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Posted: 05/21/13 05:14
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Meeting Warren Buffett is exciting, but 10-year-old Matthew Meyer says winning $5,000 and 10 shares of stock in Buffett's company m...
Posted: 05/20/13 22:00
TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ The tornadoes that have raked communities in Oklahoma, Texas and other states over the past week belie what has been an unusually ...
Posted: 05/20/13 21:07
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Lawmakers have rejected an attempt to repeal a new Nebraska law that lets cities raise their local option sales tax rates, ...
Posted: 05/20/13 19:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska lawmakers have given final approval to the seven budget bills that make the state's two-year budget. Lawmakers pa...
Posted: 05/20/13 18:47
MOORE, Okla. (AP) _ Several children have been pulled out of the rubble alive at a school in an Oklahoma City suburb. An Associated Press photographe...
Posted: 05/20/13 16:10
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ A mile-wide tornado chewing through the Oklahoma City area has reduced neighborhoods to rubble and left cars and trucks ...
Posted: 05/20/13 16:01
STAPLETON, Neb. (AP) _ The Logan County sheriff's office says a 67-year-old man has died in a two-vehicle crash near Stapleton. Sheriff Jon Hef...
Posted: 05/20/13 11:50
A 49-year-old Tilden, Nebraska woman who went missing Sunday night was found Monday morning by a passerby near an abandoned farmhouse southwest of Mea...
Posted: 05/20/13 10:55
Thurston Manufacturing Company in Thurston, Nebraska is proud to announce the asset purchase of a Spencer, Iowa, based company, Simonsen Iron Works.
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Posted: 05/20/13 09:46
Nebraska's State Patrol Superintendent says he is concerned about the escalation of violence in Whiteclay.
Protestors to the sale of alcohol ...
Posted: 05/20/13 05:03
BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) - The Homestead National Monument of America is celebrating the 100-year anniversary of a novel that celebrates Nebraska pioneers....
Posted: 05/19/13 23:00
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ A major insurer is recommending 11 Nebraska hospitals for spine surgeries and knee or hip replacements because they deliver quality...
Posted: 05/19/13 21:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ At their next meeting, Nebraska Game and Parks commissioners will consider a staff recommendation to create a mountain lion hunti...
Posted: 05/19/13 18:00
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) _ Police say a man stabbed his estranged girlfriend at least 20 times in a Grand Island church parking lot before cutting his ...
Posted: 05/19/13 15:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska lawmakers are forging ahead slowly this year with the state budget, a new school funding formula, and an overhaul of juv...
Posted: 05/19/13 12:00
ALLIANCE, Neb. (AP) _ A 20-year-old Hemingford woman has admitted helping hide the body of a Denver man in northwest Nebraska months before her boyfri...
Posted: 05/19/13 09:40
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ An Omaha gay-rights group is seeking the return of some $1,800 donated to a Lincoln woman convicted of lying about being attacked...
Posted: 05/19/13 06:06
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) _ Officials are hoping for the return of some 40 personalized bricks destined for a North Platte veterans' memorial that someo...
Posted: 05/17/13 21:00
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ The utility that owns the troubled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in eastern Nebraska says it hopes to have the plant ready to op...
Posted: 05/17/13 11:55
An Asian based firm interested in locating a beef processing facility on a Scottsbluff industrial site will make a presentation before the Scottsbluff...
Posted: 05/16/13 14:10
Governor Dave Heineman says he has concerns about whether the state education funding bill approved by lawmakers is fair to rural Nebraska.
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Posted: 05/16/13 09:00
The Johnson Lake Chamber is hosting its 2nd Annual Art & Wine Festival Saturday June 8, 2013 from 10-4pm at the Lakeview Acres Park located ...
Posted: 05/15/13 20:30
Veteran broadcaster Chuck Schwartz is joining the KNEB staff, according to CEO Craig Larson.
"We have a tremendous staff at KNEB and it j...
Posted: 05/15/13 20:00
Mid-Plains Community College administrators, faculty, staff and its Board of Governors celebrated construction of a new cafeteria at No...
Posted: 05/15/13 17:00
Holdrege voters said "Yes" in a special election on Tuesday to a nearly $14 million bond measure for a new elementary school. Phelps County Clerk Sa...
Posted: 05/14/13 10:52
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A proposal to abolish the death penalty in Nebraska is dead for the year.
Supporters on Tuesday failed to muster the 3...
Posted: 05/14/13 10:18
BUSHNELL, Neb. (AP) _ A southwest Nebraska natural gas pipeline is back in operation after rupturing earlier this month.
The Lincoln Journa...
Posted: 05/13/13 21:31
Minden volunteer firefighters handled a large fire Monday afternoon about 2.5 miles northeast of Minden at a cluster of three businesses loc...
Posted: 05/13/13 18:30
Jeff Wightman was sworn in Monday afternoon as the newest County Judge in the 11th Judicial District. Wightman will be seated in Lexington. After ta...
Posted: 05/13/13 18:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has vetoed a teacher retirement bill, arguing that a proposed increase in the state's contribut...
Posted: 05/13/13 13:54
Governor Dave Heineman told two groups of young people during a visit to the Scottsbluff area today they are "future of the state." Heineman spoke to...
Posted: 05/13/13 11:30
(Lincoln, Neb.) Gov. Dave Heineman is reminding Nebraskans that U.S. and Nebraska flags will be flown at half-staff on Wednesday, May 15 in observance...
Posted: 05/12/13 07:42
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ The Omaha Police Department has revised its policy regarding the public's use of cameras in the wake of an investigation into recen...
Posted: 05/12/13 06:43
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A new federal report says Nebraska is on track to harvest only 42.9-million bushels of wheat this summer _ the state's smallest w...
Posted: 05/10/13 16:18
The step-father of a three-year-old North Platte boy who survived a drowning this week, has been arrested on a felony charge of Child Abuse. Tw...
Posted: 05/10/13 11:48
Do you have what it takes to be the next AMERICAN IDOL? The Season 13 audition cities were just announced and now you can make your plans to become th...
Posted: 05/09/13 17:30
LB 158 is one of 29 bills in the Nebraska Legislature designated as a priority proposal for 2013.
State Sen Al Davis says the penalty for a ...
Posted: 05/09/13 10:14
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has signed a bill that ends mandatory life sentences for juveniles who commit first-degree murder.
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Posted: 05/08/13 17:08
A man and woman wanted in connection with a string of robberies in Minnesota and South Dakota waived their preliminary hearing Wednesday afternoon in ...
Posted: 05/07/13 21:00
UNL Climatologist Mark Svoboda of the National Drought Mitigation Center studies weather and climate of all kinds, including the impact of the curr...
Posted: 05/07/13 10:36
DENVER (AP) _ Colorado lawmakers have put off marijuana legalization until the last possible minute _ and now they're facing some big deadlines to fin...
Posted: 05/07/13 09:30
LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) _ A 23-year-old man has been given 30 months of probation for shaking a baby in south-central Nebraska. 23-year-old Cameron Hovey...
Posted: 05/07/13 01:58
A medical office building will be built on the campus of the new Kearney Regional Medical Center in southwest Kearney. The new building wil...
Posted: 05/06/13 21:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ The Nebraska Travel Commission says its goals for this summer's travel season could help the state surpass last year's success. ...
Posted: 05/05/13 06:30
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Berkshire Hathaway shareholders have again rejected a proposal to require the company's utilities to set goals for reducing greenho...
Posted: 05/04/13 23:00
DAVID CITY, Neb. (AP) _ Authorities are perplexed as to what may have caused several hundred fish to die in eastern Nebraska. Officials at David Cit...
Posted: 05/04/13 12:00
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Billionaire Warren Buffett says he spends plenty of time thinking about the future of his company after he is gone. But the 82-ye...
Posted: 05/04/13 10:29
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A beer truck in the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay was vandalized by activists who were protesting the town's alcohol stores n...
Posted: 05/04/13 06:00
Community Day is a "Thank You" to North Platte
NORTH PLATTE, NE-As a thank you to the North Platte community, the Golden Spike Tower & ...
Posted: 05/02/13 21:00
LINCOLN - Attorney General Jon Bruning, the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP), the Grand Island Police Department and the Lincoln Police Department announc...
Posted: 05/02/13 11:12
The incoming Chairman of the Nebraska Bankers Association says the Obama Administration's regulatory environment is hindering the financial industry's...
Posted: 05/02/13 03:59
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska lawmakers have moved to streamline appeals for anyone who challenges a decision of the commission that regulates utiliti...
Posted: 05/01/13 09:22
Chadron residents Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a new 15-year half-cent LB-840 economic development sales tax and accompanying plan setting how the ...
Posted: 04/30/13 23:30
Two people were injured Tuesday in a semi-truck crash about one-mile west of the Cozad/Interstate-80 interchange in the westbound lanes.
Cozad Fi...
Posted: 04/30/13 22:24
A 24-year-old Hastings woman has been sentenced to 26 months in federal prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for her failure to ...
Posted: 04/30/13 18:24
Over 70 local residents who volunteer at the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center in Geneva were recently recognized at a banquet for their servi...
Posted: 04/28/13 09:23
NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) - Authorities have identified the two people killed when a small plane owned by a flight school crashed in northeast Nebraska this ...
Posted: 04/25/13 23:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Investors who were spooked by Washington's fiscal-cliff showdown have created a one-time cash windfall for Nebraska.
T...
Posted: 04/25/13 19:00
A man and woman wanted in connection with a string of robberies in Minnesota and South Dakota will make their next appearance in Dawson County court...
Posted: 04/24/13 23:50
Over 50,000 youth and adults in Nebraska will "Stand for the Silent, " on Friday as part of a movement against bullying. Cathleen Plager is ...
Posted: 04/24/13 20:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Lawmakers have advanced a tax incentive bill designed to attract wind-energy companies to Nebraska. The 30-0 vote on Wednesday ...
Posted: 04/24/13 14:19
Senator Deb Fischer is becoming a regular at the White House. Over the last two weeks, Fischer has visited the White House twice at the request of Pr...
Posted: 04/23/13 20:00
Kearney officials says they are disappointed but will bounce back from Facebook's decision to build a data center in Iowa. Kearney had sought the pr...
Posted: 04/22/13 18:30
A male suspect wanted in connection with armed robberies in Minnesota and South Dakota and a female passenger were taken into custody Monday aftern...
Posted: 04/22/13 18:00
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ A group that supports the Keystone XL pipeline says it has collected more than 33,000 signatures from Nebraska residents who endors...
Posted: 04/19/13 12:43
All roads in Wyoming are now open. I-80 has opened in both directions from Laramie to Cheyenne and U.S. 85 is now open in both directions from Torrin...
Posted: 04/16/13 15:54
(Lincoln, Neb.)- The Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) is reminding citizens to remain vigilant in the wake of the tragic and senseless acts of violence whi...
Posted: 04/16/13 12:45
KIMBALL, Neb. (AP) - The Kimball police chief who'd been put on administrative leave has resigned.
The Scottsbluff Star-Herald says Mark Si...
Posted: 04/15/13 16:24
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Gov. Dave Heineman says his $2.2 million budget request to buy an airplane from the University of Nebraska Foundation is needed t...
Posted: 04/15/13 16:10
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman says state emergency officials should have direct control over airplanes that could be stationed in C...
Posted: 04/11/13 14:51
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ An effort to boost state-level alcohol enforcement in Nebraska is colliding with budget realities in the Legislature.
S...
Posted: 04/11/13 10:38
Governor Heineman says some changes need to be made in a bill that would pour new firefighting resources into central and western Nebraska, areas that...
Posted: 04/10/13 13:14
All of Hwy 71 in the Panhandle is NOW OPEN.
All of Hwy 88 in the Panhandle is NOW OPEN.
ALL of I80 in Nebraska is NOW OPEN.
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Posted: 04/10/13 09:55
The Nebraska State Patrol says 37-year-old Lisa Conrad died from exposure after leaving her stranded vehicle during the recent snow storm. Conrad's 19...
Posted: 04/08/13 12:12
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) A new study says the death rates in small rural hospitals are worse than at most hospitals.
The study published in the Jou...
Posted: 04/06/13 11:35
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering students will compete this summer in NASA's RASC-AL Exploration Robo-Ops Competition. ...
Posted: 04/06/13 10:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A series of gun measures introduced in the Nebraska Legislature are likely to stay in committee for the rest of the year.
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Posted: 04/05/13 14:17
Fremont, Neb A truck driver from Oklahoma was arrested just after 8 Thursday night north of Fremont after he allegedly shot at a pickup driver.
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Posted: 04/03/13 15:59
A week and a half long trial has been scheduled in September for a 36 year old Illinois truck driver charged with nine felonies in a deadly crash on I...
Posted: 03/25/13 10:00
Boating season is a ways away, but it's never too early to take a boater safety course. Nebraska Boating Law Administrator Scott Eveland says classes ...
Posted: 03/24/13 23:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A harsh summer drought that threatened Nebraska farms and ranches is prompting lawmakers to take a fresh look at climate change. ...
Posted: 03/21/13 10:43
Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns says a continuing resolution passed by the Senate Wednesday includes money for meat inspectors at processing facilities....
Posted: 03/18/13 09:40
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska has officially opened its first China trade office in Shanghai.
The new office is part of a push by Gov. Dave...
Posted: 03/15/13 12:44
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Alcohol sales in the Nebraska-South Dakota border town of Whiteclay dropped for the second year in a row in 2012.
A ye...
Posted: 03/15/13 09:38
Members of the Alliance High Crisis team will be available when classes resume Monday following the death of a 16 year old Alliance boy and injuries t...
Posted: 03/11/13 10:12
The attorney for 2010 Scotts Bluff County Fair Queen Jessica Littlejohn and her father Bill " Chip" Littlejohn says he will need to refile a suit agai...
Posted: 03/10/13 17:45
Governor Dave Heineman says he is not excited about raising property
taxes in order to gain more funding to improve school safety.
Oma...
Posted: 03/09/13 16:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ The state treasurer's office is seeking to return $125 million in unclaimed property to more than 350,000 Nebraskans and former N...
Posted: 03/08/13 10:50
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska's elections chief is recommending an interim study to determine whether the state needs legislation that would require g...
Posted: 03/07/13 15:54
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A state lawmaker is presenting a bill that would require Nebraska residents to show a government-issued photo identification when...
Posted: 03/07/13 15:06
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A legislative committee has advanced a bill that would provide tax incentives for Nebraska wind farms, drawing the ire of Gov. Da...
Posted: 03/06/13 12:10
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A former Democratic candidate for governor is considering another run for office in Nebraska.
Scottsbluff attorney Mik...
Posted: 03/05/13 17:51
A Nevada truck driver who reported to the Nebraska State Patrol hotline he found drugs in his trailer has been charged with possession of methamphetam...
Posted: 03/05/13 13:00
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing $91,300 in fines for safety violations at Darling International's mea...
Posted: 03/04/13 14:09
(Seward, Neb.) A Sunday traffic stop on Interstate 80 west of Lincoln, led to the seizure of more than 24 lbs. of marijuana, and the arrest of two s...
Posted: 03/04/13 12:18
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning says he's planning to seek re-election to his current job, and it's ``extremely unlikely'' ...
Posted: 03/03/13 18:33
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) - The mayor of Grand Island has been arrested for suspicion of drunken driving.
Mayor Jay Vavricek was arrested in Ho...
Posted: 03/01/13 12:05
Activists who want to end beer sales in Whiteclay, Neb., planned a protest Friday after what they described as a showdown with law officers Thursday.
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Posted: 03/01/13 09:23
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) University of Nebraska officials are unhappy with a preliminary state budget that allocates less money than what Gov. Dave Heineman...
Posted: 02/27/13 17:17
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman is holding firm in his opposition to a proposed Medicaid expansion that could come as a result of the...
