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Omaha may cut library hours, close branches

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:27:31 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - The Omaha Public Library Board is considering closing library branches or limiting hours to meet Mayor Jean Stothert's proposed budget cuts.

Omaha police: Man tried assault near fitness class

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:57:57 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - Authorities say a man has been accused of trying to sexually assault a woman outside her Jazzercise class in Omaha.

North Carolina ousts Tigers from CWS with 4-2 win

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:44:10 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - Brian Holberton homered, freshman Trent Thornton pitched a strong seven innings and No. 1 national seed North Carolina extended its stay at the College World Series with a 4-2 victory over LSU on Tuesday.

Cardinals already talking return to World Series

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:21:34 -0400

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - Louisville's satisfaction with their season overall is helping ease some of the players' disappointment over their brief stay at the College World Series.

Officials: Intake valve fixed in Lake Minatare

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:24:12 -0400

SCOTTSBLUFF, Nebraska - Officials say they've fixed an intake valve in Lake Minatare that was clogged and unable to deliver water to some irrigators.

NU licenses new form of menthol to Chinese firm

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:22:51 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - New technology to reduce bad breath that was developed at the University of Nebraska Medical Center has been licensed to a Chinese company.

Nebraska base opens POW/MIA forensics lab

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:23:06 -0400

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Nebraska - A forensics lab has opened at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha with a special mission: identify the remains of missing soldiers, sailors and airmen from past wars.

Nebraskan gets prison for tax avoidance scheme

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:11:17 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - An Omaha man who created an elaborate scheme to avoid paying more than $422,000 in taxes has been given a year and a day in prison.

Nebraska habitat estimate cut for endangered bug

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:57:13 -0400

LINCOLN, Nebraska - A federal agency has proposed a nearly 50 percent cut in the Nebraska land the agency says is needed to support the endangered Salt Creek tiger beetle.

1 person dies, another hurt in Nebraska crash

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:23:58 -0400

SEWARD, Nebraska - A 22-year-old passenger has been killed and another injured in a rollover crash west of Seward.

Nebraska woman gets probation for sham marriage

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:58:06 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - A 32-year-old Nebraska woman has been sentenced to 30 months of probation for her fake marriage to a man who was living in the country illegally.

Lincoln City Council OKs entertainment district

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:02:23 -0400

LINCOLN, Nebraska - The Lincoln City Council on Monday has approved the city's first entertainment district.

Work planned on part of Nebraska Highway 8

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:22:04 -0400

ODELL, Nebraska - The Nebraska Roads Department is planning to resurface 10 miles of State Highway 8 in southeast Nebraska this week.

Perfect scores for Nebraska state veterans homes

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:06:25 -0400

LINCOLN, Nebraska - Nebraska's four state-run veterans homes have received perfect scores on their most recent annual Health Care System Surveys from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Oregon State's light-hitting Gordon comes up big

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:50:29 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - Max Gordon has given Oregon State all it could ask for in the field.

Oregon St. sends Cards packing with 11-4 CWS win

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:29:12 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - It's one down and three to go for Oregon State.

Cards' CWS stay ends with 11-4 loss to Oregon St.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:28:44 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - This wasn't the ending Louisville imagined for the best sports year in university history.

Sen. Lathrop to kick off Nebraska 'listening tour'

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:31:22 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - Nebraska Sen. Steve Lathrop is kicking off his statewide listening tour as he weighs a run for governor.

Jury finds man not guilty in stabbing death

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:16:54 -0400

LINCOLN, Nebraska - Jurors in Lincoln have found a man not guilty in the stabbing death of a man last August.

Oglala Sioux Tribe president arrested in Nebraska

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:19:36 -0400

LINCOLN, Nebraska - The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe has been arrested during a protest of alcohol sales in Nebraska, on the border of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Regulators raise concerns about Neb. nuke plant

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:09:37 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - Federal regulators say the utility that runs the Cooper nuclear power plant in southeast Nebraska needs to improve how workers respond to problems.

APNewsBreak: Neb. cancels paper-recycling contract

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:19:31 -0400

LINCOLN, Nebraska - Nebraska officials have canceled a contract with a Lincoln-based recycling firm after auditors found the state failed to collect more than $60,000 that the company owed for thousands of tons of used office paper.

Nebraskan pulled from Platte River dies

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:37:56 -0400

WATERLOO, Nebraska - A 36-year-old man who was pulled unresponsive from the Platte River in eastern Nebraska has died.

Nebraskan who bragged about bank heist gets prison

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:25:45 -0400

YORK, Nebraska - A Nebraska woman who made a video in which she gleefully described robbing a bank has been given 10 to 20 years in prison.

Nebraska missile site contamination spreads

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:41:30 -0400

FIRTH, Nebraska - A southeast Nebraska builder who says he's losing thousands of dollars a month wants the federal government to sink a new well for his housing development because water beneath it has been contaminated by a chemical used at a nearby nuclear missile site.