Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/21/2025 - 9:59am
LINCOLN — A legal battle has erupted over whether a felony theft charge against the former director of History Nebraska, Trevor Jones, should finally be dismissed.
The issue is whether the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office failed to promptly file an appeal over the dismissal of a theft by deception charge that had been filed against Jones.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN – After public pressure from Gov. Jim Pillen, Nebraska lawmakers advanced to the full Legislature a winner-take-all bill and a separate proposed constitutional amendment to let voters alter how the state awards Electoral College votes for president.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 6:00am
I was talking to someone the other day about a camping trip I go on each year, and how I camp on “BLM," land. They kind of scowled and pulled back, then went, "What does the land have to do with "Black Lives Matter?”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A union for U.S. Agency for International Development contractors asked a federal judge Tuesday to intervene in any destruction of classified documents after an email ordered staffers to help burn and shred agency records.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators looking into the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people recommended a ban on some helicopter flights Tuesday, saying the current setup “poses an intolerable risk.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 3:00am
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Court records say a passenger on a small regional flight to Miami attacked a flight attendant, kicked and punched the seat of the person in front of him and swallowed rosary beads as pilots returned to the airport in Savannah, Georgia.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 2:00am
LINCOLN — State lawmakers again punted Tuesday on making a final decision on how to end Nebraska’s twice-a-year changing of the clocks back and forth, leaving it up to one more debate.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 2:00am
TROY, Mich. (AP) — Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan’s attorney general said Tuesday.
Thomas Cooper from Royal Oak, Michigan, was pronounced dead at the scene Jan. 31 at the Oxford Center in Troy. His mother suffered burn wounds while trying to save her boy.