All the headlines from our Nebraska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 15 2018 // A federal safety agency has proposed fining a company in connection with the death of an employee who was working in a Hall County, Nebraska, cornfield. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing...
Nov 5 2018 // A Nebraska judge has ruled that an insurance provider doesn’t have to cover the legal debt of a Nebraska county that wrongfully convicted six people in a 1985 rape and murder.Lancaster County District Judge Jodi L....
Oct 23 2018 // Gage County’s insurance policies from a Nebraska risk-sharing pool of companies don’t cover $28.1 million that a jury awarded to six people who were wrongfully convicted in the 1985 rape and killing of a woman,...
Oct 17 2018 // South Sioux City, Nebraska, has sued the owner of the grain elevator that exploded earlier this year.The lawsuit against Andersen Farms Inc. and Bryce Andersen was filed last week in Dakota County District Court. It seeks...
Oct 15 2018 // COUNTRY Financial, headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, has named Jim Jacobs as its next chief executive officer (CEO), effective early next year.He succeeds Kurt Bock, who is retiring Jan. 31, 2019, after serving as...
Oct 11 2018 // Authorities say an arsonist caused an explosion and fire at a dry cleaning business in Omaha, Nebraska. The Nebraska State Fire Marshal Agency said in a news release Wednesday that investigators discovered evidence of...
Sep 18 2018 // Patrice Scott has joined the Method Insurance Services team as a business development manager. She will focus on expanding Method’s agency distribution in the Midwest and beyond, and assist in rolling out the new...
Sep 14 2018 // A federal appeals panel has reversed a judge’s 2016 ruling that Douglas County, Nebraska’s insurance carrier must pay $5 million to two men wrongfully jailed in the killings of a Murdock couple.Nick Sampson and...
Sep 5 2018 // A couple whose Omaha, Nebraska, house was destroyed by an explosion next door are suing the Metropolitan Utilities District.The Omaha World-Herald reports that the lawsuit by John and Jamie Myers says the district should...
Aug 8 2018 // A Nationwide Insurance spokesman says the company intends to provide career management resources and other aid to employees who will be losing their jobs in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nationwide spokesman Eric Hardgrove said that...
Jul 24 2018 // A year after Iowa began cracking down on texting while driving, advocates and lawmakers in Nebraska hope to implement a similar policy.Nebraska and Iowa both banned texting while driving in 2010 but classified the...
Jul 24 2018 // Nebraska’s highway safety administrator says it’s tough to explain why more pedestrians have been killed this year on the state’s roads compared to last year.Figures from the Nebraska Department of...
Jul 3 2018 // Business remains strong in nine Midwest and Plains states, but a new monthly survey suggests growth is slowing as concerns about trade and tariffs increase.The region’s overall economic index decreased to 61.8 in...
Jun 27 2018 // A Nebraska Natural Resources District is opening Omaha’s newest park and lake after spending nine years developing the $44 million project.The Omaha World-Herald reports that the Papio-Missouri River district will...
Jun 27 2018 // Lincoln officials are inviting residents to help test out an all-electric, driverless shuttle bus for a pilot program that could bring more autonomous vehicle services to the city. The public will have a chance to reserve...
Jun 18 2018 // Nebraska lawmakers may have cleared the way for companies to test self-driving vehicles with a law passed earlier this year, but don’t expect a large number to hit the streets anytime soon.Although industry officials...
May 1 2018 // A fire fueled by strong winds extensively damaged a grain elevator in Wisconsin’s Brown County.The fire broke out about 11:30 a.m. Sunday in Mina. Because of 40 to 45 mph winds, smaller fires caused by blowing,...
Mar 29 2018 // An accountant accused of embezzling from the Nebraska Rural Electric Association has been sent to prison. Federal prosecutors say 42-year-old Sarah Batenhorst, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 10 months and ordered to pay...
Mar 27 2018 // Iowa-based Holmes Murphy has expanded Main Street, its captive insurance subsidiary built to give small businesses the same buying power as big corporations, to include businesses with 10 to 50 employees.Since its...
Mar 18 2018 // A federal workplace safety agency has cited a northeastern Nebraska egg processing plant where a worker was killed last year.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in a news release that the Michael Foods...