Profiles
Attorneys preparing to appear before Judge Richard McGowan may want to plan for a late morning docket, as Douglas County's newest judge isn't known as a morning person.
McGowan was sworn in as judge...
Brittany Burling recalls enjoying a glass of wine every now and then. During the COVID-19 pandemic, "Then" became a little more often.
"We were all just stuck at home," Burling said. "And I felt my...
The jury has reached a decision. The verdict … Guilty on both counts: Committing terroristic threats and third-degree assault in a road-rage, criminal case, heard recently before the Hon. Thomas K....
In the movie, “Almost Famous,” inspired by the real-life experiences of director Cameron Crowe, who started writing for the “Rolling Stone,” at age 15, his character is given back-stage access to...
Dan Schultz transitioned from a military career as an electronic warfare officer to opening a housecleaning franchise. He embraces his military training in building the franchise. (Tim Trudell / The Daily Record)
Dan Schultz likely could have had his pick of jobs when he retired from the Air Force. Defense-related contractor positions were within his grasp. With two master's degrees, maybe he could have used...
Today’s News
LINCOLN — When the pandemic hit shortly after they had launched a decorative metalworking shop, Sheila and Paul Johnson of Bennet, Nebraska, were worried: “What’s going to happen now?”
As it turned...
A variety show that’s still revered for its absurdist, slapstick humor debuted 50 years ago. It starred an irreverent band of characters made of foam and fleece.
Long after “The Muppet Show”‘s...
There is a tragedy which I have attempted to write about on three separate occasions now. With each attempt a fear grows in me that half of the readers who are reading this article will set it down...
LINCOLN — Three Nebraska businessmen representing a diversity of beginnings have landed in this year’s Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business Hall of Fame.
The 2026 honorees are DJ...
LINCOLN — The Pillen administration faces new questions this week over whether a compressed timeline justified the Nebraska Department of Economic Development rushing into a $2.5 million no-bid...
This Week's News
02/03/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — When the pandemic hit shortly after they had launched a decorative metalworking shop, Sheila and Paul Johnson of Bennet, Nebraska, were worried: “What’s going to happen now?”
As it turned out, home improvement projects boomed and so did...
02/03/2026 - 12:00am
A variety show that’s still revered for its absurdist, slapstick humor debuted 50 years ago. It starred an irreverent band of characters made of foam and fleece.
Long after “The Muppet Show”‘s original 120-episode run ended in 1981, the legend and...
02/03/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Three Nebraska businessmen representing a diversity of beginnings have landed in this year’s Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business Hall of Fame.
The 2026 honorees are DJ Eihusen of Chief Industries, Grand Island; Rodrigo López...
02/02/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — The Pillen administration faces new questions this week over whether a compressed timeline justified the Nebraska Department of Economic Development rushing into a $2.5 million no-bid emergency bioeconomy contract with a firm Gov. Jim...
This is a 1954 photo of one of America's foremost political philosophers and scholars, Hannah Arendt. (AP Photo)
02/02/2026 - 12:00am
In Minneapolis, two recent fatal encounters with federal immigration agents have produced not only grief and anger, but an unusually clear fight over what is real.
In the aftermath of Alex Pretti’s killing on Jan. 24, 2026, federal officials claimed...
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02/02/2026 - 12:00am
Crime continued to decline in 2025, with homicides down 21% from 2024 and 44% from a peak in 2021, according to a new analysis of crime trends in 40 large U.S. cities released by the nonpartisan think tank Council on Criminal Justice.
If federal...
Anti I.C.E protesters gather in Foley Square to demand the Trump Administration stop deportations of immigrants on February 13, 2025 in New York City. (Katie Godowski / MediaPunch / IPX)
02/02/2026 - 12:00am
From coast to coast, groups of people are springing up to protect members of their communities as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents threaten them with violent enforcement.
In Portland, Oregon, community volunteers have...
01/30/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska will no longer divert federal survivor benefits for youths in foster care to help reimburse the costs of their care, becoming the 12th state nationally to do so.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, in an executive order Tuesday, directed...
01/30/2026 - 12:00am
The ocean is under increasing pressure. Everyday human activities, from shipping to oil and gas exploration to urban pollution, are affecting the marine environment. Extensive research shows how this combination of stressors represents one of the...
01/29/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — A local artist key to the creation of Omaha’s popular Little Italy mural has launched another art project to strengthen the bridge between Nebraska’s biggest city and a small Sicilian town from where many of the state’s early Italians...
A feedlot in Grand Island on Dec. 30, 2025. (Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)
01/29/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Brand Committee could be gone.
A bill from State Sen. Ben Hansen of Blair would eliminate the governor-appointed state Brand Committee and transfer its responsibilities to the Nebraska Department of Agriculture, which is run...
01/29/2026 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Three brothers, two of them real estate agents who catered to the jet-set crowd, used a playbook over a 12-year stretch that sometimes involved drugging women and girls before raping them, a prosecutor told a New York jury Tuesday in...
01/28/2026 - 12:00am
As nurses rushed Rachel Woollen to an Omaha operating room, all she could do was pray for the four tiny babies she was about to deliver.
“All I could say was, ‘Please, God, help them.’ I repeated it over and over. One nurse heard me, grabbed my hand...
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01/28/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — Several U.S. Senate Democrats launched an investigation into how the Trump administration’s child care funding cuts and policy changes are affecting rural families, in a Sunday letter provided exclusively to States Newsroom.
Sens....
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01/28/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — A novel centered on a young Army nurse who served in Vietnam and the latest in a “romantasy” series topped the list of popular fiction titles checked out at public libraries of Nebraska’s capital city.
The City of Lincoln’s public library...
Children disembark from a school bus in a largely Hispanic neighborhood that has been the subject of patrols and detentions by Border Patrol agents, during a federal immigration crackdown in Kenner, La., Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Gerald Herbert / AP Photo)
01/28/2026 - 12:00am
First, they killed a mom moments after she dropped off her son at school. Then, they came for the children; in one suburban Minneapolis school district, four students have been detained. On Friday, educators, activists, faith leaders and families...
