Latest Nebraska Headlines

All the headlines from our Nebraska Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Business Moves

Apr 15 2024 // Risk Strategies, H.W. InternationalGlobal specialty brokerage Risk Strategies reported it has acquired the U.S. and Canadian operating entities of global insurance holding company, H.W. International B.V. Based in New York...

Plummer Acquires Nebraska’s Classic One

Mar 25 2024 // Plummer Insurance, Inc. announced the acquisition of Classic One Insurance from Riverstone Bank, effective March 15, 2024. Plummer Insurance was established in 1984 by Steve and Helen Plummer. The agency currently has nine...

Sierra Club Testing Finds High Levels of ‘Forever’ Chemicals in Water in NE Tennessee

Mar 1 2024 // High levels of “forever chemicals,” including poly-fluoroalkyl, or PFAS compounds, have been found in northeastern Tennessee rivers and drinking water supplies, likely from wastewater sludge that is spread on...

Lawsuit Accuses U. of Nebraska of Failing to Address Coach-Student Relationship

Feb 21 2024 // OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former Nebraska women’s basketball player alleges coach Amy Williams and athletic director Trev Alberts did not take appropriate action when her sexual relationship with an assistant coach...

Deaf Nebraska Trucker to Receive $335K in Disability Discrimination Case

Feb 5 2024 // Trucking companies Werner Enterprises, Inc. and Drivers Management, LLC must pay $335,682 to a deaf truck driver months after an Omaha, Nebraska jury found in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

Crash Tests Indicate Nation’s Guardrail System Can’t Handle Heavy Electric Vehicles

Feb 2 2024 // Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that are not designed to withstand the extra force, raising concerns about the nation’s...

Federal Court Fines Nebraska Contractor Who Stalled Investigation Into Employee’s Fall

Jan 29 2024 // A federal court has issued an order holding a Nebraska roofing contractor — who has stalled federal investigators for nearly a year — in contempt of court and imposing a fine of $100 a day if he fails to comply with a...

Nebraska Jury Awards $335K to Deaf Truck Driver in Disability Discrimination Case

Jan 16 2024 // Trucking companies Werner Enterprises, Inc. and Drivers Management, LLC must pay $335,682 to a deaf truck driver months after an Omaha, Nebraska jury found in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

Omaha Beef Processing Plant Faces $274K in Fines Following Worker’s Amputation

Jan 12 2024 // A federal investigation into how an employee suffered a serious hand injury at an Omaha, Nebraska beef processing plant in June 2023 identified more than a dozen willful and serious violations related to the...

Nebraska Hotel Owners Agree to $100K Settlement to Resolve Discrimination Suit

Jan 4 2024 // The owners and operators of a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, have agreed to pay $100,000 to a former general manager and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...

Shipping Container Explosion in Nebraska Railyard Raises Questions About Loading Procedures for Hazardous Materials

Nov 28 2023 // OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Federal inspectors have twice found hundreds of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific uses at the world’s largest railyard in Nebraska, but none of those seem to explain why a...

Nebraska Sheriff Charged With Filing Fraudulent Auto Insurance Claim

Oct 20 2023 // ORD, Neb. (AP) – A small-town Nebraska sheriff has been charged with filing a fraudulent auto insurance claim to get the repairs to his yellow 2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo paid for.The complaint filed against Valley County...

Nebraska Jury Awards $36 million in Disability Discrimination Case Against Trucking Carrier

Sep 5 2023 // An eight-person jury in Omaha, Nebraska returned a verdict of $36,075,000 in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on disability discrimination claims against Drivers Management, LLC and Werner...

People Moves: Alliant Adds Shada in Nebraska

Aug 17 2023 // Ian Shada has joined Alliant Insurance Services as Vice President within its employee benefits group in Omaha, Nebraska. In his role with Alliant, Shada will design and implement comprehensive employee benefits programs...

Nebraska Police Testing Seized Dispensary Products for Illegally High THC Levels

Aug 16 2023 // LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Police are testing products seized from five Nebraska dispensaries to see if they contain illegally high levels of the compound THC, the Lincoln Journal Star reported Monday.Lincoln police received...

Nebraska’s Ellerbrock-Norris Unveils Brand Refresh

Aug 14 2023 // Ellerbrock-Norris is a holistic risk management firm headquartered in Nebraska, recently unveiled a brand refresh complete with the new tagline of “Protect Your Purpose.”The company partners with businesses to...

Heat, Humidity Kill Hundreds of Cattle During World’s Hottest Month

Aug 9 2023 // Hundreds of cattle died in Iowa from extreme heat and humidity in late July, the state and livestock producers said, as the world recorded its hottest month ever.The deaths show the toll of severe weather on farm animals...

Nebraska Ethanol Plant Explosion Leaves 1 Dead, 4 Injured

Apr 24 2023 // WOOD RIVER, Neb. (AP) – One worker died and four others were injured in an explosion at an ethanol plant in eastern Nebraska.The explosion was reported last Monday afternoon at a Green Plains ethanol plant in Wood...

Wildfire Burns Nearly 700 Acres in Southeast Nebraska

Apr 12 2023 // UNION, Neb. (AP) – Overnight rain helped firefighters get control of two wildfires Monday in southeast Nebraska near the Missouri River.Nebraska officials said after Gov. Jim Pillen surveyed the damage that the fire...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Nebraska’s Quality First Insurance

Apr 5 2023 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of La Vista, Nebraska-based Quality First Insurance, LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Quality First Insurance is an insurance agency serving health...