Posted: 10:18 PM Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman says state emergency officials should have direct control over airplanes that could be stationed in Chadron and Valentine to fight wildfires.

Posted: 8:44 PM Oscar Garcia has been sentenced to 57 months in prison.

Posted: 2:10 PM Average retail gasoline prices in Lincoln have fallen 4.0 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.45/g Sunday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 146 gas outlets in Lincoln.

Posted: 11:22 AM Gov. Dave Heineman encouraged Nebraskans on Monday to volunteer during ServeNebraska Week of Service, April 22-28. Gov. Heineman and First Lady Sally Ganem serve as Champions of the ServeNebraska Week of Service.

Posted: 8:19 AM Sentencing is scheduled June 12 for a 40-year-old Riverton man who has been convicted of misdemeanor vehicular homicide.

Posted: 6:02 AM The Homestead National Monument of America will host a fiddling competition in which participants must play two musical pieces from the homesteading era of 1862.

Posted: 5:58 AM The Nebraska women's bowling team has won its fourth national title.

Posted: 5:54 AM Omaha police are investigating an early-morning crash that killed one person.

Posted: 9:10 PM Peru State College is set to host its free annual Health and Wellness Fair.

Posted: 8:33 PM Omaha police are investigating an early-morning crash that killed one person.

Updated: 11:17 PM No fines is just one of the ways the Grand Island Public Library is celebrating National Library Week, which kicked off Sunday.

Updated: 11:15 PM Grand Island Little Theatre is ending their season with a comedy, which opened this weekend.

Posted: 10:35 AM Four former U.S. ambassadors who worked in the Middle East are scheduled to visit the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Posted: 10:33 AM DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge will soon open for spring and summer season.

Posted: 9:12 PM A 51-year-old registered sex offender has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for committing another in a string of sex offenses.

Updated: 7:58 PM A judge has denied a Grand Island man's request to withdraw his no contest plea to assaulting a corrections officer while he was being held in jail awaiting a murder trial.

Posted: 9:00 PM Closing arguments have been made in a lawsuit against the state filed by a Lincoln woman who says her son was left near death while at the state-run Beatrice State Developmental Center.

Posted: 10:23 AM Officials are again planning to temporarily boost how much water flows into the Missouri River to test the concrete spillway on Gavin's Point Dam on the South Dakota-Nebraska border.

Posted: 8:12 AM A Civil War-era quilt known as the most expensive quilt ever sold at auction will be on display this spring at the Homestead National Monument of America in southeastern Nebraska.

Posted: 10:56 PM Authorities say an 82-year-old woman died while sleeping in her vehicle in her driveway in rural Nebraska.

Posted: 5:15 PM The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of an Omaha man sentenced to life plus a minimum of 75 years for a 2010 fatal shooting.

Posted: 5:13 PM A federal appeals court has kicked back to a lower court a challenge of Nebraska's amended law that requires protesters to stand 500 feet away from a funeral service -- 200 feet more than the 300 feet the law had previously required.

Posted: 3:41 PM Court documents show that Tyson Fresh Meats was the company that mistakenly paid sales tax to Norfolk over a six-year period.

Posted: 3:36 PM The University of Nebraska Medical Center has found no evidence of research misconduct after questions were raised about data integrity in an academic article.

Posted: 6:49 AM Construction is scheduled to begin the week of April 22 on Nebraska Highway 112 near Odell in the southeastern part of the state.