All the headlines from our Nebraska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 25 2019 // The Scottsbluff School District in Nebraska is paying a girl $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit she filed over sexual abuse committed by her former high school golf coach.The former coach, Mike Klein, is serving a...
Jul 24 2019 // Some Nebraska and Iowa businesses are still struggling to recover from flooding that damaged their properties or otherwise kept customers away from their doors.The Federal Emergency Management Agency estimated that in...
Jul 17 2019 // The Omaha (Nebraska) Fire Department is buying backup protective gear for its firefighters, giving them a second line of personal defense against cancer risks.The familiar yellow fire-retardant coats, trousers and...
Jul 8 2019 // Transportation problems persist on Nebraska county roads following massive floods this spring, officials said.Interstates and state roads have been cleared for use. But traffic issues continue to plague damaged bridges and...
Jun 26 2019 // A woman accused of setting fire to a bar she was buying in central Nebraska has taken a plea deal.Custer County District Court records say 54-year-old Jane Chestnutt pleaded guilty last week to criminal mischief and...
Jun 20 2019 // A suburb of Omaha, Nebraska, has condemned 195 flood-damaged homes, but it’s unclear who will be paying the expected bill of more than $1 million to raze them.The Bellevue City Council has decided that the mobile and...
Jun 17 2019 // Ron Gadeken of Ron’s Ag & Auto Repair in Stanton, Nebraska, often goes out to farms to repair equipment.That includes south of Stanton, where the Elkhorn River flows. The raging Elkhorn River wiped out part of...
Jun 11 2019 // Federal workplace safety officials have proposed $302,147 in penalties against a Family Dollar Store in Omaha, Nebraska.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited...
May 29 2019 // Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, announced its Heider College of Business has launched what the university says is the first of its kind Finance and Technology (FinTech) major, a degree program that combines...
May 29 2019 // A former Nebraska City clerk who sued after he was essentially fired by the City Council in 2015 has agreed to a $325,000 settlement offered by the city. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Arnold Ehlers’ lawsuit...
May 22 2019 // Federal safety officials cited an excavation company after two employees suffered serious injuries when a trench collapsed at a construction site in Lincoln, Nebraska.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Apr 30 2019 // The Missouri River used to be out of control. “It cuts corners, runs around at nights, fills itself with snags and traveling sandbars, lunches on levees, and swallows islands and small villages for dessert,” is...
Apr 18 2019 // Authorities in several states are warning about an alleged scam in which people visit senior-living communities and low-income neighborhoods, offering to perform DNA tests and collecting information from people in...
Apr 16 2019 // When surprise hailstorms hit the 6,000 acres Trevor Scherman plants each year with peas, wheat, canola and lentils, his first move isn’t to his truck to assess the damage. These days, it’s to his iPad.Nine...
Apr 12 2019 // A storm system known as a “bomb cyclone” slowly churned through the U.S. interior Thursday for the second time in a month, unleashing a blizzard that struck the Upper Midwest and creating hazardous fire...
Apr 12 2019 // A bill that would expand protections for Nebraska farmers against public nuisance lawsuits has advanced in the Legislature despite objections that it could infringe on neighbors’ property rights.Lawmakers gave the...
Apr 10 2019 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America (CAA) has expanded into Colorado, with the addition of Renaissance Insurance Group in Windsor, Colorado.CAA is an agency partnership organization whose members now include...
Apr 5 2019 // Three Midwestern Republican governors of states ravaged by recent flooding are demanding more authority over management of the Missouri River system.Following a meeting with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Iowa Gov. Kim...
Apr 4 2019 // A woman has been accused of setting fire to a bar she was buying in the central Nebraska town of Arnold.Custer County Court records say 54-year-old Jane Chestnutt is charged with three felonies: arson, criminal mischief...
Apr 2 2019 // Officials in the Omaha, Nebraska, area are reevaluating the city’s flood-control measures, shortly after heavy rains caused dozens of counties and cities in the state to declare a state of emergency.A flash flood...