POWERFUL WINTER STORM STILL IN THE FORECAST
...SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM TO IMPACT THE AREA THROUGH SATURDAY...PRECIPITATION WILL START OFF AS RA...
Posted: 02/03/12 20:30
The Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission has ruled in favor of Gage County in a complaint filed by the county's former highway superintendent. The co...
Posted: 02/03/12 15:10
The unusually warm winter weather allowed the Army Corps of Engineers to clear out some additional flood-storage space in the Missouri River's reserv...
Posted: 02/03/12 11:30
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Former Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey is heading into another week with no decision on whether he'll se...
Posted: 02/03/12 10:45
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A Nebraska death row inmate whose murder case inspired the 1999 film ``Boys Don't Cry'' has filed an appealn to the U.S. Supreme...
Posted: 02/03/12 05:34
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Employers would be able to loosen their tongues a bit when they get calls about former workers, under a bill set for debate nex...
Posted: 02/02/12 19:29
A Nebraska lawmaker says the state should join surrounding states in offering a large-scale program that allows hunters to donate deer meat to feed ne...
Posted: 02/01/12 22:00
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the railroad owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., plans to spend $3.9 billion on n...
Posted: 02/01/12 20:00
The Nebraska State Patrol says two separate traffic stops on Interstate 80 near Lincoln have led to the seizure of nearly 27 pounds of marijuana. The ...
Posted: 02/01/12 19:38
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ The loss of sales tax revenue is a small price to pay for healthier children in Nebraska. That's the message Sen. Abbie Cor...
Posted: 02/01/12 15:10
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Officials at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln say they plan to search every dorm room on campus for bedbugs after an infestatio...
Posted: 02/01/12 14:35
State Senator Deb Fischer of Valentine filed paperwork in Lincoln today to become an official candidate for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Sen...
Posted: 01/31/12 18:59
The first Dawson County Eggs & Issues Forum of the Legislative session will be held this Saturday, Feb 4th at 8:30 AM at the Dawson County Histor...
Posted: 01/30/12 21:14
The NEBRASKALand DAYS Foundation has launched a campaign to raise $86,000 towards rebuilding the west entrance of the Wild West Arena in North Pl...
Posted: 01/30/12 20:00
The Lexington Community Foundation has awarded a grant to the Central Health Center in Lexington to purchase on automated external defibrillator ...
Posted: 01/30/12 17:09
COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) _ Authorities say a sick skunk found in Columbus earlier this month had rabies. The skunk was found in a subdivision and tes...
Posted: 01/30/12 16:17
The Nebraska State Patrol has been asked to investigate a Monday morning shooting in Kimball. Kimball County Attorney Dave Wilson says a Kimball man, ...
Posted: 01/29/12 13:06
Beatrice City administrator Neal Niefeldt plans to leave his current post
for a new job as president and chief executive officer of the Grand
...
Posted: 01/29/12 09:44
Students in Nebraska schools would not be
able to drop out until they turn 18, under a bill set for a
legislative hearing.
Lexington ...
Posted: 01/29/12 08:38
A Nebraska lawmaker wants to make sure that
schools are teaching children about agriculture and how food gets
to their plates. Senator Kate Su...
Posted: 01/29/12 08:33
Animal activists who go undercover to
videotape abuse on farms and ranches could face criminal charges
under proposals from Iowa and Nebraska ...
Posted: 01/29/12 07:34
Legislative leaders are taking a cautious
tone on the need for new laws regulating the Kansas Bioscience
Authority based on the findings of a ...
Posted: 01/29/12 07:32
One man is in critical condition after being
shot at a residence in Omaha.
Police say officers responded to a call of a shooting just
...
Posted: 01/29/12 07:28
(Minden, NE)-The second of two suspects wanted in connection with a late night pursuit in which shots were fired at a Nebraska State Patrol trooper ha...
Posted: 01/28/12 19:00
Kearney Sen. Galen Hadley will hold a Sat., Febr. 4 town hall meeting to address tax issues and the current legislative session. According to...
Posted: 01/27/12 15:28
Former University of Nebraska Regent David Hergert Friday was sentenced to five years supervised probation and was ordered to make $654,000 restitutio...
Posted: 01/26/12 19:24
A California certified public accountant has been sentenced to 37 months in prison on a federal charge of tax evasion. Lowell Baisden provided ...
Posted: 01/26/12 15:45
A 19-year-old Garden County High School graduate killed in a pickup-train collision near Kearney is remembered by his high school principal as a leade...
Posted: 01/26/12 14:36
The first laboratory confirmed case of influenza in southwest Nebraska has been reported to the Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department. Pub...
Posted: 01/25/12 05:44
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ The Nebraska State Patrol is again reminding Nebraskans holding a permit to carry a concealed handgun that, for some of them, it...
Posted: 01/24/12 16:21
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A bill that seeks to ease a long-standing funding fight between Nebraska's urban and rural community colleges
has advanced fo...
Posted: 01/23/12 14:11
STERLING, Colo. (AP) - The Logan County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a 3-year-old boy's body was found following a search.
Lt. Jos...
Posted: 01/22/12 11:04
Nebraska ranchers and farmers who need
certification can take a daylong manure management course next
month from the University of Nebraska-Li...
Posted: 01/22/12 10:16
Country music legends Loretta Lynn and
Ray Price will perform at this summer's Hall County Fair.
The Grand Island Independent reports the...
Posted: 01/22/12 10:10
A new fund would be created to pay for
improvements at the Centennial Mall in Lincoln, under a bill before
the Nebraska Legislature.
...
Posted: 01/22/12 10:01
Nebraska lawmakers say the state is
failing to keep track of important case information about children
who are in state custody due to abuse, ...
Posted: 01/22/12 09:56
A Lincoln woman has been charged with 10
counts of wire fraud that federal authorities say she committed
during her three years as payroll man...
Posted: 01/22/12 09:47
The Nebraska State Patrol is preparing
meetings across the state for people who want to find out more
about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety A...
Posted: 01/22/12 09:27
Abortion foes will march through Lincoln
later this month in the annual Nebraska Walk for Life.
The event is a demonstration against Roe ...
Posted: 01/22/12 09:22
Rape charges filed against a Wymore man
have been dismissed, and the woman who accused him has been
arrested on suspicion of lying about the a...
Posted: 01/21/12 21:00
WHITEWATER, Kan. (AP) _ An 11-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a school bomb threat in southeastern Kansas.
About 150 s...
Posted: 01/21/12 18:00
BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) _ A Nebraska man has been arrested for allegedly making a threatening phone call to a Nebraska Health and Human Services empl...
Posted: 01/21/12 15:00
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Some Kansas legislators say a decision by House Republican leaders to draft their own tax plan shows that Gov. Sam Brownback'...
Posted: 01/21/12 12:00
MADISON, Neb. (AP) _ A man convicted of stabbing another man to death at a party in Norfolk has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.
...
Posted: 01/21/12 09:00
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ House Speaker Mike O'Neal opposes a congressional redistricting proposal that would expand the 1st District of western and ce...
Posted: 01/21/12 06:22
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ Two men who pleaded guilty to breaking into U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell's southern Iowa farmhouse armed with a BB gun last ...
Posted: 01/21/12 00:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ No serious injuries are reported in a collision between a Lincoln school bus and a pickup truck.
The accident happe...
Posted: 01/20/12 07:27
OGALLALA, Neb. (AP) _ A sheriff's deputy has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in western Nebraska.
North Platte televisi...
Posted: 01/14/12 22:00
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ A Kansas commission is seeking more information and public comment on several proposals to change the state tax code.
...
Posted: 01/14/12 19:00
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ The Kansas Senate's top Democrat says the easiest way to resolve congressional redistricting issues would be to move the Manh...
Posted: 01/14/12 16:00
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ A group pursuing an amendment to the Kansas Constitution to ban abortion says 25 state House members have agreed to sponsor t...
Posted: 01/14/12 13:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Lancaster County authorities are searching for clues in the possible theft of 14 mature walnut trees from a property near Ma...
Posted: 01/14/12 10:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A lobbyist for Nebraska's grocery industry says a bill to raise the ceiling on permit fees to pay for food-safety inspection...
Posted: 01/14/12 07:05
BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) _ The operators of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant say a loss of off-site power prompted an automatic shutdown at the no...
Posted: 01/11/12 21:00
The victim of the car-train collision at the 10th Street railroad crossing in Gering has been identified as 93-year-old Vera Clary of Gering.
...
Posted: 01/11/12 11:22
Third District Republican Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) today (Wednesday) officially filed for re-election to serve Nebraska's Third Congressional D...
Posted: 01/08/12 17:45
A 17-year-old Scottsbluff boy was killed, and two others were injured in one-vehicle accident three miles east of Mitchell Saturday night.
Th...
Posted: 01/06/12 18:18
Former Nebraska governor and senator Bob Kerrey says he's exploring a possible run for the U.S. Senate.
Omaha news station KETV reports that ...
Posted: 01/06/12 09:07
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska would establish a state-based health benefit exchange under new legislation that would help the state comply with the ...
Posted: 12/31/11 22:30
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) _ A 23-year-old man whose gun authorities say was used by a 3-year-old boy to accidentally shot and kill his 5-year-old brothe...
Posted: 12/31/11 20:30
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ A woman has been taken to the hospital with severe neck and back pain after the wheelchair she was in was struck by a car in O...
Posted: 12/31/11 18:30
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) _ Relatives of a man who was badly injured in a cement truck accident in eastern Geary County say he has died after bein...
Posted: 12/31/11 16:30
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Police in Lincoln say they've arrested a man who took a car on a test drive and never returned.
23-year-old Daniel ...
Posted: 12/31/11 14:30
COLBY, Kan. (AP) _ Western Kansas newspapers are worried that another postal switch could mean some of their mail subscribers will be getting the...
Posted: 12/31/11 13:00
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ A new report says Kansas collected nearly $31 million more in tax revenues than expected in December.
The report Fri...
Posted: 12/31/11 12:30
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ An Omaha man being sought in connection with a bank robbery on Monday has been arrested.
Omaha police say 19-year-old...
Posted: 12/31/11 10:30
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Kansas has a full field of candidates for its Republican presidential caucuses March 6.
The state Republican Party s...
Posted: 12/31/11 06:38
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ A new report says Kansas collected nearly $31 million more in tax revenues than expected in December.
The report Fri...
