Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 03/19/2025 - 3:00am
Nearly a hundred years ago, a hastily crafted spaceship crash-landed in Smallville, Kansas. Inside was an infant – the sole survivor of a planet destroyed by old age. Discovering he possessed superhuman strength and abilities, the boy committed to channeling his power to benefit humankind and champion the oppressed.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 03/12/2025 - 7:00am
Hank Kunneman’s booming voice filled the room, topping 100 decibels and repeatedly triggering an Apple Watch loud noise warning. He scrunched his eyes shut and drove his pointer finger toward the sky, shaking with tension.
“And so as our hands are lifted, Lord. It is a sign of the victory you have brought at this time to the Earth, to us in the United States of America.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 03/12/2025 - 5:00am
HOODOO SKI AREA, Ore. (AP) — Ukrainian war veteran Oleksandr Shvachka lost his left leg to Russian tank fire outside Kyiv. Three years on, the latest step in his physical and mental rehabilitation recently unfolded under a brilliant blue sky on a snow-covered mountain more than 5,000 miles (8,047 kilometers) away.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 03/12/2025 - 4:00am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The day after her house burned down, Lara Ganz sent a group message to the youth theater troupe she runs: They would not let the Los Angeles firestorm stop their upcoming show.
“So many of our castmates have lost everything,” wrote Ganz, the director of youth theater at a beloved playhouse in the Pacific Palisades. “We will continue with rehearsals. I am confident we will find a stage.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 03/12/2025 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — Retired Nebraska lobbyist Herb Schimek is being remembered around the Capitol as someone who cared deeply about teachers, whom he represented over more than three decades.
Schimek, the long-time lobbyist for the Nebraska State Education Association and husband of former State Sen. DiAnna Schimek of Lincoln, died Feb. 25. He was 86.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 03/12/2025 - 2:00am
LINCOLN – Across the street from the Nebraska State Capitol, a monument to the Ten Commandments stands on the sidewalk outside of St. Mary Catholic Church. Although it’s not on Capitol grounds, as in some states, religion still similarly influences the statehouse.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 03/05/2025 - 7:00am
As he trudged for days through the scorching jungle with about 20 other people following a nameless smuggler, Ashraf Safi felt a tinge of gratitude.
“There were children with us who had to witness everything we saw,” the father of two said. “Every time we started walking again, I told myself, ‘at least my children are not here — I have to keep moving for them.’”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 03/05/2025 - 4:00am
BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant.
He maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents in 1975 and sees his newfound freedom — the result of a commutation from former President Joe Biden — as the beginning of a new phase of his activism.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 02/26/2025 - 6:00am
Editor’s note: A survivor of child sex trafficking will be referred to by a pseudonym in this story to protect her identity.
The bust that kicked off a yearslong crackdown on Omaha’s child sex trafficking underworld started as a single name on a whiteboard in Sgt. Brett Schrage’s office.