The Douglas County Health Department offered free testing to check household items for lead Thursday, Oct. 29 at the UNO Community Engagement Center. Specialists used scanners to test items people brought in, at no cost.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand and his running mate, Dave Muhlbauer, are urging supporters to help get other voters to the polls five days before Election Day.
The Creighton men’s basketball team will open its season Monday night at 7 p.m. against the University of Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos, with a new projection mapping system in use on the CHI Health Center Omaha court for the first time.
Clocks fall back one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, and a Boys Town pediatrician and the Nebraska Farm Bureau are addressing common assumptions about the time change.
Gov. Jim Pillen said Thursday that Nebraska can currently handle its energy demands, including the strain from data centers on the state’s electric grid.
Nolan Dudik, the Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy who was fired in May, was arrested Thursday morning by the Nebraska State Patrol, according to Sheriff Aaron Hanson.
Firefighters found evidence consistent with an explosion after a Sunday morning fire at the Green Plains ethanol plant, the York Fire Department said. No injuries were reported.
Often at sentencing, a judge will order a defendant to pay restitution to a victim. A Bellevue man attacked by a neighbor’s dog thought that would cover thousands of dollars in medical bills. In one case, the restitution order has not resulted in full payment.
Vaneza Ramos said she felt a sense of peace and vindication upon hearing a jury verdict that awarded her $11.3 million in a case against an insurance company that denied a claim after her husband died of COVID-19.
Former President Barack Obama is pushing back on Republicans’ reactions to a recent quip he made about President Donald Trump’s White House renovations and decor.
For decades, Marilee Niewoehner watched her family harvest feed corn from the edge of the fields. This fall, the 94-year-old matriarch experienced the harvest from inside a combine cab for the first time.
Republican Brinker Harding and Democrat Denise Powell campaigned Wednesday with U.S. House members, six days before the midterm elections, in the race for Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District.
The salon that employed a masseur who is facing numerous counts of sexual assault has been named as the defendant in two lawsuits, according to court records.
Valley voters will decide next week whether to split the city’s 1.5% sales tax to build a new pool. If voters approve, the city estimates the $5.5 million project would be finished by spring 2028.
