Updated: 11:19 AM - The minutes in the back of an ambulance can mean the difference between life and death. National EMS week celebrates those who fight to save lives.

Updated: 5:24 AM - A Norfolk city councilman has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

Updated: 5:35 AM - LPS held its last day of classes Thursday, and the kids are thrilled for summer to start, but are sad to say 'so long' to some of their classmates and teachers.

Posted: 05/23/2013 - Sometimes it's nice to take a few moments to slow down, stop and smell the roses...or this time of year, smell the lilacs! In this House Works, we travel to UNL's East Campus to learn more about the wonderful lilac collection that's on display every spring.

Posted: 11:45 AM - Nebraska students showed improvement in this year's statewide writing proficiency test.

Posted: 11:42 AM - A burning fence in Grand Island has destroyed two mobile homes on either side of it.

Posted: 7:08 AM - Four Nebraska men have been charged in separate federal indictments of failing to register as sex offenders.

Posted: 5:50 AM - Authorities say there were no fatalities when an Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed.

Posted: 6:13 AM - The jury in Jodi Arias' murder trial has been dismissed after failing to decide if she should receive the death penalty.

Posted: 6:08 AM - After a wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time.

Updated: 05/23/2013 - Bryan Peters tied Thursday afternoon’s game, 2-2, with a two-out single in the top of the ninth, but a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth resulted in a 3-2 walk-off win for Ohio State Buckeyes in the winner’s bracket of the Big Ten Tournament.

Updated: 05/23/2013 - When Nebraska faces Oregon in the NCAA Super Regionals, Rhonda Revelle will head back to a place she knows well. Revelle was born and raised in Eugene, Oregon.

Posted: 05/23/2013 - Nebraska’s Homecoming matchup with Illinois on Saturday, Oct. 5, will kickoff at 11 a.m. (Central), with television to be announced at a later date.

Updated: 05/23/2013 - The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Posted: 05/21/2013 - Alabama health officials say a mysterious respiratory illness has left five people hospitalized and two dead in the southeastern part of the state. In a statement, Alabama Department of Public Health spokeswoman Mary McIntyre says seven people have been admitted to hospitals with a fever, cough and shortness of breath.

Posted: 05/21/2013 - Doctors tell people with a heart-zapping device in their chests to give up intense sports like basketball and soccer in favor of golf or bowling. But lots of patients ignore that advice -- and now new research is challenging it.

Posted: 05/23/2013 - It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.

Posted: 05/22/2013 - A Washington woman whose car was stolen from her apartment complex saw the stolen SUV hours later -- in the drive-thru of the McDonald's restaurant where she works.

Posted: 05/21/2013 - An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived.