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 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.

Updated: 05/21/2013 - Roy Christensen, Lerion Gaylor Baird and Trent Fellers are the new faces of the Lincoln City Council. Monday night, it was finally time for the campaigning to end and the action to begin.