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Weston is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a dedicated history book and weekend festival on June 12-14. Founded in 1876, the Saunders County town has a population of about 250 people.
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A man wanted in connection with the slaying of a 29-year-old man that occurred outside of a Ralston convenience store was arrested Saturday in Council Bluffs.
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Members of the Blackfeet Tribal Health System, including its medical director and CEO, have alleged that the health center’s prescribing practices have endangered patients.
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Dr. Mary DesRosier’s whole life has been built on “medicine, Blackfeet, helping and healing.”
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Take a look in and around Haymarket Park for the NCAA Baseball Regional game between Nebraska and Ole Miss.
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Many visited the Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive as it stopped in Omaha on Saturday, May 30, 2026, as part of a coast-to-coast America 250 trip.
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Investigators believe the individual had forced his way through a window and into the bar before going to the ATM, which he then ripped out of the wall and stole.
A proposal to ban fireworks in Scotts Bluff County fizzled Monday. However, city councils and village boards throughout the Panhandle have either banned fireworks or limited the days they can be discharged.
A man arrested in connection with the death Saturday night of his partner's mother in western Douglas County has been ordered held without bail.
A Douglas County Jail teacher has been ordered held on $75,000 bail after being charged Wednesday with five felony counts of committing an unlawful act involving an inmate.
Omaha police are investigating three people who were killed and another person who was critically injured early Wednesday in two separate shootings.
More than 6,200 University of Nebraska–Lincoln students have been named to the Deans’ List for the spring semester of the 2025-26 academic year.
Two adults, a child, and three pets were forced to seek alternate housing Tuesday after a propane torch ignited a fire at their southwest Omaha home.
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday ordered a man charged with first-degree murder in connection with a fatal shooting in Ralston held without bail.
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Middle blocker and opposite hitter Megan Hodges, the sixth-ranked prospect overall in the 2028 class, committed to Nebraska on Wednesday.
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