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On Monday, Larry Meier and Mark Yost stood in a winding line with matching Batmobiles and similar childhood memories.
By the year 2050, nearly one quarter of the state’s population will be 65 or older, and 38 percent of its citizens will be members of a minority.
Lincoln police are looking for a man they say tried to lure a 13-year-old girl into his car Monday afternoon.
A gunman opened fire Tuesday at a middle school in the southeastern New Mexico city of Roswell, leaving at least two children injured before b…
For decades, city leaders have been hoping to get a grocery store back in the downtown area.
The Lincoln Electric System may be forced to spend $83 million to help reduce haze-causing emissions from a coal plant it partly owns in Wyoming.
With enrollment in the University of Nebraska at a 20-year high and donations coming in at record-setting levels, system President J.B. Millik…
Lincoln police found Jarvis James Long’s body in Peter Pan Park Thursday morning and are investigating his death as a homicide.
Homicide victim Jarvis James Long died in Peter Pan Park Thursday from several stab wounds, at least one to his chest, Lincoln police said Fri…
Rescue workers pulled one man's body from the tons of rubble at Industrial Nutrition's partially collapsed plant in south Omaha on Monday, but…
A natural-gas line break near the intersection of Cornhusker Highway and 27th Street halted westbound traffic for about 1½ hours Monday afternoon.
You probably know her better as Caril Ann Fugate, who was just 14 when she joined Charlie Starkweather in the killing spree that paralyzed Lin…
It's already against the law to force a woman to have an abortion, but Sen. Bill Kintner of Papillion wants to force abortion providers to pos…
Propane prices spiked more than $2 per gallon on Thursday, doubling in two weeks and hitting record highs for the Midwest.
A tree limb that got tangled in a tree branch near 27th Street and Nebraska 2 on Thursday knocked out power for about 1,450 customers in south…
Omaha City Councilman Ben Gray couldn’t talk Thursday about black homicide rates in Nebraska.
Fifty-three sex offenders who receive help from a Lancaster County-operated support program will continue to receive services, despite losing …
Avery Moss says campus ban was caused by a "miscommunication" about when he could set foot in UNL residence halls.
The long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline cleared a major hurdle Friday as the State Department released a massive environmental report on the…
Her brother’s killer is out there -- out here, really. Is it someone she knows? Is it the guy standing next to her?
The body of a 54-year-old woman has been recovered from a canal near Johnson Lake.
Officials with Nebraska Public Power District and the Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the death of an out-of-state contract w…
Snow caused throngs of parents to descend on Goodrich Middle School Tuesday, where idling vehicles waited 30 minutes or longer as children sea…
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train crew found a man's body near train tracks in south Lincoln Wednesday morning, police said.
More than a half dozen Lincoln restaurants have folded since Thanksgiving, including two recent closures.
The vote paves the way for the district to build a new elementary and new middle school, proceed with a high school career academy, make secur…
An 88-year-old Lincoln woman pleaded no contest Wednesday to running over and killing a former state senator.
About 3,000 Verizon Wireless workers will have to transfer to different offices or find new jobs.
An Irving Middle School student allegedly took cookies laced with marijuana to school Tuesday morning.
Two men armed with a stun gun, baton and machetes robbed a computer store near 70th and O streets Wednesday morning, tying up three employees …
Lincoln police say they found an 8-month-old girl living in filthy conditions, with roach eggs on her feet, and arrested her mother Tuesday on…
A construction worker ran his pickup off a road near Haymarket Park Wednesday morning and rolled it into a Salt Creek, firefighters said.
An inflatable dome covering six tennis courts collapsed at the Abbott Sports Complex Thursday afternoon, but no one was inside.
A 60-foot wall of flame erupted from a ruptured natural gas pipeline along a rural road northwest of Fremont Friday morning. The initial explo…
A Waverly woman shot her neighbor’s dog because it barked too much, Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner said.
He doesn't know for sure what caused Saturday's big brush blaze west of Salt Creek, but Lincoln fire investigator Don Gross has ruled out one …
One person suffered possibly life-threatening injuries when a car and an SUV collided at Ninth and O streets in downtown Lincoln on Sunday, po…
A 7-year-old Fairbury girl died Sunday night after being hit by a pickup.
Lynyrd Skynyrd will be back in Lincoln to bring “Free Bird,” “Gimme Three Steps” and “Sweet Home Alabama” to their fans.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has identified $4.65 million in potential cuts intended to alleviate the budget shortfall announced by univ…
A woman driving a state-owned car plowed into the back of a minivan in northeast Lincoln Wednesday morning, police said, sending both drivers …
This is an exercise. That’s how all the official information was relayed Wednesday morning when several dozen pretend patients showed up at re…
A state trooper will receive a traffic ticket in connection to a vehicle collision that Omaha police say happened after he ran a red light.
Lincoln police say someone hurled three Molotov cocktails from a light-colored sedan Wednesday night, but neighbors quickly doused the flames.
Gov. Dave Heineman on Saturday announced vetoes of $65.3 million from the state's nearly $8 billion budget sent to his desk Monday by the Legi…
Word spread around Butler County and beyond late last summer about an unusual report of a teenager who'd spotted a hairy, 7-foot-tall creature…
Kashius Haynes shot Nathaniel “Bones” Morton in the chest over money in a dice game, Lancaster County prosecutors alleged Monday.
A 55-year-old man was taken to Saint Elizabeth’s Regional Medical Center Monday with non-life-threatening injuries after an anhydrous ammonia …
A city ordinance intended to keep minors out of bars at night will likely be repealed.
HASTINGS — A 3-year-old boy has died in an Omaha hospital after being accidentally run over by his uncle at a trailer park in Hastings.
A cut underground cable caused a power outage that affected 1,915 Lincoln Electric System customers Tuesday.
A 57-year-old Roca man died Wednesday, four days after a tree hit him in the head.
A 46-year-old Crete man died Thursday morning after crashing his pickup in the southwest corner of Lancaster County, the sheriff’s chief deputy said.
Beginning Monday, traffic on P Street from 13th through the Centennial Mall intersection will be shifted to a single lane on the north side of…
Fire gutted a central Lincoln home Monday afternoon and killed two dogs and two cats.
A 21-year-old Lincoln man who died in a handgun accident Friday evening was described as a fun-loving gun aficionado by his friends and family.
The Lincoln City Council repealed a city ordinance Monday that was designed to keep minors out of businesses that serve alcohol, namely bars.
The Lincoln Racquet Club will reopen at 1 p.m. Wednesday after a ceiling fire late Tuesday.
The 27-year-old Lincoln man suspected of hurling five Molotov cocktails turned himself in to police Wednesday morning.
FREMONT — A Dodge County couple accused of animal cruelty has been barred from owning animals for 20 years.
A five-hour standoff ended Thursday afternoon when officers arrested a 33-year-old Lincoln man who had barricaded himself in a hotel room and …
A jury found Eric Henry guilty of murder Tuesday morning in the May 2013 stabbing death of 51-year-old Steven Jorgensen during a savage attack.
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A man tried to lure an 8-year-old boy into his car Tuesday afternoon at Elliott Elementary, Lincoln police say.
Authorities believe Kent Burklund killed his wife in the entryway of their southeast Lincoln home after an argument.
A 12-year-old boy was critically injured Wednesday afternoon when his bicycle was hit by a car at 10th and Rose streets.
Adams County prosecutors have filed a juvenile charge of manslaughter against the 9-year-old brother of a Hastings boy who was shot to death l…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the likely source of a Salmonella Cotham outbreak that started two years ago was bear…
Three men died in a rollover accident in which eight of the nine people riding in a Ford Excursion were thrown from the SUV, Pierce County aut…
The attorney for Sarah Piccolo, the girl accused of attacking a fellow student at Lincoln Pius X High School in October, asked a judge Tuesday…
A former Omaha child care provider has been given jail time in connection with the death of a 1-year-old boy under her care.
A change approved Wednesday by the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission will allow outdoor sports complexes to sell alcohol.
A judge called a 32-year-old woman a callous, unrepentant killer Thursday before sending her to prison for her role in the 2013 stabbing death…
A driver hit a stranded motorist in central Lincoln Thursday night, sending her to the intensive care unit, Lincoln police said.
Authorities have released the names of three men killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash Monday.
Lancaster County sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a 44-year-old Hallam woman found in her home Friday evening.
The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department says agricultural burning in Kansas has rendered local air quality unhealthy for at-risk people…
The state is seeking emergency protective custody of a baby girl born to a Lincoln woman who went to the hospital with track marks on both arms.
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission officials have confirmed that a mountain lion killed a calf near Brewster in Blaine County.
Engine troubles on a cross-country flight diverted a San Francisco-bound plane carrying 168 people to Lincoln and forced an emergency landing …
Deputies are trying to identify the person killed in a fiery single-vehicle accident on a country road 2 miles west of Aurora, authorities said.
A cigarette started a fire Thursday morning that did $50,000 damage to a University Place home and forced the family who lives there to seek s…
Two men — including one from Lincoln — died early Friday morning after a big rig dragged their pickup truck 200 feet, causing it to catch fire.
Alisa Eberspacher had heard the forecasters’ warnings: Mother’s Day in eastern Nebraska included the threat of severe storms, including tornadoes.
Lancaster County prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Husker linebacker and a distance runner with stealing seven bikes from a University of Nebra…
A Husker linebacker and runner wanted to sell the bikes they’re accused of stealing, according to court documents released Wednesday.
The signs and lighting that will differentiate three very similar parking garages in the West Haymarket will cost more than $1 million.
The owners of a yellow Lab that’s been held at the Beatrice Humane Society for 45 days while its fate was being decided are expecting their pe…
Tim Miles rear-ended another driver in south Lincoln on Friday and got a ticket for negligent driving.
Witnesses say a sport utility vehicle ran a stop sign and struck a tanker truck, which was then hit by a semitrailer. All three vehicles erupt…
A district judge Wednesday found the teenage suspect competent to stand trial in a stabbing at Lincoln Pius X High School last fall.
Lancaster County Sheriff's deputies arrested two Lincoln men Friday for their alleged involvement in the May 2 overdose death of a 44-year-old…
Police say a Fremont man was killed after his motorcycle crashed into a car in Omaha.
Police say a man has died after he was punched in the face and fell, hitting his head on concrete.
Authorities say the two died when they attempted to swim between two islands on the north side of the lake. Their bodies were recovered Sunday night.
A 21-year-old man hit by a boat’s propeller in an accident on Branched Oak Lake near Raymond Monday is expected to survive serious injuries, a…
A teenage girl died in a single-vehicle rollover crash Tuesday.
An 18-year-old from Humphrey was killed Wednesday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash one mile west of Tarnov.
Authorities said a motorcyclist killed early Friday in a head-on crash with a pickup was an off-duty Omaha firefighter, and the truck driver l…
The head of Christian Heritage Homes was killed late Thursday in a hit-and-run crash near Wagon Train lake.
A Lancaster County sheriff's deputy exchanged gunfire with a man who had barricaded himself inside his southeast Lincoln house on Friday, kill…
A real estate agent and ex-Husker football player grew and dealt marijuana out of his house in central Lincoln, police said.
D. William "Speedy Bill" Smith — whose interest in racing spawned a world-renowned, Lincoln-based marketplace for racing parts — died Friday. …
He’d been with the locksmith company less than a year and was still learning.
The 64-year-old Lincoln man shot to death by deputies Friday was armed with an unloaded rifle and did not shoot, Lincoln Police Chief Jim Pesc…
Lancaster County sheriff’s deputies found the pickup truck they think killed Gregory “Gregg” Nicklas last week, but they're still trying to fi…
A fireball burned a construction worker Thursday as it tore through a two-story house in south Lincoln, blowing off doors and blasting through…
The teenage suspect in a stabbing at Lincoln Pius X High School that injured a student last fall is set to enter a plea in August.
Earl Richardson III sat in his aunt’s home in Aurora, Colorado, just last week. She remembers his voice was low and soft — this weighty whispe…
Police Tuesday evening were still investigating whether another vehicle was involved in a crash that left a motorcycle driver dead after falli…
Mark Wenzl would get up in the morning and, if he wasn’t giving a co-worker a lift to the job site, hop on his bike, ride around and watch the…
A StarTran bus crashed into two cars and plowed into a brick wall Monday morning in a wreck that sent six people to the hospital and at least …
A 46-year-old engineer was stabbed to death at his daughter’s birthday party Tuesday night by his father-in-law, police said.
The teenager who slashed at a classmate with a hunting knife and claw hammer in a bathroom at Lincoln Pius X High School last fall entered a p…
WAVERLY -- Five Lincoln residents were hurt when an SUV veered off Interstate 80 and rolled midday Monday near Waverly, but doctors think ever…
Haopeng Yuan moved from mainland China to Lincoln Monday to study marketing. Tuesday morning, fire forced him to leave his new apartment and e…
A 28-year-old Crete man died early Thursday morning after a head-on crash southwest of Lincoln, the Lancaster County Sheriff said.
Lincoln emergency crews responded to a fire at a Lincoln manufacturing plant Wednesday.
A judge has postponed sentencing for a teenager who attacked a classmate with a hunting knife and claw hammer in a bathroom at Lincoln Pius X …
Sentencing has been delayed again for a teenager who attacked a classmate with a hunting knife and claw hammer in a bathroom at Lincoln Pius X…
A Lancaster County judge sentenced a Lincoln mother to jail Friday on a child neglect charge filed after police found her 8-month-old daughter…
A judge sentenced Sarah Piccolo, the former Pius X High School student who attacked a classmate with a hunting knife and claw hammer in 2013, …
