Profiles
Walking into a New York City pharmacy, Scott LeRette had no idea how life was about to change for him and his family.
LeRette, author of "The Unbreakable Boy," mentioned to the pharmacist he was an...
He bought the farm. To many it may simply mean he passed away. But in a spectacular turn of events, this lofty purchase, in a very roundabout way, ties together generations past.
In fact it is a...
After 30 years, it's not often that Andrea Bocelli performs in a new city, but that will be the case when he takes the stage at CHI Health Center Omaha Feb. 6.
The Italian tenor looks forward to...
In popular culture and in card games, deuces signifies a card, say a two of diamonds.
A team of seven students from Duchesne brought home the state mock trial championship for the second year in a...
When my Editor came to me and asked if I wanted to get paid to head to 36th and V Street to write about street tacos, I did my very best to hide my enthusiasm and remain as professional as possible...
Today’s News
For more than 15 years, the brick building in south Lincoln has served as a local hub for the U.S. Department of Agriculture — a place where farmers meet face-to-face with federal workers overseeing...
OMAHA — The Omaha metro area of eight counties has surpassed the million-person mark, another record-setter that follows an earlier Census report that Nebraska’s statewide population topped 2 million...
Lumber is piled at a housing construction site, Thursday, June 24, 2021, in Middleton, Mass. (Elise Amendola / AP Photo)
Shopping for a new home? Ready to renovate your kitchen or install a new deck? You'll be paying more to do so.
The Trump administration’s tariffs on imported goods from Canada, Mexico and China —...
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Other people could ascribe to me a political centrist label, and for ease of discussion, I call myself that too. At beaches (if I'm not building a sandcastle) I am one of those towel junkies that...
OMAHA — A $45 million privately-owned apartment complex is expected to rise on an old TV station site west of downtown Omaha and be boosted by the public incentive called tax-increment financing....
This Week's News
03/20/2025 - 12:00am
For more than 15 years, the brick building in south Lincoln has served as a local hub for the U.S. Department of Agriculture — a place where farmers meet face-to-face with federal workers overseeing complex conservation projects on their land.
But...
03/20/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — The Omaha metro area of eight counties has surpassed the million-person mark, another record-setter that follows an earlier Census report that Nebraska’s statewide population topped 2 million.
Also revealed in population estimates released...
Lumber is piled at a housing construction site, Thursday, June 24, 2021, in Middleton, Mass. (Elise Amendola / AP Photo)
03/20/2025 - 12:00am
Shopping for a new home? Ready to renovate your kitchen or install a new deck? You'll be paying more to do so.
The Trump administration’s tariffs on imported goods from Canada, Mexico and China — some already in place, others set to take effect in a...
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03/20/2025 - 12:00am
Other people could ascribe to me a political centrist label, and for ease of discussion, I call myself that too. At beaches (if I'm not building a sandcastle) I am one of those towel junkies that likes to sit back under an umbrella and mummer with...
03/20/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — A $45 million privately-owned apartment complex is expected to rise on an old TV station site west of downtown Omaha and be boosted by the public incentive called tax-increment financing.
GreenSlate Development, joined by Mayor Jean Stothert...
03/19/2025 - 7:00am
The family started dancing when they heard the news.
Over a grainy video call from his home in Omaha, 19-year-old Zak Abughalyoon could hear his cousins playing music in their small apartment in Jordan, their shrieks of celebration.
The endless...
A child practices cursive writing exercises at home. After nearly dying out, cursive is making a comeback in public schools, with more than 20 states requiring it so far. (Wilfredo Lee / The Associated Press)
03/19/2025 - 6:00am
During a one-on-one parsing of his essay in an academic writing class, one of my college students last fall said to me with, I might add, a benign irreverence: “Well, close enough.”
To which I said, “Well … no.” Without a hint of irreverence, benign...
03/19/2025 - 5:00am
Curious How Trump’s Cost Cutting Could Affect Your National Park Visit? You Might Not Get a Straight Answer.
by Anjeanette Damon
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03/19/2025 - 4:00am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — They have run through heartache and grief, battling illnesses and injuries as their bodies have aged. Some are now using wheelchairs, including the oldest who is 87.
Despite it all, the Los Angeles Marathon's Legacy Runners have...
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...
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies before a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the Postal Service on Capitol Hill, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Washington. (Tom Brenner / AP Photo)
03/18/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy plans to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget and he’ll do that working with Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to a letter sent to...
A non-invasive full-face ventilation mask (NIV mask) for non-invasive ventilation therapy in the foreground against the background BiPaP ventilator. This is used for treat respiratory disorders. (Shutterstock)
03/18/2025 - 4:00am
What a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Reveals About America’s Largest Oxygen Provider
by Peter Elkind
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Olympic rings are on display in New York on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, ahead of the Summer Olympics in Paris. (Ted Shaffrey / AP Photo)
03/18/2025 - 2:00am
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — NBC will now be the champion of Olympic broadcasting in the United States through at least 2036.
The IOC said Thursday it signed its long-time United States broadcast partner to a $3 billion renewed deal for the 2034...
A Micron Technology, Inc. employee moves through a clean room at an existing fab facility in Boise, Idaho, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (Darin Oswald / Idaho Statesman via AP)
03/18/2025 - 12:00am
Semiconductors power nearly every aspect of modern life – cars, smartphones, medical devices and even national defense systems. These tiny but essential components make the information age possible, whether they’re supporting lifesaving hospital...
Col. John Bolduc, superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol, and Gov. Jim Pillen. Pillen on Tuesday announced that Bolduc will retire May 4, when he reaches the NSP mandatory retirement age of 60. (Courtesy of Governor’s Office)
03/18/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Col. John Bolduc is set to retire as superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol on May 4, when he reaches the agency’s mandatory retirement age of 60.
Gov. Jim Pillen announced Bolduc’s retirement and an application process for his...
03/17/2025 - 7:00am
It was a hard sell.
I was loitering around in that dark Omaha alleyway, one of those ones that still have those red bricks that bring more character than the unfilled potholes on old concrete. Next to me pale-yellow light formed a cone in the dark...
The University of Nebraska at Kearney campus. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
03/17/2025 - 6:00am
The unfortunate advent of Legislative Bill 552 in the Nebraska Legislature’s hopper once again exposes the tentacles of national politics creeping into the state’s process of making policy.
State Sen. Loren Lippincott’s proposed law would require...
03/17/2025 - 5:00am
OMAHA — The first debate of the Omaha mayor’s race spent Tuesday amplifying what increasingly looks like a four-way fight to join three-term Mayor Jean Stothert in the May 13 general election.
Stothert’s top challengers in the nonpartisan April 1...
03/17/2025 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened a 200% tariff on European wine, Champagne and spirits if the European Union goes forward with a planned tariff on American whiskey.
The European import tax, which was unveiled in...
U.S. Senate Republicans are eyeing an overhaul of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pictured here. (Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
03/17/2025 - 2:00am
WASHINGTON — Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy launched a working group on Wednesday that will look at ways to overhaul the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cassidy, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, or HELP,...
State Sen. Loren Lippincott of Central City (left) joins Gov. Jim Pillen for a ceremonial bill signing for a bill aimed at boosting Nebraska National Guard recruitment and retention on Dec. 10, 2024. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
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...
Pioneer photographer William Henry Jackson took this photograph of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River during the 1871 United States Geological Survey of the Territories, lead by Ferdiand Hayden, in the region that would become Yellowstone National Park. (William Henry Jackson / National Archives And Records Administration via AP)
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?”
Well, I tried to be polite as I...
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill on April 28, 2022, in Washington. (Carolyn Kaster / AP Photo)
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.
Judge...
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy speaks about the recent mid-air collision of an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, at a news conference in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Ben Curtis / AP Photo)
NTSB Urges Ban On Some Helicopter Flights At Washington Airport Where 67 People Died In Midair Crash
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...
Vehicles drive past the entrance to Miami International Airport in Miami on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (Wilfredo Lee / AP Photo)
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,...
03/14/2025 - 3:00am
The Office That Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being “Liquidated”
by Vernal Coleman
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A hyperbaric chamber at the Oxford Center in Brighton, Mich., is shown Feb. 8, 2024. (David Guralnick / Detroit News via AP)
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...
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.
Lawmakers again advanced Legislative Bill 34, from State Sen....
Les Bernal, national director of Stop Predatory Gambling (right) speaks to reporters before a Nebraska hearing to expand gambling, such as to online sports betting. Pat Loontjer, executive director of Gambling with the Good Life watches in the back on March 10, 2025. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
03/14/2025 - 1:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers heard from gambling lobbyists that they should expand state gambling to include mobile sports betting, while opponents called out an “industry driven by greed.”
Legislative Resolution 20CA, a proposed constitutional...
