Posted: 05/21/2013 - Beginning Tuesday, May 21, S. 17th Street from South to “A” streets will be closed for about eight weeks for street rehabilitation. The project was originally scheduled to begin in early May, but it was delayed when the Near South Neighborhood Association asked if some of the existing stone curb could be incorporated into the project.

Posted: 05/21/2013 - The White House says President Barack Obama opposes a House bill that would speed approval of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.

Updated: 05/21/2013 - Rescue crews are working to find survivors after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs. About 80 members of the Nebraska Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue Team left Monday to help with rescue efforts.

Posted: 05/21/2013 - Police are looking for two suspects after an armed robbery overnight. It happened just after 1 a.m. Monday, in the 1300 block of F Street. Police say the two victims were leaving an apartment when they were confronted by two men.

Posted: 4:39 AM - The University of Nebraska Medical Center is showing off its new $30 million eye institute. The grand opening celebration for the Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute is being held on Wednesday.

Posted: 4:22 AM - Residents in Lincoln and a group of Boy Scouts have collected 47,000 pounds of outdated phone directories for recycling. The Cornhusker Council Boy Scouts collected telephone directories door-to-door in Lincoln neighborhoods. Directories were also dropped off at parks and recreation centers throughout Lincoln.

Updated: 05/21/2013 - The Pentagon wants more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close. New details on the administration's budget request for next year and other expenses emerged on Tuesday.

Posted: 3:25 AM - A far-reaching bill to remake the nation's troubled immigration system is headed to the full Senate after approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Floor debate is expected to start early next month, with the outcome uncertain.

Posted: 2:22 AM - Growing consumer demand for cars and trucks has automakers changing their usual summer vacation plans. Ford says the traditional two-week summer break is being cut to a single week and General Motors isn't doing any shutdowns.

Posted: 05/22/2013 - The Highway Patrol says up to 30 people have suffered injuries in the collision of a commercial bus and a car on Interstate 75 in northwest Ohio. A state police spokeswoman told The Associated Press early Wednesday that 1-75 south of Bowling Green has been closed following the crash.

Updated: 05/21/2013 - The Nebraska baseball team practiced at Minnesota's Target Field in advance of the Big Ten Tournament.

Updated: 05/21/2013 - Two of the most successful women's basketball players in Nebraska history, Kelsey Griffin and Lindsey Moore, shared the WNBA stage on Tuesday.

Posted: 05/21/2013 - Nebraska baseball players Chad Christensen and Pat Kelly are first-team All-Big Ten selections.

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: 05/21/2013 - The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads.

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

Posted: 05/17/2013 - Authorities in Eastern Oregon say a fleeing man tried to use a backstroke to get across the Columbia River but, exhausted, said he couldn't swim and pleaded with officers to retrieve him. They did.

Posted: 05/17/2013 - A principal in southeast Nebraska spent part of the day on the school's roof to reward students for their good test scores.