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!
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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.
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.
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.
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.
For the past three years, Unified PE at Lincoln Southwest High School has been a place of smiles, sports, and inclusion.
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.
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.
For many, it’s easy to picture a scene from a movie when thinking about sex trafficking but the reality looks much different.
10/11 NOW will be sharing stories from survivors today, in hopes of spreading awareness in the community.
Safe Sport estimates that 40% to 50% of kids experience some form of abuse throughout their athletic careers.
Through Meridian Clinical Research thousands of Nebraskans have already helped in the fight against COVID-19, by volunteering for clinical trials.
At 31-years-old, Jake Immink became the first Nebraskan to receive a double lung transplant as a result of COVID-19.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Millions of Social Security recipients haven’t received their money and still don’t even know when it’s coming.
Navigating a pandemic means getting creative when it comes to continuing to make dreams come true.
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.
The Secretary of State’s office removed more than 26,000 registered voters in a period that ended on February 3rd.
Phase 2A opens up vaccines to people ages 50 to 64.
Vaccine data compiled by both the CDC and the New York Times shows Nebraska ranks high in multiple vaccine-related categories.
The motion, which was put forth by Councilman Roy Christensen late last year, would have effectively ended the emergency declaration.
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.
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.
Parking revenue is running $5 million below what it was the previous fiscal year.
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.
They earned their medals in a mental game nabbing the top stop in Nebraska’s middle schools in Science Bowl.
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.
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.
The four schools where more than half of all students are minorities also have the highest remote learning numbers.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Starting Monday Lincoln Airport’s campus will be seeing more traffic as its partnership with Offutt Airforce Base, slated to last about 18 months.
Home valuations saw a steady increase across Lancaster County despite an ongoing pandemic and that’s due to a few different factors.
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.
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.
Despite a pandemic, homeowner in Lincoln are seeing their property values continue to steadily climb.
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.
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.
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.
Hoping to bring casinos across the state, including one in Lincoln with a $200 million price tag.
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.
400 were given out, those shots mark the beginning of distribution to what the state has laid out as priority recipients.
This season the city is testing out a new program that will hopefully help them get more of the streets cleared, faster.