Profiles
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...
I hate America - hardly. But it wasn’t one person speaking ... It was millions, collectively united as one.
From sea to shining sea and beyond our nation’s shores, people rallied together in rural,...
It is set in stone, unlike the Constitution, our nation’s rule of law, many are valiantly defending to this day.
On Aug. 10, 1875, six attorneys convened at the Douglas County Courthouse to...
With visions of a resurgent neighborhood, supporters of redevelopment in the Saddle Creek see couples strolling through the neighborhood enjoying date nights, families grabbing a bite to eat and...
Today’s News
GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan attends the Time100 Gala, celebrating the 100 most influential people in the world, at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2025, in New York. (Evan Agostini / Invision / AP Photo)
NEW YORK (AP) — More and more people are turning to GoFundMe for help covering the cost of housing, food and other basic needs.
The for-profit crowdfunding platform's annual “Year in Help” report,...
Ocmulgee Mounds, a site in central Georgia with 12,000 years of Indigenous history, may be on the verge of becoming the newest U.S. national park. This is the flagship designation of the National...
Picture this: You’re looking to buy a place to live, and you have two options.
Option A is a beautiful home in California near good schools and job opportunities. But it goes for nearly a million...
A World of Lizards, Squirrels, and Men. (Courtesy of Matt Hebert)
The following is not just some self-serving, shameless plug for my ever-growing chapter series for kids. It’s a self-serving, shameless plug PLUS some really thoughtful insights into a collection of...
OMAHA — Mayor John Ewing Jr. sees only public good coming from a proposed arrangement to put a major North Omaha city park under the management of a local philanthropic group that already has...
This Week's News
GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan attends the Time100 Gala, celebrating the 100 most influential people in the world, at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2025, in New York. (Evan Agostini / Invision / AP Photo)
12/11/2025 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — More and more people are turning to GoFundMe for help covering the cost of housing, food and other basic needs.
The for-profit crowdfunding platform's annual “Year in Help” report, released Tuesday, underscored ongoing concerns...
12/11/2025 - 12:00am
Ocmulgee Mounds, a site in central Georgia with 12,000 years of Indigenous history, may be on the verge of becoming the newest U.S. national park. This is the flagship designation of the National Park Service system, which includes many types of...
12/11/2025 - 12:00am
Picture this: You’re looking to buy a place to live, and you have two options.
Option A is a beautiful home in California near good schools and job opportunities. But it goes for nearly a million dollars – the median California home sells for US$906...
A World of Lizards, Squirrels, and Men. (Courtesy of Matt Hebert)
12/11/2025 - 12:00am
The following is not just some self-serving, shameless plug for my ever-growing chapter series for kids. It’s a self-serving, shameless plug PLUS some really thoughtful insights into a collection of purposefully STEM-inspired books that will...
12/11/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — Mayor John Ewing Jr. sees only public good coming from a proposed arrangement to put a major North Omaha city park under the management of a local philanthropic group that already has invested in Miller Park.
Former State Sen. Justin Wayne,...
Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of NYU Langone’s transplant institute, prepares a pig kidney for transplant into a brain-dead man in New York on July 14, 2023. (Shelby Lum / AP Photo)
Putting Pig Organs In People Is OK In The US, But Growing Human Organs In Pigs Is Not – Why Is That?
12/10/2025 - 12:00am
In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic human tissue and was grown in a pig, as an...
Brad Barr plays Christmas music with dozens of other tuba musicians, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022, at Downtown Crossing in Boston. (Michael Dwyer / AP Photo)
12/10/2025 - 12:00am
With Mariah Carey and Wham! saturating airwaves with their holiday tunes, it’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas.
But if all you want for Christmas is a reprieve from stereotypical Christmas music, you’re not alone.
Despite the fact that they...
12/10/2025 - 12:00am
As farmers face historic headwinds and market hardships, calls to the national Farm Aid hotline and the Iowa Concern hotline — where farmers can get support in times of mental health crisis or need — are increasing.
This fall, the Iowa Concern...
Steve Hanson poses for a photo in front of one of his water pumping stations Saturday, April 30, 2022, in Elsie, Neb. He raises beef cattle and grows corn, all of his irrigation water coming from the Ogallala Aquifer. (Brittany Peterson / AP Photo)
12/10/2025 - 12:00am
In Nebraska, we are exceptionally fortunate to sit above the largest underground reservoir of water in all of North America: the Ogallala Aquifer. The body of water sits below us in gravel, silt and other porous sediments, the topmost edges begin in...
12/10/2025 - 12:00am
Karissa Denae Johnson can still remember the indignity of it all — the day her life fell to pieces.
It came in college, sometime between traveling the country as a childhood performer and traveling the globe as a young adult given a second chance....
12/09/2025 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, the legacy Hollywood giant behind “Harry Potter” and “Friends,” to buy its studio and streaming business for $72 billion.
The acquisition would bring two of the industry’s...
A lone shopper pushes a cart toward the entrance of a Costco warehouse, March 13, 2025, in Sheridan, Colo. (David Zalubowski / AP Photo)
12/09/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Costco is joining other companies that aren't waiting to see whether the Supreme Court strikes down President Donald Trump's most sweeping import taxes. They're going to court to demand refunds on the tariffs they've paid.
The...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen listens during a summit of the governors of South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska with business leaders in the Sioux City area. (Makenzie Huber / South Dakota Searchlight)
12/09/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — After state officials initially denied rumors of downsizing, Nebraska’s Department of Economic Development now acknowledges that it has paid roughly 22 fewer full-time employees over the past two months.
Similar workforce reductions have...
Ismael Cortes Estrada poses for a photo holding one of the signs advocates used in the campaign for updating the city's minimum wage law, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (Susan Montoya Bryan / AP Photo)
12/09/2025 - 12:00am
The minimum wage for workers will increase in 19 states and 49 cities and counties next month, with the wage floor reaching $15 per hour in dozens of localities, a new report found.
Though the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour has not increased...
CompanyCam Founder and CEO Luke Hansen (left) on stage for a fireside chat with Brian Ardinger (right) at the IO2024 Summit. (Ben Goeser / Silicon Prairie News)
12/09/2025 - 12:00am
This story was reported by Silicon Prairie News, Flatwater’s sister publication, which covers tech, entrepreneurship and business news in Nebraska.
A Nebraska startup has attained coveted “unicorn” status after raising the largest single equity...
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12/08/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — Americans who purchase their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace are bracing for a steep rise in costs next year that many say they will not be able to afford, according to a poll released Thursday by the...
12/08/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy admiral who reportedly issued orders for the U.S. military to fire upon survivors of an attack on an alleged drug boat was on Capitol Hill for a classified briefing Thursday with top congressional lawmakers overseeing...
Construction workers plaster the exterior of a new apartment building, July 5, 2023, in Orlando, Fla. (John Raoux / AP Photo)
12/08/2025 - 12:00am
As food prices remain high, the Trump administration has made it easier for farmers to hire foreign guest workers and to pay them less. Now, other industries with large immigrant workforces also are asking for relief as they combat labor shortages...
Armored vehicles on display drives as Poland staged its biggest military exercise of the year, bringing together more than 30,000 troops from the Polish armed forces and allied NATO nations in Orzysz, Poland, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (Czarek Sokolowski / AP Photo)
12/08/2025 - 12:00am
The sting of a slap is sometimes felt for years or even decades after such an event. Perhaps a fight with a loved one, or even an altercation with a bully, and certainly things graver than that. Such it is with the history of nations and peoples....
12/08/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska Supreme Court Chief Justice Jeffrey Funke says his first year leading the judicial system was a “learning curve” of trying to “keep the ship afloat” and move forward.
Funke, in a broad interview with the Nebraska Examiner a few...
In this April 18, 2017 photo, a handicapped placard hangs in a vehicle parked by the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. California officials plan to crack down on thousands of "dead" drivers who still hold disabled parking placards. (Rich Pedroncelli / AP Photo)
12/05/2025 - 12:00am
This story was originally reported by Sara Luterman of The 19th. Meet Sara and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.
Kara Ayers is a mother of four and uses a wheelchair. She relies heavily on her car because there are not...
Supporters of the public school system Ameshia Cross, from left, Ellie Fox, Jane Heywood, Kaylee Fernandez, Maria Cuesta and Pierce Ramos join the Hands Off Our Schools rally outside the Department of Education building, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Washington. (Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Photo)
12/05/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — A pair of Democratic lawmakers joined student leaders Tuesday in blasting President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts and U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood of...
Flowers, challenge coins and other items lay near a photograph of U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom at a makeshift memorial outside of Farragut West Station, near the site where two National Guard members were shot, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, in Washington. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP Photo)
12/05/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and assault charges during his first hearing before a judge, appearing remotely by video from a hospital bed.
Rahmanullah...
12/05/2025 - 12:00am
Nearly 44% of the 16,000 truck driving programs listed nationwide by the government may be forced to close if they lose their students after a review by the federal Transportation Department found they may not be complying with minimum requirements...
12/05/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — The seven members of the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled unanimously in all but one of 105 written opinions issued in the past year.
The two years prior, the high court unanimously decided about 95% of its 272 written decisions. Exceptions...
