Posted: 11:15 AM The LETR is the grass-roots fundraiser for the Special Olympics which include events like Polar Plunge, Tip-A-Cop, Cop-On-Top, and LETR Truck Convoys for Special Olmpics. Since its inception, the LETR has raised $42 million.
Posted: 10:06 AM The national average price of gasoline has increased 9.5 cents a gallon this past week (to $3.68) and casual observers are quick to blame the approaching Memorial Weekend and the holiday’s expected uptick in demand as the culprit.
Posted: 6:59 AM People in the western Nebraska town of Paxton are being told to boil their tap water before drinking it.
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Posted: 4:22 AM Residents in Lincoln and a group of Boy Scouts have collected 47,000 pounds of outdated phone directories for recycling.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: 9:33 PM 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: 8:23 PM 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: 8:14 PM 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: 6:49 PM The 23-year-old man charged in a January standoff has been given jail time.
Posted: 6:33 PM Officials say an 18-year-old was holding an infant in a car seat above his head when the baby fell.
Posted: 3:30 PM 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: 3:08 PM An Arizona man has been convicted of five felony counts for exchanging sexually explicit text messages with a 14-year-old Fremont girl.
Posted: 4:30 AM The Nebraska State Board of Health is recruiting members to serve on five of its professional boards. New professional members are required to be Nebraska residents who are actively engaged in practice, with a license in good standing.
Updated: 2:59 PM A Hastings man has been given more than five years in prison for helping to distribute methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg announced Monday that Ruben Manzano has been sentenced to 70 months in prison.
Posted: 9:10 PM The Elm Creek Beacon-Observer's 21-year-old new owner has published the first edition of the weekly newspaper he bought in March. Publisher Michael Happ put out the newspaper for the first time Thursday, then graduated days later from Creighton University with majors in political science and theology.
Updated: 10:56 PM Union Pacific officials say a broken rail was found when crews were checking out an issue with a safety gate.
Posted: 5:23 PM Lawmakers have rejected an attempt to repeal a new Nebraska law that lets cities raise their local option sales tax rates, as long as they secure voter approval.
Posted: 5:19 PM Nebraska lawmakers have given final approval to the seven budget bills that make the state's two-year budget.
Posted: 5:15 PM Jaime Francisco Barraza was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release, and he was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment, following his conviction for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine.
Updated: 5:09 PM Ruben Manzano has been sentenced to 70 months in jail, followed by 2 years of supervised release and a $100 fine for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
Posted: 4:37 PM Two juveniles were taken into custody following a burglary at the police department in Friend last week.
Posted: 2:17 PM Authorities in Omaha have launched a task force to investigate any connection between last week's killings of a Creighton University professor and his wife and the 2008 slayings of an 11-year boy and his family housekeeper.
Posted: 1:50 PM A Nebraska man convicted for the third time of having sex with young girls has been sentenced to at least 20 years in prison.
Posted: 1:48 PM A Nebraska company's purchase of a northwest Iowa manufacturer has saved 30 jobs. Thurston Manufacturing Co. of Thurston, Neb., says it has purchased Simonsen Iron Works of Spencer, Iowa, and plans to reopen the plant Monday morning.
