Updated: 6:02 PM An explosion and fire at a Cozad dry-cleaning operation has caused emergency crews to evacuate homes near the scene.

Updated: 10:28 PM The Lincoln Interfaith Council starts looking for a new director after Rev. Norman Leach resigns.

Updated: 6:59 PM Vandals target an auto dealership run by an Iraqi man, and they leave racial slurs and threats on the office walls.

Updated: 6:45 PM A doctor who performs late-term abortions says he'll go to jail before he stops performing the procedure. This occurred during day two of a federal hearing on the legality of a partial birth abortion ban.

Updated: 5:36 PM Scissors, two knives used in Hastings killing.

Updated: 2:48 PM Deaths of two Omaha girls a mystery.

Updated: 2:39 PM Woman's body found near Oxford.

Updated: 6:20 AM Sen. Chuck Hagel says National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice should testify publicly before the panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks.

Updated: 6:20 AM Human remains found southwest of Lincoln have been identified as those of a man who had been missing since 1999.

Updated: 6:18 AM The Nebraska Agriculture Statistics Service's March report says as Nebraska warmed up in March, wheat and pasture followed suit by greening up a bit early this year.

Updated: 10:53 PM The trial challenging the partial birth abortion ban began at the federal building in Lincoln Monday.

Updated: 7:11 PM Hours before the trial on the partial birth abortion ban started, protesters began standing outside the Federal Building. Some passerbys honked in support, but others found graphic signs offensive.

Updated: 5:35 PM Hasting Police investigate a homicide, one man in custody.

Updated: 8:56 AM An Omaha man was found shot to death.

Updated: 2:48 PM An SUV stopped on I-80 was found carrying 256 pounds of marijuana.

Updated: 6:44 AM A Head Start program shut down by the federal government in January has left some school districts with thousands of dollars in unpaid bills.

Updated: 6:18 AM A Nebraska Supreme Court judge says there have been improvements in the state's justice system since the Minority and Justice Task Force released a report on racial and ethnic bias last year.

Updated: 6:17 AM Federal judges Monday in New York, San Francisco and Lincoln will begin trials on challenges to the Partial-Birth Abortion Act passed by Congress last year.

Updated: 6:14 PM Lincoln students come home after a week in Spain.

Updated: 4:35 PM A caregiver is held against her will in a Lincoln home.

Updated: 4:05 PM The Hall County Jail is in desperate need of repairs, and taxpayers may be paying for it.

Updated: 6:10 PM Bryan LGH is going wireless in their emergency department.

Updated: 8:24 AM Nebraska Ag Director urges China to lift ban on U.S. beef

Updated: 8:16 AM Volunteers asked to assist in search for baby

Updated: 8:07 AM Wymore teen returns to school after sledding accident