Special Reports
Reporter's notebook: Down the rabbit hole
"You going up to the house?" Hmmm, how to answer this. There is no house, no possibility of going. "I can't get out," says this new St. Anthony's resident. "Can you let me out the door?"
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The difference between life and death
Harold Lamont Otey recounted the crime in detail after he was arrested for the murder of Jane McManus, a 26-year-old Omaha student and waitress.
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Wards were a generous couple who loved to travel
He always went in the back door of the stately white house on 24th Street, through the kitchen, the breakfast room, down two steps, into the den.
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Spree ended in Wyoming with one final victim
Wilda Johnson Macy lifted each of the Cub Scouts up, high enough so they could peer through the window at the 19-year-old.
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Frances Betz: The path of neural destruction
She speaks of cows and goats eating flowers outside the window. There are none, nothing visible in the small garden but a Virgin Mary statue. No matter.
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Peter Beeson: Anger, frustration at a diagnosis in middle age
Peter Beeson had a new job, new marriage, new life.
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Bill Dobler: 'It's not him. It's what's left of him.'
Bill Dobler kicks up his heels in a kind of jig and points playfully at his wife waiting at the end of the hall. "He reacts that way to Nancy every single time. She's the love of his life," says Geri Hepp, director of the Alzheimer's program at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital.
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Barb Biskup: This newcomer is nobody's fool
Something's wrong. It's late August, and Barbara Biskup, a relative newcomer to the Alzheimer's day care at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, paces the long corridor that leads to in-patient quarters.
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The history of senility forgotten
When it comes to Alzheimer's disease, a big barrier to progress has been the myth of the aged, the myth of inevitable senility. Myths flourish when information is scarce, and only recently have people begun to understand what happens to the aging brain.
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Father-to-be was Starkweather's first victim
She keeps the pictures on her bedroom wall. A boy on his tricycle. A young man in his Navy blues.
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Friends of murdered teens wonder what might have been
BENNET - Killers always take more than lives.
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Job market for grads among the best
The news was good, and then it got even better.
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Car bomb kills deputy police chief of Afghan region, bodyguard
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Suspected Taliban rebels detonated a car bomb near a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing a deputy provincial police chief and one of his bodyguards, while an aid worker and an intelligence agent were slain in other violence, officials said Friday.
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Families of murder victims live with the memories
One by one, they turned to ink, dried and formed into words in a newspaper: body found, stabbed or beaten, shot or strangled.
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Bill Gushard: Routines help keep patients on an even keel
Bill Gushard signed up to serve three years in the Army but had to do four. He'll tell you this in the moments after you meet him.
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Case highlights inconsistencies in sentencing practices
On the night of Nov. 1, 1989, a neighbor heard noise coming from Esther Drinkwalter's apartment in Valentine.
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Muslim clerics outraged over report U.S. soldiers desecrated bodies of Taliban fighters
KABUL, Afghanistan - Islamic clerics expressed outrage Thursday at television footage that purportedly shows U.S. soldiers burning the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters to taunt other militants and warned of a possible violent anti-American backlash.
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Starkweather case was a big story for a young reporter
It has been 50 years. But he still remembers it was a Monday, still remembers a co-worker's voice on the phone: "Hey, there's something going on at 924 Belmont."
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Financial fitness not out of reach for debt-burdened grads
New college graduates are stepping into a financial picture that isn't quite what it was five or 10 years ago, says Bob Fitzsimmons, a Lincoln-based certified financial planner.
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Theresa Vos: Grateful teachings for daughters
You loved her. Fought with her. Dealt with it. And now Mom is back, and she's driving you nuts. T. Marni Vos recalls the day a police officer stopped her for a traffic violation while she ferried her mother, Theresa.
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