Ellis Wiltsey
Reporter
Lincoln, NE
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Ellis graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor's Degree in Broadcast Journalism.
Ellis is a native of Bellevue, Nebraska and excited to be reporting in her home state!
Before coming to KOLN-TV, Ellis worked as a reporter, producer and anchor at KUJH at the University of Kansas and interned at KETV in Omaha, Nebraska.
In her free time Ellis enjoys cooking, Jazzercise and volunteering at animal shelters.
When she's not cheering on the Huskers, Ellis is a proud Alabama Football fan and Tottenham Hotspur soccer fan! Watch out during basketball season because she is all in for her Jayhawks to take it all this year!
Ellis would love to hear from viewers on social media. You can find and follow her Facebook and Twitter accounts.
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Preparing the next generation of nurses continues to evolve and adapt. On Friday, nursing students in Lincoln were able to take care of patients without even leaving the classroom.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2021 at 4:29 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
A nearly $500,000 grant from the USDA will allow researchers from the University of Nebraksa-Lincoln to potentially change the way farming is done.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2021 at 9:50 PM CDT
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Thursday night, with the sun peaking through the clouds, dozens and dozens of people gathered at Holmes Lake to celebrate a life taken too soon.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2021 at 8:00 PM CDT
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Unified Track has been in the works at Lincoln Public Schools for a few years and after COVID-10 stalled it at the starting line, the athletes finally got to compete Wednesday.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2021 at 5:43 PM CDT
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For the past three years, Unified PE at Lincoln Southwest High School has been a place of smiles, sports, and inclusion.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2021 at 9:08 PM CDT
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She will not survive but 10/11 NOW spoke with family who said her choice to be an organ donor means she will live on in other ways.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2021 at 9:23 PM CDT
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The most recent, a deadly house fire which killed a young girl in the early hours of Thursday, and sent the rest of her family to the hospital.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2021 at 2:50 PM CDT
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For many, it’s easy to picture a scene from a movie when thinking about sex trafficking but the reality looks much different.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2021 at 10:59 AM CDT
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10/11 NOW will be sharing stories from survivors today, in hopes of spreading awareness in the community.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2021 at 10:59 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Safe Sport estimates that 40% to 50% of kids experience some form of abuse throughout their athletic careers.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2021 at 8:23 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Through Meridian Clinical Research thousands of Nebraskans have already helped in the fight against COVID-19, by volunteering for clinical trials.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2021 at 10:21 PM CDT
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At 31-years-old, Jake Immink became the first Nebraskan to receive a double lung transplant as a result of COVID-19.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2021 at 8:26 PM CDT
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Various studies have shown that COVID-19 disproportionately affects minority communities, but new vaccine data from Nebraska shows that they are being vaccinated at a lower rate.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2021 at 4:35 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Over 80,000 Nebraska businesses have benefitted from PPP loans since last year and an extension signed into law on Tuesday means there’s still time to get federal dollars to help.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2021 at 9:53 PM CDT
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Preliminary reports from the CDC indicate there were at least 42,000 more deaths from Alzheimer’s and other dementia in 2020, than the five-year average.
Updated: Mar. 26, 2021 at 5:19 PM CDT
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This spring, it’ll head to the planning commission and then the city council. With an estimated price tag of about $54 million, the plan is slowly coming together and moving forward.
Updated: Mar. 26, 2021 at 9:39 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Millions of Social Security recipients haven’t received their money and still don’t even know when it’s coming.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2021 at 6:39 PM CDT
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Navigating a pandemic means getting creative when it comes to continuing to make dreams come true.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2021 at 9:15 PM CDT
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10/11 NOW last spoke with Lizz Whitacre in January of 2020, shortly after her business Pawlytics was awarded $25,000 as part of the LaunchLNK program.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2021 at 7:53 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
The Secretary of State’s office removed more than 26,000 registered voters in a period that ended on February 3rd.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2021 at 11:12 AM CDT
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Phase 2A opens up vaccines to people ages 50 to 64.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2021 at 7:55 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Vaccine data compiled by both the CDC and the New York Times shows Nebraska ranks high in multiple vaccine-related categories.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2021 at 9:35 PM CDT
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The motion, which was put forth by Councilman Roy Christensen late last year, would have effectively ended the emergency declaration.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2021 at 5:17 PM CST
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In 2017, Ryan Eastin was the victim of a violent crime. He was hit in the head with a baseball bat. A blow that left him with a traumatic brain injury, needing to relearn many basic skills.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2021 at 9:12 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
COVID-19 long-haulers is a term many have given themselves, after symptoms of COVID-19 linger long after the tests stop showing up positive.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2021 at 6:30 PM CST
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Parking revenue is running $5 million below what it was the previous fiscal year.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2021 at 10:02 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Lincoln’s housing market is certainly for the seller.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 9:22 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
When the elementary school in the Waterford Neighborhood opens in the fall of 2022, it’ll be the first new school in Lincoln since 2016.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2021 at 9:38 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
They earned their medals in a mental game nabbing the top stop in Nebraska’s middle schools in Science Bowl.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2021 at 8:55 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Seward County Deputy Anthony Gann is back on the job. Working with his K-9 and joking with co-workers on Wednesday but just last month he landed in a potentially deadly situation while at work.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2021 at 8:58 PM CST
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10/11 spoke with the former president and CEO of the Humane Society Bob Downey who worked with animals in that job for 36 years about the video.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2021 at 9:35 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
The four schools where more than half of all students are minorities also have the highest remote learning numbers.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2021 at 8:20 PM CST
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Despite there being more than 9,000 fewer remote learners in LPS middle and high schools, more remote learners are failing classes than traditional students.
Updated: Feb. 12, 2021 at 7:04 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Flu cases in Nebraska are all but nonexistent this year as positive cases that would usually be well into the thousands have yet to break 200.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2021 at 10:43 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Experts say following a presidential election it’s not an uncommon practice but changes we found, especially in Republican registrations between January and February of this year, are larger than normal.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2021 at 8:58 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Elise Poole was struck in the face with what the lawsuit says was a rubber bullet at close range, causing her to almost lose her nose.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2021 at 9:26 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
PBA and the city say they are building on the successes of the two previous ones and tailoring this one for a demographic that might need a little extra assistance.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 at 9:46 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Starting Monday Lincoln Airport’s campus will be seeing more traffic as its partnership with Offutt Airforce Base, slated to last about 18 months.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2021 at 8:40 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Home valuations saw a steady increase across Lancaster County despite an ongoing pandemic and that’s due to a few different factors.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2021 at 9:25 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
In the 11 months since the pandemic started COVID-19 testing is becoming even more accessible and it’s a concept the Lincoln market has fully embraced.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2021 at 10:34 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Over the weekend a source close to the situation indicated that President-Elect Joe Biden plans to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline Project as one of his first acts, reversing a 2017 presidential permit by Donald Trump that was aimed at fast tracking the project.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2021 at 9:28 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
It created the Big Ten’s Cardiology Subcommittee, made up of doctors from across the conference including a team here in Lincoln at Bryan Health.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2021 at 9:59 PM CST
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Despite a pandemic, homeowner in Lincoln are seeing their property values continue to steadily climb.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2021 at 9:47 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
A measure introduced by a Lincoln councilmember aimed at rolling back COVID-19 emergency powers from Lincoln’s mayor has hit a pause but that doesn’t mean it’s completely off the table.
Updated: Jan. 8, 2021 at 4:24 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
After nearly five years as the Chief of the Lincoln Police Departments, Friday was Jeff Bliemeister’s last day before moving into a new job working in the private sector for Bryan Health Systems.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2020 at 10:26 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Eric Underwood owns Rodizio Grill in the Haymarket. He says before the pandemic he was seeing record sales but after needed that first round of PPP to survive.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 at 7:58 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Hoping to bring casinos across the state, including one in Lincoln with a $200 million price tag.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2020 at 9:46 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
It says a small holiday travel boost is likely but that it’s going to be years until the travel industry is back to normal.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2020 at 10:01 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
400 were given out, those shots mark the beginning of distribution to what the state has laid out as priority recipients.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2020 at 9:37 PM CST
|By Ellis Wiltsey
This season the city is testing out a new program that will hopefully help them get more of the streets cleared, faster.