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Nebraska Republican Senator Mike Johanns introduced two more amendments to the immigration reform bill today. One is aimed at...
Hard to say if they were trying to break in or not, but two men are in custody and another is being sought after someone saw ...
There may be a possible lead in a sex assault case that happened a week ago. Officer Katie Flood says video surveillance indi...
The current immigration system has been called "broken" by many politicians, including President Obama and Nebraska...
It's not hot yet, but before itheats up,the state Health and Human Services Department wants to line up fans for people w...
Nebraska is awarding $1.93 million in grants to support more than 100 tire recycling and cleanup projects throughout the ...
A Lincoln nonprofit is making sure low-income children have gifts to give to their dads on Father's Day. The Center for P...
Nebraska lawmakers will again debate water usage, the death penalty and taxes when they return to Lincoln next year. The prop...
Nebraska Republican Senator Mike Johanns would rather have a flawed farm bill than none at all. During Thursday's weekly ...
Nebraska lawmakers have finished a legislative session highlighted by a $7.8 billion, two-year budget, increased spending...
Lawmakers continue working toward a solution for the sexual assaults in the military.Nebraska Republican Senator Deb Fischer ...
Nebraska lawmakers have finished a legislative session highlighted by a $7.8 billion, two-year budget, increased spending...
Wednesday is the last day of the 90 day legislative session. State lawmakers will not have time to pass Medicaid expansion fo...
Governor Heineman didn't care for the wind-energy bill he has signed into law, but he did it to prevent the city of Omaha...
Nebraska lawmakers who want to expand Medicaid coverage as part of the federal health care law are promising to press the iss...
The price of a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett has already topped $700,000, and the online auction to raise...
A federal lawsuit has been filed against Nebraska over the state's denial of driver's licenses for young immigrants w...
Newborns in Nebraska will have to get screened for a potentially fatal heart disease, under a new state law. Gov. Dave Heinem...
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has signed three tax-cut measures into law, calling them small but important steps toward an impr...
Each year, nearly 8000 lost or unwanted animals in Lincoln and Lancaster County find a temporary home at the Capitol Humane S...
Lawmakers are authorizing a study of Nebraska's tax climate. The expectation is to reform the system, but several senator...
Lawmakers have authorized a study of Nebraska's tax climate, with the expectation that they'll reform the system. But...
Lincoln is a safe community... but it never hurts to be prepared. The Lincoln Police Department and Lincoln Fire and Rescue w...
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has signed a juvenile justice reform bill into law. The measure by Sen. Brad Ashford, of Omaha, i...
An audit has found that Nebraska officials failed to properly train and supervise a state employee who oversaw millions of do...
Nebraska lawmakers have overridden Gov. Dave Heineman's budget vetoes for county court employees, child advocates, expand...
Americans are living longer, but sicker lives, according to United HealthCare. Looking at 34 different criteria, the foundati...
Businesses that are owned by disabled veterans could receive an edge over other companies when bidding for state contracts in...
The new Pieloch Pet Adoption Center won't be opening until later in June. Capitol Humane Society Director Bob Downey says...
A Nebraska bill that would expand protections for human trafficking victims has won first-round approval from lawmakers. The ...
A proposed work-subsidy program aimed at Nebraskans who qualify for welfare is headed to a final vote in the Legislature. Law...
A University of Nebraska-Kearney professor has been accused of possessing and distributing child pornography. The Kearney Pol...
While most Lincoln Public School students are looking forward to the last day of school, Irving Middle School officials are d...
A bill that would allow more working families in Nebraska to qualify for child care subsidies is headed to a final vote in th...
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning says the only nurse at Dr. LeRoy Carhart's abortion clinic in Bellevue should lose ...
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning says the only nurse at Dr. LeRoy Carhart's abortion clinic in Bellevue should lose ...
Man's best friend is going to Oklahoma to help kids and other victims cope with the devastation caused by Monday's ma...
Lincoln Police employees are mourning the loss of one of their officers. Sergeant Thomas Hamm has died. Hamm was 53 years old...
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has used a line-item veto to strike $200,000 from the state budget that was approved for an O...
Nebraska lawmakers have given final approval to the seven budget bills that make the state's two-year budget. Lawmakers p...
The superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol says law enforcement is increasing its presence in Whiteclay after activists ...
A proposal to increase mental health services for children throughout Nebraska has won first-round approval from lawmakers. L...
A rally on the west steps of the state Capitol building drew about 200 supporters for expanded Medicaid in Nebraska. The bill...
Supporters of a bill to expand Medicaid are planning a rally at the Nebraska Capitol. The rally is part of a push to get to a...
Last month, a Nebraska State Penitentiary guard saw a man sexually assault a 3 year old in the prison visitor's bathroom....
Nebraska lawmakers have voted to override Gov. Dave Heineman's veto on a public-school retirement bill. Lawmakers voted 3...
News broke last week that the IRS singled out conservation groups to review their tax documents. Groups with phrases or words...
A proposal to abolish the death penalty in Nebraska is dead for the year. Supporters on Tuesday failed to muster the 33 votes...
Nebraska U.S. Republican Senator Mike Johanns has written the head of the Appropriations Committee calling for a hearing on t...
A "test vote" in the Legislature suggests that a majority of Nebraska lawmakers want to abolish the death penalty, ...
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has vetoed a teacher retirement bill, arguing that a proposed increase in the state's contrib...
Lawmakers have pulled funding to buy an airplane from the University of Nebraska Foundation, choosing instead to study whethe...
Nebraska lawmakers have advanced a new, $7.8 billion state budget for the next two fiscal years. Lawmakers gave first-rou...
Lawmakers have rejected an attempt to add $7.5 million in yearly funding to Nebraska's property tax credit program. S...
Lawmakers are inching toward a key vote on Nebraska's main two-year budget bill. Debate on the bill slowed to a crawl Wed...
Organizers say the 2013 Nebraska Law Enforcement Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the Nebraska Law Enforcement Memorial ...
A 7-year-old Nebraska boy is recovering after being attacked by a neighbor's two Rottweiler dogs. The Nebraska Humane Soc...
Lawmakers continue debate on the state's budget. Right now it's an $8 billion two-year proposal. The budget inclu...
A jury trial has been set in the case of a man who accuses Creighton University in a lawsuit of discriminating against him be...
Nebraska officials are warning about an unauthorized website that might be intended to collect confidential information. The ...
Discrimination complaints are up in the office of the Lincoln Commission on Human Rights. From 2011 to 2012, 99 cases were fi...
Nebraska lawmakers are debating a bill that would ban chemicals used in synthetic drugs, which mimic the effects of substance...
Nebraska lawmakers are debating a bill that would ban chemicals used in synthetic drugs, which mimic the effects of substance...
Nebraska lawmakers are debating a bill that would ban chemicals used in synthetic drugs, which mimic the effects of substance...
A 2-point slip in the monthly economic index for nine Midwestand Plains states, including Nebraska. The Mid-America Business ...
Nebraska spends nearly $95 million a year on child-care subsidies for working, low-income families - but the state isn...
Bryan Medical Center has broken ground on a major addition for mental health services. Its new Independence Center is the res...
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and the Child Advocacy Center is reminding you to keep your children and other kids saf...
Lincoln Police are investigating a couple of robberies that occurred in Lincoln, early Sunday morning. Police Officer Katie F...
A25-year-old Lincoln man is sentenced to three years in prison for possessing child pornography. Jerod Oliverius also must se...
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is raising awareness about child abuse during April in recognition of Na...
If you were at Pioneers Park Sunday afternoon enjoying the warmer spring weather, maybe you saw a man Lincoln Police have in ...
A DNA sample taken in 2011 after a Nebraska man's burglary conviction has linked him to five sexual assaults in Omaha bet...
Nebraska Lawmakers are having to cut services or make up another $8 million less in federal Medicaid funding. This comes ...
Nebraska lawmakers voted 33-8 to pass a measure that would leave register voters with fewer days to cast in-person early ball...
Two Nebraska men have been charged in separate federal indictments with child pornography counts. The U.S. Attorney's off...
A judge has given jail time and probation to a Lincoln woman reported being attacked by three men who carved anti-gay slurs i...
A group of conservative Nebraska lawmakers are trying to derail a proposal to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults. Stat...
Nebraska lawmakers began a second day of debate on a proposal to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults. Lawmakers continu...
Nebraska lawmakers are still debating a proposal to expand Medicaid as part of the federal health care law. Lincoln Senator K...
Nebraska lawmakers began debating a proposal to expand Medicaid as part of the federal health care law. Sen. Kathy Campbell i...
Monday is Tax Day, a day off for state lawmakers, but Tuesday when they come back to Lincoln, they'll have money on their...
While you slept, Lincoln Police arrested a 22 year old man for drunken driving and having marijuana. Capt. Jason Stille tells...
The State Patrol says a western Nebraska woman whose body was found in a field in the Panhandle by searchers on snowmobiles d...
A Lincoln woman has been given four to five years in prison in connection with the death of a 12-year-old girl. Twenty-four-y...
The Nebraska Supreme Court says a man can withdraw his no contest pleas to kidnapping and attempted child sexual assault beca...
Nebraska lawmakers have granted first-round approval to a measure that would give housing assistance to youths aging out of f...
Lincoln Senator Amanda McGill's legislation, known as the Young Adult Voluntary Services and Support Act, would create a ...
As Nebraska's members of Congress get ready to return to Washington D.C., more than 40 Nebraska organizations gathered to...
Owners of livestock that are seized in abuse or neglect cases could be ordered to pay for the care of their animals, under a ...
A western Nebraska man has been charged with a hate crime in the March assault of another man at a Sidney bar. Cheyenne Count...
A rally will be held at the Nebraska Capitol this week to raise awareness about bullying. The statewide Stand for the Silent ...
A conservative Omaha think tank questions whether the program is sustainable. The Platte Institute released a reportWednesday...
More than 30 Nebraska organizations say now is the time for common-sense immigration laws. Campbell's Nurseries, Nebraska...
African Americansin Nebraska'stwo largest metro areas continue to be stopped in disproportionate numbers. The state's...
Two gun-rights groups are suing to force Nebraska to change a state law which bars legal immigrants from getting permits to c...
Two gun-rights groups are suing to force Nebraska to change a state law that bars legal immigrants from obtaining permits to ...
A bill that would allow military veterans in Nebraska to display their status on license plates and state identification card...
A monthly economic survey index for nine Midwest and Plains states jumped last month, suggesting improving economic growth fo...
A committee of the Legislature Thursday halted an attempt to repeal state-funded prenatal care for the unborn children of ill...
Lawmakers have passed new insurance requirements for licensed child care providers in Nebraska. Child care services would hav...
More people are saying a 57 year old Lincoln man sexually them when they were teenagers.Three more victims have come forward ...
In February, investigatorsreceived evidence indicatingthat Michael Nguyen (Win) was sharing child pornography on the internet...
A long-shot attempt to repeal state-funded prenatal care services for illegal immigrants is drawing criticism from a variety ...
A long-shot attempt to repeal state-funded prenatal care services for illegal immigrants is drawing criticism from a variety ...
A Nebraska lawmaker is set to present his bill that would repeal state-funded prenatal care services for illegal immigrants. ...
A 21-year-old Lincoln man is in stable, but critical condition at Bryan West Campus after he was shot twice at a Bennet home ...
For the 37th time in his long legislative career, Omaha Senator Ernie Chambers is working to do away with the death penalty. ...
A legislative committee has set the stage for a battle over Medicaid. The bill expands eligibility to people with incomes up ...
A Lincoln-based company accused of refusing to hire an Oklahoma man because of his religious beliefs has settled a discrimina...
For the second time during his 2 1/2 years in office, State Treasurer Don Stenberg is asking the NebraskaLegislature to reduc...
Four hours of testimony on bills that would expand gay rights in Nebraska. They were before the Legislature's Judiciary C...
A Nebraska man is suing his former employer, saying the company fired him because his medical bills were contributing to the ...
Nearly two-thirds of Nebraska's counties lost population in 2012 as the longstanding trend of the state's rural popul...
Nebraska would become the 18th state to abolish the death penalty under a bill introduced by Omaha Senator, Ernie Chambers. T...
It matters where your kids grow up. Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Bowling Green State University foun...
Nebraska lawmakers are again talking about gay rights.Three proposals come up Thursday to extend gay rights for employees and...
A bill that would require government-issued photo identification to vote in Nebraska is triggering a heated debate in the Leg...
Progress has been made on solving the federal budget debate. President Obama met for dinner last night with a dozen members o...
Lincoln Senator, Colby Coash, is working to eliminate the word "retarded" from state statutes. It hasn't been p...
Some new information involving 57-year-old Michael Miller of Lincoln, the man arrested last June for luring teenage boys to h...
Panelists for a gun violence discussion atthe University of Nebraska-LincolnTuesday nightsaid lacking access to mental health...
University of Nebraska officials are unhappy with a preliminary state budget that allocates less money than what Gov. Dave He...
Another major building project got under way in LincolnFriday morning, adding even more fuel to the city's Billion Dollar...
What if a school was designed to reduce obesity and foster student health ??? It's already happening. University of Nebra...
Authorities say a suburban Omaha couple have been arrested, accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting their 5-year-old son. T...
A registered sex offender has been accused of molesting a 7-year-old girl that he'd lured into his Omaha apartment. Autho...
A bill that would have let Nebraska work-camp inmates perform labor for charities, fraternal groups and nonprofits is dead af...
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman is holding firm in his opposition to a proposed Medicaid expansion that could come as a result of...
The Nebraska Supreme Court has found that a Platte County prosecutor violated terms of a plea bargain by promising to recomme...
The state's deputy chief medical officer has been promoted to become the chief officer and the director of the Division o...
Monday was a significant day in Nebraska politics. A state senator announced he's running for governor and a U.S. Senator...
A hearing officer has determined that Douglas County election workers violated the Federal Help America Vote Act in the Novem...
Former Nebraska Womens basketball player Charlie Rogers' case has been delayed. Rogers will now face a March 14 sentencin...
Charlie Rogers' case has been delayed.Rogers will now face a March 14 sentencing date after a Lancaster County Court judg...
A Nebraska lawmaker who is leaning toward a run for governor is scheduled to make an announcement in his hometown of Fremont....
The Nebraska Supreme Court has reversed a District court ruling that kept a father, who was intentionally misled about the bi...
Steve Hager calls himself "an American hippie." The editor-in-chief of High Time magazine was on the UNL campus to ...
The second day of tax reform hearings drew a smaller crowd today. Last night the hearing on L-B 405, the Governor's large...
A Nebraska woman accused of prostituting her 7- and 14-year-old daughters has been given up to 20 more years in prison. The 3...
The Revenue Committee hearing room at the state Capitol building overflowed with people waiting to testify on Governor Heinem...
When it comes to Governor Heineman's proposals to eliminate the state income tax and dozens of sales tax exemptions, the ...
The numbers of marriages and divorces in nebraska are both going down. The state reports 2011, the latest year for which stat...
Nebraska lawmakers have set a hearing date for a proposal to expand Medicaid coverage as part of the federal health care law....
Disabled veterans who live in Nebraska would receive a preference when competing for state contracts, under a bill presented ...
Mayor Chris Beutler and a group of local health care executives have thrown their support behind an expansion of Nebraska'...
A former minister already sentenced for sexual assault in Iowa has been given a 30-year sentence in Nebraska. 57-year-old Efr...
A 49-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a methamphetamine-related death from 2011. Charles Blowers was taken i...
A legislative panel has scheduled hearings on four bills that would exempt various forms of retirement pay from Nebraska stat...
A Nebraska lawmaker wants to allow foster care kids to get assistance from the state until they're 21. Former foster care...
One of the area's leading advocates for child safety has received a national award. Lynn Ayres, the head of Lincoln's...
One of the area's leading advocates for child safety has received a national award. Lynn Ayres, the head of Lincoln's...
A Beatrice man in prison for beating and raping a woman has pleaded not guilty to separate federal child pornography charges....
Public hearings have been scheduled for Gov. Dave Heineman's proposals to overhaul the state tax system. The Legislature&...
Doctors who treat newborns are urging Nebraska lawmakers to support a bill that would require congenital heart screenings as ...
A bill has been reintroduced in the Senate by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein that would ban assault weapons, in the wak...
Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers introduced a repeal measure on Wednesday, the final day for lawmakers to submit bills. Chambers is ...
A Nebraska woman accused of pimping out her 7- and 14-year-old daughters has been given 80 to 90 years in prison. The 36-year...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A Nebraska lawmaker has introduced a bill that would lower the state's inheritance tax rates.Sen. Jo...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska lawmakers are introducing a bill to expand Medicaid coverage as part of the federal health care...
A Nebraska lawmaker is proposing a state grant program and a task force that would help draw workers into job fields that are...
Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns is taking a run at gutting Obama-Care. Johanns is co-sponsoring a new bill to repeal the requir...
Does a person have to register as a sex offender, even if they weren't convicted of a sex crime? A man from the Buffalo C...
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has unveiled two proposed tax reform measures that would eliminate or reduce state income taxes.T...
A Lincoln firefighter has been arrested for possession of child pornography.A probable cause affidavit says that Lincoln Poli...
Lincoln Senator Amanda McGill is in the 2nd phase of her 3 phase effort to address human trafficking in Nebraska. The first p...
A man sentenced last month in state court for beating and raping a Beatrice woman has been indicted on federal pornography ch...
A 37-year-old man had to be TASERED multiple times early this morning (Wednesday) after allegedly trying to run his girlfrien...
Governor Dave Heineman is calling for an overhaul of Nebraska's tax system, saying the state needs to get rid of its indi...
Men who conceive children through a sexual assault would lose all parental rights but still might have to pay child support t...
A Nebraska lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require the state to fast-track concealed carry gun permits for victims ...
The Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha is dealing with sexual abuse allegations against another priest. Two lawyers who specialize...
Nebraska lawmakers are taking aim at taxes in the first wave of bills introduced during this year's session.Lawmakers sub...
A lawmaker has introduced a bill that would boot state elected officials off Nebraska's state employee health insurance p...
Tax exemptions for Social Security income and military retirement benefits being proposed in the Nebraska Legislature Thursda...
MAYWOOD, Neb. (AP) - The Frontier County Sheriff's Office has been investigating the report of a sexual assault at Maywoo...
The 2013 legislative session starts Wednesday. York SenatorGreg Adams, who is running unopposed for speaker, says he expects ...
The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a former Scottsbluff police officer on child pornography charges. Tyl...
"Could have been worse…" That's the reaction from Nebraska Farm Bureau President Steve Nelson to fiscal ...
The Salvation Army's Red Kettle campaign has reached and exceeded its goal. The donations have reached nearly $596 th...
An Omaha middle school student is facing charges because police say he threatened to kill some of his classmates who teased h...
A severe, yearlong drought that continues in Nebraska has been voted the top news story of 2012 by newspaper and broadcast me...
A longtime employee has been named chief executive officer at the Beatrice State Developmental Center. Delvin Koch replaces D...
Lincoln, NE – KFOR's parent company, Three Eagles Communications, is trying to make Christmas a little merrier for ...
Lincoln, NE – For 12 years, those who frequent the parking garage at 11th and “O” have become accustomed to...
State regulators have revoked the licenses of an Omaha mental health practitioner who collected nearly $66,000 in Medicai...
Omaha officials are honoring Nebraska's first female firefighter before she retires. Mayor Jim Suttle scheduled a recogni...
Omaha police say officers caught two women who stole $150 worth of toys from a children's donation box. The toys were...
Eleven non-profit agencies received a large and unexpected gift today (Tuesday.) The Harley Bair Estate left a $2.6 Milli...
A former Lincoln police officer, already in prison for stealing from the police union's Santa Cop Christmas charity, is a...
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman has ordered flags across the state flown at half-staff in the wake of a Connecticut elementar...
Lincoln Police arrested a local jeweler after finding child pornography on a business computer and explicit DVDs. Police arre...
A western Nebraska man was charged with sexual assault of a child after a 19-year-old woman reported he'd molested her fo...
Nebraska will see a cut in federal Medicaid funding in the upcoming state budget, which will force lawmakers to make up the d...
Braving bitterly cold temperatures, citizens took to the streets of downtown Lincoln yesterday (Monday) to protest the possib...
A Nebraska woman has been convicted of faking an anti-gay hate crime in Lincoln. 34-year-old, Charlie Rogers has pleaded no c...
Two needy Lincoln familiesreceived a big boost Friday. Each family received a re-built automobile, courtesy ofTracy's Bod...
A 30-year-old western Nebraska man has been given seven years in prison for having thousands of images of child pornography o...
A 24-year-old Lincoln woman has changed her plea to no contest in the child abuse case of a 12-year-old girl who died of a dr...
Nebraska needs more doctors. A University of Nebraska Medical Study finds the number of primary care physicians is 30% lower ...
The nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group has given Lincoln a failing grade; 37 out of 1...
Gov. Dave Heineman says Nebraska will vigorously defend a policy that denies driver's licenses to young illegal immigrant...
A 50-year-old Lincoln man remains in jail today (Thursday), accused of sexually assaulting his estranged wife. Lincoln Police...
A Lincoln woman accused of faking a hate crime has withdrawn a motion to move her trial out of Lincoln. Charlie Rogers' l...
Donations given to the Humane Society of the United States are not helping local pet shelters. The Opinion Research Corporati...
The merits of the death penalty will be debated tonight (Wednesday) at the Lied Center. Nebraska's Solicitor General J. K...
KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) - A 35-year-old Nebraska woman convicted for prostituting her 14-year-old and 7-year-old daughters will be...
Nebraska lawmakers meet tomorrow (Tuesday) to examine how the federal health care law will affect the state budget. The Healt...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A 20-year-old Lincoln man who acknowledged sexual contact with a 12-year-old who later died of a drug ov...
Omaha firefighters are thankful that they finally have a new contract. They've been working without one for 5 years. Fire...
A federal jury in Iowa has found a 28-year-old New Jersey man guilty of running a nationwide sex trafficking and prostitution...
It only took 40 minutes to give away 200 frozen turkeys to needy people at the Salvation Army on North 27th Street yesterday ...
There’s a big difference of opinion this morning (Friday). Governor Heineman is enrolling Nebraska in a federally run h...
Governor Dave Heineman has chosen to enroll Nebraska in a federally run health exchange program, saying a state-based option ...
It is the goal of Nebraska's Division of Behavioral Health to reduce underage drinking by 6% in the next 5 years. They ho...
Lincoln's Salvation Army is asking for contributions of food during the next few days. The organization is about to holdi...
6 days before her next court appearance for falsely reporting a hate crime, Charlie Rogers has made a 15-minute YouTube video...
People have asked the Grand Island City Council to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation from city employment polici...
Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood is running for Nebraska governor, calling himself "a budget-minded veteran lawmake...
Looking for a new career? Go into nursing. The Dean of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center reports that the ...
Dog fighting is a wide spread problem in the Midwest. The Nebraska Humane Society is giving law enforcement officials the nec...
Governor Dave Heineman Monday proclaimed November as Adoption Awareness Month for the state of Nebraska.It spotlights childre...
There were 4 constitutional amendments on the statewide ballot; 2 passed easily, 2 were soundly defeated. Voters made hunting...
A 2 year old Lincoln girl, found alone at a near-south neighborhood grocery store early Monday morning, has been returned to ...
Nebraskans are flocking to the polls this year. Nebraska's elections chief says voter turnout could be higher than in 200...
Another update on the Midwest's economy is due out this morning (Thursday). Creighton University economist Ernie Goss wil...
Omaha firefighters could soon have their first new contract since 2007 after negotiators reached a tentative deal. The firefi...
Election Commissioner David Shively is projecting that a record number of Lancaster County voters will cast ballots for the 2...
Nebraska is becoming a state where voters are shunning both political parties, registering as independents in growing numbers...
A child advocacy group is asking Nebraska lawmakers to extend state services to youths who are pushed out of foster care beca...
A 44-year-old man has been given 30 to 50 years in prison for sexually assaulting teenage girls in southeast Nebraska. Ronald...
You can go to prison for putting tattoos on minors. 23-year-old, Jeffrey Collins of York has been sentenced to 2 years for in...
A sixth man has been arrested in connection with a child prostitution ring in Kearney, allegedly run by a Nebraska woman char...
Whose rights come first? The handicapped, or big donors to the Husker Football Program. A federal court will decide. The laws...
A sixth man is suspected of having sex with an underage girl in Kearney in a child prostitution ring allegedly run by a Nebra...
A 22-year-old man is in a Lincoln hospital this morning (Wednesday) in critical condition with 2 gunshot wounds. He was shot ...
Nebraska lawmakers have scheduled a hearing on children who "age out" of the state's foster care system. The Le...
Omaha Senator Jeremy Nordquist wants to shut the governor and other officials out of the state employee health plan. Nordquis...
Call centers that handle requests for food stamps, Medicaid and other public benefits are understaffed. Nebraska's Child ...
The part-time job you take for the holidays could be the opportunity you need to land a full-time job. Surveys have shown tha...
There will be no sweetheart deal for UNL's Sigma Chi Fraternity. It was given the death penalty Friday byN-U Student Affa...
Several people have been arrested during a prostitution bust at a motel in western Iowa. Authorities say the operation began ...
A Nebraska City man has been given a two-year sentence for selling identity documents. Gerardo Rangel Rojas, aka Ivan Lara Ro...
A 60-year-old Minatare man has been given 30 to 40 years in prison after making a plea deal in a child sex assault and porn c...
The parents of a Crete High School teen who was allegedly sexually assaulted by 52-year-old Chad Eggebraaten are filing a for...
A 54-year-old man will serve two years of probation for mistreating a 71-year-old south-central Nebraska woman he was hired t...
The Grand Island City Council will vote Tuesday on extending anti-discrimination protection to gay, lesbian, bisexual and tra...
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) - The Grand Island City Council has scheduled a vote on extending anti-discrimination protection to g...
52-year-old Chad Eggebraaten of Crete goes to court next month accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. He has been cou...
A former minister convicted of three sexual assault charges in Council Bluffs will be resentenced on one of them, now that th...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State won't increase football season ticket prices or current donation levels in 2013, and...
Americans consider themselves to be quite healthy, according to Census Bureau information. Nearly 2/3 of those surveyed repor...
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln plans to privatize its health center operations, a plan being closely watched by universit...
Former Husker basketball player, Charlie Rogers, is back in court November 19th on charges she faked an anti-gay attack again...
Police are investigating an overnight robbery of a north Lincoln convenience store. Police Capt. Jason Stille tells KFOR NEWS...
Local residents are being asked to check their medicine cabinets. If you have unused or expired prescription drugs, don't...
The Attorney General's Office is appealing the dismissal of a lawsuit that tried to block part of the federal health care...
The announcement from Lincoln's Center for People in Need sounds encouraging; 1,100 fewer people in Lancaster County are ...
More than just rentals were apparently coming out of a Fremont business. A huge prescription drug ring was being operated out...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Four years after Democrat Barack Obama managed to win one of Nebraska's electoral votes, the president...
Strong farm income helped Nebraska and Iowa record an increase in median income last year while nationally median income decl...
1 out of every 3 people in this country is obese. Unless people start eating the right foods and exercising more, 6 of every ...
A lawsuit accusing the Nebraska Department of Administrative Services of allowing a supervisor to demean and discriminate aga...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - A new NCAA task force will come up with guidelines for how to distribute the record $60 million...
Republican Senate Candidate Deb Fischer said today she is in favor of a federal balanced budget amendment, but admitted achie...
Special benefits and unused sick and vacation time mean Former Omaha superintendent John Mackiel will receive more than $...
Authorities say a 12-year-old boy has been arrested after inappropriately touching a female faculty member at Westridge Middl...
13 years in prison is the sentence for a 31-year-old Lincoln man for distributing child pornography. Brent Bailey was found l...
Nebraska's program to improve employee health is gaining national recognition. Nebraska was one of two winners of the 201...
Top administrators from the University of Nebraska Medical Center are expected to brief the university's Board of Regents...
Governor Dave Heineman said Monday there are at least two more meetings scheduled in which members of the public will be able...
The fight over immigration in Fremont continues, and now three civil rights organizations have entered the legal battle. The ...
A group of veterans has endorsed Republican Senate Candidate Deb Fischer. The group is headed by four retired national guard ...
Nebraska's troubled effort to privatize its child welfare services could cost the state $3.2 million in federal money...
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning is apologizing to a man wrongfully convicted in the 1955 killing of his wife. Bruning a...
The former head of the Omaha Chiefs youth football organization has been sentenced to 30 to 80 years in prison for sexually a...
What is being described as "horseplay", has gotten two 16 year old Southeast High students cited for assault and tw...
One month to the day 33 year old, Charlie Rogers told police 3 masked men tied her up, beat her, scratched anti-gay slurs on ...
An alleged hate crime victim turned herself in earlier today after a warrent was issued for her arrest. Earlier today (Tuesda...
An alleged hate crime victim turned herself in earlier today after a warrent was issued for her arrest. Earlier today (Tuesda...
Authorities say they will charge a Lincoln woman with making false statements to police after she claimed last month that thr...
If you're not a citizen, you can't get a driver's license in Nebraska. Gov. Dave Heineman says the state won'...
A Nebraska man gets 80 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography. 24-year-old, Matthew McCann, must also se...
A former firefighter and paramedic for the city of York has filed a federal lawsuit, claiming she was wrongly fired following...
Security has been increased at the University of Nebraska at Omaha after a student reported being sexually assaulted by a man...
Gov. Dave Heineman says Nebraska will host a series of informal public meetings to collect input on the state's effort to...
The Scottsbluff city police chief and a woman had an affair. She sued him and the city. Now it'sup to the city manager to...
Nebraska U.S. Senate candidate Bob Kerrey says deep cuts and some tax increases would put the federal budget on a path to bei...
A couple of brothers have been convicted of Social Security fraud. 51-year-old Timothy Shirley is guilty of conspiracy, theft...
It's almost time to go back to school. The Salvation Army is helping by coming up with donations of back to school suppli...
Former Husker, Joba Chamberlain, has been activated from the disabled list by the New York Yankees. Chamberlain had been on t...
A new university report shows the number of Nebraska residents without health insurance surged between 2000 and 2010. Researc...
The Nebraska Rural Polls survey found church attendance in small towns is going down. The survey found weekly church attendan...
KFOR's Dale Johnson talked with Police Chief Jim Peshong on today's Lincoln Live following the attack of a 33 year ol...
Mayor Chris Beutler issued a statement today denouncing the sexually-oriented assault of a woman in her near-south home. The ...
Deputies have taken a man into custody after they got a gun and knife away from him at a hospital in southeast Nebraska. The ...
Lincoln Police have determined that an assault and arson Sunday morning at a 33-year-old Lincoln woman's home near 22nd a...
Two Omaha child care centers lost state and federal funding after yesterday's (Friday) investigations. Wise Kids and Kids...
A 32-year-old Nebraska man is charged with sexually abusing at least three boys, possibly more, over an eight-year span in Ne...
The director of Nebraska's insurance department is trying to assure lawmakers that the state has made progress in its eff...
If you know anyone who may have been in contact with 32-year-old Robert Schuster of Martell between 2002 and 2010,Lancaster C...
An investigation continues into alleged sexual abuse, incest and child pornography; involving a 14-year-old girl's parent...
A 35-year-old Nebraska woman already accused of prostituting her 14-year-old and 7-year-old daughters has been charged with h...
Billionaire Warren Buffett says President Barack Obama's health care reforms are a positive step, but more must be done t...
A 31-year-old man has been convicted of abusing residents at a state-run center for developmentally disabled people.The jury ...
A member of the Legislature is critical over the state's planning process for a health insurance exchange. State Senator ...
Governor Dave Heineman is warning Nebraska lawmakers that he will oppose any efforts to expand Medicaid coverage in the wake ...
In a letter to Nebraska lawmakers, Governor Heineman on Wednesday reiterated his concern of extending Medicaid coverage under...
Mayor Chris Beutler introduced his budget proposal to the Lincoln City Council on Monday. The $312 Million dollar package...
Jury selection is under way for a former worker accused of abusing residents at a Nebraska center for developmentally disable...
A north Omaha woman says she will join a high-profile race for a seat in the Legislature. Susan Smith will enter the race for...
Lincoln's City Government will have a status-quo budget the next two years, if Mayor Chris Beutler gets his way. The Mayo...
Hot temperatures mean spending more time inside in the air conditioning... unless you're homeless. The People's City ...
A Bellevue man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for producing child pornography which involved installing a secret ca...
The final living unit of a state-run center for the developmentally disabled is now eligible to receive federal funding, thre...
The final living unit of a state-run center for the developmentally disabled is now eligible to receive federal funding, thre...
A Nebraska woman with a felony record who used her son's Social Security number to get a job will spend six months in jai...
Republicans in at least three states want to abandon an expansion of Medicaid in President Barack Obama's health care ove...
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman predicts that The affordable care act will continue to increase the cost of health care. The ...
The Supreme Court has upheld the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul -- ruling in favor of the require...
A Nebraska lawmaker who has led the push to create a state-based marketplace for health insurance says officials must move qu...
President Obama's historic health care overhaul can proceed. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday 5-4 in favor of the plan, i...
US Congress(BATON ROUGE, La.) -- In this week’s Republican address, Rep. Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) describes the Republ...
Two more former workers accused of abusing residents at a Nebraska center for developmentally disabled adults have entered pl...
Congressional republicans have been slamming the Obama Administration's announcement that it will no longer deport illega...
The city of Lincoln has reached agreement with the last of its four civilian unions to end the controversial 2-for-1 retireme...
An Lincoln woman who was an inmate at the Nebraska Correctional Center in York has died. 36-year-old Amy Katzberg had been re...
It's a secret that at least one victim held on to for nearly 30 years, but this past February...he felt something had to ...
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents has approved a plan to extend employee benefits to domestic partners. The board v...
The president of the Iowa and Nebraska conference of NAACP branches has resigned over the group's national board resoluti...
New pre-trial hearings are set for three former workers accused of abusing residents at a Nebraska center for developmentally...
The federal Food and Drug Administration has taken Nebraska's suggestion to appeal a federal judge's ruling against i...
The family of a Nebraska man killed along a Mississippi highway would like to see a death sentence handed down in the case. T...
The family of a Nebraska man killed along a Mississippi highway would like to see a death sentence handed down in the case. T...
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents will be asked to approved so-called Plus One Health Insurance coverage at next Fr...
Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler will outline the city's next actionThursday morning regarding the Fairness Ordinance. The Cit...
The Nebraska mom accused of pimping out her 14- and 7-year-old daughters has waived her preliminary hearing, so the case will...
A 27-year-old Lincoln man is accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old in the past month. Jay Gilmore called the Nebraska ...
Organizers say they expect to turn in enough petition signatures to force a public vote on Lincoln's new measure barring ...
The appeals process is underway in the court challenge to Fremont's new immigration ordinance. Attorneys for the American...
A Lincoln man has been given six years in a federal prison for possessing and distributing child pornography. Federal prosecu...
A recently unsealed federal indictment in Iowa alleges a nationwide sex trafficking ring solicited customers on Backpage.com ...
A 9-year-old boy originally from Russia who was killed in a Nebraska house fire has been laid to rest, but prosecutors and th...
Nebraska's governor says city ordinances barring discrimination against gay and transgender people should be put to publi...
A fourth man accused of paying a Nebraska mother to let him have sex with her 14-year-old daughter has been charged with sexu...
An audit has found that Nebraska's state employee health insurance program is one of the country's most expensive, co...
The Lincoln City Council has approved the controversial Fairness Ordinance. The change will add gay and trans-gendered people...
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The Nebraska Supreme Court says an alleged sexual assault victim can be sent to jail if she refuses to testify about the deta...
The Lincoln Independent Business Association (LIBA) has not taken a position for or against the Fairness Ordinance which is s...
A Swiss pharmaceutical company has notified the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that it is recalling a supply of a lethal i...
A 57-year-old Grand Island man has been given a year and a day in prison for Social Security fraud. Jesus Chavez-Flores must ...
Mayor Chris Beutler is asking Lincoln residents to take an online survey on budget priorities. The Mayor's "Taking C...
The state attorney general says Nebraska cities cannot enact ordinances that protect gay and transgender people from discrimi...
Prosecutors have dismissed a drug charge against a Lincoln woman arrested after she kept a prescription for painkillers mista...
A 35-year-old south-central Nebraska woman has been arrested, accused of pimping out her 14-year-old daughter. A news release...
A state audit has found that some Nebraska school district employees have not paid into the state's pension fund when the...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has denied an appeal by the former Gage County highway superintendent. Marli...
A new report by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services shows an ongoing health disparity between minority women...
A Lincoln man has been sentenced to five years in prison in a federal child pornography case. 45-year-old Todd Hobbs was sent...
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