OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Laurie Smith Camp, a longtime Nebraska attorney who became the first woman to serve on the state's federal district court, died unexpectedly overnight at age 66, court officials...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Gov. Pete Ricketts on Thursday lauded a new law that will help Nebraska National Guard members save some money when they attend a state university of college.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Gov. Pete Ricketts doubled down Thursday on his decision to leave Nebraska as the only state that has discontinued emergency food assistance benefits that were made available...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska man has been arrested in Missouri for his alleged role in an assault on an Iowa police officer in which the officer fired his gun, according to...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Jury selection has begun in the trial of a woman charged with killing a 24-year-old woman who disappeared after a Tinder date and whose dismembered remains later were found in...

GERING, Neb. (AP) — Several western Nebraska schools are scrambling to deal with outbreaks of new coronavirus cases.

About 70 students and staff at Gering High School were under quarantine...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An inmate at a prison in Lincoln has been hospitalized after being attacked and stabbed by another inmate, prison officials said.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Police in western Iowa have issued an arrest warrant for a Nebraska man wanted in connection with a scuffle with a police officer last week that led the officer to fire...

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska-Kearney has announced a four-game nonconference football schedule beginning Oct. 31.

A scheduling alliance with other Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An outbreak of the coronavirus has occurred at a nursing home in the Omaha bedroom community of Blair, with more than two dozen residents and staff infected, health officials...

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in south-central Nebraska have identified a man whose body was pulled from a sandpit pond near Lexington last week.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prison officials announced five more staffers in the Nebraska Department of Corrections recently tested positive for the coronavirus, as numbers from state health...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A south-central Nebraska man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.

Robert Rose, 65, of Guide Rock, was sentenced last...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A white business owner charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting a Black man during protests in Nebraska has died by suicide days after his indictment, his attorney said...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — More than 40% of the deaths linked to the coronavirus in Nebraska have been at nursing homes, but the overall rate of deaths in the state's nursing homes has remained relatively...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Six more state corrections employees have tested positive for the coronavirus as the number of cases in the state prison system continues to grow.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska inmate who tested positive for the coronavirus has died as state prison officials battle a surge in cases.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An arrest warrant has been approved for a former Omaha bar owner who shot and killed a protester during a confrontation outside his bar in May.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's unemployment rate for August dropped to 4%, the lowest rate in the country, the state announced Friday.

The state Department of Labor reported the rate was...

Plattsmouth, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have identified the Nebraska man whose body was found inside a burning car earlier this week.

KETV-TV reports that the Cass County Sheriff's Office on...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Recent rain has helped ease drought conditions in Nebraska, but not by much.

Some areas of northeast Nebraska saw more than 2 inches of rain last week, and other areas...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Ralph and Dorothy Kohler are celebrating their wedding anniversary — for the 85th time.

WOWT-TV reports that he was just 17 and she was 16 when they tied the knot on...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha petting zoo will get nine seized animals back after citations against it were dropped.

City Prosecutor Matt Kuhse told the Omaha World-Herald that Scatter Joy...

KINGSTON, Mo.. (AP) — The trial of a Missouri man accused of killing two brothers from Wisconsin is being moved because of extensive pre-trial publicity.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Larry Frost, the father of Nebraska football coach Scott Frost, has died following a battle with cancer. He was 73.

The elder Frost’s death on Wednesday was announced...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Students in Nebraska’s largest public school district will begin going back into the classroom next week for the first time since March, when the coronavirus outbreak sent...

PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have found the body of a person inside a burning car near the airport in Plattsmouth, about 20 miles south of Omaha.

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NORTH PLATTE., Neb. (AP) — A longtime North Platte doctor is one of the latest COVID-19 casualties in the state, with his death coming as officials confirmed more than 38,000 cases of the virus in...

BERWYN, Neb. (AP) — A young Gibbon woman died in a two-vehicle crash in Custer County near Berwyn, authorities in central Nebraska said.

The crash happened Friday night when a car and a...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Three more state corrections employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, state prisons officials said.

An employee at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln...

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol arrested two people Friday following a pursuit in north Lincoln during which the fleeing driver struck two troopers' cruisers.

GERING, Neb. (AP) — As wildfires rage across the western United States, some 200 firefighters from four states will gather in western Nebraska this weekend to train for battling fire in rugged...

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A former Fremont police officer has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a child and faces up to three years in prison when he’s sentenced in December.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Funeral services on Saturday for a slain Nebraska police officer will be open to the public.

Police investigator Luis “Mario” Herrera, a 23-year veteran of the Lincoln...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — More state prisons workers have recently tested positive for the coronavirus, state prison officials said Thursday.

ASHTON, Neb. (AP) — A woman died this week after her motorcycle collided with a tractor in central Nebraska, the The Nebraska State Patrol reported.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska has created a new state disaster response team to help local governments that are overwhelmed with massive wildfires and other disasters, Gov. Pete Ricketts said...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has suspended six sorority and fraternity chapters on its campus after photos and videos showed students in those organizations violating...