Profiles
JoAnne Smith took one look around Central City and realized the town of about 3,000 people had a lot to offer; all it needed was tourists. A winery, first-class veterans’ monument and a thrift store...
People walk past them in places like the Old Market, ignoring their existence. The only time they seem to get noticed is when they act "crazy" or stand at medians, asking for money. They're Omaha's...
Years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus – in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws in 1955, helping spark the nationwide Civil Rights Movement – Black women in Omaha...
Fundraising efforts are underway for the new Great Plains Black History Museum, to be located at 22nd and Lake streets, with 40 percent of the $15 million already raised. Nationally renowned, the museum has the largest collection devoted to the Great Plains Black experience, with more than 100,000 periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, rare books, research material and film. (Courtesy of the Great Plains Black History Museum)
“If you build it, he will come …”
A famous quote from the movie, “Field of Dreams,” in reference to the legends of baseball. Although often misquoted, as they will come, the phrase has become a...
While most people look at an ear of corn and wonder how it may taste, Tammy Zentic looks at it and wonders how the kernels will look as a necklace or bracelet.
Zentic, a retired Fremont, Nebraska,...
Today’s News
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, arrives on Capitol Hill for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in Washington, Wednesday, June 10, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Gates said Wednesday that he made a “grave error in judgment” by meeting with Jeffrey Epstein but denied any wrongdoing as the Microsoft co-founder faced hours of questioning...
Alabama's lethal injection chamber at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., is pictured, Oct. 7, 2002. (Dave Martin / AP Photo)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and...
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, pictured in a December 2025 file photo. Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, sponsored a bill aiming to make it easier for prosecutors to win convictions in carjacking cases. (John Partipilo / Tennessee Lookout)
WASHINGTON – A North Carolina jury convicted a man for carjacking a truck from a McDonald’s parking lot by holding something “cold and hard” on the driver’s neck. A federal appeals court overturned...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen speaks at his press conference at the Capitol in Lincoln on May 29, 2026. (Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)
I’m going to have to choose my words very carefully. I know that even if I do there’s a very good chance that someone might accuse me of being something I’m not.
But here goes….
Just because you...
State Sen. Margo Juarez and State Sen. Dunixi Guereca, both of Omaha, hold a town hall in South Omaha in April 2025. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)
LINCOLN — Two Nebraskans are among 39 state lawmakers selected to participate in a bipartisan training program that each year “identifies and assists promising state leaders” in the Midwest.
Sens....
This Week's News
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, arrives on Capitol Hill for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in Washington, Wednesday, June 10, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)
06/12/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Gates said Wednesday that he made a “grave error in judgment” by meeting with Jeffrey Epstein but denied any wrongdoing as the Microsoft co-founder faced hours of questioning from lawmakers about his relationship with the...
Alabama's lethal injection chamber at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., is pictured, Oct. 7, 2002. (Dave Martin / AP Photo)
06/12/2026 - 12:00am
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
U.S. District Judge Emily...
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, pictured in a December 2025 file photo. Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, sponsored a bill aiming to make it easier for prosecutors to win convictions in carjacking cases. (John Partipilo / Tennessee Lookout)
06/12/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON – A North Carolina jury convicted a man for carjacking a truck from a McDonald’s parking lot by holding something “cold and hard” on the driver’s neck. A federal appeals court overturned the conviction in 2016, citing insufficient...
State Sen. Margo Juarez and State Sen. Dunixi Guereca, both of Omaha, hold a town hall in South Omaha in April 2025. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)
06/12/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Two Nebraskans are among 39 state lawmakers selected to participate in a bipartisan training program that each year “identifies and assists promising state leaders” in the Midwest.
Sens. Margo Juarez and Dunixi Guereca, both of Omaha, will...
06/11/2026 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — When Manhattan's original Pennsylvania Station was demolished in 1963, it marked the undignified end to one of America’s great public works, a monolithic Beaux Arts train terminal with Roman-style columns and a spacious central...
06/11/2026 - 12:00am
Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cryptocurrency, data centers have become the backbone of the modern digital...
(iQoncept / Shutterstock)
06/11/2026 - 12:00am
In a big official UFC match or a boxing one, the winner usually takes home a big purse or winnings. Even if it was some type of show match between two famous people, and the more famous guy lost the bout, but took home a larger sum. Some might...
A tattoo is visible on the leg of Colombia's James Rodriguez as he warms-up before the group H match between Colombia and Japan at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Mordavia Arena in Saransk, Russia, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (Natacha Pisarenko / AP Photo)
06/10/2026 - 12:00am
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup starts on June 11, 2026, traditional news and social media channels will be full of pictures of the players. Many of them will be showing their tattoos.
Body art has become increasingly part of international soccer,...
Javier Saldaña Jr., at the time representing the Nebraska Department of Economic Development, signs the final beam of a OneWorld Community Health Centers training center that’s under construction in South Omaha. The facility is funded in part with a $9.5 million award from the North and South Omaha Recovery Grant program that Saldaña guided as part of his DED responsibilities. (Courtesy of OneWorld)
06/10/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — A key manager of a Nebraska grant program that’s investing multimillions into historically disadvantaged North and South Omaha neighborhoods has left state government to join the administration of Omaha Mayor John Ewing Jr.
Javier Saldaña Jr...
06/10/2026 - 12:00am
Nebraska’s state auditor calls it inexplicable. A former health insurance CEO suggests it’s excessive. A veteran doctor says it’s unheard of.
They’re reacting to what a nonprofit hospital paid its gastroenterologist in 2024: Nearly $5 million,...
Scott Pelley, anchor of "CBS Evening News," at the CBS Upfront in New York, May 15, 2013. (Charles Sykes / Invision / AP Photo)
06/09/2026 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — As if Scott Pelley’s years in a glamorous, globetrotting, seven-figure dream job weren’t enough, he’s pulled off one more thing to stir your envy: a cutting takedown of his boss that went loudly public.
The “60 Minutes” correspondent...
A job seeker waits to talk to a recruiter at a job fair Aug. 28, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (Marta Lavandier / AP Photo)
06/09/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American job market continues to show surprising strength — good news for President Donald Trump who has taken a beating in the polls over the surging gasoline prices that followed U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.
Employers...
Employees restock groceries at a Target store in Minnesota. More states, including Minnesota, are launching automatic retirement programs for those without access through their employers. (Max Nesterak / Minnesota Reformer)
06/09/2026 - 12:00am
The racial wealth gap is widening as many workers of color go without retirement savings.
The median wealth gap between Black and Hispanic families and white families expanded by about $50,000 between 2019 and 2022, according to research from The...
06/09/2026 - 12:00am
Proponents of ethanol, including lawmakers from corn-growing states, say year-round sales of a gasoline blend containing 15% of the biofuel would give consumers a less expensive alternative to fill their gas tanks, boost energy supplies and benefit...
06/08/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — When nearly all the scheduled musical performers pulled out of a concert series marking America’s 250th anniversary — fearing the event had become too closely tied to President Donald Trump — he responded by making it official....
President Donald Trump salutes as an Army carry team moves a flag-draped transfer case with the remains of Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa, who was killed in a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait after the U.S. and Israel launched their military campaign against Iran, during a casualty return, March 7, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP Photo)
06/08/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed a resolution Wednesday to force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the war with Iran and require congressional approval for further military action in the country.
The 215-208 vote, in which four Republicans...
John Bolton speaks at Harvard Kennedy School's John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Sept. 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (Michael Dwyer / AP Photo)
Ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton Will Plead Guilty In Classified Information Case: AP Source
06/08/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information under a deal with the Justice Department that could allow him to avoid prison time,...
06/08/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — A former state tax commissioner and Republican who served in the Legislature is leading a Lincoln effort to change the dates of city elections, let certain residents outside city limits vote in municipal elections and place term limits on...
