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Posted: 4:22 AM - Residents in Lincoln and a group of Boy Scouts have collected 47,000 pounds of outdated phone directories for recycling.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: 05/21/2013 - Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has used a line-item veto to strike $200,000 from the state budget that was approved for an Omaha golf tournament.

Posted: 05/21/2013 - A bill designed to attract large wind-energy farms to Nebraska is headed to a final vote in the Legislature. Lawmakers gave second-round approval Tuesday to the bill, which would extend sales tax exemptions to wind-energy companies.

Posted: 05/21/2013 - The 23-year-old man charged in a January standoff has been given jail time.

Posted: 05/21/2013 - Officials say an 18-year-old was holding an infant in a car seat above his head when the baby fell.

Updated: 5:20 AM - For Joseph Ahlers of Grand Island, the Moore, Oklahoma, tornado hit straight home. His 10-year-old daughter Ariana was inside one of the elementary schools that was wiped out in the path of destruction.

Posted: 05/21/2013 - The state's Judicial Resources Commission has forwarded the names of seven candidates for the governor to consider for a vacant county court judgeship in Lincoln.

Posted: 05/21/2013 - An Arizona man has been convicted of five felony counts for exchanging sexually explicit text messages with a 14-year-old Fremont girl.