2011 AP Great Plains News and Photo Contest - KOLNKGIN Entries
	Union Pacific Railroad's 1Q Profit up 35 Percent 0 Comments Last Updated: 10:13 AM 04/19/12 - Union Pacific says its first-quarter profit soared 35 percent as the railroad increased prices and collected more fuel surcharge fees. (Full Story)
	Spot News: All Day Hunt for Killer After Stabbing 10/11 was live at the scene of a fatal stabbing for several hours as police waited for a search warrant and searched for a killer. (Full Story)
	Weathercast: 10/11 News at Ten, 6/21/11 The 10pm weather included tornado aftermath, and a massive change in temperatures on the first day of Summer. (Full Story)
	Weathercast: 10/11 News at Five, 12/2/11 Severe weather was heading into our coverage area and we enacted a Severe Weather Alert Day to warn people of what the next 24 hours had in store. (Full Story)
	Newscast: 10/11 News at Ten, 6/21/11 10pm Lead: Twenty-three tornadoes touched down in the 10/11 viewing area. 10/11 sent reporters all across the state to access the damage, talk to families picking up the pieces and showed a storm chaser's wild ride. (Full Story)
	Sports Story: Paralyzed Vet Bounces Back With Wheelchair Tennis After being paralyzed during a humvee accident Christopher Parnell went through a dark time. But his love of tennis and competitive spirit has helped him bounce back and become one of the top players in the country. (Full Story)
	Newscast: 10/11 News at Ten, 8/26/11 10pm Lead: An Amtrak train derailed near a small Nebraska town after slamming into some equipment that was left on the tracks. Several were injured in the accident. As part of our coverage we interviewed eye witnesses, passengers and train officials. We also flew over the scene in a plane for aerials to go along with our video on the ground. Our team coverage included several reporters covering the multiple angles of the story and going to several of the key locations. (Full Story)
	Sports Story: Golfer Succeeds Despite Amputations Troy Callahan lost an arm and a leg in a farming accident, but that isn't slowing him down on the golf course. (Full Story)
	Newscast: 10/11 News at Six, 8/16/11 6pm Newscast Lead: A family escapes a house fire as flames shoot into the air. Our crew was the first to respond, even beating the fire trucks. (Full Story)
	Newscast: 10/11 News at Ten, 9/11/11 10/11 remembers the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. Our 10pm newscast was field anchored live from a local memorial. (Full Story)
	Videography: Escaping a Fire A family escapes a house fire as flames shoot into the air. Videojournalist Jon Vanderford was the first to respond, even beating the fire trucks. (Full Story)
	Series/Documentary: Big Ten Special 0 Comments Nebraska entered the Big Ten in 2011. To get Husker fans ready we traveled to Wisconsin and Iowa to talk to rival players, coaches and fans about the upcoming season. (Full Story)
	10/11 Sportscast: Sports Overtime, 2/18/11 The Nebraska basketball team scores one of the biggest wins in program history by upsetting #2 Texas, while high school wrestlers compete at the State Championships. (Full Story)
	10/11 Sportscast: High School Football Championships, 11/22/11 State champions are crowned in high school football with players from Lincoln Southeast assisting in the Live Report from Memorial Stadium. (Full Story)
	10/11 Sportscast: Darin Erstad Hired, 6/2/11 Live coverage of Darin Erstad's hiring as Nebraska's new head baseball coach, including a live interview with Erstad shortly after being introduced. (Full Story)
	10/11 Sportscast: Mike Anderson Fired, 5/22/11 Live coverage of the dismissal of Mike Anderson as Nebraska's head baseball coach, including reaction from current and former players. (Full Story)
	Sports Story: Barry Alvarez's Nebraska Roots Barry Alvarez, a sporting icon in Wisconsin, is also revered in Nebraska as a former Husker football player and coach on the Nebraska high school ranks. (Full Story)
	Sports Story & Videography: Turner Fahey Can Play High School stand-out Turner Fahey puts on a late-night shooting clinic, while discussing his record-breaking season in an exclusive 1-on-1 interview. (Full Story)
	Spot News: Train Derailment An Amtrak train derailed near a small Nebraska town after slamming into some equipment that was left on the tracks. (Full Story)
	Spot News: Tornado Destroys Homes Our team of videojournalists captures the destruction as a tornadoes rip through several Nebraska counties - destroying homes, derailing trains and leaving ruin in it's wake. (Full Story)
	General Reporting: Defending Against Terror on the Homefront On the anniversary of 9-11 we talked with Nebraska's Homeland Security Director at the time of the attacks and the current Director about the threat of an attack at home. (Full Story)
	General Reporting: The War is Over Nebraska soldiers, families and citizens react to the news that the Iraq War was ending and the troops were coming home. (Full Story)
	Enterprise: Destruction and Rebirth, Reclaiming the Tar Sands Strip mining for oil destroys the land but those running the mining operations are also tasked with reclaiming that land. We travel to Canada to see that process first hand. (Full Story)
	Enterprise: Oil is Life Oil In Fort McMurray Canada is like agriculture in Nebraska, it's life. We traveled to the oil boom town to get their thoughts on tar sand and a controversial proposed pipeline. (Full Story)
	Enterprise: Dirty Money, Investigating the Oil Sands As part of a special report we traveled to Canada to get an inside look at tar sands oil and the facilities that process and ship the end product through pipelines. (Full Story)
	Writing: Better Luck Next Year Every year dozens of evergreens are left behind as others are chosen to be the perfect Christmas Trees inside homes across Nebraska. This is their story. (Full Story)
	Writing: The Brawl on the Bus Three women get into a big brawl on a city bus. Surveillance cameras caught the whole attack that included hair pulling and children getting passed through a window. (Full Story)
	Writing: The Doll That Says &*%$! Cute on the outside, a talking doll surprises many by cooing and apparently cursing. (Full Story)
	Agriculture: Farmer Soldiers A Nebraska farmer prepares for a unique and possibly dangerous mission - to teach farming in Afghanistan. (Full Story)
	Agriculture: A Lifetime of Farming 86 year old Bernard Hinrichs is still going strong behind the wheel of a combine. He's been farming since the 1920's and doesn't plan on stopping anytime soon. (Full Story)
	Agriculture: Helping the Harvest A community comes together to help a fellow farmer with health problems work his land. (Full Story)
	Feature: The Sacred Sound of the Game Dan Benis has played the organ for more than 200 minor league baseball games in the last 5 years. (Full Story)
	Feature: The Harvesting Bee A community comes together to help a fellow farmer with health problems work his land. (Full Story)
	Feature: Thriving Without Limbs A young woman born without arms or legs is an inspiration to everyone she meets. (Full Story)
	Series/Documentary: Behind the Badge Starting in October, over the next five months, 10/11 is following the latest group of Lincoln Police Department recruits who aspire to become Lincoln's finest. (Full Story)
	Series/Documentary: Behind the Line At 1011, we wanted to learn more about Transcanada, the company behind the Keystone XL Pipeline project, and give our viewers a look at where the oil moving through it really comes from, how it's pulled from the earth and turned into the fuel we rely on to power our homes, vehicles and businesses. So we embarked on a journey that began with a flight from Lincoln to Calgary, in the Alberta province of Canada. Then we chartered a flight to the oil sands and another to the oil dependent community of Fort McMurray. From there we flew back to the states and drove home, zig-zagging between the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and the first Keystone pipeline. (Full Story)
	Series/Documentary: Suicides After a rash of suicides in the area, 10/11's Erika Tallan set out to find some answers. In this 3-Part series she explains why experts believe suicides have increased in Lincoln, how police officers handle suicide calls and what's being done to prevent suicide amongst teens. (Full Story)
	Spot News: Biggest Fire in Recent History Destroys LPS District Office 10/11 News was first on the scene of the Lincoln Public Schools District Office fire. Our live truck operator stepped in front of the camera to do her first live report as the building burned to the ground. (Full Story)
	Enterprise: Living Transgendered in Nebraska In a special report, 10/11's Bonney Bowman shares the story of a Nebraska man who started life as a female and how he struggled for acceptance as he transitioned into life as a man. (Full Story)
	General Reporting: Soldiers Receive a Hero's Welcome Home Team coverage of the 192nd Army National Guard Unit Homecoming. (Full Story)
	General Reporting: Typhoon Tears Lincoln Family Apart A tragedy half a world away hits home for a Lincoln family. Nearly 1,000 are dead after a typhoon struck the Philippines - including one a local woman's Grandmother, Mother and 4-year old niece. (Full Story)
	General Reporting: Man Accused of Letting Nearly 1,000 Animals Starve to Death Police say a man from Unadilla let as many as 1,000 animals starve to death on his pig farm. 10/11's Chad Silber shares the gruesome images and explains how an animal abuse case so extreme could happen. (Full Story)
	Spot News: Fire Destroys Home Where Family of 11 Lived A family of 11 escapes a house fire as flames shoot into the air. Our crew was the first to respond, even beating the fire trucks. (Full Story)
	Spot News: Truck Hits Semi Causing Massive Fire, Diesel Spill and Road Block 10/11's Erika Tallan was first on the scene Friday at 3:45 a.m. when a pick-up truck struck a semi nearly head-on causing a massive fire that threatened power lines, a diesel spill and a road block. (Full Story)