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01/10/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — Speaker John Arch of La Vista this week outlined the Nebraska Legislature’s biggest 2025 issue as lawmakers return to Lincoln: the state budget.
Arch, who is so far running unopposed to helm Nebraska’s legislative branch for two more years...
01/10/2025 - 5:00am
My book “Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It” was thrust into the spotlight recently, after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in what authorities say was a targeted attack...
01/10/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — A new state law could lead to greater efficiency in setting rules, regulations and safety standards for some of Nebraska’s smallest school districts.
Nebraska Education Commissioner Brian Maher reclassified or shifted roughly 80% of the...
01/10/2025 - 3:00am
Anchorage Police Say They Witnessed a Sexual Assault in Public. It Took Seven Years for the Case to Go to Trial.
by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News
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01/09/2025 - 7:00am
A class-action lawsuit filed Monday alleges the Omaha Housing Authority failed to eliminate bed bug infestations at high-rise apartments for low-income residents.
The new lawsuit, brought by a pioneering firm in bed bug litigation, comes after a...
01/09/2025 - 6:00am
I’m going to give you a reading test. Ready? Say these words out loud:
Chip
Hill
Jars
Bep
Fod
Glork
If you’re an adult seeing this, with years and years of reading experience, your brain probably processed the list pretty quickly. You...
01/09/2025 - 5:00am
GRETNA, Nebraska — When State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan proposed legislation to create good life districts two years ago, she envisioned the result would be a Nebraska tourist magnet akin to Kansas City’s Legends retail complex or Minnesota’s Mall of...
01/09/2025 - 4:00am
LONDON (AP) — A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a “dinosaur highway” and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years, researchers said Thursday.
The...
01/09/2025 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — First a bridge and now a Navy destroyer has been named after former Nebraska governor and U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey.
This week, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer...
01/09/2025 - 2:00am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The plunging polar vortex brought subfreezing temperatures Tuesday to some of the southernmost points of the U.S., threatening to dump snow on parts of Texas and Oklahoma in the coming days and contributing to a power outage...
01/08/2025 - 7:00am
Slow and steady, 25-year-old Jake Harvath rode his trusty white mare, Bella, down Highway 189 toward Charleston, Utah, with his other two mustangs, Denver and Eddy, in tow.
Motorists roared by in the comfort of their modern modes of transport, but...
01/08/2025 - 6:00am
In a bit of linguistic gymnastics, a number of states have now banned book bans in public libraries and public schools.
Nebraska should be next in banning book bans. We’ve already hitched the Big Red Wagon to other states in lawsuits from voter...
01/08/2025 - 5:00am
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's new government started an ambitious project on Monday to fight malnutrition by feeding nearly 90 million children and pregnant women that is expected to cost $28 billion through 2029, although critics question...
01/08/2025 - 4:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — CES, the annual trade show of all things tech, is upon us.
The multi-day event, organized by the Consumer Technology Association, kicks off this week in Las Vegas — where swaths of the latest gadgets and advances across industries...
01/07/2025 - 7:00am
Former national talk show host Dick Cavett invited social revolution into viewers’ homes courtesy of the 1960s icons he interviewed. And this Nebraskan who gave counterculture a mainstream platform stayed busy in the decades after his show ended –...
01/07/2025 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has blocked the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel — affirming his earlier vow on the presidential campaign trail to prevent the acquisition of...
01/07/2025 - 3:00am
After nearly a week of searching for a suspect in the hit-and-run death of an 81-year-old St. Helena, California woman this summer, police found and arrested a man with the help of license plate reading cameras that registered him near the scene....
01/07/2025 - 2:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Two deadly incidents on New Year's Day — an attack being investigated as an act of terrorism in New Orleans and an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas — both involved vehicles that were rented on Turo, a peer-to-peer car...
01/06/2025 - 7:00am
NEW ORLEANS — The death toll from a suspected terror attack on Bourbon Street was updated to 15 Wednesday afternoon after a pickup truck tore through Bourbon Street where crowds were celebrating the arrival of the New Year in the early hours of the...
01/06/2025 - 6:00am
The New Year brings a “say so” for Nebraska U.S. Sens. Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts as the president-elect fills a new cabinet. Advising and consenting on such matters is part of Fischer’s and Ricketts’ responsibilities as members of the “world’s...
01/06/2025 - 5:00am
Trump Has Promised to Build More Ships. He May Deport the Workers Who Help Make Them.
by Nicole Foy
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01/06/2025 - 4:00am
The U.S. looks set to have its first-ever Cuban American secretary of state in 2025, after President-elect Donald Trump nominated U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida for the role. But don’t expect that to mean cozier relations between Havana and...
01/06/2025 - 3:00am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The person inside the Tesla Cybertruck that burst into flames outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel suffered a gunshot to the head before the explosion, officials said Thursday.
Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill...