Updated: 6:40 PM - School administrators at Irving Middle School say an eighth grader in charge of designing the school yearbook wrote something offensive next to another student's picture.

Updated: 5:38 PM - Mayor Chris Beutler today announced that the number of vehicle crashes in the City continues to decrease.

Updated: 11:35 AM - State Troopers rerouted drivers off Interstate 80 after a semi truck crashed. It happened just East of the Pleasant Dale exit around 9:15 Thursday morning.

Posted: 11:49 AM - Sometimes it's hard to get out of a rut. In this Mommy Makeover, our latest mom has been fearful of change, but thanks to our team of stylists, she's happy with her new look!

Posted: 3:04 PM - A Nebraska tax measure that could benefit high-tech start-up companies and uninsured medical patients is headed to a final vote in the Legislature.

Posted: 3:00 PM - The Nebraska State Patrol says a traffic stop on Interstate 80 just west of Grand Island turned up nearly 53 pounds of marijuana in a car.

Posted: 2:52 PM - A new program will offer an online education in financial literacy to Nebraska high school students and parents.

Posted: 7:51 PM - The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.

Posted: 6:46 AM - A Chechen immigrant shot to death in central Florida early Wednesday after an altercation with an FBI agent shares a similar background to that of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who authorities were questioning him about at the time.

Updated: 6:55 AM - Two U.K. government officials say a brutal attack that left one man dead near a London military barracks appears to have been motivated by radical Islam.

2 mins ago - 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.

6 mins ago - 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: 3:45 PM - 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: 7:36 AM - 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: 7:44 AM - 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.