested 47-year-old Shawn P. Snoza on a misdemeanor charge of...

The University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medicine are in the early planning stages of developing a new state-of-the-art research and patient care facility. Officials said at a news conference Thursday that he...

A pair from Minnesota face felony drugs charges after a traffic stop in Nebraska turned up more than 2 pounds (0.91 kilograms) of marijuana, several packages of THC concentrate wax, vape pen cartridges and concentrated...

A western Nebraska communications provider is scrambling to restore service after a wintery weekend storm toppled three of the company’s service towers in the Nebraska Panhandle. The Scottsbluff Star Herald reports that...

The amount of water being released into the lower Missouri River is being reduced ahead of winter, so flooded areas along the river will see some relief. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the amount of water being...

The Justice Department has unsealed charges against two Russian men in what authorities say is one of the worst computer hacking and bank fraud schemes of the past decade. In a related move, the Treasury Department has...

Omaha police say they're searching for a pair of suspects in the shooting death of a 33-year-old man in the city’s Little Italy neighborhood south of downtown. Officers were called to the area around 2:40 p.m....

Police in Omaha say four people have been arrested in the August death of a man. The case began on Aug. 6, when officers were called to an apartment complex in the Radial Hills neighborhood north of midtown Omaha. There,...

Officials on Thursday confirmed a career military man and former superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy as the president of the University of Nebraska system. The university Board of Regents confirmed Walter “Ted” Carter...

A hepatitis A outbreak tied to blackberries sold in Fresh Thyme grocery stores now includes 16 confirmed cases in six states.

A Bennet volunteer firefighter is recovering after being injured while responding to a car fire east of Lincoln.

The city of Papillion is using signs to try to slow traffic at a downtown intersection where a 10-year-old girl was fatally hit by a car earlier this year.

As health officials scrutinize marijuana vaping, it’s increasingly on law enforcement’s radar, too.

Omaha police are investigating the death of a man found in a yard as a homicide.

A Lincoln man has pleaded no contest to motor vehicle homicide charges stemming from a 2018 crash that killed a member of the Cornhusker Marching Band.

Eight full-time employees at the Nebraska State Fair have lost their jobs.

It could take up to two years to repair a 195-mile-long trail in northern Nebraska after major flooding damaged several segments used by bikers, hikers, runners and horse-riders.

Omaha is receiving a $4.7 million federal grant to help buy new city buses to replace older buses in its fleet.

Officials with the Nebraska State Patrol are warning against travel in the state’s Panhandle region, where strong winds and snow are creating blizzard-like conditions.

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Officials say Heartland of America Park in downtown Omaha will be closing Monday for construction.

A powerful storm making its way east from California is expected to bring intensifying snow and ice to the Midwest during the year’s busiest travel weekend.

Omaha police are investigating a fatal shooting.

Authorities say four children have been killed in a Thanksgiving Day crash.

Two people accused in the shooting death of a man suspected of stealing a friend’s car are scheduled for trial next year in western Iowa.

Union Pacific wants a court to invalidate an 1872 pact requiring it to keep a certain number of railroad jobs in the Texas town of Palestine indefinitely.

A Lincoln man accused of possessing and sharing child pornography has been imprisoned.

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Authorities say a man was fatally injured when he was knocked off the top of a viaduct in eastern Nebraska.

Authorities say firefighters have rescued a woman from her burning home in the eastern Nebraska city of Plattsmouth.

An Omaha man whose 4-month-old son died of a brain injury has been accused of child abuse resulting in death.

A man accused of providing to companies workers in the U.S. illegally has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to harbor those people.

A nurse practitioner from Iowa and a Nebraska farmer who died trying to rescue motorists will be honored Friday at the Heroes Game in Lincoln between the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Hawkeyes of the...

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