Posted: 10:46 PM Tough calls don't often confront the people responsible for deciding who belongs on a national memorial for officers killed in the line of duty. But recognizing fallen men and women in blue isn't always a black-and-white decision.
Posted: 10:26 PM Scientists are on a mission to track the carbon footprints of large cities that are increasingly responsible for human-caused global warming. Instruments perched in the mountains above Los Angeles monitor carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases spewing from factories and freeways. Similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks and automobile tailpipes. There's also talk of outfitting Sao Paulo, Brazil, with sensors that sniff the byproducts of burning fossil fuels.
Posted: 8:58 PM A 15-year-old Nebraska girl who was critically injured in a car accident last week has died. Officials say Anna Lundberg was taken off life support on Friday night. Police say Lundberg was a passenger in a vehicle that was rear-ended on the West Dodge expressway last Monday.
Posted: 8:50 PM Dairy Queen is offering graduates an easy way to make a statement at graduation as long as they don't mind advertising for the fast-food restaurant. Dairy Queen, which is owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, designed a sign students can download, print and attach to the top of their mortarboards.
Posted: 9:13 PM The Omaha Police Department has revised its policy regarding the public's use of cameras in the wake of an investigation into recent excessive force allegations that saw four officers fired. Police officials tell the Omaha World-Herald (http://bit.ly/10DxgiX) that department has long recognized the public's right to record the actions of police in public. The revised policy spells out that people cannot be arrested simply for recording police or being near a crime scene.
Posted: 9:25 AM A former railroad worker says the money he was awarded for injuries received on the job should not be subject to a federal railroad retirement tax, but the U.S. Justice Department disagrees.
Posted: 12:07 AM A school bus carrying a high school sports team has overturned in far-western Kentucky, injuring several students. Kentucky State Police said the bus was carrying the Union County High School girls' softball team and had 28 people on board when the accident occurred just before 5 p.m. CDT, on U.S. 60 in Livingston County, along the Ohio River.
Posted: 5:20 PM A 51-year-old southeast Nebraska man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender.
Posted: 4:35 PM Federal authorities will keep a control tower in Grand Island open through the end of September thanks to action by Congress.
Posted: 4:13 PM One person was taken to Bryan West in Lincoln and was treated for injuries following a rollover 1 and a half miles west of Plymouth on Highway 4 Thursday.
Updated: 3:33 PM A man who spent nearly 14 years in a Nebraska prison for a murder he did not commit is on pace to receive $500,000 from the state.
Posted: 10:47 AM Gateway Mall is hosting an online job fair to fill positions within the mall. Job seekers can visit the mall website May 13-26 to browse a complete list of stores that are hiring! Instructions are available on line to apply for the jobs via retailer websites or in person at the stores.
Posted: 10:28 AM A 26-year-old Vermont man caught hauling more than 100 pounds of marijuana has been given Nebraska prison time. Online court records say Nathaniel Miller was given four to six years at his sentencing Thursday in Lancaster County District Court.
Updated: 7:53 AM Authorities say a man born in Kuwait has been convicted of marriage fraud in Nebraska. A news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg says 47-year-old Ibrahim Matari was sentenced to time served and was given 30 days to leave this country. Prosecutors say Matari came to the United States in 2000 on a student visa and remained after it expired. He and his family lived in Oak Park, Ill.
Updated: 7:53 AM Authorities say a 52-year-old woman who was pointing a flare gun has been shot by an Omaha officer. A police new release says the incident occurred around 8:45 p.m. Thursday in north-central Omaha. Officers had been dispatched to the home of Madonna Runco. Runco told them her daughter was playing music too loudly in the garage and said the woman, Paula Moen, had a mental illness.
Posted: 6:55 AM A new grain-loading facility will be built near Superior to help Nebraska farmers get their crops to market quickly.
Posted: 6:52 AM The Omaha-based Better Business Bureau is warning people about suspicious phone calls regarding medical alert devices.
Posted: 6:49 AM As thousands of American soldiers return to the civilian workforce after service in Iraq or Afghanistan, many are finding jobs on the nation's rail lines.
Posted: 6:47 AM Lawmakers have failed to reach a vote on a proposal to buy a $2.2 million airplane from the University of Nebraska Foundation.
Posted: 10:41 PM Construction planned for S. 17th Street between South and “A” streets has been delayed due to potential changes in the original plans. Work was to begin Monday, May 6.
Posted: 8:35 PM Nebraska officials have agreed to stop releasing water into Kansas, now that the states have reached a tentative agreement on Kansas' future access to water from the Republican River.
Posted: 6:38 PM A Broken Bow man remains in critical condition at a Kearney hospital after a motorcycle crash Wednesday.
Posted: 5:23 PM Construction planned for S. 17th Street between South and “A” streets has been delayed due to potential changes in the original plans.
